Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 33, Number 32, Jasper, Dubois County, 24 April 1891 — Page 7
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IKDIAMA.
"REE SCORE AND TEN. u .mall. ad OUJ. M4 hW,
I YUtbe wlndow-aaeae are;
i,ia",::r,LumCi.it bar.
ft r ior
rl,'""t.( tw- kbruHko door.
ra rwiiMtntau
Euw' fro tae Heer.
u nf nuH awl yf
r tint. In pattern mixed,
. .L..utirf. for vears.
Shumbte menu have beoa UMt
Oa tcow " "
. ir lit break fait-tlme
J 4 lve plucked the lueky fruit
..,h shade ol veft$8jt fall,
VC.,a.., a cmpte at their tea a""" . .. .. , kn It., naiad
Wlere Utile children umh! to be.
.tlmM ig!' escape their Hps
ttr ur wno ""r rVlt-art was with the sailing ship, B,couiJ not l content to stay.
many an anxious thought they iw
HifB leave mc - " .
I - i .. . . . . . . I. A liur Mtirnaf
,ttwo small mound on yonder Jitll-
TM pniiy iope ,
"iT wh'n" tni'j a,u
Krc scarce tne uarnv io
three have houses of tUelr own,
ua llttie cnuuren, ju. i ir, iwsnil tholr Uoard'i, wbo loving way
iIiiJect til ininwiry oi uurw.
irt( r tUo toll and nett of life Tdpy turn their faees towards the wwt; tti tm of the eventlJ
ImunK an meir wwiu wuu m, BU IJtV.lef at Msmn pro:Hts wowl.
Lw open on the out him anoe.
J his Blaise la nw mbu
11" hJsi no need the text to .
IfifsW ta sit with tranquil face,
Her a mil lo ioi ju in ur tap;
jit is HI nairitvm nci iuitooux
Scarce waiter tnaa iter anowy cap.
the click of newlles awlft.
Til c-Qomnjc hymn heard long age;
Kit ftreo are too weary now;
Tte dar heart sing me song we anew, (U4 m they watt from morn till eve.
And woml-r. as the light growa mm,
hlw will atk of their true heart
Another day apart from Him. -UJU A. Grant, in I-adles' Home Jouraal. A LITTLE JOKE.
J
Mr. Bray ton Got Bven with His Teeing Wifo. Iltten fork's PPr,
OUXG Mrs.
llravton, as she
was called throughout the Piccadilly flaU,
was of a very
frolicsome dispo
sition.
la public she
was senate tswntfrh and was
fast overcoming her tendency to
spontaneous
hursts of apnc elation of any-
new or strange.
liirs. lien, in ner ir.aiun siav,
t1 in a larjrc town in the interior
the state, where she was a groat
Hie. and had not yet lost the joyous
ffusiventiss peculiar to the semi-rural
my. nor acquired the irresponsive
anliness of countenance adopted in
bImc by the natives of cities.
Her mcetine with Hen had been by
base, and he had fallen an immediate i ..r. ... . .i
i.uin 10 ner vivacious maiiutsr uu
lor leautv. Slie took his surrender
Kitty, for, as has been stated, she was
country belle, than whom there was
more insatiable coquette. Wore
rer, she was quite accustomed to see
II clavM-s and conditions of men yield
her charms under the mistaken
WrejiMon that she was an "artless
hie thimr."
I lien llravton ud to this had been a
kninvorkiujr young1 man, and had no
Mare to cultivate acquaintances
noiiij women, and, if the truth must f told, little inclination to do so. Hut
i:?n fate placed him on a committee
1 select the plans for a monument to
memory- of a noted man, ana sent
la to the town of 1) where they
SHE I'LAYKD TMCKS OX MIX.
rrc nuer conhkleratkni and the woe
wwni was to Ihi wrAfltnil. it WM oe-
to give the rest of the eommit-
' ic benbfit of his knowliKlge ac
"ired in Hip anlunwi twu.il Inn M art
'Utf of the MnriiJntf 'I'MliMunmM! but
alitv she aunt hi in to meet the
P'ro Mrs. llravton.
im
W.ls imiMM rt ltu ntmr.
4,1 I tilt KAMmKbu m fnlltnVlnf.
w-tiatured ihr, who knew about as fell llf 1 .11.1 ,.l ..!. A ...I
I"1" he nfTaldw tim..vH
t i.l
, , ' ini Jiaiiif mill unucauii LtlHHH M .1 I.
T' ! Mt instincUvely lie had foand
"iDieiUttUt of kto own aatar.
Hare W4H the warmth of Utaperameai
needed to thaw the crtutt of rewrve ami seHish eoldneaK induetsl by loaff
hours of work in an onerous iKMltion.
lie aueeuHtbed at once. Not wo ellV. U was only after a Ion and patient
s4tco t hU iwrtwhieli, if tha de
spairing swain would remember ana
arewsrve, U nearly always triumphant she at lat yielded and bwsame Mrs. Drayton. lie took her home to a lovely "apartment" in the Piccadilly flats, and was so utterly happy he eould hardly believe he was the same cold, gloomy, somewhat cynical young mam of a year before. There waa no such chanjfe in
Nellie, for a nature always buoyant
doea not feel with tlw same intensity aa
a atrontrer one fully roused.
She rapidly became accustomed to
city life, and after the first newness had worn off she began to develop her hitherto seoueatered tendencies, and
her sedate husband found he had mar
riutl an indefatigable joker.
Shu teased him from morning till nirrht. and pluywl tricks on him till in
sheer despair he resolved to give her a
lMtBon in low nir that would prove a
cure for all Mich prauka in future. Prom the fact that his work was on
morning paper his hours were very late, and lie frequently did not get in till nearly morning. This gavo Nellie the whole day to plot and plan while he slept, which he usually did till the middle of the afternoon. One day after lunch as she was sitting on his knee she asked him: 'Den, would you miss me much if I were to die?" and then pensively blinked at him. Hut the dimple quivered in her check in a way that warned l?en here was only now and wickeder mischief brewing; for he had become wise and knew the signs by this time. So he answered calmly:
"Immensely! It would be so peace
ful here. Nobody to 1111 my slippers with water, or pin up my pockets. Yes, I should miss you a good deal.' "You hateful thing!" pouted Nellie, and prepared to dismount from her perch. Dut Den was large and she small and he held her firmly while she squirmed and twisted vainly, and her feet swung but could not touch the floor. "Very wclll You don't care anything for me, do you?" "Not a cent's worth," he answered, with an unmoved countenance. "Let mo go, lien Drayton," she cried, ttntnlnntlf. "You never did care for
ma. and now I know it!"
"You dear little goose! Of course i
don't cure that much for you; lor my
love cannot be estimated by so poor a
thing as money, Helen!"
Nellie looked surprised at me xervor
of his tone, and knew lie was m earnest when he called her Helen, which he seldom did. She stroked his cheek with
a tender little hand and was silent for a moment.
"Dut what would you do if you were
to come home some day anu nnu me
Oh, I'd jump for joy, oi course, ai
the prospect of a tranquil nie once more."
All Nellie's tender. feelings roused by
the previous speech were dispelled, and tills time she did get down and said:
If that's the case the sooner I go tae
better." ...
You mean the sooner 1 go the oet-
ter! I shall be late as it is. lou are
such a charmer with your delightfully
suggestive questions. So good-by," and he stooped down to give her his usual
parting kiss. Dut she sprang usck anu said: .
Unappreciated good things should
not be bestowed," and she slipped into
the bedroom behind her anil quickly
locked the door. Den looked a mtie sold, and after a futile turning of the door-knob took his hat, and then his de
parture. I ... 1111 . 4
Thi3 yodroom was a cozy imn
furnished with all the taste of the trained art critic, whose faculties were
f,.r)l,..r nulukened bv love. I 'lf dress-
inir-case was supplied with a large mir-
ror, and near n siuou iuh cuKv cheval glass, by means of which Nellie could survey her little person critically.
The room was also supplied witn tnat
choicest of all conveniences to a good housewife roomy closets. And one
was in such a position that if open Its
interior was reflected la the mirror, and the neat rows of garmonts could be
scanned without the trouble of turning around. This one was sacred to Nel
lie's own belongings.
When she darted into the room she
stood for a moment listening to lien s
retreating footsteps with a mischievous smile. Then she commenced a series of operations that were peculiar. She
went to ner dressing case, took ner
icwclrv from its casket, then emptied
the drawers oi everytning oi ners, vw
fully leaving the articles Den had given
her. These she carried to a sinau store
room and put them in an empty trunk.
She did the same by the contents oi me
closet. When all this was done, sue
took some of Den's paper and sat at her little desk where he so often wrote, and began to pen an epistle. Judging
from the expression or ner lace, t was
a verv serious affair; for she erased and . .......
interlined so inuctt it nau to oe copieu. This done, she folded it and pinned it to the pin-cushion ia the orthodox way, and not until then did ker features relax. Then she laughed softly and said
to herself: " This will surprise him." But there was no sign of relenting oa that smiling' face. ? At about a a. m. Ilea's key unlocked the door, and he quietly replaced hia shoes by slippers, which for once, were safe to use, then walked softly into the bedroom for fear of disturbing Nellie. But he might have eome with the clash and clamor of a brass-band for any disturbance it would have caused her! The room was empty! She was not there! He looked at the bed which was undisturWl. The gas had been left burning in one of the side lights of the mirror, and as lie turned It up brighter his eye w instantly attracted bjr the rifled casket and drawers, then by the note. His face by this time had lost its look of shocked helplessness, and was now stem and pale. He opened aote, and after rewUaf a few liaea
groaned out: "Aa4 I loaa heritor
full oa the mirror and he started,
shoelced at his own appearance. It
aeeined to bring him to his senses, for the next instant he stared into tha glasa earnestly a ad aa altogether dif
ferent expression dawned on his faee.
It auifgeftted a new emotion. Then ha said aloud:
"She says she thinks it better te
leave me now, as I am so indifferent to
her, before It would break her heart!"
Then he melodramatically ran his
fingers through his hair as if to tear it out, and with a Hue Deisarte expres
sion of renunciation cried: "I will not stand in the way of her happiness! If she will not live with me I will die! She shall be free! free! Life Is too weary a burden for me to bear! I shall go mad!" and he glared frightfully into the glass. "I will end it all. Yhere are my piatols?" In fact he hadn't any; but It was more in keeping with the dramatic sit uation to call them so. What he did have was a itt-caliber Smith k Wesson revolver, and he stooped down and
drew It out from the lower drawer with
a great flourish. Then he straightened himself up and looking again into the mirror, which seemed to have a strange fascination for him, said in a mournful voice: "Oh, faithless woman! I cannot live without thee! Life would be a woeful burden!" and placed the muzzle of the revolver to his temple and just at that instant the intense quiet of that room was shattered by the most horrified shriek that ever fell on hutaaa
Aa SOME Of
THAT WLLION.
Tfiary
NETTIE DA SURD OUT OT THE CLOSET. ear, and Nellie dashed out of her closet and wrenched the pistol from Den's hand. He, the wretch, grinned and said: "I thought that would fetch you. Why didn't you come out sooner?" She made no answer, but threw herself on his breast, sobbing so wildly and with such a distracted look that he In turn became frightened. He carried her into the sitting-room, where he netted her and reasoned with her and
tried in every way to soothe her terror, but all to no purpose. It was not until he had administered a draught from his own private flask that she became suf
ficiently conscious to talk. "You nearly killed me, Ben! Whea I heard yoa say you would kill yourself I was so frightened I was actually dumb and could not more a finger. When I saw you raise that frightful revolver to your head I knew I must scream if it took ray life." "But, Nellie, it wasn't loaded." "How did I know that? You might
have killed me!" shuddering, and womanlike, shifting the blame on him. "Well, you see I was joking, too." "Yes. Dut it was too horrible! Yoa acted so in earnest" "Yes, my dear. That speech was one I heard in a fifth-rate play to-night, and as I knew I had an auditor I thought It a good time to get it off!" "How did you know I was there?" sitting up alertly, her eyes stin woefully red and her little body trembling. He drew the shawl closer round her and pressed her head back again to Its resting place oa his breast, then said: "I saw the reflection in the rairrot of four little fingers grasping a door, and then I knew It was another joke, and I thought I'd rise equal to the occa
sion. Are you satisfied wita me "It has completely cured me." "w T should think so. As a practi
cal joker don't yoa think rat even a greater success than you?" Dut a sobbing sigh made him repent his brutality and he said: "But I will never try another, though." "Nor I," she said. Sidney Kxox.
DISHONEST CABD-PLAYINO. CMreaMMtancf Whleh Mtew That Cfceat. lug I CetMMimly t'raetlee. On a very moderate estimate, oat of every hundred men who play high at games of pure chanee at least three cheat, and out of every hundred women
at least six. They do not always cheat, but every now and then, when they think that no oae is looking, they, aa the Americans say, "play with the advantages." If anyone would take the trouble to count tap the number of persons who live year after year far above their incomes, and who play habitaftUy at games of chanee, and yet are
never in debt, ne wm perceive ma they must cheat, for at no gam of pure chance can a habitual player win year after year. It is simply impossible, if he does not give himself some llttie advantage over hia opponents. The advantage, however, seed not be above S or S per cent for hint to make a good thing oat of his playing. At baccarat, for instance, a person playing h) each coup would stake in an hoar at least 300, and a per cent of this would insure him M per hour. If ho
plays frequently the laek of oae hour would balance the ill-luck of another, so that if he were to play hoars ia
the year his annual revenue from earaa would be 1,300. London Truth. "Intelligence has just reached ate; began Mr. Blodger, as he sat down to the dinner table, "Thank Heaven if It has at last," exclaimed Mrs. Slodger, and the food was parjekea of ia Ueaee. Lowell ClUaea,
ht the raMta
The billion dollar congress put out a good deal of its plunder at good interest. Although the brakes were turned en just In time in regard to the most thieving ship subsidy bill that was ever conceived, aad the horde of
wolves in Washington, that constitute the steamship lobby, were balked of their principal prey. Yet they got a toothsome morsel In the postal subsidy, and with the connivance of such akeea treasury pointer as John Wanamaker, they may reasonably hope to secure a goodly share of plunder from the receptacle of the people's money. The owner of the bargain counter at Philadelphia, who suiorns all the papers in his guild by enormous advertising, and who was smart enough to have the Pan-American congress corraled in his store and addressed by his principal floor-walker, has charge of the postal
sulnddy business, and he has already made the hearts of the lobby glad and
raised their expectations by ins preliminary arrangements in reference to the mall subsidy steal. Pious John may always be relied upon to execute the orders of the "boys" with neatness and dispatch, as far as the law will permit him. He is a thoroughly representative member of the Harrison administration, the motto of which has been repeatedly put in practice and may be described as: "Curse the public, and spend all their money;" Allied to John Wanamaker in the work of spending the money of the people in the most lavish manner possible, is the notorious Ureen D. Uaum, commissioner of peusions. That coat of whitewash, Hung over this tattooed official at the eleventh hour, by a reluctant majority of a congressional investitratinjr committee, is already-
cracked in several places, and the marks are still visible. A largo proportion of the revenues of the government arc handed over to this branded official
that he mny work his sweet will upon them and dispense them according to the dictates of his brother sharks, and in the interest of the private "Son John" annex he has attached to the pension office. There is np branch of the government in which such wholesale fraud exists and receives the indorsement of ofUcinl authority as in the pension office. Union veterans, the most deserving of the pension applicants, are .treated with contempt and their claims thrust aside without, a word, unless they consent to share liberally with the Washington sharks. One of the most recent instances of
fraud in th's fraud infected office is that of an employe of the oiTJoe named Pratt, who wa formerly in the volunteer service. He appeared, eighteen years after the war, for a pension, on the ground that he had received a wound in the left hand, and the surgeons who examined him declared adversely to his claim. Dut being an emnlove of the bureau, he got Ills pen
sion all the same. For a scar on the third finger of his right hand. Mr. Pratt not only received a regular pension, but received nine dollars a month from the date of .his first application anl thirteen 'dollars a month after the decision of tli3 bureau in
which he was employed. The loss of the entire finger would have entitled aim, under the law, to only two dollars a month Dudley got the increased amount for him, and he put it into real estate purchase I from Dudley. Odell, a Washington shark, had his pension increased by Tanner from six dollars to twenty-four dollars a month, with over one thousand dollars back pay through reratiug. A townsman of Harrison, named Johnwn, who had been dropped from the rolls as a fraud, has managed to rake in seventeen hundred dollars through rerating by Dudley's aid, and Is now applying for an increase. . .... The pension office is alwolutcly rotten from the commissioner to the hum
blest employe. Tliera Is no longer any disguise as to the waste of the people's money in that corrupt bureau. Anyone fortunate enough to have a "pull" in the office or with Lemon, Dudley, Tanner and John Itaum, can get a pension on the flimsiest grounds, and there are thousands of democratic ex-soldiers, with genuine claims, who cannot even
uret a hearinr. The American peo
ple have been, goodness knows, liberal to the utmost degree in this pension business, and, although it is nearly
twenty-six years since the war closed, they are still willing to pay liberally for the claims of the survivors of the war. Dut they decidedly object to such preposterous claims and to such a wanton waste of their money for the
most corrupt purposes under the direction of a branded and tattooed official. The presence of Green D. Uaum in the pension bureau is an iusult to every American worthy of the name. Dut he Is the pet protege of Harrison, and he will remain as the dispenser of one hundred and thirty million dollars annually while Harriwn can keep him there. The billion llar congress has given him, at the eleventh hour, a socalled certificate of good conduct by a liberal coat of whitewash. The next democratic congress cannot do a greater service to the country than by ordering a prompt investigatioa of Green D. Uaum, and another one of John Wanamaker, if only to show the country the inherent rottenness of the Harrison vlrainistration. Albany Argus.
LATEST SCHEME.
aeretal tats resH, the areasare might become flrnt enough to press tha ropeaa ttcBiea into it As a sort of poUtioal middle man ia the role of eompromlser ia great national issues Mr. Blaine eertainly cuts a very interesting agar. Whatever the suipicioM of insincerity that may have eome to attach to all he undertake, ha k at laast orkrinala most remarkable
combination of braias and ineohareaey of purpose awl motive. Acting better than he knows, he ia a galling thorn ia the side of his party, which dare ael-
ther to censure him severely nor put him out while he is giving away the whole inwardness of the great schemes which tax the masses in commerce aad in flnanee.
Neither Mr. Maine nor any other statesman living Is big enough to induce the great commercial nations of Europe to take a step which would end
in tne universal raoneuaanun oi The powerful moneyed interests, which control values through insisting on aa exclusive gold standard and casting reproach upon silver at every opportunity, will permit no European statesman to hazard so vital a source of power and wealth. Mr. Dlnlne probably understands this, but by holding oat the prohpect of accomplishing such a feat he gets an enormous political advertisement, which is probably his chief aim in the matter.
In this matter of stiver, as in the .-
Iff reciprocity business, it is amvag to sue Mr. Dlaine conciliating the powers both of protectionism and of orthodox finance, through schemes, the logical outcome of which, if carried out would be free trade and free money. South America has proved a bonanza for him as a lever by which to get a pry under the policies which his party regard as most vital. It is a man of no small genius who thus manages to figure as friend and traitor at the same time. Doston Globe.
EXPLODED
ASSUMPTIONS.
Kept-
A Kello ef tha Old VuodoaUtM f
Heat Kaaters. An administration organ published recently as a "startling exhibit," illus
trating "how republican votes are sup-
REPCNTANOC OF NINEVEH,
lMir silasal fhHMMr-lklH4 ! AprM . isei. eUlljr Arranged trow a. B. Qesrterlr.l I.aason Taxr.Jooah 1: 1)0. Uomkn TaxT.-Tho me His r uu In Judgment wltte tata generation, a ahall eoadeom It; for taey repeat at tae preaeatng of Joaae; aad. beheM, a greater taea JosMUiMiv.-L.wkeU: a. Ckwtkai. TairrH.-God fefgea those wea tMlleve awl repeat . . Tim. 11. C.WJ, about. Deris the reign eC .UroboMt IL of IhimI. i'LACic-Oohlee and Klaw. CiaccNAica.-Joaa harm heea by Ood to preach to the NlMvltea. had refsM. a d left hU country imm! hi proswrtie aad set Mil lor Tar- A suara everWok him; hevra throws into the sadawallewsa by a great nsh, within which he wm kept three day, till he was thoroughly poaltent, hahe was eat aobore. Ood' dltdphae of his -,lrn ends a aooa as it work is plkdted. Ood love mercy ; he delights la doing good to all, but the heat good la a right brSeter, aa obedient heart, a holy life. 1ft ba tbee are attained, or In proosss of attainment, Uhmi be eaa add worldly blcMlngs aad rl.: IIbu-s Ovkk lunn Pucas.- "City of throe days' Journey:" t e., in olrcuroforeaee; tae Jew called twenty mile a day's jouraey. 4. -Began'-" started on hi tour through the city, preaching m he went "A day's I? rolog hither aad thither in tao city tor the whole day. This may have been a specimen of other day. "Ninev eh shall be overthrows:" This wm the sum of what bo said. Probably he told them why, and urged them to repeat. Tbe fact that he wsa sent showed that the warning was: "Overthrown ualea i you i tarn, ovU wars." ft. -Ntnereh believe.
Ood:" believed the mege Ho sent; hoped, too. in Ills mercy. There wouhl bave boen bo repentance had they not believed the warning. "Proclaimed a fast," etc, : a aa expression of sorrow for sin and a mean of extending and intensifying It. "Sackcloth:" a eoaree. rough, unpleasant cloth, woven from the coarse bain of the goat. . -ror word came unto the king:" he way not have heard Jonah, but the excitement in the city wa tnteaw. aad oataa to the ears of the king. & "Cry mightily unto Ood:" express la words what their outward forma expressed. "Turn everyone from his evil way:" forsake the laa oa aceouEt of which the calamity was coming. " tolenee: the kind of sla to which the Nlnevitoa wera specially addicted. 9. "Who can tell," etc. : they had hop, but were not sura 10. ash. God repented:" He changed Ills purpose destroying the city. He was the same Ooa. but they were not in the same position toward. Him, They had gone out of the shadow into the sunlight; no that the sua shoee upon them, but the real change was la thorn. ' Ana He did It not:" Nineveh was spared. It -!nnindor and (tlory. But la tUBO
pressed in five states." a table from the the people returned to their slae. and c twf, fraudulent census showing the small llJ tSam- it S
noou.v( . . ,1
more man iwu
proportion of republican votes to tne colored population in Alabama, Georgia. Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina. This tattered rag from the shredded bloody shirt is drawn from four impudently false and oft-exploded assumptions:
1. That all the southern negroes are republicans. 2. That they desire to vote the republican ticket but are prevented from doing so. 8. That there is any canvass or other effort made to Induce them to vote, and 4. That the republican party has done anything for the colored people within the past twenty years which should cause them to srivc it their support
From the day when the mass of semibarbarous ignorance at the south was enfranchised to perpetuate the power of the republican politicians until now the leaders of that party have adhered with Bourhonlsh persistency to the brutally frank formula of Thad Stevens: "So
many niggers, so many republican votes." Every open-minded traveler at the south learned long ago that thk claim is false. The defeat of the infamous force bUl was the final failure to put that theory in operation. The agents of Quay and Dudley will never be able to count the negro census as republioaa votes.-N. Y. World.
POLITICAL OPINION. The New York Tribune says that Maj. McKinley is very much in demand as an orator just now. That is very likely. Most men are good for something, and it had been abundantly demmonstrated that McKinley was good for nothing else. Chicago Times.
The republican spoils-mongering
wiui uaanowa ior
years. (See Nahum 3:6 ., js-i.j L.RSSON COMMENTS. The repentance of a great heathen city like Nineveh Is an event so unique that It startles the careful reader. All the more are we surprised because it ia the only instance of the kind in tha word of God, and is not supported by any secular testimony. There is, however, no testimony from secular history against it and there is Divine testimony in its favor. For, besides the narrative as we have it in our lesson, we havctha clear Indorsement of tha Saviour Himself, who declares that the Nlncvitea dkl repent at the preaching of Jonah. This Is enough for anyone who believe in Christ as Divine. But for tha sake of t any scholars in Uible classes, whoea minds are troubled by the singularity
of the story, and who are tnereiore mellned to question its historical truth, the teacher may well spend some tlma oa this point. This story is no stranger or mora unique than that of the degradation of Nebuchadnexsar, king of Babylon, aa told in Daniel 4. If we had no secular testimony with regard to that strange event we might be tempted to feei about it as some do about the repentance of Nineveh. Dut when we find in an inscription by Nebuchadnezzar himself the following, we recognize the reliability of sacred history: "For fouryeara n ti soat of the kingdom did not re
joice ray heart In all my dominion I Ud not build an high place of power. The precious treasures of my kingdom 1 dkl not lay up. In Babylon, Imilaings for myself and the honor of nay kingdom I did not lay out. In the worship of Merodach, my lord, the joy of
inv neart. in iwdvhwi
politicians of the south are "getting sovereignty, and the seat of my together" to pick out the new federal I dkl not sing his praises, I dul not furV? - ' .1...!- v An.i, nhd. his altars with victims, nor dkl I
judges for their section. No one doubts
that President narrisoa win aeieci. me entire nine from his own party. There has not been another presklcnt in thirty years who would have been capable of sueh an act of bigoted and scandalous partisanship. N. Y. World. "If they have done nothing else," shvs McKinley. speaking of Reed's
rulings, "they have made the majority responsible to the people for the legislation it passes." And when Mr. McKinley (from the gallery) looks over the new congress and sees two hundred and forty democrats and only eighty-nine republicans, will he not wish his party hadn't taken quite so much responsibility? Dostoa Globe. The billion dollar congress created sinecures just "as easy as nothing." The Indian appropriation act had in it provision for a stenographer and typewriter for the com
missioner of Indian affairs, at a salary of fourteen hundred dollars per year, unasked for and unexpected by that official. Two senators called upon the oommlHsloncr to inform him that the
ntHb his altars with victims,
clean out the canals." Commenting oa this remarkable Inscription George llawlinson says: "We can scarcely imagine anything that would account for a but some such extraordinary malady as that recorded in Daniel." Yet until very recently the narrative of Daniel had no support and proof of reliability outside of the sacred Word. Men might l.uvt said: "This story is so unique and
improbable that we can baldly credit it." Now since God's word has been proved reliable in one unique instance, we are legitimated in relying- upon lie affirmations in another. The great city is stirred Increasingly from day to day. The contagion of fear, followed by the healing of repentance and the outward manifestation of sorrow, spreads until lt embraces all clasaea, reaching even up to tlie throne. Deformation begins, and is, manifest; ami many turn from their evil ways, "ami from the violence that m in their bands." Tlien God's anger ia twFBMl awav: and He snares the re-
oi its enange ot
BLAINE'S
The Deal
Part Ma la Maying for P4Hleat AdverthMNMOMt.
Mr. Blaine is reported to be on the eve of extending" the reciprocity idea into the domain of finance, with a view tn eatablishimr. through International
agreement, a uniform Intrinsic value for the silver dollar in all the states of this continent, ami, ultimately, in all the great commercial nations of the world. Thla nlan. of course, could It be ef
fected, would amount to monetixlag allvi- in the countries whleh enter into
It It has been attempted many times,
Wit. t h statesmen of Europe have never
hail tha mturaffe to take a step so fatal
k th purposes of the stnghi standard interests. Mr. Blaine seems to think
W ntthl ha uonsolidate his plan oa
eetttiaettt, with its growing
nnaat citv. because
. s. .,...1 haartanu Hie. oeei wmro -"
rT,1",, r: w w blked In his plana; whenb
man irmniia. h iiii in ra in a a an met w
Htm n a a v"t " w ' - T
where the Pennsylvania senator uoes a
good deal of fishing. This is the way
to dispose of almost any amount, ot
surplus, provided the impecunious politicians are to be furnished with oflkea. Boston Transcript (rep.).
Maj. McKinley told his hearers
at Worcester the other night that all revenue needed for the maintenance of the government must be raised by mim sort of taxation at home. "Yoa
cannot tax any other nation ia the
world," he sakl. "A tax gatherer cannot reach the property of tha citlxen of any other country In the world. The
foreigner is absolutely exempt irom civil and military obligation of
ur government" Dut we have beea told by the apostles of MeKinleyism that the foreigners pay all the duties for the privilege of sharing oar market Even McKinley himself ia that same npeecli declared this to he a fact If we cannot reach the foreigner, then we mttftt pay from our own pocket. The tariff ia a tax upon Amttkmas by MKlntey's own admiesiea. Uoatoa lie-
1 pwblk
faced duty, hia work prospered, is titers no lesson for us bore? Ood causes many a man's oxen "to stumble" because tle man 1 more bent on having his own way than on obeying God. Jehoshaphat's "ships were broken" at Kakm-gaber (see 8 Chron. 205-87) beeaase hia plans failed to coincide with God's plans. How many of your ships have been broken? And have you aver looked to see why they were brokea?Kev. A. F. Schaufiier, D. D. PRACTICAL HU0ORBT1OXS. 1. Sometime God gives u aa opportunity to retrieve oar mistake. 1 Our own experience helps aa te help others. x. There is no escape from the penalty of sin, except by faith and repentanee. 4. Faith leads to repentance, a. True repentance will appear ia the life. . Putting away the wrong Is the
fceeeasary proof of rirntaoe. 7. Those who lead In other things eeeaU lead ia retMBtaaee.
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