Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 45, Number 10, Jasper, Dubois County, 14 November 1902 — Page 3

Weekly Courier. .' DOAHaC. Pahliaher. 3 AIP KB i I I I INDIANA.

DEPARTED GLORY. How sad I hh,.J to bo In those old days aw. y back there Uefur. i knew the world ai full of ' Men snares and car.-. I thou ght It wm a task to hold tho skein ,i thT wound The crimson yarn while hero und there tuhnon snarl wan four .1, I thought my lot a dismal one, aa slttlrnf there at night I h' .1 the hummlnif spinning wht 1 and watch tho firelight Dnr Mi arror3 the flour and bark aa falrv duncera mlKht. Ah, how I iiFod to Ion to Me tho world T'd n ad about. To pa. k my mtl.- enrpet-sack and boldly ealtv out! Reluctant iy t used to bow mv head upon tli- riiair AVh1! f that round thfif It was time to fay tho avantaf prayf . And tb , 1:1ns; that mv lot waj 1 it. I ah hot absurd It norms I wont )' to my little be4 beni ith tho whl't-washod beams. And. far away from wordly cares, liad proufl, amhltlnua dreams Oh tb- re. Is rn'ioh that I bavo 1. arnod pi" I tho world since then. And mii'h I've soon that serves to wake tli' wonderment of men; Tho world Is far rooro splendid than I ' med that It rould he As Ij ; .' 'aeath tho r.ut:h hewn beama fn'.- visions came to me But i area I glory of tho world has j-a-sd away fore'er, t ne' r epnln may hold tho skein aa mother wlnda back thoro. Or. wl n the flro's low, kn el d .wn while f I her .f1i ri prayer. 9 V. Klser, In Chlo.iRo Record If. raid. I A GARDEN PLOT I ! , By Julia Truitt Bishop. f T A I .cry faint-hearted young people were looking at one another er Ü B k fence of the vefriHuble gm u e in the garden among the rubijagii, he outside in tho seldom used -;r t. J'.et wren tbenn wa.s the fehce, .. h its green burdea of butter-bean vines. Practical, everyday life bp'I i.ard realism could go no further. Of ,rse, if you say so, I'll go to my . ternal nneestor and speak to him about it," said the youug man, ro y, adding the reMreatioa, "ai lei. Vl'll kind of hint to him. 1 B)lgn1 - well taUe out a good slice of n:" iaaurmnee before 1 start, lint if 1 i" go jim'u- got to promise that you'll go to your mother. I'm not going to run nil the risks:" Qh, yea I tuppoec I'll haw to go," said t!i' girl, desperately. "And I'm just as afraid as 1 can Uc. I know IbetVa me plot against us. Your fatbCr ...me to see mantina yesterday about something, and mamma just 1. od at me awfully after he bud gi D I've been afraid to speak to Her et "r since!" M. ybe they're going to send you back to ehool again." was the savage remark from across tlie butterbean rll s. "1 won' have it, Nails and that's Ii e end of it. If it comes to that, we'll run away!" "Oh. lorn, we can't'." came a fright' : 1 whlspOI over the same barfh r. '11! I'll speak to mamma and aee yon here to-morrow evening. Or why not come to the house: Mamma neVr ha said you couldn't, you knou ." "Ob, ' the way she looka at me I wm tbe tragic response. "Not by a whole l I, Nell! We'll trust to these COM bei rtet cabbages instead." When upon the two parted with auch 1 1 lilaM of affection as the vine- ; -mittet, nnd went valiantly forth to make eoBftMioBi Nell : . md her mother writing at her little desk In the corner; hut at Belt's ppmnch Mrs. (irayson shut ,mi lo '1 - d the desk with n snap, and turfed an accusing face upon her daugft Anger bad made her face mtv red. There was no doubt that she know dill Nell's heart heat a burtied double tattoo, and her nicely v.un; -cd. dutiful little speech died ,, , ; All tb1 she managed to any m ' Mamma:" Bui she 1 id that wit i an emphasis that appalled l,, r. Ml t.rayson turned pale. "Yotl had hotter f to your own room.'' -he mM( Ttfl austere dignity, .nd remain there until you earl listen to -reason and talk over matters cnlmly. Mr.-. 1 rayae sw.pt out of the room. Dd thus abruptly ended Nell's . ..nfession. Tom. gifted with knowledge of men tl at should make him a niploniat some day, waited until I'ol. Dram I d eaten a remarkably good dinner and was stretched at ease in a capacloUl chair, as be could see through the window. What he did not aee through the window was the perplexed frown open tbe colonel's brow a frown which hung there in spite of the dinner and the chair. Tom was in the room and advaaeing tfpon the enemy In good order before lie Baw ,ne 'roun ant' Immediately his ranks were thrown Into confdafep, lie faltered. "I'm gone'" he said to himself. What he snid out loud was. "I have come to speak J on. sir, thotit a certain mntte-r " Quick RI a staph the colonel was up, with an apoplectic loot on hia counteniitl' e. "Von will do BOtbiBg of the kind, air'" he shouted, "i know exaetly what von would say! WtB, sir. fW nerdn'': M it! My mind is fully made up! Not a word, sir! You may go! I vAuh to be aloaval

And thus abruptly ended Torn'a confession. Kariv the neit morning the Luttel 'lien n vine received t v . new rupeiiences the one urj tearful and the other full of very d t. tiulned luughter. ".she sent for him today!" bobbed

the tearful one. "1 know I'll be aent away now. I heard him talking loud in then-, and telling her something about not paying uny attention to two children." "You are 18, and I am to," aald the laughing one. Twe good-aannd children, I should think especially aa the colonel was married at Ml I have the ttoense in any pocket, nvi lie. IJun and get your hat and come around to the side gate. We'll go up t Mr. Morrison's nnd be uiarrie I, He's been married lately himself, and'll know how to sy mpat hi.e with us." "Hun away? Oh. Tom, let'a not run away!" was the frightened whlaper that came out of the oabbagegarden. Hut the young man on the other side of the fence had the license, and. be nies, he had the girl's heart. It began to be apparent that there wns n . other way. The end of it was thai Nell came onl f ihe side gate, trembling at every sound in the house she had just left, and she and Tom started off band la hand, like two children. "Oli, I feel certain she'll overtake Ii.. "' - be cried prenently, in a panic. "1 Vu run are nan baal them both n t n ' 1 1 ir ! lHgg ted Tom. And so they both rnn. h iding each other's band, nnd laughing, because they wore not very old. and running away seems a kind of joke to IS and 23. They arrived at the Iter. Felix Morrison's quite breathless ami full of laughter; and gahn Morriaon'a fir! wife laughed with them, and chipped her hands on hearing that they ere going to lie married right away. The Bee, Felix himself demurred. They werr both very young Lad they preaeatod the matter properly to those who had authority over them? "Oh. that's all right!" said Tom. ch . i fully. "We've done everything we could begged nnd implored and entreated thev were herd :is a rock Here's the license lire, Morrison can witness- tire ahead!' Now do. Felix!" begged the little wife on the ther I Met. "They love each other almost ns much as yon and I do. Suppose anything had kept Of .vpart?" The mere supposition of such a thing aet the minister's lips, ami smt a spark into his calm blue eyes. "Hand up!" he said. It was at this awful moment that they heard the sharp click of the gate-latch, and Nell cast a terrified glance between the lace curtains. The light of the street lamp showed two figures hurrying up tbe walk. "Oh, here they both come'." cried Nell, in an agony of fear. ' They 've followed us! Oh, i save us. somebody!" "Here, into the back parlor!" Mrs. Morri-"ii was already pushing them under tbe portieres. "Now do keep still!" she warned. "If you can throw thorn off the scent." cried Tom, ruiiniiiL' ba.k and wringing the aüniater'a band, "if you could just lie a little " "He can't, but I can:" said Mrs. Morrison, eagerly. "Ib-re they conn whnfs the use if you 'on't keep out of sight?" Cel. Deans and Mrs. Qrajaaa might easily have notiotd that ibere was an air of subdued exeitcinent in the parlor to which they were admitted, that Mr. Morrison's hand shook, and that a look f indignation and high resolve was on Mrs. Morrison's face. Hut the truth WSS, they did not notice it. for they had larger matters in hand. How guilty did the Hover end Felix feel when be saw ol. Orano cast a stony glance around the room! "Very pleaaant went her." snid the Hovercnd Felix, with an air of deep inipressiveness. "Very!" said the Colonel, dryly. Tom, in the back parlor, groaned in spirit at the sound of that voice. "I thought this morning thai we should have rs1n," ventured Mr. Morrison, firmly; " but the clouds "h. ye-:" said Col. Drnna, curtly "P. it We come up ti ISC "Certainly !" Mr. Morrison hastened to ns-ur him. He fell that he could hear Tom anil Nell breathing in the hack parlor. "Now for it!" whispered Toss, holding Nell carefully to keep her from fainting. ' The worst will le i. vor in a few minute-'" "The fact Is," said the Colowel, fixing the unhappy minister with Ids eye and sneaking in nn nwed voice and with a very rod faro. "Mrs. t.rayson nnd myself have come up to be married!" Hew Felix Morrhon tottered against the mantelpiece in the front parlor, nnd Tom tottered ngninst the mantelpiece in the back parlor, but the Colonel went on. belligerently. "We hnve chosen this method because we do not wish any gossip or remark, and be äuge my son and Mrs. flrayson's daughter have shown themselves so plainly opposed to any hint of It-" Mrs. Felix Morrison had gone off into the back parlor nnd into hysterics, nnd wai laughing and crying at a great rate. Tom had set Nell down In an easy chair, and wa rubbing his chin with his hand a well as he could for a most dignified grin. "If the yOWng people I re opposed to it," said Mr. Morrison, chokingly, "would it not 1e better to wait awhile and gnin their consent?" "'o. sir, it WCSjhl not!" roared the Colonel, testily. "They have l-eel holding secret me. ding and plotting against us for days! I do not

propose t he aaVriata) to by two such snips of ebil. In n' Here is the In .-n.-w, sir. We are both sj ae,. 1 think Mrs. Morrison can sritnw '" And then, as they ate aJ op. twe figures swooped down upon t'oio and stood facing thOM, side by side, holding each other's hand. "Well, father." said loin, severely "1 ' say I am scandalized, (tunning away to m married' And at your time of Ufa! " "Toui"' eJnrmlatodJ the Colonel. "h.v tti,.r-" "I wouldn't have thought it of yon. mamma:" suid .V Hie, with much spoil. "To think of you jlrfng such a thing without saving a word to me!" "A pretty thing this will be to get out!" remarked Tom. regarding bis father, gloomily. "How i- a young fellow t get up in the world if bis father runs away and gets married every time lie takes :i notion'.'' "And what an example to sot be. for.- me:" sail) Mi-s Nellie, primly. Mrs. (irayson bad already sank Intr a chair and buried her face in a handkerchief, nnd now the Colonel sank into another one cl ine by. He f. It verv weak. "Now that you both know it. Tom. he said, feebly i "I dent! mind waiting and lu ing married Quietly at home some evening. If you hadn't she Wal stich determined hostility "We'll have the wedding nt hume." said Tom. willing to show a forgiving disposition. "Anil while wo are about it we will have a double wedding von and Mrs. Qrayeoa, Nell and I." "Ten! You two"' cried Mrs. (irayson. emerging from her handkerchief. "We txvo." announced Tom. airily. "Rut yon didn't catch us running away." Ho spoke with a lofty moral tone, nt the same time giving the Bill If I Ml Felix a furtive kick. Tho Colonel had taken time to digest the statement, but he now broke out with a roar of laughter, slapping Iiis knees. "You two!" he roared. "Croat Scott Who ever would have dreamed it? How did you keep It ho close?" After Which Mrs. 0 my SOS and Noll were forced to go into the bach parlor and give their per-, nal attention to Mrs. Morrison, who seemed about to collap.se. Woman's Home Companion. Hold X ore MiurU ort. Little Klsio was a faithful attendant at Sunday school, and had listened earnestly when plans for n coming ( hri-tian Finbavor convention were discussed, her interest increasing to enthusiasm over the my sterious affair when she learned thai bee auntie was to attend as a delegate. Coming into the library one day, auntie saw the little maid busily engaged in writing a letter to her cousin with whom she kept up a juvenile . .rr-'-pondence. II 1 scrawled industriously for a moment, then stopped. There was a puzzled expression on her fat ink-stained face, as she dangled her short lege and wriggled uncomfortably on her high perch. "Auntie," she said, "how do you spell dev il?' " "Ob. Flsie." said lier auntie, "I am shocked! Why are you using such a word as that in your letter? Nice little trirls never say such things!" "Why. auntie." she cried. "I'm onlytelling her about the Shi letini and devil contention ! "- Harper's Maga rine

The Modern hllil. Tho modern child is the most discouraging thing I know about. Just the other day I undertook to entertain a small neighbor of mine while her mother panned the afternoon in bed with a sick headache. Naturally. 1 assumed that the lit t Im girl would enjoy looking nt a prettily illustrated book of fairy tales which had just come into my posse.sion. site tiMk the beah politely and sat down Jo look st the pic tures. When I looked up she was taring at tue with a quesiion in her eye--, teelag SM liM-ngnged. she put it in'o u,.r.i: "Here's a reffy pretty picture." said she. pointing out, or rather in dicating. for she's too well trained to point, to a wash drawing of Tetania and her attendant fays. "They're very pretty, but will you please tell me whether they're angels or just insects?" Washington Post l)nnlnt MOSflnSja I uMoma. A certain marriage eutnm has. un luckily for the brides "f to-day. fall en into disuse. It was once incumbent on the bridegroom to plaee a sum of money in a purse on the wedding night and present it to the bride. Afterward this was dot.e the following morning and the gift was called the Don Purse, taother phase of the same thing existed in Cumberland, where the bridegrivom provided aisneeif with g Id and crown pieces. At the words. "With nil my worldly goods I thee endow," " he gave the clergyman his fee and pOUTed the rest f the money into a handkerchief which the bride' held out. In other places It was the custom on the day following the marriage for the bride to ask her husband for a gift of money or property, and he was Itound In honor to grant her atjsHjeat. SeOtish Ameriiap. Ulllioa erlee Himself. -Hoest, ! that ricid position make, you tiri-l and un unfortahle?" asked the artist. "Yes." replied the ambitions politician, "it doe-: but I tint willing to suffer the Inconvenience. This Ishe pose in which I "Nh It known W posterity."- Lhhsgo Tribun

THE TARIFF INIQUITY. nesisikllraas us Have a t Ueno lo lall Their I'ruiaiit It fal Uuhi tb trusts. The republican, having won control of MSsgreM 1' r Ii I ml t w o y . ji. or nattl after the national election of 1004. it is incumbent on them to carr out the plec'gio, ii oit- by 1) o a'.in.uiati.it. on to legislate against the bad tn.sta. Brcryone but the coal barons admits that the coal truat is a bad trust. Therefore the duty mus; come off coal h.rd coal and soft coal. There ahould be no quihbling about that. The administration has set iti ban npon the meat trust by beginning legal BVoeaedlage against it. This may Lave been done for political effect, the diliatory way in which the mft against the beef merger has been prosecuted would warrant that conclusion. But the fact remains that the meat trust was denounced by tbe administration, before election, aa a bad trust. This will compel congress to remove the duty on cattle and dressed meat. The steel trutt was denounced by Mr. Babcock, chairman of the republican campaign committee, two years ago, and a bill was introduced by him to revise the tariff on steel and other products of the trust, so it is conceded by at least one faction of the republican party that the ateel trust is e bad one. If all republicans cannot be brought to think the steel trust is a bad trust, a small minority that do so

THE TRUST -Frif THE believe will find the democrats quite silling to rote with them to ahelfsb Mr reduce the steel nnd iron schedule. The book trust has beer, proved by disputable evidence to be one of the most rapacious trust, charging three times as much for its protect here .is abroad. This should entitle it to be classed smongst the bad trusts and tbe tariff law amended accordingly. The list of bad trusts rt ight he expended into hundreds, and a number cited who are selling cheaper bread thr.n here, but the few above dt icribi should at once receive the attention of MaglOM and their protection be removed. The republicans have been declaring from every stump that they will reform the tariff so that the trusts shall not continue to rob the people by charging them excessive prices for trust productions. They also said that the tariff mu- be reformed by its friends, so thnt business interests may i t suffer, and it is incumbent on them to carry out the promises maCp by their speakers and organs. This applies to the dominant or Roosevelt faction, nrd rot to Senator Hanna am! the old guard, who refused to pledge themselves snd believe the present trust tariff should not he disturbed. In the meanwhile ihe proposed tariff commission can be inaugurated and investigate tie wbi le tariff and report fot lster action by congress. PRfcSS COMMENTS. Secretary Shaw declares thst the lows republican platform has received altogether too much attention and it does look that way from n republican standpoint. Chicago Chronicle. Secretary Shaw continues to insist that the tariff is only n fourth cousin to the trusts at best, and that the two families have had not h i do with each other in years. D Free Press. The Dinglry tariff ia the mother of nearly all the monopolies, and it fosters snd coddles the few that it did n actually create It Is the parent of the famine prices that mrvke all bragging about prosperity a bitter nv i kery to the great body of the people. It must be revised and reduced to release them from the intolerable tyranny of the trusts. Baltimore Sun. The Danish congress has voted against the sale i f the We-t Indies te lar ds to Cncle Rom. Thi I a redeem! to tbe people of the UnitedStslei.es the price was high and the islands would be a constant expense. K.ven our bargain-counter purchase of the Philippines hss turned out a pour investment, having so far cost nearly f 100 OOO.OOO s jesr. which e'en if all we sei', to thein was pr tit would not (iav interest on the investment

PROSPERITY OF THE TRUSTS. A Saveeleaea Case uf lleekleee Kitrwe S(sfc Made I'usslale sy Me

it is rather disheartening to toe honest, law abiding citizen to her about the ant. M el MsM of the true magnates and their contempt for the common people. The sayings and doing of coal trust magnate Baer ere still in tue Binde of all, and now comes lehwah, the president of the steel trust, -anhing an unedlfying spectacle of liuneeli in foreign par lav This is hit second offense of that kind. About a year ago he atartled the gamblers at Monte Carlo by his monstrous gambling at that resort. His latest efforts for notoriety are thus described by the Chicago News: "lie ban thrown away his money recklessly, ostentatiously, and senselessly. One report says that he is building e house to coat two and a half million dollars. Another credits him with purchasing an entire aum mar resort. II has given a church to a town which his father honored by bring in it. He has bought yschta, and automobiles and made silly die play a of regal bounty to aervsnta, beggars and freaks." All this money that he ia squandering in Europe as w rung from the toil ..f the laborers who work at the furnaces of the steel trui and through the extraurdit Uy profi, allowed that corporation b- the lbngley tariff law. The people pay the piper whils HARROW. PEOPLE ARE. Schwab dances, and yet the republicans at a party, have declined to reform this tariff, which protects the trusts that rob the people of th money that is squandered in the way above mentioned. That such a gambler ar-1 spendthrift should be entrusted with the enormous business and millions of the steel trust is an anomaly in the business world that is even more wonderful than the creation of the trusts them-elves. The end of such a career is assure to he disastrous as the breakdown of the trust iteelf with its overcapitalization and subsidy profits. The people are latCBl on removing the 1st ter, when the whole house will tumble without much warning. ROOSEVELT'S OPPORTUNITY. The President ( Suit let (a Work to Rrsinvr Ihe shelter of the I rust. If President liooseve't is really Je favor of tsriff reform 1 of removing the shelter that t. trusts enjoy, he can easily accomplish it. If he . - not call congress together, tbt ;ariff fight w ill be postponed until the regular session, and as the orgatiia,i .n of c ongresa will probably not be completed until after the holiday.-, no biil can be reported until 1904. That being the year of the national election, jiarti-an politics will be more Hkely to lie considered than the genera', welfare, amino legislation on the tariff might result. The whole tariff i ust fight would thus be msde the paramount issue in the national election. The people would be robbed by the trusts for two more years and the foreigners would have tbe benefit. Can the republican party tat President Roosevelt afford to face such a condition in the nstionsl election? - a political condition it would be welcomed' by the democrats, their opponent would be on the defensive from the start, and the full enormity of the protection tariff would be brought plainly to the view of the voters. But from the highter motives of the general welfare the democrata will web e nne a sperial aesaion of congresa In the hope of accomplishing a reform of the tariff as far as a republican senatt will allow. c .tor ( ullom, of Illinois, ha also found the wsy the is rill wind is bl .wing and has veered around with it within 4s hours. He is now against tariff revision, but in favor of a commiM,,, What he will be for before this reaches the eyes of the reaöeris mere guesn work. It is getting to be dilfic.'lt to locate a republican lender the-e MJ - The only one there seems , be no quibble about it Hmdersoe. He is absolutely opposed to changing the tariff.

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.

la the latere 'Oaal Serie ler Xavember I. laOaW, as Tisar ol the Jadnea. Tili: U5H80N 1 i XT (Judges :;MM aa Ana slso all tnat eei tfattal wer gathered untu their fathers, and Iks) aroae another generation after them, shir kxeer not tbe Lord, nor yet tbe stork which lie had 4ne for Israel. U. Ai.d the ch.ldren si lit sell the sight o! the Lord, and si i ve.l Uaa im. 12. And1 they forsook the Lord Uod I their fathers, which brougl.t : rn out the land of Kgypt. ar.o aoda. of the gods of the ; round about Lhcm, and I unto them, and pruvukr si.ger. It, Ar.d they forsook the Baal atd Ashtsroth. H AM tbs sr.g. r of M L sgii.i t Israel, and lb- . the Land of spoilers thai sr.d lie them Into tl i MeaUOa round about, net ai.y longer stand be:: tl. Whlthersoecr they erst of the Lord was agstns: tl.e Lerst bad es.d, ai awon. ui.to them; and tlatre i d I , :l i I w ii n d t 4 CU ths Nina r eeii. a .oriii hs4 grefci 1. Nevertheless tbe Lo. . Used Mages, Which delivered them out of bvi.di of those that spoiled them titll.UKN 1KXT. They rr unlo tb Lord In their troaltle, and lie anvet e urn. INK of SCRIPTURE riOr'.nl The condition of Israel J ges 1 2aV Tbt deliverer Jucge's 2:ie-ns Tlilti-U. C, .Ü l'LACL ,'ar.aan. NOT KS AND COMMENTS. The text selected for Ibis lesson f u.a. ..nt ..r , .. Ik, c .. h a ' .. , . . 7 . . 1 gives a general summary of this hir " during the whole JOO years, du which, from time to time. judges or special deliver, re peared. They were heroes fof most part; men of tight, 1 ere and there arose and led tl pie of the tribe especially oppre vi, -tore Then f h v vi m . . ,tt.r:i . i , . , i , i ' j D With the opening of the book nun , i . t v n mi r ...r.'n n I .v rnn fsf I . . j ' . i , t i i f . t , , . 1 Ijiritniui r M S im 27:21; Judges 18:5; 1 Sam. 22:10-15; Sam. 23:a-ll, etc.) which tribe sbei go up first to attack the i .-tin. unites who are in pos seas ion f most of Jh country. Judah, who is chosen, wii Simeon and tl e "1 -use .1 eph," sneeess-ful in the hilleonntrv but' not conquer the lowiaat I. In the north, the Hebrews generally settle d uvn among the original irilmbitaute, and in the west the Ansoritei force Dsn hack into the hills. The la -1 fiveversM of this survey tell of the mm ing of the center of worship from G where It had been during the tnvsvsiea, to Bochim (perhaps Beth-el). The writer declares emphatically that the failure to make a complete conquest was not because of the ?l rergth of the t anaane ites. but of the disobedience of the Hebrews. The generation which grew up Canaan was less faithful than the f mer had been. "Served the Haalim That is. served the local Maals. wbi were almost many as the ( a naanit cities. The Baal were tJe gorisof fet tllity, both in plant and animal life. They were supposed to ehine upon and w.i t er the land and make it fruit ful, and tl sir worship wai just ns much a part of farming in Canaan as was preparing the ground and sowinir the seed. The Hebrews learned how to farm in Chanen from the Canaanites It was natural that, with all the rest, they should tab up the Baal worship, which was considered among those peoples the most important part f farming. At first the Hebrews probably thought of .Tchm.-ih as their Baal, bol s,,(,n they forgot Him in the laOeraeilun of this sensual Canannite worship. Inst, it of exterminat ing the native races, t Hebrews were lieing rapidly absorbed into the older population. I nder this le rigorous life and immoral worship they were weakened, j jecs-.-d ai d enslaved by the very people for whose religion they had forsaken .Tehah. "The Ashtnroth:" Ashtarotb is tne plural of Ashtoreth, one ..f the principal Semitic deities. She wss sometimes called Astarte, nnd sonetimes Ishtar. hike the Beats, the Ashtnroth were supposed lo influence fruitfnlness in plant ant I ' life Ashtoreth was the Venns of the Semitic peoples ant v worshipet with a great variety of disgusting rites. "The Israeli: found tn Syria a land teeming with holy places, und voirefol with a thousand oracles. It is hardly to he wm tiered at that the people, t a ted with the lavish gifts Inof on tl r new home, 'went astray every high hill and under every green tree." Aglen. "The hands of spoilers:" Better, of pillagers And nil this, says the historian, was the result of disobedience. Cod commanded Ilia people, ns He always toes, oi lv what would have been for their gOOb but they thought they ki ew bei ter. In thi- il l rk period, when the tribes were scattered nnd almost wholly independent of each other, deliverers ni"se. under whom the tribes filially emerged into national life again. Here nnd there, under these deliverer, the people made successful revolts ngninst the oppressors, and then exalted their deliverers to he their military nnd civil rulers the'f judges. PRACTICAL 8COIJESTION8. To forsake God is to turn away from one who has always lieen loving and faithful. To forsake Got is to tnrn aw -ay from one who has placed yon under count-e-obligation. To forake Ood is to become morally and spiritually weak, so that one is easily overcome by evil. To forsake God is to ei me under bondage thai II oppre-sive snd bitter. To forsake God is to itietir His righteous anger, and lo ceptira one's self of the help that He llttil gl