Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 41, Number 10, Jasper, Dubois County, 11 November 1898 — Page 3

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if I h i i a in.. " i o" ii 1 sh.xiM .- p nJ MKh alone. S I lud thought of dark und tl solate 4 Ss'sC lUVtC )ornf.4 for manhood' llaUl prime. f 1 l.j.l km'j, , .,,. known how fate would deal with

In dreams my cottnse home I'd rlr. vines around Its wtndows

r hsvi scorned the sunshine on

N'r', rnr'd Ith Wlllln feet from Its low door, jf l 1. 1 ! ki.own.

t i hv! known how I would mli the uotk i-V V?r,U same by rny window all day ton.

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have left the aounda unheeded

. .1,. ir music to my ears had

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touched that fare with

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t The Pygmy Bandit. j

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certain about ray stuffed eagle?

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t f.' . .1 11 1. II I I I , l.s nil- . as In caught my eye wanfor the fifth time to the big I . relict! with outspri al w ings on p if l.:s bookcase. "Have anr cigar, ami I will tell you how .iiiu bv him. The tale is odd ai.ti

v . i t r. -t v "ii, I think. it 1 sppened in lsi:.. The gr at and populous state of Missouri was then little more than a thinly-settled wildernde. Traveling eras done mainly ly sf.gc anJ saddle. There UN re a few main road, leading for long distanres through wood and prairie; but for the most pirt the country was wild :.. 1 uninhabited. Father it that time lived about 40 B from :) present site of St. Louis In a little frontier community called S- Befit. I believe the nan. e has beer. : sine. I haven't been back Iber- 'r hilf a century. Father wator. keeper and postmaster. I was bl onlj child, and at the time I am tel't '.' x on a i "tit was a kWl .if 14. n da I be mail carrier rode up to the store in a state of great excitement. He tumbled off his horse and came into the store, pale and hardly ali- !' speak "Wr-aVl 'he matter. Corrigan? -' ' :n father. Matter, nor? The divll himself to Bar! An imp of Batbat) dropped

v Dim nv the clear sky. s..r. an' w ., pistol to each wan av me ears t ' n. t drop the mail bap in the r ad in ride for me loife. wi.'out Wanee lookin' liehind.' " ' d J o;i obeyed f " . eoone i did. Whin the evil v . ii -. f has the drop on a man li tbol do yez think it would be b i ! ) for him to stop an' palaver? S r! CM cut looe the mail, an' the I Iropped ff me horse's flank, an. I Tea be praised! Oim alire to tell yea the tr.'e.' M0M not pet a plimpse of the ' The man? No. sor! Oi'm tellin' Jfei if wasn'l a man at all! It was a vir Oi'll ate me l ead. How co!d a man lieht upon me hore". back from behii d widout n sound nv warnine?

first t'inpOi knew the imp had his

nthi' irons in me ears; an whin Ipbokc, beporra. the sehmell av his w:iv v. mlpbar. I"-r-r-r! Worworral Tin Conricaa'a no toward,

T '" !. whin it comes to d'alin wld Itinr of baste. Hut the divil himself's Motber tiii'ip.' "!!' news spread like wildfire thresh the little community that 1 J Tim Corripan h:. i In-en robbe.! Of Um mail. Twelve or fifteen men and V"s soon fathertd at the store and a i f was made up, headed by my faI r. to rid back to the scene of the ' ry nnd see if any trace of Tim's 'vil' eouM be discovered. Tim him- ' II first refused to pn. He was enI dooBorallsed by wpentlttooi ' Itut upon promise of a body lrd and a safe place at the rear he 1 i ' consented to be one of the tarty. ' mail lap was found at the exr ' -pot Indicated bj Corripan. ripped 1 tid rilled of all its valuable eonnts eonsistitif of several packapes r ' a!a and inelosures of money. Hut Tot ih lllfbteal tract of the thief I '' lie diseocred. There were no prints of a horae'a hoof save those of tb animal ridden by Corriean him- ' I. N'eith' r could a man's footprints found nor a trail in the bushes be-

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trturr.inp from the pr'1niill lotl Ibl

little roll f nonej that represented I. earl; all h. i.' -arninps. A surveyor separat d friin the n si .f I. is party, felt wldeafy a death like prip nbou his ii. i k that tiphten.d rtltot lessiy until be loaf eonaoioMBeai When h. vertd he found In- In

I tl inner, t I. - w nteb and his little store of eah all goo. It waspettinp to Im us mi. eh a- .. iiiati. lift was worth to venture a! i c into tlie woods. "I '. .'i ; ! it was noted that the mysterious assailant attacked oolj tollt a ry rietitna, and that he alwoyi pOUaced Upofl Ihem silently from .ihovH and behind. It was enough to make a man's blood cold to reflect that r.t ai iiK.iiient this nixsterii'iis creature, man. beaal or derfl, mipht tigbl un h: neck and choke, shoot or stab the lift out of him. A yet tberawu no r. ore' of murder against the creature, but who could teil what he mipht .1 n slated or unduly provoke.; f "After thrte different raall earrieri had Im en robbed the pojt ofliee ofticials sent it detective to St. !.-is to look Into the matter. This RMB. I rememler. van an oij--t of the greatest word, r and i..lmirat ion on '!. part of i r entire . mmunity. none of us ever !.avinp seen a real liv d t.ctie before, lb' lodprd with father durinp his --av in St. I!cj.-:s. ;,(,! thn- I was brought into intimate association with him. The result of that intimacy I think I may say, was what determined my choice of a profession in life. Hut I am '"ipressing or anticipating. Thf detective scoured the wood'or days nt a time. He lay in concealment at various points of the post road between St. Regit and the Station r. the rier where the mail ..-

ueiivered to las earner, us even riski d carry inp the mail bimself a few Ilm. IJ but. as he told me. laughing) the Tain of that constant twist of the t ck was too much for him. "S. lor.p as the detective remained in the vicinity there wen- no more robberies nor assaults. The el ever man discovered nothing potitlee, but he I ii'. il out a eiew, which he pave to father for what it was worth when he u . . blipetl to leave on other busirrss. Tl.c . lew was Xh'.r : "Near the spt.t where the surveyor had been overpowered tie ! teetive found an eaple's feather. Most men would not have given this slight cir

cumstance a seOond thought. Hut a detective Is man to whom everything ostceata atgnineanee. Ify friend put the fer.ther in his pocket and pondered imt it. He retbeted that the approach of the bandit was always, apparectly, through the air: that he dropped silently down upon bis victim from behind and aboe. as a bird of ; rev mith do. Was it not possible, then pi .tinp two and two topether that the er stare, whatever it was. mich? be son ethinp in bird form? "I si.w that my father was inclined to smile t.t the suppestion when it was made to him but I treasured it in my mind, for ! could not help feelinp -..in. how that It came start Singly near the ttuth. "No looser was the detective cone thai) I feii to w orking out his eiew . T) be sure, I was only a boy. but I w.iactie an.! inquisitive and eery desirous of dclr.p something to prove myself worthy of the detective's friendB. des. the post office authorities had offered a reward oftSPOtha would lead to the discovery of the my a tt-rious highwayman, or fVW for his Seittal Capture. Such an incentive as this wa enoush to si;lrpen a boj -aril r.s well a a man's. "The thine for me to do, I concluded, w i to ke. p i sharp outlook ."or . aat all hour of the day. Wit!: 'his purpose in mind. I pent a larp share of my leisure time on top of a cliff about three milfs from St. Kur, commanding a wide view of t h . .t ley in which the v allege lay. "The detective had lieen gone about a week when, one afternoon, as I lay upon, the cliff. 1 saw a shadow sail oer the woods below me. Looking up from my place of concealment, I b held, al most directly over my head, the form of a great eac'e ontli.-.ed against the sky. It was sailing over me st s con- - . rr.ble iieiphf. but I eouid see it plainly enough, and there was tomethinp so odd about i;s appearance that I was struck with amazement. On either side of it neet there hui'.gdown what loohld like a black streamer. The effect was as if the bird wer wearing s long muffler, the ends of Which traileil beloW its breast. The eap'e wm drifting away from me over the a!lcy, and its body for a time was between me and anything that mipmt be e tinging to its neck

Hut finailx it made a turn, and I could

from that tiay I n.trr w.nt lnt" I I od! irithasl m rllle; for fat hv t bad g;'-n me a little rifle to use In banting Mjatrrtli ind wild turkey. My thoughts dwelt eoantnattf npoa the tny - 'erious tagle,aad I waanlwnjri on the lookOWl for tin great bird. '''k- pained Kxcitemeni w-as running higher than er over the unI i: bai i t of tht woodfi f jr bolder and more frequent a-saults we re conn .! j reported. Quite number of settlers Lad moved sway from sheer error and apprcht n -ion. The state h id tt.ken up the nnferand Increased the reward for the '.l ait;'s capture by another 1505. It was just after thil

don that my odd adventure

SCHOOL AND CHURCR

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and bee a befell me.

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wen out afti r wrt.i turkcyt . at any rat- and was comwith an Old gobbler -lung ii.i. k. As I approached the

toad I beard the thud of a Imrst -hoofs. Slid, as had been customary with me. hurried forward to see the rid.r pa--, with it rsgttC hope that the my lerioui eagle might ehOOM that eery inomei ; to swoop down upon snothl r i it tim. "A fandüar proverb saya 'it is the un expected that happens.' Hut every rule has its exceptions and terj proverb as well. This time it was the txpected thai happened. I had a pre--eiitimei;- that I was about tobehold lomething wonderful and strange and I did. Hardly had I come in sight ..f the horseman (and there was still i thin, eoneeallng veil of foliage between me and the open road) when great Waving shadow came drifting along the highway. 1 planced up snd with my heart in my mouth, saw a bugs bird descending with -et and motionless wings. Hut I mw something more. io me thing that aim it froe the lilood in Bay veins. A miniature man sat SStride of the eagle's neck, his fierce little faee set with vindictive purpose. To this- day I can see the baneful pleam of his -ma!', b'a't g ey es. In one hand h ' carried a plitterinc. naked knife. The utlier l:.ir.il was extended as if to grasp

in anticipation his victim s hair. "W hen the eagle wa- almost directly nur the unsuspecting horseman, the pygmv bandit threw one leg ovet iilrd's i. eck. sat side w ise and poised bimii !f r adv to drop upon his ictimN ihouiders. Instinctively and with a

motion as quick as thought my rifle spr it ir to my shoulder. .lust as the dwarf lei Co his hold and dropped there was a ringing report, and the eagle, pierced through the heart by my bullet, fell siaanltnneoualy with his pigmy mastl r. Hoth struch the flanks of the f richten d bone, and the animal -prang forwatd in a wild snorting gallop, so mddeo and so endangering to rhe rider that he did not even venture to turn his h - ail lo see what occasioned it. In a minute more horse snd rider wen '"it f sight around a bend In the road. "The eaple rolled into the dust and sftev a few ipnsmodie flutteringt lay sti!'. The pigmy bandit, springing to his feet, glared about him f' r a moment with mingled rtge and terror In his wraene 1 and contorted face. Then, with a try. whose utter despair and piercing anger I shall never forcet. he darted into the lnihe on the

opposite side of the road and disappesred. "Harr y kr., .inc what T did. I bounded after his disappearing form, but the y . (ti .'ture was too .pick for me. In the tangled nnderbrblh it vva useless to pursue a being who could dart unobstructed along a rabbit path. Bl d I soon gave up the chase as vain. "Leaving my Wild turkey Concealed in the bi -lies. I carried the dead eagle to the village am! tol.l my story. At first there were rone who would believe me, but whi n 1 led the way to the spot Where the tragedy had oecurrid. and the Indian-tighter had exSUalaed the small foOtltC - hfl the dust, and in the --oft mud of a sprinc-hole in the woods, where the dwarf had eroei i in h.- Right, doubl and cavil gnrt aj to wonder ar.d eongrstulntioB, and I became It once the hero of the com munlty. "AltbOUgS I had not captured tin pygmj bandit. 1 had -olv. d the my -t ry that surrounded him and det rOVed the anions means iiv which h

vict ims.

The CongregationalUts hsvt was minist r to every 1 1 4 members uf their churches. S.u. i i ; nclseo has 20. (Km children of school age who attend no plate of learning. Rev. Nsthaa i. Wood, d. h. of Boston, has ijeclii ed the pr. sidei ey of the Newton theological institution. The Central Illinois Methodist Kpls-i-opal cii.fereiice lias iln'iiictl for equal lay ri-prc-eniation by a vote of 100 to 9. The ITesleyaa hfethodtots of Bag I n !, at th.ir reoeal conference, toted to raise from the church li.Uüu.umi as I twentieth century fund. Mist I) Matilda Doiyv. who ten j cars IgO left Albany for the mission field ii China, sends from l'eking IM00 to lie used in the construct ion of a nurses' home at the Albany hospital. The Corean minister of public instruction has engaged a oflicial pro- : -or of the Gagman language a d ipan. -i l am. '1 I'rutochianii , at a al.'ir of 1100 I year and $:o a month for house reut. The Trinity Church corporation in New York city has been 2ul years in existence. It maintains nine churche and a hospital, ar.d contributes 1 Iber a 1 1 v to many Kpiscopal institutions. It possesses real estate, valued at $15,000,000, and its annual income is about $000,000. Plo None bequeathed to the church BMQOyOQQ francs in gold. Leo XIII. has almost doubled that sum. which i deposited among the principal Euro

pean banks. The holy see haa debts, what exi-ted having been

paid by the present pope. Pupils In the public schools of Copen-

hacen baths

building, anil while they are bathing their clothes are sterilized in asteain oven. The Danes object to the regulation on the ground that it makes the children discontented with their home surroundings. 0U FRIENDS THE GERMANS.

TKE ASSYRIAN INVASION.

.rmi now tion

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y see. although the dlttaitce was too great for accurate ob.rvawith tin naked eye. sort of ex

on the Inrrt s hack, ilirectiy

over the trailing streamers. How 1 longed for a gout! field g'as.- or tele-scop.-l I was almost wild with curl osity. yet could do nothing but conjecture over the strange appcaraact of the bird. f)f one thing I Waaaimosl positive, however, anil that was that the object which was now fading aw ay in the distance had been ilirectiy COO t . et.d w:th i vrrv of the of the recent

robberies. "The very next day word reached us at St. Ktgis of a murder ami robbery that hail taken place in the next townihlp. A trapper, returning from thr

selt'Iements with a coi -It - table sum

sppronehi d a nd inrprl

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worth.' X ud 1

in il

the road. An old Indian flphter I of money, realised f rotn the sale of hi-

party s art lieu itmir ai , ( ar -

ly, but en Iii trained eye failed t . over a sipn. The affair was a I - tv . and Tim's theory of the apenJ of the evil one began, covertly, to Sain some pround. "This itrsnsrs hiofh W n V e. tl.licr v

" , " ' er. Wis on V the fltm of -firt

vf a s.milarehnraeter which from that MUM in amaed and terrified the pioeew throughout that section. The paymsster at a lumbering gang was Mysterious ly pounced upon and reiJ of tj.io iu stuaii b..,. A farUier

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jielt . hau been attack, d in the open roadway, and having, undoubt dly. attempte l to r -ist his insidious asaiiII t. had been fatally stabbed at the It, - of the neck. His money wssgone and his body when discovered ley fat the road whete it had fallet.. TnegC was no evidence of a struggle, no footprints other than thOM of the victim himself, but in the dut om. body had found and picked Up inotfcCt eagle't feather. ! learned I hi fact Incidental ly. nnd it se.tled In n:y mind the real nature of the m. known assailant.

Clsrs "I saw soms fumy looking Ciug in a window on Fifth avenue the other day." I OTI "What c ub waa it?" Youker ritati'SDaan. ii race "Hut what do you mean by saying Mr. Daohaway is luch a latlyliVa .an. dear?" Flo "He cau't raise

a niubtu. he."- World's ( utnlc. Mrs. IIoyle-"So, jour rvunt lighted the tire with keros i.e and suflvrsd the ftcntequenccs?' Mrs. Hoy le "Yes. the niea-i thiug. H wusn't her day out." Town Topic. Ilrst Juryman "What did you think when tin- Judge committed Dobion to prison for eonumpt of court?" Second Juryman "I was glad he wasn't mind rcader."-4ireeii Hag. No," said the positive girl. "1 will never tie uiyelf down to one man." "Perhapa," he replied, umraatieally, -if i organ!..- a syndicate you will eouJder our ofTer'-Pluiadelphia North American. I ee that they sre going to play golf ou Sunday in Chicago." -Well."' "It does i '; Mem quite right to give up Sunday to ordinary sports." ' Why. bless your heart, golf Uu't a sport." Cleveland i'lain Dealer. Hicks "It is hardly poisible that a marriage should come out of it between two such persons." Wiehl "I don't know. He is a regular stick, and

she has got enough brimstone in her to make a match." Boston Transcript. "What do they call the microbes that breed diseases, Johu?" "Please, sir, germs." "Correct and what do they call the people who know how to handle germs ir. a scientific way?" "Please, sir. Qemssns.N N. 0. Timts-Demoerot. first Vit'l was in front last night, dear, to see Von play Juliet." Second

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are require.! to taue tnree t,iri ie, i now aa mm

a week in the public tchool

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From that day the terrible little man disappeared utterly. The last of hiStrUttge crime - had bcefl recorded. "I received one thousand dollars for my amateur detective w,.rk. Half of it I offered to the man who had puzled out the Beeeeanry clew. Hut he WOUld i . ' touch a cent. 'No. my boy.' be said, 'you dl serve all you have enmod and n ote. hi ther you actually captured the pygmy bandit r not, for you lix.ti him so that he la better than dead to the world. He has cense 1 from hi crim.s and retributive justice ha been span.! the unnatural job of disposing of such a human frek. YOU are a born detective, lad. and my a . . . , . .1 A .

., -e i o y i u - to i.i ii. io ! iifti proie.-

-ion for all you are hnve."

"Oood sdrice!" I cried, as Sandhur-t ci SM d, nd in some respects the most remarkable introduction to a profession I ever beard of!" Detroit Fref

Press. ii öl .Im- i, r,.,i. "Is tin re anything yon want V ashed the butehe of tbe little girl with the soulful J es and faw n-Iike air. oh. yea, -ir." Haped the little cngel, timidly. "I want a sealskin saeipie. and a dl'mond ring nud a trotting hoise, and a -i.-.iui .' a- ht. at tl a foreign nobleman, and ; pug dog, and a brown stone bouse, and a box it tlie opery. nnd lots of other things; bul all ma wants is ten .-. i.t-- worth oi bologna sausage for dii ear, and won't yon please trust hei frr it till SnturdlJ night f Judge. I ntted smie tU in llnvvnll. Neariv all the ld coin in rireuls r-, n a iJ;t Ronnwictl is'nnds is of Lluiteii aiatv mil. ' ujj.

Btil Thai ...l.in-et la Ith I ulli.rluntl Whlh Will V't lie Baatti iiroLcn.

the

needn't have talked so loud all through jny best scenes." First (iirl --"Oh. but you must be mistaken, dear; it couldn't possibly Lave be. n I. I never talk iu uiy ileep." Punch. BROKE HIS BONES ON AUG. 26. thr nasnarlianls ieeset f aeeiimats which Rearuioefr neioti KuKllah olller.

To war against Germany would be to war againsl our own fesh and btood, Nt hhtropeaa country, with the exception of Great Hritain. has so large a r presentation in our citizenship as the Fatherland. In the decade ending w ith 1990, over 1,400,000 inamigrants eane to us from Gersanay, Mors than a fourth of the total immigration from all Ku--ope in that period. Several of our large cities, including Cincinnati and Mil

waukee, have a larger percentage of (ierman-born citizens than of all other foreigners put together. And these people are among our most loyal, substantial and valuable citizens. Thev are not wanting in love for the land of their birth, but they love the land of their adoption still more. They are true Americans. A common love of learning is another strand in the bond uniting- us with the German people. Kowhmru in the w orld is tlie leadership of tiermatiy in various field of scholarship so fully and frankly recognized as in the I'niti d States. e mnd many of our brightest y.iiing men to sit at the feet of her fleetest teachers and to drink deep at her springs of learning. We glory in her unparalleled achievements in the domains of science and philosophy. Toward the country of litiethc ai d Schiller, of Luther and Humboldt, we can never he -t t in host ile array. But stronger, perhaps, than any other strand is the bond that unites us w ith Germany in our common trade interest. The shuttles of commerce, flying swift and fast across the aeas for a hundred years, hnve woven us together by golden threads that may not easily be severed. Last year we sent (ierniany breadi tuffs, manufacture.', products nd other articles to the value of tlg 7st.4.Yn.. ierniany sent us back in 1change chemicals, cloth and other needful things to the value of gllL310,6M. With 00 other country except Creat Britain does our volume of trade re eel such proportions as this. We exportto (ierniany more than twice as much as we do to France, and more than twelve times- as much as w e do to Spain. And the volume of trade between America and (ierniany is more evenly balanced than between us and any ..ther country in the World, We take nearly ns much as we eive. A friendship based on such considerations as these WtH not be llght! broken. Leslie's Weekly. lusaaslelsot 1 si the vim.!,. Thev hold strarge views about art in Japan, Travelers in the land of flowera have frequently remarked the strange customs of the public baths, where hoth sexes commonly mingle. Hut w bat is considered right anil proper in everyday life will not be tolerated in canvas or stone representations of it. The nude in art has been unqualifiedly condemned bv public opinion.

Beeently the Japanese minister of home affairs has prosecuted both editor and publisher of a magazine for inserting a picture of a nude female. The work of Mr. Knroda. a Japanese student of the Parisian art schools, have excited tbe utmost ntori-hrient in Japan, iiotwithstnnding tht favoraide notices given them in the French capita!.! hit ago Inter Ocean. she bed nml W un. Her Mother I saw him kis you; 1 am terribly shocked; I did not for a moment imagine that he would dare take such a liberty. Herself -Nor did I, ma in fart. I bei him he daren't. Ilehoboth Sunday Herald.

in rar. Mill I i FiMe-Mr SpOttf ie a node! hn-band. PcWittc Yes; they iy he treatshil w ife as if he were n candidate for eleo tion and she were a voter. Puck.

As might naturally be expected from his hazardous occupation, the collier is frequently injured by accidents uud.rtrruuud. but the following particulars, deserve, I think, a apace in the Lancet because of the strarge series of fractures sustained by a man, as we'd as the remarkable coincidence in the date of their occurrence. A man aged 44 year, short and well built, was first attended by me on August to, 100, for a compound frac

ture of the left leg, resulting from a portion of the roof or top falling and striking him while following his employment in BlaeS collieries. The patient marie au uninterrupted recovery, and was able in about six months to resume his work underground. The patient' previous history, told by himself, and corroborated by others, is very remarkable With the exception of an attack of typhoid fever. Which be had when Is years of age, and two or three attacks of quinsy subsequently, he had not suffered bodily in any way. He was always very temperate, and for nboat is years a ti.ta! a i.s'ait.er. Hit 1:- misfortune In the mine were many and are remarkable from the fact ihat they always happened on the Mttl day of August. Here U his record. 41 the age of ten years he fractured his right index finger. It happened on August ;r,. When IS years old he fractured his left leg below the knee through falling from horseback, also August 2rt. At 14 years of age he fractured both bones" of the left forearm by stumbling, his srm striking the edge of a brick. August N. In another year, nr. August 'Jo. when 15 years of age. he bad compound fracture of the left U g above the ankle by bis foot beinij Caught under an iron rod and his body fa'ling forward. Next year, Bgsla on the same date. August 2?. he had compound fracture of both leg, the right being so severely Crwshed thnt it had to be amputated at the lower third of the thigh. This was caused by a horse, bitched to a tram of coal, w hich, running wild under ground, caught him in a narrow passage, crushinff both legs severely. After this he did not work on August 2"'' for 2S years, and little wonder, but in the year 1S90 he forgot his fateful day and went to wirk, with the result that he sustained the compound fracture which I have mentioned in the beginning. After this he has studiously avoidi .1 working on August 2C. though never misdng work at other times. London Lancet. ...Iii l uln In the W.irl.l. It will probably be a shock to ninny to learn that nil the (fold coins current throughout the world could be comfortably stowed away in any one of thousands of Knglish drawing-rooms. A careful estimate of the gold ctirrency of the world placed its amount at 7:5.Ooo.OOO. Although this enormous sum will probably exceed our entire national revenue for the next levon years, it could, if converted into Knglish sovereigns, be placed in a room IS feet long, :wi feet w ide and ft feet high. The process of packing the sovereigns would. Indeed, lie a labor of time ami infinlto patience. If the sovereigns were placed in position at the rate of one a second.

working for eight hour a day. s child of eight, commencing the task to-dny. Would see his eightieth birthday before the last sovereign wns in position and the door could be locked. To convey this rold to the strong mom would feUttire the utmost strength of 4. oof) horses, wl kth would hnve tr, pull S Wfip-ht of Mil tons. The sovereigns thus nccmulated would make a golden Cttrptf for the whole ofSt.Jnmes park, with s remnant of :: 2 .1 acres to pare; nnd, if phi ted edge to rdpe. they would form s footpath of gold, six Inches wide, between I.01 dem II 1 O ritantlnople. London Tit Hits.

IdiiiIi Sc Iii, I I. . n In Ihr Interna Hum I leaf Serie lor Novrmher Ub 1 U KtSMW tUrttO Oli (Ttased upon TelouhM's P. W et Notel GOLDEN TEXT -OoO I OUT rsfUgt ariOl Strength! a very present hejj. ir. troul.l. Psa. 46.1. THE t-KCTION Ir.' lutb 'he r st of H.ieklh' ;!n (i K!ni; is 13 to M:tl). Tha para ...1 ; assises are 2 Chror.. 22 1-33. Isa.. Chips. M tell TIME - Probably at.out P. C. HI Tha Um half of Hcsektsh's reign, ::'0-2j ytsrs tf-.cr the beglnolna of the k!r.dom. sr.4 1UMM for.- tht exile a period o rtlormatfc a. . . PLACE. In and anur.l Jerurulcsn. tba capital of juiiah. txri .SITIUN. s. enc L Th Invasion of Judah by dstai r.iu Hordes. Assy ria at thistimo

waa at the h- ight of its nrrcgant power. Sennacherib, their king, about IL I . 7 It, man heil from Nineveh with an. immense army like the Huna and Saracens of later history. They took city after city by itorTA, till the cities of the Philistines and the south oi Judah were in th.ir power, and little was left to Ii . I. iah but his capital, Jerusalem. Bcactdah tritd to buy off the ii va.b rs by the payment of the former tribute, had other Immens and costly gifts, to obtain which bo tripped "the gold plating from tha temple doors, and despoiled his palace. Scene II. Around the Walls of Jerusalem. Among the most dramatic cenes in all history were the interviews (described in Isa. M ar.d 7, and also In Kings) between the rnbshakeh, one of the AssyrisB ofBeers, OB the one hand, and on the other. Hczehiah's officers, nnd the people of Judah answering from the wall of Jerusalem. The rabebakeh demanded an unconditional surrentier. He appealed to the people themselves, promising to spare their lit. m, at d take them to I country far better than Palestine, if they would m It open the gates in spite of their rslers. He Warned them that no power had stood before the Assyrian force; the gods of no place had been able to save their people. Seen III. IL ckiah Prayit Iff in the

Temple. Kimr Bene blab rent his clothes, nr.d put on sackcloth, and went to the houe of (iod. while his luessetiirer.v sought out the prophet Isaiah, .0 know what to do. He did nil he could, ns weO M prayed. Sc.r.e IV. The Answer Sent by Isaiah. Vs. 2n-22.2s-34. 20. Thus snith the Lord:" J.-hovah. "I have heard t He would have them linderst' d deliverance was from him. 21. "The virgin the daughter of Zion:" Zion. the citadel of Jerusalem, tan. - for the city, like a Ix&utiful virgin "unviolated by a cotiqueror." "Hath despised thee," Assyria, "and laughed thCC to 6corn:" She dcJies you, ami inocks at all y our threat, be-cau-e he is safe, not in her own strength, but in that of the Almighty (iod, her protector. H "Fete against the Holy One of Israel: ' Whom they had "reproached and blasphemed" by comparing hint vith their idols, and decluriug he could not resist their power. St "1 will put my hook in thy nose:" Al Wai dOM with wild bulls to lead t bciii. and as the Assyrians are repreented 0.1 th.ir tablets as doing with their captives. "And this shall be a llgn unto thee:" This sign was given to Hezekiah. "Such things as grow of themaelves:" For two year. the regular Opt rations of agriculture shall be mipea led, 1 J the occupation of the Assy1 but the tliird year everything Would gc on as usual. 30. "The remnant that is escaped:" The Assy riai.t hau already tic-troy ed a large part of Judah and carried away

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nnebi rib's account. Yet God would not nail the nation to be h Itroyed but this mnnnnt, like the stump of tree cut off, should "again take root downward, end bear fruit." Mb "The king of Asy ria. Be shall not come into this city :" The promise w as clear, direct, positive and it was fulfil., d. .14. "Fur my servant David s sake: Not because the people deserved it, but because of the blugdom of Uod promised to come through David. Sc iic V, The Destruction of the As tyrial Army. V. H-ff, 35. "Thsl n:cht:" The Dromke wis immediate-

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went t.ut: I he use of tUe word, "nnel" here does not determine the anner il which the destruction waa nceoutpUshed. It may hive been a norm, a ptltilenee, or flood. The destruction of the great host in the Phillitlr.. pin. 1 s a . ; ears to have been from a sin Men outbreak of pestilence. This is the Jewish tradition, and pestilence is said In the Hible to be the work of an angel (2 Sam. 24:16, 17). "In the camp of the Assyrians:" Where this ramp was is not stated, but the main body of the army were last reported at I.ibnah (Isa. H7:M. not far from Lachish. but nearer to Jerusalem. "A hundred fourscore anil five thousand:' (iving nmc idea cf the immense six of Sennacherib's army. "And when they iroie:M Bennseherib snd the ewe risers. It, "So Sennacherib . . .returned: He records other campaigns, but thoafh he lived 2d years after this, he never t ame Sfsll to Palest ine. And Judah v 'St delivered for another century of renMirhahlt religious activity. I 1. . ..od I h lulle. The deril is not greatly disturbed by church services; it ia Chri: t service he fenrs.

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