SUGGESTIVE QUESTIONS
On the Sunday 8chool Lesson by
Rev. Dr. Llnecott For tho In
ternational Newspaper Bible
Study Club.
Cop7right, 1908, by Bev. T. S. Liiucott. D.D.)
THE PRIZES.
First Series A gold medal to each
f the first five contestants.
Second 8erles A silver medal to
each of the next five contestants.
Third 8erles A Teacher's Bible,
price $5.50, to each of the next five
contestants.
Fourth Series The book "The Heart
of Christianity," price $1.50, to each of
the next thirty-five contestants.
Fifth Series A developed' mind, an
expanded Imagination, a richer exper
ience and a more profound knowledge
of the Bible and of life, to all who take
this course whether winning any other
prize or not.
Each medal will be suitably engrav
ed, giving the name of the winner, and
for what It Is awarded, and In like
manner each Bible and book will be
Inscribed.
All who can write, and have Ideas,
ere urged to take up these studies re
gardless of the degree of their educa
tion, as the papers are not valued from
an educational or literary standpoint,
but from the point of view of the cog
ency of their reaboned ideas.
April 25th, 1909.
(Copyright, 1908, by Rev. T. S. Linscott, D.D.)
The Gospel In Antloch Acts xl:19
30; x!I:25.
Golden Text The disciples were
called Christians first In Antloch.
Acts xl:2C.
Verses 19-20 Who were (hey that
were "scattered abroad?"
Had these men any authority from
the church to preach? (See Acta
vlll::4.)
Is It the duty of every Christian to
preach Christ, whether or not he has
been appointed by the Church to do
so?
Is it possible to enjoy the fullness
ot God's love, and never say a word
about It?
Are good people liable to be narrow
In their views?
Are persecutions and all sorts of
trouble, always helpful to the children
of God?
Some ot these disciples seem to
have been narrow, and preached to
Jews only; others being broader,
preached to the Greeks also, what
made the difference In these men?
Which Is the greater power to
broaden our views, and make us love
everybody; our environment, or sink
ing deeper and rising higher in the
love of God?
Verse 21 Whether a man is narrow
or broad, if he only preaches Jesus,
will God use him to extend his king
dom? Are any efforts to extend the king
dom of God ever in vain?
Verse 22 Did the news that Antl
och had received the word of God give
the church at Jerusalem joy or sor
row? What news Is the most joyous
either to an Individual Christian, or to
a Church?
What was the purpose of sending
Barnabas?
Verses 23-24 What sort of a man
was Barnabas?
Is It necessary, or not, to be filled
with the Holy Ghost, in order to make
converts, or to comfort the children
of God, and are these results always
attained In the ministry of a man
filled with the Holy Ghost? (This
question must be answered In writing
by members of the Club.)
Do we exhort one another as much
aa we should, to "cleave unto the
Lord?"
Are half-hearted people well pleas
ing to God?
Verses 25-26 Why did Barnabas
start off to Tarsus to seek Saul?
Does It frequently happen that two
holy men can do much more together,
than they could do working apart?
Where were the disciples of Jesus
first called Christians?
What had Christ's followers been
called previous to being called Chris
tians? Verses 27-28 Is the gift of pro
phecy, that is telling future events,
given to any person today?
Verses 29-30 Should the church of
Christ today be a practical brother
hood, coring for one another, and
helping each Other financially, and In
every other way, as the neod may be?
Should not the church be doing for
its members the work now being done
by fraternal societies?
Chapter xll:26 Barnabas and Saul
took tho contributions from Antloch
up to Jerusalem to relieve the need
there, and then returned; was it Just
as noble work aa If thoy had been up
there preaching?
Lessons for Sunday, May 2nd, 1909.
Paul's First Missionary Journey.
Cyprus. Acts xltl:l-12.
His Chance to Get Even.
A lawyer came Into court drunk,
when the Judge said to him, "Sir, I am
sorry to see yon In a situation which
is n disgrace to yourself and family
and the profession to which you be
long." This reproof elicited tho following
colloquy:
"Did your honor speak to me?"
"I did, sir. I said, sir, that In my
opinion you disgraced yourself and
family, the court and the profession by
your course of conduct"
"May 1-1-lt please your honor, I have
been an attorney ln-In-ln this c-c-ourt
for fifteen years, and permit mo to say,
your honor, that this Is tho first cor
rect onlnlon I ever knew you to give."
Itehoboth Sunday Herald.
His Sermon on Women.
An English preacher in the seven
teenth century, speaking to the text,
"To bo or not to be," said that woman
should be like and unlike three things.
She should be llko a snail, always
keep within her own house, but not
like a snail, to carry all she had on
her back. She should be like an echo,
to speak when she was spoken to, but
not like an echo, always to have the
last word. She should be like a town
clock, nlways keep time and regular
ity, but not like a town clock, to speak
so loud that all the town might hear
her. Minneapolis Journal.
Was She an Exception?
She went Into a Fifth avenue hair
dresser's shop to have her head sham
pooed. She wore her hair in a Psyche
knot. The shampooer seemed to be a
trifle rough, and finally her tugs at tho
Psyche knot became so forceful that
tho woman in the chair cried out in
pain. "What are you trying to do
pull my head off?" she exclaimed. "I
am trying to get your Psyche knot
off," replied the shampooer, "but it
won't come. How did you ever get it
pinned on so firmly?" The customer
almost shrieked: "Come off! Why, it's
my own hair!" New York Tribune.
Origin of Language.
Language is the vehicle of thought
and Is not necessarily vocal. It Is safo
to say that the sign or gesture lan
guage preceded the oral or real lan
guage and that It was a long time be
fore the latter form of communicating
Ideas became anything like universal.
There are still tribes that have only
the gesture language, supplemented by
tho merest jargon of words. Beyond a
doubt the race began Its career dumb,
just as the babe does, and acquired its
vocabulary very slowly and painfully.
New York American.
Anthem Titles.
A. certain Edinburgh organist, who
"posts up" his Sunday service lists at
the church door, had recently a very
practical Illustration of the risks that
may attend the shortening of anthem
titles. The late Dr. E. J. Hopkins of
tho City temple wrote an anthem, "I
Will Wash My Hands In Innocency."
The organist In his haste no doubt
set this down aa "I Will Wash Hop
kins," and was surprised when next
day some wag sent him a cake of soap
"to help wash Hopkins!" Glasgow
News.
Lincoln's Diplomacy.
Callers at the White House In the
interest of Jobs for their friends were
very frequent in the strenuous days of
Lincoln's presidency. At one time u
party called on Lincoln and requested
a position for a friend on tho ground
that his health would be benefited by
his being consul at a certain place.
The Interview was cut short, how
ever, by these words of Lincoln:
"Gentlemen, I am very sorry to say
that there are ten other applicants for
this position of consul. I nm still more
sorry to say that all of these appli
cants are sicker than your client"
Settled.
O'er rat and thin women let's scrap less
And over their troubles let's quip less
The one is hlpplly huplesa.
The other Is happily hlplew.
"BOB" HAMILTON &
YOU ARE A QOOSBI
When, you go ripping round the house,
A-swearlng- at your wife
And making all tho family live
A miserable life,
If you think It very manly
To turn your passions loose,
I wish to say It Isn't true.
You're a big silly goose.
Tbey ought to take you to the barn
And tie you to the mule
And let him kick your measly hide
Until your passions cool.
I think when he had kicked you good.
Until your teeth got loose.
You'd cry: "Oh, what a fool I ami
I am an awful goose!"
When you get full of nasty booze
And roll around the street
And show oft what a beast you are
To every one you meet,
When you go to your ruined home
And turn your vlleness loose,
I must remark, I put It light
To say you are a goose.
They ought to take you to the sty
And throw you to the pigs.
I rather think those shotes would shy
When you danced drunken jigs.
I think some big fat hog would cry:
"Now, you get out of here!
We're decent hogs In this pigsty.
We never guzzle beer!"
C. M. B.
GOOSE GOOSIP.
You don't like goose? Then you're
not classical nt all, for Homer sings
Its praise, Herodotus tells us that the
ancient priests loved the dnlnty dish,
and the Roman emperors doted on fat
goose livers smothered with gurllc,
while nt the coronation of Henry VIII.
the royal bird was a fat gander stuffed
with onions. Better learn to eat goose,
for it is gradually tnklng the turkey's
place on the farm and will soon bo
come tho national bird. No, Uncle
Sam did not breed the first gander
even If he has turned out some pecul
iar specimens of the human goose.
England, on whose geese the sun
never sets, claims the Adamite ances
tor of the goose tribe is her ancient
wild Gray Lag, and from this early
ancestry came alf rubberneck honkers.
The most popular are the Toulouse
Or gray goose, from Toulouse, France;
the white Embden from Germany, tho
Brown African, the Gray and White
Chinese and the Canadian or semi
wild. The African and Chinese wear knobs
on their heads and seem of the same
variety, the African being tho larger.
The Embden Is declared to be the
offspring of a cross between the beau
tiful wild white swan and the gray
goose.
Tho Canadian Is said to be a cross
of wild goose and wild duck, which
when crisscrossed with the African
makes most delicious wild mallard or
canvasback duck at bon ton prices.
The most useful are Toulouse, African
and Embden.
Toulouse and African lay from forty
to sixty eggs per season; ganders
weigh twenty pounds and geese eight
een. The Embden lays from twenty
to forty eggs; ganders weigh eighteen
pounds nnd geeso sixteen.
The Embden by reason of its white
plumage, finer flesh, hardiness, early
maturity, gentleness, quantity and
quality of feathers, lesser weight, set
ting qualities nnd absence of keel and
abdominal fat folds is king of goose
dom. Russia, with twenty-eight varieties
of geese, lends the gooso procession.
Germany, China and England wnddlo
after. Your TJnclo Samuel Is hustlln'
to "ketch" up nnd bids fair to beat
them all. "So mote It be."
DON'TS.
Don't "be weary In well doing," but
don't do others.
Don't make a customer wait long be
fore you deliver his order.
Don't be unreasonable In your prices
nor He in your advices.
Don't forget that ducks are nervous,
A fright makes them light.
Don't pour fresh water In with the
stale and call it all fxesh.
Don't judge all poulrrymen by the
swindler who did you nor bo In a rush
to go and sue.
Don't make your wife shell corn by
hand when a corn shelter costs but $1.
Don't complain about stale, dusty,
high priced feed when $5 will furnish
a gristmill.
Don't grind charcoal and make ev
erything black when It's nicer and
cheaper to buy by tho sack.
Don't get mnd at the rats If you
keep no cats.
Don't growl. Let that to tho bull
dog. Don't kick. Let that to the mule.
Be not a tool nor a fool.
Don't expect a better rooster for
your money than you would sell at the
same price.
Don't knock If you're sold a cull if
you sell culls. Cull roosters always
rome home to roost.
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10 CENT
Don't let those ducklings monkey
round the beehives. A busy boo sting
er is a rubberneck wringer.
Don't let children tease tho gander.
Ho will become ugly and injure them.
Don't grind up corn on the cob when
It Is dry. Too hard to digest for the
little that's In it.
Don't think a bone cutter is a lux
ury. Ground bone is cheaper than
wheat and brings more eggs.
Don't depend on egg tonic to bring
the eggs. It's often the cause of egg
bound.
Don't lie too sentimental to kill a
fat hen occasionally for dinner. Chick
ens are to be useful as well as orna
mental. Don't let the chickens go to the
"eternal bowwows" after the breeding
season is over. Remember the future.
Don't allow your chickens to make
the dirt fly In your neighbor's garden.
That's neither fair nor square.
Don't turn the hogs Into the field
Where the turkey hen is hatching. A
hog likes turkey eggnog.
Burns' Favorite Word.
A contributor has had the curiosity
to look up Mr. J. B. ueld's "Burns
Concordance" and measure the umount
of space devoted to certain words. In
the result he found that Burns uses
tho word "heart" more than nny other,
the quotations under this word filling
no fewer than six of the closely print
ed columns. "Lass." "friend" and
"heaven" como next each having
about two columns. Glasgow News.
Modern Complications.
It is pretty hard for a girl to tell
whether it is better to be so polite as
to pretend that she is not shocked
when she is or so refined as to pre
tend she is shocked when she isn't.
There is also the complicated case
of the man who won't work at all un
less he is praised for it and when ho
Is praised for it becomes too chesty to
work. Exchange.
Saving His Strength.
Mr. Bunker I've walked at least
twenty miles playing golf and Mrs.
Bunker (breaking in) I don't doubt it,
nnd yet you made nu awful fuss this
morning when I asked you to step
down cellar and bring up a pall of
coal for me. Mr. Bunker Well, did
you imagine I was anxious to tiro my
self out carrying coal when I knew I
had that long walk ahead of me? New
York Herald.
'I tie Ola Time Jury.
Grievances of present day Jurymen
are mild compared with those Inflicted
on them in the past Until tho passing
of an act of parliament in 1870 British
jurymen were prohibited from having
meat, drink or fire (candlelight only
excepted) while considering their ver
dict. In some ancient courts they were
even subjected to physical violence.
They were told to "lay their heads to
gether" as an indispensable prelimi
nary to finding a verdict. No sooner
did the Jury dive beneath the level of
their boxes than an usher, armed with
a willow wand, took up a position near
them. If any juryman presumed to
come to the surface before tho verdict
was arrived at, down came the wand
on the head of the offender.
A Diplomatic Postponement.
"I thought you were going to be
married this month," said the tall girl.
"I had expected to bo," said the blue
eyed girl, "but I have put it off three
months because my birthday comes
this month, and if I get married then
my wedding anniversary and birthday
will come right together in future
years and I'll get only half as many
presents, because everybody will make
one present do for both occasions."
The Next Best Thing.
"My heavens, Willie! Where did you
get that black eye?"
"Johnny Smith hit me with his fist."
"And I hope you remembered what
your Sunday school teacher said about
heaping coals of fire on the heads of
our enemies?"
"WelL I didn't have any coal, so I
just stuck his head in the ash barrel."
"Aw, it seems to me, Miss Brown,"
said a "golden youth" to a pretty young
lady, "I have fawgotten something
aw, let me see!"
She suggested gloves as the absent
article.
"Oh, no! Now I wemombah. Ah will
you mawwy me?" London Tit-Bits.
"Did ho say ho knew me when I was
a girl?"
"No; he said he knew you when he
was a boy." Sydney Bulletin.
CIGAR.
To Improve the Mouth.
All of us cannot hare good looking
months, but we could make more of
what nature gaTO ua than wo do.
The expression of the mouth can bo
utterly changed by mannerisms which
If taken In time can. be easily over
come.
Mothers can play an Important port
in mouth formation. Children should
not be allowed to form habits that
ruin tbe contour of tho Hps.
The childish trick of holding the Hps
apart causes them to sag loosely and
In time gives a vacant look to the face.
Often this habit is formed through
Imperfect' breathing, nnd it can be
caused by adenoids or slight catarrh.
Another bad habit for the mouth is a
fretful look that so often is seen in
children. The drooping corners za
hard to raise in later years, but when
ever noticed in little ones the habit
should be corrected.
Biting the Hps is even worse, as it
soon thickens them and makes them
coarse looking as well as subjects
them easily to chapping. This ugly
trick can often bo overcome in chil
dren by rubbing tho Hps with some
thing bitter, as aloes.
Sucking the thumb or fingers is even
more fatal for a beautiful mouth, and
mothers should do everything to over
come this fault.
Sometimes children make ugly faces,
nnd because older people laugh they
keep it up until tho mouth is twisted
from its shape or tho disfiguring mo
tions have become Involuntary.
Too great care cannot be taken of
the first teeth. If they are neglected
the second teeth invariably come in
badly, and the good shape of the
mouth is ruined.
Dresden 8hephrdess Debutante.
Naturally, with so many "buds"
blooming in social centers, "bud"
gowns are coming from Paris and else
where. Young Mrs. Joseph Lclter has
a pretty young sister among tho debu
tantes of Washington. The girl is
Dorothy Williams. One of the gowns
that Mrs. Joe brought over for her
sister Is so pretty that other, girls may
feel Justified In using it for a hint
The skirt Is of flowered net over the
palest sort of soft silk, the shade
known as peachbloom, and the lines
are long and clinging. Around the
decollete bodice Is a trimming of pink
satin forme-d into tiny moss rosebuds
placed closely together. The same mo
tive Is seen on the high satin girdle.
At the end of the streamers are loops
or rosebuds hanging after the manner
of lilies of the valley In bridal bou
quets. Satin buds for the hair, pink
satin slippers and a great fan made of
rosebud satin make the girl who wears
the costume look as if she had stepped
out of a gronp of Dresden shepherd
esses. Gratifying Proof.
"They say his latest play Is shame
less." "You bet it's shameless! He drew
$700 in royalties tho first week!"
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
It Depends.
"Can two people live on a salary of
$18 a week?"
"It depends very largely on the finan
cial condition of tho girl's father."
Chicago Record-Herald.
Girlus Americanus.
IA toast. '
Here's to the dearest
Of all things on earth
(Dearest precisely
And yet of full worth),
One who lays siege to
All weak, manly hearts
(Pocketbooks also
That's one of her arts).
Drink to her, toast her,
Your banners unfurl!
Here's to tho priceless (7)
American girl I
Walter Pulitzer in New York Times.
Tad Lincoln's Comment.
Little Tad Lincoln, upon hearing of
his father's assassination, was fran
tic with grief, but, seeing the sun rise
in splendor the next morning, seemed
reassured.
"Do you think my father has gone to
heaven?" he asked a gentleman who
had called at tbe White House.
"I have not a doubt of it," was the
reply.
"Then," said the lad bravely, though
brokenly, "I am glad he has gone
there, for he never was happy after he
came here. This was not a good place
for him."
He Does your father know that I
am the light of your life?
She Ob, yes; he said to be sure to
put you out at 10 o'clock.
We hm na lnsufance agairist
panics, BUT-
Wo want to soli
Every business man In Wayne
county a good sized life or en
dowment policy that he mar
use as collateral security for
borrowed money tldeyouover
tight places when sales are
poor and collections slow pos
sibly head off Insolvency.
Wo want to soli ,
Every farmerapollcy that will
absolutely protect his family
and home.
Wo want to sell
Every laborer and mechanic a
saving policy that will be Im
possible for him to lapse or
lose.
If not Life Insurance
Let us write someof yourFIRK
INSURANCE. Standard, re
liable companies only.
IT IS BETTER TO DO IT NOW, THAN
TO WAIT AND SAY "IF"
HITTINQER & HAM,
General Agents.
WHITE MILLS, PA.
jOTIOE OF UNIFORM PRIMARIEB
In compliance with Section 3 of the Uni
form Primary Act, page 37, P. L. 1906. notice
is nercDy given to mo electors oi way no
county ot the number ot delegates to the
State convention each party Is entitled to
elect, the names of party offices to be filled,
and for what county omcos nominations are
to be made at the Spring Primaries to be held
on Saturday, Juno 6tb, 11)09.
republican;-
1 One person tor Jury Commissioner.
1 Two persons for Delegates to State Con
vention. 3 One person In each election district for
member of County Committee.
DEMOCRATIC.
1 One person for Jury Commissioner.
2 Two persons for Delegates to State Con
vention.
1 Oneperson In each electlonldlstrlct; for
member of County Committee
PROHIBITION.
One person for Jury Commissioner.
Four Delegates to State Convention.
Four persons for alternateldelegateslto
State Convention.
One person for Party Chairman,
One person for Party Secretary.
One person for Party Treasurer.
For Jury Commissioner, aTpet!tloner must
have no less than fifty signatures of mem
bers of his party who are voters ; for Dele
gates to State Convention, Committeemen
and party otllcers, no less than te Igna
turesj All of these petitions must be filed In the
Commissioners' office on or before Saturday.
May 15, 1909.
J. E. MANDEVILLE, )
.1. K. HOKNHECK, -Com'rs.
T. C. MADDEN. J
Attest : Geo. P. Koss. Clerk.
Commissioners' Ollice. Honesdale. Pa.
April 6. 1909. 28w4
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We have the sort of tooth brushes that are
made to thoroughly cleanse and save the
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, They are the kind thatjclean teeth withoat
leaving your mouth fultol bristles.
We recommend those costing 25 cents or
more, as wo can guarantee them and will re
place, free, any that show defects of manu
facture within three months.
O. T. CHAHBERS,
PHARnACIST.
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