The True Northerner from Paw Paw, Michigan • Page 3

MIRROR OF MICHIGAN PAITHFUL RECOUNTING OF HER LATEST NEWS. Bud Hattlc Creek (Jans Hounded Up Proposal for the ICuiployuicnt of ConvlctH-lIenry UrnMiI Get a Vcrdlct-A Bad tttory. Otic Confessed. All winter series of petty thieving has been carried on in Battle Creek and the wrronnding country, the thieves taking thickens, turkeys und grnln in the country, nnd coal, wood and articles in evening from in front of the stores in tho city. Friday evening the otlicers arrested gang who ore alleged to have been doing tho work.

There were four Bert Coin-stock, Chas. Butler, Al Abbott and Albert B. Ode. It is said they drove with a wagon to the Chicago and (3 rand Trunk coal docks and hauled away a wagonlond, and were caught. Comstock has confessed and told the entire story of their numerous depredations.

Pathetic Life Drama Knd. "When the snow-covered sod fell uin the cotlin of Mrs. II. J. McXulty at Detroit a career full of pathetic interest was finally closed.

Mrs. McXulty fell dad at the funeral of a friend two days ago. Later it became known that the heart trouble which had produced death was incurred largely by overwork. For twelve months past the woman had been toiling in an effort to earn enough money to lit up a small home for herself and her husband. Her husband was sentenced at Grand Uapids over a year ago to serve eighteen months in the State House of Correction at Ionia for passing a forged check, and in anticipation of his release and their happy reunion tho wife bad toiled day and night to furnish the homo and buy him new clothes.

Hut the struggle was too tierce and was largely tho cause of her dramatic death. When the facts became known several Detroit members of tho Legislature petitioned tho (iovornor to pardon McXulty so that ho could attend the funeral of his wife, Tho Governor acted at once. Chain Gatitt Wanted. The Good Roads Committee of tho Supervisors nnd Legislative Committee of the Michigan Furniture Manufacturers Association got together at CI rand Rapids and agreed that convicts ought not to be working against free labor, but should bo empbyed in chain gangs digging ditches, making tile for sluice ways, crushing stone and getting out gravel use on roads. Tile ad other things manufactured in prison could be furnished to the counties free.

It was believed convicts could be taken out in box cars every morning and safely returned at night. A petition to the Legislature, embodying these ideas, was prepared. Secured a IHc Verdict. In tho Circuit Court at Munistique Henry Rrassil secured a verdict against the "Soo" line for $15,000. Four years ago Rrassil was put off a Soo train while moving.

He sustained an injury to his knee and subsequently entered a claim ngaiust the company for damages. Failing to obtain a satisfactory settlement with the oflicials of the road, he commenced suit and some time ago was given verdict in the Circuit Court for $7,000. Tho company's attorney made a motion for a new trial which was granted, and tho rehearing took place last week. Tho jury returned 'a verdict for the plaintiff in the sum of $15,000. Tho defendants will take an appeal to the Supreme Court.

Will Oet Medals in the Spring. There have been many kicks from tho Michigan exhibitors who were granted awjtrds at the World's Fair over the fact that they have seen nothing of the promised medals and diplomas. They will be interested in knowing that I. M. Weston, president of the Michigan commission, has been notified that the diplomas for Michigan exhibitors are still in the hands of the National Rureau of Printing and Kngraving, and that the medals are now-being made and will be ready for distribution in May or June.

Record of the Week. Tho Kent County Supervisors refuse to call an election to vote on tho county roads system. The Grand Rapids Gas Light Company, capital $1,000,000, filed articles of incorporation at Lansing and paid a franchise fee of $.70. Students of the University of Michigan are forming clubs each member of which faithfully vows to let his whiskers grow. This may be merely a mean endeavor to establish a college institution into which "co-eds" cannot enter.

Hubbardston men, during the recent disastrous lire, tried to blow up burning buildings with dynamite and thus save the rest of the village. Tho dynamite was frozen, however, and there are jut ns many live people in Hubbardston as there ever were. Tho Commissioner of Ranking's statement of the condition of 101 State banks of Michigan on Dec. 1J, the date of the last call, shows that the total, deposit a were $08,410,7:17. of which was savings.

This shows an increase since Oct. 12 of Ioans have increased during tho period. Richard Mann, of Port Huron, asked his stepfather, Lyman Wadleigh, for a pipe of tobacco. The old man's response was a threatened assault with a hatchet. He will be examined for his sanity.

Ho was taking a gentle snooze -was Cheboygan young man. Jokers laid him down gently on a lounge, folded his arms, placed a bottle labeled poison in his hand, stuck mortuary candles nt hTs head, scattered flowers around, and then photographed the tout ensemble. Tho pictures are selling at $2 apiece, while the subject, now very much alive, would gladly mortgage his house if he could destroy all tho pictures and smash tho photographic plate. Two gangs of boys got to fighting over the right to slide down a certain Rattle Creek hill. There was a snowball and loo battle, several people were struck in the fa a and hurt quite badly, and before the fracas was over nearly tho entire police force had been summoned.

A Lenawee County man not Jekyll-nnd-IIyde man, either slipped "and upralned his ankle coming out of a church. Ho drew $43 accident indemnity. Later on he had the same kind of mishap emerging from a saloon. Thia time he drew $87 from the accident company! Home one entered the grain elevator at Ovid the other day and carried away clover seen! valued at $15. Tho board of regents of tho University I of Michigan voted to accept tho resigna- I Hons of the homeopathic professors.

At St. Joseph Martin Rrcchtite'a houses and all its contents were burned, entailing a loss of uearly 3,000, partially insured. Rev. F. Nelson Clover, pastor of tho First Raptist Church of Ray City, bar withdrawn his resignation, harmony having been restored.

Rurt Cameron and Richard Van Dillon, of (irand Rapids, quarreled during a snowball fight. Cameron stabbed Van Dillon, inflicting fatal injuries. A body, supposed to be that of Gottlieb Wagh, of Warsaw, was found in an abandoned house near Cheboygan. He was probably suffocated by coal gas. It is said that great distress exists among the poorer people in Muskegon and Ottawa Counties, and many are suffering for want of proper food and clothing.

In his annual report State Oil Inspector McMillen says that during 18IU gallons of oil were inspected, and the net revenue to the State was $14,000. Friends of Harry Stevenson, who disappeared from Prescott a week ago, fear ho has been murdered, lie was a lumber jobber and his clothes have been found. Daniel Weber, a young attorney of Ronton Harbor, recently acquitted of passing worthless checks, is now accused of forgery. His whereabouts are unknown. Tho trustees of the Ann Arbor High school rescinded the rule forbidding students to become members of fraternities and the six suspended students will be reinstated.

Albert W. Fairchild, formerly of Ren-ton, and for thirteen years on inmate of tho Kalamazoo insane asylum, hanged himself with a haudkerchief fastened to a window screen. Twins were recently born to Mr. and Mrs. Newell Case, of Rattle Creek.

One was born at 11:55 o'clock Monday night, Dec. 31, 181)1, and the other at 12:05 o'clock Tuesday morning, Jan. 1, 1S05. Tho law faculty of the University of Michigan expelled one student for making unseemly noises and suspended two others. The has given notice that more will follow such outbursts in the future.

A young man of Addison, while working in tho yard of his home the other day, picked tip a gold ring. When the rest of tho family saw it, they identified it as one which another member of the family had lost fifteen years ago. At Manistee Thorvald Peterson, bookkeeper for the Manistee and Grand Rapids Railroad, was arraigned on four charges of forging orders for money on the Manistee and Grand Rapids Railroad Company. He pleaded guilty, and was held for trial. Several weeks ago the charitable Rattle Creek ladies sent boxes of clothing and $30 in 'money to tho suffering ioor in Nebraska.

Tho Michigan Central carried the goods free, but Nebraska railroads charged freight. Tho same thing is true of many other contributions from Michigan, and the freight in some cases was a heavy burden for tho sufferers. Rev. George R. Culp, of Rattle Creek, raised rumpus in a letter to the Nebraska Governor, arvl the railroads have refunded the freight charges.

Tho annual meeting of the Millers State Association, the leading Stato association of its kind in the United States, was held in Lansing. The weekly reports show that the association has during the year shipped 530,002 barrels of flour and 17,888 tons of feed to points outside the State. This exceeds the amount reported for 1SD3 by 1,483 barrels of flour and 5,478 tons of feed. The average prices received for the year were $2.07 for straight flour, $3.20 for patent, for bran, $15.88 for middlings, and 51 cents for wheat. This is about 00 cents less for flour than 1803, with the price of feed a few cents better than for that year.

Tho annual meeting of tho West Michigan Agricultural and Industrial Association was held at Grand Rapids. The treasurer's report showed the receipts of the last fair to have been $11,073, and $203 remains on hand after paying all accounts, except $1,700 in debts brought forward from tho previous year. President Hart said tho time had passed for purely agricultural fairs, and that to be a success in the future the annual exhibition must bo an exiosition open for at least two weeks. These directors were elected: S. S.

Railey, Fast Paris; K. R. Dikeman. Grand Rapids; John Lessiter, Caledonia; I. R.

Townsend, Ionia; and Charles W. Johnson, Greenville. At the nieetingof the new board of directors later tho election of otlicers was deferred until March 1, when a committee will report the result of a conference with the managers of tho Stato Fair relative to a proposed consolidation of interests in a fair to be given this year. Tho Michigan monthly crop report for January shows that the number of bushels of wheat reported marketed in December was 1,404,730, and for five months-August to December (5,235,103 bushels, or 1,003,932 bushels less than in tho same months last year. The average condition of live stuck is reported thus: Horses, 04; sheep and cattle, 05; and swine, 97 per cent.

The average price of wheat Jan. 1 was 50 cents; corn, 40 cents; oats, 32 cents per bushel, nnd hay $7.05 per ton. Tho average price of fat cattle was $2.04, of fat hogs $3.00, and of dressed pork $4.07 per cwt. The average price of horses, 3 years old and over, were milch cows, $27.01 per head; sheep, 1 year old and over, hogs, 1 year old and over, $8.70. There has been a de-dine in all furm products named in the report, except corn and oats.

Corn is 3 cents and oats 1 cent per bushel higher than one year ago. Tho loss on wheat is 5 cents per bushel; fat cattle, 10 cents; fat hogs, 73 cents; and dressed pork, $1.10 per cwt. Horses, 3 years and over, have declined $15; milch cows, sheep, 1 year and over, 52 cents; and hogs, 1 year and over, $1.40 per head. Frederick Schlier, tailor of Ann Arbor, was killed by a Michigan Central train two miles from the city. It is supposed that he throw himself in front of the train to commit suicide, as he had made several other attempts.

At Adrian, the marshal entertained sixteen tramps at the lockup the other night and ruu the whole gang before a justice in the morning, why direct oil the platoon to turn their backs upon the city or take a trip to the house of correction. The "weary Willies" wore given a breakfast at the bakery before they stared on their Journey. FJiEE SHIP FALLACY. FOREIGN COMPANIES WITHOUT SUBSIDIES. Facts Submitted to Controvert tho Argument of tho Thcorlzcrn-Verdict of tho People at the Polls Voiced Their Views on tho Turltr.

Figures, Not ThcorlcH. Tho advocates of the Flthlnn fro? ship bill Loop hammering away with their deliberate falsehoods that foreign Governments pay no subsidies to their respective steamship lines, or If any are paid that they In 110 way affect Xhi successful operations of their owners, who make money out of their steamships merely because they have frej ships and can have them built anywhere. As another Incontrovertible argument to these theorizers we again submit facts and give them on a foreign authority, that of the president of tho Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders In Scotland, who, In his Inaugural address, said: "The total sum of subsidies paid by (Jreat Britain, France, Germany, Kussia and Italy Is SOT), of which (treat Britain pays nearly 20 per cent." Now let us see what effect subsidies paid by foreign Governments have upon tho earnings of foreign steamship companies and their dividends, and we submit tho amount of dividends declared by two French, one German and three English steamship companies In one year, as follows: Dividends Company. declared. French Tra nsa 1 1 a ic $400,000 Messagerics Maritimes 000,000 North German Lloyd loO.OOO Peninsular and Oriental CW.000 Cunard Lino 34,570 Koyal Mail Packet 1,510 Three of these companies do not run their steamers to tho United States the Messagerics Maritimes, Peulusular and Oriental, and Royal Mail Packet Company but they arc given merely as examples to show tho effect of subsidies upon steamer traflic to other parts of tho world, as well as to the United States.

Now, let us sec tho amount of subsidies paid to these different companies In the same year: Subsidies Company. paid. Fren ch Tra sa la ic 1 Messagcries Maritimes 2,770,000 North German Lloyd 1,100,000 Peninsular nnd Oriental 1,700,000 Cunard Line oO.OOO Koyal Mail Packet Company. 450,000 Tho British Admiralty paid in addition $01,745 to the P. and O.

Lino and $07,500 to the Cunard Line. A simple sum In subtraction will show how the accounts of these foreign steamship companies would have stood with their free ships and without subsidies. Deducting the amount of tho dividends declared from the subsidies paid and we find that, without a subsidy, the balance on the wrong side of the ledger for the year's operations would have stood as follows: Debit balance Company. without subsidy. French Transatlantic $1,831,600 Messageries Maritimes 2,170,000 North German Lloyd 050,000 Peninsular and Oriental 1,001,000 Cunard Lino 215,430 Royal Mail Packet Company.

448,400 This was the result of free ships built by the cheapest possible labor, manned by tho cheapest paid sailors and without Government subsidies. What would tho result bo if we had the same free ships and paid higher wages to the officers and crew Simply a larger deficit In tho year's balance sheet. The Only AvenucH Open. Free-traders, as a proof of tho beneficent effects of the Walker tariff of 1840, are accustomed to speak of tho number of miles of railroad built during tho years from 1840 to 1800. They tell us It was tho time of the opening up of tho great West.

They might as well say that the discovery of gold In California was the result of the Walker tariff. Those very things which they cite the building of many miles of railroad and tho opening up of the West show tho reason why tho panic was delayed until 1857 Instead of following on the heels of tariff reform, as did the panic of 1SD3. In the years following tho Walker tariff, men who were thrown out of employment went Into the undeveloped West as miners or as pioneers; they found work in the construction of railroads. While these avenues of employment were open tho panic was warded off. In these present days of tariff reform our worklngmen have no such refuge, but tramp our streets searching for work.

These have been tho only avenues recently open to them. The Issue in livery State. The voters of the United States had but one thought In view, and that was to express at the polls their belief and their strengthened faith In the principles of Protection to American Industries. They had tasted of tho results of the "change" for which they were deceived Into voting In 1S02, and they had already had a surfeit. They long since realized what Free Trade, disguised as "Tariff reform" meant, and they awalt-ed with Impatience the opportunity to go to tho polls.

The enormous majorities cannot bo attributed to local causes. The Issue In every State was made upon tho Tariff question, and the verdict of tho people Is that they are not only opposed to any further Tariff revision, but that they are opposed to tho Gorman bill. Wilmington, Morning News. The Verdict of the Polls. The people have spoken In emphatic condemnation of Democratic policies und practices.

Congressmen who stood squarely upon tho Democratic platform have gone down with those who repudiated It. Wilson, the chief ad oca to of President Cleveland's Idea of tariff reform, is left nt home, as are dozens of thoso who believe In taking their free trado well adulterated with protection to favored Interests. The verdict of tho polls cannot bo taken ns condemnation only of Democratic departure from Democratic principles. It Is strong condemnation of tho principles themselves. It is unmistakable indorsement of tho Republican Idem of protection to American Industries.

Troy (N. Times. For Foreign Manufacturers. Mr. Retired Wilson has stated that under Protection tho Government received little nnd the protected Industries much, while under "Tariff Reform" tho protected Industries received little nnd the Government much.

Mr. Wilson Avas right In one part of lils statement. American Industries do receive little under "Tariff Reform." They receive nothing, in fact. So far, Indeed, nobody in this country seems to be getting anything out of "Tariff Reform." The Government is running behind every day, our people have been out of work nnd our Industries are at a standstill. The only ones who seem, so far, to have succeeded In getting anything out of "Tariff Reform" aro the foreign manufacturers and exporters, Judging by the statistics of our increased Imports.

A Southern Split. Selling Steel to liuropc. In competition with German, French and English steel works the American Bethlehem works have secured a $4,000,000 contract for armor plate. It will not do, however, to assume that an average armor plate may bo made cheaper In the United States than In tho countries named. Tho Bethlehem works have a process of hardening plates which competing works do not possess.

The Russian government Is contracting for what Is known as Ilar-veylzed armor, a kind that It cannot procure In Europe. But the fact that an American steel-plate manufactory can turn out better plates than can be made in the old countries is a demonstration of the wisdom of the protective policy. Under free-trade rule we should have been buying steel armor of Europe. Now we are selling steel armor to Europe. If tho rule of buying a thing where it could be made at the least cost had been followed, wo should have had no steel works at all.

The success we have made in this steel industry should confirm the Government In Its policy of protecting tho shipbuilding Industry. The rule of buying ships where they can bo bought at the least cost would be as destructive to the ship-building industry as tho same rule would have lcen applied years ago to the steel Industry. San Francisco Call. The Same Old Smell. The tariff part of Mr.

Cleveland's message has tho same camphor ball aroma that Is so prominent a feature of the tariff speeches of Mr. William E. Russell, of Massachusetts. Tho fact that Mr. Russell spent a good part of tho fall at Buzzard's Bay Is another suspicious circumstance.

Tho New York Press. Could Not Digest if. The leaven (of tariff reform) didn't have time to work nnd soured on tho stomachs of tho people. Birmingham (Ala.) Age-Herald. That's so, and they spewed It up at once.

It was too nauseous to digest nnd it will never again be tasted. Want Their Night. Labor's old friends again demand Protection nnd relief; They have Just rights In this free land, Tho "poor law" will be brief. Playing with a Hornet's Neat. 1 pin 'j the nr.srLT.

CUV DOINGS AT LANSING-. WORK OF THE STATE LEGISLATURE. An Impartial Itecord of the Work A complin hed by Those IV ho Make Our Law How the Time Ha llecn Occupied During the Tast Week. The Law-Makers. Both Houses of the Legislature Tuesday afternoon voted for United States Senators.

James M. McMillan received the entire vote of tho Legislature for tho long term and Julius Cesar Burrows was elected for the term of four years. John Donovan, of Bay, the only Democratic member, voted for McMillan, thus making his election unanimous. For the short term, however, he declined to vote for Burrows, and cast his ballot for John Strong, of Monroe, the nomlneo of tho Democratic party in tho State convention at Grand Uapids last June. An nt tempt to sidetrack all municipal legislation until after the bills prepared by tho municipal commission should be disposed of, failed In the House, that body refusing to concur in the resolution passed by the Senate last week.

Tho House pastel a bill amending the charter of the city of Detroit. The general bills prepared by the commission will be pushed in the hopo that future municipal legislation may cut short nnd a long session of tho Legislature avoided. The two houses of the Legislature nwt in loint session Wednesday noon and James H. McMillan and Julius Cesar Burrows were formally declared elected United States Senators from Michigan. In the evening a reception was tendered the Governor, Senators Burrows and Mc-Millnn.

Sihuvlor S. Olds. John Patton, nnd the members of tho Legislature. It was conducted on grand scale, and the Stato solons were given an elaborate banquet. The Legislature has arranged lnnt? diournment for tho purpose of allowing tho committees to visit the State institutions located in the Upper 1 enm-sula.

Very little legislation Is being ground out. The Senate Thursday concurred, after considerable discussion, in the House resolution for the usual ten-day adjournment to give tho Stato institution committees time to visit them. A resolution wns ndontcd limiting the mileage of visit ing committees to 3 cents per mile and expenses to $3 per day. The House also ndoiitotl ft sweenini? resolution. Intro duced by "Farmer" Kempf, of Wash tenaw, requiring the heads 01 the several departments to make a detailed report of the number of clerks employed, salaries oaid.

how lonir emnloved. their previous occupation, average number of hours per day they are occupied, whether the em-nlovmcnt be nermauent or temporary, the amount paid for clerk hire annually, and an estimate of how much will be required to maintain the departments for the com ing two years. Tho Legislature was in session less than an hour Friday. The Senate adjourned nnd tho House followed suit after a twen ty-minute session. The members flitted at once to prepare for the start for the upper peninsula on the biennial junket.

Several legislative hearts were broken, however, by the passage of a resolution limiting the mileage of junketers to 3 cents per mile and their expenses to $1.30 rxr diem. Tho following nominations were sent to the Senate by Governor Rich: Georce W. Hill. Saginaw. State Inspector of Salt; Freeman B.

Dickerson, Detroit, member of State Indi Commission; teo. A. Hart, Manistee, Trustee of Northern Asylum for the Insane; Arthur B. Loomis, Major and Military Secretary; James E. Vincent, Lapeer, Major nnd Judge Advocate; William A.

Gavett, Detroit; Frank H. Latta, Battle Creek; Barnard S. Kauffman, Marquette, and Lou Burt, Detroit, Colonels and Aides do Camp. Ghastly Human Table. There Is a table In the Segato department of tho Xuova Santa Maria Hospital Museum at Floreiice, Italy, which for originality In tho matter of conception is probably without a rival.

Tho designer and constructor of this wonder was Professor Giuseppe Segnto (one authority spells his name Segatti), the discoverer of a lost process of petrifying human flesh, and who worked in the various hospitals and museums of Italy about forty years. To the casual observer this table is nothing more or less than a curious mosaic made up of marbles and agate's of different sizes and colors. In reality, however, it Is composed wholly of human flesh, muscles, viscera, intestines, etc. A writer who describes It In Harper's Magazine says: "It comprises every portion of the human body transformed Into stone, destined to endure as long as the world shall last. Different portions of the human body, showing tho whole Internal anatomy, aro so beautifully petrified as to be a wonder to the traveler as well as an object of study for tlu medical student." The table Is bordered with upward of one hundred human eyes, preserved by some process which makes them look ns natural as life.

It Is without doubt the most ghastly piece of furniture ever designed by man. Taxation. In the early days of the Virginia nnd Carolina colonics taxes were paid In tobacco. Most of tho Asiatic countries have been ruined by the system of "farming the tnxes." Customs duties on Imports were collected in England by Lthclred II. ns early as 979.

Almost all the Turkish taxes are farmed out, and the resulting corruption is very great. During the fourteenth century in Italy a tax was levied on every ono who wore shoes. Great Britain raises 19,000,000 from the liquor taxes and from the tax on tobacco. The first mention of any sort of taxation In Greek history Is a tax levied by Solon, B. C.

510. The Empress Josephine once paid $2,000 for a drc? and so angeied tho Emperor that ho ordered the dressmaker to be scut to prison- THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. THOUGHTS WORTHY OF CALM REFLECTION. A Pleasant, Interesting, and Instractlv Lesson, and Where It May Be Found A Learned and Concise Ilrrlew of the 8a ma. LcHflon for Jan.

Ii7. Golden Text "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God." Matt. 10: 10. The Great Confession is the subject for this week, found in Matt. 10: 13-23.

A lesson of confession nnd a lesson, too, of trust; for to acknowledge Christ's divine Saviorhood Is to throw ourselves, in our own undoncness, upon tho one who saves. We are weak but he is mighty, and for the sinner there is a Savior. Take him for yourself. "The child leans on its parent's breast Leaves there its cares, nnd is at rest; Tho bird sits singing by its nest, And tells nloud His trust in God, and he Is blest 'Neath every cloud. He has no store, he sows no seed; Yet sings aloud, and doth not heed.

By flowery stream or grassy mead He sings to shame Men who forget, in fear of need, A Father's name. The heart that trusts forever sings, And feels as light as it had wings; A well of peaee within it springs; Come good or ill, What'cr to-day, to-morrow brings It is his will." "Whom do men say that I the Son of man am 7" It is the great question still. At the center of men's thinking stands Christ. "But whom say ye7" The word "ye" stands first and In the emphatic position in the original, Ye, what do ye say about me! It is not so much what others think as what we ourselves think. "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God." There are four capitals in this sentence of ten words.

It is all capitals in the height and depth of its significance. Try to think of these words as they were first littered, and let the marvelous weight of them come down upon you. They came from beyond and above Peter and must have well nigh taken his breath away as he uttered them. If anything more is needed to prove to us that Peter was not the rock, his own errant and words and the stern rebuke of the Savior at the close of the lesson are enough. "Get thee behind me, Satan, thou art an offense unto me for thou avorest not the things that be of God but those that be of men." Hints nnd Illustrations.

A good time this to ask the personal question, "What think ye of Christ?" There is no one that has not some thought regarding him, some conception of his nature and mission, and also some idea of his own individual relations to this wonderful Being. Being these vague thoughts to expression. It will do tho oul good. Indeed all creation may be looked upon, in one aspect, as groaning and travailing to utter its thoughts of that which is above and which gave it existence. There is no tree that rears its crest, No fern or flower that cleaves the sod, No bird that sings above its nest.

But tries to speak the name of God, And dies when it has done its best." There are many famous confesions in Scripture and without. The nineteenth Psalm, "The heavens declare," is nature's confession. Here in the lesson we have Peter's confession. Paul, John, James nnd others each make confession of Christ, a confession marked by their own individuality in thought and perception, but in each case true to the divine-human nature of the Christ. The Apostles rreed phrases itself as follows: "I believe in Jesus Christ our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Ghost and born of th Virgin Mary." The Nieene creed reads: "I believe in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, who for us men and our salvation came down from heaven nnd was incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary nnd was made man." The Augustana snys: "It is also taught that God tho Son been me and was born of the blessed Virgin Mary, nnd that tho two natures, human and divine, inseparably united in one person, are one Christ, who is true God nnd man." Here is a confession of Napoleon: "The gospel possesses a secret virtue a something which works powerfully, a warmth which both influences the understanding nnd penetrates the heart.

The gospel is no mere book, but a living creature with an agency, a iower which conquers all that opposes it. Here lies this book on the table. I do not tire of reading it, nnd do so daily with equal pleasure." Il is worth remembering that Daniel Webster, who one time said that the greatest thought that had ever come to him was that of his individual responsibility to God, and who on a visit to an old friend converted late in life, personally assured him of his own conviction of the divinity of Christ nnd of the power of his salvation, made a plain and explicit confession on his death-bed, the same being recorded on his tombstone at Marshfield. On the day before the great statesman's decease he said to his friend, George Tichnor Curtis, 'I had intended to prepare a work for the press to bear my testimony to Christianity, but it is now too late. Still, I should like to bear witness to the gospel before I die." Ho thereupon dictated the following, which stands, as above noted, over his place of sepulture: 'Lord, I believe, help thou my Philosophical objections have sometimes shaken my reason with regard to Christianity, especially the objection drawn from the magnitude of the uni verse contrasted with the littleness of tins planet, but my heart has always as sured me, and reassured me, that the gos pel of Jesus Christ is a divine reality." Confess Christ, liven at the eleventh hour confess him.

It is our only salve tion. Next Lesson "The Transfiguration. Luke i): PLACE NAMES. Ilousatoulc Is a corruption of Wnss.i tunic, "Bright Stream Flowing through Bocks." Mount Desert Island was thus named by Chamdalu, on uccount of Its barreu appearance Delaware IUver and Bay were named oftcr Lord do la War, who came to this country with Capt Samuel Ar-gali on a voyage of discovery about 1G10..