Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 40, Number 51, Jasper, Dubois County, 26 August 1898 — Page 3

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EFFECTS OF GOLD STANDARD. tlilll and Japan Art llolh Traveling Iba lliM-Ly Knud of Financial !- prraalon.

PLUTOCRATIC FALSIFIERS.

Sllaleuillnr, lten.rla I onrrriiluii Our

IOiMirla mil lniirla of l'rliitf tu Heimle the I'ruplr.

Ths New York st oek reports furnish

Jllustrut inns of the methods In w hich

atdvaiit.i.'i is taken of every possible opportunity to dee five ami mis leu il 1 he public in regard to the export And Im ports of tnerchaad Im and noMj mat

al. The follow inj; statement is one of

a multitude f himi'ar statements thai have lately appeared in the Indianapolis pa pen and elsewhere trait, and that have their origin in NewYork eit v : The country's net cold Import for the fiscal year Will exeiiii 1100,000,000, which "has never before hc n spproacbed tpt in ISM. when li :i i.vi r Kkii'.imj, There has been at the same time a largely ncreaneil output of poll by the home mlnea, the product for the present y.ai tulip stlmated at I.i00,000. The MCS that the gevefassant rtqulranaBto for carrying on lhe nur would result In any s:rliiK ticy In money rates has been entirely discarded by financial authorities. With tie heavy expansion of the goti currency anil a conHatting favorable trade balance, which le added to by the falling off In fort IffS travel, 1: la natural that an era ..f h.nher pr'.c s and Indusuial and ipeculatlVe activity should de Velop. When the latest reports of the treasury department for the years 1996-1, arid particularly for the tir.-t four months of 1898, are examined it is difiicult to avoid the conclusion that the purpose of Btteh statements as that given above is dishonest. It is almost impossible to believe that one who made tliisstatcment had not cxamitu d the rcporta auffloiently to know that it was a false interpretation of t hem.

During the year 1898-7 we exported in excess of all our importations, in - Merchandise $:v 1(4,801 Silver , 69,386,991 Total rt')."10,590 During the same two years our entire reeeipt of gold in excess of our exportation was Md318,5dO, This leaves ,i balance of 8894,488,030 of exports 0er our imports for the two years, ntid fur which the reports thoie nothing whatever reoelred in exchange. During the Aral four months of the year 1891 we have exported in excess of all our importations, in: Merchandise T4 030 C74 Silver 67.023.175 Total eacess of exports 1261,003.849

During the same four months we received more fold than we exported to an amount of $'",' H.'.'T.t. This shows, during the four months, n balance of exports over all imports, counting merchandise, silver and fold together, of $1 :. ii.: ".:,. It is true that we received during the tw o years an excess of fold amounting to ! '.'is..-,r,0; bul to fei this we sent out of the country of our merchandise and our money metals together $710, -THLJ80. It is true thai during the first four months of the year Is is we hare received 75,944Jt7l more gold than we exported; but to get it, we. during the same time, sent out of the country of our merchandise and our silver 8881, 083,849. Is this a condition over which are enn rejoiee? Pooeibly we ought tobe glad that it is no worse. The year 1808 is the only year since is7.'i that we have not suffered a similar loss. Since the war w e sent out of the country more gold than we received by almost 8900,000,0001 In the year 1881, referred to in the report, the net loss of money metals and me rcha nd i C w a s about $i:0.(KMi,ooo. What kind of an idea have the w riters of such reports, if honest, of the "favorable trade balance" to which the so frequently refer? Is it a "favorable trade balance" when we are annually shipping dUl of the country such large quantities of merehandise and money metals for which we receive nothing whatever in return? Do business men usually regard it as an evidence of prosperity, when thev find on balancing their

hooks that for a scries of years they have each Mar paid out more than they have received? Would a business men be very likely to rejoice over the success of his business, when, at the end of four months, he took an invoice ami counted his money If lie found he had parted with money and merchandise to an amount of $ 'M.o.VI.RlO and only had 75,944,tT3 to show for it? Would he be likely to be any better satisfied with the showing because the money he had on hand was in gold? And Vet this is the statement of our foreign trade account, as shown by the reports of the treasury department for the years jsijo 7, ah, f,,r the first four months of H'.ls. It a not a "favorable trade balance." It is most unfavorable. A large exportation of our merchandise is not of much value if we have nothing to show for it but interest coupons. It is idle; it is WOfae than idle; it is disho icst to attempt by such I use of the report of the treasury department to make 1he people of this country believe that such excess of expoi is over imports indicates prosperity. Flavins J, Van Vorhis. in National ltimetallist.

AN OBJECT LESSON. hill llaa III., uvrrril IIa Mlalake II . ..lliiK Ilie l.uld Standard A la of lli i Lmiluti

DOen I of Chill came to the conclusion that the country would iievi t be really prosperous until sUrcr should be demonetized, und the gold standard udopted. So th' necessary legislation was enacted, und the uiillcnium was declared to be la order. Wot many years, Chili had done extremely well Uttder the silver standard, but its financial system fell . nort of the perfection which the doctrinaires d mund. There la no teacher like experience,

and this it what, the Chilians have learned in that Incomparable school, ! according to the London correspondeni of the New York Commercial and i

Financial Chronicle: "The Messrs. Rothschild, Who have hitherto been the European bankers of Chili, pointblank refused to make any furtheradr a noes. Then the Chilian government induced anot her London house to offer half a million sterling of treasuty bills. The bills had to be hawked about the

city for dayt, and were at last placed

ut a discount of about six per cent. It is said that since then the Chilian gov

ernment has in i ii unable to raise

money in London to pay for GO. 0(M uniforms ordered, ai d at home it is pnyIng up its contractors by the issue of treasury bills. When F.urope refoaed to lend any more u rumor sprang up that the government intended to

Mispchd specie payments. There wan

it run upon the Hank of Chili. The gov

ernment, to stop it, closed all the

banks from Thursday Of last week to

Tuesday of this week, granting in the meanwhile a moratorium of .lodays." The history of human thought docs not contain the record of any more baleful delusion than that which seems to have taken hold of the povertystricken nations of the world concerning the advantages of the gold standard. There seems to be an impression that England is rich because she has the gold stan lard, and that poorcountrics enn get rich by following her example. That is putting-the cart before the horse. As n matter of fact, Kngland has the gold standard because she

Is rich, and because, as the greatest creditor nation in the world, it is to her interest to have nn appreciating Standard Of value. Such a policy is perfectly sound for Kngland, but it is absolutely suicidal for countries like Chili and Japan. It is true that the countries just mentioned cut the gold dollar or yen in two. but any gold unit of vnlue comes a good deal too high for nations the nverage annual income of whose inhabitants is next to nothing, from the American standpoint. Meanwhile, the masses are ground between the upper and nether millstones, and their bitter discontent makes them ready for any kind of overturn of the existing order of thlhgUt In this country we have the poor satisfaction that the American people have had the opportunity of passing upon the question, nnil the minority, as good Americans, are bound to uphold the decision until it shall be reversed at the polls. Itut the Chilians and Japanese have had no more voice in the matter ban the inhabitants of the planet of Mars. Of course, there w ill be n day of reckoning for all this grinding of the debtor populations, nnd there are indications that it is not so very distant. When it comes

there will be lots of changes In things that are Commonly supposed to be immutable. Then, after all theharm has been done, we shall see the wise men drawing from disastrous experience the lessons w Inch common sense ought to readily Impart, Cnfortunately, men sever learn from the experience of others. If thev did. debtor countries would no more think of adopting the gold standard than they would of putting the population to the sword. We can only wait until the madness runs its course. There is happily stroug reason to believe that we nre approaching the beginning of the end -

Times Democrat.

A recent MOMS disputes from Chili suys: "A tiuuuciul put . hus been DO caaioued here by the withdrawal und exportation of (fold, which bus caused the Chilian government to Officially close all the bunks in Chili until the 12th inst. During this suspension the

government will consider the advisability of issuing papSf money." The ubove dispatch ohoWl that (bill was successful in In r uttempti at Beancial suicide; that the sword of the gold standurd which she bravely inserted into her financial vital ha produced thv usual cffi i t s of the deadly instrument Whenever used. The slaughtered victims of the pword of gold till millions of graves in India,

Where the money of the people was destroyed by a ruih lese enemy in London, and the MMD.tiOO.OOO of the doomed victims of English greed are to-day shuddering oa the bring of fin social despair. The leap from the sleep of age s w hich an increased supply of silver money gave Japan as the result of the gold adoption In the western world was marvelous. P,ut in madness and folly Japan adopted the gold standard Snd hurled her people back tow ard the conditions of the dark ages when contraction of the money volume enslaved mankind. If Chili, India and Japan are not object lessons to warn the American people to resist gold standard monopoly while resistance is possible the misery of the masses wlil bfl the reward of thrir folly, nnd the words of Solomon will be furt her veri-' fled when he said: "The rich ruleth over the poor, nnd the borrower is a servant of the lender." Culess the people take heed they will be classed with Solomon's fools, whose fate he described when re Faid: "A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back." Industrial conditions Itt Japan ha VC been getting worse ever since the adoption of the single gold standard, nnd this depression in manufacturing circles is the worst ever known. In his report on Japan's industrial condition V R, Lay. of the British ls gation at Tokio, says; "The cottonspinning industry, on which snch great hopes were based, has already suffered severely. At the end of the year many of the mills were financially in a pre

carious condition and several small concerns In a state of bankruptcy." In commenting on this report the London Financial News remarks: "These nre the very milts whose prosperity not many months ngo we were able to cite os Indicating hOW comfortably a sRver-uoIng cooatry could Compete with Lancashire. In the early part of last year the Japanese spinners were doinir uncommonly well, nnd the belief thnt nil the surplus yarn could find a ready mnrket in China was being realised. The year experts of yarn to China reached 40.386.&H pounds, against only 11,188.119 pounds in 1896.

MONEY AND PRICES. The Inevitable Heatilt of the Dratssi tlaa t Ion of Silver S Injary to I'roducera.

BOMBARDMENT OF CAIBAR1EN.

HOARDED GOLD. Storni IffOf In TWaSOII ntilts la Hen. I Mnnev anil of o lleneflt to the People.

It

OSJpSSeOl WnlUing.

lost t ninese mandarins im- the

Whole of their IIVUS without taking a ingle yard of exercise. The late Nanking Viceroy (father of Marquis Tseng) wns considered a remarkable character because he always walked I Mio steps n lay in Iiis pi hate garden. under nn clrouasstaBees whatever hi a mandarin ever seen on foot in his OWn jurisdiction. Cincinnati Kneuirer,

Hnnk Notes nt Money. The creation of money is a preroga ti of sovereignty.

lntrlnaU Value. The value of money is, to use the language of the great Nestor of money science in the United States. John PJones, of Nevada I am not quoting him accurately, but substantially "the value of u dollar is not what it costs to make the stuff out of which the dollar Is Stsmped, but what yon have to give for it after it is n dollar." Intrinsic value! Suppose I have a piece of gold as largo SS my hand. It is heavy nndtit is yellow, and so long as it is gold it cannot help being heavy and it cannot help being yellow. I may take it to a desert island and bury it in inaccessible regions of sand. SUd cover It up, and the palms may grow over it. Bow much is it worth? Not a cent. It will not be worth any thing until somebody tads it. and then it will not be worth nn thing natil the man who finds it has it with him where somebody else Is that wants it. That is the reason w hy Robiaaon Cruaoe, when be loaded his raft at the wreck, left the Spanish doubloons in the sacks behind and took some salt nnd butter and (lour to the island. There was not any fellow on the island with whom he could trad the fotd Charles K. Towne.

As a proof of the wondi rful beneflrlnl effects of the gold standard, the accumulation of gold in the vaults of banks nnd stibt reasuries is quoted. It alleged that upward of 5(W) tons of gold, which is about one-twenty-fifth of all the gold in the world. lie in the treasure vaults of New York city. For all the good that gold is doing the people in the t'nited States It might as Well be in the froren marshes of Klondike. Hoarded money is dead money, and gold is the money which bankers, brokers and misers hoard. Be pedally is this the case in times of war, nnd it Is made the cuse by the demonetization of silver, which constitutes gold the only money of ultimate redemption. If those tons of gold could

be put into circulation, if the vaht they represent eould he injected into the arteries of trade, then some benefit would be conferred. Indeed, great benefit would result. But SS this fold is simply piled up in the treasury of New York it confers no more benefita than so much brick dust. Wheat in an elevator will not keep people from Itsrving. Wheat must le ground into flour, made Into bread, placed in 'he reach of the individual, before it can relieve hunger. Q old in the vaults is as useless as w heat in the elevator. There la no benefit to the people in eitJier so long as they nre hoarded.

In the fifteenth century gold would buy 15 times as much of everything as I dres to-day: therefore the BBOBS1 of thai da wns IS times as good as the money of to-day. White human beings sold us slaves at n low price in every market of lhe world nt thai tiaie, abuw daatly testifying to the high value of tie uiouev

Silver nnd Santlnatn. Ilecause Santiago merchants refuse

to aeccpt United States silver dollars

at par an esteemed administration organ of this town argues that bimetallists are dishonest in advocating their theory. BceaUSS the merchants of Manila accept Mexican dollars at par might as logically be used ns nn argument to prove that single gold standard advocates nre dishonest in advocating their theory. It is surprising that intelligent men should be expt Oted to consider such S statement as that referred to in the light of an argument. Silver coins of foreign countries nre not received in the Cnited RtsteS at par. Ni ither are gobl coins Metallic money passes only at its bullion value outside of the country where it is coined, with exceptions caused by local conditions such as those wMea exist in Manila. That the ballloa vnlue of a silver dollar is below its face value is owing to the discrimination against the BSOttJ brought about by dentonetizntion. If gold adOOeateS onn't bolster up their cause With bet tcr arguments t ban the action Of Buntingo merchants they nre redneed to a truly pitinble condition. Chicago Dispntch. All good Americans would favor expnnslon if assured that Mark Ilannn would roost on lt outer rim. Chicigo Disuatch,

The high price realized by the fortunate possessor of the fccaree article is necessarily an injury to those who have to buy it, and whose own salable products huve not risen. This point cannot be brought out too often, or ii pi ..s i.ed too Kt rongly. It should not be forgotten. A rise of prices, to be beneficial, must be general. A general and permanent rise can only take place as the result of an Increase of the supply of money in proportion to the supply of things which the money exchanges for. It should never be forgotten that money is ei I her nominally or in fact, one side of every buslnesa transaction, and the cases in which moi i v ai tuallv passes ultimately fix the price for all. I "nder 1 he gold stand

ard liiere can be no general or continued rise of prices, for the reuson that the demand for money is bound to Increase more and more rapidly thnn the supply. This is another way of saying that the money cannot Increase SO rapidly as do the things that money buys. By the de monet izat ion of silver the supply of mom y wns arbitrarily restrieted, while the supply of other things wns not. As the inevitable result the supply of other things outran t he supply of money, and prices were as certain to fall as one side of a balanced scale is certain to descend when an additional weight is placed upon it. It can be laid down as an axiom that the supply of money should increase pro rata with the supply of those things which are balanced against money; that is, that arc exchanged for it. Othi rw ise prices would fall to the injury of all debtors, and also of those producers who on nnot increase their product in proport ion to the fall. Even where the producer can thus Increase his products proportionately n fall of prices works in justice by depriving him of the benefits of the increase and giving it nil to those who either have fixed incomes or who are the fortunate possessors of large amounts of money. A stable range of

prices can injure no one.

THE SON OF STEPHEN DOUGLAS

Ilia

I iinvrrnlon to Democracy la Pnlltlcnl i:ent of t'natnal SlK n I fleanee

The announcement of Stephen A Douglas, Jr., that he considers himself a member of the democrat ic pa rty is a political event of unusual significance. Mr. Douglas has always been a republican, a hard party worker, conspicuous in republican conventions nnd popular meet ings and a favorite ca BD pa ign orator. The democracy of Mr. Douglas. though but recently acknowledged, conies to him by distinguished descent. Bs is the eldest son of Stephen A. Douglas, the illustrious denn cratbS statesman nnd leader, whose name and public service are among the highest honors of the state of Illinois. On his dy mg bed he bequeathed to his sons their most valuable patrimony his parting parental counsel: Tell them to obey the law and uphold th? constitution." These words are sculptured on the base of his monument at Douglas park. They constitute the foundation principle of the democratic party. With this ndmonition left as hit political inheritance, the younger Douglas has remained 'oo long out of the democratic party. lie is welcome to its ranks and will become one of its most powcrfud and persuasive advocates before the peo pie. In 1898 he secretly voted for llryan. A few dsj s ago he made his public declaration of faith. He will take the stump for free silver, the main cause of his conversion. PRESS COMMENTS.

Congressman Heed, of Maine, re

fuses to open the campaign because "there is nothing to open." He might open the bottle into which McKinley thrust him. Kansas City Times. Senator llanna has declared for Mr. McKinley for president in 1900. Mr. Ilaunn is suspected of going into a decline. He might have accomplished more for the president by pretending to be against him. Cincinnati Enquirer. Every time a coin dollar takes the place of a corporation note it helps to put dow n the London gold standard interest rate against American merchants, nnd to put up the London gold standard prices for American farm products. Mississippi Valley Democrat. In the nddst of the evidence produced by the Wilson tariff that the Industries of the United States had outgrown the mllkiness of infancy and nnd in their lusty manhood were capturing the world's markets the Dingley bill was enacted. So far from catching a glimpse of the commercial revolution, the authors of the bill adjusted the schedules of duties to a condition rf t hlngl that had passed nwny. In the r ijiiil march of commercial events the Dlngtey tnriff. so far as protection is concerned, has nl ready become nn anachronism, while its failure as a revenue measure is almost liplfcroallj SO Id w ledged. Philadelphia Record. There has been need of a strong ad minist ra t iv e mind la She Star depart men t of the cabinet ever s ince the war OOS! moaned, nt.d the nntion has not had it. President McKinley canr ot be absolved from responsibility here. Either front lack of resolution to brei u with t bo ofii certhat he originally called to that place or from considerations of politics Secretary Alger has been retained n e. position whieh eonstnnt occurrences proved him to he Incompetent ti fill satisfactorily. The nntion was entitled to the best man attainable in thnt plnce: it has had one whom there Is n general conviction wns below the nvernge of com-

I netency for Hi duties. Bo. ton Herald.

Oaring Baploll of tba l.lttla Mangrov which Happily Kn le.l la Olory luataad of HUaatar. Kn Wkht. Kla., Aug. IS. Further letalis have beeu received here as to the boiutiarduient of Mm port of ( ai banco, on th north coast of the province of Santa Clara, Cuba, last Sunday, by the, Mangrove. The Mangrove left here last week to protect the Ian. Log of tbe expedition under tieu. liozas, which had fOBS ahead on the schooners Dollie and Adams When the Mangrove reuwhsd Santa Man. near uihitrieu. alio found the ( ' u ban party had safely ititembarkod, but feared to advance because of the presence of the Spanish gunboat lb-man Cortex and the Miualler gunDoat, which were evidently making sl li.it ieu their base. n Saturday the Mangrove anchored at Key Francis OUtsittS I aibarien, but could only get about half way into the harbor, Ths next morning I'apt. Stuart, the couiiuauder of the Mangrove, decided to have a shot at the gunboats, lie was alone und the odds against him were beavy, but be did a bold tiling. Bounding her vvay inch by inch, the

Mangrove crept along the cbunnel, draw, tig eight feet of water in an average depth of , until about nine I o'clock the sighted both the .Spanish gunboats. The Dernau C-ortex was anchored about 1,000 yards to the right of the town, with iter broadside to the sea The small gunboat layat tint wharf. The shore was crowded with Spaniards, citizens and soldiers, while the roof of every building that commanded a view of the har bor was literally covered with peop . Lin vious to see the tight. Ths Heruan Cortes suerisd two iT Ineb guns and four J-pouuders, while her smaller companion was armed with three 1-pouudcrs and a llotchkie rapid-firs gun. Ashore were several 1-pound field pieces, while the Spanish troops were armed with Mauser rinoa The Mangrove's battery consisted of only two 8poanderSi worked in a range of 30 J yards. The channel 88 so narrow t !iat only one guu could ic tired at a time. At lu:4.', a. in. she got up her port gun at the Beruaa orte. The shot fell short. Instantly the whole line of shore burst into flame, both gun boat! ami field pi SSSO pouring lu a heavy tire upon tlie American vessel. Every shot of tli is volley struck the water ahead of tbe Mangrove, which continued pumping away at her port tt-pouutl-era She concentrated her tire on the Hernes Cortes ami ths next five or six shots fell on the Spaniard's deck between the bow gun und SSSHohlpi, scattering a body of men. Some of tin latter must have beeu killed, although the Bponlaids later denied that they suffered any loss. l"Of awhile no Spanish gun wai fired, but soon the Spaniards got the Blaagrovea range, au I u veritable ava laneha Ot shot and shell was hurled at her, It WUS nothing less than a miracle that her loss of life was not beavy. Sheila from the big areas of the lleruan Oortaa dropped Within feet of the

tug. several bursting ami fragments Shipping bitsoff her hull. Others went Wbtnslnf through her shrouds, and Mauser bulloM peppered the inrrounoV iug waters like a summer shower. in the very midst of all this, and while the Mangrove was swinging cautiously around to bring her star board gun into play, tbe watehtnaL i : oited "Flag of truce:'' and sure enough BOt one, but three white tlagi could be seen A small boat came out with a Span ish officer, who. in exceedingly nervoui tones announced: "Peace is proclaimed and 1 have instructions BOS' your commaadiag officer from tue satUtarj com mauder f t bis district. " He added that during the engage meat the Spanish authorities in ( alba ricn bad w i red the military coiuiuainlei of tbe district that the American shipi were bombarding the port and that immediate response had been receivec informing them that peace had been restored, and the tiring should cease. The Spanish crew of the small boat which brought thie omeer to the Man grove said tbe Spaniards bad not lost a man. but the officer himself made nc allusion to the tight, which lasted au hour and ten minutes. As the Mangrove was creeping hei way out of the narrow channel, she went aground and lay there live hours. Hud the mishap befallen her during the engagement she would have been apt ared

THE COMING NAVAL REVIEW. The I'arade to starl from Totiiikluavllla at Ten O t lin k lu the Morning. tTAaUnaatOV, Aug It, The navy re HOW at New York will tuke place next Saturday, tbe parade starting from Tompkiiisville, Staten island, at MS o'clock in tbe morning. Kach reuaalof the navy in those waters will proceed up to the ttrant monument, there lira the national salute and return. The president will be unable to go. but ruatnsnstsr'Oensrnl Bssorv smith. At-

torney-lieneral tiriggs. and others of the cabinet will represent the adminietration. The plans were finally decided on at a conference his! . veiling between President McKinley and Acting -secretary of the Navy Allen. A tieneral Riiiitua Kiprrlnl friim llawion III; When Winter Seta I POaVI roVHSBSD, 'Wash.. Aug. .'1 -l he steamer ICival arrived yiUcrday, : days from St Michaels, with 180 psassesgsrs from Dawson City, There were a few miners aboard who bad consldorablc fold dust, rati mated at about tlOO.OOO, N. 11. Sylvid.u pioneer of Yukon, say s that w hen WiatOr set-, la there will be s general saodOMof people from Dawson, ss theooottWy cannot support the people there VTnges dropped from9L88 to TO souls lu hour. Böen at that price only a few SSM obtain work.

EL1SHA AT DOTHAN. Car School laSaSOa hr lailsa aalloaal 8sse00 fur um imum a Klans, SiU-SSV (Ti.isi-4 upon Pi loubet'a Si lict NoteaJ ; I.Ii:.N TKXT. The angi I of th, !.r0 ncampeth round about t hem that fear Him. find dell r. t h tin m I's.i. 34:7 THE SECTION should includi chapter 8. Mliowliig how io. help Mia p-..;,li- la varloua klndti of trouble. TIME. Not long after the last U aaoo. IJvtween II MJ and 8M (com. cbroa); or KS2 and MS (rev. chron ). PttAChk it) HumarU, the rapltaJ (?) Dothan, on the south side of the plain of Jexreel, li nill.N north of Kinmrln Here JOeopS saa put In the pit, and sold by bla brethren (Qtn 17:17, it'

BXPLAJfATORT. I. Klisha's Warnings. A's. 8-12. s. "The king of Syria:" Kcnhadad II., of Hamascas. 9. "And the man of (Jod." Klisha: so called because he was i .oil's special k n ant and messenger, through u bom (od revealed His will. "Sent unto the king of Israel:" JasephUS says the king of Ii-rael was starting on a hunting party when Klisha warned him. "Hcware that thou pass not such a place," or beware that thou pass not over such a place, leaving it unoccupied. Keil. "Syrinas nre come (U.V., are coniinir) down:" He must either void the place, lest he be taken unawares by the Syrians already there, or he must occupy and defend It, ready for the Syrians, who are on the way there. 10. "And the King . . . sent to ths place," si rernl times, and in every case the prophet's warning waa correct. II. "King of Syria was wort troubled:" He was both enraged at the defeat of his schemes, and perplexed nt the unaccountable and mysterious manner of his defeat. "Which of us is for the king of Israel?" lie could account for these things only by some treachery SflSOnf his intimate advisers. 12. "And one of his servnnts:" Perhaps some one who had been to Bamarta with Sfaasaaa and had conversed with t he neighbors of I'lisha. 11. Elisha's Defenders. Vs. 13-18. IS, "(io and spy w here he is. thnt I may . . . fetch him," and take him away from the power of communicating with the king. I, "A great host:" (Jreat for the purpose. "They came by night:" So as to take the city by surprise, and Elinha In it. without warning or opportunity for escape. 15. "The servant . . . was risen early:" Something unusual had alarmed him; the noise of the chariots, or the alarm of the watchman. 10. "And he answered, Fear not:H He comforts him in two ways; (i) by his own faith nnd experience; (2) by a vision of those who defended him. "They that be with us are more than they that be with them " We need not suppose that Klisha saw the angelic host of which he here spake. He only gave utterance to the conviction of all (iod'a saitita when the world persecutea them. 17. "Lord. I OraV Thee, onen hla

eyes:" His spiritual vision, his power 1 of recognizing the great unseen realities around him. Nothing wascreated I or changed for him. The heaveulv

host was reallj there, but unperceived, as the stars are in the heaven, and the flowers in the field, though the blind ssan sees them not. All he needs is opened eyes. "Heboid the mountain:" The hill on which Dothan was situated. "Was full of horses nnd chariots of tin :" The symbols of the unseen powers and forces of (iod, which defended the prophet, 18. "Win i they came down," from the aurr tiding hills, "to him." to take KHsua. Apparently he and his servant had gone on toward the Syrians. "Smite this people, I pray Thea with blindness:" This was not revengeful, but a loving prayer, for the tendency- of the whole transaction was (1) to teach the Syrians about the true Qod and His goodness; (2) to lead Jehoram. the king, to go to tiod for bin help; (.1) to deliver the people from these raids. "And He smote them with blindness:" This is not the usual Hebrew word for "blindness," but is a compound word; the whole denoting visual bewilderment, hallucination, rather than total loss of sight, Tayler Lewis. Then Klisha went up to the leaders, and offered to guide them to the place and the men they sought. Some of them thought Klisha was guilty of deception when he said: "This is not the way. neither is this the city; follow me. and I will bring you to the man whom ye seek. Hut lie led them to Samaria." The fact is that Klisha told them the plain, simple truth. Klisha led them 12 miles to Samaria, the capital. Here, their sight being restored, they found him in his own city, but they were enptives in thn midst of their enemies. Jehomsn wanted o kill them; but Klisha Indignantly objected to this, and instead supplied them wit'i abundant food, nnd sent tin in home. He "heaped n .als of (ire OD their heads." He slew his enemies i sparing tbsss. Oaly erhea ha had them in his power eould he do this effectually: otherwise it. would have been attributed to fear. As the result, ths plundering hands which bad been in the habit of lUVagtag the territory (8 Kings. .r.:2) ceased their Incursions for a time

inp iluitn. Fidelity to principle is the highest raped leney. When bumaattj proves false. Pfod will still be true. Tbe atep of duty lend up to tbe throne of promotion. True princlplei nre ns endurief ao t 0)0 throne of iod. Faith is the Christian lever, and (, la the fulcrum up.m which It resls. Mora good will be mre to come. If we are grateful for the good that haa already come.