Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 37, Number 49, Jasper, Dubois County, 16 August 1895 — Page 7

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C. JIOAXK. 3'iibliHhnr. JA.si'Ki:. INDIANA. OUR BACK DOOR. Jost back of tho hou.o, rl-jht imilcr a tree. Is a box that I full c: Kllvur snail 0( sand that win washed by u xaltless ko:i Till It rivals tho whltu of a woman's liund Anil out of that box of sand arise Such'wonilorful Nights us never before "Were spoken of Hp or seen of eyes, Ami all within sight of our hack door. There' an old ple-tln, with numborlcM hol A shovel, a roko. anil un old tin can, A block of wood, and oh, dear souls: In tho ml'litt of tbuso Ik a worltlnßincn; He is busily mäkln; plos and cakes. AnrtditMlm: und Nlftlnir anil playiiiK toro Tho which a nolo In als stomach makes. Which hu brim; to IUI at our back door. And all of tho little folk living near Havi) hoard of this wonderful box of .sand, So full of ticuHurcs their hearts hold dear; Anil In conin tiooplnu' tho buy band. Till tho "adds hiivc forgotten tho cruel cn And tho v.aves that lashed ihr. souiullns churn ;ar tho flood of laudator, the bubbling Rico, mat rippio tinu break by our back dour. William S. Lord. In Chicago .Nuns. 5IADJS FOR TWO. BY I.UKK KHAKI. ACK HINKSTON was her blavc. bound hand and foot to her chariot wheel, or perhaps it would bo more modern to say, now that she had taken to cycling-, thut ho was bound to her bicycle r. wheel, olic hau flouted him and tcorned him for upwards of two years, and in despair Jack set himself at undoing his bonds. It was a slow and painful process, and the bonds had a habit of slipping again into hard knots when he caught a glimpse of Cissie, and Jack had almost made up his nr.nd to emigrate to some outlandish country, for he feared he would never be his own man again unless a very broad and extensive ocean rolled between them. No matter how .stern his resolutions were, they faded away to nothingness when ho metCissie in a new, pretty and stylish dress, for every costume she adopted ticcuicd to be even more fetching than the last. Clothes have so much to do with the appearance of a pretty girl. The trouble with .lack was that he had too much respect for women in general, and they all knew that, and consequently despised him, Cissie being the leader in heaping contumely on poor Hinkston, who, after all, was a very nice sort of fellow, who did not realize that girls as a rule are somewhat silly and more apt to take up with a shal low-brained, conceited rapscallion than with a fellow of genuine worth like Jack Hinkston. Jack had heard that Cissic had taken to the bicycle, but he had never seen the young- lady on a machine. For the past week or two Jack had avoided 'Cissie, and Iiis resolutions of abandonment had so strengthened themselves "that he felt he would be a free man if ixc could merely keep away from her; but. on the other hand ho realized that the next time he saw her she would have on a new dress and would look more like an angel than ever, and he trembled for the result. In the matter of the new dress Jack was perfectly right, and he saw the girl tinder circumstances that nearly resulted in his downfall, but not the kind of downfall he had looked for. He had taken out his bicycle, and had gone for a long wheel into the peace ful country, where he would have no comrades but tho trees and the green fields, and the nedges that bordered the laues. As ne cycled along a nar row country thoroughfare, wheeling at a leisurely pace, for rapid cycling doesn't lend itself to somlor mcditn tion, lie heard behind him the sharp ring of a bicycle bell. .Something in its imperative clang, or else tho fact that lie was on a lonely road, caused him to look over his shoulder, and he nearly tumbled off his machine "in amazement and surprise. There "nn.r.0A, CI3SIK, HAD a tumble?" was Cissie on the top of a silver-plated Machine, with thq very newest and joost natty cut of an advanced woman's ''cycle costume, clipping over the distance at a tremendous rate of speed. passed him with a whirr, giving him a saucy nod and u salutation ns si'e went by. Jack gasped and said under Iii breath, well he would be somctlnnged a phrase that would not look pretty on these pages, but it must not J taken as typical of Jack's eonvcrsat on. Ho was knocked nil in a heap by e astonishing sight of Cissie in tho cry latest lady's bicycle costume. The next instant ho put his muscle to the weel and sped after her, shouting! '.Slop n minute, Cissie. I want to W1 .von something." "HI UlO the lichtet , " tho händf W u J?IS 'ni5.Rce,l,1,mv".tha'

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pulled up "Well, let her go. Hho will find out all I wanted to tell her." Cissie disappeared round a corner and when Jack came to it she was not to bo seen down me long avenue on which the sunshine dickered through the entwining branches of the trees overhead. Jack went on leisurely for a mile or two. then he jumped lightly oir his machine and trundled it along beside him. lie was now mile; away from civilization, deen in the midst nf the country. The road had suddenly become very bad, and Jack, who knew tho peculiarities of every lane within miles around, thought it safer to wheel the bicycle along by hand rather than risk a puncture of his pneumatic tires on the sharp Hint stones; scattered with such profusion along the way. .Near a little rustic bridge over a clear streu in at the bottom of a dell he found what ho expected tu lind a very pretty girl with a most woebegone, 'disconsolate 1 t. I... own un ner nice sitting on tlie grassy bank looking forlornly at a bicycle that lay on the road with the tire of the hind wheel collapsed. "Hullon, Cissie." said Jack, breezily. "Had a tumbleT "No." snapped Cissie; "I am not in the habit of tumbling." "Ah!" said Jack. "I see what is the matter. The tire is punctured. I knew that would happen. I. shouted after you to tell you of this bit of road, but you would not listen." I did not hear you." said Cissie. at which assertion Jack raised his evebrows with incredulity, which made Cissic all the more angry, especially as sue icnqw she was telling a thing which was not true. "Well, I don't want any help from you," she said, curtly. Why, of course not," returned Jncit. sitting down on the opposite bank, and leaning his bicycle against the hedge. A person who comes out on a wheel and doesn't know how to mend anything that goes wrong is simply a silly fool. One can see you understand nil about cycling because von have left your machine lying on the ground and the oil is running out of your lamp." ussie looked at the young man in amazement. It isn't your lamp," she said at last, "'and I can surely do what I like with my own. I don't see what riirht you have to interfere." "Bless you, Cissie,-' said Jack, "I am not interfering. 1 aui not even offering advice. I have never yet had the pleasure of seeing a woman take off a pneumatic tire and mend the inner tube. This of course you have to do before you can move on, for you are miles away from any plaee, and even if you left your machine here, you would not dare to walk homo in that idiotic costume." Cissie blushed deeply and the tears came into her usually bright eyes. She tugged nervously nt the skirts of her coat, and then seeing what she was doing and finding they but scantily covered her knees she looked for a moment as if she were going to burst out crying, for it had taken some bravery to come out for the first time in knick erbockers. However, instead of cry ing, she blazed out nt him in aner: "What business is it of yours," she cried, "how I am dressed? You are nothing to me and 1 am sure I don't care a penny for your opinion one way or another." "I don't suppose you do," said Jack, striking a match and lighting his nine. "1 used tobe under the impression that you knew how to dress. I am not any longer. I used to think that you could not put on anything that would bo unbecoming. Now I hold no such opinion. 1 once had an idea that nothing you put on would make a guy of you, but now, Cissie, that idea has "tied. Still, I must say that I admire your bravery in coming out in the daylight, where people can see you, in such a rig. It is utterly futile for you to pull together tho skirts of that coat. Tho hard thimrs you have said to me when you had on a pretty lawn tennis costume, for in stance, do not affect me a bit when they are said by one who merely looks like a saucy, impudent boy. Yon see. Cissie, 1 look down upon you as you once looked down upon me." "How dare you say you look down upon me?" said Cissie. Hecanse it's true," answered the young man, calmly. "This bank is ever so much higher than the one vou are sitting on, or, rather, were sitting on, for now you are trying to crouch out of sight, and I don't wonder at it. I take back all those numerous offers of marriage I made to you." "i on wretch! " she cried, springing to her feet. "You take them back, do you, when yon know very well thev were all rejected and scorned." "Oh, Cissie, Cissie!" cried the younsr man, turning away his head, 'sit dowu again. Do sit down. The costume doesn't look so had on a bicycle, but it is simply awful when a girl stands up." hen he looked around again Cissie lad sat down and had drawn her bicycle up on its wheels, crouching in measure behind it, as if with its spindly tires it could hide the awfulucss of the costume. "Well, CLsV cried Jack, "when arc you going to get at mending that tire?" "1 I I don't know any thine about tires," sobbed Cissie. "Ah," said thu young man. with a long breath, "1 thought that was the ease. A woman never know how to do anything well except scold. Most things in this world a man can do better than a woman, and that fact never becomes so apparent as when a woman tricks herself out as a man. Then her general futility becomes apparent, even to an infatuated fool like myself." Cissic had bent her head upon her hands, which rested on the saddle of her cycle. It was quite evident that she was in tears, and Jack, waiting for a reply, smoked on in silence. y m.sl nw. n voice: 1oolt ,,crc' LIssic' lf yo wie me very nicely I will take off that nncu-

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up again with some former indignation ia nor eyes. "111 throw the stream," she said, you to mend it," machine into the "before I will ask "Jtistasyouplea.se, Cissic," replied .lack, clasping his hands behind his head and leaning back in luxurious enjoyment of his pipe. "Just as you piease, x he Hay is my own and I sup pose you will wait here till night be fore you venture back homo again. Out of the kindness of my heart I will stay here with you, not to look at vou. for 1 shall gaze at the tops of the trees as much as possible, and not to talk to you, for if there is anything in this world I abhor it is an impudent, cneeicy uoy. lint this lane is a great place for tramps and gypsies, and it becomes very dark at night, because oi the overhanging trees. It is a grue some thoroughfare, anil a nasty place in which to meet a villain after the sun has gone down." k I 1 a . . 1 nave ureal v met a r nin ami a 1 4 it mute, souuea ussic, who had now let the bicycle go and had buried her face in her hands. "If yon refer to me, Cissie," taid .lack, "this is tdmply like most of the things you have saidnot true. I ain only too pleased to be of any assistance to anybody, but at the .same time, al though you might not have thought it by my former conduct, I am too proud to oner any assistance unasked." Jack smoked on, gazing up, as he had promised, at the tree tops. The silence was broken only by the sweet singing of the birds and now and then by a quiek catch af the breath on the part 01 ussiu. rive minutes elapsed, and then ten. "Jack," said Cissie, without raising ner neau. "Did you speak?" inquired tho young man. "Jack," she said, "I am perfectly help less anu 1 tnmic you have been very horrid to me. "All right," said the young man, ris ing to his feet. I will go away. Hut do try to get out of this lane before darkness comes on." "Don't go away," cried Cissit "I'lease forgive what I said, and won't you be so kind as to mend mv tiro?' Jack picked up the bicvele, took off the dripping lamp, turned the machine quickly wrong side up, took the mate rials out of his own cycle noueh. had the tire pumped full off and on again and in an incredibly short V. I''' 'CISSIK, T1IK COSTUME am. niairr.' space of time. Righting the machine and putting the lamp on once more, he held out his hand. Cissie reluctantly got on her feet. "There," he said, "you see how quickly a thing is fixed when the time is not wasted in foolish conversation. Least said, soonest mended. Are vou going any farther. Cissie? If you are. I would advise you to walk your ma chine over these stones." "No." said Cissic, with a deen. quiv ering sigh, "I am going home as quick ly as i can. and then I will burn this awful costume. I did not really want to put It on, but all the girls in our club havo one." "Cissie," said the young man, slip ping his arm around the natty, tailormade coat. "The costume is all right. and don't you bo bluffed. It looks as pretty as a picture and suits you down to the ground. When a girl talks kindly it's simply one of the nattiest costumes that over was constructed by a tailor, but I sav. Cissie. don't vn mime we nave misunderstood inh . . ----- - ...... other for a long time now, and don't you think that a bicycle made for two would require less exertion than couple of single machines?" "I don't know but it would.'' said Cissie, looking up with a smile that was all the sweeter because there was just the slightest suspicion of a quiver at inu corners of her pretty lips. And then Jack, with a villainy that surprised himself, taking advantage of '.he lonely situation, stooped down and kissed her, and Cissie. rcalizini tue luiiiuy or resistance, did not re sist. -Detroit Free Press. The Crow n Moimrr. The bird wasun old one, just knocked down with a charge of shot and handed over in a dazed condition to my infor mant He recovered from his wounds. out was always a very sedate bird. Ho had the run of a large house and was one day observed m a crouching atti tude pressed tightly into the angle lormeii ny tue wall and lloor. He had discovered that the place was infustod ...i.... ... miw umt was watching a crevice. the instant that a mouse showed his beau the crow had him in his beak ami would kill him by striking him with lightning rapidity two or three times on tho lloor and then swallow him. Froin that time mouse-catching wai the bird's sole occupation and amusement, and he wont about the house ixi ! absolute .Mleno and in the stealthy manner of a cat Fortnightly lleview. The iniltience of temper upon tone deserves much consideration. Habits of querulousness or ill-nature will com munieato a cat-like ounlitv to the nhi. ing. as infallibly ns they give a quality w inu speuKing voice. .Mordaunt -In 18S0 the stock herders of couw.try were 24.0U3 ia number. this

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AND TARIFFS. Ibbmm Adrantage of the WlUea LW to WorklRgBirB, A contemporary, whose dlstinctioa Is the number of things it don't know, cotes the revival in thu manufacture of pottery in this couutry, nt Kast Liver pool, in Ohio. The potteries havo been idln since tho passage of the Oorninn tariff until this week, it says, when three-fourths of them .started up on full time, and the rest aro running part of tho time. Anxious to forestall any credit that might Ins claimed by tho democrats that this revival is duo to democratic legislation, it informs its readers thut it is not, but that thut legislation gave it its black ej'e. The pottery men, it says, give as tho truo reason that, "in order to renew opera tions at all, and prevent their factories from remaining indefinitely idle, they were compelled to cut prices to tho level of those of thoso of imported goods under tho new reduced tarilr. 'Ill i . 1 llm'l- . n .Iii na.M ..-....v.nHr. hi. how friendly the democratic revenue reformers aro to the American workintrman. We are of one opinion with our con temporary in its last statement. The American workingmen, who vastly ex cccd in numbers the manufacturers of pottery, will certainly not regret tho reduction of the cost of their potterj'. Hut the really interesting part of this confuted jumble of statement and do duction, is the reason assigned by tho pottery men for resuming. They have been compelled to reduce tho price of their wares to a point where they could compete with tho foreign im ported ware, increased in cost by tho duty imposed. The average ad valorem tariff on their products under McKin leyism was 00 per cent., which was reauccu oy tno present act to 35 per cent, making a reduction of a little over 41 per cent. Under tho present law the cost of every S100 worth of pottery imported is increased 33 by the tax, making its cost S135. The pot tcry men, if our contemporary is not giving us another piece of misinforma tion, admit that, for every S103 worth of their ware, they add this $.1. of pro tection so as to bring their price up to tho level of that of their competitors: in oiner words, tho notterv manu . m . . facturers thus admit that they aro taking, as they have taken, to them isclvcs the entiro benefit of tho protec tion afforded. Apropos of this, and illustrating the "paralyzing effect" of the latest tariff act, wo have tho case of a Trenton, N. J., pottery which, on January 10. 1891. three months after tho passago of the Alchinley act, proposed to its employes reduction of 33tf per cent of their wages. Tho men went on a strike, winch lasted until April 30 that year, when a reduction of 23 per cent was accepted, but was followed on May 14 by a further reduction of 7 per cent. On June 10 of this year, tho same firm. under this "black-eye" tariff, increased tue wages of its employes from 10 to 40 per cent. The effect, then, of the re duction in the tariff is only to reduce the profit of tho employers and in crease wages, while tho effect of tho McKinley act was to incrcaso the profits and decrease wages. tVc agree that the comparison does show "how friendly tho democratic tariff reform ers aro to tho American workingmen. 5t l'aul Ulobe. THE TARIFF AS AN ISSUE. An Experiment That Would Itrlngr Dltaater oa the CoHBtry. As the Times has heretofore indi cated, the reopening of the tariff agita tion would be a most dangerous ex periment at this time, or even next year. The country has gone through a severe strain, tho result of the McKin ley law folly, and during tho months wnicu have elapsed sinco the rencal of mat mcasuro returning prosperity has encountered a good many difficulties. lut the work has been finally accom plished. To reopen the question now or in the near futuro would mstantlv snrcad larm throughout the country, drive capital back into concealment, de throne coufidenco in the safety of in vestments and minimize industrial operations. To invoke such a condi tion upon tho people of this country would ue a crime equal to high treason. " woum .y,,ousanur OI nüus: trius people into idleness, despair and M,,n. ruin. But, viewing the matter from tho standpoint of practical politics, tho democrats would notsuffer from such a contest. It would bo those who aim to restore tho excessive taxation, tho blighting economic system, would be smitten hin anil thigh. democrats don't invite a contest on such conditions, but if it comes they will meet tho foes of the pcoplo with 6tich forco and vigor that tho folly wiM never be repeated. Kansas City Times. Some of tho republican leaders and papers cannot get over thcir'astonishmcnt at tho return of good times while a democratic administration is still In power. They have argued out tho whole question to their own satisfaction in tho past and have shown conclusively that such stato of affairs is simply impossible, and now they distrust tho evidence of their eyes. Hut industrial conditions are by no means dependent on political organizations, though they may be more or less af- . -.1 1 il 1 ... . . I lccieu uy uicsc, nnu wo nro m lor a period of prosperity just now whatever party holds tho reins of government at asliington. Providence Journal. This country grew rich under tho Mckinley law for awhile, ami tho fact deceived those who knew no bet ter. Hut tho people are now beginning to understand that tho country in creased in wealth nbt because of pro tection, but in spite of it. Thor seo that the ono billion dollars taken nnuually from tho earnings of the peo ple to enrich tho trusts nud favoritco was a draft upon tho bouo and sinew of labor. They understand now that this money serves as a fund by which earners may buy comforts for their families, and thut iucreaso tho volume of business amoug tradesmen. Ivaaaas City Times.

WAGES

M'KINLEY'8 POSITION,

A Matter of DrHit Uftcrrtalaty AnMf Kepabllcati. McKinley has a good deal of positiv strength and also a good deal of positive weakness. Tho friends of a prohibitive tariff justly look to him as their champion. They know that ho and his bill cannot bo divorced, that his candidature would mean McKinleyism, and that his election would inisuro them the support of the executive office for another extremely protective law. But the number who desiro this is much stnaller than it was in ISSSand 1800. Tho McKinley bill was a disappointment in several ways. It disappointed thu politicians by turning vast numbers of them out of office. It disappointed tho workingmen becnuso' It was followed by general reductions in wages and no increase. It disap pointed many of the manufacturers themselves by failure to give them tho advantages expected and also by stim u luting production to a point that was followed by a break in prices. Finally, it failed to yield revenue enough to support the extravagant scalo of expenditu re inaugurated by the Fiftytirst congress, leaving a deficit of sei'cnty million dollars iu the last fis cal year of its operation. For theso and other reasons many republicans wish to eliminate the tariff. Hcsidcs, however willing others may be to make the tariff tho dominant issue, the free silver men aro to be reckoned with They insist that there shall be a free silver platform and a free silver can didate, or they will not remain in the party, but have a candidate of their own. This indifTcrenco is in its nature irreconcilable in any other way than the conversion of one's party to the views of tho other. Mr. O'ConneU'a suggestion that a man be nominated pledged not to veto a silver bill will not satisfy cither faction. 2oone knows where Gov. McKinlej stands on tho currency. If they knev his present position, they would not know where he would be next year. IIa has been on all sides of tho question. Ho would not be satisfactory either to silveritcs or sound money men with out much more explicit statements than St has been possible to get from him so far. Tho chairman of tho republican national committee, Mr. Car ter, who is a free silver man, is opposed to McKinley. Tho latter is said to desire an early convention, to be held in Maj', so as to allow five months' debata on the tariff. Louisville Courier-Jour-naL THE WOOL DUTIES. Barbarous McKinley Taxation Will X lie llraumctl. Tho suggestion of Senator Dubola that "the restoration of wool to tha dutiablo list is the thing in which tha west is most intereated," and that this fihould be dono likewise as a revcuuo measure is not received with enthusiasm by tho Now York Tribune. That journal reminds the western senator that wool duties cannot be restored without a restoration of tha McKinley taxes on woolen manu factures, and that this is likely to prove a difficult task. 2sot only difficult but impossible for two 3'cars to come, with tho senate constituted as it will bo and with President Cleveland in the white house. The attempt to increase ravenuo by raising tho taxes on the cloth ing of the people will not be sudcaaaf ul at present, if ever again. "H liiere are economic as well as pol litical reasons for this. The short experience wc have had with free wool haa proved it to bo for the advantage alike of the growers of wool, tho manufacturers and the people. We are getting raoro clothing, better clothing and cheaper clothing with excellence and durability as the test. The price of domestic wool is advancing at the same time with tho wages of woolen mill operatives. This very practical object lesson will not bo lost on the people. The political shepherds of Ohio will not able to "pull the wool over their eyes" again, especially as they remember that the prico of wool declined forty per cent during tho four years of the McKinley law. Tho McKinley taxes of forty-four per cent, on wools and ninety-eight per cent, tipon woolen goods were among the most barbarous taxes ever imposed They will not be rcenactsd N. Y. World. NOTES AND COMMENTS. Mr. McKinley, ns a doctor of laws, should not bo called in if tho

tariff law ever needs another prescrip",at tion. St. llouis Republic x he rtM j .1. .... .

Ajiero ia more uian a reasonable ground for suspicion that the McKinley boom was overworked by inter ested parties with sinister objects. Chicago Chronicle. Under a high protective tariff we manufacture for tho United States; under a low tariff wo manufacture for tho world. Which is tho better? Florida Times-Union. Is Gov. KcKinlcy of Ohio a Jo nah? In hia management of the finan cial affairs of tho stato of Ohio tho treasury has a deficit of two million dollars, and tho tax rate is not sufficient to make it good. Birmingham nai,i Herald. Tho prico of wool is Increasing, but not by the aid of bounties, protec- .!.. 1 i!1J, . , .... lion and artificial nourishment. The increase is based on tho industrial demand from new woolen mlVIs In nil parts of tho country. That is tho democratic tariff policy, which creates a better demand nnd a liigher prico for raw materials by taklnir off the dutv. Chicago Chronicle. Tho report of general content ment and prosperity comes from tho west as well as tho east, and yet tho New York Tribune persists In having the tariff laws gone over again by Mc Kinley tinkers. It is apparent from this fool policy that Whitelaw Ilcid does not intend to tako chances with another landslldo by running for the vico presidency. Secretary Lemont has been west to sco for himself. Mr. Ilcid sits down and from his nreiudlcei evolves statements to please thoaa prejudices. Detroit Free Prtaa.

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. letarnatlOHal Lraaea tor AHgttut 18, II Tha New llama la Cauaan Uamt. 9 a-ia. (Specially Arranged from Poloubet'a Notes. Ooldkx TKXtr. Thou saalt bles.1 tUo Lor4 ttay God for the cood land which He natu glvaa tac.-Ieut.8:ia Thk Section Include! the history la Numbers SI to 26, and the whole of Deuteronomy. Thk Time Karly In II. C HM (Usher.) near the close of tho fortieth year of the esodas, and a short time before tho death of Moses, The 1'lace The Israelites werecnoamped la the broad space between the Hirer Jordaa aad tho mountains of Moab, about opposite Jericho, on tho eastern bank of tho river. This tract hai a breadth of four or nro mile The space occupied by tho Isracllttsh camp consisted. In tho main, of a large and luxurious oasis upon this bank. slightly raised above the barren flat lie v. K. T. Kspln. KXPLANATOKY. Tho characteristics of tho new home are set forth by Moses, in full view of the PromiMjd Land, to cheer and encourage the Israelities to tako possession; and to do all that was possible to make them faithful and obedient, so that they might retain possession, and enjoy the blessings and accomplish the work of the true people of God. V. 3. "That ye may' increase mightily," because they would be fruitful, and long lived, and healthy, if they obeyed. "As the Lord thy God hath promised thee," repeatedly to Abraham, to Jacob, to Moses. "In the land that floweth with milk and honey," a favorite phrase for great fertility, and an abundance of tho luxuries aa well as necessities of life. V. 4. "The Lord." Jehovah (as always when printed in small capitals) tho ever-living God, sclf-existiag, the source of Life. "Our," belonging to us, the One we worship. "Our God," Elohim in the plural, as is usual all through tho Old Testament. The plural expresses not many Gods (for it is repeatedly declared that lie is one, a unity), but the manifold nature of God, including all-the attributes of being, all good qualities, all powers, all authority. "Is one Lord." This statemcut contains more than (1) the truth that God ia a unity; thcro are not many Gods but only one; but also (2) He is the absolute, eternal God, and He alone. V. 5. "And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart." Tho specification, "with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with aU thy might," is intended to Include every faculty that can possibly come in queation. Ho that has this love in his heart has the fountain and source of all geod. V. C. "These words Vilich I command thee this day," chapter 5 aad onwards, "shallbc in thine heart," learned by heart, understood and loved. V. 7. "And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children." In every way, by home instruction, and by schools, and by Sabbath worship and teaching. "And shalt talk of them when thou sittest in -thine house," etc The atmosphere of the home shall be full of these truths. Men will speak often of that which is of the greatest interest. Conversation is a marvelous power for culture and training. V. 8. "Thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand," etc. It was a literal and formal interpretation of thia corainaad wliich led to the use of phylacteries upon the arm and upon tho forehead. These aro small cubical leather cases, in which are parchments containing four passages of Script uro in, four columns (Ex. 13: 1-10, 11-16; Deut. 6: 4-0 and 11: 13-21). These arc bound upon the arm and between tho.eyea by leather thongs. Bat the' real mcaatn of this command ia that God's lawshould be in every deed of the hand, in the sight of the eyes, in the.plaaaiof the head. Every part of the dally Ufa should be ruled by God's law. 0. " rite them upon the posts of thy hodsc:" This is tho origin of the Jewish Mczuzah, "the name given to tho square piece of parchment, inscribed with Deuteronomy 0:4-9 and 11:13-21, which Is rolled up in a small cylinder of wood or metal, and afllxcd to the rightmnd post of every door in a Jewish house. 10. "Give thee great and goodly cities, which thou buildcst not:" The Israelites were about to make a great chango in their mode of living, from tents. to eities; from a wild and wandering to a civilized and settled life. This exposed them to special dangers, because the change was sudden and these new comforts were not gradually gained by their own exertions, but were already prepared for them by the ungodly nations that were to be driven out. "AVhen thou shalt have eaten and be full:" then comet the danger which everaccompahies prosperity and luxury. 12. "Uewarc lest thou forget tho Lord:" forget all you owe to Him, forget to think of IHm, to worship' min, to love and obey II im. 13. "Thou shalt fear:" reverence, look up to with awe, feci how great lie is, and how He will punish thoso who rebel against ' Him. "And swear by His name:" Not profanely, but all legal oaths shall be in Iiis name, and not in tho name of the heathen gods, for that Is a recognition of them as real gods, and is a step in the direction of worshiping them. 14. "Ye shall not go after other gods:" to which they would be tempted by association with their heathen neighbors. 15. "Thy God Is a jealous God:" that Is, determined to havo no rival. "Tho anger of the Lord:" His intense fecliag . ugainstsin which leads Him to punish. "Destroy theo from off the face of tho earth:" because they would no longer bo His people, nnd kingdom, and proclaim Ills truth, and carry out Uia purposes. Tnata Tket I Truth, , Not every thinpr is truth for us which wc assent to ns true. Truth is operative and energizing. It never grows old. It always comes homo freshly to somebody. Ono may hear a truth a thousand times over, hut not until it reaches him ns a personal matter Is it really truth to him. Food is not food if it be undigested and unasshnilatcd. So is truth really truth puly when it Is assimilated, and becomes an oncrghttne; power in soul life. S. S. Times. "No power but that of tho Holy Spirit can produce holiness of heari and life." 7

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