Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 35, Number 49, Jasper, Dubois County, 18 August 1893 — Page 3
WEEKLY COURIER. C. DOANE, Publisher. JASPER. - INDIANA MISS HELEN.
Hör Fart in an Australian Minor's Pathetic Romance
Rowdy! 'Tis no word for it too genteel by half. We were as wicked u set, at our diggin's, as New South Wales could show no slight thing. If the world's kettle had Wen set on the boil, we'd have come to the top as prime hcum truth, and no lie, mate. Hut amongst us was a man dubbed "the quire," because, though he fared like the rest of us, lived ami dressed just us we did, yet there was that in him which Mampcd him as of quite a different lir,..d. Swells out of luck are to be
found by the bushel in Australia; still, never came upon his double before or since. Humor went that he was a baronet at home in England, but had been forced to cut and run; so he tried New South Wales and thegold diggin's, bent on succeeding. I found him at Greeu Valley creek when I reached it; we worked not far off each other. I can't say I liked him. though he was wonderfully quiet and civil spoken, but cold as ice, and hard as nails; a chap who was never tired, and who never gave in, but plodded on and on towards his own end, whatever that might be. Hut silent as he was, and selfish, he opened out a bit to me, pra'aps because, though I didn't set up either for a swell or a saint, I wasn't quite st) bad as tho worst in Green Valley Creek. I had been respectably brought up, the son of a small farmer in Kent; but 1 didn't go in for respectability myself; it never agreed with me: so I was sent adrift at last with
fifty pounds in my pocket, and the world before me. There was a fresh stampede towards Australia at the time, and 1 joined the general rush and scramble; and, as 1 say, when I had settled down at, my claim "the fcquire" and 1 scraped up a sort of friendship. He did not live alone; his daughter was with him, though how and when she reached him none knew; she had rencued him, and bore her strange life as best she might They dwelt in a small shanty in the midst of many pines, a poor, rough place, far apatt ivom the other huts; a queer frame for such a stately picture of a woman a ladv! with the same superior bearing .51.1.. in h.-r father. I'd walked that
way with "the squire" once, and she ran out to meet him. The sight of her struck me all of a heap, so unexpected in the lonely spot, where there was no other company than the bright-winged birds, no other sound than the stir of the windy trees. She was tall, the color of wild roses in her cheeks, Heaven's blue in her eyes. Her dress, dark and close-fitting, had none of the flashy ornaments that women such as we take tip with cram on; her hair, coiled smoothly about her head, shone like black satin. "This is one of ray chums, my dear," said "the squire" with his soft voice and his hard smile. Since then, I had hung about the logkuse often, labor ended. I fetched water, got in sticks, cleaned boots, or did such odd jobs which were not fit for her and said no word: but she found me out in a brace of shakes, and grew used to and was thankful for such help as I could give, knowing that I meant no harm, though I startled her at first a great Orson of a chap in my rough gear. One evening I came on her watching
in thrt irloatninir. How eerie it was
hur underneath the trees; the wind
soughed through the branches, bring
ing a dash of ram; a deluge was in me
black clouds sweeping- across tne suy. "I nm anxious about my father," she
aid, looking like a tall white lily that
somehow had been shoved into tin wivinif not. an d touching mv big eartli
Kt-iiiwil finiri'rs with her tine slim hand.
I nm always anxious about him;
though, since knowing you, 1 have not
felt so absolutely distressed, ior i am glad to recollect that you are within Iiis call. You would staud between him
Eiul tinnn. I think."
"Whr. yes, miss; make your mind
easy oil that score; 'twould be dorn
with a will. Hut what harm is like to
come, that you need Hurry?"
'fill lint. Mr. Straiglitways. it is
such a hard, dreadful life for him!" 'And for von. miss!"
"Ah! but'l will not think of myself; that would never do." she answered, quickly. And, going indoors, she began
to tidy the scrap ot a room, urns try I .. -,.,,4 lw lorrnrc
"Ned!" she crfed, stopping suddenly
(her father always called me so), lail such a curious dream last nicht
.lr,.nn.d that I went down into the
littln valley bevond the wood and
there I saw my father lying on the rrK sound nslcen so sound that I
mild not wake him while the dus
ters of wild flowers sprang up so high
that thov hid him. and I heart! the
pines in the distance chanting a solemn
kind of litany. I was crying wnen Wohl ."
"You are too much alone, miss, ant irruw nervous."
"Perhaps. And then I nm troubled
about his iournev to Ooulburn to-mor
row, and his taking so much value
with him."
Ooulburn, as I suppose everybody
knows, is the chief place ill the south
cm gold-mining district; we all went
there at times to get our gains weigneu, or I'timim-il. nr banked.
"Mv father has been very fortunate
lately, has he not?" she asked. "lie has had some good lind s, miss; ml to-day he got hold of two jolly big nuggets." "I am glad. Will ho bring them home this evening? What's that?" and he sprang to the door, Hint ng it wide open, the shine of the lamp behind her. "Dearest father!" she cried. "Is it yen?" Hut she broke off, alarm in her voice: VXU Kal" fer bo father wa tktre,
but two of the worst of our lot scamps for whom hemp was growing; the one a blackguard sailo,; the other, a smartish, slimy cl-an. th.n. dark. lying. His
name was 1'hil Dailish.
I remembered now, us I saw him by the .lash lf tlm lbfhl. tlmt tin lis will
us I hail been near when "the squire." held no the two L'reat nuggets: and it
struck me I'm quick at conclusions that both scoundrels had not intended to come up to the house, but were just lurkiliL' round. What, fur?
Miss Helen I only knew her by her Christian name then faced them
steadily, though she had called me to
her, and asked what they wanted. "Whv. nothin' in snecial. miss.
stsriimcrcd Dawlish, lifting his ragged straw hat with swell-mob politeness.
and a leer which made me tingle to
kick him: "on'v. is the old boss at
home? 1 I mean vour pa. miss." he
translated.
"No." she rcnlied. holding her head
biirli. tn Umw shi was not frightened:
I but I, hems' os to her. could hear her
heart thudding like a hammer, whilst
the blood named to her brows under
the foul gaze roving over her. "Why
do you ask?"
"Just this. mum. Will you bo so
good as tell him that mo and my pal's
off to Hulton's ranch for a short spell, and if he'd like to tramp over why.
'tis a miirhtv 'andsomc part o' the
country, and he'd be welcome, that's all." "You must be in a hurry to go,"
I said, nutting in mv oar. "if you re
trudging twenty milo for pleasure such
a night as this."
"Oh! we didn't know as you wos in charge here," with a brutish laugh;
"but the walk is our lookouti the lady can deliver a civil message, I hope."
"1 will give it," interposed Miss Helen, "as soon as my father comes in." "Mui'h obleeired. miss: then thecr's
nothiu' more to add: so we'll toddle.
Good night, miss." and he flourished
his hat again.
She shut the door upon tlicm, draw
iiur a stout bar across it "Are those
the men he works with?" she cried,
flinging up her hands "Heaven help us!" I tried to turn the subject, stirring
the fire into a blaze, and pretending to
do a lot of things, for I didn't care to
linvi hiT. 'Twas mv belief tne two
blackguards were still hanging about
As for their invitation to "tho squire,"
it hut a In- invented on tue mo
meiit
1 was casting round for another job,
wlii-n slus staved me bv asking if I
would go to meet her father. "Hut von"
"Xav:" 1 do not mind. The little
house is secure. Why." wiMi a wistful
smile, "I am always alone from uaybreal: until dark."
1 know it was the fact: so. bidding
her open to none until she heard me or "the squire" whistle, I started on my
errand.
Not vorv far had I to go, for I met
him in that same little ravine of which
his daughter had dreamed; it skirted
the pine wood. His pick was over ins
shoulder, his right hand m ins poeitet feeling the nuggets, perhaps. He was singing a song in some foreign lingo, Italian or Spanish. He looked more content than I had seen him more at
rest, nodding to me in his patronizing
fashion. After a few stray words, l related what had happened, advising him to be on his guard.
"Thanks. I will," he replied, haugntilv amused at the scamps asking him to
" ... . .
nav a visit m their company, "inn
I've a secret to tell you, ed," lie added. "I have done with Green Valley creek, and shaken olf its crew. Luck
has favored me beyond ray hopes; 1 can afford to turn my back upon it 1 shall
take my daughter situ does not Know
it vi't with me to Goulhurn to-mor
row, where we shall remain for a short
time, then go on to Melbourne; 1 have
thoughts of settling there."
.t im nnki. the little tic ot com-
mdeshin between us shattered; in a
inmni'iit we were sundered as the
noles. so riuietly he brushed it away.
-
"If you like to step round early in tin. morning and see us off. you can.
Whv, my good fellow, you look quite
down. Well, it is kind to be sorry to
lose me. We shall meet the wagons at
the end of the wood. If those scoun
Wis intend to dog mv steps I agree
with vou their trip to Hulton's is only
a ruse I should mm your eompaiiy
useful; also, you could help to carry our few belongings. I paid up my rent to
Johnson at the tavern last night; per-
lirms vnnM kindly give him the shanty
t - "
key? Why, Straiglitways, 7 with laugh
ing surprise, "lias my news sirueic you
dumb?"
I Mt sis if it had. as if I were shot
through and through; the earth swayed
under my feet He was condescend
ingly gratitied at my troubled state, tak ng it all to himself; he was just the man to do it
"You were always an honest fellow. Ned! a trusty creature! He sure that
von come to-morrow; my uaugiucr
will like to shake hands with you before she leaves;" and he went on gayly through the rich, thick grass.
No rest was mine that night; evil was in the air. So, as I could not sleep, I got up and went out Not being a fool I knew I must keep my misery to mvsclf; but my life was empty! empty! Ithcld a vacant place that could never
tie filled never again, never again: You see. I was hard hit, mate, like the donkeys. 1 stamped and stormed at myself for a mooning Idiot What Miss Helen was to me? What could she ever have been to tne? a lumbering vagabond chap, not worthy to kiss the dust she trod on. Hut I must go back and watch the house that covered her for this last night, so 1 returned to the ravine. In it were many little dells swarming with
the wild-flowers of the grand Australian spring. Now, in one of these same dells what do you think I saw? a dead man's face. Yes, I knew at once that he was dead; but so easily "tho squire" rested on tho wet moss, that the song 1 bad heard him singing might still have been upon his lips. Raising his head. I found a blow hrhtnd had killed hi in. He
iiui dronncd and died at once. Ilia !
pockets, turned liaiug outward, were
empty. Snatching up his fallen pick, I
tore on to the log house, knowing well
whom I should Und there my long
sharp knife was in my belt. 1 raced
round to the back; the little Kitciier. loor was undone; the fiends in jiosscsslon had small fear of interruption.
They were in "the squire's" bedroom,
making free with some whisky which he had kept in a cupboard. (J old was there also, as I knew, lty their shouts.
I fancied they had come upon it Hut
I let them be. Where was Miss Helen?
I found her in thu sittinrr-room. tied
in her chair, her lips bleeding over her
wliiln ti-i'tli! tlu cursed hounds had
&truck her. "There are threo of them,"
she whispered; "those two who came, and another man. They watched for my father and murdered him they told
me so. Uark! they are coming. -Ned,
thev have pistols, and will shoot you
where you stand. Go away this instant only kill mo first;" and she lifted her
white pillar of a throat
"Now. mv beauty." roared a drunken
voice through the thin partition, "wo ro
bringin' yon a cup o' whisky to drinic our 'ealths in. Ain't you longin' for us to make love to you? We'll stow nvy
the rhiao first, and then you shall haie
your turn."
"He quiet," I whispered back to her,
hacking at the cords with my knife, and in a few seconds I had her out ol tho chair, and we dashed out of tho
house together. Seizing her hand to prevent her from falling, I guided her
as fast as possible from the crew who were now following after us with curses and howls. Fortunately the de
mons were too drunk to run very fast
A couple of bullets whizzed by us.
striking the tree-stems instead of our heads. In our desperate haste, we
stumbled and fell more than once over
the spreading roots, but were up again in a moment
On and on until the last tree was at .... i
our hacks. Then we macie ior a nuio
which led to Johnson's tavern, leaving
the yells faint in the distance; there v stopped, and there she told her tale.
News snrcad ouicklv at the diggin s.
and Judge Lynch is for immediate action. Hefore noon the stolen gold including the two big nuggets -had been
recovered and a couple of figures dan
gled from an oak by the wayside;
whilst the third villain, not guilty ol bloodshed, shed plenty of his own be
neath avenging blows. We had a habit of settling matters speedily at Green
alley creek.
As soon ns it was possible Miss Helen
started for Melbourne, whence she set
sail for England, where she would join her mothers relatives very heavy
swells indeed, I believe. And I fol
lowed her in secret every inch of the
way, though she knew it not until I )
STOP PATERNALISM.
Protective TurllTt. Houatlr anil MubMta I'rcMlttc- HrlpIrM 1'ftuprr Induatrlf. Every honest self-supporting man, like every honest self-supporting industry, is a blessing; to any community or
country. No one will dispute this statement Few also will dispute the alternative statement, that every pauper mau and every pauper industry is a urse to a community, to a country und to mankind. The only cases in which helpless human lelngs are not considered a detriment to the community and a burden to the state are during childhood or old uge. or during impairment by accident or disease. During these times the state often co-operates with parents or guardians to assist in tiding over the dependent period. It is conceivablcHhut a new or infant industry, temporarily depressed by Hood, lire, earthquake, war, or other disaster, might repay the state for extending a helping hand. It has, however, been mainly to encourage "Infant industries" that states have so often given assistance to
various industries, llie assistance is usually considered to come from independent and self-supporting industries and is granted only in hdpe that tho new industries, as soon as they have lwcnmii established, will not only pay
their own way, but become so vigorous
that they will, in various ways, return with interest all that the state has ad
vanced to them. In the light of these
generally accepted arguments, let us see what we can learn from history and
practical experience.
Hefore our country got started m
business on its own account, several of
the federaj states imitating the policy of the mother country, attempted to in
troduce and foster certain industries
mostly manufacturing ones by levy
Intr duties on certain industries. Thus
Pennsylvania in 1TS5 passed an act en
titled ""An act to encourage and pro
tect manufacturers of this state by lay
ing add tional duties on toe lmporia
tion of certain manufactures which
interfere with them."
This system of protection worked so
poorly, and was such a nuisance to
trade between the states that all were
glad to abolish it with the adoption of
the constitution in 1787. Immediately
thereafter the manufacturers liegan to
ask for national help for their strug
L'ling industries. Some attention was
paid to their appeals and the first tariff
act gave slight protection to certain
industries. Instead of making them self-reliant this charity only made
them elainorous for more assistance
Unties became higher and higher as
the industries grew older until the non nrnteeteil iudust I ies wure forced to de
fend themselves from the hungry and
ungrateful nauner industries.
n . .
The. noisv infants were weaned ana
thriving on solid food when our
were t;
stood by her on the c cck ot tne sieo m- necessary to put them
safulv in the hold. Then I blurted out
that I hoped she "would not be offend
ed at my coming, but and tuen i shut up.
"Vnd!" she cried, "brave N ed! Dear.
kind, good Ned! There are debts which can never be repaid, and 1 am your
debtor always always, Ned!" and holding out her ' hands to me, she bowed her lovely head upon my big
brown fists and sobbed.
'Don't vou bo a confounded noodle
at the last Straiglitways," I said to myself; "you've pulled the reins in fairly well up to the present; pull tight, my
man. pull tight;" and i did.
"You are very welcome, Miss Helen" I snoke with a quiet voice. "I wish
I wish I could have been a gentleman for just a little while, so that I might have served you better."
"A gentleman!" she cried, lifting her
face, and looking full at me, and thea
on the bottle while iney were oeing
bled to nroduce a war revenue. The
bleeding process lasted but a few years and the bottle should have leen dis
carded long ago, but the sucklings
now mostly centenarians not only re
fused to let go. but have demanded and
obtained bigger bottles. Through
their cries and screams they are inform ing us that they are incapable of exist
inirnn even the high tariff of 'J."5 or .'10
ner ner cent and thev lay claim to per
manent sunnort on the ground that we,
having for so long fed them on pap and brought them to their present helpless
state, must not now desert The woolen and glass manufacturers actually have the audacity to tell us
that the assistance which we have
given them has made them indigent,
careless and slovenly, so that they can
not exist on the same government ra
tions as might have sufficed a few years
ago. Thus confessing- that tney neu to
laCl, lUll u ..j .... , .-ft"' - r she raised those hard fists of mine to her j us when asking for temporary help to
- ..i 1! -... .1 1 c Mwim A tm ohi ! mtilti thiHtl Jit Tlltl fil.
M)IL 11 IIa a Uli mt-u -"-- - r - -
kissed them and I how was I to help The illogical structure of protection
if the touch of those soft lips broke i Is thus falling from its iron weignt
, & ..11 . ..,.4 .. 4L.. ...-... l.i, fit.fi f Mil timtiwr
me down smasn. a way went an mv i juaw o in; tu. . .,..- . j.....,.-.
..w. if tl.. winds bad blown 'rate svstem of England fell. Indus
nCU'lUUilWIf -' - " ' ... 1
s. vi mv heart, like u nent i tries, like men and plants, are maue
ntr..n.n bursting its bounds, rushed tho strong- and hardy by being compelled
. ... t 1 1 1 4 1..
... lr... nn.l nr nrntlrin. I to htatlll Or IUU UI1USSISI.CU .11111 IlOk v
iriinu iKc " ........ , , . which having broken loose at bust , being allowed to lenn upon government i.i..4 i... ,iriv..o bnelr. T can't re- 1 nrops. Thev must face the cold winds
.i,,..,.!,. .vim 1 saiil. though I've ! of adversity and not be hot-house
Jlll-lllUl.lV.il-..., ........ , c , ...... . , Ti 4 ! .1... ...l.iri ntui .mnt i nroduets if thev are to do credit to
within were' too much. I didn't plead I themselves and their country.
....... nn iww-I knew better than ; Protective tariffs, then, not only re-
.1.... in tbi m 5.1st of mv ! strict and disturb trade, tax and dc-
null, - ' ---- i ....... ,.i madness. I didn't dure even to touch press legitimate industry, and burden
her with one ot my rougn lingers, uui . v......,......., .. ... I think I made her understand some- I dustries they were designed to encourhow that my heart and my life had age. This is the lesson of protective 4 i...- ..rninr... Timii I IttrilTs. The sooner we are done with
gone out. w ., ., , , .tnn.,,,1. .miden. mv chest heaving, my them the better for all.
voice choking, my sight blinded by a The effect of granting aid by means mUt that didn't conic from the sea. 1 f govcrnmentbounties or subsidies, is
tempting what is Impossible. Protection eunnot. become universal. When
fill f tnhiHtrieH urfl nrotootcdn the bono
A4 f u () i k i linn than annulled by the
assessments necessary to aid all of the
others. Protection may for a lime sumInt.. u f.nv- inihiKt ries. but It is always
lift W .w v - - at the excuse of the self-supporting
industries. All industries cannot, ueen inn winners anv more than all men
4 4 " . mm 1upnmt nauners or pensioners.
They must have others upon which to
lean or they will be in the uiiikjssiu
iiosltlon of leaning' upon tnemseivca.
Hyron V. Holt
A CRITIC CRITICISED.
V..IrIJn( If uri-laotl'l VlnM'B OB the Fl
nuiirUI IlUtarbancr INiiuineniett upon In . fntlttfl, Ml4lllltr.
Kv. President Harrison is true to his
record as u partisan, in asserting that
the prevailing financial disturoance ia
Im. to the suspicion with winch tne
people of the country regard tho demo
cratic party. Jle declares tuat tne Sherman act is not alone responsible
for the. unsettled condition of business;
that the distrust is not against silver
only. He attributes the trouble to tne
fear of changes in the tariir, and ex
presses the lielief that this Is n more
potent cause or suspense ami nas creav ed more mischief than anything else.
"It. s mmss bie." savs .Mr. Harrison
"to bridge over suddenly the wide
ebüKin intervening between coinnaru
tive free trade and the protective sys
tem under which the nation grew rich, wit hnnt nroltinged convulsions in trade.
(.rent nennomic changes do not adjust
themselves with celerity; hence fear-
ing changes they stop woricsnops anu nrices shrink." This is at once a plea
for the doctrine of protection and a re-
llection upon the present national au ministration. It shows that Mr. Har
rison is still loyal to a fallacy which has been repujated by the people and that he is not en mil to crediting the
nartv which defeated him with the
ability to iustifv the trust the people
have reposed in it With many quali
ties which command admiration and
which insnire esteem. Mr. Harrison is,
withal, a partisan so narrow and un
yielding that his lack of breadth m
this direction seriously mars an other
wise, admirable nersonalitv. lliscriti
eism of thu new administration and its
policy is not only unbecoming a man in
his position, but it is exceed m;iriy nn bist.
.. .. . . .
A man of greater liberality than .nr.
Harrison would be willing to admit
that the present financial situation is
simply the culmination ol forces anu influences which were at work long
before the change ocenrred in the ad
ministration. Truth wiH compel him
to admit that the outflow of pold to
EuroDe began while he was still in tho
White house. The e nux ot thus metal
in ist alone was nearly J70.Ü00.O0Ü and
its exportation while Mr. Harrison was nresident was over ffl'i-i.OOO.OOO. Tho
drain unon gold caused bv the Slier
man net has become more apparent ... ... ......
from month to mouth, out us power ioi
mischief was clearly apparent oaioro
Mr. Harrison left the White house.
So fur as industrial business Is con
cerned it is not more unsettled now
than it was at this time last year. Dur
ing the Harrison canvass the aid ot tue
militia was required in three states to
suppress labor revolts. The campaign
was also marked by the collapse of sov
oral large trusts, which seriously at
feeted the stock market All of tho
conditions of which Mr. Harrison now
complains jvero revealed before the change in the administration, and
would have culminated lust as they
have done had Mr. Harrison been his
own successor.
As to the tariff, that was an issue
which was thoroughly and intelUgently
discussed betöre the people during tne
last nresidcntial canvass. In the light
of all the education of which the voters
of this country could avail themselves
on that question, they decided against
high protection and m favor ot a nioro liberal commercial policy. Mr. Har
rison now says, in effect, that the peo
ple are afraid of their own verdict, and
that they were mistaken when they
voted to cheapen the necessities of life. This is not paying a high compliment
to popular intelligence in this country
and it is not worthy of Mr. Harrison's
Americanism. His comments reveal a
spirit which any man who has held the
hijrh oihee of president of the United
States ought to be auovo. Kansas L-uy Star,
stopped because of the great start of surprise that shook her from head tc heel, and because of the red color flooding up to the roots of her hair. Yet she was not angry nor offended. She put out her little hands to me again I knew it both to silence and to comfort me. She did not speak for what could she have said? besides, the steamer's engines were puffing, and
time was up. She laid her head down on my arm a moment, and then left with a rain of pitying tears. When the vessel had passed completely out of sight, and its long smokeline had died out from the sky, I hurried back to Green Valley creek, and took up mv work again hard work is the best friend life has for us, some
times. ' Hut I have never forgotten Misa Helen I never shall forget her; and I've trudged to the old spot often and stood before the empty house. And when the sun flamed down behind the pines and the shadiws crept longer and longer across tho grass, I've hnd a fancy that j( still could see her at the open door watching for her father. That's my story, old chappie; we've each other our -own, of one sort or other. Till up your glass and let'aiavo a pipe Vivian Hrooke, in Chambers' Journal.
A man was asked by a friend, who had noticed a peculiar expression on his face, what he was thinking of as he knelt at the altar to be married. "I waa thinking how confoundedly funny the soles of my feet must look from behld,H was the ütttaat retponse.
almost as great a curse as "protection."
Our shipping industry never declined
as rapidly as when we were trying to
aid it by means of gratuities, and to shield it from the severe competition of Enrnmi's unassisted lines bv orohibi'-
ing the importation of foreign built
shins. The continued use ot both ot
these methods fails to wean back any
considerable nortion of the carrying
trade of the world which was once ours
when our ships asked no aid from any r i narter.
The bounties we lire now giving to
sugar producers are having the same weakening effect. It is for this reason
that Gov. Hogg, on behalf of the state
of Texas, spurned the bounty to which
Texas was entitled as a sugar producer.
He knew the evils, industrially and po Hticallv. sure to flow from govern
mental "encouragement" to industries
properly the subjects of private enter nrise.
i ...
Paternnlistn. as anolied to the silver-
, producing industry, is also Iwginning
to manifest the same evils. I he shame
ful contract which, for political purposes, the last administration made with mine owners, to take their silver at prices which are now twice the actual worth of this metal in all other markets, may have stimulated this industry for a time, and added a few more
to our already long list or bountj'-fed millionaires, but it will soon be clear j that it has hurt the Industry of exf II .1 44.-4 I
tracilllg silver iruiu our ure, nun w4iw it has rendered almost helpless and homeless thousands of miners whom it Mas drawn from farms and shops. AU efheae pvik are the mult of at
WON'T CONSULT THE BARONS.
Thn Xcxt TrlfT Mill Will He 1'repared
Without Thrlr Aid. The next ways and means committee
of tho house will not give hearings to the various people who are interested
in maintaining the present high tariff,
or their attorneys. 'I hat much at
least is settled. Of course there may
be some deviations from this rule, but there will be no such scandalous doings In the next congress as there were in
the ltced congress which put through
the .McKinley bill. The ways ana
means committee will not take up
months of time listening to arguments
of interested parties, to preserve tne
nrnscnt high tariff, nor will thev al
low the representatives of the different
infant industries to lobby through
schedules which will benefit them and
work iniury to the country at large.
One of the greatest scandals in tho
history of legislation In this country
was connected with the preparation ol
the McKinley bill. Tho representa
tives of tho iron, steel and other big- in dustries. after arguing before the com
mittec, submitted the schedules they
wished ndonted. They were accepted
and embodied in tho bill which bears
McKinlcy's name, without a singlo
change. An exposure of this infamy
was mndc on the floor of the house by
Representative Turner, of Georgia. It
was made at a time, however, when other important events were crowding ach other and did not excite tho at
tention it should. It will have no rep
e.tit on In the next house. Thero are
volumes upon volumes of testimony
and argument which the next commit
tee will have at its hand, and thero
wilt be no necessity, excent in a few in
stances, for that body to take testimony,
or hear further argutMeata. St. Loa I
Republic
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
International Lmai fsr Aajraat 29, 199
-I'aut Befnre 1U-Act
Specially Arranged from Peloubet't. NoUl
CotPKNTKXT. Waten ye. mann wn
faith, quit you Ilka raca. V strong. l i-or.i lOiia .
Timk. Tuesday, May 39, A. . r. a w
after tho last leaaoa. Paul remained la prwoa at Ctwarea, from the laat of May, A. D. 5, to
midsummer. A. D.
li.ACK.Oaaarea. tae renIOCBce o: uw. wo
man governor of Judea. It was oa the Medil- " . I .1. ....... n 1.MI.
cmnean. rorty-aeven bum uww! v., aalem. Here a Kornau centurion, Corncllu, sail tirrn converted clBttccn years before.
Here ltveU Philip the evangelist
HUMsns. Nero, emperor oi name, rtm, governor of Judea. A. U. Airrippa, king of TrachonllU. etc
LESSON NOTES.
The, fVinrse of Events. In our lat
lesson we left Paul as ho was be in? rescued from tho mob after his address
the stairs leading from the court
of the Gentiles to the tower of Antonia
(May 28). Pail 1 Romvi citizenship did him
flood service on this occasion; for when the chief captain Lysias, supposing him of course to have been some kind
of malefactor, since ho aroused such tdttnr nnnositlon. ordered him to be
bound and scourged, Paul made an ap
peal for his rights, lie was released from bonds and saved from the scouriIng, but detained in prison.
Hefore the Jewish tjouncu. Jerusa
lem, Wednesday, May 24. The next
mnrnlnir lvsias brought Paul DCIoro
the Jewish sanhedrim to learn what it
was they accused him of. ISote (1;
Paul's r hrhteous indignation at tne i-
sultinff and brutal smiting him on the
face. Note ('2) Paul's noble apology for his sharp words, when he learned that he had spoken them to the high priest He could not have imagined that one who uttered so unjust and unworthy a command could be a high
priest Note (8) the lesson on speak
ing evil of rulers anil leaders, i. xne tnndencv is to criticise severely all
their acts that work against us, how
ever good for the whole people. -. id I ii;v to find fault with others whose
circumstances and limitations we do
not wholly understend. ;i. bpcauingevil of rulers tends to disobedience and
lawlessness, lessening the power of those who would execute law. 4. It
tends to irreverence toward (Bod. 5.
Wo should respect the ofllce, even
when we cannot the officers. Ö. This
does not forbid a fair and candid riiKmiKKinn of the actions of rulers, or
of their character so far as necessary . .a H
to prevent the election oi uau men, or the imitation of their conduct Note (4) Paul's shrewd use of the diversity of the council to escape from their condemnation. Hut it was the shrewd
ness of puro honesty and sincerity, Becking to advance the cause of the Lord rather than his own safety, yet it brought safety. "Iloncstj" proved to be the very "best policy."
Th. Plot Thursday. Mav 25.. .arly
the next morning forty .lews plotted to kill Paul, binding themselves not to cat or drink till they had murdered a -a
him. These bitter enemies were atraia that thev had no case agwinst him
which would hold in a Roman court; and even the sanhedrim were divided.
Hut Paul's nephew in some way learned of the plot and revealed it to the coas-
nder.
Paul Sent to Cassarea. The niffht ef
May 25, 20. The conspirators ware
foiled, and Paul was sent under guard
by night to Caesarea, the political capital. Here ho remained five daj'R (May 20 to no), while Gov. Felix sent for his
accusers to come from Jerusalem ana present their charges.
Paul's Appeal to t cllx and urusiiia.
Ver. 24, .. The Audience. (1)
Felix, the governor of Judea, originally a slave, who, together with hi brother Pallas, was liouffht by Aa-
toniu, the mother of Emperor Claud
ius. They were both smart, capable young- men, and hi time received the
if t of their freedom. Alter Antonia s
death they served Emperor Claudius;
Pallas us a sort of major-domo oi me palace in Rome, while Felix rose rapidly in the army, and at length in
52 was appointed procurator of .imica.
"Tacitus writes or him as one wno trusting to his brother's powerful influence at court, knew he could com
mit any wrong with impunity. Ho was notoriously avaricious, cruel and licentious, but withal a man of great energy and talent, wielding, however, as Tacitus tells us, 'the power of a tyrant in the temper of a slave.' Ac
cording to .loscphus, ho was one oi tho most corrupt and oppressive governors ever despatched from Rome to .ludca."'
Rev. Cora. (2) UriiBilla was tho daughter of Herod Agrippa I., who
died in Caesarea m horrible torments
(Acts 1:2.1), and sister of the Herod
Agrippa of chapter 2.". .She was a famous bcautv. and married when only
about fifteen to Aziz, the petty kin? of
Hamath, north ot raicstinc. icnx, meeting the beautiful queen of Hamath at tho house of her brother, fell in love with her. It was not unreasonable in the libidinous old slave (ho must have been well advanced towards sixty) to mistrust the power of his personal fascinations; and in looking for some ally in his criminal design ho found, all ready to his hand, a certain magician named Simon, in whom we cannot be mistaken in recognizing our old acquaintance Simon the Magus, who wanted to buy the Holy Ghost some sixteen years before. This appropriate agent plied his arts of Reduction to such purpose on the young bride that she abandoned her husband and gave herself to be the so-called wife of the mean and servile old debauchee ntCiesarca.
Sadness serves but one end, being nscftil only in repentance, and hath dono its greatest work, not when it sighs and weeps, but when it hated and grows careful against sin; but cheerfulness serves chity, fills tho soul with harmony, makes and publishes glorifications of God. Jeremy Taylor. Repentance is not all pain. There ia a secret sweetness which nccoov panlcth those tears of remorse, thosa va ioltings and relettings of a soul retaining unto God, and lamenting lt fofmcr unklndaesa. Baongal