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OSOTOLA'g LAST DEKAJL
BT BKSBKIAB CTTTK BWOBTB.
Pet Ito window* open and oool my vein*.
For Im fever of death i* now begun.
And hot ?>n my hand* and feet are ay abates,
Andtheooesn pants In tho low, red ran.
In the Euohoe Anna the Ibis to-night
Drifts down on ibe wreck of the dead oanoo,
And the Chorokee rores with hearts of white
Lite thick as the stars in the seas of dew,
And the misty moon looks over the wares
Ca the oypress covers of bones and grates.
1 ask but a breath?wbat is left to me
lit this treeless prison by hot Tybee7 '1
Listen lo Osoeolac
Only the ruin iro * that cries in the fen.
Only tho lur in tho werewolf's den,
Only the l-oaoH where the hawk has been.
But pity not Osceola.
0 Flori<lns far. so near you so?m
1 breal ho the bronth of your orange groves,
The Ilres of the wurriors form my dreams,
And my bride, the Beautiful, with me rove*.
The fans of the palms an in years of old.
Ware cooling mo now in those splendors of
dreams
?And dance by the firefly'? taper* of gold,
m y woh? comwn no toe i'pyvWwpi " 1 "j ?-? ,
And tho trade-winds Mow my plumes of white,
And tho shores ora flllsd with the moonriss
i light. "
t la all a dream whit is left to ma
>f thr polm-crowPed land and tho night-cooled
soa
What is left to Oeooola?
Only the rain crow that ouIIb in the fen.
Only tin fur In the werewolf's den.
Only the bouos where the hawk has been,'
But ptiy not Oeoeola.
Ay, pity mo not?these hands are red,
Ae red as the forges that linked those chains,
And tho merciful Fever waves over my head
Tho torch of the Tempest, and throb my veins.
Yoar wife is dear to your bosom?well.
My forost bride was as dear to me,
^ My Qoart, too, was human?and what befell?
Ask tho elavo pens, led In the Msnateo.
W Htolcu mid sold for a slave I And whose hand
Was lifted for her in all yoar land?
Thorv 1 bared my breast of my heart bereft
To tho winged riilo? and what fa left?
What la left to O&oeola?
Only the rain crow that colls in the fen,
Only the fur 111 the werewolf's den,
Only tho bones whore the hawk has.besn,
' But pity not Osceola.
When wnr'swrttd spirit broke in me
I cursed the land and It sunk from sight. 7
I called the red plumes from the Manatee.
I called from Tampa tho nlnmee of white.
I called the young chiefs hom the Kvergladee
And the oo.-.y swamps of the dark Walioo,
* ram ' tho feathered irails .in the red wood's
kbados. * > 4 - .7*-T-?_? ,
And we fought for our own *0T\bePlferoec do.
Ye bound mo once, but I broko my bands.
And the raptor cleft with these wedged bands.
-And ye hound mo twice, and what remains
Bnt this nerveless arm and its load of chains.
What is left to Osoeola?
Only the rain orow that call in the fen,
Jinly the fur In tho wer> wolf's den,
{ inly the lionos whcie the hawk baa been,
But pity not Osceola.
Chains? What are they now? On plumes o
lbibt
My free soul soars o'er the crimson sea.
Ye dotes Zeunida, yo Ibises white,
1 sweep tho ctnud* like your pinions free.
The Cberokeo rosoe, tho sunbeams' flowers.
J .tko llio fallen ouj'B of tbo gods, lie sweet.
As In the bliss of tboso starlit hours
When my brlJo lay down at my weary feet. .
Tbe sunset fndei in my prison bars.
But tbe angel of Right 1 see In tbe stars. 1
When Justice you faco with your soul laid bare,
Tell me, what shall await yoa there? I
listen to Osceola? |
Only tbo rain crown that calls In tbe fen,
Only the fur iu tbo werowolf's den, i
Only tbe hones where tbo bawk has been,
rity not usooola.
I
Yo shall lay my bones where tbe reedy winds i
In tbe cool savannahs for ine shall sigh; I
Where tbe wandur>n.( lieron the soa-conob finds, i
And tbo tears of the Gulf-clouds fill tbe sky<
Ye ebnll not bring uio your ftrlty there,
Nor add 0110 bren b to the r.Quudlng deep,
Nor mo Jk the heavens wllli psalm or prayer?
te*~^ln^T<^fonif?nirr??li'SkUf^b?s^des of Qod,
Atad in the hoit'bte of the judgment off
Ye may ills* a seatenoo more bard to bear
Than the doom of Osceola? ,
Only the rain crow that callfc in the fen.
Only the fur In tbo werewolf's den.
Only the liones where rho bawk bos been-*
Moy tbo God of tbo withered leaves pity yoa
then ?
rity not Osceola.
ft GREAT TREftSURE.
The Strap mystery SnrroaQdinc
Ti_ n:
lis uisaparauce.
A STORY OF EXTRAORDINARY INTEREST.
BT FRANK BARRETT.
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CHAPliSR XII?[Cohtinokd.J
know If Rho htid Hoon tho thief as ho os-'
naped by tho window, and could identify
him
To And Lola, however, was not my solo,
object.
The protracted absence of Brace and Van.
Hoeck excited my misgivings. and, despite',,
the Judge's promise. I already reproached;
myself with having abandoned my bllndi
partnor. The Judge's notions of justice]
were pecullnr, and based upon tho roughusage
of California minora In the days when;
they made and executed their own laws. I
believed him capable of applying torture,
only stopping short of aoliiui murder, to '
wring from Van Jloock tho secret which he
believed him to hold with respect to tho |
lost diamond.
I retraced my stops to tho spot where I
had helped to conceal Van Hoeck. Thrt
broken brnkc milrknd a distinct trail, and In
a pit a hundred yards from that point the
undorgrowth was beaten down, ah if a strug->
gle had taken place.
Was It not possible that Brace had gone,
further than he intended, and killed Yarn
Hoeck? Had he conceuled the body, and^
fled with his daughter to escape the consequences
of his act?
Asking myself these questions, I followed
h * track bom the pjt that brought me Into
the bridle-war. Looking for further traces
of a nas-age through ttm hrjilfn 1 in*-l? m?r
wny'down toward the rood.
Auntu I poroelvml the broken brnke. and' I
following tholine. I threaded my way be- i
tween the trees upon tho slope of the hill
until I emorg^ft I om the wood upon the
high bank that edg.-d the Abbey road at
thnt part. It wne hs nearly ge possible the
point where Van Hoock bad stopped mo in'
tho morntnt upon hearing Braoo In our (
rear. Looking nprhe road I saw ihe fingerpost
at the croas-ronds; looking down. I
saw thnt which took my breath away with
amaxemnnt?Brace was trudging along the
road toward tho Abbey, with Van Hoeok
holding his arm on ono side, and Lola his
hunl upon the other?an incomprehensible
picture of unity, friendly nsslstannn and
rellnnce.
it wan truo tlfat without assistance Van
Hoeels could not have found hi? way along
thn road, and very poaaibto that, without
the restraint of her father's hand, Lola
agrould not have walked by his side: bat al\
' 'woubt sh to iho oxistonoe of n friendly unrJbrHtundlnft
between the two men was dls
|t?llod from my mind by what followed. - I (
Arrived opposite the brldtc-p ath leading i
up Into the wood they stopped, and consultation
ensued between the two men. I
could not hear their voices at that distance.
>ut 1 saw by their gesticulations that tfiey
i, ^fe
srece discussing iom? point; It'nndod by
Brace's going to the side of the road, ana
sranlng hie nook to see If any one were In
sight. I orouehod dotrn berido the thicket,
wnloh partly concealed rae.
When I cautiously raised my head and
looked again, Draco, still standing oppoilto
the bridle-way. was drawing his arm
nit of the sandy bank that there skirted the
oad.
1 ducked my hoad. as once he poo rod to
he right and left. They were all gone, all
hreo. when I looked again.
Whbn I thought It safe to venture, I went
0 the spot where Brace had stood. There
vhs a rnbbit-holo In the sandy cutting,
>artly hidden by the training growth from
he overhanging edge. I took off my
loat. turned back my sleeve, thrust In my
irra. and drew out?the lonther case in which
he diamond had boon taken from my wristi
t was omptv.
f again thrust my arm in and explored
he nolo, thinking?though it was little
Ikoly?that the diamond had isUpped-out of
he case or been put In separately. It was
1 Mn<* ot cul-de-sac?(he earth had fallen
?ut I did not glve'up .
ibsolutcly certain that the Groat Hospor
vas not there. It was not probable they '
vould place tho diamond in such an open
llaoe; tho leather case was different. It
vas unsafe to keep that, but it whs of littlo
sonsequonco where they abandoned it.
But why had they taken the diamond from
ho case, and what had they done with It?
A clow to thiB mystery aUo I discovered
>efore long.
When I got back to the Abbey. Braco.Van
[loouk. and Lola wero In the library with
ho polieo officer. Sir Edmund, Mr. Wray?
lis lawyor?and a couplo of irlonds, Jusiocs
of tho l'cnco. who had been brought
t>y the rumors which were already widely
spread.
Lola was still* under examination. 8ho
was Btubbornly silent. It was with tho
greatest difficulty that any response to tho
inostions could bo drawn from her. But
she admitted seeing the man drop from tho
oriel; and asked If It was one ot tho (servants.
sho ropliod firmly, "No." But more
than this could not bo got out of hor 011 this
point.
To the inquiry how she had discovered
tho means of getting from the bay into tho
oriel, for it was by that way she had come
to my assistance, she replied that she "had
seen it done before." but she would not say
whom Bho had seen.
The police offlcor asked me to go into the
ltd joining dining-room with him.
"May I ask," he said, "if you havo liny reason
to suspect that you were robbed by
pour friends?your partners in the diamond?
because they profess to have been
n the woods ull tho morning, whernas I
aavc good cause to believe that they have
n the town of Southampton port of tho
,Imo."
"Aroyou sure of that?"
"I will take my oath that I saw the little
lavage in tho red petticoat in the High
Street as I started to come here."
CHAPTER XIII.
"I advise you. sir." said the officer, "to
ake tho advice of Sir Edmund's solicitor.
Mr. Wray."
I agreed, and ho called in the lawyer. I
old hfm. without reserve, all that had happened.
showing him tho leather case I had
:aken from the hole where Brace had placed
"A couple of cunning scoundrels!" he exclaimed;
"their pretended suspicion of each
other was. of course, intouded to blind you
to their complicity, white each, by implicating
the other, diverted suspicion from
himself."
"I was never in my life so completely deceived,"
I said, "liraco seemed to me the
?^5cuv?h?m*n^aittduha^ath^f/
"He Is worse than that. Mr. Thorno: ho is
a murderer at heart; for there can be no
doubt it was ho who attempted your life; i%
was a sheer impossibility ior the otlior man
to do it. We hove heard the story of tho
robbery rrom Sir Edmund. The intolligenci
that planned the attack was doubtless Van
Hoeok's. He looks like a man of subtle intellect.
I do not see what other part he
could have played in this affair.
"Sir Edmund told me. sir," said the officer.
"that on your return from the left wing,
you hoard snoring in Brace's room."
"I certainly did."
"That could vorv woll have been Van
Hoock, who hud taken Brace's place while
he slipped off into your room?another proof
that the iwo were acting together."
"Precisely," said Mr. Wray. And thon,
with an air of business, "Well, now. what is
to be done? that is the ilrBt question. The
evidence is insufficient to ohargo either of
the men even with being concorned in the
robbery. The leather ohho proves nothing.
They might declare they found It empty,
and have conc.aled it through fear of accusation,
or they might ull throe swear your
statement to be false, and absolutely accuse
you of being yourself the thief. And until
,we can substantiate the charge by positive
proof, we must be careful to conceal our
suspicions from them. If they think they
are likely to be brought to justice, they will
quit the country by the first steamer that
leaves Southampton?and we can not stop
them. The thing that must be done at onco
js to search for tho diamond. That is your
/tffnir." he said, addressing the officer; "undoubtedly
they have placed it somewhere in
Southampton, in readiness to tuke if flight
becomes neooasary."
"I'll hove all tho kens searched before the
morning."
"That is part of your business, of course.
At tho same time. 1 would suggest that it
is of far more importance to watch the men
tlicmaelvos. Van Hoeck would not trust
tho diamond to the ke.-ping of ordinary
thieves' reoeivers; it would bo safer merely
laid under a plant in the gardens down by
the dock. You may be sure he has the in
genuiiy 10 suggoBi a hhio piuce lor lis Keeping."
1
"I'll have some plain-clothes men on the
first thing to-morrow morning, and I'd
better go and telegraph to Scotland Yard at
onco."
"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 plauslblo pretext for returning
to Southampton. Everything at
this momont depends upon keeping Van
Hoock and Brace in Ignorance of our suspinion.
And with that, view." he added,
turning to me. "I counsel you. Mr. Thorne.
jto conceal your own feelings. Not one of
these three ought to see any change In your
demeanor toward them."
This was sound advice, and I recognised
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 ogalust the men who had plotted
together to take my life from tho more
insensate K?"??n 01 gain. i tell more bitterly
toward Brace than toward his accomplice,
not because I thought Van Hoeok loan
guilty, but becuiisn I bad folt more kindly
toward tho Judge, to whom I scorned linked
by the brotherhood of labor.
I kept out of hla way when we returnod to
the library, and avoldud looking at him, loot
he should perceive that I was no longer his
friend. But I knew he had his keen eyes
upon me, and was reading tho signs of my
newly born a vert Ion, and this made my noting
worse.
When the officer had oompleted his Investigation
he said sagaciously, ae he olot >d
bis note-book:
"I have suffloient Information for my
present purpose. I may not be able to dieoover
the perpetrators of this outrage Immediately,
but J think I shall be In a position
to tell you something about the lost
diamond within twenty-four hours."
Sir Edmund accompanied him to the door.
When he returned nnd took the seat he had
occupied at the head of the long table.
nrnuo rune, una, piecing mmseii m tne opnosite
end, inolined tale head Aral to the
baronet, then to the right and to the left.
"8<)uire and gen'tomen of this committee,"
he said. "I don t want to apeak dlsrespeo'ful
of the po||0o. but the intelligent officer who
has jest left us, as if he'd got hold of the tall
end of a rocket, and meant follertn' It right
up. and holdln' tight on till It buat. ain't
gola' to do any good for htssetf or Any one
filse In thla business. Tho big diamond's
o3t. and be ain't goln' to And ft in twentyfour
hours, nor In twenty-four years. Ef It
was a haystack. I don't say but what. witM
the help of Pror Idsnee ?and a good lot
I it?ne might r>? up to the job he's ondertook.
' Bat it ain't a haystack. End ef he was to
grind up the whole of thU country, end
every blessed thing upon It. emell. paddled
it in clean flume, and sifted the tailtn* .
careful, he wouldn't find It. End these bein*
my views. It-stands to reason thot<I r.l&'t 'f
goln* to bang about here lookfn' at the place
whsre I've come to urizlt like an old female
what's slipped >.iT tno sidewalk on a bit ol 1
ornnge-p.-el. With your permission, Squire, 1
I'm golu'away right off." c
"1 can not stop you. Brace, even if 1
wished to." replied Sir Edmund, who. be it
observed, knew nothing of tho suspicion 1
against the Judge. "I am inollnod to think ,
that you will bo happier in seeking a new
fortune than in lingering about with the 1
faint hope of recovering the old. If the 1
diamond is found you will hear of itwher- <
ever you may be. Are you going to look i
. f<Jr another diamond?"
"No. Squire; I'm going to And that, please 1
God," Brace replied; thon. alter a tnomeat's ,
pause, he said. "There's a matter^of business-to
ffhish up before I go, sir r all the 1
money I have in my pocket belongs to you." ,
. o?k eep^ ituntll^ g
h "You're grit. Squire?real jfrltl I won't
refuse your kindness. I ajiall noed a bit to
start with. But I'll ask you. sir. to hold this
till I Claim it," t
I' Ho went round to Sir Edmund. ,
"What is It. Brace?" asked the baronet,
taking the paper Brace drow from his *
I nnnkai U? .......'? l? ? T?? *
|'vvnuv< <10 IVUIIVt IV T? C?0 IIIU ?J O t'UJIJ I
of agreement. "Oh. I do not need this, my
good fellow." ho protcnted; "I havo your |
I O U. and that is us good now as over it
was."
"If you won't keep it for your own security.
Squire. I'll ask you to keep it for my own.
it's a kinder co'tif'cate. and if any one lies
got anythin' to say ngen mo when I'm not
here to dofend myself, I'll ask you to let
that up. Oood-by. Bqulre."
Ho held out his hand, und said, ns Sir Edmund
shook it cordially: "Thank you, sir,
thank you 1 You are grit 1"
Ho strode down the room, brushing past
Van Houck. who sat immovablo- and silont
as though he worn carved in stone, and
came to whore I was standing. My face
must have told him that my heart was
hurdoncd. Dut he stretched out his hand
aul said hoarsely:'
"Saygood-by to us. pardner."
I folded ray arms and shook my head. He
droppod his hand by his side.
"Prehaps you're right," he said, remorsefully,
"prohaps you're not. Timo will show
(hat I've got a clean conscience, if Heaven
is just." He paused, then in a still lower
lono. and with an uceent of reproach, he
added; "Bay yer hopo so. pardner. say yer
hope so."
"I hopo so." I said.
He shook his headjHiefully.
" 'Tain t yer old voice, Gentleman Thorns
?there's no hoart in it. We've roughed it
togethor, and we've shared our 'baeea out
there, end"?his chin twitched convulsively,
and turning away he muttered, "it takes all
(he piii<-k outer me to part like this."
Lola was standing in a corner of the room
by the door, with her eyes fixed upon me.
As Draoe was about to pass through on his
way out he caught up her wrist savagely in
his hand. As savagely she tore It away,
Hnd la hor turn came and stood before me.
"I'm a-goln'," she said.
"And a good riddance." I thought, exasperated
by the bolief that she knew where
the diamond was, and could reveal the
whole mystery .If she chose. _
"You ain't coin' to let nie go like htm. are
yer?" sho asked: "you ain't goin'to let me
go without sayln' good-by?"
There was deep pathos :n her voice. The
friendless little savugo loved mo. She had
saved my life. Myheact smote me for
lyin^biiuH ?uafe juiktu .niir mf two ounus; .<
sflft drew ttrcnv round bw sttgliflwd*; inro~
| then, flinging her arms about my neck, eh* 1
whispered, with tender impulsiveness:
"Shall I bo good? Shall I tell you where
It la?"
'But just at that moment her flne car
caught the rustle of n woman's dross, and
cntohing a sight of Edith, who was entering
from thn dining-room, she startod back.
Scowling over her shoulder at Edith, her
eyes ailamo with hute. sho said, in a voice
from which all tenderness had cone:
"For her Bake? Nol" And without looking
again at me, she went from the room
and joined her father.
iTO BE CONTINUED,]
Tlic Tiger Plague In Java.
According to the administration report
of Java recently laid before the
Dutoh Chambers, portions of that
island are depopulated through tigers.
In 1882 the population of the village
in the southwest of the Bantam province
was removed and transferred to an
island off the coast in consequence of
the trouble caused to the people by
tigers. These animals have now become
an intolerable pest in parts of the
same province. The total population
is about 600,000, and in 1887 sixty-one
were killed by tigers, and in consequence
of the dread existing among the
people it has been proposed to deport
the inhabitants of the villages most
threatened to other parts of the country
where tigers are not so common, ana
where they can pursue their agricultural
occupations with a greater degree
oi security. At present they fear to go
anywhere near the borders of the forest.
The people at present seem disinclined
or they lack the means and courage,
to attack and destroy their enemy,
although considerable rewards are
offered by government for the destruotion
of beasts of pray. In 1888 the
reward for killing a royal tiger waa.
raised to 200 florins. It appears also
that the immunity of the tiger is in
part dne to superstition, for it is considered
wrong to kill one unless he attacks
first or otherwise docs injury..
Moreover, guns were always very rare
in this particular district, apd, since a
rising a few years ago, have been taken
uway by the authorities.
rrK? ww - ?a - ww
j lit; jrvMoiu jrarson.
Tust got back from a Northwest trip,"
said a drummer to hits friend in the presents
of a Chicago Mail reporter. "I
extended my run and went into Dakota
and Montana. Stopped in Bismark the
other day, and it was awful cold. Iwae
nearly frozen after hustling around
town, and stepped into the Sheridan
House barroom to get a blood tinkler.
A m< ment later a man olad in
shiny blaek broadcloth strode into the
place. His feet were encased in a pair
of immense cowhide boots, from the
leg of one of which protruded a razor,
a butcher's oleaver and a club, and from
the other the half of a scythe blade and
another club.
"Strapped to his bark was a Winchester
rifle; a belt contained a revolver
and * ten-ineh bowie. On his left
hand was a pair of steel knuckles; his
right wrist waa encircled by the loop
of a flexible slungshot, and he pointed
JfV naltKnr rnnnltrAs *4
? .W swwnrt?* ?v VUU UlUWUi
44 4Bob Bloomer, you corae hye* 1' he
ordered.
"The shrinking form of a seven-foot
bell whacker advanced from the crowd,
and the walking arsenal grasped him
by the naok and waltzed him oat and
down the street.
" 'Your Sheriff goes loaded.' I remarked
to my right-hand neighbor.
44 'Sheriff be Slowed t' hs replied.
4That y*K is onr new parson, an' he's a
i rustler. No backslider gets away from
him."' ? * 4
a.
THE ljjw&
The Roohee^artyheel Works, at Roehest?r t
*. damaged 524000by Are, and three g,
f reman were injured by falling from a ladder.
Several hnr?> thieves were whipped and j
dlloried at Georgetown, Del.?r-Mad dogs n
mve been bitting cattle and cansing great excitement
in the neighborhood of Lewiston, 111.
?The Misses Minnie and Gertie Pierce were .
rilled at Lima, Oliio, by being thrown out-of oil
t carriage against a stone wall. An insane tn
ronian at Dubuque, la., attempted toburn her di
tome and mtirdfercd her children.??A canoe to
containing twelve lumbermen, while crossing od
he rapids 9n the Otter river, near Calumet, m
dich., was rapsiied and two of the men ta
Irowned. ujfward Urccawald, a Southern p
hearical manager; committed suicide in New
fork.?^GraaS and forest fires in jStf Hamp- 4,
hire ditk conaldfrablc damaged! Herman jh
under arrest o i the charge of seeking a con- .in
ipiracy to murder her husband.?-The An- p'
?lo-American Gas Lighting Company has been u,
irgauised with a capital of ore* $50,000,000, in
ind is the biggest thing in the syndicate line
pet attempted. A capital of $20,000,000 will
!>e provided for the construction of the South gr
Pennsylvania Railroad, nnder the rcorganisa- 1"
lion plan. Non-union carpenters in Chi- jj'
>ago, who are not residents of Illinois, coming )?
[Vom other states, have appealed to the United ou
States authorities for protection. Richard
Croker, the Tammany loader,and Mayor Grant, c"
of New York, were shown up in a bad light in wl
the testimony of the former's brother-in-law fo
before the Senate Investigating Committee. ^
A large silk mill in the Lehigh Valley, Pa., Df
?peratcd-by a New York firm, was destroyed ill
>y fire nnd four person* killed and twelve in. j||
nrcd. A farmer named MoiYison, of Shel>nrne,
Ont., drowned hia three children in a tri
>arrcl of rain water, and then attempted to |h
lrown himself in a creek. During a fire in
Perry A Green's picture factory, Chicago, a fo
crowded sidewalk gave way, and several boya fh
ivere hurt. For three days continuous rains
?ave fallen all over Texas, bridges have been
rwept away and the low lands flooded. The pf
kVhiskey Trust ha* finally secured possession
>f the St. Paul distillery. David Sullivan, jg
>f Dayton, Wis., aged seventy-Sir years, was In
tamed to death while engaged.-in burning ti<
grass and brush off a field on his farm. G. w
P. Churchill, managing partner of the firm of gj
3ifTord A Churchill, dealers in art works,Chi* Ji
'ago, has been missing for some time, and is ^
believe to be in Canada. Gifford says he is out 01
about ffl.000.?Fire in the office of Dr. Kean, m
under Kuhn's Hotel, Chicago, caused a panic hi
among the guests. Cook Bros.' large boiler Bl
it Flint, Mich., exploded, scalding Fred Cook h,
to death and seriously injuring several others, cc
By the burning of their home at Belleville, st
Ont., Jane Arthurs was burned to death, and
her husband seriously burned about the head ik
and arms. Fire in the Shelby Comb Com- a/
pan?f.sr-.-.t.*
age. Five hundred men" in the employ of ^
the Southwest Virginia Improvement Com- al
pany, at Pocahontas, have struck against a re- d
duction in wages, and the minea have been ^
shut down. The cedar works at Elisabeth, w
City, N. C., were burned. Losa $15,000. ci
Tramps beat a farmer of Franklin oounty, Pa., P
because his wife refused to cook a meal for
them.??'Thos. Bishop, aged aeventy years, of
Petersburg, Vo., was convicted of mnrder in
the second degree for beating his wife to death, o(
and was sentenced to six years in prison. ?
The Mississippi overflow is very disastrous in d
the Fointe Coupee parish, hundreds of fami- ''
lies being homelcM. Eight hundred miners *
went on strike at Bcottdale, Pa., and nearly one b
thousund coke ovens are closed. c
Samuel Allen, of Neilsville, Wis., who be- *
came enamore<l of the wife of a neighboring ti
farmer, poisoned him, tried to kill his own wife, b
was arrested, and escaped from jail by the aid f!
of his mistreat, has been finally captured in K
Washington.?-Frederick Kimball, teller of si
the People's Savings Bank,* Worcester, Mass., e'
robbed the concern of $63,000, and $3,000 reward J
is offered for his capture. Lizzie Meyers, of ti
Boston, was found dead from an overdose of
arsenic in a Troy hotel. Moses Harts's barn, n
near Lancaster, Pa., was burned, and thirteen
cowsperished.?Daniel Reittman, aged thirtyfive
years, while drunk, attempted to murder m
the wife*to whom he had been married but a
year, at their home in Altoona, Pa., and then
committed suicide. During the past week si
there were 179 business failures in the United d
Btat08 and 39 in Canada. The public school ?
at ilartby, Del., closed, owing to an epidemic e
of scarlet fever. James Fallon, a pugilist, o
received a blow on the side of the head in a *
set-to with John Murray, in Boston, whioh e
caused fatal paralysis. The Circuit Court n
of Roanoke, Yft., has ordered the sale of the n
Shenandoah Valley Railroad to satisfy claims ?
against the company. Harrison Wagner, a
aged eighty-nine years, started from McCon- a
nrllsvillc, Ohio, to wheel a wh&lba?rovr to *!
Baltimore and return, proposing to make the *
trip in twenty days. While P. F. Fisher, of r
Mobile connty, Ala., was driving along a road t
a negro jumped iuiv >uc reu of i'ue wagon and J
slashed Fisher's throat with a razor. Depn- r
ty Sheriff Davis, of Newark, New Jersey, is %
missing, and reported to be an embeszler.
John C. Graham, twenty-five years old,aolerk j
of the Pennsylvania Company for Insurance e
-on lives and granting annuities, has been ar. ?
rested in Philadelphia charged with embes* j
Element. ,
>
MARKETS. ;
Balthtobk?Flonr?City Mills,cxtrs,$4.26 t
@ 4 60. Wheat?Southern Fults, &M@83, j
Corn?Southern White, 40@40Je., Yellow y
36@Mio. flats- Southern ana Pennsylvania j
27@32o Rj@-M?ryland and Pennsvlvania
65@67o. Hay?Maryland and Pennsylvania <
13.W@*i.T(?. Straw-Wheat, 7A0@f8.60, ,
Butter - Eastern Creamery, 19@22c., near-by \
receipts 12@14a Cheese?Eastern Fancy <
Crsaan. ll@ll|e~ Western, 0@10e. Eggs? \
i
"flood to fine red, 8@|0. Fancy, 10@$18. ,
Nbw YonK-Vlour?Southern Common to ,
fair extra, t2A0@2.86.' Wheat?No. 1 White
80J@89J. Rye?flute 68@60c. Com?South- ,
ern Yellow, 38|@39c. <W-White. State
2#a@20ic. Butter -State, $@174?. Chceee?
fliate 8J@10ie. Kggs-14@fl|c. !
Piiii.adki.phia ? Floor ? Pennsylvania
fancy, 4.25fa4.76. Wheat, Pennsylvania and
Southern Red, 86@?1. Rye?Pennsylvania
68@fl0c. Cora?Southern Yellow, f ilAM1 ;
Oats ? 81l@JUc. Butter ? State, < S8@U. .
C heese?Now York Factory, 9@9ie.)E???
State, 18*@l*i
A WORD jyARM.
jcretary Rusk Sends Out a Circular
" Letter.
ta DImmm Agricultural Depression Mid
Suggests Some Rcmedln-Farmcn
k.tit l?a Protected.
Secretary R'.ak has sent out to the farmers a
rcular lette , in which he discusses agriculral
depression, its causes and possible remeea.
He says much of the depression is due
careless culture, waht of business-line meth1s,
too large bodies of land, the oppression of
ortgages, the troubles arising from transportlon.
the intervention of the middleman,
laabling in farm products by exchanges and
lards of trade, and the opetfctldlfc of trusts or
ablnaiions. He saya that our imports of proicta
aold in oompctiti^^with^tbea* |r
ease, totally disproportionate to onr increase
population, of our itfiports of agricultural
oducta. in 1850oOr imports of farm products*
ere forty million dollars; in 1880 $856,000,000,
i increase of nearly 900 per cent., while the
crease in population in tne same period was
? than 300 per cent. Over 70 per cent, of
ir total exports are the direct products of the
il. During 'the past decade, in which the
oatest increase in imports lias fallen place,
ere has been a steady decrease in the prices
home-grown products. The reason for this
traces to the competition of the pauper,
hor of Europe with our own. The price of
ir wheat, of which we grow a surplus, is'
reed down by competition with Russia and
idia, and regulates the price of the entire
op. Farmers have to use their corn, for
Inch thcreisan insignificant foreign demand,
r fattening cattle and hogs.
He continues: "The foreign market for live
ttle which exists in Great Hritian is so ham-'
>reu ny ine oppressive regulations requiring
uighter at point of tanning, as to exercise
tie or no beneficial influence on the price of^
a product, while the obstructive measures
[opted by several of the Continental couniea
in rcgnrd to American pork haa reduced
e exports of that product since 1881 over
rty per cent, annually. Under such circuminces
there can be but one cause assignable
r the neglect by American farmers to turn
eir attention to other crops In the line of
eh agricultural products as we now import,
id that is that in^this they would meet an
en more overwhelming and disastrous com tition
than they are now confronted with, in
fe raising of cereals and live stock. The only,
hese possible to enlightened statesmanship'
to assure to the farmer adequate protection
the diversification of his crops and produc?n
of ajargcr proportion of the articles which
e now'import.
"These may be summarised as follows; the
?ures given living for the fiscal year ending
ine 30, 1880,and the values those at the porta
' exports: Sugar and molasses, 03,301 .**94; anials
and their products, except woo>, 42,263,4;
fillers, animals and vegetables, 59,453,936;
iscellancons, including hreadstufls, fruits,
iy. hops, oils, rice, seed, tobacco, vegetables
id wines, etc., 71,254,804.
For obvious reasons I omit any reference
pre to the ninety millions expended for tea,
>flfee and cocoa, but omitting these, we have
ill the enormous sum of $266,273,738 imports
r agricultural products, the far. greater part
r which, amounting probably to not less than
10 or 250 millions, could, with proper encourtement^
be t^J* * a|
eifefits of a home market for all that he may
b able to produce on our soil. This ineludw
>1 the sugar and molasses, nil animal prohots,
wool, silk, flax and other fibres, all our
readstufls, fruits, hay, hops, rice, tobacco,
egetablessnd wines; but many of these things
ill never, can never be produced on Ameria??
rn.il :? lb. l.L r r*
ouu iiiiuinj/rmi'iTi n llll (.lie IBUtir UI CtfUTO*
eah nations, especially when, as in the case of
igar, the industry abroad has been helped by
beral government bounties.
COMPETITION ON OUR OWN SOUOf
the seven or eight million dollars' worth
FJivc animals imported into this country, the
reater proportion were of ordinary marketale
stock, as contra-distinguished from purered
stock imported for breeding purposes and
draitted free. Of all other animal products,
icluding wool, there is not one that is not now
eing raised upon our own soil, and yet. inlading
wool and hides, the imports of these
niraal products amounted in the year referred
>, to over sixty million dollars; to this add
srenty millions for fruits, eight million for
arley, over two millions for liay and hojui,
tree and a-h&lf millions for rice, eleven milons
tor tobacco, three millions for oils, two
nd one-half millions' worth of vegetables, the
ime for eggs, over a million dollars' worth of
heese?these represent some of the imports,
ggregnting nearly one hundred and fifteen
mlion dollars, whichl in spite of the produciveness
of our own soil, arc brought into this
Duntry and sold in competition with our fari
era.
FOREIGN MARKF.TR.
If there are products grown to better adv&n?ge
in other countries, remission of duty on
rnich would seem to be in the interest of a
irge portion of our population, such remisions
should only be accorded as the result of
eciprocal concession in the way of a remision
of duties by such other countries ou proacts
more readily grown there. Many of those
ountries which would be sDcciallv benefited
y a remission of the duty on sugarl>y our govrnment,
would afford an excellent market for
ur breadstuff's and dairy and meat product*,
rem it not for the high duties imposed thereon
>y them. Bo with other products, aud whenver
duty on such products Is lowered br reloved
and protection to our farmers thus dlninished.
it should he as the price of concesions
made to us in the tariff"of other countries
a favor of our own farm products. In this way,
nd in this way only, can our farmers be
dequately protected, new markets Ming thus
hrowo open to them for those products which
hey can most easily and cheaply produce.
To farmers producing, as do ours, a vast aureus
of agricultural products, the question of
oreign markets is and should be deeply interS-lilg.
Kui o.ily do they oOi:l >5: Cut-it for
his surplus, hut if untrammelled by irksome
estrictions and uncontrolled by combinations
uch as I have referred to elsewhere, they
erve as useftil checks upon those who might
itncrw tee succeed in oontromngour Home markets.
Unfortunately, irksome restrictions do
exist, and especially is this the case with reference
to our live stock industry. Evidence is
tot wanting that a demand oxists in Great
[Iritian for our live stock, and but for the opiressive
restrictions imposed by the British
{.ivornniont, and said to be necessary owing to
he alleged existence of contagion* dinesso
imong American cattle, there ia little doubt
nit a large proportion of our product of lira
tattle would find there a profitable market,
hua greatly relieving our noma market*. So
rith our pork product*, oppressed by the em*
Mrgoea'pfaoed upon them by certain Luropean
viwers, with the result of an enormous decrease
during the paataix rears in oar exports
tf bacon and ham*; for whereas these exports
n 1879, 1889 and 1881 average about 745,000,jOO
pounds, they had fkllen in 1868 to leas than
00,000,900, and until last rear never exceeded
130,000,000. The effect of thie has naturally
[>een to greatly restrict competition among pur3
ha sera, and to aerionaly depress the price of
>ar hogs. V1
"The national government orjes it to the farming
and oattlo-growing community that no efforts
shtll he spared to aecure a removal of
those restrictions upon our live stock and meat
I rade. w? muit maintain an anno lute and efficient
control of cattle diseases, and pursue
with the utmost energy the course which has
resulted to-day in the almost complete extirpation
from American Soil or the most dreaded
disease of all, contagious pteiiro-pneumonia.
As to o?t meat prod nets, I can see but one. way
to accomplish the desired results, and that Is
by the enact m?pt of a thoroughly efficient meat
The Secretary thinks our system of taxation
also needs Improvement in certain directions
He calls upon the farmers to stand firmly together,
demand their rights and resist all enmaanhmaat
Upon them.
It**' " ' *' ,
FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS
enate RcmIob*.
89th Day.?The bill providing r site for
the Supreme Court building wan reconsidered,
and was amended by giving the Supreme
Court of the District poaer to hear testimony
in contested cases of valuation. As amended,
it was again passed. Mr. Mitchell addressed
the Senate in favor of the constitutional
amendment"proposed by him for the election
of senators bv popular vote. At the conclusion
of Mr. Mitchell's speech, the concurrent
resolution was referred to the Committee on
Privileges and Elections. Mr. Morrill, trom
the conference cominitte on the bill for the
organisation, improvement and maintenance
of the National Zoological Park, reported that
the committee Jiad been unable to agree; and
he moved that the-Senate recede from its position
and agrot to the House amendment,
which requires half the expense,to be paid by
the Dutrict government. - After some discussion,-tfca
motion, mmm tswtH lAud the bill
now goes to the President for his signature.
A/Wt ? short executive session the Senate
St The reading of the report, which
is iii the form of a substitute .for the entire
bill and covers fifly-twc printed pages, occupied
over an hour. After some discussion the
report was agreed to?yeas /SO; nays. Butler,
Cockrell, Pugh, Quay and Vest The bill
now goes to the President for his signature.
Among the bills passed were the House joint
resolution ns to an appropriation of $10,000for
the office of the second assistant Postmaster
Sneral; the House bill increasing to $250,000
e limited cost for the public building at
Wilmington, Del. The Senate then adjourned.
9 1st Day.?The Pension Appropriation bill
was reported and placed on tne calendar. The
bill appropriating #50,000 for a Stark state at
Manchester, New Hampshire, was passed?37
to 15. The House bill to transfer the revenue
cutter service to the Navy Department was
considered, and the amendments of the Naval
Committee were agreed to. Pending consideration
of this bill, Mr. Hoar, from the
Committee on Privileges and Klections, reported
a Federal Election bill, and it was
placed on the calendar. The consideration of
the Revenue Cutter bill was resumed, but at
2 o'clock the Land Forfeiture bill came up as
unfinished business. Pending its consideration
theSenate went into exccutivosession.and
when the doors were reopened, adjourned. ?
92P DAY.?The consideration of the Land
* or nature on r t
over without action until Monday ncxtr* At"
this point (3:15) the Vice President announced
that ne had signed the joint resolution appropriating
$160,000 for the relief of the suflercrs
hy the Mississippi overflow, and the joint
resolution wan sent to the President for his
signature. Mr. Gihson ottered a joint resolution
declaring the profound sorrow of the
South at the announcement of the death of
lion. Kdward J. Gay, lnte a representative
from the State of Louisiana, and suspending
the business of the Senate to giveopportunity
for tributes to Mr. Gay's eminent public and
private virtues. Eulogies were pronounced
1>y Senators Gibson, Coekrell and Fust is. The
resolutions were agreed to, and as a further
mark of respect the Senate adjourned. .
93 kd Day.?The Senate bill tocarry out (in
part) the term of the agreement with the
Sioux I ndians of Dakota for the sale of a portion
of their reservation (and appropriating
$1,800,000 for the purpose) was reported and
passed. Other bills on the calendar were
passed as follows: House bill approving, with
amendments, the funding act of Arizona(with
amendment). Senate bill to amend the interstate
commerce act ln? to mode*of procedure).
House bill to pay $60,000 to Albert 11. Emery,
of Stamford, Conn., for the use of his patents
by the government (with an amendment increasing
the aniout to $125,000). The Senate
then proceeded U> the consideration of executive
business, and at 3.10 a<\journcd.
IltKH teutons.
97th Day.?Mr. Chandler, of Massncnu
gstts, moved that the House concur in thi
enate amendments to the World'a Fair bill
This being agreed to,the bill is finally passed
and will be sent to the President for his action
The House went into committee of the whole
Mr. Payson, of Illinois, in the chair, on th<
Legislative Appropriation bill. After a lont
debate, the committee rose and the House ucf
journed.
98th Day.?The House went into commit
tee of the whole?Mr. Payson, of Illinois, ir
the chair?on the Legislative Appropriation
bill, the pending question beingon the motion
of Mr. Dnnnell, of Minnesota, to 6trike out
the clause providing clerks for senators. Th<
subject was discussed at length by Messrs
Bayers (Tex.), Cannon (III.), Breckinridgt
(KyO. ByttcrFQrthiPJ, Kerr (Ik-). Cwtcheon
and Allen (Mich.), Holman (Ind.) And others
Mr. Butter worth said if he had a clerk h<
would be worth $10,000 a year more to hit
constituents. Mr. Breckinridge said senator!
needed clerks more than representatives. The
motion to strike out was lost?yeas Ro nayi
87. Pending further discussion, the House
adjourned.
Oftrii Day.?The joint resolutions for the
appointment of Charles Devens, of Mnssachu'
setts, and James ('.Welling, of the District oi
Columbia, to All vacancies In the Regency ol
the Smithsonian Institution, was passed. The
Legislative Appropriation bill was considered
in Ci mmittee of the Whole. The question ot
civil service reform received a large share ol
attention. Without disposing of tne bill the
committee rose and the House adjourned.
100th Day.?Itr. Cannon, of Illinois, from
the Committee oa Appropriations reporter! a
joint resolution appropriating $16(1,000 t?
enable the Secretary of War to distribute
rations for the relief of destitute people in the
district overflowed by the Mississippi hiuI itf
tributaries. The resolution was passed. Or
motion of Mr. Butterwoth, of Ohio?yeas 120
nays 100?the Home went into committee o:
the whole (Mr. Payson, of Illinois, in thi
.u? i .wt-i.ti... a :-.i?I '"
iimii j vii mo iir^iinmn c a^i'iuj/imuiiii mill
Without completing the consideration of th<
bill, the committee roee, and the House at fiv<
' o'clock took a receea until eight o'clock
the evening session to be for the considcratior
of private pension bills.
IOIrt Day.?By appointment of the Hpcak
er, Mr. Burrows, of Michigun, acted as Sneak
er pro tern to-day. Senate hill making Rock
port, Maine, a port of deli*. ry was passed
House hill appropriating $7000 to construe
a road, from Alexandria, Vu., to the Nationa
Military Cemetery, near that place. Th
House then took up the legislative appropria
lion hill, and there was a spat between Rep
resentatlvea Enloe and Evans, of Tennessee
Finally the committee rose and reported th
bill to the House. On ordering the previou
question no quorum voted, and this point wa
raised by Mr. Bynum. A count failing to d?
velop a quorum, a call of the House was 01
dered. After five hours consumed in thi
manner further proceedings under the <?1
were dispensed with and the question recui
red en ordering the previous question. Th
vote stood 136 to 16,add Mr. Bynum raised th
point that there was no quorum present. Th
Speaker protem, thereupon counted the Hons
and announced that there were 167 member
S resent? more tlan a qnorum. Mr.Bynur
cmanded tellers, and no quorum votlqg, th'
jreae and naya were ordered. The vote r<
suited?yeas HI, nays 20, the Speaker coustin
Messrs. Abhutt, Breckinridge (Kentucky,
DeHaven, Enloe and Goodnight to make
quorum, and declared tne previous queetio
ordered, and the Honsethen adjourned.
QUAKE IN CALIFORNIA. *
R?Wl?? Several InobM R?llr?M
bridge Wr?kra*d.
One of the moatsc verc shocks of carthquak
experienced in California for a long lime wi
felt in Ban Francisco and neighboring local
tiea n little after 8.30 o'clock in the morninj
The buildings were, shaken perceptibly,an
Orson* aronaed from their sleep. Vlaaterin
I from the walls in places, tint no serioti
damage haabeen reported yet. A dispatch froi
i Mayncid oars the shock was very severe thei
The railroad bridge was rendered fmpaasohl
. as the piers, slaty fret high, m-i tied a few inche
. and the rails spread apart ahont a foot. Th
groend iu places settled aia to twelve Utcbc
SUNDAY SCHOOL. !
INTERNATIONAL! LESSON FOR
MAY II.
I<c?aon Text 3 " Feeding the MnltlImlf,"
Luho lx., 10-17?Cioldoit
Trx'i Joint vl., Sfl?(ommrnt*
nry on the Lr??oii.
The sanding forth of the twelve, find tha
beheading of John tho Baptist, briefly referred
to in the opening vertei of this
chapter, are more fully recorded by Matthew
and Mark. In connection wit i tho first, it is
worthy of note that Ho had just taught th9m
to pray that the Lord of the harvest would
send forth laborers into His liar vest; then
He called tho twelve and sout them forth to
answer their own prayers. When wo pray
let us remember that. Uod expects ua to b>
willing to be used by Him in nnswcriuj our
prayers.
taught. He had sent them for tli to preach
that the k ingdom was at haud and to heat
the sick. He had sent them only to Israel,
forbidding them to go either to GeuUloa or
Samaritans (Matt, x., 5-3): so that tho kingdom
tuey preached must have bom the kingdom
promised to David nnd spoken of by alt
the prophets, which would make - a restored
Israel with Jehovah dwelling in their midst,
n center of blessing to all the world. Tito
miracles of healing which accompanied their
preaching were proofs that the Messiah of
the prophets had actually come (Isn. xxxv.,
5, ?).
"And He took them, and wont aside privately."
There were so many coming and
going that they had 110 leisuro oven to cat,
and He took them asido to rest awhile (Mark
vi., 21). While we continue in these mortal
bodies we cannot work unceasingly, but tho
time will come when we shall be uole to servo
unwenricdly (Ucv. vii., 15).
11. "And the people, when thoy know it, followed
Him." John says that Jesus crossed1
the Sea of Galilee, and tho people followed'
because they sow His miracles. Matthew and
Mark say that Jesus wont by ship, and thnli
tho people followed on foot nnd outwent'
, Him. In the boat He would bo an hour or.
two alone with His disciples, and thoy would
have a lilllo rest ; but wuat n busy lifo Ho
Mark liotli say that He was moved with compassion
toward them. No pity for Himself,
nut full of pity for these sheep without a
shepherd, even though Ho know their motives
in following Him.
"And spake unto them of tho king loin of
God, and lienled them that had need of healing."
Both body aud soul Ho ntteudo 1 to,
for Ho is a Saviour for both, and tho time
will come when ovory saved soul shall havon
redeemed body in wnicli to dwell.
12. "Send the multitudo away." So said
the twelve as the day began to woar away,
and ok thev. wearv nnd Iminrrv. saw no
I prospect of rest, and not much prospect of
even a bite for themselves from their U.w
loaves and fishes, If that hungry crowd remained.
Not all the glorious tilings of the
kingdom, of which Jesus had boon speaking,
could make even the twelve forget that thoy
were hungry men. They had scon Him still
the storm and raise thodoad, but thoy seemed
not to consider that tho same power could
feed tlieso hungry thousands. Thoir wisdom
was to let thoai scatter where thoy might,
and ftnd food and shelter as thay were ablo
in the towns and country round about. 'Tho
old question still lived, Can God furnish u
table in tho wilderness?" (Ps. lxxvlli., 10.)
18. "But He said unto them, Give ye them
to eat." Ho had nskod Philip, "Who.1 vj shall
wo buy bread that these may eat?" and Philip
had replied that thoy would need about two
hundred pennyworth to give every one a little.
Ann now whon He snyR "Give ye thorn
5 to eat," thoy reply: "Shall wo buy two
hundred pennyworth " (John vi., 8-7; Mark
' vi., 37). Mosos had said that tho coming
Messiah would he a prophet like unto him
? (Deut. xvlil., 15, 18). and had thoy remeni5
bored that's they might also have remem>
bered the rood from hoavon, which fed millions
of people daily for nearly forty years.
"Wo have no more but flvo loaves and two
Ashes." When He asked Philip, He did It to
1 prove him, for Ho Himself know what Ho
1 would do (John vi., G), just as Ho so often
[ lets us get into a strait plaoo to prove us,
' while all tho time Ho knows tho way out and
' just what He will do.
14. 15. "And Ho said to His disomies: Mako
' them ait down by fifties in a company. And
1 they did so, ana made them alf sit down."
Mark says: "Upon the green gross." John
> says: "There was much grass in tho placo"
? (Mark vi., 89; John vl., 10). Matthew
I says there were 5000 men besides women and
! children (Matt, xiv., 21); so there may have
> J?eeal20 companies of fifty each, or ton com>
panies to each of tho twelve disciples. But
observe tho order, and remember the pre
cept: "Let all thiugs be done decently and
in order,'' for God is not the author ot con[
fusion (I Cor. xiv., 83, 40). A disorderly
home or room or wardrobe or bureau drawer
? or office or store is no credit to a Christian.
1 Confusion, disorder, tumult, unquietnees are
f none of the things of the Holy Bpirit.
F 1(5. "Then He took the five loaves and the
? two fishes, and looking up to He&veu, Ho
blessed them, and brake, and gave to the disi
ciplee to set before the multitude." He took
t just what they had and used it. He took tho
i rod that was in Moses's hand and wrought
. wonders with it. He took the widow's pot of
t oil and multiplied it. Ho does not ask us to
t 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!
| Bring it to Me/' Aud anything placed unre*
> serve,lly in His hands can be inado to do
wonder for He has all power. Thonsands
? of oye* are upon Him as Ho takes in Uls
; luiir.ii toe loavoe sou Ilium, auu uiuug
, His face to heaven, acknowledges before
i tho:n all thdfc thence comes the power and
th 3 blessing. Ho never Bought His own glory,
but iu all things gloriflel Oo I. ,
17. "An I they did eit, an I were all filled.*
Philip thought that two hundred penny;
worth might be enough to jri"e every one n
i Httlo. but Jesus does not give that way. His
I invitation is: "Bat, O friends; drink, yea,
e drink abundantly, O beloved," (>Song of Sol.
v.. 1). And oven thoso poor shepnerdless
_ sheep He delights to 1111. As tho disciples
pass around from company to company
pressing more food upon them tho answor
comes front all directions: BatisQod, abundantly
satisfied.
"And thoro was taken up of fragments
that remained to them twelvo baskets.' Instead
of a little for eac't disciple, which
would have been all that twelve inoit could
obtain from five loaves and two fishes, hero
is n basketful for each. Had tboy selfishly
kept what they hod for themselves, how lite
tie they would have had, but by giving it
awav what abuudancs becomes theirs.
Z I Afraid to give to God lest wo havo not
? enough for ourselves, wo contlnuo poor; bat
when wo cheerfully giro Him that which is
all HU owa any way, then Ho makes
fun to enjoy His fullness, And our
cup runneth over. "Tho blessing of ttao
Lord, it msketh rich; and He a ldeth no sor*
row with It" (Prov. x., 23). HogavoHlmself
to bo broken and poure-l forth for us;
why should wo hssitate to plaoa oursolvoo in
tlW nanoamos* unreserveuy, vnv. wo may
1*3 bro'toti an 1 passed roun.l l?y Hli hands
for tho life of others? It may not be pleasant
to tho (tosh, but it will ba wonderfully
A profltablo. "Except a oorn of wbaat fall Into
f.a ground and die, it abldotli alone: but
if it die, It brlageth forth muoh fruit*' (John
xii., 34). Who is willing to be passed round
m for the good of other*, not loving hla life here,
: bo thAt he may keep it unto life eternal??
Lctson IMper, '
d ?
g '
it A 0A?* of transmission of Infeotion to
n an nnborn ohild hoe occurred in Paris.
'* A ohild born during the convalescence
of the mother from pneumonia was af*
9 'footed with the same malady, and died
a? at the end of five days.
Hfl