PINETREE SIDING.
» » ■ ICKETY, tick, tick,
. rattles the sounder
r in the little box
like structure which
\l. serves as water and
r coaling station as
! well as dispatcher's
office, midway bc
‘ *H tween the towns of
Blueflelds and Port
- au Diable, on the
'** =**«"'• S. F. &L. railroad.
Overhead the sun pours down in piti
less glare, making the air quiver and
swirl in a wavering sort of dance over
the straight stretch of track on either
side of the station.
Upstairs, in his glass-inclosed cage,
the operator sits In his shirt sleeves,
mopping the perspiration from his face
and neck and gazing moodily at an
open letter on the desk in front of him.
It is a short letter, on the company’s
paper, and signed by the division su
perintendent, but its few typewritten
lines have had a wonderful effect on
the operator. Only a sharp, busine33-
I ke letter, written by a busy man who
cannot afford to waste time on trifles:
“Dear Sir: Certain details of your
previous history, which you thought fit
to conceal when you entered the em
ploy of this company, having come to
the knowledge of the writer, your serv
ices will not be required after Thurs
day, July 31, when you will receive
your pay in full to that date.
“Your successor will arrive on the
tpecial following No. 6. Very truly
lours, J. M. L ,
“Division Superintendent.”
The 31st! That is to-day, and he has
only received the letter an hour ago!
So he w’as to be turned out on the world
at a moment’s notice, without a chance
to prepare himself for the next step in
the struggle for existence! To be
dogged all his life by that one black
act of his youth, which he had hoped
buried forever. It was always the
same old story; like Banquo’s ghost, it
would not down, but, spreading its
grisly arms, effectually barred his en
trance into the paths of honest com
petition for what many claim as a
right, and which he only asked to be
allowed to work for a livelihood.
His ears are ringing and his head
burns as though a thousand devils were
making a cast of it in molten steel.
Even the clatter of the telegraph in
strument, which during the long, lone
ly hours spent in his glass cage, had
become like the voice of an old friend,
as the train orders and message
flashed through the little station, now
seem to mock and jeer at him with its
ceaseless rattle and tick.
And above all that great dazzling orb
continues to blaze down upon the
shrinking earth until the verdure on
the hillside aJbove and below the sta
tion withers and curls, and the glass
cage is like an oven.
The operator’s head seems to be on
fire and his brain throbs so violently
that he cannot think at all clearly.
There is but one idea around which his
mental forces rally and to which his
nerves respond—retaliation! And this
idea grows upon him irresistibly.
Shall he tamely kis3 the foot which
kicks him out of a position in which
he has ever tried to best subserve the
interests of his employers, and which
he now loses through the malice (so
he tells himself) of one of the superior
subordinates of the company for which
they both work, and who uses as a
means of satisfying his spite an error
committed and expatiated twenty years
ago! What claim had such a cur on
life which should be respected by the
rest of humanity? Would he not be
doing the human race a favor by rid
ding the world of such a travesty on
man? The human race! Bah! What
lid he owe the human race? Had r.ot
START BACK IN HORROR,
the hand of his fellow-man been
against him for twenty years? Was
he not a pariah, one cut off from social
communication from his fellows, liv
ing, traveling, working under an as
sumed name, ever endeavoring to ob
literate and dispel the old shadow! He
had striven to live a life which should
be blameless from the world’s point of
view and those few with whom he had
teen thrown in contact, and who knew
naught of his previous history, could
cast no aspersions against his charac
ter. But to what avail? It was his fate.
Surely It had been that every man’s
hand should be against him. So be it
I —his own hand should be raised
against the unforgiving race of Phari
sees. And the operator knows that Mb
present position, albeit his tenure of
it is but short, Is such as to render
such a wholesale declaration of war
doubly effective.
Hotter and hotter blazes the sun
, from an almost white sky, and wilder
and wilder glare the eyes of the opera
tor at Plnetreo Siding,
Suddenly they happen to rest on a
* A wire running close to the glass in front
I of tho station, and light up with a wild
er gleam than ever, while his working
features distort themselves into a raa
v ijcious grin.
I'. The towns of Illueflelds and Port an
| ■ are lighted by electric light, the
3 j.l being situated at D.ucfldda.
Promptly at 5:30 every evening tbs
dynamos a.e started up, running until
6:30 the next morning. The wires con
necting the two points run directly in
front of and close to the station at
Pinetree Siding, and it is one of these
wires which has caught the attention
of the operator.
It is now 2:45 in the afternoon, and
not a cloud has crossed the face of that
hanging ball of fire which threatens
to shrivel and scorch to a cinder every
thing on which its beams rest.
The operator goes over to the window
and attaches to the electric-light wire,
from a portion of which he carefully
removes the insulation, the end of an
other piece which he holds in his hand.
When this is secure he carries the other
end o: ar his desk, and kneeling down,
spends some minutes in arranging it
in some manner below; bringing two
free ends up through a hole in the top
of the table. This done, he takes from
a closet several round and greasy-look
ing sticks about a foot long, and, de
scending the stairs, places them at reg
ular intervals along the railroad track,
connecting them all together with
wires, which he afterward brings up
stairs and Joins to the arrangement
underneath the table. Then he returns
to his seat, and save for his trembling
hands and the peculiar glare of his
eyes, performs his routine duties in the
usual manner.
Tick tick, tlckety tick. It is the call
for Pinetree Siding. The operator opens
his key and answers promptly. It is a
message from headquarters announcing
that the special following No. 6, and
carrying the divison superintendent
and the new operator for Pinetree Sid
ing is due at 5:50, Just three minutes
after No. 6’s schedule time. The oper
ator’s eyes flash; it is as he has anti
cipated. He wires the track clear and
waits.
Promptly at 5:47 No. 6, the vestibuled
limited express for the east, dashes past
the siding with a rattle and crash that
causes the operator, whose nerves are
tense to the breaking point, to spring
to his feet in alarm, fearing that the
destruction meant for the special has
overtaken her predecessor. But the
express whirls safely by and the oper
ator has the satisfaction of seeing his
innocent looking messengers of death
lying untouched but waiting his will to
fulfill their devilish mission.
And now the operator’s breath comes
short and sharp and his eyes glisten
and glare as though the fires of hell
were lighted behind; his lips are drawn
back over his teeth and his long fingers
work nervously, as if longing to execute
the finishing touch which shalf culmin
ate the awful catastrophe he has
planned. Gold help the poor men on
the train so swiftly rushing to their
doom, and God help their waiting fam
ilies, for the operator at Pinetree Sid
ing who holds their lives in his hands
is no longer a man but a demon.
Suddenly ihe whistle of the approach
ing special is heard and the operator
bounds from his chair and rushes to the
window, eager to feast his eyes for a
moment on the sight of his nearing vic
tims. Everything is complete. He has
but to press together those two tiny
bits of wire and the entire telegraph
line will be transformed into a hissing,
blazing serpent, carrying death and de
struction to the poor operators along
its path and wrecking the instruments,
thus stopping telegraphic communica
tion all over the line; while at Pinetree
Siding only a scattered tangle of wood,
iron and human flesh would mark the
annihilation of both the special with
her human freight and the operator as
well. For he is quite willing to sacri
fice himself to achieve his end, and
counts the cost but little if with the
forfeit of his life he may encompass
the revenge he has so cunningly plot
ted.
But thora is no time to lose; already
the special is slowing up in front of the
station, and, leaping to the table like a
wolf upon his prey, he presses the two
wires together. But no boom or roar of
the expected explosion follows, nothing
but the escape of steam as the air
brakes of the special bring her to a
stop, and the operator, realizing that
his scheme has miscarried, flings him
self upon the wires, biting them togeth
er with his teeth, cursing, praying,
blaspheming and shrieking aloud in his
mad rage and disappointment. But all
to no purpose; and as the division
superintendent and the new dispatcher
enter the room they start back in hor
ror at sight of the body of the operator,
as with black and twisted features he
lies across the table, still grasping in
his hand the wires by which he had
hoped to avenge himself for a life of
and onmity. A glance reveals
the whole plot, and with cheeks paler
than usual they cut the wires and re
store everything to its original state,
As the new operator brings in the dy
namite which he has carefully removed
from tho track, and looks over at his
predecessor lying straightened out on
tile floor by the window, he shudders so
that the division superintendent jumps
forward to catch the 3tuff, thinking he
is about to drop it.
Next morning the Bluefields Exposi
tor calls the attention of the citizens
to the wonderful mercy of providence,
which by permitting a fuse at the elec
tric light plant to blow out, so cutting
off the current just before the special
following No. G was duo at Pinetree
Siding, had saved the lives of several
prominent railway officials, besides a
large amount of damage to railway
property. And when the coroner gave
to the public the verdict that the oper
ator at Pinetree Siding had come to
his death from the effects of the in
tense heat of the previous day no men
tion was made of the letter found by
the division superintendent on the ta
ble besido him.
While in England potatoes are
grown almost entirely as an esculent,
auout 4,000,000 tone are annually used
in France in the manufacture of starch
and alcohol.
WOULD HUitT INSTEADOF HELP
How Freo Coinage Would Injure the
Farmers.
The chief strength of the 16 to 1 agi
tation lies in the belief that it would
benefit the agricultural classes. This
is a serious error. The facts of all
human experience show conclusively
that free silver would cause widespread
and prolonged injury to the faimers of
this country.
The mere threat of free coinage would
greatly injure the farmers by causing
an immediate calling in of all loans
through the natural desire of lenders to
get back money worth as much as they
lent. Hundreds of thousands ef farmers
would be unable to pay their mort
gages, and their farms would be sold at
a sacrifice. No new loan 3 would be
forthcoming, as the owners of capital
would not invest so long as there was
any danger that by a change in the
money standard the value of loans
would be cut in two. As the chief com
plaint of the farmers now is that inter
est is too high and capital is too scarce,
the effect of a policy which would make
capital scarcer and dearer can be fig
ured out by each farmer for himself.
A second way in which free coinage
would hurt agriculture would be by the
financial panic which would inevitably
follow the overthrow of our present
sound financial system and the adop
tion of the unstable cheap silver stand
ard. With the millions of bank de
positors demanding their savings the
machinery of credits, by which so large
a part of the country’s business is done,
would be suddenly stopped. Merchants
would be unable to buy goods for !ack
of credit; manufacturing industries
would be closed down, as in 1893, end
millions of workers would be idle.
Men out of employment do not buy as
much farm products as when they are
at work, and the farmers who now
complain of the lack of markets for
their produce would find them3elve3
with a large part of their crops un
sold. Would not this be a serious In
jury to agriculture?
Another evil which free coinage
would bring to American farmers
would be the unsettlement of their
trade relation with the great gold
standard commercial nations, which
purchase each year $600,000,000 worth
of our surplus farm products. The
adoption of the silver standard, with
its constantly fluctuating scale of
prices, would prove the same barrier
to commerce between this and other
countries that it has to trade between
gold standard Europe and India, China,
and Japan. Do the farmers want to
curtail and unsettle our foreign trails?
These are some of the ways in which
free coinage at 16 to 1 would hurt the
farmers. No advocate of 53-cent dol
lars has ever been able to show a single
way in which it would help them.
FREE SILVER AND PRICE OF
COTTON.
Populist Statistics Which Prove Sound
Money Statements.
The Arena, a populist magazine, pub
lishes a series of pictures intended to
show the great decrease in the purchas
ing power of a bale of cotton, owing to
the alleged “demonetization” of silver.
The money value of the first bale is
given as $416.90 in 1865. Tho next in
the saL>e series is for 1870, when the
money value had shrunk to $110.1)0.
Other pictures give the varying values
down to 1894, the conclusion from the
whole being that the lack of free sil
ver has caused the fall in tho price of
cotton.
How false this argument is can be
seen by looking at the figures quoted.
Between 1865 and IS7O the price of cot
ton fell from 53.38 cents per pound to
23.98 cents. By 1873, the year of the
“crime,” tho price had gone down to
18.80 cents. In other words, the money
value of a bale of cotton shrank from
$416.90 in 1865 to $94, a difference
of $322.90, while the country had free
coinage of silver at 16 to 1. Since that
(Money value of 500 pounds in 1865 at
$0.83.38 per pound, $416.90.)
(Money value of 500 pounds in 1573 at
SO.IS.SO per pound, $94.)
(Money value of 500 pounds in 1895* at
$0.07.80 per pound, $39.)
time the fall in price has teen much
less, having been only from $94 in
IS7S to $39 In 1896 at the prtsent quota
tions of 7.80 cents per pound.
The history of cotton prices 3hows.
therefore, that under free silver the
price of a bale of cotton declined
$322.90, or 64.58 cents per pound, in
eight years. Under the present flrutn
-*ia 1 system the price has only fallen
$55 per bale, of 11 cents per pound in
23 years. In face of theso oltlolal
figures how can any intelligent man
pretend that it was the change in .uir
currency laws In 1373 which has re
duced the money value of cotton?
The advocates of free silver may at
tempt to answer this exposure of their
low price for cotton argument by show
ing that thero was a great increase in
the cotton crop between 1863 and 1573.
This is 'true, but there has also been a
far greater quantity of cotton produced
►very year cineo 1873 than ever before,
the crop for 1892 reaching 9,035,379
bales as compared with 3,930,508 bales
in 1873, the largest crop during the
period from 1565 to 1573, so that if In
creased production caused the great
decline in prices in one case it is sure
ly fair to credit it, and not the stop
page of free esilver coinage, with the
lower prices of the past 23 years.
A Trails Jonrnal’s Sninmarr.
To a man who has no money there
are several ways to get it—namely;
(a) Beg it.
(b) Steal it.
(c) Borrow it.
(d) Secure it by gift.
(e) Trade something for it.
If we are to beg for it, we might
just as well do the best we can. There
fore a dollar based on a gold standard
is better than a 16-to-l silver dollar,
which to-day is worth about 53 cents
intrinsically.
If we are to steal it, we want the
best. A thief who would steal a sil
ver dollar in preference to a gold dol
lar would be acquitted on the ground
that he was insane.
If we borrow it, we want that kind
of money which will go farthest, for
so we can get along with a smaller loan.
Therefore a gold dollar is better to
borrow than a 16-to-l silver dollar.
If we are to secure it by gift, cer
tainly we should not depreciate that
which we are about to receive.
This brings us to e, which is the
way most money i 3 obtained. A perti
nent question for each of us to ask at
this time is, Y’hat have I got to trade
for money wh.„h I want? It may be
labor; It may be a horse or cow; it may
be lumber cr shingles; it may be a
saw-mill. At the present time we can
trade any of the above and get a gold
dollar for every dollar’s worth of value,
as may be agreed upon between buyer
and seller. We can get a dollar which
is worth a dollar anywhere and every
where.
Now’, your labor or horse or cow’ cr
lumber or machinery will be worth just
an much, or nearly as much, next year
as it i 3 this, but if we have free coin
age at 16 to 1 will the dollar which you
get in trade be worth as much as the
dollar you can get now? What will
that be worth? Can you tell? It may
be worth 53 cents or more or less. One
day this, one day that, but can any one
tell? These are all pertinent questions,
and, when carefully considered, must
guide us in voting at the next election
in November, and do not lose sight
of the fact that if all the silver in the
world is coined into money you cannot
get a cent of it except by a, b, c, d or
e, above referred to. —Lumber Trade
Journal.
(■nvfrnmont Onnertlilp of Silver Mine*.
Why is It that both the populists and
the democrats failed to put a plank in
their platforms demanding that the
government own and control the silver
mines of this country, so that the profit
which would be made from free coinage
would go to our government and thus
indirectly be a benefit to the whole
people? Why should this profit go to
a few individuals who own the silver
mines and who are already enormously
rich? Is not this building up one of
the most dangerous trusts that the
country has ever seen?
Think of a few men having under
their contrtn all the silver of this coun
try and tt-s government compelled to
turn it lr,t»’ dollars as fast as they
produce it! Suppose that these silver
men combine to shut down work on
their mines when they want to produce
a stringency in the money market,
then open thorn again when they want
to make money abundant. Would not
this put the whole business of the
country at their mercy?
l>oubl« Stnmlnnl M»pl* Sugar.
The Mohawk valley waa settled by
the Dutch, as your readers know. When
the country was new Yankee peddlers
came through the settlements and pur
chased the crop of maple sugar. On
one occasion a green Dutchman sold a
Yankee his maple sugar far below the
market price and his neighbor teased
him for being deceived. He said in re
ply: “You vait and I will vix him
next year.” The next spring he sold
his crop of sugar to the same Yankee
at the same price. When his neigh
bors railed him he said: “I am no fool.
1 made the sap that sugar was made
from of half spring water.” The green
Dutch farmer had just as much com
mon sense as those cranks who assert
that 50 cents’ worth of silver and an
equal amount of water will make a dol
lar worth 100 cents In gold at the pres
ent standard. —F. G. in New York Sun.
An Eminent lllmetxlllaV* Opinion.
Professor Edouard Suess, the leading
bimetallist of Austria, states briefly
but with great force the objections to
free coinage by this country alone.
The result would be, he says, “the loss
of all your (our) gold, and the obliga
tion to buy in England the gold neces
sary to meet your (our) obligations in
foreign countries.” He declares that
“one nation alonn is too weak to take
such a step, which must lead to a
financial and perhaps an economical
crisis.”
Sober I>IS"ii»«lon.
This must be a campaign of educa
tion. We advise men to study, talk and
read all they can about this great ques
tion, but do not get mad at your neigh
bor who doed not think as you do. Re
member he Is entitled to his opinion
and to respect. All the facts are not on
one side. There are plausible things in
favor of free silver, but there are more
plausible ones in favor of our present
standard. RlchmondvlUe (N. Y.)
Phoenix.
Cheap money means dear goods. If
you want to pay double prices for
what you buy and take slim chances
of wtting mors wages, vote for the
16 to 1 scheme.
A LESSON FROM EGYPT.
Shotting Hour that Country Fulled to
Maintain the Katin.
The ancient Egyptians had a cur
rency based on cats and onions, ooth
of which were sacred objects worship
ed by the people. As there was some
difficulty in storing the cats, and as the
onion was liable to decay, a circulating
medium was provided of papyrus strips,
representing a certain number of cats
and onions at a ratio of 16 to 1. This
was a true double standard system and
is believed to have been the origin of
modern paper currency. For a time the
cat-onion money circulated at par, but
the historian Faque Hur records that
about 963 B. C. a serious difficulty
arose. New colonies had been estab
lished in the region of the upper Nile,
and the savage Nubians had been
taught the art of agriculture. The
rich, black soil of the valley which they
inhabited was especially suited to the
growth of onions, and the production
of those perfumed bulbs was soon
enormously increased. Meanwhile the
cat crop had only grown in the usual
ratio, and the result was that, with
the demand for sacred animals in the
new colonies, at least 30 onions would
be given for one cat. This brought the
papyrus currency into disfavor, and
the ruling pharaoh. Ham Bunkshus
111., issued a royal order that cats
should be the sole standard of value,
and that onions should be issued only
to the extent that they could be kept
at par with the “caterwaulers,” as the
unit of value was termed.
This did not suit the onion growers,
who at once started an agitation for
the free and unlimited coinage of al!
onions at the good old ratio of their
daddies. After passing 3,187,642 resolu
tions denouncing the horrible crime of
963 the onionites marched in a body to
the palace of their pharaoh and de
manded that the unju6t law enacted at
the Instance of the catbugs should be
repealed and the bicatallis standard
Ram Bunkshus listenod to
them patiently and answered: “Great,
no doubt, was the wisdom of our an
cestors. But lam in the wisdom busi
ness myself to some extent. When the
ratio of 16 to 1 was adopted, that was
the true ratio of the cats and onions.
Now, owing to a great increase In the
quantity of onions, tho ratio is 30 to 1.
All powerful as I am, I cannot make
onions worth more than their market
value. The present standard stays.
As for you, O foolish onionites, your
leaders shall feed the sacred crocodiles.
The rest of you will return to your
farms and hustle. I have remarked.”
Thus ended the first and only cur
rency agitation In Egypt.—Whldden
Graham in Puck.
One Neglected Detail.
“No, sir,” said the man who waa
chewing a long straw, “I ain't satisfied
yet. I don’t think ary one o’ them con
ventions went fur enough.”
"I thought you regarded the future
very hopefully.”
“I did fur a time. But in the excite
ment we overlooked things thet orter
’a’ been done. It never occurred ter
me at the time, but we made a big mis
take by not havin’ a plank put inter
the platform makin’ it ag'in’ the law
fur it ter rain on a man’s hay when
he’s gone ter town ter ’tend a p'litical
meetin’."—Washington Star.
"We don’t want any 53-cent dollars
In this town,” was the emphatic greet
ing of a workman to the presidential
candidate of the populists and sllverltes
as he passed through Huntingdon,
Pa. If the American workingmen are
wise they will see to it that every town
and city in the United States gives
the same answer to the free coinage
appeals for votes.
“More money” is the delusive cry of
the silverites in their campaign for
cheap dollars. But they do not attempt
to show how a 16 to 1 free coinage law,
which would put our $690,000,000 gold
at a premium of nearly 100 per cent,
and drive It all out of circulation, could
possibly give us more money than
we have now.
“Gold Is the speculator’s dollar” say
the advocates of the silver standard.
How about the cheap money period
from 1861 to 1873? Did not specula
tion of all kinds flourish then, and
were not the gamblers in bonds, slocks
or farm products greatly aided by the
depreciated and fluctuating currency?
It the fact that some farmers are
poor is used to justify the confiscation
of the property of creditors, would not
the poverty of tho Coxey armies of
tramps and unemployed workers justi
fy them in demanding a share of thf
property owned by the farmers?
The new tenant visits the family cr,
the tloor below. After a few compli
mentary remarks the lady says: ’’Shall
I call my daughter to play something
for you on the piano? You haven’t
heard her yet.” Oh, yes 1 hav; ; a id,
to tell the truth, the landlord let mo
have the apartments a third cheapo
on that account"—-Texas Sifting...
ME SUNDAY SCHOOL.
LESSON Xlll—SET. 27—A REVIEW
OF DAVID’S LIFE.
(lolden Test: “The Name of the Lord Is
a Strong Towor. The Righteous
Runneth Into It and Are Safe”—Tro
verbs 18:10.
* flam ll* a wi
two elder sisters,
« whose names are
-S given, - Zerulah
—. an< r Abigail U
Chron. 2: 16).
Natural Endow
ments. These were of a h l gji order.
He had physical strength. beau*h iUtleß of
tract Iveneas. He ha.t t»W»l"
a high order and great \ a y ’ Qr mu _
business man, statesman, com
..clan and poet. “There was a|»re co
btnatlon In him of all tha p xa i t ed
tender and mild, with the ™ ‘ , iations ,
enthusiasm, the most n°ble P most
the most generous sentimen • dar _
manly deportment, the most ’nrowess,
ing and the most Invincible l^owess.
joined to Invariable consid
Others, open-heartedness, hum
entire absence of all pretension.
Early Training. David’s early training
was exactly the best for the wo . ug
to do In life,—ln a country home. ,ro
and intelligent, with sufficient wa9 fully
but not overwhelming till h , o ned
grown, amid daily duties tha aml(1
him physically as well as me ■ med _
the influences of nature, of musu.
itatlon. . .. _
The victory over Goliath, in The
of Elah, when 20 or -1 y ear * \ of
fruit of previous training and c ■
good, and the means to larger <■ ' h ..
Scripture. “To him that overcometh.
“I will make a pillar In the te "' pl^s’ r f
God”; “and I will give him the morning
91 Nine Years of Training and Trial. !"
the court of Saul for about two .«
David learned many lessons of c
of self-restraint, of resistance to worldly
ness, of soldierly conduct am . f of
use of arms, the blessing and 1
true friendship. ag
Then for seven years more he
learning necessary lessons in exil •
learned the character and needs ofthe
people, and their grievances. He learned
men and how to govern men. „ t
in privation and humility counteracUd
the dangers of his court Mfe *
a knowledge of the country. He gathered
around him choice and heroic P
preparation for his defense and con
**'illustration. The mahogany tree. ln low
and damp soils, is of very rapid growtn.
but the most valuable trees grow slow
amidst rocks and on sterile soil, and stem
to gather compactness and beauty of gtan
and texture from the very difficulties with
which they have to struggle for existence
Just as in human life affliction and tii
develop the loveliest traits of human
character. In the Bahama Islands, spring
ing up on rocky hillsides in places almost
destitute of soil, and crowding its con
torted roots into crevices among the rocks
I speak now of a time long past tt
formed that much esteemed and curiously
veined variety of wood known and valued
so highly in Europe as “Madeira wood.
David becomes king of Judah lor seven
and a half years at Hebron. This was his
preparation for the larger kingdqni.
Scripture. Well done, good and faithful
servant: thou hast been faithful over a
few things, I will make thee ruler over
many things (Matt. 25: 21).
David Becomes King Over All Israel.
He became king as all men attain their
best life work,—(l) by the guiding provi
dence of God, (2) by some kind of choice
of the people. (3) by a right heart and
persevering will.
1. David enlarged the kingdom.
2. He subdued the enemies that at
tacked him.
3. He organized the government.
4. He organized the army.
5. He arranged the services of religion.
G. He enlarged commerce, business and
material prosperity.
David’s sin marks a sad era in his life.
His repentance changed the very at
mosphere of his later life.
There were two streams flowing side by
side: one from his sin, culminating in
Absalom’s rebellion, hut felt to the end
of his life and beyond: the other from
his changed character, his penitence and
the new phase of his religious life. This
stream gradually widened as the evil
stream grew less. David spent much of
his later years in preparing materials for
the temple which his son was to build.
Death urd Burial of David. David died
at the age of seventy, “full of days, riches
and honor” (1 Chron. 29 : 28). He was
buried at Jerusalem, In the tombs of the
kings cut in the rooks under Mount Zion.
Review of David’s Character. David
was a noble, brave, loving man, with
strong passions, a warm heart and a
ready, generous hand; a devoted friend,
attractive, bright, joyous, poetic, deeply
religious and devotional, strong in faith,
unselllsh and sincerely good. He fell into
someofthe vice* of the age; hecommltteda
great crime: he was too easy In his fam
ily government; but his repentance and
public confession prove him to be at heart
a true and godly man, one of the great
est and best men that ever lived. He was
a great general, a great statesman, a
great poet, a great organizer, a great
man.
Time. Seventy years, the whole life of
David, B. C. 1085 to 1015.
Place. The land of Palestine, Beth
lehem, Valley of Klah, Gibeah, where Saul
held his court, Hebron, Jerusalem.
Contemporaries. The prophet Samuel
lived till David was 20 years old or more.
Na'han amt Gad were also prophets dur
ing his reign. Saul was king till David
was 30 years old.
Secular History. During David’s reign
and Solomon’s the great kingdoms of
Egypt and of Assyria were sufferiug an
eclipse.
lionet in Btr»w Hat*.
A couple of horses wearing straw
hats were seen attached to a handeomo
landau in London the other day. It
Is said that horses suffer from the heat
\*lien their heads are exposed to the
sun.
FOR LADIES ONLY.
Side combs are as stylish as ever,
but are not so conspicuously worn as
formerly.
The plain skirt remains the favorite
style, and when well made is generally
becoming.
The most stylish garniture for travel
ing hats consists of garlands of autumn
leaves and berries.
Stockings with small pockets or: the
outer side, just above the knee, are
shown 'a thz shops.