Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 34, Number 12, Jasper, Dubois County, 4 December 1891 — Page 3

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C. DOAKX, labHchcr. jASrEIL INDIANA. 'T was Hallow mb night and our happy gathering.tlred of the frolics of that occasion, were in the big room of the old homestead sitting around the log fir", merrily blazing in the great chirauey fireplace, and telling stories. Save the plow from the flames making ghostly shadows flit across the ceiling n(l walls there was no other light in the room, for we were trying1 to be as romantic as possible. Outside in the black night a furious ttorm was racing and the wind, moan in? ami whistling down the chimney and through the huge fir trees, mingled with the beating rain on roof and window paucs, gave us the weird and spooky feeling we desired. Finally, satiated with fairy hobgoblin stories, we urged Aunt Kate to relate her adventure with the escaped Bffro convict. "When I was about eight," commenced Aunt Kate, with a shudder at the remembrance of her awful experience, "on just such a black and tormy night as now, we were sitting ia this very room. The little ones had on e to bed, mother was knitting in a bit; rocking chair and dozing, for it was quite late, and father and I were playing a long and interesting game of chess which neither of us wanted to stop, although it was time wc were all asleep. "The day before a negro convict had murdered his keeper and escaped from the prison in the town next to our little village, and, while we then didn't know of it, the people around were greatly frightened and searching parties were out looking for the fellow, who was a most daring and desperate character. "We had no handy neighbors then, as we have at present, the nearest being a half a mile away, and beside our maid servant, in her attic room snoring soundly our family was alone on the place. Wc didn't even have a dog, and our only protection in case we needed any was that old army musket that Mill hangs on the wall yonder over the door. . "We had lived so long in perfect Safptv tliat n ft iitm nf 1 a n fa r litul evar e - - - - iiuuuieu us. ko. wiiph innmnr. win nr mm a cnmfortalile i nin cairl elm folt chilly, I immediately offered to run upstairs to my room just overhead, and bring down a wrap which 1 knew was hanging in my closet "1 didn't want her to ask the time, for if sue found it was midnight, as it was, our game, then in its most exciting stage, would have been spoiled, anil the glory of my beating my father for once would have been lost. "So up I jumped and without wasting precioiH moments in getting a light I rushed upstairs ami into my room, which was dark as Egypt "The storm outeide was a wild one and the wind was roaring fearfully through the trees and shaking the shutters as if it would rattle them off. "Hut I had no difficulty in grouping ray way to my closet, where among my dresses and things the wrap hung. "When I opened the closet door 1 fancied I heard a movement inside, but thinking, maybe, a mouse had made it, I began feeling with my hands among the hanging garments for the article I was after. "Suddenly my fingers touched a man's bewhiskered face. "Ere 1 could give a scream for help two great, rough hands had me by the rw0 OlttCAT HOUOH HAM) 9 MAD THE Tit KG AT. MK throat, dragging me ia the closet and Joking my breath away. "Then my presence of mind and courage showed themselves. ''In spite of my terror, in spite of the pain of strangulation, I managed :? "tamp and pound my 'feet several mes on the floor. "'Do that agin an' yer die hissed JV terrible awailanfs fiendish voice 'n my ears, while his fierce, strong "Offers tightened themselves about my Poor neck, which is scarred yet with Ww - cuts his sharp mils dug. . nt with what little strength was If i T 1 PHnletl on the floor the secni time with my heels ami made up J mind to die. I hardly expected the "'frnals would be understood, and If Vy were I feared father alone would .no match for the villain who then I, 1 "le Phed in the far comer of life away 8Rd WM fa1 strangling my -AUn Kt stopped for a moment to mi with fata pale and horri-

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I guess mother had batter finish the story, for she saw the ending and 1 drnVt," said brave Aunt Kate, "or, perhaps it is too late to continue to. night besides, you may all get toe frightened to go to bed," sh ttuiled, our eager, but fear-tirkkea looks. "we 11 be just aa bold as you were. It isn't late vet Cora, gran' ma, plea tall as it dear Aunt Kale was killed or not Plaase, please do." Grandmother, unable to withstand our volley of appeals, began: "Well, children," she soberly spoke, "I suppose I'll have to bat don't blame ma if you hara nightmares of black robbers aad murderer. "After pretty Kate had gone upstairs her father picked up a book to read till she returned and I I guess I commenced dozing again. At any rata I was startled suddenly by a pounding sound overhead. Husband mast have heard it, too, for he laid down his book to listen. "What noise was that?" I asked, 'seems like some one calling us.' " '0, nothing, he answered, 'only the storm,' for it was blowing great guns outside. lie took up his book and commenced quietly reading again. " 'I think you had better run upstairs and see,' I said. " '0, it isn't worth while,' ha laughed. 'If Kate wanted us she would call,' and then in his provoking slow way he added: 'Kate will be down in a minute and I want to finish our game before I go.' "But I wasn't satisfied: a mother somehow has a keener sense when her children are in peril, aad while, of course, I didn't dream that anything MY MUSBAMI PIKED KIOI1T TH HOUGH THE SLASS. was wrong, I naturally felt apprehensive. "At last I spoke up: 'Well, if to won't go, I will,' aad taking a lighted candle I started. "llefore I got to the foot of the stairs I heard a second sound apparently of some one knocking on the floor or a door, I couldn't tell which, bat it made me hurry until I entered Kate's room. Just then a puff of wind blew out ray light and left me ia pitch darkness. "Kate! Kate!' I called, 'where are you? is anything the matter?' "Not a rcp'y came back, only the noise of the tempest and the wind blowing in an open window broke the uncanny silence. "I felt my way back to the top of the .stairs. 'John!' I shotted, 'come up quick and bring a lax tern, for my candle is blown out Something is the matter.' "The tone of my voice must hare alarmed my husband, for qu'ckly I saw him mounting the stairs with his lighted lantern and, also, his musket which was always kept loaded for animals stealing our chickens, when both of us entered the room, calling 'Kate! but as before, no reply eame. "I looked under the bed, thea went to the closet and took hold of the knob to open it, for I knew Kate had intended going there. "Instantly the door burst opea almost before 1 touched it, with a force that threw me against the wall, while out bounded a gigantic negro dressed in prison stripes aad, with a yell that still rings ia my ears, he rushed like a flash to the opea window aad began climbing out "Hut quick aa he was. I was quicker. "Before his immense paws could leave go of the sill inside to let him drop to the ground, I had the sash down on them and wss hanging on with all my weight, holding the terrible wretch as ia a vise, suspended on the outside nf the house, a good tea feet from the bottom. " 'Quick. John, shoot,' I gasped, 'before ray strength gives out' "My husband fired at once right through the glass, but owing to the darkness without and my being In the way, he failed to hit the scoundrel. "In a minute another flash and gunshot, and whistles came from the road by the gate, and then a dozen lantern lights appeared on the lawn below mc, with shouts of: 'Here he is, boys! We've got him.' "Grasping the situation instantly. 1 let go the sash, hearing more shots, and the awful life and death struggle, as the escaped convict dropped straight among the party of pursuers, who fortunately were at hand ia the nick of time. "Then we thought of Kate and rushed to the closet with pur lantern. "On the floor amid the turn bled clothing the poor, girl lay, and we, thought she was dead. "Tenderly we carried her oat and placed her on' the bed when, thank Hcaven, we found that "her heart heat, though very faintly. "Some of the searching party raced for the doctor, bat ere he eame I had brought my darling back to life. "A reward Ave hundred dollarshad been offered for the recapture of the convict, Whea his esptors, who nearly killed him before they seukl bind his arms, found out ubout Kate's awful discovery, they nobly insisted that the meney was rightfully hers and she got it, hut not for mill I was would we go through with ear terrible experience again." H. CI DoOra, kl CJeoaeU's a us.

HOW TRUSTS OPERATE,

HIM Arral amit ( IH Tahte filaet wore Treat H, the High Tl Ht CemtMcrrlat Mulletm. The following article on the glassware trast from the Commercial liullotia is interesting: "When the United State G v Co. was formed ia July It issued a elreular to iu customers all over the country stating its policy, aad among other things announcing that it did sot intend to ad ranee the price. Of course the combination was formed for the express purpose of increasing the profit oa their goods, but this was to be dono by economically operating their factories. This was to be effected by sarin eaeh factory make a special or several special lines; for instance, one eould make goblets and stem ware aad soon. The sets of molds would also be limited, the saving amounting to considerable, as eaeh set cost from 1 8,009 to 96,. 090. The number of high salaried officials could be reduced. Again there would be no danger of accumulating stock, as a factory making a certain line could shut down if there was a surplus on the market and the manufacturers joined ia one strong association could be more independent of the union of glass workers, with which they have in the past been uasble to cope. Thus by gaining these advantages the association proposed to make greater profits than ia the past "Four months have not passed yet, but prices have already been pushed up on staple lines from five to ten per cent, and'on some specialties, such a cologne bottles aad similar goods, the advance has been fully fifty per cent. Jobbers look for a greater adranoe than this before the year is out What its limits will be is hard even to surmise, but judging from the low basis on which goods sold before the combination was effected, the advance will be considerable. "The increase in the price of novelties and new patterns has not some yet What are called new patterns have been on the market now since last January, aad no newer ones sre ex pected until the sdvent of the new year. When they are put on the market the jobbers say they will most likely be obliged to pay comparatively more than in past years. The advance is very likely to he considerable also, as the making of new patterns entails the risk of not having the goods take with the purchasing public, a point which competition ia the past did not admit being fully taken into account "By the way, prices have beea advanced of late on table glassware, it is nstural to suppose the United States Glass Co. has practical control of the market There are in thin country about twenty-six factories in all that make table glassware, and when the association waa first formed it included fourteen ef these. Most of the powerful concerns were secured, yet several remained outside. Sinee July two or three more com panics have entered and ef the ten or so left but two or three are large concerns that have the power to harass the combination. "These two or three concerns, it Is understood, hsve agreed to be friendly with the new United States Glass Co. aad follow the policy of the latter ia patting prices up or down. There are some who expect te see these outsiders yet immerged ia the combination, so friendly has been their attitude ia the past" SHALL HIDES BE TAXED? Secretary Kmk VSrorea Only en MI4r to Evm" WHh the Beat and Mm Manufacturers Real Aalmae ef Ml Keemmrnttatlsxi. When the news of the election in Massachusetts reached Washington, Secretary Rusk wss the only man in the gloomy group around the White house who betrayed his eonrictioa that national issues were involved the Massachusetts fight aad he did It by a silly threat According to the New York Tribune the purport of his remarks was as follows: "Secretary Rusk declares that the elections west as he expected, aad he waa not at all surprised. The naly comment he had to make waa that he would be la favor of restoring the tariff oa hides, as the Massachusetts shoo manufacturers, lor whose benefit sides were pat oa the free list, had voted with the democrats. He believed it a good idea to make tbesa pay snore for their hides." The secretary weald punish the boot aad shoe manufacturers for voting in their own Interests by "taxing hides." The question arises would the boot aad shoe manufacturers be the worst ssfferers? Hardly. The tax woald hare to be paid by the people who buy hoots aad shoes. There is, however, another view of the question. According to the doctrines taught by McKinley, the foreigners who sell us hides, aot the boot and shoe manufacturers, would have to pay the duty. Secretary Rusk does not agree to this doctrine, for if he did he would not recommend a tax oa hides as the best way of "getting even." Secretary Rnsk's plan has a deeper meaning. He never overlooks the interests of the "Big Four" of Chicago; he never looses aa opportunity to put in a word for the benefit of this group of millionaires, although he pretend to be the farmers' friend. In 1890, during the debate on the MeKinley bill, the -New York Tribune showed clearly how a tariff oa hides would operate. It said: "It oaa hardly lie believed that the home producer will be benefited by the imposition of a duty which would apparently help nobody so much as the rich combineuon of beef packers la Chicago." CoL Bayae, oae ot the high tariff Members of MeKialey's ways aad means committee, showed more clearly till for whose interests a duty oa skies waa being advocated when he aeM daring the debate: "Aa a matter of fast, the business of hides is largely hi hands of such men as Phil Armour (i ef the 'Big Four') who osa consign to a tannery a hundred or several hundred hides at once, aad it is they who will he benefited by this duty, rather than the farmer, who has oaly one or two hides te tell at a time" What the real effect of a tariff oa

hide would be teahewa by the follow lag suteateat mad by Thomas K. Procter, of the Proctor Leather Co., of Boston. Said Mr. Procter "The .only effoot it would have woald be te hv erease the price of shoes aad curtail ear foreign trade ia leather. There is so surer way to make New England solidly aad reliably democratic than to put a tax oa hides, aa contemplated. Let mc show you how it woald work. The trade offered weald he that with the Argentine reps bile and BraaiL The leather made from Amorican hides is that used ia the uppers of the shoes, Very little, I may ssy no sole leather it made from American hides. To put a tax oa hides brought from South A marks, if it had aay effect at all oa hoes made for our hosae trade, would be to increase their price. On the other hand it weald materially hart the baaiacse of our tanners. Very much of the leather imported from South America Is tanned here and shipped to Re gland. Kow, if these hides are taxed It will make it Impossible for oar tanners to compete with those of Canada, who get their hides from the same soaree without tax aad with the advantage of aa unlimited supply of hemlock bark. Canadian tanners would derive the benefit our own tanners would suffer the loss under such a tax. With us hides are 'an industrial product If the hide was not sold at all there would be just as many cattle raised as there sre now, as the beef and tallow form -the main product We do not, however, export any of our own hides. Of the sole leather tanned in this country fully one-fourth is sent abroad. To place a tax oa this leather would wholly ruin this trade, as Canada, where hides are free, would absorb it all." A duty oa hides under Rusk's plan to "get even" would, ss shown above, establish a big teasing industry ia, Csaada at our expense, jast aa the duty oa silver lead ore has built up smelters in Mexico. Are we really to repeat this unwise action?

A SAMPLE CASE. Haw the Tarlt InerHM the Coat ef CsrThe carriage aad wagon industry of the United States may be considered to be fairly well established. We not oaly make our own, but furnish carriages to every civilized nation of the earth. England herself buys annually of us more than a quarter of a million dollars' worth of wagons, while her possessions la Australia invest $400,000 more with us oa this account But our export trade is but a tithe of what it would be with free raw material and with better facilities for shipping, such ss we might have if there were ao restrictions upon shipping or commerce. The carriage and wagon manufacturers begin to realize this themselves, all but one of them (republicans and democrats alike), in Cortland, N. Y., the carriage eeater of eastern United States, signed a petition protestiBg against the duties oa material proposed by MeKialey. Bat the major was deaf to their appeals, and increased the daties oa maay materials for carriages. The daties oa materials for carriage kiaamlags English broadcloth, plush eorduror, etc increases the eost of a $75 carriage about ft Not a yard of corduroy is made in this country, and the greater part of the broadcloth used has beea imported at about lev per cent duty. A leading manufacturer of Cortland says: "Over 9950,909 worth of cloths are used in this place, seveneighths of' which until recently has been imported. Not a thing that goes into a carriage fas untaxed by the tariff except lumber, whieh is also probably higher because of the tariff." The duty on carriage hardware is 45 per cent It serves ao purpose except to enable the, national association of carriage hardware manufacturers to keep up prices, which it raised materially when it waa organised a few years ago. Nearly all wheels are purchased of the wheel trust The duty oa iron aad steel adds aome thing to the eost of these and also te the eost of axles, many ef which are made of imported steel. It ia safe to say that the eost of carriages is increased 10 per eent by tariff taxes. What aa impetus would he given to both our home aad foreiga trade if priest eould he reduced 10 per cent . THE AMERICAN HOG. aTea'ffJ 8oJaJmVmVa TTaWfMnT dRcrfts) s eftMmrOVftl trt ePrsrBrifsvfttftffa 4Mfc Ms CHfasMt aPffoYffae In his reoeat letter to the editor of the Bucyrus (O.) Journal Mr. Blaine said: "Germany, without negotiating a formal treaty, has removed the prohibition oa pork, aad oar government ia coasideratioa thereof has left her sugar oa the free list This opeas to us aa entirely new market sad flS.90,0e to $99,000,099 of American pork will he consumed per annum where not a pound, has beea lakes for tea years." He fore Germany prohibited the importation of our pork our exports to that country were as follows: im ii. BeoH and nam. ....... H." 401 ti.7iMM fork.. .9,m M.2l! Total , tl.ME.'M f ,7N itf Had the prohibition not existed we would have exported to Germany ia tea years about as much pork as Mr. Blaine claims we shall hereafter export te her each year. It will be noticed that Mr. Blaine forgot to say anything about the German tariff oa our pork. The reason he did not waa because Germany still imposes a high duty which will keep out oar pork about aa well as the prohibition of it has done. In effect, there is bo differs nee whether the prohibition k effected directly or indirectly by high duties. But what himtnta of Mr. Blaine's assertion that the removal by Germaay of ite prohiMtioBY law waa a triumph of redproeity, whoa Preside at Harrison declavrM through his private secretary: "The removal of the pork restrietkm has nothing to do with aay 'question of reeiproeHy, bat is based upon the acceptance by the German gov era me at ef the Isspeeuen of moats hy thk gevtranaeat undir Use lew of the kstt eon.

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The free sehools for colored ekttthen ia Virginia for the past twenty years have eost nearly six Million eellers. The estimate for the maintenance of the public aeboohs of Xew York for the ensuing year is S4,M?,ltx, which iadudes fS,009 for aa exhibit at Mm world's fair. Two graduates from Harvard "Ansex" will opea a sekool at Meale Park, San Mateo county. Cal., to prepare young women for college, with special reference to Stanford university. Frances K. Willard waats to have a professor of total abetiaoaee connected with the new Amor lean unireraity in Washington, aad proposes to rake a fund to support suck a professorship. The imperial university at Tokio, Japan, is probably the largest ia the world, having aa enrollment of two thousand scholars, aad a faculty of forty members. It k under governmeat control. ' The a amber of students seeking admission into the St Vladimir university at Kiev, Russia, is four hundred and sixty. Of thk number one hundred and sixty are Jews. According to the prevailing lawn only thirty Jews eaa be admitted. The chapel in the sequestered Augustinian convent at Heidelberg, in whieh the monk, Martin Luther, had preached during the convention of the order in IMS, has beea given for a place of worship to a newly-organized Lutheran congregation in that reformed eity. The summary of the work done by aU the Christian denominations in Utah k about as follows: Eighty-live mission Christian schools ia seventy-eight different, towns, employing one hundred and seventy two Chrktian teachers sad educating about six thousand five hundred pupils, three fourths of whom are from Mormon families. The Icelandic version of the New Testament was printed in Denmark in 1540. The three hundred and fiftieth anniversary of this event wss celebrated with much rejoicing by the Icelanders resident in and near Winnipeg. They are good Lutherans, and show their faithfulness by earnest study and obedience to the Won). The oldest college graduate in America, so far as is known, is Amos Andrew Parker, of Fizwilliam, N. II. He is also the alumnus who has been graduated the greatest number of years from aa American college, fie graduated from the university of Vermont ia 1S13, and recently he celebrated his one hundredth birthday. He k a finely-preserved old gentleman, does not look to be more than seventy-five, and reads, writes and gets about like a man of fifty. According to Practical Electricity, electrical instruction is now to be added to the other studies in the course provided for young men in the evening classes of the Young Men's Christina association of Boston. Mr. A. P. It. Fisk. a graduate of the Massachusetts institute of technology, and at present engaged with the ThouMOB-Houston Electric Co., will deliver a course of twentyfour lectures oa successive Friday evenings, and the course will be illustrated by numerous experiments. One of the akls offered to prospective students of Vssear, aot well-to-do, is the scholarship of S&00 awarded by the Vassar Students Aid society. It k leaned to a student who passes the entrance examinations without conditions ami covers half of all the expenses for one year. Examinations are held in nearly a dozen of our leading cities. The chairman of the committee managing tbk scholarship k Miss Jessie F. Smith, or South Weymouth, Mass. HOME INFLUENCES. rate FeaeaatlM Mmm In ike Character f CbtMrea. Unhappy aad undisciplined homes are the caldrons of arrest iniquity. Parents harsh and cruel on the oae hand, or on the other hand loose in their government are raising up n generation of vipers. A home where scolding aad fretfulaese are dominant k blood relation to the gallows aad the penitentiary I Petulance is a serpent that crawls up iato the family nursery sometimes aad crushes everything. Why, there are parents who even mske religion disgusting to their children. . They scold them for not loving Christ They hare an exasperating way of doing their duty. Blessed te the family alter at whkh the children kneel. Bleseed is the cradle ia which the Christian mother rocks the Chrktian child. Blessed, k the song the little ones sing at nightfall when sleep is closing the eyea and loosening the hand from the toy on the pillow. Blessed is that mother whose every heart-throb Is a prayer for her children's welfare. The world grows old, and the stars will cease to illuminate it, and the waters to refresh it and the mountains to guard It und its long story of sin and shame and glory and triumph will turn to ashes: but influences that started in the early home roll oa and up through all eternity blooming in all the joy, waring in all the triumph, exulting in all the song, or shrinking back Iato all the darkness. Father, mother, 'which way are you lead lag your children? Talmage. Ijimt Case. In making layer oake one tires of using jelly or chocolate for filling, and figs and raisins make an agreeable change, as well aa a richer eske. Take one-half pound of figs and oneeup ofrakina. Cut the Irs ia half and steam the raklas for half an hour, then chop while warm. Beat the while ef an egg to a stiff froih aad add te the fruit together with two-thirds ot a cupful of granulated sugar and one teaepoeaful of vanilla. Thk hi now ready to be spread Between the layers of cake. A good formula for layer cake k as follows: Oae cupful of sugar, one-half cupful ot nutter, one-half cupful of sweet milk, the beaten whites of four eggs, two cupful of flour aad 'heaping teaepeoafnl of bahmor paw

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Mstrew, etc; the thrse chief laacsafM Share aaoase, (3) The first of the meTM Wares fiwa Che Cress, "rasher, forrim ," aeaken wall Jcees was tetsc amsei te me km (LateJSes). (4). Tte Four solatera Hvisa the Oanaeatc of Jeeas Aawac: ThamsolTas (vs. at. ). Boo after alse o'cteek. as. "Mia teat:" s leag taste or usagiiaimast M, "Tae Scripture.... tainted:" V. :ML (i) Mockeries Aroead the Cross (MaU. 27JS44). Kiae to twelve a'ateek. () Casveratea ot the Paatteat Rooter (Lali :3-iS. Toward boob. (T) Th Mother ef Jetes avad Other Women (vs. avt7). Toward smb. SS. -His mother's aiatcr:" Salome, the tetter efjefaa. "Cteoeaa;" rather Cteoae, the aaaw aa Alphas, tte father ot James the tees. (8) Derltaees Over All the Land (Matt. S7-U). Fma twelve to three o'clock. () Tte Cteeist Seesee (ti. About three o'cteek. Ml -All . . . accomplished:" It aaeae word a teteaed (v. 39). His whole work waa dese; sH that the Beriotares had foretold, art aeeeaaerr tot rademptloa. "Scripture:" Fa. M :9t, as. "Vinegar:" eseaatoa soar wiae for tte soldtera to drlak. 30. "It la Batched:' what was fialahedt His life oa earth, Hie life's work, the cup of aefferisf. the ateaemeat for the ataa ot the world, the old era sad disuaaaa ties, the arophsetae ef Serietere. (H) Aeeonnanrlag ntaaa. Sarthaake, TU of the tennle rest ad craves eeeaed. scBkrccTs ron Further nruur. CraetBites. Calvary. The title. The weao araiad. the or e. John asd the nether ot Jems. "It is ftalahed.' Aeeemavsaylsa; signs. -The avtoaenent. LKSSON COMMKXT. From Bine o'clock anvil twelve aad from twelve o'clock until three Christ hung upon the cross, patient, uncomplaining, suffering, dying a spectacle for men and angels to weep over. Darin; those six hours of agony lie spoke Ecrea times. All of these utterance are significant, but to three of them we desire to direct special attention. A Prater on thk Cross. A prayer for Himself? No, but for those who were nailing- Him fast to the tree. "Fathver, forgive them, for they know not what they do." Truly, to pray for these bhb waa Divine. It ia a eoenfertisg thought that thk prayer wan aawered, for later oa we road that they exclaimed: "Truly thk was the Son of God" (Mast. 37:54). It seeuae as though the hearts of the ceatariom aad lm follows were touched with Diviae power, so that when He died their faith spranjg up ha spite of Uk death aad triumphed ia the darkest hoar ef the world's history. Ilia FsoMies: on- TK CnoM. Two thievea huag near Him that day. beraa blaspheming Him. At i dariner the moraine oae of touched,' repeated, prayed. At the time he uttered the words: "Lord, remember me when Thou contest into Thy kingdom," he seems to have been, the only soul living whose faith had not gone out ia utter darkness. The oae bright, ray at that awful scene streamed from the erosa of that repentant thief. For hie prayer shows three things: (1) that he believed Jesus was Lord; (3) that he belie veil Jesus waa going1 iato Ilk kingdom! (3) that Jesne had power to bless hla from the kingdom to whkh He was going. To thk prayer Jesus answers hy a gracious promise: "Today ahalt thou be with Me ia Paradise. M Trk Awfut. Cxr .ox thk Cross. About three o'clock ia the afternoon, after three hours of silence aad of darkness, the ah was suddenly rent with an awful cry. For with a great voice Jesus cried: "My Ood, my God, why haetThou forsaken Me?" What depth of soul-agoay gare birth to thai cry, ao one will ever know. It was act bodily suffering that evoked H, but Intense spiritual sngnish. Hints may he gathered frona passages like that in Isaiah U:lf: "Yet it pleased Jehovah to brake Him; He hath put Him ta grief, aad 1 Peter :4. where we resde "Who His own self bear our stes ia Mk owa body on the tree." In some mysterious way, the tins of the world rolled over Chmt as He hung there; aad the light eves of God's face seems to hare been withdrawn from the well-beloved Son. There and then it was, that Ha made atonement for our sins, aad paid the ransom for our souls. Koi the teachings, but the sufferings, of Jesus, are our ransom. Not the life of Jesus, but Ills death, has opened the way of salvation for you and for me. The prayer for the aoldiers, ami the promise to the thief, gain their power and eMeieney from the suffering whieh evoked the mighty cry of agony that day. Rev. A. P. iichauftler, D. D. I.RSTOXS FROM THE CROW. 1. The steps of the repentant thkf: (1) acknowledgment of his sins, (S) eonfVsfcioia that Christ is innocent, () faith in Jesus, (4) prayer, (S) assurance of eternal life in Paradise. 2. Verses S, 27. "The leight of aaselfishness is to remember others needs, even In the hours of greatest agony. 3. Christ crucified k the wisdona aad power of God for the salvation of lie is the only solution 'of the question how God can be just "and true, and yet fcrgire all who repent and believe. 4. The atememeat oa the cross (1) hows God's haired of sia. (a) It shews the terrible evil of ski. (8) It shows that we con not enter Heaves unless cleansed front our sin. (4) It shows the forgiving love of God. (5) It shew the value of our salvation. Aad as the saowdrcf becomes the raindrop, and the raindrop becomes the fclee of fruits aad Rowers, i troubles, though they fall sold branch, melt, aad carry aaa the root. Cea tinned troubles are net, therefms, evidences of God's step lias art. Chrktian Uatem.