Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 40, Number 48, Jasper, Dubois County, 5 August 1898 — Page 7

W EKKIT COURIER.

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INDIANA

A SONG OF HEROES. They sing ulioul Hi. ailmlr.il Ukcw lue thj .iimiioijurva. An' Ihi I that take their orders up on deck, An' the lad (hat feed (he I.Ik gun while It riura Ha head utxl roura A i'lnln' fur to BSS another wr. .-k. You'J think they'd gone el. an through the list aiij never Nkt.ei a thing. With thir "jolly tars," "hooruy." and "yo-ln uv -ho!" Hut th ri' ROM um tunes a string While a lift h 'ta voice to sing Of the Jacktea wots a stoklu' down below. Oh, It'a here's to him .i-flghtln' W here the shot kl Ks up it Mpray, lt'a glorious an. I excltln" When he rashso to the fray, Uul there ought to he xonie Hi.ntrhea On the way It Htlrs your soul V hell they ball, n dow the li.it. he W hile you shovel In the coal. We don't ku BM h on uniforms In all that heat and dirt, With tl lines a-nachln' out to eat theulr, It'a Just a waate of ttfcU4 tte to witur a woobn shirt; Vou MTW have your pfotnre taken there Jt'a no use to deny H; In your throat there nines u lump. Aa you think of home and wonder where you'll no While your heart begins to thump Like the wheels that clang and thump Hound the Jackl.-.i wots u-stukln" down below. Oh, It'a here to him a-llghtln' And takln' steady ulm; If he's hurt there's BMM delight la Thlnktii' he CM do the same By the first un' that he catche But we don't know wat's the goal V"h--n down the hatches While we shovel In the coal. It'a a glorious consolation In the tollln' and the thirst To w ipe Iba wetness from our I row a and think That we re handsomely provided for, In cam a dm at I ha worst , W ith a million-dollar coftin whan w e Mink Our h. arts g. In the ttfhtin tops, we're W lahlB' We W.IS thel'e A-doln' of our duty ly the foe, BUt aCh niu-t lake his share And they couldn't hardly apara The Jin kP a wot's a-stokm dow n below. Hj here's to them that s tightin'; Here's to the pilot, too: W IfUSl em to he right In Any jol they're out to do. V ybe we'n to asset our matctaaa Hut It's nil past our control Whan they batten down tha hatchaa While we shovel In the COfJ. It ain't IM bioomln' udmlrals; H ain't the commodores That the Spatdards Is a wlshln' for tod.y. Nor yet the lads that handle ammunition out o' doors, Where you stand a little chanca to get away. They've hnd fighters In their fam'ltea and the cuba'll light again. But they answtied up most cauttous-IIke and .slowWhen !t comes to nskln' men To 1ms huddled Hi the penTo be J u ki. -a wot s a-stokln' down below. Says they: "We'll do your tight in" Hut that locker ain't our sise, Wh. r. you w I dg.- tie m- D so tight In" Kur them Havocs realise What uncertainty attaches To the fellers In a hole Whan they batten down the hatehea While we shovel In the coal. Washington Star.

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I The Pantomime in the

Window Opposite.

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B Willis I er.

BET WHEN her and me there was a great gulf, chasm with precipi tons walls of stone. We were so near together that I eonld tha color of her eves when the light shone fairly, hut between us w us the gulf, and in the bottom of it a n.arinf river. In the morning the river rati south ward; ut noon it was full of conflicting tides that clashed ami surged; in the late afternoon it ran mostly northward toward Printing Boom square and the Brooklyn bridge. It was a river of humanity, and the gulf was the canyou of Nassau street, in NewYork city. She was on the western bank and 1 on the eastern, a hundred nnd fifty led above the bed of the stream. Crossing was easy, hut I could not go, because I had no errand, llow could I Invade the office of Stoughton V Hlnnd and say; "t ient leinen, I have come to tell umr seerelury that I admire her. " I did not think it Utting even to ask what name she bore of such acquaintances as might huvc been able to onwer. I would not have known what Ii r in employed her, hut that I could read the gilt lexers on t he glass door of their ofllce when there OrM light be hind it in the hall. It waa hard to tnake them out, Tor of course th read backward to nie, being glued npoa the other side of the door, but 1 looked across M often that I shoubl have made them out at last had they 1". n Chinese -haraetcra. She used to wear neat and tasteful clothes, nnd her hair wns always just right. Her desk and the typewriting table were never in disorder, nnd from that I inferred that she had bi en well brought np( I conviction It et mrced by my ovserv.il ion of her 1. caring toward all who ' poke with her lhisy from morning till night, she never neeined to be hurried or worried, and it seemed to me sh- iieer had unfinished vork to put aside at tin- clos of the day. As spring advanced her window and mine were often open. It was then that n ray Of sunshine striking down Upon her one bright morning showed me that her eyes were hoScl. I had thought they might he blue. fr her linir was light. She was of a slender figure, tot strong enough. It seemed to rue, to work so hi. .'d I noticed that her cheeks never had in them enough color to be visible from ncross the ennynn. The man who dtetateil an.! signed most of the letters that she wrote was a pi!'!T)g fellow , lie looked HOI more than 3.", but his h.-iir wan almost white. Be wa nlways vary cons ide rate of hvr

In hu tu utier, and kuv whvioualy I looked up to him ua a great man. 1

v.ondend vvb h did not tec that tus lieeled a loin,' n ut ami the tonic air of the mountain. Prounhiji h- found lier iiidisi.-iis.ibf in his business affaira, yet I fancied be might make t hat plea sonn day and hi answered lij. the Kcaper that no mortal is indi.-pt nanhie. She was very faithful in her work, and I think the jroUBg man with the gray hair appreciated it, for I often saw htm prais her. It was ea.-y anongh to know arhon ski received this eoinin-ndatioii, for it pleased her extremely. l iiere wer- two clerks and a bookkeeper in the employ f Stoughton at Bland, and I judged that all of them were deeply conscious of the secretary's ( harms. The youngest of them was obviously in love with h-r. and he frequently got mm. I. bed for his attentions, lie was tall and h.-indaoUM youth with com -colored hair that rolled hack from his forehead in a wave which he had the good senae not to spoil with a comb and brush. There was also a square-shouldered fellow who bristled with energy. He Seemed to be employed in outside

work, end it wns only in the early

hours that hi- had a chance to talk with lo r. She treated him wtth Buffieienl cordiality to cause jealous feelings on my side of t he en nyon for it ph ased BM to fancy myaeU in love with her. Lastly, there was the old bookkeeper, who must have lived somev. hcr- in the country, for he brought her such (lowers as the florists do not fell and laid then on her desk before she came down, lie would be alone in the office then, and he did not kit.iw tha I was watching him from across the ebnem. I have seen him spend 20 minutes in arranging half a loi wild Aoweri and then dodge quietly away at the sound of a st. p in tha hall. In all niv days at the w indow I itfver saw liirn address her till sh" had Ürst spoken to him. There was a day in .lune when she did not COBtC to the afloe. A tribute of blossoms awaited her, and 1 eouid read anxiety in the old bookkeeper's hack w here he stood by his desk on the far sidfl of the room as the mlnatei passed on beyond the usual time of her appearance, When the grny-hniretl young man came in his first glnnce was directed tow an! the desk, of which the lid w as eloaed for the first time at that iiMir In many months. Immediately a messenger boy csmm In with telegram, and when the lo ad of the linn had read It he looked toward the closed desk again, so I knew what must be in the dispatch. The bookkeeper vv OS watching ov er his shoulder, and by and by he plucked tip courage to ask a t i mid quest ion of his employer. The answer made him look very errate Whatever the news tuny have hern he communicated it to the light-haired youth and the sqoarc should, red fellow, in the latter edge of the luncheon hoiir, before the c'aicf hail returned. They took it very hard, and the younger of them stood bv the window afterward, when he should hi ' ebecn at work, and be looked the picture of grief. Vet the g'rl was on hand at the usnnl hour next morning, and was the recipient of cordial greetings, though she had lo ask the bokl ccper for his. In the afternoon, when she stood by the open window for a few minutes, I thought she looked ipiite ill. and worse than that, she teemed apprehensive. The Might of melancholy wns on her. I fancied her as one of those unfortunates who in youth are told that there will be no maturity; that the seeds of death are planted and must grow. Three (lay s Inter she wns absent again. Then I saw her on three successive days, lenvini nut of account an Intervening Sunday. Again she failed to appear, but only for a day, and the remainder of the week she was- In her accustomed place. Mot day. Tuesday and Wednesday panned with no glimpse of her. In the late afternoon of that last dav. a man

who could be known for a doctor half n mib- away, made a long call upon the i head of the firm. They conversed very seriously for n few niinulcs. and then drifted to gcnernl themes and laughed and puffed their cigars as if nothing were wrong. That fixed my est imate of

tha gray haired young man at a rery i low point in the scale. There was no lifftl Of her during the week. On Moi.day 1 saw unusual sights in the Office across the way. First the old bookke per came in. nnd while he had the office to himself he sat in her chair; and I saw h Im shed tears. Then the young man with the corn-colored hair appeared) nnd upon my word I w as a 'raid to see him stand by the open Window, with such n look upon his face, lest he should cast himself down j to the bottom of the gulf. A little later tSe three clerks, the gray haired man. nud an elderly pcr- : son w hom I took to be the second member of the firm, just arrived from abroad for I had heard a rumor that 'one of them had been in Kurope nearly a v.ar assembled in conference on a (plane of euuality which only a mutim! deep sorrow could have j list i tied. After awhile the two cb rks came back. I bringing soma large pastebonrrl boxes. I I.,.!. t :4S ! flowers for thoiir'h

! they were opened in I part of the oftice

that my view did mt command, I got a glimpse of white blossoms and

green leaves. I think thOM men were all sincere, but not one of them not even the old i l.. .. . L L .... i ... r felt 11 iM-ief that matched

mine. Nothing just like that has ever come into my life. Perhaps I should have found nothing sympathetic ornttractive m hat woman if I had met her face to fine, but when that meetlBg, on this side of the grave, had become Impossible. I pictured her in speech and in heart and soul ns all that her sw eet face had promised.

I 1 lougfd to share with those who had

kiiuHu lo r, the privilege of expreentai

inj sorrow at h i earl) death; indeed i respired to do m, even at the viak oi committing an impropriety, 'the refore, when I saw UM pasteboard bo.vel dispatched ill the custody of the lue seliger boys, 1 I listened to intercept the in on the st raeta It waa eaay enougl to read the address upon the boxe.,; but tin re was no name only a slice! ami number iu Brooklyn. That was infficient, however. 1 hastened to a tlm ist's, and gave orders for such token m memed to u appropriate. Ami no that wns the end. J'li- eight of h. r at the window day after la; a feeling of cheer from her bright ptt I atme near ma and then the sorrow f 01 the loss of one whose very name 1 did not know, 1 missed In-r heartily it: those succeeding Week. Evan " 'ate as September l had iy no means forgotten her or the .mi dents connected with that time ai strange and fanciful sorrow. It STW on the fifth day of that month wln-i a man of a familiar aspect, yet certain 1- not an acijuain I ance. wall.ed intc my oHi'-e. He cam.- slowly up to Hie and laid two cards upon my desk. On was my own, und the th r bore the inscription: JOHN M DOUGLAS, M. D The inline was not f a mi I iar, but tin man himself l had certainly seen. Ah to be sure! Be was the doctor who liar come to the otlic- across the way, when the end was draw ing near. "That's my curd, and the other OW is yours, isn't it?" said he. I nodded. "Vou sent it with some flowers tc 811 De Vaux street, P.rookly n, on June M, didn't you?" "Yes," I replied, "t li. y w.-re for her.' And I glanced across the way. "Well, you probably have whip rational explanation of it, aald be, ' but hang nie if I know why you should have s. nt that cartload of funeral cm bleins to her on the occasion of bet wedding. If you wished to Intimau that marriage frith me was equivalent to death, it was a bad joke, sir; and it you don't, then what in thunder did won meant I've carried that puzxli with me 2."HtO miles this snmni.-r. 01 our wedding journey, nnd now by Lucifer you've ged tO tell me the an wert 1 don't want to L'o any further ritt this story. it has come to a point where the recollection! aroused are really too painful. VALERIA'S PRAYERS.

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GOLD STANDARD IN RUSSIA.

ELIJAH'S SPIRIT ON ELISHA. luu.lni School I . ...... In (he luler

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Valeria, agar seven, and u aanmaej much entertainment to the family, was being put ! lied by her mother the other night. Fi ist she said : "Now I lay me down to sleep," closing, or delay ing to close, ruther, as follow s: "Oh, Lord, bless papa and inamiii; am! grandpapa and grandmamma am Eugenia and Auntie May und all my di ar little friends ami my bunnies am: the old mother cut and Playful that I gave uway Htid Jerry and Pedro and Jerrv is the family horse und i'edrc

is the dog, aleo given away like Plnj ful the kitten. It was evident that t lit prayer was being made simply a pretext for keeping h r mother, sc Valeria was recnieatad to curtail her remembraaeoa. sh aocordinglj brought that prayer to a close, hut 1 Inaiated that she should not rest easy unless allowed to repeat nnother about "Oh, Lord, bless the peace we bring." Her mother yielded, but still the child'i praying appetite wet hot entladest, sin launched Into another effort, purelj original this time. It was a perfect I imitation of certain forms in prayer and she was extremely fervent. It

must be explained that her mother hac just recovered from an attack of neu ralgin. "Oh. dear Father in Heaven." sin said, " jrive that ma nun a may have bat the very last pain she will ever have (iive that she may be t ruly and indeet well. And. oh Lord, help us to be vi r; kind to all animals that have threi legs, or two leg's, or one leg; and to at birds that hae one leg. or two legs, 04 three legs, and to people that have n( legs. And. Oh Lord, w e bless Thee fol all the beautiful things we see in the world around us. uire that we maj do what is right and bless thou on sins. Amen." The morning of Decoration daj Valeria climbed into bed with hei mother and asked if she might go out lo the cemetery end put tlow ers on the graves. Her mother readily assented and said she thought it would he a vert lovely thing for a little girl to do Valeria announced that .Mrs. Smith a neighbor, was going to put floweri on Mr. Smith's grave. " hat wii he '.' " she demanded. "lie wam't a roMier, but it has be come a custom for people to put tlowen on the graves of their friends." "We haven't got at lio.lv out there.' sighed Valeria, monrfwlly. "o. and just think how grateful W1 ought to be that DO one wc love in lying in the cemetery ." "Y. s." dubiOttsb 1 then, with satis faction. Hut you came near going. " "Yes. nnd so did y on." "Yes," with greater triumph, "ant so did sister." ''And so did your papa when he wm hurt on the railroad. And s,i did grandpapa when he was so very ill." "V . ami grandmamma well, sjn didn't." An. but sr,. 1 ns be.n very sick times." 'A cs. but we mosf went iff the bunks nnd she didn't ." Not long ago Ynlcrin pt a ved that th Lord WTOUld "pul Spain in the soup," Since then she is piitc at rest nbotil the otrtcome of the w nr. V Y. Sun. SOttUjSM Houses. There ure houses still standing in Nurcmburg Uavaiia, that werebuiitlii lOttO,

fiold is to-day being produced in the greatest quantities in the history of t in- w orld. The rate of production waa in vi r so great before, and it is steudily growing. Within ten yeuri, the uver ir-. annual produotloa "f kii ',!lJ' more than doubled, and the products n of gold this year promises to b.Uite doable the production of gold in the heyday of the California and Australian gold discoveries of half a ecu tun ugo. The average product ion of gold iu the live years 1 IM 00 w as $1.14,S3,0OO this year it is quite certain that the production of gold will reucli

' $7&,0O0,00Q w orth. (If this immense sum almost hulf will come from two Held, both unknown U few vears ago, the Ileitis of South

: Africa turning out gold ut the rate of iT.'.,un 1,000 a year and the fields of western Australia producing about I two-thirds as much. And of the gold i from these two ticlds uearly all gada ; its wav to the London markets. Hut

the demand for gold is such that it is picked up at a premium- that is, ut a price in advance over the Hank of Kngland price, as Boon as it is put upon the market. The Hank ot England is required by law to purchase all gold that may be Offered ai d on account of the Hritisb mint ut the fixed rate of 77 shillings '. penoa a standard Hritish ounce. It i through the bank, and through the bank alOV '. t hat gold reaches the Brit ish mint for coinage, for though the coinage value of an ounce of gold, Hritish standard, or 22 carats fine, is 77 shillings l(2 pence, and the coinage is nominally open free to all. it pays men with gold to sell mock better to neeept the bank price and get payment at or.ee than to await the delays of coinage at the mint before getting; pa m. -tit. The hank can well afford to buy for issuing, as it is supposed, notes on the gold bought, nnd before coinageit does not have to await the delays of coinage before getting pay inert for the gold it deposit at the mints, and so av oids losses of interest consequent on the delays of coinage end such as the individual cannot avoid. I!ut it happens at present that, though much new gold is flow ing int o London, no man Is selling it to the bank, for so anxious are some governments to get it that a better price can be obtnlned. And one of these governments is the Kassian, a second is the Japanese, both of which are striving strenuously to establish the gold Standard, to make money dearer and prices lower in their realms, to the infinite detriment of their people. The demand of these government, and especially Ilussia. la such that all new gold coming' on the London market is promptly snatched up at a price ns high as 77 shillings 11 pence an ounce, or two pence above the hank price. "Russia." we read in a recent number of one of the leading financial journals of New York. Hradst reet's, "is still steadily carrying out the preliminaries necessary to the completion of its plans for a rest ornt ion of the currency to a gold bnsis. in which the accumulation of a farther heavy gold reserve is a very necessary feature." And this on top of the fact that the imperial bank of Russia already holds (or held

May .in) n gold reserve of $5f.7.oOi).0(V).

We would further remark ttiat It is

I quite incorrect to speak of Russia completing its plans "for a restoration of i the currency to n gold basis." It can

not be restoration, for the currency was never on a gold basis, but before suspension of specie payments, back in the Crimean war, on a silver basis. Wc had supposed that the new gold standard, unjust and oppressive ns it ts. hnd been accepted in Russia ns an established fact; that those who had opposed its establishment hnd withdrawn their opposition in despair. Hut in this we were mistaken. The terrible ruin caused in Russia by the establishment of this new standard doesnot permit those in Russin who have the welfare of their country at heart to withdraw opposition. Of this If. Boutmy, of Odessa, Russia, apprises us. The agricultural congress of the nine govern men s of Russia, a body of influence and power, met in Orel on May 25 and N, It took pronounced ground against ilie new standard, demanded thnt it be abandoned before Russia is ruined. Of the proceed i tigs of this congress M. Bott f my sends us t he following report : At Ike s. s-ion of May 2 and Qf II. Georgen Rout my. rigorously seconded by M. A. Btaehowiteb, marechal le noblesse; A. l'olinovv, economist ; P. Old. statistician; S. Schnrapow. editor of the Rounald TrOUd, took up in detail and debated the monetary question. The falsity of the arguments in defense of gold monometallism was demonstrated, the theory of c.verprodttetion refuted, the undeserved gains of creditors and the gross Hisses of producers' resulting from the rise In gold were put In evidence. The discussion was brought to a close by the follow ing discourse of M. Rout my ;

the relative (reciprocal) vavlue of money nil merchandise "The rrU-.lv value of money ar.d commodities Is den-rmined by toe reapectlva H i r. 1 1- . w liicli liam.ei! t ne off. red upon market of the world. The more abundant money Is and the more Us supply

Is tncressea the lower .u n isii ar.u me more 111 commodities appreciate and then the quantity of soods that debtor nation are callni upon to eaport lr. payment of lnm' will be diminished, and thuo the burI -. of pul.be li lit lighten, d. The scarcer m r . y In tl.- i-..r. r It will 1" . the lower will I'll. a of corn an du lea be and the greater rill become the quantity of products that debtor nations wQl find It nectssary to xport. to the growing; detrlmmt of thosa s-.j-..M. for It must aggravate their econom-1-dependence upor. the creditor nations. The accidental fluctuations In the production of the precious metaUsr.d of merchandise have always affected the relative vj.ue of mory and commodities, plveree natural causes have acted differently upon tl. s relative value, which one calls ths price, sometimes In favor of the dtbtor, omet'mes In favor of the creditor. "During the lsst 26 years thl r. '.at Iva value has changed constantly in favor of the credltora, of the International bankers, and coostar.tly to the detriment of all d.htors But this change cannot be sttrlbuted to natural causes; It Is the result of a Ktcar.tlc swindle of the monetary crime of 1ST3.

Here t how this crime of altering tne value of tha world's money has been exSC ; ' cd : "In 1873 Germany. obedleT.t to the counsels of 'he Jew, Bamberger, declared that Uver should be treated lr the futtjN as a ültnp'.e cotrim .illtv. and that gold alone should preserve the quality of a money metal. All the states governed by pa r Hani, r.ts, at all times ar.rt st all place more or ;. - : -;-:ve to the It ! lencesof the money power, followed one af.--r the other the exanaj ot iK-rmaay. "Sl.ver losl the privilege of universal col: a g. . tt.c- reUOW metal was given a BsOI ; la thin respect. The quantity of ino:.e in the Wund was rt ductal by half ii. t!.. int. rnatiot.al marketu; money Joul.l.d In value, the debtor nations were oblleT . to strip tht-mselvoa of double the quantity of produce it. order to pay tho same a mount ..f interest; th drain upon Dtor nations doubled, to the run. ut those r.atlona and tha unmerited profits of the bankers. It is Just here. In this spoliation of the people of the world for the profit of the International bankers, that one In. da the single foundation of the gold monometalltc system, of that golden yoke that. laate: i 1 by the clever har.ds of the bat kej,, drass upon a'! the civilised world. "Kr.i- ft- m ,(.. yoke up to a late day w.re; 1 Ti.- txtreme orient, yet little acceaalbl to the Influences of the bourse 2. .M. i ii, where the strong government ot Ot n. PorflrtO Diaz for 2U years has hld the country and protected It from the intrigues of the J.w.s. 3. Kua. where tha autocratic powers of tho csar. Inaccessible to the Influences of the International financial ciass.-s. was an Insuperable rampart to all the afforta to abolish the silver standard, our leg.-.lniaifi money. "Mexico has kept up to the present the sliver standard and the country prcsptra, to the great chagrin of the gold monometallic thsrorietas "In all the monetary cor.ferencea up to 193 people spoke with envy of K jssla and of It. .lia. w-Iilch were sheltered from the universal monetary crisis, having preserved the silver standard. "Hut lr. 1V3 the ünglish g-overnment suspend J the free colnsge of silver in India and caused the rupee to rise some Gu per cant, above thu value of the weight of bullion It contained. Since 1893 India has bean fast approaching ruin; In the place of a flourishing agriculture we have seen fam:t;e; In the place of a peaceful development the horrors of civil war. India Is belr.a; ruined: but the English government, the i ..-.ish bankers, are enriching themaelvea at h-r expense. "Nothing avonlshlr.r In this, for to the llngllsh government the Interests of ths ll-.gilsh liankfrsaro darer than the Interests of the Indians, a foreign people. "By the same reasoning one might expect that to the Itus.an government tha Interest of the Husslan people would be dearer than the interest of foreign bankers. Nevi r-h. less, In the same year IRd, tha free coinage of silver was stopped In Russia and the price of credit roubles fixed In gold. Gold appreciated and the rouble with It Always kspt eipial to 2 2-3 francs lo gold, the rouble has appreciated, as measured by silver, as follows: ONE CREDIT KCOCBLE. 18W 1 v.. 196 isjl. 189. ti.it m 136 i4o iu loo ils oonsea sliver. "Some one may answer: The government has cut the valueof therouble, which waa aiiout four francs, and fixed It at 2 i'-t francs, and ou pretend that the rouble has appreciated. Gentlemen, 1 know of no law In Kussia and you will llnd no law of a parallel kind in any country that fixes lha monetary unit In foreign moir.ey. There) never was a Husslan law that said that tha silver rouble should contain four francs In gold. Hut there was a Russian law that said that our rouble, our monetary unit, should contain, four solotmlks, U doli U77 TH grains) of pure allver. This 1 a ro utile, and nothing else Is a rouble. The silver rouble never was to contain ths worth ol four francs In go'.d, but It wss worth four francs in gold, accidentally, SO long aa gold kipt a stable value as compared with silver, o ior.g as an. ounce ot silver equaled In value 6o.8 pence In gold. Actually, gold has appreciated, ar. ounce of sliv. r equals in value only 26 pence In gold; then four francs In gold la equivalent to

ö .o-t I o u ii. e a in i.i, ri. a i . .ivi w. 2 2-3 franca In gold, or the new gold rouble. Is equivalent to 2.34x2-31.56 roubles In silver. Bo you will see that In substituting the new gold rouble for ths old ailvor rouble, which Is the measure of all ii ir debts contracted prior to 1893. the goveri meat has given to us a monetary unit Whtcta la 1 M tim.-s dearer than the old silver unit, that by this meant our debts, without a: y change in figure, have actually bn ii it.. r ased ! ; per cent." After having shown the steady in-

"Vou have tien shown, gertlemrr. what 1mmTe ml ever-growhig debts opprs the economli life .f gr. at nstlora The tnt t 'S t upon thesa debts cannot lv s r. I p .esl'illlty te paid la metallic money alone the annunl production of ttie precious metals over the whole world Would nivt suffice The lute rct charges are pub! lit m rehsr.ille, producta of the ladt ti'ed nations It I thus that the dl bt..r states met the drain utmn them. When ihe QUtntlty of merchandise exported does rut ufllr to pay the lnt ret upon the d t: s the deficiency is filled by row horrowlnjrs, by a further heaping up of the public debt. 'The relative and mutual value of commodities 1 d'termlned by ths law i ftu lv and Un a: I "fh aamelaw r lelatee

Baw d UJKn Peloubet'a Select Notes G ILOEM TEXT -How much more ahull tour Heavenly I-', it Ii. r give t l.e 1 1 ol y Spirit to them that ask Him? Luke Il ls. TIIK B BO T ION Includes 1 King.. 21 and I Klage 1 old . the history from Nabolh'a Vineyard to the beginning of Kllmha'a work. TIMK - lt ' vc com. chron. ; or k04112 rw chron. The- exact date 1 uncertain, but It Is Inferred from 2 Chron 2112 that It eras alter the accession of Jehoram. as OS regent with his father In Judah Ii. C. 8K7 or Hi; sad from 2 Kings 3 11 that It wa.s before the death of J hoatiaphat, H. C Ml or ti2. I'l.A' K llli.ih w.nt from Ollgal, In liphralrn. to tho eastern shoro of the Jordan, where he was translated. COM M RUT. L The Call of Klishn.l Kinfrs 19:21. t know almost nothitig of KlUba'a earlv hintorv. He seems to have belonged to u well-to-o family of Abelavfihnlih. In the Jordan valley. Suddenly Elijah came to him while he waa plowing w ith 1-' yoke of oxen and threw bis mantle over the young inuti, as an invitation to follow him aud become a prophet. II. The Teat of Elisha.- When the time came for Elijah to leave hi earthly work am! to be taken up to Heaven in a whirlwind the prophet was at (illegal, north of Bethel) with Bliaha at one of the schools of the prophets. Elijah sons, I to have received some revelation that his lust hours had come. He hade Bliebe remain at tlilpal while he went on tu the next school at Iiethel. Hut Hlisha insisted on poing-with him. This was reported at the other stutions, Itethel anil Jericho, on the direct way to the fords of the Jordan. Why Elijah asked BUsba not to accompany him is uot certain. Hut he may have desired to be o!one in that supreme moment. EH Elishe'i High Kequest. Vs. 6-10. 5. "Tarry. I pray thee, here:" They were ut Jericho, and Elijah was on the way to the fords of the Jordan, where he could cross over into his native country. 7. "The sons of the prophets:" That Is, the young men attending the theological seminaries first organized by banne for the preparation of religious teachers for the people. 8. "And Elijah took his niant let " The cloak, that outward sign of the prophet's ofllce, became the vehicle of the Spirit's power. "Ami wrapped it tofether:" "llolled it up like a rod, for convenience in huudling. "Smote the water,:" As Moses "smote" the Itiver Nile (Ex. T;S0), Aaron the dut (Ex. 8:17) and Moses the rock (Num. 20: 11) strongly, as one smites an enemy. 0. On the further shore "Elijah said

unto Elisha. Ask what I shall do for thee before I he taken away from thee:" What is TOOT bist request, the one supreme thine; TOO desire me to do? "Let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me:" Not twice as much ns Elijah had, but the portion of the eldest son (Deut. 21:17). The eldest son was the successor of his father, the head of the household. Elisha's request wns that

he might be fitted to be Elijah's successor. 10. "Thou hawt asked a hand thing: Ft was hard liecause the granting of this request wa-s not in Elijah's gift, and he kneel not yet if (iod meant to bestow it; yet he would seek it with the fervent prayer (Jas. It it, 17) that brought abundant showers from Heaven (1 Kind's l 'i; 42-45). "If thou see me when I am taken from thee:" "If t.hnwi see me." Hut how could he see him if he did not watch? Ab, that is the whole doctrine I Look, expect, watch; keep your eyes open, fixed, intense look us if you wanted the blessing, and you will get it. Parker. IX. Elijah's: Triumph Over Death. Vs. 11. 12. 11. "They stiLl went on, and talked:1 Sodid the two disciples on the way to Em maw talk tnjgether. "There ppcared : chariot f lire, and horses oi fire:" It v;i- the ange'.ic convoy sent to atleni! the prophet in his ascent to the BMnelOB prepared for him above. (Comp. I Kings ii 17). The emblem is a Uitnrj one. They are deputed from the army of the skies to escort to bis Heavenly home in triumph, one who had fought tthe battles of the Lord valiantly and arelli and w ho is himself fitly called by Eüsha, the "chariot, of Israel and the horseman thereof." Prof. Wil-

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proposed tO the congress the following resolutions', which were voted almost iiiuitiininiislv i.'l v otes against 4. "The acricu'.turat congress of the govr al Husdla at Orel, In session on the evening of May 26, ISM: "1. Whereas, The principal cause of ths tin-sent agricultural crisis la a general fall In prices for s!l the product of sgrlculture, ami the late ris.- in prices Is only an accidental an! passit.g phenomenon caused by the universally had harvests of 197; "2. Wh.reas. The fall In prices results directly from the Increased purchasing power of Rold. caused by the Jc motieytlsatlun of silver ; "3. Whrr. as. The fixing of the paper m .t.ey .f K 'iss!a at a certain ratio to gold atid the Introduction ".t the gold standard In Russia must make Russia participate bet ::h In the universal agricultural crisis that threatens to be prolonged lndt Ii Itely ; t lien fiire be It "Retolved tl), To call the attention of the minis. er of nctl. ult ure to the necessity t the revision of the Istc monetary laws w :th h ail w to r si rv.- the interests of the KusM,i ! agriculturist anl of Hussla herself, menaced by the aiardonment of silver mom v . srbfeh was her historic money. "t. in the event of this revision being held to Im Inconvenient and consider! ns; that th introduction of a new monetary unit of gold !:.- -I the burden of the land tax.-n i.f t he reaar.ts and of the mortgage dtbts if t lie land owners by more than 0 per cent, the c.irifn s finis It absolutely necessary In the ltttereta of Justice to demand the red UOt Ion of the rum of all fixed chare s In the same projuvrtlon that the ni w rouble ts dearer than the true silver rouble which served ss a foundation for all contracts up to a late day." "These reolntfona,M adds M. nontmy in a letter to us, "have produced a preat sensation in IJussie nnd have drnwn the nttention of nniny jicrsonn to the study of the monetary question." Philadelphia American. We hnvc enough money In the country. Candidate doe inytn sa.rs uo, ntirl of course he knowt.- Southern Mercury.

tarrying up his hodj( before thetnmv formation to the spiritual liody of Heaven (1 Cor. 15:42-49). 12. "The chariot of Israel, and bhe horseman thereof:" l!v the words "My falber, my father," Klisha cxpreses what the departing one was for himself; and by the words, "the chariot of Israel, and the horseman thereof." what he was for t'he whole nation. V. The Legney of Elijah. Vs. 13-li. 1 - l saw lllijali as he ascended, and thus he knew that his prayer was grantees. 13. "He took up also the mantle o Elijah As his successor, and proceeded to use it ns Elijah hnd done. It was a test and proof whether he had act iniily received the promised gift. 14. "Where is the Lord (iod of Elijah'.'" ti wins a prnver to see If ti od had given what Elijah bid promised. However sttrong his faith, it needed the proof of results. And he found the promise true, and knew henceforth that he was Elijah's siK-ccssor, and was .C take up bis work. From the Itam'a Horn. Trnining is the art of gaining. Quietness is the magnet of peace. Path nee is the barometer of faith Good works are the voice of faith. The ntna who stands for Ood Is ssta In stand alone. The (iospel means i.ot law over men, but love in them. Temptation is the balance where character is weighed. Fvmpnthy is the chnnnel in which the cum i t of n man's thought run- w Ram's Horn.