I'M ONLY A LITTLE GIRL"
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Palling Eyesight Responsible Tor an
Old Man's Mistake?Rebuke ^
Hardly Effective. f<
jk certain group of youngsters In an
Sslualye West Sldo residential sec- t
n had been very noisy throughout s
* the forenoon. a
The children were still doing their t
Utmost to Imitate a bedlam, when a
very angry old man appealed at the
door of a nearby apartment bouse. He
Pas quite old, and it was evident that t
his eyesight was not the best, but he i
Anally succeeded in picking out a
youngster who was aiding very stren- a
uously in the noise making.
The aged man walked over to the
back to the apartnment. When he
reached the doorway he turned to the t
child and said: e
"Don't you know it's against the
law to make so much noise?" a
j "Yes, sir," was the meek reply.
"Well, don't you know that you'll t
be arrested and put in jail and then n
you can never be president of the tynlted
States?"
"Please, sir?" 'replied the child, "1
don't care; I'm only a little girl."?
New York Mail. i
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A HIGHER TRIBUTE.
Sam?Dat Miss Snow flake, she am a (
peach. I
Pete?G'long! She am a watahmtt j
lion!
Slow Travel.
Down in Oklahoma they have a r ailroad
called the Midland Valley, w'jich
is noted for its slow trains. It is told
that a young man cf Tulsa asked the
hand of a daughter from her parents \
and was refused on the ground that '
the daughter was too young.
"My daughter is going to Pawhuska
tomorrow for a visit," said the father, J
who is a traveling man, "and if she
doesn't remain more than a day or two *
S" e will be old enough when she gets
ck."
"But she may be an old maid by
that time." protested the young man.
?Kansas City Star.
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Vogue In Outer Garments.
According to the Dry Goods Econo a
mist, at the present time retailers are
featuring wraps of charmcuse and p
satin. The best sellers are the medium-priced
numbers retailing from $10
$o $30. These are usually attractively
lined in some bright color, giving a .
pleasing contrast. Lace collars and
cuffs are often used as a finishing
touch and are very effective, while
white lace is used largely for this pur- v
pose. Some garments are shown 1
trimmed with blacit lace, which is cut
way to show the lining underneath, j
A ConfessionStartled
by convincing evidence that
they were the victims of serious kid
ney and bladder trouble, numbers of
prominent people confess they have \
found relief by using KUR1N Kidney
and Bladder Pills. For sale by all (
medicine dealers at 25c. Burwell & ,
Dunn Co., Mfrs., Charlotte, N. C. J
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to your girl?
Bocker?Yes; she said she under
stood all about diamonds.
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loresWhat
has become of the old fash
toned girl who used to chew "wax?"
For rears Garfield Tea has been on the market.
This must mean u remedy worth while.
A good memory is essential to a
uccessful liar.
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CASCAKCERBECURED? ETCAN: j
The record of the Kellam H< spital Is without para.le:
In history, has ing cured to mat eared permanently !
witbont the use ol the km:? or A-Itay over *0 pei ,
cent, of the many liun lrn ( suffer.ts frcm cancel <
, which It Las fr-ated ilnr.r,' the ja?i fifteen years
Wetaf?bnn edorsslb; the senate and lev'slaturo
of Virginia. Me tiuaruniee OurC'urvs 1
PhyslaSanm trcaiiti froc.
KSLLA&! HOSPITAL.
1917 IV. M*tn flfchmwi*, V* ;
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Reading maketh a full man. So
loes the wine when it's red.
The old frlcDd Is better than the new.
rartieltl Tea Is not only old but tried and
?und true. Made of pure wholesome Herbs.
Hundreds of people who would be
iorror-stricken at the suggestion, of ,
uicide by the rope-and-rafter method,
ire daily killing their best selves witb
he poison of self-pity.
Destined for Many Trips.
"I have written a short story," said
he amateur literary person. "What
s the first step to take in selling it?"
"Buy ten dollars' worth of stamps,''
.dvised the old hand at the business.
A Fine Distinction.
The friend of the city editor was
ieing initiated Into the mysteries of
nodern journalism.
"How large a staff have you?" he
sked.
"Let me see," mused the city edior.
"We have about fifty meD, five
vomen and three society reporters."
-Judge.
Heard on the Waterfront.
Some ancient mariners were sitting
n a seaport tavern relating their ex>eriences
of fogs.
"Ah!" said one old salt. "I've seen
tome pretty thick fogs In my time.
Vhy, off the coast ot isewiounaiana iu? >
og was sometimes so thick that we ,
lsed to sit on the deck rall-and lean
igainst it! We were sitting one night
is usual, with our backs to the fog.
vhen suddenly the fog lifted, and we
ill went flop into the sea. A bit thick,
vasn't it?"?San Francisco Chronicle.
The Only Way.
An elder while baptizing converts
it a revival meeting advanced with
i wiry, sharp-eyed old chap into the
vater. He asked the usual question,
vbether there was any reason why
he ordinance of baptism should not
)e administered. After a pause a tall,
jowerful-looking man who was lookng
quietly on remarked:
"Elder, I don't want to interfere in
rer business, but I want to say that
his is an old sinner you have got hold
)f, and that one dip won't do him any
?ood; you'll have to anchor him out
n deep water over night."?Life.
Easily Answered.
"These kids I teach arn't a bit
slow," observed a school teacher yeserday.
"In fact, I'm afraid they read
he papers. The other day I proposed
the following problem to my ,
irithmetic class:
"'A rich man dies and leaves $1,-j
100,000. One-fifth is to go to his wife, '
>ne-sixth to his son. one-seventh to
lis daughter, one-eighth to his broth>r
and the rest to foreign missions.
Vhat does each get?'
" 'A lawyer' said the littlest boy in
he class."?Case and Comment.
The- Worm's Way.
"The Hon. Stephen Coieridge. the
Inglish anti-vivisectionist," said an
nti-vivisectionist of Philadelphia, "is j
ellghted with the recent English viviection
report, which promises to
bolish even the use of the live bait in
ishing.
"Mr. Co'eridge once argued here in
'hiladelphia about the cruelty of fishng
with worms.
" 'Oh,' his opponent said, 'the mere
act that a worm writhes and wriggles
then impaled on a hook is no proof
hat it is actually suffering pain.'
"'No. oh. no!' said Mr. Coleridge,!
arcastically. 'Beyond doubt that is I
ust the worm's way of laughing at
icing tickled.'"
Law of Life.
Two men were out walking one day
u sun-kissed California. Suddenly, kiss
ng time being over. It began to rain
n torrents and they were miles
- 1 T. r.A
rora me car line. uue man lau^u^u.
long and loud. The other wept bitterly.
"Why do you laugh?" he asked
bis chuckling companion. "Because
I am paying meter rates on water.
But why do you weep?" "Because 1
lm paying $10 a day for climate," replied
the tourist. "One man's mea/
is another man's meat bill."
ON A BUSINESS BASIS.
N " ^ yo'.:
i nickel if you'll be good and not
jothor when Mr. Softly calls tonight.
Jack?All right, sis, and for a dime
?xtra I'll promise not to put dad wise
3at he's there.
WELL POSTED.
\ California Doctor With Forty Years
Experience.
"In ray forty years' experience as fi
:eacher and practitioner along hyjienic
lines," says a Los Angeles
physician, "I have never found a food
o compare with Grape-Nuts for the
>enefit of the gene~al health of all
Masses of peorle.
"I have recommended Grape-Nuts
'or a number of years to patients with
he greatest success and every year's
experience makes me more enth.usias
I/* ?-*>ororr1in cr itc llflp
IVt,?*u.u0
"I make it a rule to always recom
iiend Grape-Nuts, and Postum in place
)f coffee, when giving my patients in |
structions as to diet, for I know both |
Irape-Nuts and Postum can be digest- |
?d by anyone.
"As for myself, when engaged in
nuch mental work my diet twt<e a
lay consists of Grape-Nuts and rich
Team. I find it just the thing tc
lulld up gray matter and keep the
jrain in good working order.
"In addition to its wonderful effects
is a brain and nerve food Grape-Nuts
ilways keers the digestive organs in
nerfect. healthy tone. I carry it with
aae when I travel, otherwise I am al
nost certaii: to have trouble with my
stomach." Name given by Postum Co.,
Battle Creek. Mich.
Strong endorsements like the ,tbovc
From physicians all over the countrj
aave stamped Grape-Nuts the most
scientific food in the world. "There's
a reason."
Look in pkgs. for the famous little
book, "The Road to Wellville."
Ever thi< tth-ive let t erf A t>
o?jo nnrw:"'* i?''n thue to time. They
nr* arenulue, true. nnd full of bvunas
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A Woman
of
Her Word
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By Clara Inez Deacon
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(Copyright, 1312, by Associated Literary 1
Press.)
Ellsha Ridgeway was a simple man
of forty and lived on a farm alone 1
and made his own bed and did his
own cooking. Time after time he was
asked why he oldn't marry, and time 1
after time his reply was:
"Mebbe I orter and mebbe not. I
dunno 'bout It."
But there came a time when he did
know. It was about a year after the 1
death of farmer Baker. Elisha had {
known him and his wife for ten years.
For twelve months he went over and
helped the widow out as a duty, but
one day he stopped his horses at the
plow and rubbed his chin in a reflective
way and said to himself:
"Gosh all fish-hooks, but I guess I
ought to marry Nancy! That hired
man of hers needs a man to boss him.
and some of her cows are always
allln' or the hogs havin' the cholera.
Elisha Rldgeway, it's your duty."
That evening he went over to see
the widow. He was more quiet than
usual, and by and by she took notica
and asked:
"'Lisha, anything on your mind?"
"Jest a leetle," was the reply.
"'Tater-bugs ain't come, have they?"
"Haven't got a squint of a single
one."
"Didn't lose any turkeys, by the last
cold rain?"
"Noap. What's on my mind, Nancy,
is gettin' married."
"For the land's sake!"
"Yes, I thought you'n me would get
married."
"Hear the man talk!"
"Yes, I'm a-talkin'. Thought it all
over this afternoon. Better set the
weddih' day."
Elisha Ridgeway was a good-natured
man and meant well, but he made a
mistake. He made it because he was
an old bachelor. It did not occur to
him that a woman must be won. Even
a cross-eyed, lop-shouldered woman
isn't going to be picked up and lugged
off to the altar without enough hanging
back to save appearances. Had
Elisha been courting for even a month
s in era mjchf hn\-f? hf>pn different, but
lliiu^u ? V _
he hadn't courted at all. He had simply
sat on the porch with the widow
and talked crops and country gossip.
There had been glorious sunsets and
silvery moons and songs by the whlppoorwllls,
but not so much as a sigh
from him. And there was something
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"Yee, Llsha, Them Are the Very
Words."
else to obstruct the way. The widow
looked at him for a moment and then
said: v
"'Lisha, there ain't goin* to be no
weddin* day!"
"But why?"
"In the first place I'm all eat up
with astonishment, and in the next
you must have heard what Sarah
Jones said the day my husband was
burled?"
"Don't remember."
"But I do, and so does a heap of
other folks. She keeps quiet for a
minute and then nods her head and
says:
" 'You Jest put it down in black and
white that Nancy Baker will marry
agin as soon as the year Is up.'"
"Yes, 'IJsha, them are her very
words, and mo'e'n a dozen women
have got 'em v.*rit down. D'ye think
I'm goin' to let the words of that old
grasswidow come true? No siree!
"But it's over a year," he protested.
"Yes, it's thirteen months, one day
and two hours, to be exact, but Sarah
Jones would giggle Just the same."
"I thought from what Jim said when
he found he'd got to go that he expected
us to get married."
"Mebbe he did, but we ain't gtlin' to
?not yet, anyway. 'Lish, I'm a woman
of my word. When I heard of what
Sarah Jones said I said to myself that
I wouldn't marry agin under five years
at least, and I'll keep my word."
There was a groan from poor Elisha
that touched her heart, and her voice
was sympathetic as she said:
"I ain't sayin' that I don't like you,
but I'm sayin' you'll have to wait four
years more."
Another long-drawn groan.
Hard to Gel
Charles Rann Kennedy, the playwright.
holds the American and English
record for talking, according to
the New York correspondent of the
Cincinnati Times-Star. .Mr. Kennedy
glories In talk. He revels in u. ne
can talk more on any given subject
than any other playwright on earth, i
He can talk without a subject. He
will furnish his own topic or talk on
yours. It makes no difference to him.
All he asks is a listener. He has all
tho rest of the works. Once Mr Kennedy's
manager dropped his watch
while visiting the playwright.
"Lev me have that watch." said
Kenn? rv. "I know a fine watchmaker,
and I'll fake it to him f< r repairs "
A week later the manager dropped
in. Mr. Kennedy began to talk. By
and by ti e manager made a few futile
movements of his 1 .nds waved his
hat in nd!o;: and went away.
Ti e next day the manager called on
Mr. Kennedy again Mr. Kennedy began
to talk. The manager said at In
"But you come over and court
?ourtin" Is next to marryln'."
Elisha groaned some more, but the
widow Baker was Implacable. Four
rears more If It killed her stone dead!
[t was a lonely man that went home
:o a lonely house.
The very next day, while he was at
!be plow again, he heard the widow
calling for help and started on the
run to the rescue. A couple of tramps
Sad invaded the farmhouse and were
making threats. Elisha went for them
like a locomotive running away. He
banged them and slammed them, and
slammed them, and booted them, and
when they had crawled away to the
road the grateful widow said to him:
" 'Lisha, I hate to break my word,
but we'll take a year off them four
and make the time three."
The old bachelor sighed over It, but
went his way. Three yearB ?tn
w Jong as four, no matter what almanac
one had in the house.
Luck is erratic. She will Blam-bang
a man one day, and let him find a fat
wallet In the road on the next. In this
case, she didn't slam-bang at all. She
lust cuddled up to Elisha and told him
to go ahead and she would back him.
Two days after the tramp episode
the widow Baker raised a ladder beside
the house to tie up a growing
vine, and by a bit of carelessness she
lost her hold and hung head downwards.
It was Elisha that came to
her rescue again, and it was the woman
who, after drinking a pint of hard
cider to steady her nerves, looked up
at him with grateful eyes and said:
" 'Lisha Ridgeway, I'm a woman of
my word, but I'll be snummed if I
don't take a year off them three, leav
Ing only two for you to wait! But for
you I'd be a dead woman now."
Elisha thought of the two long years
and sighed and went his way with a
feeling that Luck might keep things
going. She did. Only three days later,
when he went to carry back a borrowed
hoe, he found the widow Baker
in the well, where she had been for
three long hours, and was chilled
through and throngh. In drawing a
bucket of water she had leaned too far
over the curb.
"I was praying for you to come,"
she said with chattering teeth as he
looked down at her.
"You tie the end of the rope around
you when I let it down. Stop! Does
this take off another year?"
" 'Lisha, you know I'rr^ a woman of
my word," was the reply.
"You are, Nancy."
"I said four years and then three
years, and now, though I know how
Sarah Jones will giggle. I'm goln' to
knock off still another year."
"Good for you! Come ud!"
One year now?only one! ElfBha
wondered if Luck was going to turn
on him or continue being good. If he
1 u Vi r\f roar I
could oniy gmasn umi umci j,
He had his opportunity. There came
a thunderstorm one midnight, and the
bolt that struck the widow Baker's
house and set It aflre raised him out
of bed and sent him running. The
rain, aided by a few palls of water,
doused the flames, and some more
hard cider brought the widow clear of
the shock. She had given herself up
for dead. After she could talk Ellsha
seemed to expect her to say something.
She realized that he did, and
therefore led off:
" 'Llsha, I'm a woman of my word!
I said five years, and then four?three
?two."
"And now, Nancy?"
"Sarah Jones Is goin' to giggle."
ARMOR IN COLONIAL AMERICA
Worn Not Infrequently In the Early
Days and Was Richly Wrought
and Decorated.
"Armor worn, worn for service, In
America! I don't believe It." This
from a distinguished visitor who stood
in front of one of the cases In the
Metropolitan Museum of Art "Why,
my dear fellow, we never had these
mediaeval people in our country." But
the fact is, none the less, that we did
wear armor not Infrequently In the
early days, and that in some Instances,
at least, the armor was richly wrought
and decorated. Bays a recent lBsue of
the Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum
of Art.
It was, of course, only in the earliest
Colonial times that armor was worn
regularly. In the Spanish colonies It
was in constant service during the sixteenth
and seventeenth centuries. Indeed,
it was due to their complete
panoply that Plzarro and Cortez, with
their handful of adventurers, routed
hostile armies. That horse armor was
then used, and largely used, is Incontrovertible,
and the condition of panic
+ Vk A T rt /I S a n C V? TT f Vl O Jn.
It has been said that Post
Toasties are the most deiiciously
flavoured particles of
cereal food yet produced.
One can rendeT an opinion
upon trial.
I " The Memory Lingers"
Sold by Grocers
Postom Cereal Company. Ltd.
1 battle Creea, Micb.
m i? i?i i in i
UaUDCU 0UIUU5 luo i tiumtio w/ vuu
vulnerableness of the Spaniard cannot
be given too much weight In the etudv
of the conquest. With armored horses
the invaders rode down masses of natives,
and the invention of the stirrup
of the conquJstadores had its grim use
in such a struggle. It was a stirrup
of great weight with wide flanges at
the sides and base, and the horseman
could swing it fatally as he galloped
through crowded squares. This type
of stirrup survived In a decadent form
until the early nineteenth century; its
projecting flanges were retained only
as space for decoration, and it is more
than probable that those who later
rode with 6uch a stirrup knew little of
its ancient use.
Woman an Active Politician.
Rough and Ready, Cal., is lucky
enough to have for registrars of voters
Miss Mamie Morrison, an expert
horsewoman who is highly popular,
and she has made a new record by
hunting up every voter in her bailiwick.
spending ten hours a day in the
saddle. She takes her book to county
dances, too, and not a man or woman
escapes without registering.?Indianapolis
News
t in a Word
torvals: "Rut. I say " Being an
Englishman. he had difficulty in getting
unllmbered. Mr. Kennedy is also
an Englishman, but he has no trouble
with the limber. The manaeer did not
complete his sentence. The third day
the manager called again. They spent
f ???? 1 1 n nlo'icint nnn forco Kt* \fr
I II l i.utun iu I'ivuijuui ' v.i.vicv u; .?i?.
Kennedy At the expiration of that
period tlie manager rose, put on Ms
!.a* and withdrew a typewritten paper
from his pocket.
"What's this?" asked Kennedy. "A
summons" I remember "
Mr Kennedy spent a few minutes
in profitable and pleasing remini
srenee In the midst of it the man
ager fied. howling like a wolf. When
he had gone Mr Kennedy looked at
he pel er It contained these words:
"Whore did you take my watch to be
fixed? I've been trying to ask you
this for three days '"
Man is the only animal which cher
iahes a perverted appetite.
CONSTANT DRAIN ON NATION
Cost of Tuberculosis and Other Preveritable
Diseases Has Been
Put Into Figures.
While state commissions and other
bodies are trying to find a method for
reducing the cost of life insurance,
Prof. James W. Glover of the University
of Michigan demonstrates that
every policy-holder of a $10,000 ordinary
whole life policy could save
about $20 a year on his premiums if
tuberculosis and typhoid fever were
eliminated Tuberculosis alone causes
a loss to such a policy holder of from
$16.70 at twenty to $17.50 at the age i
of sixty. At age of twenty, with the !
present high death rate from tuberculosis,
this one disease alone shortens
the complete expectation of life by
two years and 158 days. While the 1
death rate from tuberculosis seems to
be declining, the National Association
for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis
says that the combined effort
of every man, woman and child ,
is necessary to bring about a radical ,
reduction in life insurance rates as ,
Professor Glover has indicated.
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dance?
Miss Charming?Really, Mr. Softly,
you've had nearly all so far and?
Softly?Yes; you know, It's just
to spite Miss Lovely. We've had a
quarrel.
Not Reliably Informed.
The gentleman who wore evening
clothes and the remnants of a jag at
9 o'clock in the morning was clinging
to the footboard of a crowded surface
car in Chicago. As the car rounded a
sharp curve with a Jerk the person in
incongruous apparel fell quickly and
heavily to the cobblestones. He was
picked up by the strong hands of the
conductor and about twenty passengers.
"Collision?" he asked in a dignified
tone of voice.
"No," said the conductor.
"Off the track?" further questioned
the victim of the accident.
"No," said the conductor.
"Well," concluded he of the jag, "If
I had known that I wouldn't have got
off."?Popular Magazine.
Oddities of Justice.
That the whole theory of penal
codes is practically unsound and opposed
to the modern conceptions of
the relation of the state to crime, is
the contention of Eugene Smith of tho
New York bar, writing in the May
number of Cast and Comment, the
lawyers' magazine. Illustrating the
absurdity and disparity between pen
a'?ty for crimes in different states,
Mr. Smith says: "The average sentence
for perjury in Florida is ten
years, in Maine one year; for larceny,
* *v-1 ? ? *? I? V* ?~i TUcfrlol
in ueiawure itrn jeois, iu iuC uion.v.
of Columbia ten months; the penalty
for arson in Pennsylvania is twice
that of burglary, but in Connecticut
the guilt of burglary is twice that ol
arson: the guilt of counterfeiting in
Ohio is twice that of perjury, but in
Rhode Island the guilt of perjury Ij
twice that of counterfeiting.
Delicate Point.
They are a happy Sewickley couple,
t They haven't been married very long
In fact, the honeymoon has barely
waned. An elderly friend met the
bridgegroom downtown yesterday and
slapped him on the back.
"Well, happy as a lark, I suppose?"
"Oh, yes."
"Oh, yes."
"How's the cooking?"
"I have one trouble there. It's Just
this, my wife has been preparing angel
food every day for dinner."
i "You must be getting tired of it."
"I am. Yet I feel a hesitancy about
saying anything. How soon after the
honeymoon would it be proper to ask
for beefsteak and onions?"?Pittsburg
Post.
Piecing Out
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In the Growth
of Corn
I
there's a period when the
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As the corn ripens the
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becomes almost flinty.
Post
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Lesson
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Department, The Moody Bible Institute
of Chicago.)
LESSON FOR JUNE 16.
CHRIST'S WITNESS TO JOHN THE
BAPTIST.
LESSON TEXT-Matt 11.M9.
GOLDEN TEXT?"Among them that
are born of women there is none greater
than John; yet he that is little in the
kingdom of God is greater than he."?
Luke 7:28.
This Is the last lesson with the exception
of one that we are to have
upon the character of John the Baptist.
Following the Imprisonment of
John by Herod, Jesus, for diplomatic j
reasons, made Capernaum his head- i
rjuarters, and It was In Galilee that bis .
great popular ministry was performed
Meanwhile John is shut up In the fort
Teas at Machaerus, on the east side or
the Dead sea. For one who had been
so Intensely active to be obliged to
sit Idly by and wait while another'^ j
name and fame Increases daily was a
severe test of faith. His prototype.
Elijah, had to meet a similar testing
(1 Kings 19: 3, 4); why, therefore,
need we wonder that doubts should
arise in the mind of the greatest
"born of woman?"' Not one of us at
all familiar with the experiences of
life and the subtllity of temptation
will be surprised when under these
circumstances we read of John's question,
v. 2-6. This doubt Is so natural
that It bears upon its very face the
stamp of being genuine and that the
record was not fabricated. It Is noticable
in the form of John's question
that he had no doubt as to the character
of Jesus, the genuineness of his
miracles, nor any question but that he
was sent of God, but sllll he questioned.
"Is this the Messiah?" "Is this
the one whom all the prophets from
Moses to Malachi said was to come,
or do we look for another? I frankly
disclaimed being the Messiah, you are
a truthful man. and I am willing to
accept your word, are you the Christ?"
John was not envious (John 3:27-36).
he was too great a man to be that,
but yet Jesus had not wielded the ax
as he had expected, hence the meserr?r
ir\ Toeno onH thfa f rn n U nilPS
tion. John sots us the good example
of taking his doubts to Jesus, and
Jesus In a most tender way answers
his doubting and at the same time
turns It to his own advantage In confirming
his claims as the Messiah.
John Sought Not His Own Glory.
The second half of the lesson Is the
tribute of Jesus to the life and character
of John the Baptist. Jesus has,
as we have Just seen, sent his word of
comfort and cheer to John when he
turns to the multitudes with a highly
eulogistic testimony as to John's work,
his worth and his greatness. True, his
faith seemed to be shaken for the moment,
but John was not a "reed sha- ,
ken of the wind," Indeed not. John
was not. a man seeking his own glory
(Luke 3:16) nor his own comfort
(Matt. 3:1, 4). He was not clad sumptuously
(Luke 7:25). No, John was a
prophet, a man sent, commissioned, Inspired
of God. He had authority to
speak for God (Luke 1:16, 26) In declaring
God's will to man. Yes, John
Is all of this and more, for he was himself
the subject of Old Testament
prophecy (Mai. 3:1, etc.). This John
was chosen among all men to go before
his face and to prepare a highway
in the minds and hearts of Israel over
which Jesus the Messiah might enter
and begin the establishing of this newkingdom.
It was In performing this
service that John filled one of the
highest offices ever filled by mau. In
this eulogy we need to recall the difference
In the miraculous births of
these two men. John supernaturally
born of natural parentage,
Jesus supernaturally born of woman
but conceived of the Holy Spirit, hence
the words of Jesus are to be understood
that among purely human beings
"none greater was born of woman."
Went to Christ Himself.
Jesus' words In verse 15 are tremendous
with import. Literally he says:
"I have told you these things about
John and about my kingdom, now you
who have ears have an obligation resting
upon you because of what I have
told you." There was need of their
understanding and accepting an important
teaching, but the unreasonable
Scribes and Pharisees would accept
neither the austere John nor the more
social Jesus. John would not join in
their gaity. Jesus mourned not but
led a more Joyous life, yet they rejected
him also. This "Son of Man,"
not of a man nor the man but son of
man. of humanity, known ns friend of
the needy and the outcast, is himself
cast out by the religious leaders of his
time. Nevertheless in thd wisdom of
God (Luke 11:49) both John the Paptist,
and Jesus the Son of man and of
Mary, have been sent and the results
of their lives and of their teachings
prove them to be a part of God's wise
plan. God's wisdom is justified (v.
19) by its workings or as some trans
late it by its "children."
Great as was John the forerunner,
yet he that is in this newer kingdom
Jesus came to establish is vastly greater
than the old Hebraism. John in the
old would seize the kingdom by force
and contrary to all human conceptions
of kingship. His work was apparently
without program or policy, it was devoid
of army, and this very method
was at variance, at violence, with the
natural pride and prejudice of the human
heart.
One of the six Panama commissioners
was, a few years ago, a cub reporter
at five dollars per week, and
during that time was much perplexed
th? nroblems of the Christian life
and tormented by his doubts. Four
successive nights he discussed the matter
with his pastor; on the fifth he
came with radiant face to inform his
pastor that all his questionings were
settled for, said he, "I went to Christ
himself."
"Whole" and "Holy."
"Whole" and "holy" come from the
I same root. A holy life should be not
a narrowed life, but one in which all
life's Impulses are made whole by
being brought into harmony and
made to serve its highest purpose.?
The Christian Register.
In science read, by preference, the
newest works; in literature, the oldest.
The classic literature Is always
modern. New books revive and redecorate
old ideas; old books suggest
and Invigorate new ideal.?Lyttoo.
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BIG FORTUNE WELL HANDLED
Millions Left by ?he Late Russell 9ag?
Are Being Expended for the Welfare
of Humanity.
While the late Russell Sage was in
the flesh he was one of the most prudent,
shrewd and persistent moneygrubbers
in Gotham. The astute fl"ancier
never plunged nor risked any
money in wild-cat schemes. He was
a "sure-shot" operator in Wall street,
and when he died be left in the hands
of his lone widow a fortune of something
like $75,000,000. Since becoming
possessed of this enormous fortune
she has worked as persistently
and assiduously in scattering the
money as her husband did in gathering
it. The scriptures tell us that
the miser is the man that "heaps up
riches and cannot tell who shall gather
them." Russell Sage knew better,
and the good lady upon whose shoulders
was imposed the burden of this
enormous sum of money has worked
hard in lightening the burden. Her
philanthropies have been productive
of as much wisdom as marked her husband's
operations in the market. She
is reported to be failing in health, and
her task is only begun. Should she
be taken from the world thousands
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very earnestly to be hoped that further
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THE SKIN AND HAIR
Think of the suffering entailed by
neglected skin troubles?mental because
of disfiguration, physical because
of pain. Think of the pleasure
of a clear skin, soft, white hands, and
good hair. These blessings, so essential
to happiness and even success in
life, are often only a matter of a little
thoughtful care in the selection of
effective remedial agents. Cuticura
Soap and Ointment do so much for
poor complexions, red, rough hands,
and dry, thin and falling hair, and cost
so little, that it is almost criminal not
to use them. Although Cuticura Soap
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No amount of culture will make a
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A largo percentage of all sickness starts
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Perhaps Lot's wife was turned to
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A very successful remedy for pelvic
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