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An Ideal Fish By Robert W. Charab HIIERE are, in some fish known locally itleal fish In shape a pure silver except oxydized silver. T somewhat of the pi dorsal tin nor the f habit trout waters, smaller ones, althoi true. I know, however, that pickei them eagerly. Th >se fish rise to a fy and are and often I have struck tbem in trou fighters when tackie is ligl^ and wa Animals and birds appear to be seen eating then), perhaps because Where Mohawk chubs are herons ai I ever saw an osprev in that regio The osprey dashed down within a r must Lave weighed a pound at least, across acres of swamp toward the di 0 The Life and H By Dr. James H. McBi 0HE girls of the pres comfortable conditk much, no doubt, iu lost something, in th exercise, less of thj and also developed result of this poorei sponsibility in the 1 not so great a sens family had everyday, specific duties that exercised the body as well as such life, dreary and harsh as it soi those things that we regard as eomm tage of providing work that furnis! done undep the sense of obligation, ness in such a life that goes to the and that puts purity of blood and vi Tae number of young women w the unexpected strain of new dutiei .woman who had become a nervous ' said to me there was no apparent ca been shielded from everything from be shielded? Was it ever the case shielded grew to be a forceful chara< swift and onerous demands of life? & lie Newspapei By Samuel Bowles, J 0HE difficulties of pro are great. It cann is at least self-susta it exhibits qualities public. Of course, but the endowment tion to serve some < seems to me impo* short-sightedly com public mentor. Such a journal is aj Intuence. The duty that rests upon business, to so perform his part, that appeals with peculiar force to the j minded and far-sighted enough to s reader the public is the best investmi The life of the worker of the pros Is strenuous and laborious. It is a upon the patience and tue nerves. T and the anxiety never cease; emerge mand the full expenditure of brain should do so with a keen sense of i of the so-called learned professions homes and haunts of the people sh< tistic, beautiful. To please and imp! constant aim of the maker. The pi determining the contents of his she exercise of skill, ability and energy worthy sort in making his paper popi The new conditions and problen constitute a new and insistent call 11 to perform its obvious duty. These r and State, but to the immediate e land. The time is ripe for making on and. village cleaner, fairer, richer, haj is to come through a high developme ment the press should be the most pi /?> '{he Art ot Sal By L. D. Vojjel - "tOOD salesmanship is so ( G worthy of intelligent stuc mind, is lifted to the dit that the definitions of sah own, but quotations from do from salesmen of expe; entitled to respectful cons TT1|,B1I "Salesmanship is the 1 .??_J acquired?whereby he is j and sell a prospective customer any I will quote a few others, which i which I singled out of many and co property, in a straightforward maun with the least expenditure of time i view the benefit to be derived by the Another: "Salesmanship is that la the shortest space of time, to pl.i greatest amount of satisfactory mere ?>rs the greatest amount of profits; w tag good will and respect of his cust< Bear in mind, please, that a sales cording to this authority, unless he sivHi preserve the lasting respect and Another definition that, it seems follcvn; "Salesmanship is the scienc ia spevh, loyalty to employer, the h your weai points, of strengthening 1 but gaining new ones, cf being at all I will tax your patience witli one is as true and good as it is terse: ", attributes are health, honesty. court< of expression, a firm and unspeaka knowledge v? and confidence in the i , Certainly, 5011c of us will deny ti so well and hx?e such confidence in that he needs tiie goods; then lie nut lie does purchase them, he will push ers cold, clear streams of the North, certain as "Mohawk chubs." These fish are the nd color?graceful, slim, elegant creatures, on the dorsal ridge, which is the tint of hey are tender-mouthed, and remind me aylingf, although they have not the great ragile mouth of that fish. They often inand I have an idea that trout feed on the igli I have no absolute proof that this is el. maskalonge and black bass strike at often quite as gamy as grayling. Often t waters, and have found them interesting i ter cold and swift. very fond of them, or at least are often they may be easier to catch than trout, ad kingfishers congregate. The only time n was once when whipping that stream, od of me and seized a Mohawk chub that bearing him up out of the pool and away istant forest.?Harper's Weekly. I ealth of Young Girls ride, the Alienist and Neurologist ent day who are brought up under more >ns than their grandmothers have gained the change of conditions; but they have at in many homes there is less of healthy it kind of work that developed the body simple and healthy tastes. There is as a physical development, less feeling of relome on the part of the young ladies and >c of duty. "When every member of the work to do that had to be done, work the moral sense in discharging a duty? uetimes was and often barren of most of on comforts, had at least the great advanbed physical exercise, and that was also There is a moral and physical healthfulmaking of strong and simple characters, gor of constitution into descendants, ho soon after marriage break down from 3 is very large. The mother of a young invalid within two years after marriage use for her daughter's illness, as she had childhood. Why, indeed, should anyone ) anywhere that a person who had been :ter or proved a success in presence of the r and the State ournalist during a worthy and excellent newspaper ot be efficient and independent unless it iniug; or, to put it in another way, unless which will command the support of the the press may be endowed, in some way, is apt to be encumbered with an obligaother interest than that of the public. It >sible for a journal that is entirely and mercial in its spirit to be of value as a )t to be more harmful than helpful in its every member of society to so conduct his good, not evil, shall flow from his action, journalist. The true journalist is broad-;ee that the best service he can possibly ent he can make for himself. ;s who is thoroughly devoted to his calling ttended with an almost incessant strain he work is never ended; the responsibility mcies are always imminent, and they deand muscle. Those who enter upon it Its responsibilities as if entering any one i. The newspaper which goes into the )uld be clean, harmonious, attractive, arrove the taste of his reader should be the jblic welfare should be his sole guide in >et. That affords abundant field for the , and the employment of sensation of a alar and strong and profitable, is created by the country's rapid growth ipoC the press to rise to its opportunities, elate not alone to the affairs of the Nation mvironment of every newspaper in the r home community life in every city, town jpier. more just and more beautiful. This nt of the civic spirit, and in that development faetor. & J& esmanship essential to all lines of business, and so ly and execution, that the calling, to my jnity of a profession. First, let ine say ismanship which I shall offer are not my what I have read; and, coming as they rience who have been successful, they are iideration. quality in a man?partly inherent, partly lble to successfully introduce, interest in article or commodity." mpress me as being particularly good, and pied: "The ability to sell goods, or other er, with satisfaction to all concerned and und money, but having always chiefly in person for whom the property is sold." quality in a salesman which enables him, ice in the possession of his customer the handise, and in the coffers of his employhiie at the same time preserving the lastDiner." ;n:an is not In '.he salesmanship class, accan both make a profit for his employer good will of the customers, to me, contains many good points, is as e of putting into each day's work honesty a.:tie of modern civilization, of watching hem, of not only keeping your customers times a gentleman." more quotation, and this one, to my mind. Salesmanship is ability to make sales; its ry. tact, resource, reserve power, facility b!o confidence in one's self, a thorough goods one is selling." mt a good salesman must know his goods them that he can convince the merchant ' st enthuse him in such a way that, after them. NATIONAL PLATFORM Principles and Policies of Democrats Issued By the Convention CURRENCY. TRUSTS AND TARIFF Syb-Committee, by a Vote of 7 to 3, Votes in the Gold Plank?Yet to be Fought T.jrough the Full Committee?Declared That the Increased Production of Gold Has Removed the Issue. Following is the full text of the Democratic platform as adopted by the National Convention at St. Louis. THE PLATFORM. "We, the delegates to the Democratic party of the United States, in national convention assembled, declare our devotion to the essential principles of the Democratic faith which bring us together in hearty communion. "Under them local self-government and national unity and prosperity were alike established. They underlaid our independence, the structure of our free republic and every Democratic extension from Louisiana to California and faithfully in all the States the tie be tween taxation and representation. They yet inspirit the masses of our people, guarding jealously their rights and liberties, and cherishing their fraternity, peace and orderly development. They remind us of our duties and responsibilities as citizens, and impress upon us, particularly at this time, the necessity of reform and the rescue of the administration of government from the headstrong, arbitrary and spasmodic methods which distract business by uncertainty and pervade the public mind with dread, distrust and perturbation. "The application of these fundamental principles to the living issues of the day constitutes the first step to ward the assured peace, safety and progress of our nation. Freedom of the press, of conscience and of speech, equality before the law of all citizens, the right of trial by jury, freedom of the person defended by the writ of heabeas corpus, the supremacy of civil over military authority; a well disciplined militia; the separation of Church and State; economy in expenditures; low taxes, that labor may be lightly burdened; the prompt and sacred fulfillment of public and private obligations, including fidelity to treaties; peace and friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with m'vmsw nkpAlnfa oomtloQoOTiPn in thp will UUUC, OUOUIUIC av\|UiV?w-vv *4. ?^ of the majority, the vital principle of republics?these are doctrines which Democracy has established as proverbs of the nation, and they should be constantly invoked, preached, resorted to and enforced. "1. Large reductions can readily be made in the annual expenditures of the government without impairing the efficiency cf any branch of'the public service, and we shall insist upon the strictest economy and frugality compatible with the various and efficient civil, military and naval administration as a right of the people too clear to be denied or withheld. INVESTIGATIONS PROMISED. "2. The enforcement of honesty in the public service and to that end a thorough legislative investigation of those executive departments of the government already known to teem with corruption, as well as other departments suspected of harboring corruption, and the punishment of ascertained corruption without fear or favor or regard to persons. The persistent and deliberate refusal of both the Senate and House of Representatives to permit such investigation to be made by either branch of Congress demonstates that only by a change in the executive and in the House of Representatives can complete exposure, punishment and correction be obtained. "In broader furtherance of that end, the Federal government should not permit itself to be robbed by entering into contracts with convicted trusts or unlawful combinations in restraint of inter-state trade, existing in violation of lav. We believe that one of the best methods of procuring economy and honesty in the public service is to have public officials, from the occupant of the White House down to the lowest of them, return, as nearjv as may be, to Jeffersonian simplicity of liv-1 ing. "3. We favor the nomination and election of a President trained in the ways of the constitution, who shall set his face sternly against executive usurpation of legisiativo and Judicial functions, whether that usurpation be ruled under the guise of executive construction of existing laws, or whether it take refuge in the tyrant's pleas of necessity or superior wisdom. TARlr'F PERVERSIONS. "4. The Democratic party has been, and will continue to be, the consistent opponent of that class of tariff legislation by which certain interests have been permitted, through congressional favor, to draw a heavy tribute from the American people. The monstrous perversion of those equal opportunities which our political institutions were established to secure, has caused what may once have been infant industries to become the greatest combinations of capital that the world has ever known. "These publicly favored enterprises have, through trust methods, been converted into monopolies, thus brfnging to an end domestic competition, which was the only check upon the extravagant profits made possible by the protective system. These industrial combinations, by the financial assistance they can give, now control the . policy of the Republican party. "We favor a wise, conservative and business-like revision and a gradual reduction cf the tariff by the frienJs of the masses and for the common weal, and not by the friends of its abuses, its extortions and its discriminations. keeping in view the ultimate c-nd of "equality of burdens and equality of opportunities, and the constitutional purpose of raising a revenue by I taxation; to wit, the support of the! Federal government in all its integrity ! and virility, but in simplicity; and; l#;eping also in view, as men cf com* iron sense should, existing conditions, however wrongfully, mistakenly or unjustly brought about, and the danger to the cause of tariff reform itself of abrupt and revolutionary reversal of policy. "We should bear in mind, in short, these two thinge: "First, The general principle that the sole derivation of the power of taxaj tion is the support of the Federal government economically, effectively and constitutionally administered, and, second, the equal truth that in the assertion of any general principle and in reaching any ultimate end. however sacred and logically unavoidable, due regard, but only due regard must and should be paid to actually existing conditions. TARIFF ON TRUST PRODUCTS. "5. We favor the reduction of tarifT taxation upon trust-produced articles to the point where foreign competition may enter the American marked whenever trusts and combines, seeking monopoly. raise their prices to the American consumer above a resonable and Just profit, by such reduction depriving trusts and monopolies of the power to extort from the American people under shelter of American law, prices higher than those charged foreigners for identical articles. ISTHMIAN CANAL FAVORED. "The Isthmian Canal: Our party having long and earnestly advocated the construction of an Inter-oceanic canal for the purposes of national defense and commerce between the States nnH oritVi frirpfpn natinns vp favnr the early completion of the Isthmial Canal, But while making this declaration and accepting the results of an accomplished and irreversible fact, we cannot too forcibly express our disapproval of the methods by which, in disregard of the usages and obligations of international law and treaty obligations canal route has been required, or too solemnly record our hope that this precedent of defiant diplomacy may never be used against us to our humiliation and injury. TRUSTS DENOUNCED. "Trusts and Unlawful Combinations: We recognize that the gigantic trusts and combinations designed to enable capital to secure more than its just share of the joint product of capital and labor and which have been fostered and promoted under Republican rule, are a menace to beneficial competition and an obstacle to permanent business prosperity. We demand the vigorous and impartial enforcement of the laws already made to prevent and control such trusts and combinations and we favor such further legislation in restraint thereof as experience shows to be necessary. "Corporations chartered by authority of the people must forever remain subject to regulation in the interest of the people. A private monopoly is indefensible. We recognize the right of capital In all legitimate lines of enterprise to combine for the increase of business for enlarging productive capacity and for decreasing the cost of production; but when such combination in its purpose or effect, creates, or tends to create a monopoly in its productions, to restrain trade or to stifle competition; to increase cost to the consumer or to control the market, it violates the spirit of the laws, because inimical to public welfare and peace and should be so regulated, controlled or prohibited by law as to amply protect the public interests. "We demand that the restraint of such illegal combinations be entrusted to the Democratic party which is not responsible for their existence, and which has ever protested against their continuance. TRUSTS CONDEMNED. "We condemn the Republican system of legislation under which trusts monopolies are enabled to exact higher prices for their manufactured products from our own people than they sell them for abroad. "We demand an enlargement of the powers of the inter-State commerce commission to the end that the traveling.public and shippers of this country may have prompt and adequate relief for the abuses they are subjected to in the matter of transportation. "Monroe Doctrine: We favor the maintenance of the Monroe doctrine in its full integrity. "Reciprocity: We favor a liberal trade treaty with Canada. "Army and Navy: We favor the reduction of the army and of army expenditure to the point historically demonstrated to be safe and sufficient We favor the maintenance and liberal annual Increase of the navy as our best defense In our Isolated continental conditions against foreign foe and a source of no possible danger to our liberties as a people. * "We favor the enactment and administration of laws, giving labor and capital impartially their just rights. Capital and labor ought not to be enemies. Each is necessary to the other. Each has its rights, but the rights 5f labor are certainly no less "vested" no less "sacred" and no less "Inalienable" than the rights of capital. PROTECTION OF CITIZENS. "American Citizenship: We pledge ourselves to insist upon the just and lawful protection of our citizens at home and abroad, and to use all proper measures to secure for them, whether native born or naturalized, and without distinction of race or creed, the equal protection of laws and the enjoyment of all rights and privileges open to them under the covenants of our treaties .of friendship and commerce; and if under existing treaties the right of travel and sojourn is denied to American citizens or recognition is withheld from American passports by any countries on the ground of race or creed, we favor the beginning o? negotiations with the governments of such countries to secure by new treaties the removal of these unjist discriminations. "Pensions: The Democracy would secure to the surviving soldiers and sailo:s and dependants generous pensions, not by an arbitrary executive order, but by legislation which grateful people stand ready to enact. Our soldiers and sailors who defend with their lives and constitution and the laws have a sacred interest in their just administration. They must, therefore. share with ue the humiliation with which we have witnessed the exaltation of court favorites, without distinguished service, over the scarrc-d heroes of many battle, or aggrandized by executive appropriations out of the treasuries of a prostrate people, in violation of the act of Congress which fixes the compensation and allowances of the military officers. SHIP SUBSIDY BILL DENOUNCED. "Merchant Marine: We denounce the ship subsidy bill recently passed by the United States Senate as an iniquitous appropriation of public funds for private purposes and a wasteful, illogical and useless attempt to overcome by subsidy the obstructions raised by Republican legislation to the growth and development of American commerce on the sea. We favor the upbuilding of a merchant marine without new or additional burdens upon the people and without bounties from the public I treasury. "Civil Service: The Democratic party stands committed to the principles of civil service reform, and we demand their honest, just and impartial enforcement. We denounce th# Republican party for its continuous and sinister encroachments upon the spirit and operation of civil service rules, whereby it has arbitrarily dispensed with examinations for office in the interests of favorites and employed all manner of devices to over-reach and set aside the principles upon which the civil service was established. "Condemnation of Polygamy: We de uiuiiu lutr caici uiuiauuii ui j within the jurisdiction of the United States, and the complete separation of chuAh and State in political affairs. "Reclamation of Arid Lands and Domestic Development: We congratulate our Western citizens upon the passage of the measure known as the Newland's irrigation act for the irrigation and reclamation of the arid lands of the West?a measure framed by a Democrat, passed in the Senate by a nonpartisan rote and passed in the House against the opposition of almost all the Republican leaders by a vote, the majority of which was Democratic. We call attention to this great Democratic measure, broad ahd comprehensive as It is working automatically throughout all time without further action of Congress until the reclamation of all the lands in the arid West capable of reclamation is accomplished, reserving the lands reclaimed for home-seekers in small tracts and rigidly guarding against land monopoly as an evidence of the policy of domestic development contemplated by the Democratic party, should it be placed in power." NEWSY GLEANINGS. Many men have deserted from the battleship Illinois. Cotton grows wild in Colombia, and the natires are beginning to think seriously of cultivating it. A man asleep on a roof in New York ; City rolled off, struck a cable and slid down It, escaping injury. Labor unions of Georgia are advocating the establishment of a Bureau of State Labor Statistics and Mining. A passenger on a Brooklyn. N. Y., car was almost roasted to death by a broken trolley wire, that coiled about him. The new trans-Canadian route from Liverpool to Yokohama will be 2200 miles shorter than that across the United States. The Budget Committee of the Chamber of Deputies voted against an appropriation for the French Embassy at the Vatican. The second wife of John G. Underbill, of New York City, who married him four days after his first wife divorced him, has also secured a decree. Edward Denton, an insane Long Island farmer, after starving his family four days and with a shotgun defying four deputy sheriffs, was overpowered? The Iter. W. S. Newson. of Califon, N. J., clad only in pajamas, married a runaway couple just before the pursuing parents of the bride arrived to forbid the ceremony, The Poland tunnel, 8071 feet long, between the Agua Fria and Lynx Creek valleys of Arizona, has been completed. It is for the purpose of private mining development. The Cunarder Campania arrived in New York City having printed on it* voyage a daily ocean newspaper, of which the wireless telegraph service was superintended in person by Mr. Marconi. THE NATIONAL GAME. Holmes is playing a g-xxl game foi Chicago. Keeler is stealing a base in most every game. Gilbert's fielding continues to be a feature of the New York's work. Brown's pitching for Chicago has justified Sciee's trade of Jack Taylor for him. It is next to impossible to double the speedy Bay, of Cleveland, at first on an infield bit. Pitcher Breitenstein has been appointed manager of the Natchez Club, of the Cotton States League. O'Lcary, of Detroit, is showing the way to all short stops of this year's crop, with an average of .940. Not long ago the Washiuugton Club was offered $15,000 for Coughlin and ratten, but turned the offer down. Bradley, Ilolmes and Dougherty come in order named as the run-getters of the American League. Kruger, the Pittsburg substitute, hit in the head by pitcher Wilhelm, is now at his home in Chicago for a long stay. The veteran Herman Long has resigned from Toledo. Ilis sucessor as manager-captain is second baseman Burns. Says the Boston Globe: "No League team had struck this town yet that looks as good as Pittsburg, when the long road to go is considered." Outfielder Niieckard has been sent South by the Brooklyn Club to size up minor league talent. Six Brooklyn players are marked for the axe. Of Pittsburg's $4000 college pitcher. Lynch, the ex-Yale pitcher, John S. (Jarvan says: "Mike Lynch has every other college pitcher beaten a mile." Dcviin, of New York, made by far the best showing of any minor leaguer recruited by the National League this year. Whatever goes up must conic down" is unfortunately not true ol the book on the shelf. THE SUiNDAY SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR JULY 17. Subject: Aaa'a Good Helen, II Cliron., xlv., 1-12?Golden Text, II Cliron., xtv.# 11?Memory Verne*. 2-3?Commentary on the Lcuan.'' T. Reformation under Asa (vs. 1-3). 1. "City of David." Jerusalem. "Asa. his son." Abijah had many sons (chap. 13:21). "Reigned." Asa reigned forty-one years. "Was quiet." That is, they had no wars. "Ten years." This was probably the result, largely, of Abijah's great victory over Jeroboam. These% ten years of rest are naturally to be assigned to the beginning of Asa's reign; later on there was a rest of twenty years (compar- chap. 15:10 with 15:19). The number ten here makes a discrepancy with 1 Kings, for Haasha became king of Israel in the third year of Asa, and "there was war between Asa and Baasha all their days" (1 Kings 15:32). 2. "Good and right." After the division of the kingdom not one of the nineteen kir.gs that ruled over Israel was a good king, and only a few of the uineteen who rulea over Judah were good. Asa was the first good king of Judah. He followed the commandments of God with ins whole heart, and in hat respect was like David. "la the eyes of?God." 1. He aimed at pleas mg uoa. i. xie saw uou s eye ama>? upon him. 3. God approved of what ho did. The important question is not whether we are right in our own eyes, or in the c^es of the world, but are we right before 3. "He took away." This statement, which is again repeated in verse 3, seems to be contradicted in chap. 15:17. where it is said ' the high places were not takea away out of Israel." There are different ways of explaining this apparent discrepancy. Perhaps the best explanation is that Asa made a great effort to remove them from his kingdom, and was largely successful, but that notwithstanding all his efforts he failed of complete success. The writer does not say that he took away "all" the high places. Some think that the high places here referred to were those of the strange gods, while thosfc where Gad wag worshiped were suffered to remain; otlters think that at one time in his reign Asa succeeded in abolishing all the high places, but that they subsequently appeared azain. "Strange gods." Heathen deities. "High places. It was the practice of thcheathen to erect altars for their idolatrous worship on the tops of hills or mountains, supposing they were nearer to God and heaven. "Groves." "Asherim." R. V. Thio word is the proper nape for a heathen goddess. Asherah (plural for Asherim and Asheroth), and is another form for Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Zidonians. Asherah was their female. a9 Baal was their male divinity. In the plural it is often used in the more general sense of idols. 4. "To seek the Lord." Compare chap. 15:12, 13. Asa commanded the people to observe all the divine institutions which they had been utterly neglecting. After . destroying idolatry, Asa revived religious worship (1) by his personal example, and (2) by the use of his authority. He car- * ried out the reforms in a spirit of self-consecration, coitrage and zeal. He sought to please God first and not himself or his courtiers. 5. "Images." "Sun images." R. V. The original word is different from the one used in verse 3. The Hebrew word is of uncertain meaning, and it is possible that no kind of image is meant, but rather the hearth on which the sacred fire was keot. The Hebrew root means to be hot. "Was quiet." The people obeyed the commands of Asa and sought the Lord (chap. 15). tt A?f M.*I a o\ a II. 1184 s military ucieiises p?. voj. v. "Built fenced cities." He probably restored the fortresses which Shishak, the kin? of Egypt, had taken and dismantled (chap. 12:24). The kingdom of Judah had probably been tributary to Egypt since the time of Shishak's invasion (cnap. 12:8), but now Asa discerned a favorable time to throw off this foreign yoke, and while the land was unguarded by the Egyptians he fortified his kingdom. "Lord had given." Asa had not gained rest and success by his own valor, but God had given it. 7. "Land?before us." That is, while the land was unoccupied and unguarded by their enemies and they were free to go at their own pleasure. "Sought the Lord." It is always good to seek the Lord. Those who pursue the world meet with vexation of spirit, but God gives peace and prosperity and real prosperity can come only from God. 8. "Targets and spears." See R. V. The Hebrew word here rendered target means a large shield. "Out of Judah." Asa's array is divided into heavy-armed soldiers, carrying spears, belonging to Judah, and light-armed bowmen belonging to Benjamin. "All these." This does not mean that Asa had an army of 5S0.000 professional soldiers, such as compose European armies or our standing army, but there were in Judah aud Benjamin this number of men capable of bearing arms and liable to be called into service. III. Asa defeats the Ethiopians (vs. 9-15). 9. "Zerah the Ethiopian." He probably belonged to the same dynasty as Shishak (chap. 12:24), for his army wag composed of the same nations. This proves him to have been an Egyotian and ^ot. as some have thought, an Arabian or Asiatic "king. His object in invading Judah was doubtless to recover to Egypt the cities which Asa had been fortifying, for Asa's procedure had been virtually a rebellion against Egypt. "A thousand thousand." This is the largest collected army of which we hear in the Scriptures. But some think that the number is not to be taken literally, and that a thousand thousand signifies that there was a great host too great to number. "Three hundred chariots." The chariots, though comparatively few, r.rc mentioned because Asa himself had rone at all. "Mareshnh." One of the citie3 which had been fortified bv Reho- t boam (chap. 11:8). It was probably near the western border of Judah, about twenty-five miles southwest of Jerusalem. 11. "Cried unto tne Lo 1." Asa saw that his ho'ie of success was not in any effort he might be able to make, but in God. His faith and courage mounted high, and with holy boldness he pressed his case. "Nothing,with Thee." See R. V. It is alike to rhee to help the powerful or the weak. Thou canst as easily help the weak as the strong. "In Thy name." That is, by Thy commission, in confidence of Thy assistance, and for the maintenance of Thy honor and service and people. "We go." Although relying on God for victory, yet Asa made the best preparations possible and went out to meet the enemy. "Against Thee.' Asa thus made the battle the Lord's, and called upon Hint to maintain His own honor. 12. "The Lord smote." But not without the help of Asa .and hit Jewish and Benjamite forces. "Fled." Filled with terror the vast Ethiopian -? fled to the south. Red Rose Paid for Rent. Probably one of the longest leases known was granted for a small piece of meadow land, some sixteen acres in extent, in Surrey. It is for the term of 2.000 years, and was granted on St. Michael's Day, in 1651, at the singular rental of "a red rose when demanded." It Is not stipulated that the rose shall be the product of this land, which is fortunate, for no such rose grows anywhere on the sixteen acres.