The Sonora Sun. (Sonora, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 20, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 20, 1907 Page: 2 of 8
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REJECTION OF
KING SAUL
STORY BY THE "HIGHWAY
AND BYWAY” PREACHER
(Copjrritflii, ivtf - ijjr um Author! 1
Scripture Authority:—1. Sum., chap-
tar 15.
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6ERMONET I E.
There Is peril in desiring
what God has toid us utterly to
destroy.
Saul’s war orders were to de-
stroy utterly the Amalekites
and ail they had, but in the pre-
sumption and pride of his will-
ful heart he modified these or-
ders to meet the desire of him-
self and the people with him.
Th victorious kings of the na-
tions about brought back their
captives of war as token of their
valor, and why should not he?
They took of the spoil of the
enemy and made votive offer-
ings to their gods; why should
not* he?
Why should not he? Be-
cause God’s orders were plain
and explicit, and to disobey
was soul madness.
“The soul that doeth aught
presumptuously (or, with an
high hand, as the margin has
It), the same reproacheth the
Lord; and that soul shall be
cut off from among his peo-
ple.”
David cried, having in mind
perhaps the shipwreck which
Saul had made of his life, "Keep
back thy servant also from pre-
sumptuous sins, let them not
have dominion over me.”
There is a tendency to-day,
and a fatal one, too, of qualify-
ing God’s Word to the level of
human standards. It is no long-
er, "thus saith the Lord,” and I
must needs obey, nay, I dare not
disobey. It is a getting away
from the spirit and the letter
of the law and the perform-
ance of such portion of the Di-
vine Word as is convenient and
consistent with the other de-
mands of the life and heart.
Peter, In the tenth verse of
the second chapter of his sec-
ond epistle draws the picture
of the presumptuous man of
the Saul stripe. He says he
walks "after the flesh in the
lust of uncleanliness, and de-
spises government” other than
that of his own self will.
"I have performed the com-
mandment of the Lord.”—"I
have sinned.” It is hard to rec-
oncile these two statements of
Saul. In the blindness of his
willful heart he will not see
his wrong-doing. He belongs to
that class who "having eyes
sees not, and having ears, hear
not.” The unrepentant sinner
ever seeks to justify himself.
. But as Samuel presses home
his accusation, and uncovers the
enormity of his sin by throwing
the bright light of God’s word
upon It Saul hears and trem-
bles, and falteringly admits: “I
have sinned.” It is a confession
of guilt which brings with it no
sense of repentance. It is that
confession of guilt which comes
from a dawning sense of loss of
human friendship and material
gain. It was not so much a
concern with Saul as to how he
stood in the sight of God as
It was how he stood with the
prophet Samuel. His cry Is
not one of forgiveness, but
"honor me now I pray thee, be-
fore the elders of my people,
and before Israel, and turn
again with me, that I may wor-
ship the Lord.”
Let us be watchful that we
fall not Into presumptuous sin,
and let ur not be blind to sin
of heart and life, but let us free-
4y "confess our sin, for he is
faithful and just to forgive us
our sin and cleanse from all
unrighteousness.”
ooooooooooooc-oc-ooooo?ooooo
THE STORY.
QAUL, the king of Israel, returned to
3 his home at Glbeah not like a con-
quering hero, but as one who has
met some (treat rebuff and disap-
pointment. In sullen silence he re-
ceived the praise of the people as they
shouted the triumphs of the battle
with the Amalekltes and retold to one
another how the enemy had been ut-
terly overthrown, King Agag taken
snd the best of the spoil earth'd hack
•or offering to their God. In fact,
inch was the depression of the kina,
.hat the people asked one another:
"What alloth Saul? Hath he not
won a (treat victory for the Lord?”
And while the king sought the seclu-
sion of his own house, denying himself
to even his closest friends, the peo-
ple discussed the situation.
"They do say,” said one of a group,
"that Samuel, the prophet, hath re-
buked him."
’’Yes," responded another, with an
air of superior knowledge, "one who
was present at Gllgnl when Samuel
came there to find the king told me
that the prophet was offended with
Saul because he took King Agag alive
and because the soldiers took of the
spoil, It seems that Samuel had
given command that the Amalekltes
were to ke utterly destroyed, togeth-
•r with their goods.”
"But did not the people talk of the
spoil to make offering to the Lord,
and surely the bringing of Agag back
was but the rightful trophy of a con-
queror,” exclaimed another cf the
group.
"Jlut Samuel did not think so, evi-
dently, for In great anger he slew
Agag, and would take no part In the
offerings which King Saul had caused
to be made to the Lord.”
Various exclamations followed this
piece of news, and the speaker went
on to say:
"Jn fact, Samuel hath returned to
his abode at Unmah in high dudgeon,
refusing to hold converse with any
upon the way, and It Is said by those
who have reason to know that since
his return home the prophet hath
ceased not to mourn day nor night
over this matter.’’
"Well, well, to what a pass we have
come,” exclaimed one of the group
who up to this time had remained si-
lent and who was known as a close
friend of the king. "Our king de-
spairs because of the rebuke of the
prophet.”
"Thou wouldst not speak lightly of
the word of the prophet Samuel,”
came a reproving voice from the far
side of the group, followed by several
approving nods and exclamations.
"Nay,” quickly responded the other,
"far be It from me bo to do, but should
we not seek to cheer our king in the
hour of his trouble? Surely he hath
wrought valiantly for liis people In
the utter destruction of the Amale-
kites."
There was Instant response to this
suggestion and steps were at once
taken to bring an offering to the king
and to assure him of their continued
loyalty.
Thus It was that a few days later
a deputation of the people of Glbeah
came to Saul who received them gra-
ciously and seemed greatly refreshed
by their kindly words and by their
gifts, but. the sting and smart of Sam-
uel’s words still remained, and after
they had gone he lapsed Into his sul-
len demeanor.
One day Saul confided to one of his
friends that he was troubled because
Samuel came not to see him.
"What wiil the nation think If the
prophet come no more to see me as
formerly?” asked Saul with troubled
look.
“Why ,do you not send an earnest
entreaty to him that he come?” ques-
tioned his friend. <
“Hut how dare I when no word has
come to me from him since he turned
from me In anger there at Gllgal?”
"Let me go, and I will entreat for
thee,” responded his friend, earn-
estly.
"Go, then, and may thy way be
prospered.”
A week later Saul was sitting alone
In Ills dwelling. The messenger to
the prophet had not yet returned,
for the prophet had refused to re-
ceive him or to send any word back
to Saul. Anxiously day after day Saul
had watched and waited, In the seclu-
sion of his home.
"It is small matter to make such ado
over.” ho muttered to himself.
"What Is that you say. father?”
spoke up his son Jonathan, who at
that moment entered the room. He
had felt the dejection of his father,
and had sought by every means In
his power to cheer him. He did not
have a clear understanding of his fa-
ther's trouble, not having been at
Gllgal at the time of the meeting
with the prophet and the common
talk throughout the kingdom did not
reach his ears for the reason that the
people feared t«» talk freely with him
on account of his father. And, fur-
thermore, his father did not show any
desire to enlighten him, and hence
ho was much puzzled, and scarcely
knew how to approach his father.
However, ho had lingered near him,
with anxious, loving solicitude, and
when he had heard his father speak-
ing ho had entered the room and
now stood at his father s side waiting
for him to reply.
"I said,” responded his father, petu-
lantly rising and shaking his great
form as though he was casting from
him some irksome burden and would
have no more of it, ”1 said. It 1s a
small matter to make such ado over,”
and then moved by some strange Im-
pulse, he told the whole story to his
son, ending by repealing the words
which ho had spoken at the begin-
ning, only putting them In the form
of a question:
"Do you not think It a small matter
to make so much ado over?”
A troubled, pained look crept over
the noble features of the handsome
youth, and It was plain to see that he
hesitated to speak what was in his
heart.
"Well, boy, speak," savagely cried
the father, suddenly losing control of
himself, as though some evil spirit had
seized him.
Jonathan was startled by tho sud-
den outburst, but recovering himself,
he turned appealingly to his father,
saying:
"Rut, father, Is It a small matter
to disobey God? Surely, If thou wilt
repent, the Lord will forgive.”
"Repent! Repent!! Repent!!!”
shouted the now fairly enraged man,
with rising voire. "What have I to
repent of? Have not I faced danger
and death In battle doing the com-
mand of the Lord? Did I In saving
Agag and In taking the spoil do more
than Is the right of a king and a con-
queror? Get thee from my sight, for
thou hast also entered Into league
against thy father. I care not th'at
the prophet comes not to see me. Is
not Saul king of Israel?" And from
that day Saul was a changed man. and
an evil spirit took possession ofbtm.
FARMERS’ EDUCATIONAL
(HD
CO-OPERATIVE UNION
■- OF AMERICA -
Keep your eyo on the hog and the
hen along these hot days. They will
both do good business all through the
summer, If they have a decent chance.
Keep the saddle and harness off the
horse all the time possible during this
hot weather. The good man fre-
quently washes his horse during the
summer.
The way that the Union Is growing
In Arkansas Is one of the wonders ot
the order. Arkansas farmers are
“coming Into their own" in a way
that is most gratifying.
If the cows do not have plenty of
water and shade these hot dry days
they will fail In the pall and will also
fall off In flesh, not to mention the
fearful suffering from thirst.
It Is often the case that the man
who works most gets the least. It Is
to remedy this that we want EDUCA-
'i iON and CO-OPERATION. The re-
wards should go to the workers.
You are not built right If you have
failed to prepare for the cattle to get
Into the shade when they want to. In
many pastures there is no shade at
all. This is not right; In fact, it is
the height of cruelty.
See to It that the pigs have plenty
of good, clean water. Pigs, when
driven to it, will drink most anything,
but It Is starvation and not prefer-
ence that takes a pig to some of the
messes that he sometimes must drink.
If you happen to look out and find
the stock water all gone, Immediately
get busy preparing some for them,
and don’t take a drink yourself until
you have watered all that are thirsty.
These hot days are simply awful to
the thirsty.
Don’t go home disgusted with the
Union meeting " ’cause nothin’ never
happened." You are as important as
anybody, and If things are not hap-
pening get busy and start something
that It will take the whole country
to stop, but which they don’t want
to stop.
“Don’t take yourself too seriously”
Is a good motto for those who think
they are worked to death. As a rule,
great workers never seem to be con-
scious of the fact that they are at
work at all. All of us too much mag-
nify the work we do, and not the
kind of work it Is.
The number of members In your
Union does not cut so much figure
In the final accounting as does the
quality of men who make up the mus-
ter roll. At the top of this country's
big enterprises are only a few men.
There are not so many top-notchers.
Get the right sort of people, then the
rest Is easy.
Chiefly the mold of a man’s for-
tune le In his own ha mi*— bacon
Remember that the only wealth of
tho South, comparatively speaking, Is
that of fhe farm or the results of
successful farming. The bulk of the
fortunes made in the West have come
from land speculation. This Is ulti-
mately at the expense of the farmer,
who has to pay the high price of the
land, and must work the harder and
the closer to make a living on account
of the high price of the land.
These are piping times of peace
now, and It would be a good thing for
you to get In a shape so that “noth-
ing will hurt you,” If one of those
ever recurrent “hard times’* should
set in. While It is easy to make the
money to pay for it, keep the boys
and the girls in the school. Maybe it
will not be so easy a little later on
to do this.
If the cotton growers are In dead
earnest about the matter of helping
the cotton Industry, they will wrap
the bales In cotton. This would con-
sume the difference between too much
cotton and not quite enough, and
would cut out the low price of a sur-
plus crop. This would happen in
years of bumper crops, to say noth-
ing of the good it would do during
years of short crops.
Mr. Farmer, how Is it with Mrs.
Farmer these hot days? Has she all
the conveniences she ought to have
about the kitchen and the laundry?
If she has not, it is a mighty good
time for you to do a little missionary
work for your wife’s husband. If the
water supply Is not as handy as It
ought to be, you can do something
for It; If her kitchen table Is too far
away from the stove, think what a
lot of her life Is absolutely thrown
away In the extra steps she has to
to take! Look at the matter sensi-
bly, and get to work fixing up things
sorter like you would if she were
your sweetheart, and you were eyeing
a well-thought-of-rival. That is tho
only decent sort of a husband there Is.
Many years ago a day s work was
sixteen hours. Tho manufacturers
claimed that a reduction of working
hours would ruin them. The number
of hours were reduced successfully
from sixteen down to ten, now some
have gone to only eight. At each re-
duction the employer said It would
ruin him, but In each reduction It was
found to be an Improvement It It
beuellts these occupations, why would
It not benefit tho farmer to shorten
the hours? Many now work sixteen
hours a day.—Jacksboro News.
THE FARMER AND POLITICS.
(An extract from Farmers* Union
Guide’s Fourth of July oration.)
Is this a people’s government?
'Whose fault is it, then, that the peo-
ple do not get what is coming to
them?
It Is the fault of the people them-
selves.
They have never yet organized and
drilled as soldiers (In other words,
educated themsedlves) to a point
where they can confidently take hold
of their government and run It.
They stay at home on election day
and let the other fellows carry their
points, and then they say there was
fiaud, and they have had no show.
They are content to labor and fall
to read papers devoted to their own
Inierests, and when the time comes
to vote the destiny of their country
they are not prepared for the respon-
sibility and are at the mercy of the
demagogues and looters and the street
corner and cross roads politicians.
Falling to read and understand ques-
tions for themselves, they forget to
pay their poll taxes, or if they pay
them, they don’t know when they are
voting the noose around their necks
and will put it in for the old party
just because that’s the way they’ve
been doing.
Many of them will stay away from
their local meetings and not even Join
and lend the Influence to the Union
because the corporations, the hankers,
the speculators and their henchmen
point to the alliance and say keep out
of politics lest we bury you In the
same grave. The FARMER never says
keep out of politics—It’s the town
folks that are FOREVER AND ETER-
NALLY AFRAID THAT THE FARM-
ER WILL HAVE SOMETHING TO
DO WITH POLITICS.
Roys, you must go Into politics.
You who live In the LAND of the
FREE and the HOME of the BRAVE!
Ah! ye sons and daughters of Co-
lumbia!
Are you doing your own reading or
are you you content to produce and
build for others as you have been
doing and let them do your reading
and Inform you how you should vote?
Read and think carefully.
In the first place, who is it that
wants you to say out of politics; and
In the second place, WHY does he
want YOU to stay out? Is It because
HE wants to stay IN?
"FARMERS^" that is the class;
“EDUCATIONAL.” that is the object:
"CO-OPERATION,” that is the end.
It is a plain proposition, and any one
with an ounce of brains can under-
stand It. Farmers and those who
farm are the people for whom the
order was originated. With the prop-
er education along the lines of hearty
co-operation and how to do It is plenty
to do, and tho co-operation would fol-
low as naturally as the night follows
the day. Are you living up to this
sort of an Idea? If not, you should
get right, and stay right.
Some of the magnificent maiden
graduates of Texa sare reading essays
on "How to Fry Chicken,” “The Sci-
ence of Rrewlng Soup” and "Cornmeal
Delleacies.” There is nothing In
skirts that can approximate the red-
headed beauties who are quitting the
Texas knowledge factories this year.
—Houston Post.
That Is something new and refresh-
ing, and really looks like business.
Nothing like the card party or the
sponsor prize education In that. Hope
the reform will spread, and get over
here in Alabama.—Birmingham Farm-
ers’ Union Guide.
While good immigrants are always
desirable, it Is well to remember that
there are many that are undesirable.
It Is well to remember, too, that Immi-
gration for the development of the
material interests of the country only
Is never a good thing for the country
In its real welfare. There Is some-
thing In life outside of the making
of money and the opening of big plan-
tations and big factories. None of
these things will “go hence” with you.
Everybody in the South whose busi-
ness success depends In any way on
cotton ought to wear cotton clothing
In warm weather. Suppose every per-
son In the cotton growing States who
is this hot day wrapped In hot wool
should go to a dry goods store tomor-
row and call for cotton goods, think
of the effect! How quickly the mills
would hear of It! How nervous they
would get Immediately about more
raw cotton, regardless of the price!
The editor of this paper swore off two
years ago from wearing any article
of clothing in hot weather not made
of cotton.—The Farmers Journal.
Those who Joined the Farmers’ Un-
ion under the delusion that It could
In some mystical way make amends
for their Inborn laziness have already
seen the barren fields of disappoint-
ment. The Union never contemplated
helping those who never help them-
selves. The ancient peoples taught
that even the gods helped only thoss
who helped themselves. The Union
wants to bring to the farmer the bene-
fit of co-operative action, so that he
will get the fullest benefit of his la-
bor. That Is a sufficient motive for
this great order.
The Earth’s Surfacs.
Two sisters, one tipping the scales
at 200 pounds or more, snd the other
■light to extreme slimness, but beau-
tiful, were being Introduced at a re-
ception.
"What’s her name?" whispered ona
young man to a friend, referring to
th* slim sister. “I didn't catch it”
“Virginia." answered the friend.
"Virginia!” repeated the young
man. In apparent surprise. "Then her
sister must be the whole United
States!”—Llpplacott'a Msgsslnsx
Tht Royal Road.
Struggling Author—Why, De Poesy,
how prosperous you look! Was your
last book of poems a success?
De Posey—No-o, can’t say that K
was.
“Published a popular novel, per-
haps?”
“No.”
"Ah, then you have written a play.
I have always held that play writing,
while not the highest form of art, waa
nevertheless—’’
“I have written no play.”
"You haven’t? Where did these fine
clothes come from? How did you pay
for that handsome turnout?”
“I have abandoned literature and
am peddling cIsl:*.”—N. Y. Weekly.
LIFE INSURANCE A 8ACRED
TRU8T.
Responsibilities of Officers and Di-
rectors.
Evidently President Kingsley of the
New York Life Insurance company
has learned the great lesson of the
times with respect to the responsibil-
ity and duty of directors of corpora-
tions. Speaking to the new board of
trustees, on the occasion of his elec-
tion to the presidency, he emphasized
the fact that “life Insurance Is more
than a private business, that life In-
surance trustees are public servants,
charged at once with the obligations
of public service and with the respon-
sibilities that attach to a going busi-
ness which at the same time must be
administered as a trust.”
He also realizes that similar respon-
sibilities rest upon the officers of the
company. “I understand," he says,
"your anxiety in selecting the men
who are day by day to carry this bur-
den for you, who are to discharge this
trust In your behalf, who are to ad-
minister for the benefit of the people
Involved the multitudinous and exact-
ing details to which it is Impossible
for you to give personal attention. My
long connection with the New York
Life—covering nearly twenty years—
my service In abont every branch of
the company’s working organization,
gives me, as I believe, a profound ap-
preciation, not merely of the heavy
burden you have placed on my shoul-
ders, but of the standards of efficiency,
the standards of faith, the standards
of integrity, which must be main-
tained at all times by the man who
serves you and the policyholders In
this high office.”
Best of all, perhapB, he feels that
words are cheap, and that the public
will be satisfied with nothing short of
performance. “My thanks, therefore,”
he continues, “for an honor which out-
ranks any distinction within the reach
of my ambition, cannot be expressed
In words; they must be read out of
the record 1 make day by day.”
One Point of View.
It was the desire of a teacher In a
negro school to Impress upon the
minds of the youths the benefits de-
rived at Tuskegee and other seats of
learning for the ambitious negro. One
day. In closing a brilliant discourse on
this subject, In which Booker T. Wash-
ington was set forth as a -criterion,
she said to one little boy who had evi-
dently heard not a word of her talk:
“Now 'Rastus, give the name of the
greatest negro?"
The answer was surprisingly forth-
coming—"Joe Cans!"
Were He a Bird.
With an ugly sneer he tossed aside
the bread which she had made with
her own hands.
“If I were only an ostrich—” he be-
gan.
But the young woman cut him
short.
"Yes, If you only were," she
snapped, “then 1 might get at least
a few decent feathers for that old hat
I’ve worn since my wedding day.”
Careful Public Guardian.
One of the pillars of the city ordi-
nances is a traffic policeman stationed
at Fourth avenue and Twenty-third
street. He loses no opportunity of
making war on persons who drop
banana peels In the street. Ho
pounces upon an offender and orders
him to pick up the slippery menace
to life and limb and to carry It to a
receptacle for waste on the sidewalks.
—New York Herald.
COULDN’T KEEP IT.
Kept It Hid from the Children.
“We cannot keep Grape-Nuts food In
the house. It goes so fast I have to
hide It, because the children love It so.
It Is just the food I have been looking
for ever so long; something that I do
not have to stop to prepare and still Is
nourishing.”
Grape-Nuts Is the most scientifically
made food on the market. It Is per-
fectly and completely cooked at ths
factory and can be served at an In-
stant's notice, either with rich cold
cream, or with hot milk if a hot dish
is desired. When milk or water is
used, a little sugar should be added,
but when cold cream Is used alone
the natural grape-sugar, which can be
seen glistening on the granules. Is suf-
ficiently sweet to satisfy the palate.
This grape-sugar is not poured over
ths granules, as some people think,
but exudes from the granules in the
process of manufacture, when the
starch of the grains Is changed from
starch to grape-sugar by the process
of manufacture. This, In effect. Is the
first act of digestion; therefore. Grape-
Nuts food Is pre-digested and Is most
perfectly assimilated by the ve-y
weakest stomach. “There's a Rea-
Curs Mends Motor Cars When Not
Engaged in Holy Offices.
Near the northern coast of France,
on a route much frequented by motor-
ists, lies the village of Graincourt.
Here a beautiful little church Is set
high among the trees, with a tower
reflected tranquilly In a lake that
sleeps beside the road, and a cemetery
half hidden in verdure. Close by is
the home of the priest, and around it
a strange litter of bicycles, motor
cycles, automobiles, oil cans and tools,
while the open door of an out building
reveals on one side a kind of garage,
on the other a repair shop. From
this building, as tho tourist ap-
proaches, comes a tall figure, with th©
body of an athlete and the head of A'
missionary, with bright eyes and a.
grizzled beard, a kindly smile, and
muscular arms beared to the elbow.
Is this the cure of Graincourt or is it
the village mechanic? He is both.
Times are hard, since the law sepa-
rating church from state went Into
effect, and one must live, explains the
cure.
M. le Cure is no martyr, however.
His father was a smith, and he grew
up with a passion for tools. When the
bicycle came in he became an ama-
teur specialist, and for 15 years he
has been mending punctured tires and
repairing broken pedals for- his flock
free of charge. Then came the motor
car, with its mysterious life, so pow-
erful in its frail envelope. The motor
car won the heart of the cure. He
loves it, and thinks he understands It.
He has even built a car and a motor
cycle for himself.
And so the fame of the mechanical
cure of Graincourt has gone abroad
throughout all the country, and at last
he has decided, without any scruple, *
to make a business of what had for-
merly been a pastime. He believes
in hls simple soul that he can be just
as good a priest, can administer the
sacraments and hear confessions Just
as well, while he earns hls living with,
his ten fingers.—New York Tribune.
PASTIME OF JOCKEYS.
Gst Their Enjoyment Out of Humble
Sports.
To the casual visitor to the race
tracks around New York, who Is quite
as much Interested In the human
spectacle as he Is in the races them-
selves, one of the elements that at-
tract his attention is that of tho
jockeys. These pale-faced little lads,
whose countenances are sadly serious
as a rule, have such a curiously boy-
ish way of enjoying themselves be-
tween races that it comes as a sur-
prise to one not familiar with their
ways to learn that one of tho racing
men threatened to suspend his $25,-
000 rider if he did not refrain from
spending hls nights at Coney island or'
In the Tenderloin.
The surprise will come to such A
man since whenever he has seen them
killing time between races they have
almost Invariably been playing num-
ble-te-peg. Seated on tho grass in
front of the quarters assigned to them,,
these boys, In their thin silks and'
featherweight boots, spend their time
absolutely absorbed in the game just
as if they were ordinary school boys-
and were not making incomes that run
up Into the thousands every year. To
look at them absorbed In this pastime
they seem so extremely youthful thatl
one might well wonder If the average
habitue of the Tenderloin would not
advise such a lad to run home and go-
to bed.
Feathered Brigands.
Following the report of ravages by
foxes In Richmond park comes news'
of wholesale massacres In London
parks by other but equally destructive
invaders. Ducklings newly hatched
about the ornamental waters of the
various parks are falling victims ter
the carrion crow. In the early morn-
ing this marauder, penetrating to the
heart of London, watches and walls In
a tree overlooking a lake, and In due
course swoops down upon the helpless
brood. One of these raids was wit-
nessed by a keeper In Kensington
gardens. Scores of ducklings have
been devoured, and so many young
birds have disappeared from the Ser-
pentine of late that it was supposed
that rats had been at work, but the
blame Is now laid on the j carrion
crow. As In the case of tne foxes,
reprisals are occasionally made by
the keepers with shotguns.—London
Globe.
Hls “Clinic” Portrait.
"That," remarked the artist casu-
ally, "Is my clinic portrait.”
’’CIIbIc,” exclaimed the visitor.
“Why drag in your father's profes-
sion?”
The painter grinned. "Well, that
Just describes it,” he declared. “I call
It that because four ladles came to
call on me one afternoon, and after
I had showed some of my work one
of them asked me If I wouldn’t show
them Just how I painted a portrait.
I asked one of them to pose for me
and sat down and did that sketch for
them in an hour. And that Is why
I call it my ’clinic.' That Is what It
was, you know.” t
Made at ths pure food factories of
the Postum Co.. Battle Creek, Mich.
Read the little health classic, "Tbs
Road to WsUvUls,” In pkga.
The Backslider.
“There is only one thing—”
The bride sighed.
“There Is only one thing more re-
markable than the fortitude with
which Tom gav& up smoking as soon
as we became engaged.”
“And what Is that, dear?” asked her
friend.
The haste with which he took It up
again after our marriage."
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1
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To all pi
oner. The
them wouh
could Burp
work.
I raged
thought Of
was a balc<
There wi
but wood*
with a ca
French wli
balcony, at
extended tl
And now
In the far
might ente
bad gainec
salon, woul
ing within'
As to th
The door
■would jam
opening it
Ing.
t gained
shutters,
through th<
It was t
entered;
signs of 1
sacked. A
pried open,
ed from th
they lay al
than one i
torn up at
As I pei
Starva wt
blind of a
they were
the knowle
was hiddei
I heard 1
excitedly,
tween the
bad fallen
Without
packet of
searching,
the envelo
scanned tl
with Intel
looking ov
read, theli
pointment
questioned
edly. She ]
with impat
And now
l though
of this ex
to the hote
long since
striking re
llrett to di
tial glance,
ment of tl
Varnler in
could I e:
night? Tl
tempted t<
oblivious t
greetings.
Mortimer,
cured in s
enough in
ognized by
Sir Mortlm
my condltl
piclon.
All the
them fittejil
untnlstaUal
This wai
llrett. Th
of papers t
presence c
them had
sion to hit
And no\
papers?
Had I se
invitation
chateau a
ply to brh
Mortimer?
In that
they did i
leaving m
rooms to
the morroi
Or was t
ventures i
the game
Still 1 w
these peri
an answer
pars now.
sullen glc
glided to a
A loud
Into the 1
much as tl
nier thrusi
of her drei
a sign fre
Dions, she
outward s
“What h
demanded
’’It Is H
the tntrud
"To-mori
“But th«
who says
lency."
It would
this startl
more that
breathless
mind seer
him. He
pricket. J
contnmptu
folly. He
renewed h
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