Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 40, Number 8, Jasper, Dubois County, 29 October 1897 — Page 3

WEEKLY COURIER V. IiM:. IN.I.U-licr. JA-PKi: ; ! INDIANA HER MAJESTY.

fl'hen ffomm seek fav'ir from rn. n They smllo si they make their requests; t'a "Kindly oblige me," snd ,,' " We Isiiguidly heed their behest. "ii, Ml'l you Uo this much for me?" Thy softly. rare-snltiKly -TU,.only makes never a jilcu. Bat xl'iiply III fOTWI tue I mujr. "You may tie my shoe," with a pout! It's never "I wish you would. leasc " And yet without question or louht Most humhly I nirik to my kn I I "You may imsh the hammock uwliile," I hear the mnld OSJSlStelk ay. Another would plead with a ini il Her niajeity nays that 1 may. No favnrs ahe e'er asks of me. This damsel so Kraclotis, divine; Whatever I do I run see The favor la hers, not mine. She "lets" me walk miles for a wrap, "Allows" me to row down the hay. Anothir mlxht ask me, mayha Her majesty says that 1 may. The girl Is a natural queen. Her wis'iet real favors must he. And work done for her can hut mean Additional pleasure for me. Oh, bätUtlflll dream of my life! I hope when I tell her some day 1 m 1oiik"I"K to muke her my vv: feller majeaty ll gay that I may. Chicago Tott.

I apt. Blake's Rome Nomina S

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1 hat's cruel, Teddie

'IT'S ynu

J make:" t ruel, Nellie, dear Nellie, you little leroonl Why. 1 wouldn't touch a hair of jrOUf head, barring the hit I want to cut oft to curry with DM to India, and you're tensing the life out of me situ your contrariness, and making it much harder for me to go than eveu joii dream of!" "And what do yon want to go for? leaving your home and your regiment that vou were so proud of, tad the people that know you, and the girl" here Miss Nellie breaks down with a little ob, and it is all Teddie ran do to reniemher his promise to her fat her, and keen his two urmi from going round her. MAa4 the girl whnt?" he savs, huskily: for thf life of him he can't resist that much. " That was brought up with you and 1 i- beta a sister to you all vour life," chokes Nellie O'Mallry. "I'll tell you what it is, Nellie." the i. young soldier says, pulling? himef together, und speaking much more n v. -rely than he really feels, "you in u Iry to understand my position, and then ; 1 say no more about it. if you please, ii and for nil. My uncle's dead i Heaven rest his soul), and he's left the old place to me, but it's up to the chiinpots in debt, and unless I let it to the English fellow I'll never be able to ear It nil my life. Then, if I don't i schange for India, I can't keep my place In the service at all; and besides, Nellie, with the old regiment quartered at Thomastown, it would lie mighty hard for me to see another man fishing my salmon uil shooting inv birds and ag in my chimney corner everyday lie week, with all his great ugly looking over the pew at you on Sundays! I couldn't do it, Nellie, not even to remain near near the friends I've know n ever since I was a baby. So that's all about it, and you mustn't Uske It harder for me than I can bear do you see?" If was a good thing that Aunt Kllen called them in to supper at this moment. Nellie had one of her teasing its on her. try ing ay this means to hide her heartbreak nt Teddic's deI irtUre, and her perversity tried poor voung Make sorely, lie had promised her father, the rector, that he would not by word or act reveal his feeing toward her. They had been children together, almost brother and sister, for nearly 20 years, since Teddy first came to Mi; Ii seal Ian. and this state of things .mist hi maintained, Mr. O'Malley decided, till Teddic's fort tines should bear r and more satisfactory inspection. Perhaps a few years of Indian soldierIng, while the old castle was let to a rich English tenant, might put the said fortunes on their feet; meanwhile. Unci ring in the old reetory gardWU was a dangerous occupation, and Aunt Kllen did wisely to ring the supper bell out of the w indow. Presently the parting enme. It was Sunday evening, and the rectory kept early hours. Supper was over, and the ti'Malleys were making their farewells to Teddie, the almost son of the house, lot he had to get back to Thomastown that night and start for Kngland uext 'iinrning. "There's something I want to take Mth me," he announced stoutly before them all. "a lock of your hair. Aunt Kllen, and another of Nellie's. You know you two are the only womenkind 1 have or ever have had. Cive me each n hit of a curl nnd I'll have them put in a locket together nnd wear it on my chain, and you won't be sorry to think I've got it when I'm away from you." He looked at the rector as he spoke. It was all open and above board, and the aid gentleman nodded and reached dow n a pair of scissors from the manti ' shelf, which he handed to his sister. Aunt Kllen cut her little lock carefully! as befits a lady of five-and-t.y, whose hair is still abundant and ornamental. If not so bright as it has be. n. Nellie whisk.,1 her bunch of curls over her shoulder and snipped off a thi. k brown rntR-let. Ted. lie twisted them together in his poekctbooh and snid. with I feeble attempt , juk. ..They'll vith.ne every vvl re and bri ng toe hack to Moytlscallan. Do1 let me find jou Te been, either of you, flirting wiih

nirangeways wane i maw ay or putting him in n..v place." 'i 'In n he kissed the two ladies as he Lad always done on great oc nsions, at New Year or 011 birthdays, ever since he hu three yt.iis old, s.iook haml with the rector tw ice over, and hurried away olT to TbomastOOra, and thence to India. And, oh dear! it was dull ut Moylb.allan witlnoit hini! l ive years later Capt. KdwartI Hli.I.e wns coming home on sick le we. It had been a "near squeak," as he said himself. That wound on the hend, at the Hurroo Pass affair, had set all Klimpe tnlUing about him, but hud nearly done for him all the same. Then cam week of fever and the weary journey to DoB bay; the relapse on the road, which, but for Mrs. Diamond's nursing, must have finished him; the almost miracukouslj aecotpUahasj move on to shiphoard, which the doctor allowed was an experiment of kill or cure. And now he was steaming SOBM II fast as the I. & O. line could do it. and very day some fresh sense of poorer in mind or body was reborn in bin; one day he. could arrange his own pillows, the next he could read t fewlines of the Times. A little later he ISted Mrs. Diamond If she could find him paper and pencil, us he wanted to write, note "home." Life was worth living again with Ifojlieeallon drawing nearer day by day. Mrs. Diamond was a little widow lady. who. since hi r husband's death, had been keeping house for a brother in the civil service. "The Judge," as she called him, had fallen a victim to the chnrmsof an ls-ycar-old school girl, fresh from Kngland. and Mis Diamond's services were required no longer. Coming down country she

had stumbled upon Teddie Blake, feverstricken and virtually alone, and it was undoubtf dly to her care that he owed his recovery from the relapse, which had been worse than the original attack. She had deferred her own plans to the convenience of the patient, had superintended his transfer to the stiamship from the Bombay hotel which she had hardly dared to hope he would leave alive, and was a witi.ess of his convalescence on board ship, as day by day his strength and spirits returned. So it was not wonderful that Teddis turned to her for paper and pencil on the very first occasion that he felt he could scrawl a lfcie, and Imperiously demanded that he be allowed to write "to Ins people." "Are you sure you can do it?" Mrs. Diamond asked, producing the writing board, but not giving it to him unconditionally. "Quite sure that is, not a bit of it but I'll try." "I thought you said you had BObodj belonging to you?" "No more I have no real relations but an adopted family that is the dearest in the vvrld not a mere accident of birth, like other people's families. I must write, them just a few words to say that I'm alive and coming home, and it'll be ready when an Opportunity comes for posting it. though it can't reach Moyliseallan more than an hour or two before 1 do myself." "Moyliseallan." repeated Mrs. Diamond; "what do you know of Moyliseallan? I only heard of the place for the first time a month ago, and now it turns up again!" "It's my home." Dlake said, painfullyscrawling the data at the top of his sheet of paper. "The eastb-belongs tu me. only I've never been nble to Ihre in it yet. My people live nt the rectory - it is to Mr. O'Mnlley. the rector, that I'm writing. And what did von hear about Mov lisca'lan, the sweetest place on all the earth'."' "Why," said Mrs. Diamond, excitedly, "this is the oddest thinfl! My cousin, Oeorgs Btrangorajrs, rented the castle from some one sonic vears ago from yon, it appears and now he is engaged, married probably by this time, to one of the rector's girls, Kllen O'Mnlley. a daughter, I suppose, of this very old gentleman you're writing to! I had the letter just before I met you at llahniednngger. and had scarcely given It a thought since." One of the rector's girls! Teddy Dlake had seen death glaring at bin from a wall of black Afghan (sees; he had loaded fever in the eves mOTfl than once, but he had never known what despair meant till Mania Diamond told him her little story of odd coincidences sitting on the steamship deck, half-way through t heir homevv anl voyage. Kor a moment he repeated the words: "Kllen O'Mnlley; there is onlyone daughter at the rectory;" and Mrs. Diamond, whose eyes were on the silk sock she was knitting, went on cheer fully: "Oh, then, that's the girl. I did not hear from (leorge Strangways direct; the news canie through my brother, but of course it is the same he young lady at t he rectory . PaaSJf Id 0 SOrgC succumbing to an Irish girl's fascinations after going all over the hnbitable globe unscathed till now!" "Is he a good fellow?" Teddy asked. Something in his voice made Mrs. Diamond give n swift glance at her companion, and in that glance she understood everything. "He is a very good fellow." she answered, a little more seriously than she had hitherto spoken; "any girl will ls happy nnd tenderly treated by him, though he is an elderly man "."i, I should think- and a little eccentric and old-fashioned in his ways. Vou will find letters telling you all about it when yon reach Kngland, you may Ive sure Don't you think you had better let me take that writing Iniard downstairs ngain? It will be time enough to write when there is a chance of porting your latter." He let her lift the writing things away, only putting out a feeble hand to crumple up the inoH on which he had begun his letter. Then he lay back with his eyes shut, and her wet took her a little apart, for the struggle whic'- he had to go through now must le fought out bIoik . My and by his sonant caSM and belpad him downstairs, and Mrs. Diamond saw him agaiu no more thai day.

I'ovjr, MHr lad if 1 could onlv have

- ived him from such a blow!" she kept saving over and over again to herself, "but those wretched coincidences are too at rung lor u."

M"v liscallnn woods in leptemher! Mow often Teddie Dlake had pictured his home coming through the green ides t hat st ret (bed betw ecu the castle Mil till' rectory. Those sylvan aisle were the rallying place of all his favorite dreams, for did not Nellie cms them day by day. and would it not he kefS t hat he would bring her to tall her the secret which he thought she must have I named long ago. Hector ( I'M alley would let him speak at UUH . for t he long w alttng had iHirne its fruit in recouping the Dlake coffers, while Toiidie knew that the Murroo I'ass affair, of which he himself thought and (poke so modestly, was not likely to be forgotten when his name came up at the Horse guards. A thousand times he had gone over till this in Imagination, lingering, meanwhile, the little Hat locket that hung' ut his watch chain and now ami now, he was creeping back to Moyliseallan like a thief, having giroa no word of warning cither to the rector or to his niient at the castle creeping home just to see Nellie's face again once more and then to go away anywhere und die. He was still weak and wan from the fever. Mrs. Diamond had tried hard to peraamfs him to remain a Utile time in London for a consultation with a first-rate doctor, but the determination to see Nellie at Moy liseallan once more was the only desire that remained to him in life, and till it was accomplished his shrewd little friend saw that there w a.s no good talking of anything' else. So he had hurried over t Ireland, and had reached Thomaatown the evening before. To-day lis had taken a car over to the village (in the old days it wns the shortest and pletisvantest four miles ever known), and leav ing t he driv er asleep in t he sun nt the cross roads had turned into the wood that is a short cut to the tw o principal houses in the parish. He had no very definite idea of the plan to pursue. Now that he had reached lib journey's, end, it seemed as if all poorer had left him. l'erhaps somewhere among- the trees, crossing from the castle grounds to the rectory side, he should see Nellie passing by, and he would slip down upon his knees among the fern and look at her Georg Btrangwayrf wife- and - oh. this fuin'ncKs! Merciful lod! ii that Nellie? "Teddie, is it really you?" Teddie was on the moss, stretched, flat, save that Nellie s arm wjus under his head. Nellie's little, bare, sunburned hand unfasV-ned his collar he could only look ami smile. The green Moyliseallan leaves were overhead, dancing against the blue, Nellie's face was very close, and he thought he must be in Heaven. "How could you come like this and take us by surprise, nnd you so ill, Teddie?" the girl went on reproachfully. "If I hadn't been going across to the ca.stle this morning early, nnd come on you lying here in a heaj) " "doing across to the castle," Teddie found tongue to utter, his eyes on Nellie's left hand. "Don't you live at the castle now aJtogether?" "And what should I go and live at the cawtle for. when I've a good home of my own, intruding on newly married people, as if I didn't know better? Heides, Aunt Kllen isn't back from her honeymoon yet. and I'ncle Oeorge what, are you able to sit up? Take care or you'll " She could not finish the sentence, for f'apt. Dlake was sitting up with n ven

geance, and to steady himself he had I got his arm around her waist. "So vom never thought of Aunt ' Kllen?'"' said Nellie by and by. "well, you wouldn't have been an 1 l islmian if , you hadn't made a mistake somewhere! Only if you'd ever seen I'ncle Qeorgl

I don't think you'd have doubted me, Teddie, dear. Oh" they have been so funny courting one another these five years! and if 1 hadn't been so well amused 1 think I must have died, for you kept me a long time waiting- without a word!" Hoston (Kngland) (itmi diati. Tommy XVnn n MSOtSSjrtati A little boy dropped his druntstiek into a well. In vain he entreated his parents, the footman, the gardener, tie' coachman, the cook, the housemaids

; to go down into tin: well to recover his

drumstick. In Ins distress a brilliant expedient occurred to Master Tommy he secretly carried off all the plate from the sideboard and threw it into the well. (treat was the COOSternstiop when the plate was missed, nnd an active search for the robbers took place. In tin- midst of the alarm and the confusion Master Tommy ran with the news that he had found the plate, "Where'.''' w as the cry. "Down th well," replied Tommy. "I saw it quite plain shining at the Isittom spoons, ladles, bread baskets, salvers and all." The housemaids hurried to the well, at the bottom of w bleb, sure enough, the plate was seen. A ladder was procured, a servant descended, and the plate hih brought up. .lust before the last article was fished up Master Tommy whispered to him: ".lohn, please bring up my drumstick when you go down for the soup ladle." London Telegraph.

HUMOROUS. "Nothing is kacred 1o these professlonal jokers." "Oh, yes. The old hdna"1 rhlledalphli North American. - Kirt Hoy T say, Tommy, do you work for llohinson?" Bscoiol l!oy "I gue he thinks I do. Tuny rate ho pare uie every w eck."- - llostou. Transcrip. - Managed to C onvey His Meaning. "Hat's, why did you take off your hut to that inun?" "Dot man tas mein diveetheart mit dtv golden hair's fader. ' Chicago Tribune. - "Ilnpamllh ought to take his wife mtth him to the Klondike." "Auy social reason V "Yes; I've noticed she always docs their snow shoveling at hoase' J)etroit Free l'ress. Terrible Threat. "John, if you don't quit referring to me as 'the old woman' I'll make you sorry for it." "W hat will you do. dear I'll be s new w i una n." I ndiannpolis Journal. Keeping the Faith. "Has my boy been a little defender and been kind to dumb animals to-day'."' "Yes, grandma. I let your canary out of the cage, and when my cat caught it I set Tuvv cr on her." Harlem Life. "Ah." said Mrs. Huzbv to her husband, who has come home with a black eye and uo hat, "that" what you get for riding a bicycle." "No, my dear, it'a what 1 get for not being able to ride one." said Buzby. Tit-Hits. hat He PtbrgOt.- "Didn't you forget something, sir?" asked the waiter. "Yes," replied (iitnpy , reaching for his hat. on were so long bringing my dinner thai I forgot what 1 had ordered.' flPMladelphii North Amerloan, In flood Company, Alatnma "Now. Johnny, jrou must remember to use voir- right hand. I don't want you to become left-handed." Johnny "Why. mMBmal some of the best pitchers in the league are left-handed." Fuck. JERSEY'S INHABITANTS.

The lllfthnp's MSMSltSN, There is an anecdote of a LoOdoB bishop, who, having rend that story of John Wesley cuting out every, word of his discourse t hat his servant-maid did not understand, determined to preach to I country OOngrOgstlOB the I -implest ssrmoa hi could a rite. He chose an elementary snbejet, and took for Iii textl "The fool hath said in his heart there is nniinil." On leaving the church he asked the parish clerk what he thought of the aw meat "Oh. mi lord. 1 said he. "it was very tine very tine and grand. I've been taiktBg it over witb

flVr. Hard, and we said how fine it was.

lint, alter all, we can i neip uusming that there is a Ood." Chambers' Journal.

Tvent Tliouniintl More stlvr-Dorn Women Thun Wen In tin- Mule. Jersey neu and Jersey w omen don't emigrate. Jersey men and Jersey women don't turn their backson the farm 01 the homestead to found colonies in the south or southwest, as do the eople of New Y'ork, New Knglai:d and l'ennsylrankt. They are glad to be able to remain in Jersey, and under these ciroumstuncea it is perhaps just a little peculiar that there should be 20,001, innre native-born women than men in New Jersey.

The male birth rate is higher than the female birth rate in NVw Jersey, as in other M..t's and in most countries. ' In the state last oar there were born j 1.032 females to each l.ooo males, but in I most states of the tin ion, or nt least in settled states of the union, this dis- ; parity is set off by two causes the

higher male death rate and the loss of population through emigration. A larger proport ion of men than, women emigrate, and in old established states, especially In the eastern portion of the country, and particularly in the NewEngland Ptntes, Massachusetts, Khode Island and "onivect icut. the preponderance of female inhabitants is considerable. The average number of births in a year in New Jersey exceeds the average number of deaths by 30,000, or 10 per cent.: but though the number of births of pales, is larger, and lias Vieen for many years, than the number of birt hs of females, and although there is practically little emigration from New Jersey, the fact remains hat there are 20,hm) more female than male inhabitants in that state, native-born. Th preponderance of women is not general. In Cloneester county, for instance, which is in P'outh Jersey and tributary to Philadelphia, there were, by ihe last slate census, 600 more men than -women. In (Vean county, the home of fishermen, there were by the mal census 0.112 mnle and MT9 female inhabitants, a considerable disparity in favor of the former. In Atlantic county, in Cape May county, in Cumberland county, in Salem and in SusI the male outnntnlMT the female inhabitants. On the other hand, in the other eOU a tin of New Jersey the native-born female inhabitants preponderate. The reason is plain. New Jersey has enormous manufacturing interests, and perhaps the best developed of them is the manufacture of silk. A rery considerable number of those engaged in silk manuf.n ' ore arc women find girls. Tn Passaic county, which includes the city of I'aterson. there are 1.(00 man native female than male Inhabitants. In Morris county 1 here are 1,200 mora native frmnle than male in1 abitants. In UntOU county, which includes the city of Kliabeth, there are 2 200 more native-born women than native -botrn men, and in Kssex county, w hich includes the city of Newark, with its vast nnd varied manufactures, there ere 7.179 more native female than native male inhabitants, h addition to this disparity there are in all Jersey 10,001 more Irish-lorn women than Trish-born men. but the residents- of other nationalities include n lnrger rnle than female population. N. Y Sun. TIT llorrl. I Mnn. "Ah, yes." said Mrs. Middleton. w ith 11 sigh, "it is too true. alas, too true! One half the world doesn't know how the other half lives." She had just returned from an afternoon card party, and had been talking iv cr some of the things that she had heard there. "I guess you're right," her husband replied, "but you bet yonr life it isn't the feminine hvilf that doesn't know ." Cleveland bender.

oiittln't llecolleet An Otlicp. Couldn't Recollect Any Other. Stephen Hut, Cncle John. whom do j ou mean when vou SOeah of the "best cltb asntt I'ncle John Wi II. there is myself, for Instnnce, nnd and nr.d I presume there are others, but they do rot come la mind just a this moment. , -J.h tton Tn.nsc-ript.

SHIPMENT OF MONEY. Uciiaona Win HimLa Prefer lleutlt Kuiiria It) i:urcaa. The fact that man southern and eastern banks have recently used the registered am 11 service for the transmission (f currency to and from the banking centers of the country has caused considerable comment. Ihe reason is found in th- inability of the banks to secure this year, through the treasury bl the I'tiited States, the benefit of government cuntraet rate from the express, com lain es. i'rior to this year the treaaery gladly hipjed currency to banks at government rates, in return for gold. In the last contract with the express company , however, a clause w as inserted by which such privileges should be afforded to the banks only when the treasury needed gold. The sc Tetarv of the treasury having decided that the treasury does not need gold now, the banks cannot participate in the advantages of the government BOH treat nnd to save transmission charges country bunkers have directc d their city correspondents to make shipments intended for them by registered mail. The cashier of a large nntional bank U hieb ships many thousands of dollars every day to its correspondents all over the country, in speaking about this matter with a New York Kvenmg I'ost reporter, said : " I he conservative hanker still prefers to send money by the well-known express companies; but, to save expense, since the government refuses to remit lot the banks any longer at government r.-en trust rates, the country banks are apparently willing to take the risk of transmission by registered mail with the guarantee of an insurance company's policy for its safe delivery. Notwithstanding, however, the registration nnd insurance, the risks of sending large sums of money by mail are rery great. A package of currency which Is forwarded by the registered ' mail department of the postal service has no distinctive mark indicating its value; s psMU receipt is given for it just the same as for any ordinary letter or prekage of merchandise. The package of money is thrown in with packages of merchandise of all sorts, and no more care is ttiken of it than is taken with a hoa of shoes or a package of gloves. The registry clerk's receipt is not a document that is as well known or as satisfactory as the receipt of the receiving clerk of an express company, and in case of the loss of the package, the delay in the recovery of the money is interminable. "On the other hand, the express companies locate missing packages of money or make good the loss promptly , without technicalities or delays. They are responsible, and banks run no risk in shipping by them, Their employes are chosen solely on the ground of ability and trustworthiness, and they are therefore more likely to be more accurate and prompt than postal employes, who owe their places, more or less, to politics, notwithstanding the civil service examination. While it is true that by insuring money sent by tegistered mail there is some guarantee against loss by non-delivery, it is equally true that th'ere is considerable risk of loss if the insurance company stands on technicalities. The slightest informality in the observance of the terms of an open policy issued by an insurance company renders the policy invalid, and would in the case of a missing package cause the loss to fall on the consignor. The technicalities to be observed by a remitting bank in sending money by registered mail when t he deli very of t lie money is insured by one of the local insurance companies are very great compared with the simple but sale methods of the express companies, and unless some new regulations are made by the postal authorities for sending registered mail conservative New York banks will certainly prefer to ship by exptl ." The cost of postage and insurance, layi the lt, is much less than the usual express charges st what are known as bankers' rates. Kew New York bankers, however, would r .nit money in that way, unless they were directed to do so by their eoriespond- , ate, They would rather ship it by express, even though it cost more to do so, because they consider it the safer way. Waltcr'a Klrt lllp. Walter T was six years old. He aaset had seen the oceun. We were to spend the summer at the seaside, nnd Walter had n new bathing suit. Every boy la the block wns invited into the house to see him try it on, and one day we discovered him in the bathtub surrounded by an admiring group of juveniles, to whom he was discoursing about how he would dive from the end of the iron pier when he reached the ocean. When the young man, however, saw the ocean with the great waves rolling on the beach, he could not be induced to go near it. nnd positively refused to put on his bathing suit. Ore day his father offered him M cents if he would put on his suit and get wet all over once. He wanted the money very much, and he finally oiisented. Clasping his arms around his father's neck like a ise, the great undertaking was begun. After much shivering and trembling he was wet about two Inches above his ankles, when he exclaimed: "Papa! I gnam I will only take ten cents' worth this time." Crypt.

ABOUT WELL-KNOWN PEOPLE.

Chauncey Dcpcvv expects to purchase s farm of from 200 to 300 acres within ten miles of Huston. He has not yet decided on the exact location. Mrs. K. W. 1 iv kler. of Dayton, ()., has fallen heir to art estate in Oermany valued at $20,000. Her title to the estate rat established by a family Hible in her possession. Iter. Mr. Saunders, a member of the eastern Ohio l'nited Urethren conference, recently resigned because the, conference d tided that Its members

I should not use tobacco.

THE SUNOAY SCHOOL. Istsrsatlonal trims fur October gfJ I NOT I'nul'a oukc und Milpnrrrk Aria VriMMj (Arrsnvsd from Peloubefs Notes.) QOLDEN TKXT.-He of k m heer; foe I Ix-lk-ve "I. thut It shah :.. oi ii us )i was told ms. Acts m. Till. ! . 1 11 i.N includes the wboJe chapter. r.XPbANATuUY. L The Voyage and the Hiip. As soon, as u loJBsient company of prisoners bound for Koine could be guthcred to go under one military escort, I'aul vvaa sent with them. This required ukiut 20 days, or till August 21. There was no ship to take them directly from ii.-una to Koine, mi that they cmbarked an a vessel which coasted along, the shores till they came to Mra, in Lycia, Asia Minor, a poftths Egyptian! gTOin shijM had to make ut certain seasons on their way to Home, because of the strong west winds. Hero they found one of these ships on its way to Konic After they had entered the new ship, the voyage wns southwesterly, and slow, because the prevailing winds nt this season were from the west, and therefore against them. They reached Pairhavens, on the south of Crete, about the 2tith of September, the season of storms on the Mediterranean. I'aul adviied them U remain here, for the sake of safety. The centurion naturally trusted the opinion of the master of the ship in preference to Haul's and they set sail on a calm and pleasant day for rhenice, a mora commodious port of Crete. H. The Hurricane. Vs. 13-20. 13. "When the south wind blew softly:" The r.outh wind was favorable for reaching l'heniee, as they proposed. 14. "A tempestuous windi" (!reek, typhonie, of the nature of a whirlwind or cyclone. "(ailed Kuroclydon:" From euro'., east, and Clydon, a wave, an cast w ind raising great waves. 15. "When the vessel was caught:' A very strong expression imply ing that the wind seized hold of the ship, as it were, and whirled her out of her Uli II an "Could not bear up into the wind: Literally, COO Id not look the wind in the eye. "We let her drive:" Literally, having riven it up, we were borne along. 10. "A certain island (the (Jrcek is diminutive, "small island") which is called Clauda" (the better reading is Cauda.) This island was about 25 milsa nearly due south from the ort of 1'htMiice, which the sailors desired to reach. "To come by the boat:" To become master of the boat; to bring up. m deck the small boat which was usually- tooted astern the ship. 17. "They used helps:" Ropes, chains, any apparatus they had. "I'ndergirdling the ship." Bj ropes, or chains passing around the vessel, on account of the strain of the mast with its great sail. "Lest they should fall into tha quicksands:" The Bj i tis Major, on the coast of Africa, a long distance away, but the wind was blowing them directly towards those dangerous shoals. "vStrake sail:" They lowered the sail, leaving just enough sail to keep tha hip's head to t he. wind. 20. "When neither sun nor stars . . . apMacmtl" We have to remember thnt before the invention of the compass the sun nnd stars were the only guidesaof sailors who were out of sight of laud. "In many days:" The storm lasted II days in all (v. 27.) "AJ1 hope . . . was taken away:" No one who has never been in a leaking ship la a long-continued gale can know vvliut is suffered under suck eircum-

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ITX I'aul Hrlngs Cood Cheer. Vs. 21-20. 21. "After Jong abstinence:" There was no means of cooking; nO fire could be lighted; the provisions had probably been spoiled and sodden by the waves that broke over the ship; hemic, with death stating them in the f.ice, no one cared to cat. "Haul stood forth in the midfct of them:" Snilors. soldiers nr.d paatCBgera, now willingly crowding round him. "Ye should have) hearkened unto me:" Paul recalls to mind their former mistake in disrej gardinp his advice (Vs. 0-11), not to reproach Hum, but in order to show hie olaim to their eonftdenoe a it h reference, to the present communication. 2. "I evhort you to be of good etieer:" It is the prisoner who trusts lb iod who has the source of cheer in his soul. 23. "There stood by me this n'ight the (an) nngel of od:" To reassure Paul, nr.d by granting the ives of the others for his nke to lead them to trust in his Saviour and to gain power and opportunity for a more successful work it Home, for all this would be reported. IV. The Wreck and the Kscnpe. -On fhe fourteenth night of the storm, by the sound of breakers nnd the shallowing of the water, they learned that they were near some land. Anchors were cast out of the stern, kreping the bow of the ship toward the shore in case they ahemM drift upon it. They had drifted! about -Ho miles toward Malta. Some of tihe sailors were acting meanly, trying to escape themselves, but leaving alii the others to their fate. Hut Paul said: "Except fhese abide in the shrp ye cannot be saved." althoug-h he had promised thnt all should be saved. Finally nil, at Paul's suggestion, took food nfter he had hlesled it. The Mm drew near to land, and, caught In tili sands, began to go to pieces; but by swimming or by clingin-g to tflie wrerknge which wns being blown toward the shore everyone escaped snfely to land, which rbey discovered to be Malta. rrtACTirAL St'OOESTIONS. Life is like the sea. Every erson born into this world enters upon the voyage of life. He should be taught by his parents tha meaning of the voyage and how to manage the vessel nnd w hither he should sail. There nre all kinds of men as thcrs are nil kinds of vessels. Sometimes it is necessary to lighten the ship, for our wealth, our cares, our treasures may become burden? nnd sink us, ns men in the wreck of the (VntrnI America tied their belts of gold around them nnd sank instead of floating tfll help 00-ats come.