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* T1IK NORFOLK WKKKLY NtiWS-JOlMtN'Alj , FUIFUY. I-KHKUAKY 3 , 1911. The NurfOlk Weekly News-lourna ! TheNews , The Journal , Established 1877. THE HU8E PUBLISHING "COMPANY Vf. N. 11IIS < > N. A. IIline. President. Hociotnry. \ery Friday H > ' "mil per year. $1.50. Entoicd at Hie postolllei' at Norfolk , Neb , , as second class matter. Telephones : Editorial Department No. 22. Business Olllco and .lob UOOIUH , No II 22. Culobra inuy not be thu unklndcst rut of nil , but It's certainly the costli est. An honest American citizen would lead n wretchedly lonely llfo In Adams county , Ohio. Dr. Wiley , thu national chief chom- 1st. Is n bravo man. He Is going to marry u siifl'ragetto. It IB natural that high colored tales ( bribery should coino fioni Vormll lion county , Illinois. Captain Hohson and General Wood scorn to he the two worst scared men In the United States. Although the price of salt has boon reduced HO cents n ton , the salt of the earth me just a scarce as over. A realization of the cost of govern inent to each citizen , Is the first step toward economy In government. New Orleans and San Francisco are fighting bitterly for the privilege of acquiring a long term exposition debt. There's u negro farmer down in Kansas that Is worth $50,000 and he's very little interested In the race prob ! em. Th Chinamen are giving up their queues peaceably , but the majority of thorn still stick to the laundry busi ness. Harry Whitney Is going in search of the south pole. He Is wise in not trying to find the north one. That's hoodooed. Although Oklahoma has put the lid on the light pictures , It Is not yet pru dent for the tenderfoot to pull Alkali Iko's coattalls. The Japanese are going to lay down n 40,000-ton battleship , and If our jacldes don't lay down when they see her , wo don't care. Thirty-four million dollars are to be si nt by the French In digging a can al ftom Aulnay to Epinny to check the rising of the Seine. St. Louis alone has lfi.200,000 eggs in cold storage. This cold storage proposition is not an unmitigated blessing to humanity. Both democrats and republicans are collecting tariff data , so that congress shall have plenty of public documents to sell to the junk dealers. The corset coat and &lim trousers Is a transparent bluff of the tailors to separate downtrodden man from last summer's slightly worn suit. The more he learns of the Uultimpre conference , the better satisfied must Mr. Bryan feel that he was not there and did not even send a message. As soon as the congressmen had to shovel off one or two snow storms from their front walk they felt less inclined to dispute Peary's claim. They are dancing now at the white house. Things are getting so blamed formal that n congressman must blow in part of his salary for a jimswinger coat. Although Goveinor Dix promises to probe the state departments of New York , the public will hardly he satis fied unless there are some amputa tions. President Fullieres of France now gets $750,000 a year. The job's worth It , in a country where they use higli officials for a target in place of clay pigeons. A dollar spent in fortifying the Hawaiiin islands is better than twc spent on the Pacific coast and nlsc Insures more protection to the Pana I. a canal. In Europe n cheap parcels post ha * been nn established institution foi years. It has not ruined small towm or small stores , but works for the gen erul good. Governor Patterson of Tennessee pardoned and commuted 173 convicts nt the close of his term. Why did h < not appoint them to office while hi was about/ ? A device to keep ships from rolllni will be cordially welcomed by man ; voyagers. One by one the memorabl features of the ocean voyage are be Ing eliminated. Andrew Carnegie might do a groa deal worse than to take Genera Booth at his word and try what h could do toward universal peace with the help of a few millions. Madame Hornhaidt'H performance In doing two emotional roles In n day Is marvellous , but could she come Into Bomo of our kitchens and do one of those emotional scrimmages with the cook ? A great ( ionium ctlmlnologlst who Is visiting this country , thinks highly of our prisons. Judging of their ' ciowded condition , there are nuiner- oils residents who thoroughly agree with him. Fourteen thousand dollars of good money was wasted on the Balllngor In vestigation , which did no one any good , and left the matter just where It was before. I Luther Hurbnnk has produced a strawberry that weighs an ounce. Now If ho will have that size of her- . rlcs clear to the bottom that will bo appreciated , also. The long record walks of many pe- destrlans are matters of common In- tcrost. Ltut it is estimated that the Journeys of u tailor's needle In n sin gle day cover something like twelve miles. The house is against raising circuit judges' pay from $7.000 to $10,000. If any of the judges are living on such starvation diet that they can't hold court , the neighbors should bring In a cold haiidout. An Ohio surgeon has examined a hundred cats and found tuo rcular germs in all of them. This may DL- another way tKb white plague IB be ing spread. The next slogan will b < ; "Fl oot the cat. " If elections are to be bought as they have boon In Illinois and Ohio , why not advertise for proposals for the right to hold office , and sell to the highest bidder , saving the people the cost of elections ? Alaska has twenty-five sawmills on the coast , cutting about 27,000,000 board feet yearly. One-third of it goes Into salmon cases. This coast tim ber is not equal In quality to that of Oregon or Washington. proposes to build a $75,000- 000 fleet of battleships for the Black sea. Since other countries cannot send war ships to the Black sea ports , the fleet will be as safe there as any where they could store it. If it "is true that an ounce of pre vention is worth a pound of cure then Andiew Carnegie's ten million dollar peace fund Is better than one hundred and fifty million dollars spent by your Undo Samuel in preparation. The- democratic party is overstocked 'i candidates for the presidency. It would do well to swap them off and got more voters. It really needs a good ninny of the latter If It Is to win out in the coming presidential elec tion. Three hundred St. Louis women are enlisted in a crusade against the smoke nuisance. A similar crusade In Chicago compelled one of the rail roads to burn coke in its locomotives , which was something gained for clean liness. A Chirago woman with a keen sense of the fitness of things , called out the fire department when her furnace went out. What would you naturally suppose a fire department was for , if not to furnish fires where they w re needed ? , For the first time in history police men have succeeded In filling the bill I and finding people when they were wanted. In Baltimore , It Is said that : the police have found 8,000 more people ple than the census enumeiators were able to find. A collision is predicted about 400- 000 years from now between the earth i and the star , Vega. However , It is s not advisable for people to He awake worrying about It now. There Is time for one planet or another to shift its course a trifle. Jacob A. Rtis predicts the formation of a great new party in 1312. It's not t hard to guess who Mr. RHs would 1 place at the head of this now party . The question is , will he carry the big stick as a scepter or will it be an olive branch of peace ? Forty-five million dollars increase in pension Is a lot of money. However that Isn't the question of even part ol g the question. If the decrepit defend 1- ers of this country need it , this coun try can better afford to pay $45,000 , 000 to their support than to build foui new Dreadnaughts. s e The effect of woman suffrage Ir Washington , the latest state to adopl It , will be watched with great inter est. There Is no question but wo man suffrage Is making a steady 1 not very rapid advancement and wha the ultimate effect on the country wil bo is still problematical. Even if the single tax would do al it that Is claimed for it by Its friends wo do not need it in this country a , much as they do In European coun tries where hereditary privilege , en tail and the law of primogeniture have concentrated the gieat body of land In the hands of n comparatively few persons. The Oi'rmnn crown prince has kill ed his "first tiger" In the same place In India whore the czar of Russia , thu late King Kdward and King George each shot his "first tlgor. " Evidently they have a preserve there where tig ers ate kept In good order waiting for some royal hunter to dispatch them. When one-Hlxty-fourth of ? man's estate amounts to $200,000 more than was expected , It is some estate. J. S. Kennedy , the New York railroad mag nate and philanthropist , loft this amount of his fortune to Columbia college , and It finds Itself the possessor ser of the extra $200iOOO. a sort of plethora of riches. The Canadian government is conducting 1 ducting an educational campaign in 1 the east , in an effort to got 25,000 1 Americans to move into the Canadian northwest this spring. The Canadian government understands the value of good , legitimate advertising and Is go ing after the people In n way that will "fetch" some of them , at least. All that stands between order and anarchy In Mexico and all that has j stood for the past third of a century. Is the strong hand of President Diaz , j His regime is not what the United 1 States would call republican govern ment , but It Is the only kind of gov eminent that Mexico is fitted for as yet. It used to pay best to have a good "forgcttory" when one came across the Atlantic from n European trip. But times have changed since that man Loeb became custom house offi cer at New York. A woman who re cently "forgot" to declare her $10.000 necklace , found that It cost her $25- 000 before Uncle Sam finished the piosecutlon. The business center of Chicago has been rebuilt three times since the fire of 1871. It may not ho necessary , for any reason , to rebuild It a fourth time , at least until the present cen tury shall br > wpll spent ; but there Is a belief in some quarters that unless j all restrictions are removed It will j not be built high enough to meet the present and pressing necessities. The condition of the national ury Improved materially during the first half of the fiscal year 1910-11. The expenditures were only $4,000- . 000 in excess of the receipts. Of . course , the ordinary man whose ex penditures for half a year were four million in excess of his receipts would not be on the high road to prosperity , but with Uncle Sam it Is different. Mrs. Pankhurst and her daughter , the English suffragettes , who are over here to show the American women how they do it in London , are said to be very modishly refined in their man ners and remarkably handsome wo men. That is the reason the English authorities find the suffragette rioting methods so hard to deal with. If the women mobs of London came from the east end and were ragged and un couth , they would have been disposed of long ago , but as they are largely well to do and quite aristocratic wo men they are leniently dealt with. The sterilization of water by ultraviolet - olet rays has now entered upon an [ industrial stage. It has been proven that the rays of a mercury vapor lamp kill in a few seconds all bacteria con tained in clear water within a radius of about one foot. The process Is be- Ing employed not only with drinking i' ' water but with that used in the pro- paratlon of mineral waters. The water - ter is not chemically changed by the s process , but Is freed from all germs. The country recently spent a mil lion dollars to send our fleet aroand the world as proof that we had a navy that could do things If necessary. Now men in the inner circle of the navy cc'i/irtment At a'-e that cur fli"i 3' ' couldn't lick a postage stamp. Who's who and what's what , on this navy business , anyway ? If , after all the millions that have been spent on our navy It Is not good for anything , what is the use of continuing to waste pub- I He money on further additions ? A cotton picking machine has at last been perfected which it is be lieved will do as much to revolutionize . the cotton business as the invention of { , I Whitney's cotton gin did. All these years it has been firmly believed that nothing but human hands could har vest the cotton crop. Consequently at the cotton picking season great num bers of extra hands have been hired I , many of them undesirable. An oner getlc field hand can pick 250 pounds In a day. The new machine can dc as much in half an hour. It Is pre > dieted that the harvester will open n new and enlightened era in the realm of King Cotton. There Is a wonderful Interest won derful no less for its extent than foi the favorable comment which the pro U posal is exciting throughout tin , country In the proposition that tin ,3 coinage of 5-mill or Imlf-cent plecei ibo resumed by the United States gov eminent. England has ItH farthing , which splits the penny Into fourths ; In Franco there Is the 2-contlme piece , j equal to a little less than two-fifths of n cent ; In flermaiiy the pfenning , about one-fifth of n cent ; in Norway and Sweden the ore. one-fourth of a centand , In Russia and Its dependen cies the copeck Is split Into four parts , each worth about an eighth of a cent. The United States IK the only nation which compels Its people to give something for nothing In their smaller dealings. It would be well worth while to restore the half-cent to circulation. GOOD FOR FRISCO. Nebraskans should rejoice that San Francisco won an Initial point In the lower house of congress Tuesday on the Panama exposlton. The Interests of Nebraska would seem to demand that the Pacific coast town get the show. That would bring hundreds of thousands of visitors through this state and give Nebraska unlimited advertising. It is hard to figure whore holding the fair at New Orleans can help Nebraska. THE CANADIAN TREATY. Are the Insurgent republicans In congress who have been howling ngnlnst the Payne-Aldrich tariff meas ure , going to have the nerve to back their talk by voting to ratify the new Canadian treaty which President Taft has asked congress to accept ? Or are they going back on their relig ious principles , fearing the farmer vote ? It is generally conceded that the new tariff agreement would put food stuffs commodities raised In the ag ricultural middle west and open the door to Canadian trade for eastern factories. President Taft says It will reduce the cost of living and he depends on the people , the consumers , without regard to party lines , to compel con gress to ratify the treaty. What will the insurgents do ? TIIE GROWTH OF ADVERTISING. The most phenomenal change which the publication business has seen dur- 1 Ing recent years , Is the growth of ad- I vortlsing. We have in mind many . journals on our exchange list that are I printing nearly twice the number of pages that they were able to fill ten years ago. Their news columns have not great ly enlarged during that time. The col lection of local and telegraphic news was highly developed at that period. The change has come about because business men have found out that they ] | can make a great deal more money through advertising. The department stores have worked out the idea in the most scientific fashion. No consideration of local pride , in a newspaper as a reprcsentn- ! tivc of the home town , tempts them to , their lavish use of printer's ink. - It is purely a question of sales. They would no more think of getting along without advertising than they would think of opening some morning without - out clerks to wait on customers. | Here and there , however , one finds 1 some one of the smaller merchants who thinks he can get along without this factor of salesmanship which the ' great stores find essential. Actually the little store needs It even more than the big store. The big store would not be apt to make any money if it quit advertising , but It would draw a certain minimum of trade by Its very bigness. If the small store quits advertising , it gets practically no j trade except what comes from its show window displays. The average person will read a newspaper advertisement scores of times for every once he passes a given shop window. Hence the value of the advertisement is worth far more than j any showing made in a window , which , the bulk of the buying public never sees. A CORRUPT POLITICAL BARGAIN. Announcement from Washington by Congressman Latta of the Third Ne braska district , that he positively will retire at the end of his present term , may well cause consternation among j the people of this district , who have ; thus been sold out. \ Congressman Latta had no right to ask election without frankly announcIng - Ing to the people in ndvanco.that he Intended to take the office , If elected , for this term only. He had Mr. Lat- ta's own selfish interests at heart and , by a shrewd political turn , has trick ed the people of this district In an unfair way. 3\ \ The Third Nebraska district has jng hoped to find the right man and ' i hen to keep him in congress for a tcry long term of years , realizing that AS the man got onto the ropes In Washington , his services would be tome ever and ever more valuable tc , his constituents. There is no questlor but that a great many people last November vomber voted to return Latta because they know that , although he had done nothing of credit during his first twc years , another term would equip hlir all the more for successful service They did not realize , because he do celved them , that they wore votlnj for a man who merely wanted tin glory of going to congress for thli term and who , having satisfied hi : vanity with public office and Washing ton society , would be willing to dlsre . gard the welfare of the people of thli dlHtrlct and desert his post of duty , whether or no. It is apparent that Mr. Latta made a bargain with Dan Stevens promis ing that for StoveiiB1 help in the cam paign , Latta would get out of the of fice and In turn do what he could to boost Sti'U'iiH Into his job. In other words , Mr. Lntta and Mr. Stevens to gether formed a little combination In lestialnt of trade whereby they would manipulate this district to suit their own personal political Interests , and the public would fall for It. j lint whether the people of this dis trict will stand for any such traffic- Ing in their votes , remains to bo seen. THE PHILLIPS SHOOTING. A seething IIIIIHS of tragedy lies al ways under the seemingly smooth crust of clvill'/ntlon. As far ns sur face signs go. human character grows more self-contained In the evolution of personality , so that more and more the smoke and llamcs of inner tumult arc concealed. Occasionally It bursts nut In some wild deed of madness , showing the eternal llame hohcnth the ' surface. Thus It was with the shoot ing of the novelist David Graham ' j , Phillips. I Our civilization seems to bo develop ing an Increased number of characters of this morbid type. In the case of 1 the assailant of Mayor Gaynor , the , mental attitude that produced the act seemed to be an exaggerated form of "The world owes me a living" idea. The case of Goldsborotigh , assassin of Phillips , is quite different. Coming ! from a prominent Maryland family , a 1 gifted musician , he was a needy and j ' despondent music teacher. Ills llfo was one of strain to make good In a I highly competltlvp civilization. His Inheritance from a substantial family was ever at war with his own Indus trial unfltness. The too small esteem which we give to honorable work in humble callings must produce many types of charac ter like Goldsborough , now dead by his own hand. Men of this type would feel It a disgrace to make a simple liv ing by &ome Slll'li ' calling as fanning. They fall to realize that man's first ' duty is to till some small corner of God's vineyard , so that they shall make bread for themselves , and for tholi families if they have them. Not until a man knows he is able to per form this primary duty , has he any right to seek success among the haz ards of art , literature and music. This shooting Is one more lesson of the danger of allowing men to go arm ed without limit. It is not , merely In I Lone Gulch , Nov. , that the tragedy of the gun-toters occurs. But as this event shows , it happens equally under the shadow of the schools and churches - , es of America's greatest center of civ ilization. . AROUND TOWN. Can you beat this for climate ? Some splash McCurdy made , at that. The Stehr case Is up. ( To get the effect , pronounce It "staircase. " ) This column has contracted a cough and would like to break the contract. Wouldn't it be strange if old Doc Cook would , after all , succeed in di viding north polo honors with Peary ? About 6 a. in. daily we feel as if we conld sleep fifty hours , just as that hypnotic subject did , without half try ing. It would have been warm enough yesterday to have deserted furnace golf and return to the cow pasture kind. A Norfolk woman is anticipating a trip to the coast with great joy be cause they serve such good soup on the dining cars. But what If the welfare of the dear people should demand further service from Tekamnh Jim In congress ? Don't the people count ? They hypnotized a man In Norfolk the other night and put him to sleep for fifty hours. The street cleaning department has been slumbering at the mayor's suggestion for almost fifty weeks. The city attorney announces that he will move onto a farm where he can put motions to suit himself. If he violates the laws of scientific farm ing as he did the rules of parliamen tary procedure at the council meeting the other night , he's apt to have a crop of weeds to harvest. A certain safety razor company has sent us a circular , declaring that our name was given them by J. K. Wo don't know whether the Insinuation is that our shaves aren't up to snuff , or that our butchered appearance in dicates the need of greater safety. How about it , J. K. ? When you get SQ old that your hair begins to got thin on the top of your head and you begin to turn grey ( that Is , your hair does ) It's some consola tion to meet people every little while who can say : "Why I can remember when you wore knee pants. " Wo made a Bogey score at furnace golf last week. Didn't get any $10 cash prize for it , but saved $10 worth of coal. Only one tubful of ashes for the week. Here's whore wo got back nt the c. m , Some women are Just contrary B' enough that , now that puffs and rats have gone out of style , they lay on an extra amount of the stuff. Now somebody WILL see that first robin. If the weather man tempts us many won- days , we're , going to break In some of those C'hilstmns golf balls. A prominent Norfolk physician was slightly embarrassed yesterday when greeted on the street by n small child who cried In a shrill voice : "Doctor. Freddie ain't got fits any more. " The crop of rumors about prospect ive changes in railroad officialdom , still thrives. The auntie-overcoat brigade ought to enjoy this weather. "Auntie. " be cause It shows signs of having visit ed Its "uncle. " ATCHISON GLOBE SIGHTS. Men look out of place nt n'tnntlneo. Post card philosophy : "Do Him Now. " I The older the- business the more dead timber. A husband , to be satisfactory , must also he liberal. Almost any woman will give advice on any subject. Even a lecture will draw If the doors are thrown wide open. No grown hey Is as good as his mother believes he Is. Why Is It no one over kicks about the high price of whisky ? Poor people say that wolves and storks often travel in pairs. A farmer will stand for n longer business letter than a town man. It's astonishing how much cold a girl with pretty arms can stand. Gossip , remarked a man today , Is something everybody is greatly in terested in. Laugh heartily at a man's joke and he Ml have another one for you the next time he sees you. It is our theory that no one was OVPI- bothered by insomnia along about 5 o'clock a. in. Then there are the people who don't care what kind of toilet soap they use , just so it is pink. Remember that your family joke may not seem very funny to the com pany that comes to dinner. It Is nn unusual person who can look after a side issue without taking time from his main business. Most men. have a great contempt for the valet until they get rich enough to hire one for themselves. Daughter never gets over wondering what sort of argument father must have put up to Induce mother to say yes. Occasionally yon encounter a man whose thirst for knowledge Is chiefly concerned with the things he should not know. It Is all right to go back to the farm If you feel llko It , but don't base your ideas of agriculture on life at the country club. One way of showing your shiftlessness - ness , If you are a grown man living In town , is to become excited over a good rabbit snow It is said every actor has an ambi tion to get Into vaudeville , notwith standing the fact that vaudeville Is pretty bad as it Is. Nearly anyone can practice on a piano , but only a few can practice In a way to keep the preaching about that subject from being bitter. Don't forget that there are martyrs who take considerable pride in their own crown of thorns , even to the ex tent of putting it on straight. An anarchist doesn't have much of a desire to vote , and In several other particulars he Is more gentle than a British suffragette In action. A counterfeit Is usually detected , but the Imitation a woman puts up in lieu of the real thing'in enthusiasm , manages to fool quite a number of people. If a woman really leves a man , she will tell him occasionally that he works too hard even if the man in the case Is holding a political Job or Is an army officer. One trouble with the old fashioned man who would fight nt the drop of the hat , Is that he would go further : he would drop the hat himself in case no one else felt like It. It Is so hard for a girl to take a part In amateur theatricals without complaining because her folks won't let her go on the stage In a profession- nl way , and make a lot of money. There Is a peculiar man In Atchl- son , and this is about the only way ho can be described : Ho thinks a "rattling ball team" Is a better thing for n town than a factory that employs - ploys 700 men. No man who keeps his smoking to bacco In a glass Jnr can help from feeling slightly superior to the one who fills his pipe from n muslin bag carried in the hip pocket with the string hanging out. SATURDAY NIGHT iERMONS BV REK&MUEI4 : W.PURVI&DJDI & < THE HUSH AFLAME WITH C.OD. Teit , "Thn annol of Iho Loril np | > enr < l unto him In n flunio of Ilio nut nf n tuiMi. " -Kx. III. 2. God's schools are queer Not many would choose them for under or pool graduate work. Luther is first a backwoodsman - woodsman monk. Columbus weave * rugs. First India missionary Is Carey , the cobbler. God takes a negro bo/ ? and puts htm at Tuskcgce. An uimuc cessful tanner .becomes a great gen Jr ernl. Ho takes a boy born In poverty , raised In obscurity , uncouth , ungainly , and makes a Lincoln of him. Ha | picks M'oscs , n slave child out of the , Nile , puts htm In a king's palace to learn statecraft , ( hen sends him back1 ' of the desert ( o learn worldcraft. There ho cares for cattle , shears sheep , weaves wool , learns the stars , boasts , birds , trees and bushes In the great university of outdoors. Ho sweats at common toll. How the Blblo glorifies labor ! Amos , the farmer ; David , the shepherd ; Eltsha , the plowman ; Old- ' con , the thrasher ; Saul , the drover ; Peter , tuft fisherman ; Paul , the tentmaker - maker ; Christ , the carpenter. The kingdom of heaven is easier to a busy man than to an Idle one. The Burning Buah. > j One evening Mosc , is coming homn along the edge of the desert with his sheep. He's a man now , matured by sad experience. Eyes full of mighty , deep , heart hunger. Forehead - head lined with questions yet un ; i answered. The yearnings of forty years pent up in Ills soul. No vision yet of God. No light nlong his sky line. A third of life gone , old ago creeping on apace. Ho lias staked ul * > t all on Jehovah's being God , and there's been no answer. Tonight he's' ' coming along the side of Mount Iloreb. \ lie's trodden It for years. It's toward evening. The sun's going down rapIdly - Idly In the west. Shadows are length ening. Dusk and gloom of evening on forest and mountain , and In the fields of Jethro , way off yonder In the valley , the sheep are bleating. The smell of the flock Is heavy In the damp evening air. The cry of a Jackal Is heard way up on the hill. An owl hoots mournfully In the tall cedars near the summit. Suddenly In the quiet of this familiar trail ho stops. Look at thill acacia bush up there ! Is It the glint of the evening sun ? He's seen that very bush scores of times , but never like that. Why , It's on fire ! Yes , It burns. But look ! Faith of the fathers , It Is not con sumed ! It Is a critical moment for the lonely shepherd. Moses turns aside to look. And as he turns the world turns with him ! The Voico. Then the Voice speaks to him. "Put off thyshoes. . " Reverence , to start with a lost art today. People don't even bow their heads in God's house. Of course God doesn't speak to them , and they see no flame. The mountain might blaze like Vesuvius , but they wouldn't be Impressed. They might look , but they wouldn't see. There's a difference between looking and see ing. Some people look at the sun set , others see the sunset. Earth's crammed with heaven , i And every bush aflame with God , Uut only those who see take off their shoes. Moses saw the bush , and It burned In his brain from that day till the one "by Nebo's lonely mountain , " when he heard the same voice calling. "Mosea , Moses ! " Has God sent you back of Horeb , brother ? Kept you there with out n vision of better things ? Same old task , same old path , lots of thorn bushes , but none on fire ? "Now , preacher , 1 know what you are going to soy , but I've missed it. I've been to the church. I've gone through the Bible even. But I've gone by ths place. It's too late In the day for me. " I guess that's what Moses thought. Many n long day and year ho had trudged along this very road. When suddenly one year , one day , one hour , one particular moment , he lifted up his eyes , and lo , there was Godt Today's Call. Has the ( lame died out and the voice ceased ? Or Is God still near ? Pos sibly the vision is dally , commonplace. Maybe we are up looking at the bush. Kicking nt Its roots with our heavy heels , measuring nt Its height , pinch- I Ing the berries , nipping off a leaf , I feeling the point of n thorn with our thumb. Yes , we know this bush it's an acacia , sure ; botanlcally. it's a "legumlnosa. " Meanwhile the ether Is a-qulver and the atmosphere is vibrant I with the unconsumcd power. Yes , the i church Is built of wood and stone. The Bible is the same binding and print as any other book. And Christ came a baby , like your own , my good moth er. Is that our view of the bush ? God i be patient ! There's a trick of the eye j In looking , men. That's an abomina tion to the Lord. Has your vision failed ? Is the God of the bush no more ? Is he the God of the ancients 'only ' ? No ! As Jehovah-JIrch llveth , no ! He's not the God of the dead only , though their name be Abram , Isaac , Jacob and Moses. Is he the God of the fathers ? Then by the living bush he Is the God of the sons ! Now are we the sons of God ! Be not disheart ened , brother ; soon you may see the bush aflame with God , and n voice calling for you as the voice called Abraham ! Moses ! Samuel ! David ! Saul ! Call and aee the COOK or servant whoso ad today maken her seem "eligible. " NOWB want ads got the biulncu.