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THE YATES CENTER NEWS. 99 THIS MAD MULLAH PERSON IS A REAL FIGHTER The "Penoae I 1 is won Ilaji Muhammed Abdullah, the so-called Mad Mullah of Somaliland, in northeast Africa, ii -h I Vocations for Young Christians it 5 i Mil i lljSS. I JIMsJitjiO. II 3 Cr'KENNETT a 4 i By REV. J.AMES M.

GRAY, D. D. J1APKIS mm Deia of Moody Bible Institute of Chicago Is again on the war path. At almost regular intervals this quaint old person, finding time hanging rather heavy on his hands, gathers some of his help around him and goes out and kills a few British soldiers, just to show hi3 contempt for the I'ritish protectorate. Ilia latest de predation against the peace Sl ji I Mf i7: The "banner of health" is always won by the person who possesses a keen appetite, enjoys perfect digestion, and whose liver and bowels are regular.

Get into this "winner" class at once by the aid of HOSTETTER'S STOMACH BITTERS It is for Poor Appetite, Sick Headache, Heart- TEXT But unto every one cf us is friven grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ. Ephesians MELISSA WILL HAVE NO MEGILPS ABOUT THE HOUSE. stipation and Malaria. I am to speak to you cn the subject of "Christian Vocations for Young People," which is my reason for using this text. "Us" is the Important word to begin with, which does not mean everybody, but only true Christian believers in the sense of redeemed and regenerated men and women.

On ers. When he calls them together and says the season for British soldiers is now open, they all agree that he is right. Abdullah is about fifty years old, the son of a poor shepherd of the Ilabi Sulieman Ogaden. When he was eighteen years old he married into the Dolbahanta Ali Gheri. At this age he showed that he was tl-ways looking out for the main chance, for he sold all the herds that his wife brought him and went to school at Berbera, where he became versed in Islamic lore and learned Latin from a Catholic missionary.

He even went so far as to read Caesar's Commentaries in the original, and hl3 subsequent campaigns showed that he had a high opinion of the Roman as a soldier. When he was twenty years old he made his first pilgrimage to Mecca. The most interesting campaign conducted against the Mad Mullah was one elaborately planned by the British foreign office In 1902, with the aid of Italy and King Menelik. The British expedition was in command of Brig. Gen.

Eric Swayne, then a colonel with ten years' experience in Somaliland. So well was the expedition planned that it seemed impossible that the new mahdi could escape. But the crafty African was not to be taken so easily, and worried and harried the Italians, British and Abyssinian forces in a most exasperating manner. When the smoke of battle cleared away it was found that the expedition had cost the British government $300,000 and the Mad Mullah was still his own master. Abdnllah has about 70,000 men, all of whom are either well trained to modern warfare or fatalists of the usual Mohammedan type.

About half have modern magazine rifles. He has 10,000 cavalry, he manufactures his own powder and bullets, and is burdened with no commissariat. Fifty thousand square miles, containing 300,000 Mohammedans, are apparently at his disposal. 60 years the leader and dignity of the Knglish soldiers was the ambushing of camel corps of naval troops near liurao. About sixty Englishmen were killed or wounded.

In the archives of 10 Downing street, London, is a large packet labeled "Somaliland," a large part of which ia made up of material dealing with Abdullah. It is probably the most costly budget of material in the Archives, for it represents an expen No Contortionist. Fat Man Did you give them a good ehine? Bootblack Sure, sir. Look for yourself. Fat Man I'll take your word for It.

Important to Mothers Examine carefully every bottlo of CASTOIHA, a safe and sur remedy for Infants and children, and see that It thing but gasp and look at them with dumb pleading eyes. But he deserved it. He ought to have known better. To even mention Maidgood In the presence of Mr. Megilp, not to speak of Mr.

Blivvy and Mr. Klera and Mr. Blodman, wrho were also present, was honestly about Hie limit. Even I know better than that." "I'm sure I wouldn't," said Aunt Jane. "Auntie, dear," said Mrs.

Merriwid. "That vandal Maidgood paints his things just the way they are. He isn't ashamed to have green grass and blue sky in his landscapes, and his sheep actually look like sheep, and when it comes to the female form divine, he'll make curves when he could just as well do them in straight lines and angles. Then lie uses either brushes or a pallette knife to apply his paint, instead of a plasterer's trowel, and the worst thing of all is that he sells his pictures for real money and quite a lot of it. Just to look at the man you'd know him for the panderer to a debased taste that he is.

He might be a stockbroker or a banker for all the distinction there is in his dress. As different from dear Mr. Megilp with his cunning blonde beard and his loose flowing peacock-blue necktie as anything you can imagine. Auntie, just think how perfectly lovely it bo to own a being in brown velveteen like Mr. Megilp, to sustain and inspire him and pose for him and tie his neckties and soothe his agitated spirits when a Ttonra Mrs.

Merriwid took off her big, fuzry hat and sent it skimming to the davenport, with her habitual, careless ease, and then slipped out of her long fur coat, revealing a costume that elicited a little squeal of astonishment from her maternal maiden Jane. It was certainly bizarre in coloring and remarkable as to its draping, that costume. "You don't mean to say you wore that, Melissa?" said Aunt Jane. "I certainly did, darling," replied Mrs. Merriwid.

"Why do you ask?" "Oh, for no reason in particular, my dear," said Aunt Jane; "only you won't mind my saying that I hope you kept your coat on." "Dearie," returned Mrs. Merriwid, equably, "I never mind anything you say. I know that even your harshest criticisms of my conduct are uttered wholly and solely for my good and with a view to my improvement. All the same, loved one, your remark betrays the fact that you are hopelessly Philistine and have never made a eerious study of the clinging aad the cadaverous in art. I'm afraid, dearie, you don't even know what art iy." "Perhaps I don't," said Aunt Jane, snappily.

"Well, don't lose any sleep over it, loved one," said Mrs. Merriwid. "There are whole communities in the same fix. I gather from what My. Me- diture in the last eleven years of and 5,000 lives, and a mortifying, humiliating failure, without a jot of compensation.

Who Is this Mad Mullah who has caused Downing street to lie awake at nights, sent cold down tho s)In'i of numerous Italian foreign ministers, and Iuih even caused the famous King Menelik to buy a trolley string to hold on his crown more securely? Mad Mullah is a sort of combination of an African Washington and Napoleon rolled in one, with 1 temperament which is liable to run at any time. lie wins his victories by decisive defeats like Washington, and like Napoleon he dominates the imagination of his follow Signature of LiZi In Use For Over 30 Years. Children Cry for Fletcher's Castoria An Endearing Act. Wife (pleading) I'm afraid, Jack, you do" not love me any more anyway, not as well as you used to. Husband Why? Wife Because you always let me get up to light the fire now.

Husband Nonsense, my love! Your getting up to light the fire makes me love you all the more. TO BECOfVSE HER HUSBAND'S LAW PARTNER it'rd S. McGuIre, wife of McGuirc of the First Oklahoma district, is Quiet English Parish. The tiny parish of Clannaborough, North Devon, England, a little village, has a population of only 42, so that baptisms, marriages and burials are not very frequent. The other week the first marriage ceremony for 15 years took place, but even then the couple were not parishioners, the bride coming from St.

Austell, tho bridegroom, whose home is at Ex-mouth, being the rector's such as these the Lord Jesus Christ bestows spiritual gifts according to His grace, as the rest of the verse says. These "girts" are for the use and blessing of the whole church, and are described in general terms in the following verse as apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers. Note this, that while we all believe in education and especially in an educated ministry, yet all the colleges, andseminaries and Bible institutes in the world can not make such apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor or teacher. They have tried to make them and turned oit graduates that looked and acted like them, perhaps, but they were not the real thing, and the church has suffered by tho Imposition. A true apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor or teacher is the gift of the Great Head of the Church in his body.

He is a Spirit-taught and Spirit-endowed man, and when the church sees or hears such an one it recognizes 'his divine commission he has the Imprimatur of a school or not. What Ministers Are For. Now, specifically, what are these "gifts" bestowed upon the church for? The answer of the text verse is, "For the perfecting of the saints," which means all true believers, for every believer on the Lord Jesus Christ becomes a saint the moment hd so believes. But when the saints are thus "perfected," enlightened, strengthened in the knowledge of the Lord, what are they to do? The answer is to engage in the "work of ministering for the edifying (building up) of the body of Christ." (Verse 12.) Here comes in the question of Christian vocations for young people who may not have the gift of apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors or teachers. There Is a w.ork of ministering for them to do nevertheless, when they are "perfected" for it by those who have been truly set apart for that task.

What is the nature of this work? If the student output of the Moody Bible institute may be taken as a criterion, there is a wide variety in it. WTe have studying law in Washington, and intends to become a lawyer. It is the theory of Mrs. McGuire that all women, no matter what their social or financial prominence, should fit themselves to meet the battle of life, and should be in a position to earn their ow living, if need be, and with this in view she has taken up the interesting. She ha3 completed the second volume written by that noted expounder of the law, and she knows all about "Shelley's case." Next fall she intends entering either Georgetown University Law school or the George Washington Law school, both of which institutions are located in Washington.

In accordance with her present, plans, Mrs. McGuire expects to graduate in law and be ready to hang out her shingle, if need be, by the time the term of Mr. McGuire as a member of congress expires, two years hence. She reads Latin, German and French fluently and as understanding' as she does English, and has already grasped the principles that govern the practice of law in a manner that is highly pleasing to her intimates at the national capital. It is likely that upon her graduation from law school that Mrs.

McGuire will form a law-partnership with Congressman McGuire, and that the firm, "McGuire McGuire, attorneys at law," may be launched in one of Oklahoma's cities. In any event, Mr. McGuire will have a valuable side partner in the law if he should ever be retired from the halls of congress; where he has served both the state and territory of Oklahoma for a number of years. 6 1 What Interested Him. Eight-year-old Donald was unusually restless in church, so his mother was doubly gratified one Sunday morning to see him sitting with clasped hands and bowed head throughout a lengthy prayer.

Wrhen, later, she expressed appreciation of his attentive manner, the boy's face softened with a pleasant memory. "That fly," he chuckled, "walked in and out of my hands exactly 270 times!" 1: 'To Say Nothing of the Attentions Mr.Megilp Paid Me." ft tidy of law. A dispatch from Washington Bays: During tho warm summer months Mrs. McGuire. who is one of tho most charming and accomplished hostesses in tho official lifo of tho nation's capital, has been devoting her spare time to reading lUackstone.

Blackstone is r.ot looked upon by most persons as diverting summer reading, but the Oklahoma congressman's wife finds it most loathsome realist got an honorable mention! And he could design ail my gowns." "Melissa, my dear," said Aunt Jane. "You can't scare me a bit. But, honestly, what did you have that awfu! dress made for?" "To tell the truth, dearie," said Mrs. Merriwid, "I intended it for the Dry-salters' association masquerade ball. I'm going to impersonate an Easter lily.

Only," she added, writh a downward glance, "I'll have to have the stem let out considerably if I do any dancing." (Copyright, 1913, by W. G. Chapman.) SCOTT FERRIS TOO FAST FOR YOUNG STEN0G. Had His Goat, Evidently. A Springfield man, replying to hla wife's petition for divorce, says: "Defendant states that the plaintiff is much better qualified than the defendant to carry her part in nagging contests; that she commands a better and more extensive vocabulary than the defendant, and simply overwhelmed him with her complaints and reproaches, and she was so master of her feelings that she could readily pass from storm to sunshine, from abuse to tears, from harsh language to tenderness, and from nagging plaintiff could upon the appearance of a third person so readily become all smiles and suavity that her sudden and complete changes of moods completely bewildered defendant." Kansas City Star.

"Handsome" Scott Ferris, said by 'the Democrats to bo the handsomest man that ever in any legislature, comes from Oklahoma and represents a district where he is known by his first namo to 03 per cent, of the population above tne age of four. With this wide-acquaintance ho has a heavy correspondence, and ia called upon to do a lot of writing about Indians and Indian affairs. Therefore he must have a From I rapher who can take his correspondence is no slouch. Not many weeks ago Ferris had to employ an extra stenographer to iielp out with the heavy mail. The man he selected appeared to be a bright young chap.

At any rate he bent to the task and took notes all day in the face of a torrent of Indian names. Some of them were ten syllables and others are almost unpronounceable in English. There were more Indian names In that morning's correspondence than Longfellow wrote in his "Hiawatha," and the young stenographer never whimpered. Apparently it was the greatest snap tho youth ever had. lie seemed to eat those names like an expert from the bureau of ethnology in the Smithsonian institution.

When Ferris paused for breath the stenographer waited expectantly for more to come. When Ferris finished the dictation the young man said he would go to lunch and return to typewrite the letters after ho had tasted a bit of pie and milk. Evidently he is eating yet. He never returned. The Indian names had done him up.

Our Oven To Your Table Untouched by human hands Views of William Dean Howells. William Dean Howells, on the recent occasion of his birthday anniversary, expressed the great interest with which he w-as watching the spread and progress of the feminist movement. "It is," he said, "one of the most important developments of this generation and one of the most hopeful. The men have made such a mess of things that if the women do not come to the rescue, I'm sure I don't know what is to become of us." Coming from the wridely recognized dean of American letters, such an observation scales some pounds heavier than were it merely from an idle singer of an empty day. It expresses, perhaps, the growing conviction of a great many thinking people who, until rather lately, have not been disposed to regard the Votes for Women agitation overseriously.

Specially, to be noted is the cheerful optimism with which the eyes that have looked so deeply into American life and character now, after seventy-five years, see only hopefulness in the surging of women toward the ballot-box, or, to be more accurate, toward the privileges of which it is the symbol. Chicago Tribune gilp says that there aren't twenty-five people in Chicago who are capable of recognizing art. There were about fifteen of them at the tea. I felt all swelled up with the distinction of being, among them, to say nothing of the attentions Mr. Megilp paid me." "I "wouldn't encourage him, Melissa," said Aunt Jane.

"Genius should always be encour aged, dearie," declared Mrs. Merriwrid. "It's our duty to encourage it." "The question is, is he a genius?" Aunt Jane asked. "Mercy! I should say he was," said Mrs. Merriwid.

"If you had been at that tea and seen hi3 studio and his pictures, not to mention his guests, you wouldn't dream of doubting it. If he hasn't the divine fire, I'll be willing to bet lie finds it chilly in the winter. There wasn't the first sign of a radiator in the room. We all kept pretty close tp the samovar and the warmer tinted canvases, however, and there wras one heated argument on art, so wo didn't suffer especially. The argument was started over Maidgood's pictures.

The, only Philistine present said they were delightful, and there was a general movement the kind of a notice on the street when two dogs begin to fight. Mr. Megilp was just telling me something pretty about my gown, but he made a sort of bound to pick up the gage of battle and left his compliment broken" off short- 'Delightful, he said, with deadly calm and poisonous politeness. Delightful it may be; but, my dear sir, do you consider that sort of thing 'I supposed it said the Philistine. 'The critics seem to think his coloring is extraordinarily fine.

"Nearly everybody shivered at that. You'd have thought some one had left an outside door open. There were six distinct shrugs, and one lady with a sinuous neck said: 'Oh, the critics! in just the tone Mr. Prosit used to say 'And you can't deny his superb the Philistine continued. 'Oh.

the fellow can Mr. Megilp adtmited, with a lofty smile. 'So can an automobile designer. But we were speaking of art. 'Well, there's sentiment and appeal and human interest in his said the Philistine.

'I may he wrong, but I consider "That was as far as he got. They fell on him en masse and choked him with relative proportions and values and Burne-Jone3 and idealism and middle distances and high lights and atmosphere until he couldn't do aajr- Post swift and accurate and intelligent 'utenogmphcr. who can imprison the Indian names in the ifctenographic nolo. Atnj Scolt Ferris' diction Is something like tho onrushiug roar of a transcontinental flier, and the stenog- been taking a census of 8,000 to 9,000 young men and women who have passed through our hands, and have found that stme are pastors or assistant pastors, and some are wives of pastors, for the last named is a calling for which Christian young women need a distinct training. Some, are evangelists or evangelistic singers, both men and women; some are homo missionaries; some are teachers in Young Men's and Young Women's Christian associations; some are superintendents of missions and hospitals; some are matrons, deaconesses and nurses, while still others have simply gone into commercial or professional pursuits, and, in the case of women, are occupied in home ditties.

Every "Joint" of Value. This brings us to the closing words of Paul on this topic, In verse 16, where, keeping up the figure of the church being the body of Christ, he says, "From whom the whole body fitly joined and compacted by that which every joint supplieth isaketh increase of the body." In other words, every single joint in this spiritual organism is of value to the whole, which means that not one of us Christians can be spared in the exercises of our vocation whatever or wherever it may be. The smallest visible joint in the human body may be that of the little finger. It seems of comparatively little worth; but let it get "out or joint" for a while, and what happens? The whole body soon becomes aware of it, and in time may be "put out of commission" because of it. So you and I may have a small opinion of ourselves in the organism of Christ's spiritual body, and from one point of view it is becoming that vre should, nevertheless it is necessary that we do our part or else "all the members suffer." We may not be apostles, evangelists, prophets, pastors or teachers, but we are that which is represented by a "joint," and need to be always in union with the Head, and with the other members of the body if the whole shall be profited and increased.

The vital question, however, is that suggested at the beginning, are you Included in the word "US?" It ia not enough to live is a Christian land, not enough to he. a church member. A log as tile; LEITERS TO TAKE CRUISE IN GOULD YACHT Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Leiter will make a year's tour of the world in Howard Gould's the aristocrat of Ready-to-Serve foods.

A table dainty, made ci white Indian com presenting delicious flavour and wholesome nourishment in new and appetizing form. The sieadily increasing sale of this food speaks volumes in behalf of its excellence. An order for a package of Post Toasties from your grocer will provide a treat for the whole family. 3 De Tocqueville's Faith. I cannot believe that the Creator made man to leave him in an endles3 struggle with the intellectual miseries that suround us.

I am ignorant of his designs, but I cannot cease to believe in them because I cannot fathom them, and I had rather mistrust my own capacity than his justice. De Tocqueville. terranean until the first of the year. Then she will be started eastward through the Suez Canal, and will visit India, Ceylon, China, Japan, the Philippines and Honolulu. The return home will be made by way of San Francisco and the Panama Canal.

Mr. and Mrs, Leiter and their young sons, Joseph Leiter, and John Leiter, will make the entire trip. In Europe they will be joined by Mrs. Letter's parents and sisters, Colonel and Mrs. John R.

Williams, and the Misses Frances and Dorothy Williams. They have also arranged to meet former Representative -and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth and have them as guests on part of the cruise. The Niagara will be overhauled before the trip starts. The yacht is of steel.

She is 2S2 feet over all, S6 feet beam, and 19 feet draft. She has a speed of 12 to 15 knots, and waE built especially for long trips. steam yacht Niagara. The itinerary and personnel of the party which will accompany the Leiters were announced the ether day. The Leiters have planned ona of tho longest continuous cruises ever made by a yacht.

The start will ho made from New York thi3 fall. After spending some time in British waters, Their Turn Now. am sorrv to have to eav. my son, that from what I hear about The Memory Lingers" town you" must be runniES into debt." Son "You are mistaien, air-I am already in debt; my crtditcri are doing all the nmnine- Postum Cereal Company, Limited Battle Creek, Michlgraa I the Niagara will cruise In the Medl-.