Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 33, Number 19, Jasper, Dubois County, 23 January 1891 — Page 3

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w JS1 IKDIAKA. UBKIi THICK." Sol BmiutrM'M lAttim Girl. (WrKttra for This l'npw. . T was not some0 thing xkl that Sol llraintree had done which was nominated by the miners Of Rattlesnake basin a "queer trick," but the name they IumI given his little girl. SImi whs the only child in the camp, ms the scattered cabins and tents in the b a s i n were called, and was a blue-eyed, pudgey little IkxIv five yenrt old, who was absolutely witiiout the tenw of ear. This quality, and the aispositiim to Ie obedient wo matter what danger lay in the command, and the queer things stie sakl and did, got her the name. lint the miners of the ha.,in loved her; the rough, drinking, homeless fellows, planning and sluicing for gold in this lonely sink among the mountains of California. Sometimes a griaexly moped indifferently across the ojien spaces on the mountain side above their heads or a nutfi Miake, cold and loggy and loving tlu sun, was found sleeping on the warm rx'ks by the spring, and in such ii).. ments Queer Trick was thought of with a thrill of apprehension. She was l:ke JiiUhk to the men, calling back to tht ir memories houte, its con f mis and the faces of dear ones left behind. Hut u was Sol Uraintree's child; there was the rub. ,S1 was not liked, for Ms life lay wi'h-r a eloudaliat inade him hard and restive. He was a massive fellow, with a fchsi!gy, auburn beard and keen blue eyes, and was repnted the most powerful man among the hundred or more who woeked in the basin, lie asked jih man to help him in his work, bot carried tlmWrs ami moved bowlders nn matter how large or heavy they chanced to le. He said but little, and that austerely like one with a sore Jif.'.rt. He had oome into the basin lrt-n-ari l-efore, when gold was first .,,.-.,.. i i ,i . i i . .. t.;aj m on the creek and built a cabin at tbq mountain's foot They rcniemwivn siv ni mi lie went "below," a tliey say of ?nc who goes down 'out of the mountains to the settlements in the valleys, ami when be returned he brought the child, and was stern and changed, "it's motljer's dead," was all be said in explanation. He drank no . more after that, and kept himself apart, I htfrying himself in work ami the child's lve sad care. The cabin lie rebuilt down on the floor of the basin, with the rude door opening directly upon the claim, There the toddling child played month after month in the sand and among the white heaps of gravel, happy and contented as pnly babies are when playing in the dirt. The skies seemed alw ays clear, the air was balmy, andtlie very ground was sweet ami warm with perpetual summer. Every night the cliild blept with her yellowhead by the father's toarded cheek, ami woke at awn to be loved and tenderly com foiled. It sweetened the man's life. Ily dTcex hta gravity of word and "mcin 'eoftened a little, but he was: never companionable. However, not a day passed but miners came into the shallow pit to Play with ami fondle tlie child. Her wy speeches made them roar with deIfcht. They often gave her little nng vts of gold, and Sorrel Sam, a redheaded fellow who worked tbe. claim iiext alwre Hraintree's, fasliionl these to a rustic chatelain whicb little Queer Trick always wore about her neck. Perhaps in time the father's heart would, have had not a Vfrr trrmva tliin- 1, He and Sorrel Sam f.ll f.mi ,.f n,.i. ouier oyer the use of water in their Latins. Notliing could have In-en more Wifortunate, for next in value to the K"!d itself was water with which to wash the metal from the soil. Like the Pold, too, water was often weighed in tlie balance against life itself ami count- " ot precious of the two. Hrst, with Sol and Sorrel, weeks of wated rancor approaching blows went 9'- Then they brought the crude law of the time to bear apon tlie bitter Problem, and Sorrel won. For days tUcrcafter llraintree moped about in W mine or sat brooding in the cabin, jwrel had turned the water away from H claim and he could do nothing. His '""art seemed consuming with rage, and ' night after little Trick had gone to Nwp, he took his rifle and crept over to a iirirs cal,in with nurle-' -a liiB soul. "ght was burning on Ue inskle, and Snrr.l u.uu .':.... 1... ii. , head propiwd on his hands, his brow t intently stiMlying a rude map of t e mines which lay on the table before 1 i Vr"-,nlr took aim t his fore- . ' f ,lc Was so near he oqmM tt , hkx Erring the veins on his t liS drew 1,18 "s-er tothe trigh.I'in1 .U b,0od "'mnI into his own Jfal until it wemed to nar in A hundred thouglits JJJ Pictures flashwl through his Bi.r i B8 l! flMfer touched the trig. -W.Cn,!,MW?B,y Ica cried: "Papa 1! H WM 1HUe Trkjk C4(11)H? Mm lEH,Ml ha aver heanl her Vlit- "MyGedr k fasMl, sd

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wr ti; Titk oUy b Ward mtLklH. And Itralntrv, trembling all over, lit" darkness to hi cabin. Little Triek was sleeping ipdetly, and again he whispered -ay Uodr J utWraaton. Uhwient. Mb ktooU a moment looking r iwaeeful faott Miul a great kcimm) of what he might have been rushed over him. lie stooied over thesloenInsr nl.il.) i i.. I .. .... wi iiiy vears supped (town his bi'ariled cheeks itmi her pillow. Jso, little thing," he ,ld, brokenly, "for your sake 1 couldn't be that! No matU r what 'comes of us or the mine, I couldn't he tut!" ami he set the rifle in a corner and went out, and for lialf tne night walked to and fro on tlie lnounUin ski, struggling with tlie IwoWem. Hut tlie next morning .Sorrel fam was gone, and tlie water running through the aluice Into Hraintree's mine. Not a trace of Sorrel was found, save one damaging mul dreadful thing -his hat, tirn in shreds ami sotted with bhxal near the upper jfate of the sluice. He hail Ikh'ii killed, murdeml, wai the gi-neral cry. Were Uwre not traees of a struggle there auumg the nx-k And who could have done the deed but his enemy, Sol llraintree? The excitement spread through the liasiu line fire. A few dissented. Grizzly Smith, a miner who had been chewed up once by agrhudy down on the Feather river, was one, of these. ",Mebbe hit was a bar as carried him off," he suggested. "Kv mebhle two b'ars tit oer Sorrel's hat where he drapped hit, an' tore an' trumped hit up thatwajv" "Oh, you're a ole fool!" said Hi Munson, who uhmI to work with (Iriaszly down on the Feather river, "you don't know not bin but 'b'ar' since ye got bit. W'y, look at it! Ain't the water runnin' in Sol's sluice where the Jaw said it didn't belong? An' ain't Sol llraintree the oneriest on ever come into the Imsin? He'd as lief kill anyltody that crossed him a.s he would a fattier!" Ves, an' 1 seel him comin' in to his cabin last night nigh to midnight," declared Whisky Kvans of Sunken liar, "an' I'd jtt,t like to ax ye, Grizzly Smith, where he'd lKe?" "Out gitttn' a dram like y'rself, 1 b'poms" growled Grizzly. "Xo, h wasn't; )w's tH) csm1 mean an' stingy f-r that." seollVsl Kvans. "Oh, shet up!" roared Munson. "Git a rope! We'll see wliether tMbtgs like this ken lie did in thews diggin's or not!" In half an hour three-fourths of the miners of Rattlesnake baiit came pouring' down into Sol Jlraintree'8 mine. Xunsou haxl a rope, and all wen; excited and many the worse for liquor, llraintree was hitting on a rock apparently lost in thought. He got up and looked at the crowd of men, and a little Mitch of color came into each of his swarthy cheeks. "What do you fellows want?" he asked. "We want poti, Sol llraintree!' said' Muhmhi, "an' we'd like to ax ye whar Sorrel Sam's gone to, an' how it oomes his water's runnin' in here whar the law sakl it (Hdn't belong" "That's what I been studyin' about," sakl llraintree, quietly, "I didn't turn it in, an' I don't know what's come of Sam." "Y'r a cussed liar!" sakl Miuihon, advancing. In an instant he lay sprawl ing among the stones, felled by Hraintree's knotted list. "If any more you fellers hev speeches like that to make y'd best go outskle the pit to mske 'em, I reckon," sakl llraintree, steadily. At that moment little Queer Trick came in among them. Squeezing her eurly head and chubby body pust the big legs of the men, she emerged in the ring beside her father Looking- up into his pale face, and up at the scowling malevolent visages of the men about him, she saw thatsomething was wrong. "Zis is 'mv Papa Sol," she lispod: opening one of his fists ami taking hoi 1 of one of his big, soiled fingers; "he's "ZIS IS MY I'Al'A SOL." mint, an' oos mustn't hurt hind" She turned her round, blue eyes tip to his face appealingly. "Papa Sol come in an' make dinner; Queer Trick dettin' hungry!" The knotted muscles of the father's arms relaxed, his chin sank on his breast, and h mist came into Ills eyes. Tlie men looked siduwise, stamped their feet on tlie rocks in a confused and doubtful way, and began turning off to the right and left, "We're a durncd jwck of fools!" growled Whisky Kvans, throwing down the rope, and the child led the father unmolested out through the crowd and off toward Hie house. As they went she looked back over her shoulder. "Oos better turn in our house an' dlt dinner," she said. "Papa Sol he tooks awful nice iingst!' Some of the rough fellows roared with laughter. 'Hie idea of going to a man's house to hang him, and Ixiing invited in to dinner, convulsed them. Others had tears in their eyes; the vision of the sweetness of the child's love, the absenee of such affection in their own lives, and awakened memories of former days, smote them with homesickness. Hut the Inxly of Sorrel Bam wan never found. Two years went by, and doubt and suspicion of llraintree smouldered in the wen's wind. The, man himself worked ea, motom and blttsr

HMder the tainU ptttUttg by gold for UUle Trbtk't future. I thought another miner's right and brought the water by a long flume htWi his mine, ami turned Horrfl's water htwk Into the channel; atiil thy eouh! not lwlieve him innoent. A sate ircm his own am little Queer Trick's, a fVnman foot seldom left it mark in tlie --bottom of Hraintroe's wkle placer-pit. Hut Queer Trick went everywhere, and the miners loved her, only, alas ! she was a murderer's child. Hut one day Queer Trick was missing, It had rained on tlie mountains to the westward, and a rainbow, a vast arch of glory, stood across the basin from crag to crag. Sol went up to strengthen the flumegate, lfoss the augmented How of water should break it. When he returned Queer Trick was gone. Night was coming on, and he went out to inquire for her, but no one had seen her. At ten o'clock liraiiitree came into the lasin saloon, the flint time in three years. His face was jsi'ie, ami he cried wildly that his child was lost. The smlden death of the best-known man in the camp could not have created more feeling. Jlen set down their glasses on the bar Htul left them wholly untaated. Cards were dropped on the tables b3 the Hide of little heaps of gold-dust and left uncared for. All was confusion and stir. Hy midnight torches were flashing through the pine trees away over on the sides of Oriwd.v mountain, down in the black gorges around Lost Creek falls and off to the left nearly to the top of Splinter jieak. Everywhere through all that region strong men were panting up the slopes, and calling through the canyons, eager, hungry to find this one bit of love and innocence that had lieen taken from them. All night the search went on, and at dawn the men came in from all directions, but the child had not lieen found. They looked weary and jaded, and Hraintree's face was like ashes. His hut was gone and his clothes torn from the night-long struggle. The men said but little to him, hut in their own and his greater agony their hearts began to turn toward him pityingly. While breakfast was being hastily eaten, the pack-train came in from .Sjanish Fork, and as soon as the burdens were off the Imcks of the twenty or more mules,

Y -i AT THKIK HKAD RODK SORKKIj SAM. they were mounted and sent clamoring ap the mountain sides in all directions. All the long day the search went forward. The mules when exhausted were turned loose, no matter ,where they were, and their riders pressed forward on foot. Many a heart was chilled with dreadful fancies that day as bear-traeks were crossed on the mountain sides, or the line where a rattler had dragged its hateful body through the dust. Sol llraintree was everywhere, and, like a madman, his strength seemed exhaustless. Some fell dead tired and laid down and slept on the mountain side, others eame Imek for food, and others kept searching on. Horns, used in the mines to call the men to their meals, had been taken by many, and it was agreed that were the child found they should be blown, once if the child yvere dead, and three times if alive and well. .1 nst at sundown, when all in the camp was depression and sadness, when the tired refused to talk and the hungry s"areely tasted the food they ate from dejection, there came a long, faint peal iloating downward from the heights of Splinter peak. Tlie watchers, the exhausted and the hungry, sprang to thourfect and listened. Far and near the searchers stopped still on the mountain skies and held their breath. Would it blow again? Ohl would it blow again? Yes, there it came! and there again! trembling downward through the golden air! A wild yell of joy went up from the camp, and from every ridge and spur the horns began to blow. It was such music as Kattlesnakc basin had never heanl before and may never hear again. At six o'clock a crowd came down the trail from Splinter peak. At their head rode a horseman, Sorrel Sam, with Queer Trick in his arms! Ily his side walked Sol llraintree, his hand upon the horse's mnne, his; face turned up to the smiling pair above him as if he saw into Heaven. The men waiting in the Iwsin rent their throats with cheers at,the sight, and when Sorrel rode in among them, they pulled both man and child from the Saddle and well nigh strangled them with hugs am kics. in answer to a hundred queries put nt once, Sorrel said he liad leen homo to tin; Stntes; that ho guessed he wasn't in iho right atont the water any va3-, and he'd be Mowed if ho was going to beat Queer Trick out of her grub by taking tho water from her father. Another great cheer went up at that, and Sorrel and Sol's hands were well nigh shaken off in the general delight. "Hut whar 'bouts did ye pick up the little gal, SorrelV asked one. "Oh, she waa layin' by the trail asleep on the .oft side of a rock over on the other side of Splinter peak," he said. The happv father was holding the child on his lag rigU arm, sihillng inte her face, "Wlmt dkl ye go 'way ovei tlmr fer, honey?" he asked. Wv, Sorrel toleme onbe 'at a bag o golte was Mte where the jainlnw coined down, an' 1 went to dlt It, but the ole jainlhiw left, an' I dot Tost Pai-Sol l'ae hongry!" Alva Miltox Kkkk.

GUQAR AND JAM. ftfMH-laMHjr l'w KwlMiag I'H a Vast Ih4HIry Hitw ( ku IHH(Hr Will AH Jam JHaktMK What CkMiSMr Ht I fwr KhkUiuI TSr llMty wt Tuttiltkw t Jsm KUIITcMt Ulna, The duty on raw sugar will not be ftbolislied till next April, but the price of sugar has already begun to dccllmi in anticipation of the removal of the duty. The sugar market k influenced by the knowlwlge that tlie tariff is a tax which tlie eonauiner is now paying; ami tlie certainty that this tax on tlie consumer will le abolished April 1 la already operating to give tlie. popl cheaper sugar, The old duty on raw sugar, which in still in force, is 91. per 100 pound for tlie very lowest grade. The raw sugar made by the centrifugal process ami testing degrees by tlie polariacope pays 2.28 per hundrrd thl Wing one of tile best ipialities of raw sugar brought in. It tkes 113 pounds of this sugar to make 100 pounds of refined, and tlie duty pakl on this raw sugar g ing into 100 pounds of refined is ftUS1. This latter figure ought to represent the difference lietween the price of refined sugar in England and In tlie United States. Owing to tlie fact, however, that the duty will be aholhihcd next April the difference letween the price here and in England lias fallen below $i.4K, The present price of granulated sugar in England 1 SJi.75 per 100 pounds; in New York it U 80,12 a difference of S.87. The itariff difference in prices can best be seen by comparing the Xew York and London prices for two months in 1SS0, the month of March, when the difference was least, and the month of September, when it was greatest. Here is such a comparison on 100 pounds of granulated sugar at wholesale;

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March 'i-S.... March .......... ......... March Vt-1. ,v. March W March iT-ia...,,, March V3 ., Meh Sfttiler l-i Septmix-r S.i.., ,M., Smemliiir M 11... (f lllllHT Vl-Vi Sttmcuiher t.n... 8lUiii!lwr W-2S..... Sfnt'wiU;r 2" to Ot-toliy '1. , M.S'. 7. t'i.Si 7.W . 2 W 7.WJ I J.M 1 1 7S 7. SO 2.WS 7.75 b. I J-SW 8. S3 j 8 .21 8 "i!5 I 3.87 i.K 4.60 4 SO 4,(l 4.741s S.35 5. 01 4.M 4.T4 4,T 4.TJ 4.71 s.x, :i si i5 8.W As tlie prie of sugar is so much lower in England than with us, its consumption is much greater. Kngland consumes seventy-four pounds a year per person, the United State fifty, Prance twenty-eight, and Germany twenty. One reason for the large consumption in Kngland is the fact that vast quantities of sugar are used there every year in making fruit jam, more than 800,000,000 pounds being consumed in this way alone. Much of this was exported to all parts of tlie world, and in this way the actual consumption of sugar in England is not so great aa tlie figures make it appear. We are ourselves large consumers of English jama ami preserves. Rgland's consumption per capita, ought, therefore, to lie slightly mluoed, and ours somewhat increased. The cheapness of sugar la England m not dae simply to the lack of a duty on sugar; it is further caused by the sugar e.iort bounties of France and Germany. Our ' own drawback on refined sugars has also had the same effect as an cxjiort bounty, the American refiner being able to sell his product to the English buyer at about 9.S0 per 100 pounds cheaper than the home buyer, lieorge Medley, an English economist, says: "I hold that it is in a great measure owing to the folly of other nations that wc occupy the commanding positkm we now do in trade, manufactures and navigation, and that were it not for that folly wo should not le anywhere near it, alisolutely or relatively." Dow llramwcll has estimated that foreign nations by their sugar bounties make England a present of about f 1,000,000 every year. The great fruit jam industry of England and Scotland has been built up as the direct result of cheap sugar. In London alone more than 6,000 workmen are employed during the season in making jam; and it was estimated even six years ago that there were 19,000 persons fn tlie jam making business of England. Ilesides these there were 50,000' persons in the single county of Kent who were interested as growers, pickers and packers of small fruit for the jam industry. The great production of jam has given tho working people a cheap and wholesome substitute for butter. Tliis may be seen from tlie following words of an English country grocer: We have Just ordered eleven tons of Jam. Tears ago we never m1 to Keep It. W'Utn It was high we count not sell It. Xow It Is an article of food for quite poor people. At the school treats children used to think bread and Jam arrest pleasure now they would rather have uresd and butter, they are so RocHstomwl to Jm. The production of small fruits in tins United States is hardly less than that of England. A conservative estimate places the value of our yearly crop of strawberries, cranberries, blscklierries, currants, etc., at fl 8,000,000. This value would lie much greater but for tlie fact that the growers are often compelled to sacrifice their fruit in a glutted market, and are even fortunate at times if they get back their empty baskets from the markets without actual loss. The abundance of small fruits with us gives us an opportunity to become one of tho greatest of jam producing countries. Hut the -tariff stands in the way with its high duties on sugar and on tumblers and earthenware jars. The sugar duty will soon lie abolished, and one difllculty will thus be removed. Hut rdcKlnley has made the question of packing more difficult than ever. The old duty on tumblers suitable for packing jam was 1 cent per pound, equal to about -IS per cent.; theMeKinley duty is Hi cent per pound, equal to about 7 per cent. If common brown earthenware jars are used th duty is if per cenU in both old ami new tariffs; but if these jars are glased the old duty was M par cent., ami the McKlnlay duty is 90 per cent. it is interesting to oaloulate just how much the tariff operates toward pre Msg um grswUs. M a jm maestry

with wl The two following f Mas w eakulated upon the basis of the old tariff datWs on sugar and on oowiaaoa brown earthenware pot (6 per eent. duty in loth tariffs). 'Hie calculation k for one doaea jars of jam, eaek jar weighing one pound. Here is how the

matter has stood in regard to sugar: - sr Kiad of frstt. GreetMiasw ami daHoafl .... . .f.WwT SHrswIwrrto Jfc.WJat.fcJ j&'Ji KMtttberrMM aaa Wak dap.... I'm, ok I uiarouiilkillO WLti'M.1 KlavkWrry., ..)9.fc M.W ytllMO SS.4S I.lllltWt KmI ehrrte MM Nu eurritt... Qwrrawt QHy) .4S tt.m jW.00:.7i TIk- next table irlves tlie dlfferenee of ost on a doaen jars, ami flie last aolumn of figures gives tlie combined extra eost on sugar ami jars; W2 it ? 2 Kiad of fruit. 19 X StrawWrrlrw.. . ;.,7.; Vomtfb (marmalsde),,,.,,,,,. (3.(;3T.U iH.48 fiiacKiMtrr',..,, ;.i. QuIro. ........... ...... !.s:t. 8 MIRVPl ...... m.V(fHTl Mn1 eherrl.. .............. ...62 snT.U (ioosiHirriM , fflr. vrr.s) v ai mi9 J 36 KM earrants s.s.ir.s Currant (eily).. XW.ba The wholesale selling prices in London by tlie dozen are: Strawberry jam, ' $1.30; raspberry and blaok currant, $1.24; iand other kind ranging as low as 93 cents. There is, therefore, a tariff difference here against the American man ufaeturer and hausewife eaual to 40 tier cent, and upward of tlie English wholesale prices. After our jam industry getv free sugar the next step must be in the direction of cheaper tumblers and jams. Mr. Reed Jordan, who is perhaps the foremost jam manufacturer In the United States, says: Gva the American potters tree chemicals and elay, xiVe the American lfis-tumtHr manufacturers free chemicals and ml and j they will ied no protection. In fact the j tumbler manufacturers need none now. 1 Give) us abolutfj tree trade In sugar, tflassn'are and earthenware so that we may be protect from trusts and combination; lv us absolute free trade In preserved fruits, Including Jams, and w will bay more "small fruits frotwtha farmew, pay ttiein bet ter prtes and los er the price of our poous. We can then control the American markets, and build up a large export trade to South America, where there Is a lame demand for Jain and other "sweets." Xot only this, but we would be able to Ball our goods hi GlasKow, Dundee and London, the chief Jam manufacturing centers of the world. We would be able to compete with them in their own market), Instead of being undersold by them in our own markets, as Is the ease today. A Cmt Fer Free Raw Materials. About eighteen years ago the duty on hides was removed, and since that time our tanning- and leather goods industries have had the advantage of free raw materials. The result has been to vindicate in the ora pie teat manner tits truth of the Democratic position in the preseat tariff agitation that fret raw Mttsrials will not only Boourage and develop our manufactures, but will enable them to put their products upon the markets of th world in successful competition with their foreign rivals. From tlie very time when hides were upon the free list our leather industries began to expand, ami our exports of sole leather and manufactures of leather have shown a steady and gratifying growth ever since. A late number of "ISradstreet's" has the following facts ami figures on tlie abject: "The cost of tanning hides Is cheaper here than in any other country. This is due in large measure to tlie low cost of materials. We are therefore not only able to tan all our domestic hides but tlie major part of those produced ha Central and South America. We supply European countries with about 9000,000 worth of leather each month, and our exports have been increasing rapidly within the last few years, as may be seen from the following table:

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lie "Will rer KeHcve Ir Freteetten. A case of tariff injustice recently took place in Xew York which haa never been made public, but which deserves to be recorded as an svkknce of the barbarous tariff laws under which ws are living in this enlightened nineteenth century. An intelligent, educated German, a graduate of one of the leading universities of Germany, came to America nearly two years ago to sesk a position as a teacher. After teaching a year im an academy on a very modest salary he secured a position as aa instructor in one of the foremost institutions of learning in America, though still on a very modest salary. Meanwhile he had been longing for the girl lie left behind him, and aceord ingly he thought that bow was the tims in liis affairs to enter into matrimonial joys. lis wrote to the old home for her, and-in due time he met hsr at the pier in New York. Tlie two families in Germany had sent a goodly number of presents for tha couple, most of these being silverware for household use. Now what did Uncle Saai's custom house o Ulcers do to show this educated Oennaa gentleman that he and his bride were welcome to this "land of the free," and that we were glad to see him setting up 1 his household in our country? They took SI 10 out of his pocket as a tariff tax on his wife's wedding present! And such outrages are perpetrated under the humbug pretense of patriotism -of Mirotection to American lHHuest" Tiiey say, too. "protection to American labor;" but it is a libel on American laborers to say that thy want such things done in tlieir behalf. The American priHt works f Fall Kiver, Mass., have shut down for an in deSnits perks, thus throwig .out of sniMeyntsat a largs aumhsr ml 'kV-

ELIJAH ANO THE PROPHETS.

ani 1 1 f I it nis 1 Lllj m vS r-p" IV1Vt m f a a for fffiwlally Xrcaagad faeat S. . Quarterly. LesaoN Text I Klaus ts;vi. Ooun-a1 Tk.xt-How tort halt ys lisww two opinions If the LorJ be Ood. follow Htu -I Kls-rs l'.'l. CatmiAl. Thitk Tbe moat ita poruutt 4esiakw of our lives la whom we wilt asrve awl lore supremely. Tim a- About It. C. WS. Three years a a hU utter KlfjaJa's Drat abearance to Ahsk I'uu-K-Mounl Canael. a ridge afcmt twelve Miles lonst sad seventeen hundred fast Mm. The tacrine was abfeut tour miles true Its eastern c-jrt, where Is a level plsee, a peraaalal fountain, and near which flow the Ktabea. Itv 1 jkiw-Aaati, Kln- of Israel (uttrteestycar) ; JeseM, his Queen ; Jewoehanhat, Kla eC Juriah ( ninth year), KKt.es Ovkr IUan I'utcaa 6. Treubets of Haal;" prints who eooducted bis worauin, and who uttered sometimes wild sad frastk erles Hupposed to rooxi from tbs tasptradaa e tbe idol. Hence the were called prophete, I. e., those who apeak under special Mvie hunteiice. "Vat ye are many;" four hundred aad fifty. They would be able to itet ready ftrat. And bo irave them the looet tlaw. "list pst ae fire under:" the teat wut fire from Heave. A miracle thavt oaly Ood eould periorm would Us a test as to whether Itaal was Ood. Itaal was the sua, and It waa midday, so thai If a ay Wei can brinx lire, he eouhi. ST. "ICHJah mocked:" to show the people how absurd it -as to trait in tdota. & "Knifes:" swords. "Lancets:" uutosa, spears. M. MProsikMt:M referring to their prayers, etc. (described ia v. ). St. "Twelre stone;" one tor each tribe, to be bollard into one altar, to show that alt the tribes ahould be one i a serving the Lord. SB. "A trench . . . aa great as would eoatata two measures of seeds" the measure here Is the seah, containing about three gallons. The trench was as wide and deep as a vessel that would bold two mauMires, i. e., probably between one and two feet each way. 8S. -Fill four barrels (water Jars) with water;" toprove to tbe people that there was no trick or deceit. The water oouU route from aa uafatlIng spring sow 00 Mount Carmel near this place, a. 'Time of the evening sacriflcs:'' three o'clock, as. "The fire of the Lord fH:" from Heaven, openly, before the eye of the people. 'Consumed the stone:" to show that It was no onliaary re, but Divine. 'The duet:" tbe earth which filled the inclosed place between the stones. M. "They fell on their faeeat" lu wonder, fear aad worship. 1.KSS0.V COMMEXTX. Look at the prophet; his plans are ail carefully laid, and he makes haste to present them to tho King. He proposes a grand public test as to the divinity of Jehovah and llaal. The drought and famine ought to have been enough to convince any ordinary mind, but Elijah wants to make assurance doubly sure, lest any Should lie led astray by tbe lies of Haai's priests. He chose Mount Carmel as a fitting place for the test liecause of its exalted position, seventeen hundred feet above the plain of ISsdraeIon. So reasonable was Elijah's demand, and so great was Abac's fear of his stern prophet, that the King did not, dare to refuse. To secure the attadance of represenUtlves from "all Is- ' rael" (verso J0) would take some days. "Where Elijah spent those days we do not know, but very possibly he spent them. In the mountain in prayerful preparation for the great scene that was soon to follow. Look at the people: there they are, between Elijah and the four hundred aad fifty priests of Itaal, silent. The prophet of Jehovah appeals to them, asking them why they "halt" (that is, vacillate) between two opinions. Ms begs them to eome is so-m final sseision, and not think on thing to-day asul another to-morrow. Thsy had hssa "blowing hot aad ookl," and wee asvsr Irm one way or the other. Yet, ia response to his manly appeal, they simply held their peace. Probably they wars Influenced in this by the fear of Ahah and Jsiebel. They bad not faith enough in God to be sure of the issue of the impending trial of strength between God's servant and the servants of Ileal, and they thought "if we oome out for Jehovab, and the priests of llaal win the vletory, it will go hard with us." So they said nothing. Nor did they exactly dare to side openly with llaal, lest in some way evil should oome apoa them from Jehovah. Look at the priests of Baal: four hundred and fifty of them. They build their altar; they prepare the sacrlfles; they cry aloud, pray, dance wildly, out themselves with knives. They keep this up from morning until noon. The people, the King, the prophet stand hy watching. Nothing "happens; they redouble their efforts. The afternoon wears away; still no sign of answer. The heavens are as brass above them, and the sacrifice as cold as ever. Angrier and angrier they grow, bat all is in vain, llaal will not hear, llaal oan not hear, for what Is he but aa idol? Look again at the prophet: llsal's priests have had their turn, ami now it Is his turn. Call for what he did. He repairs God's altar, which had long ago been abandoned. He digs a small trench around the altar in the dry soil. Wood and sacrifices are quietly put in orler. Twelve jars of water are poured upon thoaltar, wetting the wood and filling the trench. The King, the priests of llaal and the people look on in silence. When all Is ready, Elijah approaches the altar and lifts up his voice in prayer to his God. Then, In an instant, blinding fire, likecbain lightning, falls from Heaven, and' wood, sacrifice, altar, water, all disappear. Look again at the people: while Elijah builds again tho ruined altar and makes all his preparations, they stand by watching undecidedly. Hat when tlie fire falls on the sacrifice they fall or their faces. Divine power liasconvinoed them that Jehovah is God, and with ono voice they cry: "Tho Lord, lis is the Hod; tho Lord, He is tho God." This wafc the starting point of a revival, which brought many in Israel (net all, however) Imek to their allsglanoe to tho true God. Hut It Is not so much what made them start in tho right direction, ss the fact of their starting, that is of Importance. Hev. A. V. SchaufBer, I). D. PRACTICAL SUfiOKSTlO.VS. 1. The test of true religion is the "answering by fire,"the purifying,0 oleanstng power of the Holy Spirit tfcs power that brings revivals, that gives spiritual life, and that enlighten the mind. S, In reforming the country or tb ehurch, !e all the good tbr.ro already is in them; repair ohl altars rathor than build new ones. 8. All that God has done for our fathers is a jKiwer and encouragement for. the work of to-day. So the Christian Is strengthened in fattk by rwuttbvrJnif what God has uae for him la the uast.