Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 35, Number 51, Jasper, Dubois County, 1 September 1893 — Page 3

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WEEKLY COURT ER. C. DOANJC, I'uUliHhMf. JASPER, - INDIANA

A CHANGED VERDICT. .How Patty Savod Hor Lovor from the Gallows. Tho lights were turned low in the courtroom, and about them slowly circled tho foul, heavy air, adding to the diinnehS. Judge Grcengoods hud frone to his dinuer, having announced Iiis intention to return ut nine o'clock, unless summoned sooner by tho ngreetnent of tho jury. Tho district attorney had packed away tho papers that liad heen their day in his green hag, and, arm in arm with his assistant, hud strolled nwaj', pausing now and again to whisper a caution'to a bailiff, and to receive in return more or less authentic information. The prisoner had been led over the covered corridor another Bridge of Sighs into the jail to await his fate in the cell whcr murderers were always kept, as the great iron ring in the center of the floor for their better securing attested. His counsel had accompanied him to the stairway, and then, had turned into the oflicc to have a smoke and a chat us to prospects with his friend, the sheriff. "Dubious," said that functionary, munching at his cigar, "tho judge -was agin him from the fust, and the jury seed it." The reporters had hurried away with their notes, first arranging for telephone calls when tho verdict was reached. . High above tho judge's bench ran a gallery. At the end nearest tlio window was a door. Before this door sat a court ofllccr, and behind it was the jury discussing, and so vigorously, too, that ugain and anon a muffled sound would descend to those who waited. These were few in number the janitor of the building, tho clerk, who lived out of town and had brought a lunch with him, three or four attend ants, tho blind crier dozing in his chair, and, in the further corner of tho spectators' scats, an old woman and a young girl The former of these two was stiff and motionless, her features set sternly and her eyes burning1 with a fierce desire. The latter was slight and yielding. She swayed from the weakness that terror hud brought on and would have rested her head on her companion's arm had not an unrecognized antipathy prevented. There and thus they had sat throughout the day, the matron a stone and the maiden a reed. Finally this young girl spoke. "Grandma," she said, "why does that man sit without that door?" "He is on guard, my child, to see that the jury is secure and unmolested." "Hut why should they be locked up?" "In order that they may render a Terdict and thus punish tho wicked." "Hut surely each ono must have known what ho believed when the case was finished, and confining them won't cause them to change." "No, but discussion may." "Then that would bo yielding to other influences than that of the evidence, and would be contrary to the oath they each one took." "Some are strong and sensible, and others weak and foolish. It is proper that tho will of the former should prcail." "But that wouldn't be their unanimous judgment then, and who can say "but that the weak and foolish may not sometimes be right? Besides they must be hungry and tired and cross. And vhen people arc cross they are unfair. Oh, what a dreadful thing is the law!" "What a dreadful thing rather is nurder. Tldnk of your only brother done to death by the Barlings. I only wish the old days of drawing and quartering had returned." "Oil, do you really believe" "Believe! Don't 1 know? nain't the Svnowlescs and the Barlings been at odds this fifty years? Didn't the boys quarrel at the tavern? Haven't we Jiecrod the detectives' stories and this lad's admission? What if the others -did get away? He was there, and he done it as much as them. And the jury will say 'Swing,' you mark me." "But there were two who seemed to believe his story." "Them poor critters in the back row? They dassent trust their own feelings "in the face of the others. Do you mind that racket? That will settle their doubts in short order. Now you shut mp, Patty. If I thought that one of my Inn wouldn't rejoice in the death of an enemy, I'd turn her into tho street w ithout a shawl to her back or a shoe to her feet." Patty Knowles shrank still further way from the stony bosom and the .threatening arm, and tried to think, as If thoughts would bring comfort It -was all too awful to be real; she must Ibe dreaming; yet why could she not awake? Was it true that she, with her grandmother, was awaiting in court tho verdict which should shamefully destroy their enemy, and that enemy her old comrade Tommy Darling? Ah,. 'there were substances, not shadows, bout her; her mind in its peaceful slumbers had never imagined anything fo cruel! ct ho would bo acquitted. now could she doubt, when the jurymen as well as sho had heard his frank, simple story and had seen the candor of his beautiful face? Had she not wntched them and detected expressions of sympathy, of confidence, on at least two of their countenances? And if these men had onco trusted would they dar to condemn? Then, indeed, were they not the murderers who would slay lor relief from custody, from fatigue, or from fear of their associates? un. a dreadful thing was this law which be clouded the truth when it was so evi dent! Hadn't Tommy explained that ne was removing the obstruction from the track when the "wildcat" so unex pectedly came around tiie curve and kuck it, sad was derailed? Oewlea't tint uaderstaad why ka

had remained slleat when asked how ho happened to be there? Surely, anyone could see that he had discovered his brothers' plot and hud striven to thwart it, hut was now too loyal to implicate them. Tho idea that Tommy, her gentle, triu-heurted Tommy, would connive to sluy the only brother of the girl he loved! And yet, when ho hud refused to answer, the judge, who surely should bo impartial in action as well ua word, had swung uround impatiently in his chair, and the district attorney had smiled, oh, so ironically, and shrugged his shoulders and said: "You see, gentlemen. See?" How could they .we through all tho dust that he had raised? And yet there were those two, who had believed; perhaps they would keep their faith. Oh, (od, give them power! Since the jury

remained out there must be some who doubted, and if they doubted now why should they not always doubt? Surely talking ought not to change the im pression the evidence had made, else why should that evidence have been given? The case which had occupied the Aberdeen Oyer and Terminer for the past week was, as tho district attorney had said in his opening, "awful in the sim plicity and directness of its proof." At the further end of the county, amid the arid sand plains, the Harlings and the Knowleses had occupied adjacent farms for many years. The railway ran in front of their dwellings and the young men had grown up half farmers, half linemen, cleaning from tho two occupations livelihood and recreation There had been a constant feud be tween the two families, sprung from some forgotten trivial cause, but enhanced into bitterness through paucity of daily interest There were three Barling hoya, of whom Thomas, the defendant, was the youngest, and ono Knowles, the brother of Putty. This latter had encountered one evening the two elder Barlings at the village tavern, and a quarrel and i scuffle had ensued. It was the follow ing day that a "wildcat" train, of which young Knowles was engineer, was do railed and ho thrown from the cab and killed. Thomas Barling was seen run uing away from the place where the ac cident occurred. His brothers disap peured, but the detectives, incited by liberal rewards, caused the arrest of tho lad, claiming it was he who had set the obstruction on the track. His presence, his flight, his terror. certain incoherent words which he had uttered on his apprehension, const! tuted the main points of the caso airainst him. His defense had been necessarily brief, consisting of his youth, good character, and his own story slightly corroborated that lie had been engaged in removing tue oostructions. when the "wildcat," of whose existence he had not been aware, came arounu me curve auu mc-uck. But on the question of how he hap pened to bo there at just this time he had remained silent Solemnly the great clock In the courts room beat out the dragging moments. The bailiffs droncd.storics and yawned The clerk scribbled on the back of pa pcrs. The crier siept me siecp oicnim hood and smiled over its reviving scenes, i ne om woman sat erect, mo tionless, intent like another sphyn.v, awaiting the culmination of burning desires. Perhaps she alone could ex plain that ancient feud; perhaps, when that bosom had been tender ana tnai arm soitiy responsive 10 caresses, an injury to her beauty had been the dragon's tooth of this future. Perhaps the past now returned to her; for expectancy hath Its panorama of spent, but not dead, emotions. Certainly little Patty, as she saw the grim face growing grimmer, grew faint with dread, for in its lines she read vengeance upon Tommy and woo for herself. There was a sharp, demanding rap on the door of tho jury-room. Its drowsy guardian sprung to his feet and unlocked it Thcro wero whispers, and then once more the door was closed, the bolt was shot, tho sentinel sat at his post Once more, but with a difference. The man no longer lolled. He was big with tho consciousness that every eye was upon him, big in the possession of a secret which ho had no right to know. The great clock ticked warningly, for the hours of excitement are moments. It was ncaring the time for tho judge's return. The clerk set dockets and pen and paper in order. The bailiffs shut windows and opened doors and turned up lights and took their stations. Thcro was one whose post was by the door al the end of the gallery leading to tho jury-room, which opened upon the main stairway of the building. The guardian of the jury-room was his friend, and, as he passed, whispered a single word. Tho bailiff stepped to his place and beyond. He leaned over the rail and gazed down into the gloomy corridor. The front door, swung open, a dignified form entered. He recognized it, and in an instant was leaping down tho stairs. And in another instant Judge Grcengoods knew at what verdict tSio jury had arrived, knew that the solemn words which he had mentally arranged during his walk thither had not been marshaled in vain. Many sharp eyes had noticed the passing of that singlo word from ofllccr to ofticer, and ere tho crier had begun his sonorous proclamation bailiffs and attorneys and sheriff and prisoner knew that the verdict was "guilty." Patty knew it too, for she had watched that guardian at the door as if he held the portals of her happiness. Patty knew It and a great sob swelled in her heart and hardened into a resolution. In this moment of extremity, when human and Divine powers had coalesced gainst him, sho would be by her old playmate's sido to comfort, to sustain, to bless! She looked at her grand mother. That expectant gate had not yet changed into triumph. "I will go a little closer, so that I can find out" she said, and the old lady nodded aa eager approval. Down the narrow Iron stairway along the wall cane the jury swaggering, hesitating, strutting. Patty leased gainst the little door of the railing wkieh divided tke eourtrooB, tau sea

arating the goats ef spectators fron the sheep of the bar, and studied their faces as they passed. Stolid, immova

ble for tho most part; but there were two thut seemed worried and dubious, and they were the faces of the two men in whom she had put her trust Oh, cowards! Why had they not preserved the courage of their convictions or why had they put themselves in a position where faint-heartcdnc&s is a crime? The jury took their seats, these two men in the places Which they had occupied during the trial, Nos. t , .d 8 in the rear row, directly behind the foreman. Trorn tho ante-room came Tommy, and sat by his lawyer alongside of tha table in front of tho judge's bench. How pale he was, but how quiet, how stern! Was it possible that thoso lips which had ever curled in smiles could be so firm? Why one might be afraid of him, that is, one who didn't love him as she did. Patty brushed a tear from her check, as she gazed; it seemed as if he were already dead, and that it was his cold gray shade that now appeared. "Call the roll, Mr. Clerk," said Judge Grcengoods, and, as that functionary obeyed, each juryman answered "Present" complacently so, too. ex cepting Nos. 7 and 8, who looked as if they wished very much they were elsewhere. No. 7 was a tall, slender, bent young man, awkward and basntui, who was perpetually blushing, either because people were looking at him or because t he imagined they were. He also stammered. No. 8 was a short, thick-set, aggressive-appearing old gentleman, very deliberate in action, slightly deaf, but ever ready to slay anyone who imputed such a defect to him. Consequently, No. 7 dropped into a pool of stuttering, where he hopelessly floundered, and No. 7 shouted "Here" some time after the clerk had noted tho attendance. "Stand up," said the clerk to the prisoner. And Tommy arose and stood with folded arms, a fragile yet intrepid Ajax defying the lightning. Hut, oh, it was dark about him; if there might be but a single ray of sympathy, then he could endure. The court oilicer ut the little gate was naturally more in tercsted in the proceedings than in his duty. He moved forward, and Patty slipped within the rail. "Let the prisoner look upon the jury; let the jury look upon the prisoner," continued the clerk. "Gentlemen of the jury, have yon agreed upon your verdict?" The foreman dropped his hat and folded his overcoat and struggled to his feet. In that silent instant of suspense there was a fluttering sound, and Patty flew to her old playmate's side. She threw one arm about his neck, and stood with the other extended toward the jury box like a guardian angel performing her mission. She upraised her face glowing with the light of love, and Tommy bent his head and kissed her tremulous lips. "We have," answered the foreman. "We find the prisoner" but here arose confusion. From the seats behind him, aroused into action by the touching tableau, Nos. 7 and 8 sprang forward on either side, both noisy, incoherent and indignant. From the spectators' space an ancient fury with blazing eyes and twitching fingers was menacingly advancing. "Silence! Order!" cried Judge Grcengoods, rapping sharply, and the crier reiterated his command. The bailiffs rushed to their posts. One caught tho grandmother at the little gate and forced her back; another gently placed Patty in a chair, but she leaned against the prisoner and clung to his hand and anointed it with her tears. Once more the silence of suspense prevailed. "We find him guilty, your honor," blurted the foreman. "Or at least 1 thought we did; but these two gentlemen seem to object" Then ugain there was confusion. The district attorney, his assistant the defendant's counsel were on their feet together and talking at once. "Sit down!" thundered Judge Greengoods. "Mr. Cleric, poll that jury." "Guilty," answered the foreman in response to his name, and "guilty" answered the succeeding five. Then came No. 7's turn. He sprang forward, apoplectic with determination to express himself and for once unconscious of his own personality. "Not guilty," he screamed, "and I've been trying to say so ever since we retired." Thfn No. 8 deliberately set each foot in place and arose. "Your honor," he said, "I am thoroughly convinced ol the defendant's innocence, and 1 understood that we all were. I am a man, sir, not apt to be mistaken, and there must be some chicanery at work here. 1 solemnly protest against the verdict ns given by the foreman, and I beg to nay that I am prepared to maintain my judgment for the rest of my natural life." "It is evident, your honor," said tho prisoner's counsel, "that there has been a mistrial. I would ask that tho jury be dismissed and the defendant released on his own recognizance, unless indeed my learned brother will agree to an order of nolle prosequi'' "Never," exclaimed tho district afc torney, with an oratorical swing. "Never. I have a duty, sir, a sacred duty that I owe to the people of this great commonwealth which sustains me." "There, thcro!" interrupted Judge Grcengoods, "of course, of course. I dismiss the jury and continue the case unto the next term. The prisoner is remanded without bail Adjourn court, Mr. Crier," and with a very dissatisfied expression contorting his regular features "his honor" hastened away tc his club. But before the next term news came of the violent death of the elder Barling boys la a foreign land and of their prior confession and assertion of their brother's innocence. The jrritn Jail yielded up its captire, and the cell where murderers had been chained knew his guileless nature no more. Impotent rage Increased thewelghtof years until they crushed the grandmether into kef grave. The feud between the twe fem Hies wan buried with her, asd over theif joint farms Patty Berlin sow presMas m atppj utrM K Y. Tissa,

THE LOOTED TREASURY. Sect mt Hick Tariff LeskUtloa om tUm lioltl Kcsvrve. It was stated in a dispatch from Washington that tho treasury balance was reduced to 5113,COO,OS1, including tho $100,000,000 gold reserve. As the excess above tho reserve was only about 13,000,000, and as nearly ll'J.COO.OOO of this excess was fractional silver and over 091,000 was minor coin, neither of which items Is available for current payments. It is evident that it will very soon becomo necessary to dip into tho gold reservo to moot the ordinary expenditures. This statement .'.erves to direct attention once moro jo tho fact that the thing called McKinlbylsm was a good deal more than an increase in protective duties. It was that in part but it consisted also of other parts intended to fasten tho protective system upon the country for an indefinite period and to put all possible obstacles in the waj of reform. To that end not only wero the protective duties largely increased where they wero not already prohibitory, but tho only important duty then remaining which was chiefly for revenue the duty on sugar was abolished. That duty was then yielding about $50,000,000 of revenue yearly and would now be yielding at least $00,000.000. Not content with that the McKinley party voted a bounty to American sugar growers and another to American ship owners, thus creating an additional charge upon the treasury of some $12, 000.000 a year. To the same end the same party voted away more than 115,000,000 to refund to tho states certain direct taxes collected nearly thirty years before from individuals, and a vastly larger sura annually to pay pensions to soldiers on account of disabilities not incurred in the publie service. And still further, it made most extravagant continuing appropriations for public buildings, alleged river and harbor Improvements, and other purposes. The object of all this was to reduce the revenues and increase the expenditures until tho latter should equal or exceed the former, and thus make people believe that no reduction of protective duties could safely be made. Hut even this was not enough. There was a large surplus in the treasury ac

cumulated by the preceding democratic administration. It was part of the protection policy to get rid of this surplus. But first it was increused by covering into the treasury a fund of some 155,000,000, consisting of money deposited by the national banks for the redemption of their surrendered note circulation. This was not only bad policy, but something very closely resembling breach of trust Then the high tariif executive took the business In hand and proceeded in hot haste to get rid of the entire surplus thus augmented. Bonds not yet due were bought in large amounts upon the pretext of relieving the money market, and about half of the matured A)4 per cents were redeemed. All these were parts of the McKinley policy. The object was to loot the treasury, to reduce the income to or below the expenditures, und thus provide not only an argument against a reduction of tho monstrous protective duties, but also an excuse for their still further increase. The scheme has worked according to the Intention except in one respect Tho treasury has been emptied, and wo already have to deal with a deficit But the pcoplo have not been fooled They know that tho tariff can be revised on free traie lines, and they have ordered tho revision to be made. They know that the protection party crippled the treasury and cut down the gold reserve nearly one-half, thus creating distrust and causing the present distressing crisis and leaving the government absolutely without the means of rendering any assistance or affordbng any relief. They therefore resent the republican assertions that they crcnted a panic by electing a democratic president and congress, and they persist in demanding that the whole protective system which has caused so great disaster bo torn up by the roots and cast out forever.Chicago Herald. COMMENTS OF THE PRESS. Tariff reform has lost nothing of its immediate and permanent importance. The lrcsidcnt's Message. Oh, no, the democratic party docs not mean what it said at Chicago. It was only tnlkin? through its whiskers. For particulars read the president's message Then interview Larry Neal, of Chillicothc! Louisville Courier-Journal. Turning their backs upon tho discontented advisers of past folly, disappointing their enemies and cheering their friends by a sensible attitude on the questions of the day, tho democrats of Ohio have set their faces toward victory. N. Y. Times. With Lawrence T. Neal and William McKinley pitted against each other the tariff question is pretty certain to be very much in issue in Ohio this fall. And the probabilities arc that the democrats will win, as they usually do asfee that question is Bquarely presented. Indianapolis ScntineL The republican organs are laying aft the blame for the present stringency and uncertainty of tho money market on the democratic party. Thopaityis not to blarno as yet, but it will be if four more weck sees the iniquitous republl canlcgislation it should abrogate at onco still in force. Chicago Times. At times liko tho present when the evils of unsound finance threaten us the speculator may anticipate a harvest gathered from tho misfortune of others, tho capitalist may protoct himself by 'hoarding, or may even find profit in the fluctuation of values; but the wage-earner, tho tlrst to be injured by a depreciated currency and the last to receive the benefit of its correction, to practically defenceless. He relics for work upon the vestures of confident and contested capital. This falling kirn, kk eoadltkm to without alleviation, for ho cam seither prey oa tke misfortune of etaer aer aoara aw

Übe, Pi eel J I at Cleveland's

M'KINLEY'S CAMPAIGN.

How the Major It Work.'n? Tfalng i IIU Own Stti Were it not that tho chief interest oi the nation is centered in tho vital question which congress is expected to dispose of in special session, tho campaign which Gov. Mi Jitinley h carrying on in Ohio with tho Iavmj of securing his reelection would receive almost universal attention. The governor is making his campaign upon national issues. For this there are at least three very palpable reasons. It would ba unsafe for him to deal to any extent with matters of exclusive interest to tho state for the reason that his administration has been a dismal failure, attended with disgracttful scandals, marked by unprecedented corruption and rcsponsiblo for one of the most grievous burdens of taxation ever placed upon the people of Ohio. In the second place tho major fully appreciates that the masses are disposed to blame tho Uls that they endure upon the administration and he is without conscientious scruples against encouraging this tendency. IIo recalls that it defeated Van Huron's efforts for a second term, that it gavo tho house to tho republicans in 1857 and to tho democrats immediately following the crisis of 1873. As a third reason, and by no means tho least, it affords tho governor a chance to uso his tariff, speech, without which his campaign material would be painfully limitod in character as well as quantity. McKinley takes tho financial ques-. tion as his dally text, because it is the one in which the people are most deeply interested, and then undertakes to show that the stringency of the times is the direct result pf a general apprehension that the tariff laws are to bo changed In accordance with the policy so long advocated by the democratic party. What has come as the inevitable result of the nefarious system for which he is so largely responsiblo the major attributes to an undefined fear of what may follow upon the overthrow of that system. What has been tho curso to our commercial and industrial interests he upholds as the one means to their speedy restoration. Tho system that has brought financial disaster to the entire country he recommends as a cure for the evil. What the people have pronounced against in numbers never before approached in passing upon a national issue, he clings to as the one sure dependence in the present crisis. In 1S90 the country emphatically declared against a high protective tarill when selecting its representatives to congress. Ihe repudiation oi the system was emphasized two years later when Cleveland was elected and the government turned over to thoso who were pledged to Its overthrow. This action was the result of years of experience and study. The people acted with their eyes open and with a full appreciation of tho results which were to follow upon their action. Theirs was a distinct declaration that tho laws jmade in the interest of tho favored classes that prompted them should give way to legislation beneficial to the entire country and to all its material Interests. They declared against the accumulation of the nation's wealth in the hands of the few at the expense of the many hampered by unfavorable legislation. Gov. McKinley may win his state election by the agitation of a national issue, for Ohio has long been dominated by the vast wealth of its protected interests, but he caanot defer the action that will restore the general prosperity lost through republican folly or keep from the masses the rights which they rose in their might to demand. Detroit Free Press. CONGRESS SINCE 1850. Republican Legislation Responsible for .Present Hard Time. It is commonly ßaid that the demociatic party is now responsible for legislation for the first time since 1601, this last being the date of the inauguration of tho first republican president But, to be exact, it is necessary to go back two years farther. During the first half of Mr. Buchanan's administration, that is to say from March - 1857, to March 4, 155U, vho democrats had control of every department oi tho government, John C. Breckinridge, of Kentucky, presided over a democratic senate, and James L. Orr, uf South Carolina, was the speaker of a democratic house. Tho democraticparty was then ablo to perfect legisla tion, and was responsible for the Jaws that were enacted. After March 4, IojP, this condition of things no longer existed. When congress met in December a long strugglo ensued over the organization of tho house, which ended on February 1, 1800, with tho election of William Pendington, of New Jersey, a republican. From March 4, 1659, until recently, a period of more than thirty-four years, there has been no strictly democratic legislation, except such as received the assent of a republican president In 1601 tho republicans Inaugurated their first president and controlled both houses of congress. This control lasted till 1675, when the democrats controlled the house for the first time after tho war. In 1877 they ngain had the house, but the republicans had the senate and the president In 1S79 the democrats had boih houses, but the republicans had tho president. From 1881 to 1863 the republicans had both houses and the presidency, though they held the 6cnatc only by a dicker with Gen. Malone. From 1883 to 1889 the democrats had the house, and from 16S5 to 1969 the president, but the republicans had the senate. From 1989 to 1891 the republicans were again In full control, and did much to create tho conditions from which tho country is now suffering:. In 1891 tho democrats regained control of the house, and in the present year have again obtained control of tho presidency and tho sesate. Thus In thlrty-foar years the democrats had tho presidency six years, the senate four years and the house fourteen years, but never had all three at one time. The republicans had the presidency twenty-eight years, the senate thirty and the house tweaty years. Daring eighteen years they bad eoawat of both hoaeea aaa the

Lenkville Peat tot J earns! r

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL

IarirntiauI Imos for September J'atil Klilpwreck(l-Artt 27 (36-44, ISpecJally Arranced from Pelnubct'a Notes. UoLncM 1t.xt. Ood U our reluK sb4 trengta. very present help ia trouble, Pa W.t. TIMRAoo'it November I, A, D. 1 Tares nontb after tbc UL icusoru 1 la ex. Off, anü then within, St Paul' bay, a tbc Island of Malta. PiiAU Agni fifty-eight, on bis way to Robm. Itui.vHs. -Nero, eraporor of Koma (7tb year)! Herod Agrippa II-, l:ln; of Trachonltls, and the lands east of Galileo (7th year): Kost us, govsraor of Judaja (1st year.) The SBC-no or His-roitr include the whole ef enjptera 27 and a.MO. Circumstances. Paal, after being a prisoner St Cauarca for two years, bad, in order to escape from tbo Jews, appoalod to Casar, and bence was pent to Itomo for trial, not as criminal, but ax a religious prisoner. Thus bis prayer that he might go to Home wai answered In a strange way, but in tho best possible way. LESSON NOTK8. I. The Voyage. As soon as a sufficient company of prisoners bound for Rome could bo gathered to go under one military escort, I'aul was sent with them. This required about twenty days. 1ut why should an inspired writer occupy a whole chapter in the Bible in the details of geography, and navigation, and a shipwreck? (1) Everything is religious if it is filled with the religious spirit. (3) It is the Bible way to teach us by tho history of God's people. (8) This chapter is a part of a great plan of God. It is a history of God's providence. (4) Many people in all ages suffer troubles, and shipwreck, and it is well to sec how a good man acts under such circumstances. There aro comfort, and help, and instruction in it Journal of Paul's Voyage (according to Lewin): August 31, A. D. CO, set sail from Caesarea, northward to Sidon, sixtyseven miles. August S2, touched at Sidon; sailed northwest along eastern coast of Cyprus, and thence west along the coast of Asia Minor to Myra, in Lycia, where they changed vessels. September 11, reached Cnidus, southwest corner of Asia Minor, thence southwest to Crete. September 23, tho fast, or great Day of Atonement. September 20, reached Fairhavens, in Crete, whore tho vessel lay windbound till October 10, when they discussed plans, and decided to go to Phenicc. October 18, started for Phenice. October 19, overtaken by the typhoon, and undergird the ship. October 20, cargo thrown overboard. October 21, the tackle of the ship thrown over. November 1, wrecked on the coast of Malta. The Storm. Several delays occurred, and a change of vessels was made, so t'ar.t much timo was consumed oa the journey. They had been about two months on the journey when off the island sf Claada.a Urriflo atorm arose by which they were driven fourteen days at the mercy of the wind. A gale of such duration, though not very frequent, is by no means unprecedented in that part of the Mediterranean, especially toward winter. Conybcare. Mr. James Smith in his famous monograph on this voyage calculates the average rate at which suah a ship would drift before gm of wind at thlrty-nix miles in twenty-four hours. Having left Clauda late in the evening, the ship would by midnight on the fourteenth be less than three miles from the entrance to St, Paul's bay in Mclta, the distance being four hundred and eighty miles according to the direction a ship in this northeast wind wi-uld naturally drift. The Calm Within. Tho ship was being driven they knew not whither. Hope had given out. "No ono who has never been in a leaking ship in a longcontinued gale," says Conybeare, "caa know what is suffered under these circumstances. The strain both of mind and body, the incessant demand for tho labor of all tho crew, the terror of the pacsengcrs, the hopeless working at the pumps, the laboring of the ship's frame and cordage, the driving of the storm, tho benumbing effect of the cold and wot, make up a scene of no ordina y confusion, anxiety and fatigue. At this point God sent Ills angel to Paul, doubtless in answer to prayer, to assure him of His promise that ho should preach tho Gospel in Home. That promisn could not fail, but it needed to be repeated for Paul's comfort In this hour of danger. Hut it was fcnt with this additional blessing, which Paul reported to thoso on the ship, thai all should be saved with him. Tho Wreck.--Vers. 30-38. On the fourteenth night of the storm, by the sound of breakers, and the shallowing of the water, they luarncd that thoy were near some land. Anchors were cast out of the stern, keeping the bow of the ship toward the shoro in case they should drift upon it. "The English ships-of-war were anchored by the stern in the battle of Copenhagen, and rondcred very effective service is that position. Conybeare and Ilowsoa mention the singular fact that Lord Nelson stated after the battlo that he was led to adopt that plan because he had just been reading this twentyseventh chapter of the Acts." Ilackett. TUE VOVAOE Or LIMC 1. All kinds of vessels set sail, some for pleasure, somo for use, and with more or less plans for the end of the voyage. 2. Sooner or later every ship must encounter storms. Not fair weather only, but storms test the valuo of a ship. 3. Every ship goes into tho docks once in awhile to repair damages. Go thou into the dock of prayer, meditation, tho study of God's word 4. A ship in tho water is good, but water in the sh Jp is bad. Tho Cli ristian must live in the world, but keep the world out of him. 5. Every ship has a cargo. A cargo of what? Of belief and opinions', some valuable, sono as deadly as nitroglycerine. "I have my opinloas," said a young rasa to his pastor ones. "Yes," satd the pastor: "and they will k yea Mere year ach Um pert H

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