Ligonier Banner., Volume 28, Number 51, Ligonier, Noble County, 29 March 1894 — Page 6

ONE ' THING AT A TIME.

# There are some things,” said Joseph, “l've long wished to know, . : Everything that you do {8 done prime. How i 3 it you manage?’ *Oh,” said Jerry to Joe, . *'Tis by doing one thing at a timel” ;

%In the summer, or winter, in sunshine or snow,”’ . Said Joe, “at the school-bell’s firgst chime You are always on. hand.” *“Why,” said Jerry to Joe, g Qo *“'Tis by doing one thing ata time!’

% On the playground you get to the'head of the TOW . ' With an ease that is almost sublime; How does that come about?’ ‘‘Why," sald Jerry to Joe, ‘ *'Tis by doing one thing at a time!”

*On the steep hill of knowledge, where painfully slow, By hard work my mates and I climb, You go dancing along.”” *“Well,”” sald Jerry to Joe, ° oot 5 “'Tis by doing one thing at a time.” _

* Well, but what will you do when your school days are done . *And you work In the world’s sweat and grime; . : In its battle and rush shall you go plodding on Doing only one thing at a time?’ )

**Yes,” said Jerry to Joe. ‘‘Father taught me . this truth, ~ And D've found that his teaching is primes The men that succeed are the boys thatin youth - " Learned to do just one thing at a time.* ) —Beth Day, in Housekeeper.

) Al arunETIOTTERS Yu _ LRROR. ‘,'::l":’_/" I" Ty / I ?L/' eNN o 7 g : -5.’;%3’(;,‘./ 7. :_/L/,‘J‘; : — L A R e EALLY,” obv z"%’( A served Mr .4’/ Kenneth Field, - 22 : Sl V. as he viewed el the blue lake . .m}}' £ R4y gleams seemb seseudll w 29 ingly inter,,f/*’ 4 /,,’% tw 1y ned be- , //7/5,//, 5 Urf”l;: tween the %W -W% spurs of softly wooded hills, * “you bhave a pleasant place to summer in, Frankland.” “Jolly!” assented Frankland, who sat with the heels of his dainty French boots upon the rail of the hotel piazza. “Nice band; good table; fishing and hunting €apital, if a fellow chooses to take the trouble; nicem bits of scenery, and no end of fun with pienics and croquet parties. Yes, you're right, Ken. There may be worse places. But,” and here he lowered his voice into a mysterious whisper, ‘‘there’s an heiress thrown into the pargain.” “An heiress! Oh, you mean Miss Biggin?” , ‘ ‘‘Miss Biggin!s Pooh! As if her paltry forty thousand dollars were worth a second thought! No, no, old fellow. I mean an heiress that is worthy of the name. Did you notice« that gray stone house on the hill when you rode up in thfe stage?” . . “With a battlemented tower and a range of conservatories in the rear?” “Exactly so. Well, that is where the heiress lives, or rather where she will live when she returns from Europe, within a week or two. And there’s where I'shall live when I have won her.” Field laughed. ’ ‘“lt seems to me you are taking a good deal for granted, Frankland.” “Not so much, after all,” he . said. “It’s just as easy to marry rich as it is to marry poor, if one only - goes scientifically to work. My sister Rosamond will help me—a clever girl, Rosamond, who is up to all the’ropes in society; and my aunt Jefferson, who died last fall, used to know Miss Althorpe’s mother when they were schoolgirls.” “But did it never occur to you.that others might also- enter the- lists of competition for this moneyed maiden?” . “Let’em. I mean to outreach them all.” s ) . “And suppose Miss Althorpe shouldhave the bad taste not to fancy you?” .+*‘l shall make her fancy me.” * “You talk as'if you were a disguised magician vith a store of love philters and amulets hidden -away -in' your pockets.” . . ““Any man who isn’t positively apelike in his physiognomy can make a girl like him without any of those pre-Adamite contrivdances,” observed Frankland, coolly. ’ “My dear Frankland,” said Field, ‘‘you are either a great genius or a conceited fooll!” “Or. perhaps a little of both. Wéll, we shall see. Here comes Rosamond; and what do you say to a stroll up the glen?” . Miss Frankland ¢ame up as her brother ceased speaking. She was a tall, showy blonde, with a radiant complexion and a good set of teeth, which she took particular pains to display. - ‘*Has Guy been telling you about my future sister-in-law?”’ she said, with a light laugh. ‘‘Ah, that smile means that you think us slightly premature. Come, I will wager these gold bracelets against vour diamond collar. buttons that Agnes Althorpe becomes Mrs. Guy Frankland within the year.” g ‘“‘But come,” cried Frankland, impatiently. ‘“The afternoon is getting on and I want you to see the. glen before the beautiful lights and shadows have

vanished from its heights and depths. There is one abyss where a stream frets itself into white foam over a mass of rock that an artist would lose. his wits over. When 1 come into possession I mean to have a rustic bridge thrown across the chasm and a stairway cut in the rock.” nl ot

The walk was beautiful; the glen sylvan and wild enough to justify anyamount of enthusiasm; but the party were destined to what Rosamond Frankland called ‘‘a delicious adventure” before their return. In one of the loneliest and most picturesque nooks, the very one, in fact, where a bit of vg,&et—sofb tint walled in by vine-draped rocks overhung the chasm where the tiny stream beat itself into boiling crests of snow-white foam, they paused. . . “There,” announced Frankland, waving his hand toward the narrow ravine; “‘here is the exact spot where I mean to have the rustic bridge, and a little lower a summer house to correspond.” “If the heiress is willing,” mischievously added Field. ' 7 “Her will shall be my will,” said Frankland, loftily. *“A man’s wife— Halloo! who are these people?” : A party just beyond the wall of rock, whose veil of floating vine leaves nearly coneraled them, had called forth the ejaculation. A maninarough velveteen suit. with the cone-shaped hat one sees in " Italy, and a dark-eyed, briliantcheéeked girl in the equally picturesque costume of an Italian singer—these foriiéd the party, while upon a low

camp stool just beyond sat an artist busily employed in sketching the group. Frankland stood still, staring. Rosamond curled her lip and tossed her pretty head, while Kenneth Field involuntary doffed his cap with the courtesy every truegentleman accords to womanhood in all its forms as he met the shy glance of the dark-eyed tambourinist. *I don’t kndw what business these folks can have here,” said Frankland haughtily. “The girl is a bold-looking creature,” said Rosamond, ‘‘and I think if she—”" ‘“Pardon, signora,” hesitatingly in‘terrupted the girl, “‘but I spealt English.” T A Miss Frankland drew herself up. “It matters little to me whether you do or do not,” she said, haughtily. ‘1 beg, in any event, you will have the goodness not to address yourself to me‘n s “]l.too, am a woman, signora,’” softly pleaded the sweet voice; but Frankland stepped arrogantly forward. ‘‘My good people, you may not be aware that you are trespassers upon private grounds.” ' ; The man in the velveteen suit sprang to his feet, with a flush mounting to his brow; -but the girl, laying her hand on his arm, whispered one or two words shich apparently fell like oil upon the waves of his rising temper. He smiled and sank back once more upon his impromptu couch of grass in a languidly graceful attitude. . “‘Shall I play you a tune, eignor?” he asked, in Italian, drawing his fingers ‘lightly across the resounding chords of his harp, @vhile the artist looked on with amused eyes. , ’ “Eh? What does he say?”’ asked - Frankland.

The girl interpreted, with a sprightly motion, as if ‘she would touch her tambourine, )

“I—l haven’t any change,” said Mr. Frankland, somewhat disconcerted in spite of himself. ‘‘Besides I am not fond of music.” These low peouple presume so 0,” he added, in a very audible sotto voce, as Miss Rosamond drew her delicate skirts together, as if fearing that the contact of the tambourine player’s dress might sully them. | “‘Not one little tune, signora?” pleaded the pretty tambourinist. | “I wonder you have theimpudence to address yourself to me!” said Miss Frankland. ‘‘Guy, I do believe you'll have to get these people ordered off the premises!” 'The artist, who had sat still all this time, deliberately laid aside his sketching board and pencil at this juncture and rose to his feet. “Gently, my friend, gently,” he said. “You would find it rather impracticable to warn Miss Althorpe off her own grounds.” : - Guy Frankland started and looked around. ' *‘Miss Althorpe!” : The girl with the tambourine stepped forward and made a courtesy. “In costume ‘a la Tyrolese for my friend, Mr. Randal, to sketch,” she said, laughingly. “I am really quite flattered that my impersonation is so correct. Pray, don’t turn back,” with a pretty gesture of her hand, us Frankland had nearly retreated over the edge of the chasm in his confusion. ‘““You will find tht glen exceedingly pretty a little way further up. I suppose you are people from the hotel, and I am always very glad to have any- %, e \\}F){ TI‘E}Q ) ‘,\W\"T/\ 4l” ‘ . ; I —— - i) % fifiW XL _/'fl W/mh 7T v RN { N\ | ’~‘,. 2 g | \%r l\% \\\\% wi’ @:fl/@ 1! Py 17 Bl i) }H W r/, o ' ;% I ! 7// / . ) 4 \\ i) 4 i 5 \‘ \ . %«f e | W RSN | “GENTLY, MY FRIEND, GENTLY.” one enjoy the beauty of the scenery. But I want them to remember to preserve ordinary civility toward their fellow creatures.” .

And with a royal motion of the hand, implying dismissal, she resumed her former position. . - _ Mr. Frankland, with his friend and sister, -nalked on in silence, his face a study to anyone skilled in physioghomy. Presently, when well out of hearing, he stopped and turned around. “Who would have thought it?”’ he asked, in discomfited ‘tones.

“Things happen <curiously in this world,” said Field, whose voice had an amused accent. ‘‘Miss Frankland, ‘1 think you will have to deliver over those: bracelets. Guy will hardly win the heiress after this day’s work.” Rosamond burst into a flood of angry tears. o

*“lt’s all,Guy’s fault!” she sobbed. “Not mine any more than it is yours,” retorted her brother, sullenly. : And 3 volley of eriminations and recriminations followed, more edifying to themselves than to their companion. Mr. Field was right. Guy Frankland’s acquaintance with the heiress neveryprogressed beyond the first interview, more especially as he afterward learned that she was engaged to be married to the hero of the harp and the velveteen suit, a handsome young Bostonlawyer.—N. Y. News. e Art That He Appreciated. Whoever has seen the Washington monument in -Baltimore, ~with the ¢rouching bronze lion of Barye near its base, will appreciate the story they tell about the rustic huntsman on his first visit to town. He was shown all the objects of interest in Baltimore one by one, but gave each only a passing glance and nct even so much as a word of comment. When he came in sight of the Washington monument, however, a: new light shot from his eye. At last it was obvious that something had beenr found to interest him. He scanned the shaft for some minutes, runuing his eye from the base to the point on which the statue stood and back again. then fastened his gaze on the crouching lion, half fascinated. His lips parted, and his city friends drew mear to hear his criticism of the sculptor’s art. “At last out came the words: “B’gad, he’s got the old man treed, ain’t he?” —Kate Field’s Washington. ‘ . o

—Abel is a Hebrew name, signifying vanity or the viin one. - The name was considered unfortunats ‘among the earlier Jews, and was rarely used.

ELLEN OSBORN’S LETTER.

The Spider and the Fly in the Mil-

liner’'s . .Parior.

Miss Gould's Gown of Black—-Blondes and Brunettes—Ruffles and Tucks—The % Question of Colors—Capes, - Wraps and Hats.

[COPYRIGHT, 1894.]

There is a balmy feeling in‘the air which tells that spring, in fact, is not so very far behind the spring of the almanac and the dressmaker. - For it is the dressmaker's time of harvest. As Lent opened she was obsequious. She looked far ahead. She deftly suggested that it was a good time to make up the summer’s frocks. She hinted of the steady beating foot of time and dilated on theé folly of procrastination. e

With the near approach of Easter the dressthaker is a changed woman—or man. Her figure is.drawn erect, her air is-cordial, but full of business. It is she who delays. Shesays: ‘‘My dear, dear madam. we would so gladly aecommodate you, but—" and a shrug, imported with the gowns from Paris straight, tells the rest. ' 1 think of her as the spider spinning her web, and of the women that come to her as the flies that walk-into her parlor. She weaves her glittering meshes and the sunlight is caught and imprisoned in their sheen and glow. Blue, gray and green and royal purple, gold and clear red and the pink that is in the girl's cheek and the white that shines in ‘her bosom—all are here in the sheening silks and iridescent velvets and kaleidoscopic ‘‘cloths” of her fairy parlor just as they are in a spider’s web on the low grass when the dew upon it sparkles in the sun. And the poor flies flutter, flit, and from further off flit back again; and hover, and wish, and hesitate, and—and—are caught. _ / _ ‘

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them a little—and really you ecannot blame her, for they submit uncomplainingly—and presently sends them forth again radiant and rainbowlike in their turn, so that the avenue, the onlyone which issomuch ““the” avenue that one need not name it, will presently be a sea of shifting colors, and a ballroom or dinner table like a bed of flowers. '

Yes, ‘it will be a *‘colory” or ‘“‘colorish” spring. Yet black loses' not its vogue. Miss Helen Gould, in some respects the most interesting unmarried woman in the country., has worn at Lakewood a pretty but simple gown of black which any woman with as many dollars as she has millions might easily imitate. 'The material was expensive, but the skirt was plainly and simply cut and almost devoid of trimming. A panelof velvet ran down one side, barred at intervals by strips of the black silk held in place by tiny silver buckles. The bodice was silk and velvet with moderate sleeves, the velvet forming the high collar and a broad strip down’ the front. To balance the skirt panel on the left, a heavy watch seal fell to the level of the right hip. Miss Gould, while by no means a beauty, has a fine. bright ‘and interesting face and will make a very fine looking little woman. It is a pretty sight to see ghe interest with which ske devotes herself to the poor children whom she lras taken in charge. ‘Some astonishingly strange effects in jackets are shown this spring and enthusiastically commended to customers. One of these which I chilled, fond 'anticipation by failing to admire is marked by these¢ peculiarities: extremely small waist accentuated by three big buttons; skirts cut away entirely in front and hiplength and quite full on the sides and back; sleeves skin tight from the elbow down, loose and baggy above the elbow; wide lapels reaching almost to the shoulder tips, and under these a shoulder cape with long points falling to the waist line. This astonishing garment is worn over a perfectly plain skirt—not to interfere with its supposedly masculine appearance—and opens low in front, disclosing a finely plaited shirt bosom with many studs. A high collar of the choker variety completes the costume. i -

~ Oné might suppose that the prayers of the just would be auswered and that there might be no more frippery of flounce and ruffie. One odd garment for after-Easter festivities I have seen which for pure frivolity of effect eclipses imagination. Itis a skirt completely covered with narrow rufling, with two black velvet bands running up and down cutting sheer through the maze of fluttering rufiles. Over this is worn a—what shall I eall it?—evening basque or coat of the same soft creamy white material. It is cut low in the neck and, counting from the bosom to the l:;;m Has this remarkable series of ddordments, taken in order: A full Mgixi@ or “tucker;’ two narrow r&% fles; threc narrow strips of black vel-

vet crossing:the white from side to side; another full tuck or ruffle. This ends the collarette. Beneath this there show. upon the bodice six ruffles in swift suecession; then the heavy black ribbon sash at the waist, with long pendant ends; then two narrow strips of velvet; two ruffles: a'strip of velvet; a ruffle; a strip of velvet; a ruffle; four ruffies; four more strips of velvet alternating with four ruffles; and we reach the edge, a final ruffle and the limit of the enumerator’s patience all at once. :

Such are’ the ways of ' freakdom. They are not the ways of the lady who is really well dressed. - , Green holds its surprising vogue of the past few years in the spring eolorings. Perhaps I should not term its popularity surprising. Green lends itself to a wonderful variety of effects, goes well with almost any color, and is accommodating enough to suit a variety of complexions. I remember to this @ay the symphony in two greens, light and lustrous silk and a deep and dark velvet perfectly combined and fitted, in°which' Mrs. Langtry first appeared in this country in a society play; I forget what it was, but I remember the dress. It was about the beginning of the reign of green. - Even the season’s blues have usunally in them some touch of green and gray, or I fancy that the lightqr and more delicate shades will be favored above the darker ones until—but yachting is a long way off. The reddish browns in their infinite wariety can hardly hold favor as the season’s warmth increases. They are not so generally useful asthe greens and blues in any case.

I see nohint of the banishment of capes. Lustrous ones of satin and silk will be worn, with tricaming of jet or steel or even paste ‘‘diamend,” which are becoming unaccountably frequent in the embellishment of garments. But better fitted for the younger and agile will be some of the myriad styles of mannish coat or jacket which infte to activity by the freedom of movement they permit, and which display a fine form to such advantage. ;

: The Son of His Father. - 2 The new boy in the Sunday school class of a Washington .¢hurch was so much nicer looking than the average that the teacher became interested in him at once, and proceeded to find out who he was. He gave her his name readily, but that did not convey a vast amount of information. . “Do your father and mother live here?” she asked. . _ : “Yes'm. now they do, but we used to live ot west.” w 0 - : *ls your father in business here?” SflNofim.37 . i “Doesn’t he do anything?”_ ‘“The newspapers say he don’t.” . ‘‘He must be a capitalist then?” “No'm, he ain’t; he's a congressman.’ —Detroit F'ree Press. = { Her Fears Contirmed. . There are some towns in eastern Massachusetts, and not far from the Hub either, wherein card-playing is one of the things you had better not do, if you are particularly concerned about public opinion. A certain gentleman and his wife who had settled in one of these townsand brougllt‘}vithfl;em from Boston a love of whist recently gave a whist party to some of their neighbors, who came as people doing somefphing daring. 'A day or two later, one of the older ladies of the villige extorted from her daughter the confession that she had been at the whist party. ‘“What do they do at whist parties?” she asked. “Why, they play cards,” was the response. ‘“That’s what I'd heard,” was the old lady’s vetort, “but I didn’t bz lieve it.”—Boston Transcript.

Bad Times. Traveling Salesman (despondently) —By Jingo! times are bad. Why, they don’t even throw me out of the houses I visit as they used to do.—Hallo. TAKING HIM DOWN A PEG. . T . : oA H : IFI e ¥ ARTIMBS > b , 7 L\ lg‘} v A & %J)¢“r & / 5 = S\ / i ’éfi , ic (o &7 \"\\(-fi | {@ @ \ ! I\ML 04 5] . LLA "f "“;', & T g S W ‘ \‘ > .\ g A k et L v “N,?',J) , iy —Trgth. ‘ : The Bright Side of It. Fobbs (the miser)—l wish I were Snapples. o B Ho'bbs——Why, Snapples is suffering horribly from chronic indigestion! -’ - 'obbs—But think of the money he s#aves on his meals!—Chicago Record.

SANITY IN QUESTION.

Assassin Prendergast Given a New Lease of Life..

Judge Chetlain Postpones the ‘Day of Execution to April 6—A Jury Will De-~ cide as to ‘the Prisoner’s ' Mental Condition.

NOT TO HANG TO-DAY.

Cricaco, March 24.—Judge Chetlain, of the superior court, Thursday night granted Patrick Eugene Prendergast, murderer of Mayor Carter H. Harrison, a fourteen days’ lease of life, postponing the execution which was to have taken place at noon to-day until Friday, April 6. .He apnounced his decision shortly before midnight when, for over three hours, he had been listening to evidence introduced in proceedings instituted to inquire into. the assassin’s sanity. To-day at 10 o’clock a jury will be impaneled and will decide whether or no Prendergast has become mentally unbalanced since convicted of the murder of Mayor Harrison. b

L The Judge's Decision. Judge Chetlain in rendering his deeision said: resi

‘ “The case as it now stands is this: ' The state is ready to impanel the jury; they concede that right to the defendant, and that might only be considered sufficient grounds to grant a stay of proceedings: The court, notwithstanding, required some evidence more conclusive than the petition which has been read to the court, to make out a prima facie case, that the defendant had become insane after the judgment had been pronounced and before the sentence was executed. - .

“The question i{s not one of the guilt or of the sanity of the defendant at the time of the offense; neither had the previous trial any bearing on the present case. All that has been passed upon. He was found sane by a jury and sentenced. Now this court has the power to impanel the jury and have that issue settled at once. It is now.midnight of the night preceding the. execution, and it is apparent, that such ~trial could not be concluded before the time set for the defendant's execution had arrived. - ‘““The court is satisfied that from the authorities submitted to it, and from the common law alone, that it has power to prolong the time which has already been set to elapse between the imposing of the sentence dnd his execution. If the case has been made out can it be said that this court can be compelled hastiiy to enter upon the trial t 0 determine this prisoner’s sanity? I think not.' The question of the defendant’s guilt has been settled irrevocably. The question now is should the court prolong the time to enable the defendant to avail himself of time in which to show cause why sentence should not be executed upon him. : ~ “The next question is, has sufficient cause been shown why this court should prolong the time? There has been submitted to this court an affidavit, and two witnesses -have come here to testify that the defendant has become insane since sentence was pronouncd upon him. One of the witnesses was a medical man, an expert upon insanity. ' He says that he has noticed a .change in the {dérenda,nt since the day he was sentenced. Another witness who has met and seen the deh fendant at various times also says that he finds him much changed since the sentence. He also testified that -at the time the crime was committed he believed the defendant to be pertectly responsible. Since then he ‘has reason %0 change his opinion. “Therefore this court thinks that this matter of the present sanity or insanity of the defendant should be determined by a jury. It also holds that it would be inconsistent with humanity and justice for this court to compel such a trial to be held at this midnight hour. For the foregoing reasons the court will prolong and extend the time of .the execution of’ Patrick Eugene Prendergast:- until Friday, April 6.” i t *“One Honest Judge.” ‘Prendergast had been watching Judge Chetlain’s face from the moment he commenced to speak. When his honor | spoke the last word and the full import of his decision flashed across the muri derer’s mind he turned to his counsel |and said: *‘*Well, there.is one honest ' judge in Cook county anyway.” Then ' he put on his overcoat and walked back to the death chamber in the county jail. o The proceeding which ended so un- | expectedly was the last resort of the attorneys of the condemned man. All r day long Acting Gov. Gill at Spring- | field listened to importunities and read | petitions, telegrams and letters asking him to reprieve, the prisoner. At 10:30 last night he announced his intention *of allowing the law to take its course, sayipg that two courts had passed on the case and that hedid not think it his duty to-interfere with the execuJtion of the sentence of death.

1 Governor Would Not Interfere. ¢ Itis evident the governor’s action was not unexpected by the defendant’s attorneys, and when the United States circuit court in the morning refused to grant the writ of habeas ecorpus applied for they resolved to play their last card and demand an inquiry into the sanity of the prisoner, alleging that he had become insane since convicted of Mayor Harrison’s assassination. Judge Chetlain counsented to hear the case, and it was commenced before him atB p. m. in the criminal court building on the mnorth side. Twenty minutes before the court announced its decision it was believed the case would run all night, and possibly would not be ended at noon to-day, the hour set for the execution. A REPUBLIC FOR HAWALIL Story That Thurston Has Been Recalled to Help Establish One. e SAN Francisco, March 24. —The Evening Post says it has positive informbtion that letters recalling Lorrin Thurston, Hawaiian minister to the United States, are now on their way to Washington and that he was requested to hurry home as speedily as possible. lts information is also that a permanent republican government is about to be established in Hawaii—a statement partially confirmed by recent advices from Honolulu, and Minister Thurston’s services are much desired at home to assist in furthering that thing. e Big Deal in Wheat lls €losed. . MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., March 24 —A big wheat deal was closed Thursday between the Peawef/5 Grain & Elevator company and the Pillsbury-Washburn company. The contract is for all of the wheat now in store in the elevator system of Peavey & Co. The aggregate of the'whole purchase is 8,250,000 bushels, and it is to be delivered within the next four months. : : Will Doctor His Eyes. LoNDON,, March 24 — E3-Premier Gladstone visited an oculist Wednesday. and after an examination of his eyes decided to submit to an operation. Peixato toExecute All Rebels. - Rlo DE JANEIRO, March 17, via Monte video, March 24.—President Peixoto has revived the imperial decrees of 1838 .and 1851. These decrees authorize the execution, without formal trial, of all persons who have taken up arms against the government, as well as those who have aided or abetted, directly or indirectly, the cause of an insurrection. Indians Loaned tor Show Purposes. . » WasaINGTON, March 24.—Secretary Smith has approved the application of “Pawnee Bill” for a loan of thirty-five Sioux Indians to be exhibited at the Antw:rp exposition.

THE SUNDAY SQHOOL.

International Lesson for April 1, 1894~ Jacob’s Pre_t:illnx Prayer — Gen. 32t 9-12, 24-30. | S e [Specially Arranged from Peloubet's Notes ] ¥ GoLDEN TEXT.—I will not let thee go, exceps thou bless me.—Gen. 32:26 i ;

TiME. —The twenty or forty years of Jacob’s life at his uncle Laban’s. The common reckoning from Gen. 31:38-41, makes the period twenty years. But Dr. Kennicott thinks that the twenty years mentioned in the two verses are not the same years; but that the verses should read: “One tweniy years I was with thee (i. e., taking care of thy flocks, but not in thy house); another twenty years I was for myself in thy house, serving thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle.’” This would make his stay with Laban forty years. The twenty yeats belong either here or between the sale of the birthright and its bestow-. al on Jacob, so that the present date is the same by either mode of reckoning. . - DATE.—B. C. 1739 or 1740. Twenty or forty years after the vision at Bethel, our last regular lesson. : il

PLACE.—Penielor Penuel (the face of God), on the north bank of the stream Jabbok, which enters the Jordan from the east, about half ‘way between the Dead sea and the Sea of Galilee. Peniel was at the fords, probably some tifteen or twenty miles cast of the Jordan.. JACOB is now ninety-seven years old. He has twelve children. He has become richer than his uncle Laban, and is-on his way back to Palestine. i :

IsAAcis still living (35:27-29), a 'blind, feeble man one hundred and fifty six years old. It is generally thought that Rebekah was not living (compare. 24:59 with 35:8). Rebekah's nurse would not probably have left her mistress while she was living to join Jacob's family.

LESSON NOTES.

Life at Padan-Aram.—After his vision at Bethel, Jacob continued his long journey to Mesopotamia. As he approached the town of Haran, he found his cousin Rachel caring for her father’s sheep. Rachel was probably tweélve or thirteen years old at this time (see Conder’s Tent Life in Palestinej. This would make her nineteen or twenty at the time of her marriage. Thus introduced. he enters the service of Laban, marries his cousins Leah and Rachel, and in course of time becomes the father of eleven sons. Let us glance at some of the helpful thoughts suggested by this period of Jacob’s life. The Expulsive Power of a Supreme Affection. Jacob’s seven, years’ service for Rachel ‘‘seemed to him but a few 'days for the love -he had. to her.” This is the secret of happy service everywhere. "It is love that makes life flow smoothly and happily. Itisequally true of our service of God; it is blessed when love to Ilim is deep and strong. Goethe’s dying words were; ‘‘More light.” Our words of life are: #More love.” e

Returning Home.—ln some way God spoke to Jacob, and summoned him to return home (81:3). His present life was but an episode, a preparation. His true position was that of heir of the promises, the inheritor of the promised land, the channel for the kingdom of God. THe must not stay too long away. He may become perverted in his religious life. He had learned, all he could here. ‘‘Jacob was becoming too contented in that strange land. Like Ulysses and his crew, he was in danger of forgetting the land of his birth, and the promises of which he was heir.”—Meyer. Circumstances pointed in the same direction. Life with Laban’s family was becoming a serious trial. e could nolonger live in peace with him. e i

The Value of Change.—lor most people some decisive change of life, some breaking away from old scenes and habits and associatjons, as by marriage, change of location or business, often’ begins an era of enlargement and development, .

The Hour of Need.—Jacob left Laban at IHaran, and with his wives, children, and wealth and flocks, sent out on his long journey of “four hundred and fifty miles. Ie had. many reasons for anxiety. (1) He left Laban secretly, fearing that he would refuse to let Rachel and Leah go with him, and that his flocks and herds would be detained. Ile knows that Laban has becn dishonest with him, has ‘‘changed his wages ten times,” and that alone would make- Laban -dislikke him. We do not like those we have wronged. Then he had indulged in many sharp practices toward Laban. That also would make Laban hostile to him. Laban pursned after him, but finally they made a covenant of peace, and that danger was over.. (2) His next trouble was from his brother Esau, who had become a wealthy chieftain, and whose territory lay between Jacob and his home. As he drew near Palestine, on his ‘way to the fords of the Jordan,. he sent messengers to his brother; but no answer was returned save that Esau was.coming to meet him with four hundred trained soldiers. Ile was exeedingly afraid and distressed. His family and flocks had no defense against such an attack. A brother offended is harder to be won than a strongicity.”” Esau in bis wild life may have been ‘one of those “who have broken all. tAe commandments and have been almost sorry there were not more commandments” to brealk.” (3) Remorse and guilt intensified his anxiety and fear. He knew he had wronged his brother, and even forty years of absence could not wash the factaway. Many of his past transaetions came before him and ‘‘sat heavy upon hissoul.” S PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS. = = = The stains and cffects of sin are not wiped away by Time, nor forgetfulness, nor all of them even by forgiveness. e : God leads us on to earnestness in 01~ der that we may be prepared to receive better bLlessings. The best things. of God are given in vain till we hunger and thirst nfter God. A e

WiTH THE ELECTRICIANS.

Tur electrical papers talk hopefully of better times in eiectrical as well as other industrial lines of business. -

Tre manufaeture of mica plates for insulating purposes is now carried on in France. These artificial plates are composed of small pieces of mica, cemented together with gum lac dissolved inalcohol. v Ir advanced electricians are not altogether too sanguine we may soon be able to carry on telegraphic communi- 1 cation without wires. Mr. Preece, the eminent, English electrician, in a recent paper, gave it as his opinion that | it would be quite easy to speak be-. tween I'rance and England across the | straits of Dover without any metallic connection. _ o Tur first link in the chain of elee‘tric railways which will eventuallyconnect New York and Philadelphia is now well under way. The Philadelphia. division, between Bristol and Trenton, thirty-four miles in length, has been .surveyed, and that section alone will. include a mile of bridge work. The _contracts for construction, it jis said. will soon be let, and the work will be pushed to an early completion. 0

AMERICA AND CHINA. A New Bond of Friendship to Be - in Force Ten Years. Americans in the Flowery Kingdom Must Also Submit to Registration —The ; Present Enjoyments Are > : Not Affected. o s < TEXT OF THE TREATY. : “WASHINGTON, March 27.—The f{following is a copy of the treaty which has been negotiated with. China. It was sent to the Senate March 19, with a simple note of transmission, saying it had been ' concluded at Washington March 17. It is accompanied by nothingin the way.of communication from Secretary Gresham. The treaty-is as follows: Whereas, On the 17th day of Novem« ber, A. .D. 1880, and of Kwanghali the gixth year. the tenth moon, fifteenth day, a treaty. was concluded between the United States and China for the purpose of regulating, limiting or suspending the coming of Chinese laborers to and their residence in the United States: and, - . - Whereas; The government of China, in view of the antagonism and much depreciated.and serious disorders to which the presence of Chinese laborers. has given rise in certain parts of 'the United States, desires to prohibit the emigration of such laborers from China to the United States; and ¢ ‘Whereas, The two countries are desirious of adopting reciprocal measures for the better protéction of the citizens or subjeots of each within the- jurisdiction of the other; now, therefore, the president of the United States has appointed Walter Q Gresham, secretary of state, as his plenipotentiary and his imperial majesty, the emperor of China, has appoiuted Yaong Yu, officer of the second rank, subdirector of -the court of sacaificial worship and envoy extraordinary and minister plenipoten‘tiary, and the said plenipotentiaries having exhihitéd their full powers, found to be in due form and good form, have agreed upon the following articles: The high contracting parties agree that for a_ _period of ten years, beginning with the date ot exchange of ratitication of this convention, the coming, except under conditions hereinagler specified, of Chinese laborers shall be absolute1y prohibited. Art. 2. The preceding articles shall net apply to the return to the United States of any registered Chinese laborer who has a lawful wife, child or parent in the United States or property therein of the valued or §l,OOO or debts of like amount due him and pending set‘tlement. ;

And such right of return to the United States ghall be exercised within one.year from the date of leaving the United States, but such right of return to the United States may be extended for an additional period, not to exceed -one -year, .in cases where, by reason of sickness or other cause of disability. beyond his control,” such: Chinese laborer - shall be rendered unable sooner to return, which facts shall be fully reported to the Chinese consul at the port of departure, and by him certified to the satisfaction of the col-: lector of the:port at which such Chinese subject shall land in the United States, and no such Chinese laborer shall be permitted to enter the: United States by land or sea without préducing to the proper officers of the customs the return! certificate herein required. : . _Art. ‘3. The provisions of this convention shull not affect the right at present enjoyed of Chinese subjects being officials, teachers, students, merchants or travelers for curiosity or pleasure, but mot laborers, of coming to the United States and residing therein. - Art. 4..-In pursuance of article 3 of the immigration treaty between the United States and China, signed at Pekin on the 17th day of, November., 1880, it is hereby understooa and agreed that Chinese'laborers, or Chinese of any other class, either permanently or temporarily residing in the United States, shall have for the protection of their persons and property all rights that are given by the laws of the United States to citizens of the most favored nation, excepting the right to become naturalized citizens: : ; Art. 5. The government of the United States having by act of congress approved May 1, 1892, as amended by-act approved May 5, 1803, required all Chinese laborers lawfully within the limits of the United States by the first named’ act to be registered as in said acts provided, with a view to affording them better protection, the Chinese government will not object to the enforcement, of such acts, and, reciprocally, the government. of the United States recognized the right.of the government of China to enact and enforce similar laws or regulations for the registration, free of charge, of laborers, skilled or unskilled (not merchants as defined by said ac.s of congress), citizens of the United ‘States in China. Art. 6. This convention shall remain in force for & period of ten years, beginning with the date of the exchange of the ratifications, and if six months before the expiration of the said period of ‘ten years, neither government shall formally have given notice of its termination to the other, it shall re main in full force for another like period of ten years. . Signed in duplicate this 17th day of March, 1894, the signatures of Walter Q. Gresham, secretary of state, and of Yang Yu, Chinese minister, following. - .

- JEWS UNDER A BAN. Every Hebrew 1n "rmy. Ala., Ordeied to . Leave Town by White Caps. BIRMINGHAM, ‘Ala., March 26. — A white cap outrage at Troy, a city of 4,000 inhabitanus, has caused great excitement, Saturday morning every Jew in the place, on opening his mail; found a notice from white caps ordering him to wind up his business at once and get -out of the city by May 15. In the afternoon a mass meeting of citizens of all creeds was held and great indignation was, expressed. It was agreed that the Jews should be protected and any lawlessness would not be tolerated. The authorities propose to do all in their power for the safety of the Hebrews. _ GIVEN TWENTY YEARS. Texas Man Spends His Fortune in an Ef- - fort to Escape Puuishment.‘ : DArLAS, Tex., March 27.—The Randle murder trial terminated Saturday night by the jury returning a verdict of guilty.of murder in the second degree, and assessing the penalty at twenty vears’ confinement in the state peni-? tentiary. In December, 1892, Maj. Irving G.. Randle, one of Dallas wealthiest men, shot and killed E. S. Randall in a saloon. The widow of the murdered man was paid $5,000 to cease prosecuting Randle; and all’ ‘that money, legal talent and influence could do was resorted to. Maj. Randle has spent $120,000 and it is said that his fortune has been frittered away. o Wil Kildl Half the Saloons. ° BURLINGTON, la., March 27.—Saloonkeepers here have been interviewed on the subject of the liquor law, ana all express an intention to obey the new law or quit business. The better class of saloons like the law, but the disre: ‘putable ones are much opposed to it. There are about 100 salooroxs here, and it is estimated that the new law will ‘kill off half the number. ' - A Horrible Crime. y " BARBERSTOWN, Pa., March 27.—Enraged at the crying of his baby, Andro ‘Bartelli, of this place, threw it into a stove, where it was fatally burned. " Follows the Exainple of Coxey. ~ DENVER, C 01.,, March 27.—Bert Hamilton, who is organizing a silver army ‘to.go to Washington, has appointed 100 -officers, each of whom will be expected during the week to work up the project. Mr. Hamilton says he will not start from Denver with less than 1,000 men, and is confident of leaving Colorado with 5,000. S e i -~ Lived Over a Century. . Dk Kais, 111., March 27.—Edwara F. Boland died at his-home in this eity Sunday. He was 107 years old and came from County Mayo, lreland, fifty years