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,
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‘“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-|
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‘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
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Five-Barrel Well Brought In.
| Washington.—The Dinsmore No. 1,
owned by the Keesey Oil Company,
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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.—
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