THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURO. PA Saturday Qight Oalks f f. E. DAVISON RntUa4, Vc O OOOOOOOOOOOO C'OllOX.tTlOM IKH'It.H. CAXAIi.Vfl MOVINfl nAUDKN SV(rt Nov. 22. '08 ( I. Kings 1: 32-40.) That was a crucial period of Pnlomon'M rnrwr wlwn the nnnolnt In oil of Zadok, th prli'st. was put upon his head and the crown of do minion was handed to him by Uavld, his father. Adonljnh. the younger brother of Absalom, aspired to the throne and by furor and clam or, was attempting to stampede the people In his behalf. Hut David had his own ideas in regard to the suc cesulon and with promptness and vig or he abdicated In favor of Solomon, that be might seo the favored son firmly established In the seat of gov ernment while he was yet alive. The conspiracy came to naught, the peo ple, caught the enthusiasm of the hour, and cried out, "Uod save King Solomon!" And thus began the reign of one, under whose direction the kingdom of Israel reached the high water mark of nntional great ness. From the first moment that tho crown of royalty rested upon his head he bore himself In a klnsly fashion. Solomon was every Inch a king. Crowned ScnmidreN. Tho American youth Is not eligible to royalty, thrones am) Reenters ure not In our line. In this couM'ry there Is no hereditary rank entitling the possessors thereof to place an I power above the common throni;. Yet there are coronation days In thU land of ejunl ili.lits a'ld 1 !;n" i are sought and n by American citizens. In Old World . .i s ! t It has often been true that innw.i have rested upon unworthy Iliads Many a monarch In rank has l- cti a crlmlnul and u s!: vc in clinvucii r. The writers of l:l;t,ry ap' coiu'ielli- to expurgate and c!b Inl'ect tl.eir p;ory before xlvln:; it out to p": : ,r use. Kvery careful student k'ur.vs that the private lives of multitudes ef kings and mucus will not bear Investigation. The rulers, "by divine right" are few. judged by the stand ard of morals taught In the I'.ibl". One of tho reasons for the disrup tion of the empire of Solomon alter his death Is to be found In the fact that Solomon's son, Uehohoam, fol lowed his father's example Instead of la preaching. The thousand wives Df Solomon's whol.-sale adultery, were more Influential in Mime re spects and made a deeper impres sion on tho empire than his thou sand proverbs. Solomon's reign was the golden ago of tho JewlHh king dom, but he, himself, before his itcatli. almost fills the poet's descrip tion. "The greatest, wisest, mean est of mankind." Crowim l''op All. It la said that when the Princess Victoria was called to the kingdom, the messengers who were the high est dignitaries of state, arrived at her palace from the death-bed of tho king very early In the morning. They had great difficulty in arousing any one; but at length the princess' maid f appeared, who saW that her mistress was asleep and must not be dis turbed. "Telt her," said the Arch bishop of Canterbury, "that we have come on business of Importance to the Queen, and even her slumbers must give way to that." Such a message was not to be put aside, rsid the princess appeared and was soon invested with royal robes and prerogatives. And what was true of Victoria Is true of every young per son, in whatever land they live. We in all called to klng3hl and queen ship. 'They shall be kings and queens unto God, and they shall reign forever and ever." "Fold your V.ms over your breast, and you have wvered a realm vast enough to en gage the efforts of an archangel. "Ilo that ruleth his spirit Is greater than ho that taketh a city." Many a man who has ridden at he head of a troop has teen unable to put down uu ebe) lust camped upon his own iuufc That young man has come to coronation w ho is a ruler of his own body, soul and spirit. That Is a ncov.n that does :iot discend by the ltt Of primogeniture, it must be Son foy personal struggle, i frovtiw Are Credent ials. Many men und women are wear Itiw crowns of royalty. We come to epochs in life, great crises of exist ence, turning points in our history, tours fraught with destiny, moments when eternal Issues hang upon the decisions we make. If in those cru cial times we shrink, falter, fall to measure up. shut our eyes to glori ous possibilities, choose present satis faction rather than future expansion, we push away the crown of earthly dominion, and It pass, s to another more worthy than we. Hut the "rld Is rail of people who have come to coronation, it Is not nee cssury to postpone to a tutuiv exist nce crowning days, lie who Is no' frowned here, will not be crowned Here. Thrones and dominions are not arbitrarily bestowed. He who t.o-.M tie a candidate for promotion In another world must carry his ere dcutfalH with him. It does not nec esoarily fellow that the world ma" r cognize royal ieallties. but they mist b In the soul's possession. Men ui:i women have been cast out, a u I rwsHliiate.l by their fellow men u? unworthy of life, but they lit. v.? been hailed us monaiThs by the an;'els The ei.nu'l crowning day I covins y and ,uy. It tins Followed! the March Westward and Is Now in llrltlsh Columbia. Canada is all tho time discovering fertile districts of limited ex'ent which It calls garden siots. Tr.o Canadian school geographies of twen ty years ago gave that naino to tho Annapolis Valley In Nova Scotia, where the appleH grow. Then western Ontario got Into tho fruit raising game and earned thi unofficial title. It didn't keep It very long, for today I. la tho Okii.ia gan Valley of Hrltlsh Co'umb a that moves the patriotic Canadian Into hyperbole speech. The Okanagan Is a depression !n the mountains, running north nni south for more than 150 miles, it holds a lake of the same name whl h Is eighty miles long and of ah aver age width of three miles. Tho area from this lake to the foothills is fast filling up with orchards. The climate there Is something to wonder at. Fruit trees blosom in March. The mildness and dryness of the air make It possible to ral;;o fruits which could not he raised else where In the same latitude. Of course Phore are apples, as there are almost everywhere else lu Canada, but peaches, apricots, necta rines, grapes and even figs flourish in the southern part of the va'ley. One enthus'astlc writer has spoiiea of Ill s region as the Italy of Canada. The ralnrall Is less than ten Inches a year, so Irrigatlen has to b- re sorted to. The sol Is nnm.iirjly fertile, an orchard earn'.i;; It..; l.ee' In a few seasons. It Is a pro. vr ous community. The names of the tr-wris : prosperous sound. i., :'.... i- merland and a I'eac liland. I;v.;u::i a'dy It !:, a'l Ha- land. The v.-'lley s filling up rap'dly with a lilirh cla-s of seitlers. S r Thomas '..ar.ghn. ssy, res'.t-nt ef tie- iV.a d an I'aeliic K.i.!ro:id, which s'!rl.i the upper end of the Oiiaiia-.an. Ins a place at Sumiuci dan d. The liail of Aberdeen has a ranch at. Vera n. S.'iiiie figures w 11 show how well this district deserves tiie title of ; :r. den i ;n:t. A p -.'dent of I'c.t: lilau 1 sold the crop of peaches on his !he-year-old trees for J.la.l an acre, tho purchaser picking and packing ;hn fruit. A Summer'and man got JSuO for the fruit of 110 peach trees, at the rate of t 1,200 an acre. Still an other Summerland man got $1,9:15 an acre for his strawberry output. Land In the Okanagan costs now up to 11,000 an acre. Imagine that price for a worked out farm In tho Kast! It rosts from $100 to $200 an acre for Irrigation. A man can make a profitable living out of five acres of virgin ground and he doesn't have to wait long for returns. Professional Curds. A Missouri KIkIi Story. "It Is a well known fact that when alarmed fish scuttle Into dark placis beneath the water. A friend of mine told me of an Ingenious plan adopted by an old fisherman on the Blue Klv er to take advantage of this fish cus tom," said A. S. Van Valkenburgh. United States District Attorney. "Tho old fisherman procured a barrel, bored a number of holes In it and weighted the bottom with lead and Iron. To the top were fastened two ropes attached to a windless on a boat. Rowing out to the middle of the Hluo the barrel was mink, testing on the bottom of the bottom of tho river. Then the old fisher Man sent his four sons, two in eno.1 t'irectlon, to .joints fifty yards away, where they entered canoes and com 1'ienced to beat the water with flat J addles, raising a great hubbub. Gradually they worked down to the 1 oat w here the old fisherman was ready to haul out the barrel. As they came close to him he quickly 1. mined the windlass and the barrel tame to the surface. Hy actual count there were tweuty-eight shud, lorty carp, seventy catfish and nine Jack nalmon In tho barrel. The cutch weighed ItiO pounds." Kansas City fclar. Xew Ailxerdslng Stunt, Tile sandwich man who parades iternally up and down, his front and r ar encasing proclaiming in graring i.oter type tho virtues of this and the goodness, of lhat, h;id been eclipsed. Perhaps It was time. No body stopped to read. Everybody i tumbled over him. His successor was observed walking down Nassau tireet tho other evening. lie was more than well dressed On his hands were white gloves. Ho stood on the mrb, waved those white giove l Ik'.ii !n a.; if appealing to an audlei'Oo and n.i.-ed them aloft as If calilns upon 'heaven to wltnes that he was spoak the truth. He gestured frantically as If laying dowa tho law In an em phatic manner. Hut no woid car.io f'om his Hps. Of course the crowd stopped and looked and would have listened. When he hud aitraeieii Milliclent attentioi ho disclosed a huge placard which had been lylns at Mb feet and pointed at the words 'printed thereon In foot hit, I. type. The crowd was caught. It moved ou disgustedly, but It could not help b it read. Tho messape had been deliv ered. New Yo-k Sun. Some of Hie Mar Marks. About us neur as some men our pet to being aristocrats Is to part their hair in the middle and r.er.'l-it lo pay their bills. Howard ( M :. ) Couraitt. Only 3 per cent of the world's pop ulation galus a living directly from the sea. LACKAWANNA RAILROAD. 'THE ROAD OF ANTHRACITE. ' If you contemplate spending the Sum mer months in Florida or California, call upon our local ticket agent for particulars. . . . PRINTING . . . 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