The Tulsa Chief. (Tulsa, Indian Terr.), Vol. 1, No. 17, Ed. 1 Tuesday, June 28, 1904 Page: 4 of 8
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! in the of u < rcu- !!<• kart worn
' ,.f\ his wa» up. ami at lawt lM*cam*» >
rniispiiiHablc* that when th»’ proprietor
hi'' last words to his w<*f*pinK
' widow wen* “Stick to the country
circuit- ami don’t for«ft to marry
i {lean " IR-aii, u l>orn showman, did
| not in the 1* a ,t mind sinking his name
I out of bearing for the k<m>U of his hob,
hut huh" stlrringH of either affliction
>r curiosity had made him write to
3ud ami find out how the land lay be*
. fore the “rfecond-0rc*atest*8how" cauio
i to Clingstone.
As for details they were never
! /'Mite clear to anybody. Life Danin*
J ruamiaina to this day that Bee was
unit a fool she simply fell off the
». rse and lay there uncertain as to
whether she was u» fi* eaten or mar-
n* 1 The atory. of course, got into the
paper., and helped the show to draw
so well that at the end of the next
season the proprietors sent to a very
Di w and very pink Mean a silver lov-
ing cup with roaring Ilona for han-
dle Stranger still. Squire Jack
llounsiey drank egg nogs out of that
a me loving cup and in drinking
wa.-died down the last tiare of enrn'ty
tow ard his son in law
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LECSON ONE—JULY 3.
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Bride
The circus tent was patched and | he seemed to in
yellow, barely big enough for one
ring, with a disreputable fly for the
half dozen cages which made up the
menagerie, yet everybody felt the cir-
rus Itself a providence, coming, as it
did, Just the reck that the quarrel
betwixt the Heims and the llounsleys
got near the shooting pitch.
Clingstone, the social center of all
chumming mightily
with the circus folk -he wont in and
out at pleasure, sat for brief whiles
whore ho chose, and guyed the clown
with a familiar ease really astound-
ing.
!h*e sat dreaming all through the
performance, waiting for something
she did not know what. H« r heurt
sank as the family party filed out of
finish Creek, lay where the big road j the tent, and Mill she hud no sign
crossed the river, which was navi-
gable six months of the year. Other
months Brush Creek depended upon
the mail rider for its news und upon
Itself for its diversions. Naturally
the diversions ran through a sliding
from Hud. She thought her father
was going straight home. That was
Squire Jack’s intention -but lie had
traded horses three times tMat day,
getting hoot and a better horse every
time, so he was in the humor for
When he heard the ringmaster shout
Ing from his perch on a gay wagon.
scale from fighting to courting. Since any sort «»f pleasant extravagance,
tho Bean-Hounaley affair embraced
both, it divided Brush Creek folk Into
two opening and well-matched
camps. One said old Squire Jack
Hounsley ought to get down on his
knees ami give special thanks that a
stirring fellow such as Bud Bean
was well known to bo, wanted to take
his daughter Bee off his hands, add-
ing with something of asperity, that
for its own part, it didn’t know what
Bud saw In her—he certainly would
get the worst of the bargain. To this
the other retorted with equal rancor
that if Bud was stirring, all tho otner
Beans since the year one had been
nobodies, ho it was pretty certain his
Industry couldn't last -Squire Jack
Hounsley was merely proving himself
tho wise and far-sighted man they had
always taken him to he. in refusing
to let Bee—short for Belinda—even
speak any more to Bud. «
That was tho talk, understand, in
corn planting time. By August, the
circus season, it was very much sharp-
er ami more sulphurous. Kind people,
after their luibit. had carried things
hack and forth between the high cqn
tending parties, until Squirt* Jack was
ready to foam at the mouth it you
said Bran in his hearing, and Bud
swallowed hard, and looked Intently
over your head If you so much us
mentioned that Squire Jack had
traded norses again.
The circus came to Olingston * That
meant tho coming in of everybody
else within a radius of twenty miles.
Clingstone housewives began cooking
the day after the hills were put up.
and when the day itself came, had
their tables set at eleven o’clock.
Squire Jack brought in every sotd on
the place, all packed in the two horse
wagon, along with a sack of meal, and
other sacks of cabbage, potatoes and
apples. Tho sacks were all for his
sister Jenny, at whose house he would
leave hU women folks to gossip and
get dinner, while he himself kept a
sharp lookout for that pestilent Bud
Bean.
Squire Jack meant to get there so
long ahead of Bud that Bud would
have no chance to find out Hoe's
whereabouts. It nettled him not a j
little that as he came to tho ford tho i
ferryman said, grinning: "My soul.
IS ENTHUSIASTIC OVER GOLF.
Justice Harlan Ascribes Good Hea'th
to Popular Game.
One of the most enthusiastic of all
those who follow the elusive golf halls
over the Chevy Chase links near
Washington i» Justice llarlau of the
United States Supreme Court. He
has turned three score and ten, but he
declines to agree that he has there-
fore passed what some have called
the (h ad line " of active life.
I um no older than I was twenty
years ago." he remarked the other
day. and while 1 can keep up ray
golf I'm apt to stay ho.”
Justice Harlan, after his first les-
son in tryiug to make the hall do
thing- it apparently did not wish to
do, described golf us a "cross be-
tween tiddly winks and a mile run,”
hut to-day he plays, rain or shine,
summer or winter, matching off with,
m meals or diplomats or, failing these,
"Colonel Bogey” himself.
Not long ago. in a pause in a ses-
sion of the Supreme Court, the gal
lerv saw Justice Harlan write some-
thing on a hit of paper and. calling a
page, st nd it down to former Attor-
ney (ieneral Griggs, who. himself an
ardent golfer, was at tho time before
the tribunal about to plead a case. In
such u room, in such a presence, ev-
erything becomes impressive, but that
note merely read:
"Dear (Iriggs: I was out before
breakfast this morning and played a
w hite f all against a red one—the red
man against the paleface. And the
Injun won- two up. H.”—New York
Tribune.
“Jump—but don’t holler when you
hear the Hon roar.”
Squire Jack! Looks like your a-chas
In’ Bud Bean. He's jest about twq
minutes ahead.’ Bee. who was pale
and pretty, with dreamy meek blue .
eye, smiled hopefully—It was a good I
omen. Hud's getting thus ahe^d of
Pap. He had sent her a message the
night before, mysterious as It was
laconic, "Jump—hut don’t holler when
you hear the lion roar.” it ran. Bee
did not in the least understand it —
but then It was not for her to under-
stand things—she meant always to
leave that to Bud.
Still she could not help speculating
on It, when she was safe in her -eat
tnaide the tent, and had «e**n Hud go
past twice or three times without so
much as looking her way. Somehow
‘‘I'm willin’ to pay money jest to find
out how slick you fellers can lie.”
that the night show would be unlike
and ever so much bettor tHan tin*
day om*. lie thrust a fistful of silver
inside the ticket window, saying with
a grim laugh: “I’m willin’ to pay
money jest to find out how slick you
fellers can lie.
Bee felt her dying hope suddenly
reprieved then, but she was -near
crying when the night show ended,
and still Bud had made no sign. Bee
was glad the mules trotted their best
and made the wagon jounce und
bounce so there could be.no talking—
LIzo Purdue had come with them and
she knew was fairly uching to twit
her with Bud’s open falling away
Squire Jack had distanced most of
the other homing vehicles, when all
at once one corner of the wagon sank
down, spilling the occupants In a long
row . before* the team could be check
ed. A lynch pin had dropped out and
let the hind wheel run off. As Squire
Jack was searching for it. lantern In
hand, a man came galloping towards
him, shouting aloud: "Run. every-
I body, for your lives! The lion's loose!
! (‘ago got turned over! Run lie’ll
, kill you! Run!"
The read ran through the wood?
From the depths of them behind the
i rider there came a succession of
blood-curdling howls. Tho Squire
rose to the emergency He had his
horso tho new horse, in charge of
; Tommy, his eluest son. He also had
the two mules— and nine people to
i carry off on them. In a wink he had
1 stripped the mules of gear, set Tom-
j my astride one of them, with his wiie
rbehind the lad. and little Sue, hi
youngest daughter on before. Beck
j mule, he knew, would save them if
' anything could- she was both sure-
footed and speedy. He was not so
. certain about Tige. Beck’s partner.
‘ still there was nothing for it but t<
I back on her. boy Billy, I.lze an i
' brother Johnny, both of whom out
1 yelled the lion. That left Bee. and
! her Aunt Maria, the most fearful soul
j alive, for riders behind upon the new
I horse. The Lqutre mounted the boast,
clucked to him. and got nlm near tnc
remaining hind wheel, which Aunt
Vtria had mounted and to which she
I clung despairingly. Aunt .Maria
weighed two hundred, and stood five
foot two. Is it any wonder that when
the Squire checked up at the end of
two breathless miles. Bee. who should
have been perched behind Aunt
Marla, was nowhere visible?
Or is It any marvel that some two
hours later, a minister in the country
town was reading the marriage gen-
ice iu behalf of a disheveled bride
and an exultant groom. When the
knot was tied hard and fast as law
and gospel could do it, there was sup
per, very late, and very merry, at the
town's finest hotel. The circus pro
prtetor gave it he was. it turned out,
a running Bean, Bud's elder brother,
who had run away many years before,
Their Right to Smoke.
Jerome Hurt tells this story: “On
the train, between Jaffa and Jerusa-
lem, an elderly American woman ob-
jected to the smoking going on around
her. She grabbed hold of a uniform-
ed railway guard who was going
through the carriage and shrilly set
forth her objections. He very civilly
replied that there was no rule against
smoking in the carriages.
" Then there ought to be,’she re-
torted. ‘when ladies travel on the
trains.'
‘“But the Turkish ladies who trav-
el on our trains all smoke themselves,’
replied tho guard.
“‘Do they, indeed?’ replied the old
lady, acidly; ‘but American women do
not smoke.’
Very true, madam,’ replied the
guard, 'but you are not in America:
you are in Turkey’—still with much
civility.
" I don’t care if I am.’ hissed the
dd lady, fiercely, ‘and 1 don’t care il
the Turkish women do smoke. They
night not to, so there!’
" Perhaps they ought not to.’ said
the guard, with unruffled courtesy
but they do.’
"The old American lady looked at
him hopelessly, gasped, and subsided.”
Woman’s Wise Use of Money.
\ Long Island City school teacher
who has fallen hojr to $100,000. an
nounces that she will continue tc
teach and hopes to be more efficient
than before.
"In fact, my money will help me in
my work." she says, "and I shall
spend some of it for that purpose. 1
am going to build a nice little home i
with part of the money, where 1 can
be handy to tho school and give more
time to it than I have given previous
ly."
Wise woman! Nine people out of
ten would allow sudden acquisition of
riches to end their usefulness.
In Chicago.
F.x Senator "Billy” Mason says that
a friend >f his in Chicago was recent-
ly showing an acquaintance from the
Fast through his art gallery.
"You have some pretty fine paint-
ings here." remarked the Eastern
man. "1 especially like those old por-
traits. 1 presume they were handed
town to you by your ancestors.” he
added, by way of a gentle “jolly.”
"Ancestors nothing!” exclaimed the
Chicago man. taking the matter seri-
ously; "they were handed down te
me by an auctioneer!"- June Worn
an's Home Companion.
His Letter.
When Willie Blank was at the sea
shore last summer his father wrote
to him frequently, and in each lettoi
inclosed ten cents or a quarter to add
to the little lad's pleasure. Willie vraf
no letter-writer, but one day ho man
aged to compose the following com
prehensive epistle, which he sent tc
his father
"Deare Papa 1 got all your leters
and you have put some mutiny in each
one of them. Please write oftener
Your luving son. William.”
—June Woman’s Home Companion.
His Degree.
Dean Russell of the Teachers’ col
lege has had a new honorary degree
thrust upon him by a cockney serving
maid in his employ. She was show-
ing bis gown to a visitor the other
day. Taking it down from the place
where It hung, she turned It about to
display all of its points, and exclaim
ed. with the ring of Intense pride In
her tones:
"That's the robe he wore when hr
took his Hell, Hell, Dee.’—New York
ComtnerclaL
!. The Kingdom that -Ldomon Left
a Great Opportunity. A year ago wo
traced the history of the Israelites
through the warlik* reign of David
and the peaceful rule of Solomon. At
his death. Solomon left *o his son R<
hoboam a magnificent • rapire.
Solomon's revenue ar said to have
been each yeai more t): u $2»»,uo«mmm>
No other nation was a wealthy and
commerce flourished with all the rich
marts of the world.
Every young man has a kingdom in
his own heart, llo may throw it away
— half of It or all of It. in the same
way Rehoboam did, foolishly follow
ing his headstrong will Or, he may
take the advice of wist- men and the
Bible, and become monarch of all the
royal possibilities God bus placed in
his life.
II. Rehoboam: the Young Man that
Had the Opportunity.
His name means “enlarger of the
people”; lie became the diminisher of
his nation.
His age at bis coronation is given
as 41 in I Kings 11 21 Most com-
mentators, however, think h<* was 21
at his coronation. It hoboam was
weak and conceited. It has been said
that “Solomon had a thousand wives,
but only one son, and lie w as a fool.”
Solomon felt it. as the proverbs about
foolish sons testify (Prow 10: 1; 13:
» tc )
III. Jeroboam: Another Young Man
with an Opportunity. I Kings II: 2t’»-
40. The great opponent of Rehoboam, i
and the second prominent figure in
this national crisis, was Jeroboam.
The opportunity before him had a i
fourfold origin: —
1. His Personal Character. It was j
quite the opposite of Rehoboam’s. |
Early in Solomon's reign Jeroboam j
was among those Impressed from the
northern tribe of Ephraim to help
build the fortifications by which the
king sought to make Jerusalem im-
pregnable. In this labor the young
man was so industrious and capable
that the king made him head over-
seer for Ephraim and Manasseh.
2. The People’s Discontent. This
had several causes, (a) The northern
tribes, the real strength of the nation,
were jealous of the new prominence
given to Judah and Jerusalem, (b)
Solomon, instead of overcoming these
jealousies by an equitable rule, had
taxed the people heavily, and the
northern tribes, beinr farthest from
the capital, where most of the money
was spent, reaped least benefit from
the taxation, (c) Especially repug-
nant and burdensome was the levy of
forced labor for Solomon’s great |
works. *
3. Tho Call of God, through the |
prophet Ahijah. who met the young j
man in a lonely field, tore his own
new garment into twelve pieces, and
gave Jeroboam ten in token that he j
was to reign over ten tribes. Inspired ;
by this prophecy, Jeroboam raised a
revolt against Solomon: but he was j
unsuccessful, for the right time had ;
not yet come, and Solomon tried to :
j kill him, but he escaped to Egypt.
4. The Call of the People. Imme-
diately after Solomon’s death the I
northern tribes convened at Sbechem. j
j bent upon obtaining, as tho price of |
their submission to Rehoboam. some
charter of rights that would relieve
them of their heavy burdens.
IV. The Two Ways Presented to
Rehoboam.—1 Kings 12: Ml. Reho-
j beam obtained from the people a de-
lay of three days, that he might con-
| suit with the leaders before answering
| these demands.
The Right Way, Urged by the Old
I Men. Rehoboam first consulted the
j old men, who had been Solomon’s
1 councilors. They advised the young
i king to grant tho people's requests,
"speak good words to them, and the
people would he his servants forever.
The Wrong Way. Urged by the
Young Men. Rehoboam next con-
sulted the young men. his comrades,
those who had "grown up with him.”
inexperienced, like himself. Their ad-
vice was that Rehoboam should make
to the people this defiant and insolent
reply: "My little finger shall bo
thicker than my father’s loins. And
now whereas my father did lade you
with a heavy yoke, I will add to your
yoke: my father hath chastised you
with whips, but ! will chastise you
with scorpions.”
The One Adviser Omitted was the
only one of wnose wisdom Rehoboam
could have been sure, the one to
whom he should have gone first of all
the God of Abraham. Isaac, and
"t*a:
fused,
pointed.
13. "And tl:
People Roughly
the King hail ap-
Russian life presents two clear-cut
i extremes. These are the peasants and
| the “nobility.” Between these two
1 < lasses exists a gulf as deep and wide
as. though the masses were still in
the bondage of serfdom,
j In their pleasures more than in any
other phase of their life is this dif-
ference evident. As a matter of fact,
i the peasants have practically no I
pleasures except their eternal vodka |
1 drinking a vice so common that it I
has caused to be so regarded by the ,
Russians.
On the other hand, the “nobility." (
2T
King Answered tho
Solomon had easily
put down the revolt of Jeroboam and
I>u\id that of Shelia <2 Sam. 20; 1-22i.
Rehoboam fe»t that ho could as read-
ily put down this third insurrection.
14. "My Father also Chastised You
with Whips." impose l heavy bur- ,
.lt'iis of taxation. There is also a i »*iirli includes the middle and upper
literal reference, for such forced labor
as Solomon exacted was often labor
under the lash But I will chastise
you with scorpion-. Thongs thickly
set with sharp iron points, used in
J r end
B. I will increase your civic burdens.
15. “Wherefore tR. V. so) the
King Hearkened not unto the People.”
This sums up the entire narrative; we
need not suppose that they renewed
their plea. "For the cause was from
the Lord” (R. V. it was a thing Knowv
brought about of the Lord), like the ac
hardening of Pharaoh’s heart (Ex. 4:
21). or the Jews’ crucifixion of Christ
(Acts 2: 23). "That he* might per-
form his saying" 1R. V. establish his
word). The reference is to Ahijah’s
prophecy to Jeroboam (l Kings 11:
31) that he should rule over ten tribes.
VI. The Division of the Kingdom,
and the Result.—Vu. lti-20. As soon
as tin* leaders from the north saw j
that Rehoboam had no Intention of
remedying abuses and effecting re-
form: , they gave* tho signal for the j
great revolt.
1G. "All Israel saw that the king
hearkened not. ’ Josephus says that j
"they were struck by his words as by
an iron rod.” "What portion have we !
in David?” What have we to do with
David’s sou. Rehoboam. or David’s
tribe, Judah? Compare 2 Sam. 20: 1.
“Neither have we inheritance in the
son of Jesse.” “Contrast the lan-
guage of tho ten tribes after the col-
lapse of Absalom’s rebellion: ‘We
have ten parts in the king’ (2 Sam.
19: 43).”—Cambridge Bible. "To your |
tents. O Israel. ’ Back to your homes, j
and prepare for war. This cry—the j
Marseillaise of Israel—was an old
war-cry of Ephraim. “Now see to
thine own house. David. ’ Look after !
your own tribe of Judali, Rehobpam,
for that Is all you will have left.
17. “The children of Israel which j
dwelt in the cities of Judah.” The
members of the northern tribes who
hr.d homos in the cities of Judah did
not join their kinsmen in the revolt,
but remained under Rehoboam.
IS. “Rehoboam ’ was so infatuated,
and so blind to the real state of at*
fairs, that he attempted to stop the re-
volt by sending to them. “Adoram,
wfoo was over* the tribute.” This
man. probably the Adoniram of 1 j
Kings 4: 0, presided ov r the forced
labor, and the foolish young kino
could not have chosen a more hated j
messenger. His persuasions and1
threats were alike fruitless. The in* I
dignant people, follow ing a common
practice of ancient mobs (Ex. 8: 2G; ;
17: 4: 1 Sam. 30: G, etc.), “stoned!
him" to death. “Therefore king Ite-
hoboam made speed" to escape from
Shecheni to Jerusalem, recognizing
at last his own peril.
20. "When all Israel.” the northern
tribes, "heard that Jeroboam was |
come again” out of Egypt. Only the
leaders of Israel, with their immediate
followers, had been present at Shech j
cm. “Called him unto the congrega-
tion.” The general assembly of the j
northern tribes. "And made him i
king.”
Returned to Jerusalem. Rehoboam
classes, seem to live in an almost
(outinual whirl "i pleasure. # *
All the year round, in winter and
summer, the masses, those who were
released from serfdom und those who
have always been peasants, are toiling
In their fields or are engaged in some
other heavy labor suitable to the sea-
son. while their more fortunate fel-
low countrymen of the "nobility” help
swell the numbers that crowd about
the racetracks in summer or in win-
ter or race in their sleighs over the
frozen "prospekts," with oth-
ers as light-hearted as themselves.
It is a recognized fact that the aris-
tocracy, like the "smart sets” of the
Occident, should spend their time from
morning till night, and far into the
night, in the pursuit of pleasure, but
— the “nobility.” The great majority
ot the landed proprietors pass the
summer on their estates in some re-
mote province of the empire, but they
consider it their duty, on their way
there, to stop at Nijni Novgorod, to
visit the animal fair, where they prob-
ably have some business to do in
grain or cattle and desire to take in
the pleasures of the great gathering
at the same time.
The deplorable lack of enjoyment
I of the Russian peasant has a very
i strong pathetic side. The wealthy
• people of the country arc generous in
this respect, but their generosity has
i come rather too late to be of much
i benefit to the objects of their kind-
ness. On a public holiday the people
living in or near the big towns have
entirely free access to the parks, and
are entertained with an outdoor thea-
ter. acrobatic performances, fireworks,
free swings and rides and there is
music everywhere. There are asnocla-
•ions for the purpose of encouraging
athletic games, and children are al-
ways drawn into them if possible;
football and tenuis, swings and giants’
strides, playgrounds, everything imag-
inable to tempt them to take part in
outdoor exercise, and if the youug
Russian does not grow healthy, vig-
orous and strong it is not from lack
of opportunity to become so, but be-
cause habit is too strong with Ills
Peasant Women Harvesting.
that the "nobility" should go to one
extreme by imitating the examples of i
their superiors and the peasants to
the other by having practically no
pleasures at all is a state of affairs
that, finds no sympathy nor under-
standing in the west.
“Society" always follows the czar
and on that account St. Petersburg is
the center of gayety and pleasure,
principally in summer, when the fairs
bo dear to the Russian’s heart are in
full swing.
Summer comes upon the city and
the people almost without warning.
They go to bed one night, thinking
of the winter that has just passed
with the breaking up of the ice and
tho melting of the snow, over which
they had skimmed so often in tho
jingling “troikas,” buried in furs to
protect, themselves against the pierc-
ing cold—and in the morning they
awake to find the trees fairly burst-
ing into bloom, so that they can al-
most see the foliage and blossoms
growing, and the heat is almost as
great as it becomes in the middle of
summer.
The end of May and the beginning
of June is the period, like that of
Norway, of the shining of the mid-
assembled an army to put down the night sun. For two or three hours
■hellion, but he was forbidden by j only the sun disappear below the
.Sod, speaking through the prophet horizon, and then its glow suffuses
Shomaiah, of whom nothing further is j 'he sky, so that sunset and sunrise
known (1 Kings 12: 21-24). This i »re merSetl into one-
event completed the separation of the Then it is that those who have
kingdoms, settling Cod’s seal upon it. \ nothing to do but to enjoy themselves
The Results of the Disruption were i lake advantage of the long-established
many. Some of them were unfavor-1 custom of going on excursions to the
able to the progress of the Hebrews: I islands, to watch the sun slowly sink
The two kingdoms could not be as ! into the waters of the Neva, to meet
strong as the united kingdom might
have been.
Like the many denominations of
Christendom, they set a bad example
of dissension to tne heathen world.
On the other hand, some of the re-
sults of the disruption were favorable,
and these God caused to overbalance
the others in the final outcome.
Not only did the troubles that re-
suited from the disruption drive the
two kingdoms often to the true re-
ligion, but they could watch each
other, and perceive in each other’s
fortunes how prosperity followed
and chat with their friends on vari-
pa rents.
from one end of Russia to tha other
there is one form of amusement that
is common to the whole people. It
is the circling dance known as the
khorovod. It is common also to tho
Slavs of other countries, being, In
fact, a Slav dance. During haytime
and harvest, the busy season, the
voting peasants have little time for
! these dances on a large scale, but the
children are given to dancing them of
an evening, und they are sometimes
j given by a troupe iu one of the sum-
j mer gardens of St. Petersburg.
There are khorovod dances for
i every season of the year, but those
j In the spring and summer are the fa-
vorites. The young people, arrayed
\ in their brightest costumes, form
j themselves iu a circle and begin mov-
ing round and round, this way and
that, singing songs appropriate to the
season and the occasion. The melody
j of the songs is in harmony with the
sentiments, being sting in a low, sad,
wailing tone, and they are in keeping
with the whole character of the Rus-
sian land, life and institutions. These
circling choral dances are believed to
he of very remote antiquity among
the people of Russia.
Every Russian, from the poorest
peasant to the czar, is a horse owner
and lover. The Russians spend much
money on their racetracks and some
of them are very beautiful. The finest
racetrack in Russia is the trotting
track at Moscow. The main grand
stand on this course cost close to
$1,000,000, and is decorated with stone
and bronze siatues, some of which
were set up at a cost of $50,000. The
finest are the works of Russian mas-
Jacob. if the young king. In the tern i obedlencfe to God, and misery followed
pie, in consultation with the prophets, disobedience.
and on his knees In his own closet, j The Incoming of idolatry was met
hnd humbly sought God’s guidance, time and again by tho rise of righto-
both he and his nation would have J otis kings and especially by the com
been spared tho sorrow and shame j ing of great prophets,
that ensued. j Th kingdom of Judah, in which
V. Rehoboam’s Foolish Choice.—- j Christ was to be born, was thus pro-
Vs. 12-15. After tho old men had served very largely from the vices
given their displeasing advice. Reho-
boam had peremptorily decided
against them il Kings 12: 8i. He
was ready, therefore, to accept
promptly the advice of the young men.
12. ”So Jeroboam and all the Peo-
plo." Tho sending for Jeroboam v as
not because the northern tribes In-
tended to revolt whether their de-
mands were granted or not. Exiles
naturally return at the death of the
kings they have effended, and it was
only prudent for tiese northern tribes
to have their strongest leader at hand
iu case their denamls should he re-
and idolatries of the surrounding nu
lions, which could not approach il
easily except tnrough the northern
kingdom.
And finally, returning from tho ox
tie, the Jews became cnce more a
united people, chastened and taught,
ready to provide a borne for the
Saviour alike in Hcthlehem and Naz-
areth. alike in Capernaum and Jerus-
alem. And through all the Christian
centuries, though no race has been
so cruelly dispersed around the world,
no race has presented a unity like
that oi the Jews.
Russian Bride and Peasant.
Experience aid common sense
make the best natehed team on the
highway of life.
It Is natural hat a grass widow
should desire to make hay while the
sun shines.
Many an eye It a tattletale of the
owner's villainy
It is an Insult t« offer a hungry hobo
a ohvp.
Many a husband is hungry for the
love his wife wastes on the dorg!
The poet says "a black eye is the
best one!" The idea!
The alarm clock
man a fortune.
has lost many a
Yes. we cawr
State street.
him* yesterday on
•Tfce man wIUhUjoI
straw hat
ous questions of the day or to hear
the latest hit of court nqws or gossip,
and then to drive hack In the hour
of dawn to their houses, to Invite
sleep and refreshment before the
pleasurable duties of the coming day.
Houses are thrown wide open all
during this gay season, and every-
thing in and around St. Petersburg
teems with summer life and pleasure.
Every one dines in the open air,
spends his time on the water's edge,
or joins a boating party that is going
to hear the fashionable operetta given
in one of the country theaters that
are open at this time to afford another
amusement to summer visitors. Every-
where is light-hearted happiness and
merrymaking, but it Is the same life
and the same brilliant spectacle that
follows the court of every other mon-
arch In Europe
There Is another aspect of the pan
times of the upper class of Ruislans
ters. America has no racetrack build-
ing, nor has England or France, that
compares at all with the Moscow
grand stand for splendor.
The racing season begins In Russia
about April 15 and ends October 25.
During the season there Is only about
two hours and a half of darkness dur-
ing the night nnd tho races begin at
4 o’clock In the afternoon, and it Is
not uncommon for them to last until
10 p. m. Sometimes as many as ten
or twelve races are run off in a day.
Horses stand the rugged climate of
winter in Russia exceedingly well.
They do not come Into form as early
as they do In this country, but one
thing remarkable about them is their
clean legs nnd sound feet. This is at-
tributed to the Intense cold harden-
ing the muscles. Carefully handled,
there Is very little reasou for a Rus-
sian bred and raised horse ever to
break completely down.
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