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Times-promoter., 1909-05-06
sERMoNETTE.

"canst thou by searching find
out God? Canst thou find out
the Almighty unto perfection?"
Such was the question pro.
pound by Zophar the Naana-
thite in his controversy with
Job, and it Is the question which
comes some time or other to
every seeking heart.
Esdras was troubled by the
mysteries of God and sought to
fathom the infinite. How hope
less was the task! And rest
and quiet could not come to his
heart until the angel of God had
come and led him to realize that
he could not do more than to
rest content with the thought
that God was, and was a re-
warder of them that diligently
seek him.
Esdras was troubled, as was
David Of old, by the prosperity
of the wicked. He knew that
the misery of his people, the
Jews, was the result of sin, but
the question arose in his heart:
Are not the people Of the world
transgressors of Gods law also,
and are not they the masters OF
the Jew? Where was the JUS
tice of 1t all?
But he forgot, like many 9TH
ers of Gods children, that II is
''the son whom the Father
chasteneth." They who are not
of the household live and work
and reap and sow and pass away
without special care or discip-
line at the hands of the Father,
but not so those who have
yielded their hearts and lives to
God and come into the house
hold of faith where God. is
Father and Jesus Christ is elder
brother. Then begins new re.
Iationship of love and care
which Is no more strongly mani
fest than in the Christening
which comes. 1t is thus that
the gold is tried out and the
dross destroyed. II is thus that
the life is purified and made fit
to abide in the presence of the
Father and to enjoy the bless
ings Of the eternal home.
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minded thinker, has in several ad-
dresses declared that the nation owes
an almost incalculable debt of grati-
tude to Gen. Lee for his refusal to en-
courage guerrilla warfare after the
south was no longer able to maintain
organized armies.
The force which Gen. Lee surren-
dered at Appomattox was only tat.
tered remnant of the once powerful
Army of Northern Virginia that army
OF which Swinton, the historian OF the
Federal Army Of the Potomac, wrote
In terms of discriminating praise and
admiration. It Is said that Stonewall
Jackson declared on one occasion that
Gen. Lee was 'the only man he had
ever met whom he would follow blind
folded That spirit appears to have
animated every soldier in the Army Of
Northern Virginia. The last charge
Lees soldiers made, when surrender
stared them in the face, was as bril-
liant and valorous as the charges
which made the Army Of Northern
Virginia famous when victory seemed
to be assured. And having followed
Lee to the last extreme of loyalty and
courage to the climax at Appomattox,
they followed his counsels faithfully
In the years succeeding the war. The
| survivors Of four years war proved tc
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.Thine own things and such as are

"Thine own things and such as are
grown up with them thou canst not
know; how shouldest thou then be
able to comprehend the way of the
Highest, and the world being now out
wardly corrupted, to understand the
corruption that is evident in thy
sight?"
"But 1t were better that we were
not at all than that we should live
still In wickedness and to suffer and
not to know wherefore" exclaimed
Esdras.
Il went out into a forest said the
angel, "and the trees took counsel and
said: Come, let us go and make war
against the sea, that 1t may depart
away before us and that we may
make more woods The floods of the
sea also in like manner took counsel
and said: Come, let us go up and
subdue the woods of the plain, that
there also we may make us another
country. The thought of the woods
was in vain, for the fire came and
consumed 1t. The thought of the
floods of the sea came likewise to
naught, for the sand stood up and
stopred them. If thou vert Judge
now betwixt these two" continued
Uriel, whom wouldst thou begin to
justify? Or whom wouldst thou con.
DENIM"
"Verily it is a foolish thought that
they both have DEVISED spoke up
Esdras. thoughtfully, for the ground
is given unto the wood; the sea also
hath his place to bear his foods"
"Ah," replied Uriel. Thou hast
given a right judgment; but why
judgest thou not thyself also? For
like as the ground is given to the
wood and the sea to his floods, even
so they that dwell upon the earth
may understand nothing but that
which is upon the earth, and he that
dwelleth above the heavens may un-
derstand the things that are above
the height of the heavens"
Over the soul of Esdras there
swept food of contrition and OF a
need of greater wisdom, and he cried
out in eager pleadingl
81 beseech thee, o Lord, let me
have understanding.
"The more thou saarchest," re.
sponded Uriel, 'the more thou shalt
marvel for the world hasteth fast to
pass away and cannot comprehend
the things that are promised to the
righteous in time to come. For this
world is full of unrighteousness and
infirmities. But of the things con-
corning which thou hast asked me ]
will tell thee. Listen: The evil is
sown, but the destruction thereof is
not yet come. BY measure hath God
measured the times and by number
hath he numbered them. He doth
not move or stir them until the said
measure be fulfilled"
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went to their homes after the surren
der and set to work in grim earnest
They laid the foundations of restora,
ton firmly and deeply Their sons
and grandsons have carried on the
work with intelligence, energy and
efficiency. To-day the south is the
most American part of the union Of
46 states. There are no, outward evi,
dences of the havoc and ruin wrought
by four years Of civil conflict. The
economic regeneration OF the south In
one of the most amazing achievements
of modern times Aided substantially
as 1t has been by the capital and bust
ness men Of other sections, the general
result is. nevertheless, an endurine
monument to the inyincible spirit and
the infiexible determination Of the
men, who, many In rags, surrendered
43 years ago at Appomattox, accepted
the results Of the war In good faith
and guided by the wise counsels oi
their leader, Gen. Lee, buckled down
to work on the farms and in business
and in the professions in the spirit ot
brave and true men. Peace hath its
victories no less renowned than war
One OF the finest pages in the history
OF the United States is that which re
cords the work OF southern men ana
women after Appomattox.
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the admiration of the world and to
their everlasting honor, that the sol.
dier who has done his duty faithfully
in war will not shirk his duties and re-
sponsibilities in the trying times fol-
lowing defeat. 1t should be said that
the personnel of the Army of Northern
Virginia and Of the other southern
armies was probably superior to that
of any other army of modern times.
Having demonstrated its prowess In
war, the south has equal cause for
pride in the inflexible determination
with which it labored to repair the
havoc wrought by war.
There is a new south" since Apo
mattox, but it is only new" In the
sense that amazing progress has been
made in the development OF its re.
sources. The southern states have now
a white population nearly twice as
great as they had in 1865. They have
developed extraordinary industrial ac-
tiyity and efficiency. Agriculture is
flourishing as never before because 1t
has been diversified. The cotton mills
of the south have increased wonder
fully In number and production in the.
last 15 years.
This is the south 43 years after Ap.
pomattox The men of the old south
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siberia's Awful Cold.

Siberia has the coolest weather
known anywhere in the world. AT
Verkhoyaonsk. Siberia, 90.4 degrees
below zero was observed in January,
1883, which goes below anything ever
known in the world before or ever
since. AT that point the average tenn
perature for January Is nearly 64 de-
grees below zero This town is $50
feet above the level of the sea. and
during the entire winter the weather
Is calm and clear.
Times-promoter., 1909-05-06
Queer Disposal Of the Dead.

The Sese islanders have attained a
peculiar notoriety in Uganda because
Of a secret society called the Bachi-
chi, which is not a burial society, al
though its members take deep and
intelligent interest in all deaths and
burials. In the more retired villages,
although greatly discouraged by the
British authorities, 1t is said to be still
the custom for the sorrowing relatives
to bear the body of the deceased
wrapped in bark on rough bier to
some forest thicket, desolate ravine or
other unfrequented spot, where 1t Is
left unburied by the bearers who
never revisit the place again. The
Bachichi, who are denizens Of neigh
boring village and distant relatives OF
the deceased, avoid the necessity of
burial or cremation and show their re-
spect for the deceased by simply eat.
ing him. National Magazine.
Times-promoter., 1909-05-06

Apocryphal Books:-2 Esdras, chap
ter 4.
First Book of Esdras.-The name Es-
dras is but another form of Ezra. AS re-
CARDS the antiquity of this book and the
rank assigned to 1t in the early church. 1t
may suffice to mention that Josephus
quotes largely from 1t. and follows it's au-
thority. 1t is quoted also by Clemens
Alexandrinus, by Cyprian, Augustine,
Athanasius and other fathers. Nothing
can be clearer on the other hand than
that it is rightly included among the
Apocrypha. That 1t was never known
to exist In Hebrew and formed no part
of the Hebrew canon is admitted by all.
A two-fold design is discernible in the
compiler of the book. One was to intro
duce and give Scriptural sanction to the
legend about Zerubbabel; the other to
explain the great obscurities of the Book
of Ezra, in which the author has signaliy
failed. AS regards the time and place
when the compilation was made, the orig
inal portion is that which alone affords
much clew. This seems to indicate that
the writer was thoroughly conversant
with Hebrew, even IL he did not write
the book in that language. He was well
acquainted too, with the Books of Esther
and Daniel and other books Of Scripture.
Times-promoter., 1909-05-06
On Missionary Tour.

Miss Rachel Costello and Miss Elinor
Rendell are two English girls in this
country lecturing on woman suffrage.
They are described as beautiful young
women, fine and gracious, and only diff
fering from RaGcliffe or other college
girls in the United States In their genu-
inely delightful English accent. They
will take graduate course at Bryn
Mawr.
Times-promoter., 1909-05-06

in the United States at the expense of
the American missionaries, and had
there imbibed Yankee notions which
made it impossible for them to build
a railroad along any other than Amer
ican lines. Therefore at one fell
swoop American commerce reaped a
direct return of $5O,OOO,OOO from mis-
sionary effort
Times-promoter., 1909-05-06

OF varying fortunes. Gen. Lee as
sured them that they could go to
their homes with the consciousness
OF duty well and faithfully performed.
He exhorted them to accept the re-
suits of their resort to the ar
bitrament of arms in good faith
and to devote their energies thence
forth to restoring the waste
places in the south and to develop it's
resources. Gen. Lee was not man Of
many words. But what he said came
from his heart, and was strengthened
by calm judgment and exalted pur-
pose. His counsel sank deep into the
hearts of the southern people. He was
after Appomattox, as well as in the
days of his greatest triumphs in the
field, the most powerful influence for
peace and rehabilitation in The south.
Mr.. Charles Francis Adams of Boston,
an officer In the northern army, a stu
dent of history, a deep and broad
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THE STORY.

ESDRAS was troubled. Scribe and
Il priest though he was, there had
crept in his heart honest question
ings.
Was God a reality? Was he just? !?
Did it pay to be called child of his?
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We Touch One Another on All side

We Touch One another on All Sides.
No individual can be happy unless
the circumstances of those around
him be SO adjusted as to conspire
with his interest. For, in human So
ciety, no happiness or misery stands
unconnected and independent. Our
fortunes are interviewer by threads in
Vulnerable. We touch one another on
all sides. One mans misfortune or
success, his wisdom or his folly, oft
en- by its consequences reaches
through multitudes. Blair.
Times-promoter., 1909-05-06

not, whether you do your work or not.
The value of any life depends much
on its sense of being essential to all
lives.
Times-promoter., 1909-05-06

N THIS year is the forty
fourth anniversary of the
surrender at Appomattox
Va, of Gen. Robert E.
Lee, of the Army Of
Northern Virginia. In his
last order to the veterans
whom he led through years
Times-promoter., 1909-05-06
j HEART
QUESTIONINGS
The Mysteries Of God Past
Finding Out.
BY THE HIGHWAY AND BYWAY"
PREACHER
.Copyright. 1909, by the Author, W.

Apocryphal Books:-2 Esdras, chap
ter 4.
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his book the record the principles OF
life, Incorporated and made plain
through the lives of some men, especi-
ally In Jesus of Nazareth. the associa-
ton engages boys in the study. cou-
pied with some activity wherever pos
sible. Much has been done, but much
remains to be done. Last year 24,2ll
boys were in the association Bible
classes. Meetings for older boys and
meeting for younger boys at different
times of the kind that boys like, have
been used nightly TO give that some
thing for the boy to do as an express
sion of his religious life. by means of
opportunities for committee service.
The Young Mems Christian associa-
tion is a supplemental agency I'm it's
broadcast sense. 1t should not be, and
is not its policy to duplicate efforts,
but to look for a place that the sun
day school or public school is not fill-
ing. suggest what can be done. and do
It until some Organization which can
take It up better, takes it up.
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The Y.M.C.A. and Boys of Community
Paper Read by Secretary Westermann of the
Y. M. c. A. at Recent Boys Conference

OF this work 10 the boy | have tres
PASSED enough already. Until il comes.
as il will TO have its place in the pub
/ DC school the association viii continue
20 extend is usefulness by this means
and ever after. For the association
will be able TO furnish trained teach
ers for such work in connection with
schools. sunday school classes and
clubs, and public Fairgrounds. Here
the association may furnish real coop
Grafton and accomplish a larger work
than within the borders OF it's own
building.
Too many associations feel that by
this they are discharging their obliga-
ton 20 the boy and are possessed OF
full grown boys department. How
ever. such men as Mr Van Dis are
seeking to disabuse such a state of
mind, There is something more. be-
fore any boys department can say,
we are twenty one"
Every community has its quota of
boys who, because of parental necessi-
~, or because OF dissatisfaction over
some wrong, real or imagined. or be-
cause Of pure Discrimination. have all
too early discontinued their public
school privileges. What a largc num-
Der OF boys there are known to all of
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THIS DAY IN HISTORY

lG9o-An English fleet from Massa-
chusctts attacked Quebec.
1903 Noah Webster. noted lcxicop-
fapher born at West Hartford. ct
Died at Now Haven May 2S. 1843.
l'Sl-Am"ricans and British opened
battle az Yorktown. Va.
lS59-John Browns raid on Harpcr's
Ferry. Va.
lAG3-Gcn. Grant appointed to tho
command Of the Western armies.
lS95-Turkoy accepted the plan for
reform in Ammonia submitted by the
Powers.
lson-Prince Hohonlohc. imp, .iaI
German chancellor. resigned.
l9Ol-Dr otto Nordenskiold's South
Polar expedition left Sweden.
1908 Sweden recognized the indie
pcndence of Norway.
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CHASE S. OSBORN A CANDIDATE.

The News takes great pleasure to-
day in announcing the candidacy of
Hon. Chase =. Osborn OF Sault Ste
Marie. for the republican nomination
for governor The News is confident
that this announcement will meet with
instant favor among Mr. Osborn's
friends and admirers i'm the copper
country and that there will be a con-
ccrted effort. marked with enthusiasm,
tp support his candidacy at the pri-
mary election next f4lI Mr.. Osborn
is popular with the masses and
throughout the length and breadth of
tho state We believe his entry into the
gubcrnatorial race viii create the best
of feeling among both factions of the
republican party Osborn Harmony
and New Deal" Will be the slogan OF
the 500 mans adherents, and mo- one
can honestly gainsay that AN three
are not needed i'm Michigan. Michigan
needs Osborn because me- is. with AN
due respect to other candidates. best
fitted To- assume charge OF its affairs
of state. His nomination would do
more 10 bring about harmony i'm the
republican ranks, cement the friend
ship of the two peninsulas. and give
every citizen a square deal. with no
avoritCs, than the nomination of any
other man. His success would i'm
truth. mean "a New Deal, a deal which
would Doe welcome 10 everybody i'm
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us who have natural gifts for achieve
ments. but working now by day, have
not I'm them the leavon possessed by
the fair 10 surmount i'm spite of and
over every obstacle. When can he Sc
cure the little life? The association
Institutes with their courses in the
fundamental which are the foundation
stones for all progress, as well as its
technical and trade had last year 552l
students enrolled. Many and many a
boy comes thus in contact with these
practical teachers interested in him
for himself and not for the price he
has paid, comes to himself and with
this boost secures earning power 9TH
erwise for him impossible.
These courses are augmented by
practical talks. Talks by men who
know something about the subject
which they are willing to impart in
answer to questions by those who
know 1t not, and clubs bringing to-
gether for longer time those of kim
bred mind
Mr. Nash of Cleveland insists that all
men are naturally religious rather
than irreligious,~ and that he will re-
spond 10 the right approach. lie be-
lieves this 10 be true also of the boy
though many indications seem to point
otherwise He viii not warm up to
the experiences or terms of his elders,
He will not saddle upon himself a pro-
'cssion of the same religious emotions
But he will engage in anything for the
sake of right and the Kingdom of
Heaven where he can be given some
hing to do and not to say.
Believing that God has creased in
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1909-10-16

Dr. Cook is now gong after that man
Harrill who says he never got TO the
top of Mt. Mckinley. He will send
another expedition TO the summit to
get the records ho says he left there.
Cook certainly has had his hands fun
the last few weeks but ne comes up
smiling through II an and promises the
public If it viii have a little patience
he VIII vindicate himself After all
the attacks that have been made upon
him the doctor has lost none of his
popularity with the masses who still
believe In him. All he requires. APP
pWantly. is little time in which to
clear himself
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This is NY ssRp sIRrHpAvo

Albert X. Taylor. prominent among
american educators WAS born in Mag
qolia' Illinois. oct. 1G. 1876. His cdu-
cation was received at the Illinois
state Normal university. Knox college
and Lincoln university. For ten years
after his graduation In 1872 ho filled Tho
position Of professor OF natural sci-
'nces at Lincoln university. From
IaN1 until 1901 be was president or
tho state Normal college Of Kansas
and since 1901 he has been president a.
inc James Millikcn university at De
'''nr. Ill Or Taylor is the author ~
D number ~ books treating Of educa-
.l'hal methods. In 1899 hc was honor
'd with the presidency Of tho National
'ouncil OF Education.
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SENATORS sY DIRECT VOTE.

=
Congress shall, on application O
the legislatures of two-thirds of tn
states call convention for proposing
amendments 10 the constitution" Thii
provision OF the federal charter is I,
d be invoked al the coming session, ac-
cording TO reports said 10 omanat,
from oklahoma, in order to secure the
! submission TO the states by congress OF
an amendment providing for the cleo
/ ton of United States senators by di-
rect vote of the people. summer,
stan Washington correspondent OF the
Chicago Record Herald, is authority
for the statement that thirty-one of
the forty-six state legislatures-just
the required number-"have already
carried out the spirit of the prescribed
call, though some may not have adj
hcrcd 90 its strict letter" The follow
ing twenty six states. however, have
done SO, according TO this authority,
although many of them have included
IA special request for submission of the
senatorial amendment as well as for
the calling of convention:
Arkansas, Minnesota. Utah, Kansas.
Texas, Illinois Indiana South Dakota.
Idaho, Washington, North Carolina,
Tennessee, Montana, Nevada, Wiscon-
sin. Missouri. Iowa. Michigan, oregon,
Colorado. Kentucky. Penn
syNania, Nebraska, oklahoma, New
Jersey.
The other five states counted to
make mp the thirty one-Alabama, CAL
.fornia Ohio, North Dakota and wyo-
ming simply requested congress
10 submit an amendment for the direct
election of senators, but have not call
I'd for the summonng of conven-
ion; so il may well be claimed that |
technically, the constitutional require
uont has not yet been complied with. !
rhis point, however. is one for con-
'ress itself 10 decide-and by ma
,ority vote i'm each house. it is claimed |
and it is around this question, by !
means of a joint resolution for calling
constitutional convention, that the is
ne is expected to be raised at the
oming session.
Four times has the house by the !
equisite two-thirds vote adopted a
oint resolution for submission Of the
irect-clection amendment. but never
as such a resolution passed the SEN
t. What will result from raising the
'suc in its new form remains to be
cen.
The first states OF the thirty-one
aying amendment resolutions on file
D Washington are Idaho and Wyom-
~, i'm 1895; Ohio followed i'm 1895:
lille the latest state to act is Ala
anna. az its recent legislative session,
hich ratified the income tax amend 4
ent II seems To be the hope and
ish Of movers i'm the matter to Sc q
ire the submission by congress di-
ct Of the senatorial amendment rath-
? than the calling OF CONSTITUTIONAL q
invention which, il is claimed. would t
ave ful power. oncc-in-- session. to- u
limit any amendments it should see S
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aLImIted c.n.nr-hIn

what the censor cannot do IL 70
give a certificate OF approval for the
pubic ana unless the public approves
DIS license Is Of no value at all. On
the other hand, he can deprive tbs
pubic OF the opportunity " approve.
and In that power he Is not a protec.
uon' bu' menace and bar to mana
gers.-L ondon Stage.
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Hopeless.

"He's no good at an argument, is he?
Not ut all convincingY
well, | should say not Why, that
man couldn't convince woman that
she was ettyw-Cleveland Leader.
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Value Of Humor.

The man who becomes humorist Is
the man who contrives to retain Ger.
tain childlike zest and freshness of
mind side by side with a large and
tender tolerance.-Cornhill Magazine.
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strength as the campaign goes on and
that the energetic aggressive campaign
he VIII conduct viii give him the nom
lnation.
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