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SERIAL
STORY
LANGFORD
of the
THREE
BARS§
ny
KATE AND VIRGIL D. BOYLES
right by a « jmcourg a* Co.. liui.)
CHABTKR I.
The Island With a Mystery.
Ho Bald positively to Battle Ax. h!s
scraggy buckskin pony, that they
would ride to the summit of this one
bluff, and that It should be the lant.
But he had said the same thins many
times since striking the barren hill re
gion flanking both sides of the river.
Hump after hump had been surmount-
ed since tin- sound of the first prom
Iso had tickled the ears of the tired
broncho, humps as alike as the two
bumps of a Bactrivn camel, the monot-
onous contlnuiu of which might very
well have confused the mind of one
less at homo on these ranges than
George Wllliston. Kven lie, riding a
blind trail since sun-up, Hitting his
saddle with a h< avy indifference born
of heat and fatigue, began to think It
might be that they were describing a
circle and the sun was playing them
strange tricks. Still, he ur :ed his pony
to one more effort; jus: so much
farther aud thrn would retrace tin r
steps, giving up for this day at least
the locating of a small bunch of cat-
tle. branded a laz\ S, mis Ing thee
three days
Had not untoward circumstances
Intervened, he might still have gone
blindly on: for. laying aside the gam-
bling fever that was on him, lie could
ill afford to lose the ten or twelve
Bteers sotm where wandering the wide
range or huddled Into some safe plao,
there to abide the tlm< win n a daring
rustier might conveniently play at
witchcraft with the brand or other-
wise dispose of them with profit to
himself and with credit to his craft.
Moreover, what might po-sibly never
have been missed from Hie vast herds
of I.angford, his neighbor of the plains
country, was of most serious import
to Willlston.
"Devil take you. Tattle Ax, but
you're slow," muttered Willlston. "I'd
pivo u Rood deal to sit iRiwii this mln-
ute to some of my little pirl's flap-
Jacks and coffee. Hut nothing for us
lazy bones, till midnight—or morning,
more likely. I)o walk up as if you had
tonic little standing In the world of
cow ponies. You haven't, of a surety,
but you might make an effort All
things are possible to him who tries,
you know, which is a tremendous lie,
of course. Hut perhaps it doesn't a;1
ply to poor devils like us who are
'has beens.' Here we are. Ah!"
There wore no more hills. Almost
directly at his feet was one of those
precipitous cut-aways that character-
ize the border bluti's of the Missouri
river. A few more steps, in the dark,
and horse and rider would have piling-
ed over a sheer wall of nearly 200
feet. As it was, Willlston gave a gasp
of Involuntary horror which almost
simultaneously gave place to one of
wonder and astonishment. He had
struck the river at a point absolutely
new to him It was the time of low
water, and the river, in most, of its
phases muddy and sullen-looking,
gleamed silver and geld with the glit-
ter of the setting sun. ma sing a royal
highway to the dwelling-place of
Phoebus A little to the north of this
sparkling highread lay what would
have been an Is'and In h|:h water,
thickly wooded with willow* and cot-
tonwoods. Now a long stretch of sand
reached between bluff and islan I.
Dismounting, with the quick thought
that yonder Island might hold the se
cret of his lost cattle, be crept as
close to the edge a* lie dared. The
cut vas sheer and tawnv, entirely de
void of shrubbery by means of which
one might hazard a descent. The sand
bed began immediately at the foot of
the yellow wall Kven though one
managed to rain the bottom, one
would hardly dare risk the deceitful
sands, < o r shifting, fair and treach
erotis Unfiled, he was on the point of
ri mounting to retrace his stepf when
he dropped Ills foot from the sdrrtip
amazed Was the day of miracles not
yet passed?
It was the sun, ot course. Twelve
hours of sun in the . <•« could play
strange trlckr and mlgnt even cause
a dancing black speck to assume the
semblance of a man on horselack.
picking his way easily, though may-
hap a bit warily, boiosb the waste >if
•and. He seemed to have sprung from
the very bowels ot the bluff. Whence
elBe"' Many a rod beyond and above
ibe ghostly flu-ure frowned the tawny,
wicked cutaway. Path for neither
horse nor man appeared so far as eye
could reach. It must be the sun. Hut
it was not the sun
Motionless. Intent, a figure cast In
•"■wise hh the sun went down, the U*aa
ranchman gazed steadfastly down
ujion the mlnature man at~I horse I
creeping along so far below Not tin
HI the object of his fixed gaze had
b«*en swallowed by the trees aud un
durbruoh did his muscles relax This
had ridden as if unafraid.
"What man has done man can do,"
ran swiftly through Williston's brain,
and witli no Idea of abandoning his
search until he had probed the mys
tery, he mounted ami rode northward,
closely examining the edge of the
precipice as he went along for any
evidence of a possible descent. Pres-
ently he came upon a cross ravine, de-
void of shrubbery, too steep for a
horse, but presenting possibilities for
a man. With unerring instinct he fol-
lowed the cross-cut westward Soon
a scattering of scrub oaks began to
apjiear, and sumach already streaked
with crimson. A little farther aud the
trees began to show spiral wreaths of
woodbine and wild grape Yet a little
farther, and doubtless flu-re would be
outlet for horse as well as man.
Hut Willlston was growing Impa-
tient. Hesidcs. the thought came to
him that lie had best not risk his
buckskin to the unknown dangers of
an untried tra.l What if lie should go
lame? Accordingly lie was left behind
In a slight depression where he
would be pretty well hidden, and Wil-
llston scrambled down the steep in-
cline alone. When foothold or hand-
i hold was lacking, he simply let him-
self go and slid, grasping the first root
or branch that presented Itself in his
dare-dev il coin se.
Arrived at the bottom, he found ills
clothes torn and his hands bleeding;
but that was nothing With grim de-
termination lie made his way through
the ravine and struck across the sand
trail with a sure realization of his
danger, but without the least abate-
ment of his resolution. The sand was
firm under his feet. The water had
reced< d a sufficient length of time be-
fore to make the tin 'tight of quick-
sands an idle fear No puff of cloudy
smoke leaped from a rifle barrel. If,
as he mine than half suspected, the
Island was a rendezvous for cattle
thieves, a place surely admirably lif-
ted by nature for such unlawful oper-
ations, tlie rustlers we re either over-
confident of tlu inaccessibility of their
retreat and kept no lookout, or they
were Insolently lndifl'< rent to expos-
ure. The former premise was the
more likely. A II -In breeze, born of
the afterglow, came scurrying dawn
the river bed. Here aud there, where
the sand was finest and driest, it rose
In litt'e whirlwinds. No sound broke
the stillness of the summer evening.
What was that? Coyotes barking
over yonder uc:o*s the river? That
I
c
x.
9
Turned and Faced Squirely the Spot
Which Held the Watching Man.
alien sound! A man's laugh, a curse, a
heart-breaking bellow of pain. Willis-
ton parted ever so slightly the thick
foliage of underbrush that separated
him from the all to familiar sounds
and peered within.
In the midst of a small clearing-
man-made, for several stumps were
scattered here and there- -two men
were engaged In nnroplng and releas-
ing a red steer, similar In all essential
respects to a bunch of three or four
huddled together a little to one side
They were all choice, well fed animals,
but there were thousands of just such
beasts h'tdltig on tie free ranges.
He owned i d steers like those, hut
was there a man in the cattle country
who did not? They were Impossible
of identification without the aid of
their brand, and if happened that
they were so hunched a < to completely
baffle Willlston In his eager efforts
to decipher the stamp that would <11 h
i lose their ownership. That they were
tiie Illegitimate prey of cattle rust
h is, he never for one monn nt doubt-
ed. The situation was conclusive. A
bed of glowing embers constantly re-
plenished and kept at white heat
served to lighten up the weird scene
growing dusky under the surrounding
col tonwoods.
Willlston thought he reeo«rr.'-' •!
one of the men- the one who seem' I
to be directing tl. ,iincedur« i f this ;
little affair. >1 * id. . 1 dli ,.;.i
rlin was so tantal!/i..iJ> 'Jriiwn cvei
h.ls eyes the sohtnty ilder wi,,.iv
expected appeern: tiad ► start'."! I
him a short tlm 'n.-'oi ■ TV.'V he and :
his companion w ru ore?. nfter the
rough, nond'"'fi; t manne: <>f cavle
men, both w u... ! g and
talkative an', seemingly as oblivious
to possible danger is K < neag d in the
most Innocent and legitimise business
A little to I lie It: t i and
alone was an odd crea'ure of most
striking appearand- a large, spotted
steer with long, peculiar looking horns
It was quite imposslt le to mistake such
a poss ssiou if It had once been yours
Its right side was turned full toward
Willlston and In the renter of the hip
stood out distinctly the cleanly can
terlzed three perpendicular lines that
were the Identifying mark of the
Three liars ranch, one of those same
big, opulent m ;f < entered outfits whose
astonishingly multiplying sign was
coming such a veritable and prophctlo
writing ou the wall for Willlston aud
his kind
Who, then, had dared to drive before
him an animal so branded? Tho bold,
ness (if the transgression ami the Inso-
lent Indifference to the enormity of at-
tendant consequences held him for tho
; moment breathb Ills attention was
once more called to the movements
of the men. The steers vith which
tlicy had been working was I, : aw ty
still moaning with surprise and pain,
and another brought forward from
the n serve hunch. The branded hip,
if It was a brand, was turned away
from Willlston ''"he bewildered anl*
1 mal was cleverly lejed and thrown to
the ground. The man who was plain-
ly directing the uff or. he of the droop-
ing hat aud la/v shoulders, stepped to
the fire. Wllliston held his breath
with the Intensity of his Interest. The
man stooped and took an iron from
the fire. It was the endgate rod of a
wagon and it was red hot. In tho act
of straightening himself from his
stooping position, the glowing Iron
stick In his rig lit hand, he flung from
his In ad w ith an easy swing the flop-
ping hat that Interfered with the nicety
of sight requisite in the work he was
about to d.>. aud faced squarely that
quiet, innocent looking spot which
held the winching man in its brush;
and In the moment In which Wllliston
drew hast.ly back, the fear of discov-
ery beating a tattoo of cold chills down
his spine, recognition of the man cane
to Mm in a clarifying burst of com-
pn liension
Hut the man evldi ntly saw nothing
ami suspected nothing. His casual
glance was i n 'iably i n'y a manifesta-
tion of his habitual attitude of being
never off his guard, lie approached
the prostrate steer with indifference
to any meaning that might be attached
| to the soft snapping of twigscauscd
by Williston's involuntary drawing
back Into the denser shadows.
"V don't sti;<i -se now , do you, that
itiv blamed, ir.tciferiu' off'cer Is
a-ionfin' round where he oughtn't to
lie?" said the second man with u
laugh
Wiillston, much relieved, again
p- eii ii cautiously through the brush
He was confident a brand was about
to bo worked over. He must see—
1 what there was to see.
"Kasv n> .v, bo said the second
man with an officious warning. He
was a big, beety fellow with a heavy,
hardened face. Wllliston sounded tho
depths of bis memory hut failed to
place him among his acquaintances in
the cow eoiiirtiv,
"Gamble on iu \" returned the lead-
er, with ready good nature. "I'll make
it as clean as a boiled shirt. I take It
you don't know my reputation, pard.
well, you'll learn. You're all right,
only i trifle green, that's all."
Willi a firm, quick hand, he began
running the searing Iron over the
right hip of the animal. When he had
finished and the steer, released, stag-
gered to its feet, Willlston saw tho
brand clearly, it was J. H. If it had
been worked over another brand, it
certainly was a clear job. He could
see no Indications of any old inarkiu,;s
w hatsoever.
"Too clean to be worked over a
lazy S," thought Willlston, "but not
over three bars."
"There were six reds,
< nlef, surveying the remaining bunch
with a critical eye. "One must have
wandered off while I was gone. Get
out there !n the brush and round him
up. Alec, while 1 tackle this long-
horned gentleman."
Willlston turned noiselessly away
from the scene which so suddenly
threatened danger. Hoth men were
fully armed and would brook no eaves-
dropping. Once more bo crossed the
sand in safety and found his horse
where he had left him, up the ravine.
He vaulted into the saddle and gal-
loped away into the quiet night.
(Ti > UK CONTINUKD.)
MODERN DEMAND FOR SILENCE.
^
FARMERS' EDUCATIONAL
AND
CO-OPERATIVE UNION
—— OF AMERICA
I
A little more enthusiasm will
the ball to rolling in your i'lilon.
This Is the day for you to look
for some more good material for
Union.
German Newspapers Protest It Is
ing Carried to Extremes.
That Land Problem Grows.
Many (f those coming here now are,
n'i the Stockman-Journal would say,
"Investors and speculators." These
men, many of them, have made it their
business for years to find out what the
farmers want In the way of land From
a long experience In such matters they
have become excellent judges of a
country and Its possibilities. The>
know a good thing when they see it,
and, navlug found it. get in on t'
i ground floor. This is just what has
said the i |)ePn ,|one on the Texas plains Today
i these people own the bulk oi our vast
| fertile prairies.—-Canyon City News.
And still the local papers continue
i to tell an anxious public wb.it a fine
thing it Is to buy contiguous lands "as
an Investment," knowing that lands
| must pay taxes and the money invest
j ed In them demands Interest, and that
the absentee landlord docs nothing on
I earth for the community in which lie
holds lands. Columns on columns of
j space is used begging men to rush in
j and take advantage of their brothers
j and < impel those who com" later to
i pay heavy tribute to "the wisi invest
or." Humanity demand.- a change in
tho system that allows one man to
force the homeseeker to pay an un
earned tribute.
Be-
"How the times change!" says t.
writer In the Frankfurter Zeltung. "In
the days.of our fathers no description
of a homelike, cosy room was com-
plete without a reference to the tick-
ing clock. It was this gentle sound
which emphasized the quiet of the
pi nee. People had no nerves in those
days. To-day the thought of a ma-
chine ticking off the seconds and strik-
ing the hours Is a source of worry aud
distress. Time is going, but they do
not wish to be reminded of it continu-
ally; no clock Is better than the tick-
ing machine. And now to meet the re-
quirements of the nervous people, a
factory at Schramburg Is making a
lolseb ss clock," In an article on the
same subject another paper sa^i*"-
"The anti-noise craze has made ^isa-
•poable and unendurable some 0[ ii,„
.'.discs which once were inusl'c (0 USi
•id soon we will find a w.v,, tQ g||ence
he birds and to muffle tlie SOund of
.rustling leaves." '
The Cutting ReVorta
"You don't have to bra
declared the big
g of success,"
had listened to the llttC
>w well she
"It shows fc
when she
woman's ac-
count "f how well she ^.n„ Uo(ng wjUl
her work, h snows i«jr ..An(1
you don t have to t• 11 ,,,,night of tho
decline of success oi,,.,. rm, hn,e beeu
successful," remart<(.{, ,„tlo wom.
an, who had Hst()r]p(j flrst to the big
woman s talk; show s In the bitter-
ness with wlilo.)! y0„ complain 0f
Istlnc clrcunirftanr,,R ■■
—-1 ,
H'i Present State.
^ !lRt ' tate does the young fellow
belong wj.,) wants to marry old
HillyuuB> daughter?" "Judging from
'"8 "Jfipearame when I saw him come
1 fwf the old man s offic e I should say
of col la i .i
/
The Farmer Is on Top.
ft seems to us that tho eotton plant
er l;;is about won the tight he ha1- be n
making for better pri -et 'or hi cotton
| What he needs to t!%> Is to sit steady in
Ihe boat; arrange his obligations but
; m on the lid which h jld-t li s cotton
i off the market at the present price ,
In tin last few days me price ha < ad
vaiice 1 about a cent a |mi in I the crop
I short and the demand greater than
It ever has been. The manufacture!
| hns sold cloth on the basis of lf> cent
| cotton. What Is thefe to keep the
pi he from going V.jj? Tho; e who have
; t.ee.i forced Kj sell to meet their obll
I gallons nave about all sold, and the
itUrmer who has held, up to this 11rn•
is, in most ease., in a position to hold
h little loniT' I People's Paper,
It would be rather a surprise to set
a man who never ha I a brush In I
hand take up the colors ami lay a pic-
ture that equaled tiie work of the l-m
practical artist. It is Just as re.i
able to expect us t i mi'k" a perf< c
working organization that will iimlc
those organizations that have require.t
years to build up against us.
F. U. GUIDELET i.
Farmers' Union Guide
Jilverslty Is a fine sure f. r adversity.
He sure to work for better si iiools
and better roads
Good roads -should nat be lost sight
of In our anxiety for otn r things
Too many people think of benefits
to be derived right no*.
l.et everybody puil together for a
harmonious, prosperous year
Everybody get in training for the
campaign to put the rural children in
school.
/
set
out
the
Fall In with your m Ighbors and
make the 1'nlon u little better than it
was lust year.
Get the habit of thinking and talking
for the good of the I'nion and the peo-
ple it is Intended for.
Get busy and form you a neighbor-
hood good roads association. Good
roads is the mark of a stirring com
rnunlty.
There are mighty few real t'nlon
men who have not set out some trees
this season, even If they have had to
hunt a place to set them.
Have you taken time yet to tret ac
qualnted with your teachers? That is.
your children's teachers? If you have
not, it is high time you were doing
this.
Good nature doesn't cost anything,
but it fetches an Interest that would
soon transfer this world from th
devil's books to a paradise if all would
adopt its use.
Plant Your Own Crop.
When you determine on your cotton
acreage this year, you who have not
yet done so. a*lv \ mrself th ■ question
| whoso crop you are pitching and in-
tend to rals your own wr someone
else's? Make up your mind to raise
nobody' ; cotton but your own. If you
cannot put iu land enough for more
than live bales of cotton for yourself,
put just that much In and no more,
and put the halamc of your land in
corn and oats and something to eat.
There is ne\i-r a day m the -ear that
corn and oat will not sell and fetch
good prices. Kv'-ry day you can sell
sweet, ind Irish potatoes, onions, cab-
bages, pumpkins, peas and poultry,
eggs and butter, i see to it that you
raise enough of tin so things for home
consumption and to sell. The non-
producer must eat and you ought to
make your living off him, and his name
is legion. Your cottm will be all en h
then.—('o Operator.
THE MAN BEHIND THE PLOW.
H* Is the Prime, Essential Man the
World Needs.
There are but few things In this
world that are so attractive, so sub-
stantially needed, so universally de-
I ended upon, so unresei vedly discrimi-
nated against, as "the man behind tho
plow."
"The man behind the plow" has for
several vcm's iu the past played but a
' small part iu the affairs of State, po-
litically, financially or scientifically, so
, far as his luting plans and carrying
lliei.. out are concerned,
| We have reached the day, howev
when "the uian behind the plow s
going to have something to say. He is
go ng to he heard, and he had better
bo heeded. The people who will con
tinue their efforts to press him will no
doubt be wiped off the face of Ihe
earth, for he Is in no condition or tem-
per to be trifled wtlli any longer. He
is not unreasonable In his demands.
He Is not over-exacting In his obliga-
tions, but he is determined and un
flinching when he is once aroused to
the point where he will battle for Ills
rights, and to that point lie has been
aroused in the last three years.
"The man behind the plow" Is, has
been, and will ever be "the stafl of our
nat ion 's life." Without hi in our conn
try would be w eak, insignificant, poor
and unrespccted, but with him we are
powerful, we are rich, we are honored,
we are strong Then why should not
'the man behind the plow" have a
voice? Why should ho not command
amJ be obeyed? Why should he not
say Go, and the balance of o ir people
go" Why should he not say Come,
i and the classes of our nation come?
Again we n-k why, and we call on the I
■ world to answer why th" farmers
should not be the most respected, the
most Intelligent and the most com-
manding people of our nation"
We do not want to j at the farmer on
the back, or boost him, but we simply
want to express facts, and just here
we want to say that if the farmer does
not occupy the placi to w hich he Is en-
title 1. lie has nobody to blame but
himself. If he Is willing ro sit idly by
and usurp the authority and
powers that belong to him. and grind
the ver> lite blood out of his wife and
chlldri n, cerSUnly *e can look upon
himself as nothing < Tae but a sorr>
kna\e I n on News,
It's a Tarnal Sham!
And then 'a our uoys our there 'n
tho cold of winter, who ha* e raised
enough cotton this season to rl )i'>e .a
hundred people colllfortabti ; hey
have not decent elothi to a -ar, tael.
feet are on the ground and our ( 1.1,
broken down si hool ho\ • i; t >o un-
comfortable for them to it m In the
winter, and the roads an *o l a I. too!
Hid you say, What abou th-* -nimmv ?
Well, our boys will have t i h -lo i
plow then, and they can't uo t > nool.
besides, what's the use? Our '> ■> an !
■.Mils ought not to have nnv noolin?
it gets that fool Idea Info their heads
that they are as good re; the 1 ova a i 1
iris of the towns They ar" ,ietf"r
off here working to help ke In debt
( ii cotton raising and corn oiyin"
They say that since the "n mi,.nit
ed to making us folks go: that f >o' n
lion that we were Homebilv. ihnt
have gone like a set of a <• line np< ;
and 11rought on a pann am! th w
should be ashamed of o p lw f .r
this. Several poor speculates who
have be« n accustomed to 'ho very ilf t
of everything had to :• > to the wall be-
cause we sat still and wouldn't sell our
(otton; but we notice that not with
standing they sa they lost everything
their children are still going to the
best schools, they still hang to their
organizations and keep supe rtlng
their papers Yon s e, It's all right for
them to dr> this, for they know how
and then It's wrong to even think of
any of them ever disgracing tlnm
with a little work. The skin
rub off th'lr pretty, delicate
and their friends would no
bo friends to them F. I'.
The Bible a
Universal Book
By REV. A C. DIXON. D. [>.,
P *lur u< Ihf CHicmo Avi* Moody'#)
Church, Chicago.
!*■
selves
would
hands,
longer
Guide.
When one takes Into consideration
the vast values produced In the farm
et-s and realizes that all till is mar-
koto I and sold without the semblance
Of a s.istem, and nt a 1" s in mam
a h s reaching Into a large p rcenta -e
of the value of the product . then It lie
gins to dawn upon lilin why the Farm-
el s' T'nlon is in existence. Gn at as
I Lose losses are, they are no greater
than tin- ion en from unsystematlc
farming, slipshod planning and lack of J
com ert in planllng, raising and bar |
V". 't'U; There lire plenty of things !
for the i'nion t« d"
Iii n't let your election- pie1 without
your exercising your privileges as an
American citizen. Then. If you get
licked, ta\e your medicine like a man.
and If you w in. eondm t yourself like
one who has assumed a responsibility,
rather than one who has come into a
heritage.
There is no certain way of eradicat-
ing the boll weevil, but tin birds will
help you, ami the sooner your croi
!> atures the tietti r for you. ilctween
tin birds and yo oaelf vu< ought to !'i
i i|e to Keep th ' weevil within bound*
It Is part of the business of the
I'nion to help men to grow and broad
en out If your I'nion Is not helping
to make better men of Its members, it
Is falling down oti an opportunity, and
you are par".y responsible for this sin
of omission.
Don't forget that the great God oi
all creation never gave to any man the
right to take and appropriate to his
own gratification anything that he real
l.v has no use for This is as appllca
hie to the dirt as It Is to the water
and the air.
The illhlo is not
Intended exclu-
sively for <"hrls-
tians. The word
■Christian" occurs
In It only three
times. The read-
ing of It makea
Christians, a n ii
Christians get
most out of it, for
lhey believe, lov«*
and stud y it*
pages. Hut the
lllble is for the
wicked as well as
for the good. Its
law. as I'aul declares, is for evildoers,
while its Gospel is for all who will
accept It.
If you would trace the history of the
material universe, you may have any
theory of evolution or mutation, but
you will come at last to a point wher
you need and must have the first
words of Genesis: "In the beginning
God." If you study the history of na-
tions and would trace them to their
origin and early developments, you
cannot do without the Hlble. If you
would know tht* history of Jurispru-
dence and would be a well eijuipped
lawyer or Judge, you must study the
liible, for it contain* the foundation
of law and all civilized nations.
History of Literrture.
If you would st ii'!'- the history of
literature you must know your liible,
for hundreds of tin ;sanda of volume#
iu our great lihnuh> won written bo-
cause the llii'le >\,sts Theology,
which Is the si Ic'iet of i; >1, the great-
est science in the world, Is unintel-
ligible without the Hlble, and arch-
aeology, that fascinating science,
which with pick ii ml shovel has un-
earthed the burled treasures of Kgypt
and Assyria, Is in* xpllcable without
the Bible The poet s corner cannot
be appreciated without a knowledge of
(lie Hlble It will lie conceded by all
lovers of poi i > that among the great-
est Kngllsh -1" arfliig poets ar«
Shakespeare, Tenn .on, Longfellow
and Drowning, and a knowledge of
tin Hiblo Is ahsolut' !> c leutial to an
understanding of am one of them.
They teem with Kihllcal allusions.
Milton and much of Myron are sealed
books to the man ignorant of tho
Hlble Jnd 1, if you would write
poetry, you cannot In-i omo great If
you Ignoio the great thoughts about
God, eternliN, life, love and Immortal-
ity which the liible contains Take
out of Kngllsh literature the classic
books dim demand a knowledge of
the Hiblo for their proper apprecla-
t i ll, and ' on !u,\. |,,otted th' ; ull out
of our literary s >
The History of Art.
Would you study the history of art
In sculpture and tainting. >ou must bo
ac'iuaintcd with the lllble, for tho
best paintings i f the old master*
and the ftm-si statuary were Inspired
for the most part by scenes and ideal*
drawn from the Hlble You must re-
main ignorant of the g nltis of Uapli-
ael and Michelangelo if you rcfusft
to know the Hlble, for the sect, s and
characterstliei depicted with brush and
chisel were I ibllcal The paintings of
l)oro, Tisset and Sargent, modern
master ait: ts, cannot be understood
without a knowledge of the Bible.
The great mir-ictans, whose master-
pieces have thrilled the souls of mil-
lions, cannot lie Interpreted and ap-
preclated without a knowledge of the*
Hlble, Handel's oratorios of tho
"Messiah," "Ks her." "Saul." "Joshua."
Jcphtha" and ' Israel In Kuypt,"all of
them masterpieces of mti h al compo-
sition. cannot be umlerst I without
a knowledge of the Hlble Mendels-
sohn's "Kll.iah" and Beethoven's
' .Mount of Olives" are enigmas will*
out Biblical k IIOW !et];:e.
History of Education.
If you woird know the
tory of education, from the
country sohoidhou to the
university, >oii cannot Ignore
Bible, for these schools and
versifies were founded by men
his
little*
g reat
the
unl-
w!ir>
read their Bibb s and drank In in lis
pages the love of know edge as well an
of virtue and religion. The Pll::rlm*
and I'urllans of New Kngland builf
liist the church and then the school-
house N'i \t entile the college and thv
mlverslty.
It's Christ Universal.
He !s "the Son of Man " Them is*
something exceedingly emphatic lt
that oxpn ■ ■ on. "Son of Man." writes
Fiodorlrk W Kohcrtson. "our Master
Is not called the Son of Mary, but an
If tho blood of the whole human raco
were In his veins lie calls himself
the Son of Man, lie was not th©
At la'le. lie was not the Kuropean.
He was not the .lew II" was not
the type of that century stamped with
Its peculiarities lie was not tho
mechanic lie was not th" aristocrat,
tint he was the man " No one could
mistake Mohammed tor such a "Son
i.f Man II" was a son of Arabia,
and nothing more The Koran la.
therefore, a ei'ailan i,.,.ik, and Mo-
hammedanism is cruelly sectarian.
Buddha was a son of India, nnd noth-
ing more. No one could mistake him
for a Son of man " Ills writings are,
therefore, sectarian. They are not
adapted to the occidental mind. Con
fuelus was a son of China, ami noth-
ing more. Ills writings are therefore
sectarian In their national narrowness.
Zoroaster was Just a son of I'erala.
Only Christ is the universal Mao.
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Cain, Thomas C. The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 48, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 7, 1908, newspaper, March 7, 1908; Bastrop, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth205734/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bastrop Public Library.