Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 37, Number 34, Jasper, Dubois County, 3 May 1895 — Page 7

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C. JJOAXK, IhliHhor JASI'KIl, - - - INDIANA. MODERN PAINTERS. X gaia with rapture and with aws On the eternal hills, Ami lei, upon the rockt I road: "TaSto Marker's llvor plllm" I turn to where the Mittle sua Sinks sfnuuliy In the weit. His dying lioauiri fall full upon "Jcnk'a (Jlailux aro the bost!" Work yonder frownln prcclplco, Adown Its dizzy steops A mountain stream lu foam and spray A dazullnt; vlMon leaps. Alack! tbo advertising Hcnd Has climbed the Kiddy height, And painted on thu topmost era?: "Go, buy your boots of Wright!" Nestles In yonder lovely vale, Amid lis orchards creen, A farmhouse white, with bursting barns, In truth a peaceful scene. A poet hero might hope to dwell Safe from the ruilo world's strlfoj The biKirest barn Is covered with: Mortal, Insure your lifo!" You meet him In the frlsld lono, On India's co nil strand, And whore tbo Sphinx, with eyes of stone, Looks out o'or Egypt's sand. Alike In desert solitude And In the city's rush. Where'er tho foot of man has stood He journoys with his brush. -Mrs. M. 1'. Handy. In Harper's Magadno, ABE'S ADY. ItV DOHA It. GOODAl.E. HE little house on thu back road? Well, now, I'm real glad you asked!" exclaimed Mrs. Warren, looking up at her niece by marriage, who was spending a week with Iter. "Yes, that's new sence you were here but come! Take the stri ped-back chair and make yourself comfortable; it's quite a story. You haven't forgotten Lyddy Ann Close?" "No, indeed! Close by name and close by" "Well, so she was. my dear, all o' that an' more too. as she got older," assented Mrs. Warren with a click of her needles. "Isra'l was jist tho same way. W'y, one winter when hay was sca'se and brought a jrood price in market, he sold all his'n and wintered his cattle on apple-brush made out to keep 'em alive, though they did come thr"."h with no more fat on their bones than that old clo'es-hoss yonder. He'd p Vm so they'd eat anything that wa'n't wuth more fur fire-wood, I guess. Yes, Lyddy Ann was terrible scrimpin. She used to put pieces o' newspaper under the plates so's not to get spots on her tablecloths saved wearin' 'em out washin', she said. "Well, as I started to tell you, one summer must ha' ben about the time you was married Lyddy wa'n't feelin' right smart, an' Isra'l he was rheumaticky, and what with one thing and another they was so put to 't for help they got a bound girl out of an orphin asylum, Ady. they called her, an' she couldn't ha' ben more than seven year old. Do anything? W'y. many's the time I've seen her stood up to the tub on a soap-box, washin' clo'es for the hired men. when her arms wa'n't bigger'n pipe-stems; h'm! You'd be surprised to sec the things that child could do. She was kind o' meechin' at first, but sle soon grew out o' that, an' by the time she was thirteen there wasn't a job about the place, indoors or out, 't you couldn't set her at she c'd harness, or milk, or scrub, or sweep, or cook as well as a grown woman. "She wasn't never real stout, either. Pritty? Well, dear, I don't know if you'd call her so. She had clear-looking brown eyes and hair the same oolor rolled back of! her forehead, an' her skin was thin an' flushed up quick I al'ays think that gives anyone kind of a pretty look. Hut the particular thing you'd 'a noticed about her was the wishful, hankcriu' way she had I do' lniow's I can describe it. W'y, the first time I went over an' seen her, thinks says I, well! if you can't be cosI JLJI 'I I.I. IIAVK TO IIB Or.TTIN' WAOKS XOW." settcd, nc.v' bes' thing's to have something to cosset; an' not long after I took her a doll that used to be Maria's. It had a wooden head, an the body was made o' cloth, stuffed out with bran, but, land snkes! 1 never see that child kiss it that I didn't expect 'twas gotn' to kiss her back. She was kind o' motherly even then, poor little creetur, an she'd double up over it as you've seen a ewe stanilin' over its lamb in the fence corner come a cold storm in spring, Well, by and by, when she got too big to play with dolls, Isra'l ho was raisin' a colt, an' it's my belief she tuk more comfort with that dumb beast than lots of folks -4o with their own kin. W'y, to see ber

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lipnpalongsi.leof him, he trvmblin', an' she tremblin', an one talk in' an the other whiunyin', an both under their breath like but, there! "It must ha been when she was about sixteen that she got religion. She'd never been tomeetin'unysca'cely, Uut that hummer there was a minister boardin' down to the Corners Todd, his name was who used to hold service in the sehool-hus. Ady was frettin' herself to death after tho colt that they'd sold toa horse-dealer, an' used to go olf In tho woods Sundays, an' one afternoon bhe happened thiit way an heard 'em singin' (the windows was open), an' come up nearer an' nearer' an' iln'ly come in. Well, I never see anyone take hold o' tho Gospel as she did seemed as though it was4 .eat an' drink to her, an' I don't know but 'twas; she kep' n-studyin' over the promises, an' she couldn't make out how 'twas that folks wascrossgrained au' tcrimpin' an' worried an' disann'inted in the

church the same as out of it. W'y you'd "a thought, to hear her talk them days,-the kingdom o' heaven was right nc.v' door. ".She'd never been along o' younir folks much, livin' so lonesome there an' bein' so terrible drnv with work, but after that she'd get off when she could to prayer-meetin's an' sociables, an' the neebors took to her consid'able specially the boys. Hut you never seo u girl so sort o' innocent about beaux as Ady was 't seemed 's if Iter heart was just runnin' over with love for every livin' crcetur. Ilowsomever, 'twa'n't a great while afore I begun to see that hungry, wishful look eomin' back in Iter face, an' I wasn't a mite surprised when she stopped in here one day an' said she thought the Lord had cast her olf, an' the old Adam wa'n't crucified in her, an' burst out eryin' fit to break your heart. Well, thinks I, you poor little thing, if the Lord hadn't meant we should eat He wouldn't ha given us stummieks. Nater's nater, it stands to reason, says I. You see how 'twas, bein' amongst folks kind o' brought it home to her as she hadn't any kin of her own; an' because you've got religion is no sign you don't want nothin' else. I tell you, there's a good many 'd be out of a job ef 't 'as Sunda every day in the week." Mrs. Warren leaned back in her chair and "toed off" very fast indeed. "Well!" she resumed, although with a shrewd smile curling her lip, "ef there wa'n't a to-do down to the Closes' when Ady come of age, then I wouldn't say so! Lyddy got Iter a delaine dress that spring (first new stuff she'd ever bought fer Iter), and she was dretful pleasant an' soft spoken, an' says she: " 'Now, Ady, you needn't think, be cause my contracts up. J m gom to turn you off as ef you hadn't a friend in the world. No!. It's trow your feed costs consid'able now, but we'll git a husful o boarders an' you kin stay right on here jest as long s vou behave yourself, an I don't say as Isra'l or me won't leave vou Mithin I don t sav we will, but, agin, I don't say we won't.' "Well, Ad spunked up for once, an' says she: "I'll hev to be gittiu' wages now, Miss Close, an' I 'lotted on workin fer Mis' Cadwallader this summer -she's offered me four dollars a week to do table waitin an sieh.' "Well, I leave it to you how Lyddy fit an' tore to hear that kind o' talk. " 'Four dollars a week,' says she; 'an' you the gal I've raised up an' took care of twelve year come June, like my own tiesh an' blood (an' I think likely she had). 'You'd go off with your Mis' Wndeallader, would you? An' don't you know in a few months she'll be hustlin' back to New York, an' what'll you do, then, you poor, ignirint, foolish ereetur, you?' Well, I wa'n't there (Ady tol' me about it arterwards), but I kin jist think how she sort o' blushed up, an' says she: 'W'y Mis' Close, me an' Abe Wright thought we'd git married about that time.' "Well, Mis' Close kep' her on arter all giv' her two dollars a week au' kind o' talked her over Ady always was soft-hearted; an' 'long about Thanksgivin time she was mcrried. The boarders had took her up, as boarders will, an' they give her a dress o' white cotton nu' wool, an' quite an' outfit o' clo'es. She was mcrried in church. Wright'.' Oh, he was a good steady man; I can't say I liked him any better 'n some others, myself; but, land o' Goshen! I wa'n't the one he'd picked out neither. 'Twas pretty plain thy was suited, an that's the main p'int, I reckon scera's so, anyhow, lie was old'r'n she, an' forehanded, an' he built that house on the back road an' had a nice little place, with a cowan' garden, au' made splint-bottom cheers to sell, an' he used to work out time, too." Mrs. Warron knitted a few moments in silence, then she wiped her glasses. "Do you know, I kind o' hate to go on," she said. "You haven' forgotten the March blizzard, have you?" she resumed, after a short pause. "Well, it was awful here. I never knew such a storm in all my life, an' can't say I want to ag'in. I hadn't seen Ady for two or three weeks, not to speak, that is, but 1 took real comfort thinkin' of her, well off as she was, an' no one to boss her around or say thus far an' no farther. It happened Josiah wan to Uoston that week, so I was alone in the house, nn' 'long about three o'clock 1 see 'twas settling down to be a bad night, an' I fed the hens they was all on the roost, I remember, 'twas so dark a'ready, an' fetched in some real big apple wood, for 1 was bound I'd have things in good shape. Well, the wind riz, an' long afore supper time it was so thick you couldn't seen your hand afore your face. An' if the snow didn't come down! down, says I? It come all ways down an' up an' crosswise "-the wa'n't no top or bottom to j anything. Y y, the drifts was forty foot next tnornin' out Eason way; thev notched 'em on two big ellems. Well, it might V been seven o'clock when I thought I heard suthin' outside, 's well an I could fer the storm, but afore I could get to the door 1 wouldn't 'a' turned off a dog that nightin It bust, an' thar stood Abe Wrhrut, his whiskers

froze stiff, and looking for all the world as if ho come onto' tliu graveyard, what with the siioivon his clo'es. I remember the first words ho said, afore he could git his breath scarcely you see, he'd had 'em in his mind till the way: " 'She's here, is she? Oh, good fiod!' "Well, I never seen a man clean crazy as Abe was when he looked round that room an' see 't Ady wu'n't there. It seemed ho'd hen off at work up to Moses Pratt's an' didn't reach homo till after dark, what with the state of thu roads, and when he iln'ly got there, half dead himself, ho found her gone. His first notion was she'd got scared an' come up to my house 'twas all he could think of, poor man. Well, nothing would do fer't then Imt I should go back with him. Ho wanted some womiin thar to 'tend to her an' thaw her out when he fetched her in that was what ho kep' a-sayin'. There was a kind of a let-up fer a spell, an' he took -losiah's old bulls-eye, an' somehow or other we made out to git over to his house; I went on all fours a good part o' the way, an' every minute he'd call: 'Ady! Ady!' or blow an old tin horn he had, until, I declare, I couldn't but think o' Gabriel it sounded so wild-like thet awful night. "Well, when I got thar. you don't know how the place looked; there was the lamp lit, an' set close to tho window, jest as she'd put it, an' the teakittle over an' b'ilin, an a good hot supper stood on the back o' the stove. Twas midnight afore Abe come in ag'in, an' I out thar, an' every oncet in about so long I'd go to the outside door an' ring the big dinner bell, so's to give him hi.s bearings. There was her thhn-

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TIIKItK STOOD AHE WltlOIlT. blc, too. an' her bit o' sewin. jest as .she'd laid it down, an' what do you suppose it was? Well, I've got it right her j." Mrs. Warren leaned over to her workbasket und took out a little roll of something very fine and soft, which she unpinned and smoothed out tenderly. The younger woman looked at it. and a sob rose in .spite of her. "Well, my dear, I felt jest so," said Mrs. Warren sympathetically, rolling up the little garment and putting it back; "but do you know, I was kind o' glad after all to think I'd never .see that lonesome hnnkerin' look come back in her face ngain. She must ha' been happy for oncet filled full, as 'twere; an' vou know how 'tis it couldn't a lasted. Find her? Oh, yes, but not for three or four days not till after the snow went down. She had a lantern, an' her husband's old rublcr boots on. She must 'a' got frightened about him, an' set out to meet him, and then when it come on so awful she got turned around, an' the cold struck in an' she sunk down in a drift she never was real stout. Abe, he'd wnlked over the spot, an' round an' round it, they said well, so 'tis. Sht'd done her best right along, an' what ain't set down below is set down above, 1 take it." Mrs. Warren drew a quiet sigh and rolled up her knitting, and for a few moments nothing was hoard but the ticking of the clock. N. Y. Tost. To Prepare Orange. As oranges are usually prepared for puddings, shortcake, etc., there remains with the pulp too much of skin, or of the white menibrnno next tho skin, to make them agreeable eating to the fastidious. When the skin und membrane are removed, the other extreme is usually orange juice with no pulp at all. If you wish juicy pulp, free from all the coverings, peel the fruit as you would an apple, cutting away carefully the inner white as well as the yellow skin. Then, instead of slicing across or dividing in sections, slip the point of your fruit knife inside the inside skin, and out again closo to the skin on the opposite side. Take each section in this way, and you will soon be able to get out the pure pulp as quickly as you could slice the on anges. N. Y. Post. Awkmnlnm and Spur. It is pitiful to see a man who cannot ride nnd whose feats are necessarily confined to a beaten track, appear in spurs. If he were going for a walk it would not matter, for then he would only cut his boots. !ut it is to bo dreaded that, before his return, he will have lacerated his horse, and, if he should chance to tumble off, scored his brand-new saddle. It may be doubted hov far it is advisable even for firstrat riders to arm their heels, as a mere point of dress, on all occasions. A good horse will do his host without having his sides wounded. When ho flinches either he is not properly asked or he distrusts himself. Nevertheless, the spur has many uses, of which he who understands them certainly ought to avail himself. The Arabian Horse Maj. Gen. Tweedie. Wlntrr Trmprriitiirrn. Glasgow in Scotland, Moscow in Russia, and Ajan on the Pacific coast of Asia are at about the same distance north of the equator, but the average winter temperature of Glasgow is I1S.8 degrees above zero, of Moscow 14.7 above, and of Ajan 1.1 degrees below. Yet many still cling to the idea that tho coldness of winter wettthur depends chiefly on distance north er south of the equator. 2. Y. Sun.

WHERETHE DEFICIENCY BEGAN. Effect ef the Mclilnlrr lll o the Nation's 'laanrfii. Our republican friends aro fond of talking about the deficiency in treasury receipts. TLcy unhesitatingly ascribo all this to tho passage of the now tariff bill. They say that it is not yielding revenue enough, and they hold out the idea that it will never afford sufficient money to pay tho expenses of tho government It is an odd proof of the rapidity with which everybody forgets former conditions that comparatively few now rerncmler that after tho last presidential election practically everybody recognized tho need of changing tho tariff laws, because tho McKinley bill was not affording revenue enough. As to the republicans, they were so hot for n revision of tho tariff that they insisted that a special session of congress should be cnlled for tho purpose in March or April, 1SÖ3. They expressed tho hopo that tho revision might be carried out in such a way as not to destroy American industries, but, at all events, they wished tho work done at once. In February, 1803, Secretary Foster prepared to issuo bonds, but was stopped by tho president, who preferred to transfer a bankrupt treasury to his successor. Everybody understood that a revision of the laws was necessary in order that the government should have tho means to meet tho enlarged scale of expenditure, rendered necessary by tho legislation of the Fifty-first congress. Some remarks submitted by Senator Gorman near the close of the recent session of congress, with reference to the present deficiency of revenue, have often been gleefully quoted by the republicans. This speech of Senator Gorman was withheld for revision, nnd has only recently appeared in tho supplement to the Congressional Record. An examination of the full text of the speech shows that it contains a good deal of matter which republican newspapers do not care to quote. As they have made Senator Gorman their own witness by introducing what ho had to say about the present administration, we will undertake to give some of tho results of a cross-examination. In one of tho tables submitted by Senator Gorman he shows that on tho 30th of June, 1S90, during tho administration of Mr. Harrison, there was a cash balance, excluding the gold reserve and available cash for current expenses, of nearly S03,000,000. This was while tho McKinley bill was under consideration, but before its passage. From that date to tho close of last year the expenditures exceeded the receipts and available cash by S50,S1G,110. S3. Later on, alluding to the excess of expenditures, Mr. Gorman said: 'Mr. President, that was the caso before the present udtnlalstratton en mo Into power. During tho last administration tho very question was prcsentod here, nnd I stated tho views then as I do now, that tho revenue laws up to that dato had failed to produco n suClclcnt amount of money by SISO.WJ.OM. It was nearer eO.WMX Whoa tho present administration came Into power they wcro Intorf ercd with by the commercial conditions that no legislation of conzress was responsible for. They have bcoa Intensified In the last two years. Tho

revenues have fallen on and the expenauures have Increased year by year." Mr. Gorman then proceeded to give figures showing that tho revenues for the two fiscal years from July 1, 1600, to June 30, 1S92, amounted to 747,503,231. ftj, nnd tho expenditures for tho same period to S792,377,fi27.23, showing a deficiency of 844,827,295.73. All of this period was under tho Harrison administration, and all but three mouths of it under the McKinley bill. For the fiscal year 1693 tho figures of Senator Gorman show an excess of expenditures over receipts of between four and five millions. Tho fiscal year 1S93 was mostly under tho administration of Mr. Harrison and wholly under the McKinley bill. Thus in these three years the deficiency of revenue, as compared with expenditures, amounted to nearly fifty million dollars. The fiscal year ISO! was wholly under the McKinley bill, and showed a deficiency of S7O,OO0,00O in revenues as compared with expenditures. The last six months of 1S9, forming part of tho present fiscal year, showed a deficiency of some SST.OOO.COO. Two-thirds of this period was under the new tariff, and one-third under tho McKinley bill. Of the total deficiency of SI J'5.SO-J,22 1.03, between July 1, 1S93, and January 1, 1805, only S27.OO0.0J0 occurred hi the last six months of 1S9 i. and only twothirds of this time vas under tho new tariff liill. Thus, of the deficiency up to January 1, ISOS, the McKinley bill produced 3120,030,000. In view of those statements, what amount of wisdom is there in tha current proposition to rccr.act the McKinley bill in order to produce sutlicient revenue? Louisvillo Courierloarnal. Rcvcnan From the Incnmo Tust. Though tho contra! principle of the mcomc tax remains, the division of tho supremo court invites further attacks and tho law cannot be deemed settled until a positive affirmation or rejection is o't taincd. Hy tho elimination of rents and the interest on state and municipal bonds, tho revenue to bo derived from tho tax will be reduced. The proceeds will, however, bo very nseful to the treasury in meeting tho difficulty caused by the cxtravagaut continuing appropriations of tho notorious Fifty-tirst congress and tho depression of business. Luokity for Secretary Carlisle, tho business revival is rapid. The operation of the new tariff law is as satisfactory to thu treasury as to consumers. The revenue cut off by the decision will bo small when compared with the total receipts and will not materially affect the government's resources. St. Louis Republic. Gov. William McKinley, Inte-r viewed in New York, says that ho cannot explain tho democratic gains in tho recent Ohio elections. Hut why should anybody expect the governor to know anything about what is going on in Ohio? Louisville Courier-Journal. - Gen. Clarkson says that cx-I'res-Ident Harrison is "a receptive candidate." Ho was that in 1S0, but failed to receive votes enough to reelect him. -Is. Y. World. '

WAGES INCREASED.

Batlnei Improving Muco the Adoptloae tho New Tar I IT I.w, Feveral Increases of wages some of them affecting largo groupsof employes have been reported in tho last few days. The most important of these advances aro those which have been made In the coko district of Western Pennsylvania and in two prominent woolen mills. The list is ns follows: "IL C Frlclt & Co., tho leadlti? producers of coko tn the western Pennsylvania district from which tho Iron manufacturers of the Pittsburgh nnd eastern Ohio districts are supplied, an Increaso of fifteen rxsr cent.) followed by an lncrcasoof sixteen per cent, for tho employes of FrlcU Si Ca's foremost competitor. These changes practically causo a similar Increase throughout tho district, and affect tho earnings of thousands of men employed thoro. "MoscsT. Stevens & Son, manufacturers of woolens at thrco places la New Hampshire; un Increase of llftcen per cent., beluga restoration of tho rates paid before tho reduction of last year. The output of this firm Is said to bo larger than thut of any other la tho Industry. "Thomm Dolan & Co., manufacturers of woolens In Philadelphia; an Increaso of fifteen per cent, to weavers. Mr. Dolan Is president of tho (high tariff) Manufacturers' club. It Is reported that other manufacturers of woolens In Philadelphia wcro awaiting tho action of Dolan & Co., and will now mako similar Increases In their .mills. "Globe Iron worlts. Cloveland. O.; Increase of ten per cent, belnj a restoration of tho rato paid before tho reduction of ten per cent, one year ago. " bolfcnder, Shore & Co., mills at Cardlncton, near Chester, Pa.; Increaso of live per cent., orhnlf of the reduction made some time ago. It is expected that tho other half will soon bo restored. "Washington mills, Lawrence Mass.; Increaso announced recently. Uctwecn three and four thousand persons aro employed. "Tho American Wool and Cotton Reporter published a few days ago tho following statement, which had beenmado 'by tbo representative of ono of tho loading commission houses:' 'Our mills have returned oil but ten per cent of tho reduction In wapes during tho last two years, and aronow consldorlnK the advisability of inal;ln a further advanco of ten per cent.' Namo of tho firm or company not given." Tho tariff was revised seven mont'a ago. Our high-tariff friends have contended that tho reductions of wages mndc in 1S94 the causes of which they have industriously and persistently misrepresented could not be followed by increases so Ion as tho new tariff should stand. There has been no increase of tariff duties in tho last two months, or since August 2S. Still, thcro are prominent manufacturers who voluntarily have increased wages in tho last few weeks, and it is quite probable that others will follow their example. N. Y. Times. M'KINLEY GOING THE ROUNDS. Chances of the Ohinan for the Presidential Nomination In 18UO. Gov. McKinley, it is annouueed, will extend his political circle-swinging through the west clear to the Pacific coast after he has finished at the south. This is taken to mean that he did not say at Thomasville, as reported: "If tho republican party should declare for .n:o silver I vould decline to become its candidate and I would quit the party forever." If the governor hold this view he would not, it is said, go delegate-hunting through the silver section. Thcro was inherent improbability in the report that credited such an utter ance to McKinley. Ho is not given to positive utterances except on the beauties of a high tariff. On the currency question ho has always been a "wabbler." with a leaning totvarda unsoundness. He voted for and lauded upon the stump tho Sherman silver purchase act, the most disastrous cur rency measure In its results that congress has ever adopted. Gov. McKinlcy's chances for tha presidential nomination wcro undoubtedly improved by the tidal-wave success of his party in the elections of last year. Uut ho will not be nominated unless tho republicans sec their way clear to a hopeful campaign in favor of ripping up the tariff and increasing tho taxes. Tho chances aro that tho operations of the new law und tho improved condition of manufactures and business next year will render this sort of campaign to Quixotic for adoption. Uut to-day tha. Ohio governor could probably command more votes in a convention than auj of his rivals. N. Y. World. NOTES AND COMMENTS. Announcements of advnnrM it wages in the mills continue to come in. The tariff reform lesson is working. lloston Herald. Senator Frye, of Maine, predict that republican rule would restore pro fusion in tho treasury. If it did it would only be restoring what it squandered from 1SS9 to 1693. Albany Argus. Fire Alarm Forakcr, of Ohio, has turned up the deuce for McKinley. ;sv nr.".". Cut Mr. McKinley can crenc;v.lly bo relied upon lo turn up" tho dcuco for himself. St Louis Hepublic. Tho plain truth is that McKinley is not at home with facts and figures. The trusts and corporations of the country always prepared them for him when ho was a member of congress. Detroit Freo Press. There has rarely been a more humiliating spectacle to a lover of free institutions than is afforded by the trembling anxiety of the favored and protected millionaires to have the income tax nullified. X. Y. World. With tho duty on tin plate re duccd one-half the American tin industry is showing greater activity than ever before, and with freo wool wo aro selling woolen goods to England herself. In this thcro is nothing that builds for McKlnley's chances as president. Detroit Free Press. Hon. Thomas II. Heed evidently hadn't rend tho late reports of the treasury when ho wrote his "last tributu"' to tho Fifty-third congress. He assumes that there is an immense treasury deficit in consequence of the reduction of tariff taxes, whereas the records sh-Mv that the deficit is now Kiimll and growing beautifully less. About tho time tho presidential election is on tho deficit will bo changed to u surplus, nnd business will bo us prosperous aß before the odious McKinley law strangled industry and destroyed urosD2rit3 Kansas City Times.

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.

ftatri-RatloMat Limon fur May . 1H9S Tho Agony la ;ethemne Mark 14:394 '.'tff. (Specially -Arranged from Peleabet's Note. COMIK.V Text The cup which my Fathet hath ulven me, shall I aotdrlnlc it! John lb. IL Tail SKCTU.vof tho flospcl htory Includes tho lesson and the parallel accounts in Matthew 1:35-14; LuUo E!:X-13; Johnlti.I. Tiiic A. D. SO. Thursday evonlnjr. April S. about midnight, to about ono o'clock Friday morning, April 7, Immediately following tho Institution of the Lord's Supper. Piace. Gethsemane, a garden on the western slope of the Mount of Olives. Jesus was beginning the last day of lit earthly life. About thirty-three and one-nail years old. CinccMSTAScrs. Wo closed our lastlesoe with thoM) words of heavenly comfort and Instruction which the beloved dUclpl has preserved for us la his GoSpcL Closing with a prayer overflowing; with tenderness and hope, and with u hymn suns by all, Jesus had completed His worW os teacher, and thero remained only tho steps to tho cross, and the atoning work thereon, by which alono Ills words could become tho power of God for salvation. IXSSON' SOTK8. A coarser Infidelity has much to say nbout the shrinking of our Lord frora duath. Such weakness is pronounced uuworthy, in contrast with many a martyr who has gone triumphantly to his cross; and mnnj a hero to whom death has boon "welcome as the sight of'sky and stars to prisoned men. "It would sulliceto answer that Jesus also failed not when tho trial came, but before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession, and won upon tho cross the adoration of a fellow-sufferer and the confession of a Roman soldier." Courage is not stoical iudiffercnee nor insensibility to suffering. It is not that phj'sical prowess which disdains any expression of pain. "Tho stoic, to whom pain is no evil, and the Indian, laughing and singing at the stake, aro partly actors and partly perversions of humanity." "Who is so hard-hearted as to think less of the valor of the mar tyrs because it was bought by many s lonely and intense conllict with tho llesh?" True courage is of the soul. and is measured by tho degree of sensi bility to pain, and by tho full vision nnd consciousness of the evil to be endured, together with tho unflinching doiugof one'sduty in the face of all. The most sensitive soul is often tho bravest. A friend once called tho attention of Napoleon to the blanched face of aa officer as he was marching into battle, as showing that he was a coward. .Napoleon replied that that man was the bravest officer in his army; for ho saw clearly and felt keenly his danger, and yetwent forward into the thickest of tho battle. Into this one hour were crowded by prevision the combined horrors of tho passion, its cruelty, its shame, its physical torment, its spiritual tortures. He felt with the greatest intensity tho sin of the world. The wickedness of Judas, the wcalaiess of even His chosen ones, tho best on earth, the crimes of Jewish leaders soon to bo wrought against Himself, their measureless folly in rejecting their Messiah, their only hope, the terrible evils soon to coma upon the whole nation, brought before His soul the most awful results of sin upon the human race. It was the unspeakable horror of a world throwing away Heaven and hope, and trampling on the most radiant manifestation of love God Himself could make to them. It was the mother heart burdened with the sin and ingratitude of her son who smites her for her efforts to save him. The Answer to Christ's Prayer. V. 42; Luke 22:43. Thero wero three answers to the prayer of Jesus. First, the angel strengthening him (Luke) was a direct answer. Thero are two ways of answering a prayer for the removal of a burden. In one the burden is taken away, and wo remain tho same; in the other we are made so btrong that the burden is no longer a burden to us; as what would crush a child is but sport to a man. Paul kept the thorn in his flesh, but God's grace was made sufficient for him. Jesus going on to the cross (v. 42) shows that the answer was given. Second, He had most intimate communion with God. By His tronble and His prayer He came close to HLs Heaven ly Father. The third answer to prayer is the giving, not that which we ask for ia tho form we ask it, but the soul of oar prayer, the thing we in our deepest hearts want, and would ask for if wo saw all things as God sees them. If clearly before the vision of Jesus there had appeared two choices, the one of escape from the cross, but with that also the failure of His mission, the triumph of evil, the loss of unnumbered souls, no crown, no glory, no abiding on the right hand of God; and the other choice, thut of the cross and its agony but with it alsq tho redemption of the world, the ineffable glory of God, tho joys of millions of the saved, the crown of triumph over evil who doubts which would have been His real, innermost prayer. His prayer was answered, for the cross was changed to a crown. Gethsemane Into paradise, death into immortal glory. IX8SO.V8 rnoM oetiisf.mane. Every life has its Gethsemanes of sor row, and may have its victories. Alone, that worn-out wordYet all tho poets sin?, and rief hath knowa Of hopes laid waste. Unclls In that word. Alooe. llulwcr. 'Ue sure it Is something more thaa surface feeling, something more than Impulse; it is good, honest, sober, con siderate, patient principle, stayed up by prayer, that alone can remain awake, and outwatch the stars, and wait through the darkness, nnd conquer temptation." F. D. Huntington. The best people find the least fault with their brethren, and are the most ready to find excuses for the failures of others. Prayer is not connucrinir God's re luctance, but taking hold of God's will ingness. Phillips llrooks. 1 here is no sin in shrinking from what, is painful, save when the shrinking is so violent that it resists the clear will of our Father. Cumming. iiotl s will is always Inünitclv bettor for us than our own. "God nlways answers !n kind or in kindness." Kr.CWTKCf britatioM should h am aids Instead ov&aper.