Ligonier Banner., Volume 21, Number 39, Ligonier, Noble County, 13 January 1887 — Page 6

VALUABLE IMFORMATION.

Bill Nye Gladly Answers an Eager Inquirer and Scatters Much Wisdom Around ~ Without Charge. :

“Ellis Barstow, of Flint, Mich., writes: ] have seen a recent scientific ar#iclein which itis positively stated that an electri¢ apparatus has-been perfected by which a man may be enabled to shock a lion or other-beast of prey in snch a manner as' to take away his ferocity and rénder him docile, kind and tractable. - I would ltke to know if such is the ease, and ‘if so, ‘whether the machine can be procured; at a nominal cost. - I have a position offered me next seasonwith an allied show as a lion tamer, and' its salary is better than what I am now receiving as a school teacher. I have often thought I would like to be a lion tamer if I could, in an unostentatious manner, remove the ferocity from his nature. No one loves lions better than I do, but I dislike the sensation when they .send their hot breath down into- my neck, and I feel their bright red gooms in my person. T'wo—Also, could you tell me whether this same electrical-apparatus would work ona large, anonymous dog with a fierce nature and low instinets? =

Three—What is.good for a lacerated wound. made partly by a barbed wire fence and partially by a coarse, selfmade dog? ; iy

Four—Do you think that love is abiding or is it ‘ephemeral in its natare? - Five—li I do not suceeed in getting a place as lion tamer, would you assist mae to a position as aonductor of a chair car on some*progressive railway?. Six—How do you like my penman‘ship? » A ;

Seéven—State, what you know of the mind earé, of which we hear so much? . Eight—lf you had your-life to live aver again would you be an humorist? Angwer: First—Two years ago the Poli Mall Gazetye announced the appliweation of electricity to the lion-training -industry in sach a way as to make every man his own lion tamer. Mr. Ranspach, a professional lion tamer, was the inventor. It consists of a stick three feet Cin length, containing a stpply of electricity s}@ig&nt,iof“ one application. It was claimed for #t by Mr. Ranspach that he had tried it on three ljons, each »_,Sf whom immediately retracted /all he had ever said derogatory to Mr. Ranspach, and hoped to do better in the futuge.. He also teied it on a large streaked stiger with a’rbd moroccéo mouth from Faggher, India. He had beenin the mancating trade while abroad, and had also oaten several ladies. One season he ate

. the éntire crop of children in ong pre- ' cinct. People at last got almost dis*‘\j . couraged about trying; to raise children ’ ° in that climate. Mi. Ransphch shbcked _ this tiger with' his justly celebratod -, shocker, and ‘the huge brute became & perfectly tractable. =/

A large bear was treated for half an

hour, but did not get tame so fast as # eould have been wished. After he had been subdued, as'was supposed, he ate part of a tall woman who laved near Peovia, 111., and who would have diéll if thefragment eaten by the bear had not “bHeen imade of woven wire.. This'incident induced quite a number of ladies i ;xi,herx@ml to adopt this method of proAocting themselves, ¢ :

The boa constrictor 'was the most readily affected. ' He curled up in his’

aoe’ and did not awake for two da 7S,

and when he did so his hat was four %i7zgs too small for his head, Hgshowed msigns of numbness also for thyee. whole «days. The elephantg became at once wild and almost ungovernable on being treated with electricity and it was! de«ided not to use it on him any more.

So you see the effect is not always the \.wme;‘ “In 'fact, the machine is not alAays sure to operate, owing to defect“ive nicehanism. A job printer from St. Joe, Mo., was og§ce asked by a friend of his, who was'a Tion tamer, to ‘‘sub’ - for him at a matinee, as he wanted to

. goaway and get married. Hs had one of these electric lion guellers, which he = told the job printer/ how to use, but _when he entered the cage and tried to _squirt about twenty cents' ‘worth of

c¢lectricity down the .throat of a big, open-faged lion, he found to his chagtin that it}vodld not work.. Either the .electricity had éscaped or had soured sio that it was of no avail, and, as the

~ job printer did not know the way out of rhe den, he fed one of his arms to the fierce lion while kind friends were heating some pokers to pry open the jaws of the feroeious brute. The job printer afterwards prepared for the ‘press & Y .scagping eriticism; on ““The Uses -and 7 Abute Elcctr';cft')\'." e You cafydo as you think best about ' beeoming } ifon tamer, but as for me, I would rather be a Mexican hairless dog hunting for the open Polar Sea than to © earn $2.50 per day sticking my polished dome of thought into the massive jaws of an irritable Numidian lion. ' . . 8. For alacerated wound made by a . barbed wire fence and, an impulsive - dog, I would suggest change of scene. . and rest. You would rest standing up - no doubt Istter than any other way. | . 4. Love is somdtimes ephemeral. [T - think that is the kind you have. Do " not leave it outmights.. . ¢ . . 5..1 would do most any thing to assist _you in getting a place as condiictor of a’ ehair car if-you think you could stand _the mental strain, buf think how many “men have tried it and failed. Think

~well of the responsibility before you go into it. Your train might run over a cow in the night and spread her out over a long, narrow country and:you _might have to get up and look at her,, or one of your passengers ruight awake in the night and want a drink, or your pantaloons might bagz at the knees. There are a thousand instances T might name where prompt action and-perfect selfscontrol are necessary. : 6. Your penmanship is good. It is just the same hand that 30,000,000 other ' people in the United States write, and if you want to wtite a popular hand you ought to.be a yery happy man. ' 7. The niind curé is something that I .know very little about, and yet I often ‘very eheerfully write about things of _whiech I know even less than Ido about ~this. The mind cureis akind of scheme _ by which ‘one mind, through its power w&mﬂﬂmh}hb&w :aomtzihz: { physical being. I onceemployed a tall, ’( ‘thoug ﬂﬁmcmbgd eaf’ me | onthis ‘plan. Ho_same am %awi*‘%‘?ﬁﬁfﬁ%

tory. One day it flashed over himethat he had forgotten both days to bring his instrument with him. The following day he came in with his mind done up in a shawl strap. Hebegan to work on me, but did not.suceeed. - Thex he rose, buckled up his ghawl strap and started to go. I asked him what the bill was, but he said nothing. o : “The principle,” said he, “is this: Oné mind, by its control over another, f works the cure. ;'So,it".is‘ necessary,not only that I have a mind that I can apply, but you should also at least have a scar or something to show where your mind used to be. You should have been fajr and square with me and told. me in the first place that you weredestitute of ang thing of that kind. That was the way to treat a fellow-man who, had never harmed you in any way.'’ He then strode out.of my apartments. 8. If you will run your tongue out so that I can see it from where I now sit as I pen these lines, I will answer your question cheerfully, on receipt of ‘N ow, York draft for seventy-five dollars. On receipt of that amount I will also furnish you with information which may. save your life. It will explain how you may live to a good old age aud evade the fool-killer as I have done. . ‘ Your friend and well-wisher. e Y 1 Brrn NYR

P. S.—Please ‘write, frequently. It gives you expericnce and does not offend me very much.—Dßill Nye, in Boston Globe. s e il i

BOGUS DIAMONDS.

Thoﬁ,Cleve’r Work Now J}Jccompllshed by ; e Dishonest Lapidaries.

A well-known diamond ‘dealer, who has become an expent from many years' handling of precious stones, was nearly taken in a’few days ago by a shrewd diamond shark, whose new scheme deserves attention, as it :is likely to be attempted in some other quarter. | The dodge consisted in trying to palm off a claverly ““‘doetored’’ diamond as a very valuable stone and in telling a plausible and pieturesque story to give it countenances . - = =

The short, stout man, with a grizzled, gray mustit:h*e,'wh_o tried ‘to victimize the jevgelé‘r in question; brought to him an elegant-looking solitaire ring, purporting to ‘oontain a diamond of unusual size and brilliancy. To the eye even of the expert the stone looked all right, and the man tried hard to make a bargain with him at once, without proceeding any further. .As it looked, the*diamond was' easily worth £2OO, and the ntan, who told a tale of dire necessity, offered to sell it for £lOO. ' The story of ths diamond. as told by tlie man, who gave the name of Chayles Harwood, was that it belonged originally to the Grand Duke Alexis of Russia. - In December, 1871, when the Gl_'a-ud Duke, who was young and handsomesattended the regeption given in his honor in the Academy of Music, an episode occurred that. attracted considerable attention at the time and has been much talked of since.

Some time after the promenade, and when every thing was in motion, the attention of the Duke, who had gone up-stairs with two of the gentlemen of the commitice, was attracted by a lady in one ‘of the corner rows of curtained balcony boxes. - There were but two ladiess in the box, one of them an elderly lady and the other a tall, beautiful young woman, about twenty years of aze, who had remarkably fine eyes, which could not fail to be noticed.

~ The Grand Duke. expressed a desire’ to be introduced, which was SOO gratified, and after standing for a few mo ments in front of the box he askpd permission to go inside. = In a little while he asked the lady to go.on the pronienade, and otherwise showed his pleasure. at meeting hdr, but she mildly and persistently refused. e _As he rose to go, the Duke, holding her hand a moment and slipping from oné of his fingers a diamoénd ring;, presented it to her and asked her to keep it as a souvenir of the occasion. The lady did so, and kept it for several years, until at last she fell into reduced circumstances and determined to get rid of the ring in spite of its associaHole . o v

Such, in;substanoé, ‘are ‘the facts of an o¢currénce upon which the man with the dia.n}ond to sell told his story. He represented that the diamong he had was the one given to this lady, #nd' he endeavored very cleverly to trace 'its history to her. The jeweler, lowever, insisted upon removing the stone from the setting to examine it, and this the man allowed him to do. ; ;

The man's willingness to do this very nearly threw the jeweler off his guard at the last moment, especially as upon removing the stone he could sce nothIng wrong withit. Taking up a microscope, however, he: was able to detect, with close serutiny, ' a slight variation in' the quality and texture of the gtone between the middle portions and Waends oo :

. Then hie held the stone near a lamp, and in a few minutes the whole nature of the ingenious fraud dawncd upon him. A small real diamond of inferior quality formed the top and ‘bottom, and a fine piece of crystal had been sandwichod between them. adding. nearly ten times to the value of the stone. .It had been so cleverly and ingeniously put together with a colorless c¢ement that it was almost beyendythe power of detection. The man, of course, expressed surprise, and asserted that tho diamond was just as he received it.— ‘London Tid-Bits.. - ‘ '

—The washérwomen of Holland, who get up their linen so beautifully white, -use tefined borax as washing powder instead of soda, in the proportion .of one large handful of borax powder to about ten gallons of boiling wuter. #T'hey thus save in soap nearly half. -All the washing establishments adopt the same mode. For laces, cambrics, ete., an, extra quantity of the powder is used, and for crinolines (vequiring to be made stiff) a strong solutiou is necessary. Borax, being a ncutral salt, docs not. in the. slightest degree injure the texture of the linen; its effect is to soften the hardest water. ~ =~ . —:‘Joahﬂopper. of B&Graﬁ)%:. emm cently sustained a great loss of sheep nmmmﬂ;;“ﬁlﬂg z’i’fm band, abant mﬁww%ﬁ«mmwv il ing over ik thousand shoop. —Ciicst;s

THE ERA OF PEACE. Mr. Giady'"s ‘Grand Oration andf“ﬂarpar's Weekly’s” Hearty Comments Upon It. ~ The new South has found a striking and significant jexpression in the appearance of My. Trenholm, of South Carolina, the Comptroller of the Currency, and Mr. Grady, of Georgia, the editor of the Atlanta Constitution, as guests at the annual dinner of the New England Society, in Philadelphia and -New York respectively. The strain of remark at these noted dinners is always patrioti¢, and the speeches naturally teem with glowing and tender allusions to the civil war and the Union soldiers, It was a signal sign, therefore, of the actual situation that two of the strongest Confederatés should rise in thie midst of such a Northern compuny as gather at these dinners, and by their personal bearing no less than by the earnestness . and eloquence of their 'speeches shatld show to the most skeptical what wprthy foes they had been, and what sincere friends they are. To these. distinguished orators who in the two great cities spoke for the new South must be added Mr. Jamés Phelan, of Tennessee, who is just élected to Congress in the Memphis district, and wlio in his own district ‘and among his own Southern fellowcitizens proved himself to be, with Mr. ‘Trenholm and Mr. Grady, a"man of braad . comprehension and sagacious views. All of these gentlemen, it must be understood, speak -as men who,. without renunciation of their local feeling, of their State pride or of théir honor and affection for the men with whom they stood fast for what they held to be a true cause, eown without reservation’ its defeat and the consequent total change of conditions in the life arounid them. . Thus Mr. Phelan - i el

“Bitter to my taste as were the. results of the clvil war,'day after day has reconciled me to them, and ¢onvinced me of the wisdom of cheerful submission tothe will of Him who brought them about. The union of these States has boen preserved and declared indissoluble. A grezt and | disturbing comstitutional question has been finally and forever settled, and slavery has. been forever .abolished; it no longer tarnishes the fair fame of a great and free Republic. . Because it was involved in the question of constitution2l right I fought four years in its defense. I tell you now, upon the honor of my manhood, thst I would fight eight years, though my hairs are white, against any attempt .tc.reinstate it.in 'a.ny portion of this continent.” /

- Mr. Grady’s speech was ono of the most striking that _S{We been delivered by any citizen of a Southern State since the war. It was very eloquent. = His tribute to’Abraham. Lincoln was very imapressive, and the effect of his address delivered to that New England company will be most serviceable to the ghmatry:: | oo . e

_“Great types, like valuable plants, are slow to flower and |fruit, but from the union of these colonies came he who stands as the first typiocal American, the first who comprehended wifhin himself all the strength and greatness, all the majesty and grace, of this Republic—Abraham Lincoln. He wag the sum of Pairitan and Cavalier, for in his ardent nature were fused the virtues of both, and in the depths of his gredt soul the faults of both were lost; but he was greater than Puritan, greater than Cavalier, in that he was American, and in that in his homely form were first gathered the vast and sterling forces of this Republic, charging it with.such tremendous meaning and so elevating it above human suffering that martyrdom, though infamously ajmed, came as a. fitting crown to a éif? c‘gnsecrated from the eradle to human librty. : ; :

Mr. Grady said also: ‘ : " “ The relations of the Southern peopls with the negro are dlose and cordial. a’e remember with what fidelity he guarded our defenceless women and children, whose husbands and fath‘ers were fighting against his freedom. To his eternal credit be it said that whenever he struck a blow for his own liberty he fought in open battle, and when at last he iraised his black and humble hands that the shackles might be struck off, those hands were innocent ‘'of wrong against his helpless c¢harges, and worthy to be taken in ‘loving grasp by every man -who honors loyalty and devotion. Rufflans have maltreated him, rascals have misled him, but his treatment in the South to-day is an honorable protest against injustiée’to this simple and sincere people. Faith has been kept with him in spite of calumhious assertions to the contrary by those who assums to speak for us or by frank opponents. &Faith will be kept with him in the future if the South ‘ﬁolds her reason and integrity. The new South is enamored of her new work. Her soul is stirred ‘with the breath of new life. As 'she stands, full-statured and equal dmong the people of the earth, breathing the keen air and looking out upon the linvitless horizon, she understands that her mancipation came becanse, in the inscrutable wisdom ©f God, her honest purpose .was crossed and her brave armies beaten. This is said in no spirit of time-serving and apology. I should be. unjust to the South if I did not make this plain in this presence.”

His closing appeal to New England whether she will ¢ permit the. pFrejudice of the war to remain: in the hearts of the conquerors when it has died in the hearts of the conquered’’ was most touching andimpressive. New England certainly would be recreant to her own best impulses if the appeal were not answered in the same manly and friend1y spirit in which it is made.—Harper’s Weelly. i o ¢

. The Brave Forgive. “What answer has New England to this message?’’ asked Henry W. Grady in his- “New South” address. “Will she permit the prejudice of war to:remain in: the hearts of the conqueror when it has died in the hearts of the conquered? Will she withold save in strained courtesy -the hand which straight from his soldier’s heart Grant. offered to Lee at Appomattox?”’ We do not. know what New England's answer will be ; but we are.inclined to believe that it will not permit.the prejudice of war to remain in the hearts of the conqueror when it has died:in the hearts of the conquered. That portion of New England that fought in the war certainly will not ; and thesame is true: of the soldiér element everywhere. It is the non-combatants, the Tribuncs of New York and of this eity, the petty partisans here and elsewhere which: prefer to keep up the prejudice. It is they that meet the frank, free, full surrender of prejudice in men like Grady and the representatives of the ‘‘New South” with sneers like this: If it is really to be a ‘New South' the. RepubTlicans of the country will sing the loudest. hallelujahs. The dirges for the ‘Old South’ will be gladly put away when the new erais fullydawned. But it must dawn—it. mast, bo somothing ‘more than mere moonshine.”—Detroit ifvee ey, - D OE L Lv ok g SRR S T e e th"V :mﬁ ‘have a better op‘portunity to "-'Cﬁ»%-' ted qualities a 8 a veformer than in dealing with the B e date for Mr. Cleveland’s place is a man *ﬁ&!uﬂ% Thurman bills and. while in Conoréss. F gR D e R e N

OWNED BY CORPORATIONS. The Republican Party Comes to Realize That Its Members Have Turned the Cold Shoulder to the Union Soldier in the Halls of Congress. . Now and then the esteemed Register gets to be an extremely-interesting organ. -This is more apt to be the case when it strikes at sSomebody else’s party and hits its own. . It does so i the following editorial, which we c:op;I entire, except the headline, and which betrays in a striking way the Republican party’s overweening love for the soldier. Please remember, in reading it, that the Republicshs have a majority in the United States Senate, and ‘have had nearly all the time since the war: , : |

The lowa Staats Zeilung well says: ‘‘Colonel D. B. Henderson, of lowa, is the heir to John A. Logan's fame as invincible: éhampion of the soldiers’ interests in Washington. The mantle falls on worthy shoulders, and will be worn by a man whose heart is as true as steel.” This is well said. General Hawley will soon be the only Union General left in the” Senate, if General Harrison is not re-elected, and Colonel Henderson will stand first in the new Congress as the stronger and most devoted champion of the Union soldiers. He has the strength of heart and ability for the trust. The South keeps its gréat rebel Generzals in Congress. Let it be hoped that the people of the North, in their election of :United States’ Senators this winter, will Teintorce the strength of the Union soldiers in Congress.. Not even one of the States of ‘the great West has a Union soldier in the Senate now—or will not have after General Harrison retires. In this keeping the faith of the West with the half million of its sons who went into the Union army? Is this the color of union blue to beretired from Congress, when the color of the rebel gray is constantly being incréased there? Will not some Western State. this winter, send a Union soldier to sitém;iin the|United States Senate for the Union gside { : :

Think of it. Forty Republicans in the United States Senate and only two of; them Union soldiers. = And these two from States that, go Democratic in Presidential elections. Oh, how the dear old party does love the dear soldier. Soon there will be only one soldier Senator out of thirty-eight Republicans. AR, what devoted affection this is. The soldiers do the voting, but the railroads get the Senators. And it has just dawned on our esteemed contemporary.’ How deeply interested -in the soldier’s welfare it must be not to have noticed so striking a fact long ago. e ’

We are glad to help our estecmed contemporary to place itself and its party on record. 1t oiflers no excuse for its party’s neglect of the soldier. It simply states the fact. We quoted all its words. Not even one of the great . Western. States has a Union soldier in the Senate. The Senate is recognized by the Republican party as belonging to the railroads, not.to the soldiers.—Des Moines Leader.

A WISE POLICY.

The Dignified, Manly Course of ths Aa }g}lﬂstration in Dealing with Great. Brit~"aln in the ¥ishery Troubles. ~ The President transmitted to the House of Representatives a voluminous document, containing all_the correspondence that has ‘passed between the United States and Great Britain in regard to the richts of American fishermen in the Britishh North American waters. The contents of this document lead us to three conclusions: 1. That the local Canadian authorities have repeatedly, .and, in some ingtances, outrageously violated the rights secured to thefe fishermen, under the treaty of 1813, hetween the United States and Great Britain, and that they show no disposition to discontinue this system of -aggression against these rights, claiming the: authority of local law for ‘their proceedings. 2. That Secretary Bayard has, by no means, been as indifferent and dilatory in dealing with this; question 2§ he is representad to have been by partisan newspapers, that are’ politicaßy hostile 'to him and the Administration of President Cleveland; but that, on the contrary, he has repeatedly and earnestly protested against these outrages, and respectfully, but firmly, called the attention of the British: Government to them. 8. That the :British Government has been exeeédingly tardy and apologetic in dealingiwith this subject, and has pra.cti‘call)?, as yet, done nothing by ‘way of stopping and, redressing these wrongs. - The President recommends Cohgress to give this sub-

ject its early attention, and raises the question whether some additional legislation on our part is not called for. Secretary Bayard suggests that proper steps should be taken by Congress to allow proofs to be made of all losses and injuries to our fishermen, as the basis of a future demand against Great Britain for indemnity. The American people desire to maintain amicable relations with Great Britain; but they are able to defend, and will defend, the treaty rights of their fishermen in Canadian waters, and will hold Great Britain responsible for and violation of these rights.—N. Y. Independent. .

- —=Tlnstead of an injury to reform, the repeal of the Tenure-of-Office law is a signal service. It goes far to place the responsibility fér nominations where it belongs—upon the President. But it does not accomplish that result entirely so long as *‘Senatorial couf“tesy’’ gives the practical power of confirmation in each State to one or two Senators, whose ascendancy in determining nominations becomes consequently very great. The repeal of the law should be followed by open sessions [to consider Executive nominations, and by a statement of reasons for removal, which must be . a voluntary Executive act, and then some of the worst evils of the spoils system would be swept away.—Harper's Weekly,

——llt is: not strange that Mr. Blaine is-suﬁ‘cr%from the nervous shock experienced When the ¢‘Bogton Burchard’’ declared, in his presence, at the New England dinner, that ‘‘the Boston of Winthrop and the Purituns was not the Boston of Collins and O'Brien.” That this should come justas Mr. Blaine had perfected new plans for capturing the Irish vote'will be looked wupon by the Mugwumps as a second interposition of Providence.—N. Y. Worid.

- ——Senator John Sherman may not be indulging his well-known antipathy to the South in ®ecommending an appropriation of $100,000,000 for coast defense which he proposes to restrict to the Northern: cities of New York, Boston and San Frarcisco, but the people of that section have éxcellent reason to ceustrue it in that way.—Bujulo AWM sl et B

. CAIN AND ABEL.

International Sunday-School Lesson for ' I Jamuary 16, 1887. [Specigily arranged from S. S, Quarterly.] : Gen. 4: 3-16; commit verses 9-12. ¢

8. And in process of time 1t came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering uuto the Lord. | » s

4. Aud Abel, he also broughtof the firstlings of his fiock, and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect unto Abel, sud to his offering. 5. But unto Cain and to-his offering, He had no respect; and Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. © : 3

6. And the Lord said unto Cain: Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen? !

7. If thou doest well, shalt thoun no}nbe accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin‘lieth at the door; and unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him. . 8. And Cain talked with Abel his brother; and it came'to pas§s when they were in the field, that Ceain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him. ? 2

9. And the Lord said unto Cain: Where is Abel thy brother? And he said: I know not; Am Imy brother’s keeper? .~

10, And He said: What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto Me from the ground. L ot 11. And now arf thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother’s blood from thy hand. ] 12. When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth. o : R

13. And Cain said unto the Lord: My punishment is greater-than I can bear.

14.-Behold Thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from Thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me, ! : : 15. And the Lord Said unto him: Therefore, whosoever slayeth Cain, wvengeance shall be taken on him seven-fold. And the ILord set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kil Bim. ;

s 16. And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the lind of Nod, on the east oipEden. ‘

TiMme—About B. C. 3875; 125 to 180 years after Adam’s creation. ;

Prace—Somewhere in Eden, outside of the garden. e

Caix—The first-born of the human race. His name means possession. He was a farmer, and about 125 years old at the time of this lesson. :

ABEL—A little younger than Cain. His name means brealh, vapor, transitojiness, expressing his mother’s disappointment, ‘or the weakness of his childhood; orit was a prophetic presentiment of his early death.

. Tae POPULATION OF THE WORLD AT THIS Perrop—ln 125 years there might eadily have been more than 100,000 descendants of ‘Adam and Eve. . co e :

. INTRODUCTORY—A century has 'passed since the sad event of the last lesson, and we now come to some of , the consequences of Adam’s sin, and the growing conflict between the good and evil in the world. HELPS OVER HARD PLACES—3. In process of time: Heb., “at the end of days”; after a number of years, or at the end of the week or year, a mutual time for offering. 4. Of the fat thereof: the' fattest and best. Had respect: regarded it favorably ; perhaps He sent fire from Heaven to show this. .

~ THE DIFFerRENCE—ADbeI had faith, which led to obedience, and Cain had not (Heb. 11:4).. This faith led (1) to good eharacter and life, while Cain’s were bad; (2) to bringing the &t e had, while it is' not so said of Cain; (3) to obedience, bringing the preseribed offerings; (4) to repentance and acknowledgment of need.cf atonement, by the kind of saaerifice. ; : '

5. Qountenance fell: scowled, hung his head in anger. 7. Sin leth at the door: croucheth dikke a wild beast.. Unto thee his desire: sin wants to overcome him. Thow. shalt rule: thou skouldst rule, be master over sin. Some make this last clause to mean that Abel should still look up to Cain as the first‘born and chief. 8. Cain talked with: Abel: he went outin the fields to see him. Note the number of sins in Cain—envy, irreverence, unbelief, anger, murder, falsehood. 9. Brother’s keeper: we are our brother’s keeper so far as we can help him. 11. Cursed from the earth: cursed away from the land, or, the curse will come from the land, by its being unfruitful. It was both. 14. From the face of the earth: of the land of his home. From Thy face hid: driven from Jhe worshiprof God.and the place where He manifested Himself. 13, Set a mark wupon Cain: either gave him a sign, a visible token or put some mark on him, that, while it would brand him as a murderer, would be a protection. - o

SUBJECTS FOR SPECIAL -REPORTS—Cain. Abel. 'The difference . their offerings, Why was Abel accepted, and Cain not? Cain’s sins and character, as revealed in this chapter; envy: anger; “my brother’s keeper.” Cain’s punishment. Population of the world at this time. Which the more successful, the long-lived murderer, or the short-lived martyr? o GoLDEN TeExT—Am I my brother’s keeper? —QGen. 4:9. . :

CextRAL TruTH—Faith leads to a noble character and God’s blessing. Unbelief leads to many sins and sorrows. > . NEw TrsTAMENT LicoT ON OLD TESTAMENT Tuemes — What was the source of Abel’s goodness? (Heb. 11:4.) -What-was the soureeof Cain’s wickedness? (IJohn 3:8, 125 James 1: 13, 14) What doés the Bible say of one who hates ano):ﬁ%ei'? (1 John 3:15; Matt. 5:21, 22.) Areanger and envy as bad and as dangero@is now as theii? Why are there so many quarrels among brothers and sisters? How may this state of things be remedied? (1 John 8:9-18.) & ; BEACON LIGHTS, 1. Those in the same family and under the same training often' go in opposite directions. ; . : 2. .Most quarrels are among those closely connected together. The only safeguard is love. ' ' | 3. Our character shows itself in all we do, but is shown especially un‘ider terhpta;ion. » ey i R " 4.. Want of faith in Ged shows itselfin our religion, our family, ¢ur whole character and life. o ‘ - 5. Men are often angry witstothers on account of that- for which they alone are to blame. s ; - 6. Be sure your sin will find you out. 7. Sins are*social; we find in Cain unbelief, envy, anger, hate, murder, falsehood. 8. We are our bgother’s kqe;i%_g so far as we can help or influence him. £ 9. The punishment of sin will be greater than we can bear, unless it be forsaken and forgiven. . . f TrEY that deny a God destroy man’s nobility, for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and if he is not.of kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.—Standard. . i

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