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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. _ 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.