Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 45, Number 17, Jasper, Dubois County, 2 January 1903 — Page 3

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL,. Laasens tu (he I uleraaJlunal See I ess far Jwassry . iwa Aul ss alias mt rklllal.

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Y brother l.-nn:.-l mar- j rieo m 'hti ! I i e r c e when he kiih quite uloug j lit veur.s. Nobody thought he'd BTer nt married at ! all. un in. if ii my The brother ReubeU und Silas, three liud lived t. gel i tad bachelor' hail ever since nnther died, 1 was Berried i .i.v from heoM luBf before lied, l didn't know how s ou id tr-1 along at lirst. kept our! and she they I) ut ill of the boys had been used to beipUa ma a good deal, and they wer a real handy, and when I asked if they wasn't goto' to have a fcflMI keeper, they wouldn't hear to it. Nicy vail they wasn't p'.in' to l.iw no strange woman round in iua' niece, nohow. Bo Silas be took held tad did the w ashin' and ir.miu'. and Benbem did the swecpin'. and Lemuel. lie was the youngest, next to me, lid the cookin". lie could cook a dieser MUel to eny woman, and hi pieeat mine. My litisband said so, ami had to trive in tbev did. Well, they teemed to get on to nice, and none of 'em had ever seem1 to think BlUCh about the girl-, tu t -.en when they was imys, mat I must say I was astonished when Lemuel he up and got married to Me hiteble l'ierce. She wee a little alonr in years, too. rather in. re so than Lemuel, and n dreadful smart piece She was good lookin' and had property, but she was dreadful smart and Bp an' eomtn. 1 could never see how Lemuel got the courage to ak her to have him. he was always a kind o," mild spoken little fellow. Ueuhen he leclered be didn't, lie vowed that Mehl table asked him herself. He MM he knew it for a fact, and he laid . it with the tears robin down his cheeks. Reuben was the oldest. lad he'd always been terrible fond if Lemuel. " I 'hut poor hy would er have ot in sech n fix ef that i . av a e.l . I ....man bedn i up en eeitee mm, an be didn't have spunk enough to say no." said Keuhen. and be svvallered uird. Uehitebte had a ehse house of her .vvn that ber father left her. all furlishcd ard everything, so of course Lemsel he went la live with her, and Mehitoble's lioiise was pretty near where I liv.d, so I eoedd see eeety rliing that was goin' on. It vv.i'n't r rv Ion:.' before 1 said to Hannah Morse, my huslinnd's old makl slser that lives with us anl teaches IChoot, that I believed Lemuel was EB peeked, thoegfl I hadn't anythin' igeraet Mehitahle. "I don't fee what eb. anybody thnt narrieil Mchitable Tierce would exiect." said Hannah. She spoke real harp for her. I've always kind of .vnndered if Hannah would have had Lemuel if he'd asked her. "W.U." kl I. "I hope poor Lemuel will be i.ippy. HCs always been such a rood! mild, willin' boy that It does ."-m I pitv for hint to be rode over Lemuel Began to Look Real Downtrod. rough-shod, and have all the will he ver did bav. trodden into the dust." Well, i at h erhef will happen, r I'll miss my gue-s." said Hannah Morse. For a long while 1 thought -he was right. It was really pitiful to see Lemuel. He didn't have no nore liberty than a liv . -y car-old boy. tnd not Po'mu.h. Mchitable wouldn't t him do this nml that, and if there was anythin' he wanted to do. she tvaa pot Bgatest it, and he'd always tf right in. Ifehltebte she bought nil bin .lothaa, an she favored long-taibd ,,,.ts, an' he bein' such a short man never looked well in 'em. and she wouldn't let him have store shirts tnd collars, but merle them herself, ind she didn't have very good patterns, she used her father's old ones, ind tie wasn't no each built man as Lemuel, and 1 know be suffered ev rvtbing. lMt" hi rri', nn" hi feelin's. Lemuel hepan to look real Jowntrod. He didn t seem like half eah a man ns he did. and the queer et thlnir Shout it wvts: Mchitable didn't 'near I iK work r h" ,wn bands, so to speak. One dt? she talked to me hont It s dunno what 'tis." said she. "bnt Lemuel he don't seem to have no go hend ami no ambition and no will of hie own. He tries to please me. but it .'-n't seem ns If he had grit enough eaa for Uiet Sometime I think he

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YEAR ..t - ain't well, but I dunno what ails him. l'ra been real careful of him. lies wurn thiek tlai.nei, und l.sr'a hau wholesome rietuaiej 1 never ?t him have nie." Lemuel was ulwnvs dreadful f-T.d of pie," 1 said. I feit kind of sorry. for I remembered bow fond poor Lemuel had ai.v.. re breu of mother's piea, and what good one he ... -en to .mike himself. 1 know it." said Mehitahle. "He wasted to make some him If, when we wire firt married, but I vetoe.l thet. I wasn't goin' to have a man messin' round mahin' pies, and i wasn't goin' to have bim eatin' of 'em after tin y were m ule. Pfea ain't good far htm. But I declare I dunno what doee nv.'se him act so bind o:' spirit! . I ;.:;: Li':;, -:-':ny thought he'd better make a resolution fur the She Jest Sat Down and Began Tw.iting tho Fringe of Her Shawl As M She Wst Real Nervous. New Year and stick to it. ami see if it wouldn't put some spunk into bim." 1'retty soon she went home. I COUld see she was real kiiui of troubled. She always did thiak a good deal of Lemuel in spite of everything. The next day u New Year's, and in the afternoon Mchitable came attain. She didn't have iter sevvin' in us ; she generally did, she was a very in- ! duetlioai woman. he Jtet set down and begun twisting the fringe of her shawl as if she was real nervous, ller face was puckered up. too. "1 don't ' Know what to make of Lemuel," aaid she. finally. "Why, what's the matter'.' ' said I. "lie says he's made a resolution i for the New Year," said she, "and that he's goto to keep it. ' "Well, what is it? s ai-i L "I dunno," said she. "Well. if it's a pnl one you don't , care, do you?" said I. "and it c ddn't lie anything but a good one if my brother made it." "I dunno what it is," Maid she. "Won't be tell?" "No. be won't. I can't gt a word out of htm about It. He don't act like him telf." Well. I must say I never saw such a eheege as come over IfehitaMe and Lemuel sfter that. Be wouldn't tell what his resolution was. gad she couldn't make him. though he 1moet vent down OS her kWMS. It began to seen as if ah was fairly changing characters with Lemuel, though the had a spell of b in' herself inoic'n ever at first, trvin' to force him to tell with! the re- de tion was. Then she pive that up, and she never asked hhu Whl re he wa goin". an' be could come in my house an' set jest n loag as he erauted to, and she bought him a short tailed eaai and some store cotton nnd shirts, and he looked like nnether man. He gat to stayiti' down to the ; store nights, an' tnlkin' polities with the other men real bnd. 1 heard bim mvself oi.e eight and I e uildn't believe if WUS Lemuel. Well. Leme ai he never gOTS in. and he never told till the Uex1 New Year's day. when he said he UWUM tell. He'd nid .'II etoag that he'd tell her then. I'd got mm I as curious ns Mchitable myself by that time, ar l New Year's mornin' 1 run over real early thee wasn't through breakfast. He was most through, lie was Dalahlng up with n big piece of mince pie. and he'd made it himself, goo. When he'd swallowed the last mouthful, be looked up and he leughed, real pleasant and sweet, and yet with more manliness than I'd ever se n in bim. "S'pose you want to kaWU what that New Year's resolution was?" said Lemuel. "I guess I can stand it BWjrfM loefrer. said Mchitable. Now the time had come she didn't want to net trv eager, but 1 showed out jest whnf I felt. "For the land sake. Lemuel Rabbit, what was il?" aid I. Lemuel he laughed again. ' Well, it wasn't much of anythin'." he said. In his gentle dfUWtto' way. "I didn't make no resolution really." "What. Lemuel Babbit!" cried MeUi table. "No." said he; "I couldn't think ct none, to make, so I made a resolution not to leb that I bedel made tajr." -People's Heme Journsl

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hat then 1 - w m to esrrv prom :tr Old Tear to it.e New? rij leave tut the TotW that har.-v. Thuuahu unjust aid dco.bt; eS HM Argry oi3 - ah. I;uw 1 i '-.e :t.in! letfea "4 choices btteeV Ar.ynr.e is welcome sr ti, 1 the! ;ev UN ' bebtBU Plan? the trutk wov.; red be iJoubla Mopen" they d burt the ttouieet kvl Ship ikMuni: laft rear tutbia! Tsk it.t m Ci'.ii Yei: kt-ii item bid. A'.: try fer fc!5 be fTisaktn. AM my rs'.icm meetfeMi Noihli.s cioeaaj) ,r.n.ibe ken To ;h New laai Iren the u.k My cor.'.en'mr.t. wou.rf 'twere greater! All the courage I pursers; Ail my mot lbere'1 not much weight them! All my faith, or more or less. Ar n pack my choicest treasure. Smiles I've tten and pral-ei heard, Memories of unrelilfh pleasure. Chtery louki, the kiidiy v.u.'d. .h, my riebe r.er.c MVSll To my ragi ! i-'.ti s.ii:tu: L.kr the Cr.iui I thai travel Krem the OA Year to th New -Arr.os H. Vci:s, lr. Wathir.g'on Hoiüa AI agar. ne. OUR PERSONAL INTERESTS. Ue Should maeVMVee llrneni Irusw the Lrwoa '1 liat ICiperlrsee lias Tassbl Ii Is lite I'naa. This assurance of the eternal veri tiea of life and character i something to be truly thankful for. hut it is not enough to lie thankful here is something to be eagerly embraced as a step in our own inward progress, writes I). II K- Goodalet in tountry (itntleuian. Shall we give our whole lives to the cares of the body, however needful? Shall we not tukt- more thought for the spiritual and intellectual life, in ourselves ami in all those with whom we have to do? Will not the New Year give opportunities for a fuller am! wider usefulness happier anil more generoti activities? These are the things that make life better worth living. In true ajm jpathy. in practical exertion for otheri : ...i .i.,n;.. tm Urn Ovcur iwu uiii i?, i ii ii " we are called upon to lend our voices, our hands and our purses when reqtiired shall we cot in the coining 12 months reach ut more freely anil extend the use of whatever g''' we possess f (an we not do better than iver before? Have we learned nothing in the past jear er jearf? Hove we neither maiie mistakes by which we ran take Warning nor gained clews which will serve to guide us? A year that promises personal advance in the inward gains of experiencea year .f earnest effort toward the best that we know, the highest truth that we ure able clearly to perceivecannot fail to be a got i! year. And it is never too late to take up threads that have been dropped, intereat that bare been crowded out in the hurry and amid the thronging diit'es i f a busy life. It is a g' oil time tn think ef them now to recall the friend or relative or. alas! the frienriles one wh- ir. we might perhaps have helped, but whom we have lost sight of among a host of pre eeewpetioae. W ho canto t rec.ill tome t.eglected or forgotten opfMgtUBstieet It may be the golden hour is not quite gone. Will it not he a real good fortune if the New Year repairs the mission f the olet?. Letter tili if there are an palpable om lea tom to repair, but even in that case there may he room for many a goed dted before unthnught f Kvery v- ar may have its li!i-.'! beginnings. so m:y nM:i roitmu. Brsddi "i ' in to make any new resolution this year. Spikes?" Spikes- "New mies? I should say not! I've gel a lot of old ones I've never used, l.y jute'. "-Chicago Daily News. Anieaal Onaens. The actions and voices of domestic animal on New Year' Day are perhaps considered in some countries more significant than any other omens. A dog's cheerful bark in the morning is a most auspiciou sign, while bis howl is eery unfavorable. To meet a cat on the nvjrn of the New Year is considered by people in the Latin countries aa a sign that they will change th ir residence, and it also betokens ill for the future. Throughout southern Europe it is regarded as a moat fortunate sign to see a pig, signifying plenty for the coming twvlvemonth. The sight of a snake is the worst conceivable omen, for it meana death by violence. To see s Jackdaw, magpie or crow is a sign that the beholder will be cheated on ell hies dunee fuiluwaig year.

Till irtlTT TKXT. (Acta Mdgftl U And tlM MS ttteaS roe up together egalnst them: and the maalstratea rent oft their clothes, and commanded te beat them 23. Aug shin thej had lets many atrlpaa Uon tb m, th ) raft them Into prison, charging tkeTJeJlor i" keep th an tately: ?t. Who. having rectlved such a charge, thrust tlem Into the inner prison, and, mads their feet met Is the stock. J Andatir aalel t I'uu. and I ttal prayed, and sang pceliSe unto tied; and the prl.-on rs htard them SS. and suddenly there wea a great arthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and Immediately ail the door- wi r- op lud. und ivir)unt'l bands sere loosed. X K ! the keeper of the piion awak

ing out of h. p. and .tili the prison dour op.n, hi 4ree eat Ml sword and would here killed fclnueif. auppotlng that Iii- prson'r. I .i! I.e. n ttcd 2S. But Paul crii 1 with a loud voice, sayIn. Do tbe.l uo harm: for we are all bt i . U Then he calleil for a light, and sprang In, and rame iriaaUllSI. and fell down btfore Faul and Biias. Ji. And brought thim SUt am! swld. Slra, What must I do to bt -avid? Zl. And the) said. Ballere on the Lnrd Je--us Chr.:. and thou ha.: M suvtd, and th b me 31 And they tpake unto I m the word Of tl., lord. an I to a:l that wer In hll eeum. 23. And he took them the MUM hour of the nlKh'. and aasbed their sr. ; and was baptlstd, te and all his, straightw ay. 24. And when he tad brought them Into hie houe. te et nuat before them, and rv j . .... beUeriSg lu with all his bouse, MIASM ettave the l.rd Jcu I brteti aul I'"'" abslt e savwdwaaie ieas. ANAi.vsis ov wcwtvwat BKCTIOK. Uealliu an unter: unate Acts 3::6-lll. t"a.-t :iitj prison.. Acu '.6;le-S4. Spt.ikma the won.t Aits l:-4. Released from prison Acts 16: '5-a. TIMK -Winter of 62 A. D. PLACK.-I'hilippi. NOTEI A N 1 1 i o M M B N i" I Paul at Pliilippi. When we left our study of the beginning f the Christian church and of missions to turn ha. k to th.- old Testament, 1'aul had Bthde one missionary journey and was in the mitist of a second, lie and Biles, with two younger workers, rimothj and Luke, bad just crosjed to Europe and begun work at Phtlippi, and here vve find thm at the opening ol to-day's loson. lleiiitinltei that the missionaries. now. in the milt of Paul's second journey, found ;lmost BO .lews in Pbilipppi, and BO synagogue, but only a very simple "place of prayer." down by the river, which may not have been a building at all. There was a pool deranged slave girl in j Phi.ippi. who, because of her strange, Wild utterances, had gained a great reputation as B fortune-teller and orai leu They said she had a "Python apirit." referring to the mythical Python or dragon that wsi supposed .. :,. Iv.. it. I.... . .,-.,.!.. Mo t Blgb litd'' and salvation" were both com:;: t: paifiin expressions In some WW her poor, darkened mind was ininresMd bv the eart.estneaa of the it i - tioeai ics. ami she loUowed them about eoasteutlj, uttering the cry spoken of in I6l IT. When Paul, an noyed at her calling, nnd pitying the girl, ordered the spirit to lea re her, she I'M her power completely, and her owners lost their fee. Paul and Silas, as the most prominent of the missionaries, were orI rested and taken before the magistrates ley- these men. simply bcesUOB they wanted to "get even." The j charge made had nothing to do wjth their grievance, but appeal, d (1) to prejudice ngaint .lews; (2) to the ' desire for lew and order; (rt) to loyalty to thi Ionian gOeeiBmeBt "Beat their garments oft them: Stripped them for the beating. The innr prison:" A mh;iH cell with only ore opening, nnd that into lit- outer , I prison. "Praying and singing hymns:" The niissionar.es never allowed the sufferiti-rs and sorrow- of the mem et to make them forget thf ir joy in the service of Christ, w! eh was infinitely greater than their sorrow. "The prisoners were s lining:" Picture the whole scene to ycir elf the loathsi me priis-m, j the midnight darkness, the perfect I tWhsem. esxegt for the far-away aouml of smging in the inner prison. ami then the strange rumbling in the I . . , . ... earth, the earthquake, the partial wreck of the tro.-n. the panic of tac pnsoaers ewe me rosning Dp to the assistance of the jailer of men wi,n Uit' "What must do to be saved:" Such experiences turn one - thoughts to serious things. "Believe:" Tl-.is meant, in Paul usage, to take Christ S3 what He claimed to h . ami to act tacordingly, that is, to trut and follow, and love Him always. "And thy house:" Paul does not mean that for the jailer' belief the household shall be saved, but that belief in ( brist is the condition f salvation for him sad them alike. The magistrates may have been infltienced by a further investigation if the trouble of the day before, or they may have connected the earthquake of the night with their treatment of the two religious teachers. PRAlTll'Ah Bit i K8T I UN'S. How much th" (inspcl has done for j those who arc afflicted in mind as well as for those afflicted in body! The (iospel helps one to endure ufTering even with songx. If Paul and Silas had not been cast into prison, the jailer and his household would not have known Chi ist. I he i.ospel so changes the hearts of men that cruel jailers become kind and gentle. Those who pray without ,-easing rejoice i vermore. for they live in the sunshine of Uod's (s vor

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"Hark, hark, the degs do bark, the beggars are ccraisg to town; Some in rzgs and some in tags, and some in velvet gowns." "So long as we have beggars in velvet gowns eating unearned bread, we will hav.- U gears in las;- an tag eating the crusts of charity." Heribert s. Bigelow,

TREATIES ON RECIPROCITY. Trot e a I sllnre The Protection I heur llrrakinat Ilona ssith im W elaht. In mnking teuBtles vMtb foreign BOUatrim, the administration, evidently, does not uaderstsad the conditions that exiet shout the eomssercial matter- that the treat ie, are draw n up to cover. The latest treay to receive black eye il that concluded BJ t"1' atalc dt part inent with Newfoundland which those interested in th lishing ladUStry of the New Kcglautl coast claim is disastrous to their interests. The opposition of some senators te the treaty is so Aeehfed that it will, like the French treaty aud others, be either laid aside, or. tf brought to a vote, will undoubted y be defeated. These treatie are ail supposed te be made by the rule f reciprocity that is, some one or some interest must suffer to open BU markets to some foreign production. The foreigner will not Ogee his dCMM" uulesa WS will open our door to the -ame eteit. Therefore reelmrot and protection do not work smoothly together. For if the door is opened by reciprocity, even a little bit. s"ii; protected industry feels a draught and at once protests that i: will '.' made sick and perish if the door is not promptly closed. Trying to amend the prod to I a .v i . . ........ i . i ... ,. . , ,.r i . rl" "i ur ' . i eiprOCI U proving an unri Hwnl lew eise ,..e ,ep..o.,. 1 tat department is not equal to the occasion. All of the important treaties that have been arranged since the prohibitive tariff WBS enacted have not lieen enacted by the senate and there is no probability that any of thci.i will be. The trusts will, in the future ns i-i the past, if they eoatmw t. manulaeture a surplu. be Compelled to sell nt I far lc-s price to the foreigner than the protective ;ariff allowthem to eact from our own BSeple. Certain trusts would le glnd te see a treaty ratified that would open foreign markets to their products, bti' the equivalent reduction denial ded by the foreigner on the other pn -ducts, pinches the toes of another lru.-t ai d interferes with its im a.polv M that no agreement can lie arrived at. Monopoly of the hOUM market and enormous jirofits for trusts is the principle upon which the protective tariff rests and any competition from tllltetdS breaks down the theory and practice which support it. )t ta mu m wind, t'.ie. j standard liil cnipanv ai.vanced , . , t, .....,.... ;i nne cent mmw n IV,.etIlber ,0. This makes crnU ,Tance Mnre tht iginning ,,f strike. The New York torn i ... ... mercial says, ..Thrre has been no advance on the gUwMW Qf pSUduetS shipped to forpjr,n ootmtries. leeeaae there teuae el I pjk ,hrre nml becau-e there is competition with BuaalaB oil. "'The Standard Oil company has been n)ir rreiy BOeeible means to develop the use of kerosene in heating and rook.nir stoves since the beetoeisaof the coal strike. The inereas-il con sumption, a Standard Oil i fticial a itl yesterday, bad bun very large. The General iuprc - on in Well street of lute was that the Standnrd Oil SOBS pany i- trying to make it profits large eUOUgh to pay a "! per cent. Lv '.- dend during the prc-nt fiscal year." The coal strike - a t.odseed to the j hungrv Standard Oil trust. Itiscoining money out of the misfortune of the poor. Controlled h Traala. The pert which now cont rols con-grc--t fully committed to thegoliei of artificial prices. In spite of the protests of a minority it insists on standing by the present law and frowning down all "tinkering" with it. In framing that law the powerful Inttrests got all they wanted, and what the . wanted was a law to shelter monopoly. Otherwise expressed, they wanted authority la maintain artificial pr!cee Havine done what they could n that direction by law they accomplished the res! by combination so sa to throttle compel iticn st home. Louisville Courier-Journal.

WILL DO NOTHING. There W ill Re No Action as the ParB f liisgrrM to Herniate Railroads.

What will congress do about the interstate commerce cominisaion'a latest report? Nothing. Vet thai report sets forth oncU more a condition of things which BUUhi startle a self governing people into insisting upon immediate drastic action by the nation'a lawmeldag body . The commission sets forth, what everybody already knows, that tha railroads of the country have practically ceased to compete with one another; that they give secret ratea to favored sh.pjx'rs which enable those hippers to kill off competitors sad ti it the transportation manager pay no respect whatever to tha law which forbids discrimination. There might to lie some power." say- the commission, "which can nob oi ly compel those carriers to maintain the published rate but which can compel them to publish a fair and reasonable rate." liiere bl such a power. The com-;iii-.-i..i Itself points straight at is when it declares: ' The fullest peeret of correction is rested iu eoagress nnd the exerof that power is demanded by the highest c a-idt-rations of public welfare." Hut to ng I em i which for years has had complete knowledge of the facta, h.is done no-hing, and will do notb lag now. Why? Deeauee the shippers favored by the railroads are the big trnsta. ALMANAC OF FREE TRADE. The PnfctteatlM That Ii mi I.I ne Iw the It nn it of til Trne lie tu oe rata. The i903 almanac of the American Fret Trade league contains much exte cut material on the tariff question. It shoe in the hard of all good The secretary of the league, to i Hazard Stevens, thus accurately and truly characterizes onr tocalled system of "protection:" No longer needed as a defei :.'. ii: -t the i reigr.ers. protect ion ha now become the thumbscrew of extorlion upon the American people. It ia the clam holding back foreign competition an': bei dad which the great trnsta lew high prices upon their countrymen, upon the same claca of goods which they are exporting in great quantities ami selling abroad at 20 to 50 per et i t less than at home. Hence tioir stubborn resistewee to any redueti n of duties which protect them in their monopolies and extortions. "This whole doctrine of protection), is a blunder that ri'es to the leTel of a crime. Inculcated by selfish and corrupt interest! until it he become a pertj lei . protection has at last reached ite acme, done its perfect work, by demonstrating that it is a yatem of monopoly artP) extortion. It fosters gret-,1. lu gt ts fear of the foreigner, ami paralyzes st lf-re liance. It i fas champion of special privilegea. the 0 genii eg f injustice and inequality, the eorrtiptor of legislation and polities. Fvery true interest of America cries aloud for its overt hrow." The I.eaarae for Ctetl Serv lee Refers. The National Civil Service Keforna league, at a convention jut held in Philadelphia, commends the policy of President Itooaevelt in making federal appointments. The league did not resolve on the endorsement of the notorious Addicks, nor did it say any thing about the saturnalia of pernicious activity on the psrt of tha federal officiate in Wisconsin which even the republican convention of th.it state denounced aa "in flagrant violati-.n of civil service laws in sttempts to forestall conventions and caucuses of the party and assisting professional lobby iate before tha legislature and elsewhere in defeating legislation in refutation of party pledge." As President Roosevelt haa not removed these officials, in spite of their "flagrant disregard of elftf service laws," it is f-ilr to presume thst the league is willing to condone any aech lapse of virtne, if it it oalw, a republican thet ofends.