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OSCEOLA'S LAST D&ZAK.
BT HEZBKIAH BUTTE BWOBTO.
Set tke windows open and oool my veins,
M For lbs lover of death is now begun.
And hot on my bands and feet are my obalns.
And the ooosn panti in tho low, red son.
In the Enohoe Anna the ibis to-night
Drifts down on i be wreck of the dead oanoe.
And the Cherokee roses with hearts of white
Lie thick as the stars in lbs seas of dsw.
And the misty moon looks over the wares
On the cypress covers of bones and graves.
1 ask but a breath?what it left to me
lb this treeless prison by hot Tybee? 1 \
Listen to Osceola:
Only the rain iro v that cries in the too.
Only tho lur In tU'j'.tstowolf's den,
Only tbo 1-oaon where the hawk has been.
But pity not Osceola. '
0 Florldns far. so noar you seem
1 breathe tho broath of yonr orange groves,
The lives of the warriors form my dreams.
And my bride, tho Beautiful, with me roves.
The fans of the palms as in years ?f old.
Wave cooling mo now in these splendors of
dreams
r- *old-.
And tho trado windB blow my plumes of white.
And tho shores ore filled with the moonrlse
light.
it Is all a dream what is loft to me
t tin paluj-crownod lstid and tho night-cooled
80S
What Is left to Osceola?
Only tho rain crow that calls in the fen.
Only tin fur In tho werewolf's den.
Only the bones wb?ro the hawk has been,
Put ptiy not Osoeola.
Ay, ptly rao not?these hands are red,
As red as the forges that linked these chains,
And the merciful Fever waves over my bead
The torch pf the Tempest, and throb my veins.
Your wife Is dear to your bosom ?well.
My forest bride was as dear to me.
My heart, too, was human?and what befell?
Ask tho clave pone, led in the Manatee,
htolcu and sold for a slave! And whose hand
Wits lifted for her in nil your land?
There 1 bured my breast of my heart bereft
To tho wuiged ritlo-aud what Is loft?
What is kit to Oeocolay
Only the rain crow that calls in the fen,
Only the fur In tho werewolf's den.
Only tho bones whoro the hawk has besn,
11 ut pity not Osceola.
When war 's "wild spirit broko in me
1 cursod tho land aud it sunk from sight. ?
I called the red plumes from the Manatee.
1 ca'dcd from Tuiupatho plumes of white.
I celled tho young chiefs horn tho Kverglades
And the oozy awHinps of the dark Walioo,
hroru tho feathered trolls .in tho rod wood's
shades. w ' . And
wo fought for our own as the Heroes do.
Ye bonud moonco, but 1 broko my bands.
And tho captor cleft with these wedgod hands.
And yo liouud ino twice, and what remains
Put this nerveless arm and its load of chains.
What is lettto Osceola?
Only the ruin crow that c all in the fen,
...J^nly tho fur in the wor wolf's don,
jjfcnly the bones whore the liawk has been,
But pity not Osceola.
Chains? What are they now? On plumes o
light
My free soul soars o'er tho crimson sea.
Ye dotes Xeuaida, yo ibises white,
1 sweep tho clouds liko your pinions free.
The CiieroUco roses, tho sunbeams' flowers,
Like tbe fa!leu cups of tho gods, lie sweet,
As In tbe Idics of those st ardt hours
When my biido lay down at my weary feet.
The sunset fades in mypi'iuon bars,
But tbe ho gel of Right 1 seo in the stars.
When Justice yon face with your soul laid bore,
Tell me, what shall await you there?
l.tston to Osceola?
Only tho ruin crown that calls in the fen,
Only tho fur in tho worowolf's den,
Only the bouos where tho hawk has be'on,
I'lty not Osceola.
Yo shall lay my bonoa whore the reedy winds
In the cool savannahs for me shall sigh ;
Wliero the rvjunior.11/ lieron tho roa-conch finds,
And tho tears of tho (julf-clouds till the sky.
Ye shall not bring me your pity there,
Nor add 0110 l>rea h to tlio rouuding deep,
Nor mo:k the heavens with psalm or prayer?
lint beyond your reach bang the scales o< God,
And in the bolfhts ot tho judgment atr
Ye may find a sontenoo more hard to bear
. . Than the doom of Osceola?
Only tho rain crow that eallii hs tho fen,
Only the fur in tho werewolf's don,
Only ,tl:o bones where the liawk baa been?
May tbo God of tho withered leaves pity yon
then ?
rity not Osceola
A GREAT TREASURE.
The Strange Mystery Snrrounding
Its Disappearance.
A STORY OF EXTRAORDINARY INTEREST.
?
BY FRANK BARRETT.
CHAPTER XII?[Continukd.]
,* jn T two o'clock
& 1 WWIft. ???e'
know If she 11 (Mi ih'> t!11 f us h
raped by the window, and could identify
him.
To And Loin, however, was not my solo
object.
The protracted absence of Brace and Van
v Houek excited my misgivings, and. desnito;
the Judge's promise. I already reproached,
myself with having abandoned my blind-,
partner. The Judge's notions of justice;
wero peculiar, and based upon the rough
usiige of California minors in the duyswhon;
they made and executed their own laws. I
believed him capable of applying torture,
only stopping short of actual murder, to
wring from Van Hoock the socret which b"
believed him to hold with respect to the |
lost diamond.
I retraced my steps to the spot whero Ihad
helped to conceal Van Knock. The'
broker, brake milrked u distinct trail and in
a pit a hundred yards from that p< int the
undorgrowlh was beaten down, as if usling-1
* gle hud taken place.
Was it not possible that Brace had gono.
further than ho intended, and killed Van:
Hocck? Had he concealed tho body, and- j
fled with his daughter to escape the consequences
of his net?
Asking myself these questions, I followed
a track from the pit that brought nm into
the bridle-way. Looking for further traces
of a pas-age through the brake, 1 made my
way down toward tin* load.
following th?> lino, I threaded my way ho- ,
twoentho trees upon tho slope of tho hill j
until I einorg'Wl f om the wood upon the
high hank that e?lg <1 tho Abbey road at
that part. It was as nourly as posaiblo tho
point whore Van Hoeck had stopped mo in
tho morion I upon hearing lirnou In our
roar. Looking upxho road I saw tho tlngorpost
nt tho cross-roads; looking down. I
paw that which took my breath away with
amastoment?Ilraco was trudging along tho
road toward Iho Abbey, with Van Iioeck
holding his arm on ono side, and Lola hin
bun 1 upon tin- other- an ineomprohensiblo
picture of unity, friendly assistance, and
reliance.
It was true that without assistance Van
Ilooek could not have found his way along
ho road, and very possiblo that, without
the restraint of her father's hand. Lola j
jwould not have walked by his sido; but all !
^Moubt us to tho existence of a friendly tin- i
ffbrsfanding > -tween tlio two men was dis- '
k pelh il from my mind ?>> what followed.
Arrived opposite the bridle-p ath loading I
up into tho wood they stopped, and con- >
saltation ensued between the two men. I ]
could not hear their voices at that distance,
Vut 1 saw by their gesticulations that they
liL .
were discussing some point; it ended by '
Brace's going to the side of the road, and
craning nis neck to see if any one wero in 1
sight. I crouched down beside the thicket, . 1
which partly concealed mo.
When I cautiously raised my head and I '
looked ngain. Brace, still standing oppo- |
sito the bridle-way. was drawing nis arm j ]
out of the sandy bank thai there skirted the ,
road.
I ducked my hood, as on he poorod to |
the right and left. They wore all gone, all !
three, when I looked again. I
When I thought it safe to vonture. I went I
to the spot where Brace had stood. There j '
was a rabbit-hole in the sandy cutting, i
partly hidden by the training growth from !
.the overhanging edge. I took off my j
coat, turned bnck my sleeve, thrust in my '
arm. and drew out?the leather case in which 1
the diamond had boon tukon from my wrist! !
It was empty. ? '
I again thrust my arm in and explored
the holo. thinking?though it was littlo
likely?that the diamond had jsUpped<out of I
the ease or been put in separately. It was 1
a kind of cul-de-sac?the oarth hod fallen j 1
but I did not give'up
absolutely certain mat in? urout ncspor
was not there. It was not probable they ' 1
would place tho diamond in such an open
place; tho loather cnso was dilTorent. li J
was unsafe to keep that, but it was of littlo J
consequonco where thoy abandoned it. .
But why had thoy taken the diamond from
the case, and what had thoy done with it? I
A clow to this mystery also I discovered
before long.
When I got back to the Abbey. Braeo.Van
Iloock. and Lola were in tho library with
tho policeofflcor, Sir Ed mind, Mr. Wray?
his lawyer?and a couplo of Irionds, Justices
of tho Pence, who had been brought
by tho rumors which wore atready wmoly
spread.
Lola was still* undor examination. Sho
was stubbornly silent. It was with tho
greatest difficulty that any response to tlie
questions could bo drawn from her. But
sho admitted seeing the man drop from tho
oriel; and asked it it was 0110 of tho servants.
sho replied llrmly. "No." But more
than this could not bo got out of her 011 this
point.
To the inquiry how sho had discoverod
tho means of gotting from tho bay into tho
oriel, for it was by that way she had cotno
to my assistance, she replied that she "had
seen it done before." but she would not say
whom sho had seon.
The nolioo oflleor asked mo to go into tho
ad joining dining-room with him.
"May I ask." ho said, "if you have any reason
to suspect that you wore robbed by
your friends?your partners in tho diamond?
because they profess to have been
in the woods all the morning, whereas I
have good cause to believe that they have
In tho town of Southampton part of tho
time."
"Are you sure of that?"
"I wiil take my oath that I saw tho littlo ;
savago in tho rod petticoat in the High ,
Streot as I started to come here."
CHAPTEIt XIII.
"I advise you. sir." said tho officer, "to I
take the advice of Sir Edmund's solicitor,
Mr. Wray."
I agreed, and he called in tho lawyer. I I
told h int. Millinnt. ppworvn. nil tlinf hutl hurt- I :
period. showing him tho lonther case I had
taken from tho hole where Brace liad placed
U"A
couplo of cunning scoundrels!" he ex- 1
claimed; "their pretended suspicion of each
other was. of course, intended to blind you
to their complicity, while oach. by implicating
tho other, divorted suspicion from i
himself."
"I was never in my life so completely do- 'I
ceived." I snid. "Braco seemed to nie the i
embodiment of rough honesty. 1 liked the' I
man.1 tUld-ft mm'H'TWTiTttrT'ffTroclPro'nm wHn I
I found him unfaithful. and n thief." I
"He is worse than that. Mr. Thorne; he is
a murderer at heart; for there can bo no
"doubt it was he who attempted your life; it
was a sheer impossibility ior the other man
to do it. We have heard the storv of the <
robbery from Sir Edmund. The intefligonc >
that planned the attack was doubtless Van I
Hoeok's. He looks like a man of subtlo Intellect.
I do not see what other part ho
could havo played in this affair. # I
"Sir Edmund told me. sir," sai-l the officer,
"that on your return from the left wing. i
you hoard snoring in Brace's room." i
"I certainly did."
"That could very wojl have been Van
Hoeck, who had taken Braco's placo while
he slipped oft into your room?another proof
that tho two wore acting together."
"Precisely," said Mr. Wray. And thon,
with an air of business, "Well. now. what is
to be done? that is the first question. The
evidence is insiilllcicnt to charge either of
tho men oven with being coneorned in the
robbory. Tho leather case proves nothing.
They might declare they found it empty,
and have oonc aleil it through fear of accusation,
or they might all throo swear your
statement to be false, and absolutely accuse
you of beiug yourself tho ttiiof. And until
,wo can substantiate tho charge by positive
proof, wo must be careful to conceal our
suspicions from thorn. If they think they
are likely to be brought to justice, they will
quit tho country by the first steamer that
leaves Southampton?and we can not stop
Tlw* ll.i.t.r ll>,.t mnul tin .Ion., nt otwn
jis to smirch for the diamond. That in your
/ifTnir." ho said, addressing tho officer; "undoubtedly
they have placed it somewhere in
Southampton, iu readiness to take if flight
becomes nooossary."
"I'll have nil the kens sonrehed beforo tho
morning."
"'J'hnt is part of your business, of course.
At tho same time. I would suggest that it
is of far more importance to watch the men
themselves. Van Hoeck would not trust
tho diamond to the ko.-i>ing of ordinary
thieves' reoeivois; it. would bo safer merely
laid under a plant in the gardens down by
the doek. You may be sure he has the ingenuity
to suggest a safe place for its keeping."
J
"I'll have some plain-clothes men on the
first thing to-morrow morning, and I'd
hotter go and telegraph to Scotland Yard at
once."
"As soon as possible. Hut. not to alarm
the men, you had better make a pretense of
continuing your investigations, and avail
yourself of some plausible pretext for reiurning
to Southampton. Everything at
this moment depends upon keeping Van
Hoeck and Brace in Ignorance of our suspicion.
And with that view." he added,
,turning to 1110. "I counsel you. Mr. Thorite.
,to conceal your own feelings. Not one of
these three ought to see any change in your
domeanor toward them."
This was sound advice, and I recognized
tho importance of conforming with it; but
I am tho worst actor in the world where
my feelings are concerned, and my very
soul revolted against the men who had plotted
together to take my life from tho mere
insensate greed of gain. 1 felt more bitterly
toward Brace than toward his accomplice,
not bocausp I thought Van Hoeck less
guilty, but because I had felt more kindly
toward tho Judge, to whom 1 seemed linked
by tho brotherhood of labor.
I kept out of his way when we returned to
the library, and avoided looking at him. lest
he should perceive that I was no longer his
friend. But I knew he had his keen eves
upon me, and was reading the signs of my
newly born aversion, nml this made my acting
worse.
Whon the officer had completed his investigation
he said sagaciously, as he closed
his note-hook:
"I have sufficient information for iny
present purposo. I may not be able to discover
the perpetrators of this outrage linmodintelv,
but I think I shall be in a position
to toll you somothing about, the lost
diamond within twenty-four hours."
Sir Edmund nccompaniod him to the door.
When he roturned and took the seat lie had
occupied at the head of the long table.
Brace rose, and. placing himself at tho opfiosito
end, inclined his bond llrst to the
taronet, then to tho right and to the left.
"Squire and gcn'lem?n of this committee,"
he said. "I don't, want to speakdisrespec'ful
of the police, but the intelligent officer who
has jest loft us. as if he d got hold of tho tail
end of a rocket, and meant follerin' it right
up. and liohlin' tight on till it bust, ain't
poin' to do any good for hisself or anyone
else in this business. Tho big dinmou i's
lo3t, and l.o ain't goin' to llnd it in twentyfour
hours, nor in twenty-four years. Kf it
was a haystack. I don't any but what, wit hi
Ihe holp of I'rovideuco?und a good lot of
It?he might be up to the job he's ondertook.
But it ain't a haystack. End of he was to
grind up the whole of thta country, end
every blessed thing upon It. small, puddled
it in a clean flume, and sifted the taliins
careful, ho wouldn't And it. End these bein'
my views, it stands to reason that
goln* to hang about here loQ]U<?"at the place
where I've come to grief, like an old female
what's slipped ofT the sidewalk on a bit oi |
orange-peel. With your permission, Bquire,
['in goin' away right off"
"1 cun not stop you. Brace, even if 1
wished to." replied Blr Edmund, who, be it
observed, knew nothing of tho suspicion
igainst the Judge. "I am inclined to think ,
that you will be happier in seeking a new
fortune than in lingering about with the
'aiut hope of recovering tho old. If the
tiamond la found you will hear of itwher- ,
ivcr you may be. Are you going to look
'<?r another diamond V
."No. Squire; I'm going to And that, please
3od." Brace replied; then, alter a moment's ,
>ause, he said. "There's a matter^of busllosa-to
flhish up before I go, sir: all the
nonoy I have In my pocket Oolongs to you."
"p, is a loan; keep it. ^racc?keep it until ,
or Teuv sake^hs# ihpjja*
lenee.
"You're grit. Bquire?real tfritl I won't j
cfuse your kindness. I s.hull uood a bit to
itart with. But I'll ask you. sir, to hold this
Li 11 f Claim it."
Ho went round to Sir Edmund.
"What is it. Bruce?" asked the baronet,
taking the paper Bruce drew from his
pocket. He found it was tho Judge'b copy
>f agreement. "Oh, Idonot need this, my
iooJ fellow." he protested; "I havo your
[ O U, and that is as good now as over it
x as."
"If you won't keep it for your own socuri:y.
Squire. I'll ask you to keep it for my own.
It's a kinder eo'tif'cate. and if any ono hes
jot unytliin' to say agen mo when I'm not
Sere to defend myself, I'll ask you to let
lhat up. Good-by, Squire."
He held out his hand, and said, as Sir Ed*
mund shook it cordially: "Thank you. sir,
thank you! You are grit!"
Ho strode down tho room, brushing past
Van Hoeek, who sat immovable- and silont
us though ho were carvod in stone, and
enmo to whore I was stnnding. My fuco
must havo told hiin that my heart was 1
liurdencd. But he stretched out his hand
itu 1 said hoarsely:
"Say good-by to us, pardnor."
I folded my arms and shook my head. He
dropped his hand by his side.
"Prohaps you're right." he said, remorsefully.
"prehaps you're not. Timo will show
lhat I've got a clean conscience, if Heaven
Is just." He paused, then in a still lower
lono, and witn an accent of reproach, he
ndded; "Bay yor hope so, pardner, say yer
liopo so."
"I hope so." I said.
He shook his head.ruefully.
" 'Tain't ver old voice, Gentloman Thome
i Iw.^o'o n/> l.ooef in it ?.o.?l...,l 14
; mwiw o uv nuui i ill n. UU IVU^UDU lb
together. and we've shared our 'baeca out
there, end"?his chin twitehod convulsively. I
mid turning away he muttered, "it takes all
the pluck outer hie to part like this."
I.ola was standing in a comer of the room
by the door, with her eyes fixed upon me.
As Brace was about to pass through on his
way out he caught up her wrist savagely in
bis hanu. As savagely she tore it away,
and in her turn came and stood before mo.
"I'm a-goin'," sho said.
"And a good riddance," I thought, exasperated
by the belief that she knew where '
lho diamond was. and could reveal the i
whole mystery .if she chose. _
"You ain't goln' to let nie go liko him. nre '
yor?" sho asked; "you ain't coin'to lot mo
go without sayin'good-by?"
There was deep patnos in her voice. The
friendless little suvugo loved mo. She had
saved ^ny life. My'heart smote me for
sho drew them round her slight body, ana
then, dinging her arms about my neck, she
whispered, with tender impulsiveness:
"Shall I bo good? Shall I tell you whoro
it Is?"
Biq just at that moment her fine ear
caught tho rustle of a woman's dross, and
catching a sight of Edith, who was entering
from the dining-room, she started back.
Scowling over her shoulder at Edith, her
eyes aflame with hate, sho said, in a voice
from which all tenderness had gone:
"For her sake? No!" And without looking
agnin at mo. sho went from the room
and joined her father.
[to be continued,]
TIic Tiger Plague in Juvu.
According to tho administration report
of Java recently laid bofore the
Dutch Chambers, portions of that
island are depopulated through tigers.
In 1SH2 the population of the village
in tho southwest of the Bantam province
was removed and transferred to an
island off the coast in consequence of
the trouble caused to tho people by
tigers. These animals have now be
come an intolerable pent in parts of the
same province. The total population
is about 000,000, and in 1887 sixty-one
were killed by tigers, and in conseiiueneo
of the dread existing among the
people it has been proposed lo deport ;
the inhabitants of the villages most J
threatened toother parts of thecountry
where tigers are not so common, and j
who-e they can pursue their agricul- j
tur.il occupations with a greater degree '
of security. At present they fear to go
anywhere near the borders of the forest.
The people at present seoin disinclined
or they lack the moans and courage,
to attack and destroy their enemy,
although considerable rewards are !
offered by government for tho destruc- j
tion of beasts of pray. In 1888 tho 1
reward for killing a royal tiger was i
raised to '200 florins. It appears also i
that the immunity of tho tiger is in |
1 art due to superstition, for it is considered
wrong t? kill one unless he attacks
first or otherwise dots injury.
Moreover, guns were always very rare
in this particular district, and, since a
rising a few years ago, havobeen taken
away by the authorities.
The Dakota Parson.
.lust got back from a Northwest trip,"
said a drummer to his friend in the presence
of a Chicago Mail reporter. "I
extended my run and wont into Dakota
and Montana. Stopped in Bismnrk the
other day, ami it was awful eold. I was
nearly frozen after hustling around
town, and stepped into tho Sheridan
House barroom to get a blood ting
h i. j\ in' jiiuiic limn 11 mini uilltl 1U i
shiny black broadcloth strode into tho ,
place. His feet wore encased in a pair j
of immense cowhide boots, from the '
leg of one of which protruded a razor,
a butcher's cleaver and a club, nnd from I
the other the half of a scythe blade and
another club.
"Strapped to bis back was a Winchester
ritle; a belt contained a revolver
and a ten-inch i owie. On his left
hand was a pair of steel knuckles; his
light, wrist was encircled by tho loop
of a flexible slungshot, and ho pointed
a 15 caliber revolver at the crowd.
" 'Hob Bloomer, you come hyerP ho
ordered.
"Tho shrinking form of a seven-foot
bull whacker advanced from tho crowd,
and the walking arsenal graspod him
by tbe n ok and walt/.ed him out nnd
(low 11 the street.
" 'Your SherifT goes loaded,' I remarked
to my ligbt-hand neighbor.
" 'Sheriff bo blowed1' ho replied.
'The! is our now parson, an' he's a
rustlor. No backslider pets away from ,
him.'" . ' I
x
THE N^Wa " '
The Roohestef'W'herl Work*, at Rochester
N.X.,^refitv damaged $2^000by fire, and three
fireman were injured by falling front a ladder
Several horse thieves were whipped and
pilloried at Georgetown, Del.??Mad dogt
have been bitting cattle and causing great ex
citement in the neighborhood of Lewiston, 111
The Misses Minnie and Gertie Pierce were
killed at Lima, Ohio, by being thrown out ol
a carriage against a stone wall. An insane
woman at Dubuque, la., attempted toburn hei
home nnd murdered her children. A canoe
containing twelve lumbermen, while crossing
the rapids an the Otter river, near Calumet
Mich., was capsized and two of the mei
drowned. Kdward Greeuwald, a Southerr
thearical manager/committed suitcide in Nea
York. Grass and forest fires in tiew (lamp
shirs did-.considerable damaged! Hermai
of cards.??1 'W'jsBKvCvirtUck, of Boston,!
under arrest o t the charge of seeking a con
spiraey to murder her husband.-*?-The An
glo-American Gas Lighting Company has beet
orgntiized with a capital of over $50,000,000
ami in the biggest thing in the syndicate lint
yet attempted. A capital of $20,000,000 wil
be provided for the construction of the Soutl
Pennsylvania Railroad, under the rcorganiza
lion plan. Non-union carpenters in Chi
>ago, who arc not residents of Illinois, oominj
from other states, have appealed to the U niter
States authorities for protection. Rieharc
Croker, the Tammany leader,and MayorGrant
of New York, were shown up in a bad light ii
the testimony of the former's brother-in-lav
before the Senate Investigating Committee.
A large silk mill in the Lehigh Valley, Pa.,
operated by a New York firm, was destroyed
by fire and four persons killed and twelve injured.
A farmer named Morrison, of Shelbnrne,
Ont., drowned his three children in a
barrel of rain water, and then attempted to
drown himself in a creek. During a fire in
Perry A Green's picture factory, Chicago, a
crowded sidewalk gave way, and several boys
were hurt. For three days continuous rains
have fallen all over Texas, bridges have been
swept away and the low lands flooded. Tlu
Whiskey Trust has finally secured possession
of the St. Paul distillery. David Sullivan
of Dayton, Wis., aged seventy-Six yenrs, wtu
burned to death while engaged in burning
grass and brush off a field on his farm. G
F. Churchill, managing partner of the. firm o:
Giflbrd <fc Churchill, dealers in art works,Chi
cago, has been missing for some time, and ii
believe to be in Canada. Gifford says he isou
about !?>*.000. Fire in the ofticeof Dr. Kenn
under Kuhn's Hotel, Chicago, caused a pnnii
among tlio guests. took Bros.' large boilei
at Flint, Mich., exploded, scalding Fred Cool
to death and seriously injuring several others
By the burning of their home at Belleville
Ont., Jane Arthurs was burned to death, an<
her husband seriously burned about the hca<
and nrms. Fire in the ShelWi Comb Com
age. Five hundred men' in the employ o
the Southwest Virginia Improvement Corn
pnnv, at Pocahontas, have struck against a r<
duction in wages, and the mines have bee
shut down. The cedar works at Eliznbet)
City, N. C., were burned. Loss $15,000.?
Tramps beat a farmer of Franklin county, Pa
because his wife refused to cook a meal fc
them. Thos. Bishop, aged seventy years, t
Petersburg, Va., was convicted of murder i
the second degree for beating his wife todeatt
and was sentenced to six years in prison.?
The Mississippi overflow is very disastrous i
the Fointe Coupee parish, hundreds of fain
lies being homeless. Eight hundred minei
went on strike at Scottdale, Pa., and nearly 01
thousand coke ovens are closed.
Samuel Allen, of Neilsville, Wis., who bt
came enamored of the wife of a neighborin
furmer, poisoned him, tried to kill his own wife
was arrested, and escaped from jail by the ai
of his mistress, has been finally captured i
Washington. Frederick Kimball, teller c
the People's Savings Bn 11 k,'Worcester, Mass
robbed the concern of$53,000, and $3,000 rewar
is offered for his capture. Lizzie Meyers, c
Boston, was found dead from an overdose c
arsenic in a Troy hotel. Moses Ilartz's ban
near Lancaster, Pa., was burned, and thirtec
cows per isncn.? l ?aniei licit t man, aged tnirtj
five years, while drunk, attempted to inurdc
the wife*to whom he had been married but
year, at their home in Altoona, Pa., and the
committed suicide. During the past wee
there were 175* business failures in the Unite
States and .'50 in Canada. The publicschot
at Uartby, Del., closed, owing to an epidemi
of scarlet fever. James Fallon, a pugilis
received a blow on the side of the hend in
set-to with John Murray, in Boston, whie
caused fatal paralysis. The Circuit Con
of Roanoke, Yn., lias ordered the sale of tli
Shenandoah Valley Railroad to satisfy clain
against the company. Harrison Wagne
aged eighty-nine years, started from McCoi
nellsville, Ohio, to wheel a wheelbarrow 1
Baltimore and return, proposing to make tl
trip in twenty days. While F. F. Fisher,
Mobile county, Ala., was driving along a rot
a negro jumped into the rear of the wagon ai
slashed Fisher's throat with a razor. Bepi
ty Sheriff Davis, of Newark, New Jersey,
missing, and reported to be an embezzler.?
John C. (irahain, twenty-five years old,ac!ci
of the Pennsylvania Company for insurant
on lives and granting annuities, has been a
rested in Philadelphia charged with embe
element.
MARKETS.
HALT!more-Flour?City Mill?,cxtrn,$4.!
@$4 60. Wheat?Southern Fultz, 824@?
Corn?Southern White, 40@40Jc., Yello
3ti@36fc. Oats?Southern and Pennsvlvnn
27 @ 32c. Rj< Maryland nnd Pennsvlvan
55@5'c. flay?Maryland and PennsyIvan
I2.60@ti3.00. Straw?Wheat. 7.60@$8.f
flutter?Eastern Creamery, 19@22c., near-1
receipts 12@14e. Cheese?Eastern Fan<
Cream. ll@114e., Western, P@10c. Eggs
12@12Jc. Tobacco, J>eaf?Interior, 1@$2.(
Good Common, 3.00@$4.00, M iddling, 6@$7.(
'Hood to fine red, 8@$9. Fancy, 10@$13.
Nkw York?Flour?Southern Common
lair extra, $2.60@2.85. Wheat?No. 1 Whi
80J@89jf. Jtye?State 68(<i t>0e. Corn?Sout
ern Yellow, 38|@39c. Or.ts?White. Sts
28jJ@29}e. Butter?State,8@174c. Cheese
Siatc 8i@104e. Eggs -14(a)l IJc.
philadelphia ? Flour ? PennWlvar
fancy, 4.25@4.75. Wheat, Pennsylvania ai
Southern Hod, 85@91. live?Penniylvur
68@60e. Corn?Southern Yellow, &i4@3J
<>?ts ? 31fl@3l4c. Butter ? State, ? 28021
Cheese?New York Factory, 9@9io.\. Eggs
State, 13f@14c. '?<l
CATTI.E.
Bai.ti mork? Beet ?$3.60@$4.75. a Veep
$4.00@$6.75. Hogs -$4.00@$4.50.
Nkw York?Beet?$6.0o@$7.0c nheeii
$6.50@$fi.25. ho-a?$4.40@$4.90. >d.
East Liberty?Beef?$4.50@/ $ Kh?ri
$6.00@6.26. Uog*-$4.50@H6& I
4 WORD TO FABIBBS. "
' Secretary Rusk Sends Out a Circular JJ
; Letter. c
'i ii
1 He DIkhiih Agricultural Drprmlon and il
Home Remedies ?Farmer* "
Hui( be Protected.
s . Secretary Rusk has sent out to the farmers a
' circular letter, in which he discusses agrieul- r
! turel depression, its causes and possible reme- *
r dies, lie says much of the depression is due 0
! to careless etilture, want of business-line moth- o
ods, too largo bodies of land, the oppression of J
, mortgages, the troubles arising from transpor- ?
? tat ion, the intervention of the middleman, v
t gambling in farm products by exchanges and t
hoards of trade and the operations of trusts or ?
combinations. He says that our Importsof pro- t
* ducts sold in competition .with tho?e actually ^
i produced on our own smh amount^ to nyar ly vt
crease, totally disproportionate to onr increase J
. .in population, of our imports of agricultural :
products. In 1850onr imports of farm products* i
were forty million dollars; in 1889 $SM.000,000, J
1 an increase of nearly 900 per eent., while the 1
, increase in population in the same period was (
? less than .100 per eent. Over 70 per eent. of
'. our t<ital exports are the direct products of the
soil. During the past decade, in which the ^
> greatest increase in imjiorts has taRrn place, t
. th ere has been a steady decrease in the prices I
of home-grown products. The reason for this p
lie traces to the competition of the pauper ^
* labor of Europe with our own. The price of
1 our wheat, or which we grow a surplus, is
| forced down hv competition with Russia and ,v
India, anil regulates the price of the enlire ?
* crop. Farmers have to use their corn, for
"i which thereisan insignificant foreign demand,
r for fattening cattle and hogs.
lie continues: "The foreign market for live V
cattle which exists in (treat Ilritian is so hampered
hy the oppressive regulations requiring J
slaughter at point of landing, as to exercise
liuleor no beneficial influence on the price of^ I1
his product, while the obstructive measures J]
adopted hy several of the Continental conntries
in regnrd to American pork has reduced
the exports of that product since 1881 over !'
forty per eent. annually. lTnder such oireumstances
there can la* but one cause assignable v
for the neglect hy American farmers to turn
their attention to other crops tn the line of 1'
such agricultural products as we now import, ?
and that is that in this tliev would meet an
even more overwhelming and disastrous coin- t
! petition than they are now confronted with, in 1
i the raising of cereals and live stock. The only
course possible to enlightened statesmanship r
' is to assure to the farmer adequate protection *
i in the diversification of his crops and produe- t
; tion of a larger proportion of the articles which h
we now'import. '
* "These may he summarised as follows; the '
' figures given being for the fiscal year ending jj
June in, 1889,and the values those at the ports "
3 of exports: Sugar and molasses, 91,301.894; nni- J1
ninls and their products, except wool, 42,261,*
014; fillers, animals and vegetables, 59,451,91(5; r
, miscellaneous, including hreadstufl's, fruits, "
b hay. hops, oils, rice, seed, tobacco, vegetables
. and wines, etc., 71,254,894. P
For obvious reasons I omit any reference S
c here to the ninety millions expended for ten, li
i. coffee anil cocoa, hut omitting these, we have f
, still the enormous sum of $200,271,718 imports T
| of agrieultiirnl pr.Hlnets, tlie tar greater p?rt f
of which, amounting probably to not less than ?
S 240 or 250 millions, could, with proper encour- a
agement, be produced,on our own noil. B?lf- fi
. . . .... i J^immtii tliul we lilioulJ him Vh? ?
. hertefits of a home market for all that he may c
be able to produce on our soil. This include* I
> all (lie sugar and molasses, till animal pro- c
>. duets, wool, silk, llax and other fibres, all our t
breads!iifl's, fruits, hay, hops, rice, tobacco, t
vegetables a nd wines; but many of thesetliin^a
b will never, can never be prod need on Ameri
ran soil in competition with the lobar of European
nations, especially when, as in the case of
'' sugar, the industry abroad has been helped by !
,r liberal government bounties.
f
COM I'KTITION ON OCR OWN SOIf..
II
( Of (ho seven or eight million dollars' worth
' of live animals imported into this country, the
~ greater proportion were of ordinary inarketa- !
n olo stock, as contra-distinguished from pure- J
j. bred stock imported for breeding purposcsand
admitted free. Of all other animal products, .
rs including wool,thercis notonethat is not now
>e being ruined upon our own soil, ami yet, including
wool and hides, the imports of these ,
animal products amounted in the year referred
to, to over sixty million dollars; to tliis add ,
g twenty millions for fruits, eight million for !
barley, over two millions for hay ami hops,
(j three and a-balf millions for rice, eleven millions
for tobacco, three millions for oils, two
n and one-half millions' worth of vegetables the
if same for eggs, over a million dollars' worth of
i cheese?these represent some of the Imports,
aggregating nearly one hundred and fifteen
million dollars, which, in spite of the produe>f
tiveness of our own soil, are brought into this
,f country and sold in competition with our farmers.
' foreign markets.
n If there are products grown to better advnnr*
tage in other countries, remission of duty on
r which would seem to he in the interest of a
a large portion of our population, sueh remissions
should only be accorded as the result of
n reciprocal concession in the way of u remisk
siou of duties hv sueli oilier countries on prod
duets more readily grown there. Manyof those
countries which would he specially benefited
by a remission of the <1 uty on sugar by our govlc
eminent, would afford an excellent market for
t, our breadstuff's and dairy and meat products,
wm* II inn ior i fir inuii uin m'n iiii|hwu t urn-tut
, hy them. So with other products, and when1
over duty 011 such products is lowered'or rert
moved and protection to our farmers thus diic
minished, it should ho as the price of conces)s
eions made to us in the tariffof other countries
in favor of ourown farm products. In this way,
r? and in this way only, can our farmers ho
adequately protected, new markets being thus 1
[o thrown open to them for those produets which
tliev can most easily and cheaply produce.
1 to farmers producing,as ?lo ours, a vast sur??
plus of agricultural products, the question of
id foreign markets is and should he deeply inter1(j
esting. Not only do they offer nti outlet for
this surplus, hut if untrammelled by irksome
restrictions and uncontrolled hycombinations
is | such as I have referred to elsewhere, they
? serve as useful checks upon those who might
, nttterw ise succeed in controtiingour home markets.
riifortunntely, irksome restrictions do
cc exist, and especially is this the ease with refr
erence to our live stock industry. Kvidence is
_ not wanting that a demand exists in Great
Itritian for our live stock, and hut for the oprkrcKcivc
revil riet i.niM iiimoseil hv flu* lEritish
government, an<l said to l>e necessary owing to
l lie alleged existence id' eontagious disease
among American cattle, tlicrc is little doubt
but a large proportion of our product of live
w cattle would find tbere a profitable market,
thus greatly relieving our home markets, So
'.w with our pork products, oppressed by the emja
bargoes placed upon them by certain European
! powers, with the result of an enormous do a
crease during the past six years in onr exports
0* of bacon and hams; for whereas these exports
>y in 1870, 1880 and IK,SI average about 74/?,t)00,fy
000 pounds, they hail fallen in 1883 to less than
? 400,(XK>,000, and until Inst year never exceeded
420,000,000. The effect of this has naturally
10. been to greatly restrict comnctitionamongpurchasers.
and to seriously depress the price of
our lioga.
'?* "The national government owes it tothe farming
ami cattle-growing community that no efforts
shall be spared to secure a removal of
those restrictions upon our livestock and meat
I trade. We must maintain an absolute and ef'
j tieient control of cattle diseases, and pursue
j with the utmost energy the course which has
resulted to-day in the almost completeextirnaj*/
t ion from American soil of the most dreaded
disease of all, contagious picuro-piieumonia.
As to our meat products, I can see hut one way
to accomplish the desired results, and that is
by the enactment ofa thoroughly efficient meat
< . I inspection law.
I The Secretary thinks our system of taxation
also needs improvement in certain directions,
lie calls upon the fnrmers to stand flmilv toi
g?ther, demand their rights and resist all en.
| ci ouch men t uoon them.
hfet - -
FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS
cnito Rm?I?u
89th Day.?The bill providing a site for 1'
lie Supremo Court building was reconsidered,
nd was amended by giving the Supremo
'ourt of the District power to hear testimony
i contested cases of valuation. Asamendeu, I.
1 was again passed. Mr. Mitchell addressed
lie Senate in favor of the constitutional
mondment'proposed by him for the election
f senators bv popular vote. At the condition
of Mr. Mitchell's speech, the concurrent
esolution was referred to the Committee on
'ritilegea and Elections. Mr. Morrill, trom
he conference committe on the bill for the ^
rgahiration, improvement and maintenance f,
f the National Zoological I'ark, reported that c
he committee jiad been unable to agree; and H
le moved that the-Senate recede from its posi- v
ion and agree to the Mouse amendment, t
rhieh requires half the expense.to be paid by s
he District goveonmeht. After vune discus- j
Vfter n short executive aeaaion the Senate <
^P^^ygo^mml^d^SueeTivSt'^nrS^' H
)klllkonin. TllP rPAflina nf (Iwi rrruirf irKi'nTi 1
s in (he form of a substitute for the entire t
ill and covers 6fty-two printed pages, occu>ied
over an hour. After some discussion the
eport was agreed to?yeas f>0; nnys, Rutler. I
'ockrell, Pugh, Quny nnd Vest. The bill I
low goes to tne President for his signature. <
Vniong the bills passed were the House joint <
'solution as to an appropriation of $10,0u()for t
lie ottiec of the second assistant Postmaster 1
eneral; the House bill increasing to $'J50,(XK) i
he limited cost for the public building at 1
Vilmington, Del. The Senate then adjourned, j
01st Day.?The Pension Appropriation hill t
ias reported and placed on (tiecalendar. The '
ill appropriating ;?50,tKX> for a Stark state at
lanenester, New Hampshire, was passed .17 ^
< 15. The House hill to transfer the revenue i
utter service to the Navy Department was i
nnsidcrcd, and the amendments of the Naval 1
'onimittec were agreed to. Pending eon- 1
ideration of this hill, Mr. Hoar, from the t
ommittee on Privileges and Kleetions, re- '
orted a Federal K.lection bill, and it was
laced on the calendar. The consideration of 1
he Revenue Cutter bill was resumed, hut at *
o'clock the Lund Forfeiture hill came up as }
nfinished business. Pending its consideraion
theSenate went into exeeutivesession,and *
I'licti the doors were reopened, adjourned. _ 1
P2t> Day.?The consideration of the Land j
ori'eiturc bill was i...i. -ri.^ i.;11 J
ver without action until Monday next. At '
his point (.1:15) the Vice President announced
hat lie had signed the joint resolution appro- '
iriating SlotyiOO for the relief of the sullerers j
>y the Mississippi overflow, and the joint ,
esolution was sent to the President for his ^
ignature. Mr. CJibson offered a joint resoluion
declaring the profound sorrow of the (
South at the announeement of the death of j
Ion. Fdward J. <?ay, late a representative j
rom the State of Louisiana, nnd suspending ,
he business of the Senate to giveopportunity
ur tributes to Mr. fiay's eminent public and
irivate virtues. Kiilogics were pronounced ^
iy Senators (iibson, Cock roll nnd Fust is. The
('solutions were agreed to, and as a further
nark of respect the fck-nate ndiourned. J
jwrp IMY.?The Senate Hill tocarry out (in ' |
art) the term of the agreement with the (
iuux Indians of Dakota for the sale of a por- ]
ion of their reservation (ami appropriating ,
1,800.1100 for the purpose 1 was reported ana
asset I. Oilier bills on the calendar were
assed as follows: House hill approving,wjth
memiments, the funding act ot Arizona(with
menduient). Senate hill to amend the interi?sie.
ovmmeree aet in* tr? unortr* of procedure).
Imtm Wilt to pay f60,000 to Albert H. Emery,
if Stamford, Conn., for the use of his patents
>y the government (with an amendment inTensing
the anient to $125,0001. The Senate
hen proceeded to the consideration of execuive
business, and at 3.10 adjourned.
1 Loh>? Sessions.
P7TI1 Day.?Mr. Chandler, of Massachusetts,
moved that the House concur in the
Senate amendments to the World's Fair hill.
This being agreed to, the bill is finally passed,
and will be sent tothc President for his action.
The House went into committee of the whole,
Mr. Payson, of Illinois, in the chair, on the
Legislative Appropriation bill. After a long
debate, the committee rose ami the House ucliourncd.
08th Day.?Tile House went into committee
ot the whole Mr. Payson, of Illinois, in
the ehuir?on the Legislative Appropriation
hill, the pending question being on the motion
if Mr. Diinnell, of Minnesota, to strike out
the clause providing clerks for senators. The
Milijeet was discussed at length by Messrs.
savers (Tex.), Cannon (III.), Breckinridge
[Ky.)t Butterworth XPJ, Kerr (In-). Cntehcon
and Allen (Mich.), HoJmiin (Ind.) and others.
Mr. Butterworth said if lie had n clerk lie
would be worth $10,000 a year more to his
constituents. Mr. Breckinridge said senators
heeded clerks more than representatives. The
motion to strike out was lost veas 85 navs
N7. PotldStl.r I'll rl l...r <!.? II....'....
,, v " ?> ? ?...unc
adjourned.
PDTtl day.?The joint resolutions for the
appointment of Charles Devon*, of Massachusetts,
and .Innies (Welling, of the Dislriet of
Columbia, to fill vacancies in the Kegcney of
the Smithsonian Institution, was passed. The
I .ovinia live Appropriation hill was considered
in <'< mmittcc of the Whole. The question of
eivil service reform received a large share of
attention. Without disposing of the hill the
committee rose ami the Mouse adjourned.
100th Day.?Hr. Cannon, of Illinois, from
the ('omniittee oa Appropriations, reported a
joint resolution appropriating .flou.Ono to
enable the Secretary of War to distribute
rations for the relief of destitute people in the
district overflowed by the Mississippi and its
tributaries. The resolution was passed. < >n
motion of Mr. Butternut It, of Ohio?yeas 120,
nays too the Mouse went into committee ol
the whole (Mr. I'ayson, of Illinois, in the
chair) on the Legislative Appropriation bill.
Without completing the consideration of the
bill, the committee rose, and the Mouse at five
o'clock took a recess until eight o'clock,
the evening session to be for the consideration
of private pension bills.
101st Day.? Bv appointment of the Speaker,
Mr. Burrows,of Michigan, acted as Sneaker
pro tem to-day. Senate bill making HockBirt,
Maine, a port of delivery was passed.
ouse hill appropriating $7000 to construct
a road, from Alexandria, Va., to the National
Military Cemetery, near that place. The
House then took up the legislative appropriation
bill, and there was a spat between Representatives
Knloe ami Kvnns, of Tennessee.
Finally the committee rose and reported the
bill to the Mouse. On ordering the previous
question 110 quorum voted, and this point was
raised by Mr. Bvnum, A count failing to develop
a quorum, a call of the House was ordered.
After five hours consumed in this
manner further proceedings under the tall
were dispensed with and the question recurred
on ordering the previous question. The
voir mooii i.?*? in in,ihmi .iir. ivymmi ntisruiiH* |
point that there wh* no quorum present. The
Speaker protein, thereupon counted the House
ami announced tliut there were lt>7 members
present more tInn n quorum. Mr. Hynum
demanded tellers, and no quorum vofiag, the
yens and nays were ordered. The vote resulted?yens
141, nays 20, the Speaker counting
Messrs. Abhutf, Breckinridge. (Kentucky,)
PcHaven, Knloe and Goodnight to mnke a
quorum, and declared the previous question
ordered, and the House then adjourned.
QUAKE IN CALIFORNIA.
Oronml Srttln Several Indies Railroad
Bridge Weakened.
One of the most severe shocks of earthquake
experienced in California for a long time was
felt in San Francisco and neighboring localities
a little after 3.30 o'clock in the morning.
The buildings were shaken perceptibly,and
persons aroused from their sleep. 1'lasfering
fell from the walls in places, but no serious
damage has been reported yet. A dispatch from
May held says the shock was very severe there
The railroad bridge was rendered impassable,
as the piers sixty feet high,settled a few inches,
and the rails spread apart about a foot. The
ground in places settled six to twelve inches.
%
-ita iiihi it .' ?
SUNDAY SCHOOL. **
N TERN ATIONAIj LESSON FOR
MAY II.
.c?Non Te*l ! "Fording; the Mnltl*
Hide." (.?' ? ix., 10-17 ?Cioldou
Tr *' i J oh vf., 35 -1 oimiiciii *
nry on I ho I.mnon.
The sanding forth of the twelve, an I tin
sheading of John tho Baptist, briefly roorrod
to in the opening vertoi of this
hapter, are more fully recorded by Matthew
nd Mark. In connection wititho first, it is
rorthy of note that Ho had just taughtthem
o pray that the Lord of the liervost would
end forth laborers into His liar vest;' then
de called the twelve an.l sjut thorn forth to
rwar their own prayers. When wo pray
us remember that. (Jod expects us to b >
willing to be used by Hint in nusvrorlng our
Mark says Tnat inuy W mnrainz^nHR.. ,
"Kith what thoy liad done and what they uad
ought. He had sant them forth to preach
that the k Ingdoin wn? at haud and to beat
the sick. He had sent them only to Israel,
forbidding them to go either to Qoiltilea or
Samaritans (Matt x., 5-3); so that tlio kingloin
they preached must have bo in the kingloin
promised to David and spoken of by all
'lie prophets, which would make a restored
Israel with Jehovah dwelling in their midst,
i center of blessing to all the world. The
niraelos of healing whieli accompanied their
ireaehing were proofs that tin Messiah of
lie prophets had actually come (Isa. xxxv.,
?. <?).
"And Ho took them, and went aside privately."
There were so many coming and
;oing that they ha?l no leisiiro oven to eat,
md lie took them aside to rest awhile (Mark
H., 21). While we continue In these mortal
iodic* we eiuinot work unceasingly, but the
.ime will come when we shall bo able to servo
iinwcnriedly (Hov. vii., 15).
11. "And the people, when thoy know it, followed
Him." John says that Jesus crossed
die Sea of Galilee, ami the pooplo followed'
lioeause they saw His miracles. Matthew atuf
Mark say that Jesus went by ship, and thnti
Lhc people followed on foot ami outwent;'
Him. In the Imat He would ba an hour or
two alone with His diseinlos, and thoy would ~ ^
liave a little rest; but what a busy life lie
"And Tie received 'HttTlHT luutwns au. ?
Mark Ixith say tliat He was moved withcom|Mission
toward them. No pity for Himself,
out full of pity for these sheep without n
-lippherd, oven though no knew their mo*
Lives in following Hini.
"And spake unto them of the kingdom of
DikI, and healed tlioin that had need of hoatng."
Uolli body and soul Ho attendo 1 to,
ror He is a Saviour for both, and tbo time
ivill come when ovory saved soul shall bnvon
redeemed body in which to dwell.
12. "Send the multitude away." So said
the twelve as the day began to wear away.
Mid as they, weary und hungry, saw no
orosnecl of rest, and not much prospect of
jven a bite for themselves from their ft.w
loaves nnfl lishcs, if that hungry crow.I remained.
Not all tho glorious tilings of tho
kingdom, of which Jesus had been speaking,
could inuko oven tlio twelve forgot that thov
wore hungry men. They had soon film still
the storm and raise thodoad. but. they seemed
not to consider tliat tho same power could
food these hungry thousands. Thoir wisdom
was to lot lluim uuitUr wUturn they might,
and find food and shelter us they were able
in tho towns and country rounil about. Tho
old question still lived, "Can God furuiah a
tahlo in tho wilderness?" (Ps. lxxviil., 10.)
13. "But He said unto thorn, (live ye them
to oat." Ho had nskod Philip, "Whence shall
wo huy bread tliat those may ont?" and Philip
had replied that they would need about two
hundred penny worth togivo every one a little.
Ami now wiion IIo says "Give ye them
to ent," tlioy reply: "Shall wo buy two
hundred pennyworth " (John vi., 5-7; Mark
vi., 37). Moses hod said that, tho coining
Messiah would lie a prophet like unto him
(Deut. xviii., 1ft, 18), and ha<l tlioy remembered
Hint, they might also have remembered
tho rood from heaven, which fed millions
of pooplo dally for nearly forty years.
"We have no more but flvo loaves and two
fishes." When lie asked Philip, Ho did it to
prove him, for Ho Himself know what Ho
would do (John vi., 0), just as Ho so often
lets us get into a strait place to prove us,
while all tho time He knows tho way out and
just what He will do.
14, 15. "And Ho said to His disciples: Mako
them sit down by lifties in a company. Aud
they did so, and inado them all Hit down."
Mark says: "Upon tho green grass." John
savs: " There was much grass in tho placo".
(Mark vi., 33; John vi., 10). Matthew
says there wore 5000 men besides women aud
children (Matt, xiv., 21); so thero may have
.boeu 120 companies of fifty each, or ten companies
to each of the twelve disciples. But
observe the order, and rememlior the precept:
"Let all things Iks done decently and
in order," for Hod is not the author ot confusion
(I Cor. xiv., 83, 40). A disorderly
home or room or wardrobe or bureau drawer
oroflieeor store is no credit to a Christian.
Confusion, disorder, tumult, unquietness are
none of the things of the HolyHpirit.
10. "Then He took the flvo loaves and the
two fishes, nnd looking up to Heaven, Ho
blessed thorn, and brake, nnd gave to the disciples
to set before tho multitude." Ho took
just what they hnd and used it. He took tho
rod that was in Moses's hand and wrought
wonders with it. He took the widow's pot of
oil nnd multiplied it. He does not ask us to
waste time in vain regrets about what wo
have not, or in wishing that wo had this or
that. Ho simply says, "What have you I
Bring it to Me. And anything placed unro?
serve lly in His hands can bo made to do
woudar.i, for He has all power. Thousands
of eyes are upon Him as He takes in His
hauls tho loaves and llshns, and lifting
His face to heaven, acknowledges before
thoni all tiidl thence comes tho power and
tho blessing. Ho novel* sought His own glory,
but in nil things glorilio I U> I.
17. "An I thoy did est, .an 1 were all fllloi.'
Philip thought that two hundred pennyworth
might bo enough to give every one a
HIM , hut Jokuh docs not give that way. His
invitation is: "Eat, <> friends; drink, yea,
drink abundantly, <) beloved," (Song of Sol.
v., 1). An l oven these poor shepherdless
sheep He delights to fill. As th" disciples
piss around from company to company
pressing more food upon them tho answor
comes from all directions: Satisfied, abundantly
satisfied.
"And tluro was taken up of fragmonts
that remained to thorn twelve baskets." Instead
of a littlo for each disciple, which
would have been all that twelve ineu could
obtain from five loaves an 1 two fishes, here
is a basketful for each. Ha l they selfishly
kept what thoy had for thoaisolves, how little
th-ey would have had, but by giving it
nw.iy what abundance becomes theirs
Afraid to give to C4o 1 Jest wo have not
I - * I. ... n..H?ln..n MA.. ?..?*
I onougll IUI UUi nJITCB, U?7 vv/nviia^v |FW?| , I'MU
when wo cheerfully give Him that which is
all Hie own any way. thon Ho innkes
us to onjoy His fullness, and our
cup runneth over. "Tho blowing of tho
Lord, itina'ceth rich; and Hen Math m Borrow
with it" (I'rov. x., 2i). H> gave Himself
to ha broken and pjure 1 forth for us;
why should wo Imitate to plno oursolvoo in
His hands most unreservedly, that wo may
ha bro'toa an 1 pas$o 1 round by His hands
for tho life of others* It may not bo pleasant
to tho llosh, but it will b? wonderfully
profitable. "Uxcjpt a corn of wheat fall into
the ground and die, it abidoth nlono: but
if it die, it briogoth forth muoh fruit" (John
xii., 21). Who is willing to be passed round
for the good of others, not loving his life here,
so that lie may keep it unto lifo eternal??
Lesson Helve)'. , . ..
A cask of transmission of infection to
nn nnborn chihl has occurred in 1'aris.
A child l>orn during tho convalescence
of tho mother from pneumonia was affected
with the same malady, and died
t the end of live days.