Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 32, Number 2, Jasper, Dubois County, 27 September 1889 — Page 3

"WEEKLY COURIER.

jaspek A LATTER-DAY DELUSION. Hew twdilr how um mmom athte, Wb'B oa ato lawk t hoera o( yoeth, A dJT tBft pMt, KM) MMM W !, itiN law iaUl rMUMd woadriryt Bat dsr r tba sow m ??. path Mard m adU liM There m for Mil ik mack t.w. fjlly w t it wmU wake !! Wk f terned ratercward, before Our feet the wuy a trod, tateat To Mk, to Mad, to kaow, we waat. )tur wekoasd of tks mowsst's sum. Trt bow w mt w soaaadarad you. O. har, that hara toooowo so hrtf I Ttte fault Maada mi ib bold rlht AguaU Ikt wtda, ue-dWtaai bla. Aad our rogrot rta. aa Um too Of cloUtml hell, wtthla oar hearts; Whils to our lie Um mmmo upurts: Ak, if w lk hud oot known J" Sat vata it is to dot w tail we Would u Uh witdora vt lk ymrs. Km tbouxn we aooU, r ero aad " Hvo wrought a to maturity. II we, by mlrsets forw The tram of day wtifc ill tr itoidYoung fcsart )l ooold aot eaaa to old soon w'd Uffk away our awat - Time for all thlafO t hath erted: go let not nr-ifcoofhw decejva; Youth must kyt. Hi eoura aeatsra; Xo a iU om will ft deaird. fit iraUal be the if lane w ewt! X creater wU? than awlesa pain: Rteber w ir row, throat It It. aad gala Ttwat; the yr speod o fast. o fat! William .struthers, ia America. HISS GULDEN'S LODGER Money Ig Not the Only Thing on Earth Worth Having. After Mr. Golden hud failed, and he and Miss Golden took to letting' out the rooms in their house to lodgers. and she found it neceaary to work hard at embroider; besides, and to give up nil thoe pretty luxuries she had been used to, there came one day to the door h sparely-built inan, rther handt-nme, but not very young, and just a lit tie shabby, who asked if they had a room to spare for him. It must be h very cheap one"," said be, "fdr 1 can't afford a good one. I don't care how high up it is, and I don't want it to be furnished. I have very good furniture of my own good enough for me; plenty good enough and I don't wish to die In the poorhouse. No: I don't wish to die in the poor-house." Mis Golden opened her eves mm the lijr man of nve-and-iorty sid this, but there was a little hall bedroom on the top floor which stood in place of the traditional garret, and thither she conducted the ntteman who dreaded the poor-house so much. The room suited him. the rent suited him, he gave a well-known baa iter's name as reference, and he declared himself to be Mr. Moos. The banker to whom Mr. Goldea went smiled a peculiar smile aad Mid: "Highly respectable, and I feel sure he'll pay hie rent." And the next day Mr. Mom oame with his furniture. A boy brought an old-fashioned cot, and a straw bed, and a wooden stool, and a little threelegged table, and wanted fifty cents for his trouble, and took twenty-rive in eash, and took the rest out in bad language on the door-step, after he hud been shut out. Then Mr. Mos arranged hi $ room himself, and drew one teaspoon ful of tea in a little tin teapot, aad had one roll and one radish for his supper. The roll he bought; the radish he took from a bunch on the grocer's counter. "What are your radishes?" he said. Then he nipped one off. and walked awy like aa absent-minded gentlenan. "l'oor hniV said Ellen Golden, "I do feel Jo sorry for him." Soahe antiled and nodded to him when he went out next day. and was alwaya very careful to be civil to him. She knew what it whs ta be poor herelf. And what was a cup of coffee aow and then, or just a wedge of pie, r a bowl of oup? It wasn't mtesed, and one could do it in a neighborly fashion, for a man must be ve y poor to live m And Miss Golden, who often laughed at the idea of owning such a name he whose life vu so little ot a golden one-did a thousand such little klndaees. They had enough to eat and drink, her father and herself. Then, when the nights grew cold, their tenant, who could have no fire la hk room, often warmed himself at that of his landlord. He was not without ideas, and he waa by no means plain; but his brain wa full of thought of one order -thoughts of jrtotiwy; how people mnde It and lost it; how they got high interest for it; how they speculated with it and lost It; how unexpected legacies were left to some people, and how others waited in vain for dead men's shoes; and sometimes when Ellon Golden, who had a touch of romance in her, hinted that, after all, money waa not worth every thing else in life, he would stop anort in his arious, solemn way, and ay: "My dear young lady, you don't think enough of money. It would I terrible thing if you were so cureless of it a to come to the nlmehotiee in yottr old age. Many worthy people have come to tha almshoute in their eld age," Hi grave, dark face, the little touch L there was in his voice, his eriowly earnest manner, gv hid word a curiaue weight 1 meaning. Kite could net latigk at them.

Jtut U Id such a pity, papa," sha

wwd to say. "such a terrible pity that poor Mr. Mods should have let his taiafortutte warp him . If ha would hut talk of something olo," And Mr. Goidea would mm ft "Ah. you don't know how it hurts a man to have had all hie schemes and ataUiUons come to an sad in his mature years. Youth can rite again after a fall; middle-ago can Hot. No doubt poor Mr. Moss kits failed." And Kllea Golden supposed that this must be so. and that night akd her tenant to tea, and made a wonderful eake with a view to his ooiuing. lis did net refute to eat the' eake, but hs gave her a tittle sormon on extmvagsaoe, and bogged her to reflect what gg eost It is certainly quite disinterested." said Kllea Golden, 4ut he makes me e uncomfortable, itaiag o puor himself I can't feel liurt at his reminding me that I am poor, too- but I wish he wouldn't." In return for the kindness of the Golden, poor Mr. Mo was always ready to do a thousand thing, lie was handy with hammer and nnib. aad had a wonderful faculty for standing shoes. Osoe or. twice Kllen thought he inuit have been a shoemaker, he so ably cobbled her db earded walking-boots; and she had fancied him a carpenter when hs put the kitchen closet door on its hinges; and a jeweler when he reet tho amethyst in her dead mother's rinj; which she now wore in memory of her. Once she said: "How did you leara to do so many thing?" And he answered: "Nothing saves a man so much money as to be a Jack-of -all-trades." Still hs was not saving himself money when he dug her garden and put new bricks in her range. And h did it with the auie alacrity with which he sponged and pressed his own clothes, ami re-covered his own umbrella. When he came home at night he always went to work; and they learned that he made his own bedstead, and his three-cornered table, and s lulled his own straw mattress. "A penny savod is a penny got," said Mr. Mush. And Mr. Golden, who never ye had found himself quite able to pour himself a cwp of coffee, or And his own slippers, nnd who, though he had been a prosperous commercial gentleman once, would have boon as apt to sweep his own chimney as to mend any thing about the house, stared in amazement "He appears to be a gentleman by education," he said; "he is well rfittd in me classics; ne understands mueie as few save professional folk do; and stocks my dear, I think he knows more about stocks than any one I ever met. What an invaluable man he would have been to me in my business. I would gladly have had him for my head elerk. He might have saved me from failure; yet see to what a pass he is reduced himself." Mr. Moss certainly was a mystery; but, since he did not choose to explain himself, the Golden were too polite to ask questions; and whether it was the fact that there was something to wonder at In him, or whether his dark skin and black eyes were the proper contrast to her complexion and blue orbs, Ellen Goldnn found her self thinking of him a great deal. "If he only would forget money, or the sound of it, how nice he would be," said she. And one day but this she had never told to any onehe had said to her: "If a man were rich enough he would be so much happier married so much happier but It is unwise to marry If one can not afford it. It is so expen sive a thing. Don t you think so?" And she had said: "Oh, yes. It certainly is;" and had not known whether to laugh or cry. Somehow, she thought to herself. knowing Mr. Moss is like meeting the enchanted Prince of the Arabian Xlghte who seemed a flesh and blood Prince, but who proved to be one-half of stone. So there were soft, and gentle, and kindly thins in Mr. Moss almost loving thinga at times but when he spoke of money the petrified half of him came to view. "Vet it Is trouble that has made him so," said she. "The enchantment or perhaps I should esy the disenchantment of loss and disappointment. It hurt papa, but not in the same way." It was a queer life that the girl led with these two men, one old, one middle aged, and yet It was not an unhappy one. Mr- Moss had no other friends, save a portly, bald-headed gentleman who oame now and then with Importantlooking papers aad envelopes in his hands to seml half an hour in his room. "His employer, doubtless," said Mr. Golden. And once, in going away, this gentleman had said aloud: "Excuse me. Mr. Moss, but yon should have a room with a fire. It Is dangerous to sit so much in the cold. I am nearly jerlhed, I x.ure you." And Mr. Moss had answered meek ly . . Do you know the rent they charge for rooms with grates, nnd do you knew the price of coal per ton, Mr. Macklin?" And Mr. Maoklln had laughed a lit tle, cruel laugh. "He ispaylngMr. Mess almost noth ing for his toil, I suppose," said Mr. Goldea. And, dear papa," wild Kilea. "do

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mm -. mm W . WM Mw rtie earnings some poor relative to support, for whom he dep ives himself of comfort aad we must be very good to hint, papa. Uut won't you you are older than he won't you advise him to leave that odious Mr. Macklia and go whore they will give hint better wagoe?' Aad Mr. Goldea did broach the subject, but poor Mr, Muss only shook his bead. That hateful Mr. Maeklln-how Ellen detested bira! Uut no one is ever certain he Is at hi worst aay more than he Is at his best. Another misfortune oame to Mr. Moss and this Is how; One day the tin loader that carried the water from the roof of the Golden house came loose. The tain rushed la at Mr. Moss' window and drenched his Boor. The gentlemanly landlord came up in his dressing-gown, and promised to send at once for a person to attend to the leader. The tenant quite good-humoredly stopped him: "Come, come," he said, "you know my old adage a penaj saved is a penny got. You haven't any too much money, and you'd go and waste it paying working-people. I'll take your hatnmor od nails and that bit of tin you wore goingito throw away yesterday, and mend your roof for you. I'll do it at once." "But, my dear sir. I can't allow it," said Mr. Golden, politely. "My doar sir, you won't we force to prevent me?" said Mr. Moss "Oh, dear, no." said Mr. Golden. "Uut the roof is quite a slope and very slippery. It is probably dangerous At least wait" "Meanwhile my furniture is being spoilt," said Mr. Moss, looking at the home-made adornments of his room, "and your ceiling, which you are shamefully extravagant enough to forget. Sir, I am not amaxed that you failed In business." Mr. Golden went down-stairs at once. "Ellen, my love," he said, "I have been cruelly insulted by our tenant. I have done with him." "Oh papa," said Ellen, "it can not "He alluded with scorn to my misfortunes in business." said Mr. Golden. "I did not retort. Xodkisn obligt, you know. No, no; he can't be a gentleman." Just then there was an odd sound outside a sound that mads Ellen's blood curdle. "What is it, papa?', she cried. "Perhaps Mr. Moss has thrown his bed out of tha window." said Mr. Golden. Then they rushed out into the gar den. There upon the great lilac bush flattened to the ground by his weight, lay Mr. Moss. He had slipped from the roof, lhe house was only two stories and a-half high. Hut it was fall that left little hope for life. He was senseless and covered with blood v. mi roorj-.uen screamett ana oame so near fainting as to lose all strength Meanwhile the other lodgers had rushed down, and poor Mr. Moss was oarried into the parlor and placed on a sofa and a doctor was called. Looking at the pale face, both father and dKughter forgot the man's faults the former his late offense, the 1st ter his odd counsels and reproofs. When the doctor came they stood beside their friend in tears. "It's a bad case," said that worthy when he had made an examination "but he may live. There 11 be fever. probably delirium, though. You' better send him to the hospital, if he's only a tenant, and you don't know his friends." Thon he went away, having ban daged a limb and a rib; aad Ellen looked at her father. All he said was: "No, my dear, we won't." Then for many days they nursed the poor fellow, and he knew nothing of it; and the doctor wan right about the delirium; and in it he raved of money, of stocks, of gold, of cent per cent. One day Mr. Macklin called. He presented his head at the door, and said, as Ellen opened it: 'I say, ma'am, what has happened to the old gentleman? "Mr. Moss is at death's door," said Ellen. "He has met with a terrible accident" "Sorry to hear it." said Mr. Mack lin; "and there'll be the deuce to pay at our place. He keeps things so in his own hands that if he can't be consulted it's hard to tell what to do. Is he unconscious?" Ysi," said Ellen; "but, sjr. can it be that Mr. Moss has occupied an important place in your establishment?" "I should think he had," said Macklin. And you have been cruel enough to take advantage of him. and repay his service with a pittance that scarcely provide him with bread," said Ellen. "I speak plainly. 1 know; but I feel strongly. Perhaps you do not guess what privations he has suffered." Mr. Macklin stared at her in silence for awhile and then whistled long and ow. "So you are in the dark?" said he. You think I employ Mr. Moss I? My dear madam. 1 am his conHdcfitiMl lerk. You see, Mr. Moss is a very eccentric man. He's about as rich a man as I know positively rolling in gold but he's a not to put too line a wint on it he s a miser." He muted, looked at her face tuni ng white before his eyes, and added: "Yftt Meedn't be afraid of him. though; he's honest He'll reimburse you toi aay ex pease rea are at; aad :

I'll stop and seed up a surgeoa wfce knows who he Is; or, better tell the one you have his name. Every one knows Isaac Moss, and his queer ways." Then, after seine more talk, and a look at the delirious man, Mr. Macklia went away, and Kllea, with totally changed feelings, resumed her post at the patient's side. She looked at hli faee oohtty. Her kindliness for him was all gone. The poor man who was so patleat under his nrlvatlons seemed to have died, aad

there on thepallct before her lay the i thing she loathed so unutterabty-a miser, To both father and daughter the friend they had known seemed dead. Hut thoy ministered to him still, until one day after Isaac Moss had been better for a long time, and was growing quite well after he had had along interview with a gentleman whom Mr. Golden knew to be a lawyer, he called Ellen to his side, and begged her to listen to him quite alone. "I can not say it to aay one else," he said, "but I must to you. You found me out very soon after my accident, I know. You knew 1 am what the people call a raUor." She answered: "Yes." "And tho fact has cot me your friendship, which you gave to the poor fellow who seemed !mot a beggar?" Again shu answered: "I cannot help it, Mr. Moss it hs changed me." "Ellen Golden," he whispered, "I knew that at once and I could .carcely bear it but you do not know how it came aoout. My people were poor, and mmifv waa the. on a il riMttii tlutt Uute I had. I made it by much self-sacrifice ' in my youth, and 1 learned to care i for it and feared to lose it as other men do their lives. It was only 1 who suffered. I cheated no one." "Hut it is a miserable weakness,' skid Ellen. "Yes," said the man, "I know it U now. And I know there is sontethiug value more than gold. It is you, Ellen, and now you hate me. Hut I have taken my madness by the throat, Yesterday I was a rich man, to-day 1 am what I would have called poor, for I have legally made over almost all I possessed to you, in such a way that you can not refuse to receive it; and when I am well I will go away, if you bid me, for I attach no condition to my gift. Only, Ellen you did not hate me when I was poor 4f we might be friends again more than friendsThere, there it was not to buy you." "Hut you were really mad to do such a thing," .cried Ellen," aad I will not take the gift" "Would you return a drunkard his bottle?" askinl Moss; "a murderer his knife? No! 1 a miser was not fit to be rich. I am not sure I am a miser now. Love has driven mammon from me-r humbly hope that-aad jyJng here, thinking to die so soon, and , so soon, and I might have But I will not 4t,t.vt.. t,.nv t .i.t.t i.-.-r- "I'l'J been but for my greed. plead with you. Ellen; if I must go, I must I said before 1 never thought that gold would buy yoK.'" ' It did not Hut they never parted again. In the sweet spring-time a new life dawned for him, for she became his wife; and it is said that he never even spoke of gold again. M. Cady, in N. Y. Ledger. URBAN SIMPLICITY. Tha MolploMfiOM of tho Ceekner Whfa utnwn Mfwii in I nis vBUIrJ It is true enough that whoa the rustic cousin comes to visit his city relatives he is apt to be rather simple, and to show ignorance of city wavs and citv institutions which seems to the urban friends a proof of utter mental vacuity; but it is equally true that when the time arrives for a return I of the visit, the city relatives, if they did but know it, show quite as profound a lack of knowledge of rural , affairs, and one even more mexctisable. Nobody nowadays is so dull as to ' suppose that honey Is milked from the i bees as milk from the cows, that turnips and pumpkins grow on trees, j and that roosters lay eggs; but there , is still a surlicient ignorance to give the country people as good a chance to smile on their own territory at the I greennesi" of their visitors, as the ; latter have when rusticity comes to towa. Nothing is at once moro ignorant and more helpless than the cockney j turned loose and dependent upon his own resources in the country; and , that the country people laugh at him ' s the legitimate result of his mevita-; ble blunders. He is seldom quite so dull as the city-btcd domestic who is represented as leaving her candle burning all night, because, having been accustomed to gas all her life. she did not, as she explained to her mistress next morning, "know how to turn it out;" but in a thousand ways te displays his inability to cope with the tlifnculties of the situation. His standards no longer serve him. and . ,, when once a man Is cut adrift from his standards, he is entirely at the ' mercy of circumstances. j In the case of either the cockney or the rustic there Is no blame to be, attached to a want of knowledge of j things which have been outside of the circle of his experience. The one who I rankly confesses his ignorance and put himself in himself in the attitude Of one j who is ready to learn, has no farther f trouble. It is in the endeavor to aipear to be master of a situation which is really too strong for one that the absurdity lies. One may be helpless by the fores of elreumstanoas: if he a also ridiculous it is his own fault Uestea Courier.

PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL

Mrs. Osear Wilde is one of the most popular women orators in KaMr. John Wanamaker pays fftU,000 la taxes Into tha municipal treasury of Philadelphia. Ills real estate In the city is assessed at 13.300,000. R. P. Crockett, the youngest son of the famous Davy Crockett, is a resident of Gran bury, Tex., the eounty seat of Hood County. He is seventythree years old. In Chicago the other day a lawyer ( nwe1 D- I" Carmtehael. being ill and ble to appear in court in an im portant suit, his wife, who is not a lawyer, took his place and conducted the case throughout, winning golden opinions from all concerned. Miss Grace H. Dodge of New York, is devoting her life to helping tho working girls of that city. She has or i ganiwd girls' clubs, which now include J 10.000 members. Their motto is, Purity in speech and conduct, and their object is to lead girls into the way of helping themselves. . Mrs. Maria M. Dean is a homeopathic physician who took an office in Helena, Mont, three years ago. Her income last year was in lite neighborhood of 12.000, She is a graduate of Wisconsin University and f rum a 15oton medical school, and also studied medicine In Ucrlin. She is thirty years old. Andrew Carnegie, the millionnire iron founder, says that he began his business career by sweeping out an office, and that his fcllow-swoejiers were David McCargo, now president of , aiik..v r,.n- ,.-n,.rt,i. ifwi Pitcairn, superintendent of the Peun Fylvanin railroad, and Mr. Morelaml, city attorney of Pittsburgh. .7. It. Watson, the Australian quartz reef king, died recently at Sydney, at the age of sixty-four. He was a' native of Paisley, Scotland, and emigrated with his father's family to Sydney, and afterwards to California and Sandhurst, and finally to the t,i t .. j fortnaj estiutated at 40,000,000, fOOr i -wi j The A !e trine, sir, die with their ; boots m.H This was tho constant : boast of the late Colonel liob Alstom ' famous throughout Georgia" as an J editor nnd politician. His grandfather ' and his father had died that way, and ' one day after he had mailethis boast . hit was fhot to death. Next day one ' of his boys committed suicide in Washington, I), C. Then another son was jailed at Lithonia, Ga., with a charge of murder to his credit. General Houlnnger, like a great many noted men, is superstitious. He is careful not to get out of bed on the left side, and if his path is crossed by a black cat he doe? nothing of political importance for twenty-four hours. Hi followers recall that oit the day of . aiauoer in ironioi nis nouse m x-ori land place. It Is rumored that he is a firm believer in palmistry and takes stock in the words of a gypsy who examined his hand and told him that his chief ambition would one day be satis fled. "A LITTLE NONSENSE. For nine women who can make a tart answer one can make a pie speak for itself. Baltimore American. Mistress ".Mary, I don't like to ae thi iliiMtnn tha furniture" Man tn t..t.. ....... mi ..m .. I Lit ,3 It , -om- yjn. ray loom awes just dreadfully! I don't see why we can " w wiwioui iceui. jio i think, my hoar that if you will look UP 900,9 thorlty on that iwint you wriU ,lml thHt ra09tof re. "-Omaha 0IW Mrs. Gabby "It is shocking, the Sharpe bosaos her husband. Hi poor man can hardly call His soul his own." Mr. Gabby "Don't 5o mb' 'rd against that lady, Maria; she refused mo Ion years S0' lime. "Whatmakesyotilook so thoughtful?" asked a traveling man. "I've got a groat problem in my head." "What is it. mathematics, logic, or what?" "Well, as I was trying to find a way of paying my room rent, I reckon you'd call it lodge-ic" Morchant Traveler. "Young man," said the longthu occupant of you know that I haired passenger to the seat ahead, "do have never spent a dollar for liquor in my whole life?" "Ileally?" responded the young man, turning half way round, with a look of trrsat interest on his face, "How do you work li?" Life. Haxter-"Is Slow boardlnsr at Vour hotel now?"' Hlxbv ."Not ami. n tnu nt a board tn til i .!t . Haxter "What's thn mattor? i, i.a trv. n.rlm.ir' nthv.v... it-s not tlmt. but you kn0w. ,ie 8tHUeM ...if..ti n.i... .,ufi.' ' .... wn.-wmi.nj. iihamji il links limb t with it?" 1Uy? 1.stutters so that at meal times, bv tho tim 1... tMn t,hi waiter what. 1.., wants, everv thin lm ot ml " . America. Mr. Leu (photographer) "I R atir y0ti are. Thebxtiression is eXactlv rWht. How did von mtin noh ontwt ovr th foetal hhi.1..? a yoU un actor?" Mr. Ithodstcr "No. sir." Mr. Len-"Well. well! Perhaps you are a bicyclist f Mr. llhotls ter "Yes, I am." Mr. Lena "Ah, that explal. tt It comes from riding the machine oh stone pavements and trying to look as though you enioyed IL" Puck.

REVIEW TEMPER AN OE.

PiriMbor . isae. Ifooetaitr swmauod from . . cjeartertrvl HcKirrtrss Lassox-The UoUom Texts of the Quarter. l)xu.r KKAmxna-Lsat)snf tbAQaartsr. Tims- From Kamuers call, IS. C. 114. te Saul's death, M. C. MM. PiAcm Palo tins, chiefly in Judas, aad the vicinity of what was afterward Jeresalent, Hhttok a4 A'ew the religious centers of the Halloa; JtmaA: Samuel's hotae; (Hth: Haul's capital; JMMwWts; David's birthplace; AOullnm, KhqvH 4 (Mk: plsces where David was aa exile; JUomn' Otthm: where Haul perished is I tattle. PrusoNX-KIi, Samuel, Saul, Ilsvtd. Tnk HiMLKThe Divlue reve atkm durmg the rdi-w of Saul consisted of the Pentateuch. Joshua and Judtres, and Ruth. CoxTXMroRjtaY Histokv Kgypt enjoying trirat prosperity, the Queeu of the world. Tyre was founded about this time, Trey was rupturfd by the Greeks lt4 B. C. Mmm founded Lavkuium lu Italy in Hist, and hit son AscantUs, Alba Lonxa in 1180. Ttucti 1 no Sroo ifcTioss Having prevtotwlr put upon the board the initials of the Titles and the first word of the Golden Text against each Title, let the superintendent with the winter call for Titles and Golden Texts. Then, himself, mentioning a Title or a Oolden Text, let him call for the Golden Text or Title belongta? to the one he has mentioned. When the school has responded well, let him rub out the first word of all the Oolden Texts, and tointiug to the Title in irregular order, call upon the school to give the appropriate Text. This having been done, let him rub out all that was on the board, and call for the Title or Golden Text or both, he giving only the number ot the lesson, as? "Give mo thcTKie of Lesson XII, ; givo me the Title and Golden Text ot Ietson XI," This part of the exercise should occupy not more than ton minutes. Then sin some wide-awake familiar hynsH. Now call for names of places, thus ; "Where was the tabernacle in Eli's timef" If there be a good map in the school, let the places bo pointed out by scholars. Then put the first letter on the bourd, thus: 8. In this way call for Olgai, itcthlehcra, Kphes-Dain-mini. Gibeah, Kugedl.Gilboa. Now change, and eallittir the name of the place himself, let the school tell what event took place there, as : "What happened at Bphs-Usm miral" Ans. "The tight of David witt Goliath." This should take also about tea minutes. Kow sing again, standing, some appropriate hymn. Hub out what you have on the board, and call for the names of the Individuals of whom wo have studied, thus: "Give tne the name of a grand, good tuaa who knew what true friendship meant." Aux. "Jonathan." Put down J oa the board. "Now I want the name of a raau who misused las grand opportunities.' Ans.-"Saul." Put 8 on the board. In this way, framing the questions wisely, so aa tc help, and not puzzle, the school, and at the same time so as not to make them toe childishly simple, call for Eli, David, Samuel, Goliath, Ei lab. Again change you: method, and asking single teachers, whe have been prepared for it beforehand, me tiou a name, and ask for tits general cha set eristics of the man's character, thus: "Saul. Come, Mr. , give us in a few words the prevailing characteristics of this King." "Ell. What was the great defect in his character!" Tills aliouUl occupy about twelve minutes. Then sing again, and close with prayer. Rev, A. F. Sckaafher. TKxreajtNCE. Lcssox Tkxt I Bam. 35:3831, mm. Gut.itxx Tkxt They have also erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; . . . they ccr in vision, they stumble In judgment. is. 98:7, Centkai. TntrrH Intemperance is the curse of our country, a&d must be destroyed. Tims Spring of B. C. 1096, a few neatas after David's adventure at Sagsdl. Sec Lesson XI. Placx Xabal's home at Maon, bis sheepfolds and pastures at Camel, a' mite to the north. These places are in the mouataias of.Judah, eight or ten miles south of Hebroa Naraj. (fool) A rich but churlish chwf, having land, 8,001 sheep, 1,000 goats (v.tj. Davhi Twenty-six years old. Aa exile living in the south of Judah. He bad protected Kabul's flocks from wild beasts aad robbers with his 600 men, and wanted hit reward. The country under Saul was la aa unsettled, distracted state. Hru's oven Hard Flacks . JttiM: worthlessuess; a name for Hatan. S7. TSk lAtttw the present of food she had brought (v. 18). 96, J 2W tmntt Xnlml: net directly, but he died of liU drunkenness, according to God's laws of health. Summer Nabal, a type of the rsm-selMng business. 1, A rich and fruitful country. Such Is the laud of temperance. S. Had elements In this country. It was dominated by a rich and churlish chief, whe compelled all connected with him to aid his cause, even though they acknowledge! that he was "a son of iielial." A true pkstureot the saloon iower. 3, This had element was fostered by the imperfections of Haul's government, his neglect of his true duty, and pursuit after an imaginary enemy. It was also protected In its rights and possessions by the true government In the person of David; even as rumcllers now receive the protection of all good laws and government They thrive under the rule that was Intended to protect and defend the good. The weeds have the same sun, and rain, and soil which the good plants have. 4, The bad element, ht the person ef K&bal, returned evil for good. He refused to psy David what was his due. Hs was a cur Mi to his wife and family. He acted like a "mjii of isellal" to his servants and neighbors. Ho was a fool in name and nature. His example was injuring the nation. S. Davhl, therefore, made war upon him with all his force, to sweep such an evil from thj land. A. Woman to the rescue, as wo see in the verses given for our lesson to-day a true picture of woman's work in the temperance cause, using all her attractiveness, her wit, her good sense, her active powers, in saving the natwn from intemperance. 7. Confidence of success. The right Is sure to triumph. The cause is sure, God fights our battle for us, for our cause Is His. God has ordained good for us. 8. Death from intemperance. As Nabal died from his had habits and his own drinking, so how coutiuuatly death is In the cup. Pavl quote ttte proverb (that "a little leaven leavcucth the whole lump," te illus trate the tendency of small errors to bocoin great (rues, and what are called little sins to swell themselves into the dimensions of gross depravity. There in stick a t:dHcy in all error ami all sln Moral and spiritual decay is not ant to be "stationary. The general rule is th;tt It goes front bad to worse. N. Y. Itt'icpemk'Ht. Tits truest and best service we can render H that whfch lies he ford Us lu our way atod next to ban J. To love God with nil the heart this is the first commaitdmeMt. To love aad help and brighten thnws about us every dey-thfe is the secoad eominKsd ment, aad cotwpMss the service. 21. U. Psarse.