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GLEANINGS from A WORLD WIDE LIELD
RUSSIA IN GRIP OF CHOLERA EPIDEMIC.
Not since the horrible scourge of 1908 has Russia
faced such a pestilence as is now upon her. Within
six days the official bulletin shows a record of 15,244
cases of cholera and 6,944 deaths. The disease is get
ting in its most virulent work in St. Petersburg, and
in the southern mining districts.
It is a noteworthy fact that the cases of the plague
were first reported from a bakery, in the same house
in which the epidemic of bubonic plague started
in 1902.
Odessa has been afflicted with a scourge of rats
since May, and the ineffective measures to kill off the
rodents by the authorities is blamed for the present
outbreak.
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MEMORIAL TO GROVER CLEVELAND.
The erection of a monument to the memory of
Grover Cleveland is a fitting honor not only to the
man, but to the Democratic party for which he stood.
Senator John F. Dryden, of Newark, N. J., in a bul
letin recently published, issues a call for the $25,000
yet required to complete the building fund. The
tower is to be located at Princeton, N. J., to be
known as the Nation’s Memorial in Perpetuation of
the Memory of Grover Cleveland.
The tower itself will be about one hundred and
fifty feet high by forty feet square, of a silvery gray
stone and of great architectural strength and beauty,
with interior accommodations for memorial purposes,
including personal and national relics associated with
Mr. Cleveland’s life-work. It will form the central
shaft in connection with which will be erected other
buildings in the future, to form what is known as the
Graduate School, with which Mr. Cleveland was so
closely identified during the last years of his life and
for which the Wyman and other bequests, aggregat
ing several million dollars, have recently been made.
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MIKADO LENGTHENS HIS SCEPTRE.
Korean sovereignty is at an end. At day dawn on
the 29th day of August, Mutsuhito, emperor of Japan,
became the absolute ruler of the “Hermit Kingdom.”
The annexation was entered into amicably, and
every measure has been advanced by the Mikado to
make his new subjects feel happy and satisfied with
the new regime.
The death of Korea as an independent nation is to
the Christian world but another evidence of the im
mutable destiny of every Christless Kingdom, nation
or people.
CHINA SETS AMERICA A WORTHY EXAMPLE
IN PROHIBITION.
The most successful prohibition campaign on rec
ord is that of the government of China against the
raising and the use of opium. In the province of
Szchuan which produced half the opium of China,
practically none is now raised, and the land is given
to useful products. Raising opium has also nearly
ceased in Shansi and Yunnan, the next largest pro
ducers in opium. All this has been achieved in three
years. And it shows that the way to stop the sale
and use of intoxicating liquors is to prohibit their
manufacture.—Baptist Commonwealth.
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PROMOTED THE COOK.
Some years ago the minister of education in St.
Petersburg was appealed to by telegraph for a cook,
to be hurried to Moscow. The operator got his
dashes and dots mixed, but by next train a man ar
rived and was ceremoniously conducted to the uni
versity, where he was introduced to the assembled
faculty and students as the new professor in history.
The unhappy fellow protested that, while he might
be a professor of pots and pans, he knew nothing
about history. But in Russian official life it is harder
far to correct an error than to make one, so for sev
eral years the cook has held his professorship,
though no one attends his lectures.
Another laughable story comes from the Suwa’ky
school for boys. A doorkeeper there who could
scarcely read or write had grown so untidy and slow
that he was no longer useful, but as the headmaster
did not want to set him adrift he promoted him to a
teacher’s post and had him transferred to a distant
school. He, too, will be a professor some day.—Mos
cow Letter in New York World.
The Golden Age for September 8, 1910.
NEGRO DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.
The North Texas Negro Baptist Association was
recently in session in the city of Abilene. Reports
say that it was an unusually intelligent body and
that its discussions of education, missions and the
liquor traffic were all marked by intense enthusiasm.
The following resolutions were unanimously adopted:
“Resolved, That we hail with delight the approach
ing contest in which the liquor question will be set
tled by a popular vote on an amendment to the con
stitution of the State of Texas, and we pledge our
selves as ministers of the gospel and leaders of our
people to play well our part in driving the saloons
from our State.
“Resolved, Further, That we advise our people ev
erywhere not to allow any one to lend them money
with which to pay their poll taxes, but that we urge
our men to begin now paying their own poll taxes
and be prepared for the coming fray, in which the
gigantic evil ought to be put out of cur State.”
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IT’S A FIGHT TO THE FINISH-—AND HERE'S TO
THE WINNER.
Over in Spain,—and to a less degree in Portugal,
—the old war between Church and State goes on.
Premier Canalejas has brought forward a bill placing
other churches on practically the same footing as the
Roman Catholic, and the Clericals are fighting it fu
riously.
The Pope and Merry Del Val are consumed with
rage, and are denying through the Catholic press,
every charge, suggestion or announcement advanced
by Premier Canalejas. But right will reign and we
laud the Peerless Victor!
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FIRST GASOLINE AUTOMOBILE.
The first gasoline automobile engine ever con
structed will be shown at the Ohio Valley Exposi
tion, mounted on an exact duplicate of Seldon’s first
automobile, constructed in 1877. Fully 90 per cent
of the automobiles now being manufactured are li
censed under this patent.
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“TELL YOUR TROUBLES TO THE POLICEMAN.”
This bit of slang took on a new meaning in Louis
ville last week when a wearer of “the cloth” donned
the blue coat and brass buttons. It seems a “muckle
uncanny” mixture, but Rev. Arthur E. Whatham, rec
tor of Trinity Episcopal Church, claims the rare dis
tinction of being the only minister-policeman in the
United States.
He took his oath of office last week and was pre
sented with his badge of authority on which was in
scribed “Private Policeman, Trinity Park.” Mr.
Whatham says that he has become a policeman in
addition to his other duties for the good of the boys
who play in Trinity Park. “With my authority as a
policeman I think that I will be able to handle any
black sheep that should attempt to lead my flock
astray”, said he.
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PELLAGRA IN AUSTRIA.
Heroic measures have been taken in Austria to
stamp out pellagra, which has a run there similar to
that in the Southern states of this country. Com
mercial Agent Henry Studnichka of Vienna has sent
a statement to the Department of Commerce and
Labor as follows:
“In order to stop the popular use of infected corn
meal, which is held responsible for the disease, the
Austrian government has constructed in southern
Tyrol six modern steam rye bakeries, which are un
der the direct supervision of the governor of the
province, assisted by a number of subordinate offi
cers. The city governments of this section also
•rigidly supervise and inspect all private bakeries.—
Exchange.
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RUSKIN’S PASTOR HAS RESIGNED CHARGE.
One of the longest of London’s pastorates has come
to an end. For fifty five years Rev. S. A. Tipple has
preached in his little ivy-clad chapel at Norwood.
John Ruskin was one of his most frequent hearers
when he resided at Norwood, and almost any Sunday
morning he might be seen toiling tip the hill to the
chapel, and he spoke of Mr. Tipple as “one of the
greatest masters of pulpit prose in our time.”
USED BRAINS TO SAVE BRAINS.
That is what a company of surgeons in Georgetown
University, Washington, did.
Twelve-year-old Russell Dulin, of that city, had
been a sufferer all his life. A tumerous growth on
his brain produced paralysis, and the little fellow
seemed doomed either to death, or —what was worse
—a life of complete invalidism. But Science, that
magician of the twentieth century, took a hand, and
Science won.
The operation which was decided upon as a last
resort involved pioneer work in surgery. Physicians
knew that if it were successful, a great step would
have been gained in aavancing the profession. An
incision in the skull was made, and after a triangular
fold was turned back, an orifice in the bone was
drilled. This was, perhaps, the most remarkable
feature of the operation. The orifice was drilled of
sufficient size to enable the physician to use the
forceps, and to prevent possible pressure on the brain
the utmost precautions were observed. With the re
moval of the growth the process of recovery began,
and surgeons watched the boy narrowly for untoward
developments. But the boy’s brain gradually as
sumed its normal functions, expanded, and became
entirely healthy. Today the success of the operation
is beyond peradventure.
“OUT OF THEIR ABUNDANCE THEY GAVE
ONLY PENNIES.”
Statistics are often said to be dry reading. But it
seems to us that every eye that has caught a vision
of a “new day in Christ Jesus” would find enough
pathos, tragedy, and positive heartbreak in the fol
lowing to cause a stream of tears to flow in irrigating
blessedness through the parched gulleys of a long
neglected soul, refreshing and reviving it to a new
sense of obligation, opportunity and privilege in the
world:
At the Sunday-school and Missionary Exposition,
held in the National Rifles’ Artillery Hall, Washing
ton, in connection with the World’s Sunday school
Convention, there was a table on which were pack
ages, labeled in away that made them a most strik
ing object lesson. First there was a little bundle of
envelopes, whose tag showed that their size repre
sented the comparative size of the foreign missionary
offermgs of America, in relation to other expendi
tures, and it was credited as $19,000,000. The next
was a box of chewing-gum, marked $31,000,000. Next
was a hat box, (not the size of those of the present
year!) representing the $80,000,000 spent annually
for millinery. After that was a pile of candy boxes,
of a size to stand for $178,000,000. Then the great
piles of jewelry boxes, representing the $700,000,000
spent for jewelry and plate. A collection of cigar
boxes stood for the $750,000,000 spent for tobacco;
and a barrel was the $1,243,000,000 spent for liquor.
The contrast of these to the pitiful little bundle of
foreign mission envelopes was a comparison not to be
forgotten.
RIDLEY HONORED BY TABERNACLE.
The big crowd stood up and said “Amen!” last Sun
day night at the Broughton Tabernacle when Col.
Harry A. Etheridge offered resolutions concerning
Rev. Caleb A. Ridley, who had supplied Dr. Brought
on’s pulpit during August. It was an enthusiastic
vote and deeply touched the gifted young preacher
who had a hard time finding his voice when he tried
to offer his thanks:
Be it Resolved, By the officers and members of the
Tabernacle Baptist Church of Atlanta, and by this
congregation here assembled, that the preaching of
our Brother, Rev. C. A. Ridley, who has filled this
pulpit during the month of August, has been a spirit
ual uplift and benediction to all wffio have sat under
his ministry. He has the freshness and sparkle of a
dew drop and the power of a mountain cataract. The
hand of the Lord is upon him, and when he speaks
the power of God is felt.
Notwithstanding the personal charm and rare gifts
of the man, he so presents the cause of the Master
that we see “Jesus only” and the Christ is exalted
and magnified.
May the power and blessing of Almighty God still
attend him wherever he may labor in the vineyard
of the Lord.
Adopted Aug. 28, 1910.
