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Another club woman, Mrs. Haule, of Edgerton, Wis., tells how she wa3 cured of irregulari ties and uterine trouble, terrible pains and backache, by the use of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. “Dear Mrs. Pinkija m ; — A while ngo my health began to fail because of female troubles. The doctor did not help me. I remembered that my mother had used Lydia E. IMnkhttni’s Vegetable Compound on many oc casions for irregularities nml uterine troubles, and I felt sure that it could not harm nie at nny rate to give it a trial. “ I was certainly glad to find that within a week I felt much better, the terrible pains in the hack and side were beginning to cease, and at the time of menstruation I did not have nearly as serious a time os heretofore, go I continued its use for two months, And at the end of that time I was like a new woman. I really have never felt better in mv life, have not had a sick headache since, and weigh "0 pounds more than I ever did, so I un hesitatingly recommend your medi cine.” — Mrs. May IlArt.E, Hdgerton, Wis. .Pres Household Economies Club. — S 'l000 forfolt if or'ninal of about letttr proving genuineness cannot be produce4. The Boer Irreconcilables. The former Doer generals. De Wet, Itotha and Delarey. are about to visit India in order to persuade the Boer irreconcilables there to take the oath of allegiance. Few of these prisoners are now lef, in the various camps. In Ceylon, for instance, there are only five; and it was recently suggested in India that the time had now come to repatriate inem all. and keep them in some form of confinement in South Africa until they took the oath. Kother dray's Swee; rjwflcm for Children, Successfully used by Mother Gray, nttrsa In the Children's Home in New York, cure Constipation, Feverish nes.i, Had Stomach, Teet hing Disorders, move and regulate the Bowelsaud Destroy Worms. Uverau.tNxites timonials At all Druggists. 2Sc. Sample 1' ttEE. Address A S. Olmsted, LeJttoy.N.Y. Always in Stack. A chemist was boasting in the com pany of friends of his well-assorted stock in trade. "There isn't a drug missing, ' he said. "Corne, now," said one of tDo by standers, by way of a jok<\ "I bet that you don't keep any spirit of con tradiction. well stocked as you pre tend to be " “Why not? ’ replied the chemist, not In the least embarrassed at the unex ported sally. "You shall see for your self." So saying he left the group and returned in a few minutes leading by the hand—his wife!London Tid Bits. Dealers say'that as noon as a cits tonier tries Defiance Starch it is im possible to sell them any other cold water starch. It can be used cold or boiled. A Mulatto Nobility. The color line cannot be absolutely drawn in the artistocrary ot Great Britain, for the announcement of the coming marriage in South Africa of Dadv Mary Grey recalls the fact that the third wife of the late and eighth Earl of Stamford is a mulatto, the daughter of a Hottentot cook and laundress in the family of tnat peer, whom he married aftei* she nad borne hint two children. Lady Mary takes her place in Burke's Peerage, but John and Frances, the son and daughter borne by Martha Solomon before the earl married her in 1880. although le gitimate Dy tiie Dutch law, are not so in the estimation of the house of lords, whose committee on privileges deter mines the succession to peerages. Pise's Cure ts the best medicine we ever used for alt directions of the throut rwid lungs.—YVM. O. Knosliv, Vanburen. Imb, t'eb. lu, 1000. Wonderful Flight of Birds. Thorp is-conclusive evidence to show that in one unbroken nocturnal flight the European bird known as the northern bluethrnat passes from Cen tral Africa lo the German sea, a dis tance of t.fiftO miles, making the Journey in nine hours. From its win ter home in Africa observations have determined that it starts after sunset, arriving at its far northern summer haunts before dawn on the next morn ing. Mr*. W!n*1nvr** Byrufj, For children teething. Aoftcna ih»? gunii, reduce* Cumulation, allay*pr.,n.cum* wind tollc. 2VabotU*. The more of a man the saint Is the more of a saint the man will he. When tried by fire, some people, like ate&l, are hot tempered. A brotherly boost is often worth a whole lot of sisterly sympathy. Always found wanting—the beggar. ___ . % A thief Is one who takes liberties. DON'T SPOIf. YOUR CLOTHS!). Use Red Cross Ball Blue nud keep them white as snow. All grocers. 5c. a package. You cannot carry a crooked rule along the straight road. ft Is only tomorrow’s burdens that break the back of todav The Star of Bethlehem is a theme of wondrous power. It has fascinated sages of the East and philosophers or the West. It has been discussed these nineteen hundred years by men of varying minds with a freshness that never fails. It excites a glow of fer vid love in the breast of the saint. It kindles the dying embers of hope in the soul of the sinner. It is the ray of Heaven's own light to the afflicted. It beckons the prodigal hack to the Father's home. It gives strength to the living. It brings peace to the dy ing. But though a mystery of awe to angels, it is a Symbol of Ix»ve Divine to men. As such it. cannot fail to pro foundly interest every intelligent in quirer after truth. That, we may the better .understand the subject and more thoroughly appreciate the ways of God with man. I propose to treat the subject under the following heads: ]. The star was a real, true, bona fide star—not a mere temporary mir aculous creation for the specific pur pose. It is allowed by all authorities that the Magi, or Wise Men, were learned. They would, therefore, make use of words and terms with discrim ination. But not only were they learned, they were astronomers. Hence, when they used an astronom ical term, they would use the appropri ate word or phrase descriptive of the j object referred to. They use the word | “aster." which means an ordinary and , permanent star, not an extraordinary , and temporary one. Now, in the Bible star is used only ; in a twofold signification—literally or figuratively. In its figurative sense it 1 Tty Rev. F. P. Duffy, M. D . Secretary of the American Church Bible Institute. 0. It was a fixed star—not erratic in its movements. The term "star” was used by the Wise .Men. But they were skilled astronomers and knew the difference between a star, a plan- j et, a comet or a meteor, for all of : which there were distinct names. I Hence planet, comet, meteor are ruled ! out by the word aster (star). And * henee we conclude that the Star in j the Hast was a fixed star. 7. It was a star in the sign Pisces j of the zodiac—the Sign of Judea. This J is an important factor. Among the j ancients there was a part of the heav ens called tlie zodiac. It was a belt encircling the heavens on each side of j the ecliptic, or apparent path of the j sun among the stars, within which the larger planets always remain. It ex- | tended to eight degrees on either side j of the ecliptic. It was divided into | twelve parts called the Signs of the Zodiac. Tlie different countries of the earth were divided among the twelve signs. Judea belonged to the sign pisces. the twelfth. The Magi, like all other astrologers or astron omers. believed in that division. So far we have traced some of the necessary conditions of the star. Let us now try and discover the star that lulfils these conditions, in doing so we shall briefly discuss the different theories put fortli and held by differ ent people, some of t hem men of great eminence in their own partial- j lar sphere. We shall also show the i untenableness of the different hypoth esis. 1 The star was not an angel. No less a father of the church than Tlie nphylact hold this view. He believed it was an angelic apparition. No doubt seen, the Star of Bethlehem had a ' periodic time, which must necessarily j have corresponded with "the fullness ; of time." But the periodic times of Mars, Jupiter, Saturn are all known and are of short duration. Even if we apply the periodic time to the con junctions of the planets the objection still holds good. The times of the < conjunctions are known and are com paratively short. So that attractive as is the theory of Kepler, we must dlmiss it. and look elsewhere. There is one star which fulfils all the conditions, (a) It was in an espe- < rial sense the Magi's star. <b) It has a periodic time. <c) Its revolution is of indefinite length, (d) It was in the i sign Pisces at the birth of our Lord, : <e) I believe we can find a peculiar- I ity by which it could be called "His i Star." That star was Sirius, the i brightest in the firmament of heaven. Before we can arrive at our final 1 conclusion it is necessary to learn 1 something about the Wise Men, or J < Magi. Who were the Magi? Where | . did they come from? The etymology of the word Magi is I Involved in much doubt. It is gener ally supposed to be primarily a Per sian word, but the Persian is only a form of the original. Our word Magus, of which Magi is the plural, is but the i l.atin rendering of the Greek Magos, the Persian of which is probably Maz. t Maz is cognate to Maj in Major. Mag t in Magnus and Meg in Megas (Raw- < linson). "It is an intensitive and means much or all." In Aliura Maz-da, Persian name for God. it means the < all wise or all powerful. 1 It is clear, however, that the Per- ! sians borrowed the word, as they as- I ?ftoir go Hierusalbnr,” which shows [he Irish belief that the Druids were Vfagians. It is a matter of iHstory that part of ihe Gaels or Ifieh in the westward, movement of the race returned by ihe valley of the Danube and settled n Asia Minor. They prefixed their >wn name to Asia, and called their Diode Gael-Asia. Galatia, as it caimo :o he spelled. Whether the Druids or Magi t\#> vhom the Star of Bethlehem appeared vere residents of Ireland, Scythia, or Jalatia is immaterial, for they were ill the same Gaelic race. Having, as hope, made it clear that it was to he Gaelic priests or Druids that the dar of Bethtehem appeared, let tas go lack to primitive times, when Mag sm was incorporated with Zwmster sm. Besides Ahura-Mazda there were he Amesha-Spentas. or "the Immor al Holy Ones.” There was a third ■lass lower than the Amesha-Spentas. \niang this class were Mlthra and Hstrya. Mithra was the spirit of ight, or the sun. Tistryn was the spirit of the brightest star in the irmament, or Sirius. Ultimately dithra became associated with Ahura dazda and placed almost on an equal ty with him. So we may exclude dithra from our calculations. Tis rva. next to the Divinity, became the ibject of the Magi's reverence. Sirius vas his star, and thus became to the dagi “the star." Balaam, the Kali-Mag, Chief Magian, ir Arch Druid of his time, was a irophet like larbonel of the Gaels. In iis prophecy, which still lives, he ut ered, under the inspiration of Jeho means a king or other civil ruler, an ecclesiastical teacher, and perhaps an angel. It is not. used in its metaphor ical sense here. Therefore it means a real star. 2. It was a star in motion—it changed its position in the heavens. Motion is characteristic of all the heavenly bodies; and the words of the sacred narrative are, “The star went before them till it came.” When first they saw the star it occupied a particular spot in the sky. Now, how ever, it has a different position, not relatively because of the change In the field of observation, but absolutely by change of location in the heavens. No doubt the motion was a movement in its orbit. This will appear more plain ly from our next proposition. 3. It was a star that had an asters tice—it stood at a particular point in the sky above them. The statement is very distinct: "It came and stood over where the young child was.” A It ivi)4 n that mnvoi) in an angels were sent on messages from Heaven to men, and the Angel Gabriel was used in the Annunciation. But the angelic vision would disappear with the accomplishment of the ob ject. Not so the star; it remained. II— The star was not a meteor. This view lias been largely held. It is asserted that some hind of meteoric phenomenon would best meet the ne cessities of the case. But any meteor drawn to the earth would either be consumed by the atmospheric friction or else would fall to the ground and become extinguished. Its appearance would be almost momentary. III— The star was not a comet. One of the greatest fathers of the church, Oregon, held this view. But not all the weight of Oregon's great scholar ship could obtain credence for such a belief. .lust recently this theory of a comet has been revived, unconscious ly. however, that Oregon was the father of it. Prof. David Forbes in Fnirlanrt and Prof. Serviss in America similated the priesthood, from the Medians, and the Medians received it from the Accadians. who inhabited ttie country afterwards called Babylonia. The Accadians were the "'Highland ers' who descended from the moun tainous region of Elam" (Sayce). The statement of the evangelist, "There came wise men from the east to Jerusalem," may seem to militate against this view, but in reality it strengthens it. The phrase is apo an atole, "from the east.” Apo is a prep osition of severance. It means "far from.” when motion is excluded, as in this instance. (See Liddell & Scott. Greek Dictionary). Its relation is to something external. Had the Magi lived in the east the preposition used would be "ek.” Apo "marks in strictness the separation of objects externally; not in or within another, for in respect to such ek is used.” (Robinson; Lexicon of the New Tes tament). Indeed apo not infrequently has the force of negation, and equals vah, “The star shall come out of ,1a eob." Sirius was “the star" to all the Magians. The stars symbolized kings or rulers. He whom Sirius symbol ized. therefore, would be greatest of all kings. If we could connect Sirius in any way with Jacob at the time of the Nativity there could be no question - as to the star of Bethlehem. And we j ran do it. The twelfth sign of the | Zodiac was Pisces. And Pisces was | the Sign of Palestine, or Jacob, or ] land of Judea. That part of the hosiv j ens known as Pisces presented a most i remarkable spectacle at the time of j the Nativity. There the splendor of the heavens appeared to culminate. The sun seemed to shine wftli a deeper effulgence. Meteors, precur sors of some mighty event, dashed athwart the sky. Comets shot from out the darkness of space and illumi nated the sign with their fiery (low. Mars and Jupiter and Saturn hatted very distinct: “It came and stood over where the young child was.” 4. It was a star that moved in an orbit—it had a periodic time. This is a most remarkable statement. We are told that Herod privately learned of the Magi “what time the star ap peared." The margin of the Revised Version gives us a better, because a more correct translation of the phrase; it is, “The time of the star that appeared.” But the literal ren dering is “the time of the appearing star." 0. It was a star that had a relative position in the sky—it was in the east. Assuming that the correct ren dering of “anatole" is “in the east.” then it has reference to that particu lar part of the heavens to the east of the observer. The observers, there fore, must have been west of Jerusa lem. This is a point to be borne in mind, as we shall have to refer to it more particularly later on. The con clusion here arrived at is contrary to the generally received opinion. As far as I am aware, it is universally held that the Magi were resident or located in the east at the time the star appeared to them. Yet according to the plain terms of the statement, they must have been located in the west. Anatole means (1) the rising of the heavenly bodies from the horiz on; (2) the dawn or dayspring; (3) the east or Orient. Whichever mean ing you adopt the beholder must have been west of the star. The star must have pointed to or been at Jerusalem when first b&Ji,'ved by the Wise Men. Therefore the Wise Mr:, must have been west of Jerusalem. father of it. Prof. David Forbes in England and Prof. Servian in America both claimed to have identified the Star of Bethlehem with Halley's com et. At the time 1 refuted the theory in an article that appeared in the Chica go Evening Post, April 11. 190.3. IV—The star was not a conjunction of planets. This is the most feasible as well as fascinating theory. It is that of the great astronomer, Kepler. He calculated that there was a con junction of Mars and Jupiter on the night of Dec. 25 iu the year of Rome 747. Next year Saturn joined Mars and Jupiter, and according to Dean Al ford. the eminent commentator, the light of the three planets blended and appeared to the beholder as one light. What a beautiful illustration of Trin ity in Unity—the lights of three plan ets blended into one light! Ideler con firmed Kepler’s calculation as to the conjunction of the planets. W’ieseler, who followed, makes the conjunction in A. U. C. 750, the year of the Na tivity now agreed upon by the learned. It is remarkable too that the conjunc tion of the planets took place in the sign pisces, the Sign of Judea. This theory is also free from the objections above referred to. But beautiful as is the theory. Bibli cal conditions compel us to reject it. Christ’s birth took place, according to St. Paul, in “the fulness of time.” This fulness of time is an astronomi cal expression meaning the comple tion of a cycle, or the revolution of a • sphere in its orbit. That cycle, or l revolution, occupied thousands of 1 years in its completion. As we have a not. Apo anntole, therefore, ex cludes every part of the east as the residence of the Magi. The Irish claim t6 be descended from Magog, the grandson of Noah. They originally came from Scythia. Their language belongs to the Scythic tongue or stock of languages, which connects them with the ancient Ae cadians. This is the same stock and race to which we traced the Magi. The original country of the Magi and Gael is the same. It is well known that the Irish were some centuries ago known as Scots. Scot comes from Scuit. and this is the Irish for Scythia. The Greek vocali zation of Scuit was Skuthes. and later Skotos. (See Keating’s History of Ireland and the Century Dictionary.) From Scuit comes "Scut,” a term of derision, referring to the short gar ment or kelt of the Scot (Irish). In the seventh century before Christ the Greeks came in contact with a race "whom they called Scythians. An exacter form of the name was Scoloti. Herodotus and Hippocrates clearly distinguish the Scolots, or true Scythi ans. from all their neighbors. (En cyclopedia Britannica.) It will be seen at a glance that Sco(lo)ts is but a dif ferent linguistic way of spelling Scot or Scuit. The Irish word Druid means wisdom or Magian. It is worthy of record that the Irish Scriptures render "there came wise men from the east” by “there came Druids from the east.” The Irish words are: “Draioch o naird in ai i in*- i\ > . v ii* i .'nut ii’ out the darkness of space and illumi nated the sign with thc*ir fiery flow. Mara and Jupiter and Saturn halted in their orbits to focus their lights into one mighty blaze in Pisces. And wondrous sight! The star—the Ma gians' Star—his star—Sirius!—enters Pisces, and is now in Jacob! ThL wondrous event occurred in B. C. Jj. The heliacal rising of Sirius took place on the same day in four successive years, the fifth, fourth, third and second B. C. There Is some thing most remarkable about this heliacal rising, it is on the same day. But sameness is unity. It thus sym bolizes the Unity of the Deity. Then, assuming that U. C. 4 is the correct year of the Nativity, which scholars assert, there was one year before the birth and three after it. In the sym bolism of numbers one is Unity and three Trinity. But the one year be fore birth signified the past revela tion of God, or unity of the Deity. The three years after the birth symbol ized the new revelation, the Trinity of Persons. Lastly unity and trinity tone year •+- three years) equal the complete and perfect number four, the years that Sirius may be said to have remained in Pisces. This symbolism occurs with the rising of Sirius, which signified the rising of the Light of the World. It was as if, whilst heaven's arches rang with the angels' loud ac claim, Sirius flashed through space, “Arise! Shine! For thy light is come!” Raveuswood, Chicago, Feast of the Nativity, 1903. [ Copyright, 1903, by F. P. Duffy. Wefen Keller is * Class Officer Miss Helen Keller, the blind deaf mute-., has j;:3t been elected vice presi dent of tne senior class at Radoliffa college, the woman's department of Harvard She is pursuing four full courses, two in English and two in Latla. She has thus far passed all her examinations with as much credit as if she had all her faculties and is accomplishing more in scholarship Ilian any other person in the world so handicapped. How’s This? Wi offer One Hundred Dollar* lie ward for »ny cm* off Catarrh that cannot fee ouraa by Hall’* t’attarli *i KJ. CHENEY A CO.. Prop*..Toledo. O. We, the underttlfued, have known F.JsCheney for rb. lut 13 year*. and beltere blm perfectly honorable lit .11 hoalnee* transaction* and financially »ble to Marry oat any Obligation* made by th*lr Ann We.*t A Tliti, Wholesale Dnieiri*i* Toledo,O. Wt'.DlHO Kixkas A Maavi.N, Wbole.alo Drug Kdit*, Toledo, O. Jlall’a Catarrh Cur* !» taken Internally. acting directly upon the blood and mucoua anrface* uf tha ^ratem. Teatlmonlala lent freo. trice Tic u«i buttle. Sold by all Druggist*. . Uall'a Family Cilia are the beat. Quiet Reform. Those interested In the fall elec tions would do well to take a look at an article In the November Every body's if they are at all uncertain what a reform administration can. ac complish. In “Reform that Reforms" Alfred Hodder tells specifically some of the changes for the public good that have been brought about in> New York during the present administra tion— uotably by the commissioners of health and charities. The qwiet re forms of which the public does not h iar are often the most significant— the stopping of a leak, accomplished, for example, by paying fifty cents of the public money for a gallon of al cohol in place of a former J5.76; the rigid inspection of drugs aiwl groceries to check adulteration. Reform may make its mistakes, but one is incl!n*«t to think that these are mistakes in an uncommonly good direction, after con sidering Mr. Hodder’s facts. Sensible Housekeepers will have Refinance Starch, not atone because* they got one-third more for the same money, hut also because of superior quality. If you stand nround and wait for sonic one to shake the tree, you v.iii never fill your sack. There are sonic blufTs you can't af ford to call. The best men are always looting for the best meat. The babyless go-ta;t is not yet !n vogue. ON THE ‘'DUDE” TRAIN. Johnny Drummer, V/ ho Is Site Tracked to let the Limited Go By, Expresses His Sentiments Regarding That Superb T rain. “Tt has been my dram of joy supreme To ride in plush ami velvet splendor Parlor ear for a sv\ i ll tailmider Platform feneed wi'ha swell brass fender j Ou the Keyular Limited Train Electric bell right under your nose Porter to come and brush your clothes Grub in the diner the best ihat grows A downy bunk for a uight’s reposo On the liegular Limited JTiuiu ClIORCs Biff! Barg! a mile a minute So other method of travel is in it 1 want, to go ripping, skipping and zipp’t.g Away on the Limited Train.” These lines are not original with me. They are taken from a tuneful little ditty sung in George Ado’s comely, "Peggy from Paris.” The jingle oaneed through my brain the other day a • we lay on the siding at Prairie .lime*' m, or some such pir.ee, to let tne tsuuta Fe's west bound California Limited go by. It was a gorgeous train of pal ace cars, and benind the plate glass > observation windows beauty and f.tsh- ! Ion and youth and old age were lolling among the luxuriant cushions, some visiting, some reading, some pleas antly dozing, some making wreaths ot cigar smoke, some gazitig dreamily through the windows at the passing of cities, and fields, and forests ana riv ers. 1 stood on the rear platform of the Iasi, car of our train and watched the California Limited as she faded away toward the golden west. And I thought of the difference between travel now and travel in the days of '49, when it took the gold-seeker half a long. weary year, filled with all kinds ot hardship to travel the distance that is now covered in three days. 1 thought of the slowly moving wagons, the dust, the stones, the jolting, the thirst, the hunger, the homesickness, the snail like crossing of plains, the laborious climbing of mountains, the weary dragging weeks, the never ending trail. In these palaces that had just gilded by were people going to the same place to spend the winter months where the climate is perpetual sum mer. And they were not to endure a slngie hardship on the journey. When nivht t ame they were to lie in beds wnose soft embrace makes sleep a luxury—and in the day time a the velvet cushions of their seats were 'W to be made deeper still by pillows— and they were to spend a delightful part of their time in the gilded and glittering dining car, where every dainty that ever tickled the palate is enticingly served—in short, they were to have on the trip all the comforts of home—and of the best kind of home. I stood there and watched them pass out of sight while my soul was con sumed with envy. But I derived some consolation out of resolving that some time I, too, would see Califoraia, and I promised myself that if l ever did go there it be would be over the Santa Fe. "JOHNNY DRUMMER." Every widow exaggerates her mon ey 4