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; Bf 1 * ^iMSi ^ *^*^fiBBBfic2SS^j|j|SwMMBflS^MMBHB||c|^^ . . . NITiltR^^ tft - f 7 ' OLD JONES IS DEAD. Br LQl'lRB CBAVTrLKR MOULT I sat In tny window, hlgb overhead, And board them say, below In tho ?( *1 suppose you know that old Jones li Then tho kfwlor passed, and 1 1 foot Heedlessly walking their onward way 'Dead I* What more could there be t But I ant and pondered what It might Thus to bo dead when the world wm Old Joues are further thin we bare a< Waa be one w!;.li the stars in the wat Or down there an ler tho growing gra? Did he h? ar tbo loot of tne daylight pi Were dry-time and n'ght-time one tc And grlev ng and hoping a tale that A Kiss on his lips or a hand on hia bri Could he feel lb.-m tinder the c mold. As he surely felt them his whole life Though they passed with his youth and stioug? They called him "Old Jonea" when died; "Old Jcnos" he bad bf-en for many a Ye:, his faithful mnnory true defied, And dwelt in the days so distant an< Wb n first ho found tiiat lore was sw< MfcjfcArf K?r Does be brood in the long n'ght tinder On tbo joy a and sorrows he nsed to I Or, far In sotn" wonderful world of lie Where tho shining ceraphs stand, r boot he wa\o like n e Mid at. the g'eaui. Aim Know inai me past. w?i a ni? (Ileum ? In ho dead, and a clo 1 down there bole Or dead aud wiser linn any alivo ; Which? Ah. who of us may know. Or wlio c.ni say how the (liad folk tl I'u. the summer morinng iecool and i And I hoar tho li\o folk laugh In the b ft GREftT TREAS The Straep Mystery Sori Its Disappearance. ? 9 > A STORY OF EXTRAORDINARY II Myr *'1 * ? iqT 'iT" yulU BT FRANK BARRKT * fir A l'I'i: O V Io of K 10 lie Dlj will come." Van lio ok had said t< these words coming back to ni askod myselfII the repantcd atti Edith might not bo a part of a co scheme to obtain tho diamond. SiueiLUplot was the moro pos cause it serin d impossible. / legerdemain succeeds or not. ace nm nhiu w uii which i mi conjurer attention on a false train of oporat ho works out tho actual font. A these reflect ions, I took tlio Ore front tlio pooch on my waist s huckloil it in its case upon invlett w 1 doubly locked the :ioor. sawtl was oil in the lantp. put a bo matches beside it on the table, u opened-the Iqng-hlnded knife V Itad given me." and stuck it hot1 matt ress and the side of the bodst The room was thickly carpi oak-paneled. The furniture?wit eoption of the toilet arrangements saddle-hacked "chaifs-was antiriu oak. The bedstead was purtleulu with four carved pillars, carrying quin itnd heavy curtains of some ( c-Hded stuff, looped at the foot, but loose at the head; it facod the oriu Hotweon the right side of the he wall was a square table?on wl the lamp -with the saddle-hack eh It. On the left-hand side of the I tall carved black press. A large with a sculptured mantel and heart h. faced t lie door. A screen the wushstund. whieli stood to t the oriel. A broad settle with i and. covered with a stulT similti hangings of the tied, ran round t sided recess formed bv the wini tains of the same kind shut oft th A corner cabinet, with folding dot lower part, titled the angle of thi the right; between this and the d deep, wide. and loner cheat. and a largo rbirror. An eserctoiro. so backed chairs, and a second table < JBfrhy furniture. There was 110 doo 9 hT'' opening upon the corridor window save the oriel. In the early part of the niL'ht scribed these particulars to Van his request, and he had made me , the press, the old ehest. thehanci beu and settles; everything. Ill fa m'ght atloid a hiding-place to l.o other. I had even gone down upon Hijacked under the hod. to appease iety. Ami yet now a vague um-usl sussed me as I raised the lamp si looked round the room. The whin scot, the somber hangings, tl celling overhead, absorbed the lij) was a black void on the opposite ibed. wjjero the light from the Ian tereepfed by the curtains; I eouli even the outline of the great presi 1 readjusted the shade, turnci higher, ami. half undressed, tlire upon the bed. I was not afraid?I 1 was a mateli for any natural foe, not believe in the existence of an yet I felt myself infected with Va present iment of impending enlnin Van Hooek's theory of l.ola's e ^ in a plot to steal the diamond ha I A set by the Jact that I was Wftl ^ asleen at my door at the very time lieved she saw tlie girl looking th blinds; but t lis bad in nowise si eonvletion that the mysterious a| was eonneeted with the scheme t< "Are 11 man's eonvietions to he his senses?" tie asked. "Voii are 1 that a cloud is rising in 1 lie hnrizo you see it. hut 11111 I to deny its because I have no sight ? Are von then, in declaring thai we are not Viy tills U'sastpr \vlii?-ll is I., ovet mm to a boo. the nrf?f?onnirrt"tn-t^ '^(ViW to cutt. toll nto that my con nothing. It I* only by convict lot live. What saves us front tlostru tho conviction that, by, stoppin abyss, wo must fall'.' f toll y<n about you; wo arc on tho edge of Tlioro aro signs to strike tho dullc poncc. Your turn will emtio!" I had bttnp tnv watch in tho poo tit winging at the head of tho boil; ti Aing sounded strangely out of with tho gloom ami stillness ol rounding*. Tho shaded light pnvi real aspect to the hod-liungiiigs; tl itiin ovor my head might have boo alqun for the dead. I woudeied h A nnn had omlod their days on tills I hose hangings had boon put up ^ -'an llooek's present intent ho Should ^ho found there in the lend V it wus^^p. suited for a murder, ti r * " * '4 ' " -' /j* it . ? With Its pall-like hangings to conceal the Hi lurking murderer. di os* Tlc-tHc. tic-tne, tic ho, tictac. tlc-tae. o| Mr ear had become so familiar to the fu Lreet brisk movement of my watch that theeltght- \r idead?" ost aound was audible above It. And a , teard their Bound, slight indeed. I heard. " tn To my mind, dwelling then upon asses? h sins. It sounded like the drawing of a daguer tt ? from ite sheath. Turning my head toward the side froas c? Llj,-. which tho sound seemed to procood, 1 fan- a; cied I saw tho hoavr curtain move; it was ctalngsky? between me and the lamp. 1 ho movement w la was as slight as the sound. 1( it was a fact ki ?ss I that 1 heard one. it was a fact that 1 saw tho j ei other. pi ' hj1? ""w> I drew myself up gradually, and. leaning is told/ forward. I suddenly thing back tho curtain til bnrrhv&rd with my left hand. There was no resist- di anee to my hand; nothing to be so<n bolong. yond but tho lamp burning steadily on the si i-time hot table, the suddle-buck chair, and the dim w outline of the big chiinuoy-piece. 1 got upon my knees anil pushed the cur- tl at last he tHjn flat against the wall, to bo suro that r there could by no possibility be any one tl y concealed in tho heavy folds?to assure my- hi i<l?ar self that my suspicion Was utterly without d< .?t foundation.' i.T.M assails the sol placed as to preclude tho possibility oi any know; one hiding beyond it. ' m d. K the curtain had indocd moved it inusl. Ip ?T ?o "sml have been by a hand from under tho bed. bi usyiigni s W|l8 Ma8|0|. to l)0liovo that I had been mis- I r>l [tat'B abort taken in seeing the slight movement than in to suppose I had overlooked a concealod qi thiol when 1 looked under the hod to satisfy ni >w; Van Hoeck; so 1 let the curtain fall and lay I in down again. f; . . My tnough t s still dwelt upon the idea of 'weei assassination. betting aside the idea of un \v .root.' intrigue In which Lola was concerned, there was yet nothing preposterous in Van d ; Hoeck's presentiment. There were eight ui or ten servants in tho house, and undoubt- n I I fk r odly every one of them knew of the mar- a I I U L velous treasure in my keeping. They would 111111 tell their friends in the adjacent village, the II V 11 L I keepers, tho tradespeople?In a few days ir tho story would be carried about and made n: known to hundreds; and was thero none !o among them whose cupidity might tako si nnnHinrr prwticni form? UUimillU 1' WHS Itilte possit>lc that under this very roof there wnn one with the ingenuity and daring to plan and execute the robbery. A servant intimately acquainted with tho arrangement of tho rooms and the peculiarities of the building would probably know of the external means of n ITEREST. communication bet wen tho bay and the s .. orioLjtiuklWH. " With' t this knowledge, xi ( BBSn ijtfiJtWr aoainod *t me, workf idare r ? - TeaWenpT that hazar< is 'passage dt night * T* and in tho dark; b< .ith that knowledge, tl and possibly son) previous practice, the n feat was siifTieicntly practienidc. In that case, Edith might actually have lienrd and *" XORANT seen what sh<! hud since attributed to v what bad imagination. ... n eurred in But what eml could bo served by those ]( d I t h' s repeated attacks upon her sensibility V om before o cause is sometimes discovered by ex- " r cry for amining tlic effect. Now. what eiTect liad ' Ip.I p^ced been produced by these attacks? The llrst ( y r o o m. bad frightened Edith excessively; the sec- |] linking 0,id hud marie a slighter impression. Thus ow terri- far the effect had been confined to her; but ,s to the tho third?for only to a third fright could I ~ ght must attribute her scream of terror?had brought ]j ivo been her father and myself from our rooms. In- 0 at m a <1 o Stuntly. something like the trutli flashed r taint a upon my mind: 111 cond tinto To luing mo from my room \v?s tho very ! il <1 despite object with which the attack upon Edith 1 ir holier In hnd been made. | c unreal- Unriddling the mystery with this key. I i " ,* of these assume 1 that tho thief had watched mo I ^ ystorio u s close tho door upon Van Hoeck ami return ' 1< i> p c a r - 1? my room; that, after allowing me suf- I n ices. Ileient time to get into bed, but not to fall Your turn >nl<> sound sleep, he had .made the attack i me, and upon Edith, opening her door beforehand ly mind. I provide a speedy means of escape and to li ick? upon allow her cry to bo more distinctly heard; 0 in plicated that, having succeeded In terrifying her, he had sped down the stairs in the loft siblo be- block, passed through (ho library and dlnin act of ing-room, and ascended by the stairs in Iho u orditig to right block about the same time that I llxes our nrght bo supposed to have reached Edith's ions while room, and that, reckoning upon my keeping . ,s 1 made the Great Hesper under my pillow, and il at Hospor leaving it there in iny alarm upon Edith's a trap, and account, ho had expected to have possessed (l rist; then himself of our treasure. If what I thus us- . lilt there sumed was the fact, then indeed this plan x of wax might have succeeded but for Van Hoeck's v nd finally prudent insistance upon my strapping the ] an Hoeck diamond to my wrist. ween the As 1 thus explained what had happened, end. ? more startling reflection occuirod to my p itoil and mind. The thiof had been disappointed in v h the ox- not finding the diamond beneath my pillow, s and a low. but ho yet might not liuvo relinquished the n 0 and of hope of getting it. rly wide. He might not have left the room. Ho r a balda- might bo hidden there at that very mo- 1 thick bro- ment! ?< hanging Wha^ was more easy, being in tho room, g V _ .tbjin.t>roita^it>4iin>uoff in iiv Tim c?*rl?v? . d ahd the (hat masked the oriel, the great chest, tho f lich stood settle, the press, were all suggestive of that 1 air beside course. The fellow might bo under the very I ied was a bed I was lying upon! ?< cbiinney, 'I In- movement I had seen in tho curtain, an open the sound similar to the drawing of a blade ? 1 shut ofT from its sheath (which might well have 1 lie left of been caused by the movement of the heavy i C i valance, valance of the bed). strengthened the sus- I ir to tho picion. Wus ha lying there waiting for tho I ? he three- pound of my heavy breathing to assure him I 7 |?w?cur- that I slept? * j l is recess. There was scarcely the necessity to wait i n >rs in the for thai, for what resistance could I. lying I | walls io upon my back there, make against a foe ' i oor was a springing out of the dark upon mo? ' hove it. a 1 thought of the clasp-knife Van Hoeck ! 11 nie high- had given me, and. stretching out my hand. I ? completed | f(.|| for il where I had slin k it?between i r r but. the tin. mattress and Hie bedstead. 1 could not ' ? . and no q. _ . l ushing back Hm curtains so that the * i miu mi- light Iroin the lamp I' ll upon tin- edge of > Hoeek at tho bedstead, 1 assured myself that it was examine not whore 1 iuid I?*i it. It must have slipped ngH of the through, or been drawn out. rt, which The latter supposition explained the la or an- sound and movement I had heard and seen. I | Yet it might have niado that sound in slip- 1 knees and ping through?its fall upon the floor dead- j 1 his hiix- ened by the enrpet. r?t it" point sticking in ( ||U*h3 ]?OS - IliU Im'(IiOo? ImiI I fnu< h'U llit) lii'i u-li iiutllu J J tade, and was too wide to allow of its slipping j . dark oak through. to painted To satisfy myself at once upon this point. ' rht: there I leaped out of lad. resolved to strike a | < dde of the match and loilk under the valance. 1 stood ^ tp was in- for a moment stupolled. The box of vestas j f il not see was gone from the table, where I was eer- i k. tain I had laid them. I the wiek Thoy must have been taken while I lay t tw myself serocned by the bod curtains. ] it strength I glanced over my shoulder, and L did 'I he lolds of the curtain against the bed i I y other ? were not the same as when I pushed thein j ' n llooek's back to the wall: >?ne fold stood out at an | I ity. angle; and as. slowly turning round. I j j otnplieity looked more closely. I saw against the dark I I boon up- oak panel of tho wall, about the mld-lndglit ! ohiug her of a man, and protruding but an inch or so ' I'.ditli lat- from the edge of tho curtain, the bright I ? rough tho point of a knife-hlado. I - lakcn his " Now. indooil. there was no longm inn iiioiirnnco doubt. Tin* innn who hud conic to rob was > rob its. I horn to murder me. Il.i.l I Mom;! limited by another moment on the bed lie min111 have . 1 existence there behind the curtain nt a certain nd- < nnuwued ^Should I spring upon him and strangle ^ Whehn us him against the wall In the fohb. of the ear- ^ bit? siHFfii |W?I Otto might ITT the eiid bo fat"nf.'Pile | { vletion is thick stuff wciild prevent my getting ? llrm v n that we grip of him. and his right iiand. the one ciion but that held the knife, was freo. My elutneo v g into an was too snlull. the danger too great to t i fo Iook justify tiiat attack, though the musclos of an abyss. my arms and lingers we.*o strung up to i i at intelii- niake the tempting effort. Keeping my eye upon the curtain. I drew ' " ket upon back to the foot <>f the bed. To get to the ' li its lively t|oor I must cross the room, and inevitably keeping |,c w,(,? by the murderous rasenl as he stood ; the sur- there on the inner aide of thchcd-ciirtain: " f'jnc" and arrived at the door 1 must turn the key ! s< ie hnldn twice, and the handle as well, before 5ie a a cata- overtook inc. On the other hand, he had ow many to disengage himaclf from the folds of the '"'d since curtain and recover tlie start I had of iiiin. ?M . The chances ' ere pretty er|iial. and I d?- sc fiillllledtermincil to ;% e mvaelf by flight rather i)( morning than ri*k the fatal result of the unequal encounter. in hat bed, I made my way noiselessly in a straight 1" ->ubli*i. ffira" wf given, 5rfSJnV'. w;yfoJI ",e *n pen, apace, sfit ?. to " a fc? moments irious haste j>,nnrSd ob"re heard, as gone! , fter wniting soi I grasped tlio iLfl<iate. in Inv. in '-go off' ilgbt be able to tour the lock off, ... . \ un been taken out. und the knob slia m spindld in my hand. I was lout. < It astonishes nio now to think ffith Vli ferity and udioitiiesi theso ProcatUio zainst my escape hud boon made. The man had not rushed n'ter mo; tin as no dosporate pursuit of Mint kind; pew I was trapped. Only us I turned i ires buck to the place whore lie stood sreeivod that the light was dying out. There was but a narrow row of blue tlai tiovd th j wick; it faded away all 1 all \i ark. There aro degrees of darkness; tl Joined to mo the 1i<b'. degree. I felt as I as sunk in a lake of pitch. II I onlled for help it was not certain t' le heavy-sleeping Judge would hear n ossibly bir Edmund was yet awake, bit louglit of Edith, und besides I know tl ?fore assistaneo eoubl eomo, beforo t jor could be burst, all would be over. Probably my foe was already approaehl e; my cry would bo the signal for him r?o. m1y"rmiy eiisnrw nr recop-' a'ntaining s lenee. and keeping him utonuteo of my position. If accidc rought us into contact. I trusted to i hysical strength and good luck to b< latch for him uud iiis knife in the sub: ncnt struggle. Tho diamond buckled iv wrist niigbt. serve me in the light light stun the follow with it it fortune 01 ivored niy arm. II was a duel between Us, and any wa; ould s-ll mv li!o dearlv. Will, tlllu roU..lv? 1 I'lfav ( nor toward that purl of the room whe k I fancied, the curved press stood. I k< ly U'nis free, my l>odv eroticliod togotli nd every muscle tense and ready. I hacked u few feet from the door, n ten I stopped, us the reflection eros.> ly mind t tint I might b5 bucking towi iy adversary! Then I regretted that I li (ft the door. Where nt least I might In iuod sa'o from the rear attack. |to ije continued.| Similarity ?rProverbs. Examples of ideas which seem to ldigenons to all countries occur to t lind in bewildering redundancy. "(J wallow does not make a spring," nd alike in English, (lei-man, a tuesian. In tfoo sunny South it tul he form, "Oho flower does not*mnk arland." In Italy wo find, "Ho \\ rasps all, less gets;" in France, " ho embraces too much binds bndb nd in our own countiy, "Grasp t 5so all." Our "Birds of a fcatl ock together" is rcprcBe ttcd bv 1 talian "Every like covers its like;" ( Srcek, "A comrade loves a comradi he French, "(r'?/? se raxaemhJe, x\ cmhlc." Plato declarod more tli ,0<K) years ago that "A beginning nil of all," and Iior found an echo ur "What s begun is half dono," a a the Italian^" Who commences w i at the half^.tf the task." 'Iherc is a true Oru nial ring ab< ueli proverbs as "Among the sain reoB ave deadly serpents," "Rivers lit ntuses, hut also alligators." It eedless to suggest the Western c elatives. "By a number of strn wistod together elephants can omul," is again only the Iudian fo f the Scotch, "Many a little make lickle." The Greeks, wishing to cast dou ipon a man's probity, declared him ie "A sheep with a fox's tail." wh nswoi's to our "Wolf in sheep's clo ng," an the French "// fail is pntrc." The familiar "Finin coroi pus," has passed by literal tram ion into French and Russian. "A eel 1 that ends well," bears a strc n.r. * 1 lies yul." There is a lengthy < n'al proverb, "Let n cur's tn.il rarmed, pressed out straight, ? wathed with bandages; if releai Iter twelve years it will nevortliel oturn to its natural shape." It iso o trace the similarity of idea in < You cannot make a silk purse out c low's ear." "Man proposes. Cod ( )oses," appears in 'The German, wl n Russian it takes the form. "C nakes the crooked arrow straigl Charity begins at home," in Ruse issumes the. more graphic and sugg< vo form, "One's own shirt is nearest no's body." We discourage carrying "Coals Newcastle," the French deprecato t ng "Water to the liver. We "Dr is we brew," or would if we con he French, "Sloop on the bed as t! lave made it." The old Athenian is much concer el to see a hull in ity as we are when that qundru ippeurs in a china sli >p. With 'Still waters ru 1 deep;" i 1 ltu hey "Swarm ?ith devils," a much m l igorons figure. Singular Fatalit'es. It was soma years ago that f rusted and popular employes o jertain well-known Chicago firm pul >nb and started in husin ss for th ielves in tlie same lino, f or a t everything went along smoothly, he ordoifl rolled in from their nistoniers. Then the head of the t ivent Mast on business, and a week so later the startling news came t ie had fallen into the maeliinory i nill ami had been crushed to <1 o. It was nut many months later that junior member of the firm went an md while traveling he was killed i 'ailroul neeident. Then the tl nember of the (piartett * was myst msly murdered, and now the surviv nember is wondering if an nntin loath is to be his lot. It was a singi nieeossion of fatalities. Italians in Olden Times, It is seldom in theso days that ; ieur of a person bein z locehod uipp <1 '* 's rapidly bee ming ft nt. Not 11 gioit many yours bacl \as a very important i usinosa in e ioption with a tonsorial estublishnu . . ? .v i"<'?fiis.on ta own." TJnpping and leeching w cry popular anu nt; thn Germans a diether weak or strong, tlioy fo'.lov ho use. Not a groat many years i n apprentice barber invariably hu' icoonio as proticiont in the appliont f the lcoeii as lie did in the shav no. Ita bora also did a good deal v?th-jorking, but that part of the bt oss is also no more, sinco dentists i ) numerous. Anchors.?Anchors aro said to ha eon invented by tho Tuseans. T oond tooth or tlnke is said to lia >011 added by Anarcharsis tho ttcvt n, r?H2 It. ('. Anchors aro said ive been /orged iu England A. I ), 51 I ' 1' NFNVS tiolp.itni r seven disi. . u,u^0|M> Forp Company's rolling no time for the other two | throughout eiinpc " the foreman, Mr. l*on- to the goo< "-eturoeil to thaenoiflej ni l*iTiiatfPlfTnTji? #30,000 mid scvral firemen were overcome l?y int. the funics of burning pepper. The body o| 1,19 Joseph Jacobs, son of a wealthy citizen ot ?re Hamilton, Ohio, was found in the reservoir at ho that place. Despondency, caused by pover" j ty, led E. A. Culver, of Denver, Cel., to take half a ImjHIc of morphine, and the* blew out his brains. Conductor Uardner J. Tucker, 1111 of a freight train on the Pittsburg, Fart Wayne its and Chicago Railroad, had a deWierate en" counter with tramps at Lima, Ohl>, in which int ',c WB* fubt'ly wounded. Font trainmen io. were buried in a landslide that a lit'est Short ' ' freight train ran into near St. Johnsville, N. h0 Y. Twelve women and children were washed off a rait in the Mississippi flood at Uoyou Falaya. Delegates wpresentiugUicBroth. ? ^ho^ ttf 1^-omoti vtjt^ngineen^ll^*^ ^ , Y., and adopted a scheme of fabufeiioii'of all my the organizations of trainmen Mthc United > * States. Moore A Slnnott, of Philadelphia * have entered suit against a large number oi ; I brewing firms for money advanced to aid tht l,'y campaign against the probihitary nnieudniciu y i last year. The strike at pliver Bros.' nut and t" 't works, Pittsburg, which affected out hO lliiilicuiwl ...... u I ??i?? ?? -? r,? | hivii, him utrii Ktiim ?\y Inr met ,.pt withdrawing their demand for the discharge or, of one workman ami the reinstatement o: lu| another. A horse Imeked a wagon contain ?e,l Ing two boys over a prepipiee fitly feet hip); rd at Greenshurg, l'a., and Samuel Dormau wai ivo billed and Mark Steele internally injured Twelve election officers were arrested iw Jersey City as a result of the legislature's in vestigntion of the hallot-box fraud. Johr. ?>'Hara and Martin Fahey, aged ahont seven be teen years, were shot by a negro in a quarre die between whites and blacks in Pittsburg. 'no By the breaking of the levee at Cattish Point, we on the Mississippi, near Greenville, Mits. rut that town was inundated.^ ^JjyrcuaO. Stearns "-'8 one of Chicago's wfulticsX^jjaCTMn^vummittci.' ? suicide. A young Indian named Fag!< Ji0 Horse shot and instantly killed Frank K. J) Lewis, a school teacher,at Pine Ridge Agency Nebraska, and then committed suicide. ? 1 ' Forty buildings in the village of Theresa, neat ,j' Wntertown, N. Y., were destroyed by fire. jjp Ia?ss $130,000. John B. Price, formerly 0.'? book-keeper for Hall A Willis, wholesale hardIS' ware dealers, of Kansas City, haa disappeared. Shortage nlmut $0,(KK). By the burning of is a tavern at Greenville Junction, Maine,many in of the boarders narrowly escaped. George n<l K. Noonan, his wife and daught<r, of Fugle* ell wood, Chicago, are seriously ill from the effects of poison, and a servant is suspected of >ut ! thc crime. In the sixtieth annual confer* lul once of the. Mormons at Salt Lake ( ity, Presi* ive dent '.Yc^lruff auUcu tnat there would be no 18 more revelations. Rev. John Dougherty nl Wood, a Methodist minister, was utreated at L^'8 Olcn.., x. v., o? - o-.-.ttrge oi^nWoy. Tl.o powder works at Rochester, NvY., blew up, killing two men. The Chicago Gas Trust has been broken up and theplaiV* and frati* cliises sold to n now company orgitizcd vm'ler to the law of New Jersey, i h There wore 1S9 business failures in the th- United States and seventeen in Oannda the oil past week. Fire at Trenton, N. J., did $75,Hfl 000 damage. Mrs. Anna House, an aged 'yj* woman was crushed to death by n railroad '' 9 train, near Littleton, N. C\-?At a meeting of "'Pj the stockholders of the Chicago World's Fair . j Association.there wasa lively fight over a propj osition to increase the number of directors to mil seventy-five. A shut-down of the coke fnr30(1 nnecs in the Scottsdale region is threatened. The sheriff of Atlantic county, N. .1., has isy in the last few days, sold \wo hundred farms, )Hl to satisfy mortgages which hadbeen foreclosed, ?f it and forty families are homeless. Thegravcs lia- of five hundred den<H'hin?*^ York tile cemeteries were decorated with htvftiiful pa>otl p,.r wives and paper blouses, which were burned on the sod in the belief that in the nail celestial home thev were changed to real .o*. . t ^ t la I ?>vcs and silken garments.? Antrim <>s! bourne, aged seventy-two years, a retired i manufacturer, residing near Chester, Pa., was ak- ' killed while walking on the railroad track. | Harris A. Smilcr, who killed li/s wife in il?l" w York city, it now appears, ha?two other hoy ! living wives, from whom he was never was legally separated. F. W. Chivas, a welltlio known merchant in New York, wis shot on pod his way home to Mount Vernon, lilt residence, via in lite suburbs of the city. Two boys aged saii\ respectfully twelve and fourteen -ears, have '?ro been arrested in Chicago,eharged vith trying to wreck n railroad train and witl throwing stones through the w indows of paaenger cars. ? M. II. Alexander, of Temect|k, Col., has our committed suicide.? The nuckicld House, f o owned by .lohn M. Tobin, at Ihtdfield, Me., Iletl | was destroyed by fire. Two thieve* robbed ) M. .1. Mitchell's jewelry store at H*S<'cr, Col., '"l : of $5,200 worth of jewelry. A "'."rw Knight, "Tl president of the Hunt! JTrp ir:n 1 M""n,nin r"nl (omOM "^ffihenly nt (',r ; his residence in PhihtiRlplfto^jH sixty-six hat .vrnrs- Mrs. Carrie Young,aged firty years, of a ' Mas ,0 death in her home inPatterson it.li. | Dr. Theodore Dedolph's license to llio practice medicine in Minnesota h? heen re 1 ..,.i,...i .... .i i . .. . . . ?T( ! ...... , mi- i-iiurgc 01 sinning Bjniieni wno in & was just recovering from (he effect* of nn op. lird oration, nn'l injuring his eyesight. A fast eri- express t.nin on (lie Wabash Railroad was ing \\ reeked near St. t'hurles, Mo., an<l ft number iclv ,,f persons injured. benjamin II. Haller, lint" tfr:i11<I master Mason of Tennessee, tlied at his resitleiiec in Memphis' Captain W. L. t ouch, leader of the Oklahoma boomers, was shot in the leg l\v .?. O. Adams, in ft nuarrel you over a elniup, near Oklahoma City.?-David Of S. Itatten, aged seventy-four, a pnst grand '?? eomnflknder of the Knights Templar of N?w ' Jersev, hanged himself at Newark. son- * >nt. ~~ oro Itr.ocked.f; .". nd, I During the civil war Mr. Charles Ness, | of Hcnrsmount, was a member of a Mains I to regiment. While in the t*outh he had h <?n bad fail, striking the back of his head '"PC heavily on the ground. It left him partially blind, anil for nearly twrnty-l rc ihi- years lie has been in the same condition. ?ro | While lie could see somewhat he wn* unable to read. During the icy time last week, Mi. Ness fell while Carrying a pail vt) of milk into the house nndt again struck ho rim back of his head heaviiv on the icc. .vo Strange to say, his eyrsi^^ has been ih- restored and now he can! to read a? to well as before the accidcl l^PlPittetield 'tf. (Me.) Advertiser. ^ J 1 I J vflU Tir v Wiy, from a spiol of otto: 1 ! SHOES ! '.than ever. ' v s?U8, F.'oo'm Affffl tlic Honthnr* o-n M kola, nml I ho I'olnll IHMr Hullo Niiir.-r* Irom n Ml <1 W nlir. Special li'lcpnims to oorrolsu previously reported indications that wlillo volume of general trade is heavy, there Ih-oii a distinct cheek to the movement Maples to retailers as compared to the din hiiiion some months ago. Improvements trade is reported following more seisonn i weather at Omaha, San Franeiseo and t einnatl. The overflows along the lower Mississi Valley have checked trade at New Orlei and even at 81. I/Oiiis a similar influence Im-cii felt. Adviees trom Chicago arc n rately cheerful. At New York, while year Is 15$ per cent, less than in March, t Hank clearings at thirty-six cities for M? aggregate $4,/m2,514,83I, a gain over a year of 1A per cent, as compared with an men of 18 per cent, in March, 188J>, over 1H8M. the first quarter of 1880 the gain is ? per e | over the first quarter of 1880, hut the inen in the hank clearings in the first qunrtc 1889 oyer 1888 was 17 per cent. Special investigation h.v Mnifhtrrrt'.* < the genend trade for tin- past quarter, into mercantile col lection (at twentv-oneeit shows that the late mild Winter, low pr and depression in the coal trade have unfavorable effects upon retail distrihutioi heavy wearing apparel and kindred go and the influence of heavy stocks carried ? hy retailers is reflected in a less active mnnd than anticipated and slow collect! at many points. 'Micro is less diseountin hills and small demand for iieeommodatic Wheat has not varied in price much, t? ing upward toward the close. Ihdneisl st< ah:oa I and crop damaged at home are s'imulating features, for our eflorts have clint'd visibly, no'iahly from tin- Paeiflte ? ( The total shipped this week, lxith coasts eluding flour n* wheat1 is 1,521,8116 husl against 2,401,156 bushels the week bel From July Is Inst to dale exports canal 215,676 bushels, against 66,<M0,120 bushels like portion of 1868-80. Indian corn is fir or on liglilci illlcror shipments Uhd iuuiIin hcnvv exports. On is, likewise, are tract ally higher. Mrives in Spring dress gixxls are the 1 iUK features of the Kastern dry-goods johl trade. A considerable movement has I effected at cut rates. Trade with agent only moderate. Cotton and wool dress g< show the most notable activity. Prices as a rule, unchanged, Cotton is dull and changed, as is all raw wool. Reports to Itraihtrect'n of mercantile 1 arcs throughout the United States during first quarter of the current year show a t of.1,326, against 3,566 in the tirst qnarti I88!t. Tne aggregate liabilities of fai traders are $33,8I t,Jul, against .6(1,761,666, actual assets >16,d82,2l2, against 62",376,7s | the tirst quarter of |8>6. ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE. Mrs. Rose Terry Cooke, is grnduallj gaining her health. Gov. Tooi.f., of Montana, it is announ is to wed a daughter of Oencrul Rosycram Processor James Rissei.l Lowei. not yet well enough to resume literary w Rev. Ilt'on Price Ilt'oitEH. the f,oii sensationalist preacher, will visit Host on year. If. Rimer Haooard has disappeared t public view. Some say he is in Scotland, others that he is in the Orient. The Shaii of Persia lias sent to (Jerni for engineers and workman to introduce light into the "Land of the Sun." The Princess or Wai.es takes a In interest in hammered brass work, an ait wl is t night at her school in Sandringhain. IIenitv M. Stanley's hook, when it pears, will lie published in lVenell, (lern Italian, Czech. Norse, Spanish and Knglis Annie IIksant, the socialist and the phistj is tall, thin and sad of visage married a brother of Walter Ilesanl, novelist. Kmerror William is a hea.ty eater, i ing lour meals a day, ami enjoying such beiuii dishes as liain and eggs and not suns; ami beer. foiln M. Skakk is ilm largest indivii taxpayer in Huston. He pays $.Vi,ntiO . I?.'l,til7,000 worth of real estate and a per*i (a tale of $rj"?,0(io. t'oix?NKb .1. Mt KPIIY, an Aim ri proposes to build a eorn palace at the F. ourg International Kxposilinn, wbieb wil held Ibis Snnuner. S A It AII IlKltNIIAKIiT's pet tiger, of wl Aineriean liolel keepers ami waiters I very impleasanl reeolleetions. died reee of la grippe, at the .fnrdin des Plants, Par SUN a to It Pl.l'MIl was an editor befori Went into the railroad business ami beean millionaire. He is tail and rawboned. u a goatee and a sloiieli bat, ami owns up t years. M Its. Crook,w ho is completely prostr sinee the sudden death of her husband, < < ieorge ('rook, is <|iiietlv resting at Oakli Md., which she has determined to make permanent residence. PltoK. Max Mi t.I.kr, the eminent <>rie list and Philologist, went to Knglnitd wit1 knowing a single word of Knglish. Altlm i a mere youth lie was deeply versed in ! serit, Hebrew and Arabic. PttoKKssoR Tyxpai.i. has erected unsi ly screens of poles covered w ith dead heat I his grounds t>> prevent some people who I built houses within field-glass range of residence from seeing him. Van Pilot' I.kk, the Chinaman whogri nted at Yale College, and soon afterward i ried a New Haven girl, recently went to Francisco, but did not like his surround I there, and is hack in New Haven. I'll it. Ar.Mori!, while a butMier's tassisi was in love with a handsome blonde, jilted him for a wajjon driver. The mil aire reeenllv inquired eoneernini; her, found thai sue is a matron with a I a rye tin and her husband is still a wajron driver. Piiksit?KNT Atiikuton, of the Peni vania Stale < 'ollcjre, is in the South, u | ennimissinfi from the I'nitcd States Me] inent of Agriculture, making a tour of im tiou of the operations of some of the c.\| inent stations in that section. Pkinck Ki'<;knk of Sweden has passed years in Paris as an amateur artist, ha studied under M. Henri fJervex. The I of Sweden hasjusi conferred upon M. tSei the Cross of a Chevalier of the order o: Olaf. It is said that I'rinee Kugene has siderahle talent. mb. (it.aD8TOSK has always been i scrupulous in his attentions to the hum classes than to the nobility and weal Onee, when Prime Minister, he called sunnily on a tradesman one Sunday mor to deliver n ticket for admission to the 11 of Commons, vhich had been requested. Fkkimnanii I?k Lkkskps leans lien 1 forward as he walks, and his hair is wliil I slacked I i tile, yet lie still rota ins a lni<> | flow of imiinal spirits, an<l his hand writi anything 'nit shaky. Mo still nRoots r? lions with a voiiifonnoo ami personally ilnots a voliiininons oorrospon<lonoo. I justly proud of his thirloon "ohiltlron," range in years from I to 1.1. lie is liiinse Negotiations have Iwen entered int< tween Mr. Thos. Hurt, moinhor of the l> 11 on so of Common* for Morpeth, ami seer of the Northumberland Minors' Mutual ciation, ami llerr Ijirseh, chief of the man trinlos-niiioiis, w itli the view to estal I ing thorough co-operation by the (.it-ruin English tradvB-uniouti. CABLE SPV*KS. ; a nperor Vyillinm witf visit Kussin dnrinp com i 111; mi minor. / GT rhoro is n mowftpont in Berlin to erect h monument in thqs city to Prince Bjsiiinrk. Carlxwm, th#'explorer of (lie Nyassa nml Sliire district* of Africa has returned to l.is*r* bon. ? Owing to A meat famine in Berlin tlie resI tnurants of'thnt eity will raise the priee of meat '20 per cent. ' _ It is runiered in Iamdon that Queen Vie1 u" toria is serioiislv considering the step of ahhas (lieatiiiK the British, throne. of Price Alhreeht Wahleek a cousin of the ,lri- Queen of Hoi la ml, has published the reigning Prince of Waldeok as a liar. . . _ Munieh brewers have raised the prloe of 1 beer two pfenning per glass, and as a eonse'in qnenee a riot is ox pee tod there. The young 1>uko of Orleans will be rep.,j leased from prison this week, and secretly uns eondneted across the French frontier, has Mr. Parnell has filed his hill of denial to tod- the allegations in the O'Slien suit for divorce, the and the ease will be heard next autumn. jjjj* do) irrh w,'re orre*twk tHed ?nd sentenced to prison. n Dueling has been forbUden in the Herman army, except in cases where n council of men |.-?r of honor decide that circumstances warrant u VIII. rase The miners employed in (wo eon I pits ti t r of l>or|inniul have joined I lie strike. Work is proceeding quietly in tlie mines in (lie Ksson into district. stud A verdict for 1,1 ISjOOO frnnes dnm-.ges and jest (lie costs of the action was returned in the iocs M,ji ?c (tihhs a Sons, in Paris, against. the had ! Sia'iete dc Nletaiix. " ! The Sultan ot Turkey has signed an iradc * i providing for lieu negotiations with Ktiglund '\,,r . for a convention hased on the withdrawal of " i the Knglish from Kg.vpt. ions . j, ,,f ; The Hamburg-American Steamship Comin. , pany is considering the advisability of ha ving nil- ' the steamers of their New York line cull at :\ icks i Thames river |>ort on their outward voyages, the i The Mill Owners' Association of India has tie- resolved to close the spinning mills eight days ast. every month, ami the weaving mills four (in- days every mouth for a period of three ids, mouths. ore. The Kmpcror William of Germany has pre.* - seated a prize cup, ornamented with antlers 111 " and a figure of Hiatal, goddess of the chase, mer to lie shot for at the federal ritle competition ueii ttitwnnintp 1 ,on" i Prince Bismarck is compiling a memoir for id publication which will comprise the last 'in ' lwenty-tivc years of his official life. Kmperor VWilliam has promised to pay him a visit at s is Frietlriehsruhe. kkIs M. Fticnne, minister of the French colare onies, says that the French forces in Hahomey mi- will shortly make an attack upon Wlivdah, the coast town of Ha homey, where tin- Hnliolail minus obtain their arms. Iln> The Spanish anil Swiss delegates havosob. otnl milted to tin* Industrial Conference in session r of in Madrid a project for the repression of false li"g marks of origin on industrial products. The and American delegates approve the project. 1 There is great excitement in Presden over the puldieation in a newspaper that Hisnimk informed a delegation of eiti/ens c?l* that city that he did not retire from the ottice of Herman chancellor of his own choice. r rP. The Pope and (.ion. Sir John I.. Simmons, the British special envoy, have signed o pro. toeol for the regulation of the appointment of ' hishops on the islands of Malta and (io/o. tmv? hImi Hifinwl mtii* I' 's lation and mixed marriages, and for the eonork. duet of seminaries for the education of priests idon ' >? those islands, this disasters and casualties. a?v In SM. v. rsK, X. Y., five men were huried gas- l'.v 'I"' caving in of a sewer, and one of them ? Jeremiah Lynch was sull'oeated. r).|v Til K lioiler in the stave mill of J. II. Ilussing A Co., in llutsonville, Illinois, exploded. The proprietor and one of his men were killed and nine others were injured, three fatally. TllIC Louisville, New Orleans and Texas I, ' Kailroad hns been compelled to temporarily abandon its trains, owing to the insecure conditionofthe trestle near Tunica, Tennessee, which is being repaired. Six boys, sons of H. II. Raskerville ami K. , P. Wommitek, were playing in a sand cave, lY near Vernon, Texas, when the bank caved in I on them and all were killed. Their ages 'k', s ranged from II to HI years. . , A Tit A IN <?n the Wabash Bond was derailed near St. Charles, Missouri, while rounding a sharp curve, and five ears were thrown into a ,n ditch. A number of the passengers were injured, Imt no person was killed. Has that had accumulated in No. 1 shaft, I i'V. Nuntieoke, Pa., was ignited by a miner 1 w ho carried a naked lamp and an explosion followed. William A. .bones, James Adams, hicli and John Zuhovage were killed, and a initiiiii ve her of others were injured, two probably la 'illy tally. ,s" Antrim <>siu?iini:, 72 years of n|fi\ a re I"' . tired mill well-know inamifneiiirer. who re! a siileil at Itose Valley hii'I atone lime operated ears woolrli mills there, was killed on the West " j ('hi ster Uailroad.nl Media Station, Pa. lie was walking on the railroad and an approaehnted iii.tr train struck him. en. A i ta ii.HT train on the California and mid, < Irefon Kailroad hroke in two near Ihdta, her 4'alifornia, and two Ii^rlit engines struck the eahoose, driving it throutdi the coui'h. Ik <i. nta- t inle, the conductor, was pinned in the wreck milt and Uii rued to ilcaui. "itdi I'ltvvKTH are worki'd in the I'oalhur^ Sin- mines oftheSloss Iron and Steel Company, near Kirniingliain, Alahania. ntlv a jfhl- spark from a miner's Inmp fell into a hox I, on of cartridges and an explosion followed.w hicli hi ye kilhsj tour men nod injur e<l ei/trhl >> therw. his Three were white and the others colon-it. aduSan TWELVE PERSONS DROWNED. intrs I llro .?n front a Half la Itiir Tor Ittle Inrit. MlstlK?l|i|il I'lonil. ho'n" Nineteen negroes, ill-! tuir\ivors of a 'a k and I party of r. fut^c, who attempted to escape inily from the overtlow down Bayou Falayn on a rutt, have arrive I at Viekshtir/o i the s'e nt? i j II II (My. They r.porl that twelve won n I and ehil Ire I wc r.' dr ?w m il when the enrr -n' ok- d: sh"d their i razv \4ss<d attain-! a'r re. mil peri- that th< y i s f.po I wi h grentddlien t t 'J hi in the ii.oil I ft'.'io event of llic (lo ,d. T.i? (vv,, sitintion s growing daily more reri ma in I o vjn Seel Itlyoit country. I'. rl Mi le , n | ioo i-i( ei.t pln m r, awl ai ro lur of A I rip y t? i rv< \ ,'r"1 Wor, ? rrived from i'ere by siam i C s;| Kvc green, with liin fa > ily i.nd s or . T ? Miller phintaii >n. though verv i igt.knsgi n ' under. T.ic eveigreen re| oris the ? a r a ? c t ie layonsvii I ris ng. CnttP- nnii lorosnr oflere i I' r sale by the peop e at a son . ' r M i h more it ek rointyo h?lr? u hi o t ohy. or allowed lodro^n. fct a nert) j;eola.a iiu'ii I*'r" irien the llrnd'. Ifer officers np^r fli t the mug overflow in l?n inning to en p y i. to t le M s nose , jasippi, ihrv'tiifli the Ka.l" I a\e, and predie a goat ine ea e in prepare a I along t i ivily Louisiana front, fron that joint mi thwart lea? for the next two weeks, The O ee >'a login ynnt an inspection of the levies fron Melta, La. lit' is nnrtliward, an t will i?e j .ji.ed by I'r a.deni eep- M xwell, and proluhly, Assist nt K gin ei eon- Thompion. Ti.cre isgrcitdi tr ss al nig St c le is B lyott. who , A fiTi/.F.N of Taunton, Masa., say) ? heritish that, ho knows a woman who, for aevera ,\larV made from 1,000 to 1.200 pies f tier- year fo.- a family of threo peraona, ant ' 'ish- OMO mpniher lias oaten moi^ .han two n and thirds of them. IM. /NATION* L. LB9BON FOR ) ^ / APRIL 20. ' Lemon Text: " rorKlTeiicfii and liove Luko vll , !M>ftl)-Ooli!?n Text: , > I Julin Iv, tt> -ComniciiUry on l ho IjO 'iiim. \ "And one of the Pharisees desired Him * I lint Ho would oat with him. And Ho wont into the Pharisee's house, and sat down to 1 meat." The incident of this lesson, like that / of t he Inst one, in recorded only by Luke, ami seems to have occurred at- the same place, tin city of "Main. The principal intervening i events wore the sending of nvsenengers to ! Jos vis by John the Baptist-, who was in prison; the miracles wrought by Jesus in their pres- t once, and the testimony of Joans concerning John after the messengers had departed. He / also rebuked the people because of their treatment of John and of Himself, saying that John had a devil and Mint- Jesus was a glutton and wine bibber and friend of publL cans and sinners. AVo should not be surwo tee much of Jesus ax a man among men, a social man, and yet alwnys an unearthly, holy, separate and heart-searching man. Luke records four different, occaslous on which He went >11 to oat with Pharisees and publicans which arc not iiientionnd in nnvof " the (tiller gospels (*!., 117; xJv., 1; xix., 7), ami on cncli occasion He has most heartsearching words for tlio Pharisees. Wbilo Ile accepts their hospitality Ho does not allow their favors to bliud Hib ej's or close His mouth. :ti. "And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner." We do not know her name. This is tlio only place where tho record is found and her name is not given. The only name giveu to her is "sinner/' and thai tits us all. "When she knew that Jcsuk sat at meat in the Pharisee's house, brought an alalwster box of ointment." It would seem as if light had already dispelled tho darkness from her soul and revealed to her a Savior. Just ask yourself if you would be as quick to hear of Jesus and come to Him; would you bring 11 im tho best yoti had, and get to Him even though you had to enter the house of ono whom 3 oti knew would despise you? It may lw tlint ax we consider this penitent sinner our hearts are led with nliaino to confess that her promptness and courage anil gift exceed weeping," do. llcclining as they did at. table, as she came behind Him, sbo could easily stand nt His feet, and, landing over them, wash them with her tears. Heelioras she wipes them with her hair, then kisses them, and anoints them with the ointment she had brought. If wo liavo not lieen put to slmmo by her j . omptness and courago and gift, surely wo aro now as wc nee her love. :ttl. "Now when the Phariseo which had bidden Him saw it, ho spake within himself." He might ns well have said it out, for Jesus knew his thoughts. Ho knows ours, too (Ps. exxxix, J; r,7.ck. xi.. 5), and wo need constantly t? jii'uy that lie would cleanse the thoughts of our hearts. I". "Ami Jesus, answering, saiil unto him, Simon. I have somewhat, to say ?nto thee." I Our very thoughts noed answering, and tho l "Word of God is oqual to it. Vain thoughts lodge within us, and wasto our time and hinder our service, hut thoro is a remedy, I "Tho Word of God" (Jor. iv., 14; xxlx. 11; I,uke xxiv., 218). Thoro arc seven or eight rtlttrrrnt in the New Testament UMtory besides Simon 1'etcr, hut this is tho only mention of this one. Tho name, like S nion in the Old Testament, siguifles hearing, and was the name given by Leah to her second son, because, as sho said, "the Lord had heard" (Gen. xxix., 311). How helpful it would lw if wo always remembered that tho Lord hoard, and that lie lias somewhat to say to us about those thoughts of ours. 41, 42. "When they had nothing to j>ay, ho frankly forgave them both. Tell me, therefore, which of tliom will love him most?" In (his story of tho creditor and two debtors Jesus would tench Simon somewhat of the relations in which he and the women stood to Ood. Not that the indebtedness of Simon mid the woman was as fifty compared with I live hundred, but that was about the way I Simon looked at it. IIo might lie willing to j acknowledge that ho was not as good as ho : ought lo lie. but hero was a woman whom I everybody knew to ho n great sinner. Jesus I put the matter from Simon's standpoint and asked the question: "Which will love most?" It would lie profitable to eonsider here our I indebtedness to God for life, health, privi- ' j leges, protecting care, in fact nil things, for w hat have wc that we have not received? ! -13. "Simon answered and said, I suppose that he lo whom he forgave most. And Ho said unto him. Thou hast rightly judged." 1 Any one could sec that tho olio who was conscious of owing live hundred, being freely forgiven, would feel under much greater obligation to the creditor than tho one owing only fifty; and thus Simon answerod rightly. | 44-hV "And 11c turned to tho woman, and said unto Simon, Seest. thou this woman?" Simon was no doubt surprised to have the 1 thoughts of his heart revealed. The poor woman is no doubt surprised to have Jesus turn in <-on>| Mission to her. To l>e allowed to oar ess and anoint ill's feet was a great joy, but to have llim turn His face to her, anil notice her, and commend her, mentioning every loving act. before all the people, and placing her 111 His estimation aliove Simon himself, surely now her heart was full. What condemnation for Simon; wluit glory for her. I 47. "Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sin*, which are many, aro forgiven." Good for tho poor woman, but what alioul Simon and his sins? In his own estimation he had none worth mentioning, none that needed special pardon, and Jesus came not to call the righteo?n but sinners to repjntance. If Simon 1 could have had a glimpse of his own heart as Jesus saw it, ho too would linvn hod a I broken h?art and have meekly sought fori giveness. Hut he was blind, and with ualva, tiou within his reach, even 111 his own house, { he sees not'his need arid goes without, little . thinking that the man who now sat at his I 1 able, ready and able to save him, was inI deed Israel's Messiah and would one day be ' { his judge. I l*. "And He said unto her. Thy sins are forgiven thee." Khe hoard Him say it to Simon, and if her heart was full before it was surely overflowing now; but could it be 1 true, did slio hoar aright? Ho turns again to her, looks into her face, and says directly to i | herself: "Thy sins are forgiven." Now she is sure; Ho has looked ujion her; He has snoken to her; she believes that He is Israel's I ; Messiah, and now Ho has become her Saviour and her soul can say: "Tbine auger (not , with hor. hut with the sin) is turned away, ami Thou eonifortest me, for Thou art become my salvation" (Isa. xii., 1-3). | 41?. "And they that sat at ineat with Him began to say within themselves. Who is this that forgivoth sins also?" They knew Hini not; they, too, were blind like Simon; thero was no forgiveness for them either, atlhough it was within their roach. A reasoning, questioning spirit draws no blessing from Him, but onlya broken ana contrite ana oeI lieving spirit, and this they bod not. They I were well satisfied with themselves. What a mystery this isl God manifest in the flesh, ! healing the sick, raising the dead, fulfilling the prophecies concerning the Messiah, such > as Isa. *xxv., 5 II, as well as thoso in refer' enco to His birth and place of birth (Isa. vi%, ? 14: Mic. v., 2), yet they know Him not. The hungry lie Alls with good things, but tho r. rich He sends empty away (Luke 7., 61). 1 j 5<). "And He said to the woman. Thy faith hath saved thee; go in peace." How exceeding abundantly alwvc qfl she could ask or think. Permitted to approach Him, she , ' is allowed to touch Him, to handle His feet. He looks upon her. He commends lior love, I He tells her that her Sins are forgiveu. an I now lfe sends her away in peace with tho assurance that sho is saved. Forgiveness, I salvation, peace; He said it, and looked upon her as lie said it. Oh wliat love was iu that look, what soul comfort ill those gracious words Helper, tTsiflinSHflK]