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The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1908-11-21

Ezekiel the Prophet Name means
God will strengthen" He was son OF
Buzi priest and himself was probably a
priest at Jerusalem prior to his captiv-
lily. Unlike Jeremiah he supplies but
scant details Of his personal history. Ia
ken captive in captivity OF King Je-
hoiachin, IL years before final destruction
OF Jerusalem. he settled with other Jews
on banks OF Chebar. supposedly about
200 miles north of Babylon. He dates his
call to the prophetic Office as ''in the nth
year of Jehoiachin's captivity" b. c. sos.
From incidental allusion to personal his
tory in chapter 2i:lS we learn he was
married, and had house SD In his
place of exile. and lost his wife by sud
den and unforeseen stroke. He was con-
temporary with Jeremiah and Daniel, the
formers long period of service OF 40 years
overlapping that of Ezekiel about seven
years. while the latter began his prophet
ic mission toward the close OF Ezekiels
ministry. Tradition. probably false. states
Ezekiel was killed at Babylon by a prince
of his people whom he had reproved for
idolatry.
Scripture Authority-Ezekiel, chap
tiers 1-3.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1908-11-21
important NEWS
notes OF A week
LATEST HAPPENINGS THE WORLD
OVER TOLD IN lTEMiZED
FORM.
EVENTS HERE AND THERE
Condensed Into Few Lines for the
Perusal Of the Busy Man
Latest Personal lnfor-
nation.
PERSONAL.

Dean Thomas Frederick Crane of
the Cornell university faculty, who
has been connected with the uni
versity for Al years, has resigned.
Gov Hughes filed his certificate OF
election expenses with the secretary
of state of New York. giving his total
expenditures as $369.65.
Prof. Richard MacLaurin, head Of
the physics department Of Columbia
university, was appointed president OF
the Massachusetts, Institute Of Tech
nology.
Emperor William was severely cen
sured by leaders OF all parties during
the debate in the reichstag on the In
terpellations concerning the converse
tions published with the permission
of the emperor In the London Daily
Telegraph.
Emperor William conferred on
Count Zeppelin the Prussian order OF
the Black Eagle.
President Castro of Venezuela has
been advised by his physicians to go
to Europe for medical treatment for
the malady from which he has been
suffering recently.
Lord Sholto Douglas, brother to the
present marquis of Queensbury, is held
in the provincial Jail at Nelson, b. c.,
for shooting man named Rowland,
probably fatally.
King Edward spent his sixty-seventh
birthday at Sandringham.
John w. Kern announced that he Is
a candidate for United States senator
from Indiana.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1908-11-21
THE STORY.

r ZEKIEL was among the choice
Il young men whom King Nebuchad-
nezzar had seized upon his conquest
Of Jerusalem and had taken back with
the others TO Babylon. A son Of Buzz,
a priest In the temple service at Jeru-
salem, and devout man who had
kept himself free from the corrupting
influences which had wrought such
awful havoc to the religious life OF
the nation, he had had careful instruc-
ton In the word Of God and had had
drilled into him from the earliest
years the awful sin of idolatry which
was eating the very heart out of the
nation.
And because his father had re-
NAMED steadfast to the service and
worship Of the true God and would not
listen to the alluring words of the
compromising priesthood who sought
to remodel the worship of the true
God to conform to the idolatrous de-
sires and licentious practices of the
apostate Jews, he and his family suf-
fered privations and prosecutions
without measure.
This had come not without its refin-
ing influence on the young life and
deepened his love for God and made
him eager to learn the truths Of Gods
word from the lips of his father.
Aad as good fortune would have It,
II was his privilege to come in con-
tact with the great prophet. Jeremiah,
for whom he had the profoundest love
and admiration. He was eye-wit-
ness to the wicked opposition and
persecution which fell 10 the lot of the
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1908-11-21
GENERAL NEWS.

Three hundred and thirty-nine men
were killed in the Radbod mine near
Hamm, Westphalia, by an explosion
and resulting fire. Thirty-fve were
taken out badly injured.
A motor boat containing ten China
men and three white men was
wrecked on the breakwall at Buffalo,
N. Y. and six of the Orientals, who
were being smuggled from Canada,
lost their lives.
The Register and Leader of Des
Moines, Ia, has bought the Daily Trib-
une, an afternoon Democratic daily.
The Illinois state board of equaliza-
ton fixed the total assessed valuation
of property in the state at $1,263,-
515,156. against $1,251, 974,3O6 in 1907.
Mrs. Mary Wheeler Somerby of
Newburyport, Mass, an aged widow,
was declared to be the sole heir to an
estate valued at 100000 by an order
filed in the chancery court at Tren-
ton, N. j.
Clarence Agnew, colored was given
a life sentence for causing a fatal
wreck on the Southern railway near
Duncan, S. c.
President Roosevelt Thursday re-
ceived at the White House about 500
farmers and their wives, who were at
tending the convention of the National
Grange, Patrons of Husbandry.
The jury in the Lamphere murder
case at Laporte, Ind, was completed
the states attorney made his open
ing statement and the introducing Of
evidence was begun.
A cold blooded plot by daughter
to murder her mother for her money
was exposed In the arrest of Miss Mae
l.. Otis of Chicago. The woman had
arranged to have her mother beaten
to death, but unwittingly hired de-
tectives to do the deed.
Judge Taylor of the federal court
at Cleveland, o., appointed Warren
Hicknell and Frank A. Scott as joint
receivers for the Municipal Traction
Company and the Cleveland Railway
Company.
Albert Berger, former Alaska min
er, just before committing suicide at
Canyon Ferry, Mont, threw $4,000 in
post-office money orders payable to
himself, in the stove.
One man was killed and 35 injured
by an explosion in the Excelsior
Springs Powder factory at Dodson,
Mo-
Postmaster General Meyer an
nounced that the postal deficit for the
fiscal year ended June 80 amounted to
$16.910.279, the largest in the history
of the post-ofIice department.
Mrs. A. W. Bonds of Memphis,
Tenn, killed 8. p. Craig because he
insulted and annoyed her.
The woman who tried to compel
Mrs. Phipps OF Denver to give her
100000 and threatened her with dyna-
mite was found to be the wife OF AL
Ian Reed, Denver druggist, and the
heiress OF Massachusetts, million
aire. She was thought to be mentally
deranged.
Five persons we're killed and many
hurt by boiler explosion on steam
err at Temiskaming, Ont.
A friendly bout with boxing gloves
between John vanderbeck and Ed
ward Lynch In New York resulted in
vanderbeck's death from heart
trouble.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1908-11-21
EMPEROR OF CHINA DEAD.
Dowager Empress Also Said to Be
Dying at Picking.

Peking.-The emperor of China was
reported dying Saturday morning. 1t
has, however, been impossible to Sc
cure official confirmation of this an
nouncement. His majesty was trans
ferred to the death chamber at two
O'Clock Friday afternoon. At that
hour he was still breathing, it was
said.
Two imperial edicts were issued
from the palace Friday afternoon in
quick succession. The first makes
Prince Chun regent Of the empire and
the second appoints his son. Pu Wei,
heir presumptive.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1908-11-21
"Paupero padded with Money.

Peoria, Ill.-Upwards of $1,000 in
cash and certificates of deposit aad
deeds amounting to $4,000 were found
by asylum attendants at the Barton.
Vile institution Friday sewed in the
clothing OF Mrs. Mary McMasters, an
aged and supposedly poor woman.
The woman, for years, lived as re-
cluse and recently had made threats
to set fire to her home and burn the
place and herself. The money was
brought TO Superintendent Zeller. who
is making efforts to ind some kin Of
the unfortunate woman.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1908-11-21
Expert on Poetry Of Motion.

Sixty-five years q member of the
ballet company OF the Royal opers
house at Berlin is the record of Misa
Charlotte Braun. who celebrated her
eightieth birthday recently. Fo,
many years she was solo dancer q,
the opera, then she became an instrua
tor In the ballet school. and for the
last ten years she has been q pension.
or, but she still continues to give In
struction in dancing and is n Iecog
nized authority on matters relating IL
the poetry OF motion
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1908-11-21
METcALF, ILL, RESIGNS.
Newberry VIII Succeed Him as Sec
rotary of the Navy.

MISUNDERSTANDING of the Navy
Victor H. Metcalf Friday rendered his
resignation to the president to take
effect December l on account of i'll
health. Assistant Secretary of the
Navy Truman H. Newberry will be
named as Mr.. Metcalf's successor.
For more than year the fact that
Mr.. Metcalf had suffered serious i'll
ness has been well known at the navy
department. Formerly Of vigorous
health, his friends expected that he
would be able to regain his strength,
but constantly recurring illness con-
vinced him that the only course for
him to pursue was to sever his con-
nection with all active work.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1908-11-21
New Head for Wesleyan.

New York.-William Arnold Shank
lin, president of Upper Iowa univer-
sity, Fayette, Ia, was elected on Fri
day president of Wesleyan university,
Middletown, Conn. DIR. Shanklin,
who has been president of Upper Iowa
university since 1905. graduated at
Hamilton college. this state, In 1888.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1908-11-21
FATAL BOILER EXPLOSIONS.
Four Men Killed In Kentucky and
Three in Virginia.

Sergent, Ky.-In boiler explosion
at the Miller Lumber Company's plant
at Pound, near Pound Gap Friday,
four men were killed and four more
severely injured.
Norton, Va.-Three men were killed
outright, two were fatally injured and
two others were seriously hurt In an
explosion at sawmill plant in Wise
county Friday.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1908-11-21
Aaron A. Parker. Detroit. Dies.

Detroit, Mich.-Aaron A. Parker,
one Of the incorporators of the White
Star line Of river excursion steamers
Of this city, and for dozen years
president Of the line, died Friday night
at his home here.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1908-11-21
FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN.

For thirty years Lydia e. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound, made
from roots and herbs, has been the
standard remedy for female ills,
and has positively cured thousands OF
women who have been troubled with
displacements, inflammation, ulcera-
ton, f1broid tumors, Irregularities,
periodic pains, backache, that bear
{ng-down feeling, flatulency, indiges-
ton, dizziness, ornervous proetration.
Why don't you try IL?
Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick
women to write her for advice.
She has guided Thousands to
health. Address, Lynn Mass.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1908-11-21
FOUR GIRLS
Restored to Health By LSdfs r.
Pinlkham'sv Vegetable Compound.
Mad rUhot Thsy Sav.

Mis- Lillian Ross, $50
East 6zth Street, New
York, writes: "Lydia
b. Pinkham's vegeta-
BILE Compound over
ameirregularities pe-
riodi0 suffering, and
nervous adaches,
aftbr everything else
had failed TO help mo,
and I feel Il . duty to
let Others know Of n"
KstharineC Craig, 2355
Lafayette st., Denver,
Col. writes: Thanks
to Lydia r. Pinkham's
Vegetable G Compound I
amwell, aftersufering
for months from ner-
vous prostration.
Miss Marie 6toltz-
man, Of Laurel, Ia,
writes: "Iwas ina rum
downconditionan
eredfromsuppression,
indigestion, and poor
circulation. Lydia K.
Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound made mo
we'll and strong"
Miss Ellen M. Olson,
Of at N. East st., Ke-
vance, III, says: "Ly-
Pinkham'sVege
table Compound cured
mo Of backache, side
ache, and established
my periods, after tho
best local doctors had
failed to help mo-"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-20
Commodity Prices Rising

Bradstreet's index number shows that despite conditions commodity prices were IA higher on August 1 than they were on July l, and 2.7 higher than they were on June l.
 Prices, according to Bradstreet's, reached their maximum on March 1 of last year. They then began to decline, ard they continued to decline until have been going up. The lists in Brad streets cover practically all articles in daily use.
 Commodity prices did not before June 1 reach the low level that they did after the panic of 1893, and yet they are going up steadily. An ex- planation of this is difficult The re- cent rise certainly cannot be traced to excessive consumption. It will not be easy to attribute both the decrease of 15 months and the increase of June and July to the gold production. The truth is, it is one of those complex matters that are past analysis. The householder knows that the cost of liv- ing is going up and that is about as far as he knows, except that he knows the democratic party did not invent the present tariff nor did it promote the formation of the trusts that are ,n- creasing the prices of many commodi ties within the Dingley walls.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-20
Claims Of The Netherlands

President Castro of Venezuela may have his views of Dutch claims changed by big guns battering at his ports The government of the Nether- lands has received from this country full freedom from the Monroe doctrine provided it seeks no military acquisi- ton of territory. This would not bar Queen Wilhelminas ships from con ducting the custom houses until her claims are satisfied.
 This seems to be what is in store for the irrepressible President of Vene- zuela. He will be safe in Caracas, but he will lack customs revenue, for Hcl- land has ships enough to hold against Castro all of his ports. AS Venezuela has no railroad lines running to foreign ports a blockade would cut off not only revenue, but also much-needed goods. The climate is, however, warm, and perhaps Castro can keep down revo- lution for season under such circum- stances. But he has a good many of home enemies, and they will no doubt take advantage of any discontent that may arise from Dutch blockade.
 The Dutoh hova an iclopd opd on ov cellent port near at hand. Caracoa will be the base of Dutch operations, and nothing stands in the way of Dutch success unless it be the prevalence of the plague in the Venezuelan ports.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-20
Minor Parties In The Campaign

Four years ago four eccentric parties boiled sO9.251 votes. The independence party has been added to the list, and the five promise to poll this year over 1000. .000 votes The five eccentric par ties are the prohibition, the socialist the socialist-labor, the populist and the independence league. The vote of the independence league is an unknown quantity, for it had never until thls year presented national ticket.
 The vote of the prohibition party will be considerably increased, and as much may be said of MT. Debs' social ist party. These two alone will carry tie aggregate eccentric vote to 1O0O'- OC0. Some say the aggregate will go to 1.5OO, 900 in a possible poll of 15, 900, 900 votes.
 The neutralized votes of the small parties will probably be drawn in about ecual numbers from the two big par ties. The prohibition vote will be re- cruited in the contested states largely from the re publican party, while MT. Debs will doubtless draw largely from the democratic party. The populist and socialist labor will be inconsider- able, and reports from the districts on the east side of New York city show that the Hearst vote is waning. All in all, it is fair to say the small parties will not materially change the relative standing of the big parties.
 All parties are radical this year. MT. Bryan is an advanced political thinker, and MT Taft is a Rooseveltian repub- lican. MT. Watson, MT. Debs, MT, Chain, MT. Hisgen and MT. Preston's proxv are each and all radicals. The reactionary and the old-time conserva- tive must either accept radical or take. to the woods.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-20
TWO NEW BATTLESHIPS.
Plans Are Being Completed For Addi-
 tions To Navy.

Washington, August 19.--Desgns for the two new battleships, authorized at the last session of congress, probably will be completed and approved by September 10. The plans for the vessels are now being completed in the light of the de- velopments of the recent conferences of naval officers at Newport. Some sugges- tions of changes were made at that meet ing, and the changes are now being in- corporated in the designs. It is said that the changes are not radical, but in the view of the naval constructors, are ma terial to the new ships.
 Upon completion of the plans they will be submitted to President Roosevelt for approval, and it is expected that by the middle of September proposals for the construction of one of the ships will be advertised for. The other ship is to be constructed at the Brooklyn navy yards by the government. Pending completion and approval of the designs of the ships, which will be identical. no work will be done at the Brooklyn navy yard in prep aration for the construction of the vessel which is to be built there. This ship will be the Florida. Her sister ship, the Utah, will be constructed at some pri- vate yard. It is likely that the oonstrue- tion of the two vessels will be begun about the same time. It will be neces- sary to extend to some extent the fa- cilities at the Brooklyn navy yard be- fore work on the Florida can be begun, as the vessel is to be nearly 100 feet longer than any other previously built at that yard.
 The main battery of the new ships is giving the navy department concern. A strong effort is being made to induce the department to equip the vessels especial ly their main batteries, with 13-inch guns. It is not improbable that this callbre of gun will be selected, although it is urged that the life of the guns of that calibre is comparatively so brief as to render .ae adoption of so heavy a gun as unwar- ranted by all experience
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-20
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
lmnrovement- -Marked-

Business in all lines has improved since June l." said c. L. Warren of Philadelphia "The last branch of indus trial or business operations to show signs of recovery was that relating to the great railroad world But now that transporta- tion comparies are beginning to order ex- tensive equipment, business improvement will be still more marked The immense orders placed by Mir Hartman have already had fine effect on commerce and on manufacturing interests.
 'sThe seaboard Air Line receivers have let contracts that call for the expenditure of fully Sl,250OO0. Other railroads will follow suit and l think before Christi mas business throughout the country will be booming.
 'sThe pig iron market, now active, With prices upward and bumper crops and railroad traffic are good barometers. FaV- orable signs are all around us. Between now and the end of the year manufactur- ing plants will be running almost 10 ther full capacity, and the army of unefn- ployed men will fast dwindle away. All in all, the year 1908 will not have such bad record, but on the other hand Tn many sections it's record will be substah- tial and cheering.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-20
Prohibition Law.

oI wonder how many citizens who are familiar with the situation in this ois- trict are satisfied with the prohibition law as it now stands?' asked travelling man.
 'sWhile l believe that the laws are pe- ing as rigidly enforced as is posslple anu that the officers are doing their duty, II is but a repetition of all places where prohibition has been in effect; the law is violated and the violations become more difficult to suppress as time goes on. My own opinion is, prohibition has so far been a failure. 1t has depressed business to certain extent and has de- prived the city of revenue that rightly belongs to it, without elevating the citys morals.
 "rhere are offered for sale on every so-called soft drink stand in the dlstrlct near beersr that are consumed exten- sivelv for when a man can't get what he wants he generally takes what he can get. Most of these drinks are very low grade of beer and bound to be unwholesome
 ''rhen there is a lot of liquor sold il- legally under the name of whisky, that from it's taste and effects must be mixture of spirits, red paint and dyna- mite."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-20
Walking on the balcony,
 Smoking a cig-aw, Planting with the pretty gels Heedless of ma-maw;
HlsBEE, ARlz.
Some Unique Phases of Life In Min
 ing Town.

From the New York Press
 J. F. Ariza of Pittsburg, writes "In Mondays paper you mentioned Bisbees waterworks. I lived in that red-hot min ing camp five months in the summer of miles away. It is right on the Mexican border, and is pumped to Bisbee. It is as Atlanta, Ga-, water, and there is mono better. Bisbee is just 10 feet more than mile high. and has the finest library of any city of it's size in the universe. Every daily of any consequence is to be found on file there.
 ''Bsbee lies right in the heart of the mountains and Cochise peak. Young Blood Hill and Chihauhau Hill rise per- pendicularly to the north west and south of it. Beer Gulch is classic thorough fare, and is not anything else than it's name implies. There are IT saloons in one block and at 3 a. m. it Is as noisy as Bedlam. There is only one tree in the the yard of Walter Douglass. one of the big mining men of Arizona and the state of Sonora. Mexico.
 College men are as thick in Bisbee as flies in Kansas City. l roomed with two Harvard, one Yale and two Missouri School of Mines men during the five months I put in in Bisbee. There are four thriving banks and one the Bank of Bisbee) is as elegantly furnished as any bank in America. Hand barber or porter anything less than two bits and he will give it back to you.
 You are aroused at an unearthly hour by the praying of burros, of which there are thousands. Mexicans lead these lit- tie fellows with great loads, and, with a belled burro, make trips into the moun- tains. Before Bisbee had waterworks many Mexicans made fortunes by bring ing water from the mountains on burros and selling it at exorbitant prices. bought two burros for bits apiece. and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-20
ANNUAL REUNION
 OF WAR VETERANS

Wnston-Salem. N. C., August ls'- night 1t is estimated that 20oo Vlsltors are here attending the annual reunion of the North Carolina division, oniteu Confederate Veterans, which opened here today with Gen Julian s. Carr, division commander, presiding. General Carr lh- troduced to the veterans Gen. c. Irving Walker, commander of the Army oi Northern Virginia, who made brlel speech urging the veterans to join in movement looking to the erection of honor of southern women. General Carr consented to appoint a committee of To to raise the necessary funds for the wom- ems memorial.
 Gen. Bennett c. Young, commander or the Kentucky division of the Confederate veterans, delivered the principal speech of the session. Commander Stronach of the L. O. B. branch camp of Raleigh, brought message from Governor Glenn which was cheered lustily.
 At this afternoons session the follow ing officers were elected:
 Division commander, Gen. J. s. Carr of  Durham brigadier general, First bri- gade. Gen. P. c. Carlton of Statesville, brigadier general Second brigade, Gen. ". L. London of Prattsboro; brigadier general, Third brigade, Gen. James l. Motz of Wilmington, N. O.; brigadier gen eral Fourth brigade, Gen. J. M. Ray of Asheville.
 The place for the next annual meet ing was left to a committee composed of the division, brigade commanders and the following who had extended invita- tions from their respective towns:
 Dr. Hawley of Charlotte, Colonel Pick ett of Hendersonville, Colonel Dowdy of Wilmington and s. M. Keith of Greens boro.
 Capt. R. B. Hunter of Mecklenburg camp introduced to the audience the mas cot of Mecklenburg camp, Miss Ruth Porter, aged 10 years, who recited Lee at The Battle of The Wilderness to the intense delight of the veterans, who &C., corded her most enthusiastic welcome.