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:'iof a PdvciteDctGdivfe Trta I.arraiivea of Interesting Cases by a Former Operve of the Wullam J. Burns Detective Agency By DAVID CORMKLL (UwrrtcMariaa A MADE TO ORDER BANK BURGLARY out of their Hue, and they were re lieved to have soma on arrive on whom they could unload the burden ot their worry. "I had aeared tor years that It waa coming." said Ollea. "Every night lor the loo tAllta mm m. -. a a, a. "Tha Welldon Community hanh. of ,oceaTp thTt ola'tashtonVd V.uT hare aald to myaelf : 'What would ha How a Vault and a Reputation Were mattered by Too Muoh Dynamite weiiaon, M. y, waa robbed by aafe- Diowers laat night Nitroglycerin waa uaed to open the bank vault with die- aatroua reaulta to one ot the robbers, who waa blown to piece by the ex plosion. Hie confederates successful ly looted the bank and obtained 185,- vuu in casn." Thla little Item carried by the vari- oua .New York papera waa the genesis of my connection with the great Weii aon community bank robbery. A few houre after the papera carrying the newa were on tha atreet I wai on my way 10 welldon, ordered by the Burns agency to investigate the case aa representative of the National Bank- era- Protective association. As the reader probably Is not famll- lar with the Welldon community It la necessary to delay my atory a trifle in order that the situation, may be made more clear. Thla community la one or several of the sort that may be iouno,in southern New York and . northern Pennsylvania. It as found ed about 1840 by an Englishman named Welldon, who was in hla own ay a seeker after a modern Utopia. Welldon believed that our whole ays- tem of living in cities, crowded and uncomfortable, or in country districts, uoiaiea ana lonesome, waa all wrong. He believed that the amall community. arty families, for Instance, gathered ( around a common center, and yet not gathered so closely together as to make an actual town, was the Ideal, as well as the practical way, for mankind to dwell. He had made something of a fortune In the mill business in Bag land. Unable to put into practice in that country his novel idea, he came to America and, after considerable searching, fixed upon the rich farming alley in southern New Tork aa the pen u a aafe-blower knew what a weak door stands between thla bank's money and a robber?' I have recom mended time after time the Installa tion of new vaults, but you gentlemen of the directorate have seen lit to be lieve that economy ahould continue to I locking the door, When "Mehaffey came ha took one look at the dead yetg. lifted his hands and examined the back of them and found some tattoo marks and aald "Sailor Benny, aa I'm alive! How did ha ever get so far from Omaha? And how did ha aver put In too much soup? He waa the prince of them all in knowing Just how much it took to loosen a door. By glory! Cornell, there a something queer about thla Benny never overloaded In his life." The dynamite expert and the safe man came In on tha next train and the three of us entered the vault room of the bank together. The dynamite man took one look around and aald "Shut the door." Tha aafa man obeyed and, to make aura, I hung my coat over tha key hole. "My gad!" aald tha safe man. al most crying, "It lant possible. No safe of ours could be blown up In that fashion. Bay, nobody ever could blow one of our safes up in that fashion- not even one of these old ones, "Yes," said the dynamite man, "! done it myself. "How?" "On a test," said the other. "By loading the safe on the inside and then "Hhe'e a bad case, Cornell,- he said. "Yes," I said, "because .the man who put that soup in there to go off when Benny came must have had something to hide, and thla waa the way he took to Side It Mehaffey, I said, suddenly, "you , and Durango both know all about Benny'a old haunts out in Omaha. Better run out there right away and sea If you can find why Benny came east" "Ye-es," said ha, slowly. "That's about tha way she will work out Why did Benny come east? Who got him arrest for robbing the Welldon munjty bank of 185,000." "Great Scottr he said. "Do you know what you are (talking about? "I hope not" t aald. "Let ma tell you what I have discovered since came to Welldon: I discovered that you have been an inveterate Wall street gambler for the last ten years, It wasn't bard to do that; the brokers keep a list of every out-of-town trader they do business with. You had been trading under' the Dame of Travera, to come? That'a the question that'a but your broker knew who you were, spot most favorable for the location of the Welldon . community. There he . -brought together about thirty families. bringing most of them from his native land, England. He established a co- " operative store, a blacksmith shop, a school, a church, a mill, in fact every - thing needed to supply the welfare of an agricultural community including the Welldon Community bank. This bank, while it was owned and patron- Ized mainly by the people of the com munity, was chartered and managed ' as any amall country bank would be. . Wrtldon had conducted Its affairs him- self at first At hla death it had passed - to his son so far aa management was concerned, though the title remained in the community. Welldon's son had . continued the banking business aa suc cessfully aa hfs father had done before him, and the bank waa as prosperous and sound aa a amall bank possibly could be. It had never become a pow- er, but on the other hand, it had never been in trouble once during its whole . . existence. Welldon's son had died a few years before the robbery occurred, and the management thereupon had passed Into the hands of Giles, the cashier, He had done fully aa well by the bank aa the Welldons had, and the com munity bad trusted its money to the bank'a care as implicitly as ever. The bank had proved time and again that it waa panic-proof; but it wasn't bur glar-proof. After over sixty-five years ".' of successful operation It had been cleaned out by the conventional acci dent of safe-blowing. Altogether It was a remarkable situation. ! I found the little place in the great est stir of its history when I alighted from the accommodation train that carried me from the nearest city up the spur to Welldon community. There wasn't much ,of a town at Welldon, only a few stores, offices, warehouses and houses strung along the road in the center of the farms of the valley. The bank was a neat old gray-stone building that occupied ' a position of honor In the middle of it all. It waa a ' compact sturdy looking building, ob viously built with a view to guarding t- a well as possible whatever might be S pt Inside. Around the building were thered most of the people of the community. The rest of them were ' zzing around the undertaker's shop ross the road, where the body of s slain safe-blower 'lay for the pres- - t. r were doing their respective duties ; assertive fashion, and the people 1 to content themselves with stand : and looking at the outsides of the lings containing the objects that l e roused their curiosity. They the most shocked and horror- n group that I had seen for a ' t r,e. It was the first real crime ? importance that had ever been ted in the valley within the y of the oldest inhabitant and munity was so awd by the -f it that there was scarcely a t k " in the whole crowd. !, to the bank first and my card r t tlie sheriff's deputy. 1 ! ly Llr. .Giles, the presi- k, and the board of di- . wore asfsflmbled in the . " ' y were glad to see , f 'he'Utng altogether be our watchword. Far be It from me to pretend to criticize, but there might be a different tale to tell this morning if there had been a modern vault In this bank." "Oh, well," said one ot the directors, 'I suppose these safe-blowers could get Into any kind of a safe, couldn't they, Mr. Cornell?" ' Some of them can," I replied. "It depends on their skill. Suppose we take a look at the safe." Giles promptly led us into the rear room, where the vault was located. 1 never have seen a vault or safe that had been used more roughly than the one that now was before my eyes. In the language of the profession, it had been "all shot to pieces." The door had been cracked and torn and twist ed and firing across the room. Pieces of bolts, bars and Iron were lying all over. It was Impossible to tell what kind ot a door It had been that locked in the Welldon community's money, so shattered was it An enormous amount of horse blankets had been used to muffle the sound of the explo sion. A big charge," I said; "a desperate ly big charge. They must have wanted to make sure of blowing her open and didn't fear to. make a noise. Please leave everything Just as it is and let ua step across and look at the man who got caught In the explosion." We Mr. Giles, the directors and myself went over to the undertaking We looked at one another. "That Is what waa done here, Isn't it?" I said. "Absolutely." said the dynamite man. '., I sent for Mehaffey and told him what had been said. 'Then the Job never waa of Sailor Benny'a doing," said he Instantly. "Good gad, man! The load must have been put in by the man who locked the door. And then how did Benny come to be killed cracking the door?' The dynamite man and the safe man prepared to withdraw. "I guess the case is all up to you, Mr. Cornell," they said. "It looks like work for a 'tec.'" They went away and Mehaffey and I sat down to theorize behind the locked door. . "Cornell," said Mehaffey, "there is this about this Job: Somebody had to be answered. Durango etars in that piece; he used to work In Omaha and knows Benny's girt- When we came out of tha vault room I aald to the president: Well, Mr. Giles, we have done about all we can do here. What we've got to do now Is to to try to look for this dead robber's confederate, the man who got the money. We will do our best, out t assure you It will be a hard task to find htm.' "I fear so, Mr. Cornell," said Giles. But you people are very capable, 1 understand." We never have fallen down on a case yef I aald aa we left him. ; a I suspect that Durango at one time or another had been on the other side of the fence, for), his knowledge of criminals, their hang-outs, their man ners and their associates in this coun try was something too intimate to have been picked up as a detective. Durango could at any time go to any city In the country, go straight to the criminal quarter and be accepted as one of the bunch without the slightest suspicion. This was his sole qualifica tion as a detective, however, so he was valuable only at infrequent inter vals. In this case he was, as Mehaf fey put It the star. The pair of them blew into Omaha on the beams of a box car, attired in proper hobo cloth ing. They went to. a saloon kept by an ex-con vlct near the stock yards a crooks' nest and within a few hours they were associating with some of Durango's old friends in a back room He nad looked yon up. You were fairly lucky for an outsider until last June. Then your losses began to pll up steadily. A month ago you owed 185,000. end had to make It good or be exposed. Ton did make It good. You did make It good out ot that vault back there. You hoped to cover that loan you made yourself so that nobody ever would be the wiser for it You hoped to put It back; they all do. But, like most of them In the same tlx, you found that you couldn't do it Then you began to look around for some means of covering up your crime.- In your dilemma you thought of a certain man who had left thla town as a boy. who had gone to the bad, and whom you had helped I give you credit for a good heart Giles at various inter vale when he needed It You thought of him. You got him to come here. You told him what you wanted done; you wanted the safe blown and robbed. You promised that you would give him half of the big sum that you said was Inside and which should have been inside. But you knew you were playing with tire In taking thla orlmlnal in as your confederate in so dastardly a crime as robbing your own bank. You needed to have that safe blown to have It appear that the bank had been looted of $85,000 but you couldn't af ford to let a criminal live and know your secret So you loaded that vault before you locked It the evening be fore tha robbery. You did that only you could have done it because yon Com-1 awjKiWjrXvra;; j Real Hce of the Soft Shells There may be peraons who have never heard of Crlsfleld and who do not know that It Is the greatest mar ket In tha world for soft-shell crabs. Some hotels In New Tork get their supplies of the delicious crustaceans direct from there and they have been shipped as far aa Seattle. Crladeld la In Maryland, down on the lower part of the eastern shore. It la not e big place, but they do send out good things to eat from there Lessou (By B. O. SELLERS. Director of Eve. nlnf Department The Moody Bible In stitute of Chicago.) LESSON FOR JANUARY 5. THI CREATION. . v LESSON TKXT-Oenedi 1:11 T. f. M. i a. i. 11, a, r, ii. I GOLDEN TEXT-'lii tha Kaatnnlna- not only the soft shell crab, but tha 1 Ood created the heaven and the earth." diamond-back terrapin, tha Tangier i B' 1:t OVStnF whlnh ha ... n.ui I more think is to h. .m. .i.- In our scheme of lesons wo return ,avu niuvua iuj a most oeiicious of the species, and to the Old Testament and confine our study for the ensuing year to the first six books of the Bible. The word Genesla means "begin nlngs," and In the book of that name wo see recorded all tha Information of the beginning of things that our heavenly father deemed necessary In the development of tha scheme of re demption. V After all the assaults of Its ene- wblte shad, to which those same tour- mets hold that no shad is equal. And so on. With which Introduction an. ter L. R. Carson. Mr. Carson was at the Imoerlal ra. cently, says the New Tork Sun. ' Ha lives In Crlsfleld. is in businaa than. and has made a study of the crab scientifically and commercially. "Crlsfleld" said Mr. Canon nv luces 90 per cent of all the soft crabs ln,e ,n(l of tt keptica, the first consumed In thla country. They are Tera the book of Genesis contains caught within a radius of tan miiae it all the clear, concise, and " positive the town. The old nart of rri.nu knowledge man possesses about the was built on oyster shells, but of r. ri&ln of thla Universe. "God cre- cent years the town has expanded. It tei BOt f'Go1 u n nd u Ooi" was oniy about twelve years ago that ranueism naa no ground upon which the discovery that tha soft-nhoil mk ,0 atand. "In the beginning Ood cre- could be popularised started a boom iei" therefore ho is above and waa ana the values of propertr In tha it ne"re the heaven and the earth, Moses left us no record of the "how" and that Held has ever been one for Interesting speculation. Between the The county sheriff and the core- I shattered vault raM thai ...nnnl.. 4ln. I m. V 1 1 " " .uo , shop where the dead bandit lay.' I had hoped to recognize him as some listed yeggman, though my acquaintance with that clasa waa limited; but I was disappointed. His face had been blown so thoroughly to pieces in the explo sion that It was impossible for anyone not familiar with his smallest charac teristics to make out who be might have been. He was dressed a little better than the average yeggman, for there was the remnant of a clean cuff on one of his wrists, but this waa all that I could make out In a cursory examination, "I'll be back later," I told the man in charge. Then I told Giles that I would like to hear the whole story of the affair. He led the way back to his office in the bank building and told the story In a careful, Intelligent way. There was nothing remarkable in the story. He had been called down to the bank at 6:30 that morning by a working man who, while passing to his work, nad seen that the front door of the bank building was unlocked. He had gone In at once, In company with the workman. He had found the door be tween the banking room and the vault room locked, as usual. He had opened the door and had found the dead bur glar and the looted safe, much as we had seen the room. Eighty-live thou sand dollars In large bank notes had been taken. Some hundreds of dol lars' worth of smaller bills and about a thousand dollars' worth of silver had not been touched. Nobody had been found who had heard the explosion, and there was absolutely, no trace ot the robbers. That was Giles story. It waa told in precise, clerical fashion, greatly In contrast to the story of the sheriff, who, when he was called In, rambled about bloodhounds and posses and made a fool of himself trying to ap pear "wise" before a city detective. You locked up the vault last night did you,'Mr. Giles?" I asked. "Tea sir," he answered. . "And this money was all In there when you locked It up?" "Tes, of course." I thanked him and said: "Now will you kindly let me go over the vault again alone? I must study It carefully in order to make out an intelligent re port-" He acquiesced readily and I went In the room and shut myself In with the alx years have trebled. Evolution of 8oft-8hell Crab. "In the watara ahnn n... and Smlth'a islands the soft crabs are rUrU " V flfth WOrd' of ,h" caught in two ways. One ia employed ; .er" ta. "mple room for n ni verjr by the '.craperswho d 'agan tr!the07 tho.Ugh ,Un rena,n ,n ment ilka an a J!t5 .1 norance of any absolute knowledge. ter six to twelve feet deeP from . I ?f.Um nd .P Lflt M not , oateau or canoe. The othar mth ,v"a- np-"' uiougni, "in is employed by the wto ' beInn,n beginning tand in the bow of a skiff nJSl 0f beginning of educa te boat slowly along In shallow wf , i!n' vf bu,lneB-' ot hon" toMwtiJ!.Z beginning of all right thinking when they mmtoE? rue ,,v,ng' of eTery ppoper reU Nlnety per cent of the? wL J ? tV' t,on of Ufe' U 0oi nd caught hard-shelled! . "?bey WoM' ' nut . . . ' VOUnr Amarlcjt nnnn tha iiunlnna kept until they put into floats and shed their sheila. 7!?,L flj?l,(f9.0f orab In pro tZ., T 0 t0 ott " what Is termed locally a .,n0f The change young plea that the bible Is sectarian. Truth of tha Trinity. Following this statement of the cre ation come the ateps ot rehabilitation, a amit . a , "" four nom -V "i-nuraW u worus in verse two denote the cohdmnn of tday'' SPendInr on 'waste, void, or confusion and one become, a " ? Th6 ,not Hebrew Kbo1" contends for the wortf oecomes a peeler, whan i. , . . Prised for bait and a .h , ... " D!?,ro . v. nu comnlntnlv t., 7 ecuuia urn. upun wis create u eartn co and thnTT1 tUn,1lr the hard 0,6,6 hT6 Judgment Sen h2i:tt Pub P -one pre-Adamite back. Then in a Wn t," Z' 1 " ! " " ln" wna,.ro,low' Tef,e two' the aorta ..aZ l ""oraes w no. ine original creation out tne thl tahif ' mdr for the mark tepa whereby this earth was made ' ready aa a habitation for man. Tnrr!!?U.f,Mn.t0 Hapdh- I Lord Kelvin aald. "scientific thought " BTerage Hie of a crab la thn. la Vena fa) rri - vwmijviou v nwoy. vuu luca U(v ro- years. Tbe secretary of th viriMi. .fiA m faT JLT d of flsner,e. woo has stud- agreement between modern science awi!, jean, says that a and the account In Genesis: (1) The amgie female in the sDrina- of tha mmi..i . ' In .hfl t J.250,000 eggs. Out of 1 provide for both creation and the evo an those only about 200 crabs mature. , lutlonary development of created i ne remainder are consumed by other , things; (2) Science has failed to pro-, After laying her duce matter, life, or the soul of man; fish and by crabs. eggs the female crab Is eaten by oth- " m ner species. "The season opens In our waters on May 1 and lasts until Oct 1. when the crabs, go out Into very deep water. In the early spring, to be exact, on March 1, the soft crab seaaon opens at Morehead City, N. C, where many Crlsfleld packers CO and onamta nntP the season begins at home. 8hlpped Packed In Seaweed. "If when a crab is unpacked In v.. Tork. it is what is called a "na nap shell which means that the shell has begun to harden: that means that If the crab was properly packed it was that hard when it started. Packed In sea ores (seaweed), they will keep soft until they die. I shipped crabs last summer to a friend In Houston. Tex. a seventy-two hour Journey. We do not ehip In refrigerate cars, but in refrigerating boxes. Some persons do not know how to reii wnen a crab la fit to eat Here and of these In each Instance the bible saya God created while of all else It says he made. The great truth of the trinity Is re vealed In these first three verses (1) God. v. l; (2) Spirit, v. 2; and (3) "God aald" the word, see John 1:1. ' Verse Ave does not call the light a day meaning twelve hours, but rather a period of time, Just aa we speak of an Arctlo "day," which Is alx months. One of the mysteries of today is that water which is 700 times heavier than air ia held In the sky in the form of olouds. What holds the storm, the mow, the lightning, the gorgeous colors, etc.? The answer Is found In j. verse 7. "and God made the flrma t ment and divided the waters, and , called the firmament heaven." There Is nothing more firm than the lawa which hold this body of water In the I sky for he (God) aet those laws into motion. "And God said," (v. 9). The ories of geology and the statement 'That b viiat was done here. tsalH?"Lsaid, t V Made I had been Impressed with my first glance by the apparently enormous charge ot explosive that had been used In the robbery. So terrible had the wreckage been that it seemed Im possible to me that any living man could have been in that room and sur. vlved after the "soup" had scattered the fragments of that door around. The room waa so narrow that It must have been like standing before a mor tar loaded with scrap iron. The horse blankets were torn to shreds. I said to myself: "A bungler's Job," and Went out and telegraphed for an expert on explosives, for the expert of the firm that made the safe, and for Durango and Mahaffey, two of our men who knew most of the big yeggs In the country by sight I locked and eealed the vault room, so It could not be tam pered with. . , r, , aucmg nimseir, remarked, 1 am a great friend of your Uncle Thomas,'" said Mr. McGaire. "Tes," I answered unenthusiastic ally, as I knew, what was coming, be- been In on It before Sailor Benny got to it Bomebody had stuck a load In there back of that door, and whoever it was must have been the man who closed the vault and fixed the combi nation. Then Benny , comes along with us pal and geta busy. Benny puts In his little charge, Just a little soup poured In the cracks to loosen that old door. Hla pal la In the other room, doing lookout Benny turns loose hla charge and, bang! goea the big one that'a inside. Naturally Ben ny ia knocked stiff. His pal comes in. sees what has happened, geta the money and beats it In a hurry. Isn't that the way you aize It up?" "Not quite." I said. "Why did that big load happen to be on the inside the night that Benny came to ' blow the crib? Didn't the man who put It there know that Benny waa coming? And If he did know how did he come to know? Why did he know that? And If he knew which he certainly did why did he leave It there, know ing as he certainly must have that It would blow Benny to pieces as sure as he ever turned loose his charge? And If he knew all this this man which he did why did he do it? Why did he want Benny killed there In front of the safe? Why did he do that?" Mehaffey shook hla head. upstairs. They worked for two days and then sent me thla bulletin: "Sailor Benny was flush with money for weeks before starting to do Welldon Job. Must have been paid In advance to do it Next day came another wire: "Have found Benny's wife. , From - her got Information that Benny was originally a Welldon boy. He used to get money from there occasion ally. ; Perhaps you can connect up on this." v ... And the third day: "Benny's wife says Benny went to Welldon In answer to wire saying Just "Come.' She doesn't know where wire came from." I wired back: If possible send me sample or writing from person remitting him money from Welldon. And that the result of that wire settled the Welldon bank robbery. On the tenth day of my stay In Welt don, Just after he had pulled down the curtains and closed the. bank for the day, I p!acd Mr. Giles, the president under arrest " " Arrest?" he cried. "Me? Under ar rest? What does this mean, Mr. Cor nell r . 'Just what It sounds like. Mr. Giles" I said. "I am sorry, but there Is noth ing iur me u uo oui piace you unaer I admitted that yon locked the vault up ior tne night "You put that big charge of explos ive back of the door. Your man- Sailor Benny, the yeggman came as you had requested. - He went to work in workmanlike fashion and shot a re spectable charge In the cracks of the door. His explosion turned loose the Lterrlflc load you had prepared for him, Is an Infallible method of telling. The ot enesia agree perfectly as to the fact that a crab is dead when it is Preparation of this earth for the p- unpacked does not mean that It Is nee Pearance of vegetable life. The vege- essarily spoiled. The way to tell Is to ubIe drives directly from the air and pun out one or the back fins. If it water ana sou those elements neces resists, the crab ahould be lit rood MI7 to maintain life. condition. If the crab ' should ba J Animal life cannot aaalmllate these thrown away the fin will coma out i slementa unless they are already fixed easily and will be mushy on the end. i m organic vegetable life. How and Brown spots on the ton of shells ot crabs do not mean anything Is wrong, because you will frequently find them on live crabs. It makea no difference how long a crab has been dead If the back fin pulls out hard. Prlcea of Crabs Fluctuate Greatly. "About 75 per cent of the population The door was blown to pieces, so was I of Crlsfleld Is engaged In the oyster tne yeggman, and you woke up in the Bno nBn trade. But we cannot count morning and felt you were safe once nPn anything like a regular produc- more. Isn't that 'about the truth ot tion. Crabs may be selling one day at the affair, Mr. Giles?" I1 dozen and In three days' time "Proof?" ha aald anaarmr ma3r orop to 80 cents because ot over- have proofs to substantiate this pretty I Produ!tlon. Then a atorro may cut off little story?" I merely lifted my hand from the table so he could see underneath what Durango had sent ma from Omaha. It waa on old envelope Which Durango the supply and the price ao soartne- agaln. -y Hard crabs are picked Into three grades of meat Claw meat, for use I vu irow luncn counters: wnita. tnr had got from Benny's wife, and in , 1 crabs 8nd crab kes, and lump. ir ub uurgs . ana tancy .dishes. I have heard that Japanese crab mast canned, comes Into thla country free or auty, out have not been able to venry it. . . "Diamond hank- hmnln ... ...... He confessed that night to the board When you think th.t !. i of dlrectora and pleaded for mercy, the Maryland legislature passed an But those old, hard working farmers act prohibiting plantera from feedina wer made of tough stuff. They re- them to their slave, more thanlhref fused his plea and Giles went to Bing times a wir ft Z. . I?Z Sing under a heavy sentence. them brinaina I7K . rfnJn - which Benny once had got money from Welldon. Giles took one swift look at the handwriting and began to gasp like a fish. The writing was his own. I have no uncle named T' s V K.r'.i t'.;e other, 'and I ... t 1 1 too. I raU; i f what I v ' .' , v 1 1 f : ! -. t T t ' I tf a 'If', l ! 1 very welL Don't you think you could give me a pass for tonight? 1 then told him that I was merely the author and had no authority to give away seats. He looked disgusted ly st me and walked away, only to - a t k ac-atnt d'i you think of any more i tf mine you InoxV I a.-':ed, r re' 1 at i " 1' , -' f--. V r - ar.n-. . 1 ' 5 t ) t ; j i it f I ?'';'': t tj i LUCKY FC3 SAILCnS Those Bearing Cognomen of Hugh William Seem to Be Immune From Death at Sea. Amor? the survivors from w" k of te Titanic wis C. V.':" i (' i rn"; --t j -, v 'i the am s, as the following extraordinary colncl- aencee go to show: On December 8, 17S5, a schooner, with sixty persons, was wrecked off the Isle of Man, and only one man, named Ilurh Williams, lived to tell ti9 tu'.o. Tht.'yfve years later, a I ' -1 fc'"-t c .'.A' j a nr'y of t 1 i- left' i 'e ci.:i- . ' ' r i " i c a t -i ' a I ' 1 . ( 'y C-.a ,. . ' ' -, v J : i slsed in a gale, and every one of her w,u'- passengers, save a certain Hugh Williams, waa drowned.' Once again did the same name prove of good omen when, on August 19, 1889 a Leeds barge with nine hanrta fn.,n lered at sea. Two were aavM n - HIT ce and nr w, aid of both the name was i: -i,... g. where -life originated no science has discovered. Pasteur's dictum that "It Is nothing but life which gener ates life." still stands unshaken. And so the constant and only satisfactory anawer to the questions, how, where and why, of all these things ot this material universe Is God. God cre ated, God made, he created, and then set Into being those forces and laws whereby the earth, the sky, the sun and the moon hare gone on with un broken regularity. He made possible those processes whereby man devel ops, the oak grows, and animal and vegetable life reproduce each after Its own kind. But creation was not yet complete. Man, the last created, was the crown ing glory of this earthly creation. . Verses 26-30 will be studied In coif nectlon with next, week's lesson and are referred to here simply to give a complete account of creation. It would be well, however, to refer to the fact that the great God and cre ator made provision for the Immortal souls ot mankind by arranging for his training in the knowledge and charac ter of himself, the father, by the in stitution of the Sabbath, as soon aa he had prepared a place In wfclch man waa to dwell. . The dignity and majesty ot the lan guage of Genesis is sublime. Astrologers tell us that our sun and ' solar system Is only one of perhaps a million others. A recent writer tells us that a ray of light which would travel the equivalent of t.ina t',mfa around the earth la one take cine years to t 1 great nebula In tha c t: Orh n. r i be f i ' i r ' ri i l: nd would f-?s the -n of cf this. t V -m I' t is i
The News-Record (Marshall, N.C.)
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Jan. 3, 1913, edition 1
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