Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 36, Number 6, Jasper, Dubois County, 20 October 1893 — Page 7

WEEKLY COURIER.

C. DOAXK, Publisher. JASPER. INDIANA. THE SHUT-EYE TRAIN. Coiee, say little ob, with me! There are wosdrotM sight to As the evening shadows (all; Ja your pretty cap and Kowb, Don't dcula The Shul-Kjo tra'a TlBf allagt" the 111 It Roetn. Toot'toott" the wblnle Moweth, And we hear the warning call? "All aboard for Shut-Eye town!" Over hill and over plain Soon will apted the Shut-Rye train! Through the blue where bloom the atara And Ihi mother 0100a looks down We'll away To land of Fay Oh. the fleht that we ah.ill fee there! Come, ray little oae. with tre there TU a goodly train of canAlt aboard for Shut-Eye town' Swifter than a wild bird's night. Through the realms ot fleecy light We hall itpecd and speed awayl Xet the Night la cnry frown What care wo How wroth she be! To the Hilow land above us. To the Ila'.ovr folk who love us IatI u hasten while we mayAll aboard for Snut-Kye town! Shut-Eye town is passing fairGolden dreams await us there; We shall dream those dreams, my dear, Till the mother moon goes downSee unfold Dellchts untold And la those mysterious places We shall see beloved faces And beloved voio-s hear In the grace of Shut-Eye town! Heavy are your eyes, my sweet, Teary are your little feetNestle closer up to me In your pretty cap and gown; Don't detain Tfee Shut Eye train! "HnR-a-linr:- the bell It goeth. Toot-toot'" thewhNtle bloweth Oh. the Ights that we shall see.' 11 aboard for Shut-Eye town! Chic? go Record. FIVE PROPOSALS. Young Girl's Adventures Many Suitors. with The summer I was sixteen was the momentous one of 015 first proposal. I went to spend my vacation with four cousins in Kentucky. Gay. charming girls were they, living in a low, rosecovered house on the edge of town. Although at home men were not allowed to call, here they could not be kept away from nie, as my cousins had them by the score. The day before my birthday I met a man a universal beau as skilled in the art of flirting as I was unskilled, lie flattered me until my head swam and went through all the first stages of a flirtation without once hinting of marriage. In a confused, blind way I felt that something waj wrong. I was ashamed to tell anyone, but I thought he ought to know that I did not think of him as he professed to think of me. Still., all he said was so intangible I, could not refute it nor speak out frankly myself. One day -when we were driving he suddenly threw his arm around me and tried to kiss me. Frightened out of my wits. I sprang up and actually had my foot on the step prepared to go out over the wheels when he caught my hand. "Sit down, child!" he said. "I won't touch you." Never shall I forget tbeIhumiliation of that moment. As I look back I think nothing more unfortunate ever happened to me than that attempted kiss. It bliitered the unspotted page of my childish belief in men, aud the welt has never been smoothed out. "There was no harm in what I did," he went on. "It was because I think o much of you." No answer from me. I knew now that be was flirting with me. It mad me furious. "Take rae home," I said, abruptly. In the silence which followed my thoughts spun round and round. I could not formulate them. Suddenly he said: "I love you." I turned and looked at him. It was the first time he had spoken that word. "Yes, I love you," he said. "I am rery sorry,". I faltered, losing my new found courage and indignation at once. "Sorry?" he echoed. "Yes, very sorry, for I do not love jou." "Why do yon tell me that?" he cried. "Why couldn't you let me love you for the few weeks you will be down here, without throwing cold water over me in that way?" "Love me for a few weeks," I said, Iuzzled; "how do you mean?" He laughed in a slightly embarrassed "Way, without reply, so I went on: "Was that cold water? I did not mean to be Tude. I only meant to bo honest I do not want to give you any unnecessary pain." He regarded mc carionsly. "So you think you couldn't lore me?" he askeiL "Not well enough to to marry you," I said, with averted face and deep embarrassment. Another long silence "which nearly set me frantic. What had I done? Vny didn't he talk? What could he be thinking of? Presently he hroke in vehemently with: "Yes. I do want you, and yoa will -marry me, won't you?" 4'0h, no! please don't ask me. I was afraid of this, only 1 couldn't tell you iwmner," I faltered, quite alarmed by his earnestness. He persuaded aad coaxed, and I grew almost tcarfal la denying him. Finally he said: "Well, I won't tease yoa any more. You will have lots of sweethearts after awhile, and just let me tell you this, if Jou treat them as you have me they WH thank God, as I do, that they have met and loved one perfectly honest woman." And, as he helped me down at our own door, he added: "I shall never get oyer this. 1 shall never marry." He did not come in with me, thereby aking everybody on the porch smile, as my gum,, aspect COHu Ml haTe Jailed to da UU toM wu so tncta

that I thought nerhans he would kill

himself. Hut he did not, he married another girl. The next was from a man who pro resseu to care a great deal for rae. It came about in this way: I was. standing at tiie top of the piazza steps us he came up the walk, aud overhead the honeysuckle and nephcro roses met and made an arch. No one was in sight, but my mischievous cousins were behind the closed bÜBds and heard every word, especially as they said Mr. John talked leader than ever in moments of tenderness, so they claimed that his proposal could have been heard "out in the big road." He took off his hat and stopped at the foot of the steps. Withoue a word of preface he said: "If I could see that sweet picture every night when 1 came home 1 would not ask the Lord to give me unother thing! Do you think you could do it for me?" "What, stand here every night?" I said, laughing, thinking it merely a compliment to my white dress. "Yes, stand there every night and let me know that yours was the face of my wife." I was too stunned to answer. "Will you?" "Oh. Mr. John!" I gasped. "I love you, sweetheart," he said; 'you are the only woman I have ever loved." I certainly heard a sound behind the blinds, but did notdarc toloolc around. "Oh, Mr. John!" 1 said again, like an idiot. "Could you love an ugly old fellow like me?" he pursued, describing me in thee equally flattering words, which I forbear to repeat. "Oh, I don't think you are so very ugly," I said, eagerly, trying to be both polite and honest. A subdued flapping of the curtain behind mo made my hair rise, and my confusion was complete when Mr. John threw his head back and laughed so heartily he nearly lost his balance. He interrupted my apology and grew suddenly grave. "Too ugly and old for you to love me. sweetheart, but not too old and ugly to love you. Pretty soon you'll go back up north, but you'll not forget that there's one old fellow down south who loves you and would marry you, no matter how old you were you couldn't be ugly any time you wanted him." "Oh, how good you are!" I exclaimed, sincerely, for his offer seemed, to my inexperience, a very handsome one. I did rot give the required promise. He begged a rose from me and'eame in. I called the girls, who entered with mis chievous eyes, and he made a long call, quite as if he had not been rejected to start with. Far a whole year afterward I scarcely spoke to a man. Then came an end to school days and my debut. Presently 1 had a curious and disagreeable experience a proposal, whi:h makes me by turns angry, amused and remorseful. It was from a young Englishman. Hishaughty mother openly detested America, and regarded American girls as only bearable if enormously wealthy. Her eldest son married a cool million. Hcrjounpcst, her idol, was so foolish as to fall blindly in love with a dowerless girl. He made as much love to mc as he dared under the stony eyes of his mother, and then I went with my family to the seashore for the summer. Perhaps he missed me: perhaps she forbade him to consider tne. At any rate something made him follow me. I remember that he was playing the "Pilgrim Chorus" when I came in from a walk, and he said, admiringly: What a neat little filly you are!" "Use the plural, please," I said. "Plural, how?" he questioned, stupidly. "Phyllis, not filly. Besides, how dare you compare rae to a horse! I detest it." "I hope you don't detest me, for I love yon." "Nonsense! What would your mother say if she could hear you wooing a girl who is no heiress a plebeian American at that! Take care!" "I don't care what she'd say! I lovo you even if you are an American. I love all America for your sake, al though, I confess, I used to hate it Only an American shall be my wife, if shewill have mc. and my mother shall receive her! The little American shall hold her own with even my mother. What does she say?" "She says this: The little Atrcrican Is too proud to marry into any family where she is not welcomed by all. The slurs cast upon American girls by your mother in my presence ring in my ears too loudly for me to hear you. Your mother's pride forbids you to marry aught save money. My pride forbids me to marry aught save the man." t "Hang me if I don't tellher what you say!" he exclaimed, in delight "What a high stepper you are! I like 3-011 for it You ought to be in our family. I'll marry you yet, and my mother shall be as glad to get you as I, for I love you, Phyllis." "If you do you will never mention the subject to me again, for not only do 1 not love you in the least, but I can't even respect a man of your well-known habits. I've remonstrated with you often, and you won't even try to give them up. Yon make a bad lover; you would make a worse husband." "I'll reform if you'll marry me. If I could be with you always I couldn't help being better." "Try it alone first You are going downhill fast Be a man for the sake of your own manhood, aad not to please a weak woman." "1 can't. I need your daily help." "You shall have it," I said, -eagerly. "Come and see mo every day if vou like." No, I mean your hourly presence. I muht lie sure of you first I want to reform for my wife. Dear Phyllis, please say 'yes. " "No, aol" I said. "I hope you won't think me unkind, bat 1 can't" "Uakiad!" he echoed. "I think joa

rc me crudest girl I ever knew, 1 don't believe you love mo at all." "Why, of course I don't! Did you think-" "I think you have driven me to dehpair. And when the worst comes just say to yourself, 'This is my work. I alone could have saved htm, and I wouldn't' " "1 shan't," I said; hastily and Inelegantly. "Because it isn't; it won't be; I don't." "Phyllis, you little think what you have done to-day. 1 you persist, you have deliberately destroyed a man's soul. Men's souls are iti the hands of women. Mine is in yours. What will

you do with it?" As usual, 1 was badly frightened. I felt faint, but I stood up and held out both hands to him, saying tremblingly: l give it back to you lust as I re ceived it. I dare not undertake the re sponsibility. Make of it what yot will." He crushed both my hands in his and then Hung them from him. "I'll go to the devil then!" he said. and I think he kept his word. Une day came an offer from a man who had loved me ever since I was a little girl and who is the onlv lover I ever had who became my friend after ward. It seems to rae I must always have known that he loved me, and he is still so unselfish aud patient a friend that I always think of him as unchangiug. All that he said was: "Phyllis, we have gone this far in life apart Can't we go the rest of the way together?" And when I said "No" and began to excuse myself he stopped me: "Dear girl, don't say that to me. I have loved you much too long and too well not to know you. I, understand all you would saj Trust.me as I trust you, and forget everything I ever said, except that my heart aches with love for you. Remember that always. Shall we walk on?" I was so dismayed b' his abrupt dis missal of the subject that I nearly fell down instead. How conventionality helps one through a crisis. The last one was from a man at a ball. On his dress coat, as he claimed mc for a waltz, was a long white thread I smilingly called his attention to it and took it off. My sister saw rae, and knowing things were in that interesting condition when a word would precipitate matters, thought to tease me by saying: "W ho is it that says if a woman will take the trouble to pick a thread from a man's coat, that man may have her for the asking?" She laughed gleefully at our discomfiture and floated away. The first time we stopped to promenade, my partner glanced down at mo and there, caught in the flowers of my gown, was this same long thread. He bent down to take it off just as we came to a clearing among the dancers. "What are you doing?" I said. "I'm picking threads off your coat," he repeated, stepping in front of me. "Will you?" I thought he meant would I go on with the waltz. I laid my hand in his and we melted into our places. "Did you understand?" he whispered. Now, it is bad enough to have to refuse a man on the sofa, but to have to do it when you are in his very arms; when, while he tells you over and o-cr that he loves you, he can emphasize with a hand pressure without reproof; when every second you are imperceptibly being drawn closer and closer, until the wretched truth dawns upon you that the music and the dance arc secondary things, and that in reality you are being hugged, actually hugged bv a man whom you are not going to mar ryyou must resist the impulse to put both hands against him and push with all your might You simply get tired suddenly und are taken to your chapcrone, where at least you can refuse him properly. Ladies' Home Journal HE KNEW HOW TO FIGHT. A Monk Knocks Oat a Bully In the Third Kennd. When Sir Richard Burton was transferred from Fernando Po to the consulate of Santos and Sao Paulo there was a seminary of Capuchins, Frenchmen and Italians, which contained some curious specimens of muscular Christianity. For example: "One of the monks was a tall, magnificent and powerful man, an ex-cavalry ofllcer, count somebody, whose name I forget, then Fray 0 . Before he arrived there was a bully in town, father of a free-thinking class, so he used to go and swagger up and down before the seminary and call out: 'Come out, you miserable petticoated monks! Come out and have a free fight for (Jod or the devil!' When Fray G arrived he heard of this, and it so happened he had had an English friend, when he .was with Iiis regiment, who had taught hiiu the use of lists. He found that his brother monks were dreadfully distressed ut this unseemly challenge, so he said: 'The next time he comes don't open the gtte, but lot the porter call me.' "So the next time the bully appeared it was so arranged that the gate wu3 opened by Fray G (the usual crowd had collected in the road to see the fun), who looked at him laughingly and said: 'Surely, brother, we will fight for God or the devil, if you please.' So saying the friar turned up Iiis sleeves and gown and told his adversary to 'come on,' which he did, and he was immediately knocked into a cocked hat 'Come, get up,' said the friar. 'No lying there and whinnering; the devil won't win that way.' The man stood three rounds, at the cud of which he whimpered and halloaed for miircy, and amidst the jcera and bravos of a largo crowd the 'village cock' retired, a mass of jelly and palp, and was never seen in more than half a mile of the seminary." Liverpool Mercury. "Among the ancient Jews mourning at the death of a relative was Indicated by tearing the clothing, pulling out ot cutting off lue hair and beard, wearing sackcloth, covering tho head with earth or aAhes, going barefoot sitting", lying and eating oa the ground.

'DON'T MEAN ANYTHING.'

Old High Tariff Is a Daisy. Hut lie Cannot root All the l'eol All the Time, If ther is anything on earth, or in the waters under tho earth, more dishonest than protection Itself, It Is tho methods by which protectionism seeks to make its case and reach its ends. Old High Turlff is by turns a bully and a beggar. Ho can coo liko a dove and howl liko a wolf. To-day ho may be seen booted and spurred, riding down every one who comes in his way. To-morrow he is found in rags und tatters, a very trump upon thu roadside. In one breath and in a lordly voice, he exclaims: "Make way for American industry!" In thu next breath, and in plaintive, tremulous tones, we hear thu old scamp feebly murmur: "A little room for charity." And so on to tho end, ot cetera, ct cetera, et cetera! At. the present moment tho two strlngson which old High Tariff is playing are the hardness of tho times and tho cowardice of the democrats. Of cour.su the hard times uro tho direct result of the threat to repeal tho McKinley bill. The bill itself has nothing to do with them. And, of course, thu democrats do not intend to repeal it because they do not jlnro to; tho plain words of the president's message to the contrary notwithstanding. So runs the protectionist account of it Tho Ohio democrats meet and nominate Larry Neal, tho very embodiment of tariff reform. That is nothing. Tho democrats of Iowa meet and reiterate the national tariff plank, of which Larry Neul is author. That is nothing. And now comes the appointment of William L. Wilson, of West Virginia, to the chairmanship of tho ways and means committee, and, of course to the cunning attorneys of monopoly that will be nothing. Meanwhile, all the imps and pimps of tho painted harlot of protection are agreed upon being greatly amused by the extreme loneliness aud isolation of Dana and Wattcrson. Now, then, to the recapitulation: First Speech of Hon. William I Wilson. Second Tariff plank of that convention. Wilson, chairman of the national democratic convention. Third The election of Cleveland and Stevenson as president and vice president, Fourth Tho organization of the new government with John G. Carlisle as secretary of thu treasury. Fifth The wo-ds of the message to the extra session of congress. Sixth The axpointiucnt of Hon. W. L. Wilson as chairman of the ways and means committee. Oh, no. Wts don't mean nnything, unn t wev e arc atraui to uo anything, are we? And the Courier-Journal is lonely, is it? Alas, so lonely, so isolated, with old G rover Cleveland sitting up there in the White house, and old John G. Carlisle sitting up there in the treasury, and old Billy Wilson sitting up there in the ways and means, and old Larry Neal running for governor of Ohio! lie wanted to sing "Sweet Violets." did he, and tho band played "Annie Laurie." did it? Poor old High Tariff! He is blind in ono eye and can't see out of thu other. His hat is caved in and there is dust on his coat collar. He talks through his whiskers ami interviews his hat Ho ought to go oii and hire himself as a freak to some of those fake shows in the Midway Plaisance. "A wet lieft und 11 ' Hurrah for Cleveland and Carlisle, Larry Neal and Billy Wilson, free trade and sailor's rights: There's a pood ilmu coining, boys, A Kooil time comln;: Tlire'a a ßooi tlma coming, boys, Walt a lltilo longer. Courier-JournaL M'KINLEY'S QUESTIONS. Shots that Lurry N.1 May Pirn Hack at the Major. During his speech at Akron, O., on Septemlier 12, Gov. McKinley, in one of his flights of sarcastic eloquence, called upon his "distinguished and able" opponent "the very author of the tariff plank o! the last democratic national platform itself, to advise the country exactly what the party now in power will do with tho tariff." He wants everything "in detail and with particularity." And then ho began with Schedule A and went through each schedule asking' "what will he do" with this or that article. His astonished audience will probably bo snprised to learn that Mr. Neal was not rendered speechless from tho stunning effects of these categorical questions. Undoubtedly, Mr. Neal can defend himself; but suppose he plays "turn about" with Melvinley and asks a few similar questions of tho great tariff expert tho very author not merely of a tariff plank, but of a whole hill, and the far-famed Melvinley bill at that "Mr. McKinley in the spring and summer of ISO", you Were engaged in making your great bill. If I hail then asked you "what will you do with tin plate," whnt could you have told me? Only this: "Mr. fronemeyer is fixing up paragraph Hi! to suit himself: I really can't tell yon what he will do." "How about cutlery; what will you do with it?" "I can't tell you. Mr. W, Rockwell's wishes must bo respected; you know lie is a big manufacturer of pocket knives." "Surely, major, you can tell 11s what will bo dojio with table cutlery?" "Sorry, but Mr. Charles S. Landers, who represents tho makers of table cutlery has not yet handed in his corrections and amendments. Wo shall undoubtedly print his memorandum word for word." "Can you tell me what will bo done with fire arms?" "Not just yetthat is unless the manufacturers want us to adopt tho duties thoy proposed when they appeared licfore this committee." "Would you kindly inform me what we may expect on woolen good?" "I would gladly do so If I could. I must refer you to Mr. Isaac N. Heidelberger, who will adjust duties in behalf of tho wholesale clothier manufacturers, who will frame tho two clauses prcscriblng the taxes on women's and children's dress goods." "That seems straafe. Certainly, yoa

can give the farmers some idea of what you intend to do wltji wooL" "My intention will not develop antil Judge Lawrence and his National Wool Growers association make known their detnnnds." "Just ono more question, major: You aro of course able to say what will be done with steel rails, structural steel and other articles in tho great metal schedule? "I'm glad you're going to let up on -these annoying questions: Hon' can1 T tell what conclusion Mr. James Swank, Mr. Henry W. Oliver and other members of the Amcricau'lron and Steel association will come to? Undoubtedly we will give them just' what they want You see, as Mr. Dingloy says, wo waat to make a bill4which shall ,bo consistent, comprehensive and complete, with all tho different parts properly and justly related. To make certain that all will be perfect we have decided to let the manufacturers who nm to be protected fill in their own clauses. This is entirely proper as they have been tho financial backbone of the republican party in the past and wo hope thoy will be in the future. Their wishes are entitled to the greatest consideration. You see how it is I would like to oblige you, but under the circumstances I can't answer your questions." B. W. U. A SAMPLE.

A Kick Af-atnst Jtprlproclty Only One Case of Its llencllt to Tills Country. In the report of the comptroller of customs at Georgetown, Demcrara, for loWi-lM, we find several tables relating to the operation in British Guiana of the Melvinley reciprocity clause. They are summed up by the comptroller himself as follows: "If they prove anything, it is that the conditions of our commerce are such that, with the single exception of cotton-seed oil, trade has not been fostered between this colony and the United States by tho operation of tho Melvinley stipulations for reciprocity. In certain articles such as flour, kerosene oil, lard, and pickled beef and pork, the Americans had already a practical monopoly of our market In-' creased consumption of these and similar articles can only follow upon an increase of population or purchasing power, such as may be expected to attend the development of the gold industry. By submitting to the terms imposed by the Washington agreement the colony was enabled to continue to send its sugars into the American market; but it docs not appear that the retention of this right has been productive of any material increase of trade. However vital the retention of this right maj have been to a few individuals, the opinion seems to be gaining ground that to the colony in general, It was not the absolute necessity that at one time It appeared to be." What is thus true of British Guiana is true in general of all the countries with which reciprocity arrangements were made under tho terms of the McKinley bill. The main course of trade does not appear to have boon sensibly affected in any direction by these vaunted "treaties" which were going to revolutionize commerce on this hemisphere. N. Y. Evening Post STILL KICKING. .-McKinley Is Still llnttln-r Ills Head Agülnst n Stone Wall. Gov. McKinley formally opened his campaign for re-election in Akron, 0. His speech is the familiar one which he has been making, with few variations, for" several years past He is threshing old straw, and to no useful end. He still insists that the foreigner pays the customs duties and not tho people who buy the taxed goods. He is still persuaded that the manufacturers contributed 92,000,000 to perpetuate the rule of the republiccn party with the philanthropic motive of, compelling themselves to pay higherj wages and sell their productions cheaper. Apparently that part of his speech which relates to the present crisis was( composed several weeks ago. It takes: no account of the fact that industries are reviving in prospect of repeal of the Sherman law, while tariff reform Is as imminent as ever. But of what avail is such a campaign? The nation has twice emphatically condemned and repudiated McKinlcyism. That national verdict was ia spite of the Ohio fogies and cannot be reversed by them. There is a democratic president and a democratic congress, and these conditions will not be changed fcr three years certainly. McKinley Is simply kicking against tho pricks. He must do it We may pity his fate, bat It cannot be helped. N. Y. World. ilrn the People Chane. Let the committee on ways on means, if it is to have "hearings," widen the seopoof investigation which has usually characterized "hearings" by that body. The selfish Interest of protected manufacturers will prompt them to solicit audience. They will expend time and money to secure it There are other men in the country whoso opinions aro of more value. They may not offer their testimony, or make a gratuitous tender of their advice to the committee, but it should not be impossible for the committee to give them at least equal opportunity with those who have KuHlsh interests to serve. If Ulis is done it will be better for the committee, and it will be better for tho country. When this Is said, it is not meant that only such tariff reformers as favor reductions in the lines they are interested In shall be called. Let the consumer le heard Free raw material is well, but where is its advantage to the mass If it does not result in reducing the prices of products? Give the people a chunce. St Louis Republic. Kt'Miljr to I'mss KcntcHco. Some of the good democratic editors aro restless about the "hearings" which thownysnnd mcanscommittcc is granting to sundry people 011 the tariff. But it is always customary, after the verdict of guilt hns been returned, to hear whatever the defendant may have to say why sentence should not bo passed upon hin. Tho people have returned the verdict nnd congress will pronounce tho sentence after due formal-

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL laUraatleaal Leasea for Octet M, IMS -Christian LI tl a--Kerns 19U-1S. ISpeelslly Arranged from Peloubet'a Notts. Coi.dkn Tx-I)e not overcome ot evu, but overcome evil with Rood Kom. I3:5l. Tub Sbction. Tbo practical duties whica erow out of the doctrines of redemption in tae previous chapters, occupy chapters IS-IS, snd may be subdivided Into (1) personal du tie (chap. IS), (S) political duties (caafi IS) sait (3) social duties (chaps. H, IS). I.ES80X NOTES. The Basis of Christian Virtues En. tiro Consecration. I. "I beseech yoai therefore:" In view of the great truths of redemption which have been set forth in the previous chapters. The foundation has been laid in truth; therefore build upon it tho temple of a heavenly life. "By, the mercies of God:" which have been shown in the whole teaching; about redemption as the manifestation: of the love of God in Christ "That ye present:" The word used in tho Jewish law for presenting their sacrifices., "Your bodies:" Your souls havo already been presented by acceptance of Christ, now show that this act was real, and complete it by presenting" your body, which is tho Instrument of the souL "A living sacrifice:" Not slain as were the Jewish sacrifices, but alive and ready for the active service of God. "Acceptable unto Goth" Tho kind of sacrifice God is well pleased' with. "Your reasonable service:" The Greek word means rational, agreeable to reason, reasonable, who renders this phrase: "Worship which is rendered by the reason or soul," not an external service, as were the outward sacrifices of the Jews, but a real, hearty, spiritual service. 2. "And bo not conformed:" Fashioned according "to this world." Tho whole current of life and influence around us, which has its aims, hopes, rewards, all in present visible things, as distinguished from spiritual and eternal things. "But be yo transformed:" The same word as is used in describing the transfiguration of Christ (Matt 17:'J.) "By the renewing of your mind:" The mind is not here simply the intellectual faculties, but the whole interior nature, including emotions, affections, habits of thought, purposes of the will and that disposition from which all grows. "That ye may prove:" Test, assay as one does ore, proving It by fire, appreciate, discern "what is that good" in itself, "acceptable" to God and man, one that men will see to bo beautiful and good, "and perfect" in wisdom, righteousness and love. "Will of God:" His commandments, the course of life Ho wills for us. Concerning Self-Conccit 3. "Through the grace given unto mc:" Not by my own authority, but as an apostle taught of God, and experienced in life. "To every man:" Because every man needs this advice. "Not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think:" The play upon phroncin, to think, and its compounds is very noticeable. "According as . . . the mcasuro of faith:' Faith is the graded qualification for service; the gift to sco and accept the various duties of the Christian life., The Unity of Christians. 4. "Many members in one body:" This comparison is worked out moro fully by St. Paul in I Cor. 12:12-27. Diversity of Gifts. 41. "Gifts differing according to the grace:" The various talents and faculties are gifts from God, a special favor from Him, for which each one should bo thankful, but has no occasion for pride. "Prophecy:" Speaking under immediate divine impulse and guidance. "Prophesy according to the proportion , of his faith:" Not according to his own impulses, but according to what he has received of God by faith. 7. "Or ministry:" This Greek word.

when referring to a person, is unfortunately translated by two different English words, "minister" and "deacon." "Let us wait:" Let us give ourselves to our ministry; use all our wisdom, our piety, our intelligence, our love, our diligence in performing these more secular duties. "He that teacheth, on teaching:" Ills wholo nature should go with his teaching. 8. "Exhortcth:" The original word, from which Is derived the word "comforter" as applied to the Holy Spirit, combines the ideas of exhortiaf , aad comforting, and encouraging. "He thatgivcth. . . with simplicity:" With singleness of motive, without admixture of selfishness. "He that rulcth:" Holds any position of prominence, presides over meetings, is on committees, leads in any work, cither formally, or by his natural leadership. "With diligence:" In the performance of his duties and in learning best how to rule. Sundry Duties to Others. 9. "Lctlove bo without dissimulation:" Not a mere form, not an outward politeness, but a real, sincere love. Therefore, "Abhor that which is evil:" Not merely keep from doing wrong, bat hate sin with, the whole soul. "Cleave to that which is good:" This is the only way to show that our loathing of evil is sincere. 10. "Bo kindly affcctloncd:" Tho word rendered "kindly affectioned" implies closeness of family affection, like that between parents and children. "In honor preferring one another:" Or, moro exactly, "preceding one another," "going before one another In giving honor." Heart Virtues. 11. "Not slothful in business:" In diligence. "Fervent (boiling) in spirit:" The reverse of the previous exhortation, both of which apply to "serving the Lord:" In whatever you do, in play, In work, ia religion. It Is possible for our "good to be evil spoken of." Many have such an unhappy way of performing thcit (rood deeds that they work Injury. It requires prudence and watchfulness tc find the proper time to speak a good word or do a good action. United Presbyterian. Mcasuro thy Life by los Instead of jraln. Not by the wine drunk, but the wine pouret lurtbi For Lore's strength sundeta in Love's cktV nee, And whoso suffers most has most to Rive. IL Hamilton Klag. Tho devil loves a grumbler, no matter whether he belongs" to tht church or not Ram's Hora.