Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 36, Number 32, Jasper, Dubois County, 20 April 1894 — Page 3

WEEKLY COURIER.

DOAXJC. 1'itbllHlinr. INDIAN THE JOKER'S PARADISE. ThiCeM ''J' contraries in China, we're tolU; i U to lie there lor a iluy; i n wenrv of writing of Incidents old T).. occur In tho same prosy way, TU' th'( kind servant Kir), she explode, w premium, Aril t.tuwsup tho kerosene, can, themulu I kicked Into u midnight of tr'oom 11) tic hoof of tbo meek hired man. 'jn, i. i-trtw rub up asulnst some one tonte jf )'. . n-ully aii'J truly atlve. And nil mangled up to such u degree Th;i it can't for n moment survive. Jt re ontull uro staid, sober, tarnest young Hu, V UJi gttlili and prnfllrjnto pas, t Ami huniMnds lltul wives wlm uan bake now and .hen A .i' iulto ns pood as their ma'. The i -id uay-bnek farmer come Into tho town Ith i stratiK deck of eards In hi sleeves, AnU fulls on tho sharpers and does them up r-rown, A their poekeiu of cash lio relieves. Thug'.n which so often brings sorrow and wo )lcc.iuo It lins strangely exploded, j. n out of sight since It realty don't know Tun: the man whom it fools with 1 loaded. In lnna our joker could take their old joke Awl turning them t'other una to Might work them all off on susceptible folks, Ax sornelhlniT entirely new, Tin' ri'iifon there's nothing fresh under the Hun In the newspaper columns to-day Ii i ecu use everything that may happen 1b done la precisely tho old-fashlonod way. Nixon Waterman, In Chicago Journal. A HASTY JUDGMENT. Why Gerald Changed Hia Opiuion of Anni3 Loighton. 'Gerald! I Hess tlio boy, I believe lie's dreaming.'' "No, mother, not quit1,;' Gerald Trevor answered, arousing hastily. "Only (hulking. What was it you v anledV" "Voting people tire apt tobe thinking on the morning after, u party, especially when they didn't get liuine till past midnight," Mrs. Trevor said, dryly. She shrewdly suspected of whom h"r via was thinking. "I have an errand f.ir you at the store. These things are wanted I've written out the list, so you can't forget." "A necessary precaution!" laughed Ci'-rald. "A written list is as safe ns anybuly'n memory,'' Mrs. Trevor replied, lot choosing to argue the point. Herald was passing out when a young lady hurried in to say eagerly, "Oh, (oiisiu Herald, will you do me a favor by tho way?" "Why not, if I can? What is if.'" "An nis Loighton promised to lend me that book of Miss Parlon's. If you wouldn't mind stopping for it I'll write a line if you'll wait a minute, only I hnte to stop for anything till the morning work is done up." "Vou needn't bother. I guess 1 can command sutlleient language to tell Miss Leighton yon .sent me for a book she promised you." "Do you really think so? Now I shouldn't wonder a bit if it took you nearly twenty minutes to get it said," remarked his second cousin demurely. "Hut, of course, 1 am the more grateful for your willingness to sacrifice tho time for me. and I am really very anxious to get that book and try housekeeping as a line art-" "All right. It won't he my fault if 3'ou don't have a chance to try it by this afternoon," Gerald answered with a manly unconsciousness that his sentenee would have been far more welcome without the last words. His mother knew better, and when Gerald drove off thinking only that Cousin llattie would make a model housekeeper for somebody, some time, Mrs. Trevor said grimly: "You're downright obliging, llattie, to give him an errand to Annis Lelghton." "He would go there any way," llattie replied, shrttggh.g her shoulders. "And i might just as well bring nie my book ami save the trip." "Vou think it is a settled thing, then?" "You'd have thought so if you had seen their eyes last night Like as not he'll nsk your blessing when he comes back." "Well, 1 don't know as I'm sorry." Mrs. Trevor remarked slowly. "Annis is a good girl, though not the girl I'd have chosen. I'm no admirer of nine stockings myself, and from all I can hear Annis reads more books every year than I've read in all my life. I don't know where she gets the time, I am sure. My housework keeps me busy. I don't know what sort of a Conk she is, nor how she keeps things Mill she's a good girl, friendly to uvcrjbody, a good church member, and swart as can be, if a body likes to hear a young girl talk about science and polities and such like men's business, tierald like it, and no doubt when she's married she'll take a pride in her housekeeping, too. I'm not going to complain." "I'm sure I've seen prettier girls," commented llattie, glancing at the mirror. "she'll do well enough," Mrs Trevor answered dryly. fcMio knew llattio would have been quite willing, but in her secret heart the mother was rather glad iSornld had chosen some one else. 'llattie's a nico girt, 1 know," she told hirself, "but 1 like Annis's frank, outspoken ivays best It isn't best for gin's to be so smooth and shrewd and ctnust sly. If Gerald could only have fancied Nellio Hast now but boys will ehooso for themselves and not for their mothers." Meanwhile (lerald was whistling haprlv along the road, forgetting all about llattie and her pood housewifery, forfaiting Nellie East, though he had met her and had noticed how neat and pretty she wasforgetting everything "lit Annis bright, keen-witted Annis, jvho could hold her own with any man hi town on almost tiny topic wise, queenly, gentle Annis, who had not a Peer lu tho world, ha was mir. How

nchantlng had been their conversation

last night! How her eyes sparkled with intelligent, and sympathy! How pretty her Lome . as that little brown cottage udii its broad porches covered Iii vinos and bowered in lloivcry shrubs! She would bo all alone in the pretty sitting-room, he knew, for Mrs. Leighton was away, and the lively brothers would bent school or in the Held witli their father. Annis would be alone, sewing, or perhaps busy with her books or music. Ho knew just how fresh and pure and dainty she would look. He must be enrefuf not to stay too long, but why the door was open! Should he steal softly upon her, or He stood still in the open doorway, in utter amazement, and not tin tinged with displeasure. The pretty fittingroom, hitherto always so neat and dainty, was now unswept, undusted and in decided confusion. Wo reo yet. through a half-open door could be seen the breakfast table still covered with the morning's dishes over which the Hies buzzed merrily. What did this mean? Half-inclined to retreat, ho knocked loudly. There was a sudden stir, and in a moment Annis came out of her room. Her crumpled dress, disordered hair and sleepy eyes told plainly of a morning's nap, though after that first start she came forward to greet him as gracefully as ever. "You lind me rather a lazy bones this morning," she said, brightly, though coloring slightly as she closed the dining-room door. "Come in, please." "No, I won't detain you," Gerald answered, stiHly, thinking how his mother resented an interruption before her house was in order. "I only called by llattie's request for a book she said you promised to lend her." "Oh. yes!" brightly as ever, though the pink deepened on her cheeks. "It is here, I think. llattie seems to take a great interest in cooking " "Vou are not ill this morning?" he asked, almost anxiously. "Oh, no! Quite well, only tired. Here is the book. Wait one moment till I pick a bunch of roses for your mother." Hew aited, but the charm was broken. The untidy house, unwashed dishes, disordered hair and crumpled dress were fatal Haws in his peerless diamond. Asleep at that hour in the morning, with the work all undone! To be sure, it was late when they got home last night. She might be excused for wanting a nap, but surely the breakfast table might have been cleared first. He was sorely disappointed in her, and showed it infspite of himself when she brought the rose with that arch unconscious smile. "Thank you. Mother will like them. 1 am sorry you found last night's pleasure so fatiguing." Annis Hashed a sharp glance into his face and then stepped back with a changed expression. "I think 1 shall survive it" she answered, coldly. Gerald didn't whistle any going home, and the keen-eyed mother saw at once something was wrong. What it was was not so easy to say. llattie had a strong suspicion. Had not Mrs. Green whispered to her last night: "1 expect the heighton's '11 be glad when their ma gets home. Annis neglects the housework shameful. Always on the go When she ain't off enjoying herself somewhere, she's over helping those sick Thompsons. Well, charity's all very well, but I say charity begins at home, und a woman's first duty is to keep her own home decent" Yes, llattie had a suspicion, but if Gerald said nothing, why should she? So she studied Miss Parola and manifested great interest in cooking and housewifery with a clear conscience Nor were there any definite results to arouse her self-reproach. Gerald praised her progress when it was called to his attention, and ate her fancy cooking unconsciously when it was not, but never approached nearer love-making than to remark gayly that somebody would have a treasure of a wife by and by. He had Mo fancy in that line himself, ltecatise one's diamond proves mere paste, shall one snatch up the first pebble that lies in Iiis way'.' It was nonsense to think of Annis any longer. Hah! What sort of a home would a man have with such a wife. He could not see her now, however fresh and dainty her dress might be, without thinking of that disorderly room and unwashed dishes, lie even noticed or was it llattie's remark that made him notice that a tiny rent carelessly made in her pretty blue muslin on the night of the party was still there when she wore the dress again several days after. Jove, what a housewife she would be. Yet he was no more inclined to marry a mere household drudge than before. He felt more inclined to swear eternal celihacy. hut fate threw pretty Nellie East in his way presently one of the sweetest most modest girls in town, and knowti to be her mother's right hand. First, an unruly horse acted as Cupid's assistant, then a pelting storm in which Gerald's umbrella proved a welcome refuge. After that I suspect good Mrs. Trevor had a hand in causing several meetings, until Gerald's increasing fancy made further strategy unnecessary, and in a few months from the time of that morning call Nellie was Gerald's promised wife. if Annis wore the willow she did not proclaim the fact She carried herself throughout with herown bright gentle independence, and remained on the most friendly terms with Nellie, though coed and even a little disdainful sometimes toward Gerald. Then, one day came a revelation Gerald never forgot It was at a sociable. .Some one had criticised the absent Annis as a "bluestocking" too wrapt up in her books to be a practical friend or housewife, when old Mrs. Thompson Hushed up indignantly. "A 'blue-stocking' is she? Well, maybe, but she's ten times over the friend in trouble that some of your spick nnd-spau fine housekeepers be. She'd rather rend her book than scour her kitchen Hoor, I s'pose, and no shame to her cither. She's got brains enough to understand books" (with a malicious insinuation iu the tone.) "hut when our folks were so sick last

dune she was over there all but dayy

inn nigm. Just hurry through the "ork at homo skimp it, too and over slu-'d couie. Yes, I know you ladies oulun't spare time, you was so busy scrtibbln' your doorstep.! and martitf your lemon pies. Hut Annis I.eightou ain't that sort She don't let her neighbors die fur want of help while she's fussing and primping. She could quiet our Charlie when nobody else could, and she nigh wore herself out doing it too. You mind the night of Dreu's party? Annis had been with us pretty near all the night before, and half the day. She would go to the party because she said they were 'lotting on her for some charades or something, but tho minute she got back she changed her dress and ran over to our house. She stayed till daylight Then she went back and got breakfast, and whs so dead tired she laid down while the boys ate, and when they finished she was fnst asleep. They went off without waking her. and I believe she'd 'a slept all day if somebody hadn't happened to come and wake her. That's the kind of neighbor Annis Leigh ton is. She told me once she hadn't opened a book nor sewed a stiteh for a fortnight except a littlo mending she did for me. She said her own fixing could wait." Gerald escaped from the room at tho first opportunity. He was confounded, dazed and bewildered. Was this Annis Leigh ton, the girl ho had spurned despised and deserted because, forsooth, she was worn out with generous toil for others? What a horrible injustice, what a cruel wrong he had done her! And now it was too late to repair it He was engaged to Nellie East The cruelty must go on. and who knew how she might suffer? In his bewilderment he almost ran against Annis herself, coming slowly up the street and involuntarily a part of ids feeling broke forth. "Annis, I have just heard just discovered what a blind fool I was. Can you ever forgive me?" "What for?" Annis asked with startled eyes "Kor misjudging you so that day I palled for the cookbook for thinking that a neglected house meant idleness, when it really meant unselfish devotion to the comfort of others." "Oh! Yon have found that out atlast. have 3'ouV" she said, with an amused smile. "Why didn't you tell me then, Annis?" "Vou didn't ask me and I hate brag. Itesides I was provoked. I thought you would find out some time." "Yes!! now wheu it is too late to do any good," Gerald muttered, under his breath. Annis heard, however, and the soft color he remembered so well tinted her cheek again. "And why too late?" she asked quickly, a bright fearless meaning in her glance. "We are both very much aliva yet, and may be for years to come and I like to be respected now as much as I did then, llesidcs, begging your pardon, 1 think a man ought to learn that appearances aro deceitful before he is married, and not to be blindly accusing his -wife of waning affection because her corns ache or of hypocritical machinations because she is planning a birthday surprise. Nellie is so sensitive, it would hurt her cruelly." How lightly she spoke! Ihit Gerald could not so easily drop the graver view of the ease. "I shall never forgive myself. Such a stupid blunder to have altered perhaps the whole course of two or three lives'." he said and then could have bitten out his tongue for such presumptuous clumsiness. Hut Annis only laughed, and her answer was as frankly bald as his words. "Oh. well, there is no harm clonethough more by luck than good management, I grant No need to regret Nellie is fair and true and tender enough for any man. no matter where you find him. And I well, Ernest Howells is good enough for me, at any rate!" "l.rother Howells, the young minister? Areyoa engaged to him?" Gerald gasped, a sense of great relief curiously blended with keen mortification that he should have been repluccd so .soon if, indeed, he had ever had the sure place he fancied in her a flections. Annis assented, a happy pride in her dark eyes. No wonder. That young minister, earnest eloquent and fearless, was a man of whom sweetheart or wife might well be proud. "1 congratulate you," Trevor said, as soon as he recovered his breath. "Then you will find it easier to forgive me, since there has been no harm beyond a passing vexation." " ttood to forgWc, better to forget,' " quoted Annis, lightly. "Though I suppose we had better remember the lesson. It isn't safe to rely on Providence to save tis from tho consequences of our own blunders. I, for one, don't propose to go to parties again till tho house is in decent order. There's Nellie. Dear little girl! I'm going to tell her that you und I are friends again!" Ada E. Ferris, in Arthur's Homo Magazine. A Site I Tlnin for Acton. Tlte critic met the old-school actor ot. the highway, and observing a palo melancholy in the face of the Thespian, he said: "What's the matter, Hamleigh? You look blue." "I am blue," returned Ham leigh. "These new-school actors are knocking us old fellows completely out" "What Scorns to be the trouble?" asked the critic. "I am not educated up to the standard," said llamleigh. "A man to be a good actor nowadays has got to swim in real water, or ride in a race, or manage a buzz saw, or be an expert .farm hand, I can't swim, ride, or milk coat, and I am as afraid as of death of a buzx saw. ltesult, ruin!" Harper's Magazine. The common clover furnishes an excellent illustration of the sleep of plants. Every evening as the sun goes down two leaves fold together, faca to face, while the third cloaca over Ümh.

WHAT PENNY IS DOfNG. What Is Iloosier Ucnny doing? Hoouler isunny ho U Rtulng One tar cloitejy to tho round. Hoosler lnny ho tu wlnklnc In a way that shown hoV thln'-dpg Thoughts In every way profound. What Is Uoodor Kenny down? Jlooaler Denny ho i chowlna On tbo cud of jwlitlcs; And. whllo teaching school, he's pueplnj Out tho u'ndow and I. keeping Caroful wateli for What i Hoosler llenny dolngf Hoosler Danny ho is viewing All that passes day by day. He Is far from overlooking Any stew that's" now u cooklas In a presidential way. Watching Heed und DIU McKinley; Smlllm; hen thoy cover thinly Movements in tho doubtful stiuci You can Vet, though, ho is living In regret that he's not Riving Jobs in chango for delegates. Washington N'owa.

M'KINLEY'S OPENING. The Tin Nupoleon's ItiniiKurntlon of Ilia I'rpitidriitlnl Campaign. The series of speeches delivered by Mr. McKinley at Minneapolis were accepted by his hearers, and doubtless intended by himself, as the opening of the presidential campaign of lS'Jtf. It is an early start, and too early a start has its perils, but that is his attain Mr. McKinley is a bold man to stand up and discourse of tho calamities which ho has been chiefly instrumental iu bringing on tho country. He is a bold man to seek to lay them on tho democrats If wo could conceive of Paris, had he survived tho Trojan war, standing amid the ruins of Ilium and laying all the blame for the desolation around him upon the unreasonable jealousy of Menelaus, on tho ono hand, and the reckless daring of Hector, on the other, wo might find something like a parallel to the nerve of McKinley. Hut we are not driven to the borderland of myth for such a parallel. When Nero, after firing tho city of home, and fiddling while the conflagration was in progress, came forward when the desolation was complete, and said the Christians were the cause of the whole trouble, ho furnished Mr. McKinley with a historical precedent perfect in all its details, with a single exception, namely, that Nero knew what he was doing, while we cheerfully give Mr. McKinley tho benefit of the assumption that ho had not tho remotest idea, that ho was playing with liro when he struck tho industries and the prosperity of the country so fatal a blow. We might also note that Nero spared his impoverished people the infliction of four speeches in a single day; but then Nero was not a candidate for the presidency. If anyone doubts that Mr. McKinley was the chief agent in bringing on the panic of ISiKJ ho has only to remember that it was admitted on all sides last summer that the Sherman act caused the panic. Now, it has since come to light that the Sherman act would never have passed had it not been necessary to the passage of the McKinley bill. I f Mr. McKinley had devised a rational tariff bill, such as tho republican leaders in tho northwest had promised the peopls in löSS, no bargain would have been necessary to secure its passage. By framing a bill so outrageous that his own party would not agree to it without a bargain, Mr. McKinley brought upon tho country all the woes that attended and followed the panic of 1SU3, as well as that arc yet to follow. In declining to criticise the tariff bill In detail, Mr. McKinley acted the part of wisdom, lio follows the republican platform in asking for a tariff that will cover the difference between wages in this country and wages abroad. It would be rather difficult we imagine, for him to find any article of importance on which the rato is not suflicient to cover tho difference in the cost of labor. Though tho republicans laid down this rule, they have not been willing to abide by it When Mr. .McKinley introduced his bill four years ago he said in the accompanying report that in no case had the rates been made higher than was necessary to cover differences of cost in the United States and in foreign countries. This was shown to be untrue in innumerable instances, but Mr. McKinley would not on that account agree to any abatement in rates. When Mr. McKinley dilates on the benefits of reciprocity he raises the question why he put his bill through the house without any reciprocity in it The reciprocity scheine, such as it is, is not his work. It was added after tho bill went to the senate in consequence of a suggestion from Mr. Itlaine, though Mr. lllaine's scheme of reciprocity was rejected and another substituted. This fact might not be so important were it not for the fact that Mr. McKinley is a candidate for the presidency on tho basts of his bill. Ho should, therefore, confino himself to such things as ho put into the bill without compulsion from tho senate Tho scheme of reciprocity is not a success as a whole, nod any slight benefits that may have resulted from soma of its features cannot bo credited to Mr. McKlulcy. It wns doviscd to reduce tho balnnco of trade against this country with sugar-producing countries, which it has wholly failed to do, but, on the contrary, has increased the balance very largely. Louisville CourierJournal. There is no loss of vitality in democratic principles, and there can bo none ns long as the teachings of JcfTorf.on aro accepted and a great political party remains to revere his memory. Temporary adverse majorities of false and delusive Issues arc not a test of tho genuine and lasting faith of tho people. The majorities will come right as a clearer intelligence- prevails in the popular mind, and ns the progress of truth is accelerated by appropriate iuatrumentallt'cs. Chicago Herald. Thomas 11. heed's sarcasm on the parsimony of tho present congress would bo more cutting if It camn from Homebody else than tho chief figure ot Kccd's billion-dollar congress. Hoston Herald.

CREATED BY M'KINLEYISM.

Frnutor Vnorliera' Arraignment of High TurlfT lit tho Semite. "The appalling legislation of 1S90. known as the McKinley law, created a necessity for relief more immediate and absolute, than was ever beforo known in American history, and the people issued their instructions ut the ballot box accordingly. At the same time the riotous extravagance of the party then lu power, taking tin overflowing treasury from an outgoing democratlo administration in March, 1SSW, and leaving it practically bankrupt four years later, imposed upon those wlio are now responsible for tho support of tho government tho imperious duti providing ngainst ugly deficiencies and impending national dishonor. Iu reaching results of such magnitude and importance as thests, and in carrying out the interests and declared wishes of toiling millions ns contradistinguished from powerful t.nd favored classes, obstacles have of course been encountered, gigantic in size, nrrogant. insolent dictatorial, (.nil iu some instances sinister, perfidious and dishonest in character. This fact could not be otherwise under the protective system which has for so mauy years prevailed in this country. "Mauufactuiing interests, which a hundred years ago were indeed and in fact iu their infancy and wcro nursed and fostered while yet in tho cradle of their birth, are now tho colossal taskmasters of the whole people, commanding tribute from every day's labor beneath tho sun, haughtily striding the corridors of this capitol and Issuing their edicts in tho tones of dictators for or against the enactment of pending measures in tho halls of congress. Those who own and represent those swollen and arrogant interests do not hesitate to declare on what terms a bill vitally affecting seventy million of people will be permitted to becomo a law, and in default of what provisions for financial profits to themselves they will insure its defeat The only policy, the only request of a practical protectionist is to bo let alone in the enjoyment of the highest duty and the fattest bounty tho government can glvt. He makes himself an obstacle to change, from no other or higher consideration than sordid, brutal bolfishness. "To the thoroughly protected and self-complacent American manufacturer, sole master of his own market and incarnation of human selfishness, his enforced customers, those to whom ho sells at his own prdtected price, have a value, as slaves once had to their owners. Not more than four days iu the week belong to tho laborer himself under tnriff laws as they now stand; every hour of the other two days is absorbed in paying the manufacturer's increased prices on tho necessaries of life which a protective tariff guarantees. "Can tliero be any wonder that protected classes, and protected individuals, who have been as it were, tuken Into partnership by tho government, every one of them, should break out into vehement protest and angry outcry when toadied and disturbed by the spirit of reform and equltablo legislation? "The enactment of tho McKinley law in 1690 was a gigantic crime not only against every workingman and worklngwoman in the United States but also ngainst cverj individual manufacturer and ngainst all manufacturing interests. It was not so designed by its authors, but such was its real and inevitable character. It declared a policy so flagitious in principle, so rotten in morality and vo ravenous in its exactions on the absolute wants of life that its possible duration was only a question of time when the next election by the people should occur, and yet the vast manufacturing interests of the country were tempted nnd seduced into accepting its delusive bribes and into an eager adjustment of themselves to its alluring though evanescent and short-lived provisions. "Our purpose is to replace the law of 1S90 with a measure of reform, safe, conservative and harmonious in itself, and to which all tho wholesome and legitimate industries of tho country will speedily adapt themselves, and tenaciously cling for secure development and undisturbed growth In the future. If this can be done without needless delay an era of prosperity will dawn upon all the diversified interests of the country such as has never been surpassed in our history. "Of the more than six million of people employed in the manufacturing establishments of the entire country from ocean to ocean, not one has ever appeared beforo congress, or any committee of congress, or made response in any public meeting, stating that his emp.oyer, upon tho enactment of higher rates of duty on Imports, ever gnva or suggested to give him a farthing'f increase of pay for his work." Thfi Milchlnl Maul. The suicidal mania uffected the republicans four years ago when they devisod the McKinley bill, tho Sherman law and tho force bill. Their defeat in 1690 counted for nothing, nnd in 1893 they came up smiling, insisting that the people did not know what thoy were about before, and reasserting their old claims to be tho friends of American labor and the only people fit to govern the country. They wcro beaten again, hut have learned nothing. Having precipitated a panic of tlii worst kind, they admitted that the Sherman act. caused tho trouble, but as soon as its repeal was effected ntraightway denied what the had before asserted, and are now relying on plain mendacity for future success. They manifest a disposition to put up Mr. McKinley, ono of the chief authors of the prevailing distress, as their candidate for the presidency. The mania for self-destruction is evidently still strong upon them. Louisville CourierJournal. Gov. McKinley paused in Chicago long enough the other day to declare that the Coxcy movement on Washington had no political significance It shows that tho McKinloy law, designed to uuiko millionaires and tramps, is "still talking." Chicago Herald.

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. In'nnmtloiiiil Isnon for April Vi, 194 Jonvpli ltuler In I'ifypt CSch. 41i3H4n ISpccsally Arranged from I'cloutxit'n Note! 0(i!.w:s Tkxt. Them that honor Me I wUl feonor I Sam. "-00. Tin: ,Si:t1'n or Hihtoiiv -Chapters 35-41. a PsAh'J 103 refer Un vs. ltU.'i to (Jod wondurful and loving providence over HIP people ni this time. Time.- II. r. I71& Thirteen ycarsaftcr Joseph was pold to tho Mldianttos. Pi.au: It U pentrally supposed that tU capital of Kgypt at thU timo was Eoan. thu (Jrcok Tunis, nnd modern San, near ono of tho mouths of tho Nile, where tho Kgyptlau exploration fund have recently mado important excavation and discoveries. According to Oiburn (Monumental I!gpt), "tho set no, of Urn bondage, the imprisonment, nnd tho Huuscipicnt er.altrmori and marriage of Joseph, wns the ciiy ot Ilellnpoils, tho most nnclent cardial of Kgypt," railed also Oa. nnd situated near tho head of tho delta of tho Nile, twenty miles north of Memphis, and sir or noven northeast of modern Cairo. Certainly Joseph'M wifo belonged here. Pl.ACK in SKCUt.AU HlSTOitT, It is generally thought now that tho I'harroh of Joseph wua Apopbis (Apep!) ono of tho last of Hyksca or iinephord kings who had ruled In Egypttfor a long tlmo beforo Abraham. Kgypt at this timo was tho most flourlbhlng kingdom" tho world had over known. It was cultureit'ltf tho arts -In learning, in architecture, printing, writing, weaving, etc The chief cities cro Hellopolis, McmphiB, Thebes nndZoan (Tas), tho capitals of different districts. Josrrtt was now thirty .years old (11 :4Ci. Ho was seventeen vears old when ho was sold into Egypt (3T:2i. It is supposed that ho spent ten of tbo thirteen intervening years as a slavoof Potlpharaud three in the king's prison. Jacoii. now ono hundred and twonty-ono years old, otlll livlnc in Hebron. LESSON' NOTES. 1. Thirteen Years of Preparation. Joseph in "The Smelting Furnace" of Life. Ten Years of Service and of Trial. Joseph when he reached Egypt was sold to Potiphar a "tho captain of the guard." The militari casto in Egypt ranked next to tho priesthood; and the entire force consisted, of 410,000 men, who wcro divided into two corps, a thousand serving each for a year as the king's body guanl (Herod 3. 1C.4-10S). Potiphar was probably tho captain of cue of these thousands, and consequently a man of great honor and influence. Thornley Smith. Joseph was so wise, so faithful, so manifestly blessed of God. that he was soon raised to a high position in Potiphar's household, and had general control of all his affairs. Three Years in a Prison. At tho end of ten' years another bitter trial came to Joseph. After long resisting temptation, his very goodness and truth are made the occasion of an unjust accusation, and without trial he is cast into prison. In tlio present case, the term very probably implies an edifice, or portion of the official mansion, mostly subterranean, of which tho roof or vault, rising immediately from tho surface of tho ground, was round, or shaped like an inverted bowl. It is called, in chapter 41:14, "the dungeon." Such dungeons nre still, under similar circumstances, used in the east. Kitto. In Ps. 10:.:17-18, we nre told that his feet were hurt with fetters; ho was laid in iron. The imprisonment was at first severe, hut God favored him, and ho afterwards had a freer and better life In waiting upon the other prisoners. Steps in Joseph's Training and Preparation. (1) His discipline was severe. His prison life was hard to endure. He was practically a martyr. (2) He learned trust in God. Wo see no signs of distrust or of complaining. He simply clung closer to God and became acquainted with God. (8) He had long opportunity to study himself and his needs. There are times when character grows best by rest from work, by slow, unconscious growth. (4) Wherever Joseph was, and in whatever circumstances, he did what ws right. Ho made tho best of everything. IIo not only looked on tho bright side, but he did what was better ho worked on the bright side The way to be ready for larger fields is to be faithful in the smnller. The way to reach a wider sphere Is to fill full tho narrower. It is well to remember that the particular sphere wo are in is of very small importmce compared with what we do in the sphere. Piety is just as beautiful In a hovel as in n palace; faith fulness, truth, courage, honor are no more noble on a throne than in a factory or on a farm; love, gentleness, self-denial are as blessed In tho kitchen as in the parlor, in the prison ns In the court (5) He grow in helpfulness and kindness. Tho injustice dono to him did not make him unjust to others; the harshness of his treatment did not harden his heart (0) "Tho young Hebrew slave was, we Imagine, thoughtful and observant and extremely diligent In the culture of his mind. Learning and the arts were at that time in high repute In Egypt, ns the monuments prove" Thornley Smith. (7) The work he had to do for Potiphar was an excellent training for his future high position, "for tho Egyptian courtiers were often immensely rich, und not a few of them take cafe to tell us in their tomb Inscriptions exactly tho number of their cattle of every kind. One, for example, states that he had 8.15 oxen, 220 cows and calves, 700 asses, 2,235 goat llko sheep and 074 goats." To care for all these would require great skill and executive ability. I.KSSONH ritOM JOSEPH IX KOYPT. There Is a divine and a human clement in every life. Thoy aro the warp nnd woof of which the web of life is woven. Hoth arc necessary to a successful life. So our winde life is a school for tho future life. Life is the time of preparation. "We know not what we shall be." We do not know what glorious work or place is before us. The trials and experiences of youth nre meant to bo the preparation for larger and fullorllves. Wedo not know what Is before us, but we do know that a right use of the present is tho only true preparation for the future, hut we do know that faithfulness in little things is the flnly preparation for greater things; that doing good, living rightly, trusting God in all circumstances is the only way to larger usefulness, to higher experiences, to wider spheres. "We came into the world to go a way we do not know, but the one thing always in our power Is to do our best every duy." Ella beth Cumlugs.