Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 33, Number 18, Jasper, Dubois County, 16 January 1891 — Page 3

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O, IJOAJTJB, PuhUafcor jAtP " INDIA If A. THE CALIPHS DAUGHTER, Why Kr FtbrAnowd Her to Wed mi nrngtohman. The Caliph of Allamugdalla, Mnaalxm jCoauer, Hit cross-legged on a great heap of eufclikms, elnd in a long silken robe Uiat wu drawn closely about hk Uiln lrm. A tail hookah stood on the floor near hk ft, ami in hk hand lie held iu heavily jeweled mouthpiece, which i raked now and then to hk lips, ami sent a curling wreath of smoke eeilii jward. He wk an interesting man to look at, w.w the Caliph of Allamagdalla. His ftwe was wrinkled and of ashy pales, hl lrow narrow and drawn tther over liia eyes into a heavy frown, whoso severity waa heightened by along, drooping white mustache, which fell rigidly over his role. A pairof dark eyes, deep set under hk heavy eyebrows, glittered unpleasantly a he sat there, unmoved and unmoving, save aa he carried the stem of hla pipe to bis mouth and back again. Deapite, however, his seeming calm, the Caliph was in trouble. Something had occurred when he was eating his morning meal which bad aroused Ida fears and set him thinking in a channel so unpleasant that, if possible, his face was a thade paler than usual, and the little eye moved restlessly to and fro. He had noticed, or thought be noticed, g peculiar taste in one of the dishes which his servants had set before him, awl, with the instinct of one who is in perpetual dread of assassination, he called the bead servant to him. 'Here, thou dog ami son of a dog," he said, pushing the dish toward the slave, "eat that. Now in a land where the people feel for their heads the first thing on waking in the morning, thus assuring themselves that that uncertain member has not beon lopped off during the night; where murder is of such common occurrence ami so much of a pastime for thoe in high authority, an order that is in any way unusual is likely to be considered a a death warrant. The unfortunate, slave knew that to disobey meant certain death, but he also knew that it was very probable that the food was poisoned, as the Caliph suspected. At any rate, be preferred not to risk the poison. He threw himself down before the Caliph and ground his forehead i til- l" .At. ll 't art the most mighty ruler, wif rnndoa like unto the dominion of . an,M he said. "Thy majesty is r,io-l calted of all under Allah. Allah is jjroat. I can not eat." T.'M; last words were spoken almost in a isp, for the Caliph's brow was growing darker with the awful rage of one is ho k unaccustomed to aught but absf.n' obedience. He pushed the dish fairly under the slave's nose. "Cut to" he cried. Tlie alava rose, trembling in every HwU, imm) his face growing ghastly under his swarthy skin. He stepped back a $ee or ewe and hung hie head on his broa-t "I can not," he said, simply and sullenly. H course there was but one thing that eouhl happen now. They carried the poor slave away to meet his doom, hut for once this did not soothe the Calipas troubled mind, ami, as he sat Vu-ro m his cushions, thinking, thinking, thinking, he realized almost for the tint time that it was in every way likeh that his people all hated him and would be rejoiced at his downfall. He could think of not one reason why they ought to love him and his long, bony fingers tightened rigidly about the jewelled mouthpiece of his hookhli, as he thought of the danger in which he hourly lived. Two things appeared to him certain. He must increase his body guard and he must have a taster for his food. The former was easy to accomplish, but he knew that it would take a large reward and unusual persuasion to obtain the latter. To obtain this end, however, ho was determined, and, having once determined it, he sent for the head of his household. The latter came, salaaming profoundly. The Caliph told the man what he wanted, gently hinting, at the same time, at the penalty which was involved In failure, viz., that his body Uiould Ik; torn by vultures or given to the jackals and wild pigs of the forest, and that after death his spirit should enter into the dog, who was indeed his father, etc The man bowed himself low, "Thou art the Light of the Earth, O, Caliph! It is done," he said, nnd went out salaaming. Tom Walters, a young English chemist with a taste for out-of-the-way places and solitary travel, awoke with a sense of pain throughout his whole Inxly, ami pat his hand to his head, where was he what was the matter? He saw two tall brick walls on either de of him and a narrow strip of blue tky above his head. He slowly picked himself up and looked around. He had been asleep in an alley, with his head rating on the cobblestones. So much was evident, but how did he get there? Vor a long time he stood quite still with his hand on his forehead, trying to collect his thoughts, until at last a flood of memory came over his bemnddlert brain, ami a look of dismay Mtcceedcd that of vacant bewilderment whieh had but now shone on his broad d open fgce ne went through his pockets hurriedly, ami then again de-HlM-rately. About 1 ttMst," he muttered. Kobtad ami kicked out, and now the devil's to pay. Not a cent to my name nor a friend, ami scarcely any knowledge of the infernal lingo. What's w do, say how?"

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boat he sou Ul bjuI .i. u i. tl of his WW IV. I... 4. .l walked down the allet and entered lite scarcely wider idreet at Its and. He was walking ahmg lowjy utd aimlessly, wtniderhag what he had better do, when he happened to look up ad eaten sight of H large placard fa, toned on the wall of a imWic building whieh he was iMthsiag. He stopped ami ".pelled it oat labori. oly. His knowledge of Arable was t unlimited. What lie read was, ia suliatunw, as follows: "III- Kltd ami Wnjc.tk IIIgbmMa, tb Cilin of Allnmg.tU, irolfltor n Dm mx f M ll(Ut uf the aslvewe, wbowe doailnkm wu tiki) umu. ttte doMlnkm ot the sun. m4 wboM power wwlke(rat4wtt all MMiir AUrt, who w rwat, ete havln doiJMl to lseraM 1U houneboUl, wiw iaMtNlot a wirut to wt an Utr of lUu moHHteh' food. Tan mM wrraat wwiW rooolvo h lre aUry, aa4 ia aJdUtoo wimiW kavlh prillAo( looking mi ta (Hvlw fuo (4 tit Callt. bmw bautt(al than the moon. He., etc." Such was the extremity to which the Caliph's chief servant had lxen forced to aeeomplish that whieh he had so readily told his master waa done. Tom Walters stcxxl for some time looking at the proclamation. Finally he turned away. "What a lark!"' he said. "And really I've got to do something until I can bear from London, and through these wretched mails, too." Zillah,, daughter of the Caliph of AUatnagdalla, was walking one sultry evening in her little garden accompanied by a single attendant, a girl of alnmt her own age. The Caliph's daughter, as befitting the offspring of one so divinely endowed aa her father, was tall and straight and walked with a queenly statelinoss that became her well. She was quite young, though a woman grown, with large dark eyes set under a noble brow, over which her dnrk hair curled caressingly. She was walking slowly up and down in the twilight, now and then stooping to pluck a flower, or pausing to speak a word to her attendant, when suddenly there was a sound as of somebody coming over the wall and the maid pointed, with a little scream, to the farther end of the garden. The Caliph's daughter looked in the direction of her attendant's gesture and lK'hcld a tall young man, dressed in the uniform of her father's court, leisurely picking a llowor from one of the many beds that skirted the wall. As she saw him he looked up and caught her glance. He straightened up and came toward her in a manner that fitted in nueerly with his Oriental dress. "Excuse me, ladies," "he said, trying to summon all he knew of Arabic to his aid. "I saw the flowers from the window above, and I could not resist the temptation to drop down and get over. I did not know you were in the garden. I am sorry to have disturbed you." Zillah's face had at first assumed an expression of extreme hauteur, but as the stranger blundered through his speech, smiling confidently all the time, her expression changed to one of bewilderment, and her hand trembled a little, for she began, strangely enough, to Iks frightened for her queer visitor. "Hush!" she said, hurriedly; "sosw one may see you." Tom did not stir. He began to realise that he was talking to a very pretty girl, and such aa eeeurrenee was so uausual to him at present that he did net wish to break it off so suddenly. "May I have the flower?" he said, to gain time. She made no answer to his question, but put her hand on his arm command"Are you mad?" she said. "If you were seen here" Tom squared his big shoulders and showed no inclination to go. Really she was a very handsome girl. "Are you his Majesty's daughter?" he asked. By this time the attendant had recovered from the shock that the young man's appearance had given her, and was trying to draw her mistress away. The latter yielded to her guidance and was about to turn from him, when Tom interposed hurriedly. "1 say now," he said, rapidly, "don't go. I'll go myself if staying here is going to drive you away, but you see I belong to the old duffer I bog your pardon, to the household of the Light of the Universe in there, and I thought, being one of you, I might take a turn in here. I'm awfully sorry I disturbed you," and with a quick turn ho regained the wall and swung himself over. Zillah looked after him until his long misfitting Oriental robes had followed him over the wall, and then she turned away with a queer look on her pretty face. That night she dreamed of a tall young man who came down to her in a winged chariot from the skies, and who tried to carry her away with him. tlust as he was drawing her into his strange car she awoke with a start and a little scream. A few weeks later another scene was enacted in the little garden. "Zillah," said Tom, standing with liothher hands in Ms ami lnnltinir down into her deep, dark eyes, "I don't believe I can stand this much longer. It isn t natural, wny can't I just ask the Caliph to let rac have yon and end it there. He can't mre than refuse, and if he does well I've got money enough and I'll just carry you off like young Lochinvar. I beg your pardon you don't know about Lochinvar probably, but it's all the same, will you?" "You do not know what you are saj--ing," said Zillah. "Can't you understand, he would have you sewed up in a sack nnd thrown into the my liefore night if you were to do such a thing. It is hopeless, and you had better leave me." Tom let go her hands. "I don't believe you would care," he Zillah's eyes filled with tears and she stood very still. Tom saw it, and in a moment he had his big arms around her. 'There," he said, "I didn't mean that. Ami I won't leave yon; no, not if I have to die for it, which, by the wavt I not going to do. I'll just go to the Caliph and toll lim how it is, and

be cab t hip himself. Or, 1 11 tell yua tot as both g you d mm, t igether. I'M quiW mm that would fetch him." All this time Xlllsh said nevera word. Her Wetd was buried in Tom's MgelteM under the fold of hk buggy robe. Suddenly they bean, the sound of ap prowcldtig foototop. Jtoth looked ha I'k ittreetHMt from whieh the miisa emn ad saw three sum eomi&g toward the ia. Zillah gave a seream and threw kef arms despairingly about her kwer'f eek, buUtlie 1 titter stepped autokb; forward, ilUl with one arm around fcet proteetingly, and put himself almost ia front of her. There was a moment's struggle and then Tom was led away captive, leaving Zillah behind, weeping bitterly, and the very picture of despair. "Never mind," he called baek, reassuringly. "Just wait till these duffers get through with me and I'll come lmek again." He forgot, however, in his excitement to speak in Arabic, and so even what little consolation the poor girl might have found in his words was quite lost An hoar later Tom Walters wm lmmght before the Caliph. He looked a little sheepish in his big English way, but quite undaunted. He bowed deeply More the great man after the attendant had told his story "You see," he said, "er the faot is, your daughter and I are fond of each other and" The frown on the Caliph's brow deep encd into a scowl, and Tom realised that something was going very wrong. He made another bow ami began again: "Oh, mighty Caliph," he said, trying to look awed and solemn; "power is in thy right hand and in thy word is great wisdom. Thou art the protector of the poor and the stronghold of the innocent." Here lie stopped to take breath, ami then west on, though he wondered somewhat how he was going to get around to the point in this way. "Thy daughter's eyes are like two stars of the heavens, and in my heart they have wrought much ruin. She is as the pearl of the sea, ami as the diamond so is her beauty. She is " How long he could have kept this up I do not know, for he was warming to his work; but at this point the Caliph made a gesture to his men and they advanced toward the unfortunate stranger. "Wait," said Tom, stepping back quickly, "I have yet a word to say to the Caliph." ''Thou thinkest," he said, turning again to that individual ami speaking rapidly now, for he saw that he munt do something quickly, "thou thinkcfet that I am but a servant, and am at thy mercy, but lo! I am the offspring of tho sun, and the moon is my mother, ami verily, if thy slaves but lay a hand on mc 1 will burn them ami thee with my father's fire." As he spoke he took up a bowl that had been placed near by and made a pass or two over it with his hands. Immediately a bright flame hurst fortk and shot up toward the ceiling. "See, here is a witness of my power," he said; "shall I show thee more?1

Me Made aaothar pass ia the air and the room hkuted f er a -wHk a terrible saute. The att mil ants fell on their faces ia horror and the Caliph grew pale to hie very lips. He made m pniTC w nncvt inmi, however. "Peace," he said, and despite his efforts his voice trembled a little. "It pleases me to be mereiful. What wonldst tho: have me to do?" Tom folded his arms across hk bosom ami spoke slowly as became the advantage he had just gained. "Give me thy daughter," he demanded. The Caliph frowned, and Tom, seeing this, hastened to add to the strength oi his position. "Wouldst thou have me draw down the lightning of Heaven to consume thee and thy people, O Caliph," he sakL "Vcriiy I will do so, and thy land shall be as the desert and this city but moldcring ruinH," and he made another past over the bowl, bringing out once on a blinding sheet of flame. lly this time the attendants set up most unearthly howl, and crawling t the feet of the Caliph begged him to dq any thing to rid the city of this tcrriblfl pcr&on. The Caliph, too, was trembling with fear, for he was an arrant coward, "Give me thy daughter," commanded Tom again. The Caliph arose and tried to steadj his voice as he surrendered, clinging still to that mid arrogance of expreseioa so characteristic of his race. "My son," he said, "though thou art unworthy, and though thy power M compared to the might of my dominion is as a drop in the ocean or a singly sand in the desert, yet does it please mi to give her to thee. It is welL Tfc peace of Allah be with you." A few days after Zillah looked up at her husband with a kind of awe and "And is it true that tlwu art a mighty sorcerer, with power over the lightning and the fire of Heaven?" "No, Zillah," said Tom. "When you have learned English and a few other things that yon will need, I will try to teach you a little chemistry, and then you can be the daughter of the sua and tho sister of tlie moon, and most any thing like that if you like." J. A. New comb, in Itoston Olobe. Lftnrifftt Cookery. There is, properly upeaking, nothing good to eat in England but roast beet and mutton chops ami fried sole. Com. ing from Paris, where the whole soal was moved to ecstney by the melting delkionsness of seductive viands, there is something lmrbarously rude and unsatisfactory m tho things with which ho is forced to sustain life ia London. The bread is for the most part as dense as the English appreciation of a jest, while the compounding of sauces is as urt the llritisher can net learn any more than he an appreciate them when they have leen eoneocted. He who goes to Kngland to cat vs as wise as he who goes to ratagoaw to study art. Chicago Tribune.

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Mprlaerr Oleaa KM TVhm mm rimlfeftiUMUam al ftiaA TaLvftmT 'BAaJSMMufanaM-Yfta Congressmen William M. apt tufa was recently ia Kew York, and while there he was mtorriewed by a member ef the Kaform Club on the present ottlook of tariff reform. The Illinois Congressman said: "The RepahHeaa politic hum of Washington are now enueavoriag to divert publie attention from the principal issue upon which they were repudiated at the November election. They seem to he of the opinion that there is but one way open through whieh success w possible la im. Upon the tariff question, they have been thoroughly repudiated. They now hope by reviving seetkmal issues, through ami by means of the force bill and appeals to sectional prejudice, to reform political issues upon other lines than tariff and taxation. In this they will be as much disappointed as they were overwhelmed by Uie result of the recent election. The people of the country have pronounced against taxation of the many for the benefit of the few. They will not give up this issue until it has eventuated in practical legislation m, accordance with their demands. If we were now living under the form of government which prevails in monarchical England, the new Congress would be at onee convened ami the MeKinley bill would be repudiated immediately; but under our conservative methods we must abide tlie constitutional forms required for securing results. "On the tariff question the Republicans can neither go forward or backward with any prospect of bettering their condition. To stand still k conceded defeat; to more in the other direction offers scarcely less advantage. If they go forward they must rely upon the fulfillment of pledges made before the election aud pending the passage of the M cKinley bill, to the effect that while prices of articles affected by the tariff might be temporarily advanced, yet, ultimately and in the near future, by means of competition, such prices could be greatly reduced and articles would be sold cheaper than before the passage of tlie bill, thus placing tlieir reliance in tlie future for a reversal of tlie popular judgment in November upon a claim that competition is to come to their relief, and that by the time of the next Presidential election tlie people will be in the full enjoyment of cheap necessaries of life secured through competi tion. Tills hope is a flattering one: it can never be realized. "Competition has alreadv done its perfect work in this country in the matter of reducing prices. So perfectly has competition been carried on that combination for the purpose of arresting competition has been resorted to all along tlie line. There is scarce ly a manufacturing industry in tlie United States that is not more or less controlled by some kind of combination for the purpose of limiting the output and regulating the prices. In some eases ibis combination has taken the form of trusts, or organised monopolies. These trusts hare secured the concentra tion oi nearly all the capital engaged iu a given toilaeU, and by this eomblnataona complete control of tat output and prices has been secured. Ia other eases a more mild trpe of combination has been resorted to. Ia the combination has been se eared by aaeaas oc correspondence bevweea me various interesto and a tacit reached as to output ami prices, year after year. But through one form or another scarcely an industry can he mentioned in which further competition k not prevented or made impossible by the mutual concurrence of those engaged in the business. "Those, therefore, who look to competition for a reduction of prices will be deceived. Prices of manufactured articles can only be reduced, while the McKinley bill k in force, by the reduction of wages or by the adoption of improved processes. The letter will eonae without the tariff; it k entirely independent of it. In most lines of industry it would seem that the processes of manufacture were almost perfect at thk time; bat still we may hope for continual improvement in thk direction, although such improvement will scarcely be perceptible in the brief space of two years. IOwer prices, secured by reduction of wages, would be attended with greater disaster titan If present prices should be maintained and wages increased; so that wherever cheapness k secured by reduction of wages the remedy will be worse than the disease speaking in a political it will affect the interests of the Republican party. Hence it seems conclusive that the Republican party can not improve its position on the tariff or on taxation by adhering to the McKinley hill. "If, however, the leaders of the party should determine to reverse their position, overturn the leadership of Harrison, McKinley and Keed, and put Mr. Ttfaine forward with the implied promise of tins repeal of the McKinley bill, the enlargement of trade through reciprocity and the bettering of their condition by repudiating all that tlie Republican party has done sine. it came into power, it will find this latter condition more hopeless than the former. "I'resklcnt Harrison in hk message to Congress 'pointed with prkle to the fact that tltere had been, recently, an increase in the prices of agricultural products, such as corn, wheat, etc, and lie endeavored to convey the impression that such increased price of agricultural products was the result of the MeKinky bill. Nothing could be further from the truth. If he had taken pains to examine the report oa tlie condition of the crops whieh issued from the Agricultural Department almost simultaneously with his message he would have found that In Kansas the average yield of corn per acre was only eleven bushels, whereas it ought to have been thirty. The very fact that there k almost a total failure of tlie corn crop in Kansas was one of the reason which produced the political revolatioti in that State. The failure ot shortHess of the corn erop ia the great eera belt of the eotta try eatwed seareitjr ef thk erodeei, and

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om. ImttlwUMibW with tim farmers was mat they had little or no com to sell, and assay of 4hem who had stock to feed became buyer at the bigbe rates whfen scarcity bad produced. The prices of agricultural products aw detoraained entirely iy the extent of proeuetioa, and this k gnremad by natural causes, not by Wgklstiwi. A falhwe of crops in thk country la resfarded by the farmers as the greatest calamity that earn befall them. But such failure inevitably results ia higher prices of farm products; and, therefore, the President has cited as an evidence of prosperity that which the farmers themuelvea regard as a calamity, name ly, higher prices resumug from erop failure. There eaabe noeombmanon noag farmers to reduce the output of Agricultural products; such eombiaations are not even desirable. Farmers universally strive for bountiful harvests the pious ones among them praying as well as laboring for them. They regard a bountiful harvest as essential to their prosperity, notwithstanding the fact that the greater the erop the less will be the price of products. They are poltueal economists who believe, who realise in fact, that abundance k wealth, mat scarcity can never tend ia that direction. If the next season should ha favorable and large crops of wheat, corn, cats, and other products of the farm, should be realised, there will be a corresponding depression of prices, and the larger the erop the lower the prices. If such should be the result, a year from thk time the IWident hi hk annual message would following the lines of hk last one deplore the unfortunate condition of the country, brought about by low prices for fsrm products caused by abundant harvests! "Tlie Republican leaders cannot hope to divert the attention of the country from the tariff question whatever they may do, whether they go forward or go' backward. The Democratic party has a plain, unmktakable duty to perform; that duty consists in moving steadily onward and pressing the advantsge whieh it has already obtained. It will keep thk ques tion before the public until the fruits of victory hsve been realised; until the McKinley bill has been repealed, and until materials which make profitable manufacture impossible have been relieved from unnecessary burdens, and so cheapened as to not only aid manufacturing, but increase profitable production. It will demand larger markets for American farm products; not only reciprocity with Cuba, South America and Canada, but freer trade with all the world. "The late election was only the expression of a popular desire; that popular desire has not been accomplkhed. It may not be fuUy realized until aftot the next Presidential election, at which the final and complete victory will be achieved, namely, the election of a President and both branches of Congress, who will carry into effect the popular verdict of last November. During the Fifty-second Congress the large Democratic majority will keep this question continually in view. It win not be tamed to the right nor to the left; it will not permit sUe fceuc of nay kind to isnerferc with thk all. aWbiag and With tbe it will be ltttM lew than whams! to permit any thing to occur which would make impossible uMunato nnd eontpleto tariff refonn.M COM PET I NO WITH CANADA. n CMltmi lg4W TTfcnrt naaVQ SaruntmnrfJ TuMFftaV Fratt the Amtrini .taulsit tn ? dHaa farmer. One of tbe cheap pretenses of the Xe Kinky tariff law k that it protects out farmers from the Cansdkn farmer. But any American farmer who knows any thing about the vast quantities of farm products which we are selling ia Canada every year will understand how to rate McKinley's "farmer's tariff" at ita true value. McKinley raised the duty considerably on all farm animals, as if fancying that our farmers were being injured by the few animal brought from Canada. Our imports of various animals from Canada for the fiscal year I860, were: Cattle, 48,?90 head; horses, 1,O0; sheep, SM.OOO; all other, 11,000. Our exports of animals to Canada were not so large, being: Cattle, MO head; horses, 1,1; hogs, 38,009; sheep, 27,600; all other, S,0O. But when animal products are considered we turn the tables on Canada oa a grand scale. Our imports of meat products of all kinds from Canada reach HM,9M worth; butter, 87,000 pounds; cheese, 5,100 poundat condensed milk, fw worth. Oar exports to Canada were as follows: Canned beef, 6,000,090 pounds; fresh beef, S70,t00 pounds; salted beef, 7,000,090 pounds; tallow, 80, 090 pounds; bacon, 96,90,000 pounds; hams, S,to0,000 pounds; pickled pork, 90,000,900 pounds; lard, 14,000,000 pounds; mutton, 109,000 pounds; butter, 1,450,000 pounds; cheese, 19,900,000 pounds. The figures for erop products are alee largely in favor of our farmers. We buy from Canada 11,900,000 bushek of barky, 174 bushek of corn, 99,900 bushels of oats, 1,179,090 pounds of oatmeal, 130,700 bushek of wheat, 409 barrels of flour, and 94,000 worth ef all other kinds of breadstuff. On the other hand, we sell to Canada 0,000 bushek of barley, 8,000,099 bushek of com, 109,000 barrek of eornmeal, Sou bushek of oak, 900,990 pounds of oatmeal, 101,000 bushek of rye, 1,80, 00s bushek of wheat, 909,009 barrek of Hour, and f 190,000 worth of other breadstuffs. We sell Canada also 10,999,909) worth of cotton. For the year ended June 90, 1009, our imports from Canada amounted to H0,509,0M, and our exports to that eoustry were 99,919,900. All the figures given here ineluae MrHkh Columbia, Manitoba, .Kew Kruuswiek, Newfoundland and Labrador Let any farmer examine the above figures and whether he needs pro toetkm from Canada. Linen shirk and shirt fronts paid 49 per seat, duty under the oM tariff; the MoKkley duty k M per cent, ambroidered shirt besom pshl SO per cent; the McKkdey duty k 09 per cent

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Tb beet MeMtorw gea. watly take tae mwt as it stand, aad aaderrtftod that U peak cf ravea. Todd. T. "Alter awhile:" probable about ayear. Etrjea wm tfatu hidden (1) to preserve hie life; nj to avoid ih5 importunity of tae people; iS) t be prepared by nUeat eonataetoa ttk God for his aveeter work. I. "As the Lord Hveuu" bowleg the wm aot a bestbea. ' I have sot a take;" ratber kaf, tbe MMlleat Mad of bread. Bread wm Imbed m tamll. roeod Md net loavew. about m pM ta dtemeter asd a flager's breadth la tfeiekeeM, eheped aot usitke Sat itooes (Matt. 4 a; 7 ; and three ef then were alk,wd for each perwoa for oae meat (Lake list. "A handful of meal:" wheat, greuad m ahMidsdU. I a barrel:" probably m eertbea )w. "Aad a little ait : olive on wed Mire do bUer. "In a crme:" at tbe pretest tkae this U made of a Mae. poroua eir. sad la of a (t lobular form, about mIm laebee la dlenoter. with a akeder ack abeet three ieehea ! 'Two stick:" L p.. a Sew. "Dnut Hi prefeee It for ea'.iag. cook H. LRSSOX COMMEXTK. Ahab and hk wicked wife Jeaebel bad sew fer some years been setting the example of gross idolatry, aad had used all their power to drive, the people from tbe worship of Jehovah. Ia thk tbey bad been only too sueeesstul. Israel had become almost totally idolatrous. K tbey were again to be brought to a worship of the true God severe messurea alone would answer. God's patience was net yet exhausted, so lis prepared severe jirajrments forfbem. Si see they were net williag to be led kindly by a look of His ere God proposed new to hold them In temlj with bit aad bridle. For thk purpose He raised up a stern aad danatlees man, Elijah the Tkhbiie. In all the story of Elijah we shall see him executing God's wrath upon evil-doers in order to draw Israel back to their allegiance te their own Ged. n The solena waraisg (verse 1). "Neither rain nor dew these yssrs." This would be a grievous evil, for in Paleetine there were no large rivers and wide lakes, aad the land was absolutely dependent on its annual raia-fall for ita harvests and even for tbe neeooasiy water to sustain life; thus God struck at tbe very root of the National prosperity; without rain Kiar aad beggar must saffeaand armlet themlvee perish. In this way God proposed to make every feel that it waa a grtovoea thing fee to forsake Him for Baal. The soUtnry boarder (wars. Ood KUtok in thk time of hi amamlar way. Ha : day aad aijrut. There Klijea lived, fad by birds every nsofains; ant eveuiaat, and supplied with water from the strPum. nijuwMskee. Ia thk way be learned hk .utter dependents upon God, aad had much time to think about spiritual thiags. Then, too, he was safe from the Tengeance ef'Ahsh and Jeaebel, who wanted to kill him. Ilia board was not very luxurious, but it was enough, aad he had learned, what Paul afterwards also learned, to be eentent in whatsoever state be was. I doubt set Elijah, with a sense of God's favor, was happier by the brook, than Ahab la his palace with an evil eeneeienee. Riches by themselves eaa net make people bappy, nor need poverty stake them miserable; but a guilty sonscience will make both rich and peer suffer. The widow's hoeraing-houeu (vers. 9 19). She had osly oae boarder, Elijah, and he paid nothing for hk board. Ask the scholars hew it eame to pass that Elijah left the brook. Draw from them the story of the coming of the prophet to Zarepbath. Have them tell of the meeting of prophet aad widow. Shew how bitter tbe faniaehad grown by this time, se that it had spread to Zideu. outside &f the limits of Ahab's Kingdom. Do not fall to sail attention to the faith of thk naaaelesa widow, who dared vesture out on the bare word of the man of God. This faith had to be exercised dayfaydajw for there was never more than enough meal aad oil for one day. "Day by day the maana fell," aad day by day was her food provided. In thk way her hospitality and faith in taking this penniless boarder were rewarded; bet got kt return store than she rave. Ker. A. F. Sehauffler, D. D. PRACTICAL. jtl'eOMSTlOXS. 1. Kvil always eomre to a people who forsake God and the true religion. S. God sends trials in lore, to brine; back the people to Himself. J. God reveals our way step by step, aad gives us day by day our daily bread, to keep us near to Hist. 4. We need Umea ef retirement and. Meditation. 5. God has Infinite aad weadarfal way of earing for his people. S. God's hleesinfr; abides oa these who so trust Him as to give freely to Um poor aad for Hk Gospel. Six is a mighty power. It blights all that k innocent and sweet aad pare in the young, aal as the years ge by if unrestrained it burns over the whole moral nature, and leaves it black and barren as a fire loaves the fallow Held. But mkrhtyas it kit can not build a wall high enough to shut out the love of God fer man. Xe eae has wandered se far away or has fallen so lew bat Ged ieveu him aad desires hk salvation. Christkn Inquirer. A holy life is a voice. It ipsamfl when the tongas ia (hmt; aad is eitaafi a eanstaat attraction er a eeatiaaal m reef.- Hints.