Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 37, Number 1, Jasper, Dubois County, 14 September 1894 — Page 3

"WEEKLY COURIER.

C. DOA.NJC Publihr. jASPEE. INDIANA

THE MAN FROM GRIMSBY.

.Andrew Copley Tails the Reason

for Hie Bachoiornooa.

Of the old folk of thobleaU little seaPmilav dwells most vivid-

.lv In my memory. As prosperity Is J . . . in -.. I.. A .1 .1 mini I n

-jfaupeu at rort at. iwuu, auu. owner of half-dozou full-equipped fishlng-smaeks-was accounted a prosperous man. I recall him now-hta .kindly face, tanned and netted in wrinkles; his long hair, grizzled this many a day; his stubby gray beard; his light-bluo eyes, bespectacled for xcading-yes. there he Bits. Many is the "crack" I have had with him; yet .t ctnrv ho chose to leave

buried in sileuce-and that, his own. 1 .never dared broach the topic, alb.it I inwardly burned with impatient curiosity. One day, however, the history became mine unsolicited, borne remark I chanced to let slip anent his lifelong bachelorhood caused an infrequent far-away look to settle upon his iv wiih walkintr up the steep,

cobblc-paved "street" at the time, past the llroe-wnshed front of the '"lrawlcrs' Inn." to the higher ground, from which the old Norman church tower Jcept ward over the slumberous Tillage. .T.,.. i,o 1 nnrnr married, say ye

the old man exclaimed, after a long pell of silence. "Like enow, ye 11 hear afore long; an' I don't see what should stop me fro' tellin' ye my sen .if so be-" Hurriedly stepping into the roadway, Andrew whipped off his broad-brimmed hat and stood motionless. Turning into the sanded lane that zigzagged past the church, he had well-nigh jostled two slow-paced women, the younger of them about the elder, twenty

......... lilor. It was the latter

yuuin ' - , that attracted ray marked regard, for

It was towards her tnat Aimrew uc u his down-bent head. A wan, frailRim was. dressed in

jUimiUg v v... . - . black, with a closo-fittlne. old-fashioned bonnet tied under her chin with

a bow of broad black ribbon, iter nair, ....-1 K' unon her forehead.

SlllUUkllUU vi. v.. ..j j shimmered silvery as the new-churned .1. hov. Sh moved halting-

1UUUI 111 fc"VJ - lv. even with the aid of an oaken staff

and the helping arm oi nur umy".. Withdrawing her arm, she paused in the pathway and pointed her stick towards the bare-headed old fisherman. In thiu, quavering tones, as if tho words were said by note, there being no veheraenco in her uttoranco. she cried: "Ah, I knaw ye-1 knaw ye. Ban ye, for no spcakln' rae fair.' w Ith ... n...inn than If she were re-

UU 11U1VJ t'""" - , peating ome souIIobs formula, she .added: "Curse ye, Andrew Copley! It was a lie! Curse ye for'tt" Come awa" the other woman put in, coaxlngly; "como theo awa' home, then." . , , , . Unresisting, the old lady allowed hersolf to bo led away. Through it all, Andrew did not stir a limb, but stoml there with doffed hat, his head bowed and his mane of gray hair ruffling in the breeze. We had left the church behind, the dcop-rutted lane, the narrow stone stile that gave upon hail traversed half the

bUD Mtiunj " v -- length of the meadows themselves beAA Via snnUr. "Yn asked me how

JUIC - "I - , , 'twas 1 never married," said he, slowly, .'rim id tVin nB.on."

So he began upon his life story. But

a his narratlvo wouia ue nam w mr to his exact words,

with his numerous digressions and ir-

relevancics, uttered with quaint ourr anil, moreover, as his tnod-

'V HV.Jv.., 1 a fit. in pi oss over certain tacts

which I heard of later in other quar

ters. 1 venture to set ltiortn axicr mj ....rt fndllntl.

We hark back a full half century.

Tort St. Uede no vast size at m is pres ,...,,.; then a mere nest of sand

stone, shale-roofed cottages, planted at the foot of the hill, and, straggling iii.tninu.llv tin it to form the "street."

Later improvements have displaced or m most of these one-storied

dwellings, and filled in the gaps; hut the old "Trawler's Inn" looks just as it looked fifty years ago. It lies back some ten paces from the roadway, the us obtained being

highly favored of loungers and gos

ling The snot served an lüeniicai

purpose so far back as tho oldest mem orv iroes.

A little knot of fisher-folk, men H'nmin. foregathered there one

it'.,in...in mnrninir. to await the ar

MCUlltauwj ...... ... r.f th Mnrnerland letter-carrier.

"Twice a week, on Wednesdays and Saturdays, he trudged tho ten miles to deliver his meager package of letters, lie always made his way first to the where it had become cus

tomary for the populace those who Iii I .

did not expect letters anice wiin mose who did to assemble and waylay him. In that manner the cannv souls got

news of the outside world without beim mti. tn thn nxnensc of a nostal fee.

whtin the nfllcinl on his nart was quit

Jfldy of mankind, she stole a sidelong

look tow arils iae wmuuwucntii,

against which Andrew Copley -tuen a

well-set-up younff fellow oi iour-nu-twenty was moodily leaning. Ay, hut lie takrs on badly wl' "t,"

she said. Jerking hr neau in

Andrew's direction. "I'm main sorry for him, too. He al'ays were sweet on her, yo know, an' I. do believe she d

a had him If tnat man iro urimsuj hadn' come this way wl'his pert, weelfavored face." Further tattle was nipped short by tlie appearance of the letter bag. In 11 .l,.,ri. inllht lltlVli been close on a

dozen letters-a goodly batch for Port

St Uede. It was one of tlio in.si, which the postman held aslanr to catcli the light. "Miss Kellettl" he called out wheezily. win- that mun be Hilda, ex

claimed one of the bystunders. "Hhe isn't here. Ye'U ha'e to take it up the hoose." I'll save ye the walle," said Andrew, stepping forward. "I'm boun' that way an I'll see she k'ets it."

'Don't tell her o' tlie goings-on o thut Grimsby chap," criel the fishwife

before mentioneü. "It'll tirive our

clean dafU Conscience sake, Audrey,

don't tell her that."

"T unaw va like me. Andrew."

said frankly; "I'vu al'ays knawn it, as I thank you. If ever I come to think I' that other way. an' If I bee ye're V the same mind still. I'll speak first Don't ask me any more, Andrew, I'll speak Hr.t" Henceforth, as before, they wero friends close, firm friends but no further. Season after season Andrew v.,.n..ii nT in his vawl for the white-

fishing on the Dogger, returnlnjr each time with brain aflame for the sight of

her. And sho met Mm with a mere smile and handshalte, In her e3es no token of change, uo glimmer of awakening affection. Eight veurs thus lumbered away eight we'ary, joyless yearn -and neither Hilda nor Andrew had sought to break through their part of hlletice. About this time, Hilda was soro stricken with typhoid, then rife in tha j village, and for an anxious space sho dwelt on the very border-line of Hero

and Hereafter. On Andrew's persuasionhe staking ills word that tho great man's fees should be fortheom- '... A lu.l nlled in Dr. Uatcliff, of

Morperland, under whose care Hilda vi,,vW-1... -mi! to miMid. It was while

Andrew was away at the ISanks-thu for

REED'S ROCKY ROAD.

lUOCIOr uiiiiuui buiK

Durlnir the period we are dealing company that the truth stripped itseix

with education at Port St. Dedo was before Hilda, to torture anil amici u

at a wofully low ebb. .Not twenty people in the whole thorp could write their names or recognize them when peuued; few could read anything but "print;" fewer still were able to puz-

i nut. wrlttun characters. Among

this community

reckoned a

with its mocklnir irhastliness.

As yet she was not able to leave tha bod, but lay there with pinched face, her hair tangled on the pillow, her thin blue lingers twitching idly at the - t i. Iwih wan.

ty Andrew Copley was yerjnff to the half -open lattice through fin Kcholard:" and bv ...hi..i. ...nc Wn th distant ouffh ot

.VnVUUV m - I Vk 11 iWll " m a. A a . S c- . riC?1.kl I 1 t ulm n1lU1 ClA

virtue oi umi repiunuu um jlo waves, ana wucucc nut

wnr.. in freouent uemanu uy uiu

who, having passlug need of the Taming'," chanced to be In the bad books of the rector or the Wesleyan minister.

n.. stnnVil the letter into his laclcct

pocket long before he came abreast of

the cottage. Hupping a tattoo on the

door, he lifted the laten aim-as was

the custom walked straight m. a slim, fair-haired girl peeped into the room from a side door. "Oh, it's you,

Andrew," she said, coming forward. Andrew perched himself on the edge of the nearest rush-bottomed chair and fumbled hesitatingly with his cap between his knees. "I was down by the 'Trawlers' when the letters came," he said, after a strained interval.

"There was one for ye, Hilda, an I made free to say I'd bring it Here 'tis."

"For me!" and Hilda's eyes brightened as she stretched out her hand. 'Then it's fro' Hen. isn't it, Andrew?" "It's the Grimsby mark," replied

Andrew, softly. "Then It must be fro' Hen. He said he'd let me know as soon as the brig got back to Grimsby. An' how I trembled for him all through that storm o' Monday. Hut he's safe this shows afe. Andrew." A nlalntive look

of alarm crept into her blue eyes as

imrAW tiMver answerinir. aepi m

gaze clamped to the floor. "This shows

he's safe!" she repeateu, quaverin-iy. .... . . . if ft 1 1

"I'll tell ye straight out, uuaa, wnuv they were sayin over at Morperland T.t.rHar. PVaos that letter may

contradict it all, but there was a deal

o' nasty talk about tho Vampire as

how she d gone doon l tne

"Read it to tue, cried iiuua, inrusi-

ing the missive into his hand. "o

knaw I can't mysen. Head it, An-

drewl"

Tnlrtncr firm trriD of bis lips, Andrew

opened the letter and glanced at tho

signature. "It's noan iro mm, ne said. "It's wrote by Peter Worsley, 1. .limwr n' the Vamnlre."

"Not fro' Hen!" exclaimed Hilda, trjuiliiUy. "lie isn't hi isu't dead?" Andrew noddet'. "Drownded!" he murmured huskily. Tha caligraphy of the Vampire's master must have been all but illegible, judging from the difficulty Andrew had in deciphering it He read i . t . t 1

nw v. humminir and nawing inrouK"

. j, . , .

the whole epistle. Here is tne gsi ui it In the recent heavy gales, the

under-manned tim

ber-shiphad f-prung a leak, her crew

being eventually compeneu io audon the foundering vessel and take to this long boat Their parlous case

was little bettered thereby, for twice

the boat had been capsized; wueu sue was righted the second time only four

t th.. miilors succeeded In scrambling

into her. Of the two men missing, me

mate, lien Webb, was one. Ihe sur-

vivor were picked up on the loiiow-

ing day and landed at urimsoy. n . 5n fulfilment of a pledge made at

tho outset of their peril, and in fate- ... . 1. 4

ful anticipation ot Its outcome, mat Capt. Worsley now broke the sad news

to the dead man's swecmean.

Kr,.n in tlie intensity of ner griei

not a cry escaped Hilda's lip. Andrew, the big, clumsy, soft-hearted gomcral, saw that no sympathy of his could soothe her distress; she must just

fret her dole." And so ne lexi ner

with her sorrow.

"I had to do it." lie muttered, strid

ing beachward. "An' It's better that

nor t'other it's better." Fervently he

added: "God send she doesn't let any

body else read It!

He might have occn ai peace uu

that, score. To Hilda, the skippers

ih Min.flecked crests far ou t beyond

Fork llocks. Then she would turn to , answer some question put to her by . her little niece. Mary Abel's eldest ; daughter, "rising ten" who had crept into the sick room. Presently the lit- i tie maid fell to babbling, childlilco, of the doings and sayings of her school friends. "Ay. but ve'll be gettin' a fine scholard, Mary," said Hilda. "It was a guid ihn weans when t' parson

opened a school. I wish it had been done long sin'." "It was our 'xam'nation to-dny," replied Mary, eager with fresh news. "Mr. Harvey heard me read an' patted

me o' the head. Out of a newspaper l.nnl .v.irlls tllHV WaS. tOO."

"An' maybe ye can read writin , Mary?" , , .. Oh. ves." returned she, nowise dis

posed 'to belittle her aHaimnents. "When you get any letters, Aunt Hilda, 111 read them all through to you every word. I'm sure I could!" "Well, I'm goin' to try yc, said Hilda, smilingly. "Now. open that drawer no, the second one an' bring the little black box to me. Yes, that isit-" . . n'.....irlv tili'lrintrout the finery wltn

which the box was filled, Hilda placed the various articles by her side on tho rnrlernoath. untouched sinCO

that dar, lay the very letter which had told her its sad tale through Andrew's mouth. "Now, what name's that?" said she, pointing to the signature. Mary screwed her eyes into beads, hung her head sapiently on one sid

and spelled the words unucr ner breath. "H-e-n, Hen; W-e-b-b, Webb," she announced, at last, with a ring of triumph. "It's main bad writin', but " "No! no!" cried Hilda, rising exnun her elbow. "Not Hen

not Hen Webb. Are you sure, Mary?" "H-e-n; W-e-b-b, Webb," repeated htr niece. Hilda sent up a choking cry. "Uo said it came fro' Capt Worsley," sho ovulated irasoincl v. "He Hed to me.

i.v itn fro. Hcu. Hen isn't

mi!" Her whole frame, atremble,

she turned to Mary with: "llegin at

the first Head it all to me. Can ye?

can ye?" Marv at all events was willing to trv, and although she blundered often ami painfully under the task, between them they managed to piece the words

"Dear Hilda, " it ran, "I didn't mean ..v word, but 1 can'tdo it without

teliiiiir vou first Don't hate me, for I

i,i inr vnn .md do. more nor her.

a,m..iu'v ron can't sav I didn't tell

you all about Polly llarclay how we was to be married, and how it wns i.w.1,.. 1T. Well, me and her have

mnde it up again. Her uncle's dead,

nn.l left hor everything his three

1 400 in the bank. You see.

I didn't have a free hand, so you can't blame me. Besides, there's Andy Copi.... .in- inn rliid to have vou! and tho

banns has been read twice in Grimsby church. I think things are best left alone, and no fuss made, especial as I don't ask tho presents back, nor " Moi-v- hail nlndded throuch her letter

en fur when Hilda, with a loud shriek,

iv f A hai'W unon her nUlow. Abel

and his wife hastened upstairs to find v rratn Ittintr ud in bed. round-eyed,

.1 rroatleiili&tlntr with clenched fists.

i ! tnlirht h' won him back I would

,!' Vie erled. hrlllv. "A He, An-

ica - - - - - Prinlet-l It WHS a lie!"

In this fashion she raved all through k ntwht nntl lonir into the next day.

...w . a .

nr. nadellffe said it was Drain xever,

n Will Hud tlm IVojiln Skeptical a th inciting of High I'rotiTtlim. Tom Heed says that tlie republicans will have nothing to do in the next campaign but read the testimony f Mr. Cleveland's letter upon the tariff m' Ml There is Mmething more. Iteed will 4S...1 Ii., verv fdiindatioii of pro

tection has been shaken by the contest

lust concluded. Kor tue urst time w

voters have learned iy turecv uu..-

tlon that protection is synonymous

..i.v. r.MiMtim mid fraud. JJefore

this time the majority believed that

there hud been fraud and corruption u. i..wr lnwu. Tliev are at last con

vinced that when taxation departs (,m .i tt.v.Mina titirnnse and beifins to

,.V.. . . V- . .. i ( I umhI for the benefit of private corlilv Korruption is the

beginning of the departure and fraud tin constant accompaniment. Millions of Americans have read dailv how senators demanded and received concessions to the sugar trust, to the iron interest, to the cotton mills, to the glass and pottery makers. None of these senators argued for the public

welfare. The argument was in cacu case for the "intere.it."

Mr. Keed can give m his speeches a few extracts from Cleveland's letter. Then some American citizen will ask him why, if manufacture is the great end of national effort, free choice to raw materials for staple industries is

denied to our manufacturers. And unlus he elects to be a willful public liar, he must reply that protection Is a pool of interests in which not American industry, but American "pull," creates the scale according to which ii..rwi-itit-i favor, nro trrantcd.

It Is true that a few democrats have been traitors to their party. Hut the people havj seen in that perfidy tlie working of the republican system of high protection. In their treason these iinni been republicans and pro

tectionists. What they have done has been in tho usual republican and pro- ,..,.!,,!.; tviiv. True of one, true of

all protectionists. Protection goes to

Washington to get favors; not to lionhonest freemen. Every

T.i .. .n.ts is a lever with which to

get another. Protection always favors higher protection and will spend money 4.x" i.nf mi advance. Protection is

ngainst anything short of prohibition -Cl.i .. mnnnnnlv of the market. It is

wgarand the Immediate stoppage of

the McKinley sugar iwimj.

A majority of tne uemocran o...--tors stood ready to go even farther than the house, making larger roduc-

.!... nutiiifuntlirVU irOOUH UUU L'U-

i,r farther in the direction of the ad

valorem rates, mux, preseiu .y found themselves confronted not only bv tho republican senators in solid arJ 4 . i 1.. ....f.tMlllWl lit

ray, but by tins oouy re-e.uuivwv. .v

enough senators calling tnemsonen

democrats to defeat any oiu nui acceptable to them and the interests they represented. The question of the loyal democratic senators then was not what they wished to do but what it was possible to do. They contested the ground inch by inch, and yielded to the renegade than thev were forced

I;iiu-v. n nv "... it to yield. The result was a badly muti

lated bill, but it was xnux. or . They had saved much that was valui.i,. Tlio 1.111. liad as it was, was still

..,.vk. i...h.i- than the Mckinley mon

strosity, and they accepted it as better

than nothing. last done the same,

but not without making prolonged and heroic resistance. The house con....v. i...!.. led liv Chairman Wilson,

struggled long and manfully ngainst

.i... ....! ninni iniMitji. lorceu noun mo

HiU U.U. .v, . . , bill by the senate renegades, ami their

democratic associates in ." uuu.iu ovt...,....1 llw.in W Ithout wavering until

thev became convinced that the choice . . ..ill.. 1 k X 1 1 1

1... KAtii'nmi fl( muiUllLfU Ulli,

li WVi H V-X. .

11.

on., mninr h-nf the üemocrais are

entitled to high praise for making a

courageous and determineu uk" Hl lull from wreck. It is not

their fault that the bill is not far bet

ter than it is. Chicago llcraia.

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.

manufactures. Its

plan is always to limit production and

secure scarcity prices ior munopui . That it does not succeed is due to the opposition of the democratic party and the American spirit of competition. Another obstacle will arise before Reed. The business world, whose indisposition to approve changes lias done more to intrench tariff robbery than anvthing except the lobby's manipulation, has perceived that constant and feverish uncertainty is as inseparable as corruption from v.. uvstem. There can

1. no normanent tariff, schedule

when It is designed for pro

tection, because now conditions of production are continually arising. There can be no perpetuity In a protective

...vi-,,, in c it embraces lour or

thousand articles which a few wish to sell at abnormal prices and the many ...si. r liiiv nt natural nrices. The

only system of reasonable certainty is a rnvi.nlll. VSt 1tl. Uli d the nlain busi

ness men have grown sick of tariff

tinkering. rable from fraud.

It is inseparable from tariff tinkering

and uncertainty. ivimn in..il taU-ps out Cleveland s let

ter he will read it to a public opinion ivh!ih lias lii'L'll educated to the folly

nf nrotection by the circumstances

NOT A WALK-OVER.

Th Itpimblloan Will Not Ilav Everything

The republicans foolishly Imagine that thev are going to have a walk-over in this fall's campaign that no democrat will dare to debate the tariff question this vear. Perhaps. Hut imagine the following dialogue between two debaters at a county fair. i?..,iM!i.nii-Ymi free traders have

at last succeeded hi reducing tho tariff. Democrat Wasn't that what we promised to do? 1. . A ....... t

Hep. it was; you Küpijuiu in", but see the consequences. Dem. Did not the republicans prom

ise to reduce the duties in lasj anu

1!'.I0V

Hen. I'll admit that they were ex

pected to reduce them.

Dem. Diu they Keep tueir prumiw. t?. Thi.v ehnmred their minds

after they had got to Washington and

had studied the tarin qucsuuu.

Dem. You mean tnax, ine argument

of protected monopolies overcame

them. Kep. Not exactly that, but they saw ii, i,,riff iitstinn in a different light

after the manufacturers had placed the

facts before them.

11.mii. Hut the people ditin t get, any

of this new light, for they concluded

! i in -mii in 18'K! to disciiarirc me liiir-

tv that had been unfaithful and to try

the democratic parti', it na utwued in doing what the republicans were unable to do reduce duties. It has

shaken the hold of protected trusts upon this country. Hep. Heboid tho consequences! DlMn Are not the times improving? Itep. They couldn't always remain as bad as they have been during tho past year. Dim.-What tariff bill has been in force during the past four years? Hep.- The McKinley bill the best one ever made. Tiom Then whv isn't the McKinley

bill responsible for the wage reuuc

Oi protection uy w.." i'ivuii mn respunMuiu ' ".- - which called forth that document in tionSi strike1, riots and hard times? It

1883 tariff reform seemed raiucai to scores of business men in Heed's New England, to whose ears free trade has now rather a pleasing sound. Tariff reform has had its day in the west and south. Free trade and taxation for revenue only will be the western and southern platform henceforth, and on n ..-ill hi. fnund crowds of business

men who have been calling themselves

moderate protectionists, ix- is coming

tobe understood tnat .-nrisnaa mm-

estv and a protective tartif are Incom

patible. -St. Louis llepublic.

THE REAL DEMOCRATS.

of his letters all the sooner. On this that, score lo Hf her and, although he eventually brought particular morning, however th8 gT j her'bacU to bodily health, her mind

iv nf thn irroun was under eclipse

They talked together in hushed tones, ..ii ..f r..r.i.,rn overv now and thon

.lit. W V.V..VV.. .., j referring a question to the bronzed, ,i,i,n. ..niffii Krnman In their midst

"An' ye're sure ye've got the rights o' 't. Jake?" queried a big-faced

hnr nmnli! broirues and shape

Ip. nil hlos. "It'll kill t' lass If she

h..nr ' 't."

Oh. I'm noan mista'cn not me,"

n.invi.n.il tin hoainan. nositlvely. 'l

seed him mysen 1' Grimsby not three

Im,. Imnlf. im' I 'card it read out i

V """ A A j . i. 1 1, m,f.titl time o axin it

wiirn1nt Sinnlftv."

Pnor maid noor maid! An' her

waltin' for him here as patient an

lightly to be fingered or spoken of; she

packed it away with tne sunury nv-

bons. gloves anu cneap Ku"6"n "-"

had given her, to be treasured wun

them throughout this side of time.

si.-, fwn vears went bv.

Spy pcfti eoki ".other having been laid to her last Ricimpy pcMicouw ,..ir ., rinde ms in the

churchyarti, Hilda went to live with

her sister. Abel klaxon, xne cooin-r wife. At this juncture, hoping that Tirr.n im! ilvod her wound. Andrew

A 1...V. - -

Copley jnade bold to offer Her an an honest man can offer the woman he I inrnUil name, his home, his big

steadfast heart. His insight was at

faxilt, for sh would have none of tnem.

never recovered its sanity.

iw Itlldn! She knows not that for

,.. hr..ad she eats, for the shelter

!.. l.nr hp.id. for the very clothe

Then, her upon her back, she is beholden to the ' 1 . . . . -. ...... w.- nnül

... ii.,.nn. Crfillt rnr V rt'Hlinc nnai

A li. J ... . - -

Tlii-y Old from i inutile si'n.uv. Tne democrats In both houses of con

r...v. Willi IIIIL ieV U. T IHUHSi.Hi; VII

N'.,- . . .... ...

mii.il to ered t for doing all mux, it

f-eemed to them possible to do towaru

i... r.,ltlltnr;it nf tlie 1) Cdires wiui re-

speet to the tariff which their party

indc in W.ri. MM..- hiivi made an honest, earnest

und persistent attempt to obey the popular mandate delivered when the pres

ent democratic congress anu prcsiuem,

were elected. They are deserving oi great praise for wrestling what they

have wrested irom a proieouonis. rven-

and their holding out so long as wopinod to be a rav of hope

against the protectionist amendments which that body thrust so plentifully

int.. tlm llson hill.

The democrats of the ways and means committee labored with great zeal and hwlnttrv. and tinallv produced a bill

.hl..h was fairlv acceptable to those

. . . .1 A 1 .

who meant what tney say wnen mcy

voted for a tarm lor revenue oiuy. Thev did not produce a perfect 1)U1 by .... i . . .1 ......

any means. They urn not prouncu . bill which was satisfactory to most of

their own number.

certainly was, In so far as we have been

affected by tariff oilis. it secui. ic

to be a eood omen for the new tanu bill that the times began to brighten as soon as it was born.

Hep. Wait until you hear lrom xne

X)em,you count upon ine pcoptu ucing fools; we give lhem credit for con-

Kidcrablc intelligence.

MlMtatetl (Jov. McKinley said of the Wilson

tariff bill that it is "returning to what

Xv,i..li!inan left us." As he prcsumcii

upon tlie Ignorance of his hearers this sounded all right Of course he knew

that the tariff of 1S.T. wnicn -migimn-nn left us," originated in and was passed by a republican house of representative, and received the support of. Charles Summer, Henry Wilson and N. 1. ltiitilt, of Massachusetts, William II. Seward, of New York, and William A. Howard and Henry Wn klon, of Michlii I t rm 1 IHM il the duties levied un

der the Walker free trade tariff of 181ft

one-quarter. The early republicans . . . ... . e . .... .1 n

were in favor ireeuoin oi ir well as the freedom of men. The average rate of duties under the tariff of 1857 was less tha. HO per cent. This was the tariff 'liuchanan left us," and it was a great stride towards free trado when compared with the Wilson bill, which proposes 35 per cent, on dutiable foreign imports. The modern tariff-for-plunder republicans do not appear to good advantage when compared with the great founders of tho party, who were opposed to commercial" slavery as well as to negro slav- .... it .-i i i i iv .. r wim lun-.n

ery. 1 no .ueivuuey uinn . -. per cent, higher than the republican tariff of 13.17 tlie one "Huchanan left us." .laekson Patriot

WaR In Cotton .M111. Tho wul'c reduction at the New Hed-

fnnl mills, which has led to a great

man whom sue, ior ion, v, him rlnllv nvoernted.

"She never sees me but she throws

th,,. nwfn words P mv face," saiU An

"I thowt I were nctin'

for t best when I did as I did I thowt

"I suppose you have nevor met Una

Hen ebb since? mi.! in. t hiiV- I went to Grimsby

til his beautv. If he'a

ui... Itvln' wP the nose o'

i ,

... ...... t..i..

it, it tinv did nrouuee "iiu uu .iK""! " . . .

Uill i ill - ... .

i ii . 1.1. thMl lint

1 am 11 mi n IrtIT IT . Klin LII 1 11 IIIIII LIIUV Hi n "

wa tin' for him here as pattern, an . .ÜV, htm who slent In him all askew. That prank cost me lnrin' as anvbodv could wish. Ah, them love lay dead with him who slept in mm a stand a hundred

men-then, men!" . ho deep scanne u, - " , for thecomfort the ioL

. Wh Ibo frowsy old crone was , ' 7-" mC'-Chamber.' JuuruaL

malting a long step toward the Until ' 1 ...... .1 A 1. n '

L'oal of eoinmerciai uuerty aim iu s: . . . .i

ultimate auaniioiiiueni. oi me "--policv of sxipporting and enriching fai . . . . .. ! .. ..1 .vnn-

vored industries uy levying iwu-v -

trihutions upon others, i ney wem n far as they believed it possiblu to go.

In view of the Known cnaracier m tu senate, toward tin, trttal abolition of the rjjublicaii system of legalized rob

bery. ....

Thn linnet., led for tlie tilllC DCiHg 5'

Mich men as Tom Johnson and DeWitt

w.,rn..r. wont further than the cora-

ittoo and voted for free coal. Iron aad

schedule was made to suit tlie repub

licans, and Senator Aldricli pronounccu

it "the most scientincxnriu iracuuuu-

ever devised. Our cotton mills need no

protection whatever. Their raw ma-

terial is a lioine prouuuv. ntcicuii, Hlaino eertilled that tho labor cost in American cottons is less than in thoso lglnnd. The wages wero not raised when tho McKinley bill passed, and their reduct ion now Is as bad policy cm tlvop.'rtof the mill owners as a stnka with violence is on the part of thojr eratives. K. Y. World.

IntrMtlel 1h for ptebr iMi 1884 JMM at Jacob' WU-Joa t SiHscially arratiBed from Pclimbefn notes. , whrvüvHriir drlnbeth of tbQ

viuuii.ii . ...v . . . - - - water that I shall clvo him shall never thirst. -John 4; U.

I'mcE is tux msTOKT.-Klrst year, sisva.

evont. ,

'riuK.-necombcr. A. D. 57. adoui cigo

month aitor the last lesson.

PlCb-Sainarla, at Jacob- weu. near Sycbar. nt tho foot of Mount Ocrlzlm. FBAST8 If! A. n.87.-laovcr. April 0; Pentecost, May SO; Tabernacles, October 4.

tho closo of bla nrbt year's mmUlry. chie Oy la Judca. John tho llaptlst preaching at l.non. near tho Jordan between Jericho and tb boa

t Gulilca

I.r.SSOK NOTES. Jesus' Journeys from Judca to Sa-

marla.-Tho larger part of the first year of His ministry Jesus spent In Judca. It was now winter. He had been fo successful in Raining disciples,

chiefly from those Joun mm muBu. and prepared, that His disciples increased faster than thoso of John, who

himself had said: "Ho must increase.

but I must decrease." xnis was u.u

fruit and proof of John' success, irai, seclnir that remaining in Judea might cause friction between His disciples and those of John, and that the Fharlnees would foment this feeling an4s arouse opposition, and wishing to seek

freer tlelus oi iaur, -- nurture the infant church, Jesus decided to leave Judca and spend some time in Galilee. Tho province of Samaria lay between, and He, with Ui disciples, began the journey on foot. Jesus Resting by Jacob's 'VVell.--The road from Judea to Galilee led by the town of Syehar, a part of the ancient Shechcm, and Jacob's well or fountain (Gen. 33:18-20). It is on a knoll, really aspur of Gerlzim, eighteen .rnrrnhimr. wo find an,

irregular, open space, or chamber, cut out some six feet in the ground, and walled up on tho sides. It was originally nearly square-say seventeen by fifteen feet. An archway once spanned the chamer. In the eenter of this chamber Is the well. It is nine feet in diameter, and for a distance ofsomo twelve feet is carefully walled up. Thence downward it is solid rock. Maundrell, in 1007, found it to be ono hundred and five feet deep. A dozen years ago an Arab was let down Into the well, and by measuring the rope it entv-flvc feet deep.

iva iuuiiu "v. .. - and quite dry at tho bottom. Tho thirty feet of rubbish at tho bottom covered up the water. He Asks a Samaritan woman for a Drink of Water: While Ufa disciples went to the city half a mile away to buy food, a Samaritan woman came to tho well to draw water, probably for tho laborers In tho field, for there was water to drink nearer Sychar. Jesus, having no means of drawing water for Himself, asked her to give Mm a drink.

She asks In surprise anil pcrnaps pleasure, "How is It that Thou, being; a Jew," etc, She recognized Him as a Jew cither by His speech or His dress. For the Jews have no dealings with, the Samaritans," a remark thrown in by the writer to gfve tho reason lor her surprise. They have teallng friendly intercourse. "This ül-will. however, did not extend beyond famil

iar intercourse; for in such iniir buying and selling, intercourse was allowed. This is manifest both from Jewish writers and from the conduct of our Lord's disciples on the present occasion." Ho Offers Her the Water of Eternal Life. It is worth whllo to note here' how often Jesus gives His best instruction, His choicest truths, in privat conversation and to one hearer or a very few. It was tho same in our last lesson. "If thou knewest tho gift of God:" The living waters referred to below and salvation and eternal life which they produce, and tho Messiah through whom they come. In a word, the whole Gospel of salvation as brought ! bv Jesus Christ, ' "And who it is that

saith." And that this Messiah ttiai brings this salvation is now talking; with vou, and can give it to you.( "Thou wouldst have asked of lliin.' Instead of ills asking of thee, "thou" is emphatic. Spiritually, our positions are reversed. It is thou who art weary, and footsore, and parched, close to tho well, vet unablo to drink; it is I who can give thee the water from tho, well nntl quench thy thirst forever.) "And lie would have given theo living; water." That Is perennial, springing; from an unfailing source (Gen. 2ß:lö),i over flowing, fresh (Lev. 14:5). "Living water," then, denotes the gift of the Holy Spirit This was prccml-. nently tho promised gift of the Fa-j hr "Vrpo especially Isa. 44; Joel 2),

beautifully and roost aptly symbolized by the fresh, springing water,, which, wherever it comes, makes tha desert rejoice and everything live. The Water of Life. 1. Every person,; has certain great thirsts of the souLj Ho is full of wants, of longings, of dealrcs. Ho needs lovo, forgiveness, immortal life, the friendship of God, holiIrnowlAlllT. IlKP.fulnCSB.

ncss, M1..;di ".. ...B, -. Heaven, a larger sphere und broaden life. The larger tho soul, tho moro anul greater aro its thirsts. Civilization progress, goodness, always increase the, thirsts of tho soul. Tho uuralwr andi quality of these thirsts are tho measure of the mart. 0. This world, lta work, its ambition, lti pleasures can never satisfy tho soul. 3. Jesus Christ, bv the living watershe gives, sat-e isfies everv thirst of the soul. As many titled ns man Is, so many sided is the re- s Ugion of Jesus. LESSONS I.IJAUN'KD AT JACOlt'S WBIX. Wo .should be ready In t cason and, out for tho Lord's work. A Blnglo soul, even tho poorest anil1 ...net 1ll'ltro. is worthv of till our ef

forts, of our time, our earnestness, ouri tust truth. The way to gain a person is often to, ask a small service from him. Vrcjudlco of race, of bociul position,; of personal feeling often prevents men, Vnm wMitrnizInff tho good lnothera,j

and from doing good to thom. Christianity breaks down mich prej dice. The Into church welcomes aii, rccoffiiUcs alL

baking ner gray ious over tu f- n -