Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 33, Number 22, Jasper, Dubois County, 13 February 1891 — Page 7

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IXNAXA. WINTIRINCT. U.r N'HW Im KMMmI I lni" rw, . winter dsr. whan the sere laitd.pe i -nliv.-'Hl by mi unclouded sun, wt his genial rays tempt the pewter to a tnH in the Pennsylvania woods. Lie -uir Us chwrwl by no Wrd song; plant except few evergreen leaves av bllgbten hl l05 lM,t wifl ) there to welcome hint, Those merriest of dancers, the gnats, cpmt. forth front the moist earth Nt the of the sun. Mosquito-like, titty have passed their immature lift In the water, and th C8,H of u' HtUewringlers are ready to burst open ami liberate the winged insects whenever th sun peep frth from tlte clouds. Thin nay occur on a sunny day. even when the temperature of the air is far below the freezing point Arctic explorers tell us Uiat as far north as they have gone, away up in the jcv tiVlds of Greenland, even where there is no vegetation, these gnats, or kpivioi closely resembling them that olv naturalists ean detect the difference, are found dancing on wing in the sunlight or clinging to the skies of boat and sledges. n As wc continue or walk through the winter woods we turn over a log ami find crawling about lienesth it small, back beetles, a, few tough-skinned, hard-beaded grubs, ami now ami tlien a pidcr. 1 f the sun shines brightly, even though snow may lie deep on the j-round, wai will be tempted forth from crevices of bark in which they have lain dormant with the cold, and after Wcotnliig thoroughly warmed tfioj- wjll take wing through Uie wood. A butterfly known as the mourning tl.k. richly dressed in brown and blue velvet, liordered with gold, comes forth from its snuff 'retreat when the winter sun is bright ami wing Its way through th woods an gayly a he would in mfcit:moHT, lib hiding nlace ha been in he wind-crack-; of an old chestnut treo or bunch of clinging leaves. He may 1 scon fatting eren wlien the snow Ik Hnral inches deep. Far off in th '.Kky mountains and among tlte Alj nt Svitzerland butterflies of various spmos may often Joe aeen Hying over tie miow and glacier ice. If we displace the rustling leave that f v-r the ground in the wowls we notice M' and then a large black beetle runrfc? quickly from nnder our feet. I f mkhv is on the ground we shall not see &ni, but in it absence we shall find Urn fi'n on the coldest day., He eviion'fr Jknows where to hide himself w!en;e unwelcome snow ami ice apmr iVJ'rcvcr wood i still sufficiently i m t ji. . a ? . 1 1 t8.1 -. . - a i'fion thew are nicked un in the woods thorn may be of the large. Ubck specieH and others the smaller red ones. hen he heat from the. store or flreplarc reaencs uiem tney awaae irom tne In.iLIIl. t . , . ' . 1 .. . 1 1 A plunged them, often too late to encape their fatq in a fiery furnace. 11ns torpor of insects is a very differi; condition from tne muernatioH 01 warm-bloolcl animals, sneh as tlte. beat and the marmot In the latter a slow and feeble circulation ami reapiraltoi? Are kept np, ami the creature lives or the fat that had been stored up in it bxly before the winter sleep came on. Different insects are affected by cold in very different degrees. Many, like th common houac-ity, become torpid Wfort the temperature falls to Uie freezinj point. Long before frwtoome they ttuccutnh to the moderate cold of antumn. There is no doubt that severely cold winters are attended with reat hys of incct life, which in a ikler .season would have sorrired.fhtiadelphia Times. I'HmntM KUh4 Mtm. budagl. the lather of Modern Peiian Letters." who died in M A. I).. U a!d to have been blind from his birth. Hewa,soneof tlie beat of the Permian Pt'ts. Kraillc, the inventor of a system f writing and printing for the blind, va&hiHUself a blind man. Mr. Welch. Mother blind educator of the blind, bo invented a kind of type for the Wind. Mr. K. J. Campbell, a very eminent American instructor of the blind In Inland, is himself blind. .7. M. Sturteit, Oti Patten, Rev. P. Lane, .1. vhplin. W. H. Churchman, Samuel Baton, K. W, Whelan, W. S. Fortewne, vid Inghery, are all names of Amern teachers (several of them now eked Inilonging to the lmt of dhtinmihel blind people, Eliaa Tantalkles, modern (.reek poet, wh Wind. Amer N'otcs ami Queriea. What Hm teerveil. Mnsicus A friend of mine in Boston "W invented an improved kind of piano. has such a magnificently powerful tone that you can hear it a mile away. tynictis Yott don't sav so! .MnstiaisYes; it's a graml thing. The wventor ought to have a monument 'Kher than the great pyramid. vynicufi-He ought; ami lie and his jno ought to be buried nnder it mi ce.Ycno wine's News. A Te HetMHit .Maa. A conscience.strkken chap sent tha wte Treasurer of Pennsylvania threfe r"tKt '.Ving he had robbed the Comjwiwalth of that amount, and it took )ut vVeM guars' worth of bookJrP'nR to get that three center into rill , . lMref would rather have Ff.n hm fifty WBta to kssp off.-De-Mnplo maa who has health and 'ns. and can't And a livelihood in the Jddoeaa't Wve to aUy thara.-.

Hil? VALENTINE.

Til K to- growa . KaUt. Wbu-bi)iwlai with timtaiMUMt And t.ut h!t ciiueu u. witlt, A ir. uy tnatdea For who flint uttalt rmui ht vay, Whn iImi nifty kuntieamakata Oa tbta Ftbruarjr tsjr. Star may sbowmi m VHtt-ailne. Ho dw llajrm m Uw MtUt, While swift KuatM am ad on, Till tlte aoa'i warn ltt tutv kUtMd lao Itvinf (lie mo. la it one ca UupUt" Or Mttaa itwt kMT! ol Tt, Thi a aatuusr sti abould pauaa Kvary Miorninc by tbsl pmi No ' hi tluttea In the town Call Um lad who lor- Iter wll, Thrauirti the paturvK bar and brawa, fmn fcU htMnmtead w the fell. You aaay ahake wlw hefct aati nalte Yet tb asrrow alh leadu traight Kroaa Uie MU brond the utile TatlM mom-tnmn wicket gmtm. lifts : Sht hear hU rapid tii4a Ktit iht- holly l-UKh droofi alga, And Un-tUy h wbvly btile 'ny the ftt fMiuto sad--was hy. Ah I U thrnatt that wmU abova, Smm hew soft bloe eyra cu nhim, Wtiea a naktea'a own iru love la her ehotea Yalenttne. Wf II, a torn need not know That s ptetty raadt wuukl watt la the Krbronry aow ly a utoM-Krowa wicket rU. And tb amet o( the buith Where the scarlet U-rrlrt aataa Will be t hetwern the Utrasfe And anxMl St. Valentine. K, Mathrmm, in Chamber's Journal. FATE'S A1DE-I)E-CAMP. The HappinaM a Love-Sant MmBrought Two Live. WHAT KB THOl'OHT. B SAT bhlnd one of thi'. grcnt pillars in dim-ly-lighted St, ThouiMK and looked at a certain profile it i across ino I ci .1 church. It was a profile that lie kn. by heart, yet never lost an ojportunity of Ktwlying fr new light It bclongexl to a woman with inuoeiit gray eyen. which were conslantly Ih lying the bt of wonllineas which fell from her tongue front time to time. These eyes had a pathetic, child-like droop to. them which had moved many a heart, yet just as you were saying to rounelf: Thcr must be some hidden sorrow in that girl's life," Iter Hps would curve into a smile, a mischievoua light flush up into her eyes, ami you would cry instead: "She never had a trouble," He knew just how she was looking at this moment, with her head downbent; her determined little chin relaxed. He knew as well as if he were sitting directly in front of her how soft and tender her eye, how thoughtful her face, and he said to himself: "What a fool I ami What a fool I am! I know 1 might just as well think of calling a goddess down from the sky to my side, as of winning Iter. A ml yet, here 1 am again, storing up misery for myself. At least, she does not know I am here, awl won't be despising me as 1 dpie myself. Weak! 1 never realised how,, weak I could be. Didn't 1 vow last Thursday that I would never see her again'.' A nd here I ant, three days later, haunting her church. How can I want to see her after that vision in the conservatory? 'How I hate that Make, taking every thing as if it lielonged to hhn even her love, I don't dtnibL Her kve! that would have hunt hied me to the earth! Horn rich; cultivated; sings like a siren confound him! I heard her say herself that he has charming manners. Xo wonder be wins. But I could stand it better if he would not take it as snch a matter of course. I know now that I did have a grain of hope until then. She was so sweet ami kind, I thought that perhaps she knew how I felt, and did not resent it. , Kooll fool! She undoubtedly said to herself: Por fellow, he has a hard timea struggling young lawyer. If he utansgus to go into society once in awhile he tmght to have a gtvod time. 1 will remeinlter to say a pleasant word to hint to-iiighL' "A year from now she won't remember my name even. How eouhl an honorable man, situated as I am, dare to even think of her? If only I wrt not connected witk tlte Arm which manages her business! Of course 1 know just how much money she has, and she knows that I know it. 1 can imagine just how that old guardian of hers how can she Iwar to live with hhn? would look at nve If I . should walk in v nd ak for her ha ml. She, lier.'H'n 11 tne worus -j online nunicr should come into her mind it would show in Iter eyes In a minute. All, well! I could never have asked her to share such a home as I could give her, and I wwtftf not let my wife provide her own. Then what could I have given her to make up for the society she must lose? I should never amount to any thing in my profession if I were drawn into the kind of life which he leads, and I wouldn't stay at home and let her go alone. Jfj wife shall share my Hf or I will never have one. But I could have made her happy I Jt'mWf, if she brnl loved me. She i too good to Ihj wasUd In that giddy whirl but she Will be with hint. Why sliould I 1ms so sure that it is all .settled? Idiot! What difference does It make to mi, anyway?" , . . , ... WHAT SMK THOL'OHT. "There Is Mr. Parshall again! He doesn't know that I saw him but I did. Why does he kep coming here? The goes! Uow I long to nut som

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into his hewt. Haven't I been as awcet to fciia a I could btf? Haven't 1 made it a point to speak lu kiio. no matter who else was with me? And I'm always deferring to his opinion what moro than 1 hare done could any selfrespecting girl do, to show a man that she liked his society? Yt the other Night at the Van Dykes, he did not conk near me! But I kuW, I kn,m he saw Tom Blake kiss my hand in the conservatory. I saw hi face as he turned away -it went to my heart. I know he will never eoate near me again I ran see just ltow it looks to hinu He doesn't know how tired I am with Uie empty jargon which I liear all the time, and thinks that 1 am perfeetly satisfied with my life. Apparently any one of 4my friends' would Utrow his life at my feet But none of them would! Not even Tom Blake. He is so polished, his mind is perfectly smooth. He wouldn't consider it 'good form' to fall vkdeutlj in love, anyway! ''Doesn't ke think I have intellect enough to know a real man wlien I see on? How manly hajs! Working a way so ,niet!y. and yet with such confidence, you feel sure that he will succeed. Oh! if it wasn't for that money,

1 know what would happen, ami what a happy girl I should be! Yes, for juat once I will admit it to myself; I sliould be glad, glad to know that he loved me. But even if he does, lie will never tell me so; perhaps it would spoil the charm if he did. But I would be willing for him to try it. Blushing! Well, I should think I might, after that. 1 wish I did not think of him so much. He doesn't know that I heard what he said to Me. Carter the other night, that 'a man who ,will let his wife cut away through the world for him with her money is nothing but a parasite.' Well, I might as well realize the fact that we are as far apart as the two poles, and shall never come any nearer by any motion of his. How that would sound to any one just as If I contemplated making a move myself! Why is there not something that it would lie right for me to do? Must I the best gift which life could giv me drift away and not move a finger to stay him? 'All things may come to him who waits,' but they don't to hr. I don't know why I should laugh. It's no laughing matter. Perhaps I'd better give up thinking about it and listen to the sermon. I might oh! St Valentine's day! Why couldn't I? I could! There wouldn't be any harm In that I villf" TlW COSSKQUKXCK. Some days later, a young man sat smoking his after-dinner cigar in his lonely room. Convinced that he had been cherishinga foolish dream, lie had Undertaken to cure himself by hard work, and was getting on very wtell; for he was thoroughly interested In his profession, ami did not find life a waste after all To-night, just through with an important case, in which he had been allowed to share the honors as well as the work, he felt disposed to allow' himself a little relaxation; and directly a pair of .gray eyes rose before him, now smiling, now lensive, ami the old question "Might it have been?" rose once more, as if it had not been settled forever," again ami again. He finally pushed back his chair from before the fire, and began impatiently pacing back ami forth in the room. A knock at the door, and the elevator boy passed in the last mail for the night. Two or three business letters ami a little box. Tlte letters were thrown carelessly down on the table; the box he kept in his hand in some curiosity. TD was small and light, ami scaled at either end carefully, as if it contained something precious. Being a man he did not spend much time in conjecture, but broke the seals and brought to light a plain jewel box. In much suririso he took off the cover to find the box apparently filled with cotton. Jnside the cotton something crackled. "Dynamite!" flashed into his mind. Then, with a laugh at himself, he pulled open the cotton to find a harmless slip of paper wrapped in a little coil around something which fell into his bunds as h legan to unroll the taper. It was a ring lie noticed hastily, and then turned his attention to Uie paper, which seemed of more importance to him. And this was what was written on it: Fste sends you this rtrctet With s tk that Is sweatTo -M'srvh the world over And task it eotnptete. Thl task o :Uh-wtorvr It to-Keva:-tb, oh, aweker, thy true love to Us." Hi first sensation was one of anger. sknne joke of the fellows, I suppose. It's pleasant to think Pm a laughing PASPKD l.V T1IK LAST MAU stock to the crowd! I Ar been rather unsocial of late, but this hi going too far. St. Valentine's, eh? So it 1st Uather an expensive joke this ring is the real thing-odd, too," and he held it up'to the light "It U only a part of 1 vis at 1 thai there must lie I another lmnd with a clover leaf sot Uw ) other way to fit into this. Two fmirleaved clovers mateu preuy men. ought to be a very imckj comumnuon. NoW, who could have sent It to me? The address looks a little lika Temple'sat least, as it might if he were trying to disguise his lutml. Well, I eoukt stand It lwlter from him. Search the world over the In only one place where I care to look, ami Vm not likely to find It tharei

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"One tAtegr. thdosrh: I r ally night to cal! bq her before 1 leavt town. She ha always treated me wi ll, ami it is hardly the thui:g to drop otf so ltrnly and c-onipictely. Alight an- her afapieionsif she happened to think of me. Mite will him hesnl of this fuse, and I 'It appear wedded to bw absorbed in my work. Sjn-ak in an easy wuy of Tom Blake and make a grtuttful exit from her lift. Why haven't I thought of it lK'fore? I'll gi to-morrow night. To-morrow! Why, that U tit Valentine s day! Well, I hardly care to 9s there that night, isoinebsiy else would Is then - he would ny ViighL for that matter and it's th last ofaportunity, if l leave town next morning. 'i'arshall, you have some superstitious nonsenso sneaking through your head, but we'll put a stop to that I won't go at all," St Valentine's day a whirl of Know. 2io one could go out ami (pcrhsp) no one come in. To one girl the longest day she had ever known, as she wandered, restlessly, from one room to another, disdainful of tlte dainty couaoctions of lace, bon-liona, and tender sentiments, with which the good saint had favored her. Site drew a sigh of relief, when, at last dinner over her guardian departed to his club and site was free to betake herself to the little drawing-rooua, which was Iter special "xo! xo!" BMC SAIIJ. nook. The soft lights the perfume of fiowers soothed her spirits, and she laughed a little as she noted the work thrown down carelessly on the table. ''How many tilings 1 hav tried to do to-day and what a farce it has all been?" She moved about the room -a graceful figure in her dull green gown, with its touches of silver. On herWt hand was a curious ring, which she paused often to study then with a sigh, sunk into a great chair before the fire andsteadily contemplated both hands with the dee'iest . attention. The fire-light showed an anxious and troubled face. "Uow could I do it' If he comes, what a false jKMiition I shall be in. What untruths I shall, hnve to':imply. If he were to find me out, I should lie overwhelmed with shame. How could he suspect? Did I not take every precaution? But, then he won't come. I feel sure of that" (A ring at the bell). "Yes, Katy" taking the offered card "you may bring him in here. AVhat shall I say? I mast go through with it now! "Good evening, Mr. Parshall. JIow good of yon to coma out a night like this. I asked you to come in here, the drawing room seems so big and cheerless. Bo take this chair near the fire. I have been fairly scorching ny face all the evening, and will gladly resign my place to you." She turned, picked lip a fan. ami carefully seated herself with lier back to the light. Her guest had been, apparently, struck dumb; for now that there was an opportunity, he had no word to say. He had sunk down obediently Into Uie very warm corner pointed out to him, and was gazing fixedly at the hand which held the Jan. Could he believe his eyes? It was half in shadow, yet when she had held out her hand in greeting just now, the ring looked so familiar It had taken his breath away. Seeing her eyes follow the direction which his had taken, lie said, boldly: "Wltat a curious ring!" "Yea: is it not? And the way it came to me was so oM, 1 must tell yoit alsmt it Yon know to-day is oh This morning 1 found, with the mail at my plate, a little box with thi ring in It There was no card with it nothing to tell from wluna it came. It is snch a queer shape. There must be some story connected with it Was It not strange?" "Very strange. A "good luck' offering, I suppose. That is a'Jfotir-leaved clover, is it notf "Yea; but I am not superstitious." "Did the superscription give you no el we? Yon have kept it, of course?" "Yes; it is nlnt here somewhere. Oh. you lawyers!" site laughed, a she rose, now quite self -possessed. "You woukl take tlte romance out of every thing. 1 don't care to find out who sent it, and have the whole thing1 laconic commonplace immediately. But here is the pa'xrr, if you eare to see it" The young man took the paper and studied it with such ilelileratkt that she grew wncasy, ami said at last: "Well, what do you discover?" Shu would not have been nervous could she have only known that the letters were dancing such a jig before his eyes lu; could not tell one from another. What sliould ha say? What should he do? Dared he produce his part of the ring ami tell her the truth? Or should he get himself away as quickly- as possible ami try to think this thing out? But her question roused him. "Yes," lie said, slowly, not lifting his eyes to hers. "I have discovered nomething. Will you lt ma take this paper away with me?" "No, no!" she snul, ami she Impulsively Mt.aed the paper ami threw it into the fire, lie looked at her with sucl) pure astonishment that situ began to breathe more freely again. "1 don't wHt thiskKdleil by being turned into a case, 1 sltall not wear the ring after to-night I will merely keep it as a souvenir of St Valentine." "She saspeets who It is from," ha thought to himself. "I must find out" "Ka, bat it wewkt b a satins tioa to

sse hi timl out, since it would explala anatething whtoh ha been paazlUagr we sino last night." hlu-looked at biai totem outively, but he saiit, soothingly: "1 hare also bad a val. ntlne. and I should rtt&s to show it to y hi.' She toidc the little roll et paper which be passed to Iter, with tremlmag ' lingers, lis tried nut to watch her lace as she read it, but how could he help it? lie saw her eyelids quiver. How slow she was! In fact she was reading each

line twice over, to gain time. He could wait no longer: "This was with it" he said, holding out something in his hand. Then she had to raise her eyes, and m they met his after a glance at the ring, the blushes that swept one after the other over her cheek so enraptured him, that, throwing caution to the winds, he broke out: "Can it lie true? I love you more than any one else ever could but I can't speak unless you say that I otay? A beautiful light came into the gray eyes. With a trembling smile she held out her hand. " WHAT T1IK YOKtn THOUGHT. "She couldn't have been much of an heiress, after all. She has married that young PsrshalL ami gone to live In the plainest manner down-town. Given up society, too. lie must have been disappointed if lie was after her money. How did it all happen?" Leigh Webster, ia 2? . Y. Ledger. ST. VALENTINE'! DAY. fgvooss oC Aaosottt dso4owMi ftn the Old SolMt's AaaWwssrjr. ( Searching among the dusty volumes for some account of St Valentine's day and its customs, we find that little is known concerning its origin. Valentine, who was a priest of Rome, martyred during the third century, and whose day is tin one set apart for the exchanging of tokens between lovers, it seems, "had nothing to do with the case." In ancient Kome it was the practice to celebrate during February the LujK-rcnlis, feasts in ltonor of Pan and June, At this festival the names of the young women were put into a box, from whence they were drawn by th men, wlto then paid particular atten tkm to tlte young women whose names they drew. Whether this custom gave rise to Uie saying, "marriage Is a lottery," or not, we do not know, though it is highly probable. The priests of the early church wlto waged a desperate warfare against all forma of heathen superstition found that the wisest plan was to graft the forms of the new religion upon, the old, so they substituted mimes of particular sainU for the names of women, and St. Valentine's day coming in the middle of February, chose that day for tlte celebration of their new feast. Traces of tlte ancient Roman custom are in Eugland ami Scotland, where, on St Valentine's eve, a number of youths ami maidens assemble, and each writes his real or a fictitious name upon a separate billet These billets are then rolled up and each girl draws a youth's same ami vice .versa. This gives each person two jmrtners or valentines, but the youth being more constant by nature (according to tlte historian) is more constant to his valentine. lie gives a ball in her honor, treats her to a present, -wears the billet upon his sleeve for several days (days, mark you) and the result is often marriage. In the early days of England the custom of choosing a valentine cither married or single took place and a present was given tlte choosing party. Among tlte nobility these presents consisted of jewelry, ami often precious stones of great value. The belief existed among' the lower classes that on St Valentine's day the birds chose their mates; also the first unmarried person of the opposite sex Uiat one met in the morning of that day was destined to become his future husband or wife. In earlier tines the day was used only for sending sages of lore; comic mien tines unknown. Most of the early customs hare died out, though the overflowing bag of the postman and the appearsnoa of uie bright eyes watching for his coming on Valentine's day, show that one of the customs has stood the test of centuries and bids fair to remain with us always. Laura A. Smith, in Indiaastolis Sentinel. We Kst tm the K. "It is a grave mistake," said the doetor, "to eat quickly. Those animals in tended by nature to feed hurriedly hava been provided with gizseards, or with the power of rumination. No matter how good a man's teeth may be, if he bolts his food his stomach must suffer thereby. When a person swallows an imperfectly masticated piece of animal food, the result is that the food, instead of fulfilling the purposes of nutrition. acts, on the other hand, as a source of irritation to the stomach, Thus either the physical condition runs down or ad ditional food is required to maintain the general standard of health. Amer icans are called 'pie eaters.' Do you know why? Because a pie is something that mar be eaten on. the run, while tha the great "American enterprises may thus go on unimpeded by loss of time. Over-hasty feeding is the bane of our American life. We are all of us becom ing dyspeptics." Detroit Free Press. The Maa Who Iawf-na. Laughing at trifles is a grace in childhood. Then it is normal, lint the per petnal grin, chuckle or snigger of age confesses lack of education or of brain. Of course, nothing ean be done in the matter. The world will always be at the mercy of the man who laughs. There might, indeed, m a chance of re forming him through marriage with the woman who giggles: but laughing jack do not mate, and if they did one could only contemplate with horror the possible result of such a union, Phi. 11 dclphia l'reso. A MmlMrHy. Little Roger Pa, what are the three elements? Pa Fire, watt r and air. Minn noger men, what are po litical elements? t V Frs-wa'sr sad wind. Ptssk.

ILMAM TAKIM TO HCAVEM.

raamsMT IS. issi. lsporwlly Arraasss mma ft. ft. Qssmwtg.) XJtssow Taxi mmm :! OountK TsxT-Aad Bason walked wit Os4( ads was not; for God look aiaa.-Oos.stSt CawrsAL Tuimt-uLt mst Um dost of st mgstooui. sad) stay as tuia Tina B. C about MUM). FfcAcs (1) OUsat soar ML fttoSiiha, aka BUm woot of BettMi. (g) Bousa, twolvsaaJk of Jerosslsm. m Jortoho, soar JoMUa. f4 Tho sastora sao of mo Jordawi. ta OMoad, Wash's saliva country. Bcuuts Jchoraaa. soa of Aaab. Klaf sff wL jahonun. soa of Jeaoahspaat, Kmc of Judab. He toarrtod Athallah,ise dsutaterof Josotoi. and stater of Jshoraai of IsrstL Haus Ovsa Ha so Placss-1. "Wson um Lordt" Our mass aw la His stacks "OUssir ta Sphrslm, whoro waaoaoof Um schools of ta nrophota. a 'Tarry haro:" oithor Kllish's loo of solitude ratorood, or Ho would prova Kltsaa, or sHNUda-MM-ohlm the psia of tha auodoa port is. Tha Lord bath soot bm:" tha impuisa 10 nvtalt Hla lovotl prophet-oollsfM one awro was from Ood. "As too Lord llvota. aad as tay soul lfreth:" a solosut oath by God's otoraitf ad man's immortality. 'Down:' a deoot six husdrod feet la alfbt aad a half miloo. a. -Soon of too ttrophou:" those boloaalsc Vo Um shoots of the prophots, who were oafSfod la ivisf rolifious iBstracttoa to Mm sooplo. From thy baa:" from Miss tay astir. "Moid ye your poaoa :" too saMaot latoaaacrad Sor words. 4. Jorieho;" twelve sad a halt walk from Betbol, sea twalva husdrod foot owr. Is aseh of those pisoaa was a sehoM oc to prothots. 7. "Stood to vmw:" wsUhiag. 0, '-Before 1 botaaon sway:" sot, wmmnwn adoa osa I taako ta HoaveaT "A doable portoaiH thy spirit, thy prophetic spirit; that is, desires tha oldest sob's poruoa (vast. St: 17), sad thus to be the aueeaeier of the sMobet labia work. It do not moaa that he dksstred twioe aa mueh sa Xlt)ah posemed. M. 'A hard thisx:" It raiabt sot be Ood't wut "H ttsov oa cm:" that would bo s slsa that Ood shoeao. Kliaba ElSsh'a sooeoooor. LKSSOW COtdMKirTS. " First Stkp Elijah taken. The long est life has a turning, aad tha longest lane has aa end. We oaa not say new old Elijah was at the time of his removal from earth; but his work was doss, sad so his Master called him bona. Tha story is very touching. Show how it earns to pass that Ellsha became Elijah's constant attendant (see 1 Kings 19:19-tl). As the end of Elijah's work draw near, tha "sons of the prophets" seem in soma way to have known that Ood was to take him away (see verses S, 5, 7 of the 1mson). It may be that God had reveals it to some of them directly; or It , may be that Elijah himself had been told of it by God, and had in turn told them that he was soon to leave them. Uowever that was, evidently they were awestruck, snd evidently Ellsha had a foaling that he could by no means abaadea his master until the very last moment That solemn experience on tha oast side of the Jordan can never bo fittingly described. No words can Improve on the simple narrative of verses 11-18. Never but once before, and never but ones sinoe, has say of earth's sons gone to Heaven with his physical body. SkcoxdStki Klisha's request Elijah seems to have had a most kindly feeling for his associate prophet, as the nd of their partnership was drawing aesr, and to have felt that he would like, to give him some parting rift, if possible. So he asked him what he would like. To this Elisha answers, that be . eraved a double portion of the spirit that had dominated bis master. "Tbou hast asked s bard thing," says Elijah, "bat if thou see me when I am taken from thee, it shall be so unto thee, but if not, it shall not he so.' Exactly why this condition was laid down it is not possible for us to ssy. Nor need we stop te inquire. That to which we may mere profitably direct attention is the nature of the request that Elisha made. It was a request for spiritual power, lie might hava asked for temporal things, sues as fame, or wealth, or long lite. But none of these things seems te have had any attraction for him la comparison with that spiritual power whkth he bad seen so prominent la the life of hU meetsr. Elijah's life was well known to his pupil, and he af course knew that this spiritual power had brought the prophet into trouble, lie bad had to flee more than onoe for hit life from Ahab, and from Jesebel. Hardship had been his lot, Instead ef that ease which he might have enjoyed had he lived like the priests of Baal or of the Groves. I say, Elisha knew all this, snd yet, in spite of the fact that a double portion of Elijah's spirit might bring te him the same afflictions, he asked for it This shows that he was of such stuff m martyrs are made of. Well would it have been for Israel had she had bat ens prophet of the Groves, and one of Baal, snd seven hundred snd fifty such as Elisha. The end of Israel would not have been what it was. To have the spirit of Elijah, a spirit of unoom promising hostility to wrong, and of eternal fidelity to the right, is a blessing te very man, and an inestimable hies stag to any community. The great danger of our days is that ws shall crave the spirit of Ahab and not that of Elijah. Oh, for the Elijah spirit in all our publie men, and in all our business marts, that shall fear dishonesty more thia failure, and crookedness more than poverty, and speculation more than obscurity! Ellsha's choice brought a great blessing to his people; and so the honest choice by every hoy snd girl of righteousness is a blessing, not only to thsm, but to all in the family and in the seatmunity in which they live. See hows recent event illustrates this. In New York State a murderer has bees lately executed who has cost the State ors hundred thousand dollars besides a eouple of lives and an enormous amount of pain and unhappineet to any of his friends wbo were right-minded. All this, besides his own life, would have been saved had be made ohoioe of the spirit that Ellsha ehoee. Rev. A. F. Schaufller, D. D. rKACTIOAt SOMRSTIOXS. 1. "Lives of great men all remind t we ean make our lives sublime." S. True friendship is faithful even te the end. 8. Pray for great things, the best things- God loves to give them. 4. What we ask is the teat of our characters and the messura ef our sacft. There is as existence beyond the grave. This fives glory and largsaess tsllfs, 1. Jesus Christ shining on the teab. irradiates lis oldness sad darkness asd urn H faatt ft aaaetet ef f wry.