Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 38, Number 4, Jasper, Dubois County, 4 October 1895 — Page 3

WEEKLY COURIER,

C. JDOANICt Publisher. JASPER . - - - INDIANA. LIFE'S LESSON. With what mailnes, untold sadness, hpln wo the t4Rk'lil threads of life, VJtli what worry, undue hurry. Ami such oaKeriiCHi for strife, Do ue to reeling, devoid of feeling. S-ive for solf. and self alone, Tännich all tho day. In life' pathway, A nou'e liojo unknown. Tread wo fearlem, blind and tearless, On many on nchttit; heart; "VVhllo It llei bleed liu vre. utihecdlus, ico on ax h if i tin ut thu blurt; Knowing nuviT, If. or ever, The tli! tu: Ku M.vk to clasp Stinll IliiHliy. in security, KcaI i: uur cigor rasp. Ami then, nt last, when lifo U p.ist, Anl wo hear thu broaliers roar On i ho grout 1.0a of eternity. Ai thoy dash upon its shoro loo lute vu loarn our chtiif concern Were sonvuMng elso have trying T plui'i: the Howe r, born of tho hour, l'tat f jdes vülte 0 uro dring, -Chicago Inter Oct'ju. A PRACTICAL JOKE. itv 1. v.. mu.irs. It diil not (Mid happily, not for Harry Seymour, that is to bay; but it provided some excellent entertainment while it lasted, and is talked about in Wieketstield to-dnj e were all of us staying in Wieketstield, und Seymour had fallen a victim to the fascinations of .MissNoruh Cardonnel; possibly because Wieketslield Is a lull little watering place, and there was nothing else to do; possibly because he knew, or ut least suspected, that she was worshiped by Stephen Lambs worthy, and Stephen Lambsworthy was his especial beUs 1 autre. j I do not want to attribute unworthy motives to him; as a matter of fact. 11 liked him very much; so let us give ! hint the beucht of the doubt, and say , lie had grown to adore Miss Cardonnel because Miss Cardonnel was adorable. Anyhow it was plain thathe was hopelessly m love, und tjiough I had been ' honored by Lambsworthy's confidence in the matter, 1 personally did not give much for his chances. ) No two fellows could possibly have i been more unlike than Stephen and Harry Seymou : Harry, dashing, good- i humored, high-spirited and handsome; ' Stephen, inesk, nervous and with next 1 to nothing to say for himself. That both were very young was their only point of resemulance. I thought 1 had gauged MissCardoiinel's character sufficiently to prophesy which of her ad- , mirors would be accepted, presuming ; they both proposed, and I confabs I was startled when Seymour disp.uyed ! such trong irritation at th? new tnat J LambsworUiy was expected on the ' scene. "Confound lihul" he said, "what docs ! he want hero? Can't he read in town ' just as wellV" (We were supposed to j be cramming for an exam., the three j of us.) "What does he want to come i bothering here for?" I "Well, you forget," I said; "Lambs-j worthy may be said to be thedlscov-j erer of Wieketstield. At all events, . neither you nor I would ever have ; come down here if it hud not been tnat he was always talking about t. We should never even have known U10 1 Cardniinels but for him remember 1 that." Seymour growled. It was a fact that Lambsworthy had introduced us to them, and Harry never cared to be reminded of it. "1 don't want him," he said; "I don't ! get on with him; In? is your friend, not mine, and he lwires me. He is like a , young lady, ami he wear spectacles." j "lie wears spectacles because he is j short-sighted," I observed; "and as to j being like a young lady, that is all rot, ! Seymour Anyhow, if ho is such a j complete duller, why ueed you mind; ..I.-. ...... ....h . "What do you mean?" asked Harry, sharply. "You are annoved at his arrival be cause you are afraid you may Hud your 1 nose out of joint when he appears. I ! say if he is such a duller why need you ' be alarmed'.'"' j "Oh! jooh, pooh, ruhbishl" said Sey- j inour. "1 afraid of Stephen Lambs- j worthy? That is too rich: that is really "funny!" He made a loud noise, j winch I understood was meant to rci- j resent laughter. "You won't beat that if you tnlk for a month. 11a, iia, lia; Why, you don't mean to tell me you suppose for a single instant that a girl like Miss Cardonnel would seriously consider throwing herself away on a floodle like Lambsworthy? a llabby, invertebrate, feeble, faltering buudle of nerves like Lambsworthy! Hood Heavens! Afraid! Afraid of Lambsworthy! IIa. ha, ha!" "Well, that's all right," I said; "I am glad for your sake you are so confident. I assume, however, that you won't deny she encouraged him when we all came down here? ltecause I saw her with you, and I saw her with him, und I say she did!" "She ilirteil with him," said Seymour, tolerantly; "she flirted with him a little, yes! Why not? A girl must amuse herself. I do not complain of that." "That's lucky," I replied; "singularly fortunate for your own peace of mind. His letter says he will be with us to-morrow. He wants mo to look out for a room for hiin." "Cannot our landlady accommodate the gentleman?' "No," 1 said, "she catt't-not with a bedroom, that is! He will come in here to meals, of course, but he will have to sleep out of the house." Seymour shrugged his shoulders, as much as to say that lie was really indifferent as to tho arrangements, and lounged away in the direction of the Parade, where I havo no doubt he expected to meet the Cardonnels, as was his daily custom. 1 am ashamed to engage a shakedown for LambsWorthy that aftci aoou, and, as Im ar

rived by an earlier train than Im had mentioned on the morrow, it devolved upon him to go round ami cvploro for himself nfter ho got In. However, lie wasquite cheerful when ho returned to the cottage to supper; he had had tea at his friends the Car ponnelh. in the meantime, and he told us ho hud secured a comfortable littles room in the next street to us. He inquired at what hour wu breakfasted and promised tin not to bo late. He was so very lively and talkative, for Lambworthy, that I felt the fuir Norah had been agreeable In their interview, ami I fancy Harry Seymour had the same idea, for he scowled tit his whisky and water darkly ami failed to chaff the other us brilliantly as was his wont 1 do not think that Seymour and I had turned in more than a quarter of an hour when there came a violent beating at the street door, and, pt-er-ing out from my window, I saw Lambsworthy standing on tho step, witu his portmanteau in his hand and his hat at the back of Iiis head. Wondering what he had come back for, I slipped on some things ami ran down and let him in. "What is it?" called Seymour, as I passed his room. "It's ' Lambsworthy," I answered; "perhaps his landlady is out, and no can't got hi." It transpired that the house in which he had been going to sleep had been broken into. Lambsworthy was greatly upset. The landlady, who had been spending the evening out and hud returned only a few minutes before himself, hud met him in the passage in a state of terrible consternation. Her bedroom door, which she had locked before she left, had been forced open. The hasp was wrenched off anil the wardrobe and chest of drawers had been rifled of nil their contents. "The room is in the most dreadful condition." said Stephen, "and the woman, poor creature, is almost off her head. She said that she had never hud such an experience before. 1 waited till a neighbor cawio in to keep her company she was frightened to be left alone in the house or I should have been back sooner. You must make mo up a bed on the sofa for tonight, you fellows." "Why didn't you stay there, asyou intended?" said Seymour, who had joined us. "They haven't stoleu the beds, have they?' "Well," said Lambsworthy, slowly, "do you know, it is strange, but it didn't occur to-iuc. It gave me such :t

shock, the wholi thing, it was; so im- I expected, that my only idea was to get away ns soon as I could. And they have sent to the station, and the police will be here very soon. There is no sign of how tho burglars effected an entrance. It would really have been very unpleasant to sleep there." "funks'."' said Seymour under his breath; and, though I knew that Lamhswort.'iy was not a coward, 1 could see myself his nerves were out of order, too. If continuation had been needed, I should have got it, as a banging came at the street door again, and a shrill voice was heard asking if "Mr. Lambsworthy" lived here. Stephen jumped up and went out, coming back to say it was the servant, who had been sent to inquire if he would kindly step round at eleven o'clock to-morrow, or if he would be here at the cottage, in case his evidence was wanted. "I said 1 would go round with pleasure," he explained. "Hut I do not see what "evidence' 1 can give." "Nor can anybody else see it either!" returned Seymour. "My dear fellow, is it possible you don't understand what the girl came for really? She was sent to see if you had given a false address or not The police are suspecting you." 1 thought Lambsworthy would have fallen. "Suspecting me?" he ejaculated. "Certainly; very natural, too. You go to a house, a perfect stranger. You engage a room; are furnished with a latch-key; aud the same evening, while the landlady is out, a burglary takes place a burglary never having occurred there ooforo. If they hud found no 'Mr. Lambsworthy' living here, there would have been a warrant issued for your arrest." "Do yon think that is so, old fellow?" asked Stephen, aripealing to me with big eye 1 nil ml tied that it sounded probable. I, however, added that his respectability was a very easy matter to prove, even if it should still be doubted, and. after he had regained his composure, we improvised a shakedown or him on the couch, and we all retired. How can 1 describe the development? Lambsworthy went round to the scene of the late commotion at eleven o'clock next morning, as he had promised; and, when he came back, ho was in the nearest approach to a rage that I had ever seen him in. "Old chap, the wretch does suspect mc!" ho exclaimed; "Seymour wna right! She gave me my deposit back, and said, if it was all the same to me, she would rather not let the room. Of course 1 said I did not mind; and, as she was rather inclined to be highhanded, 1 added that, on tho whole, I did not know that I should fancy bringing my luggage there. 1 said it was rather a dangerous proceeding for a lady to go out, and leave a house to take care of itself.' And what do you think she answered?" "I cannot euess, Lambsworthy." "Shu said: 'It is a good deal more dangerous to take a lodger without a reference.' I told her if she dared to hint at her infernal suspicions to her neighbors I'd have her up for slander, and so I will! I never heard of such a thing!" He was la a state of grcnt excitement all day, recounting the affair over and over again to Seymour and Miss Car donnel and myself. I am uounu 10 say that I got a little tired of it, but Seymour roared with laughter every time, and I caught a look In Nornh Cardon1 ael's eyes that augured uadiy tor 11

In consequence. If nobody else was sympathetic, tlic young lady wa Harry Seymour disappeared during the afternoouwenl for a long tramp, hu said - and I had thu indignant Lambsworthy all to myself till he returned. When he did come back, he said lahad noticed a curd with "Apartments to Let" on it in a window just round the corner, and suggested to Stephen obtaining a room in the house. "Tills looks a good, substantial kind of domicile," he said; "one aot likely tobe burglarized! Wouldn't do for the next place you choose to be broken in to. you know, Lambsworthy; that would be really damning." Lambsworthy, who shuddered nt the bare idea, thanked him, and sallied forth to see if he could arrange. He came back aud told us he had settled. "Hut," he said, "do you know. I'm nervous? What Seymour said Is true, and it might happen that the same kind of thing occurred there. What should I do if there were a roblwry in there, too. to-night? Why, I should be taken up; I am certain I should!" "Sur. thing!" said Seymour, exploding afresh. "Console yourself by remembering that coincidences like that don't happen!" He was very amiable to Lambsworthy that evening, prosing him to try his tobacco after supper, and shaking hands with him warmly when they said "(iood night.'' lie, however, did not want to go to bed after the other's departure; he said he should sit up and smoke, and begged me to do likewise. "It's quite early,'1 he said, "not eleven. Sit up with me, and we'll turn in, if you want toas soon as I've finished this pipe." 1 consented. As a matter of fact, he had never leen better company, and I was just laughing heartily at a story he was telling me when "Good Heavens!" I exclaimed, turn

ing pale, "that can't .be Lambsworthy come hack again to-night? Who is it?" "Hetter open the door and see," replied Sey.nour, philosophically. It was being beaten wildly as I bolted into the passage. Another instant, and my worst fears were verified. Lambsworthy stood before me with chattering teeth, the portmanteau ; the accursed portmanteau by his side. j "Not?" j "Hurglars!" he gasped; "yes! Foi ' the Lord's sake, give me ome whisky, old man, I'm feeling ill!" He followed me into the sitting- ' room and fell into a chair. "It is the same thing," he muttered, "just the same thing! The house had been broken into when I got there, aud j no clew no clew. The man showed j me the room; everything scattered aud , upside down. Seymour, I shall go . mad!" I He seemed in measurable distance of it even Seymour was concerned. It seemed like fatality! Wherever the poor fellow went there was a burglary; Ids name would be on the tongues of all Wieketstield directly. There was never anything known like it! We gave him whisky, and more whisky, and, after that, whisky again. Whether he slept when we left him at last on the couch I do not know, but his face was as white as a sheet in the morning, and when Mr. and Mrs. Cardonnel called, vith their daughter, they were aghast ut his appearance. "It is perfectly extraordinary!" exclaimed Norah, "and as to the police, who can allow such things " Words failed her to express her contempt for the stupidity of the police. j "I teil you what," said Mr. Cardonnel, "I should go down to the station myself if I were you 1 will go with yon. Confound it all, we will go at once. Something must be done, and without delay!" I noticed that in a moment Seymour was almost as pale as Lambsworthy; I was even prepared to hear him offer an j objection. j "I should not do that sir, if if I may presume to advise," he said. "I should wait a day or two." ! "And why, sir?" demanded Mr. Car- '. donnel. peremptorily; "why should we wait an hour?" "Yes." echoed Norah, haughtily; "why should wc wait live minutes, Mr. j Scvmour?" I "We will go now!" cried Stephen; "I thank von for the suggestion. We will go at once, and I will see the inspector myself." ' Seymour sat playing nervously with an ash-tray 011 the table. He seemed to be trying to speak, and to have lost his voice. At last ho said jerkily, and with an attempt at a laugh: "To tall you the truth, everybody. you are spoiling a practical joke of mine. Lambsworthy was so very con cerned at the first burglary that I thought how funny it would be if the same thing occurred in the next house he tried. The landlord is my tobac conist, and well, there wasn't a burglary last night at all; it was just ar ranged between us for a larks cr that's all. " If I live to be a hundred I fihall never forget Miss Cardonnel's look of con tempt as he finished speaking; and I don't think Seymour will forget it either. Her papa's violent opinion of practical jokes and johars paled into insignülcancc beside it, and Lambsworthys good-natured assurance that "no harm was done" fell perfcctlj unheeded in the room. Yes: Norah became Mrs. Stephen Lambsworthy. aud refused to invite Seymour to the wedding. Whether affairs would have ended like that in the ordinary course, 1 don't knoW; but that is how they did end, and Seymour, at least, has always been convinced that he has only himself to thank for It St Taul's. Comforting. "Do you lclicve." said one young wife to another, "that half of tlie time my husband can't remember my first name?" "That's nothing," ntisweted her frieud, "half the time my husband can't remember his last name till the next day." Detroit Vr I'rcss.

THE SUGAR TRUST. Waat It lira It frum tottg Kufferlaf I'rofilr. , It is the popular belief that the sugar trust, by grace of a senate "combine," got all that it wanted under the Wilson tariff law. There is reason to think this a mistake. The sugar trust got much, but it wants more, aud is planning to take it To that end it is creating a scare. Its margin of profit now is 1.05 cents a pound, and at present prices tome foreign refined sugar is coming in. The sugar trust pipple are saying that they are threatened with ruin and all that sort of thing, and predicting that too, W0 bags of foreign sugar will be im ported to ruin the home market They are getting ready logo before congress as an infant Industry threatened bv pauper laior and to pray for the relief of a larger protection." The Journal of Commerce ably pricks this bladder of pretense by furnishing some facts and figures which we extend somewhat by calculations of oar own. First of all. half a million bags of sugnr aruoiint toonly 'i-LOOy tons, while the annual consumption of sugar in the country is about 1,700,000 tons. What, appreciable effect can the importation of ä..000 tons have upon the business o refiners who -sell 1,700,000 Urns'! Again, if there is anv importation of refined sugar under existing conditions it is due to the fact that the trust is exaetintr an excessive tribute from the people by charging an exorbitant price for its product As we have said, the present margin between raw and refined sugar is 1.0l cents per pound, cr about 30.000,000 per annum on the entire consumption of the country. Allowing for the business of the independent refiners, this means an annual margin of more than $30.000,000 to the trust The margin is very much greater than is necessary and is maintained, without doubt, simply because, while it lets in enough foreign sugar to whine about before conirress. it yields a stupendous profit to the trust During the first half of ls the trust did a profitable business on a margin of .851, or about four-fifths the present one. Nevertheless, we shall have the sugar trust pitifully pleading next winter for further protection against foreign subsidized sugar, of which even at present artificially high prices the amount imported is only 4 per cent of the total consumption. It is a ease of grab, pure and simple, and it is levying a tax of many millions a yeai upon the people for the benefit of the trust N. Y. World. A HEALTHY INFANT.

KiplU Growth of the Tin Plato Industry in This Countrr. When the duty on tin plates was reduced by Mie new tariff law from 2.2 cents to 1.2 cents pr pound last summer, the change was vigorously opposed by those vho had engaged in the manufacture of tin plates under the extraordinary incentive of the high protective rate of the tariff law of 1S10 and also by those who contemplated engaging in the business. Those who fought against the change declared that the lower rate of duty not only would ruin all those already engaged in the industry in this country, but also would prevent any further extension of this branch of manufacture. The new tiriff law has been in oppratlon now for a year, and instead of the prophesied destruction of the tin plate industry there has been tho largest and most substantial growth in the industry that has ever occurred in the same length of time. The increase in the capacity for producing tin plates during the past twelve months, under a duty of 1.2 cents per pound, has been nearly as great as the growth of the industry during the entire three 3-cars in which the rate of 2.2 cents was in force. Twenty-si;: new factories in which the plates are both rolled and tinned have been started, and the companies have extended their plants and increased their output Six new factories for dipping plates have been built or enlarged. The result of this activity has been a great increasa in the production of tin and teme plates, which shows that the manufacture of tin plate in the United States has undergone its most marked development during the past twelve months, with a protective duty 45 per cent lower than the rate provided by the tariff act of 1SW), and under the lowest prices for tin plate ever known in this country. That the American tin plate industry is able to take care of itself under present conditions of foreign competition is proved by the events of the past Tear. I'fxir Show far Tariff Tinker. In calculating the chances of tariff legislation another matter should be taken into consideration. Since 1S72 the republicans have elected only three houses of congress in a period of twenty-two years namely, in 1SS0. and ISO. In vlw of the change of conditions tending in favor of the democratic party the prospect of electing a republican house in 1390 is extremely precarious. Itut should a republican house next year le elected it will not be on the tariff ivsnc, but through democratic divisions on the monetary question. Hence the menace of tariff legislation involves too many contingencies to cause concern to the industrial interests of the'eountry. All the swagger of the republican politicians over the tariff is merely designed to let down the fanatical protectionists as easily as possible. Philadelphia Record. An AtmllMi. The business revival puts the demo cratic party in a much stronger position before "the voters than St held last year, in the opinion of the St Louis (llobc-Dtftnocrat, and the republicans will not have the easy time of it they have been reckoning on. This is due to the fact that the average voter is almost as strongly disposed to support the party in power in good times as he U In bad times to blame that party r the depression and hit it at the polls. trlagfield KcptiblleM.

MODERN MRS. PARTINGTON. Thrjr Cannot with Thrlr I.lttl HreaaM i'hanicn the Cnreof lntutrlal Kvetttd. SeveraJ months ago the New York Kvening Post published in parallel columns a long list of important factories and mills which had reduced wages while the .McKinley tariff was in force, and increased wages under the Wilson tariff. This convincing proof of the falsity of protectionist pretenses that high tariffs increase or maintain wages met with no svply at that time. Now after a long delay the New York Press tries to break the force of the facts given by the Post, with vague denials and explanations from a few of the firms mentioned in the Post's list

These- letters from protected menufaeturers are claimed by the Press to refute the Post's original statements, but as a matter of fact thay do nothing of the kind. A sample of the alleged contradictions is that of C, U. Milliken. treasurer of the Poland Paper Co., who says: "Harly in 1st! we reduced the wages of our employes 12lj per cent On April 1, Js'JS, we increased the wages of all employes who were getting less than 1.2. to a full SI-25 ler day. Wo did not lower the wages while the McKinley law was in operation." Mr. Milliken is either very ignorant or else willfully makes a false statement when he says that his company "did not lower wages while the McKinley law was in operation..' For ns every one knows the McKinley law was in operation when on Mr. Milliken's confession the wages of his employes were reduced. Another letter which the Press thinks condemns the Wilson tariff, but which really is strongly in its favor is from George V, Ilaer, president of thu Heading Iron Co. Mr. Itaer states that his company reduced wages 1." per cent in April. 1st!, and 71;. per cent in September, lslti, under the McKinley tariff, and increased wages 10 per cent on dune 1.", lSi.l, under the Wilson tariff, just the reverse of the lying headlines by which the Press tried to mislead its readers into thinking that the F.vening Post had misrepresented the facts. Mr. K. C. Felton, general manager of the great Pennsylvania Steel Co., is also claimed by the Press as denying the Evening Post's statements. What ho says is: "While the McKinley law was in force our wages were reduced, and our wages were advanced 10 per cent on dune 17, l!t.. We are nowpaying as high rate of wages as in ls'.rj. and are employing a slightly increased number of men." .Mr. C. C. Roiinseville, secretary of the Cotton Manufacturing association of Fall lliver. Is also quoted by tho Press as denying that wages had been reduced under MeKinleyism and raised under the Wilson tariff. Hut what he says is: "Wages were reduced 10 per cent September 11, ISM, and on April 20. l-s'.4. again 10 per cent On April 22. 1S9.. wages were advanced It 1-9 per cent" The McKinley tariff was in force when loth reductions were made, and wages were raised under the Wilson tariff. Similar testimony to the main facts asserted by the Evening Post is given by Mr. William M. Wood, treasurer of the Washington woolen mills, of Lawrence, Mass. He admits that those mills were shutdown in ISO:! and that when thev started up wages were reduced, lie also states that the mills Increased wages from 5 to 10 per cent under the Wilson tariff and that they are employing a greater number of hands than in 1&92. Nearly all the other letters published by the Press arc of the same tenor. Some of them point to slight errors in dates of wage reductions, number of men employed, and several deny that the McKinley tariff was the cause of their cutting down the wages of their employes. Itut thev do not deny that wages were reduced under thc operation of that tariff, nor do they deny that wages have been advanced under the ilson tariff. The attempt of the Press to delude the public with glaring headlines into believinr that the manufacturers had disproved the Evening Post's as.Mjrtions was a dismal failure. Instead of cursing the Wilson tariff the modern Haalams are pronouncing it a wage-raiser and a bless ing to industry. Hvno.v W. Hor.x. SOUTHERN PROGRESS. (treat Increase lit thf Nuuitirr of Cotton .Still. j The great increase in the number of cotton mills in the south during the past ten years is a convincing answer to the argument of the high tariffltes that without protection our industries could uot compete with the long established industries of Europe. The cotton industry was started in New England over one hundred yenas ago, and has gradually developed into its present enormous proportions. All the advantages of skilled labor, trained business management, and trade connections with the wholesale and retail markets were on the side of the New England states. Yet in spite of perfect free trade between all sections of the United States, the cotton weaving Industry has grown rapidly in the south, where a few years ago it was practically unknown. In some cases tho southern mills were built by northern investors, bat the majority were erected by local capitalists. Their success has been instant and complete, the sharp competition of the old established New England mills being powerless to prevent the sale of their products in all sections of the country. New mills are constantly being built, and those in operation are paying good dividends During the recent McKinley trade depression they were affected much less than the factories of New England. Thus do the facts of industrial extension, in tho face of long existing competition, prove the folly 01 protec tionist pretences IVrtliel. The calamity howlers are a good deal perplexed by tho unmistakable indications of business revival, and it exacts of them some laborious special pleadinir to make the present situation ac cord with their predictions. PhilaVtV hta Time?.

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL

lateraattoHsl IM4ea for (rtotr . II Tho Time of the Judgrt-Judge SilJ 19, 1. ISpeclslly Arrsaife4 from I'oloubct'a Noteed Gouiax Tkxt, -Tho Ixml raised up juduse which delivered then. Judge S: IS. THE .Sectio laeluOot the first live chapters ef JuiIkcs. TiMt The date of tha meeting at Hoch im (vs. 3) 1 unknown. Joshua died utxut U- C. UM The remainder of the lenon Is a eneral vtew of the j'rlod of tfca Judge LKSHOX XOTKS. 1. "An Angel of the Lord" was sons special visible manifestation of God., The phrase is used nearly sixty times to designate the angel of God's presence. "From Gilgal," the first encampment near Jericho, "to Itochim," probably near Shiloh, where the tabernacle was. Perhaps it means that the last messagu from God was at Gilgal, and now His next one was at llochim. "And said: There was a general assembly of the Israelites In this place, to whom Ho spoke (v. 5). Perhaps the reason was Rome complaint from the people that they were annoyed nnd troubled by tho tdd inhabitants still left in strongholds. "I made you," etc: This was to make plain to the people who it was that was speaking. It gave the authority back of the message. "I will never break my covenant with you:" Whatever they had done, God had been true to His own promises. His part of tho covenant had been strictly kept, as all their past history proved. If they were not securely settled in Canaan, it was their own fault, not God's. 2. "And ye shall make no league with the inhabitants:" This was a part of the covenant on the part of the people. Their duty was to wholly drive them out and to "throw down their altars," root out the old religion, so that they would not be tempted to worship other irods. "Ye have not obeyed My voico," though that was the condition on which nlone they could prosper. (Josh 23: 11-13.) 3. "Wherefore I also said," rather "I have now said," I protest, I declare. "I will not drive them out from before you." I will no more work wonders as in the past, and give you the necessary aid. "As thorns," annoyances, trials, vexations. "A snare," tempting to sin and leading to the punishmeut of their sin. 4. "Tho people lifted up their voice and wept:" in view ot the consequences of their sin. They seem to have had more sorrow for the consequences than for thoir sin. Hence the evils were not withdrawn by God. 5. "Called the name of that place llochim," that is, "The Weepers." "And they sacrificed." They held religious services. Doubtless they wero sincere, both in their sorrow nnd their worship. Hut tho effect was rather on tho surface than in the heart. The Death of Joshua. Here begins a new section of the book of Judges. The story returns to tho last chapter of the book of Joshua, verse 23. 0. "Let the people," from their assembly at Shechcm, after their solemn promise to obey God. 7. "Served the Lord all the days of Joshua:" So deep was the impress of this great and good man upon the nation. "All the days of the elders:" These elders would be all that wer old enough to take part in the war of Canaan, according- to Judges 3:1, 2. "Seen all tho great works of tho Lord:" This reveals another powerful source of impression upon tho character of men tho experience of God's wonderful works for the good of men. These two are among the mightiest moral forces for the progress of man. S. "The servant of the Lord:" What a beautiful and noble epitaph for any man. "A hundred and ten years old:" As he was eighty-five, according to Josephus, when he entered the promised land, he had lived there twenty five years. II. "Hurled him ... in Timnathheres:" (portion of the sun), called als), by transposing the letters, Timuathserah (portion of abundnnce). The situation is uncertain. Cornier thinks it was ut Kffr Haris, nine miles south of Sheehem. 10. "All that generation:" The example nnd influence of the men who had exjierienced ("rod's wonderful dealings lasted a long time. Hut new men grew up under new Influences, and there was a change. It. "And tho children of Israel did evil:" They first forgot God v. 10). Their faith lost its reality and power. The decay of faith is the prelude to the decay of morals. "In the sight of the Lord:" in thu presence of HLs commandments, and in view of His works of goodness, and His past punishments of sin. "And served:" tho true religion Is a service of love anil reverence, but all false religion is a sorvlco of superstition and terror. "Baalim:" is an iatensive plural, great lord, or supreme lord, like Elohim, the Hebrew word foe God, which is in the plural. 12. "Provoked the Lord to anger: Not passion, not vindlctivcness, but indignation; an intense feeling against ain. Sin is directly opposed to the nature of God. 10. "Nevertheless:" God punishes His people, but He does not destroy them. As soon as Hb discipline has led them to repentance und to a better life he delivers them from the evils their sins have brought upon them. "The Lord raised up," by endowing thetn with the necessary qualities, leading them to thu needful training, and summoning them to their work, "judges, which delivered them." tMlACTICAt. 8UG07CHT10X9. There is for all of us much land yet to bo possessed in our own hearts, in Gospel truth, in the application of the Gospel to daUyllfe, in Christian experience, in ethics, in the power of tho Spirit, in gaining the world for Christ. Remaining sins, bad habits, wrong thoughts are a perpetual source of temptation, disaster and trouble. The world, money, pleasure, self are tho Ilaals which modern men worship. From thu sources of sin como also the punishments of sin. 1 God desires all men to be sared fron .inetr sins ami inrauiea, aaa asea kjwtj ' . . i . 1 .