Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 35, Number 52, Jasper, Dubois County, 8 September 1893 — Page 3

WEEKLY COURIER. , - J i i -Ml -t 1 C. DOANK, FubllNher. JASPER, INDIANA THE HAPPY HOUSEHOLD.-" It's when the birds go piping anil tho daylight nlowly brvukx, That, clamoring for bis dinner, our precious lafoy wakes; Then It's sleep no raoro for baby, und It's sleep no more for mo, For, when ho wuntit his dinner, why, Its dinner It must be! And of that lacteal fluid ha partaltos with Kreit udo, While gran'ma laughs, And Rran'pn laughs, And wife, she luu?hs, And r well. luuKh, loo! You'd think, to seo us carrying on about that little tad, That, ltke as not, that baby was the first we'd ever hud: Hut, Bakes allvol he Isn't, yet wo pcoplo make u fuss As If the only baby In the world had como to ui , And,' morning, noon und nlb'ht-tlme, whatever he may do, Uran'ina, slio laughs, (run' pa, ho laughs, Wife, who laughs, And , at course, laugh, tool But onco-a likely spell ago when that poor little chick From teething or from some- such ill of infancy fell sick, Vu wouldn't know us people as tho same that went about A'cclin' good all over, Just to hear him crow and shout; Aid, though the doctor pooh cd our fears and said he'd pull him through, Old grun'ma cried, And gniu'pa cried, And wife, shu cried, And I yes, cried, too! It makes us all feel good to have & baby on the place With his evfirlastln' crowlnjt and his dimpling, dumpling face; The patter of his pinky feet makes music everywhere, And when ho shakes thoso fists of bis, good-by to every carol No matter uhat our trouble Is. when he begins to coo, 01d gran'tna laughs, And gran'pa laughs, Wife, she laughs, snd I you bet, laugh, too! Chicago Kccord.

MAJUtlED ACCIDENTALLY. Tho Story Drlvor Krnmor Told His Pasaoncrora ,U hurc you ride with l'otts!" shouted Carrie, after tho boat was fairly under way, whereat a little smile rippled across the neighboring passengers' faces. It was an odd - speech, but May and I understood it Wo wore going to a lovely nook, discovered by Carrie tho year before, in the heart of the Catskills. We had to ride many and many a long mile to reach the aforesaid center, and the line of stages that led to our little nook was owned and run by two 'stalwart, steadfast men named Potts and Kramer. Potts was a lively fellow, as round and as rosy and as shiny as a fresh, redcheeked apple. Kramer was taller, darker, more taciturn. Potts entertained his passengers with a series of jokes, squibs, anecdotes, mysteries, legends and tales. Kramer attended strictly and solely to the business of driving Iiis four horses. So it was no wonder Carrie screamed out to us: "He sure you ride with l'otts!" On the Catskill landing we asked for the Potts & Kramer line. "Hen;, ladies," said a tall man, whom wo knew must be Mr. Kramer, motioning us to a half-filled stage. "We don't want to ride with you," said May. with charming candor; "we want to ride with Mr. Potts, because he talks the most." "IIa! l:a! ha!" shouted 3Ir. Potts. "Well, ladies, I appreciate the compliment; I really do; but it's impossible for me to add another fare. You'll have to ride with Mr. Kramer." We umekly got into the hnlf-illled fitage and wound our way tip over the long hills, with Mr. Kramer .sitting bolt upright in front of us, looking neither "l I'ltO.NOUNCK YOU MAN AM) W1FB." to the right nor to the left, and obliv ious to all remarks that might bo made behind him. At last Mr? Kramer suddenly stopped before a little wayside inn, and landed all our dusty and tired fellow travelers at their destination. Then we went on our way again, sole occupants of the capacious vehicle. May yawned again and again. At last fine gave a beart-brcaking sigh and ex' claimed: "What a ureadfully dreary ride this is, to he sure!" Mr. Kramer turned his hend ever so Mightly and looked back at her. For once his lips parted on their own ac cord. He was going1 to say something without being asked. "Do you see that house over there?" toktd he, pointing te a pretty cottage

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half hidden by clambering Tines Mi surrounded by a mass of brilliant flowers; "that is where I live." "Ah," su!d May, adjusting her blue gluises firmly upon her no.se, "what a dear cozy little pluee-tho prettiest one wuo seen for miles." "Are you murrlcd?" shu continued, fearful that the generous impetus to speech would dry up forever. "Yes," Mr. Kramer replied, looking hack at us with a curious twinkle in his eye. "I wus married sort of accidentally." "Dear met" fried May, with vivacity. "I am certain from your manner that

there was something very odd about your marriage. Would yöu mind telling us about the incident or accident, whichever it was?" "If it will pass away the time for you," Mr. Kramer replied, "I don't mind telling you how 1 won my wife." It would scarcely have surprised us more if the town pump had suddenly commenced a narrative. "1 was born in tho little village we passed through back yonder, and so was I'a nny Davis. Wo went to school together, sat in the same seat at church, rodo in the same hay wagon, skated on the same ice ponds, went to the same husking bees; but we didn't love each other much for all that. "I was one of the first of the country boys who enlisted. There wasn't a more awkward boy in the regiment, "I'll skip the history of the war, and only say that after more than three long years spent in marching and countermarching from battlefield to battlefield, I eaino back to the village down there a different man from the one who went awny. "Such u time as they made over the little fragment of our regiment, when we came home all ragged and weary and worn. The folks got'up a big reception down in the old church. "They gave us more good things than we could eat in a month, and made speeches that were a good deal more ilowery than our path had been. "I had often dreamed of this home coming, down under the southern stars, and thought of the old familiar faces that would brighten when they saw me, and the friends whose hands I would like to take first, but in all my dreams I had never thought of Fanny. "I83r and by there was a little pause. I looked up and there, not more than three yards oil", with cheeks like roses and eyes like stars, she stood looking at nie with such a look as 1 never thought she could have for anyone, much less for nie. "It was so unexpected raj' heart stood still for a moment. She came forward, and seized hold of both my hands and said, in a choked voice: " 'Sam, you are a brave man. I nm not worthy to untie your shoe; but I want to take your hand and tell you how I honor 3'ou, and how sorry I am for all the unkind things I have done and said in days gone by.' "You sec the war had educated her,, too. "All the long years of the war rolled like a Hashing panorama beforo my brain. Commonplace actions that I had before counted only as my duty grew strangely heroic. I was proud of the bars on my shoulders. I felt every inch a hero. "And yet it seemed as if I would rather have her tear-filled eyes look at nie in that way than to have all the honors the world could afford. "Of course I went to see Fanny. No distance would have been too great, no storm too severe to hinder me. And many a time when 1 have walked a mile or more just to touch her little soft hand or look into her eves I would think of the times upon times 1 had gone almost as far the other way so that I should not see her. "1 followed Fanny like a shadow. I asked her to marry me over and over again. From a taciturn man I grew to be a great talker. "She must have inspired me, I think, for when 1 was with her something within me would speak by tho hour with an eloquence and force that I would have been incapable of in ordinary moments. "At first she always said 'Xo' to my question: not harshly, or with ridicule, but just a little soft 'Xo, I don't love you,' that seemed as if It was so frail and so slight that I could overcome it if I only persevered. "So things went on for over a year. Everybody in the village got to know our affair, if it could be called hy that name, and some said I was a fool to think for a moment that Fanny Davis would have me; aud some,suid who wus a fool not to take me, if she could get me. "Finally, we had what I thought was the very last quarrel we should ever have. Fanny, worn out by my persistency, had angrily told me never to speak to her of love again; never even to come where she was. "Then for the first timo I think I gave up all hope, I avoided Fanny, as she wished me to for a long time, but I couldn't stop thinking of her for all that. "Oneday I was walking up the street, thinking for the hundredth timo of our last interview, and trying to be a man again without her. I said over and over again that I would conquer the mad feeling that seemed to rush through my veins, that I would put her out of my thoughts forever. "I was thinking over all these- tilings that day, us 1 said, and had just given Funny up, and then concluded I could not give her up, when I saw her coining toward mc. "I did not even know if she would speak to me, but she did just a cool little nod. At first I thought I would pass her, but I deliberately walked back with her. "She said nothing after tho first greeting, nor did I speak after that, either. Tho silence was just beginning to got a little awkward, when we met Judge Ilcntley going down town, evidently in a hurry; but he stopped a moment, gave each of us a sharp look through his gold-bo wed spectacles, and said: " 'Haven't been quarreling' again, children, ch? Now, why can't you be reconciled and happy? IV just as eatj

to fee goos and happy a the other thing, Let us bury the hatckct oh the spot. I'll be the peacemaker. I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll marry you out of hand, and then you will be happy forever. ' " 'Samuel, do you alte Fanny to be your wedded wife, to have ami to hold foruvor? Do you promise to bo her faithful mid affectionate husband till death parts you'." " 'Yes. that 1 do,' cried I, with alliny heart. " 'Fanny, do you take Samuel to lie your wedded husband? Do you promise to bo a true and loving wife to him till separated by death'' " 'Perhaps I'll think about it, judge,' said Fanny, with a little of her saucl-

ness. "Then, raising his hands impressive ly, he said: " 'I pronounce you man anil wife, and let every ono hereafter hold his peace.' " 'There, there, children, he continued, 'it's all done now. I'll just have time to salute tho bride and catch tho stage.' "So ho stooped, and, beforo Fanny could protest, kissed her on the forehead and went pulling down the street "The judge met Mr. Paine, editor of the Weekly Saddem üti.ette, a little farther on, and said: " 'Paine, do you want a little item? I've only got a minute to give it to you. Sam Kramer and Fanny Davis are mar ried. I tied tho knot myself about five minutes ago.' "Of course Paine wasn't going; to bo such a fool as to miss an item like that. So home he went -and wrote up half a 'PAIISO.V HATHAWAY CUM VT HA VC JIAIIltlKl) YOU ANY 1JKTTKU." column or more on tho happy event, at the end congratulating the bride and groom on their happy arrival in tho pleasant port of mutriinony after a loug and stormy courtship. "Well, that upset the town. When I rend that item 1 was so weak I couldn't stand up. It never had occurred tome or to Fanny, or to the judge, either, I don't believe, that it was a bona lido marriage, but there it was all down in black and white, and it didn't look the least bit like a joke. "Of course everybody I met congratulated inc. Tho more I denied it, tho more they believed there was something in it. "After n day or two things bejjan to look so serious 1 went to sec Lawyer Searing; he was an old friend of mina and a war comrade, too. I gave him a history of the whole case, and asked him what he thought of it. He deliberated awhile and then jumped up aud shook my hand, saying: " 'It is my honest opinion, Sam, that Parson Hathaway couldn't have mar ried you any better than that if he had tried".' "What did I do? I sat down and put my head in my hands and groaned. What I had been lighting for with all my strength had come to pass, and I was more unhappy than I had ever been before in my life. "You see. 1 wasn't thinking of rayself at all. I was thinking of Fanny. What if she should take it hard! Of course I should never claim her as my wife unless she chose to come to me of her own free will. "I thought about it all night, and then concluded I must see Fanny and find a way out of the trouble if possible. "I found her quiet and self-possessed, but her eyes had a suspicious redness around the rims. I plunged right into the subject and said: " 'Fanny, I haveeortie to tell you how sorry I am that little joke hnrpcncd, and how serious it scorns to he. Xed Scaring says it looks very much like a legal marriage.' "Fanny's face grew whitens a cloth at this. . " 'God knows, Fanny, if I could havo it undone again I would do so. I have been ready to marry you any time during the past year, but I never wanted to force you to anything like this. " 'As it is, tho ceremony makes no difference to mo. I have thought and thought over the matter, and I have concluded there is a way out of the difficulty. 1 will go away, and then, after awhile, you can go to Rome other state, and geta divorce from me for desertion.' "Long before I had finished Fanny was sobbing as if her heart would break. Said I, at last: 'Fannie, won't you say good-by to me? 1 may not see you again, as I am going away so soon.' "And then, instead of saying good-by and letting me go, she flew to mc and put both arms around my neck, laid her head on my shoulder, and said, between her sobs: 'I will never let you go; 1 thought I didn't love you, Said, but I do, I do!' "Hy and by we got more composed, and sat down to talk matters over, and then it seemed as if wo lind suddenly changed characters, for Fanny was all meekness und submission, and 1 was tho one who made terms and conditions. " 'If all the lawyers in the state pronounce that a legal innrriape,' said I, at length, I will never call you my wife till you como to mo of your own freo will in tho old church down yonder, and promise before the dominie, aad all our f rienda to be my true and loving wife.' "And she did. God blanker! Slit dif Boston Pilot

TWO M'KIHLEY PICTURE!.

Nie for tha Klee Man and the Other fur tlm I'uer Mn-Hw ! Voa IJk It, Wmce-Kamer? That thu McKinley law was emphatically made iu favor of the rieh und especially designed to tax the poor wo have repeatedly shown In ottr columns, but the evidence that is being produced boforu tho Fairchild investigating committee shows in u mora powerful light thu extraordinary degradation McKinleyisin sinks into to enforce its lawa against poor people, while its millionaire beneficiaries uro assisted by cus-tom-hotu-'o oilleiiils to bring in free of duty thousands of dollars of goods. Hero are two pictures. Each year, it has been tho fad of a large number of wealthy Americans to visit Enropo for pleasure, recreation and profit. It has been computed that 100,000 of these "tourists" spend tho "season" abroad. Even If all they see of the circles of St. James' or Parisian, society is from tho outside, they must "do" Europe, you know, because it is fashionable. Many of them, however, havo an eye to business, even while watching tho fushlonablo whirl from a cab window and make the journey a source of profit as well as pleasure. Few of them return to our shores without fully equipping themselves with all the wearing apparel they are in need of for many a day and so reimburse themselves for their journey. It is a common occurrence for "Americans" to bring over sixty suits of clothes, and ono of the Vanderbilts gave an order in Kuropo for $25,000 worth of clothing. Tho McKinley bill m;ide special provision that these people should suffer no inconvenience in getting them through the custom-house free, it was only the workingman they were looking after. If the latter imagined he could bring clothes in, in tho same manner as the rich man, he would be sadly mistaken, for the board of appraisers only last year constructed the law in this fashion: "In determining wht apparel is 'necessary and appropriate for one's journey,' and especially for ce's 'present comfort and convenience,' regard must, of course, be had to t'. c social status, condition in life and '-nuncial resources of the person in question." Tbs hard working wage-earner, if he stay at home, must pay thu McKinley tarir' tux on all his clothes, and if hois fortinato enough to make a European trip -lis "social status" or "condition in life,' will render him unfit to take advantage of European conditions. McKinl yisin wus only intended to benefit thov in a position to apo the Parisian dandy or London dude. Xc.vletus look at this picture, as publ shed in the daily press, and see liow iMcKinleyism acts towards the poor There is a special department in the appraiser's stores charged with the duty of levying duties on the eatables and r-xtra clothes brought over by immigrants. Oliver Cromwell Webster is the person who assesses these duties, and he told the Fairchild commission that he went to Ullis island whenever there were immigrants there and rummaged through their trunks and boxes for articles of food, llologna sausages he passed free, but cheese aud figs he weighed and smelled, and on them he charged tho immigrants the regular duty. Ex-Collector Magone got mad when he heard this testimony, and ho declared that it was outrageously absurd and illegal to discriminate in this way against the poor immigrant's little stock of food. "What is the average value of the food brought in by ono of these immigrants?" lie asked. "Ordinarily about $10," replied 'Mr. Webster, "but often the food is not worth over f 1. In July, ls'j:t, the amount thus collected in duties from the immigrants at Ellis island was $lS3.1fl; in August, II,2!K.50; in September, $970.1", and iu May of this year, $ittt.r7. Examiner Webster was a law student when the government employed him a year ago. He has since been admitted to the bar. In addition to fumbling for dutiable cheese und figs in immigrants trunks, Mr. Webster levies duties on fish, oysters, birds' nests and other delicacies which arc sent from China for the delectation of the Mott street palate. "Is the duty on birds' nests put there by the McKinley law to protect an infant American industry, or to punish tho Chinese for being here?" asked Mr. Dunn. "If there is an infant American industry to protect in this case, I never heard of it" said Mr. Webster. What workingman in this country can be so blind to his interests as to countenance such a miserable law, which demonstrates on every page it Wlis concocted in behalf of millionaires and monopolists and to grind the last penny out of the pockets of the wageearners in taxation? Thousands of dollars of clothes for tho rich man is welcomed in free, but the cheese in the satchels of the poor immigrant must be taxed. American Industries. TERRIBLE DISASTER AVOIDED. Reeabllran Attempt to Abolish. Twim Kxpoird. Tariff The I-told-you-so republicans, who are trying to make tho country believe what they themselves do not believethat the present money stringency and industrial depression is due to tho fear that the democrats will live up to their platform might well consider the terrible disaster that would have befallen us if Harrison had been elected and the country really expected him to keep the pledges of the republican platform. That thu republicans wore pledged to much lower duties than the democrats seems never to have entered tho heads of tho calamity shouters of the Ci. O. P., yet such is the ease. It is quite certain that tho democrats will not reduce duties so that they will average less than 25 per cent on manufactured goods the average duties of tho Keform club's proposed bill; yet duties levied in accordance with the republican platform could not possibly exceed 20 per cent, ob meaufacturcd goods and would probably not exceed 10 nor cent. Tu MlnnoapolU platform savs ta

ttiaMMS sa , - j "on all imports coming Into o petition wltk the produeta of Amwrieaa labor there 'should be levied dutiee equal to the difference between wages abroad and at home." Tb only possible way to estimate this difference in duties is to find the differonee in the labor cost of producing a eertala quauttty at home and abroad and to make duties equal to thin difference. Rut the total labor cost of manufactured goods in this conntry, according to census reports, was 21 per cent- in 18K, 2lJ per cent, in 1870, and 22 per cont in 1SS0. It is expected that the census of ISOO will show it to bo less than 20 per cent Hence if It costs nothing to produce goods in Europe republican duties could not exceed 20 per cent. And if goods cost only half as much to produce there as here, as is claimed

by some of the wildest protectionists, then duties should avcratro about 10 percent, Hut, in the opinion ofemi- ... ... -. - . 1 neut republicans lute .i nines u. niamo and William M. Evarts, who ma&i official reports upon the subject, the difference in wages paid hero and abroad but represents the difference in tho amount of work done, so that goods are manufoctured as cheaply here as abroad. Such being the case the repubItminu. If fn nmver. in list reduce duties to practically nothing that is if they should pay any uttoution to tneir piaifiwm. What an awful nrcdictainent we wonld then bo in, with bo tariff taxes and with cheap goods. W e shudder to think of what wo escaped! It is onlv fair to sav tnut tue country would expect republicans to pay aa litt1 iittontion to their nlatform as the democratic party is paying to repub- . -w itr r lican Howls. u. w. n. PUT THEM OUT OF MISERY. SPECIAL BKSHIO.f Or CONGRESS AUGUST 7, im All humane men are glad to see the day t coming fast X'or the verdict of the nation to bo carried out at last; And the jterlod of the fear of death la shortening in Hpan, For tho btuvJllts who havo been condemned, yclept Ucpublicaa Tor slnoo thoy cot their coup do graeo last autumn at the poll. Their miserable condition has been gruesome to beholJ. The whlnltii. canting, craven fear of their impendln? fate, " Has been a sight for ge-ii and men allowed to Htay loo lato. You know, to read the parting word? and hear tho tearful sob Of evorv such a villain doomed, 1 not a pleasant job: And when tho victims end their days In quarreling lilto mad, It mocks tho days of mercy given, and seems so 'cry sad. Tho scenes that we'vo been treated to witbic tho past six months Had better have been shortened by tho headman'fl ax at once; For all they've done's to cover yet with deeper tjhamu tho crew, Aud add yet other reasons to tho many that we knew. They well deserve th'' fato thoy'vo Rot, or quickly will got now, And when they're dead and burled, too, aad hushed is all tho row That they've kicked up with mutual snarls and pleading baby acts, Why, th?n, we can go straight ahead accomplishing our facts. Tho lamentations for tho dead, as they will surely be As soon as ever congress meets and acts decidedly Upon the lines laid down for It by universal vote. Will be by lar tho pleasantcr to listen to and note. -Jack Plain, In American Industries. POISON ANTIDOTE, Thm Prompt Itnmovnl ef thm PeUonoaa I'rtiics of I'rotrrtlou from Indaatry la What 1 Nr.idfMl. One brand of tariff reformers think that protection is bail and that it should be abolished. They thiak, though, that, as every change in tko tariff unsettles business that it is best not to shock trade by any great or sudden change of rates. They prefer to reform and gently to scale down protective duties at tho rate of 2, a or 5 per ecnt. a year, reaching a tariff for revenue basis in 1 105 or 1910. Another brand agrees that protection is a curse and that any change of duties disturbs industry. They think, however, that the quicker the tariff can be reformed and protection abolished the quicker will be the recovery from the shock. If a tooth is bad they prefer to have it extracted ot one sitting rather than at a dozen sittings in which case tho ngony might be prolonged for two or three weeks. They say also that If protection is abolished piece-meal that not only will business Ikj panicky for many years but that the protected manufacturers will fight each step with all of their power, money and influence. vShort, sharp actiufc which shall remove the poisonous fang of protection from industry is what is needed, llusiness will then sooner recover from the shock and will thrive as never before--w Doctor In Charg. Tho Philadelphia Hccord aptly ill trat es the republican position on tho tariff thus: "No one expected, that the Sherman silver purchase net and the McKinley tariff would at once workout tho evil that is in them. Like some physical disorders, the effect of these diseases on the financial and industrial body was somewhat slow in development Hut now, when their ravaffee are manifest, eminent political doctors ossure the patient that he is not suffering from the diseases, but from the efforts to cure them. The trouble, they tell us, is not in tho McKinley tariff, but in a fear of the consequences of a reformation of its iniquities and abuses." There is nothing to be gained by further kicking of the disaharged doctors. The newly employed ones are In charge of the case and will treat it us they havo diagnosed it- Indianapolis. Sentinel. A lrrnt TriHmpli. What a glorious triumph of free iastitution it would be, tho St. Louis Hepublic believes. If, while congressmen show their weakness hy wasting timo In talk, the common pqoplo would briag out their money and start the blood of business to flowing. Kclicf afforded Vy the pluck and good sense of Um people would establish a precedent worth more than all the legislation, eoaf reji xwJUt. invent in a dnt tniaa

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.

lM-ral a. How A Mi:-St. fKpeefatlir Arrange frosc Feleefeet's Koieal Gold aw Texx I aai not .whamed ef tfca Gospel of Christ. Horn. 1:1a, TiMK. I'fcul arrived at Kerne aneat we mnm f March, A. I. 61. lie remained there a am eaer for two years, till March, A. IX ML Flack. Kosm, the oapUal elty ef te pir. aad chief city of the world. PA uu aged tuty-Blne. Krt-HKK Nero, enperor of tbe Rot, is est pke (eluhth and slnih years). Faatus, gov ernor of Jude till hi death, November W3, M. Seneca and Hurrau, the leading aad the kat suteseaee of No re's reign. Early la A. D. mirrhua died, and Seaeoa retired from publie lira. Thk Sectio? or Histort corers M:hSI, with sue notices of Paul as are touvd la tte Epistles, especially 2 Tim. 4: I.KSfiO.V NOTtU. It is not clear whether the Koaaaa centurion and his company of priaoa era took tho land route round tha Pomptiae marshes, or availed them selves of the canal which cut directly through the morass, and which haa been made familiar to every classical schoolboy by Horace' humorous de scription of the journey to Bruauusium. The Christiaus who camo to meet Paul do not seem to have known which of the two routes might be chosen; for they met him at Appli Forum (tho market of Appius), the place at which the road and the canal came together. In the city Paul was permitted to dwell in his own-hired house, supported, no doubt, by tha Christians of Home, where ho coald wet Christians and preach the Gospel. Paul received this privilege probably from the favorable report that was sent from Festus and A grippe, and tha centurion Julius wonld certainly naa what influence he possessed on his behalf. The custom was that the pris-" oner should be chained by one hand to the soldier while ho was on guard. Paul Encouraged. When Paul waa met and greeted by the Christians of Rome, "lie thanked God and took courage." lie felt as Stanley did when he emerged from the great Central Afri can forests into tho open sunlignt. 1. IIo entered Rome, not so much as a criminal as an apostle with hosts of friends. 2. Human sympathy warmed his heart. 3. Ho found tho church, for which he had longed and prayed, safe and prosperous, aud sound in the faith. 4. He would have tho needed aid for preaching the Gospel at Home. It. The great anxieties and dangers of tho journey were passed. 0. Ho would be refreshed after his long labors. Paul's l-irst Interview with the Jews. As soon as possible after ho was settled in his lodgings, Paul sent for the leading- Jews, as distinct from the Christians, to meet him at his home, since ho could not go to them. Reasons for This Interview. (1) Paul wnsnnturally anxious to justify himself before them, and thus to remove any obstaclo which might hinder the reception of tho GospeL (2) He thought that reports prejudicial to him might have been sent and circulated among1 them by the Jews of Judca. (a) Be sides, the fact that he was a prisoner might cause the Roman Jews to re gard him with suspicion. (4) He also acted upon his principle of preaching1 the Gospel to the Jew first, and then to the Gentile (Rom. 1:10). (5) He hoped that some of his countrymen would yield to the- truth and become Christians. Advantages of Paul's Position at Rome. (1) He was safe from all tho intrigues and plots of the Jews. He could not have been let ter guarded. (2) II was brought into conspicuous notice. H cry one could hear of the famous prisoner, and learn the story of his past labors, and of his journey to Rome. The Gospel at Rome was thus "a city set upon a hill." (3) He could preach the Gospel with perfect freedom to all who came. He could converse with individuals or preach to companies. (4) The soldicr chained to him was relieved at stated intervals, so that a large number of soldiers would come under his influence. They would hear all he f-aid to bthcrs; ho would converse also with them personally, and they would be won by the sweetness of his spirit, his patience, earnestness and love. Tradition says that the greatest statesman, Seneca, was among the converts to Christianity by the preaching of PauL It Is quite possible, according- to Prof. Lntnby, that tho Gospel was introduced into England by some of those Roman soldiers who heard Paul preach tho Gospel in prison. Paul's Subsequent History, flints in the Epistles-and traditions supply all that is known or conjectured respecting this Ust stage ef the" apostle's ministry. It is supposed that on beiujr liberated (writers do not agree as to the precise order) he visited ngain parts of Asia Minor and Greece; went to Crete and founded, or more probably strengthened, the churches there; made his long contemplated journey to Spain; wrote his first Epistle to Timothy and his Epistle to Titus; after several years of effective labor was apprehended again as a leader of the Christian sect; was brought a second time as a prisoner of Christ to Rome; was tried there and condemned to suiTcrdcath. His Roman citizenship exempted him from the" ignominy of crucifixion, and hence, according- to tho universal tradition, he was beheaded by tho ax of the lictor. The same testimony places his martyrdom in the year A. D. 03, tho last year of Nero's, reign. It was in the daily expectation of thia event that he wrote the last of his Epistles, the second to Timothy. Lcwin makes tho dato of his dcth A.D. CO. It Is not possible for a Christian, man to walk across so much as a rood of the natural earth, with mjnd unagitatcd and rightly poised, without receiving Btrength and hope from some atone, flower or leaf, or sound; nor without a sense of bliss falling upo him out of the sky. Ruskin. Charity is a kind of asbestos, which when onee kindled in a store of Are cannot be extinguished. No wind caa blow out its flames, no water em qaeach its heat, bo atorm cb sat Hs Ire. Isidore.

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