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NAPOLEON'S TOMB
AND VERSAILLES
(Prormwive Farmer.)
He was not a young man swept
off hU feet by youthful enthusiasm:
he was a man upon whose head
were the snows of more than three
score winters but whose mind is
active as ever, and he was talking
to me last spring of his trip to
Europe a year ago and especially
of the magnificent mausoleum
which the French people have
erected as the last resting place of
Napoleon Bonaparte.
By Heai en," he exclaimed, "it
was worth the trip across the At
lantic to stand at the tomb of that
colossal man!M
The Tomb
1 am now almost prepared to
atjree with him, certainly I have
Npen nothing more impressive
sincv I left America. The splen
did structure, beautiful and airy
as a palace, built entirely of white
marble and surmounted by a gild
ed dome, itself challenges interest
and admiration; but it is only
when we enter the spacious chnpel
that the sublimity of the buiMera
conception dawns upon us. Here
is solemnity un marred by any
suggestion of the fuueral; the maj
esty of death without any trace of
its gruesomeness. Massive bronze
doors guard the entrance to where
the y rest in its immense sar
cophagus, and by the side of the
doors are two kingly statues bear
ing in their hands the symbols of
earthly iowrr and dominion, the
one the globe and the sword, the
other the crown an 1 the sceptre.
On either side stain glass win
dows such as I have seen no where
else in the world let in the light
in a golden flood suggesting the
lieauly anil calm of a uolden sun
set. Above you me the words
from Napoleon's will, written in
distant St. Heh-na: "I desire that
my body shall rest on the banks
of the Seine, I among the
French whom I have loved so
well." There is pathos unspeak
able uUut the words and about
the tragedy which they call to
mind. Once he could have willed
kingdoms and crowns: the proud
est thrones of Kurope had leen at
his disposal, and he had given
sceptres to his brothers and his
favorites as if crowns were but the
baubles of an hour. Now tne Na
poleon who makes his last testa
ment sees Death, the conqueror
of conquerors, coming as a relief,
ami he who--
1 !! trxl the wvi of plorv
Ami sounded ull th depths and hoalH
of honor."'
can wTiTlittle but his body itself,
and cannot know that even this re
quest for a burial place will be
granted. Weary and heartsick,
broken w ith the storms of state,
how it would have rejoiced his
heart could he have known with
what honor his ashes would finally
be entombed in his loved Paris and
how here for aeons to come trav
elers from ever3T corner of the
earth wculd pause to pay tribute
to one of the mightiest men who
ever walked this globe of ours.
Napoleon's Cares
The fame of Napoleon is the
surer lecaue of the threefold
character of his appeal to human
interest the romance of his rise,
the epic of his achievements, the
the tragedy of his fall: each in
itself sublime. Born of humble
parents and upon a narrow- island,
his imperial mind and will won
him place after place until he be
came the mightiest name in a
thousand years of history. Pow
er such as the Caesars had not
known was his, and when he walk
ed into the church at St. Denis
here to wed the daughter of a
King, he might have dreamed not
without warrant of becoming the
master of all Europe. He had
great faults, I grant, but in charac
ter few of our chiefest warrior
rulers stand above him, and so
long as the minds of men are stir
red by mighty deeds wrought in
spite of frowning circumstances,
and so long as men's hearts are
moved by the tragedy of a great
man's fall, just so long will the
blood quicken when Napoleon's
name is mentioned, and just so
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long will men make pilgrimage
here, as I have done, to Notre
Dame where he was crowned, to
St. Denis where he married, to
his tomb here where he is buried.
and to the Museum of History
where so many relics, both of his
palmy days and of his twilight in
lonely St. Helena are shown to
interest thousands.
Of so much interest is the cen
ter of Napoleon, and I have seen
so many traces of his foot steps
here some of his letters, his cor
onation robes, his bed-room and
reception rooms at Versailles, the
unpromising-looking rooms over
looking the Seine where he lodged
before he became famous, his
chair and bench and camp-bed
from St. Helena, and his sword.
saddle, hat and his famous war
coat that it is hard not to give an
entire article to this one subject;
but I must hurry on, for Paris
is full of historic and notable spots,
and I am trying to tell in a letter
what should be told in a book.
The French Bitylon
Our first full day in Paris was
spent at Versailles, where the
trench Kings once lived in shame
less splendor and unconcern, and
where a corrupt and profligate
court once piled up wrath against
the day of wrath, until the storm
broke in blood and fury upon them
some six score years airo. ror
long. long decades had the weary
peasants of France toiled from
3'ear's end to year's end, only to
see King and priest and noble seize
the lion's share of their hard-won
harvests, a government all the while
growing more haughty and rotten
and corrupt, and the peasant's
lot harder and more hopeless.
Stolid and spiritless ierhaps this
ieasant seemed to the proud no
bles who lived upon his labors and
despised him, who felt that neith
er he nor his family had any rights
that they were bound to respect;
antl yet an Edwin Markham would
have seen in this oppressed and
clouted figure the portent and
prophecy of the coming Revolu
tion.
"O masters, lords and rnlers in all
land.
How will the fntnre reckon with the
Man
How answer his brots question in that
hour
When whirlwinds of rebellion shake the
world t
How will it be with kingdoms and
with kings- -With
those who shaped him to be the
thing he is
When this dumb Terror shall reply to
(od
After the silence of the centuries If"
Let us go then to Versailles to
day and see where the French
once reared its lofty head, where
women as vile as they were beau
tiful once ruled the court of
France, and where the peasant's
hard-earned taxes were wasted in
vice and gambling and display.
Here before us now is the gorgeous
bed upon which Louis XIV., the
Grand Monarch," died in 1715,
and we may well wonder if in
death the avenging angel did not
whisper to him of the impending
doom which his folly had done so
much to insure; or if neither he
nor his yet more worthless suc
cessor, Louis XV , (who died in a
room to our left) did not once
stumble upon a hearing or reading
of that passage wherein we are
told that the cries of the defrauded
laborer have "entered into the
ears of the Lord of Sabaoth,"
and
"Your riches are corrupted and your
garments are moth-eaten. Your gold
and silver is cankered and the rust of
them shall be a witness against you.
and shall eat your flesh as it were fire."
We may not know whether or
not this fearful warning ever came
to the ears of a pleasure-loving
court that once flitted through the
royal palace of Versailles, but the
record of these historic walls only
affords fresh proof that the Ados
tle's language is sound political
as it is religious doctrine. The
mills of the gods grind slowly,
but they grind exceedingly small."
The avenging Nemesis of nations
never sleep; the relentless recti
tude of Nature never fails. On
heedless ears too often falls the
phrase, 'The wages of sin is
death," and yet all human history,
even more loudly than the Book
of itself, proclaims the truth of
this everlasting doctrine. Today
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careless seems the Great Avenger
as we look upon Versailles, and
with our mind's eye people it
-again with those lordly figures
who hare lived in pleasure on
earth and been wanton, who have
condemned and killed the just";
but yonder in the distance looms
the Place la Concorde where with
our mind's eve weee the bloody
guillotine, and the heads of King
and Queen and nobles required in
this final settlement with long de
layed and patient justice.. The
debt of the ages is settled. Those
who hare sowed the wind hare
reaped the whirlwind or alas! in
too many cases, not they them
selve, but their children and child
ren s children.
This is the tragedy of life
that Naturejtself immortal, reck
ons not of man's mortality. Your
father owed a debt and died having
enjoyed but not having settled;
and you, standing in his place,
must pay. Your father through
sin and crime made grievous debt
to Mature, and his children, with
meaner souls and diseased bodies,
must pay the price. And even so
one generation or citizens per
mits injustice, fosters evil,
whether by indifference or by
vicious intent, it matters not
and the next generation must pay
the price in war and riot and rev
olution. Our Revolutionary fathers-in
America, North and South,
tempted of Mammon, permitted
and encouraged the sin of human
slavery; our fathers a generation
ago, from XNortn and outn, paid
the awful price in peace and blood
and treasure. The French nobility
for centuries ground the faces of
the poor, violated their homes.
robbed them of the fruit of their
labor,' until the French Revolution,
the hideous progeny of their long,
long years of evil, came forth in
the fulness of time to plague their
children and must stand forever
as one of the most fearful night
mares of human history. Read
Dickens' 4 Tale of two Cities" and
the story of the . prisoner in the
Bastille (Dr. Manette. I think, is
the name), abd you will wonder
how any one could have expected
any other harvest from such a
sowing.
For the excesses of the Revolu
tion I have no excuse; no one is
further than I from wishing to
palliate its own shameful crimes.
but no one who knows history can
stand today at Versailles and think
of its corrupt court, the symbol of
wrong and oppression, and then
stand tomorrow at the Place la
Concorde and think of the hun
dreds of nobles whose lives the in
furiated populace here required,
and not see - that the one follows
the other as inevitably as the night
follows the day.
With nations as with individuals,
it is the weary round of history:
oday you make the debt; tomor-
row you must pay tne price.
Whatsoever man or nation sow-
eth that also shall man or nation
reap. Clarance H. Poe.
Paris, France.
A Clrerymin's Jokes.
(Charlotte Observer.)
As a result of the arrival of
Rev. John W. Stagg, of Birming
ham, Ala., several good negro
stories are in circulation. Yester
day afternoon, while talking to a
party of his old friends here, Dr.
Stagg said:
That reminds me of Capt. W.
W. Davies' old negro who fell off
three story building to the as
phalt sidewalk.
'When the old fellow struck,
Captain Davies ran to him, think
ing that he had been killed, but he
was not. As the darkey scrambled
to his feet Captain Davies asked:
Uncle George are you injured?'
No sir, not much. I wuz right
much confused when I started, but
after I hit I wuz all right.' "
'It was in a criminal court at
Birmingham," said Dr. Stagg,
and Jim Smith, colored was on
trial for stealing clothes from a
dude. The solicitor had made it
pretty plain that Jim was guilty."
"What have you got to say
about it Jim," asked the court.
'Dere ain't much fur me to
me to say, boss, since it's as it is,
said the negro, begging for mercy.
'Well, I guess if you submit I
will, have to make it as light as
possible on you. There is nothing
to do but estimate the value of the
clothes.' -
The dude began to value his
clothes. This Stetson hat, please
your honor, cost me $5. This
English overcoat $75, and the dress
suit, I am ashamed to say, $80.'
"Here the negro perked up:
'J edge, kin I git in er word right
dere. fo, you go any f udder?
" Boss, I submit dat I tookdem
things, but at no sich prices as
dat.'"
And this cow," said Farmer
Corntossel, "is a Jersey, Miss An
nie." "A Jersey," cried Miss Apnie,
"and t suppose the one with the
cute little pink dots is a shirt
waist."
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A SORRY RECORD.
Some of the Thlirs the Roosevelt
AiffllBistrstloa Bis Dose tni
Some ft Bis Left UcJoae.
(New York World.)
The question "Shall the People
Rule?" is too general in its terms
for a campaign issue. It is hardly
a good battle-cry. Both Mr. Bry
an and Mr. Taft will be compelled
very soon to get much closer than
they have yet approached to the
vital questions which are upper
most in the public mind. Abstrac
Uons will not do. There must be
firing at the mark.
We have had nearly seven years
of Rooseveltism without convincing
evidence as yet Of popular disap
proval. Democrats have vied, with
Republicans in support of the most
extravagant, the most violent, the
most truculent and the most arbi
trary of Administrations. It is
probable that too much unanimity
on the part of the people in favor
of Mr. Roosevelt has led him into
many of his excesses.
In spite of his great ability, wide
experience and natural conserva
tism, Mr. Taft, professing to ad
mire all that the present Adminis
tration has done, insists that there
is no issue except its endorsement
Instead ot accepting the challenge
Mr. Bryan endeavors to separate
Mr. Roosevelt from his party,
praising the one by inference and
condemning the other in detail.
Thus no issue is joined. No issue
will be joined unless the campaign
proceeds on different lines.
That the Roosevelt Administra
tion, which is attempting to pro
ject itself into the future, is highly
vulnerable, needs no proof beyond
the presentation of the bare facts.
1. It has been extravagant and
wasteful.
2. It has attempted to popular
ize war.
3. It has gloried in Phillipine
imperialism.
4. It has menanced the States
with Federal usurpation by means
of constructive jurisprudence.
5. It has recklessly undermined
confidence in our business methods,
causing panic, depression, and suf
fering.
6. It has profited by the politi
cal contributions of corporations
seeking legislative favors.
7. It has spoken vociferously
against the malefactors of great
wealth, but it has not brought one
of them to justice.
8. It has bullied Congress,
threatening to do as it pleased, law
or no law.
9. It has assailed the courts
when their judgements were con
trary to its wishes.
10. It has maintained the high
est tariff ever known in a free
country and has made no move
in favor of income and inheritance
taxes.
11. It has constantly demanded
law and more law for the prosecu
tion of trusts, although existing
aws are held to be too drastic for
enforcement.
12. It is now attempting to
round out a career of wilfulness,
greed, ambition and tyranny by
forcing the election of a personally
excellent and amiable Proxy,
There must be Opposition to
this sort of thing. It must be spe
cific, intelligent and forcible. It
must take account of the one re
sponsible man. What more invit
ing opening could a truly Demo
cratic party seek? It is hardly
worth while for Democratic lead
ers to ask if the people shall rule
and then pause for a reply. It is
their duty to show, how the people
may rule more wisely and more
justly than they have ruled in the
recent past; how laws may be en
forced; how money may be saved
and taxation decreased; how the
high ideals of self-governmen may
be advanced; how respect for the
rights 6f others may be restored,
and how prosperity may be re-established.
Initiative.
(Elbert Hnbbard.)
The world bestows its big prizes,
both in money and honors, for but
one thing. And that is Initiative.
What is Initiative? I'll tell you:
it is doing the right thing without
being told. But next to doing the
thing without being told is to do
it when you are told' once. That
is to say carry the Message to
Garcia: those who can carry a
message get high honors, but their
pay is not always in proportion.
Next, there are those who never
do a thing until thev are told twice:
such get no honors and small
pay.
Next, there are those who do
the right thing only when necessi
ty kicks them'; from behind, and
these get indifference instead of
honors, and a pittance for pay.
This kind spends most of its time
polishing a bench with a hard-luck
story.
Then, still lower down the scale
than this, . we have the tfellow who
will not do' the right thing even
when some one goes along to show
him how and stays to see that he
does it: he is always out of a job,
and receives the contempt he de
serves nnless he has a rich Pa,
in which 'case Destiny patiently
awaits around the corner with a
stuffed club.
To which class do you belong?
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ftsslBr of tne Cheraw Bridge As
Event of Note.
(Cheraw Chronicle)
The Seaboard trestle was in bad
shape and the embankment on the
Marlboro side was gradually giving
away, a force of hands was there
at work putting in bags of sand in
an effort to stop the washout, but
it was ot no effect. Against one
of the stone piers of the Seaboard
trestle was accumulated a large
raft of trees, limbs, heavy timbers
and other debris, and several ef
forts were made to get it off. Fin
ally, dynamite was resorted to but
apparently to no avail. After rest
ing awhile the hands would return
to the work of setting- the raft
loose, and finally, at about 10 min
utes after 11 o'clock, they succeed
ed. This raft then started on
mad rush down the river. It
reached the public bridge in an in
credibly short time and struck
broadside the span of the bridge
on the Marlboro side of the river.
As it struck, the bridge rose up in
the air (or water), went down in
the water, rose majestically, turned
end foremost down the stream and
sailed away to be seen no more by
the citizens of Cheraw, many of
whom loved it almost as if it were
one of their children.
The Sherman" freshet, when
the water rose to a height of 38
feet 4 inches, has heretofore held
the belt. This freshet was in the
spring of 1865. Rain fell for about
10 days. Wheeler's cavalry was
camped here and could not cross
because of high water. Just as
soon as the water receded Wheeler
crossed over. When Sherman ar
rived, only a short while after, he
was stopped because the bridge
had been burned by Wheeler's
men, and before the ground dried
off sufficiently for Sherman to
stretch his pontoon bridge, Wheeler
and his men had made good their
escape, isecause of the circum
stances surrounding this occasion
this freshet the largest ever
known up to that date has since
always been spoken of as the
Sherman" freshet. May we, and
the coming generation, be able to
refer to this 45$ footer as the
"Bryan" freshet, or as the big
freshet the year Bryan was elected
President.
Two counties are cut apart by
the washing away of the bridge.
This breaks a public highway, and
it looks to The Chronicle as if it
will be up to Marlboro and Ches
terfield counties to furnish the per
manent connecting link.
It was in 1865 that the old bridge
was burned by Wheeler's cavalry
as a military measure. The bridcre
was rebuilt in" the year 1867 by the
Cheraw Bridge Company, a pri
vate corporation, and was operated
as a toll bridge until 1898, when it
was bought by the town of Cheraw
and made a free bridge. This
bridge has been repeatedly pro
nounced by experts one of the best
bridges they ever saw.
Yes, What Do Tbey Mean?
Most people have noticed that
no matter what political candidate
gets up to speak, as a rule he re
ceives some kind of an ovation.
Judging from the noise often made
on such occassions, one would
hink his "call and election sure"
but, along with his admiring
friends, that same candidate has
earned that the people didn't
mean that he was going to get all
the votes in that section. A story
told by one of the presidential can-
cidates, illustrates he point at is
sue. Mr. Taft made a speech re
cently at the fortieth annual reun
ion of l ale's Philadelphia alumni.
After he was introduced and arose
to speak, the guests began shout-
ng, 'Taft for me!" and Mr. Taft
hereupon began his speech with
this anecdote:
"I heard once of a small boy
named Johnny, who was playing
in the cellar. His mother was on
the fourth floor and wanted John
ny. So she called over the banis
ters to him. No response. Then
she called again, and again, and
still again, and still had no answer.
Then at last there came faintly up
to her in a boyish treble: Say,
Ma, do you really want me, or are
you only hollering'?'"
Worst Flood in 113 Years.
Raleigh, Aug. 23. It is said
that there is absolute evidence that
there has not been rain and flood
conditions hereabouts so severe as
those just receding in 113 years
past. New Chapel, who was born
born in 1812 and lived to be ninety-eight
years old, had direct evi
dence of a water mark made by
floods in Crabtree creek, near
Raleigh, in 17-j that had never
been attained by any subsequent
flood. This time, however, this
mark was reached and even ex
ceeded by a foot or more, accord
ing to statements vouched for by
Commissioner. BeddiDgfield and
Chief Clerk George W. Norwood,
of the department of state.
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G0VERN0R GLENN COMING
To Speak la Wilesooro on Friday.
September 18th Political Issues
Will Be Discussed.
North Carolina's eloquent Gov
ernor. Hon. K. a. ulenn, will
speak in Wadesboro on September
the 18th at 11 o'clock. He comes
here by assignment of State Dem
ocratic Chairman A. H. Filer, and
will speak in the interest of the
Democratic parti . Come and hear
him.
Rockinfhim Man Broke Up Farmers
Convention With a Fish Story.
(Raleigh Times.)
Col. H. C. Dockery of Rocking
ham, who is here attending the
Farmers' Convention, broke up the
meeting with one of his Munchau
sen narratives.
Col. Dockery started off by ask
ing how many of the farmers pres
ent had ever had black snakes to
relieve their cows of the milk. On
receiving several answers to his
question, he related his peculiar
experience. He had noticed his
cows coming in every afternoon
without any milk. This mysteri
ous disappearance of the milk con
tinued for several days and no Ex
planation could be given bxhe
boy attending the cows. The boy
was given a shotgun and told to
shoot the first man or beast that
even looked cross-eyed at his cat
tle. But that afternoon the cows
m .
came in dry as on previous after
noons.
Mr. Dockery became alarmed by
the state of affairs and determined
to find out for himself the cause of
the lack of milk. In accordance
with his determination, he himself
went down to the pasture and
stayed with the cows all day and
nothing happened to arouse his
suspicion until the cows went into
the river to take their afternoon
draught. When they went inter
the water their bags were full, and
when they came out the milk had
disappeared. He remembered see
ing quite a rustle in the water
when the cows waded in, so he had
an idea what was happening.
Next day he hung some fishhooks
to each of the cows' bags and sat
down by the river to await results.
The cows waded in, the usual rus
tle accompanying their entrance,
and when they had finished drink
ing it was with great difficulty that
they came out of the water. To
he surprise of everybody around,
about a dozen huge eels were hang
ing to each cow.
The convention stampeded and a
motion to adjourn was passed by
acclamation.
Republican Editor Sits Down to Dish
of Crow.
( States ville Landmark)
After the Democratic State con
vention, editor Hildebran, of the
Industrial News, rubbed it on var
ious Democratic editors who had
been pretty severe on Mr. Kitchin
before the convention, jeering
while they made the best of their
dish of crow. Now Editor Hilde
bran is having his dish of crow.
It will be recalled that a few weeks
ago he wrote a letter, which found
its way into the newspapers, in
which he denounced Mr. J. 1
wood Cox, saying among other
hings that if Cox was nominated
by the Republicans for Governor
some one other than himself would
have to write the editorials for the
Industrial News supporting him,
as between xjox and mtcnen ne
Hildebran) would prefer to vote
or Kitchen. Hildebran is eating
i .a vr
nis crow in silence mostly, it is
to be said to nis credit tnat so tar
he hasn't slopped over for Cox but
he will come around all right
by and by.
Another Opinion of tne Peebles Sun
day School Decision.
(Lexington Dispatch.)
Judge Peebles has got the church
people buzzing around his ears
ike angry bees because of his
somewhat startling decision that
he exercises carried on in a Sun
day school do not constitute reli
gious worship so that disturbing a
Sunday school would come under
the law which forbids disturbing
religious worship. Apparently he
ranks the Sunday school, so far as
being religious under the law is
concerned, with the Legislature,
which opens with prayerl If Sun
day school services arent religious
services, some millions of people
have strangely twisted ideas, and
they will be loath to part with
them because of this decision.
Some fear that it will lay the bars
down to toughs who are wont to
break loose at Sunday schools, but
the fact that about everybody but
the judge looks on the services as
entirely religious will continue to
guarantee good order at the church
training schools.
J. F. Hinkel shot and killed
Mrs. Emma Anderson, a keeper of
boarding house at Seneca last
week and then killed himself.
The shooting was probably due to
ealousy
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Sunday School Department
Caadactei ftjr Steclal Edttsr.
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13
Lesson. - David Made King
Over .Judah and Israel. 2 Sam-
nel 2:1-17 and 5:1-5.
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and grew great, and the Lord
God of Hosts was with him."
Samuel 5:10.
Time. David became King
over Judah in 1055 B. C. and in
1048 he became king over all Is
rael.
Place. The first capital was at
Hebron.
BEFORE THE LESSON
After the death of Saul, a young
man hastened to Ziklag and told
David that Saul and Jonathan
were dead. Thinking that he
HTi-n Iri r ranrowion Kh nlflimon
tnat ne nad slain c?aui at nis own
request. David, angry that the
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Lord's anointed king had been
killed causes the young man to lie
put to death.
EXEGETICAL
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David enquired of the Lord.
Possibly through prayer. God
told him to go to Hebron. Here
the men of Judah . met and he was
anointed king over Judah. This
is the public anointing, that by
Samuel in the earlier dav was Dri-
vate. David -nhep sends an em
bassy to the men of Jabesh-Gil-
ead and expresses nis joy at their
kindness in the,, burial of Saul s
body. This also an indirect ap
peal for their allegiance. Ishbo-
sheth, Saul's son is reigning over
Israel. He reigned two years and
after his death, the tribes of Is-
real came to David at Hebron and
the reunion of the kingdom takes
place. David is now the king over
tne whole nation, uavid was
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thirty years old when he was an
ointed at Herbron and thirty sev
en when he became the king over
Israel.
C0MMENTATIVE
The crown was in sight, but it
did not dazzle David. He showed
allegiance to Israel's God and
would take no step until directed
by Him. He knew that he was
God's choice for the throne, but
he was set on ruling under divine
guidance. ... No one needs the
wisdom of God more than those
who rule and upon none is He
more willing to confer his guid
ing spirit. Hatcher.
David's treatmem of the men
of Jabesh-Gilead shows hirii
to great advantage. It was no
rick of the politician, though the
politician would see it in no other
ight. It was the recognition of
real merit. It was a proof of
David's freedom from narrowing
jealousies. It marked the king as
aconstructive statesman, everready
to use good men for the good of
his kingdom. After all the poli
tician and the statesman often do
the same thing under similar con
ditions, but from different motives.
The true man does right for
right's dear sake. Hatcher.
The men of Jabesh needed to be
'valiant' if they were to acknowl
edge David. It was a far cry to
Hebron and the forces of the son
of Saul were over-running the
northern districts. We have to
take our sides in the age-long and
world-wide warfare between God's
king and the pretenders to his
throne, and it often wants much
courage to do so when sur
rounded by antagonists. It seems
a long way off to the true mon
arch and Abner's army was a
very solid reality and very near.
But it is safest to take the side of
the distant, rightful king. Mac
laren. David was a capital waiter. He
knew how to wait patiently, for
he was brought up to it. One
of his trying waits was for the un
ification of Israel; it took seven
years for it to come, but the king
fretted not nor yielded to folly.
His soul waited on God and was
quiet and the blessing in due
time. Much of God's mercy and
much of our training, is found in
the lodge of delay. Hatcher.
So David reached the throne at
last. Schooled by suffering, and
in the full maturity of his powers,
enriched by the singularly varied
experiences of his changeful life,
tempered by the swift, consolidated
by heavy blows, he has
been welded into a fitting instru
ment for. God's purposes. Thus
does He prepare for larger service.
Thus does he ever reward patient
trust. Through trials to a throne
is the law for all noble lives in re
gard to their earthly progress, as
well as in regard to the re
lation between earth and heaven.
"No cross, no crown" is the lesson
of .David's life. Maclaren.
PRACTICAL
"In all thy ways acknowledge
Him and he shall direct thy path."
In all things God knows best.
His lime is the best time. We
can afford to wait God's time.
We should cultivate the habit
of seeing the good in other people.
It does not require much effort to
see the faults of others.
Two of the best virtues to be
cherished are prudence and pati
ence. They should be in partner
ship, in every life., It pays to
wait : ; . ; . .
- The waiting . times of life are
the preparation periods. God is
fitting us for life's responsibilities.
Let us with patience and prayer
fulness await His call.
He leadeth me in the paths of
righteousness for His name's sake.
God leading! We follow. He is
our shepherd. The true ruler is
a shepherd as well as a prince.
David went on and grew great
and the Lord God of Hosts was
with him. God is ever with the
man who 'goes on God ward.
That man 'grows great and still
greater' because God is with him.
ILLUSTRATIVE
Adolf Lorenz was a poor boy
wandering about the streets of Vi
enna, He early conceived the am
bition to be a surgeon. He says:
"After many struggles, I had over
come all obstacles, I taught gen
eral surgery and the dream of my
life was to become a famous sur
geon. The dream never came true.
I contracted a peculiar form of
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eczema. I could not follow my
chosen work. So it was by neces
sity that I became a dry surgeon."
That seemingly hard providence
thus became the stepping stone on
which Prof. Lorenz has risen to be
the most famous surgeon in his
specialty in the world today.
Obedience the Wat to Sue-
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cess. in f russia a while ago a
switch-tender found that an ap
proaching express train would be
derailed on account of a misplaced
switch. As he turned to replace
the switch, he saw his only child,
a boy of five years, playing be
tween the rails on the track of the
approaching train. If he stopped
to adjust the switch he would lose
his boy; if he stopped to save his
boy, he would lose his train. He
cried, "William, lie down flat"
The boy immediately lay down be
tween the rails just where he wis.
flat on the ground, and the train
passed over him without hurting a
hair of his head. One moment's
hesitation, asking why, disputing
the reasonableness of the command,
would have lost him his life. It
was the implicit obedience of the
child to the explicit command that
saved the father's heart from lacer
ation and saved the boy's body
from destruction.
' Tifl not for man to trifle: life is brief
And Bin in here.
Our age is bnt the falling of a leaf.
A aropping tear.
We have no time to sport away the
hnnra?
All must be earnest in a world like ours
"Not many lives, but only have we; .
One. onlv one.
How sacred should that one life ever be
Day after day filled up with blessed toil.
Hour after hour "till brinjrinK in new
Bpoil."
A Woman's Hero Inn.
(Baltimore Son.)
History has presented few exam
ples of creater heroism than that
of Mrs. S. J. Rooke, the telephone
operator of Folsom, N. Jd., who,
when warned by a resident ol the
bills to flee for her life from the
flood speeding to engulf the valley,
rejected the opportunity to save
herself and employed the hour that
intervened between the warning
and her own death by drowning in
calling up subscribers by telephone
and acquainting them Of their dan-
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ger. More than u famines nave
alread acknowledged their lives
saved through the magnificent
courage of one frail woman, whose
ifeless bod v. with the telephone
head niece still adiusted to her ears
was found 12 miles down the can
yon.
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