EUJAH CONFRONTS GREAT KING AHAB King Was Just as Covetous as Pampered Palace Occu pants of Today A CRIME AND A PREACHER International Sunday School Lesson For Oct. 3 Is "Elijah in Naboth's Vineyard" (By William T. Ellis.) Any preacher who points out the particular sins of the powerful peo ple of his own community Is pretty likely to be told to "stick to the sim ple Gospel." Yet the "simple Gos pel" has always been a social Gospel, and a Gospel of justice, whether preached by Paul, Peter, Jesus, John the Baptist or the old Hebrew proph ets. To-daVs lesson shows us our old friend Elijah again confronting wicked King Ahab, with Queen Jeze bel in the background making mis chief. This time the incident is one of social justice, when a common man was wronged by the mighty king and had God's doom pro nounced upon him for it. The time liness of the message leads us to re mark that if the preacher of religion will only stick to the Bible he can tind the most pertinent truth for our own times. This Book is a book of God. and so a book of justice and righteousness. There is no shelter behind it for the rich and powerful defrauder of the people. A Woman's Plot arid Crime A few words suffice to tell the story itself. Like the most modern of landowners. King Ahab coveted' an adjoining tield. This belonged to Tvaboth and was his family inheri tance. Bv the law of Moses he was not permitted to let it go out of his family. So he refused to sell, and the peeved king threw himself down on his ivory couch and sulked like a (small boy who has been denied sweetmeats. Jezebel, the heathen wife who I ruined Ahab's career, took matters in her own hand and conspired with officials to arrest and condemn Na both on the charges of treason and sacrilege. Thus, after the most ap proved of modern high-handed meth ods, "big business" wiped out the small competitor who would not sell out, and Ahab got his field. But he never enjoyed it. for along came Eli jah with a clean-cut word as to what the Ultimate Judge had to say about that sort of thing. There is no cure for the ills of the social and commer cial order like the fear of God. An Old Picture of Human Xature This page out of the court life of more than twenty-five centuries ago roads like the secret memoirs of court liTe. It is vivid and revealing. We sec behind the curtain, and find the Great King Ahab just as covetous and just as petty and just as sulky .. as a pampered palace figure to-day. TY Human nature is human nature, and kings and queens of old did not dif fer greatly from men and women in our own land and time. The man sulkilv accepting a decision which he knew to be just, and the woman unscrupulously encompassing the end sought bv her husband through foul means, might be a contemporary por trait. The r.#hts of the case are clear. There is such a thing as the sacred ness of property. That principle holds civilization together. All peo ples and courts have regarded it. Formerly, property rights were deemed superior to human rights. Happily, we see more clearly now; the supreme social struggle of the | past one hundred years has been to i estahlish the supremacy of human rights. Some archaic minds "have not yet learned the relative value of the two. although the Bible teach ing is clear. One danger, in our new social mood, is that we shall despise prop erty rights. These have a sanctity that the demagogue does not often see. One high purpose of govern ment is to protect people in the pos session of their just property rights, ■while at the same time conserving the welfare of the community. When tile Kin? Sulked Elijah and Naboth are the only two creditable figures in this story. Ahab acted like a spoiled boy, and not like a king. He sulked in his palace, and made all about him mis erable by his selfishness. The pic ture of this royal crybaby on an Ivorv couch Is not a pretty one. As for Jezebel, she played the tigress part. A woman without a code will go to even greater lengths than a man. Her plot, in which the grafting offi cials had a part, was the same sort of misuse of the courts of Justice as we sometimes see to-day. The life of Naboth was sworn away in the same fashion as was the life of Je sus. and on the same charges. The covetousness of Ahab, the ruthlessness of Jezebel, the cowardly complicity of custodians of justice, all conspired to create a condition that provoked the wrath of the Most High himself. Frederick the Great and the Miller I well remember the old mill that stands by the palace of Frederick the Great at Potsdam, and the story con nected with it, which Carlyle tells: "Annoyed by this inconvenience to his favorite residence, the king sent to inquire the price for which the mill would be sold by the owner. " 'For no price.' was the reply of the sturdy Prussian; and in a mo ment of anger. * Frederick gave or ders that the mill should be pulled down. " 'The king may do this,' said the miller, quietly folding his arms, 'but there are laws in Prussia"; and forthwith he commenced proceed ings against the monarch, the result of which was that the court sen tenced Frederick to rebuild the mill and to pay besides a large sum of money as compensation for the ln -5 iurv he had done. "The king was mortified, hut had the magnanimity to say, addressing himself to his courtiers, 'I am glad jpouLTßy^nevesi « OM EY SAYSi— DON'T WORRY—Use COXICET'S ROUP REMEDY in the drinking water and I*t the fowls doctor themselves. Con ker's new Poultry Book FREE with a package. Dealers Everywhere. « «\KEV SAYSt— DON'T WORRY—CONKEY'S POULTRY "■"ONIC in the feed each day will soon lotmel the late hatched youngsters into money makers. Good for all your birds. Get a Pail. 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Butthemeas- moßt . ,ltl i llful hand-tailoring and absolute bon f m Wmt ure of ""ice and satisfaction such clothes give f\" U " S " n pa , rt ' Can mU . ,ler heFe - IWf Wll ' he We,rer can beßt be re P rese nted by a plug- e^ 1 ™P® rtant ' of course ' but l uallt >' com " B/ II With our big spot-cash buying and low rent we can assert, PV/ II? positively, and without possibility of successful contradiction, that no matter I e ' you can always come here and do better. II ■ TWO GOOD ILLUSTRATIONS # OF OUR GREATER VALUE GIVING -RFTE HOUSE OF KUPPENHEIMER If sl2 is your limit, you can I At sls we'll show you plenty Sweaters will always be ideal as a general pick from a wide variety of Suits here of the most attractive plaids imagin utility garment. Our new Sweater Department is —all pure wool fabrics tailored on honor. able, some shading to the blue, some to the brimful of good things for men, women and children. There are blue serges, fancy blues and grays brown and some to the olive and greenish hues. Men's Sweaters 5f 00 tci sfl 50 an< * artans * n st y^ es ran gi n g from snappy Also plain English grays and mottled Scotch T patch-pocket models to more conservative cuts. tweeds of surpassing beauty. It will take more Boys' Sweaters SI.OO iO $5.00 Poorer suits are frequently offered at sls and I money to duplicate these values on Market Girls' Sweaters SI.OO to $5.00 * lB elsewher *. Infants' Sweaters $1 $12.00 | $15.00. Make It a Point to See These Kuppenheimer Fall Suits In our unceasing effort to keep style and quality up and prices down, we are ably aided and abetted by the great House of Kuppenheimer, whose modern methods and high ideals place their product in a class by itself—far beyond the reach of competition at anything like the Doutrich prices of S2O, $25 and S3O Men's Pajamas ' Bates Street Shirts One Piece Pajamas in Flan- I flßlf For Men limMlliHlM Itlewfall Patterns,AllSlttve Children's Flannelette Pa- Lengths, 32 l 0 35 lodKS jamas One Piece CAp ** " djl CA With Feet .. . JUC 3 0 4 Market Street Harrisburg Penna. _ * to find that just laws and upright judges exist in my kingdom.' " Enter the Prophet By the wicked plot of Jezebel, Ahab secured the coverted vineyard. But when he entered it. and began to plan the improvements he would make, he was startled by the. stem figure of the Prophet Elijah. Involuntarily there broke from his lips the cry, "Hast thou found me, O mine enemy?" That phrase classified both men, Ahab had lived such a life that every friend of truth and justice and godliness was his enemy. His own conscience condemned him. Al so the words revealed that Elijah was the embodiment of Justice and righteousness. He repregeneted Jeho vah. Nobody expected him to wink at wickedness on the part of his wealthiest parishioners. He did not ihave one gospel for the rich and an other for the poor. Instead, he pro claimed "the whole counsel of God." Truth and God always find the i evil doer. "Be sure your sin will find you out." The Immutable laws of God operate on the side of the op pressed and against evil doers. Ahab might win out by his "pull" with a venal court, but in the long run, he and his wife were condemned to the fate of the outcast and the criminal. God is for Justice. He may seem long In acting, but He asks ulti mately. "God does not always pay on Saturday, but He always pays," says the Italian proverb. "The mills of God grind slowly," but they never cease to grind. PAROLED PRISONER GOES BACK TO PEN Charles Wise, a paroled prisoner from the Eastern Penitentiary wa» ar rested Wednesday night and will be returned to Philadelphia to-morrow. Wise has two years to serve on a larceny charge. Since he has been m Harrisburg, the police, have received numerous complaints about him. On several occasions he flourished a re volver in saloons. Wednesday night he was raising a disturbance in North Seventh street. Memorial Service For Late W. K. Alricks Memorial services for the late Wil liam K. Alricks will be held by his friends at his grave In the Harrisburg Cemetery on Sunday afternoon at 3.30 o'clock, weather permitting. They will be In charge ®f the Rev. James F. Bul litt, rector of St. Andrew's Protestant Episcopal Church, of which Mr. Al ricks had been senior warden for sev eral years at the time of his death on October 3. 1912. Decision to hold such a service was made by St. Andrew's vestry last month. The service will be public and a general invitation has been extended to Mr. Alricks' friends and especially to the members of the Alricks Asso- | CASTORIA ForlnfiiitsandChiMnm. //y> Th« Kird You Have Always Bought "* ciation, the Allison Hill men's club named for him. In case of bad weather the service will be held in St. Andrew's Church, Nineteenth and Market streets, at 3.30. EXAMINING N. G. P. OFFICERS BY MAIL Officers of the Eighth Regiment, N. G. P. are being examined by mall. Questions prepared by United States Army officers have been sent out by Colonel Joseph B. Hutchison and Leieutenant Colonel Maurice E. Finney who are in charge. Each answer sent In must be accompanied by an affi davit certifying that no books or other help were used in completing the answers. All answers must be in by October 15. j 10 CANVAS TREAD TIRE FACTS **y '■ I*ooo ml Ira Kuaraotnl—r«rd Cam <I00« miles. 2. 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