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-e & - -. -f " fcvt.' ( '-' "' . r ' V r " ' ' rf ' . ,v , , , " , jj lK Columbus Journal n. 8. STROTHER, Publisher COLTJMBU& - NEBRASKA PERSONAL. Harry K. Thaw, through counsel, filed a voluntary petition in Pittsburg, his assets being put at $128,012 and liabilities at $453,140. The action was taken because Thaw disputes the claims of a number of lawyers and doctors. 'Candidate Taft drove 40 miles over the mountains, lent himself as the chief feature of Greenbriar county's first horse show at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., and in the evening led the german at the Greenbriar hotel. President Roosevelt made a state ment assuming all responsibility for the discharge of negro soldiers for the Brownsville JFair and saying Mr. Taft had nothing to do with it. The shah of Persia pawned his crown jewels with the Russian bank for $250,000. The condition of Col. William F. Vilas of Wisconsin has shown so little Improvement that his family and friends now fear that he may not re cover. Moses C Wetmore of St Louis was appointed chairman of the finance committee for the Democratic cam paign. A warrant was Issued in San Fran cisco for the arrest of Frederick Dorr, the broker, who recently closed his offices, on the charge of embezzlement. Count Zeppelin started on a 24-hour journey in his great dirigible airship, his course being from Friedrichshafen to Mayence and return. Robert PfsnTi. a New York stock broker, was arrested in Chicago on a charge of obtaining money by false pretenses. President Fallieres returned to Paris after his series of visits to Eu ropean monarch. Miss Amanda Murphy of Lima, O., died at a hospital from the effects of a religious fast which she had main tained for she weeks. George Vail. Jr.. a son of George Vail, a wealthy farmer who disap peared last September, has been placed in the jail at Batavia, O., charged with his father's murder. GENERAL NEWS. The Western Passenger association refused to grant reduced rates for the Bryan notification meeting at Lincoln, Neb. Boston was struck by a severe storm that deluged the city, doing much damage. Ten municipal officials of Mile End parish, London, charged with grafting, were convicted ofter a trial lasting a month. The National Anti-Asiatic Immigra tion league of the United States was formed in Washington, and a declara tion of principles and constitution adopted. Capt Baldwin made a successful flight of five miles in his dirigible bal loon designed for the army, and de clared himself ready for the official tests. An Italian boy at Newton, Mass., milked a neighbor's cow and in a bat tle that resulted he and his mother were shot. The. steamer Premier was burned to the water's edge at Warren's Land ing, the northern terminus of Lake Winnipeg, and six passengers and two of the crew lost their lives. Robert Kinney, aged 19, was arrest ed at his home near Jamestown, Mo., on the charge of having murdered his father, Coleman Kinney, on July 30. The Pittsburg & Cincinnati Packet line failed because of low water in the Ohio river. Three persons were killed and sev eral injured when a Frisco passenger train went over an embankment near Imboden, Ark. William W. Sherwood of New York, aged 71 years, was frightened to death by a bolt of lightning. The forming of a new cabinet has made complete the triumph of the Young Turks. The sultan abandoned his claim to name the ministers of war and marine, and most of the new ministers are nominees of the Young Turks. The crack rifle team of the National Guard of Hawaii sailed on the steamer Alameda to participate in the national rifle competition at Camp Ferry, O. Fire in Midway, Ky., destroyed four 'great bonded whisky warehouses and damaged two others. The loss was $200,000. ' R. J. Hnme, wife and child of Ean "Claire, Wis., were drowned in Lake Nebagamon. Wis., while attempting to cross the lake in a duckboat The suspension of the firm of East man & Co. stock brokers, was an--Bounced on the floor of the consoll- dated stock exchange in New York. Capt A. H. Guthrie of the schooner Frank A. Williams of New York com mitted suicide by jumping overboard eight miles northwest of Cape Look out Philadelphia aldermen defeated Mil waukee city fathers in a game of base ball for charity. Several persons were killed and much damage done to property by a violent earthquake at Constantine, Algeria. The International Brotherhood of Teamsters rejected the overtures of the United Teamsters of America to lalgamate the two organizations. ! j . . FOR THE . BUSY IN ;; Most Important Happen- jjj 8 ings of the World 8 : Told in Brief. 8 Half a million dollars out of anes tate of $600,000 is given to charity by the win of the late .Mrs. Ammte Lv Lowry of-Philadelphia.- After an explcsTon".and fins which destroyed his home in Toledo, "O., the dead body, of- Charles Polscher was found. In the ruins. Polscher was a merchandise "broker. , Electricians of the Canadian Pacific railway refused to work with non union men,. and in consequence all the shops of the system were dark. Mylius Erichsen, the Danish ex plorer, and two companions were caught In a storm on an ice floe oft northeastern Greenland and perished. The First National bank of Belle Plaine, Minn., was closed by order of the comptroller of the currency upon advice received from National Bank Examiner Frank O. Hicks that the bank was insolvent followed by the suicide of the president of the Dank, J. G. Lund. Paris was plunged in .darkness for two hours because of an attempt of electricians to carry out a general strike similar to that of March, 1907. JohnTribbey, a farmer near Rush ville, Ind., v:as beaten, tortured and U-rred and feathered by white caps. While placing a noose about his neck, for the purpose of committing suicide, James Loreymer, a farmer near Zanesville, O., dropped dead of apoplexy. Fifteen people were slightly injured and windows in all houses and factories-within the immediate neighbor hood were destroyed and the Harrison avenue viaduct in Cincinnati suffered a $10,000 damage as a result of an attempt to destroy the viaduct with nitroglycerine. Mrs. Eva Jones fell 900 feet from a balloon at Abbottsford, Wis., when her parachute rope snapped but lit in a tree and was not killed. Mylius Erichsen, a Danish' -explorer and two companions perished in a storm on an ice floe on the northeast ern coast of Greenland. Robert Turnhull, a well-known real estate man of New York, killed him self whjie deranged by the heat Mrs. Elizabeth Harnett, charged with forgery, who escaped from the sheriff in the swamps near Bay City,' Mich., was recaptured. , "Ty" Cobb, noted ballplayer of the Detroit American league team, was married to Miss Charlotte Lombard, daughter of a wealthy citizen of Au gusta, Ga. The battleship Virginia took on board 1,667 tons of coal-In four hours, at an average of 416.75 tons an hour. at Puget Sound, Wash., setting a new coaling record. Three German military balioonists who landed near Warsaw were arrest ed by the Russian authorities. Count Zeppelin's monster dirigible balloon blew up and was ruined at Echterdingen, where it was being re paired after nearly completing a won derful flight from Friedrichshafen to Mayence and return. About 12,000 mechanics of the Cana dian vRacifle "railway went on strike, every shop in the system being closed. - The hacked legs and mutilated tor so of a. boy were found in Chicago and the police believe the case one of atrocious murder. William F. Downing, a member of the old StHes-Alvord band of outlaws who operated in southern Arizona, was killed in his saloon at Wilcox, by Ari zona Ranger William Speed. A farmer of North Mianus, Conn., tried to fly with paper wings and was nearly drowned. Said Pasha, the grand vizier, and the newly-formed Turkish ministry re signed and the sultan invited Jemalle din Effendi, the Sheik-ul-Islam, and Kiamil Pasha to form a new cabinet It was reported that the sultan was stabbed in the breast by a minor pal ace official, but that his vest of mail turned the point of the weapon. Charles W. Westerfeld. an assistant bookkeeper of the Produce Exchange bank of New York, committed suicide by shooting in the book room of the bank just as two worthless checks. bearing his signature, were presented at the paying teller's window. Representatives of most of the lead ing Italian societies of New York, many of them Italian bankers and im porters, met to organize a society for the" suppression of violence, particu larly by members of the Black Hand. Ten thousand, members of the uni form rank. Knights of Pythias, parad ed In Boston. United States District Attorney Baker of Washington, his bride and several friends plunged over a 300 foot precipice in an automobile near Liberty, N. Y., but escaped with their lives. v Later advices from the fire-swept region around Fernie, B. C. placed the probable number of deaths at. 200 or more and the property losses at over $10,000,000. The refugees were re ported in great need of food and relief trains started from many cities. The Bank of Austin, Nev., one of the oldest in that city, has closed its doors. The plant of the National Render ing company near Hammond, Ind., was burned, the loss being $250,000. One man was burned to death. The 24hour 'general strike in Paris was a flat failure. Archie and Bert McMaster and their wives, of Chicago, were drowned at Galena, 111., while bathing. The steel fireboat Illinois was crushed and sunk by the falling wall of a burned elevator In Chicago. Lightning during a severe storm at Grand Rapids, Mich., caused a score of destructive fires. James Ryan, one of the most noted pickpockets of the country, was killed by a tram ca at Pratt City, Ala. Because their decrees of divorce have not been filed 134 men and .wom en of Des Moines. la., who entered matrimony again may be bigamists. OBITUARY. William Boyd Allison, senior United States senator from Iowa, died of heart failure at Ids home in Dubuque after an illness of months. He was 79 years eld. Gov. Cummins announced himself a candidate for Senator Allison's seat Wilson Law, a well-known, oil op. erator, died at Muskogee, Okla., from tha effects of a sunstroke. S. T. McKnight, a prominent real estate man and millionaire lumber- man of Minneapolis, died of heart dis- I ease. i FUHEflAL OF ALUSOH 7 r SERVICES IN KEEPING .WITH HIS UNOSTENTATIOUS LFE. BIB SIMPLE THROUGHOUT Entire City In Mourning and AM Busi ness 'Suspended In' Respect te the Distinguished Dead. Dubuque, la, As he lived, so was Senator William B. Allison buried Sat I erday In a manner devoid of all oe ! testation. Services were held at the residence of the dead statesman and, while not of a private character, the limited accommodations of the home permitted only the presence of the distinguished visitors, the relatives and the most intimate friends of the late senator. The services were sim ple and consisted of the reading of the Twenty-third Psalm, the fifteenth chapter of the Epistle to the Corin thians, and a prayer. Rev. J. T. Ber gen of the Westminister Presbyterian church officiated. There was no mu sic The Interment was private, and after the Presbyterian committal serv ice had been read by Dr. Bergen the body of the senator was lowered Into its last resting place on the hillside which overlooks the Mississippi river. All Dubuque paid silent tribute to the memory of Senator Allison. Dur ing the hours of the funeral not a wheel turned throughout the city' and every business house closed Its doors. Flags hung at half mast from public buildings and hundreds of homes and business houses were trimmed with crepe. A most effective feature was the winding with black and white of the trolley poles throughout the main thoroughfare of the city. The body of Senator Allison lay in state Friday afternoon and evening, ana thousands of people called to pay a final tribute of respect The only floral tributes were a blanket of American beauty roses, completely covering the casket, an emblem of the Loyal Legion and the national flag. The pall bearers were all residents of the city and intimate friends of the senator. , Many distinguished visitors were in attendance at the funeral. Besides the members of the congressional committee named by Vice President Fairbanks and Speaker Cannon, there was a large delegation from Des Moines, consisting of Governor Cum mins and other state officers. The Des Moines party brought with it a beautiful floral blanket six and one half feet long and three feet wide. The border was of white carnations and in the center, wrought in red, was the word "Iowa." In three of the corners were clusters of lilies of the vaHey, and in the fourth, fastened by a ribbon, were the dates "1863 1908," these marking the duration of his official life in Washington. The grave of Senator Allison Is in the family lot in Linwood cemetery. A modest marble shaft, bearing the single word "Allison was erected on the lot twenty years ago. The grave is close to that in which is buried the body of the late Speaker David B. Henderson. ALLISON WILL BE MISSED. Death Leaves a Void in Senate Not Easily Filled. Washington The death of Senator William Boyd Allison, while not wholly unexpected, came at a most Inopportune time by reason of political conditions in Iowa. His death will leave a void in the senate that cannot easily be filled, for Senator Alison oc cupied a most unique position, not only in the senate, but in the country as well. As chairman of the committee on appropriations he has dispensed more millions than any man In the history of the nation, and In his treatment of the great supply bills of congress he ceased to be a partisan and became the statesman invoking all his powers for the public weal. - -Although a man of few friendships and, in a large sense, a rather reticent man, William B. Allison had the con fidence of both republicans and demo crats in the upper branch of the na tional legislature. HAYWARD MOVES UP. New York. Elmer EL Dover of Ohio has resigned his position as secretary of the republican national committee, and will become the secre tary of an advisory committee which is to work with George R. Sheldon, treasurer of the national committee. William Hayward of Nebraska City, Neb., who has been republican chair man in his state for the year last past, has been appointed secretary of the national committee and will be given charge of the western headquarters at Chicago, in the absence of Mr. Hitch cock. Japan Crowding to Front. Tiaren, Manchuria Japan is respon sible for the introduction of the Ameri can railfay system into eastern Asia, but it is rapidly taking to itself the trade in railroad equipment and ma terial was thrown in the beginning to American maufacture'rs. The reasons for this are, first, the poor quality of the materials and the Inferior work manship used in the American pro duct and second, the ability of the Japanese to duplicate the American rolling stock at lower prices, even de livering a better article. Shah Is Virtually Prisoner. St Petersburg. Special dispatches received here from Teheran give a tragic-comic description of the position j Omaha posts of the Grand Army pre of the shah of Persia! who Isi virtually i sented a request for such a room to a prisoner in the hands of wild tribes men summoned to Teheran to pro tect the throne against the revolution aries, but who have become a greater menace to the monarch than his other foes. The tribesmen are extravatp-.f In their demands for money, which th shah is unable to grant and the threaten to destroy the palace and pi! ! Teheran. v V Z . . I NEBRASKA NEWS AND NOTES, i Items of Greater or Lesser Imper tance Over the State. Charley Landreth of Oconto, 16 years old, was thrown from a horse and in stantly killed. v The annual Gage County Teachers Institute will be held in Beatrice August 24 to 28. A bank has been organized at Crookston. a small town west of Val entine. It Is capitalized at $10,000. The sixteenth annual reunion of the Old Settlers' association of Cherry and Keya Paha counties will be held at Sparks, Neb. The village board of trustees of Brainerd recently levied an occupa tion tax on nearly every line of busi ness in the town. The people of Cook, Johnson county, will call a special election to vote bonds In the sum of $10,000 for a new brick school house. Wayne's second annual Chautauqua assembly Is closed. The session last ed eight days and was a complete sue cess. All expenses were met by. re ceipts. , The .Cedar, county fair will be held September 16, 17 and 18. The summer races were held July 3 and 4, and the fall fair will be devoted mostly to ex hibits. The executive committee of the Cuming County Old Settlers' associa tion has fixed upon Thursday, August 27, as the date for the annual picnic and reunion. A stock company to promote a creamery enterprise has been organ ized at Crab Orchard and a sufficient amount of stock' sold to warrant the establishment of a plant George Buchliia well to do farmer living a couple of miles west of Powell, in Jefferson county, committed suicide by shooting himself. There was ap parently no cause for the act State Superintendent J. McBrien and his family have been visiting Johnson county relatives. The super intendent says the story that has gone out of the shortage of teachers in Ne braska is not correct Threshing has commenced in the vi cinity of Sutherland. Much wheat will run about forty bushels, and oats will go as high as sixty bushels to the acre. Corn is considered by the farmers to be "made." The real estate belonging to Andrew Hlggins of Nemaha county, who was killed some time ago In a runaway, has been divided among the three sons and one daughter. There were about 900 acres of land. ' At the recent special school elec tion in. Sutherland, bonds to the amount of $2,500 were voted. This sum is to go toward installing a heat ing plant in the school building and building a two-room addition. The telegraph instruments have been taken out of the station at Lush ton without notice. The patrons of the Burlington route say they will not submit to what they call an outrage. The railroad business of the place is $30,000 a year. Mrs. Oliver Starkey, who was shot by her husband near Palmer, Is be lieved to be on the road' to recovery. Although her side was riddled with blrdshot, she has shown remarkable re cuperative powers. It is feared though that she will lose one, of her arms. While Charles Dendinger and George Porter were working on the top of a scaffold around a hay stacker in Cedar county, the machine fell with them. Porter fell underneath the timbers. He was badly crushed and it is thought he will not recover. The other man was bady bruised. At St. .Paul information was filed against Oliver Starkey, charging him with assault with intent to kill his di vorced wife recently in Gage Valley, Howard county. The complaint was filed by Miss E. Scott, a sister of the injured woman. Starkey waived exa mination and was bound over to the next November term of the district cuurt Two men, Joy Wright and George Fogls, members of the national guard, encamped near Ashland, were drowned In the Platte river. Both were mem bers of Company C, N. N. G., of Ne braska City. The drowned are George Fogls, aged 21, a farmer living near Nebraska City, and Joy Wright, a clerk In a grain office in that city. Both were born kt that place. Neither could swim. Ben Uhland, a young farmer near Humboldt reports a curiosity in the shape of an eyeless duck, hatched out a few weeks since. The fowl runs about with the remainder of the brood and seems able to secure food, even without eyes. The freak shows abso-lutely-no signs of eyes, 'lashes or cavi ties, but Is otherwise a perfectly formed fowl. A coyote scalp swindle has been brought out in Buffalo county by Sheriff Sammons. John Bacon, janitor at court house, Lloyd Deets, Abe Swln yer and nine accmplices have been ar rested and given preliminary hearings and all excent'one have nleaded euilty. RocAn KMMirpil nrnlnn frnm th ronntv i oTarir'a nffliwi anil tilil them In tha ' boiler room and Deets and Swinyer would get same and resell them at leisure. John H. Dwyer, of McCook, a whits man, married, with wife and two chil dren, was bound over to the next term of district court in and for Red Wil low county, charged with an attmept at committing rape on two young Hus sion girls of this.city each aged ten years. Following Is the mortgage report for Gage county for the month of July: Number of farm mortgages filed, 10; amount 130,887; number of farm mort gages released, e; amount, si6,6uu; number of city mortgages filed, 26; j amount, 827,560; number of city mort- j sages released. 16: amount. $8,230. The Grand Army of the Republic will have, in all probability, a memo rial In the new Douglas county court house. A delegation from the three the county board, and it was received with fi.vor. The sheriff of Cherry county re ceived a message from Stanton author ities x arrest a mason of ValenMne by the name of J. P. Banks as he was wanted there on the charge of rap 3, the crime being committed over four years ago. The sheriff immediately took the man In charge. 1 STATE CAPITAL MATTERS OF INTEREST TO ALL .- - CITIZENS. IIS TO UNO ASSESSMENTS The State t Board of Equalization Has Agreed on Raises Which May Increase the Roll. The state board of equalization has agreed upon several sweeping changes In the land assessments returned from the several counties which will stand unless representatives from these counties come before the board with good reason why they should not The proposed raises will make a consider able increase in the total assessment roll. Several counties have been left as they were and eight have been grant ed reductions, most of them slight. The raises are all the way from five to sixty per cent The following state ment has been issued by the board, in dicating its position and giving com parison of the average land values ask returned by the several counties and it is proposed to raise them by the board. Following is the statement by the board: The state board of equalization has found that it is necessary to make u good many changes by counties in or der to make a uniform assessment This is true not only in regard to the several classes of personal property, but also as regards the assessment of real estate. It is the judgment of the board that it will be necessary to raise the value of land in thirty-nine counties and to reduce eight, thus leaving the assess ment as far as land is concerned in forty-two counties' the same as was returned by the county assessor. Ow ing to the importance of the real estate assessment the board has de termined to notify the assessor of the counties of the proposed changes and request them to appear before the board if they have any objections to the changes proposed by the board. Final action on the land assessment will no be made until sufficient time has been given for the assessors to appear before the board. - Governor Offers Reward. Governor Sheldon has issued the following proclamation of reward for the apprehension of the murder of Mrs. Jasper Blowsnake, killed by Jas per Blowsnake in Thurston county on July 18, 1908: "Whereas, Upon good and sufficient showing made by the county coroner of Thurston county, Nebraska, that on or about the 18th day of July, A. D., 1908, in the county of Thurston, state of Nebraska, Mrs. Blowsnake was brutally and feloniously assulted by Jasper Blowsnake, which resulted in her death, and "Whereas, The said Jasper Blow snake is a fugitive from justice and Is secreting himself in some place un known and "Whereas, As a protection to so ciety, as well as the enforcement of the criminal code, and as a means of leading to the prompt apprehension and punishment of such an act, the law provides that' upon receipt of such information the governor shall issue his proclamation offering a reward for the arrest of the person commit- Ing such crime. Said reward to be payable on a certificate given under seal of the court that the person ar rested and indicted committed the act charged in the lndictmen, now, "Therefore, I, George Lawson Shel don, governor of the state of Nebras ka, by virtue of the authority vested in me by law do hereby, by this nr; proclamation, offer a reward of two hundred (200.00) dollars for the ap prehension of the murderer of said Mrs. Blowsnake, conditioned as afore said, and" said reward continuing for' a period of six months from and after this date, and I do especially enjoin upon all sheriffs, constables and peace officers of this state diligent effort to bring the murderer to speedy justice." To Equalize Standard. The presidents of the two state nor mal schools held a conference with the state examining board to determ ine on some standard of requirements for the private schools which are al lowed by the Nebraska law to grant life professional teacher's certificates. The board of examiners Is made the Inspection body of these private schools, and just now they are turn- lng out several hundred graduates at the close of the summer session. The. state normal schools have a certain standard of excellence which they re quire of graduates. The examining board is desirous of making the of the private schools as maximum high as the minimum of the 'state, schools. This, under the law, is all they can do. Petition for a Telephone. J. E. Hart, A. L. Clem, J. H. Neber gall and A. A. Hawley, all of York co'inty have petitioned the railway commission to make the Northwestern put a telephone In its pasren?er sta tion at Gresham. A large proportion of the citizens of York county are on the lines of the York County Telephone company, an independent concern S which does not pay toll to the tele ! phone trust The ra'lroad company has a trust 'phone in its piae, but re- fuses to recognize the independent concern. Airing of Telephone Rates. Telephone rates re-now coming in for an airing before t ctate Fai'wtv commission. J. P. Bo-ver of Graf. Johnson county, f I1 a foTnil rnra p'aint against the Nbmka Telephone company charging d'Fcrim'natlon. In his complaint be s'y people re-''' Tecnmseb ta'k ta St-lint. 12.7 mil"" for 10 cents. Teumsrh ti Afams. 19 " rriles. for 10 cents. " to fook. JT miles, for 10 cents. H a Cinnon . Tetimeh fl?d a f"-n:l cosiplafr' charging that discrlminat'on is era tired. LOVE TRIUMPHANT j fUw Y THE "MGHWAY AND BYWAY PREACHER fCogjritffci. iMt ljr Um Autbor, W. a. Uml) The Prophet Hosea. The name means "salvation," and in the personal history of the prophet which many of the deep est and most spiritual Bible scholars such as Q. Campbell Morgan, of England, and James M. Gray, dean of the Moody Bible institute, consider a literal portrayal of the prophet's life we find a type or illus tration of Jehovah's relations to Israel. Hosea's field of labor was Israel, and he prophesied during the reign of Jeroboam II., about 784 B. C. down to the captiv ity. 'An outline of the book is as follows: 1. Hlstorlco-prophetic. chapters 1 to 3; 2. General discourses, chapters 4 to to 13: 3. Promises, chapter 14, (a) Appeal of God, vs. 1-3; (b) Promised blessing, vs. 4-8; (c) Application t6 all. v. 9. The per sonal history of the prophet may be di vided into three periods as follows: (I) A Happy Union The prophet marries a woman who had lived an impure life, but who had reformed. (2) A Ruined Home Three children came to bless the ..me. and then the wife, forgetful of obliga tions of wifehood and motherhood, de serts her home for her former lovers. (3) Love Unfailing But her true lover-husband never loses sight of her. and at last after she had sunk to the very depths of sin he buys her back so that he may re store her to her old place in the home. Love Triumphant. Tills period of the prophet's' life in which he buys back his waward wife from slavery into which she had sunk, and holds her in seclusion until such time as she can be restored to her old place In the home, is a type of Jehovah In .unfailing love and mercy keeping Israel for the latter days when his chosen people shall be restored to their old place as his peculiar and be loved people. - Scripture Authority The Book of Hosea, especially chapter 3. SERMON ETTE. "Love Divine, ail love excell ing," that God should reach down and seek to redeem sin ful man to himself. But just as Hosea saw in that woman some thing upon which love could cen ter and bring her back to him self, so God sees in his way ward children that upon which his great love can rest and which love will ultimately win the soul from its life of sin to one of holiness. Surely the wife of Hosea was unworthy ef the pure and holy love of her devoted husband, and more surely still is it true that man is unworthy of the unspeakable love of God. But it Is not because of our worthiness that we become the object of God's, Jove and mercy. Rather, it is our great need that calls forth the Divine compas sion. In spite of the disfiguring marks of sin God sees within the heart of man the possibil ities of a higher and better life In him, and so he patiently and tenderly wooes the soul from its false love and from its evil ways back to himself. Another wonderful thought in connection with the love of God and the relations of man to God Is that man is not complete with out union with God, and we say it reverently God is not complete without man. The union of the two is necessary, first for the complete manifesta tion of the power and glory of God and secondly to reveal the high possibilities of a life when it is linked with the life of God. Wonderful, is it not? The redeemed soul in its union with the Father and the Son is to re veal in the "ages to come the exceeding riches of Gcd's grace in his kindness towards us through. Christ Jesus." il THE STORY. THE scene of the opening of our story is laid in an oriental slave market, where the barter in human flesh is carried on, and it was in that long gone day nearly a thousand years before the coming of Christ when slavery was the rule, and not the ex ception. It was a noisy place, and it was a strange grouping of human be ings of all conditions of physical de velopment, and of race and color. There were the young, and there were those who were in the prime of life, and then there were others upon whom the weight of years and hard ships endured were beginning to tell, and for whom there was but little sale, even at the low price for which they were offered. Among these last was the bent form of what at first glance seemed an old woman, but it was apparent upon closer scrutiny that it was not the years so much, that bowed the form as It was the sinful life lived and the grief and fear that clutched the heart in relentless grasp. Sin had left its awful scars upon face and form, but underneath could be traced the old lines of comeliness and beauty. That face before sin had seamed and scarred it had been comely, and those eyes now blaared and dull had sparkled with the bounding life that had surged within- And in that form still could be traced the shapeliness and beauty which it had once pos sessed, and which would have been the joy of artist or sculptor. But now In the miserable condi tion to which the woman had been reduced the goading memories of the past and the dark forebodings of the future came to deepen her anguish and to intensify her abject and for lorn appearance. The happier the past one has to look back upon the deeper cuts the regret over the folly and sin which have robbed one of the blessings which were possessed, and all too lightly held and then lost. And this woman sit ting there in the slave market await ing the buyer was perhaps more mis erable than any of the rest because she had fallen farthest Memory crowded iu. upon her with relentless persistency. In the whirl of I he gay life which she had led it bad been easy to forget, end when visions of the past had come to vex and trouble !" php had plunged with greater abandon into the life she was leadlsjc bat how. deserted hy fcer er friends aad lovers, homalose end llrlendlesa aad reduced to the cbadl- tion of a slave, she no loager was free to lad relief in deeper excesses. 3h had at last reached the depths. and now while she waited there was nothing for her to do but think, think. thlik. It seemed as though It would almost drive her to madness. Once she had beea a happy wife with chil dren about her. In a mad, hour she had yielded to the temptatloa which had come, and step by step she had been led into the paths" of sin. and now she was drinking to the bitter dregs the cup which sin' had filled for her. A shudder shook her form at the contrast between what had once been hers to possess and enjoy and what was now her lot, and the first real pang of repentance which she had known came to her as she sat ther' and waited for she knew not what "Hosea," and she half whispered the name as though she feared to speak It "Hosea has long since forgotten me. and well he might I did love him. I know it now. But in my insane folly, my vanity, my love of pleasure. I cast aside all that was 4 worth havlag in life. And bow, now! Who Is there to remember me? Who Is there to care what becomes of Gonier? and with a choking sob she ended her soliloquy. Time was v. hen lover, aad gay friends had filled her lap to the full with gay pleasures, but when beauty had begun to fade and the spell of her charm had broken, the lovers had left her one by one, and now there was none 'left to care what became of her. "Not even Hosea." she had cried, with unutterable anguish. Oh vrhnt rxniUv rfrma ! ATtt When the -sin has come to its full fruitage with what crushing weight does it overpower the heart, driving often to madness and self-destruction. And so it was to Gomer that there came the promptings to end her mis ery in self inflicted death. It is but a step from meditation to action. One standing pn the brink needs but to lean in the direction rash impulse draws,- and crash! out goes the life upon the jagged rocks below. A voice at the fateful moment might stay the leap. So with Gomer. Unconscious of all about her, save the desperate resolve that she' would end her miserable existence, there came a voice from, somewhere she knew not where, and it stayed the band that was at that instant ready .to plunge the slender blade into her heart A voice that carried her back again through the years and brought her in memory to the happy home which once she could call her own. A voice that came to her out of the throng that made her start and look dp.' while from her lips there hurst the one word: "Hosea!" But none but strange faces were all about She saw her owner's form at a distance, but he seamed act -to be concerned about her at that mo ment But that voice had come to her, and it stayed her murderous hand. she knew not why. And she waited almost eagerly, and scanned the faces all about, but not once agata did she hear that voice, and search as she might through the throngs that surged in the market place, she saw not the face that she knew now she loved. And when her master came a little time later, and gave her Into the hands of a stranger, indicating with a aod-.of the head that she bad been sold, her head sank in dejection upon her breast and listlessly she arose -aad fol lowed. What strange days those were'that followed. She never forgot the voice she had heard in the market place, but that voice did not belong to the stranger into whose hands she had come, of that she was sure. Bat she was conscious that there was some thing strange about her new condi tion. The indignities usually shown towards a slave were wanting In her case. In seclusion and quiet she was sheltered, and having little else to do, she thought, thought thought How the first pang of repentance felt on that day In the slave market devel oped and grew into the food of heart sorrow over the ruined and wasted life. If only she could see Hosea and tell him of her repentance aad ask his forgiveness she felt that peace would be In her heart. Overburdened with this thought one evening as she rested in the humble dwelling where her new master had placed her sho burst Into a flood of weeping, exclaiming over and over again: "Ob. Hosea. Hosea. that I might tell you how good thou art and how wicked I have beea. Oh, Hosea, and my children! If I bat had thee now I should know how to prize my treasures." "Thou shalt have thy desire." spoke a voice at her side. With a startled cry she looked up into the face of Hosea. and when the first paroxysm of weeping had passed, she whis pered: "Thy love, Hosea. hath triumphed." Oldest Tree In the World. The London Globe recently pub lished an article on "The World's Old est Tree," which wa3 reprinted in sev eral American papers. The writer said that the grandaddy of all present trees was to be found on the Isle of Cos, on the coast of Asia Minor, was estimated to be considerably more than twenty five hundred years old and had a cir cumference of 32 ys feet In letter to the Tribune, Ivy P. Lee, head of the publicity department of the Pennsyl vania railroad, disputes the Globe's statements. "It is evident" says Mr. Lee, "that the writer of this note was not familiar with the big tress of Cali fornia, a large number of which are probably more than twenty-five hun dred years old, and it is certain that the oldest and largest of tham same ly, the "Grizzly Giant" in the Marlsopa grove, near Yosemlte park la upward of 8,000 years old. Calculations to this effect have been made by eminent scientists, and there is. probably no doubt of their correctness. Not only is this great tree and many,of its com panions of such great age, bet It shows no tendency toward decay. The trunk of this tree is more than a hundred" reet in circumference." N. Y. Trib une. A Flirt A flirt is a rose from which every lover plucks a leaf the thorns- beler reserved for her busband.--jeaficjWB. ter Union. l j: WI f ; 't Zi 1 I y - 3sf. M .agsfcgg.. -- . ,-i, nfe ifet5v
