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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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."
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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
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lover plucks a leaf the thorns- beler
reserved for her busband.--jeaficjWB.
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