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Graduates have no difficulty in securing and holding posit: ons. YOUNG WOMEN are admitted to all courses on the sume terms as Young Men. THE FALL SESSION ovens September 15th, 190k. For specimelr examination papers or for catalogue giving full information repsecting courses of study, expenses, etc., and showing positions held by graduates, address THE REGISTRAR, State College, Centre County, Pa. 25-27 (EirEAL STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, LOCK HAVEN, PA. J. R. FLICKINGER, PRIN. Fall term 15 weeks begins September 5th, 1904. Last year was the most success- ful in the history of this import- ant school—about 700 students— Location among the mountains of Central Pennsylvania, with fine water, splendid buildings and ex- cellent sanitary conditions make it an ideal training school. In addition to its Normal course it also has an excellent College, Preparatory Department in charge of an honor graduate of Prince- ton. It also has departments of Musie, Elocution and Business. 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Thus a mere scratch, insignificant cuts or puny boils have paid the death penalty. It is wise to have Buoklen’s Arnica Salve ever handy. It’s the best Salve on earth and will pre- vent fatality, when Burns Sores, Ulcers and Piles threaten. Onlv 250, at Green's Drug Store. Bellefonte, Pa., Aug. 12,1904. § PLEASANT FIELDS OF HOLY WRIT Save for my daily range Among the pleasant fields of Holy Writ. I might despair —Tennyson THE INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY-SCHOOL LESSON. Third Quarter. Lesson VIII. 1 Kin s XVIII, 30-46. Sunday, August 21st, 1904. ELIJAH ON MOUNT CARMEL. Carmel has heen called the Park of Pal- estine. It is fragrant and lovely. Its foliage is luxuriant. It commandsa su- perb view of mountain, sea, and plain. The battlefield of the Holy Land is at the foot of it. It ie as if the names of Deborah, Barak, Gideon and Saul were graven with an iron pen on the rocky side of the moun- tain. But a greater battle was to be fought on the height than was ever waged upon the plain. It was a duel of gods—Jehovah and Baal. Jezebel had paganized Israel. The very multitude of her priests proves it. Four hundred and fifty to the male god Baal and four hundred to the female Astarte. All Jehovah’s priests had gone into exile and his prophets into the caves of the mountains. The lascivious Zidonian wor- ship, like a poisonous weed, covered the whole land. It had the prestige of the court. The sensualism of its pompous ritual appealed to the Oriental mind. The chains of a hideous and polluted worship seemed riveted forever upon an apostate nation. One heroic sonl stood against the ap- parently irresistible stream. As Antony denounced the prefect of Alexandria, Athanasius seized the bridle of Constan- tine, Knox rebuked Mary, so Elijah, as if consciously under the shield of divinity, fearlessly rebuked king, queen, courtiers, and people. A sharp sword proceeded out of his mouth. The grandeunr of his soli- tude is indescribably impressive. . wasting srs : ; : ; All against his will Ahab issues a royal | | proclamation for the assembly of all Israel. As if designed for the very purpose Carmel afforded a stage for a fascinating and aw- ful drama, a trial of gods by fire. The dread scene is described in a magnificent narrative in every way worthy of it. It} fairly lives again before the eyes of the reader. The priests of Baal were devil-possessed. They did not sham. In their extremity | the darkest sorceries of blood and self- mutilation were resorted to. As modern | fakers eat glass and bite living snakes, so’ these devil-dancers went through every ! conceivable contortion fantastic gesture. No more vivid description of idolatrous customs exists in literature. With the proverbial stoical patience of the Arab the people had been sitting hour after hour looking on as these spirited scenes were enacted. The denouement is | at hand. The climax is reached. The! conduct of Elijah is the hest comment on ! that Scripture, ‘‘The righteous is as hold as a lion.”” With that absolute assurance which inspiration never fails to give, Elijah stepped to the fore. There is large significance in his smallest act or word. He mocked the prophets of Baal. It is one of the few examples of irony in the Bible. He isnot frivolous in this. His object is to make idolatry contemptible. His sarcasm is pitying and withering. His words are addressed to the people rath- er than to the priests. He ‘cries, ‘‘Make him attend! for be is the supreme god. He may happen to be given an audience to some one. Make him know thas every- thing is now at stake. If he has gone away call him back.’”” A coarse meaning attaches to the phrase, ‘‘He is pursuing.’ The reference is to an act of the toilet, and would not be tolerated in Western speech, | bus indicates vividly the lowest degree of contempt. Just at the hour of the evening sacrifice under the Mosaic ritual, Elijah repairs the old altar of Jehovah—previously existing on that spot. That marks him as the Restorer. He takes twelve stones. That is his protest against schism. The twelve tribes should be in one state and in one nation. Then comes that Divine bugle- call, “How long halt ye!’’ The awe-struck people maintain the silence of guilt to this lofty challenge. An ideal prayer follows, with its rine invocation of Jehovah's name and its seven rythmic lines. The assembly of the nation is convinced beyond all cavil both of the impotence of Baa! and the omnipotence of Jehovah. Allegiance to God is renewed by popular and unanimous voice. A death-blow is struck to foreign superstitions. The re- covery from apostasy showed itself in the mind, affection, and conduct of the people. The winding Kishon runs red with the blood of the fanatical priests, who joined to their idols miserably perish with them that very day. The self-indalgent nature of the king shows . itself in that he gives himseif up to the pleasures of a banquet. The heart-search ing events of that memor- able day seemed not to have touched the quick of his sluggish nature, But while the king ate, the prophet prayed. The prophet’s servant, who may, as tradition says, have heen the son of the Sareptan widow and also the Prophet Jonah, kept running to scan the horizon for signs of rain, and back to report to his master. The whole spirited scene closes appro- priately. The king rides in his chariot at top of speed to cross the water-brooks be- fore they shall become foaming torrents. The victorions prophet patriotically con- descends to be the defeated king’s fore- ~ LAST runner. As his herald heecries, ‘‘Prepare the way of the king!” No doubt his motive is the desire to strengthen Abab’s good resolves. THE TEACHER'S LANTERN. The lessous of Carmel are as clear-cut as the sky-line of the mountain itself. * * * * * Carmel matches Sinai. Elijah matches Moses. * ® * * * The nonentity of an idol was never more strikingly illustrated. The scene on Car- mel is a striking commentary on Paul's word, ‘‘An idol is nothingin the world.” Not for six hours on the mountain had Baal heen appealed to but probably for the whole three vears of famine. Not a whisper came 110 response. * * * * - The moral courage and grandeur of Elijah challenges admiration. He was oblivious of self. The honor of Jehovah, the welfare of the people impelled him to fearless action. * The base character of Ahab presents a marked contrast. He was more concerned for the royal stud (horses and mules) than he was for the famine-stricken people. He attemped to ‘‘bulldoze’’ Elijah when he cried, hlusteringly, ‘‘Ah! at length I have found. you, you troubler of Ierael!” He complacently ate while his priests were being backed to pieces. He went from the fire-crowned mountain and the discredited Baalism to be the truculent slave of his Baalite queen. * x gh eh The lofty simplicity of Elijah’s prayer is all the more marked when contrasted with the frantio cries of the Baalites. * * * * a Jehovah gave a sare sign to His doubt ing people, but He required a choice at their hands. He gives light, but in the ultimate analysis decision is with the individual. : * * * * * It is still ‘‘do and know.” ‘If any man will do His will he shall know of the doctrine.” Many are guilty of the im- piety of asking for truth and yet withhold- ing choice, asking for more light and yet not obedient to the light they already have. Ithas been aptly said, ‘Obedience will scatter more doubt ‘than volumes of treatises.’ * * * * * The killing of the four hundred and fifty priests of Baal was a species of judi- cial murder. No one need be at pains to justify it. The deed must be judged by the standards which then maintained. If it was right, then the Inquisition finds in it a Scriptural proof and warrant. * * * * * Jesus abrogated the lex falionis when he says, ‘‘Ye have heard aneye for an eye, but I say love!” * * * * * Crude and wild conditions then main- tained. Laws were imperfect; penalties unduly severe. They were times of ignor- ance at which God winked. This bloody deed must be measured by the standards then current, not by the principles of Christian ethics and modern humanities. Violence then as now was ‘‘bateful to the God of love.” ¥ * * * Farrar compares the relation of Obadiah to Ahab to that which maintained between * * * * Sebastian and’ Diocletian. Bat the analogy EEE EEE EE EERE SEE EEA] WEEK OF OUR Wh Reduction Sale Barely enough Suits left this week to per- mit. of a satisfactory selection. We will begin the Fall Season with the Cleanest, Stock in History of OUR. STORE. You can expect. and we promise you Better Clothing Values and Larger As- sortment. of Good Clothes than you have ever seen in Centre County. fails at an important point. Obadiah avoided an issue with his royal master, while Sebastian confronted the emperor, reproached him for his impiety, and paid forfeit with his life. ——Dr. Cook, the hotanist of the Agri- cultural Department, who bas bad under investigation the experiment of introducing from Guatemala the ‘‘kelep’’ or vermin- eating ant, with a view to staying she 1avages of the boil weevil in the Texas cotton fields, reports complete success. ““The ant,’’ he says, ‘‘injures no form of vegetation and takes nothing from the cot- ton plant except the nectar secreted for it on the leaves and floral envelopes. The babits and temperament of the insect are such that it is readily capable of domestica- tion, transportation and colonization in the cotton fields of Texas.” If it shall be demonstrated after further trial that the imported Guatemalan insect is willing to stay in the country and reproduce itself in numbers sufficient to exterminate the boil weevil, and afterward so conduct itself as not to nndo the benefit thereby conferred, the service rendered will be worth many millions of dollars to the Southern cotton producers. Czarina a Suffragist. The Empress of Russia is a strong be- liever in female suffrage, woman’s clubs, the higher education of women and in her right to enter any and all of the profes- sions. ; She holds that almost all of the great re- forms of the world have been brought about by women, and that they are just becoming conscious -of their power and possibilities. Under her imperial patron- age socities for the education and develop- ment of females are growing numerous in St. Petersburg and even spreading through the jealously-guarded realm of the Czar. . ‘I have great and abiding faith in my own sex,’’ she said recently. ‘‘Women are ever busy sowing the seed from which good springs up all over the world.” ——My wife's going to make biscuits today; won’t you take dinner with me ? Thanks: I’m not trying for the Carnegie hero medal. Puts AN END TO IT ALL.—A grievous wail oft-times comes as a result of unbeara- ble pain from over taxed organs. Dizzi- ness, Backache, Liver complaint and Con- stipation. But thanks to Dr. King’s New Life Pills they put an end to it all. They are gentle but through. Try them. Only 25. Guaranteed by Green’s Drug Store. Medical. Te: KIDNEYS When they sre weak, torpid, or stag- nant,the whole system suffers. 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Gas administered for the painless extraction o teeth. Crown and Bridge Work also. 14 D H. W. TATE, Surgeon Dentist, office in'the Bush Arcade, Bellefonte, Pa. All moderw electric appliances used. Has had years of ex. perience. All work of superior quality and prices reasonable, \ 45-8-1y. eevee sone ermam— Bankers. Jackson, Crider & Hastings, Bankers, 1llefonte, Pa. Bills of Exchange and Netes Dis- counted ; Interest paid on special deposits; Ex. change on Eastern cities. Deposits received. 17-36 of uci HASTINGS, & CO., (successors to e Insurance. WwW ILLIAM BURNSIDE. Successor to CHARLES SMITH. FIRE INSURANCE. Temple Court, 48-37 Bellefonte, Pa. OOK ! READ A Ty dA te JOHN F. GRAY & SON, (Successors to Grant Hoover.) FIRE, LIFE, AND ACCIDENT INSURANCE. This Agency represents the largest LM Sa Companies in the orld. ——NO ASSESSMENTS. Do not fail to give us a call before insuring your Life or Property as we are in position to write large lines at any time. Office in Crider’s Stone Building, 43-18-1y BELLEFONTE, PA. Hotel. CENTRAL HOTEL, MILESBURG, PA. A. A. KoHLBECKER, Proprietor. This new and commodious Hotel, located opp. the depot, Milesburg, Centre county, has been en- tirely refitted, refurnished and replenished throughout, and is now second to none in the county in the character of accommodations offer- ed the public. Its table is supplied with the best the market affords, its bar contains the purest and choicest liquors, its stable has attentive host- lers, and every convenience and comfort is ex- tended its guests, A&~Through travelers on the railroad will find this an excellent place to lupch or procure a meal, as all trains stop there about 25 minutes. 24 24 Groceries. N=" Maple Sugar and Syrup in 1qt. 2 qt, and 4 qt. cans—Pure goods. Fine sugar Table Syrups at 45¢. 59¢. and 60c. per gallon. Fine new Orleans Mo- lasses at 60c, and 80c.—straight: goods. SECHLER & CO., 49-3 BELLEFONTE, PA.. Groceries. J 57 RECEIVED New invoice Porto Rico Coffee— Fine goods but heavy body — use less quantity. At 25cts cheap- est Coffee on the market. SECHLER & CO. 49-3 BELLEFONTE, PA. Fine Jod Printing. FINE JOB PRINTING 0A SPECIALTY=~—o AT THE WATCHMAN OFFICE, There is no style of work, fromfthe cheapes Dodger’ to the finest {—BOOK-WORK,—} that we can not do in the most satsfactory n 4x ner, and at Prices consistent with the class of work. Call on or comunicate with this office.
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