fHE KIND A MAN WANTS. Yes, Jack, I'm married. No, you never met her. She’s not much like the girls in our old set, Not up to their why, she's old -fashioned. She never even smoked a cigarette! smart ways; The girls we ve always known are jolly fellow With manish ways and strong athletic a.ces And pouring tea, you feel they're out of plac My wife does not belong to ‘club’ or ‘“‘congress,’ She's never tried to be a howling swell, She never bet a cent on any races I never heard her give a college "yell, Her voice is sweet, to read aloud of even- ngs, To Es low lullabies or simple ballads. She loves to cook—not fashionable ‘dishes Like lobster what-you-call-it or queer salads; But things biscuit, bread and doughnuts, And Soups and meats, to eat and not for sh She's J ‘a loving wife and good home maker, And that's the kind a man ‘wants, don’t you know. v —Camilla J. Knight, in New York Sun. a man likes, 2 esl el albneio ate xtalenle sSanlislizaenfies lin sfonlialisalisoienl TTT TTT TTT. TTT Ira Had His Good Points. By KENNETT HARRIS. 8 8 8 2 A828 8 88 8 TTT rr IN rE 4p 8 28 8 28 8 338 0 | nt gm a ue aw am me ae 2m EME BM) BeBe BontnalioadenBond TT ESET REY ‘“He’s a right clever old man when: you get to know him,” said the store- keeper, as the sharp-nosed veteran with the peaked cloth cap left tne store. ‘‘Some folks don’t like him an’ gay he’s pretty mean, but there's meau- er than what he is.” “A derned sight werse,” supplement- ed Washington Hancock. ' “There's some that don’t pay their groc’ry bills an’ there's others that haint got one red cent to rub against another. It's s’prisin’ the meanness that there is in this yer world, an’ when you see a shinin’ light like Uncle Jimmie weth $10,000 or: more i nthe bank, cash money, an’ a hull section of the best farm land in the county, it makes you think that all the white, whiskered an- gels ain’t in heaven.” : “I reckon there's suthin’ in that,” re- marked Sol. Baker. ‘Bein’ - tol’able well fixed makes a difference.” “If Uncle Jimmie wasn’t a piller 0’ the Farmers’ National an’ if he done his tradin’ with Seth Bowker mebbe Rufe wouldn’t stick up for him the way he does,” insinuated Marvin Per- ‘“I hain’t sayin’ that a man’s virtues is all hid when he’s pore,” said Han- cock, “but I do say that a feller c’n see his good qualities a right smart plain- er if he’s well fixed. It reminds me of Ire Sibley over in Buchanan, that uster live neighbor to us when I was knee high to a grasshopper. ! “I reckon the Lord never made a man weth beweder laigs than what Ira had. When I met him a-comin’ down the road I c¢’d see the meth’dist church—all “’ceptin’ ~ the ~ &pire—the blacksmith shop and Col. Barker's brick reserdence atwixt Ira’s lalgs all at one clip. Looked like a picksher in one o these yer ovel round frames. You've seen bow-laigged men, but you never seen one like him. If they’d been straightened out he would have been erbout seven foot tall, but as it wuz he wusn’t more'n an inch or two over five foot. Then he had red whis- kers, which wusn’t never combed out, an’ a bald haid an’ both eyes turned in t'ords his nose, ’sif somebuddy had tol’ him there wus a smut on it. He ‘'shorely wus powerful homely. “He wusn’t not only homely, but he was kind o’ dumb. There wus some who allowed that he didn’t have enough sense to run loose, but I reck- on that wus on ercount of him bein’ ‘the only feller in the township to vote the Republican ticket. He done that right erlong. He wus jest contrary, to: my notion. He’d lie wussn’t Sol, there, Swill, an’ there wus some who said he'd steal, an’ he was so plague-taked shif’- ‘less an’ oranery that nobuddy ever “wanted to go anigh him. : : “There was one ol’ widder woman tha’ —~us some kin to the Bigbees an’ worked for ’em. Her name was Trum- ~ble an’ when Ira’s house got too de- sprit cluttered up he’d go to work on it “weth a ‘hoe an’ send for her to put on ‘the finichin’ touches. He paid her for “3%, though he was tco pore to haye ‘her often an’ too nomely to get, him: a wife.” : “You can’t make me believe that, £4 ‘observed ‘Parsons, Sagery. ! “You never seen him,” said Hun cock. “Whether or no, Mis’ Trumble earned all the money she got on them cleanin’ days, an’ bein’ one o’ these yer clikeity wimmen an’ him not hav-' jn’ much to say she started in an’ kep ‘a-goin’ the hull enduring time she wus workin’, callin’ him all the hawgs an’ jawgs she c¢’d lay her tongue to. Then she'd go back to the Bigbees an’ lam- baste him to them. buman c’d have sech a pore erpinyun of another.’ “Well, one time when she wus due to clean up, one o the neighbors drop- ped off a letter for Ira. It seemed like pne of his kin in Arkansaw had died an’ lef him a heap o money. I dis- ‘Yemember how much it wus, but it was consid’able. He studied over it for while an’ then he jammed the letter down in his pocket as Mis’ Trumble come over the rise o’ the hill, an’ went to the well after water. She opened out on his just as soon as she got clost enough for him to hear. ‘I don’t see what brings me a- traipsin’ over,” the says. ‘I'm a fool to do it. If you had a lick o’ decency about you you'd clean up yourself once a week, anyway, but you'd rather smoke an’ guzzle two-thirds of the I’ve heard her many’s the time an’ 1 never knew one: time an’ snore the balance. Of all | the ornery, no-ercount, wuthless,loafin’ ——You know the way a woman talks. | Well, Mis’ Trumble kep’ on thataway | all mornin’ as she was swashin’ the water around an’ thumpin’ the mop. Ira set in the doorway smokin’ an all of & itch to tell whut had happened. Fin’ly as Mis’ Trumble come through gra | to bring him a bucket for more water, Bo her that when they're aressed in . he give her the letter an’ tol’ her to read it. “ ‘For massy’s sakes!” she says when she had spelled it through. ‘Ira Sib- ley, do you mean to say that all that. money’s acoming to you? “‘That’s whut it is,’ said Ira, puffin’. at his pipe an’ tryin’ to look ’s if he: wusn’t a-bustin’ weth imp’tance. ‘I reckon I'll have some friends now,’ he says. “ ‘You always did have friends,’ says Mis’ Trumble. ‘There’s them that do, not knowin’ you, but you've got friends.’ “ ‘I won’t be so ornery an’ shiftless an’ pizen mean now, says Ira. ‘They’ll | find’out that I’ve got my good p’ints.’ “ ‘Ish’d say you had, says Mig’ Trumble. ‘Why, Ira Sibley, whut do you want to miscall yourself that- away for? You've got more good p’ints than the most o’ the men, an’ I’ve allus said so. Ef there's any man that’s got more I'd like to have ’em show him to me.’ “Ira began to swell up still more. ‘I don’t say that-ain’t so,” he says. ‘But you’ watch out an’ see if anybuddy calls me “bowlaigs” after this. I bet you:I won't hear no remarks about my whiskers nor my squint eyes. I would not wonder if they got to think I wus a good-lookin’ feller.” “ ‘Why wouldn't they? says Mis’ Trumble. ‘You ain’t no more bow-laig- ged than some other folks, an’ I allus did like red whiskers. As far as eyes is concerned, I think a cast in a man’s eyes is reel cunnin’. I call you a mighty good-lookin’ man.’ “‘Sho!’ says Ira, smilin’ clear up to his ears. ‘Well, mebbe there's worse- lookin’. Some gal may take a fancy to me yet.’ : “ ‘You don’t need no gal, Ira,’ says Mig’ Trumble. ‘What you want is a stiddy, keerful, experienced, smart wo- man. One that knows your good p’ints an’ is ercustomed to your ways an’ kin cook for you an’ do for you the way a man like you'd orter be cooked an’ done for.’ “That’s what she said to him. It goes to show whut I wus a-sayin’,” “But what came of it?’ asked Bak- er. Hancock regarded him with an ex- pression of supreme contempt, “Well, whut do you s’pose come of it?” he said.—New York Evening Journal. THE NEW MATTERHORN. Future Climbers Can Risk Their Lives on Piece of Beef. In about four years’ time, when you wish to climb the Matterhorn, in- stead of engaging a guide and wait- ing days for fair weather, and then risking your neck in a breathless, glorious scramble over the glaciers and cliffs, you will simply press a button and shout, “Going up!” The railway to the top of the mountain, which is to be completed at a cost of $1,250,000, will be the most interesting of the world’s great elevators, and will car- ry the ‘rocking-chair climber” to those grand viewpoints which defied all mountaineers until the memora- ble ascent in 1845 by Mr. Whymper, Lord Douglas and their companions, which ended tragically. The road will pierce its way upward through tun- nels in the living rock to a point with- in sixty feet of the summit, at an al- titude of 14,780 feet, where a number of rooms will be cut. The announce- ment is made that the terminus will be provided with various novel con- trivances, not the least of which will be a special. chamber filled with com- pressed oxygen for tourists suffering from mountain sickness. It is need- less io say that the true mountain climbers, whose pride and joy it is to conquer the mighty Alpine snow peaks look upon the prospective intrusion of the railroad and hordes of ‘“trippers” with ill-disguised grief. It was bad enough, say they, to have Jungfrau desecrated, but the -Matterhorn, that superb peak, pronounced by Ruskin to be the perfect mountain, should have been left alone. On the other hand, thousands of people for whom the climb would be a physical im- possibility, are fully capable of ap- preciating the glories of the outlook and the uplift that comes from stand- ing on so renowned a summit. No one has an exclusive property in such a peak as the Matterhorn.—Boston Transcript. = ‘ Lesson in Accuracy. Register of Deeds, Charles C. Maas a candidate for re-election, is taking in all sorts of religious and civic cele- ‘brations and ceremonies these days, and on Sunday afternoon he started out to witness the laying of a corner- stone of the new Jewish Temple be- ing erected by the congregation An- she Stand at No. 452 Sixth street. Mr. Maas had been in the Ghetto district before, but he had some diffi- culty in finding the place where the proached a bright looking little Jew- ish girl, perhaps ten years of age, and said: “Little girl, can you tell me where they're laying the cornerstone of the new temple?” “No, I can’t tell you where they're laying the cornerstone,” replied the youngster, “but it's in the middle of the next block on the other side of the street that they're building the doesn’t erpreshate you as well as 1l corner-stone was to be laid, so he ap-| J ‘been "esteemed exactly PEARLS OF THOUGHT. Physician, heal thyself.—Latin. Never has an ill workman good tools.—German. A man is as old as he is pleased to he told he looks young..—Puck If you want to get a sure’ crop and a big yield, sow wild oats.—Josh Bill- ings. A man who dares waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.—Darwin. A girl can feel sure a man is de- voted to her unless he happens to be. —New York Press. An honest confession is good for |, the soul, even when made in strictest | | confidence with oneself.—Puck. 7 / | Hate furrows the brow.—German. Truth is violated by falsehood, and it may be equally outr aged by silence. —Ammian. When a man’s birthday comes round he takes a day off. A woman, on hers, will frequently take off several years. —New York American. There is only one place where a man may be nobly thoughtless—his death- bed. No thinking should ever be leit to be done there.—John Ruskin. It is often considered good to be smart, but we can’t recall that it has smart to be good.—Nashville American. Those who say they will forgive, but can’t forget an injury, simply bury the hatchet, while they leave the han- dle out, ready for immediate use.— Dwight 1. Moody. WHERE RICH MEN ARE FEW. They Are as Scarce in Bulgaria as Black Swans, Bulgaria is the nearest approach to a peasant commonwealth which the world has ‘known in modern times. There is‘not a Bulgarian Slav who is not the owner of a plot of land upon which he lives and out of which he gets his own livelihood by his own labor. Large landowners are’ almost un- known, says the London Illustrated News. The few mén of ‘wealth in the country are mostly of foreign birth or descent; and even they would not be counted as wealthy according to the standard of other European countries. The small landowners, who form the vast majority of the population, are peasant born and peasant bred. They are extremely thrifty. They are con- tent with very plain food; they wear the same sheepskin garments from year to year, only turning their coats inside out with the changes of the season. / Whole familiees, even of well to do peasants, sleep in the same room upon mats stretched out on the floor. They live under conditions of dirt and dis- comfort which no British or German or French laborer would tolerate for a week.. Yet notwithstanding their rangements they grow up singularly strong and healthy. ’ Moreover, they are free from the ir- ritation caused among other laborers, overworked if not underpaid, by the spectacle of neighbors living in afiu- ence and ease without any necessity to curtail their expenditure. Rich' men are black swans in Bulgaria. I was told by a foreign banker in Sofia who had traded for many years in the country that he doubted greatly wheth- er there were fifty men in the rural districts who had net incomes of £1000 a year. Can Only Go Three Feet Deep. I know an institution with wide, rolling fields all about it. There are exceptional privileges here. A brook sparkles and splashes its way through the ‘wood, and every summer after- noon at the ringing of a bell the boys are marched down there for a swim. A placid-faced lady to whose care they are entrusted selects the locality, and they may not go one bush beyond. “They dassn’t go in only three feet deep!” pityingly explained the far- mer’s boy, who was telling me. “Us fellows swims nine feet deep!” and he trudged off down the road whistling joyously between bites of a green ap- ple. There was a lilting note to the tune and an energetic swing to the shoulders. It takes green apples and swimming-holes nine feet deep to make the best men. They know how to breast the deep places in¢life. Over against this picture I could see hun- dreds of boys marching in regzular step, who all through the world are going to be limited to O'places three feet deep. But an institution must have its boundaries—if it is bringing up boys by wholesale.—Mabel Potter Daggett in the Delineator. Useless. A young enthusiastic revivalist had been ¢xhorting a congregation ‘in a small Western town for over two hours without perceptible effect. He was somewhat discouraged until a rough old miner interrupted him with: “Say, brother, I'd like to ask a ques- tion.” The young revivalist beamed. “Thank you, my man, for your inter- est,” he replied. “I shall be more than Your desire for enlightenment is .a good sign, which I am very, very glad to see. Now what is it you want to know?” «gin I smoke?” asked the miner.— Life. The Road to Success. “Yes,” said Mr.. Dustin Stax, “I have succeeded in life, and by the hardest kind of work.” “You don’t look as if you had much personal experience with hard work?” «Of course not. I hired it done.”— Washington Star. synagogue.”’—Milwaukee Free Press 1 .of incendiary disregard of the simplest sanitary ar- | glad to set you right on any question. INCENDIARY FIRE Meyersdale Experiences Costly Blaze, Destroying M uch Property. Meyersdale.—Fire, supposed to be origin, destroyed two machine shops in this city, entailing a Toss ‘of ‘ovel $17, 000. ® iThe two shops were close together, pone being owned by Jacob Bittner and the other by the T. W. Gurley Manufacturing Company. Both had been in operation until 5 p. m. Satur- day. As there was no fire in the building when they closed down for the day, it is believed they were set on fire. The fact that Meyersdale has had a number of mysterious fires the past three months gives consid- erable weight to the incendiary theo- ry. - bis The fire started in the Gurley shop and was well under way when discov- ered at 1:45 a. m., Sunday. The firemen devoted their efforts to save the adjoining buildings, in which they were successful. The shops were located almost in the center of the city and only the stillness of the air prevented a very disastrous con- flagration. Two automobiles valued at $2,500, were destroyed in the Gurley shop, and two of almost the same value were lost in the Bittner shop. The loss at the Gurley plant is es- ‘timated to be $10,000 and $7,000 at the Bittner shop. EEATEN AND ROBBED Says Assailants Killed Brother and Secreted Body, of Which No Trace Is Found. Monongahela.—Half conscious and bleeding from deep gashes in his head and body, Mike. Radusha, found in the yards of the. Tempest brick works near Webster, told of a hold- up and robbery in which his brother, he claims, was beaten to death and the body secreted. Physicians say Mike cannot live. According to the injured man’s story, his brother, Tony, who lives in West Newton, visited Mike at Dono- ra. Mike started to walk home with the brother late at night and when the two reached Webster, two white men and a negro attacked them. From Ye $27 was taken and from Tony Mike says the negro held Tony on the ground while the two white men beat their victim to death. Mike was then beaten into: insensibility, of the alleged holdup. A posse searched for the supposed of it was found. Radusha was taken to the home of | his sister in Pittsburg. Death Roll for 1908. Greensburg.—The railroads of West- moreland county exacted a heavy toll during 1908, 66 persons having been killed . on the tracks. Coroner | Charles ‘A. Wynn, in his annual re- port gives the total number of cases | of death investigated at 419. Mines were responsible for 89 . deaths. There were 18 murders and 29 sui- cides. Of the 66 killed on the rail- roads 50 were trespassers. Man Assulted by Trespasser. resident of ley © McClure, an aged | West Liberty, 18 miles east of here, Is in a critical condition at his home. [t is said he was assaulted by a latter was warned not to trespass on McClure's property. It was alleged the oll man was first felled with stones, then struck in the face with an iron bar. Caught With the Goods. Altoona.—C:ptain George Clymer, drinking beer from a keg, said to have been stolen from one of the rail- road’s cars. All were arrested. For several wekks kegs of beer have been stolen nightly from cars on the Cres- son & Clearfield branch. Want a Clean Town. - Washington.—Following the recent evangelical campaign in Washington 2 committee of 100 has been appoint- ed to carry the fight for a clean town into the spring primaries and election. clared the churches ought not to stop until Christian citizenship is intrench- ed in the borough government. Kills 1,121 Rats. rodents were slaughtered. was captained by Claude Scott, and the other by Willian. Ewart. Ewart and his men won with 757. An oys- | ter supper was served by the losing side. Glass Concern in Difficulties. in’ South Greensburg has been seized by the sheriff at the suit of the Lar- Kin Company of Pittsburg. The con- | cern operating the factory was or- ganized two years ago and suffered a severe loss by fire last winter. Attorney D. T. Harvey Dead. many the Westmoreland county ty, died, aged 68 years. He is sur- a sister, Mrs. Blairsville. Margaret Hooker High School Burned. Butler.—Fire, supposed to started from a defe stroyed the high sc Hooker, causing a loss of $10,000. He was found a mile from the scene ! dead man’s body all day, but no trace |r New Castle.—Terribly beaten, Wes- | young man of that locality when the | of the Pennsylvania railroad police, | surprised a party of men and women | Judge J. A. Mcllvaine, chairman, de- | In a competitive rat hunt of one week at Rutan, Greene county, 1,121 | One side ! Greensburg.—The Stahl glass works | Greensburg.—David T. Harvey, for vears a prominent member of | g vived by his widow and daughter and | Hozack of have ive furnace, de- | aq hool building at | PENNSYLVANIA Interesting Items from All Sections'of the Keystone State." VILLAGE ALMOST OBLITERATED Millheim Experiences a Fire That Destroys Greater Part of Bus- iness Section. Bellefonte.—A fire that burned for more than six hours and threatened to destroy the entire town, caused a loss of. $75,000 at Millheim, near here. The flames, which are supposed to have been started by the dropping of a lighted match in the stables of the Musser Hotel, destroyel the hotel, the stores of N. Auman, A. A. Franks, and the store and dwelling of D. Neil- man and the barn of Dr. Gutelis. The fire department from this city was summoned to save the town from destruction. BLACKMAIL REFUSED Scranton Fruit Merchant Found Dead With Stiletto Thrust in Body. Scranton.—Horribly stabbed and slashed, Anthony Ricciardi, a pros- perous Italian fruit dealer and con- fectioner, was found murdered in his store in West Scranton. There were 20 stab wounds in the body and long | slashes were on his left side and arm. The stiletto with which he was killed was left sticking in his body by the murderer. _ Ricciardi had been {lireazened at times with “Black Hand” demands for money and his killing is believed to have been due tu nis refusal to meet these demands. Giant Veteran Object of Charity. Washington.—Pat Bane, the tallest man in the Union army during the Civil War, and one of the most fa- miliar characters of Western Penn- sylvania, was at his own request ad- mitted to the Washington county home. Bane, who is six feet nine inches tall, is a veteran of the famous Ringgold battalion, of which he was color bearer. He fought through many hard engagements, but in spite of his conspicuous height, was never wounded. He recently came here from his Greene county home. All his immediate relatives are dead. Motor Car Victims. Philadelphia.—Edward R. Snader, a well-known physician. of this city, was crushed to death and a colored | chauffeur was fatally hurt when an ; automobile in which they were riding | rolled down an embankment in Fair- | mount park. The car was running lat a fair rate of speed when it left |the road and went over the embank- | sn Dr. Snader was dead when scuers reached the car, and the col- | ad driver was uncenscious. The | latte is in a hospital. Dead Body of Missing Man Found. Connellsville. — The mystery of | Frank Platt’s disappearance was clcared when his dead body was | found in a field on the farm of Philip | Wilkey, near Morrell. He was 45 | years old and for five years had been overseer of the S. J. Harry place near | Morrell. Platt was last seen alive | last Sunday night. It is supposed lin trying to get over a fence he fell, sustaining injuries, and then froze to i death. { Fine Country Home Burned. Conneillsville.—Mr. and Mrs. Wade H. Marietta returned from Pittsburg at night to find their home, “Grand- {view farm,” in ashes. The fire, | which started late in the afternoon, is supposed to have been caused by a ,ccal stove in a “den” in the second | story. Linemen from a passing | West Penn work car saved a piano rand some valuable glassware. Every- thing else was destroyed, except a Christmas tree and its trimmings, . which were carried out by boys. New Kensington Bank Reopens. New Kensington.—The First Na- tional bank of New Kensington, which | was closed in December, resumed bus- | iness. The $250,000 in cash placed in the vaults January 7 to guard against a possible run was not re- quired. Business at once reflected the reopening of the bank, and mer- chants report marked revival in gales. To Build $100,000 Church. Butler—8i. Paul’s Cathedral con- | gregation purchased the Charles Duf- fy property adjoining the church for $40,000 and decided to erect a $100, 000 building. The congregation re- ceived $85,000 by the will of the late | Mrs. Nancy Evans to be used for | building purposes. Rice for Supreme Bench. Wilkes-Barre.—The Luzerne Coun- ty Bar Association met here and in- | dorsed Chief Justice Charles E. Rice, | of the superior court of Pennsylvania, | i | { i i for the vacancy on the supreme bench |. retirement of |’ |to be caused by the | Justice Mitchell, one year hence. 1 — Killed by Stray Shot. | Johnstown. — George Shallis, 29 | years old, was descending a flight of | stairs on the outside of a boarding | house at South Fork late at night | when a bullet struck him in the abdo- | men. He died two hours later. Who | fired the shot is not known. Want Monument to Morris. New Castle.—Resolutions urging the State to erect a monument to . the bar and a | memory - i former district attorney of this coun- | y of Robert Morris, the Revolu- tionary patriot, were | mass meeting of adopted at a Welsh residents. John H. Thomas, pastor of the First | Congregational church, presided. Five-Barrel Well Brought In. | Washington.—The Dinsmore No. 1, owned by the Keesey Oil Company, brought in in the West Middle- | town fie and will make a five-barrel | produ 1 clares EPWORIH LeAsUt LESSUNG SUNDAY, Y, JANUARY 17. How We Know the Father—Matt. 11% 27; John 6: 3846; 14: 8- 11; 17: 4, 5. Matt. 11. 27. Jesus here de- himself to be indis- pensable to the soul who wishes to know God. = He tells us that knowl- edge of himself is the necessary pre- lude to knowledge of God. He first as- serts his own dependence upon God; that the Father is source and authori- ty for all things in his life. Because of this intimate relation with God and the knowledge which comes from it. Le claims a unique position of power toward other men. He not only has control by ‘divine authority over all things, but from his divine-human na- ture he is able to reveal God as Fath- er to men; and he is the only ofié who can do so. Many parallel pas- sages repedt the substance of the verse. ’ Natural men may have some rudi- mentary ideas of a supreme power, but in their unaided mental and spirit- val weakness they are unable to grasp the final ideal of God as “the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort.” Christ alone has power to reveal to men the nature and at- tributes of such a God. John 6. 3846. Here we have in larger statements the mean- ing of our first reference. Christ came from heaven with a pre- arranged purpose—to do’ the will ot God. The Father's will Is that every- one. should see the Son, believe on him, and have everlasting life, being raised up at the last day. Christ is the scle agent whereby that plan shalk be worked out. John 14. 8-11. These familiar words embody the beautiful fact. that God is like Christ at work. Christ of the healing hands. and gentle speech, of the tender heart and quick sympathy, is the best pro- trait of God the Father that the world has ever seen. We must say it rever- ently, “God was made flesh and dwelt among us.” If we want to know what God “is, we must study the life of Christ. This is in anticipation of the “It 1s finished” on the cross. Like Saint Paul Christ had fought the good fight and looked away to the victor’s crown. The work which Christ had finished! is described in the preceding verses as given ‘eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. And this is life eternal that they might know thee the only true God.” The business of Christ in the world, then, was to giver men the’ vision of God. CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR NOTES JANUARY SEVENTEENTH. Topic—Pilgrim’s Progress Series. I. Leaving the City of Destruc- tion—Acts 16: 25-34. The burden of sin. Ex. 5: 4-9. The awakening of conscience. Acts: 2: 37-42. The flight of danger. Gen. 19: 15- 22. Grace vpens a way. Matt. 11: 28- 0. : What a pilgrim gives us. Phil. 3: 4-11. ‘What a pilgrim has in view. 1 Pet. 1: 3-9. An earthguake or any other calam- ity, should be welcome if it takes us out. of the City .of Destruction (v. 26.) It is well to tremble, and shows courage, if we only tremble for the right cause (v. 29.) ‘What shall'I do to be saved? Noth- ing. Let Christ do it (v. 30.) What is the most important word of our lesson? This “straightway’” (v. 33.) About “Pilgrim’s Pregress.” We are to enjoy this year twelve lessons based uvon Bunvan’s “Pil grim’s Progress.” It is, next to the Bible, book. It is the most Biblical of books out- side the Bible, and is indeed a pic torial coramentary on the Bible. We shall need our Bibles at every step. Every Endeavorer should own a copy of “Pilgrim's Progress,” and read the entire book. Do not confine each lesson to the one topic suggested, but read the in tervening portions and speak of hem in the mesting. It is one of the most practical of books, and all parts of it are to be ap- plied to modern life. Suggestions. Every worldling is clothed in rags and bears a heavy burden. When he begins to realize it he begins to be a Christian. Evangelist has only ‘Yo point to the light; he is not obliged to furnish it. Every man must seek salvation for himself and by himsélf.. Thus Chris- tian runs away from his wife and children when they would hindex him. CLEANING SPOTS. The trouble with most cleaning fluids is that they leave a ring around the spot. This is often worse than the spot itself. Everyone does not know that chlor- oform is one of the best of the sim- ple cleaning remedies for the reason that it is less apt to leave a mark. Benzine always does; so does gaso- lene. There is a way, however, to keep the ring from appearing. A rim of French chalk should be put exact- ly around the spot, close to it. Under this should be put a piece of blot- ting paper. When the cleaning fluid is used it will soak into the French chalk instead of running into the fabric, and the chalk is easily remov- ed One should also be careful not to continue rubbing a spot with a piece of soiled cloth. This alone makes success impossible. As soon as the cloth absorbs any of the dirt or grease it should be changed.— Philadelphia Ledger. the world’s greatest religious . Instruc Miss Mar QOollege, Ww] sixth trip « schools foi that the va German en governmen which give housekeepi The stan vanced, a v ‘and they the underd girl, havin dinner coo! they go ho ing is not blame the are general of college er, for News. 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