Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 33, Number 48, Jasper, Dubois County, 14 August 1891 — Page 7

WEEKLY COURIER'

IMDIAHA. ME SOMETHING KIND. U the MMWt Ml MM WMMlklmC kiwi TbH kM VMM UMHIffhtttt MM, K ilurti essst lift my spirit up To weed of buoyasey, Tto-a speak we word, I p my tU, dr, However llht they mm, Withhold HOt frM MM ftHytfelRK That ad to 111' sweet dream U tbOU CSSSt Mil MM Of BOMB OSS Whom I kav taaaeed to M, If tilOU WMMt Mllt W MM ttOHM MMt That I have brighter mads, Then softly whisper unto mm, In seeeatM fond Mid tow. The kind truth Rover hurts nor haras, Hut et the heart aglow. sa com with light and warmth asd efceer To itett mm every Uy, KoHect to mm the world') bright smiles, Ami hide its frown away, Oh! hMt thou sorrows of tktae own! llHve others lajured thee? Unburden as thou wilt, thou'lt feel My teader sympathy. Hut If some cruel, heedless toaeue lis uttered word of list, With Janice or Injustice cursed My errors, hesitate fkfore thou tell'st me whst will lirls Hut shadows In my life. God knows we all hare need of love To eslm our secret strife! If thou canst tell me something kind That has been tkoutcUt or spokes, If thou eaust lift a spirit up Too oft by treaeh'ry broken. Repeat If. dear, my faith Inspire, However vain It seems: For I would fain lie trustful still, Ifor wake from life's sweet dreads. Ella A. Giles, In Christian Keglster. HER COUNTRY COUSIN. HOW Niok Weybridg-e Got Out of a Bad Sorape. You see, it all happened this way: iek Wevbrhlge hail been waiting at Hie Grand Central depot for the arrival the western express, by which was his bid chum. Keggle Hell. The xnress arrived up to time, but with no teggie therein. At which collapse of lans Kick, mightily wroth, strode for lie street, with hands shoved deep in is trousers' pockets and his chin stuck iut squarely in front of hira like the w of a surly bulldog, muttcruig prong words about "that Hell." "What's that about Belle?" fluted lorth a sudden sweet voice, bulky x'iek looked up and beheld two bijrvellety brown eye smiling into his eyes loniriiiir to a face that urcuzc would ave lovett to patnt, wun its uamiy aval, ibi neach-bloom cheeks, audits lair w - r silken net seemed to pos Lu nuriniil ut rar.tirm fnr I'HflllinL' Einbeams. The owner of the eyes and loiee was, to use the language of art, stadv in black and white: to speak Mainly, a young woman coquettishly arrayed in a widow's semi-mourning. iWleat's that about elle7 im t 4ame westrt Why, it's all yoar ftmit, you horrid, mspaUeot bar! you a, oalanly strolling oft into LjLtl insHad of waiting where I MA find you, And you look as sulky a bear with a sore head, too: ' Xiek's onlv answer to ah this was a Why, what's the matter?" she went "You don't seem to know your a cousin?" Then, with a charming I and hideous, Mort, that you can't otrnize niel" Here was evidently a big blunder. eived by some resemblance in fea and misled by the chance remark ill itrii , iiiltik aiin jinn uiuiiiguu It. .11 1. . 1 ...... ..1. nr, .,! which she took at an allusion to rself, this charming stranger had Ktuknn Niek for same western cousin t Itnrl fn nnnf "V 1 14.' 1 T M pted one for the girl was really commonly pretty hau been a 9 . A ... . ? . 1 I - 1 1 with a modicum of conscience he mm jiHvu nuuicu inu iuiitiiuiiiuii aim 1 t J 11... A... t tlie lady right with a polite bow . .i i , d as if there wore any need for a ' 1... 1 1.1... -A ick would have seen her face no more, hick would have len a great pity. he, who in nowise resembled the oresam siraii-iw.'led, aoocr-minueu ak of, and being endued with a foreid of bronze and the tongue of the (1 serpent, after the first shock dolibttely up and spake: "Well, my dear," as calmly as if he II ttlMWn Hnt frniB rOlilfl "I waitful waited, and not seeing you, con tided you wasn't going to turn up, ut I'm awful clad to see you." Which an true. "As for your changing', why. never saw you look so pretty in all y life." And this statement also was. Chadband has It, "tcrewth indeed." 'You were very impatient though, ort and stunid. too. So there! Hut ll forgive you, dear. Whore's your iggage?" "Oh, that'll be sent on after." "Well, conic along then; the carriage waiting." "Whew!" whistled Niok, under his f in. x lie vsrnnKu in iiiiik cur his is a hiirh-nyer and no mistake. bndcr who the deuce she is for that attcr who am I, too? She's a thorughhred, evidently; s'pose the 'dear i!fnnct' was some bloated old bondolder who married her for the sake of I . f- 1 - 1 J k A jaue. jiywovcs SHpsiiKiniruimouti . bliall I back out here? May tura another case of 'vaulting ambition,' Xo: I'll hold on. She can't eat , in any case: I could eat her, though tbicon is this earrlage-step, and here s to croaa it," and he followed the low into the victoria. "Wonder who earth I'm nuBpoaed to be. though? ort, she called me. Mort? Hum! tands for Mortimer. Morton, and wtwtt, too, for that matter. Egad! omen, remans I'll wish i were iwb nne anas out tne iar oi ise in Moll, Mort. and how is evarvhodv home?" she be ran. as thev swent un wiwn aveaHe. "Os. tkcT're all rkkU" auiwered the

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r, with a vai-HwM lwrlsUv ng ia Su iafiaitud. "I should mi like to s the ulil rdtuM ntfftin. 1 must iiy and tt up there next wmwhi. llw long U it, Mort, alaeo I wati 1h1 there?" No answer from the HtHtplttMed one. "All right, dear, I won't bother you mow, mm I sex you want hi look at the street, vou riuilui nhl iklHV. vwj'm "Ha! ha!" sniggered Nick ia his; , - -. - -' - r j ' i sleeve. "I am evidently a hayseed. New York, I bee, is the promised land i to me, So Iks It, my aewlyaeiuired I UOJt," ! And taking the hint the wily Nick began to examine the brow n-fc tone front of the avenue with an interest almost suspicious in it inteusity, lie partieularly delighted his IniUHSt'iit vic tim by the sublime ingettkmsness with wliich he iiKiuired, um they caught a frliiapse of Central park, what "that green place was. The delight she took in tutoring his simplicity averted awkward questions. Jlesidus, it was infinitely diverting to an old rounder old in experience like Nick. At last the carriage stopped before a handsome brown-stone house. "Poor, dear Kdward's sister is stop ping with me, yon know, but she's out to-day, so we shall be all to ourselves to talk over old times. Won't it be jolly?" iok hardly seemed delighted by the thought of the prospective jollity; in fact he heartily wished himself out of his scrape. Hut there was no retreat now: ho had burned his lioats. So up he went to his dressing room, os tensibly to wash off the travel-stains of a journey he had never taken, really to throw' himself on a couoh and rack his brains for plausible myths about people and places he had never seen. Hie way of the wicked man is hard. Nick found it extremely so, and he never onioved a trood dinner less. The inevitable examination began "I'll try murdering 'em," he thought. So whenever he got mixd on the genealogy or personal history of any harmless person or persons he ruthlessly slew them and buried them away far out of the reach of all questions. Whole families went at a swoop; when neces- . A. 1 "I sary no raisou an epidemic typnoiu, cholera, grip he didn't care what, as long as he got awkward customers out of the way. aamson's lliblieal jaw bone was an ineflieient weapon for homicidal purposes compared to Nick's "jaw," and poor Belle was in an ex cess of grief and amaaement at the recent loss of so many friends. Finally he struck on a snag in the shape of a young lady whom lie had consigned to an untimely grave from too much cigarette smoking, quoth he. irreverently. Unluckily the fair jtellc had a message from the dead in a woeK-om letter. Then things got worse than ever for the culprit He got inextrica bly entangled in the prickly branches of the family' tree hopelessly lost in the lanes and byways of the local topography. Still, with courage worthy of a better cause and a supernatural calmBess bora of despair, he lied oa by the earkMML "How's Zoo?" asked a Is aaeoaseHMts torturer. "7,oo?" dubitative'y. "Wonder who the diekens Zoao can be? So silly to give anyone a name like that! S'pose it's a baby. I'll chance it, anynowr Then, aloud: "Oh, Zozo! Zozo's all right." "How can you say so, when you yourself wrote he was ill, poor dear!" Oh, yes. of coursel now silly l ami He caught searlet fever, but he's much better now." What tk you mean, Mort? Scarlet fever! 1 never heard of a horse with searlet fever." "Great Scott!" groaned the pseudo Mort, "here's a how-de-do! h,r er Oh, .. n ,1 yes. JJon t you Know i,r uorses often get scarlet lever, my uear, out oi course you couldn t be expected to know that Why, that bay mare father bought only last year" Itelle started up from the table with ' m - 1 . A . .1 a 1. . f i A a snuftoer auu sinreu at iiur vismn as though at a maniac "You must In; mad. Mort. Poor un cle has been dead these ten years. I don't understand you at all." And her frame shook with excitement Nick nerved his, flagging' wings to still higher, more cerulean flights of imagination. I'm awful sorry, Helle, darling" (and the villain lingered over these words as over sweet morsels); "hut didn't you hour of my territic accident? I fell down an old quarry ami hurt my head very badly. Why, at times, es pecially when I'm fagged a bit and bothered with questious, ray mum be comes a perfect blank, and I make horrible hodge-podge of everything. My head feels as though it would burst at this very minute." This last with a groan of most ghastly dimensions. The poor girl was completely ho cused, and was amazed and indignant that she had not been told of the "terrific accident" before. Then she cooed: "Poor old boy, poor old head!" so soothingly that it sent a thrill of rapture down Nick's worthless frame. And she stroked that head, haul as the nether millstone, so lovingly with her soft, plump hand that the Machiavellian one patted himself on the back, all of which only hardened him in his sin. And when she refrained from asking any more awkward questions he gloried In his successful villainy, and laid himself out to kill. And as he looked well, and talked well, it was not long before the fair widow lay metaphorically snoakintr. of course at her Act tious cousin's feet In an excesa of reverence and devotion. She could hardly conceive the great change that had taken nlace in him since she had seen him last "You've developed awfully, Mert, ia the last two years." "Mort," with a grim smile, thought to himself that the next two hours, per haps, would see even a more awful development of hianeUaad things In gen eral. He put the istahlng touch to his work just as he was leaving. He would have been content with a nanu-sHSKe by way o! adieu, but poor Helle, with a eharminir nout and a most provooa tlve rakiatrof kr Ummmh of a nhmsU,

deliveed herself Into the bands of, th enemy lr pathetieally remarking: "You're very mNa, Mort; yoithafn't kissed me ohom yet." Nfak ttil4Hl; even he was touched by thU absolute trust He felt alMtost inclined to blurt out the whole truth ami then run for his life, but that sunny, inviting antMe would have melted au ieeberg; at all events, It melted his scruples, ami the caitiff gluec, his Hp to hers in a mot uncousiuly way that is, if ooumIrs kiss as eoufcins should. The Idea that something was wrong Hashed far an inconceivable moment across her mind, but flashed away as quickly, and after wiving him copious but more than needless instructions as to his way home bade h.m to lunch next day. Nick walked to his lodgings in a hardly enviable state of mind. "I've made an infernal brute of my

selfperhaps worse. Hut I really couldn't help it, she's such a dainty little thing. Why, hang It, I'm over head and ears in love with her already. She'll never forgive me that kitps, though. What on earth must I do? 1 can't deprive the poor little woman of her newly-acnuired cousin without any explanation. Heigh, ho! 1 must make a clean breast of it to-morrow." With which virtuous resolution he turned in. Hut alack a day! Niek was a bold, bad man, and at heart quite unregenerate; so next day, instead of plead ing guilty and throwing himself on the mercy of the court, as he should have dime, he lapsed into error and marched into my lady s bower with a cousinly swagger, which abated the moment he saw the inmate, for there was an om inous glitter in that little woman's eye that gave him a gooseilesh. The game was up, he saw at once. "Good day. sir," said cmesis in a morulng gown. "Kindly explain tills to me. And she handed htm a telegram: "Mhs. Hkathwaite: Sorry couldn't oome. Mother 111. Coming next week. "Most WHrrr.KER" Not that Nick read all this. He felt so ashamed of his ignominious position that the letters swain before his" eyes. All he could see was a cruel linger and a contemptuous eye directed toward the door, which enunciated "begone!" more pointedly than any words could do. Nick's ttrat impulse was that of headlong flight. Then his forensic instincts came back to him for he was a rising young lawyer and he resolved to make a speech for the defense. So he came to grips with Mrs-Urathwaite without more ado. "My dear Mrs. er er er Blank" (this in the most dryly comical way that made the widow, even in her anger, bite her lips to prc7cnt a smile, and won a hearing for Nick). "My dear Mrs. Blank, 1 will offer no ex cusc for mv abominable conduct and extraordinary tissue of lies, though 1 have one which ought to plead power fully in ray behalf." Here Ue made a motion as though to point out his client and gestured at those silent jurymen no more wooden than many live oses the chairs. "1 bat excuse, madam, kt your own face. Yes, madam" wmi he grew aptly al liter ative "your face was my fall and will ever be my fate." Sot to voee "Sounds like a line of poetry, and ought to fetch her." As a fact, she did seem to be softening somewhat Then our Choate in embryo went on just picking himself up in time from starting his peroration with a "Gentlemen of the jury, "Madam, speaking frankly, I regret to have to state that I am not one bit repentant as far as my own sin is concerned for what I have done. In such a cause, aad for such a reward as a few words from those lips, though I may say 1 am naturally truthful, I would perjure myself any and every moment of the day. Any man would have committed the same fault tried by the same temptation. No man could have helped himself. Simon Stylites himself and he rolled off the name in Hie most sonorous fashion "would have shown his own apprecia' tion of your charms In the same way as I did if you had come up to that ascetic old party and looked and talked as you dkl with me." And so on, and so oa, for half an hour, ending up with patching to gether Viola's two sentences: "Though am not that I played. I am a gentle- , t . man," alter wntcn came nis peuigree from the first generation thereof, so that he overwhelmed the foor little woman in a torrent of words. Then. too, she was half in love with him already, and secretly admired his consummate cheek. Finally he left his card, begging to be allowed to call, having obtained her assurance that she would think over the matter of a free pardon. Less than a week alter all tins came a note lor mm: Dkab Mr. Wevhsiikjk: Out of my frreat mercy you are lontiven. i snau expect you to tlve o'clock tea. Yosrs, etc. "IlELI.K naATHWAtTE. Nick went to that five o'clock tea. and to many other live o'clock teas and other functions at the same address. The result of all these visits Is that an argument has sprung up between them Helle has been bitten by the sacred Egyptian bug that the Bernhardt brought over, and is mad to visit the pyramids and the Nile cataracts, while Nick says that the "doing" of Switzerland and Italy is the proper thing for a ncwlv married couple. A. H. Sterne, in Leslie's Newspaper. A friendly Call. Talking of absent-minded people, there art not many who can surpass Mrs. 11. She made a call on a family, living on a certain street, and was received with much cordiality. At supper she mentioned the fact to her hus band. How did you find them?" he la nuired. "Why, easily; they live where they always did." "Oh, no; they have moved into another part of the city, and the people living in their old house are strangers here." "I never noticed any difference, and I don't believe they dkl," said Mrs. ll, smartly, and Mr. U. let the matter drop without furtker comment. Detrui Free Fxeat

A tJATTLE WITH A BEAR.

Twm tfsHtres NHrrnwly IIjm m TwrtWie liMttM m imp MraaU. A man who looked a If be had beeH tryiatr to hug the eyltuder of a threshmtr Msehtne when it was in motion was seen recently otfep ing a pack of furs to a dealer up town. You are rather late getting your furs to market" said a reporter, whe happened to be present. "Yes." wai the reply, "but I have been laid up and eoukl not gt W Wwn Wfore." "What has been the matter with you?" asked the reporter, who was sMxkms to know how the utan had lwen so fearfully scratched. "TIm matter with me was an attsek of 4bear.' " "Y'ou bad it bad, judging rom your looks." Yes, I had It bad and no mistake, but you just ought' to see my partner." "Is he in a worse fix than you?" "A great ileal worse. He had so much meat scratched off one shle of him that he has to carry a weight in his Jacket pocket to enable him to walk straight" The sale of the furs having been com pleted, the old trapper was .asked for the story of his encounter with the bear. He said his name was Hans Olsen, that he lived on the edge of the big burn, in Clackamas county, and last winter lie went out on the headwaters of the Claukamas trapping with l'eter Hansen, who lives in the same section. Thev had gotnl luck for awhile, caught many minks, some flshers, and found a swamp and small lake, where there were many beaver, and were getting a lot of tliem, when deep snow came on and alMmt spoiled their trapping. After awhile the snow became so deep that they could hardly move around, and could not get out of the mountains at all. Then provisions ran short, aud they had to rustle and try to kill something to eat. They went out on the lake one day and cut a hole through the ice to see if they could catch some trout,, but did not get any. On their way home toward night, as they were crossing a little ravine on a fallen tree, Olsen slipped and fell near the roots of the tree and came down plump into a lwar's den. The lear was very lively for an animal supposed to be asleep, and at once attacked him. He had a knife and a small hatchet in his belt and he got out the hatchet and began to chop and yell. Hansen, who was behind, had a gun, but he was afraid to lire down in the dark for fear of killing his friend, and at length, drawing his knife, jumped down with him and the bear. There was a lively time there for awhile, and the fur and clothing and flesh flew, but finally, Hansen, who was the worse used-up man of the two, managed to reach a vital spot with his knife. The Itear keeled over and the two trapjwrs keeled over also. They managed to make a little fire with some of the leaves and twigs from the bear's nest. and there was plenty of rags to ban dage their wounds, for they were all rags. It was several days before they eould crawl to their camp with a hunk of the bear s flesh, which hail been their only food during their stay ia the Jen. Portland Oregoman. LOVE IN THE BIG WINDY. X Wild Tale f Human KmotloHs from the Suburb of t'hIf-Agn. The wind sighed wistfully through the trees that lined the quiet street The cheerful hum of thesuburlHtn mos quito pervaded the sultry air, the pale yellow moon shone biliously down on a landscape that looked tired, aud the voice of Penobscot Bellanius, the young man from down town, had a fuxzy and precarious sound like an E string get ting ready to break at the close of a warm evening devoted to solos from the old masters. "You do not pretend to misunderstand me, .Miss rtaggns?' ne said, appealing ly, and moving forward in his chair till he sat on the extreme edge. "Why, Mr. Bellamus," she replied, 1f m nrif nvgptlr ultra t Ii9f-tliat I " The young man moved forward still further and dropped on his knees before her with a mournful t-iud. "Why do you suppose I have beer, eoniing to see you all these months?" he exclaimed "Kate Naggus, look at me!" "I suppose, Mr. Bellamus, you hav had to go somewhere, you know, and but, of course, when I see a young mac before me oa his knees, why, then, I I" "You know he moans business, ot course, lie saw, coming promptly ami cheerftillv to her assistance. "That's what he means! The hleh-keved voice of Mr. Penob scot Bellamus suddenly broke, but with out a moment's pause he went ahead on the A string. "Kate Naggus. the supreme moment of my life has come! On your decision now rests all my hope of earthly hap piness all my dread of earthly misery. The time has come when I can bear the suspense no longer. Bewildered by your glorious beauty, intoxicated by the magic of your smile and the music of your voice, I have let precious time go to waste! Enchantress of my heart, this notnent must decide my fate! My whole future, my destiny for weal or woe, Is wrapped up in it! If the pure and honest love of a faithful heart, the earnest and self-sacrificing devotion ol a life time can move you, dearest, lef me offer you " He paused. He seemed to listen s moment. With a look of wild alarm he srlanced at his watch, jumped to hie feet and grabbed his hat "Miss Naggus," he exclaimed In breathless haste. "I have just time to catch the last tram in! Good night!" Chicago Tribune. Ke Mistake. Astonished Hill Clerk Isn't there some mistake about this order from Banker's Corners for eight hundred nouaca of beeoa aad two bags of ehioerr. Traveling Salesman No. That's all rbrtt A fellow west there a week et I twe Hero aad starts a first-class sat mer iuwt kotel.-Chleage Tribute,

PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Ky Henry Inriag's Mpeeial desk, kU son Henry will com me nee his theatnea. career umser J on a liar, urn lessee, Mtansfer and k ad lag aetor of Uarriek's theater. Young Henry Irving will make his debut at that theater during the coming season as Lord Mean froy in the Sebool for beandal." -The fireplace ia Robert Louis Ste venson s islaaa home in namoa is ww only one in the land. The furniture ia the dhi hip -room w all Chippendale, or whleh there is probably not another piece in the southern Paelfte. It seeme somewhat incongruous and out of place la a room that has its walls decorated in native tapestry made from the mul berry tree. The little Spanish boy whom Min ister Palmer brought home as a protesre is a west favorite in Washington. He is the son of an army oncer, ana w a miniature A poll o. in laot, ne w so handsome physically that his parents by adoption have had a plaster cast taken of his entire body for the pur pose of having his graceful person pre served In marble. Lady Gordoa-Cummiag can not fail to be charmed with her new home, for Altyre, Sir William's family place in Morayshire, is one of Hie most beauti ful in the Hurhlands. The house is a large building of no special architectural pretensions, but it is surrounded by (manning gardens and grounds, which slope to the Deveron, and the famous woods of Altvre extend for many miles along that river. A number of the ladies at Bar Har bor have formed a club for playing billiards a game at which Miss Hattie Blame, the secretary s daughter. Mi sakl to be iHU'ticularly expert. One of the prettiest women at this famous old New England resort this summer it .Mrs. Jo seph Nalle, of Philadelphia, whose bru nette beauty is striking in its attractive ness. She is an accomplished pianist, a fine horsewoman and a good dancer. A work of great historical interest and value will shortly be deposited in the British museum. It will come through the Asiatic society of Bengal. After many years' correspondence the society has secured from J hibet a copy of tlmJangym, a monster encyclopaedia of Thibetan buddhism. It comprises volumes, eaoh of which is two feet long and six inches thick. There are, it is supposed, only two copies of the work outside of Ihibet. -Unioue and beautiful will be the monument destined for the grave of the poet, Shelley, in the Protestant ceme tery at Ilomc. 1 he model represents the" drowned body of the poet, which lies, absolutely nude, upon a narrow Dblong slab supported underneath by two winged lions. In the center, at the base of the pedestal, is seated an ex quisite figure of the Muse, tending dightly forward, as though to eaten the last dying echoes of sound from her broken lyre. The slab and the reiumbeut figure will be of white marble; the Muse and the winged lions of, bronze, while rare marbles of various colors will be used in the pedestal. HUMOROUS. Miss Languish "Were you ever diS' appointed in love, Mr. Hearty?" Mr. Hearty "Yes, indeed, every time." N. Y, Truth. She (fishing for a compliment) "Do vou think my voice needs ciiltiva lion?" He (anxious to pay her a com plitnent) "Not at all, not at all. Cul tivation couldn't improve a voice like yours." N, Y. Tress. 11 is Favorite Toy. "oung Sappy ts a rather feebie-mmued sort oi teiiow the kind of man who might lie tickled with a straw." "Yes, especially if there was a cocktail at the other end of the straw." Saturday Evening Herald. Not Powerful. Spacer "What is the noises about in the next room ? Liner "I guess our friend, the poet, is struggling with an idea." Spacer "I the idea his own?" Liner "Yes." Spacer "Then he will probably escape unharmed." I own UOpics. A Son's Superior Opportunities. Plain Father "It didn't use to cost me a tenth part as much to live when 1 was at your age." Fashionable Son 'I know,father; but you dhln t have the advantages then of associating with a fashionable young man like me." Gainesville Journal. A Dispute Settled. Cyril (in the garden) "Father! father! look out of the Window!" Paterfamilias (putting out his head) " hat a nuisance yon children arc. What do jou want now?" Cyril (with a triumphant glance at hit playfellow) "Tommy Cope wouldn't believe you' got no hair on the top ol your head." aukee Blade. He Saved His Friend. "My, that's a pretty girl," said one of the travelers. throwing himself half out of the win dow to see her. "For Heaven's sake pull in your head!" shouted his com pan ion. "What's the matter?"was the ter rilled inquiry. " by, suiting the action to the word, "I wanted that win dow to loomat her myself." Philadel phia Times. His Fatal Error. "I am glad tc hear that your graduation was such success, dear." "But it wasn't." "Why, I heard vou received round after round of applause." "So I did, but I was not half through with my essay. I merely intended to make an impressive pause. It was that hateful little idiot Charlie Tapccountcr who started them, and I'll never speak to him again as long as i live. I don't care if he does admire me." Indianapolis .TournaL A surgeon had a rich but ralseny patient who had injured his leg so badly that he told hire that It would probably have to come off. "How much?" sakl the patient "Fifty dollars." "Fifty dollars! Why. yoH ought to cat off twe legs for that." "Well, I will If you say so." The man reluctantly agreed te pay the price and have only one leg taken off, but skillful treatment saved tk ler. When the aarifeon asked for his rmv the patient, with many a grli ace. handed over the money, remarkinr: "You're a good deal of a fraud in charging me so much, for you did not eat o m Iff after all.' -Detroit Fi Frets.

THE FIVE THOUSAND FED.

latwutkHWl KMM'UX KSt I Ascett IS. ISOI. isoeesstty AMaed feo Si. S. Qsrtry J Lbsmom Text. Jeaa :l t Gounw Tkxt.-I am Mt bee f Ckntuau TsCTH. Jesos cartM aes oewer belp as la every time of seed. Mblps Ovss ha ho rucis.-1. IbUgn:" afoaeaoflsoerlsstlesiBa. TaelatMTl wm about a year. "Owtbeseaef-Os-lee," from tae western side, prasamy sew CapersausB. He bad Jest sesea mmrvmmwsom oomlskMM se was, sse n i Uw BsfrtteW (Matt. H:ML) 3 "Imto a MuwUle:" The KOuntaUMua rcjfion that bordered tae. stsla of HetBsabU oa we MtttaesK. - "rse Passover:' this year April - "w ereat eonpsay:" Fire taessead awa (v. W. tea asa eauarea isni. Tbey came by lasd frew all psm. T. -rwe btiBdred pennywort:" About thirty oettaH. A pensy, deaarius. is aftoea eeats, we arte of. a day's work. V. -my waves. ie ot the pooreet "Fishes . snM saa as a relish, like sardines. . 'Osther w we fragments:" (1) The desiffa M w wis est' the precksHseM of the food whit Jess sad iclrea. (If) He ltkewUe exhorts HWj dUcieUs to frugality, forth iseresse of the boesty of Oed ought sot to he sa exettemeat te luxsry. God lovetb. a hoeattful. root a wasteful, bead. (3) it eotnpletes the proof oc tse ssiraew. or sore remained than there was to hoeta wiw.14. "That Prophet;" The Mosul, or as eeniBser, whom the Jews were expeeUsc te Mme ssd deliver them. I.B8SOX COMMKJfTS. If last week's lesrfrm was read, this week's is easy. The miracle of ta feeding of the five thousand made a deeper impression on the people thaa almost any other that the Master wrought. There were many of them. and they were faint and in need o food. Hut where to get food for them in that place was a dURcult question. To the eves of the disciples this was an, impossible task. Two hundred pennyworth of bread was not enough to gi7 each one a little. Now, two hundred pennyworth of bread was equivalent to two hundred days' wages, and that was a large sum for men like the apos tles. It really seemed to the disciples that the question of feeding those masses of people waa one that eoukl not be solved. Now look at the supply. There was a lad there who had with. htm five loaves of bread and two small fishes. One hungry man could easily have made way with that provision, and yet licre were five thousand men waiting for food. The relation between those loaves and that crowd was almost enough to provoke laughter. Uuttne boy seemed willing- to give an mat, no had and let the Master make such use of It as He thought best, so the broad is brought to Jesus and the crowd are made to sit down in orderly array ota the grass. Now they are all seated, and their curious and anxious eyes are turned toward Him Who is the center of the assembly. Now I see that Master take the bread. and look up to Heaven and give thanks. Then He liegins to break it ami give to His disciples. But, wonder of wonders, as He gives the bread grows no less, and the supply holds out till the last person has had all that he wants and is filled. Fish, too, in like atranoaaee follows, so that they had not only that which was necessary, but something of luxury besides. Now all are through, xnen tne J as ter commands that the fragments oo gathered up, that Hothinjr be lost, and. when thev have carried out this com mand, lo! they have more than they had when they began. The result of all this was mat. im people began to believe that Jeans waa 'that Prophet." Jttore tnan iius: isey- . . , . , . 1 ! 41 were so nued wun enmaaiaum m they tried to force Hira to proclaim himself King. This He refused to do, for this was not what He had come to this world for. We. have hunger for food, and God has supplied the means of satisfying that want. Hut the mind as welt as tae oouy can hunger. What do all the countless questions of children mean, If they do . ... . ,, , . not show ttiat tne nainu is nungering ior something. Now, to offer an inquisitive child, that If, child with mental Hunger, bread, is to offer it that which will not satisfy mental hunger. The body hungers for food appropriate to it, and the mind hungers lor mat wnicn wiu satisfy it, and that Is knowledge. But God has provided for the wants of the mind, and all our public and private schools, and all our colleges, are merely intellectual restaurants, wlicrethe mind of the scholars may feed ami be satis fied. Hut not all kinds of food are wholesome for the body, and la the same way not all facts are wholesome for the mind. We are careful not to oat that which shall harm us, and why should we not be equally careful not to read that which shall do damage to our minds? Yet many are poisoning their Binds with evil literature. We have one more department of our natures, however, which also has its appetites. The spiritual. That craves many things. Yet there are people whose bodies are well cared for, and whose minds are well stored, but whoso spiritual natures are half starved. This is a sad fact which every teacner ana preacher knows only too well. But the spiritual Is higher than the Intellectual, just as the mental is higher than the physical. And ts there food provided by God for the two former and not for tlie latter? Nay, there is provision for alL The Master Himself sakl that He was the living bread which came down from Heaven, and by that He meant that ia Him there was provision for the spiritual nature of man. He satisfies tlie craving for pardon, and the longing for better life, that all feel at times. He It is Who has revealed to us tlie truths of the life that is to come ami Who has opened tlie way to that which is of eternal value to the soul. Rev. A. F. Schaufler, D. D. 1'RACTICAI. SC88ISSTI0XS. 1. We all need season of retirement - nmaaunlnti with God aad In., 1U1 IOSU uBUSiauVH m struction. S. Seek first the kingdom of God and its righteousness, and all necessary bodily good will be added. 8. Our duties aad our privileges are not measured by what wo can do of ourselves, but by what God k willing to do through us. 4. Jesus k ever multiplying the littm talents, spiritual life, power, faith of His people, for the good of the world. . We should imitate Jotna ha firm Wfereeotksf.