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INSURANCE WAR
COiSTOCLl)
STATE BOARD AND FIRE COMPA.
NIES GET TOGETHER ON COM
, PROMISE.
SUITS ARE TO BE WITHDRAWN
A Reduction of Twenty-five Per Cent
in Rates in Rural Districts is
Agreed Upon and Other Con
cessions are Made. '
XVestera Newspaper Union News Service.
Frankfort. Ky. The Insurance -war
in Kentucky between the state insur
ance board and the fire insurance com
panies is over. Concessions have been
made by the insurance boards and the
companies. The members of the state
insurance board. Ruby Laffoon, N. C.
Gray and Insurance Commissioner
Clay . met in Louisville with Thos.
Bates, of Chicago, representing the in
surance companies and reached a basis
of settlement. T. M. Goodloe, statis
tical reporter for the board.'returned
here and stated that the compromise
had been effected, but declined to give
the terms oi settlement He 6&id that
the state got practically all it wanted.
It is onderstood that there will be a
reduction of 25 per cent in the rates in
rural districts, and there will be a
saving to the property owners of $150,
flOO instead of $250,000 which was at
first contemplated.
The suits of the Springfield Fire and
Marine Co. of Massachusetts in the
state court and of the Citizens' Fire
Insurance of Missouri in the federal
court will be withdrawn.
Federal Law to Save State Money.
The enactment into a federal law
of the bill providing for the physical
valuation of all railroad lines in the
country by the Interstate Commerce
Commission will be worth to Kentucky
hundreds of thousands of dollars in
savings and increased revenue, in the
opinion of Chairman Laurence Finn,
of the State Railroad Commission, who
has been watching the progress of this
piece of legislation. The State Rail
road Commission adopted a resolution
when the assessment of the railroads
was made for 1912 providing for the
employment of an expert to Inspect
the books and make a valuation of ail
the physical property of the roads,
m but It Is believed now that this will b ;
'unnecessary, a a the federal law pro
vides for valuing the property accord
ing to states, stowing the value of the
railroad lines within the borders of
each state.
Can Not Compel County to Pay.
In affirming the case of the city of
ML Sterling vs. Montgomery county.
the court . of appeals held that the
county can not be compelled to pay
for the construction of streets abut
ting on the court house property nor
can the fiscal court be compelled by
mandamus to provide a means by
which the cost - of the improvement
may be made. The court says that
public property used for public Dur-
poses can not be charged with the
cost of special improvements in the
absence of a statute expressly author
izing the Imposition of the tax, as one
public agency of the state can not im
pose burdens in the way of indebted-
ness upon another public agency of
the state without its consent.
Court Can Not Create Office.
The appellate court held that a fiscal
court in Kentucky did not have the
right or power to create an office not
provided for by statute, and to pro
vide for the compensation of an arv.
pointee to .such office. The decision of
the court reversed the judgment of the
Jeffries drcuitcourt In thecase of
W. F. Woodruff against John H. Shea.
The court also decided in a companion
case, that the court had the rieht tf
permit the county Judge to employ a
stenographer at the salary of $80 a
month and to pay her out of the coun
ty fund.
Passes On School Law Point
In a suit from Martin county, ln-
Tolving the discretion of a divisional
school board to reject the nomination
of a snbdistrict trustee of a candidate
ror teacher In his subdlstrict srhnni
the court of appeals held that the trus
tees by explaining their vote In writ
ing r orally fully comply with the re
quirements of the statute erovernln
the rejection of a nominee for lack of
qualifications. , ' -
Bond Issue Declared Void.
The court of appeals has declared
void PIneville's $30,000 school, bond
election at the Instance "of W. F.
Walsh, a citizen, who annealed tmm
. the Bell circuit court. The court saM
the Issue would increase the city's
Bonded indebtedness to exceed Hi
stitutlonal limit of the assessed value
of property In the city. ; '
Double indemnity Is Sustained. r
T J f 4. ft . - W
vertucx ior oouoie indemnity -m a
policy for $5,000 and $1,700 accumuv
lated insurance on the life of ColHa A.
navless in favor of Launa Daviess in
the Jeff arson circuit court was affirm-
. ed tiy the court of appeals. The pol
icy was In the Travelers Insurance
o., which provfded for double indem
nity. In case death was causa.-! hv
dent Daviess died in 1303 A pancreat
Bitis, following brutses he voceived
-wnen an Orell car on which be trs a
. fcassenrer. broke down.
PROTEST MEETING
CITIZENS OF LEXINGTON ADOPT
MILITANT METHODS AGAINST
MERGER.
Housewives League and Others Hold
Meeting and Discuss Raise In
Telephone and Light Rates, .JL
Western Newspaper Union News Service
: Lexington, Ky. A well-attended
public meeting was held at the court
house under the auspices of the House
wives" League to protest against the
raise in telephone rates as a result of
the merger of the telephone compa
nies, and the increase in electric light
charges provided in the new charter
asked by the Kentucky Utilities. Co.
About half were women. Prof. Henry
Lloyd, of the faculty of Transylvania
University, presided The' speakers
included .Mrs. WelllngtocrPayxie, vice
president of the Housewives' League;
Mrs. Frances Seauchamp, president of
the Kentucky W. C. T. U.; City Com
missioner H. G. Pulliam, J,' A. Edge,i
watt Walton and J. Franklin Wallace.
Resolutions were adopted severely
criticising the merger of the Cumber
land and Home Telephone companies
and the resultant .higher rates and
branding the absorbing telehpone com
pany' as a member of the telephone
trust of the country; that the attorney
general of the state be requested to
co-operate with the citizens of this
city and county in the suit filed seek
ing the dissolution of the merger call
ing upon all telephone subscribers to
Join the suit now pending and others
to be filed in the United States court
and appointing a committee to act
with the committee appointed at the
mass meeting of the county sub
scribers. -
ACTIVITY IN HARLAN FIELDS.
Prospects - for Coal Development : are
Good In Mountain County.
Pineyille, Ky, -Additional develop
ments In the Harlan county field will
be under way within thirty to sixty
days, the latest transaction of magni
tude being the loase by which the Har
lan Coal Mining Co. turns over to the
Lick Branch Coal Co., composed of
John W. Williams and associates, the
mining plant at Croxton. which has
just been completed. With the oper
ation of this plant, which is one of the
largest in capacity and most up to
date ' in equipment in entire Eastern
Kentucky, placed in the experienced
hands of Mr. Williams' company, the
Harlan Coal Mining Co, Is expected to
begin very shortly the construction of
another plant between Croxton and
Agnes, and will expend a large sum
of money in further improving their
tract of 9,000 acres at this point.
TO HOLD MEETING IN MAY.
'Lexington, Ky. The first announce
ment of the Kentucky Mining Institute
meeting, which will be held in this
city at the College of Mines and 'Met
allurgy, May 16 and 17, has been issued
by the secretary, T. J. Barr. Mr. Barr
is acting with the Commercial Club in
securing reduced railroad rates for the
delegates and ah effort 13 being ma-
to ascertain the approximate number
who will attend. -
PRIZES FOR BEST ESSAYS.
Frankfort, Ky. The Frankfort pub
lic schools will take the Initiative in &
movement to interest children in the
fight against tuberculosis. . Clubs will
be-organized in the high school and
grammar grades, and prizes will be of-
rerea for the best composition on pre
vention of the disease. Dr. U. V. Wil
liams, of the tuberculosis commission.
said that he would see to furnishing!
LIBEL SUITS ARE DISMISSED.
Xawrenceburg, Ky. In the case of
Wilkes. HL-Morgan, county judge, and
Frank L. Ripy, county auditor, against
Jesse M. Alrerson, editor of the Ander
son News, for damages for alleged li
bel In the Anderson circuit, court, an
order was entered in both cases dis
mission the suits. The matters were
settled satisfactorily to all parties
MARION COUNTY DOG TAX.
Lebanon, Ky. Marion county doTS
paid for the sheen they killed In : the
county the past year, according to fig
ures made in county clerk's ofilce when
he received state auditor's check for
$56C.C6, payment for sheep appraisers,
magistrate fees, etc The dog tax
amounts to $600. "
BOTH LEGS CUT OFF.
Pikevllle, Ky. Lon Hunter, a Balti
more & Ohio brakeman, fell from the
lop"of a box car while uncoupling at
Jenkins and both legs were cut off
above the knee, f lie was removed to
the hospital: -' '-
BOWLING WITHDRAWS HIS SUIT.
PikeviUe,- Ky. J. M. Bowling, the
defeated . Progressive candidate for
commonwealth's attorney, against It.
Moore Fields, of Whitesbcrg, Republic
an, issued a statement ia which he
announced that, a account . of III
health, he will be compelled to dis
miss his .Euif , In cor test before the
Letcher- circuit court agairst Mr.
Fields. He claltas that in his in-esent
condition of ill health If will b& Impos
sible to gather the cecfissary data, evi
dence and depositions. . ,
WILL VISITLKENTUCKY
ft:
Edward F. Dunne,' the new governor
. of Illinois, who was once mayor of
Chicago, will speak: at the annual
; meeting jof.; the Kentucky Manufac
turers' Association in Louisville in
April. '.. '. - '
BOND ISSUE IS DEFEATED
Hart County Voters are Against God
Roads Proposition by Large :';'
Majority. -. v u
Munfordvillc, ky, -The election held
ia this county to take the sense of the
legal voters as to whether the county
should issue bonds for the improve
ment and construction of the turnpike
roads in -Hart county resulted in an
overwhelming defeat for the bond" is
sue. More than , 2,000 rotes weyo cast
against it and less than 200 in favor
of it When the petitions were filed
it seemed that there would be hardly
a dissenting voice, but opposition be
gan to develop to such a degree the
promoters of the" cause gave up the
fight and made no campaign for
while the opposition continued active;
till the polls were closed. Less than
50 per cent of the vote of the county
was cast. -
AGED WOMAN DIES IN FIRE.
Campbellsville, Ky. Clevis Brock,
who. resides two .miles from town., lost
his residence by fire. - Mrs. Brock's
aunt, 74, who was sleeping upstairs,
discovered the fire and gave the alarm.
The flames had cut off her stairway es
cape. ; Mr. Brock tried to rescue her
through an upper window, but she was
so overcome by heat" and smoke she
perished. Mr. Brock was badly burned
about the arms and hands. Mrs. Brock
and their small hild escaped." The
fire originated from a keg of ashes on
the back porch. ' -- '-.
SCHOOL-IS IN GOOD SHAPE.
Smith's Grove, . Ky. Friends of the
Warren Baptist Academy at this placo
the purchase of which for use as a
county high school is under considera
tion by the board of education, charac
terize as misleading the statement that
it has not been a "success financially
for several years past" , They say that
at the close of the last scholastic year
all obligations had been met, with a
small balance on the right 6ide.
DIES FROM ACCIDENTAL SHOT.
Pari?, Ky. Miss Mayme Gorey, who
on January 2 was accidentally shot
while at her home in this cityig dead
as a result of her wounds. She is sur
vived by. Jier parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Job a Corey; two, sisters Mrs., Anna
Connell and Miss Margaret Gorey, and
one brother, William Gorey. Miss Go
rey ; was a -nleceof the Rev. Father
James L. Gorey, of Covington; ?
FARM BRINGS-GOOD PRICE.
Paris, Ky. By the terms of a deal
Just closed Green Leer, of Millersburg,
purchased of Sidney G.- Clay the
Bowles place containing 293 acres, and
lying near Mlllersburg, this county, at
$135- an acres. The farm is situated on
the Jackson and Tarr Station pike. It
is in a high 6tate of cultivation and Is
considered one : of the best farms in
the county. ':- Involved In the-transacton
is about $40,000. :
FINE RESIDENCE IS BURNED.
; Russellville, . Ky.-The handsome
two : story , framo residence of Judgo
S. A. Bass was destroyed by fire! The
building cost between $9,000 and $10,
000 and "was Insured for about $4,000.
All the household goods, .hardwood
doors and cabinet mantels on the first
floor, were "saved. J :: " y -' v..
INSPECT THE GARBAGE PLANT."
Ltixlngton, K5'. The . city commis
sioaers of Newport made a visit here
for the special purpoee of inspecting
the crematory here; , as Newport ex
pects to adopttbis method of disposing
of garbage. , Up to this time Newport
Jhas been burying the ci ty; garbage iii
trenches. .'i :- .
ASKS FOR RESTRAINING ORDER.
. Covington. Ky. Oi3cers and legal
represeutath es of the ' Blue Grasa
League filetUfi petition In the Tederal
cour atk)vington, anklng. for a teni
porairy restraining order enjoining Au
gust Flemnann, tbe- National Baseball
Commission, the v N"atUnal Board of
Arbitration And tho : National ; Associa
tion of Pro7cssiQSial Baseball Leagues
from- refusing to iidaift- a - Covington
baseJiall club Into'-- tke Blue Gross
Leagne under protection of the vari
ous lseball organizatioav."
MRS
m
R. . WILSON FINDS THAT NEW
PRESIDENT IS BUSIEST MAN
IN THE COUNTRY.
OFFICE SEEKERS BESET HIM
5lvll Service Employes Fear Demo
tion More Than DismissalFew
Changes Are Expected In the
White. House Staff.
By GEORGE CLINTON. . --
Washington. More- activities i are
crowded into the first ten days of an
Ldministration than lcto any succeed
ing ten weeks. ,. The offices of the
SVhite House resemble the ante-rooms
f contention halls when the conven
:ion is about to assamble - If Presl
lent Wilson is to-get the nine hours
ileep! which he has.sad.that he needs,
be, probably -wilL sleep, heavily, because
f tbe "Weariness of the crowded day.
Nine men out of every -Hen -: who
surge in and out of the executive
aaans ion's office rooms, overflowing
ccasionally by sheer force-of the
surge behind them, are seeking . pre
ferment for themselves or for. others.
There has not been ih. years, perhaps
sever before, such a crowd of office
leekers in the city of -Washington aa
there is here today, and, in fact, aa
ias been hero for two or three weeks
waiting for the incoming of the new
idministration. . . " ,
Io addition to listening to the pleas
af the men who seek office, the new
Dresldtnt has some hundreds of other
prtcdpal things to do, to say nothing
if some thousands of odda and ends
9f work. Moreover,- he Is compelled
to. adjust himself to his new position
ind to his new home and his new sur
roundings. He is the hardest worked
man in the country at all times if he
attempts to live up to all his duties,
md during the first few months of his
administration he probably works
harder than any two other men In the
United States. If people think the
president does not earn his salary,
they must think again in order to get
the seat of knowledge well balanced.
Demoting In Civil Service.
The civil service employes in the
city of Washington, and doubtless
elsewhere through - the country, - very
likely need not shake in their shoes
for fear that under the direction of
the new president they are to be oust
ed. Civil service is supposed to pro-.
te.ct, and Mr. Wilson has said that it
Lwlll protect while he has the direc
tion of national affairs. Most of the
ihakicg, therefore, which civil service
workers are doing lsttue to the fear
not that, they will be discharged, but
that they may be demoted, or, in oth
er words, be kept in the service, but
given Inferior positions at smaller pay.
It Is not likely that much .of this
demoting will be done, although it is
possible, as Is true -in some, cases
where men have been given1 the high
est places in the civil service at a
late hour simply to provide them with
good places under tho civil service
blanket, it may , be tha t they will be
demoted and the places which they
have occupied briefly will be given to
others ' recommended by influential
Democrats and'approved by the pres
ident.' None of the civil service posi
tions pays more than $4,000 or $5,000
a year.
White House Staff May Remain. :
The White House staff "of secre
taries and clerks Is busy these days.
How many changes there ; will -be. no
one knows yet, but with the outgoing
of Private Secretary Charles D. Hilles
and the incoming of Private Secretary
Joseph P. Tumulty, the untier secre
taries and the clerkB naturally fear
that an earthquake nay follow. The
White -House force, however, has re
duced things so to a system that a
new force could not do the work until
after months of practice. It is under
stood that Mr. Wilson intends to keep
the White House force pretty nearly
intact for the : reason that business
must be expedited, and for the further
reason that , there are itbout as many
under secretaries and derks who be
long to the dominant political party
as to the outgoing political party, or
the other one which came Jnto ex
istence at the Progressive convention
in Chicago- last summer. It is said
that Mr. - Taf t did not know the po
litical affiliations of half ' a dozen
members of the Whlto House staff,
and It is possible that ; Mr. Wilson
likewise will elect to "remain in ig
norance of the parties to which his
unlor workers belong.
- Muck Sought For Jobs.
. Every, Incoming cabinet officer with
in ten da.?B of his -'taking of the
oath probably ' will have appointed
all. the assistant " secretaries . - which
have places in his c ffice. There
are one cr two assista33t. secretaries,
however, who are pretcysure to re
main in-where -they, are. They are
men whe are accounted invaluable in
.their . poPIUohs, having ; held them . so
long tha t every detail af office work
is known to them, and they have be
come so useful in "courts of last re-'
sort" that, they probably will not be
disturbed. One such man. is Second
Assistant Secretary of ltate Alvey A.
Adee, who has been in! office so long
that most people have forgotten the
date of his entrance there to, and it
is probable that Mr." A$ee is willing
that they should forget When any
body wants to know anything with vir
tually an affidavit's strength to . back
the information he goes to Mr. Adee.
Newspaper men for ji good - many
years have been very .'much in evi
dence la the treasury department as
assistant secretaries, j Two former
Washington correspondtnts are now
assistant secretaries of the treasury,
and It Is possible that one of them at
any rate will contince to hold his Job.
Why These Places Are Desirable.
The assistant secretaryships are
much sought for, especially,; in the
treasury department, for they are con
sidered stepping stones to fine busi
ness positions in private life after a
change of administration has retired
an .incumbent from office. ; Charles D.
Norton, who' was an assistant secre
tary -'of the "treasury and later Mr.
Taf fa private secretary," now has a
high salaried -position In New York
city, and the same general prosper
ity In business life has met nearly all
the former assistant secretaries of the
treasury. The training which they;
get in the. department, directing as
they do customs " matters, revenue
matters and public building matters,
is considered admiral preparation for
executive position in big business con
cerns. -; ;
The men who get. the positions of
assistant secretaries In 'the treasury
department will' be considered - ex
tremely lucky, but . only less lucky
will, be those- who enter on similar-
positions in the department of com
merce and labor and of the Interior,
and of the postoffice department
where assistant secretaries are known
as assistant postmasters-general.
Attorney General's Task.
The attorney-general has to enter
suits agalni t great corporations which
violate the . interstate commerce law,
and of course he has other suits of va
rious natures. The great corporations
are rich ; and they employ the best
legal ta.lent which money can secure
to defenl them In court An untrain
ed assistant to the attorney-general
has a hard - time of it when he goes
up against lawyers who know business
from A to Z, and know all the tech
nicalities which ever have bee de
pended upon to win any kind of a case
In any kind of a court. Tn president
never has had very much to say about
the appointment of assistants to the
attorney-generaL
The ambassadorial positions which
Mr. Wilson must fill can go only to
rich men, and It Is said he is exceed
ingly sorry that such is the case, for
he knows a number of men already In
the service who he would like to pro
mote, but promotion for them is said
to be Impossible because they have
not the means to support "the office
and the dignity" of the ambassador's
rank.
. Plan for Harmony In Senate.
In -the -United States senate the
Democrats will hold a series of
caucuses to try to get the major
ity party in that body lined up In
behalf of the new administration's
policies. Apparently the Democratic
senators do not see how they can aid
the administration's endeavors with
out making advance efforts to line up
"a. Wilson majority" in the senate and
through it make sure that what Mr.
Wilson ,wants to obtain will have Its
way in the committees and on the
floor. - "
. The question of today is, will the
conservative Democrats, knowing that
their progressive brethren are to be
in the majority in the caucuses, bind
themselves to be governed by all that
the' party gathering may decide upon?
It ' is said today that there will be
about thirty progressives in the cau
cuses pledged to abide by the "Wilson
will." This is more than a party ma
jority, and if the conservative Demo
crats agree to abide by the caucus
decisions in all things, it seems cer
tain . that the Democratic party will
have real harmony In the upper house
for some time to come at least Con
cord" may be the1 part of the Demo
crats In the. senate, therefore on all
subjects except perhaps the tariff. .:
No one apparently believes that the
caucuses are. going to attempt to bind
a-Democratic ma jority in the senate
to a fixed program on the tariff. It Is
simply the "truth of the news" to say
that some of the progressive Demo
cratic senators are not in entire ac
cord with others of their progressive
party brethren on the schedules.
May Make Kern Floor Leader. .
- One of the questions which must
be .-settled in advance of the extra
session, is .whether or not the present
senate Democratic floor leader Sen
ator Martin of Virginia, will be chosen
for the same position. It is known
.that some : of the . progressive Demo
cratic senators wish to have the lead
ership given to John" W." Kern of In
diana, and it may be that they can
get a majority in his behalf. All of
jfche progressive Democrats in the sen
ate, it .is. said, are not fixed In their
determination to vote against the Vir
ginia senator.. J They probably will
wait to learn . if Mr-Wilson desires
the unhorsir g of ' the present leader
before they make, up their minds def
initely as to the -course they will pur
sue. . - "-'--- " " , ' '
If the Democrats carry their re-organization
fight to the extent of try
ing to ; prevent Mr.. Martin ; and ; Mr.
Simmons and some others of the con
servative old guard from keeping their
present ranking committee positions,
they will have trouble to make the j
fight good, for there are a good many
progressive Democrats in the senate
who think -t'tiat seniority..: ought ... to
count and that it would do no harm
to make some of the senior conserva
tives chairmtsn of committees, provid
ing the rest of the committee member
ship Is "finely progressive. '
The extent of the trouble which the
Democrats may have In caucus, there
fore, probably will hinge upon the ex
tremes to which ; they attempt to go!
Before He Lost His Hair.
"Why Is ItUhat a bald-headed man
always carriess apocket comb?" asks
Luke McLuk. Maybe to comb hi?
whlskert and! maybe to rociind . him
of happier days. . " . -
AMIIE OPEN TflulB
' ' ' . : " ''- , - . -
Three Faithful Women Who
Came to Mourn Heard That
First Easte Sermon.
On the dark day of the crucifixion
surely Joseph of Arimathea was the
braveiit, as . well as the most loyal. .
man to be found in all.Judeal De
fying not only the prejudices of the
synagog, but the suspicions of Caesar's
troops, he gave Jesus of Nazareth In
death what he had so seldom known
in life a place to lay his head. For
Mary Magdalene and the other Mary,
we may take it, that the Sabbath suc
ceeding the murder on Cavalry had
been one of lamentation, rather than
of worship, for we read that they were
weepLag still when, at the rising of the
sun on the next day, they, with Sa
lome, made the first pilgrimage to the
Holy Sepulcher, not to find, as do th
pilgrims of today; priest and kneeling
choir engaged in the performance of
funeral masses, while the air is laden
with perfume from swinging censers,
but wihitc-robed visitants from anoth
er world. The spices and precious
ointment carried by the women were
not sweeter than the roses and lilies
of Joseph's garden In that early morn
ing stillness. A million times or more
since It had been placed in the heavens
had the sun risen above the hills ot
Judea, but never before had It looked
upon 110 wonderful a sight as a tomb
deserted by its occupant of his owa
will. -
Great Conqueror Conquered.'
It had shone upon nncursed Eden;
It had seen earth drowned in tho wa
ters of the flood; -it had looked upon
Egypt when the creator was doing bat
tle there for the delivery of Israel;
but never until now had it seen death's
victim rise up to conquer the greac
conqueror. "Who will roll-away the
stone?" the women had asked among
themselves, knowing that the removal
of the sealed barrier was a task too
great for Woman's strength. But the
stone had the earthquake of . the
night just passed acted as the servant
of the angels? was not in its place,
and the watchers, equipped with spear
and sword, were trembling, for they
had a strange story to take to their of
ficers, and who could 6ay how, at that,
time, a tale ofkiN supernatural would .
be received? H5w could they admit
that armed men, who had fought the
barbarians in - other provinces ' ot
Caesar's empire, had retreated before
those nwordless strangers at the sep
ulcher? It wasnot only to remove
the guarded stones that these visitants'
had come, but to send by the women
a message, of hope to the nine dls-,
ciples who had forsaken their master
and fltid, and" the two $ who had fol
lowed afar off the prisoner In the
handsof a pagan troop. And we may
be assured that the rising sun glowed
more brightly and the shadows oi
earth's darkest day . fled farther into
the distance when this message was
spoken:
"Go your way; tftll his disciples and
Peter that he goelh before you Into
Galilee,.' as he said unto you."
And the sun, now risen higher, sent
his beams into the place whero the
dead had been and the living was not,
and ths women, with their eyes now
dried through terror of the supcrnat
ural, saw that It was useless to seek
any longer the living among the dead.
They bad listened to the first Eastei
sermon,and they departed to givo tht
message, and then ponder upon It in
their hearts.
-; : .Our Chief Business.
- Let it be " remembered that th
greatestconcern to men is the salva
tion of men. The revival Is what we
have ben all these years working for
and, praying for. In not a few in
stances God's blessings have wonder
fully rested upon some of our
charges Many souls have been' born
Into the kingdom of God, and the
church generally revived. We hop&
that there will yet be a great, revival
in every church In the heart of every
person of every church of every charge
of our conference. Let there be much
prayermuch agonizing of spirit. The
Lord is gracious . and anxious that
there shall be a great outpouring of
his spirit upon his people. Southern
Christian Advocate.
Appreciation of Blessings. '"
We are In danger of getting sc
used to things that we do not realize
their worth. It is bad for a man to
get too used to GodV love, to the com
forts : of home, : and the blessings of
health. It is a bit of the hurt ot ein
stupefying our senses when It Is so
We should aim to cultivate the same
freshneiti of appreciation of our
blessings as when these blesslngx
came. itev. 8. D. Gordon. ' '
Lcl Love Sweeten Service
We noed to watch against a "grudg
ing service." The "enemy ls -always
trying ta. get in the word "duty,- In
stead ofr the word "delight:" he says
a stern Vyou must," instead of a lov
ing ."you may." There is no slavery
like the slavery of love, but Its chains
are sweet ; It knows nothing of "sac
rifice" to matter, what may be given
up.- It delights to do the will ot the
beloved one. Smith. . -
" Noble Ideal. '"-
Just io be good, to keep life pure
from degrading elements, to make it
constantly helpful In little .ways to
those who are touched by It, to keep
one's spirits always sweet and avoid
ill manner of petty anger and Irrita
bility that is an ideal as noble as U is
Iificuit:-Kdward. Howard Griggs. r
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