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that it is not proscribed either by tb.3
constitution or by the statutes unless
tlio practice of reading therefrom
takes the form of sectarian instruction."
The trial of Colonel Arthur Lynch,
member of parliament for Galway, on
the charge of high treason because of
the aid ho rendered the Boer cause in
tho recent struggle, began on January
21 at London. It is said that upwards
of sixty years have elapsed since there
-was a treason trial in England, and
tho progress of tho case is being
watched with much Interest.
Duncan Clinch Hay ward, democrat,
was inaugurated as governor -of South
Carolina on January 21 and J. T.
Sloan as lieutenant governor.
On January 22 it was announced
that tho bombardment of Fort San
Carlos in Venezuela was still going
on, three German vessels participat
ing in the attack. Twelve dead and
fifteen wounded Venezuelans was the
result oZ the first day's bombardment
This action on the part of tho Gorman
authorities has caused much com
ment throughout this country as' well
as in Europe. It is said that Eng
land holds with Germany that such, a,
process was necessary in order to
maintain the blockade on Lake JVTara
caibo, but tho proceeding is con
demned by Italy and is looked upon
in the United States as seriously im
pairing the progress of the arbitra
tion proceedings which seemed in a
fair way to be consummated.
The trial of Colonel Lynch on the
ohargo of treason concluded in Lon
don on January 23 and he was found
guilty o? high treason and sentenced
to death. It is regarded as probable
that this sentence will be commuted.
Count von Ballestrom, the presi
dent of the German reichstag, has re
signed his office in consequence of the
recent bitter criticism he has been
subjected to on account of the social
ist uprisings in the reichstag. The
trouble arose in the president's refus
ing to allow a discussion of the
charges, brought against the late Herr
Krupp and Emperor William's
speeches on the subject
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- Jay C6okc's Bible Class.
The Chicago Tribune prints an in
teresting story relating to Jay Cooke,
tho famous financier. Hero it is:
Jay Cooke of Philadelphia has
taught for fifty years a Biblo class.
Thia is the oldest Bible class in Amer
ica. Its teacher takes in it tho same
profound and joyous interest that ho
took In tho financiering of tho civil
war and in tho building of the North
ern Pacific railroad. It is not won
dered, therefore, that is is a success.
Mr. Cooke is now 80 years old. Ho
is about 6 feet in height, and ho
weighs 175 pounds. His figure is erect,
his gait is elastic, his cheeks aro full,
the healthy, unwrinkled skin cover
ing the firm flesh smoothly. His bluo
eyes are alert and gay and clear. His
voice is young, and his ready laugh is
young.
St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal
church, where ho conducts his Blbln
class, is at Ogontz, one of Philadel
phia's beautiful suburbs, where P. A.
B. Widener and William L. Elkins
have great white houses houses as
huge and magnificent as cathedrals. It
Was Established by Mr. Cooke more
than fifty .years ago, when he bought
tho land it comprises for $300 an aqre,
and this land is now worth $0,000 an
acre. Ho named the place after an
Indian chief; Ogontz, who had car
ried him on his shoulder and taught
him the lore of hunting in his boy
hood in Ohio.
Mr. Cooke narrated the history of
his Sunday school class the other af
ternoon. He said:
"I lived in 1852 at tho Cedars, a
house that, stood where Mr. Elkins'
house now stands. Next to me lived
John W. Thomas, a merchant. Mr.
Thomas and his family, and I with
my family, used to get up on Sunday
before it was light and we would
drive in to Philadelphia to St. Paul's
church on Third street, below Walnut
street, for there was no church here
in those days. We would arrive in
time for the Sunday school service at
9 o'clock, and after Sunday school
we would attend the church service.
Then we would get our luncheon in
the schoolroom, and at 2:30 o'clock we
would attend tho afternoon service.
After this we would drive homo, get
ting back at 6:30.
"I'll tell you, parenthetically, who
one of Mr. Thomas' sons was. He
was a lad called George, and he worked
in his father's mercantile house. I
claimed him from that house; I said
I wanted him to come with me in
the banking firm of Jay Cooke & Co.
He was' an, industrious, moral, bril
liant boy; to train him in banking was
a pleasure, and it was not long before
he became one of my partners. Then,
after my retirement, ho went with
the hohse of Drexel & Co., and he is
tho head of Drexel & Co. today. To
day George C. Thomas is, after J.
Pierpont Morgan, the greatest banker
in America. It pleases me to be able
to say this truthfully, of him. It is a
fine thing to have seen this boy grow
up into so good and so successful a
man.
"Now to return tomy Bible class.
I started it because I perceived that
here was a great need of it It had
forty-five members in the- beginning,
and the services were "held inth-3
parlor of my home. They werq even
ing services-r-they lasted from 7:30
until 9 o'clock and they made my
Sunday a full day, f6r I still continued
to get up before daybreak and to at
tend at St Paul's the services there.
-"But I gave a great deal of atten
tion to the Bible class, for all that, and
it prospered well. It grew to be too
big for my parlor. Therefore I put
a second story on one of my outbuild
ings, and arranged there an admira
ble Sunday school room. Still the
class, continued to grow.
Kt Horn .nln1.1lnV.n.l Cf TJatil'd
J,U AOUU WO USmUllOUCU Ui JL ua a
cuurch at Ogontz. Wo erected beside
the chusch a Sunday school building,
jand tho upper floor of Ihlsbullding
was reserved for me. But my class
kept on increasing. It mounted to a
membership of 150. Its quarters be
came again uncomfortably crowded.
"And therefore I built Parvin hall.
This hall "was named after the Rev.
Robert J. Parvin, who was then our
rector. It seats "300 persons, and we
uso it for our entertainments and for
my Biblo class. Tho Biblo class ser
vices are at 2:30 o'clock each Sunday
afternoon. Do you know that some
of the members Herbert R. Ham
mond, Samuel Fisher, and others
have been with tho class from the be
ginning, nearly fifty years ago? I
give two aftornoons or two evenings
each week to tho preparation of tho
lesson, and this work is pleasant to
me. I always learn much from it."
Little Woman.
A little bit of a woman i came
Athwart my path one day;
So tiny wa3 she that she seemed to bo
A pixy strayed from the misty sea,
Ora wandering greenwood fay.
"Oh, you little elf," I cried
"And. what are you doing here?
So tiny as you will never k
For the brutal ruBh and hullabaloo
Of this practical world, I fear."
"Voice have I, good sir," she said
"'Tis soft as an angel's sigh,
But to fancy, a word' of yours were
heard
In all tho din of this world's absurd,"
Smiling, I mado reply.
"Hands have I, good sir," she quoth
"Marry, and that you have!
But amid the strife and tho tumult
rife,
In all tho struggle and battlo for life,
What can these wee hands do?"
"Eyes have I,' good sir' sho said
"Sooth you have," quoth I,
"And tears shall flow therefrom, I
vow,
And they betimes shall dim with woe,
As the hard? hard "years go by."
That little bit of a woman cast
Her two eyes full on mo,
And they smote me sore to my inmost
core,
And they held mo slaved forovcrmoro,
Yet, would I not be free.
This little bit of a woman's hands
Reached up into my breast,
And rent apart my scoffing heart
As cannot be expressed.
Tho little bit of a woman's voice
Has grown most wondrous dear,
Abovo tho blare of all elsewhere
(An inspiration that modes at care)
It riseth full and clear.
Dear one, I bless tho bustle power ;
That makes mo wholly thine;
And I'm proud to say that I filess the
day
When a little woman wrought her way
Into this life of mine.
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