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    IS A BRAVE SOLDIER
COL JACOB H. SMITH A BRIG
ADIER GENERAL.
On* »f (lie Mml Capable Officer* In the
Army —Won Distinction at Santiago
and in the Philippines—Romance of
War.
Col. Jacob H. Smith, who has Just
been appointed as brigadier general of
volunteers at the earnest recommenda
tion of Gens, Hall, Kent. Wheeler,
Hates and MacArthur, with whom he
served in both the Santiago and Philip
pine campaigns, is one of our most
capable army officers. Oen. MacArthur,
in urging Gen. Smith's promotion, re
called an incident of the latter's great
personal gallantry at San Juan Hill,
for which he was promoted from the
rank of major to that of lieutenant
colonel. MaJ. Smith prevented a stam
pede by his wonderful presence of
BRIO. OEN. JACOB SMITH.
mind in coolly putting his men. two
battalions of regulars, through the
manual of arms while under a galling
fire from the Spanish trenches. It was
one of those decisive moments which
sometimes save a battle. The Seventy
first of New York, brave but doubtful
Htnld the rain of lead, recovered Its
presence of mind at the extraordinary
spectacle of men being hit with Span
ish bullets, but continuing their evolu
tions as calmly us if on dress parade.
Gen. Smith has secured some notable
triumphs in the Philippines. In No
vember, with two battalions of the
Seventeenth infantry, he captured Ma
galong, taking a number of prisoners
and a lot of insurgent transportation.
And in the latter part of April Gen.
Smith distinguished himself by the
capture of the well-known Filipino
leader, Gen. Montenegro, with 180 of
ficers and men. Montenegro was
sent to Manila to be presented to Gen.
Otis, and is now “amigo.” One ad
venture of Gen. Smith had a rather
larger element of romance and per
sonal danger about It. The president
of Alcala, in the province of Pang
asinan, Luzon, Invited the colonel to
his barrio for a fiesta, intending to
have the house surrounded and the
colonel captured. A Filipino amigo
gave warning. But Colonel Smith ac
cepted the invitation, danced with the
ladies, and even feigned drunkenness.
His men, concealed near the house,
gave the capturing party a warm wel
come when they arrived, killing 12
and capturing 30. Gen. Smith was
born in 1840. and was a first lieu
tenant in the Second Kentucky in
fantry during the civil war. He par
ticipated in many of the battles of that
war, and was severely wounded at
Shiloh. For gallantry in this engage
ment he was made brevet major, anil
later appointed captain of the regular
army Gen. Smith carries a Mauser
bullet in his side, received during the
first day’s fighting around Santiago.
LABOURCHE ON COCKFICHTS.
Why lie L>e*|>i*e» ft Is Very Fhsln to he
Meet!.
There is no word so often misapplied
aa “sportsman," says London Truth.
A man who owns a racehorse is called
one, although he may never have rid
den a horse in his life. A man who
hacks one man to pummel another,
who knows the rules of the prize ring,
is called one. And now Mr. Herbert
Vivian aspires to become one of the
fraternity by reviving the noble sport
of cock-Hghtinj. It Is evident, how
ever, that he is not aware of the law
A rock Is held to be a domestic animal,
and he would bring himself under the
cruelty to animals act of 1*49. Hut
he would also come under the clause
In that act that Imposes a penalty of
£5 on any one who keeps, uses, or acts
In the management of any place for
the purpose of baiting any bull, bear,
badger, dog, cock, or any other kind
of animal, whether of domestic or wild
nature, or shall permit any such pla »*
to be used as aforesaid. I'nder this
clause there have been a good many
conviction* and it has. moreover, been
held that any one who encourages or
a»aiat* at a cock fight is liable to im
prisonment for cruelty to a.* mala 1
east a cockfight nearly fifty years ago
in Mexico, and it *e •tu -d a very brutal
performance The then president was
an ardent supporter of cock-tightins
and he was by way of owning the best
cocks in tbe country lie invited me to
gu with him to >ee a light. Hvery man
was betting, and hU ex ••Hen y covered
All stake* set as > n*t his cocks I
lost above lit* to him myself
fkt H rssUI.se.
AM old genii, man who is certainly «
genius has stalled a lit) 1|>C- tram a
of business at Atiautc city, wh It vn
te*prising people might inti«*|uie in
other places It t# . a lug fur ImMu
at a stated MMhpea*4tf •» per but
The old genitemn- has a pa v. lb mi rta
gset up with a tut e! »* ig> sain, hob
by hmwt Itllte hu * is and shave «
pUythings v*f all 4 • nptuns and a
|«w ««tf crtdWa M* h* g»« only lt<
cents an hour for caring for each little
one. If a mother is tired or wishes an
hour or two free from watching her
baby, she only has to take it to the
pavilion and the old man does the
rest. It is said that the enterprise is
looked upon as a great boon for moth
ers at Atlantic City and that It is sure
to be successful. If these statements
are true it would not be surprising if
the baby pavilion would occupy as
prominent ana important a position at
seaside and pleasure resorts as the tin
type gallery and the merry-go-round.
HAS SURPRISED PARIS.
At the gay French capital, which
during the exposition Is even more
productive of novelties and big events
In society than In an ordinary year,
a sensation is being created by the
magnificent entertainments provided
by an American couple, Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas F. Walsh. One week it la a
magnificent entertainment on one of
the Seine river boats, the next some
grand excursion for the American
colony in Paris, or a gorgeous feast;
a week or two ago it was a dinner
party at Belgium, wnere the Walshes
sat next the king, and after that a
unique trip In a sumptuous spcclnl
train of five palace cars. In short, the
society of the French capital has no
greater lion than Tom Walsh. That
the Walshes are not endeavoring sim
ply to get Into society by their lavish
expenditures Is evidenced by the fact
that no particular class of society at
tends. All—high and low and be
tween—are made to feel welcome, and
In doing the honors, Tom Walsh de
rives his chief pleasure.
Mr, Walsh Is Immensely wealthy.
His success can hardly be attributable
to luck, but rather to his own hard
work and enterprise. He has never
had any sympathy with idleness, hav
ing continually recognized the dignity
and deserts of honest labor. He was
born in Tipperary, Ireland, in 1861,
where, after receiving a fair educa
tion, he worked for several years as
a millwright, lie came to America
and settled in 1870 at Worcester.
Mass., for a few years. Then he went
to Colorado, and was a carpenter and
building contractor at the new camp
of Central City. He had always been
interested in mining, and from this
time on he began to study up the
subject during his spare time. He
was fortunate, and eventually struck
it rich. Now he Is owner of a mine
which he refused to sell a short time
since for $35,000,000. His income is
approximated at $100,000 a month.
The friends of his poorer days are
not neglected now that wealth has
come to Mr. Walsh and his charity
and friendly loans—or gifts—are
known to many of his old associates.
Mrs. Walsh's health failed three
years ago, and she was advised to try
a lower altitude. It was then that he
concluded to go to Washington, where
he purchased a most luxurious home.
Kver since the public has made Itself
free therein. Mr. Walsh has no
“functions,'' nor "events." nor “soi
rees," nor "pink teas." He hates for
mality of any kind. It is this demo
cratic way of doing things that has
surprised the Parisian world. They
open their French eyes with astonish
THOMAS F. WALSH,
ment and sometimes a visible shrug
is manifested at the ease with whieh
Mr. Walsh invites high and low to his
ball or banquet.
Monument I,Ike III* I link.
In the cemetery at Nebraska City
the other day l saw a peculiar monu
ment erected by N'. S. Hardin*, un in
surance agent of that place, in antici
pation of a time when he may need
it. A large block of sandstone, at
least six feet loti*, four feet high and
three feet thick has been carved by
a competent artist to represent a roll
er-top otn. e ileak standing open Ly
tug upon it are bundles of papers neat
ly hound with rubber bands, und Ink
stands witii pens and pencils beside It,
a sponge cup, a bottle of mucilage, a
blotter and other ordinary equipments
such as are found In the office of an
Insurance agent. The stone affair Is a
copy of the desk that bas been mo* t
by Mr Harding In his insurance office
for man) years Correspondence Chi
cago Itecord
t rested » S«s Imludr).
About the mid lie of this centurv It
was the universal custom in face the
white keys of pianos and organs with
ivory, at’d to m tk* the bit k ones of
ebony Long ago ivory he attic too el
Iwnelte fur alt) iliil the flnttst key
1 hoards tailuiold iikltty Its yler Now
ebony also kaa silvan e-| la price, mi
that a lUbeittuts for it i* n iutn |
IkigAod has heeu to. i.d l > serve the
purposes tierilcntly. and it r*a he
statned a Sine h’a # and idled gad pol
i a 144*11* It 4| l 9 44f!i«H||' b|)f|k
in durability sal lyystrsirs Th*
Industry of ctiliisg end astiioiig ,]
W<s>d, cgts a ttlrtUs tree, f,.- this
purpose, is alrtssdv giving «mp! tym*ki
to a t .m d p iuIs ivat. r c* p—tpiv
TALMAGE’S SEKMON.
DISCOURSES ON CHRIST AND
THE CHURCH.
The Moat Beautiful Flowers and the
Best of Fruit—Why the Saviour Ficks
tho Choicest First — The Day of
Salvation.
(Copyright, 1900, by Louts KlopFch.)
This sermon Dr. Taltnage sends from
a halting place in his Journey through
the valleys of Switzerland. It seems
to have been prepared amid the bloom
and aroma of a garden midsummer.
The text Is Song of Solomon v, 1: “I
am come into my garden.”
The Diblc Is a great poem. We have
in It faultless rhythm and bold im
agery and startling antithesis and
rapturous lyric and sweet pastoral
and instructive narrative and devo
tional psalm; thoughts expressed in
style moro solemn than that of Mont
gomery, more hold than that of Mil
ton, more terrible than that of Dante,
more natural than that of Wordsworth,
more Impassioned than that of Pollok,
more tender than that of Cowper, more
weird than that of Spenser. This great
poem brings all the geniB of the earth
Into its coronet, and it weaves the
flames of Judgment into its garlands
and pours eternal harmonies In its
rhythm. Everything this book touches
it makes beautiful, from the plain
stones of the summer thrashing floor
to the daughters of Nahor filling the
troughs for the camels, from the fish
pools of Heshbon up to the Psalmist
praising God with diapason of storm
and whirlwind and Job's Imagery of
Orion, Arcturus and the Pleiades.
My text leads us into a scene of
summer redolence. The world has had
a great many beautiful gardens.
Charlemagno added to the glory of his
reign by decreeing that they be es
tablished all through the realm, decid
ing even the names of the flowers to
be planted there. Henry IV. at Mont
pellier established gardens of bewitch
ing beauty and luxuriance, gathering
into them Alpine, Pyrenean and
French plants. One of the sweetest
spots on earth was the garden of Shen
stone. the poet. His writings have
made but little Impression on the
world, but his garden, the "Lcasowea,"
will be immortal. To the natural ad
vantages of that place was brought th’
perfection of art. Arbor and terrace
and slope and rustic temple and reser
voir and urn and fountain here had
their crowning. Oak and yew and
hazel put forth their richest foliage.
There was no life more diligent, no
soul more Ingenious than that of
Shenstone, and all that diligence and
genius he brought to the adornment
of that one treasured spot. He gave
£300 for it. He sold It for several
thousand. And yet I am to tell you
today of a richer garden than any I
have mentioned. It is ‘he garden
spoken of in my text—the garden of
tho church, which belongs to Christ,
for my text says so. He bought it,
he planted It, he owns It, and he shall
have it. Walter Scott, In his outlay
at Abbotsford, ruined his fortune, and
now, in the crimson flowers of those
gardens, you can almost think or
imagine that you see the blood of that
old man’s broken heart. The pay
ment of the last £100.000 sacrificed
him. Hut I have to tell you that
Christ’s life and Christ’s death were
the outlay of this beautiful garden of
the church, of which my text speaks
Oh, how many sighs and tears and
pangs and agonies! Tell me, ye women
who saw him hang! Tell me, ye execu
tioners who lifted him and let him
down! Tell me. thou sun that didst
hide, ye rocks that fell! “Christ loved
the church and gave himself for it.”
If the garden of the church belongs to
Christ, certainly he has a right to
walk in it. Come, then, O blessed
Jesus, today. Walk up and down these
aisles and pluck what thou wilt of
sweetness for thyself!
The Church I* m (iurtlen.
Tho church In my text is appropri
ately compared to a garden, because
It Is a place of choice flowers, of select
fruits and of thorough irrigation.
That would ho a strange garden in
which there were no flowers. If no
where else, they would he along the
borders or at the gateway. The home
liest taste will dictate something, if
it lie only the old fashioned hollyhock
or dahlia or daffodil. Hut if there he
larger means then you will find the
Mexican cactus and blazing azalea and
clustering oleander. Well, now, Christ
comes to hts garden, and he plants
there some of the brightest spirits that
ever flowered upon the world rfome
of them are violets, inconspicuous, hut
sweet as heaven You have to search
ud Bod them. You do not *-■« them
lery often perhaps, hut you Bud where
*hey have been by the brightened fare
of the invalid and the sprig of geran
ium ou the stand and the new window
curtains keeping out the glow of th><
sunlight. They are p-rbnp* more like
1 the ranunculus ere. pm* sweetly along
amid the thorn* and brier* of life, giv
ing kl-s fur sting And many a man
who ha* b.wl In hi* wav some rreat
i<l*i k ruck of trouble has found thit
they have covered It all over with
i flowery tasmitiiw running In and ant
; amid tbs creme* like .., , m
Christ’* garden are not, kike the sun
flower. ga idy in the light, hot whsr
ever darkness buyer* over a soul that
n-eds tu be ...III tor led there ih >
•tind night bimimtng *w*-so##« lint
| In t hil-l * garden there are yl ill
that n.ay Iw better * nip-vi* •! t * ib*
\t *!• tn .actus ih* m* without i. .
I.e. 4 within n ett mi h harp point
• f iharnur Tkmv wound almto*
1 eVtiP owe that lunches tk> >w They
| *r* hard tw bat oil M-'t proiio- aw
i them nothing but thorns, but Christ
loves them, notwithstanding all their
sharpnesses. Many a man has had a
very hard gro ind to cultivate, and it
has only been through severe trial
that he has raised even the smallest
scrap of grace. A very harsh minister
was talking to a very placid elder, and
the placid elder said to the harsh min
ister, “Doctor, I do wish you would
control your temper.” "Ah,” said the
minister to the elder, "I control more
temper in five minutes than you do in
five years.”
It is harder for some men to do
right than for other men to do right.
Tho grace that would elevate you to
the seventh heaven might not keep
your brother from knocking a man
down. I had a friend who came to me
and said, “I dare not join the church.”
1 said, “Why?” "Oh,” he said, "I have
such a violent temper. Yesterday
morning I was crossing very early at
the Jersey City ferry, and I saw a
milkman pour a large Quantity of
water into the milk can, and I said
to him, ‘I think that will do.’ And
he insulted me. and I knocked him
down. Do you think I ought to Join
the church?" Nevertheless that very
same man who was so harsh in his be
havior loved Christ and could not
speak of sacred things without tears
of emotion and affection. Thorns
without, sweetness within, the best
specimen of Mexican cactus 1 ever
saw.
There are others planted in Christ's
garden who are always radiant, always
impressive, more like the roses of deep
hue that we occasionally find callol
"giants of battle;" the Martin Luthers,
St. Paula, Chrysostoms, Wycllffes,
l^atimers and Samuel Rutherfords.
What in other men Is a spark in them
is a conflagration. When they sweat,
they sweat great drops of blood.
When they pray, their prayer takes
lire. When they preach, it is a Pente
cost. When they fight, it Is a Ther
mopylae. When they die. It is a mar
tyrdom. You find a great many roses
In the gardens, but only a few "giants
of battle." Men say, "Why don’t you
have more of them In the church?" I
say, “Why don’t you have in the world
more Humboldts and Wellingtons?"
God gives to some ten talents, to oth
ers one.
In this garden of the church which
Christ has planted also find the snow
drops. beautiful but cold looking,
seemingly another phase of winter. 1
mean those Christians who are pre
cise in their tastes, unimpassioned,
pure as snowdrops and as cold. They
never shed any tears, they never g t
excited, they never say anything rash
ly, they never do anything precipitate
ly. Their pulses never flutter, their
nerves never twitch, their indignation
never boils over. They live longer
than most people, but their life is in a
minor key. They never run up to “C"
above the staff. In their music of life
they have no staccato passages. Christ
planted them in the church, and they
must be of some service or they would
not be there; snowdrops—always
snowdrops.
Host ItcHatlfnl Flower.
Hut I have not told you of the most
beautiful flower In all this garden
spoken of in the text. If you see a
century plant, your emotions are start
ed. You say, “Why, this flower has
been a hundred years gathering up for
one bloom, and it will be a hundred
years more before other petals will
come out." But I have to tell you of
a plant that was gathering up from all
eternity and that 1,900 years ago put
forth its bloom never to wither. It Is
the passion plant of the cross. Pro
phets foretold it, Bethlehem shepherds
looked upon It in the bud, the rocks
shook at its bursting and the dead got
up in their winding sheets to see its
full bloom. It is a crimson flower—
blood at the roots, blood on the
branches, blood on the leaves. Its per
fume is to fill all the nations. Its
breath is heaven. Come, oh winds
from the north and wind3 from the
south and winds from the east and
winds from the west and bear to all
the earth the sweet smelling savor of
Christ, my Lord!
His worth if all the nations knew.
Sure the whole earth would love him
too.
Again, the church may he appropri
ately compared to the garden, because
it Is a place of fruits. That would be
a strange garden which had in It no
berries, no plums or peaches or apri
cots. The coarser fruits are planted In
the orchard or they are Het out on the
bunny hillside. Hut the choicest fruits
are kept In the garden. So in the world
outside the church Christ has planted
a great many beautiful things—pati
ence. charity, generosity. Integrity.
But he Intends the choicest fruits to be
in the garden, and if they are not there
then shame on the church. Religion
is not a mere flowering sentimentality.
It Is a practical, life giving, healthful
fruit, not posies, but apples.
I ItrUt r*k« « I he* H« *l llnwrrt.
It bus seemed as If Jesus Christ took
the lx st From many of your house
huids the be»t one is gone. You know
that she was too good for this world.
Hhe wraa the gentlest In her ways, the
deepest In her affection, and when a
last the sickne,s came y.,u had n<> faith
In medicines You knew that the hour
of putting hud come, and wheu.
through the rich grace of the l.ud
irtiu Christ, you aurrend* red tbil
tr» .iS'ir • you s«ld *'l<otd Jesus take
It. It Is the best We have Take It
I Thnu art worthy *' The others ii*
h>mum hoid may have been of gross r
mid | .She Was of Ike g»e t
The heaven i f your lltllc ones w, |
Ail the kindnesses shown them hr lie
mortals will tun make fhent forget
I you f Hr e lk»t fire, the fs Him
i Ikn n,t that went out Iron* yo r
! t ,<iiii s I throw a tto o
' tk asset UfI. us* 1 key are all krll
now In the palace. The crippled child
hai a sound foot now. A little lam*
child gays. "Ma, will I be lame in
h iaven?" "No, my darling, you won't
ne lame in heaven.” A little sick child
Bays, “Ma, will I be sick In beavenT”
“No, my dear, you won’t be sick in
heaven.” A little blind child says,
“Ma, will I be blind in heaven?’’ "No,
my dear, you won’t he blind In hc-v
en.” They are all well there.
I notice that the line gardens some
times have high fences around them,
and I cannot get in. It Is so with a
king’s garden. The only glimpse you
ever get of such a garden is when the
king rides out in his splendid carriage.
It Is not so with this garden, this
King's garden. I throw wide open the
gate and tell you all to come In. No
monopoly In religion. Whosoever will
may. Choose now between a desert
and a garden. Many of you have tried
the garden of this world's delight. You
have found it has been a chagrin. So
it was with Theodore Hook. He made
all the world laugh. He makes us
laugh now when we read his poems.
But he could not make his own heart
laugh. While in the midst of his fes
tivities he confronted a looking glass,
and he saw himself and said: “There,
that is true. I look Just as I am
done up in body, mind and purse.”
So it was of Shenstoae. of whose gar
den I told you at the beginning of my
sermon. He sat down amid those
bowers and said: “I have lost my road
to happiness. I am angry and envious
and frantic and despise everything
j around mp just us it becomes a mad
j man to do.”
O ye weary souls, come Into Christ’s
] garden today and pluck a little hearte
; ease. Christ is the only rest and the
only pardon for a perturbed spirit. Do
i you not think your chance has almost
! come? You men and women who have
been waiting year after year for some
good opportunity in which to accept
Christ, but have postponed tt 5, 10,
20, 30 years, do you not feel rs If now
I your hour of deliverance and pardon
and salvation had come? O man what
grudge hast thou against thy poor soul
that thou wilt not let It be saved?
Some years ago a vessel struck on
the rocks. They had only one lifeboat.
In that lifeboat the passengers and
crew were getting ashore. The vessel
had foundered and was sinking deeper
and deeper, and that one boat could
not take the passengers very swiftly.
A little girl stood on the deck waiting
for her turn to get into the boat. The
boat came end went, came and went,
but her turn did not seem to come.
After awhile she could wait no longer,
and she leaped on the taffrail and then
sprang into the sea, crying to the boat
man: “Save me next! Save tne next!”
Oh, how many have gone ashore into
God’s mercy, and yet you are clinging
to the wreck of sin! Others have ac
cepted the pardon of Christ, but you
are in peril. Why not this moment
make a rush for your immortal rescue,
crying until Jesus shall hear you and
heaven and earth ring with the cry
“Save me next! Save me next!" Now
is the day of salvation! Now! Now!
8om« I lien Are ISulloonlitk.
According to I. M. Aldrich and L.
A. Turley, two well-known Kuropcara
zoologists, man is not the only living
being who delights to go skyward in
a balloon. There are certain flies, they
say, which invariably go through the
air In balloons whenever they get tired
of flying in the ordinary way. These
airships are composed of small bub
bles, which are exuded from the bodies
of flies and the air in which suffices to
support the insects whenever their
wings become weary and the fancy
takes them to ride through the air on
their tiny gossamer bladders. They
ran go, it is said, in any desired direc
tion by simply swaying their bodies
toward the goal which they expect to
reach. In one of these curious air
ships the zoologists found the body of
a very small insect, and they are now
wondering whether it got in there by
chanceor whether the proprietor of the
balloon thoughtfully placed it there
with the object of feeding on it during
its aerial journey. As an argument in
favor of the latter hypothesis they
point out that flies while traveling in
balloons cannot satisfy their hunger
unless they return to the earth.—New
York Herald.
ltotrott** ‘4UOtl» Annlvcrflnry.
Detroit. Mich., besides being one of
the prettiest of American cities, has
the distinction of being among the old
est with the exception of those on the
immediate seaboard. As a trading and
military station it was held by the
French as far bark as 1610; in 1763 It
wan transferred to the British; after
the Revolution It parsed to the I’nlted
States The 200th anniversary of it*
foundation as a city is about to be
celebrated, and arrangements are In
progress for the commemoration of tin*
event by the erection of a hundsomo
monument. It will be situated on an
island In the Detroit River, and will
lie 230 feei high (Iroups of statuary
will adorn its ha*** which will lie sur
rounded by a court, attached to which
will be a marble mlonade boo feet
! long with wings at each end of "0®
feet In length
I’rtnree la War,
No f« *er than five princes are ac
tive!) engaged in the riouth Afiiran
war They are Prince Phrlstiau Vic
tor. Prime* Adolphus. Alei.tuder and
Francis. of Te« fc and fount t* let, tie a.
Must of them Ha I previously been eh
- | ig»d in mult *r> op* rain,us ta other
j, vrts of the w irid Puma fbiietlan
,*fv-d In Asbantt ih*» h,- dan amt
i her i.tM|wlrht, 1‘fiuif k’«v.,aJ»r of
In t did good work In Matatrelelan t,
,i ml his li ulIn r, Pi in e i voc.w wtv -
d .i a i. slu In the Feipt au wit of
j jf iv while Foam iP vhen r «,g
|k|f( 19 *#f dll **? IN *
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THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
LESSON XII. SEPT. IG. LUKE XII..
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Holden Text: Whut Shull It Profit a
Man. If He Gain Ilie Whole World,
and luxe Hli Own Soul?—Murk 8: 30
—Life's Great Gifts.
13. “One nf the company." Not a dis
ciple, but one of the hearers who had lis
tened untouched by the solemn discourse
of Jesus (Luke 12: 1-12). "Said unto him." P
Perhaps interrupting the discourse.
"Speak to my brother." He does not ask
Jesus to arbitrate between him and ills
brother, hut to give a decision against his
brother. "That he divide the inheritance
willi me." in the East there is compara
tively little wealth in the easily convert
ible form of coin, and Investments so fa
miliar among ourselves are absolutely un
known, but a man's property Is estimated
very much ns In the days of Abraham, liy
• he number of Ids Hocks and herds, and of
his household goods, as changes of rai
ment.
H. "And he said unto him, Man.” As In
Horn. 2: 1, 8, the form "O man” was one
which expressed grave censure and Indig
nation. Was It for thlH thut men came to
hlm,^ Instead of seeking for the kingdom
of God? "Who made (appointed) me a
judge.” A public officer of a worldly
kingdom, whose business was to examine
and decide tile cases that came before
him. "Or a divider," 1. e., umpire, arbi
trator. one who separates Into parts, to
carry out anil execute the decision.—Pro
fessor Kendrick.
IB. "And he said unto them." The
crowds of people he was addressing when
the man interrupted him. "Take heed."
Look out. Have your eyes fully open to a
this map, and to the danger which besets ™
you all as it has 1dm. Jesus points him
out os an example, "Beware of covetous
ness.” Guard yourselves from covetous
ness, It, V., "Keep yourselves from nil
covetousness,” that Is, from all forms of
covetousness. "For a man's life con
slateth not in the abundance of the things
which he posseseth." i. e., "it does not
follow, because a man has abundance,
that his life consists in wealth. Life de
pends for its value upon the use we make
of possessions."—Int. Crlt. Com.
16. "The ground of a certain rich man.”
This man is represented us rich, not be
cause successful covetousness is worse
Ilian unsuccessful covetousness, but be
cause the rich are more exposed to this
sin, and to show that even if one gains
all that ids covetousness desires, still It
is folly. "Brought forth plentifully." His
crime was not dishonesty, though we do 4k
not know how he acquired his land. The ®
great harvests were innocent gains.
17. "And he thought within himself."
"He dialogued with himself." "What
shall I do." A common perplexity of the
Wealthy. He did not know how to Invest
his surplus.—Abbott. He does not seem
to have thought of using it for God and
humanity. "No room where to bestow my
fruits." All the products of his land.
18. "I will pull down my barns." He
was planning for a long life, and larger J
worldly resources, in modern times the
parable would have spoken of Invest
ments, trusts, bonds, stocks and real es
tate.
18. "1 will say to my soul." His con
scious self, the seat of activity, desires,
enjoyment, including Ills higher nnture.
He would feed even this on husks. "Much
goods laid up for many years.” He count
ed on a long life, and Imagined that his
"much goods" could satisfy his soul.
"Take thine ease, eat, drink and he
merry." "More energetically in the four
words of the original; r*-stx rat, drink, f
enjoy."- Farrar. Huch was Ids conception '
of life!
20. "But God said." By whom his days
were controlled. "Thou fool.” Literally,
fool, senseless, unthinking one: So dif
ferent from what the shrewd man thought
he was. "This night.” Instead of his pro-,
posed "many years." "Thy soul shall
he required of thee.” Greek, they are de
manding back from thee thy soul. "Then’
whose shall those tilings be.” it would
make little difference to him whose they
were, since they were not his, and couli^
no longer minister to his pleasure.
21. "So is he." A complete fool, a mis
erable failure: one who has transformed'
the possible riches of heaven Into coals
of Are. "Layeth up treasure for him
self." Not In heaven, not In humanity,
not In character. "And Is not rich toward
God." Klch tn those things which God
loves, and which bring him near to God.
22. "Therefore." As the conclusion from
the partible and the Incident that led to
It. "Take no thought.” Tills translation
has troubled many a tender conscience.
Take thought. In this passage, was a
truthful rendering when the A. V. wus
made, since thought was then used as
equivalent to "anxiety" or "solicitude.”
Ko Shakespeare (Hamlet). "For your life,
what ye shall eat.” To support life.
"Make not your physical and temporal
wants the special and great objects of
thought and care.” I)o not let them bur
den you so that you cannot give your
time and thought and money to better
things.
23. "The life Is more than meat.” (1)
Life is the greater gift, which none but
God can give. He will not give you thu
greater gift and withhold the lesser.
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New York correspondence Pittsburg
Dispatch: If any proof were needed t
that the Paris exposition is not In- I
creasing ocean travel from America, it H
was afforded today by the announce- j
ment of a cut in rates by the White
Star and Cunard lines. These compa
nies liave reduced their charge for pas
sage to Europe to their regular winter
schedule two months earlier than
usual. In other words, one will be able w.
to go to Europe In August und Septem
ber at the same cost for tickets as Is
paid in the winter, when rates ure al
ways lower The understanding is that
the other ocean lines will out their
rates, too. The matter was the sub
ject of general conversation about
Howling tiiecu today. Travel bus been
less this summer than it was three or
lour year* ago. when the White Htar is
-aid to have had Its best year. There Is
a great deal of sc m y maintained by
the steamship companies about the
business they have been doing, but It
•cents as if there Is no doubt that the
rates all around for passenger to rum
inodatlon eastward on the Atlantic will
lie nit for August and ft* Member,
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