PAGE TWELVB.
Pastor
UNGRATEFUL ' ALL' -THE
HUMAN RACE
"0 Come, Let Us Give Thanks
IMo tiis Lord; For Ha
Is Good!"
DIVINE MERCY ENDURETH.
Ingratitude Sin and a Shame All
Should Render Praia Though Not
All May Pray Tha Diffarono.
Cauaea For Thankfulneat Why 80
Paw Raapond Cauaaa of Ingratitud
and Discontent Dumb Brutaa Mora
Grataful Tha Ramady.
Indianapolis,
ind., November 23.
Pastor Russell
gavo two address
eg hero today.
We report the one
from the text, "0
give tlianks unto
the Lord; for He
Is good!-for Ills
mercy endureth
foreverl" (I'salm
l:(0:l.) The pastor
laid lu part:
Ingrutltudo is
v K
one of the least excusnblo sins. But
alas, It Is everywhere manifested. Rich
and poor, learned and Ignorant, appear
to be growing In the spirit of Ingrati
tude, unthniiltfulnoss, discontent, mur
muring. And all this Is In the face of
the greatest blessings that the world
has ever known. With tho dawning
of the New Kra God acenis to be open
ing Ills hand and showering bless
ings everywhere. "Ho openeth Ills
band and sntlslleth every living thing"
except rebellious man. The more
blessings coming to man, tho more Intelligence-
be attains, tho less he seems
to recognize the Fountain, the Source,
of his favors, It seems paradoxical,
but yet It is true, that tho day of tho
greatest favors the world has ever
known Is tho day of tho greatest In
gratitude and dlscontout.
Laaaona From tha Brutaa,
The bruto creation look up to man
as their god-and propurly so; for this
is the Dlrluo arrangement, tln.t man
should be the god to boasts, llsh and
fowl. Man Is In the likeness of his
Creator, who Is the God of the Uni
verse, With what shame do we rcallzo
that the ox knowoth Ills owner and the
ass his master's crib, yet man Ignores
his Maker, uud scorns bent upon for
getting Hlml
There Is a reason for nil this. The
formation of the human brain shows
us that reverence and gratitude to (iod
would bo the natural disposition of hu
manity. Tho organs of veneration,
worship, spirituality, He at tho apex
of the human constitution. In nothing
thorofoi-e could man, rightly guided.
Hud so much pleasure, peace and satis
faction as in the reebgnltlon of his Ood
and the acknowledgment of obligation
to Illm. Why, then, tho Aversion to
Owl, the endeavor to forget Illin? tho
Ignoring of Ills blessings and mercies,
and the attempt to account for them
all as matters of chance, operations of
nature? Why Is It that tho family dog
exhibits more of the spirit of loyalty,
reverence, obedience and confidence In
Ills muster tliuu man, with a higher In
tellect and capability, exercises toward
tho (iod of all grace, the Father of
Mercies V 2 Corinthians 1:3.
"An Enamy Has Dona Thla."
Our Lord In the parable of the Wheat
and the Tares declares that lie sowed
good seed uure Truth, Intended to
bring forth true, loyal children of Clod,
children of the Kingdom. He tells us
also that when tho Apostle bad fallen
asleep In death the enemy, Nil tun, over
sowed the wheat Meld with tare Need
fuls' doctrines. NL I'aul designated
these "doctrines 0f devils," (1 Timothy
:t.) In due llino fie litre seed brought
forth In tho Church a terrible crop of
demon doctrine', which have gone
forth to the whole world to misrepre
sent (Jod mid Ills purposes.
I I'ndoubtodly it is these doctrines of
demons that hav gotten their hold In
our minds from childhood's hours,
which have efTMed such n poisonous
liillncnco upon humanity as to drlvo
the musses away from Ood -some In
fear, some In disgust, some In total nn.
belief. Is It any wonder that Intelll
jient people should try to convince
themselves that there is no such tiod
Its the creeds have represented? It Is
not strange. It really Is to their credit
that they refuse to worship a Mug
pictured In tho creeds ns far worse
than the most depraved human being
Hint ever was born.
It. Is no wonder that men try to dis
believe In a timl wlio, they nre told,
had plotted the eternal torture of the
race long before He created It, and has
tmide every preparation for human tor
ture to nil eternity! Is It any wonder
that the world repudiates the Hlblo.
and desire to repudiate It since
Christians tell us that the lllble Is
tho authority for all the atrocious the
orles respecting the Almighty's pur
poses? Wo peed not wonder. W sre mere
ly rcnplng In the present unbelief and
ilWrmiloiit the results of the false doc
trines handed down to lis, mid believed
by ns l,o l the Word of find, without
the pruprr exerolwe of our heads or
hearts to pmv those and to te that
tti,V are doctrines of devils, wtolly
Russell's
separate from and contrary to tie
teaching of God's Word.
His Text and Context,
Notice Upw contrary our text Is to
everything we have been taught re
specting the Heavenly Father. It
gives us the true basis for things an
appreciation of God's goodness: "0
give thanks unto the Lord; for He is
good!" Then follows the assurance
that Divine mercy endureth forever.
Ah! this Is the merciful God which our
souls have hungered after! When St.
Faul declared that the heathen were
feeling after God that tbey might find
HI in, it was this true God whose mer
cy endureth forever that they were
feeling after. And when we presented
to them a horrible misrepresentation,
showing Him to be the Instigator of
eternal torturu for all our race, this
blasphemy has served to turn their
hearts from Him and from the Bible,
It Is high time that we realized the
terrible mistake we made. It Is high
time that we began to preach the Mes
sage of our text, "His mercy endureth
forever." This expression respecting
the endlessness of Divine Mercy is re
peated twenty-five times in this one
I'salm alone. And yet we as Chris
tians have denied this statement, and
have declared instead that God's mer
cy is only for the Elect; that the thou
sands of millions of heathendom and
other hundreds of millions In Christen
dom will have no mercy.
Knowing that the majority of minds
nre darkened through sin, Ignorance,
and superstition; knowing that the
Apostle declares that Stitnn bus blind
ed the minds of nil unbelievers; know
ing that the Lord through the Apostles
and tho Prophets has declared that
tho coming Ago of Messiah's Kingdom
Is the time when all tho deaf ears will
be unstopped and nil the blinded eyes
opened, nnd that the glory of tho Lord
shall cover the whole earth in spite
of all this we have cried out to tho
world thut there will be no mercy for
them beyond the grave, that God's
mercy does not endure forever, but
merely for the time we call the pres
ent life.
Why do we thus contradict the Al
mighty? What motive Is there behind
this? In seeking to restrict tho grace
of Ood to the present unfavorable time
of blindness and darkness, we have
bad tho encouragement of Satan, and
the visions, messages nnd dreams
caused by tho fallen angels. St. Paul
pictured our day exactly, snylng,
"Many shall depart from the faith,
giving heed to seducing spirits and
doctrines of devils."
Tell tha Truth 8hme the Day 1 1.
It Is time for all who love the Lord
and the Hlblo to get straight them
selves nnd then to help others. It Is
time that the world knew what real
cause It has for gmtltudo to God and
for contentment with the blessings
now being enjoyed. It Is time to tell
them that tho death of Christ is to be
the full offset of the sin of Adam, and
that the death penalty of Adam's sin
Is to be fully lifted. It is time to tell
them that during Messiah's Ilelgu of
a thousand years tho world will rise
again out of sin ami death to righteous
ness and llfo everlasting tho reversal
uf the present relgu of HI 11 nnd Death,
It Is time to tell them that God In
deed has been electing, or selecting,
saintly ones, but not to the Injury of
the non-elect; that the work of the
Klect, In association with Jesus for a
thousand years, will bo the blessing of
all tho families of tho earth the non
elect. It Is time to tell the world that the
Itlble hell is the tomb, Shool, Hades;
that from it nil will bo redeemed nnd
will have opportunity for resurrection
to perfection of llfo everlasting; and
that only tho wilfully wicked will dlit
the Second Death, symbolically Illus
trated by Gehenna. It Is time to tell
them that all both good and bad, rich
snd poor have been going to tho lll
blu hell, the tomb; and that the First
Iteaurroctlon will be constituted only
of the saintly, the Church, who are to
bo associated with Christ lu His Kiug-doni.-ltovelatton
2(1:0.
It is time to tell them that none ex
cept (hose begotten of tho Holy Spirit
sines Pentecost will ever reach tho
Heavenly condition and share the Di
vine nature. It Is time to tell tlieiu
that Ood's blessed provision for Adam
and the remainder of his race Is Hostl-tutlon-restoratlou
to human perfec
tion from which they fell, and to a
world-wide Kden-God's footstool mado
glorious.
It Is time to tell them that nil the
thorns, thlstli-a, trials, dlWrultUn, nor
rows and tear of the past six thou
sand yours are part of tho penalty,
"Dying, thou Shalt die." It Is time to
tell theiu that Ood during Messiah's
Kingdom, by uplifting the race, will
wipe away tho tears from oT nil faces.
It Is time to let them know that He
Is Indeed u Ood whoso mercy endur
eth forever; and that although His
mercy Is ns yet extended only to the
Church and to Natural Israel, eventu
ally In the coining Aue It shall extend
to every member of tho rnce for which
Christ died.
On This Baaie Thankfulneae.
On the basis of this knowledge of
Clod, knowledge of why sorrow nnd
death prevail, the world would be
ready to acknowledge the grace of
God, His boundless mercy, and willing
and glad to give thanks to Illm.
We make a sharp dUllnctlon be
tweeu the privilege of prayer and
thanksgiving. All who appreciate
God's goodness may offer worship lu
the sense of thanks, acknowledgment
appreciation. Prayer Is a wholly dif
ferent matter. None have the privi
lege of prayer with the assurance It
will It heard except the) who np-
proach G.hI through tho great Advo
cate whom Ho has appointed. And
none can approach through this Advo
cste xrpt on the Dlvtiuj tarnis that
Sermon
they become Ills disciples, and take
up their cross and follow Him.
Thus the number privileged to ap
proach the Throne of Heavenly Grace
and obtain help lu time of need Is lim
ited to the Church of Christ. These
buve special guidance in all their af
fairs, because they have come Into the
family of God. But even those who
are aliens and strangers may pay bom
age in the presence of the great King
Just as only the citizens of a country
may have the ballot or other privileges
of citizenship, but the foreigner may
uncover his bead, hail the ruler and
acknowledge blessings enjoyed, even
though be has not become a citizen
and does not enjoy the privileges of the
ballot, etc. ' ' '
Thanksgiving Day.
A beautiful and appropriate custom
prevails In the United States the set
ting apart of the last Thursday in each
November as a duy of special thanks
giving to God for the harvest bounties
and all the blessings of the year past
With tho majority It has deteriorated
into a mere formalism a holiday. The
cause of this U the growth of unbe
lief, and unbelief has grown with high
er education; for the educated, repelled
by the false pictures of the Almighty,
have turned from the God of the Bible
and from any conception of, a personal
God, nnd are Instructing the flower of
the rising generation In Infidelity, un.
belief in tho Bible we might ulmost
say, In nthelsm.
This is the key to the situation. The
only way back to God, to faith, con
tentment, thanksgiving, Is through the
dissemination of the knowledge of the
glory of God, that ne Is a God of
Love, that His mercy endureth for
ever, that He has only begun Ills sal
vation In the gathering of the Church,
and that eventually It shall extend to
every creature, during Messiah's Thousand-Year
Itclgn.
Let us not wait for denominational
movement, which will never 'come.
Let us each feel a personal responsi
bility. Let each one who receives tho
blessing "show forth the praises of
Illm who called us out of darkness
Into His marvelous light." Let each
0110 who appreciates the true basis of
thankfulness report the Message of the
Kingdom to others, that they, too, may
bo blesRed.
The Bible, however, docs not lend us
to liopo for any such condition at the
present time. On the contrary, It tells
that the present unbelief and discon
tent will Increase, nnd will Involve the
entlro world In a Time of Trouble, the
cllmnx of which will be anarchy,
"His Maroy Endureth Forever."
However, the Bible proceeds to tell
that In man's extremity, when faith
shall have largely flod from the world,
when discontent shall have burst into
anarchy, when the present social fab
ric shall have collapsed, then God will,
nevertheless, be merciful; for His mer
cy endureth forever.
God's mercy will then be manifested
in the prompt establishment of the
Messianic Kingdom. Man's extremity
will be Ood's opportunity for showing
forth Ills great mercy and love; for He
loved tho world when they were yet
sinners. Unmans B:H.
Let Us Be Thankful.
If our hearts have not been over
come by tho tldnl wnves of unbelief
sweeping over tho world, it Is a cause
for gratitude to God, nnd for a resolu.
tloii that, by Ills grace, we will seek
to know 1 1 1 111 better, appreciate Illm
more, and Increase our thankfulness.
If wo have u faith that recognize Dl
vlno providence, especially In the uf
fairs of the Church, and also In the af
fairs of the world, let us be grateful,
nnd let us remember that faith can be
cultivated or can be dwarfed.
With the disciples of old let us pray,
"Lord, Increase our faith"; and let us
use the means the Lord has provided
for the Increase of our faith. Let us
note in God's Word tho fulfilments of
His promises nnd the application of
the Scriptures to our own personnl ex
periences. Let us ((row In apprecia
tion of tho truths of the Bible, In In
creased energy In the study of the Bi
ble and In the application of Its Mes
sage to our owu hearts. Let ns alsogrow
In Increased thankfulness and elTort to
show forth the praises of the Lord
and to assist others out of darkness
Into the light which we ourselves nre
more nnd more enjoying.
Willie we are not to think of God
lu the way wo do of man, that He
would be similarly hurt or pleased or
offended or happlllcd, nevertheless we
know that man was made In God's
linage. We are Justified, therefore, In
assuming that as we would appreciate
thankfulness, gratitude. In the heart
of those who are sharers of our botin
tiesour children or our servants or
our dumb aulinals-so (iod Is surely
pleased with those who are apprecia
tive of Ills goodness, who think upon
Ills favors and who make acknowl
edgment of them, who seek to show
forth His praises to others nnd who by
faith are trusting Him even where
they cannot trace Htm, .
0 Qive Thanks to God I
My hope Is that not only tho audi
ence I am now addressing will have a
very happy and appreciative Thanks
giving Day on Thursday next, but
that the same blessing may extend to
all of the larger coiigtvmitlon which 1
address weekly through tho public
press. Kven If but a few shall be
made more thankful to Oval for His
mercies, that few, J nm sure, will lie
made more happy themselves, more
pleasing to GihI. And If they bo uot
already of HI consecrated people, t
am sure that the gratitude arising
from their hearts lu sweet Incense to
our Maker will rvmt upon themselves
favorably and help them to that eon.
dltlon of heart nnd mind In which they
might become holy and acceptable sac
rlrtces to Ood through .lesus Christ
Heimut l- l. ,
UNITED STATES ENGLISH.
Tliey Think Abroad Wo Are Forming a
New Language Here,
Unless tuey are fairly conversant
with current transatlantic fiction, and.
ubove all, with 1 lie newspapers of to
day. Englishmen do not realize that a
new language seems In process of for
mation In the United States. A Dan
ish savant, the professor of languages
at the Copenhagen university, has pre
dicted that in a few centuries "they
will be speaking American over in
England instead of English." He Is
also of the opinion that "the so called
slang of the present American tongue
Is far more poetical, picturesque and
serviceable than the English of Shakes
peare's time."
Making allowance for a certain ex
aggeration, this expression of opinion
Is notable us showing that an expert
believes a new American "language"
to be in course of development. Ameri
can slang is certainly more forceful
and expressive than the argot of the
British Isles, and. although much of it
Is quite unnecessary, It consists In
large part of the employment of very
up to (fate metaphor, rather than the
use of "cant' phrases." us they were
termed In the eighteenth century.
( In fact the use "f metaphor Is so
pronounced that 11114 - Mshman. oth
erwise Ignorant of yiT'Vhiited States
lingo" might understand much of It If
he were conversant with the technical
terms employed In engineering or rail
way operations. It Is creeping- Into
English rather rapidly, n fact heartily
to be deplored. Iindon Globe.
SWEET POTATOES IN JAPAN.
One of tha Three Thingt There Native
Women Really Love.
The sweet potato seems to have
emigrated from China 'via the Loo
Choo Islands to ,lnnin. Nearly two
centuries ago Aokl Konyo recommend
ed to the shogun the cultivation of the
sweet potato all over the empire. In
grateful memory- of the benefactor
there now stands over Aokl's grave a
monument with this unique' Inscrip
tion, "The potato professor."
One. of the-distinguishing features
of Tokyo is tho sweet potato bakeries,
where, during the colder mouths, hot
potatoes prove a godsend to many.
Around these potato shops the poorer
children crowd with their coppers,
nuxlous for the morsel which is to
them what mill: chocolate Is to cbll
drcn of the west. Humor hns It that
there nre but three tlilnrs tho Japa
nese woman really loves pumpkin,
thentor going nnd sweet potato. ,
At present there ere more than 1,000
potato ovens In Toko, and the sale of
roust potatoes anuuully totals more
than 1.000.000 yen In 110 country In
the world can the poor people get pure,
wholesome food more conveniently and
economically than In Japan. Whether
one gots a box of rice with pickles and
dry llsh In a station or 11 pot of ten for
Wi cents on thu train, It Is always
clean nnd attractively served. Detroit
News Tribune.
Real Founders of Rueeian Muaio.
The old saying that n man must do
vote his whole llfo to one thing to be
rome really great finds a curious ex
ception In the founders of the new Rus
sian music. The most brilliant men In
this work all originally followed other
lines. Tschnlkpwsky was a lawyer;
Caesar Cul was professor of fortifica
tions In the Military Academy of St
Petersburg nnd Is today lieutenant gen
oral of Knsslan engineers; Borodlne
was a physician; Itlmsky-Korsakov
was an olllcer lu the Husslun navy;
Balaleff was a timber merchant; Mous
sorgsky was a soldier, being an of
ficer In one of the most famous regi
ments, nnd Soknlsky was In the diplo
matic service, being stationed for sev
eral years In New York and afterward
becoming editor of the principal news
paper of Odessa. Ladles' Home Jour
nal. Tha 8kaptio!am of Posterity.
There Is one very lare. very sad
and very certain truth 11 bout all the re
lation of past and future. That truth
Is this the future will uot believe us.
it will not believe our most solemn and
profound assertions. It will ratloualir.e
them or ridicule them. In one way or
another It will explain them nwuy, for
that Is the most certain thing about the
attitude of men toward their remote
ancestors. They will believe the testi
mony of material things or of their own
conjectures, but never the swuni word
f their fathers. Were It not so theiv
would be no iihiiii for historical criti
cism or perhaps for history ns n sci
ence at all.-lllllalre Belloc In Pall
Mall Magazine.
Senieleis Question.
Ilrlgga had hired a horse to take a
little exercise. He got more exercise
than he wauled, and as be limped to
the side of the road to rest himself a
kind friend asked him:
"What did you come down so quick
for?"
"What did I iinu down so quick
for? Do you sis anything up in the air
for me to bold 011 to?" he asked grimly.
-Chicago News.
Embarrassing,
"Do you oversee the president?" ask
ed Willie of his uncle, who lived In
Wasliluiitnn.
"Yes: nearly every day," was the
reply.
"And does he ever yuu?" queried
tho little fellow. -Chtcauc 1 News.
Mk and the Te-th.
Milk, because It contains so much
lime. Is one of the best foods for the
eeth, which often decay for the lack
of lime.
There iv nothing hypoeril-iral about
the frank admiration some men have
for themselves.
A Thanksgiving dinner to tha hungry
poof doesn't belp much; bnt a little,
lei's, hop.
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FOUND TO BE CORRECT
First President Work Approved by
Government Men Employed to
Check Over County Line.
HIS SUEVET MASKS MADE
VEST HIGH IN TBEES
This Is Explained by Fact That He
Bode on Horseback and Used an As
With Very Long Handle.
Government surveyors, who have just
been checking up somo of the lines
roputed to have been run by George
Washington in his days of chain and
compass work, have found tbein good
About 1751, according to tradition,
Geargo Washington, then 19 years eld,
ran out for Lord Thomas Fairfax the
line between what was then to be Aug
usta and Frederick counties, Virginia,
this being only a part of a great deal
of surveying which he is said to have
engaged upon at that time. Those two
counties were separated from what was
thon Orange county, and the grant to
Lord Fairfax was supposed to extend
westward to the Pacific ocoon. Subse
quently these largo tracts were further
subdivided, so that the "Fairfax lino"
as it was generally known, runs now
between Rockingham and Shenandoah
counties, with the original Augueta and
Frederick counties to south and north
respectively. ,
in the organic act for tho Jormation
of the two counties, or "parishes" at
thoy wero then callod, it was required
that the lino should be a straight one
from tho head spring of Iledgman riv
or, one of the sources of tho Rappahan
nock, to tha hoad spring of the Potom
ac.
Since it was required that the line
should be straight it was first neces
sary to get the approximate course by
building large bonfires on the inter
vening high points. Then starting from
the top of tho Massanuttcn mountains,
tho line was run straight away over in
tervening mountains and rivers toward
the" northwest.
The Fairfax Stone.
Away off. across a' part of what is
now West Virginia there is a largo rock
kupwa today as the Fairfax stono. It
is the monument which marks the
Boutliwest cornor of Garret county, Md.,
tho southeast corner of Preston" county,
W, Va., and prominent points in the
boundaries in two other West Virginia
counties. A line from Orange court
house, coinciding with the Shenandoah
and Rockingham county line, passes
through this Fairfax stono, which gives
the name to a nearby ftation, Fairfax,
on the Wostorn Maryland railroad. It
hps been assumed that, in running this
line a high peak northwest of Orange
court house was the starting point, and
that from' here it was possible to see
a distant peak in the north mountain
range ovor the top of the intervening
Mjnasnnutten mountain. ,
Washington, of course, used a simple
complins, and his line could not be ex
pected to chock absolutely with that
obtained by the government survoyors,
who have ,retraccd his survey, using the
high power transits and all tho refined
and accurate methods which modorn in
struments allow. Nevertheless, the line
was run so carefully in the first place
that but littlo variation has been found
in it. Even without instruments it is
possiblo to disiagiiish the course of
tho lino with surprising distinctness.
From the top of Middle Mountain in
the Masxnnuttori range, the Shenandoah
Rorhingham. or Fairfax line ran bo read
ily followed by means of the boundary
fences dating from earliest days, and
by the blocks of timbor, alternately
cleared awey or left standing, which
come up from either county and stop
at the line, liko squares in a checker
board. Then if one turns to tho south
east the same demarcations are plain
across the valley of tho south fork of
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Shoiiflndonh, cutting straight through
the present Pago county, which is made
of land fonnerely in Shenandoah county
belonging to the Fairfax grant, and
partly from land formerly in Booking
ham. Thus, as far as the eye can see
in either direction, this old line shows
plainly.
The Washington compaBS, now to be
seen at the V. S. national museum in
tho city named for its owner, is pre
sumed to be the same one used in run
ning this lino more than 160 years ago.
Washington's Survey Maria.
The Fairfax stone stands as a per
manent monument. In addition, there
are, throughout that section of the
country, various othor records of these
Washington surveys. For example, a
large white oak which stands at the
comer of a farm about l'a miles from
Lost City, Harley county, W. Va., was,
according to a persistent story of that
section of tho country, marked by Wash
in gon.
Survey blazes cut into trees, and
since grown over, have been cut away
and a count of the annual layers of
growth over the old wounds bIiows
them to have been mado at the time
Washington was surveying. One strange
thing about these blazes is that they
are sevoral feet higher than those put
to troes by woodsmen of today. This
fact has given rise to a sort of super
stition that Washington, known to have
been very tall, was actually a giant,
Othor authorities have said that Wash
ington did much of his work on horse
back, and mode his blazes with a long
handled ax from the saddle.
The town of Whitepost, Clarke coun
ty, Vo., takes its name from a post pre
sumed to have been set by Washington
as one of his survey marks. The post,
formerly exposed, is now covered by a
protecting case which sholtors it from
the wnnther, and from the desoiling
hand of the vandal tourist.
Why the Line Is Betr.tced.
The reason that this old Washington
survey lino is beiug retraced is beeauso
the federal government is purchasing
lands in this neighborhood, in connec
tion with the now Appalachian forests
which aro being acquired at the head
waters of navigablo streams, under tho
terms of the Weeks law, designed to
protect these watersheds from tho evils
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of deforestation. The government re
quires a clear title before tho land can
he paid for. In making sure of tho ti--tlcs
it is necessary, in many cases, to
go back to original royal grants, or to
colonial records, and to have recourse
to resurveys before the facts of owner
ship can be indisputably established.
CONVENTIONS OPEN.
ID SITED MESS LEASED WIDE.
New York, Dec. 2. Four big conven
tions opened here today. Thoy are the
annual meetings of the Felt Hat Manu
facturers' Association) New York State
Brewers' Association; American Scan
dinavian Society and the American So .
cioty of Refrigerating Engineers. The
Scandinavian Society will continue its
sessions tomorrow.
EXAMINATIONS ON.
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Washington, Dec. 2. Civil Bervice ex
amination to fill positions under the
interstate commerce commission valua
tion board wore opened today. Further
examinations will be held December 3.
Successful candidates will do the work
of valuing the railroads of the nation.
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tiful wife if she pretends to keep on
loving her husband after she knows she
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