Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 39, Number 40, Jasper, Dubois County, 11 June 1897 — Page 3

BEKLY COURIER.

r. no r.it.u.ii. r. HfPKR : : INDIANA

: HOW SCROOQ5 ... WON THfi REWARD. 5

BY L. I iv ANk HALM. 0 Corvriglit, i,t. I

Killing the space hctwoeu two large r, ig Mocks was a lilt le, one stor; d t .-. It huii Hush with tin- sidcwull., and iikii the large w Ladow was painted.

in red letters, KB. DICK BOOK08, ( 1 1 V BILL POS1 EH. Mr. I'ick liogtTh" was himself sealad l.chind the window, a big i -ar in 1, . niiMitli, Ins feet resting ii im n the .,, :,im il max of i;imts which littered j - desk, and his eyes fixed intently upon his morning uewspaixr. Kroui nniid the stream of passing veI Im A handsome curriagc dttw up before Um door, Mr. Kespu a looked cc sr tht tp of his paper and watehed a c.-ntlcmaii step out uon t he sidewalk, j,.: owed ly n servant hearing in his i, ai a huge package. This the servant placed uMn the talile, and returned to the carriage. "I have BBBJI onee more to employ v ir services, you see, Mr. Hogers," . 1 1 the aller, in a piiet, dignified nice. '.lust so." rescinded the bill Muster, nitfe a iiod. "So another year is up. t Mercy nie! how time flics. I'm Lettin' to gauge time by your visits, Mr. Lawrence; you're as rejr'lar as Clockwork. Let ine MC- this is the vth year, ain't it?" "Yes, this is the sixth year. How many times more I shall be obliged to tOBM to you (iod ouly knows. 1 thiiik I should have already abandoned the m mpt were it not for my poor wife's t-ake." His voice tremhltd a little and lie tui ned a rather appealing and depreea

tory flaBM upon the unnioed face of Mr. lingers. "NeMr say die, sir," remarked the liill poster, cheerfully. " I 's pose you'd like 'em out right away?" "If you please." "t.ot a boy at lilierty right now." He walked to a rear door, opened it partly nd shouted: "Scroggs !" "Yep I answ ered a elenr voice. "I'.ag, bucket und brush!" routed .Mr. lingers. "Light ye are!" came the reply, seemingly from a distant apartment. Mr. Hogers closed the door und returned to his chair. "Scroegs'Il do the job beautiful," he remarked. "Are you sure he's reliable?" asked Mr. Lawrence, anxiously. "I am almost fluid to trust this to a mere boy." "That's Scroggs' stronir point- he V reliable. Hain't lcen with nie quite h y-ar. but I'd trust him anywheres ever neglects a likely place, an' never ' 1 1 1-s I : i k till the last sheet is posted.

1 hat kid II make a great man one o these days. I shall always give him ;

your job nfter this, for 1 know you';' Ukl his work." Mr. Lawrence sighed at this inti't. ition of the fruit lesMiess of his efforts-, nnd the two men sat silently until the door was hurst open and a boy of nlsMit ten years entered. He wore a bill poster's white jacket and trousers, very much spotted nnd soiled, a small eap was net far back usn his curly head, and in his hand he btMC a canvas bag ami a flat pnste-bucket with a Li ush sticking out of the side. "Here y' nre. Iick." he announced. "Prompt as a biscuit, ain't he?" asked Mr. Hogers, casting at. admiring look 1 his small assistant. "Now . Scroggs. this gentleman is very part ie'lar about his work. They're quarter-sheets an' My handled, an' they're to go in every likejj sxt you can find." "Specials, eh?" said BflfOggC, as he vamped over the package, cut the con! and liegan tilling his canvas bag with the sheets. "Vcrj special, my boy," Mid Mr. LawKMC, earnestly. "You'll not negt the work, will you?" Scruggs straightened up and regarded him w ith a look of pained surprise. "D'ye know what they calls me, sir? Why, it's 'Scroggs. the Reliable!' I'm protld o' thut. When I tarn up my sir, I'm a-goin' to have this cut on totnbatone: "Here lies Scruggs, who never missed a stick!' An' I won't I ilee' your work, 'cause why? 'Cause i" would spile the motter on the tombstone. Them air bil's'll go up full count an' all right." He slung the bag over his shoulder a,d the paste-pot upon his lack. Then 'bbed his head at the two gentleI and passed out the door. V It range boy," said Mr. Lawrence, ' iisuigly, "and very young for such Work, Are not those bills aud the paste 1 heavy for him .'" "Itlrss ye, no!" replied Mr. Hoger . MHcrogfa likes pastin". He stops so ' " D, you see. he don't mind the weight. I were a lucky day for me when old fjrga, the blind man. died, an' I go hat iKjy, I'd noticed him leadin'that man around as keerful as a kitten, "' I Mjri to myself, a kid as'll take ' ' patin with his old ted has feed in him - an' I were right. He's pet! chain lightnin' too." Mr. Lawrence settled his bill and re- ''! his carriage. The bill poster "'ted his cigar and watched (be I '' as it rolled away. I hat duck's on a reg'lar wild goose be reflected, "but tha' no busi- ' ' mine. I expect he'll be reg'lar ""r for years t,, come." M inwhile Scruggs pursued his wav trprt and down another, leav"1 "ad of hills wherever he went. ' J "ere odli In Ilk I bills, he m. " '. with great black letters at the

top and considerable deaerkailfC mat

I ' I at Ihe bot tOM, S. iogg could DCl

rtad; he merely knew when the letters

were tight le up. hut that was quit, enough for his puriM.se. He was quick to see a conspicuous position where .i bill son Id lie noticed by the c. nera

j public, and he never let a good space j escape him. Hire was one in especial, the broad front of a deserted thon,

I where the remains of various old bills still fluttered. Scroggs ix.sted thn

bills in a row upon the front, and then aat down to ret a minute and udiniro his work. They're all 'zactly t.rnight,M he murmur, d, complacently, "an jest the right distance apart." Two men. passing by, sfop(ed and rCM the bills curiously. Th n a woman paused to read, and another man. and still another. Several boys join. I the group, and soon there was tpiite a little crowd inspecting the posters. Scroggs smiled; it pleased hi,,, think his work was so effective. "Five thousand dollars!" remarked a fat man to no one in particular; "that's a pe tty stitT reward." There wa no reply, and he passed on, his place being quickly filled by another. For the first time ScroggslMgan to wonder what the bills were about, (Jauallj he eree IcdltTereat to the perpon of his idverUacaeeate, but the remark of the fat man led him to susect these bills were more iinortant than usual. And the gentleman had (old him they were special very kjscial. The froiip slowly melted away; onl.v the iiovs remained, slowly epetlinf out the printed words. Beroffra looked at the boys critically, ami decided he uiitrht venture a qUMtioa, " hat docs it say he asked. "inu't yer reed?" demanded Ihe big gest lo. Scrogg shSik iiis heel. "Well, then, listen," said the hoy. patronising ly, "an' I'll read it out for yer." He followed the lines with his finger nnd read aloud, slowly, and with some dilliculty, as follows: 5."i Howard! BMTICBD OH STHAYK1 From his home. No. 2U1J Wellington avenue, on June 1'. 1S90, Kenn-iti Keith Law ¬

rence, familiarly called "Trotty." Ay, four years an.l twu months, i'ark hrowr hair and eyes; lare for hl age; able to tell his name, but erhaj.s not his resilience. Wore at the time of his disappear ance a WhttS dress with blue sash. bin. flannel Juckt t and straw sailor hat W as last se n upon the Sidewalk In front o! said residence llsteliliiK to the mus'.c of a band ornan j.layed by an old Italian. Ttvabove reward will be j.ald for Informatlo': leading to the recovery of said Kenneth Keith Lawrence, aud ull prosecutions will

be waived. JOHN K KITH LAWRENCE L1il3 Wellington Avenue. September 12, ls9. "There ye have it," continued the reader, "an' I wish I was the kid. Folks as can pay $5,ooo reward must have money to burn, an' no mistake." Scroggs made no reply; with liand.s thrust deep into his pocket he was staring blankly at the bills before him. The Itoyi pMBeil on, but still he stood thoughtfully regarding the printed announcement, and paying no heed, for once, to the fai t that half lr.s bills remained iinj-ostcd. Another little crowd collected abOOl him; Sci-oggs retreated across the side-

w alk, and sitting low n upon bis (aste lio rested his head upon his hands and i intinued to think deeply. "Another Charlie Loss r ase," a man

was soying in front of him. Scroggs suddenly urose and swung his peatt pot over his back. "I'll do it," he mattered, "no matter what comes of it. Why, it's the ruinniest go 1 ever heard tell of, an" 1 s'jose I might as well win that $0,t'U0 as any one!" Down the street he marched, end be fore he had gone a block his face had lost its grave expression and he was again whistling merrily . It was a long walk to Wellington awnue; miles and miles it fcmed 1o Scroggs. and after he had reached the avenue he found that he was stili a long distance from No. Mit, and the further he walked the more iniosing and grand w ere t he residences that lined the street. Finally he paused before a large, handsome building, set well back in the midst of a carefully trimmed lawn, and stared thoughtfully over the iron gate. Ihe boy tried hard to decipher the bright ora.ss figures upon the gate, but finally he nodded his head and muttered: "This is the place, all right; I'm sure o' that." Carelessly shifting his bill bag to the other shoulder be ojtened the gate. Walked resolutely up the broad walk to the front door, and rang the lell. The tall servant in severe black who Opened Ihe door looked at the miniature bib x.stcr in amazement. "Mr. Lawrence in?" demanded Scroggs. meeting the man's ga.e smilingly. "Yes, he's in; but I don't think you can see him." "Oh, yes I can," returni-d the boy "You jest tell him I'm Scroggs, an' l'v, come to see him 'Isjut that kid." "What kid?" "The kid as was lost." "( tune in." said the servant, wit!, alacrity; that was the message he did in d dare to ignore. Scruggs entered ami sat down in the big hall while the servant departed to seak to his master. 'Ihe lioy eyed the grand furniture with a perplexed air. and then, impelled by some leCoUoO1 tion of what was littit.g, removed his cap and thrust it into the xicket of his jacket. As he did so Mr. I.awrenccen btrad and hurriedly approached him. "You are the bill poster's ly," he said, after a start of recognition; "I I though, it was some one eise. What is it, mv lad -is anything wrong ulsmt the bills?" "Not as I knows of," replied Bcrofga, looking up earnestly into Mr. I.awrettce'i teat "I thought d coast an' tell you Tsnit the kill him its wns lost, Volt know." V.r. Lawrence sank back into a chair with a white face.

hs

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"What do you know of h.m, asked, in a quick, agitated voice.

"l knew everything," responded B rogK, with a grin. "I'm the kid." Yon! cried the man, springing to

tns feet; "impossible! What d mean, hoi '."'

"Now. don't you get excited," said Semggs, coolly, "jest set down iiginan' listen, an' I'll tell you all about ;t. You see, I e .uldn't reed the bill myself, not Itaowin' how. but I got another boy to read it, in' the minil he said Trotty' l knew it was me. 'Cause why? Trot'y's my name. sir. An' I alius knew I l.t longed to MMM body, 'cause I never belonged to old S.-roggs, but for the lite o" BM I couldn't remember who it w as." By this time Mr. Lawrence was trembling violently and striving to penetrate the boy's dirt-liegrimed face in . .ich of familiar features; and now, llddcnly, the truth came to him in a mighty wave that swept away all doubt, "Come w ith me," he cried, and. taking thi' child's hand, led him up to his own private roons, "I must he sure 1 am right Ivcfore f speak to nry wife." he thought; "disappolntnacal might kill her." He camfotly washed the grime fron Scriie-L's' countenance, brushed back his

DUrlj hair, and then, holding the rosy face (irmly between his tWC hands, he gaaed upon it earnestly, studying every 1 i as of the boy's expressive features, j There was a world of yearning and tendeTIMSS in the father's face, and sud

denly he bent down and kissed Scroggs softly upon his forehead. "Tell me about it." he said, gently Scroggs appeared both bewildered and embarra sed at the warmth of his reception, iad was ai first at a loss how ? begin; but after a moment! thought he said: "'Twerc all on account V that nam O Trotty. When I lived in this house." he continued, his eyes roving familiarly around the room, "vou used to give me a cane to ride on a cane with n l.ird's head on the end." "Yes; an eagle's load!" interrupted Mr. Lawrence, eagerly. "Weil. I ro.ic thai care nil ever the house, upstairs an' down, an' so you an' the lady -was that my mamma? you an' she used to call i.'e Trotty

( course, you know , I can't 'member

everything, for I must 'a' been prettj

mall kitl then; but when I h-irdtl.it

bill read it seemed to brinir back lots

things as I'd forgot all nlxmt. 1

"member one day a man cumin' 'rout d

with a music organ, tin' I follcred him. rldln on my cane an' not noticin' where I was goin'. Ilv 'n' by 1 got tired, an' it wns gettin' dark, an' I cried for mv

mamma. An' then the grinder give me a riile on his organ, an' took me home with hini. "Next day be promised to take me home, but he didn't do it. He took off my dress an' put seme pants on me. which he said was more i roper for a man; an' I thought so too. An' then we went way out into the country an' walked a good many day s, and' he ailua said he was tryin' to find my home. 0m dej wa coma le town where tb.-re was a blind man named Scroggs. nil' the grinder sold the cane with the bird's head te the blind man. I cried when lit took the cane away, an' after we had gone up tht road a ways I turned an' ran hack to the town. I 'xpected the grinder would chase me. but he didn't, an' when I g. t to the town I found the blind man a walkin'

with my cane. He wonldn' give it up, but he saitl if I would come with him an' Iced him back to the city he'd find my folks for me again. So 1 went with him. an' he was pretty good to me. was Scroggs. An' he said I got more pennies for him than be ever got before an' that I'd better stay with him an' see the world. "Well, after awhile we come backte

the city, an' we've lived here ever since I s'jKis.- if BCTOggl hadn't heSH blind he'd 'a' read your bills an give me up. 'cause he liked money pretty well; but neither o' us knew as anybody was hnatla for me. Bout a yenr age Berogpje died, an' 1 went to work for Dick Hogers, postia' Ulla, Btcrybodj tailed me Scroggs an' thought I lielonged to the blind man, but I alius 'me inhered as my name was Trotty. an' I've got the cane, sir, over to Dick Hogers' place." Mr. Lawrence listened attentively tc this story, w hich Trotty told very simply and earnestly. W hen t was ended he took the boy tenderly in his arms. " I hank (iod. my darling.' he said "hat vv e have found y ou at last ! " A few minutes Inter, when Trotty had shyly released himself from the embrace of his sobbing but delighted mother, who had recognised i cr boy at the tirst glance, in remarked rascally! "I s'pose therm's no use poatln1 the rest o' them bills?" "No." snid the father, with a ?mi!e, "the bills have fulfilled their mission." "Hut the $.').o(K) reward.''" naked the boy. anxiously. "Why, really. Trotty," replied Mir hap ry father, ns be bent down and kissed the bright face, "1 believe you've earned that reward yourself!"

THAT "FREE BREAKFAST TABLE.'

A SAMPLE TRADE.

Hides

Reiiultlleaiia SirappinK Krrr

for llutlalilo Kiiitar. "The senate tariff bill as a whole," ays ex-Congressman John De Witt W arner, "is a notice to eastern manufacturers of what they may hereafter expect. Hitherto they have considered protection us a sort of providential arrangement by which they were enabled to feed on the rest of the country. Now , like FoloniiiK in 'Hamlet,1 they are invited by 'a certain convocation of politic worms' to a Slipper 'not w here they eat, but w here they are eaten.' The manufacturers of New England, New York and Fenusy lvunia are to take their turn at being mulcted for the benefit of others, who now control legislation. This applies especially to the bide schedule." "Cannot the New Kngland senalors secure favorable changes in that schedule?" "I think not. The bill as it stands is sati-'actory to the sugar trust, and pr ob ibly nennet be kept so except by the votes Controlled by the cattle trust of the west. W ere the New Kngland senators w illing to risk offending the sugar trust, they could doubtless defeat the duty on hides, but the fact is that Hoston and Providence, in proportion to their sie, are far more thoroughly sal united with sugar trust inllucncc than is any other part of the country, and, however much Senators Al.lrich. Wctnior... Hoar ami Lodge ma bewail thfl fate of their bout and shoe manufact liters, there is no prospect w hatever thut they w ill sacrifice the augnr trust Interests to help them."

Wlinl Pleuse n Woman. It ph ases her to call her a sensibh little woman. It pleases her to be called a welldressed woman. it pit aaet her to be told thai sh,. t fascinating. it pleases her tO be told thill she ill) proves a man by her companionship. It pleases her tC depend on some mat ami pretend she is ruling him. It pleases her to be treated courteous ly and with reaped and to lie ti.lked tt reasonably. It pleases her to be treated senslblj and honestly, to be c onsiden d 0ml pies t ioned. anil not to be real et I us n I nl t er fly, with no head nor heart. It pleases her to be loved and admirer. by a netn who la strong enough to mh and subdue her and make his way hei w ay. i4i lead her and take care of her. London Ans were.

Senator Hoar That (free) bide has been -n the family '5 years, und it almost breaks my heart to part with it. Senator Allison- You needn't snivel. Keep y our old hide if you want to. but you don't get any sugar (profits). See .'

Klklas on Unite. "Wages must go down," saitl Senator Bikini in a recent interv icvv published in the Cincinnati Enquirer. "Wageearners," continued the senator, "do not wish to see it or believe it, but it is so." Ami again be saitl : "W ages in America stand agaist any revival of business." He was discussing the coal trade. He said: "We do not export coal to Lurope because we have wages against us, ami that is the whole kernel of the coal trade." Heing asked whether black labor was

settled tn the mines of West Yirginia, h said: "Firmly. It is an effective as w hite In bor and docs not combine and con spire, nnd the negro spends all he lunkes, while the Italians and Holes send every cent out of the country."

The senator has just as decided ideasl

on the tnriff question. He is firmly convineed that protect i e duties, especially those on coal, should go up. Tariff QO, wages down. That is what happened under the McKinley bill nnd is what will happen nnd in fact Is happening tinder the Dingley bill. It is all done In the interest of labor.

Why lllnul.o Unten Irr o IIIkIi. Afraid to ..pen 'our Chop about the IfcKlaley bill ln-fire the election, having won, you nre out Iferodtttg Herod. cut-.McKinlcy ing McKinley, because the men who furnished the money te rarry Ihe election nre relentless taskmasters, lainorous for their remuneration. They have such ravenous nppe. Utes that you have been compellt d to make thfl rates higher thnn in the McKinley bill. Let this not be brgOttCI . inscrib- it on the t.ibletaof your memory. I it known that the avenge tariff tax under tie McKinley bill was for cent, ad valorem; und r the Vvilson-fiortnan bill, .'10.04 ver cent., and under 'he Diegaey bill, .".t.d.i jer cent. Hence the average rate of t.ixa'ion on something like 4,M) articles of evervdny consumption is per Bent, higher under the Dingley hill than HOST McKinley 's law , nnd 17 per cent, hierher than under the W ilson-tiortnan bill. Hon. Champ Hark, in Congress.

nnr Trim BalsCS Nt I. tmuer. We nre IMMWd L.v the Sugar Trade Journal Of May U organ of the sugar trust -that "if ever a monopoly existed in the sugar refining business it exists no longer, anil it is not likely that it wall ever be renewed." This is delightful news. The journal was discussing an amendment to the senate bill to have refined Sngars pay the same duties as raw sugars in eases where the manufactnre is controlled by a monopoly. If this "visionary proposal" should pass the senate, it will jeopardize the tariff bill and the sugar trust's t-uis of millions of surplus profits, which are so near ut hand that the mouths of HavemeyST end Searles are watering for them. I In-sugar trust t remliles at the prospect, ami tries to keep up its courage by having its organ inform the w-.i ld thai "a lot of such visionary proposals will, no doubt, be introduced while the bill is under discussion, but in the end the sound judgment men w ill control and a tariff bill be passed without very much change from the senate schedule." The trust may be right. It usually is, for it can predict what will happen to the agar schedule ()f the senale bill. It knows what demands will be made by its agents and tools in the senate, and it also knows the power of those who make demands to enforce them. It puts $7.00,O0o against the interests of 70,OOOjOOO people, nnd it know-, from experience which has most weight in the senate, w here tw o or t hre hold t he balance of power. N... there is no sugar trust, ami never w as one. and. in t he end the sound judgment vv ill pr-vail. "W hen the dev ii was so k the devil a Kaint would be." IVriiPtnal Motion l l'rotrrtlcin. The California argument for higher fruit dut ies is a sort of per pet mil motion. The only disa.Dantage the California fruit raiser is at is ;. be found in the cost of bis land, but the onlything that makes his land expensive is the profitableness of fruit cult ure. So the matter works out in this way: The great profits of fruit raising sent

the value of land up to hundreds of dollars an lit re. The interest on the value of the land makes a large ilem in a fruit raiser's balance sheet, ami he feels the need Of a high price for bis fruit. Tb is Senator Jones procures for him by letting it le known that he will not vote for the tariff bill unless it contains duties OB hides ami increased duties on fruits and the cheapest sorts of wool. The increased duties adds lo the profits of fruit culture, ami the price of land takes another rise, vv here noon t he fruit

grower Complains: that the interest on his land investment is so great or the rental he has to pay for his land is so high that there is an insufficient profit in the business for him, and the only thing that will save him from disaster

is more fluty. Logically this process can be carried on Indefinitely. Praotienlly it cannot. In en Use With the increase in the price of fruit the consumption of fruit will decline. The consumer will be worse off for the change. The grower, so far as hi is not to be considered as a land owner will be no better tiff, but the value of the bUsd will be as high as the profits of fruit culture will permit. Journal of Commerce nnd Commercial Du 1 latin.

I'rotertlon nn.l

tlie I'nrmer.

Lawrence mill Hit Union "Lawn BOO Is n-.f interested in wool, bttt in sheep," the Chicago Tribune (rep.) explains. "He and a score more of Ohknans raise blooded rams, w hich they sell to the ranchnen to imprnrc the breed of their sheen and better the quality of their w ooL This is a prosaic, useful hneieeas, but the country wouhl noi be ruined if it were sto.ptsd. It 1 in order to be able to Mil infM-e rami i h it Judge Law reiiee pOCCa as the disln tereeted champion of the sheep raisers. " Trost "fnt nore lee. "Forts one leather firms in Chicago protest ngainst the duty on hides. Put the beet sugar trust cuts more Ire,' rays the Tloston Transcript (Ind. Rep.y,

1 ME SUNDAY SCHOOL. laternatlonol MssseO for Jas IMj inn? i'iitir v.l. tu rimotiir e Tim. 1:1-7. .til 1-17. (ArranKed from I'eloubet's Notes. 1 QOLDSM TKXT From a child thou hist known the i.oly 8. rlplurts, which arw side tu make thee wise- unto iralvatlun. I Tim, S.'.i TU K SCi'TloN -Uead the whole of Second Timothy ui.d Acts 10 1-5 1IM1. i iiti.it hy Lorn A. I) SI -22; converted, A. l. 4i or 17, Joined luul, A. D. U; epistle written, A. I. 67. I"! SIT Thnnlll born In Lyxtrs. Aila Minor. He resolved the epistle ut K;. hesus, but it was written from a prison In Hume. i:PLAN.ToKY Ni Tl'H I. The Vouug Man, Timothy.- Vs. 1. 2. "In thi second epistle to Timothyi we luivc the leal 1. now n words of Paul." I. "Paul, SO asiUc:" Literally, otto sent forth (with a lommission). Of Jcsils ( lu ist ." lu hud clwiMtn Irin, and conimisioncd him, u.s really uh he had the twelve, and tins v.iis noi Of h.s own chiMksiug or planning, but "by ihe will of Qeaft as we satW in the. account of his conversion. "According to the promise of life: " In reference to, M the incites by which the promise should lc realized among men. "To Timothy, my tlearly beloved Mm:" His .spiritual son and one whom he bad trained ami whom he breed a his own child, "(iraoe," (iod's loving favor, "mercy," HLs gladness to forgive, "and peace," the fruit of grace and. tuiercy. II. A Young .Man to lie Thankful For. Vs. 3-5. 3. "I thank (iod," at too source of every good and perfect gift, "whom 1 serve from my foref at liens:' Paul, like Timothy, had inherited much from his ancestors. Hut for thejn he wouhl not have lieen what ho was. hat doe he give thanks for? For iho loving heart, t lie unfeigned faith, the sterling character, the iiHeful life, ami all those good qualities which endeorol Timothy to him, which ever came up before his memory, ind bsl II im to pray liefore him '"night and day." III. Come Up Higher. Vs. 6, 7. 6 "Wherefore:" lleoauso you are so dear to me, and arc so strong in the faith. "That thou stir up the gift of (iod, winch ia in tlkcc:" The verb may bo rcinWed fully, tlvv idling on the metaphor, "kindle the. glowing embers of the gift of I iod." or M margin of H. V 'Vt.ir into flame." "The putting on of my hands:" was the human channel through which the grac,. ca.nve, ujhI he We set apart for his work. 7. "God hath not given us the spirit of fear:" It. V., fcarfuinews. or cowardioe, that would shrink from any duty, however hard or perilous. "Hut of jnjwer:" The power and nutbority of dod, the power to no this work, U, resLst temptation, to endure hardship. "And of hoe:" Sacrificing self forth good of others, tike very spirit of Bear in and of Christ, a love that seeks th degraded, the rude, the iguorajit, the hostile uji.l never falters or fails. "And of a sound mi ml:" A hcelthjr -ommoir i ense, but most give the word tlie meuniug of discipline, as U. V. IV. Hy Abiding in the Scriptures. r : 14, ii. it. "Lut eonUnne thou-." in, contrast with the evil men, growing wors. and none, mentioned la the previous verses. "In the things which thorn hath learned:" Not only in early youth, but during! bin long companionship with Paul. "Hath been enured of:" HeSMHM he knew "of whom thou hast learned them." These things bad !een taught him b" those w ho had seen Jesus, w it nessed His resurrection, experienced His jvowcr, who were Inspired by (Jod, who were ready to 'lie in defense of their truth, and who lived holy lives, and loved Timothy so much that they cuuld not mislead him. 15. "An.l that from a child:" Literally from infancy. "Thou hath known the holy Scriptures:" That is, the Did Testament; f.-r the New Testament

was not then writtten. From his own arly and thorough knowledge of the Scriptures of the Jews, he was able to test thoroughly w hether or no his Master's teaching wns in accordance with those sacred thwuments. "Which are tilde to make thee w ise unto salvation:" That Is, udnt unto the attainment of salvation. "Through faith which is in Christ Jesus:" The Scriptures made him wise unto salvation by (mit ting him to .lewis, by proving that Jesus waa the Messiah. V. The Rcripturea, Training to Perfect Manhood.- Vs. 16, 17. Hy their Inspiration, lti. "All Scripture is given by in inspiration of (iod," etc.: The U.V. gives "every Scripture inspired of (iod is also profitable," etc. The two renderings are equally grnnmaticJ. In one rase inspiration isassumed, in the other it is nsserted." Cambridge Hible. The fact that the Word of (lot! Is Inspired trains to perfection, lwcnuse It &ivea authority to its teaching, and makes sure what would otherwise be but argument and hoe. 17. "Th.tt the man of God:" The "man of (iod" here ie. no official designation, but simply designates the Christian generally, who is striving, with his Master's help, to live a life pleasing to Oed. "May bt perfect:" In the sense of being complete at all points. Kvery Irue Christian is sei king to be peg fach The participle, "thoroughly furnished," is in the fin k fill UUd from the same root as the word translated perfect, S-) that the effect answers to that of the Kurdish, "that the mnn of Cod infly be complete," toiiipletcly equipped. "Unto all good works:" Fvery part of the hristian life und every kind of ( hristian service.

Fis nr. i ftatetaee The Christ an should always lie found doing -something that tho ilevil don't want him to do. When we bring our lives- into harmony w ill! Cod's will. He w ill see that CUf right are protected. 'flic m.n who gets up in the world by putting another man down, losee. more thnn he gttlns. The deril nr-aps a sure crop from WatMsf peTdv" Who expect to becorne. Christian after they commit one tnore, tin. Ram's TTorn.