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T1IK NORFOLK WKKKLY NtiWS-JOlMtN'Alj , FUIFUY. I-KHKUAKY 3 , 1911.
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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
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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 *
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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. "
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