Plotters Perish in Their Own Pit The International Sunday School Lesson For Sep tember 23 Is "Daniel in the Lions' Den." By WILLIAM T. EI J.I S. his is one of the dear old stories, ch children love, and cultivated i and women must know if they to understand countless literary sions. Now is a good time to get event fixed in its setting; espe ly since its scene is now newly a ter of world interest. Great nges have taken place since the lesson. The haughty Nebuchad sar, king of kings, who threw the ?e young Hebrews into the fiery lace, has become insane, his suc iors have had their little day, and throne itself has been overturned, great Babylon has become a vas kingdom. The first step of Dan i interpretation of the image ot uchadnezzar's dream has been ful d. new king rules, a new nation i airs. Cyrus, the Persian, has con red Media, and. at the head of the 10-Pei sian Kmpire. has overthrown ivlon. Cyrus himself reigns at shan. in Persia, and Darius is his •rov in Babylon. With regal pow- Daviurs plans the government, •ing one hundred and twenty sa js (a familiar word to all who e studied Xenophon) over the ter rlal divisions, and three presi ts over these. Daniel, the sage statesman, was one of the presi ts, though now an old man. Au Fxlle nnd Some Monarch* bit of Latin was often in my d as I roamed over the ruins of yria and Babylonia and succeeding >ires; "Sic transit gloria mundl" 0 passes the glory of earth." For SB and even dynasties and empires -% Constipation Makes Baby Uncomfortable When its tender little organs -e bound up with a congestion ' stomach waste in the bowels, aby is a mighty uncomfortable orsel of humanity, and reflects s discomfort in its disposition. Mother will just give it a tiny ise of a mild laxative, such as r. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin, the ingestion will quickly loosen id be expelled, and her child be irmal and happy once more. 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We are going to place a linoleum on the market which has not been equaled for wearing quality. The price per square yard will be 4!)£. VICTOR K0 ■?. Furniture FRIDAY EVENING, were only as strata in the accumu lated layers of dirt ruins. The kings of some of the stele that I saw amid the ruins along the Tigris cculd not be Identified, though they were full of most boastful biographical state ments. The average person does well who can keep in mind the names ot the greater empires and their order, along with the names of the foremost rulers. But there is no difficulty about re membering Daniel. And amid all tills mutation and transformation of the centuries in this Tigris-Euphrates region, the people of Daniel have stood fast, worshiping the one true God. Myriads of them are still to be found in the territory which was; once the .Mtdo-Persian; nnd now they seem to be coming to their own again. For this war may be the final deli\erer of the Jew. History! is more wonderful than prophecy. The vindication of God's word and ot God's people is written large in the records of time. Plotter* ii'ml Their Plan Quite as the Hindus in a govern ment office in India scheme against the Mohammedans, so the Chaldeans under Dariu- plotted against this Jew Daniel, who was set over them all. Hp exi-iied their jealousy; and all men taimliar with "office politics know what Ih's means; and also their fear, for his p: inciples stood as a bar rier against grafting. One honest man In o c rrupt organization can spoil the sclii-mes of the most promi nent and skilfull predatory plotters, if he has the courage of a Daniel. This has frequently been lUustrateu in our own nations' life. Orientals are adopts at subtlety vnd intrigue; and tile plot of the satrips against Daniel was based on their knowledge of the vanity of the king. It was not a hard thing for Dar'us, any mere than for the present empe ror of Japan, to believe himself a eel. He gulped down the alluring bait thrown to him by the courtiers, never inspecting the hook it held. If we did not understand something of hu man na'urp ar.d the grossness of the flattery which men will accept, this part of the story might seem incredi ble. Vet we have the example of the late Roman tmoevors: and. recently, of a European monarch who seems to look upon himself as the important member of a "Me tind Gott" partner ship. Darius readily, and thought lessly, assented to the proposition that 110 god but himself should be worshiped for the space of thirty days, under pertl of the lions. Trapped! Never trap was sprung with greater certainty of catching its quarry. A ; tine compliment was paid to Darlt.3 I v l is enemies, for they kne y that Mrs. Vincent Astor Sees Work of Germans in France as3aa wsww:w> ** KIRS VINCENT ASTOR T>*~&CflUnJfiutt Mrs. Vincent Astor. wife of Ensign Vincent Astor, U. S. Naval Reserve! photographed at French Army headquarters in a wrecked French city. Mr. Astor has been on duty with the American fleet in French and British waters for several weeks. Mrs. Astor left New York on June 25 with Miss Ethel M. B. Harriman, daughter of Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, to join her mother-in-law, Mrs. John Astor. in London, after having taken a course in training to qualify for nursing. Mrs. Astor hopes to become a nurse in the wrfr zone. he would never "crook the pregnant hinges of the knee" to any other God than Jehovah. They also knew that he was too much of a man to dodge saying his prayers ns before. Being "without fear and without lVproach, he could be counted on to be true to his highest allegiance; and this ma neuver of his enemies made that higher fidelity seem like a breach of his worldly loyalty Daniel's char acter. like his heart, was fixed; he wr.s now an old man, and he could be counted upon not to play false to his God All honor to the stalwart men who do "as aforetime" in the face of Satan himself. Christian history has as its brightest pages the record of the Daniels who have stood fast: who liave dared to defy councils, courts, kings and churches, in obedience to their convictions. These are the kingmen. They follow in the train of the great and steadfast Christ vho knew how to die. but did not HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH know how to save his life at the ex l+nf of his honor. The "stonewa'l scrt of man, as faithful at praying as it fighting. is the sort upon whom man and God rely. Even the enemies of rifht know where to find him al ways. Everybody must meet trouble some day. He is a foolish sailor who builds his boat only for fair weather. New troi ble should be prepared for, but not worried about. Daniel was n-'t upset by this plot of his enemies. 11l- went about his work as usual, ai;d prayed with his wiidows open toward Jerusalem, even as he did every a ay. He was not vauntingly ostentatious in the defiance of the king's edict: nor was he eravenly cautious. He simply did as usual. Blessed be noble routine. The king, who was as weak as most vain men, was troubled by the plot against Daniel when ho perceive" it. How he must have cursed his own silly pride and gullibility. He spoke openly to the plotters; but when they rather menacingly intimated that not even the king was above the law. he quailed, and with the waitings of a weakling, surrendered his friend and counsellor, whom he knew to be a true man. standing "foursquare to every wind that blows." Sleepless and worried, the king | tossed on his royal couch that night. | Vain were the allurements of food and music. He had a coward's con science. As for Daniel—well. Mr. Moody, with his homely eloquence, i used to picture him as drawing to > himself the biggest of lions for a pillow and settling down for the un troubled sleep of a little child. It is not the lions about one that mat | ter but the wild lions within one's i own breast. Don't pity Daniel; pity I Darius. The Tables Turned Lions have mostly disappeared from 1 Asia, although one was seen near : Jericho only a few years ago; anfl Shamu told me that he, and a boat load of passengers, had once seen a magniticent male lion standing boldly i on the bank of the Tigris, a short I distance below Ctesiphon. As witti I the Indian princes to-day, a den ot , lions was an adjunct to the king's i court. Into one of these Daniel was thrown, and the door sealed with just | such cylindrical seal as one may pick !up thereabouts to-day. The result should have been swift and horible death. There are many angels ready to do the bidding of Jehovah and one was sent to shut the mouths of the lions. This scene, Daniel in the lions' den. i is a favorite one with the painters; bu' most of them err in painting the beasts with open mouths. They were shut, for God's honor was concerned ! in the salvation of his friend. Dan- I lei's great allegiance deserved great support at the divine hands. "They v. ho trust him wholly find him wholly | true. ' Satan and his legions never yet have been able to circumvent | Jehovah. Early in the morning came hasten j ing the king, in strained, worried tones inquiring if Daniel's God wa,i | able to deliver him. Little did Darius, any more than the world to-day' j know how able is God. But Daniel of old. and all the Daniels since, realized j the might of the Master he served; so, in cheerful tones that contrasted j with those of the king, he answered j with the conventional salutation. ' "So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no manner of hurt was found j upon him. because he trusted in his I God." As for his plotting foes, they fell Into the pit they had digged, as has been the fashion since the beginning of time. They and theirs came to a swift and dreadful end at the open Jaws of the lions which had been closed against Daniel. It never pays to light against God or God's people l it always pays to be loyal. FRANCE WEARS DARK CI.OTHES In a cable dispatch from Paris to the fashion editor of the Woman's Home Companion the writer says: "This season particular attention was given by manufacturers to dark shades; but gay colors were not neg lected, for still the big houses have a large clientile in countries not at war, nor does war prevent gay colors in the south, particularly Monte Carlo. "These thick, rough stuffs call Im peratively for simple lines, but be cause of the great variety of mate rials, diversity in results Is easily gained. Worth, Paquin, Lanvin, Pre met and Callot show partiality to Indian cashmere of heavy surface In! neutral tints, also silk and woolen Jersey cloths trimmed with terra cotta pellusa. "Poiret endorses chic black and white combinations with color, primi tive embroideries and butter-colored Jersey cloth bordered with dark blue. With Poiret, materials count for little compared to his use of them. "Jenny uses heavy decorative stuffs, and produces tailored costumes ot smooth-faced serge combined with plush trimmings. She cleverly han dles long woolen fringes and makes charming dresses of fine crepe spat tered with large embroidered dots "Doucet uses duvetyn in several shades of red and butter-yellow. He likes natural colors in thick woolens. Green and black and yellow and black are favorite combinations in big cheeked sporting stuffs" . , AtjoamcmZ INOI—SSftO UNITED IIAIIUISUI RO, FRIDAY. SKITEMDER 21, IITT FOUNDED tTI Fashion Meets Here Saturday All Departments Ready W Styles that are new —given formal introduction to women who are _ desirous of the best. Able critics with knowledge of fashion pronounce our portrayal of Autumn modes the most interesting as well as the most metropolitan & TSv •> A in Harrisburg. „ . 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