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FARM VILLE AFFAIRS Events of Importance Happened and Were Duly Noted. By DONALD ALLEN. There was moro excitement In the sleepy old vlllago of Farmvlllo than had been known for 20 years before Event had followed event until Dea con Chambers had stood on tho post office steps and wiped the sweat from his brow and said: "Hy heck, If this thing keeps up we shall havo a railroad and dry goods drummer In hero beforo wo die!" Tho events wero of Importance enough to be recorded In chronological order: First, tho widow Iiovlnn Bued Elder Jarvls for breach-of-promlso and wns given a verdict of ono hundred dollars. That was tun dollars a year for the ten years he had been courting her. Secondly, close on the heels of the widow's suit hod como iv gale of wind that had twisted tho splro'of tho Bap tist church until it resembled a gigan tic corkscrew. Soma of the congrega tion were In favor of a now spire nt onco, and others argued that tlmo should bo given I'rovldonco to twist It back nt Us own expense. In tho third place, Aunt Hannah Doty, who laid claim to being a sev enth daughter of a soventh daughter, predicted that tho Judgment day was only thirty days off. No ono put en tire faith In her prediction, but a lllble man had coino along and sold 28 of tho good books In one day, and each book was conspicuously displayed on tho parlor center table. Fourthly, Mr. Gerald Walters, a young man, had como down from tho city for tho fall shooting, and was stopping at tho tavern. There was nothing but a few stray chipmunks to shoot, but Mr. Walters wasn't making any fuss about It. He was the first fall shooter that had ever appeared In tho vlllago. Fifthly, Mr. Walters hadn't been shooting at chipmunks but four days when Miss Kitty norland enrao down from tho city to stay with her grand parents for n few days. There wns wondering anil guessing over her, and lor several nights after her arrival He Couldn't Gain a Foot. many of the householders did not go to bed until tho unholy hour of 9:30 It was generally considered that fever heat had been reached, and that tho excitement must now gradually sub side. They wero nil wrong. Sixthly, bills were posted for a clr cub to fchow nt Farmvlllo. it wns the usual Mammoth Aggregation, but It had one featuro never shown before in nny circus on tho fnco of tho globe. It had n wild man from Africa who lived on raw meat nud bananas, and who had to bo kept chained In a cago. i iiu nnmo oi mo wnu man was "Ham." Ilu consumed sixteen pounds of raw meat dally, and on top of that three times a wcok, ho devoured bunch of bananaB. Ho was tho strongest man, wild or tamo, this world ever saw. ne couiu kiii an cicpnant nt one blow Ho could run down tho ostrich or tear n lion limb from limb. At certain point In tho performnnco he would be taken from his cago by three men and parnded around tho ring, For three or four dayB previous to the circus all work In and around Farmvlllo was stopped, and for the first time In twenty years staid old citizens forgot to shut tho hen house door or feed tho pig nt sundown. On tho morning of tho great day Itself the train was so Intense that Deacon .Chambers' was Impelled to say from the po3tofflco steps: "1 guess the outside world will know where Farmvlllo Is after this! I've al lus told you rollers that we'd have pur boom when the sign como right, and here she arcl" It wasn't much of a circus, even for a village. There was an aged elephant, a wreck of a camel and a giraffe whose neck reached out for anything eatable, whllo the tumbling and riding could have been beaten by a lot of farmers' boys. Tho wild man was tho draw. He wns In hie cage In tho procession all right and now and then be beat his breast and callod out. But things had happened the day be foro that the public hadn't caught on to. In driving across the country the wild man who could run down an os trich had said to IiIb employer: "I'vo got to have my back salary to morrow or I quit!" "I'll give you ten of It, if we have luck," was tho reply. "I want every stiver of It!" "What's biting you?" "I'm not playing wild man for my health!" "You know you can't strike another Job It you leave mo, while I can get dozen fellows to fill your place." That was about all, except . that 'Zam" planned a plan to bo carried out at Farmvlllo, and It was carried out. He went ahead and ate his rnw meat and bananas and shouted all right, but when ho was taken out of his cago to bo paraded ho whispered to his employer: "Do I got the back salary T" "Go on with you!" "Do I get it?" "Nit!" Theh occurred a thing that never happened on this green earth beforo and will never happen again. "Zam" threw off his yoke of slavery then and there.. He yelled. Ho whooped. Ho cast away his chains, and after seizing Aunt"Hannnh Doty by tho body and throwing her across the sawdust ring ho made a break for the tent entranco and went running down tho highway. No moro raw meat and bananas! No moro "greatest exhibition on earth," for the Ulngtalled Circus. But what has all this to do with Miss Kitty Dorland and Mr. Gondii Walters? Simply that Mr. Walters didn't know that MIbs Kitty was with in a hundred miles of him. and vice versa. Simply that Mr. Walters was at the circus and Miss Kitty wasn't. Simply that Mr. Walters came very near be ing rough-housed Instead of Aunt Han nah. Simply thnt when "Zam" left the tent Mr. Walters was at his heels, and Miss Kitty was walking In her grand father's daisy covered meadow a mllo away. Mr. Walters was a good sprinter. nnd he put forth every effort to ovor- haul the dangerous menace striving to cscapo from bondage and becomo a terror to n poaceful community. He couldn't gnln n foot, but he wns gnmo to hang to tho trail as long nB ho could. The wild man tcok the middle of the highway and held It until he came op poslto tho meadow, sitting under a trc. Miss Kitty wns weaving a wrcnth for somebody's bro. "Zam" wanted to get to the woods to shako off pur suit, and he must pass her within a few feet. She saw him sho shrieked sho sprang up sho saw Mr. Wnlters lumbering along, and then she falntod and keeled over. Something told her that It wan a wild man from Africa, and that he Intended to make cat's mcat-of her, and It was quite sonslblo of her to faint. She fainted so quick- ly that sho didn't hear him call to her: Don't be scared, MUsy! I'm only ft man in disguise! And she was dead to the world as he checked his pace long enough to add: "I don't blame her a darned bit! Hope It will cost old IUngtall ten bones extra!" "Zam" got Into tho woods and pur suit was off. Mr. Walters, puffing and blowing, came up to find a good look ing girl huddled among tho daisies, and he ran to a brook and got water In his hat and sopped her faco, mak ing the usual mess of It. Hy and by Miss Kitty found herself .sitting up and saying: "Oh, that horrid thing!" "But It's gone." "And you wero so brave! Please take mo home." At a (low walk, and leaning heavily on his arm, grandpa's was reached. It wns reached again thnt evening, and the next day and the next. In fact Mr. Walters felt It his duty to pay a call at least onco a day until sure that tho wild man had returned to his mother In Michigan. And all this resulted In Deacon Chambers speaking from the postoHlco steps for the third time and saying: "Darn my hat, but what do you fel lers think now?" "What Is It?" "That chipmunk killer and the gal that fainted away are slttln' up nights together, nnd If that don't moan love nnd marrlago I'll saw the horns oft my best cow!" (Copyright, 1912. by the McClure News paper Hyndlcato.) 8howt Japan's Advancement. When the late mikado came to the throne not a single newspaper was pub lished In Japan. There aro now over 1, 600 dally, weekly and monthly publi cations, 30 dally papom being pub lished In Tokoyo alone MQMTIONAL SlMTSdlOOL Lesson (Br E. O. HELT.KRS. Director of Evening Department, The Moody lllblo Institute, Chicago.) LESSON FOR OCTOBER 20. MI8SION TO THE GENTILE8. LESSON TEXT Mark 7:24-30 and Mat thew 8:5-13. aOI-DKN TEXT-"Mlm that cometh to me I will In no wlso cast out." John 6:37. Chronologically tho incident of tho centurions servant precedes that of tho Syrophcnlcian woman, though wo will look at them In tho order sug gested. Tho ono Incident occurs nenr tho border of Tyro nnd Sldon, prob ably about May or June, A. D. 29, nnd tho other in Capernaum during tho summer of A. D. 28. Doth arc Inci dents In ttio llfo of Jcrus that havo to do with his ministry ob tho Hebrew Messiah to theso who wero outsldo of tho palo of Judaism. At tho beginning of Mark's record (v. 24) wo havo a wonderful sugges tion as to tho strain of Jesus, ministry and tho accompanying lesson that truo righteousness cannot be hid, it speaks for itself. There nro four uses of tho word "answered" in Matthew's record of this Incident (Matt. ir.:21-28) that nro suggestive. Let us first, however, get the setting. This woman was a Greek a Gentile; by race bIio was a Sy rophcnlcian, that is, a Canuanltc. TIiub sho was a descendant of -that raco whom God, by the hand of Josh ua, had driven out to make room for tho Hebrew nation, and nB such Is under tho ban of God. Seo Eph. 2:12. Vet this woman reaches Jesus, her troublo being that her daughter Is possessed by an unclenn spirit. At her approach she takes n lowly plnco nt Josub' feet and requests thnt ho heal tho child. Sho calls him the "Son of David," and "Ho nnswered her not a word." Matt. 15:23. Sho had no claim upon him as the Mes siah, This was tho wrong footing, for she was not a child of tho kingdom It was her need that drove her to him. How sho had heard of him 1b suggested In Mark 3:8 nnd 7:24, cf. Horn 10:17. Thorn urn HOinn oues- 1 tioii that silence wlB not answer. A wrong conclusion will bo reached, as In this caflo tho disciples came to a wrong conclusion and desired to "send her nwny." Contrast Jesus' ! patlenco with tho disciples' impa ' tlenco, "sho crleth after ub" nnd em 1 phaslzo tho danger of external Judg- ( ment Thero aro many great moral Ibbucb todny that aro demanding an- other answer than that of silence The Answer of Law, Jesus then mado a second answer, tho answer of law, Matthew 15:24, In which ho accepts her ostlmato of him as the JcwIrIi Messiah. HIb work was primarily to tho Jews (John 1:11, 12). But her need was great, and Identifying herself with tho need of tho child sho "worshipped" Jcsub. He Is more than tho Messiah, he Is a Saviour. Not yet, however, Is Jesus ready to grant her request. Ills third answer (v. 25), tho answer of mercy, is literally that first tho children must bo fed, and she replied, "Yea, Lord; even tho dogs under the table cat of tho children's crumbs." For this saying, viz., that sho did not pro test against tho words he had spoken, but accepted tho proper estimate or him as being tho Jewish Messiah and horsolf as outside of that covenant ho made a fourth answer, the answer to faith. Ho nnswered: "O, womnn, great Is thy faith." v. 28, and grants her carto blanc (v. 28), "bo It unto theo even an thou wilt." As outcasts, we must cast ourselves "at IiIb feet Let us now look nt tho account of tho centurion's servant. Onco moro Jcsub Is appealed to by ono who Is outoldo tho Hebrew covenunt and on behalf of a servant. In tho other In cldent there was tho Interruption of a seeming refusal and here the Inter ruption of nn Instantaneous granting of the request. Again wo need to read tho parallel nccounts given by the other cvangelUts. Verso ten of this section Is tho key to this whole story. What aro somo of tho marks of a "great faith?" First, It is tested. Tho servant was "dear unto the centurion," Luke 7:2. Second, It Is Droercsslvo "when he heard of Jesus," Luke 7:3. Third, It will be recognized by others, Luke 7:4, The Great Faith. Tho protest In v. 9, and tho remark able commendation of Jesus tberoon Is a solemn warning to all who nro In covenant relations with God and his Son whom ho has sent. Jesus had there a gllmpso of that great coming da; when all Gentiles would be gathered unto him. T. 11 (cf. Rev. 7:9). The centurion received for bis faith com mendation, and healing for bis servant m wall, t. 13. SHE COULD ANSWER FOR HIM Little Comfort for Candidate In Rea son Assigned by Wife for Her Being Confident. Mr. WllllnmB, ono of flvo candidates for tho olllco of shorlff In ono of the northern counties of Wisconsin, was making a housc-to-houso cunvaBs of rural district, soliciting votes. Com ing to tho house of Farmer Tompson, ho was mot at tho door by tho good housewife, nnd tho following dlaloguo ensued: "Is Mr. Tompson nt homo?" "No; ho has gono to town." "I am very sorry, as I would havo liked to talk to him." "Is thcr'j anything I can tell him for you?" "My namo Is Williams, candldato for sheriff, and I wnnted to exact n prom ise from him to voto for mo nt the coming election." "Oh, that will ho all right. I know ho will promise, for ho has already promised four other cnndldates tho snmo thing." Norman E. Mack's Na tional Monthly. Explains the Undertaker's Grouch. "Who Is that fellow sitting humped up and muttering to hlmBclt out thero on the horso block?" "Aw, that's Ezra Toombs, tho under taker," replied tho Inndlord of tho Skeedee tavern. "He's feeling sore over tho way his business lui been going of lato. You see, tho doctor gave Judgo Peebles two wccltB to live; that wns six weeks ago, nnd tho Judgo Is up nnd around now nnd flggerln' on mnrryth' again. Every tlmo Ezru meets tho doctor ho asks him, 'How nbout It, hoy?' nnd they havu-u row. And now ho's slttln' out there watch ing a tramp painter gilding tho weath er vano of tho church across tho street. Ezra says, hy Hock, ho's about ready to tnovo nwny, things Is so dead hero." Kansas City Star. No Such Aspersion. "Do you get a stipend for your Weekly work?" Nothln' llko that. I git reg'lar pay." Every tlmo you toll your troubles wasting tho other fellow's you nro tlmo. 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