The Batesville Herald. (Batesville, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 39, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 4, 1906 Page: 3 of 4
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Dad Plays He Is an Anarchist in
Qeneva—In Venice They Give Aims
e.nd the Bad Boy Upsets a Gon-
dola in the Grand Canal.
BY HON. GEORGE W. PECK.
(F~- Governor of Wisconsin, Former.y Pub-
lisher of Peck's Sun, Authorof "i ttk s
Bad Boy,” Etc..)
(Copyright, lbjo. by Joseph B. Bowies.)
VENICE, ITALY.—MY DEAR OLD
CHUMIRENO: Dad uiuldn’t get out of
Switzerland quick enough after be got
thawed out the day after we climbed
the glaziers. We found that almost all
the tourists in Geneva were there be-
cause they did not want to go home
and say they had not visited Switzerland,
so they just jumped from one place to
another. The people who stay there
any length of time are like the foreign
residents of Mexico, who are wanted
for something they have done at
home, that is against the law. There
are more anarchists in Geneva than
anything else, and they look hairy and
wild eyed, and they plot to kill kings
and drink beer out of two quart jars.
When we found that more attention
was paid to men suspected of crime in
their own countries, and men who were
believed to be plotting to assassinate
kings, dad said it would be a good
joke if a story should get out that he
was suspected of being connected with
a syndicate that wanted to assassinate
some one, so I told a fellow that I got
acquainted with that the fussy old man
that tried to ride a glazier without
any saddle or stirrup was wanted for
attempting to blow up the president
of the United States by selling him
baled hay soaked in a solution of dy-
namite and nitro-glycerine.
Say. they will believe anything in
Switzerland. It wasn’t two hours before
long-haired people were inviting dad
to dinners, and the same night he was
taken to a den where a lot of anar-
chists were reveling, and dad reveled
till almost morning. When he came
back to the hotel he said his hosts got
all the money he had with him.
through some game he didn’t under-
stand. but he understood it was to go
Into a fund to support deserving anar-
chists and dynamiters. He said when
they found out he was a suspected as-
sassin nothing was too good for him.
He said they wanted to know' how he
expected to kill a president by soaking
haled hay in explosives, and dad said
it came to him suddenly to tell them
that the president rode on horseback
a good deal, and he thought if a horse
was filled with baled hay and nitro-
glycerine and the president spurred
AND DAD REVELED TILL ALMOST
MORNING.
.he horse and the horse jumped in the
air and came down kerchunk on an
asphalt pavement, the horse would ex-
plode, and when the rider came down
covered with sausage covers and horse
meat, he would be dead, or would want
to be. Dad said the anarchists went
into executive session and took up a
collection to send a man to Berlin to
fill the emperor’s saddle horses with
cut feed like dad suggested.
Weil, the anarchist story was too
much for Switzerland, and the next
morning dad was told by a policeman
that he had to get out of the country
quick, and it didn’t take us 15 minutes
to pack up, and here we are in Venice.
Well, say. old friend, this is the place
where you ought to be, because nobody
works here, that is, nobody but gon-
doliers. We have been here several
days, and I have not seen a soul do-
ing anything except begging, or sell-
ing things that nobody see.us to want.
If anybody buys anything but onions,
it Is for curiosity, or for souvenirs, and
yet the whole population sits around
in the sun and w'atches the strangers
from other lands price things and go
away without buying, and then every-
body looks mad. as though they would
like to jab a knife into the stranger.
The plazas and the places near the
canal are filled with hucksters and
beggars, and you never saw beggars so
mutilated and sore and disgusting. I
never supposed human beings could
be so deformed, without taking an ax
to them, and it is so pitiful to see
them that you can’t help shedding your
money.
As hard hearted as dad is, be
coughed up over $40 the first day. just
giving to beggars, and he thought he
had got them all bought up, and that
they would let him alone, but the next
day when Je showed up there were ten
beggars where there was one the day
before, and they followed him every-
where. and all the loafers in the
plazas laughed and acted as if they
would catch the cripples when dad got
out of sight and rob the beggars. Dad
thinks the way the people live is by
dividing with beggars. A man who has
a deformity, or a sore that you can see
half a block away, seems to be con-
sidered rich here, like a man in Amer-
ican who owns stock in great corpora-
tions. These beggars pay more taxes
than the dukes and things who live in
style.
I suppose dad never studied geogra-
phy, so he didn’t know how Venice was
situated, so he told me to go out and
order a hack the first morning we were
here, and we would go and see the
town. When I told dad there were no
hacks, no horses and no roads In
Venice, he said I was crazy ih my head
and wanted me to take some medicine
and stay in bed for a few days, but I
convinced him, when we got out-
doors, that everything run by water,
and when I showed him the canal tnd
the gondolas, he remembered all about
Venice, and picked out a gondolier that
looked like one dad saw at the world's
fair, and we hired him^ because he
talked English. All the^English the
gondolier could use were the words
“you bet your life,” and' “you’re dam
right,” but dad took him because it
.seemed so homelike, and we have been
riding in gondolas every day.
On the water you can get away from
the beggars. This is an ideal exist-
ence. You just get in the go-'-dola, un-
der a canopy, and the gondolier floes
the work, and you glide along between
buildings and wonder who lives there,
and when they wake up. as all day
long the blinds are closed, and every-
body seems to be dead. But at night,
when the canals are lighted, and the
mcon shines, the people put on their
ONE TELL IN THE ENGLISH LAN-
GUAGE. AND ONE IN EYETALIAN.
dress clothes and sit on verandas, or
eat and drink, and talk Eyetalian, and
ride in gondolas, and play guitars, and
smol.e cigarettes, and talk love. It
is so warm you can wear your sum-
mer pants,and the water smells of clams
that died long ago. It is just as
though Chicago was flooded by the
bursting of the sewers, and people had
to go around State street, and all the
cross streets, and Michigan avenue, in
fishing boats, with three teet of water
on top of the pavements. Imagine
the people of Chicago taking gondolas
and riding along the streets, landing
at the stores and hotels, just as they
do now from carriages.
We had been riding in gondolas for
two days, getting aground in the mud
when the tide was out, a#d going to
sleep and waiting for the tide to come
in, when it seemed to me that dad
needed some excitement, ana last night
I gave it to him.
We were out in our gondola, and the
moon was shining, and the electric
lights >made the canal near the Rialto
bridge as light as day. The Rialto
bridge crosses the Grand canal, and
has been the meeting place for lovers
for thousands of years. It is a grand
structure, of carved marble, but it
wouldn't hold up a threshing machine
engine half as well as an iron bridge.
Well, the canal was filled with thou-
sands of gondolas, loaded with the
flower of Venetian society, and the
music just made you want to fall in
love. Dad said if he didn’t fall in love,
or something, before morning, he
would quit the place. I made up my
mind he shomd fall into something, so
I began by telling dad it seemed
strange to me that nobody but Eyre-
talians could run a gondola. Dad said
he could run a gondola as well as any
foreigner, and I told him he couldn’t
run a gondola for shucks, and he said
he would show me. so he got out of
the hen house where we were seated,
and went back on to the pointed end
of the gondola, and grabbed the pole
or paddle from the gondolier, and said:
“Now. Garibaldi, you go inside the
pup tent with Hennery, and let me
punt this ark around awhile.”
Garibaldi thought dad was crazy,
but he gave up the pole, and just then,
when they were both on the extreme
point of the gondola, and she was
wabbling some, I peeked out through
the curtains and thought the fruit wat
about ripe enough to pick, so I threw
myself over to one side of the gondola,
and. by gosh, if dad and Garibaldi
didn't both go overboard with a splash,
and one yell in the English language,
and one in Eyetalian, and I rushed
out of the cabin and such a sight you
never sawr.
Dad retained the paddle, and' had his
head out of water, but nothing showed
above the water where Garibaldi was
except a red patch on his black pants.
Dad was yelling for help, and finally
the gondolier got his head out of the.
water, and said something that sound-
ed like grinding a butcher knife on a
grindstone, and I yelled, too. and the
gondolas began to gather around us,
and the two men were rescued. The
gondolier had been gondoling all his
life and he had never been in the water
before, and they thought it would
strike in and kill him, so they
wrapped him up in blankets and put
"THEN YOU DON'T BLAME YOUR
LITTLE BOY, DO YOU?”
him aooard his canoe, and he looked
at me as though I was to blame. They
got a boat hook fastened in dad’s pants
and landed him in the gondola, and he
dripped all the way to our hotel, and
he smelled like a fish market.
I asked Garibaldi, on the way to the
hotel, if he was counting his beads
when he was down under the water
with nothing but his pants out of the
water, and he said: “You’re dam
right,” but I don't think he knew the
meaning of the ^’ords, because he prob-
ably wouldn’t swear in the presence
of death. Dad just sat and shivered
all the way to the hotel, but when we
got to our room I asked him what his
idea was in jumping overboard right
there before folks, with his best
•lofhes on, and he said it was all Gari-
baldi’s fault, that just as dad was get-
ting a good grip on the paddle, tha
gondolier heaved a long sigh, and the
onions in his breath paralyzed dad so
he fell overboard.
“Then you don’t blame your little
boy, do you?” says I, and dad looked
at me as he was hanging his wet shirt
on a chair. “Course not; you were
asleep in the cabin. But say. if I ever
hear that you did tip that gondola, it
will go hard with you,” but I just
looked innocent, and dad went on dry-
ing his shirt by a charcoal brazier and
never suspected me. But T am getting
the worst of it. for dad and nts clothes
smell so much like a clam bake that it
makes me sick.
Well, old friend, you ought to close
up your grocery and come over here
and go to Vesuvius and Pompeii with
ns, where me can dry our clothes by
the volcano, and dig in the city that
was buried in hot ashes 2,000 years
ago. They say you can dig up mum-
mies there that are dead ringers for
you, old man.
O, come on. and have fun with us.
Your friend.
_ HENNERY.
COURT KNEW THE GAME.
And Took Judicial Notes of the Fine
# Points as They Were
Narrated.
Senator Clay, of Georgia, is looked
upon as one of the best raconteurs in
the upper house of congress. In negro
dialect stories he is inimitable, says
the Louisville Courier-Journal. This
is his latest:
When Judge David Irwin was hold-
ing court in Marietta, Ga., a negro was
brought before him for smashing the
nose of a companion while the two
were engaged in a supposedly friendly
game of cards. There were a dozen
witnesses who testified that there was
no provocation whatever, but that the
prisoner had suddenly leaned over the
table and smashed the nose of the
man opposite, nearly knocking that
organ out of place.
The belligerent was convicted of as-
sault and battery and sentenced to six
months’ imprisonment. The man had
in the past borne a good reputation
and Judge ItAvin had known him for
years, and besides the judge was noted
for his clemency to first offenders. So
he asked the prisoner, when the case
came before him for review, why he
had acted in such a manner.
“You must have had some reason,”
he said. “Now tell me all about it, just
between ourselves.”
“ ’Deed I did hab some reason,
jedge; 'deed I did,” the negro blurted
out “Jedge, did you eber play seben-
up?”
The stern dispenser of justice de-
clined to answer the question.
“Whether I play seven-up or not has
nothing to do with the case,” he said.
“But ’ded it hab, jedge; it hab heaps
to do wif it,” the negro insisted, “for
lessen you can plav seben-up you cain’t
understan’ liow this yere happened.
You see, jedge, me and that nigger
ober dar was playin’ and I dole the
kairds and I turn up de nine-spot ob
spades, and I hab in my han' the jack
and the ten and the deuce. He beg
and I gib 'im one, an’ den what you
think dat nigger ober dar done? He
lead de ace ob spades an’ I put on my
deuce. Den what you think dat nigger
ober dar done? He lead de king ob
spades and I give him a hard 100k, but
I put on my ten. Den what you think
that onerj", low-down, sneakin’ nigger
done, jedge? He lead de queen ob
spades. I put on my jack, and den I
just lean ober an’ smash he’s nose
clean often he’s face.”
When order was restored the judge
solemnly revoked the previous sen-
tence. “I think that if the defendant
pays one dollar,” he said, “all the re-
quirements of justice which the sov-
ereign state of Georgia demands will
be bountifully satisfied.”
UNFORTUNATE YOUNGSTER.
Irksome Restrictions That Surround
a Young Heir to Many
Millions.
There is a four-year-old boy in New
York, heir to $10,000,000, who is going
to miss a whole lot of fun. His guardians
have set out to bring him up “ideally.”
To this end everything that money can
do will be done. He is to have a dozen
skilled instructors. A small army of
nurses, maids, governesses and grooms
have been engaged to attend upon his
wants. A $10,000 Jersey cow has been
purchased to give milk for him alone.
The process of sterilization is to be ap-
plied not only to the milk, but to almost
everything that comes in contact with
the youngster, says Robert Webster
Jones in the Housekeeper. The latest
devices of science are to be employed for
his protection against germs. His play-
mates are strictly limited in number and.
of course, must all be little aristocrats.
I have no wish to disparage the ad-
vantages of wealth nor the importance
of careful and scientific training for the
young, but it does look as if Nature, wis-
est of physicians, were not going to get
a chance to show what she could do for
this youthful millionaire. Just think of
the boyish joys that the poet Riley sings
about, which he will miss. The jolly ex-
cursions to the “old swimmin’ hole,” the
blissful manufacture of mud pies, the
ecstasy of gaining free admission to the
circus by carrying water for the el“-
phant! What will he know’, with his
expensive rod and reel and careful at-
tendants. of the delights of “goin’ fish-
in’?”
There Is great danger that the boy
who is "ideally” brought up will become
a narrow-minded, snobbish, selfish man.
The spirit of our public schools Is essen-
tially American and democratic. The
public school is the place tar every
American boy. rich or poor. ' He will
learn lessons there, and valuable ones,
that are not in the books. To have $10,-
000.000 is a pretty heavy handicap for a
boy starting out in life. But it can be
overcome if the boy is only given a
chance.
The Shark in Commerce.
The shark, which is so abundant in the
waters of Central America, is to be
utilized in commercial products. A
company has been formed which con-
verts sharks' fins into jelly and tinned
soup, makes fine machinery oil from
their livers, handsome leather (equal
to alligator) from their skins, walking
sticks from their backbones, and nu-
merous articles from their jawbones a&d
teeth.
ERICAS
HOME
-A.RADF0RD
EDITOR
Mr. Wiliiam A. Radford will answer |
questions ami give advice FREE OF
COST on all subjects pertaining to the !
subject of building for tile readers of this j
paper, tin account of his wide expe-
rienoe as Editor. Author and Manufac-
turer, he is, without diubt, the highest J
authority on all these subjects. Address ‘
all inquiries to William A. Radford, No.
1S4 Fifth Ave.. Chicago, 111., and only i
enclose two-rent stamp for reply.
a cottage house 24 feet wide by 46 ]
feet long is shown in this plan. It is
a little house for a small family, and
may be built for $1,000, if the owner
does not insist on too many fancy fin-
ishings. There are a great many
similar houses in the smaller towns
all over the country. There is a de-
mand for more houses of this charac-
ter where lots are not too expensive.
It is not customary to see cottage J
houses on high-priced lots in any
community. The value is not in har-
mony with the land. According to
real estate men a low cost house is
simply an incumbrance to an expen-
sive lot. It very often happens that
a vacant lot will sell for as much as
a similar lot with a house on it, if
the house is small or old. Fashion
has a good deal to do with the value
of houses and real estate. Fashion
tion of things. There are many hap-
py exceptions. Fashionable snobbery
has not taken possession of ail towns,
and there is very little of it in coun-
try villages, but there is too much
ambition to own a large, showy house
in all communities.
The desire to own a big house, how-
ever does not always spring from ob
lectionable motives. There are plenty
of large-hearted women, and men, too,
who love to entertain their friends
and lavish hospitality at times upon
strangers. America is peculiar in
this respect. European business men
entertain strangers at their club
It is difficult to obtain admittance In
an English or French home. The home
is reserved for the family and inti
mate friends. Strangers are looked
upon, in a sense, as intruders, and at
such they are not encouraged. But
. open-hearted Yankees extend the
I hand of good fellowship to every wel’
I appearing stranger that comes along
! Even tramps are fed out of sympathy
| and not by hard charity methods, at
| they are in Europe. Sometimes we
suffer loss, annoyance and inconven
ience because of entertaining rascals
that, present themselves in the guise
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doesn't prescribe the shape of the lot i
or the lay of the land, but to be j
high priced it must be in a fashion- j
able neighborhood, and the lot must 1
be decorated with an expensive struc- I
ture. Fashion will smile pleasantly
on an ugly house, providing only that
it is expensive. If the house is cheap,
no matter how pretty it may be, the
FLOOR PLAN
ironclad fashionable conditions are
not fulfilled and the lot is not as
valuable as it would be if topped out
with an expensive pile of stones
heaped up in some sort of a grotesque
shape to meet the fancy of ignorant
snobs. This is the general condi-
of gentlemen, but such instances are
comparatively rare.
Frank, open American confidence in
humanity is seldom misplaced. We
.may occasionally waste good sub-
stance on scalawags, but in (lie ma-
jority of cases we are encouraging
genuine hospitality and good will
among men. We are continuing the
precedent established by our fore-
fathers when the country was new
and acquaintances were necessarily
fewer than they are now. but the
principle is a good one, and it should
be fostered. It may require more tact,
but there are ways of entertaining
our friends besides placing at their
disposal a lot of air space inclosed
with expensive walls and fancy
drapery. There are many arguments
in favor of building smaller houses.
It is not necessary to tie up a great
deal of money in a house and home
unless a person has the fashion
craze, and in that, case it is better
to lake treatment, and try to overcome
the disease.
A great deal of comfort may be
taken in a little cottage like this. It
is better to display ’good taste in
making it just as attractive as pos-
sible than to spread one’s energy over
a large structure and worry about
the interest coming due on the mort-
gage.
This little house is fitted with
double outside doors ior winter.
Screen doors are fitted to take their
place in summer. Not ordinary flimsy
affairs, that rack to pieces in a week
or two. and never shut tight, but
good, solid screen doors, with well
made frames and springs sufficiently
heavy to keep them shut both at the
top and bottom, and if each window
is fitted with a fly screen the full
size of the opening, so that both
sashes may be moved up or down, the
probabilities are that the house will
be airy and comfortable in summer,
and the inmates will not be pestered
to death with flies.
Shot Panther
British Officer Tells of Exciting Time
with Wild Animal.
Here is a tale of a panther shot by
Col. Rundle in his own bungalow in
IndTfi. The incident occurred in the
middle of the day. The colonel says:
"I was sitting writing in my veranda
when my wife came out and said that
she had seen the tail of a panther
protruding from behind a very large
coil of matting which was standing
on its end in a corner of the room. 1
prepared the ground by removing all
the furniture from the adjoining room
and closing the doors of the room in
which the panther was apparently
soundly sleeping. I took a rifle my-
self and armed my wife and a battery
rough rider, also with rifles. We de-
cided on shooting the panther in the
room. Opening the door just suffi-
ciently to get my rifle through. 1 fired
through the grass matting roll at the
spot which I thought most likely to
be fatal to the panther. The crack
of the rifle was followed by a whough
and a growl, and out came the beast
straight for the door behind which
I was standing. The angry brute
passed me within a foot or two and
I had just time to see it was badly
wounded in the stomach. It immedi-
ately proceeded to bolt into an ad-
joining room.
“Each room in turn was carefully
reconnoitered, the blood tracks being
very copious, showing exactly where
it had gone. In one room a halt had
beer, made opposite a large mirror, in
which the panther, which afterward
proved to be a female, must have
seen its image, as the presence of a
very large pool of blood showed that
in Bungalow
the animal had sat down. Eventually
we found the beast in a spare room,
it again having taken shelter behind
a coil of matting. There was a win-
dow or skylight 15 feet from the floor
of this room and to this I climbed.
Looking down 1 saw my friend sitting
in a corner ready to make a spring.
Unfortunately it saw me before I
could get my rifle up. Taking fright,
it bolted out. this time passing
through* the house and close to St.
Macan (a brother officer), who fired
at it as it passed under a bed and
again a second later as it went
through the door. Neither shot prov-
ed fatal, except to certain portions ol
the furniture. But they had the effect
of driving it out of the house, badly
wounded, across the tennis court into
the mess compound, which is just op-
posite my house.
"Just at this moment an inquisitive
sweeper emerged from his house to
see what the commotion was. Quick-
ly spotting him. the panther made
for the man. A race ensued between
the two. Too feeble to do harm, the
beast merely made two or three
clutches at the man's clothes and
then, turning into an outhouse, it was
killed with a shot from a .577. With-
in a radius of six miles of Jubbulpore
panthers are common and a three-
quarter-grown tiger cub was account-
ed for on the present golf links.”
Women in Business Life.
A number of women, both In this
country and Europe, are successful
heads of large manufacturing estab
lishnients, although there are said to
be more in proportion in France and
Belgium than elsewhere.
Scripture
Chapter 13.
Authority;—x umbers.
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$ SERMONETTE.
9 9
O While the Scripture narrative O
indicates that the project of q
sending the spies had the Di-
vine sanction, even to instruc-
tions being given as to the meth-
ods to be pursued, still we must
remember that the land was
Israel’s by right of inheritance
and was the place whither God
was leading them, and hence
there could be no question as to
its fruitfulness, or as to the cer-
tainty of its occupancy by Israel.
These facts suggest then that it
v was lack of faith rather than
0 divinely inspired wisdom that
0 prompted this course of action.
9 and remind us of that infinite
0 patience which God manifests
9 in dealing with His children.
$ God permitted the spying out of
$ the land because faith was not
X large enough to go up at once
® and possess it. and that first
<$ misstep opened the way for
^ those other sins of unbelief
0 which shut them out of the
x promised land and dotted the
9 wilderness with numberless
§ graves.
9 So to-day, God leads the soul
$ to the borderland of some great
9 opportunity, some rich posses-
§ sion, and instead of confidently
0 going forward the soul sends
$ out its spies to search the land,
the giants of difficulties and dan-
j 9 gers are seen, the walled cities
of seemingly insurmountable ob-
stacles are discovered, and the
soul draws back in dismay and
cries: We are not able to go up
and possess it. Ah, soul, thou
who art face to face with the
promised land of better things
each day, look up and sec the
Lord standing at thy side ready
to go with thee, put thy trust in
Him, and go forward for He that
I $ is for thee is greater than they
which be against thee. Re-
member that if God be for thee,
who can be against thee. Let
not thy unbelief shut thee out
of the promised land of God's
blessing.
The pathway of unbelief leads
back into the wilderness, away
g from the promised land,
o Faith is the Christian's reduc-
9 ing glass through which dangers
6 and difficulties appear small and
Y insignificant.
0 An evil report is the expres-
sion of an unbelieving heart.
Spying out the land to which
God has promised to lead you.
and give you, may be wise pre-
caution, but it needs to be bal-
anced by a faith that falters not
and a courage which knows no
fear.
It took Israel 40 years to re-
cover the opportunity of enter-
ing the promised land which
they lost in 40 days. So is often
to-day the experience of the
Christian. He forfeits years of
blessing through failure to go
forward in faith to the place
God has pointed out.
Those 40 days might better
have been spent in going for-
ward than in holding back and
looking for giants and walled
cities. soul that lingers on
9 the borderland of a known duty
(j or destiny will surely find the
$ voice of unbelief speaking ioud-
0 er and urging a retreat.
that “waUed cities in the promts' S
land made it look anything but pron-
ising.” he exclaimed:
"But it is God that has promised os
the land, and in Him we shall conquer.
Hast thou forgotten how when Amah V
met us in the way we overcame hii*i
and scattered his army?"
"Yea, that is true,” was the assent,
"hut he had no walled city into which
to flee, and thou must remember that
it is not one but many walled cities
which must be overthrown."
"But would God promise His people
a land which He was rot able to give
unto us?" iieisisted Caleb, and Jrshun.
quickly coming to his sup)»ort, added:
“God is our leader and He will show
us how, to overcome these strong-
holds. Rememberest thou not how
bravely the army of Israel withstood
0 the powerful forces of Amalek. and
® shall we falter now in the face of this
new foe?” and the memory of that
day when Joshua had led the fighting
men of Israel to victory stirred his
blood, and he arose and paced impa-
tiently to and fro as though he would
go up at once against this new diffi-
culty.
Tlie rest watched him in silence
Down tlte long open glade he strode,
farther than he had gone before, and
he was just turning to retrace his
steps, when there burst upon hint, al-
most overthrowing him tvith their mad
haste, the two spies whose return they
were awaiting. Their frightened looks
and breathlessness betokened some-
tiling startling, and before they could
recover themselves to speak, the oth
ers canto running up and excitedly de-
manded to know what was the matter.
By way of answer the two pointed
in the direction from which they bad
come and exclaimed:
“Giants!”
And then leading hack cautiously in
tlie direction from which they bad
eonte. they brought them to the top <*f
0 ! a high overhanging bluff, and pa ft ing
9 i the hushes carefully pointed down t o-
0 j low them. There, sure enough, was a
9 sight which made all stare in surprise
' and fear, for passing up the narrow
valley to the mountain height opposite
was a group of the tallest men they
had ever seen before.
"Surely, these must be the sons of
Anak. about whonl we have heard.”
exclaimed Joshua.
"Yea. we are but grasshoppers be-
fore them,” rejoined the others, and
in silence they watched them until
they had disappeared from view. Then
almost sullenly they returned to the
camp, and in spite of all the encour-
agement which Caleb and Joshua could
give they were disposed to take any
thing but a hopeful view of the situa-
tion. Some were for going at once
under the cover of the darkness from
the dreadful place, as they called it,
hut Joshua said, boldly:
"This must be the place where
Abraham, our father, pitched his tent,
and the God who protected him wall
0 watch over us in this land that He has
9 I promised to give us.”
O I
6 | So they had passed the night, but
^ the next morning early found them
o on their journey again, fearfully
0 threading their way down the valley,
o and looking apprehensively on eitiier
O hand lest they should he suddenly sut-
^ ; prised and overwhelmed by the giants
o tht \ had seen. Caleb and Joshua had
5 | done their utmost to delay the d»~
9 j parture, insisting that they ought to
J search out the land more thoroughly,
9 ; but unable to overcome the fear of the
j other spies they had hurried on with
9 | them.
§ I Finally they came to a beautiful bit
of country. The valley spread out be-
fore them like a perfect garden, and
upward on either hand slo|>ed the
hills, which wrere robed in their ex-
quisite colors of green and purple and
0 Those 40 days m.ght oetter v «old. for at that season of the year
9 have been soen.t ih aoina for- £ th« vine, were in the glory o.
their rich coloring, the great purple
9 looking for giants and walled $ th,ste,s hanging *“ 8U<* 1’rofusk>n
9 ____, _______ A that it seemed as though nature was
striving to spread a table for the na-
tions of the world.
The 12 spies stood entraneed by the
scene.
"Ah, if Israel could be here to en
joy such a feast as these afford." they
exclaimed.
"And they shall be." exclaimed
T HERE was a general feeling of ela- Joshua and Caleb, in a breath.
1 tion among the Hebrew suies as "But the walled cities and the
giants!” cried the others. "We < an-
not because of them.”
"Surely ihe I,ord who has promised
to give us the land will help us over-
come it,” replied Joshua.
"Let us gather of the fruit that we
may take it and show the people the
wonderful land to which God has ied
us," spoke up Caleb, starting forward,
were eager to he back amidst friends j impulsively
and loved ones again. That had been wp bur(|e„ ourselves thus we
a momentous journey. Following the I shal| not be able to RO swirtly and the
course of the Jordan valley they had jnhabitants of the land may overlake
us and destroy us.” objected the oth-
; ers. drawing back and turning as
though they would proceed at once on
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THE STORY.
HERE was a general feeling of ela-
tion among the Hebrew spies as
they went into camp at Hebron that
night. They knew that they could not
be far distant now from me place
where their people lay encamped at
Kadesli. Something over a month had
now passed since they had gone forth
to search out the laud which God had
promised to Abraham and his seed for-
ever, and it is not strange that all
gone far towards the north and then
turning westward had come to Rehob.
lying on the well-traveled route to
Hamath, the mountain pass in the
northern frontier of the land. From
thence they had passed on up through
the country of the Sidonians and the
Philistines and came at last to the
their journey.
"Nay, but we will take hack of the
fruits of the land." said Joshua, hurry
ing forward to join Caleb, “for the
...... . , .. , people shall see that the land doth
wild and picturesque mountain section | £ri,abl floJV wiU, n)ilk an)1 boney as
ot Hebron, where they had gone into t ....
camp.
And while they waited the return of
two of their number who had gone out
to recounoiter, they talked over the
experiences of the past month, and
i the laird spake concerning it. before
we left Egypt.”
And Caleb and Joshua cut and bore
j between them upon a staff one of the
■ immense clusters. And they gathered
of the pomegranates and the figs and
discussing the land t.irough which ; fbus ]a,jt.n ihey returned from search*
they had passed. The natural beauty , out ,bp ,and
and fruitfulness of the country had j
deeply impressed them. How good
the grains and fruits had tasted after I lnd,an. M,6s,onary Soc'ety‘
their plain, monotonous fare in the i *he ,n<)ian Missionary society a
wilderness, and eye and palate bail most important organization.Jins b-in
pronounced the land good. And they
started by native Indian Christians
This is a most important movement
commenced by the native Christian-
••it i« tl) interdenominational, dif-
’ ten-lit districts to lie handed over to
different bodies; (2) its agents In
■ tiian; <3) its money Indian; (4) its
control in the hands of Indians, with
the adviee of a few missionaries till
well under way.”
Plan Large for Missions.
Westminster Chapel. London. Eng
land, of which Dr. Campbell Morgan is
pastor. i3 henceforth to devote not
talked enthusiastically of the time
when they should enter in and dwell
in the midst of such scenes and plenty.
But notwithstanding the elation over
the charm of the land anil its fruitful-
ness, there was an undertone of fear
at the walled cities they had seen scat-
tered throughout the land. How
were these to lie overcome? Would
they not be at the mercy of these peo-
people who dwelt thus behind high
wails? Surely it. must be a strong and
warlike race which built fortified
cities. The conversation drifted in
this direction and finally became quite J less than one-tenth of its income to
animated.
Caleb had listened quietly to the dis-
cussion, taking little part in it until
it became apparent that there was a
growing tendency among his brethren
to take a discouraging view of the sit-
uation. Aroused finally by the remark
foreign missions, and the pastor is to
preach, once every month, a mission-
ary sermon. That church is more like-
ly to he "in a true revival frame",
throughout the entire year. Here is a
plain case of "meaning business” in
efforts for the spread of the Kingdom.
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