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The Irwin County News.
Official Orf?an of Irwin County.
A, G. DeLOACH, Editor and Prop’r.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
■yy l. story,
PHYSICIAN and BURGEON,
Sycamore, Georgia.
•JyJAUK ANTHONY,
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON.
Sycamore, Georgia.
Will be looted for the present at the Dod¬
son House. Patronage respectfully solicited.
T. W. ELLIS,
PRACTICING PHYSICIAN,
Ruby, Georgia.
Calls promptly attended to at nil hours.
I respectfully solicit a share of the public
pationage Office in B. H. Cockrell’s store.
J^K. J. F. GARDNER,
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON,
Asuburn, Georgia.
Cads answered promptly day or night.
(^“Special children. attention to diseases of women
and
UNION STRANGE, M, D.
SPECIALIST.
Cordkele, Georgia,
Diseases of women, Strictures, Nervous
and all private diseases. Strictures dissolv¬
ed out iu 2 to 5 minutes by a smooth current
of Galvanism wiuiout paiu or detention
from business; and given to patient solicited in a vial and
best of alcohol. Correspondence Office north-east
references given. cor¬
ner Suwanee House.
M. FRIZZELLE,
LAWYER,
McRae, Georgia.
Practices in the State and Federal Courts.
Real Estate and Criminal Law Specialties, t
A. AARON,
LAWYER,
Ashbuun, Georgia.
Co’lections and Ejectment suits a Special¬
ty. JSPOffics, Room No. 4, Betts Building.
W. FCLWOOD,
LAW, REAL ESTATE & COLLECTIONS,
Tifton, Georgia.
Prompt attention given to all business,
(y Office, Love Building, Room No. 1.
JOHN HARRIS.
SHOEMAKER,
Ashburn, Georgia,
My prices are low and all work strictly
Guaranteed.
DIRECTORY.
CITY OF SYCAMORE.
Mayor—A. G. DeLoacb.
Councilmen—V/. B. Dasher, I. L. Murray,
flf. VV. Cockrell, E. R. Smith, J. P. Fountain,
Superior October. Courts—First Monday in April
(Slid C. C. Smith, Judge, Hawkins
ville, Ga.
Solicitor General—Tom Eason. McRae,Ga.
Clerk Superior Court—J. B. D. Paulk, Ir
Winville, Ga.
Sheriff—Jesse Paulk, Ruby, Ga.
ville, Deputy Ga.; Sheriffs—C. L. Prescott, Irwin
Wm. VanHouteu, Sycamore, Ga.
Monday; County Quarterly Court — Monthly session, second
in January, April, July session, second Monday
and October. J. B.
Clements, Judge, Irwinvilla, Ua.
JvinviUe, County Court Bailiff—William Rogers, Ir
Ga.
day County Commissioners’ Court—First Mon¬
in each month. M. Henderson. Commis¬
sioner, Ordinary’s Ocilla, Ga.
Court—First Monday in each
month. Daniel Tucker, Ordinary, Vic, Ga.
•School Commissioner—J. Y. Fletcher, Itu
by, Ga.
R. Paulk, Irwiu
vil'e. Ga.
Tax Receiver—D, A. Mclnnis, Vic. Ga.
l ax Collector—J. W. Paulk, Ruby, Ga.
Coroner—Dauiel Surveyor—M. Barnes, Minnie, Ga.
Board Hall, Minnie, Ga.
of Education—Jno. Clements. Chair¬
man, Irwinviilo, Ga.; Ga.; Henry T. Fletcher, Ir
Taylor, winville, Jrwinville, L. R. Tucker, Vic, Ga.; L. D.
Ocalla, Ga. Ga.; S. E. Coleman,
Justice Courts—901 Dist. G. M., Second
Saturday P, in each month. Marcus Luke, N.
and ex-offl. J. P.; Wm. Rogers, Bailiff,
IrwinviUe. Ga. Second Saturday
1421 District G. M m
each month. J. H. MeNeese, J. P-, Kisse
mee, Ga. James Roberts, Bailiff, Ocala, Ga,
1388 Dist. U.' M., Third Saturday in each
moutii. R. V. Hauley, J. P.; David Troup,
Bailiff, Minnie, Ga.
982 Disk G. M., Third Wednesday in each
mouth. C. 1- Royal, J. P., Sycamore, Ga.;
A. Jones &P. Royal, Bailiffs, Sycamore, Ga.
982 Dist. G. M.. D. A. Ray, JS. P. & Ex
offloio J. P.. Sycamore, Ga.
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LOQCE DIRECTORY
Regular Sycamore, Lndjrn. No. 210 F. Saturday. <Sc A W M
communications, find
Story, W. M.; A. D. Ross, Secretary.
Ocilla Locge, F. & A. M.—Regular 4th Sunday com¬
munication 'ihursday befox-e the
iu each mouth. J. A. J. Henderson, W. M.;
D. W. M. Whitley, Sec’y, Ocilla, Ga.
CHURCH DIRECTORY.
sycamore circuit.
Sycamore—2nd Sunday and Sunday night.
Cyclometa—Fourth Sunday.
Dakota—Third Sunday.
Ashburue—1st Sunday and Sunday night.
T. D. STRONG, Pastor.
UNION PRIMITIVE BAPTIST.
Brushey Creek—4.h Sunday and Saturday
before.
Sturgeon Creek—2nd Sunday and Satur¬
day Hopewe’’.—1st before.
Salem—3rd Sunday Suuday & Saturday Saturday before.
and before.
Eld. W. H. Harden, Pastor.
Little River—3rd Suuday and Saturday
before.
Saturday Turner’s before Meeting House—2nd Suuday and
Oaky Grove—4th Sunday and Saturday
before
Emaua—1st Sunday and Saturday before
aTamkb Gibbs, Pastor.
NOTICE,
Parties are warned that, no hunting or fish¬
ing will be allowed on lots of land Nos. 18.
14, 17,18, 19 and 41, in 3rd district of Irwin
county. Wiley Klbmhmb.
“In Union, Strength and Prr>sperity Abound,'"
SYCAMORE, IRWIN COUNTY, OA., MARCH 2 1894.
UEJNEIIAL iNEWS,
Wholesale Summary of the News of the
Week Gathered from Every-Quarter.
Gen. Early’s condition is
to he more favorable.
The whitecaps whipped A.A.Tinker
on .Sand mountain near Fort Pay no.
Albert 8. Rosenbaum, probably the
richest Hebrew in America, died re
cently, at. the age of 60. Ilis estate is
estimated at $.‘30,000,000.
The steamer State of Missouri sunk
in eight feet of water in New Madrid
Bend, seventy miles below Cairo, with
700 tons of freight No lives lost
Lt.WaltorL.Taylorof the U.S.anny,
who is a Georgian, has been detailed
by the secretary of war, to the chair
of military science in the University
of Alabama,
The Skeltons, who have been under¬
going a preliminary trial at Sootlsboro
for the killing of K.C. Ross on Febru¬
ary 4th, were admitted to hail iu the
sum of $7000 each.
An exchange says that Gcronimo,
the Apache chief, lias become a justice
of the peace in Alabama and that it is
hinted that lie has little difficulty in
enforcing his judgments.
The asylum for the insane, at Koch
ester, N. Y,, was destroyed by lire,
Tho inmates were removed without
loss of life. It was a state institution
and not insured. Loss $120,000.
At the recent election iu Ponnsylva
ilia for a congressman at large, to fill
the unexpired term of ’Gen. Win.
Lilly, Galusha A. Grow, republican,
was elected by a plurality estimated at
100 , 000 .
At Bandana, Ballard county, Ky.,
Ida Powell, fiving at what she 6llp .
posed to be a burglar at her window,
shot and killed her sister, who had ris
eu and gone to the window for some
purpose.
James J. Ilahn, charged with theft
of $71,000 iu negotiable bonds from
his sister, and $4,000 worth of dia¬
monds from his wife in Natchez, has
been brought back from Guatemala by
detectives.
Leroy Harris, who, while undergo¬
ing an examination before a United
States commissioner at Buffalo, N. Y.,
drew a revolver and walked out, was
captured at Clifton, Out., and brought
back to Erie county jail.
A company has .been boring for oil
on the Stutls farm near the Tennessee
line. Tho work has been recently
nfoved to the Kennedy place ten miles
from Florence, where there are said
to be flue indications of oil and gas.
Recent naval advices report the
United States ship Chicago at Naples,
the Shanghai in Chinese waters and
the Yorktown at Panama, having
touched at several Pacific ports on her
way north to join the Behring sea pa¬
trol fleet.
James Minks .was fatally shot by
Chas. M. Fuller at Brook wood. The
former was drunk and undertook to
force the latter to drink, following
him up with an uplifted ax, threaten¬
ing to kill him if he refused. Fuller
turned and shot iiim in the neck.
It lias transpired that the farewell
letter of Frank Chambers announcing
his intention to “shuffle off this monal
coil was a fake directly iu line < with
the scintillations which have hereto¬
fore made him notorious as the “Mi¬
lan liar.”
The federal grand jury at Chicago
has returned an indictment against
Lieut. Maney, charging him with the
murder of Capt. Hedborg at Fort
Sheridan. He is at present at large
under a $10,000 bail, and his where¬
abouts are unknown.
Private Harvey Mockbee of the 5th
U. 8. Infantry, convicted of desertion
and sentenced to two years in the U.
S. prison at Leavenworth, Kan., has
been brought from Mt. Vernon to
Mobile, Ala., en route for his place
of confinement.
Advices from Brazil are to the ef¬
fect that there is no abatement of the
yellow fever scourge at Rio. About
three-fourths of the- victims are for¬
eigners and children.—The U. S.
cruiser, New York, has gone to sea
suddenly and is supposed to be infect
ed.
Mrs. Myra Bradwell, who died the
other day, aged 63, at her home in
Chicago, was the first woman in the
United States to apply for admission
to the bar, the first to become a mem¬
ber of the Illinois Press Aassociation
and the first to become a member of
the State Bar Association. She was
founder and managing editor of the
Chicago Legal News, the first legal
paper ever published in the weatera
states.
Mr. Bishop Harris was shot by a Mr.
Poole at a race track near Roanoke,
Ala. The ball passed through his leg
aud killed bis horse. The shooting
was the result of a quarrel about a
horse race, and a number men became
involved in tho row. All the parties
were arrested aud put under bond.
•John W. Hayes, general Associated secretary
and treasurer of the
Knigl)ts of Labor, has published General a no¬
tice to tho order that Past
Workman Powderly aud A. W.
Wright and John Delvl.., of the lata
general executive board, have sued the
Order for balance of salary claimed to
Dc due them.
While new boilers recently put iuto
the steamer Brandenburg were under
going a trial at Kiel an explosion oc
eurred, killing forty-one men and
fatally wounding nine others. Three
chief engineers, who were on the ves
sol to report on the work of the boil
cl ' s > are » mo “g the dead - The ve8sel
was towcd hack to Kiel,
At- Citico, Tenn., three young negro
tramps went to sleep on a slag (lump.
; ’* ,»«« not know,, ’hut thov were ihct
! aml a ( ' ar ot molten slug was run out
and dumped above them. One of
them, Buck Porter, was covered by
; * e Becthin / ma8S ? owln ? ° ver h! “
w “' ot C0Ul ' 80 ’ ju rl,ed t0 deatl,> .
: lh ° 0ther , two escai,ei1 .
; '
Several weeks ago a man who had
been knocked down and robbed was
admitted to tho Grady Hospital in At¬
lanta. Though otherwise apparently
sane he lias totally forgotten and can¬
not recall his own name and previous
history. He offers a reward of $150
to any one who can tell his name.
Photographs of the man will be sent
over the country.
At ail inquost on tho body of wil .
i; am Oousby, who was found mur
dered two miles from Morganton, N.
j j C., Phillip weakened Williams, at one sight of the of wit- the
nesses,
corpso and confessed that he had
committed the deed, criminating also
Sylvanus Morrow, who was with him
al the time. Both Hie men, when
sober, are peaceably disposed and the
deed is attributed to tho effect of
mean whisky.
Rev. E. W. St. Pierre, an American
missionary in Persia, while riding
home la,e 011 a rccent evening, within
a mile of the village of Orooinia, was
i se ’ zed by four ruffians, dragged into
the woods, and beaten, robbed, strip¬
ped of his clothing and left half dead,
lie dragged himself iuto the road and
finally reached home. The facts hav¬
ing been reported to the American
minister at Teheren, he promptly laid
them before the prime minister, with
a demand for the arrest and punish¬
ment of the brutal robbers. Orders
in compliance with the demand were
at once telegraphed to the officials at
Oroomia, The orders were promptly,
obeyed by the capture and execution
of the four Ruffians.
Leroy Harris was arrested in the
postoffice at Buffalo, N. Y., and taken
to the office of thq United States Com¬
missioner for examination ou the
charge of forgery of a money order.
The office is in the third story of the
building. The examination was pro¬
ceeding quietly when Harris jumped
to his feet and, drawiug a pistol, yell¬
ed: “Hold up your hands, or I’ll blow
your-brains out I” lie then back¬
ed to the door, his revolver still cover¬
ing the officials, passed out, locked the
door behind him and left the building.
Inspector Latimer threw up a window
and, firing a revolver to attract atten¬
tion, yelled, “Stop him, stop him.” A
crowd gathered, but Harris was gone
before the police arrived.
The death of Joseph Keeppler, edi¬
tor and part proprietor of Puck, is
announced. Ho was born in Vienna
February 1, 1829, and first showed
ids art talent in the ornamentation of
fancy cakes iu his father’s bakery. He
studied two years in the Academy of
Fine Aits, and very soon his work
was in demand among all the Euro¬
pean illustrated journals. Later he
essayed the role of an actor, came to
America, became a stage manager and
a bankrupt. Then he failed iu tw«
comic newspaper enterprises, and, re
turning to his first love, was employed
on Leslie’s illustrated Weekly in NeW
York. Here he met Adolph Schwartz
man, with whom he established Puck,
introduced colored political cartoons
and attained a world wide celebriiy.
He died of heart failure resulting
trout a complication of spinal and
lung troubles, agravated by over work
in the preparation and publication of
the World’s Fair edition of Puck.
LATEST TELK«ItAl*lIIC T;CK.S.
The Normal Industrial College for
girls, at Millegeville, Ga , has 300
students.
A fire at Chattanooga, Tenn., de¬
stroyed the outire stock of J. A.
Wand law & Co., leading grocers.
Simon Kinnebrew, a negro, was
getting out sand for a brick company
at Chattanooga when a hank cave! iu
on him. He was takeu out dead.
Miss Mattie Arnold, who was keep¬
ing house for Mr. and Mrs. B. E.
Overby at Watkinsville, Ga., suicided
by taking strychnine. Miss Arnold
came to Watkinsville four years ago,
but whence she came, or who are her
relatives no one seems to know, nor
is anything known of what caused
her fatal act.
Erastus Wiman, manager for R. G.
Dun & Co.’s commercial agency, Now
York, has been arrested charged with
forgeries and embezzlements, amount¬
ing to $229,000, and committed to the
Tombs. His felonious acts, as set
forth in the complaints, begin in 1888,
and extended to Feb. 20, 1893, when
they were discovered by Mr. Dun,
who then discharged him.
AT THE CAPITOL.
A Synopsis of What is Being Said and
Done at Washington from Day to Day,
Flftv-Filth Day.
House.— The house on motion of
Mr. Wheeler of Alabama, non-conour.
red in the senate amendment to the
bill requiring railroads to stop trains
at certain townsites in Oklahoma, and
asked a conference thereon.—A vote
on a motion to go into committee of
the whole on the silver seigniorage
bill, developed no quorum.—The reso.
lution in relation to the death of Gen.
Win. Lindley of Pennsylvania was
called up and several members address¬
ed the house thereon, then, as a mark
of respect to the deceased, at 8:10 the
house adjourned.
Fifty-Sixth Day.
Senate. — Mr. Sherman presented
numerous remonstrances from his
stale against (lie income tax and other
features of the Wilson bill, Some
other memorials were presented.—Sir.
Hale offered a resolution, which was
agreed to, instructing the committee
on printing to examine inio all the
facts connected with the contract of
the National Lithographic company of
Washington, L). C., for (lie publica¬
tion of the Patent Office Gazette.—
The resolution declaring the inexpedi¬
ency of Hawaiian annexation was
taken up. The argument of Mr.
Daniels of Virginia on this resolution
was interrupted by the receipt of a
message conveying to the senate the
nomination of Senator White "f Lou¬
isiana to he associate justice of the su¬
preme court__The senate went into
executive session. The doors were
opened at 4;30 when a communication
from the president sending all dis¬
patches and reports received from
Hawaii, since those last read, was
received.—A conference >n the Okla¬
homa town site hill was agreed to,
nid the senate adjourned.
Bouse. —A resolution was intro
duet d and referred, amending the
rules so as lo make it a contempt fora
number present to refuse to vole, pun¬
ishable by the deduction of $60 from
his salary in every case.
Mr. Marlin, of.Indiana, chairman
of the committee on invalid pensions,
reported the resolution calling ou the
Secretary of the Interior for an ex
pression of tho construction placed
upon the law of December 21, 1898,
declaring pensions to be a limited,
vested light, with a recommendation
that it pass. The resolution was
agreed to.
Mr, Biand called up his silver seign¬
orage hill and on his motion to go into
committee of the whole, and that (lie
general debate he limited to thirty
minutes, 125 affirmative votes were
cast—negatives none. A call for tho
yeas and nays resulted—151 yeas., 4
nays. No quorum appearing, a call
of the house was ordered, when 250
members responded and further pro¬
ceedings under tho call were dispensed
with. After some coloquy, a second
and a third roll call was had --still no
quorum. Then a second call of tho
house was answered by 241 members.
Then Mr, Bland offered a resolution
revokiug all leaves of absence and in¬
structing the sergeant at arms to arrest
absent members, the resolution to con¬
tinue in force after adjournment and
until further order of tiie house. Af¬
ter some time spent iu filibustering,
the resolution was agreed to. Tho
house then, at 4 o’clock, adjourned.
Flfty-ScTontli Day.
House.— The sergeant-at-arms re¬
ported that under the order passes
yesterday, he had sent thirty-seven
telegrams and received thirteen re
spouses. These showed five members
at home sick an ton eu route to tiro
capitol. Sovou members had been
placed uuder arrest: Apsley, Post,
Hilborn, Lucas, Malvern, Gardner
and Randall. The two first named,
having shown that they were present
and voted yesterday, were relieved;
the others appeared before the bar of
the house, rendered excuses aud were
relieved.—On a motion to go into com¬
mittee of the whole on the silver seigu
iorago bill, no quorum voting, sovoral
calls of the bouse were ordered, which
showed tho presenco of 269 members.
Four votes were taken on tho motion,
and the highest number voting was
170,—ayes 166, nays 4.—9 loss than a
qeorutn. The time was thus spent
and at 4:10 the house adjourned.
Senate.—M r. Hill of New York
was designated as a member of the
committee on woman suffrage in tho
absence of Mr. Vance, and Mr. Wol¬
cott of Colorado in the absence of
Mr. Quay__Mr. Voorhees presented
a memorial in bound form, which lie
said contained the names of 4,000
citizens of Massachusetts, In favor of
the Wilson bill.—Mr. Peffer offered a
resolution providing for a new rule,
and it went over__A resolution to
have Washingiou’s farewell address
read in the senate, next Thursday, was
agreed to.—Mr. Daniels of Virginia
resumed his speech against the annex¬
ation of Hawaii.—The bill to provide
additional accommodations for the
government printing office was taken
up aud discussed till 4 o’clock, when,
without actiou, the senate went into
executive session, At 5:15 tho doors
were opened and the senate ad-
$ 1.00 a Year in Advance.
Eifty-Eig’lith Day.
Senate, —A resolution olfercd by
Mr. Allen of Nebraska, asking the at¬
torney general to inform the senate
whether lie had given the secretary of
the treasury an official opinion that
silver certificates are not lawful money
and for a copy thereof and all corres¬
pondence relating thereto, was agreed
to.—After some time spent in collo¬
quy about the work of the finance
committee on the tariff bill, the Ha¬
waiian resolution was taken up and
discussed, but went over without ac¬
tion, and after a short executive ses¬
sion the senate adjourned.
House —Less than eighty members
were iu their seats when the session
opened. Col. Snow reported that all
absentees were either in the city or
en route hither except those sick or
excused and seven who had been sent
for by deputy. When the list of com¬
mittees had been called for reports
Mr. Bland asked unanimous consent
that members under arrest be excused
without being brought before ihe bar.
Mr. ltcod objected. Mr. Blaml moved
to go into committees of the whole on
seigniorage bill, and demanded tho
previous question. The vote resulted
— yeas 159, nays 11—9 iess than a
quorum. A call of the liou-e showed
217 members present. A number of
votes and calls of the house ensued,
with some coloqtiv, ending iu adjourn¬
ment at 4 p. m.
Fifty-Ninth Out.
Senate.— The bouse bill to extend
the time for building a afreet railway
on the military reservation at Fort
Scott, Kansas, was passed.—Washing¬
ton’s farewell address was read, and
the senate adjourned until Monday.
House.—T he time was consumed
in debating the question of the author¬
ity of the sergeant at arms in arresting
members under an order of the house
which does not specify the absentees
by name, in voles on motions to ad¬
journ, iu stating questions of personal
privilege and in reading rules of the
house by the speaker pro lem, in
efforts lo preserve order, and without
deciding any thing the house, at 3:30,
adjourned.
.Sixtieth Day.
House.—I n the house nothing was
done beyond discharging the mem¬
bers who had been arrested by the
sergeant-at-arms. There was a-nigbt
session attended by about fifty mem¬
bers. No quorum. The senate hav¬
ing adjourned to Monday’, had no
sossion today.
A Practical Joke Ends Fatally
About thirty freshmen of Cornell
University, Utica, N. Y., wero stran
tried p by 1 the sophomores i releasing a
large quantity ... of chlorine gas ill the
dining hall, where the freshman ban
quet was in progress.
It It was ,vns With wifi, gieat c-i-eiid rlitlienltv difficulty that that the the
freshmen were resuscitated, and some
of them are very weak from the ef
fects of the 6 gas. The freshmen were
. in the ,, midst , , , of . their , hrst , year , s fes- .
livities when the presence of the gas
was discovered.
in T„ „ a few rninntoB minutes thnv they ,voro weie nvr>i- ovei
powered, some becoming unconscious
while others suffered the peculiar and
maaueuing sensations sensations piouucea nroduced bv ov
chlorine.
Search was made for the sophomores
Who were guilty of the outrage as
,o-.„ possible alter i, became
known, but no trace was found of
them. A colored woman employed
as cook died last night ° and Thomas
McNeal „ >T . of - Tfc.,. Pittsburg, . la., died -i. , < ... Ins
morning from the effects of the poison
; U ir.
Later.—McNeil is not dead. He — is -
Tory ill, but may recover.
A Colored Farmer.
Rutledge Wave: Bragg Rutledge,
a young negro farmer living within
the vicinity of Rutledge, is doing well
as a farmer and sets an example
worthy to bo followed by others. He
is out of debt and sold recently 500
pounds of bacon of his own raising,
has 90 pounds of lard above what he
needs for the present year, and says
he could sell 1,000 pounds of pork, as
a surplus, above supply ou hand for
this year, but he will keep it as a
surplus for another year. He has sold
sixty bushels of corn and still has
more to sell, besides having plenty to
do him for the present year.
This shows what the negro can do
and what ha is doing on the farm iu
Crenshaw, A number of them in
this county are owning places and
doing well, and their relations with
tho whites are peaceable aud pleas¬
ant.
The Parvis Case.
The supreme court has denied the
motion of Attorney General Johnson
to re-sentence the whitecap, Will Pur¬
vis, who failed of execution in Marion
county, Miss., on the 7th of this
month. The court said it had noth¬
ing to do with the case, that it was a
matter for the circuit court, as pro¬
vided for in section 4150 of the code
of 1892, which section has beou.print¬
ed in full. Under the law Purvis
cannot be re-sentenced until the June
term of the circuit oonrt.
Bill Nye is Bud Off.
Bill Nye, tho humorist, was snd
denly taken with heart failure at Ni¬
agara, and is now in a critical con¬
dition at the Imperial hotel, and is
uuder t h e constant care of a physi¬
cian.
VOL.IV. NO. 42.
SABBATH SCHOOL
INTERNATIONAL LKSSON FOR
MARCH 4.
Lesson Texl: “Selling; the Birth-,
right,” Genesis uv., 27-34—
Golden Text: Luke x!L,
23—Commentary.
The topic in this section of eight versos Is
“Selling the Hirthrlqlit.” Evidently tho
committeo were not looking tor the rich¬
est nnd most Instructive selections In
Genesis, but we will find something even
here. The intervening events have been tho
death of Sarah, aged 127—said to bethe only
woman whoso age is recorded in Scripture
and the purchase of tire cave of Maehpelah
at Hebron as a burial llobekah place (chapter xxtli.). xxiv.J.
Isaac marries (chapter
Abraham dies, agod 175, and is buried by
Isaac and Tshmael. Ishmao! (lies at the ago
of 137. When Isaac was sixty years of ago,
Jacob and Esau are born (chapter xxv.,
1-261, nnd that brings us to tho lesson.
27. “And the boys grew, nnd Esau was a
cunning herder, a man of tho field, and
Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents."
Why should the 8pirtt write “And the boys
grew?” Don’t all boys grow? Yet the
Spirit saw tit to write concerning Jesus
“And the child grew” (Luke ii., 40), and of
Samuel it is said. “And tho ahild Samuel
grow on,” “And Samuel grew” (I Sam. if.,
iii., 191. The same is written of Isaac,
Ishmael, Moses and Samson fGon. xxt., 8.
29: Ex. ii., 10; Juilg. xiii., 24). Why this
statement should fie made of these soven
ordinary boys anil of Him whose name is
Wonderful let somo one tell who knows. It
is worthy of note that the Old Testament
word signifies to become great. Nimrod,
who built Babel and other cities (Gen. X.,
8-10), is the only other person spoken of as a
mighty hunter. Neither hts rocord nor
Esau’s are among the best. In the R. V.
margin it is said Jacob was a quiet, harm¬
less, perfect man. Esau,
28. “And Isaac loved because ho
did eat of his venison, but Robekah loved
Jaoob.” So each of the parents had their
favorite ; one was father’s boy and one was
mother’s boy. This would not tend to peaoa
in the household nor to love between the
brothers. If it were wrong in their day, with
their comparatively little light, how much
more to be condemned in the light in whioh
wo live! Then how humiliating to see Isaac
partial to Esau for his stomach’s sake. But
it is an everyday story. In the church at
Philippi there were thoso whoso earthly god things was
their belly and who minded
(Phil, iii., 19). And such may be found to¬
day. Esau
29. “And Jacob sod pottage, and
came from the field, and he was faint.” Tho
first sin was through something good for
food and pleasant to the senses (Gen. iii. 6).
The Lord Jesus when He had fasted forty
days and was afterward an hungered, was
able to resist the devil, saying, “Man shall
not live by bread alone, but by every word
that proooedeth out of the mouth of God”
(Math, iv., 2, 4). He afterward taught,
“Take no thought- for your life what ya
shall eat or what ye shall drink.” “Labor not
for tho meat which perisheth, but for that
which endureth unto everlasting life, 1 '
which tho Son of Man shall give unto you
(Math, vi., 25; John vi., 27).
30. “And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I
pray thee, with that same red pottage, fori
am faint. Therefore was his name caned
Edom.” Soe the margin for the meaning of
Edom. One of tho interesting things in
Genesis is to note words used for the first
time and trace them on through Scripture.
Also the origin of Nations. The wretohed
origin of tho Moabites and Ammonites is seen
in Cm. xix., 30-38, and now wo have theorl
" m Edomites, and you can hardly
meet them anywhere in Scripture without
thinking of the hunter who was so hungry
for red pottage. Ho did not know the words
our text, “The life is more than meat and
tho body than raiment,” nor those words of
the Spiriti << Tho kingdom of God is not meat
and drink, but righteousness and peace and
joy in tho Holy Ghost."
el. “And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy
birthright> ,. what a i 0VBly brother that
wouldn’t give his poor, hungry, only brother
rood without nrecompense! Ah, Jacob, you
are a poor specimen! God’s grace to you
™
xxi., 17. we learn that one item in the birth
right was a double portion of the inheritance,
And from IChron. v.,2 weseethatthebirtt
right did not always fall to the first born, for
while Reuben was the first born the birth
right became Joseph’s. Behold, I at the
32. “And Esau said, am birth¬
point to die, aud what profit shall this
right do to me?” Somo one thinks it as if he
said: “How exposed is my manner of life!
I may at any time be eut off. My birthright
is of little value and never did me any good.
If Jacob thinks he can do something with it,
let him have it. Givo mo the pottage 1 Let
the birthright go !” Or it may be that he was
so faint he actually thought ho would then
die, for afterward we find him earnestly, but
vainly, seeking the blessing with tears (Heb.
xii., 16, 17). How many there are who say,
What profit is it to serve God? (Job xxl.,
15; Mai. iii., 14), and are sorry when it is
too late? How tow lay to heart the solemn
words, “What shall it profit a man though he
gain the whole world and lose his own soul,
or what shall a man givo in exchange for his
soul?” (Math, xvi., 26). Esau represents
those who prefer a present enjoyment and
are willing to let the future look out for It¬
self, while Jacob, with all his crookedness,
thought of the Jacob future. said, Swear to this
33. “And me
day. And he sware upon him, and he sold
his birthright unto Jacob.” In Heb. xi.
Jacob has honorable mention among those
who had faith in God, but there Is no room
for faith in this transaction. It was selfish
and crooked and scheming. Faith would
have said, If God means me to have the
birthright, He knows how to give it to me;
if not, I am content. Anyhow, I will love my
brother and do right before God. But such
was not Jacob’s way at this time.
34. “Then Jacob gave Esau bread and
pottage of lentiles, and he did eat and drink
and rose up and went his way. Thus Esau
despised his birthright.” Israel despised word. the
pleasant land ; they believed not His
They also despised and rejected Him who
came as their Messiah and Redeemer an.’
made light of His invitations (Ps. cvi.,24
Isa. liU., 3; Math, xxii., 5). Man has nC
heart for the things of God. The present ia
everything witli him until he is born from
above, and even then, unless he is filled with
tho Spirit, ho is apt to dospiso the riches ol
God’s grace and glory. A right spirit will
think more ot tho things of tho kingdom than
of alt present things.—Lessou Helper.
Cli-velnml Asks .Smith to Itolco.
The president lias requested the res¬
ignation of II. H. Smith of Michigan,
assistant register of the treasury, Mr.
Smith will tender his resignation to¬
morrow. It is understood that L. W.
Reid of Alexandria, Va., the former
assistant register, wiil be appointed as
Mr. Smith’s successors.