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C. UOAJCJB, IPuhUeher. INDIANA. THE OLD HOMESTEAD. , . i. hWh lui'.WMWI the MVM. 111? IDUim p ' ' .1. I. u.1 ultfa tillV ItaBtS iVmiatnti J tlckd with wwHMr rids I Zl, mciodacroM aed "puttied Ut'" Sr-r-d.il to- strip of tin; .Tin day long, the rustling leaves ' ' . .....1,. n lt ani-LaNt fun. Pifl ?""" " - - cbcrry branches laterluee. L(muso1 lowly, old and Wows, situiln roof with shlmseyt vast. rtrv maJi ueh, I Maws, "to uwt.") U woodbine creeps up over It, den iwnixplxw1 ' . .11 fcatt MtAf L VAW S3 j,f,t anil bid the world good Hlgku. I ,.i,ie you'd Mure, and Hwm It "poor, Hit always, n my homeml eyes, -rvroomfc HM'in ry ai wr ith a grsee rmroa f urn velvet, itHwesk, laee. In.-, at latch fa-ten every door i'-nitirlfil dwr, which softly si lag Ijfrtldnot change it all for gold. r pari wun t nM , V,ir ancient linen, woven fair checkered with blue, long yearn age; v.f nurrv patchwork quilts arow, IfWfcanrc you think my praise too bold? j toy ras cu.-pets injni " Wire KitiJo by hands luoldored away, ht toss run o'er with relies small I . . I- . V . 11.Anion h seemeio ai io ingui Erttores lust face to my wight., $;t loneliness then disappears, rie sua Is eouo from saddening years, L ";o,raut radiance rlftrt death's pall, Aauresaiy near groweia eaca aione V,r.iL-:i lowly lifts my mountain home, Wood lu.dwln, In Good Housekeeping. LARRY'S "OLD FOSSIL." Sao to Hor Promise She Adds Him to Her Collection. There was so much talk about Prof. fbfsnoy before he arrived, that Larry feclarvd herself sick of the subject Aajtistn, having spent several weeks a his company the previous summer, it the house of their mutual friend Mrs. Kartell, felt she had a prior right to tia "A primary mortgage on him," Urry Mild, in her girlish impertinence; fcrtrudc. who had met him several daws, and who was considered very leister, called him "a congenial spirit;" Mrs, Austin, knowing1 his social standIcjat"! large income, declared hira "a todel mth in, onu In a thousand;" Jlr. pronounced hha 4an upand n fellow;'' even .lira .Annsley, itsiu and adopted brother, exapprobation of hira. Larry n t - onl- one of the family who aln ' met him, and with her usual rewity made up her mind not to like a im was learned in matucmatics, ch only soorcd aeaitiNt him, iu her 'The calculating power alone should t to be the least human of .it!en,' " site quoted, her small nose I iir. "There is something wrong a man whom evm-ifMg like. My m " Vour 'prophetie sohI' makes misrm mmir.uHiijn , u u i, i urn niLn cm 1 1 . Ll. M. 1 Tf. I II i tm ilOHiiL von' II mniiunili in lits Intctriere; uo give Augusta a C V 1 n't a' litrm yourself!" cried Larrv. .1 I IM Tl (jiic no - t lit it ti nil or " .... 1 3 p. fusty old professors dou't j mo in the slightest I shall i.iakful when this wonderful i I' Criehton has been and 1 m positively sick of the sound 4 ' "I'rof. thesney is certainly a won Jul man, besraa Jira, seBtentiously; v t '-- v. ntii c 'Koiniousiy put, to nignt. The Wednesdav the nrofessor was narry wuni ior a Jong waiK; . .uu 1,1 mine aim iiarrv hjmV.l L'l...!.. .. .1 IT 8 Was t'(Mxl fr!ni1 uml antrtvail ti lvcrv much, trettiniz- ia lmrelr in to dress for dinner. They were nn.Mi tut,. i i i fl r al.S 1 .1 i.a. i Chehncy." " 111 i I I A I in mmmw im liMrillllM. "j "r imnusiimi name. itn aOtUltMIS ttnnh nf Imp im1ni.lln "we ta.a a m wnvetl littsttlr. and it was not nnt 1 . . J.. ... v. i.nini.'cii ui uer soao inaL sne i.t I1LT Ol.twWsiTe nnlvhlwvr A thin man, with brown hair and a "ft brown beard and mustache thickwyaKcd with gray, a large, dome- ' forehead, and near-siwhtod amtv that looked kindly at her through 'maelos. He was a little stir- " at the hostile exnression in the "ira lirOWtt tVi. whinli cnmi-iui illll i IOV "vuimo astonlslimcnt when, in WT to a low-voieed the young lady replied, also in a tone, but ' w aacv 1 1 v; . v nuni; "i riiintr ni ir an W1 otwithstand nir this, mvriMi ii .1,. - J--nlitg,brown head, and once, muUt of a remark from Auv uirnecl to listen to a peal of -v.ui oi ner friends -mt In 1l.1r.n0 trrmt - , . V - . . ana Slie (lvnti(l linrtnlf In V PnifusMir. U'h fn iikn Irurtt un boh. .,!.. . ,;." . ,wr 10r nearly a week, it at1110 attention nt fatolW as mat of tint vtt,!,,. .i hen '"uiweru Konraml Larry was -vjininanucd. I Hn . . Ihfcttlvely unladylike!" said l. Kim... 1. ... 'lare:iir r .1.. . . , 1 v "u enuu to nis imnu,y answereu "rrII,n, ,..: , Mth'" ' y-'aaoie geHueman ' i It'll him ......II...! A ... her spoiled dauirhter. 1 KUire

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HW tH4g that I aeRise more another, it k that word Wiau.. hie,' as applied to neoide. t Call thorn gool, IkmI, weak, strong, brave, cow lly-tmythliig but esUiHable!,M "You are exceedingly iiMjMjrUnent!" aimwered Mrs. Austin, who was now very agry. "I insist on your being polite to 1'rof. Chesney, and doing your share toward entertaining him, or 1 shall certainly complain of yon to your father. Leave the room, mi." A little ashamed, and wholly angry, Larry whisked out of the room, almost Into the professor's arms, with such force as to rather stagger him. With a hasty "Excuse me," she sped along the corridor and up the stairs, while the "estimable gentleman" stood aad looked after her, "An old fossil!" he murmured, with a slight smile, stroking his beard. hliortly after this, to the surprise of all, l.arry suddenly changed her tactics, and at dinner one day addressed the professor. He answered courteously. anil very readily joined in an argument between herself and Jim. Her remarks were bright and amusing, if somewhat crude, and the brown eyes and changeful face were very attractive. In the evening she played and sang for him, anil was as sweet and bewitching as the heart of man could desire, much to the surprise of some, and the annoyance of outers, or her family. "Slje means mischief!" thought Jim, uneasily. "Are you beginning to succumb to the professor's charms?" he whispered. "You know 1 gave you a week." "I am thinking of getting up a collection of fossils." the answered, with a mocking laugh, "and this is too line a specimen to lose. Don't you dare Interfere!" "1'oor wretch!" rejoined Jim. "He has my sympathy." Unable to account for the change in Larry's manner, the professor nevertheless found her very agreeable; and, though never neglecting anyone else, it soon became evident that she was the attraction. The other two reluctantly gave way to her, and she it was who went with him to picture galleries and lectures and concerts, who was the life of the theater and opera parties, saucy, willful, charming. With all his gravity and erudition, it was plain that he admired this ill-regulated young woman. He had never before been thrown closely into companionship with such a nature; he admired her beauty, her dainty costumes; even her girlish extravagance of speech and saucy disregard of Ids opinion pleased him better than Augusta's unvarying politeness, or Gertrude's cleverness. His eyes followed her every movement, a wistful light in them sometimes, that touched Jim. , "He's in for a sevre attack, I'm afraid," he thought "Had disease to take late in life" and went off whistling: "Two bright eyes 'Heath a scarlet hood. One beguiling and one beguiled." Larry waa curled up in a deep windowsill overlooking the perk, basking in the sun, for she wae a veritable Persian in her love of sunlight when Prof. Chesney came into the room. He leaned against the side of the window, looking at the picture she made in her quaint puffed and furbelowed gown, the sunlight falling on her brown head. Larry looked up, nodded with a smile that showed her small white teeth, and settled back into her original position, waiting for him to speak; and so he did, after awhile, but not as she ex pected. "I am going away to-morrow, Miss Larry." lie said. "My pleasant visit has come to an end." " To-morrow".1" echoed Larry, sitting up straight. "I m very sorry you are going." And, much .to her own surprise, she realized that the remark was perfectly sincere. I am glad to hear you say that," said the professor, trying to keep his voice steady. "It makes it a little easier to say something that is in ray heart" Then he told his story in warm, eager words, very unlike his usual calm words that stirred Larry strangely. There was a queer expression on iter pale face as she stood be fore him. Prof. Chcsncy,"-she said, with quiv ering lips, "I'm not worth the love you have offered me. You'll realize that when I tell you that I've only lcen pleasant and civil to 3-011 all these weeks, not from any liking for you, but to to plague the others." Thoroughly ashamed, she bent her head, unable to meet his eyes. ''You mean that you have deliberately played a part all these weeks? You, whom I thought so frank and true? How could you do it! Then you've not the slightest love for me in your heart that, 1 suppose, Is out of the question," There was a hurt shocked tone in Ids voice that touched Larry keenly. "I don't love you," she answered, "but I shall be very grateful, If, after what I have told you, you will let mo Iks your friend." She put out her hands and moved a step nearer to him, but, to her mortification, her extended hands remained untouched. "I did not ask for your friendship,, he said, unsteadily, "and just at present I want only what I asked for. Ily and by I may be able to appreciate your offer; I shall try, but you've taught me a hard lesson, Larry, one I'm not likely to forget Perhaps I ought to have known better, but," with a break in his .voice, "I'm not used to women I'm only 'an old .fossil,' after all." And witkout another word he left her. Up In her room Larry was still more surprised to lind a lit of crying a necessity. She could not account for the dull, unhappy feeling that took entire possession of her as she reviewed the past weeks and realiacd that the kindly, pleasant companionship she had accepted so heedlessly was ended, "I suppose he'll hate me now and for ever," she thought, Iwtwocn her sobs. "Hut how could I say I loved him when I didn't'."' "MlstreJwMary, quite contrary, quite contrary!" mocked a parrot in the next y"1."He was so hurt, so gneveu. 1 won

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"tattle contrary, quite contrary," shrieked the parrot, with sueh foree that It sounded positively personal eonselenee-tetrieken Larry. "PiemtiVj bird!" she cried, "I wish some one would wring your wtekl" Then she sobbed all the harder. The professor left the next afternoon, while Larry waa out A box of white roses lay on the table, addressed to her, a card uUaehed on which waa written: "From your friend, Roger Chesney;" that was all, but she guessed dimly what an effort It cost to write it. With trembling Angers she divided the flowers into three parts and gave them to her mother ami sisters. " don't want them," she said, proudly, In answer to Mrs. Austin's remonstrance. "I waa onlj civil to him to please you all." Hut .1 lin noticed that the brilliant eyes were full of tears, and that she A. il ....

wok me cam away with Her. "It must be a relief to you to have him gone," he said, with malice aforethought, as they stood a moment In the hall. "Associating with such a serious man must have been a trying experience for you." He was unprepared for the way she flamed out at him: "Such an experience as makes me more willing to accept the statement that man is made after God's own image and possesses some Oodlike attitudes. Now go!" And he did, a lurking smile under his mustache and a most emphatic "lly Jove!" on his lips. One bright, sunny morning early in June Jim opened the door of Mrs. Austin's sitting-room. Larry was in there alone. She-hadan industrious fit on her, and with the sleeves of her blue morning dress turned back, displaying two prettily-rounded arms, feather duster In hand, she was whisking the dust off some rare pieces of old china. "Larry, here is an old friend of yours," announced Jim. "Treat him well, for he sails for Egypt to-morrow, never to return. I'll be back In a minute." He vanished; and there, inside the closed door, stood Prof. Chesney, a little thinner, a little gra.ycr, but with the old kindly smile on his lips that she remembered so well. Startled out of her self-possession, Larry stood with her feather cluster suspended over grandma's hundred-year-old teapot "1 sail for Europe to-morrow." said the professor, taking a few steps Into the room, "and I may never return. Won't you wish me godspeed, Larry?" Crash went grandma's priceless teapot into a dozen pieces on the polished floor, and the next thing Larry knew she was crying bitterly. "Are you crying because I am going away?" asked the professor, cagerl3' he was very near her now "or because you have broken the teapot?" "Both!" cried Larry, with a convulsive sob which was smothered in the folds of the professor's coat as the arms of that "estimable gentleman" closed rouad her. "How about your 'prophetic soul, Larry?" teased Jim, later on. "I thought you called him 'a fossil'?" "So I did," answered the .young lady, with a brilliant smile, quite unabashed. "But I also said I was 'getting up a collection of fossils,' and recognized the fact that he was 'too fine a specimen to lose.' Don't you remember?" liarbara Yechton, ia Demorest's Monthly. THE NUTMEG TRADE. Experts Say That the Limine TeHd to Spelt the Nut. Preeet "People may laugh as they please about the old-time Connecticut nutmeg joke," said a prominent spice importer, "but there arc several Interesting points about this somewhat maligned though thoroughly spicy little nut of which the majority of people are ignorant Have you ever noticed that most nutmegs for I suppose you have occasionally grated them yourself into a glass of punch or toddy, even If you have never seen them in your kitchen are covered with a thin white coating, or, at least that the numerous crevices are filled with a light-colored substance? Most people think that to be a natural condition of the nutmeg, but it is not The substance Is lime, and the reason for Its being placed on the nutmeg is a ratner curious one. aiany years ago the practice of liming nutmegs originated among the Dutch colonial merchants of the East Indies. They broke the shells and then immcrsccHhe kernels or seed in the milk of lime, often keeping them there for a period of three months. The object of this treatment was to prevent the seed from sprouting out during transportation to the European markets, as you have often seen potatacs do late in the spring. "This necessitated a second drying, and most experts now claim that liming spoils the nut from a hygienic and chemical point of view, and by degrees shippers are learning that the process Is really unnecessary. In many sections of the world, though, the prejudice in favor of liming is so strong that the 'ponang,' which is considered the best variety of nutmeg grown, will not command anything like the price it. deserves unless the white lime coating is present European merchants, however, have learned to lake this variety of nutmeg in Its natural brown condition. The Chinese also prefer them unlimed, while the Americas buyers usually like them la their oldfashioned way. "Occasionally unscrupulous casters shippers will adulterate good nuts with those quite as worthless as the proverbial wooden ones of colonial days in Saw England," continued the merchant "I mean by mixing In with the good ones nutmegs from which the oil has been extracted, as there is a process by which a valuable volatile oil can be taken without destroying the nut The flavor of the nut is in this oil; hence, without the latter the nut is almost worthless. These mils may Iw detected by their lightness Is weight when compared with the genuine article, and a elose examination with a magnifying glass will show that the surface of the nut, robbed of Km oil, is covered with minute holes."Washington Post

TRADE WITH THE SOUTH. WteervatlmM tt m Sharj' Yawl MemhaM lUprtMtKjr t MtH-tted .Amh4mih fcMM : CtHHpete AtrtMtttr, thU We .Laek KBtrprl ruwfM-r I.br Mil AMM-rleMH Ijikar-lhir I.hVmi- the Cheer NKarlk. At a recent meeting of the Iteston Shoe and Leather exchange Mr. I). F. Murphy, an enterprising Yankee merehaat who does a wholesale business in American manufactures at Kingston, Jamaica, made an address on reciprocity and our general trade relations with southern countries. Mr. Murphy displayed absolutely no enthusiasm on the subject of reciprocity, slnee even without reciproeity American good can be profitably exported to neighboring countries to the south of us, and the only reason which now keeps American merchants from doing a large and profitable business there Is a laek of information and enterprise. "There is nothing whatever," said Mr. Murphy, "in the way of our doing business in the south excepting what exists here at home, and that we can remedy. Wc have free raw material for all the south requires. The credit system is as good, I say better, than our own. We have ample steamship and mail service. We have access to all the markets of the south on the same terms as the most favored nation. These advantages are sufficient to insure us a trade of 8500,000,000 a year out of the l,4O0,0O0,0O0 or $1,. 101), 000,000 a year of the southern commerce. Those are all the advantages we can have or shall be'1 likoly to have. I am not a believer in Mr. lllaine's reciprocity scheme including manufactured goods." "There Is a chance," he went on, "that reciprocity may become a political question, and our manufacturers will await congressional action on it I fail to see how congress can give us any help In this southern trade that will give us any advantage over European competitors; but while we are waiting to see, valuable concessions for exclusive rights are being granted to European houses for manufacture of ice, of soap, of navigation of rivers, of construction of public works, of electric light plants, of banks, refining of sugar forhome use, erection of coffee cleaning plants. This system of concessions, or exclusive rights, is to hasten dovclopmont,but it is a most pernicious one. The few able representatives wchave In the south see no movement on our part indicating that we want any of the good things going, and therefore do not use their influence against the concessions. ."It appears to rae that our government, In giving us reciprocltj', is like giving us a white elephant As we are, we are not in a position to use it It may be costly to keep, by our surrendering duties on southern goods In exchange for that which we cannot use. Thore are about twenty points on which we must have information, regardless of any southern tariffs, before we can safely export" We pride ourselves with being the

most enterprising nation on earth; but, so far as the export trade to South America is concerned, it is clear from the tacts stated by Mr. Murphy that American manufacturer and merchants have not been awake to their op portunities. They have not studied southern markets; they have not gath ered information about the wants of the southern peoples, about their tar iffs, their routes of trade and methods of transportation; and they have never undertaken to manufacture the special grades and varieties of goods demanded in the so-called Latin America. In confirmation of all this a writer in Hardware, h New York trade journal, points, out how a New York merchant lost an opportunity to build up a trade in South America for American made shovels hy refusing to pack them as ordered. The same writer contrasts witli this the way in which English manufacturers accommodate themselves to the wants of the people for whom goods are intended. He says: "For all parts of the world they manufacture goods with reference to the local demand, laying llritish preferences entirely aside. It would be difficult to buy a mackintosh in England similar to the great mass of those sent for the market of the United States. Every Chola woman In Eastern Peru wears a peculiar shawl knit in Manchester Inexact imitation of the old cotton shawls which the Indians had for ages previously made with their own hands; and the trapiches, or sugar mills, for the Amazon valley are designed after those formerly constructed by the natives out of the hardwoods of their forests." The trouble with our manufacturers is that they have learned under their protection schooling to look almost entirely to the home market Protection has sapped their enterprise and self-reliance. Mr. Murphy said In his address: "It appears to mo that our people are growing into a habit of leaning on the government for help, while our business interests are becoming the foot ball to be tossed between the rival parties in politics." In this address Mr. Murphy exposed some of tho false notions upon which our protectionists defend McKlnlcyism. He rejected utterly the claim of the protectionists that we cannot compete with the ''cheap pauper-made goods of Europe." "For years," he said, "we have raised in our imaginations obstacles In our way of doing this southern trade. First is, cannot compete with the 'pauper labor' of Europe. I have sold crimping machines for twenty-five dollars ti thirty dollars made by our high priced labor, as you call it, and made a good thing.. The pauper crimping, machine from Europe Is not sold for less thnn forty dollars. Boston letter copying pressc-s pay well, selling them at five dollars each. Pauper made ones from England cannot bo sold less than seven dollars. Hoston stationery is now 'sold who re I am as cheap at retail as it is In Hasten. The pauper stationery from England costs 30 per cent more." In answer to all this rot about the "pauper labor" of Europe Mr. Murphy asserted that we have the cheapest labor on earth. He said: "In our system of manufacturing our operatives perform but one part; that they learn qulekly. Machinery U well made aad

steely adjusted for that' part; it

swiftly, but there k no bangiag of it On that special style a m:n gets enough to do month after month. The majct stum amount of work is thus obtained from the operatives and the maximum output from the minimum cost of plant eaeh pear. This is the ease in shoes. Is cottons, in eastings, in glassware, fur niture, agricultural tools, hat, leather. and in the production of such goods I tell you we have the eheapest labor per cent on cost of produetios there is on earth, and we have also untaxed or indigenous raw materia!-! for every thing of our manufaeture which the southern countries consume." It is often claimed that English man ufacturers have the benefit of a much lower rate or interest than our manu facturers, and that the' can, therefore, carry longer credits in South American and West Indian trade. This claim, Mr. Murphy said, he had found by his ow observation to be false. henever it is pointed out that we sell so little in those southern markets the protectionists are readj with their stale assertions about "lack of shipping and postal faeilites." This was heard to the nointof disgust during the recent subsidy raid in the last session of eon gress. The falsity of all this was point ed out by Mr. Murphy. He said: "Want of steamship communication is an other supposed obstacle to our doing southern trade. The fast has been for some years that to all the countries, say as far south as the mouth of the Amazon, within that limit the steam' ship communication with the United States is six times greater than that with all the countries of Europe com bined. I shall venture to say that three-fifths of the malls for Great Britain from that territory now pass through the New York post office. Previous to the first of January last post age to the United States by tnsub sidized steamship lines, going once or twice or three times a week, was five cents per one-half ounce. Postage by the contract mail lines of Great Britain, going to Great Britain every ten days, was eight cents ptr one-half ounce." Starting h New Industry. The beet sugar factory at Grand Island, Neb., is a striking example of the craze to establish new industries and of tho reckless way In which the taxes of the people arc paid out to foster private enterprises. This factory at Grand Island receives a bounty of two cents a pound on raw sugar from the state of Nebraska, and with the next crop will begin to receive an equal bounty from the United States govern ment in accordance with the Mckinley tariff law. As this factory has a capacity of about 40 tons of sugar per daj the two bounties of four cents a pound will amount to about $3,700 s day. Ttefincd granulated sugar is already being sold at wholesale in centers like New York and Philadelphia at 4K cents a pound. The Grand Island concern is therefore to be paid nearly the full price of refined sugar for turning out raw sugar, and besides this will get the full market price for its product This is a fair example of establishing private enterprises at public expense. The people can look at that ?S,700 a day, multiply it by six and make itiS,200 a week, and multiply this by four and make it $68,800 a month, and then they can decide whether It pays to tax themselves to start private business undertaking. An industry is a good thing to have, but only when It is self-supporting. A ricayuHe Tariff Maker. The ridiculously small spirit that manifested itself in concocting the MeKinley tariff job was well shown by what Senator Plumb told in the closing clays of the recent session of congress about Senator Edmunds and the bounty on maple sugar. Mr. Plumb stated that the republican senators were appealed to last year to vote for the maple sugar bounty on the ground that It would help Senator Morrill, of Vermont to be reelected. Plumb, and apparently some of the other senators, voted for the bounty for this purpose, with the understanding that the conference committee would strike it out When this became probable Senator Edmunds, of Vermont, one of the great republican "statesmen," threatened in writing that he would vote against the entire tariff bill unless the maple sugar bounty were retained. The learned senator was witling to join the "ene mies of American industry" and east his vote against the McKinley tariff bill unless the Vermont farmers were paid two cents a pound on their maple sugar hy iuc uimeu aiaies government: Of such stuff are "gre.it" men made. and such is the pc'tinos that dom inates the makers of tariffs. Under the heading "Protection Does It," the American Economist declares that we export more brass and copper goods to Canada than docs Great Britain, This article was quoted by Mr. Blaine in his answer to Mr. Gladstone In tho North American Review. What are the fact? In 185 we exported to Canada i8O,fl0O of copper and brass goods. In the same year England sent to Canada only 817,175. In 189 we exported to all British America only $ 1JW,. 000 of copper and brass goods, or 99e,09t less than in 18o9, and England sent them S1'JS,500. Such Is the triumph of high duties! Some time ago the owners ef the Springfield (111.) woollen mill reduced the wages of their employes. Now they have laid off a portion of their force. Some of those discharged have been employed in the concern for years. In the political campaign of lS8 the manager of the mill was unsparing in his denunciations of the "free trailers" and assured his workmen that disaster would surely follow the election of Cleveland, and "free trade" in congress. Tho scIkkjI boys in Moundvllls know a thing or two. When asked the difference lwtween Buffalo Bill ami the McKinley bill, one of them Is said to have answered: "Buffalo Bill killed buffalo, while MoKlnley bill killed Heffslo, New York, Clilcaf a, St Louis asJ erippled MeundvllW

ISRAEL OFTEN REPROVED.

laHraalleetl tut! imiJ ISateeteUy Arraigns from ft, ft Qssrterig. Lbwom Tsxt. Aatee 4:4-U. OeUHW Text. He teat betac eftea ner-wS, aarSeseta hie ark, sbatt iaetUw.tr be SV. strayed, a4 that wftseet reiettf. lrer. J: U Ckwtsai. Tscth. Oed Sees stt tket wieeeaa! aad lore eaa deeire te keep smb treat ta a4U rut. Amos m a termer preeeet: Me heate Mi JuOea, bet ale proel.ie.ee were aeefcea te Israel. ee4 7IS, la Ue rewjae ef Jtreeoam n. te leesec, e4 Utsiefc. te JtxUk. I'lCK im HiacK Hwtoht-S Kies M; t COKTSMrosAsr Psoraars.-Astee feMawe JeSsa aad Joel, aad h etHmmsorary trttS then, aad with Heeea, wae prepeeeied hew Before aad after bleu The Static or ts Oopjctst. ) Beth Israel aad Judea were at tee belfht or oetwaeS proaiH'Hty. They bad aiade great eeeeeeete S Kio H:; s Caron. M) ; aad Ue two lctSom were almost as large aa ia the dare ef Sotonoa. There wae great wealth, aad lazery. () Taey were very wtesed. Per detail eee Acnes aad Hose. (Jl They were ia deafer ef destruction (7:1117), (4) Their eely beee wae ia repeataaee. t users uvea iiasd rue.-4. "Beteei. GUafei;" eeeters or tee idelatreea worse.. "Aad traaeffreM:" tale i Iroay, a we see freet 5:4, S. (Compare Matt. UXi 1 Kiega 1SS7.) It weans: "Co oa tnteUes; 'your falee gods aad. worship tbeaa more sealoosiy aed see it taey eee save you, sinee you are deteraUaed te So so." "Yoer tithes:" tenths for taxes. "After three years:" better aa is the Rev. Ver.: every three days, tbotum they were doe bet oaee a year. Go te excess ia your worship of idols. 6. "With leaves:" with even more ttaaa required (Lev. 7:10. 14.) "Publish the free offering :" give so freely that you are proud of yeer gifts aad proclaim them. -This lihelh." er pleaeeth you. & "Cleaosees of teeth:" for want of food. 7. "Wltbboldee the rain," ete.: just before harvest, so as to destroy lu Hem upon oae eity ; not upon another:" the dtetteetioa showing that God coatrolied the rata. t. "Palmer worn:" a lued of leetut. 10. -Peetl-leeee after the ataaaer of Egypt:" where H was eommoa, while rare In Paleetiae. Takes away your hones;" (gee 9 Kings 13:7.) -Te eoeae onto your nostrils :" the dead were elose by, hringla. new peatUeaee. ML "Thus will I do:" not naming the evil, but leaving- it aa uakaowa danger. "Prepare to meet thy God:" In Judgment: prepare by repeBtaaee. hy returning to Ilim aed obeying Him. IX. "For le," ete.: bowleg how God was able te save er te Deals. LESSON COMMENTS. Get a clear idea of the situation at the time. It was a time of much apparent outward prosperity, but of real inward rottenness. Selfishness was to be seem on every hand, and the rich cared nothing for the poor. At tlx seme time there was much outward observation of religious rites and ceremonies, which, however, onlv aem-aratil tk t-;i Hypocrisy was everywhere to be seen, 1 .t.f m ... kuu uungs went irom bed to worse. Against all this the Lord sent tho prophet from the southern Winmlnm t the northern to protest, and, if possible, to call the people back to tlielr allegiance to Jehovah. In every conceivable way he warns them of tho trouble that they were pre paring for themselves, and threatens them with the righteous anger of their God. xniswasnot the first time that Go had warned Israel, for alreadr lir tk lips of Elijah, of Elisha, and of Jonah. A. Si . . iney nau oeen tow or the misery that awaits those who turn law of the Lord. The history of their own nation In the past was also a plana warning; that the wav of tranasrreaam is hard. Sorrow and disaster had nftem followed their sins and experience was not lackincr to show bow thlmrs wnuUl turnout. If they persisted in their evil way. Why had God no often wranuw! tk people of their danger? Was it beoauco he hated them? Certainlynot It waa because thev Were in such ilanmir. awl because He loved them, that His words were so plain. lib warnings were a proof of His tender merer, end nnt nf His spite and hateful disposition. Yet, in spite of this, Israel was angry with the men who brought the momiful warning, ant) in every way possible tried to do them harm. They moeked at the message sad did despite to tho messenger. This is the story of Israel from the berinninir to the end of her history. And that, in ram runn ibJ the chief one, why such fearful calami ne nave fallen upon God s ancient people. Angry with God, instead of sagrywith themselves, they pushed oa ia their wicked way, till the end overcame them, and since then thev kare It wailing with a bitter cry. God meant U is warning for their weal. ltHttWr turned out for their woe. beeansM tlutv would not receive ami profit by them. ijki the warnings that Israel reecive make her fate s worse one when it really came? Undoubtedly! When & warning- k not so taken tU& it helps us, then it onlv Increases our re sponsibility. If we will not use it for our weal, then we use it for our wee. If tlie kind warnings of God arm scorned, then the disaster, when it comes (and it will come ss surely as tho sun will set to-dsy). will be only tho more bitter, because It is the more deserved. Like Israel, we shall all have to meet our God sooner or later. Prepared or unprepared, that day is sure to come to us at last How well. then, if we would only take the warning and "pre pare to meet 111m in such a way that thsA meeting sltould not have any terrors for us. How may we do this? The way ia easy. Repeat at once, and ask for pardon and a new Iteart, and then whether death comes to-dev or not for twentv years, we shall be ready. Are you pre pared to meet your uoo, should he come for you to-night, by the angel of death? sj-St S V at . tm . s Kev. a. it. aensumer, u. 11. pkacticai. scaassnoxs. 1. God choose his great men from silt, conditions of life. 1 S. Wc must all meet God at the jade ment; therefore we should prepare to meet him. S. Tlte way of transgressors is hard because of the obstseles God nuts ia that way to Keep men from walking therein consckiK.-c, tnsslmod, tho Bible, the influences of tlte Spirit His provide nee, troubles ami trials, God's goodness ami lore. 4. There is no ecse from ruin, but by turning to GocL K. Leeeer consequences of sin are sent to keep us from ileal ruin. . Every saint is a "firebrand plucked out of the Iteming." 7. Fools make s stoek of sin. sad am. em te their ruin.