Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 38, Number 1, Jasper, Dubois County, 13 September 1895 — Page 7

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JWSTHit. - INDIANA. A HOJLVIVCK OK TJIE DAY. THKL, think of the .step thut you arc a bunt to take before you break oil this engagetuen t n ml perhaps ruin both of our lives." i.eorge. it makes mc very unhappy; but I never, never can marry a man who rides a Duster." Ami yu wu' 'ut 11 wud come between us. That shall never be, Kthel; f t sooner will I give up all my hopes of inheriting my unele's estate, which 1 1VU value! foryour .sake only. Yes. 1 '!J ?ive il UP " Ami that must not be, George. If you displease him you not, only throw to ihe winds n large fortune, hut you are left penniless. Then what would tro live u? No; there is no alternative All is over between us." -Kthel. think. Here is old Uncle Jhubeii. with one foot in the grave, a dcotee of the Duster wheel, and I nnM ride a Duster, lie says that no jiefliew of his shall risk his life and limb on a Wbiz.er. And you you will not ride with me unless 1 use a " hizzer." hthel Wheeler was silent. At length she replied: "George, 1 will never marry a man who rides anything but u hizzer. No person of sense would ride any other machine. And as to that foolish old. Mr. Tires, he has no right to insist that you ride a horrid Duster. Come. George, try and" Van Spoke shook his head and gazed out over the sunlit sound. There was silence, save for the humming of the "bees in the vines that shaded the broad Teranda. He arose to his feet, and looking earnestly at the fair girl who was reclining among the cushions of the great chair, he said, slowly: "Ethel Wheeling, you have let a machine, a mere machine, come between us. Fortune has decreed that 1 must ride a Duster. All bonds between us are "broken. May you forget it; but I-1-" He turned away and strode rapidly towanl the end of the veranda, where he had left his bicycle. The girl buried her face among- the cushions and groaned: "I will never, never use any wheel but a Whizzer." For a moment she wept; then she recovered herself and would have called after him but he was far out of hear ing, spinning down the driveway out of the park. As Van Spoke pedaled rapidly along the smooth road that skirted the sound, his heart seemed to him to be resting almost on the saddle of his -wheel, so heavy was it. His, he felt, was a hard fate, for he loved Ethel "Wheeling with his whole soul, and now it was all over between them. She would not marry another for some years at least. lie was confident that it would be a long time before she recovered from the effects of their separation. Then his uncle could not last much longer. If she would only wait for him He heard a pllng-pling and looked up. Coming swiftly toward him was another wheel, the rider of which had his chin almost resting on the handle liar as he forced his machine along. Van Spoke caught sight of his face as lie passed and was so unstrung that his wheel wiggled violently and then threw him headlong on tlie grassy bank at the roadside. ''Charley Spockett," he groaned, "and on a brand-new Whizzer. Oh, Ethel! Ethel! heartless woman'," He rose to his knees and gazed down the road just in time to see his rival swing round a turn into the lane that led to Wheeling's place. Aching in every joint, in heart and in mind, cursing himself and Sprockett and his venerable uncle, lie clambered once more onto his machine and rode away towanl home. Wearily he worked up the hill on the brow of which stood the Tires house. A groom was just leading away his uncle's bicycle as he reached the doorwaj. He threw himself from his machine, turned it over to the man and went in search of his patron. He found him seated in a cool corner of the porch pulling vigorously and fanning himself. Iteubcn Tires was a handsome old HAVE I.KT A MERE WIIEM. COME HETTTEU.N t'9." Ai ap??rontly W elghtv years. !'wl; Ward and hair that fell a ni f U broa1 "o"lc" gave him rather ?P,pcarcc. which seemed II U LZ with the brown l & ' hnd V?on a widower and Cr " comfort of his old Ü the nL;lrU' wh,ch hö de oa the stock market. The world knew

tins, and many wise mothers had

looked on Win Spoko as not only suitable hut as a most desirable fmrti for their marriageable daughters. As lieorge approached hU unclothe old man greeted him kindly. "Well," he cried, "so you have Wen out for a spin, too. I have just got back from a run over to Springer'sa good twelvemile run. Cooling oil a little; then for a colli plunge." Van Spoke threw himself into a chair and for some moments vouchsafed no reply. Then he laid one hand gently on his unele's knee and said: "Uncle, you have been almost a father to me, and I wuut you to know how deeply I appre " "Come, come, (ieorge, don't get sentimental now," interrupted Mr. Tires. "I'm not feeling that way by any means. Old Springer and I have arranged a meeting at last. I rode over there to-day with our neighbor, .Miss Follows. Now. don't look concerned. It's nothing serious, I assure you. She and I wore children together, and simply went out for a little spin. Hut as I was saying " "Unele Iteuben, I have something concerning which I wish to" "Just wait until 1 toll you about this affair. Wo went to Springer's and succeeded in arranging a meeting for to-morrow. Von know 1 have been trying to fix it for years, and we had trouble over the handicap. We settled all that. Koad race two miles tomorrow one hundred dollars a side. I give hint a minute's start on me, as lie is five years older than I. I 'ray what do you think of your old uncle now?" Mr, Tires clapped Iiis nephew gayly on the shoulder ami then threw himself hack in his chair aud laughed long and loud. "Uncle," began Georg, "I want to marry Ethel Wheeling, as I have told you before. I have come again to ask your consent." Reuben Tires at once became serious. He leaned forward and replied earnestly: ".My boy, you know what I have already told you. I can have no nephew of mine tying himself for life to a light-headed creature who rides a Whizzer. 1 can have no heir of mine daily risking his life and limb for the sake of u woman. What does she say? lias she consented to give up her folly r Van .Spoke sadly shook his head and replied: "No, she has not: she says that she will not marry, to live in constant fear of being widowed. She will not have a husband who, as she puts it, is so lacking in mind as to ride a Duster. Uncle Iteuben, I love you like a father, but Kthel is all the world to me; withdraw vour hard condition." "Knough!" cried the old man, springing to Iiis feet, his face Hushed with anger. "The impudent woman! I tell vou, George Von Spoke, it has long been my desire to leave my fortune to found the Tires Home for Crippled Wheelmen a lastinir monument to my memory, to my loneticence. On your account alone have I given up this, the darling project of my olu age. Go; marry the woman if you will: marry her and not a cent of money will you get. 1 will cut off jour very allowance. Choose, choose for yourself." Mr. Tires turned upon his heel and strode into the house, leaving George Van Spoke choking with grief and anger. Van Spoke thought of suicide. Hut that would not win him Ethel. He thought of giving up his fortune and marrying her, penniless as he was. Hut she would not have him under such conditions. Torn by con dieting emotions, raire and grief, love and hate, wild envy of Sprockett. mad condemnation of self, he buried his head in his hands and wept. Several hours passed, but still he lay there hopelessly downcast. The evening shadows fell, the darkness came, the crickets and the frogs began their melancholy chorus, the butler announced dinner, but to it all he was oblivious. Then suddenly, as comes the Hash of the lighthouse lamp across the stormy deep to the belated seaman, enme an idea". The race of to-morrow! It was as though the sun had suddenly appeared in the heavens and dispelled the darkness. The blackness of despair was gone. Ethel would be his. And Uncle Kenben pshaw! He had stood many a harder fall. The deep gu'.ter was the place that would serve him right at the foot of the long slope leading to the head of Barnacle bay. The moon was sinking low in the west aud the earth was wrapped in darkness. The great house, unconscious of the danger which threatened its master, lay silent in sleep when George Van Spoke silently crept from his chamber and made his way to the room in the distant part of the house where the bicycles were kept Hy the light of the dark lantern which he carried he succeeded in picking out Iiis uncle's favorite wheel, which he rolled to the middle of the room. He drew from one pocket a fine short file, from another a small ball of putty and from a third a little can of black paint which he opened with his knife. All was in readiness. Jtefore him lay the machine which his uncle was to ride. Three cuts on the frame work, a little putty and a little paint, and it would never stand the strain to be placed upon it on the morrow. A vision of Ethel Wheeling Hashed through Van Spoke's mind, of Ethel riding at his side, and he bent over and scratched the paint with his tile. The nolso jarred his nerves and a cold chill crept through his veins. Ho saw his uncle, who had cared for him since his boyhood, lying bleeding, perhaps dead, among the wreckage of his Duster, in the bottom of the gutter. A struggle raged within him. On one hand was Ethel and happiness, but gained by treachery. On the other a long, dull, hollow life, but untainted by dishonor. His better self conquered. Hc rose, wheeled the bicycle back to Its ulaco and crept back to his bud.

The occurrences of the previous rfsy had been plotted from the memory of Re'iben Tires when lie greeted his nephew on the following morning ami cheerily lmde 1dm prepare to accompany him to the Hene of the great race, since he wished his dear Georg to witness his Vr.nmph over th blatant Springer. Van Spoke obeyed the command. Hy ten o'elock the two Were spinning to the scene of the contest. They reached starting point at Speckled Trout inn some minutes be fore the time agreed upon. The other contestant, with nmuuberof hlsgrandchildren, was already on the ground, a were several neighbi r, who were to act as referees and officers. The conditions were amicably settled two miles straightaway, on a bet of one hundred dollars; the older of the racers to have a minute start. t A boy arrived to announce that the judges were at their post at the end of the course. All was in readiness George held his uncle's sweater when the time came for the old man to go to the mark. The signal was given and away went Mr. Springer, his venerable head bent low over the handle bar, hidden from view by his back, which was raised like the hump of a camel. A minute. Then off shot Iteuben Tires, his eyes fixed on the ground just ahead, every muscle and nerve strained for the trial to come. The others followed, pcdnlmg their fastest to keep the racers in view. Van Spoke took the lead, and soon left them far behind. With beating heart he spun along, striving to keep in sight of his uncle. He could see his red jersey plainly. Tires was gaining. Then the old man disappeared over the brow of a little hill. Harder and harder Van Spoke pedaled on. They were in view again, spinning along the level stretch below niiu. They were abreast now, tire to tire, putting forth sucrhuman efforts. Slowly but surely the red jersey was going ahead of the blue and white. A thrill of family pride shot through Van Spoke, for his uncle was leading by two lengths, when the contestants disappeared over the brow of the nexthilL Tires was leading; Tires would win. In the elation of the moment George forgot his treacherous scheme of the night before. Then it came back to him with the thought of what might have been. Hut all was well. His uncle was on a peerless Duster. With lightened heart the young man pedaled on, striving tobe in sight of the finish, just leyond the next hill. Fast and furious he flew up the long incline, over the brow, lie looked ahead. There was the blue and white, alone, juat crossing the finish line. And at the foot of the long slope he saw a girl's figure bending over something. He sped on and in a moment was at the fateful gutter, lllcedintr and unconscious, his limbs entangled in the wreck of his wheel, lay Iteuben

Tires. Heading over him, untwisting the spokes from his leg., was Hthel Wheeling. Her Whizzer was leaning against the fence. Again the evening shadows enveloped the great Tires mansion. Again 'Hi 1 Vi! I Hr. Ü 'um 3 . ML'CllEKH CP, r.KOKOK," SAID M.V.V, FKKW.V. THK CI.1 the frogs sent forth their discordant melody. In obedience to a summons. George Van bpoke stole softly to his uncle's room and seated himself on a low stool by his bedside. He kept back the tears with a powerful effort, and reached forth and gently grasped the bunch of bandages that enfolded the injured man's hand. "Cheer up, (ieorge," said the old man, feebly. "The doctor says Til pull through all right, though I was pretty nearly done for." Van Spoke buried his head in the covers and soblnid. "Cheer up," continued the old man. "I'm all right. It wouldn't have leen so bad if I'd won, though. I was leading, pulling right away from him, had him all puffed out. Then I came to that confounded ditch. I'd crossed it many a time before. My machine seemed to disappear from beneitth me. That's all I remember. It was the wheel did it. That Duster. I'd have won on a Whizzer. lie rode a Whizzer. George, destroy your Duster. And the girl? Where is she? Ah! She is a knqwing one." Then his mind began to wander. He imagined that he was riding, and reached out his hands to grasp the handle bar. Van Spoke left him thus, mounted his bicycle and a few moments later had reached the home of Ethel Wheeling1. He heard a low murmur of voices, and for a moment stood silently behind the vines that covered the veranda, listening. He recognized Sprockett's voice. "Miss Wheeling," he called, gently. Ethel arose and came toward hi in. "What'" she said, making vain efforts to conceal her pleasure. "Mr. Van Spoke. Mr. Sprockett, here is Mr. Van Spoke.'' Sprockett from the darkness made an inaudible reply. Van Spoke whispered oftly: "Kthel, I can ride a Whizzer.' And Sprockett heard a repetition ot soft chirps which caused him to steal Htvny unseen aud unheard. X. Y. Evcuing Sua.

THE DEMOCRATIC DOCTRINE. It He malm firm miiiI liirfcangrd n the Jlin.f.r OgfitloH. The reaffirmation of the Ohio democracy of the democratic plank in the national convention of 1893 on the subject of gold and silver calls atten-

lion to something that has b;en over- . looked by a good many of the talkers 1 on the free coinage question. It has ' been assumed by mauv of these that f . .. - - - 1 me cioctrine oi the ueinocrauc partv on the subject is in doubt, while some have not hesitated to aftirra that the party is in favor of the free coinage of silver at the old rate of sixteen for one. It is worth while, therefore, at this timo to recall that the only authoritative utterance of the democratic party on the subject is contained in I the platform of 15J2, which was indorsed by the Ohio democracy. The plank reads as follows: "V.'o öniiac tw refWbllcan ZcRilat!on known as ibe Sherman act ot IM a a coward lj: ir.ilitjhlH fraught tilth pnstlbiluiC't ci ilansrr la lac fuUrc whlrb i&ould maice all Its jupimert a xre'A si it bsthor anxious for it spcetlr repeal U'o fcoM to tti ue oJ both ffoM aaJ silver as Ite standard mosey o! the country anj to the coinage of both kjM and lirer without Oiscrlmlnatins sc.iost cither tr.etal or charge fr siiifctase. but the collar unit of coinage of bo'.h metals ua be of ejuai Intrinsic and exehanse ihle vlue or t) adjusted through internetlnaal agreement or ly -ch safes -arus of JejSletloa as shall Insure the nja!nte:;.!i--'n of the p-irltr of the two met sit and the t'.juil power of every dollar at all t!ra In the markets and In the I payment of debts, and -xo demand that ail ppcr currency shall ept at pap with and re- ! nollcv as ieclal!T necearv for the urotectlon of the fanners and la&orics classes, the first and most defenseless victios of uata.e money ami a Ucctuatic; currency." As to what this meant there could be no real doubt. The friends of free sd ver hau none at the time, for th-y moved through Mr. l'atterson. of Colorado, to insert the word "free before the words "coinage of both gold and bilver" in the money plank. This motion was emphatically voted down, and the meaning of the plank, so far as free coinage of silver was concerned, was thereby put beyond the possibility of misconception or misconstruc tion. It is worth while to recall also what President Cleveland said on the same subject in his letter of accept ance. Starting with the proposition that the people are entitled to aound and honest money abundantly sufficient in volume to supply their business needs, hc proceeded: "Whatever raay be the form of the people's currency, national or state whether sold, silver or paper It shouli be so regulated and guarded by governmental action or by wise and careful laws that no one can be deluded as to the certainty and stability of Iti value. Every dollar put into the hands of the people should te of the same intrinsic valus or pjrchailns power With thl condition absolutely guaranteed bath gold and sliver can be safely utilized upon equal terms in the adjustment of our currency. "la dealing with this subject no sclSsh scheme should be allowed to lntarrcce and no doubtful experiment lhould be attempted. The wants of our people arltlng from the de2ciency or icapsrfect distribution of money circulation ought to be fully and hoacstly recoxnlzed and raeleatly remedied. It aaould. however, be constantly remembered that the inconvenience or Ion that might arUetrom such a tltu'silon caa be tnu:h xzore eav.ly borne than the universal distress which taust follows discredited currency." This is the national democratic doctrine to-day; and it will remain so until the democratic party in national convention sees fit to modify or change it. Its strong affirmation by the Ohio democracy indicates that it will not be essentially changed at the next assembling of the national democracy. Detroit Free Press. THE REPUBLICAN MISTAKE. Def rated by Their Iaunn Fore Dill Itaae la 181.!. Chairman Manlcy o' the national republican executive committee expresses with candor the opinion that his party made a great mistake about the force bill issue, and should have dropped it eight years before they did. This is retrospective and historical, but it is interesting and undoubtedly true. We imagine Mr. Manley says no more thau his former chieftain, the Hon. James G. Itlaine, would say if he were living now, or would have said with entire frankness if questioned on the subject at any time within four years before his death. We believe, furthermore, that the remark of Mr. Manley expresses the present convictions of Hon- Thomas It. Reed on the subject The force bill issue in 1S02 was primarily and peculiarly the creation of Gen. Harrison, and it defeated him and elected Mr. Cleveland. There is no probability that the democratic campaign of ISM, whoever the republican candidate may be, will turn on the issue of federal interference in elections and negro domination in the south. The disappearance of that issue from American politics was the greatest if not the only important result cf the democratic victory three years ago next November. N. Y. Sun. Gov. McKinley prophesies that the majority by which hc was elected in the year of the great political landslide "will not be materially decreased" in the Ohio election this fall. Predictions of this sort may be expected all around. Hut with republican politicians generally it will be nothing1 more than whistling to keep their courage up. The fact is that the world has moved fast and far since November, ISM, and the conditions have attogetber changed. That was a time of depression, low wages poverty w republican year. This is a time of business revival, of rising wages, of comfort and hope a democratic year. Boston Post. Some scattered republican may talk free silver, but when the time comes they will be found voting against democratic candidates with all the delight of gratified hostility. Democrats will win or lose by what they do for themselves. If they can tot organize a straight democratic party behind a platform they cannot play winning politic. St. Louis Republic. '(T Nearly everybody except the Ohio governor himself sees that the joint debate between Maj. McKinley and General Prosperity Is a one-sided aafair. Louisville Courier-Journal. ,

THE DEMOCRATIC NEED. WU leadership Nrcr La tkm Sarcw of the Party. The Philadelphia Telegraph seek te deay to thu liberals In England and the democrats ia this country the hop which the World found for them ia thu

alternate defeats and triumphs of tae past thirty years. It says that: Ts urru.ns t the Jctert of ti Sum aist tke dtaocmic co&treu tut! TKI.m fnm ...... m . ..111 last year wi for cause. as4 that cace Uli Ciltt la the Tlciouv asd lajartout legUUMoa. tot ocljr ia thai which m cZetd hut ta that which wis atteacpted, of the litt cetirre u The people who hare tuScred o yreatly tcsuveo: the acts and the sttessptt ot the late democratic icijoritr Is cosjrres. as J war- are M.il ucrlfcf laue of th?za. are t Hkeljr to forget what piny It wa that lcSicted the toas-ccst.sued distrc upa theta. So rvery uprising in the past resulting in a defeat of the party in power has been for cause or supposed cause, but this has not prevented the swiagof the political pendulum just as far in the opposite dtrectioa within two or four years. The people's dissatisfaction with the last congress was not with the principal acts of legislation, bat with the delay and faithlessness in some important particulars that marked the action of the senate. The surrender to the sugar trust and the "hold-up" of tho Wilson bill by the sugar, iron, coal and transportation rings, angered the democratic voters, and justly. But the irajvortant extension of the free list , and the reduction of duties on the necj essarics of the people met the hearty approval of the great popular majorities that condemned McKinleyisoi ia lew and again in 101. The "long-coatinued distress" of th? J people was not occasioned by anything which the democratic congress did or attempted. That distress was caused by the impairment of public confidence in our currency under the operation of the republican sdver-purchase act. The foundation of a restored confidence was laid when the democratic congress and administration forced a repeal of Ulis misehief-tvorking law. The recovery was slow, as all recoveries from such panics and depressions are slow, but it came in due time. That no injury was worked to any legitimate business interest by the partial measure of tariff reform finally adopted is abundantly proved by the present condition of all the great industries. Agriculture, manufactures, traffic and commerce are ail thriving. Trices and wages have advanced, the Tolume of business has steadily increased and the high tide of prosperity, has enveloped the land. The republicans are silenced. They have no policy. All the conditions exist for a popular reaction in favor of the democrats. Only wise leadership is needed to cause history to repeat itself ia another swing of the pendulum. For tne party's and the country's sake it is to be regretted that the leadership is not vet equal to the opportunity. V. World. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. The eastern republicans are very much afraid that Ikn Harrison's sonorous silence is silver. Detroit Fret. Press. The gold surplus raa oat of the treasury faster under Harrison's administration than it has any time since. Chicago Chronicle. Mr. Foraker denies that good times are returning. Who says that Mr. Forakcr is not loyal to Mr. McKinley ? Louisville Courier-Journal. The iron mills of this country are unable to fill their orders This is one of the many beneficial results of the Wilson tariU and democratic rale. Sioux City Tribune. Democratic good times are causing the republican managers more trouble and anxiety than are all the national issues combined. There Is a growing desire to continue the policy which has relieved depression and restored prosperity. Detroit Free Press. Maj. McKinley will please observe that the democratic tariff is doing some very vigorous talking in ita behalf. And the Wst feature of the business is that the people applaud every additional increase of wages as a big point izx favor of a continuance of democratic tariff reform. Lafayette (Ind.) Journal. Until the McKinleyite press can satisfy the voters of the United States that they ure better of! when they pay fortr dollars each for a suit of clothes than when they pay twenty-five dol- j lars snecp snu wool statistics wm oc produced in vain. The voters who wear clothes are fifty times more numerous than the voters who raise sheep. Chicago Chronicle. Times of prosparty are democratic times. Just now the people are enjoying the fruits of the democratic victory of 1532, which established the conditions under which industry and trcde have found a solid place to stand upon. It has taken a long time to get rid of the malign influences of the four years of republican rule ander Harrison, but at last these are shakca off and the country is on the high road to the greatest prosperity ever known. I los ton Post. "The increase of wag-, says the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, "has given Mr. McKinley great discomfort, bat as a circus was attached in Ohio the other day hc begins to hope that the business revival is only a spart, and that the re turn to depression of last year may not be far off." The failure of that circas is not the only failure on which the governor can base a hope that the hard times are not yet over. There is. for instance. Gov. McKinley' own great and lasting failure to find out where he stands on the silver question. Lou isville Courier-JoursaL Republican journals persist ia saying that the woolen industry cannot be prosperous under the present tariff. Rut it appears that the productive capacity of the woolen machinery now in actual operation largely exceeds the productive capacity of the machinery in operaiJon ia ln92, before the national elections, a year before thebeginning of the panic, r.d under the McKiniey tariff. We have also shown that since last March wages hare bee a increased ia about Ifty woolea factori X. Y. Tiaa

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. (Aemattonal 1mh f erSVptrinbrr 1S.1KM -TJr t ltrf Ke u;p-Jiihua 29: !-. ISpectaUy Arrxrtrd fra PeloaWf Note) CjI.1jEJ( Text We have Bed for refuge W lrhoii upon the hope . before ua Heu. it Thi: ..eciios ict'udes ou'.y the lest with eeatiderat.on of it vents; ia the eaidst ot the aMotce&i et Canaan mone the tribes. Al Number Si 11-11 asd Desterosonuy Vi Z-IX Tike 11 C 1; fcot Umi after the latt Imor. Pua: Sfclloh Cplse ef rest. chaa. 19.31). The reite:: capital of Israel. s.r the ceeter f I'aleMlte. KXrLAJfATOKY. 2. "Appoint out for you cities of refuge:" la circumstances like these It was absolutely necessary that there should be places where the refugee, faLely accused, should have the right of asylum, and where he would b safe from all pursurers. "Whereof I spake unto you by tho hand the agency of Moes:" See Num. 353-S; Deut. 19:1-3. For Whom Prepared. 3. "The slayer that lälleth any person unawares:" In

accordance with these regulations a wide distinction was made between the men who committed wiUful murder and one who slew another by mistake, in ignoranee and unintentionally, a) In the former case the guilty criminal met with no compassion from the Mosaic code. He was regarded as accural. The horns of the altar were to be no refuge for htm. He was to be dragged from them by force to suffer his dxm, nor could rank or wealth exempt him from it tNum. 3.1:31. 32. ibj In tho latter case, where life had been taken unaware, a more merciful system of legislation intervened. In contradistinction to the customs of the Greek and Romans and even of tho Middio Ages, which made places of sanctuary available to criminals of every kind, the Jewish lawgiver reserved them for unintentional acts of murder, and for these alone. How Managed. First. The one who has killed another must flee to a city of refuge. In no other place was he safe. Seeond. The preliminary examination. 4. "J-'hall stand at the entering of the gate of the city,"i. e., not outside of tho gate of the city, but in the forum, or pnblie place of judgment icompare Ruth i: 1, 2 . Cambridge llible. The gatewas surmounted by an arch or by beams which upheld the massive wall above. The gateway was thus sheltered from sun and storm. It was a convenient place for the sessions of the judges, and was habitually used by them. Its publicity also tended to prevent abuses their authoritv. "Shall declare his cause; in the ars of the elders," L e., as soon as the man si ay er presented himself at the city of refuge, the elders of the city were to hold an inquiry, and receive him provisionally into the city, if there should appear good prima facie cans; for so doing. Cook. Third. If this examination was favorable he was received into the city, and the authorities assigned "him a place, that he may dwell among them," till his accusers came, and he could hare a formal trial. Fourth. The regular triah ö. "Until he stand." The judges and elders of the people, in trying civil and criminal causes, always sat; the person who came for iudsrment, or who was tried. i always stood. Bush. "Before the congregation:" The rulers and represen tatives of the city, who are frequently spoken of as if they were the body of the people f compare Josh. 1 and 24: 2, 19. 21). Fifth. The trial was fair. A strong bar against the license of private revenge was placed by the provision which required the concurrence of at least two witnesses in any capital question. (Num. 33:19-30; DeuU I7:t-12; lff:l2-17i. Witnesses were restrained from falsehood by the just requirement that they should be punished, if guilty of perjury, by the same punishment which would hare fallen, had their testimony proved acceptable, upon the person against whom they testified Deut. 10:10-21). Witnesses were further restrained from untruth in capital cases by the requirement that, if the prisoner were condemned to die, they should throw the first stones, thus bringing to them the horror of committing actual murder by false testimony (Deut. 13:10; 17:7; Josh. 7:25; John ::"). Sixth. If he was exonerated from willful murder, he was safe, but only so long as hc remained within the city and its suburbs of one thousand cubits beyond the walls tNum. 35:20-25). He must remain here, away from his home and business, till the death of the high priest. This seeming hardship was necessary and just, because there Is usually some fault of passion or carelessness in even accidental murders, and this great inconvenience would tend to carefulness ami safety. "Until the death of ths high priest:" There ought to be some limit to this exile, and this change of administration would certainly be as good as any. The Cities Chosen. There were six cities appointed for this purpose, three on either sklc of the Jordan, almost equally remote from each other. (a) On the west I. Kedcsh, in Naphtali; 2, Shechcm, in Mount Ephraim; 3, Hebron, in Judah. (b) On the east L Golan, in ltashan; 2. Ramoth-Gilead, ia Gad; S, Rezcr, in Reuben. It requires only to lok at the map to see how wisely these spots were marked out, so as to make a city of refuge easy of access from all parts of the land. They were chosen, it will be observed, out ot the priestly and Levitical cities, as likely to be inhabited by the most intelligent part of the community. Cambridge Bible. WISE AND OTHERWISE. Eates bread is forgotten. Debt Is the worst poverty. Haste trips up its own heels. Gather thistles, expect prickles. A BU&CK hen will lay a white egg. Borrow not too much upon time to come. Gadimno gossips shall dine on b pot lid. DEsrEHiTK cut must have desperat? cures. Fixe clothes oftentimes hide ft base ttaccBt.

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