Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 37, Number 8, Jasper, Dubois County, 2 November 1894 — Page 3

WEEKLY COURIER.

DOAXI. 1'uhllMher. INDIANA AFTER SCHOOL. When school In out und tasks arc done Kot faster speeds tho westward sun Thro' uutumn aUlos limn to my side With eagerness ull ovcrtrlcd, Impatiently, my ltttlo oao. Yet does my loaning quicker run To mret Ut own anil wait uinm Her biifo return thro' juthways wide When school Is out. -Vu!tltiK for hor-nh lovo hath spun Tlir uhllo so strong a web may none 1H faithful tlher o'er divide, so plainly caught, all cl-e denied. Tt feel her kiss were hltss well won When school I out. y.r(;c ii Hauen, In Chicago Inter Ocean. HE young duke of Ilardimont was at Aix in Savoy, to whoso waters he had brought hin famous racehorse Periehole. w it c Ii lino taken cold at the derby. He had finished his breakfast, when, glancing carelessly at a pnper, he read the news of the disaster of Ueichshoffen. He emptied his glass of Chartreuse, p need his napkin on tho restaurant ta ordered his valet to pack his trunks, took, two hours later, the express for Paris, ran to the recruiting bureau and enlisted in a regiment of the line. Though from his nineteenth to his twenty-fifth year he had led the enervatintr existence of a wealthy idler, t'. ugh his liner iii'.tincts had been dueled in racing stables and the boudoirs of chantcuscs d'operettes. at such a time as this he eoul'd not for-1 get that Knguerrnnd de Ilardimont had died of the pest at Tt.nis while in the periormance oi ms uiuy. u at ..e u. ; . toe ilardimont nan commuuucu me lirarde companies under Du Gncscliii, and that Francois-Henri do Hardiniout had been killed while charging at Fuiitenov with the Maison Rouge; and the young duke, in learning that & battle intl been lost oy no rre icn. upon rrencli territory, felt the blood rush to his face as If he hud received a battle had been lost by the French. blow. That is why in the first days of November, 1670, returned to Paris with ids regiment, which was a part of the Corps de Vinney, Henri de Ilardimont, member of the Jockey club, who was a fusileer of the main guard before the redoubt of the IlautesIlruyeres, a position fortified in haste which protected the cannon of the fort of Bicetre. The place was sinister: a road, deep-scarred with muddy ruts, traversed the leprous fields of the environs. Reside it an abandoned wine shop, among whose arbors the soldiers had established their posts. There hail been lighting there a few davs before; some of the tree-trunks along the road had been cut in two by j balls, and alt bore upon tneir uanc me white cicatrices of the shot. As for the house, its aspect made one shudder; the roof had been .shattered by a shell, and the walls, the color of wine dregs, seemed to have been painted with blood. At the door of the wine shop the young duke stood motionless, his gun slung upon his back, his kepi drawn down over his eyes, his benumbed hands in the pockets of his red tronser.i, shivering turner ms sneepsuin. He abandoned himself to somber reverie, this soldier of the defeat, and , gazed with heartsick eye at the line of j hills, lost in the mist, from whence each moment, with a detonation, ; burst a (lake of smoke from a Krupp cannon. Suddenly lie feu mat ne was hungrv. He knelt and drew from his knapsack, placed near him against the wall, a piece of soldier's bread; then, as he had lost his knife, he tore it with his teeth, and ate slowly. Rut, after some mouthful, he had enough; the bread was hard and bitter. There would be none fresh until the next day's distribution, if it might please the administration. It was sometimes very hard this trade of war and his mind reverted to what he used to call his hygienic breakfasts, when the next day after a supper a little too heavy he would seat himself by a window on the ground lloor of the Cafe Anglais, and be served with Mon Dieu! the least of things a cutlot, some eggs mixed with asparagus tips; and the butler, knowing his taste, would bring and pour out from its basket a fine old bottle of Leoville. The deuce! Those were happy days, and he could never accustom himself to the bread of miser. And, in a moment of Impatience, the young duke tiirew the rest of his loaf into the mud. At the same time another soldier, a lignard, issued from the eabnrct; he fctooped, picked up the broad, moved nway a few steps, wiped it with his 1 sleeve, and commenced to devour it greedily. Henri de Ilardimont was already ashamed of his nction, ntid watched pityingly tue poor devil who gave proof of so good an appetite. He was a tall, thin vounir follow, loosolvbtiilt. with feverish eyes and a hospital beard, nnd so lean that his shoulderblades stuck sharply ou beneath his Meli-worn uniform. "You are very hungry, comrade?" aid Do Ilardimont, approaching the aoldler. "An you see," he replied, his moath tad!

If 1 Jiatl knmvn yon pleasure I would not havu thrown bread." away lay "No htnn done." responded the wiW dir; "I am not so particular." "No mutter." said tho gentleman, "what I did was wrong, and 1 reproach myself for it. Rut I do not wish yon to carry away a bail opinion of im:, and as I have some old cognac in my canteen, piirblcau! we are going to drink the drop together." The man hail finished eating. Tho duke and ho took a draught of the j brandy; tlr acquaintance was made "And you eall yourself V" demanded the I (guard. Ilardimont," responded the duke, suppressing his title. "And you?" Mean-Victor. They have just put roe back in tho company. I come from the hospital. I was wounded at Chatillon. Ah! one fares well in the ambulance and at the infirmary thev give you good horse soup. Hut I had only a scratch. The major signed ray discharge, and. so much the worse, I must begin to diu of hunger again, j Recatise, you may believe me or not, ; comrade, but, stich as you see me, I have been starving all my life." ! The word was frightful, said to a voluptuary, who had surprised himself a moment before in regretting the cuisine of the t'afo Anglais, and Duke de Ilardimont regarded his companion with astonishment, almost amaze. The soldier's dirty face wore a sad smile, which showed his white, wolflike teeth tho teeth of famine and as if he understood a confidence was expected of him: "Teiic.!" said he, ceasing brusquely to use the familiar "thee" and "thou" in speaking to his comrade, doubtless guessing him to be a rich and happy man "Tenes, let us walk a little along the road to warm our feet, aud I will tell you some things which, without, doubt, von have never heard j before. I um called Jean-Victor, sitnI ply Jean-Victor, because I was a I foundling, and my only pleasant recol- , lection is the time of my childhood at the hospital. In the dormitory there the clothes on our little bed were so white; we played in a xranlen under great trees, aud there was a good sister, quite young, pale as a candleshe died of consumption whom I preferred, and near whom I loved better to walk than tc play with the other t children, because she would draw me I to her and place upon my forehead her thin, feverish hand. Hut after 1 was twuve yvars ol(Inol)ljn;, but niKery, I The administration apprenticed me to a chair-mender in the Faubourg St j Jacques. That is not a trade, you know; impossible to gain one's living by it, as a proof of which, the master I could engage as apprentices only the ,ttw Mlow W,1Q Teum,s.Aveu ,us. Itwast!w (l Q suffcr frQm from the icre that l hunger. The master and his wife two old Limousins, who were murdered for their money were terrible misers, and the loaf from which they cut us a little bit at each meal remained tinder lock and key the rest of tho time. You should have seen the woman each evening at supper, with her blacic bonnet, sighing at each glance into the soup dish when she served us. The two other apprentices the Mennes-Aveugles' were less unhappy; they were not given more than I, but they did not see that wicked woman's look of reproach when she would hand me my plate. Unfortunately. I had a good appetite. Was it I inv fauuv 1 serveu tnree years ap prentice-hip, and all that time I sufeml from continual anil excessive hunger. Three years! One learns the trade in a month; but the administration cannot Know everything, and they are glad to get rid of the children. Ah! von were astonished to see me j pick the bread out of the mud? It was habit. I have picked up many crusts , j in the street, ami when they were too I dry I would let them soak all night in i my basin. There were some God-sends. ' too. I must tell you all. There were ! the bits of bread nibbled at one end. that the bys drew from their baskets and threw upon the sidewalk when re turning home from school. I made it a point to prowl about there when on errands. And then, when my apprenticeship was finished it was a trade, as I told you, that could not support a i mau ohf 1 have followed others. I , I II A VIC 1IKKX HTAKVING AM. MY Urt I have helped have the heart to work. masons I have been a porter, furniture polisher I don't remember what else, Rah! one day there woulu te no worn, another 1 would lose ray place. In brief. I have never had enough to cat. I have had such fits of hunger hi pass-j Smr the. bake shons! Happily for me, t - r" in those moments I woulu remetnoer the good sister at the asylum, who told me so often to be honest, and 1 would seem to feel ag-ain upoa my forehead her little burning hand. Finally, at eighteen. I enlisted. You know "as well as 1 that the soldier has lust barely enough to eat. Now it Is aimost laughable here are the siege ami the famine; you see that I did not like to lie just now when 1 said that I hud been starving, always!" The young duke had a good heart. and In listening to this terrtinc taie, told by a man like him, by a soldier whose uniform made him hi equal, he felt deeply touched. It was fortuBate tmt his reputatio for aasir frold tkat

"Excuko me, then, it wotilil have given

the evening wind dried in his eyes two tears w hich dimmed them. "Jean-Vic tor," said he, if we both survive this terrible war, we will see each other again, and 1 hope to be useful to you. lint, at the moment, as tiiere if. no baker here at the outjiosts, and as my ration of bread is twice too much for my MatJl appetite - it is agreed, is it not? -wo will divide like good comrades." It wan warm and hearty, the handclasp that the two men exchanged; then, as tho night was falling, and

they were harassed by the enemy's pickets aud sharpshooters, they reentered the hall of the cabaret, where a doen snoring soldiers were lying on the straw, threw themselves down side by side and slept profoundly. Toward midnight Jean-Victor awoke. i Wing hungry, probably. The wind . had swept away the clouds aud a ray ' of moonlight, entering the cabaret by j the hole in the roof, rested upon the , blonde, handsome head of the young duke, sloping like an F.ndytnion. Still touched by the kindness of his comrade. Jean-Victor was regarding him with naive admiration when the sergeant of the platoon opened the door and called the five men who should go to relieve the advanced sentinels. The duke was of the number, but he did not awake at the call of his name. "Hardiruont!" repeated the officer. "If you consent,sergeant." said JeanVictor, rising, "I will stand his watch. He sleeps so well, and he is my comrade." "As you wish." And when the five men departed the snoring recommenced. Rut a half hour later some shots, quick and close at hand, rang out on the night air. In an instant every one was on fool; the soldiers ran out of ihe cabaret, marching cautiously, guns in hand, ga.ing far down the road lit by the cold white moon. " hat time is it?" asked the duke. "I was of the guard to-night." Some one answered him: "Jean-Victor went in your place." At this moment they saw down the road a soldier running toward them. "Well?" they asked, when he stopped, breathless. "The Prussians axe attacking-. They drove us back on the redoubt." "Anil your comrades?" , "They are coming all except poor Jean-Victor." "What?" cried the duke. ; "Killed stiff, with a ball in the head. , He did not say -Ouf.'" One night last winter, toward one o'clock in the morning. Duke de Hardimont issued from his club with lite neiirhWr. Count de Sauines; he had lost some hundreds of louis, and felt a slight headache. "If you like, Andre." sa'd he to his ' companion, "we will return on foot. I 1 need to take the air." t "As you please, dear friend, though the walking may not W very good." 1 They sent home their coupes, turned CI.KAM.NO IT CABEFCI.LY WITH His COSTLY HAMtKr.KCHIEr. un the collars of the:r overcoats and descended towarl the Madeleine. Suddenly the toe of the duke's foot touched an object aud sent it rolling along1 the pavement: it was a great crust of bread, ail soiled with mud. Tiien. to his stupefaction. M. de Sauines saw Duke d Ilardimont pick up the piece of bread, clean it carefully with his costly handkerchief, an I place it upon a Wulevard bench in the light of a g-as lamp, well in evidence. "What are you doing there?" "-aid the count, bursting into laughter; "arc you insane?" "It is in inemorv of a poor fellow j who died for me," responded the duke. whose voice trembled slightly. "Io not laugh, my dear count, or you will disoblige mc"-acea Week. A Thrlilj Wife. "My wife," remarked a gentleman he other morning, "is one of the thriftiest women living." "In what respect?" asked her part ner. , "This way. She was giving me a tremendous scolding the other night f for forgetting something, and I Wt her a dollar she couldn't keep still for half an hour." "Anil sh did, and earned the dollar easilv?" ! -Sh illd: she did." ,.An(j hal, pface clcapr"I didn't; 1 didn't She grrabWd a ' pencil and a pile of paper, and I'll W j blamed if she didn't fire language at nie that wouiu nave curl on a campaign , troit Free Press. made the hair editorial." De Worth the Money. Struggling Dramatist "I can't 5ce how Idttlewitt managed to get such a high jH-ice for that trashy play of his They say that Miss FHtiights paid hiai ten thousand dollars." First Xighter-"I presume vou know that she is tn love with her leading man." "Yes," "Well. Littlewitt's play has tweuty-llve kisser in it-"-N. Y. Weekly. i Uttlo .lohn nie "When Miss Ncxdoor cot married her mother threw an I old slipper after her. What was that ! for?" Little Kthel "Oh. they always do that". That means that her mamma isn't never go'in to spank her aay more." Sav thou thy ear a4 1 will dm mj 4c ed.-Tcau-oav

EFFECTS OF FREE WOOL.

Tnrrlrn Wool CheatrrInetlc H'ool lrr-r-lll;hrr WKi ami Hrmt l'rt- , ferity I Woolen B't T-tllr Mill. j These are tough times for the republican calamity IiowLt. He was dead certain before the passage of the Wilfcoa bill not only that free wool would , knock the bottom out of prices ami ruin the wool and sheep industries, but that the great reductions of the duties ! ob woolens would closo up all of our J woolen mills. His position is now wost pitiable. Facts refuse to submit to fus ne.vsemistie theories: moreover, they stand out so plainlv that he cannot possibly deceive the voters until No- , - - vemK-r. While prices of foreign wools , have fallen about 10 er cent.-iust I the democrats nromWed price of . . - as

domestic wools have advanced fully io.cent-:

per cent, over McKinley prices of three too o this ad-! months ago. Anil on vance the Dry tJoods Septemlcr Ü. says: "The wool market in v,,,r,..,;t nf t the past week has shown a more active and general demand and fully sustained prices. Might advances in prices have Wen paid for certain classes of domestic wools, notably in the mediums and piarter-bloods. Thers i- a gol demand for Texas fall wool.-, and some sales of the earliest arrivals. A fairly lare and diversified stock is Wing offered in the market, and manufacturers are showing better interest than they have evinced for a year past. "The !k-ton wool market has experienced a goo 1 demand this week and prices have Wen fairly well maintained." The mistaken and misanthropic ca lamity shrieker can get no more satisfaction when he Wgins to look for woolen mills closed up by the new tariff. Never before in our history have so many woolen mills been opened in such a short time. The Wool and Cotton Heporter. by far the greatest authority in America on textiles, devotes considerable space every week to a "Rulletin of New Enterprise. We show in a table below the result of the first month's experiment with free wool. In onler. if povstble, to in duce protectionists to read the whole table, we have sorted out and nlaeed at the head of the table evcrv "calami ty" item mentioned. The record of textile mills compiled from Wool and Cotton Reporter's bulletins, is as follow: 1-31. Clarification oi notice, .'j. -i ri ?2 ShBitlas !on bcraoe of lowwater Kpalr. usual vacation, etc i Strike L'sexpUlned roll! , Kolarseracat', ami Improve-tn-nl MIU -tartlc tip Is 3) It as 13 5) Kortr mentions of new mtlH. seven ty-three of enlargements and improve ments, nmetv-sixof mills starting up. and only two (or possibly five of mills idle Wcause of lack of orders is the record for the first month under free wool. Protectionist croakers can find no such prosperous reeord, with so few shutdowns, during any consecutive three weeks of the rears of 3IcKinleyisni. Free wool has caused the change from idleness to activity. It is setting the old spindles to turning and bring ing thousands of new ones into exist enceThe Drv Good Economist, of Septem Wr TJ, says: "The worsted yarn trade is in a first-rate condition. Spinners are all very buy and unable to supply varns as quickly as users require them." Fnder the heading- "Woolen it mentions four new mills, eurht mills starting up and one shutting down. One of the mentions sav. that every mill in Hudson, N. V.. started up fullhanded and on full time on Monday. SeptemWr IT: one mill starts up with sixteen new loom: another after being closed down "several year-." am others after Wing closed a year. McKinley is welcome to alt the capi tal he can get out of the one "close down on account of the operative stnkinsr for a SO per cent increase in waires." The Wool and Cotton Re porter, of SentemWr 0. said "tha Rawitzer Rros.. of Stafford Springs, had settled with their dissatisfied weavers, giving them a ',. pr cent, advance in wages." The operatives in the Continental worsted mills; Philadelphia, probably read of the almve advance, became dissatisfied and struck for Wilson bill wages McKinley philosophy offers no explanation for such Whavior on the part of woolen mills and woolen operatives. WAR ON TRUSTS. DemcM-raU Hit Wm the Firt IMttte with Krpabllran Tnt--Itle Creattr Krfaml oa All Mypoe-wiy of Krpnbliran. Most of the claims and pretensions put forth by repubicans to catch votes, during the past decade, have Wen misleading if not actually false. Such is the claim now Winjf made from every stump that the new tariff bill I pecu liarly the work of trusts, and that no ntner tann diu ever granieu shcii special fafjrs to trusts. Conscientious . . , , such republicans who know the history

tne.MCKiley bill wouiu not optmineir,lh5j.sstnithc Iiroper poHcv to ail rix mouths on this subject They know ! ,hlt snce lhe con7ent5on none

. - ... . .... . . i , ma. ic .-.--hu (i-""v- .....V. practically had then- own way in the Mckinley bill, which is a patcliworK oi trust legislatKin. Dozens o important rlanses arc in tite language suggesieu ny tne proteexca manuiaciurers. Dutte were increased often doubled or alreott every proditct sold by combines and trusts. The few reductions on trust products, "h a those on steel rails and steel Warn were not tufiktcnt to interfere with trust prices. On the contrary, it will W difficult for the republicans to instance, with one exception, any singe trust product ou which du tic are now higher than Wfore laut Au?.- la nearly every

(case duties hare been lowered or antirely abolished. Hen: are a few of the

trust products on wlileii uuiies navn b-en abolished: .Sulphuric; acid, copper ingots, cotton seed oil. yellow pine lumber, salt, harrows, harvesters, binding twine, jute bagging for bailing cotton. Here are trust products which duties have uen reduced 50 to HX) per cent,: Iforax. castor oil. copper sheets, white lead. lead, santonine, sponges, cement, locomotive tires, smelsers ; products, soap, penknives, shot, stovoarus. zinc m snee., 4i-n rubbber goods, cordage, brooms, but . . r Here are trust products on which . 1 es u.e ..c reduced -5 to 50 per Roracic acid, ammonia, iodoform, linked oil, coal, ultramarine, red lead. fruit iars. calomel, crockery, msouit

j ami crackers, starch, tlint glass, winNew York for t Jww' plate glas, sanitary ware.

freestone, lniltirateil fiber, iron ami steel Warns, boiler iron, vapor stoves, steel rails, wire roils, electrical supplies galvanized iron and steel, Wits and nuts, sewer pipe, east iron pipe, soda water machinery, penknives (some kinds, hinges, wheels, saws, screws, skewers, type, preserved fruits, raisins, leather-lxard. wood pulp, oil cloth, matches in boxes, sash, school furniture, snaths, axes. barWd wire, con densed milk, spool, bobbins and shuttit es. On the following trust product duties were reduced 10 to 25 per cent.: Cigarettes, oat meal, rice, envelopes. India rubber, paper bags, brushes. matches not in boxes, umbrellas, cartridges, caskets, celluloid, cotton duck, cotton thread, lime. lithographic prints, marble, safes, sandpaper. strawWard, tomb-stoties, trunks, wall paper, whips, wrapping paper. Reductions of duties on all tliee prod ucts have lowercit the limit to wnicn trusts can raise prices. McKinley raised this limit and turned millions of doltars into trust cotters. Refined sugar is the ohly important trust product on which the duty has Wen increased. Rut the sugar trust would g-ladly pay 53,000,000 and perhaps 5iO,lX.Ö0O a year to get back its McKinley duties. Puder the new law four-fifths of the duty paid on sugar will go to support the government. Under the McKinley law 90 per cent. of the duty paid went to swell the trnst's profits Rut the democrats are not through with this trust yet. lien they get another whack at it this win ter they are likely to take away the remaining half of McKinley protection. The democrats have ivon a decided victory m the lirst battle witn protected trusts. It should not be forgot ten that the-e trusts were entrenched Whind protection walls which the republicans had Wen thirty years in building. Thev were glutted with the "sinews of war" extorted from the populace on the outside of the walls At every point the outer walls Vave Wen taken and the trusts have been driven from their position. The trust combine is broken; those trusts that have lost all their protection arc no longer interested in the fight and will not assist other trusts to maintain protection. In fact they should help to defeat the other trusts, for the trusts prey upon each other as well as upon outsiders. The trusts are making a desperate effort during the present campaign to win recruits from the enemy. Thousands of trust emissiries, disguised as republican campaign speakers, are Irving to deceive the people by telling uiem that the protection walls (behind which arc the trusts) do not protect the trusts but protect the people from the trusts, Thesaid to the people: "If you knock those protection walls down you will let the trusts loose and they will prey upon you more than ever before." They arc fooling a few nerotis. half-witted people, but they only make sober-minded people smile. Any man with two lobes to his brain knows that a robWr's castle protects the robWr from their victims, but does not protect the people from the rob Iters. The trusts ar? routed and disorganized. They aw making some big bluffs, but" they know their time short They will always tight to save as much McKinleyism as possible, but they expect to have but little left after a few more charges by the democrats their mortal enemies. On with the . - .. . . , ., . . . . war: l. et it not moo wnue one projection stone stands on top of another? Rvnov W. Holt. Doilclnc t' Income Tax. The republican stumper are still fighting very shy of the income tax Gov. McKinley, during: his speech at St. Louis, was asked by a voice in the audience: "How about the income tax?" The artful dodger evaded the question with the "smart" retort that "we are a good deal more troubled aWut the incomes tltat we arc to get hereafter than about the tax on them." Rut a certain numWr of people will enjoy incomes of more than 54,000, in spite or because of the remnants of Mc Kinleyism left in the tax laws What does McKinley, what do Harrison, Reed. Sherman. Allison and the other republican leaders, think of this tax? Thev do not si v. They dan; not In this state Mr. Piatt's convention emit ted a feeble protest against "taxing j prosperity." ) J ta-ved The boss's partv has so fi-inr -.,1 niirjiftV ft!lt lhl ll4MMr!lt iVS , . - v. -. r Ol t l .. . ....... I... assume". i.! j, of Uie re,mbiican orators or organs - , . ,k,mau,led that this tax on conr , lM . lx. re.Icaiea in ordcr that . m, necessities may be re . htoniL Nearly everywhere, except in v v.,rt- 1,.. .(..mmi, nr.. annmrlnii this miMit just and least burdensome of taxes. And the republicans know public sentiment too well to oppose it openly. N. i. World. For MrKlnlry tn KipUIn Mr. McKinley is talking a great ilea these davs but he is not trying to - plain why wool that kept falling under , a. McKinley tax keeps rising under re trade. N. . world

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. IU-raat!ent 1."ob for KoTrmlHT 4. lata' Jtnus. Kurd of thm Kablmtti M-rk S:.3-'n; a: 1-5. (SpcciaMr arratweJ fa Pcloubn's notes. J ;oubxTuxt -ihSo.iof Man U Inl aUo of lhe faatitmh. ilarU !J.H I'Ijw 1 18 "ii b l.ii c or CiiuiST Toward tho raMttle of ibc second year of Ills mUUtrr. the year of Vu:o;meut "Hiero lias so far lieeu u dvtloteaent of Ills fleliN of preaching, of

iralulBK His disciple, of Ills power and tcacliim through miracles. LKbsON NOTES. A Question of Sabbath Keeping. The Scene. 23. "He went through the corn lields." Through the grain fields of wheat and barley. The Knglish call all grain corn. Our corn, Indian corn, was probably unknown in Palestine. "On the Sabbath day." They were doubtless on their way to or from the morning service in the synagogue, for His disciples were an hungered t.Matt.). The rabbinical law allowed no eating on tho Sabbath, except in case of sickness, prior to tlm morning prayers of the synagogue. A similar canon in the ritualistic-churches of to-day forbids breaking the fast before partaking of the communion. Abbot. -"ISegan, as they went, to pluck the ears of corn." Luke adds: "Rubbing them in their hands," in order to separate the kernel from the chaff. There was no road with fences, but a mere path through the fields of standing grain, so that they did not have to go out of their way. We see Jesus walking along by the margins of extensive stretches of .standing grain. These stretches, spreading far and wide over the plain of lienesarcth, come down, on either side, close to the path on which our Lord wa walking. His disciples arc with Him, and a group of others, inclusive of a band of disputatious and censorious l'harisecs. They are on their way to or from some adjoining synagogue. Conversation and lively disputation go on all along the way. At a certain point the Lords ttiscipies "oegan to advance. They Wgan to go ahead of our Lord, plucking the corn as they went." Morison. Note. The narrative carefully avoids saying that Jesus plucked the grain and tite. He simply defended the right of His disciples to do so. Jesus had a perfect right not to pluck the grain,, if thereby He could remove auy obstacles in the way of the success of Ills work. He gave the Pharisees no ground for a personal accusatian against Himself. Teachers thus may often refrain from using their rights with the same object. False Critics. 24. "And the Pharisees, said." These Pharisees were accompanitig Jesus, not to learn the truth, good or bad, but for the one purpose of Unding some fault with Him. They hated Him because they were wrong, and His teaching reproved them; Ho swept away many of their false rules and customs, and they must either change their lives, or prove the teach er to be in some wrong. Therefore they found every fault possible; they perverted Ills acts and His words; they measured them by a false stanuaru; they were pitilessly unfair. There can scarcely be any habit more injurious to the character than that of looking xor faults in others, putting the worst pos sible construction on what they say and do, and shutting their eyes to tho good in them. Why do they on tho Sabbath day that which is not lawitu There was no harm whatever in pluckinir the ears; that was not only sanc tioned by custom, but even distinctly permitted by the Mosaic law. Rut the heinous fact was that this should bo done on a Sabbath! Farrar. The law and practice of Palestine continue to W this day what they were so many thrmsand years ago. (Deut. J3:-.; The law allowed them to pluck tho grain toappeasc hunger, but not to apply the sickle to another man's standing grain. The unlawfulness, in tlie opinion oi the Pharisees, was that what tiiey did broke the law of the Sabbath. It was doing work, namely. harvesting on the Sabuatii. J.110 disciples really transgressed, not tlio )ivine law of the Sabbath, but tue 'harisaical interpretation of that law. The Pharisees Interpretation of tho Sabbath Law. There are two ways oi destroying the Sabbath; one by disregarding its principles, the other, (unto us elTectual, by smoinering uicjunder an immense numWr of artificial interpretations and prohibitions, which keep the letter of the law, but utterly destroy its spirit. The Pharisees took this latter course with the utmost ingenuity, almost satanic shrewdness of folly. It was impossible to' keep thu Sabbath on their plain The conscience was continually Wiund with fetters. There could 1 no true, loving Sabbath spirit. The law commanded tnem to no uo work on the Sabbath day. The Phari sees based, on this thirty-nine principal prohibitions. Then they made a mul titude of decisions as to me uennuo things these thirty-nine permitted or forbade. For instance, reaping and threshing were forbidden, hence it was asserted that plucking grain was. wrong Wcause it was a kind of reap ing, nnd rubbing off the husks was sin because it was a kind of threshing. "Grass was not to be trodden, an Wing akin to harvest work. Shoes with nails were not to bo worn, as the nails would W a 'burden,' and a burden' must not he carried. A tailor must not have his needle about him towards sunset cm the Friday, for fear tho Sabbath should begin while he was yet carrying it." Eugcnu Stock, To break the Sabbath, rather than suffer hunger for a few hours, was guilt worthy of stoning. Was it not their boast that Jews were known over the world by their readiness to die rather than break the holy day? Everv one had stories of grand fidelity to it The Jewish sailor hail refused, even when threatened with death, to touch the helm a moment after the sua had et on Friday, though a storm was raging; and had not many thousands permitted themselves to be Imtchcrcd rather than touch a weapon la self-defense 0 the Sabbath?" Qclkie..