Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 40, Number 1, Jasper, Dubois County, 10 September 1897 — Page 7

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1 The Truth at Lone Star. 2 BY PHUU SHOUP. WE HU rapidly gasllag acquainted. Jerry, who if surB.iined DM IWIt wanted time telling the ueWS, settled himself on hi pineneedle con. Ii. tipped his hat u litt U further forward so that the MM but gilded the tip f hit nose, and delivered hin intr duotory remarks. When the light Stasi U tared its way into the under

standing, we knew that he wasoi more than ordinary iniortan-e and his roughing it hvit the result of a whim; t ill. nothing hut his truthful countenance kept u from salting the tahabout the authorities tying down tinA'lant ic roast to keep it from tipping Up when he (MM wt-M of the Koch lea. Hilly Kdgerton yawned slightly and dtcvv up Ml hnccv lie -aid he believed it was in Hor taste to use titles either before or after a name, even if von did Law a right to lean em upngainst both ends, und that was why he was known imply as Bill? Kdgerton. Incidentally, he informed us that a hundred thousand rubles wasn't stic h a very larpe regard for the Russian government to offer for a political offender; hut he pr. ferred to take no chances, and therefore came up to l.one Star after he had met and circumvented in San Francisco the fourth detective of the imperial bureau. Then Johnson, of Colusa. straightened himself up. an if he had just awak entd from a tm eet I ream of peace. "IV' an uncle," said he. "who is vorth $'u.m, and I'm his only heir. I'd think a great thai more of hitn. though, if it wasn't for my aunt, who don't like him" Here he paused and blew a few rings from his old eoh pipe, but the question didn't come. "You see, he added. "m.V ut'iit is worth $1.000.000, and I'm her only heir also." After that there wns more silence, ami nlheit we sprawled lazily in front of the cookhouse. 1 felt that my autobiography was becoming overdue. As my Worldly effects would scarcely com-fo-tabiy clothe a scarecrow, and noth Im short of monxeo binding would

Main my personal history attractive. I looked tip at the stranger w ho through it "II had sat qubtlv on his dejected nude, bopiBg for a difCriiOtL "Howdy, gentlemen." he f id. tuning large and solemn eyes upon M and disclosing a countenance f philosophral graviey. Kadi of us acknowl adgai the salutation by slightly shift log his position, and .lerry. whose tf sgSM is that of a multitude, answ ere I Powdy." The newcomer removed hi sombrero, and his hair fell altout his head like a ahoeh of overripe w heat. Then he gently laid his fiddle case across the m.iiimcl of his saddle and asked: "Is this a party good place to Mop?" "We" stop here?" answered .Terry, laconically. "hive tiil-bly high?" "Six thousand feet." The late addition straightened op, hook his threadbare coat and lifted out cowhide boot, dust-whitened in the crinkles, from the stirrup, and reaching down, softly tapped the earth with i' to make sure he was on solid ground. Then he cautiously dismounted. .lerry. who is inclined to be critical, regarded the mule with disfavor. His owner, noting the glance, icinarked: "Jeremiah ain't the lint si lookin' mule in the WOrld, but I couldn't steal a better. I had a sight finer one in Tunis," lie added, deprecatingly . "In Tunis!" echoed Johnson. "Where have oil been?" "In Nashuay. "n Tunis, 'n ( ape id, n Lisbon some time hack. That waa before I went to Kobe went thar from Paris, which is a fair sort of a place, I hated to leave." Johnson drew his breath ami demanded: "Why did you ."' "Mutual objections between me "n the gov'ment. Two days war all they give me to tuke my last fan-well." he said, slowly rosining' his bow . "W hat did you come up here for?" "To git out of civilization." responded the stranger. "1111 disgusted. People lie so tliar's teoabit every where, 'n' the only man you're sure is anywhar near aipiarc with the law is the feller jest out'n jail." There diIn't seem to be any use of asking further questions of the new

comer, hut I think the opinion was general that to him truth was stranger than fiction. He laid his fiddle on the ag and looked attentively at his mule. "If it wasn't for twin' so oneasy about tereiniah. w ho needs a drink. I might piny a little tune on the fiddle," he said Kdgerton took the hint and a bucket Went down to the creek. tfifli of a glow in the western sky Was nil that was left of the day when "Home. Sweet Home" rounded up the performance. I looked at Kdgert'H. who was lying with his hands clasped behind his head, and thought 1 anw a tear in his eye: seeing hot dimly myself. I wasn't certain. Hut. then and there. Lone Star adopted Kzekiel and Jeremiah Ve told him of a deserted corral n nie up the road, and he became one of ,ls Someday, when he fell unusually atiMgetlr, he would run a rocker down by ihr creek for u time, but he preferred to piny or sing, and the tainp approved f his judgment. I think that Kcroggins was the mos Unpleasant man who ever saw tin-sun net in the Pacific. He was so menu that he w ould quarrel with himself a hen no one alM was around, and strangers passing by the cabin used to pause and wonder at Um one-voiced row within.

lie married a CaUllan, who was irri ff iiniuic and died a few yean, after he wedding, leaving their daughter Nita alone with the old scoundrel I he blankest pirate always haa the greatest treasure sod Sita w .is as pretty us her tu ther was ugly, as good as be waa bad. On u claim adjoining Seroggins' lived Atkinson, who was a hard-working young fellow with n title to plenty of pay dirt. Of course then' was a new edition of the old yarn of the ferent youth and the lovely maid. As soon as Scroggiim suspcted t he attachment he began to concentrate his etimity. which he had hitherto directed impartially against all men, in Atkinson's direction. After he found other plans ineffective he began seeking n way to reduce Atkinson's earthly lieoashit les to

a pine iMiani comn. Adjoining claims furnished a pretext for a quarrel. One morning Seroggins eased bis revolver In Ha holster, shouldered bis shovel ami went out. Instead of stopping on his ow n property, he deliberately walked some .'o feet over the line anil went to work in Atkinson's territory. Atkinson looked at him in amazement, and Seroggins stopped shoveling to return the gac.

"Kf yer think. Hob Atkinson, that a shadder of a skeleton like verseif he a (intent tar all the pay-dirt in these diggin's. ye'ro 'way off yer level. Jest take up this trail, ef ye'r lookin' fer trouble. All we want of you aroun' hyar ez yer tracks. Sabe? Seroggins made a mistake. His temper VM quicker than his hand, and he opened the battle before he brought up his artillery; for as the sight of his revolver left the holster, he heard a little click and raised hia eyes to look into the mouth of Atkinson's weapon. Kdgerton, coming down the trail, heard Ilol speak sharply : "(Jit! Andifyouever set foot on my place again, you'll have to he carried off!" Seroggins looked into his eyes, and then backed slowly and sullenly away. That afternoon Jerry and Johnaon. on their way up from the valley, stopped to rest at I'ayuse Hend. As they stood, the silence was broken by the clatter of hoofs, and around the bend, side by side, came two hort.e. The ritlers were Hob and Xita. "üood-by, boys." said the former, as he reined op. "Nita and I ere on our redding journey to huppier times, we hope. May we ask that you say nothing of having met us? Luck go with you." The mist crawled upwnrw through the nmnamta and mesqnite and hovered over the trail. Hob and Nita slackened their pace and went forward cautiously. It was when the fog was at its thickest that they heard the beating of reckless hoofs behind them. Hob turned his horse's head and grasped his revolver. A doen gigantic forms loomed indistinctly into view through the fog. As be raised his arm, Nita seized it, crying: "Dor.'t shoot! Surely my father" "Hunds up!" rang out the command, and half a doen weapons were leveled

at Hob. "What kiut of an outrage is thia?" he demanded, recognizing familiar faces. "Well, yoi: are a cool one: ' said Kdgerton. "Kill a man and ri: n away with his darter, and then call it an outrage when J on are foilered up! Heckon y ou thought it was a personal matter, leavin old MBW Seroggins up there in cabin tit a! !" "Head!" exclaimed Atkinson. "Why. I bad n't even heard of it! Why. am I accused?" "You'll find out soon enough. Yon come w Ith Ii- " Atkinson's horses stood quietly, head and head together. Nita had fainted.

and for a moment Hob g!an--fl tenderly down at the w hite face on his shoulder. Then he looked at the circle of unrelenting faces and said, quiet ly : "I am innocent. 111 go back and prove it." Of course Col. Ike Stenbins. as the U all 'lining of the social machinery of Ione Star, pn-sidn! at the trial. It was always he w iio stood at the head of the new-made grave, with reverent face and t:praised hand, w hile the clods fell dully on the pine coffin: he it was who sat with case and dignity i n the chairman's place nt public meetings; a bade without the colonel to lead w as like the play of "Hamlet" w ith that gentleman reprer.ented only by his regrets: and it was admitted without diacataiM that too one but Col, Stebbins could properly impersonate the auter:ty of Judqr Lynch. From the Wginning there seemed no doubt of Atkinson's guilt. Kdgerton testified to the quarrel of the morning, and Bill Simpson loquaciously related how he thought something was up

when Hob sold his claim to him at half ita value, explaining that he was in hurry to leave. Then Jerry and Johnson told of the meeting on the hillside, and each of the posse swore, with due appreciation of his own importance, to Atkinson's guilty actions v hen they came upon him in the fog. Heek inh Smith, of the hill-top, clinched the evidence by testifying that he saw the prisoner standing before Seroggins' loor at noon. The jurors had oenseti whittling toothpicks and exchanging jokes; tfheir

growing solemnity foreshadow e the J verdio. Col. Stebbins bad with a sigh dismissed the last witness, when K.ej kiel strolled calmly in through the open door. He tuxlded familiarly to two or thnt acquaintances, and tben

addressed the judge. "Colonel," he said, easily, "guess I'd better straighten tins thing out a little. Where d'ye plant the witn esses . Col. Ike, surprised, ItKikcd at him. "Ijet the witness be sworn." he said "Well, what do you know about this?" "I know all .V.iotit it." "Who killed Seroggin?" "1 did," said KekieJ. calmly. For ten seconds there was silence, and then a smile that broke into a

ripple of laughter ran around the room

Tha colonel rapped airrdv fot .nie with the uiuule of his revolver upoa the head of the fc'igar barrel "If v u are trifling I ain't tftftftV" protested K.ek.el, earu'stly. "1 never toid a lie In my life. It was jest after dinner, an 1 w nt luokin for Jen-unah. As I went by Scroggina' door, he came out, lookin' e rniilin' ea au undertaker with the toothache. 'Seed my gal lately?" saya he. foolin' with his gnu. 1 didn't want

to hurt hia feelin's by tellin' him I'd seen her ten minutes liefore with Hob, so I sc, polite-like: 'Sartinly, saw her last week. Lookin' well, ain't she ." St id of bein pleased, the old man w aa riled and used language that would have shucked wheat in a harvest field. Hut I didn't care until he said he could git more music mit'n a w tithcr-boarded house with a club'n I could out'n my tiddle'u' Ihw . Then 1 wns mad 'n' talked haflk. After asfciirin' uie that I'd diafiggered the lan'scape long enough, only addin' to them plain words some on necessary trimmiii's. Im shot at me V 1 shot hack, 'n' thia is what I killed him with." K.ekit 1 drew out an old horse pistol

ai.d handed it to the foreman of the. m . . . iv l

jury. A uiunnur oi uuerem ran aavasaaja

the crowd, and the jurors whispered

among thejiiselvea.

Just then a little red faced man pushed hia way through the crowd at the door. "There he is!" he shouted.

excitedly. lucres tue nuMWMwa mv mule!"

We followed his finger with our eyea. He was pointing at Kzekiel, who regnnled him philosophically. "Well, I didn't say I didn't, did 17" lie asked, . mildly. The newcomer threw his hat in the comer and danced with excitement. "It was this way, jedge. T'other dtiy I tied my mule down at Kansome's Ferry while I went into i'ike's place to git IOM refreshment. W hen I come out, a little later, the mule vvuz gone, an' I never seed him again ontil to-day, rtaBü I stumbled on him, accidental like, at this feller's place up the trail. I want him 'rested, quick!" We were too much astonished to say anything, but finally Kzekiel bnke the silence. "Don't lie too hasty." he said. "I stole ; the mule, yes. The chap left him tied out thar all day while he wasdoin' the anaconda act in at I'ike's. an' jest out of pity for Jeremiah I rode him off. Hut that's enough on that ubject." as the undertaker remarked when he saw a ; ten-foot tombstone over the grave of a debtor of his'n; we're considerin' another matter. I didn't say nothiii' alniut Seroggins' death for two reasons; I wanted Nita to leave 'thout hearin' alsut it. an' Jeremiah had strayed off an' it's a long ways to tell news that'll keep nn hour or so." The jury had Urn examining the piatol. and Kzekicl's statement was so apparently sincere that their minds began to waver. They looked at Atkinson, then at the stranger, and then at Kzekiel. serenely confident. For a moment

they DUSMd together, then the foreman, closely followed by the other It, walked over and held out hia hand to Atkinson. In another second Jerry was on a box. cheering frantically. The crowd joined in. and the excitement grew until the hilltop man fell out of the window backwanl. Aftef awhile the colonel made himself heanl : "The prisoner's discharged. Hut there's another case to lie considered." "Shc'. waitin' up thar for y ou." whispered Kzekiel, and Atkinson stayed just long enough to wring a dozen outstretched hands ami give his choking thanks to Kzekiel. Col, Ik. row Ha bis place 'and the hum of conversation was stilled. "The death of Inla man Scrogginaappears to have happened in n proper manner, but tiie mule stealing is more ss-rious. And while in tin-first instance v.u. are entitled to the thanks of Lone Star, because of the second it ia the opinion of the rourt you'd better leave in three hours. Kzekiel " "1 11 go." said Kzekiel. "hut not 'less I can take Jeremiah. I ain't agoiu tu walk." Col. Ike was a man of resources. He dropped a dollar in his sombrero nnd then passed it among the boys. When he had counted its contents he nd-dn-il the ow iter of the mule. "Your mule is worth just $ls. a plugged half and two Mexican dobies. and we've decided to bnv htm." Then he turned to Kzekiel. "With the compliments of Ixuie Star camp," he said, smiling. Kzekiel bwed his thanks, shook hands all around and passed through the door. He unhitched Jeremiah from where his late owner had tied him and clatnlw, id into the saddle, with his fiddle under his left arm. Something I saw in his face tnatle me walk alongside to the top of the grade. He looked at me for a moment, quizzically. "IWs what you hear go in nt one ear 'n' out t'other, "stid of your mouth? "Secrets that travel take that trail." "Well. then. I didn't atenl Jeremiah. I saw hitn nt the ferry , tuk a fnncy to him. an', when the chance offered next day. dickered for him with a man who 'peared to be his owner. Hut I saw that my reputation needed a smudge to make 'em b'lieve me about Seroggins.

"Then you didn't --" !egnn T. catching my breath. "Sart,:nly not." he said, coolly. "1 didn't kill him. and I don't know who did probably some one he did up. sett'.in' an old score. T'm sure Hob didn't do it, but I couldn't prove It any other w.iv. tid h.-' n mighty nice feller, an1 Nita. bless her little haart- Oit up, JafOniinh." San I ranciaeo Argon:; ut. eil In Time. "Isabel says she has never been ir love ' "Is that so?" "Yes; she was threatened with it once, but a bottle of spring bitter taken In tune brought her out all right." Cleveland He. ord.

EXTRAVAGANT MANAGEMENT, Brpabliraa l,o r rnnrnl Is Alwin r oallr The result of republican extrava

gance. Vi manifested itaelf !n unmistakable form tii UN early in Hbelifeof the McKinley adininist ration. July waa rtie tirat month of the new fis ai tMtV lid Secretary Gage's treasury balance fcbows a deficit of fll.OOO.om When the enormoua anticipatory importa to escape the dutieof the Dingley biliare taken into Account , together with) the unusually heavy payment into the tn asury by the bn wcrw to save tiie rebate on Iw-er stamps, the conclusion ia inevitable that the delieit is he to the recklesa use of public funds. The amount paid out of the treasury in July exceeded by $n00.0OO the amount paid out during July of lasti year. This excess represent the diff. r. nee between republican government and democratic government. In other wonls, republican government costs IS.OOO.OOO niorea month thnndetnocrat ic gov emrrent. One of the items of exta cost vva? contained in the pension account. Pension payment for the month of July aggregated- nearly $15.000,000, almostgtjoO.OOO in excess of the amount paid in pensions during the corresponding month last year. When the pension lists reached the $30,000,000 mark in the early part of Grant's second administration he apologized for the amount and predicted that from that year on the pension account would decrease. A few yeans afterward Samuel J. Randall as chairman of the appropriations committee submitted a bill to the BOOM carrying less than $40,000,000 in pensiona and explained that the committee believed the high-water mark in pensions had leen reached. Instead of decreasing, the amount paid in pension every year since has increased, ami this year the prodigious sum of $141.000,000

was appropriated by the republican congress. This exceeds the total cost of any of the various 4uge staining; armies of war-seared Kurope. It is mare than, enough, to equip and put in the field an army strong enough to successfully cope w ith any of the finelyorganized and terrible w ar engines of Europe on land or sea. The alrsurdity of joich extravagance is too obvious 1 0 require onalysis. Where or when it will stop no man pretends to know. Certainly there isaoAope of checking it as long as the republicans hold the pnrse strings. National gratitude has its limits. Men who were Incapacitated for selftupport In sov ing the union deserve national aid. This doctrine of So'.oii has the indorsement of modern enlightenment. But it is now more than MjCOIW since the -'. .1 war dosed. Kven if all of the more than S.noo.OOO men who fought for the union were alive and 'entitled1 to pensions, under n strict Md honest interpretation the amount would not be much greater than it now is. Inded, it probably would net 1k as large if rigid honesty were applied tc the question of pensions. The laws have lecn so loosely nnd dishonestly administered that the cost of pension swells when there should le u steady

iccrease. St. Iouis Kepublic.

WAVES OF PROSPERITY.

Protection Works on lb Swell M Fall PoOBOfOOOi Webster's definition of a wavemaj be numtiie p bj UM term oscillation or inst a ' Sir Isaac New ton define wave irregularity or uncveiines of aurfnee. In the natural world a wave always presupposes an evanescent climax, to he followed immediately by au anticlimax or depression. Ii. .- vse have by thci-owu showing the tOtlaMMi which the blatant heralds if art ilieial prosperity place upon their iivvu product. These part. -an John the Jlaptists, going up and down the hind telling the people to make way for prosperity, have at least the virtue of ingenuousness. They prate of a tidal w ive of pros 1 e4ty that is not expected on their own showing to be lasting. Yi are to huve, according to these heralds, a wave of such prosperity as the con ii t rv has never witnessed before, and

all interested are to make hay whilethe sun shines, for not being founded on rational economics there ia no telling how long the wave may last. The whole theory of tariff legerdemain ia based on the alternate swell and subsidence of socalled prosperity. A wave, either in economics c r physics, presupposes a depression elsewhere. Follow ing the physical origin of a wave to its logii-al conclusion, it is the depression that causes the wave, and vice versa. Prosperity for the trusts and monopolies of the United States, which is the real aim of the tariff necromancers, presupposes depression among other classes, principally consumers and the labor element. Based on robbery, which differs In degree only and not in kind from the piracy of t he midd le ages or the brigandage of modern frontier life, thia kind of prosperity always runs its course when an aroused public sentiment considers it time to call a halt. Whatever

of real prosperity is in store for the

people of the 1'nited States in the near future will be a tardy surmounting of ohstacles thrown in the way of natural recuperation from hard times by the tariff tinkerers. It is to be profoundly hoped that such real prosperity, whose welcome appearance will Bead no heralds or exploiters, w ill come to NRBUÜB with us and not to sweep over the nation with ephemeral touch. Oscillation from the heights of artificial prosperity to the depths of extreme depression constitutes the most hurtful of experiences for the body politic. Steady growth without these alternate extremes is the only sign of genuine prosperity, ami such growth is the natiou's assured destiny when the tr.riff jugglers are suppressed for good -Chicago Chronicle.

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.

TO BUNKO THE

PEOPLE.

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More men hsve been self-undon than have been self mads. Chicago

Bsekiel waa maiotafaing hia reputation, Newa,

DEFICIT AND PROSPERITY. Pro(ectfnnlta llnvr Ileen l.lii'ti tli I. le Ii) Kvenls.

The republican OfgMM positively assured us some months ago t hat w c ccu'.d not hope for any prosperity so long as ther was a deficit in the treasury. Tiiere is nothing in this wide world, taid they, in effect, that will take tlie starch out of business like a deficit. The merchant might as well cxpeet a rtifhof trade with I roaring lion Standing in hi front looraa tohope to dodge the sheriff WMMS 1 1 're Ls adefioitinthe federal revenues. The catalogue of political ills is a longone, but a deficit ia the boss ill and as good M any two among the tOOgtMSt of the lot. The extra session of congresa w as called to wipe out the deficit and save the country, and yet we are now in the enjoyment of a high degree of prosperity while the deficit continues to transact its pernicious business at the old stand. Of course, there are those who say that the piosperity we ar- now enjoying is all on paer. but they are of t hebreed called 'calamity howlers.' They have an interest of one kind or another in hard times; the harder the better. They don't want prosperity themselves and thy don't want anybody else to haes ajy. and when, there are. no hard times they try to deceive t he nisei ves and others hy howling that the times are simply awful. They ore not to be considered. The fact is that we have prosperity in abundance, and in pite of the terrible deficit. Nothing is clearer than that the protectionist organs shamefully misrepresented the deficit, for we are a prosperous nndhappy people with the deficit still or deck. If the protectionists are not a little more careful about their utterances they may run the risk of getting popular credit for saying whot is not so. Bingham ton (X. Y.) Leader.

The tariff "for revenue" does not aeem to be filling requirements. The

receipts from customs under the new law continue small, averaging about $100.000 a day, while it will t ike an av

erage of $.'.00,000 a day to wipe out the

deficit. The whole of t he gov cnincnt revenue eoHected for Wils month amounts to alut 110,000,000, while the expendituresare over $1 s.ooO.uOO. Prosperity cannot stand such ineipinlity bo twecn expenditure and income vet v long. Indianapolis Newa. W are told in MM breath by Um republican organs that the effect of the Dingley tariff will be to restrict im portations, nnd thusinaurea favorable balance of trade, and In the next breath that the Dingley tariff will also increase the revenues and keep 1 he treasurv full

of gold. I'nless there shall lie large portations there cannot lie a large i e nutcollected from Importations. If the Dingley law shall atop Importations) it will stop revenue. Philadelphia Record.

Tlie "Sontltl Munri" BCheBM

llr pit Illicit It". The great cry of the republican part during the.oarnpaign was for "sound money." It dec La red that the question botoM be placed leyond controversy. It bad dallied for month after MMStk with other questions, and has finally iiecn checkmatedi in this attempt to enact a parliamentary fraud upon the people. All this, too, in view of the (set that the money question ia regarded as the greatest w hieb has come I., fore the country in Its -entury of ,i-lence. Even after adjournment of

congress. Secretary (Inge, sjieaking for the republican party and as the head of the t reasury port folio, which is the business bureau of the government, declared that the tariff isMie was infinitesimal beside the demand for money reform. Notwithstanding this declaration), which is but nn echo of what the people have already declared, tic country is doomed to a fresih period of disappointment. The doctor who begs to le called to the side of the sick patient nnd then fails to apply the remedy isa w retch indeed, but what is he compared to that great doctor of political ills who went liefore the country on a series of false promises and v. ho isv unable to redeem a tingle one of them ? Tlie people of the Tnited States or too intelligent to be further bunkoed by such transparent schemes, nnd they know now, if they did not know it before, lhat the republican party is but the creature of corpora t Ions, trusts nnd ring, which hnve noother purpose but the dostrwetsOfl Of personal liberty and the rohliery of their sulistance. Allan ta Constitution.

POINTS AND OPINIONS.

Isn't It odd that Mark TTanna hasn't claimed the Klondike gold strike os a logical outcome of McKinley's election? St. Louis Republic. The man with a small salary and a large family, to whom the return cf prosperity brsigcth only higher prices or the things he buyeth, may rejoice thnt he holdeth his job.-Chicago Tribune (Rep.). Consumers now required to pay higher prices for tlie tariff-taxed necessaries of life are beginning to realize that it costs money to see the elephant, especially the pachyderm of the g. o. p. variety. St. Louis Republic. Mark llanna is quoted assaying MM lime ago that "no man in public office owes the public anything." In so far ns Mr. llanna has nny power in the matter, he has seen that the public pct nothing, except the worst of it. Uinghatntoti N. Y. I Leader. - The revival of prosperity through the bounty of nature in this country and failitu crops elsewhere comes dcpite rct notions on trade for the bene lit of plutocrats. The "rike off" for the favored few provided for by the Dingley Iniquity is merely ft fy in the ointment of the country's content. St. Louis post Dispatch, - When the IMngley tariff WM being i.iiide :'p Alabama iron manufacturers declared that they did not want any protection, because they could sell their product abroad without any. They have heen shipping iron right along under the Wilson tariff to England and other countries of Europe and tbey can eos tlnus to do so. N. 0. Pi cay una

Intermit loi.nl l.eaaun far September til. IMTT filrallSB l iving Montana Mi 04U, (Arranged from 'oubH's Not. GOLDKtt TKXT He not overcome ol evil, but overcome evil with good -Horn. 12:21. I.KMH N N Ti:H i. Sincere Love. W V. 10. J. "IiCt love:" LaWS to tiod and love to man. "lie without divsiiniilut ion :" H. V., hy j hut iy. Not a mere forlu, not au outward politeness, hut a real, sincere love. II. Abhorrence of Kvil. V. J. "Abhor that which is evil:" Not merely keep from ikting wrong, but hate Kin w 1th the w bole soul, for all sin is mean as w ell as w icked. I it re not completely good I'll all evil, even (if thought, is loathsome and repulsive tu us, as a discord in to a musician, HI. Attracted by the bood. V. J. ('leave to that which in good:" The. (ireek word for 'cleave" means to glue, or cement. He glued. Im- cemented, to whatever is good, so that nothing .an separate von from it. IV In Honor Preferring One AnJ'ber. V. 10. Or, more exactly, "preit ding one another," "going In-fore mm another in giving honor."--Am. Coin. P.c ready to do the work, lie tosWMMl in umiertakir.g the lowly and unrecognized duties, lint when it conies to t be honor that men Ix'stovv, be glad to Itcstow it iiK)ii others; -ck the usefulIICK.S. not t he honor. V. (Energy In tlM Lord's Service. V. ii. "Not slothful la bssslmss better as in R. V., In diligence not slothful, not delay ing. " hatfoever thy hands gad to do, do it with all thy niiu-lt t." Some are diligent in business, hut not in religion; some, in religion and not in husincKK. Poth are wrong. "I'e:renl (boiling) la spirit:" Tlie reverse, ol the ptevioiis exhortation, both of which apply to "serving the Lord'1 in w batev. f j on do. in pbiy , in work, in religion. VI. Joy .- V. If, Hejoicing in hope:" Piecause the Christian hope is so glorious. If w e have a clear, definite ( hrisMan bnpn, we cannot help rejoicing. A dim hope clouds the joy. VIL Patience. "Patisaco ta tetania Uoe:M Tals srord, tribulation, both Um

English ami the Latin equivalent of tlo- Qraek, is derived from the Latin "tribulum." which wan the threshing instrument or roller whereby the Roman husbandman separated the corn from the husks; and "tribulatio" in it' primary significance was theactof this separation. Hut sorrow, distress nnd Mteerslty being the appointed means for the separating in men of their chaff from their wheat, of whatever in them was light and trivial, and poor, from the solid and trSie; thenfore Ihcir sorrows w called "tribu'ations." threshings, i. e., of the Liner spiritual man, w itbout wjiich there could be no fitting him for tue Heavenly garner. R. C. Trench. VIIL Phi' School of Prayer "Continuing constant:" Crgent, pressing, p rsevering in prayer. M the mean of communication with God, the source id all qiiritual supply. IX. OlSlSIPSltj Y 13. "Distributing:" Tbc i.teck word is from a word meaning "having Illings in common." N. Olren to Hospitality. Literally "Pursuing hospitality." the same word in the t'.rcek "persecute" in the next verse; going after it, necking earnestly the opportunities for it. XL Tlie True Attit ode Toward Herst utors. Y. L "Boat them which persecute you: This is n quotation from th Sermon on the Mount. Paul well knew what he was advising, for he. had had many au opportunity of practic

ing li i own precept. NIL Sympathy.- V. If, "Rejoice w ith tl: in thnt do rejoice," etc: Sy moathie with others, both in joy ami in sorrow. Sympathy means "suffering with," so fVterittg into another's feelings that vou suffer or joy with them. XIII. Hnmility.-V. If.. "Re of the spine mind " Actuated by a common and well-understood feeling of mutual allowance and kindness." Alford. "Vind not high things:" Such as thoiiL'ht- of personal vanity, social, or, perhaps also, spiritual pride. "Condem ai to men's low antatst" The noun BM9 I"' either masculine or neuter, lowly men or lowly Ihings. XIV. High-Toned Heuling. V. IT. "Provide:" I. e.. take thought In advance. ca re for be forehand ; "t biaga honttt:" hooorablc. "in the sight of all men:" We are not to le merely honest, Mrictly just. In our dealings; be bonnraMa in the highest degree, nlove everything mean or selfish. XV. "I'. aci aideiicss." V. 1. "If it lie possible, as much ns lieth in ynu, be a. pence with all men:" To Im- nt peace, sii'tiilies the disposition of the mind. Tat qualifications are important; it is not nlw ays possible to be at MM w ith others; first pure, then peaceable (Jai :::l7b is the universal law of Christian character and conduct. but all your part is to he at peace; whether you nctunlly live peace

ably or not will depend, men, aoieiy on how others behave toward you. xvi. QiarooMlng Bfl with OoaaL i :.m t. "Dearly St loved, avenge not yourselves:" Many will bate you and wrong you for 1 brist' sake. Put j nn are not to return evil for their evil. put. rather give place unto wrath:" (,ive room or place, to the w rath of Ood. I.ct Qodl wrath punish. "For vengeance bj mine:" Vengeance here is not revenge, but vindictivciiess, but "the full meting out of justice to nl! parties." Fven if. In the Matel of nn nvalanee of work.Co.l . alK you "apart into t desert place forest nvv hilc." and even if the desert mentis only n hendnche. or rr.lny dny. make no complaint, but follow . lose Anna L. Waring. I hatS to sec things done bv halves. If it le right, tloit boldly: if it lc wronf leave it undone tiilpin, V life spent worthily should h r ensured by deeds, not years - Sherldin. The temperate tongt trinmpha.