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New Series, Vol. 29, No 9. CHURCH DIRECTORY. RESBTTERIAX CHCRCH-Rev. K.

Alexander, pastor. Public worship every morning and evening Sabbath school li ne's society ot I hn-tian endeavor Moii-UveVeuiugs: general prayer meeting, Wednesday svininF Strangers welcome to aU services. MfTHimiST EPISCOPAL CHVRCH a H.dlingshead. lstor. Sabbath preaching I'm 7 p.

voung people meeting, Monday veninils: general prayer meeting, "llmrsdav inefi meeting. Friday sal-l-al chooi 2 JB p.m. Strangers cordially invited to ervices. UNITED PRESBTTERIA CHCnCH-w. Thorn Balph, pastor.

Sabnath school, 10 a. oTship, a. weekly prayer merti'ig. Fridav 3 u. m.

monthly prayer meeting. last satur- iay of each month. p. m-; witv last Saturday of each month, 2 p. m.

prayer meetinss. first TwA? Thursdays and Saturdays each mouth, p. ioungTomei. prayer meeting, second Saturday each mouth at the parsonage, 1 p. m- A FRICAS -V.

E. CHCRCIf-Rev. J. M. Wilkes, pastor.

Sunday service, Hi-jo a. 7 p. Sab-fcath school, -i JO p. weekly prayer meeting. eveDings.

Strangers welcome. MASONIC DIRECTORY. everv Wednesday night, on or before full J. 6. AIkvek, Sec y.

1- BAlLfci, W.M. ST rj.AiRSVIL.LE CHAPTER, So. 17, Royal Arch It won. Slated eouvocalious first riday F. D.

BAILEY. H. BEL.WO.VT COUSCIL, So 54, R. S. M.

Meets second Tuesday of each nioiith J. B. Mevkr, Sec y. J. B.

liA, I. HOPE COMMANDER, So. K. Stated conclaves, first Tuesday of each mouth. J.

B. SlEVEB, Sec'y J. B. KY fc. BELMONT COUNTY DIRECTORY.

Common Pleas Judge-John B. Driggs. Probate Judge Isaac H. Gaston. Clerk of Courts William B.

Cash. Sheriff Oliver E. Foulke. Auditor R. K.

Barrett. Treasurer George Robinson. Prosecuting Attorney Jesse W. Holliiigworth. Kecorder John M.

Beckett. Commissioners Morris Cope, illiam J. Berry, John C. Israel. Surveyor Chalkley Dawson.

Coroner A. M. F. Bovd. Infirmary I)ire-tors Burget McConnaughy, president; William Lodge, clerk; John A.

Clark, Infirmary John Sidebottom, East Kichland. Superintendent Children's Home Peter Giffln, Rjj.inft!villft School Ex'aminers-L. H. Watters, St. Clairsville a L.

Peck, Barnesville; S. C. Murphy, Olivett QRUMJIOXD POST No. 203-G. A.

R. Meets Tuesday evenings on or before the full moon. Comrades requested to attend. JOHX E. STEWART, P.

C. J. J. RKySARD, Adj'U A. H.

W. MITCHELL, ATTORXEYS-AT-LAW Office Opp. New Court House and National Hotel, ST. CLAIRSVILLE, OHIO. RESS MAKING.

1 nave ojieueu LISHJEXT on East Mum Street, St. Clairsville, where I am prepared to cut, fit and make dresses of all kinds, and in the latest styles. A liberal share of patronage solicited. Satisfactory work guaranteed. 4 12-ly Miss BELLE KIGEK.

tucuq IT I irQTR jyU. WM. PETRIE, Veterinary Surgeon and Veterinary Dentist, (from Ontario Vet. College,) Office: At Campbeirs Livery Stable. Room: Over Wests' Drug Store.

Calls promptly attended day or night. 4 l9-3m AMES M. REES, ATTORXEY-AT-LAW, Office: Main Street, opp. Old Court House, St. Clairsville, Ohio.

Practices In all courts of law and equity, either county, state or federal. 6 6, 86 D. IIOFF, ATTORXEY-AT-LAW, Office: Patterson's Block, second floor, opposite Treasurer's oflice, St. Clairsville, Ohio. 'pfactices In county, state and federal courts.

W.NICHOLS, ATTORXEY-AT-LAW, NOTARY PUBLIC, Office Campbell's Block, St. Clairsville, Ohio. 4 5,86 DANFORD, ATTORXEY-AT-LAW, Patterson's Block, opp. Treasurer's Office, St. Clairsville, Ohio, WiH practice in the common pleas, state and federal Courts.

CARROLL, ATTORXEY-AT-LAW, Collins' Block, opp. Xew Court House, Special attention given to the settlement of 18. 7 estates. JOHN POLLOCK, ATTORXEY-AT-LAW, Office: East of Bank, over Mrs. Evan's Grocery, 4 14, 81 St.

Clairsville, Ohio. JESSE PRATT, House and Sign Painter and Glazier, Practical Paper Hanger, ST. CLAIRSVILLE, O. Graining, Glazing, Painting and Papering done on short notice. All branches of the trade will receive prompt attention.

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Nurseryman, Rochester, New-York. 4 riTiBBH AMPLE TREATMENT VVVV jfllrinna ye msillenought to convince i.uu B. 8. LiMwlerback Co. 773 Broad st Newark.N.J THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1889.

The House of Representatives wisely defeated the bill providing for levying special taxes ujion the salaries of officers. The measure was an ill-considered one, at the best. If it had been enacted into law, the result would have been that the men taxed would have found some way to shift the burden of the tax levied upon them, by charging additional fees, or in some other way. Gentlemen of the Legislature! the remedy needed is a reduction of expenses, rather than an enlarged basis of taxation, and better facilities for correcting abuses in county, township, and municipal government. General Beatty states the cold truth when he says the office of Commissioner of Railroads and Telegraphs should be abolished.

It is an office that ought to be useful, but there is little hope that it will be. In Massachusetts, organized by Charles Francis Adams, who by patient investigation and study became authority on all matters relatfng to the transportation interests, the olliee at once and ever since has been of immense service to the public. Here, on the other hand, except daring the brief term administered by General George B. Wright, it has been treated as a lying-in hospital for disabled politicians, who know nothing of the relations of transportation com panies to the public, and have not even the energy to study the reports and meth ods of Mr. Adams and General Wright.

Abolish it, and require the needed sta tistics to be gathered by the Auditor of State. And then our elaborate and highly or namental and expensive war bureau is deserving attention. There is no imme diate danger of Ohio getting into war, since Cleveland is about to be removed. and the pruning knife may safely be ap plied there. There is no occasion for maintaining a more elaborate and costly bureau than Tod and Brough had, when regiment after regiment was being organized and equipped for war.

The contingent fund provided for the various State officers is another source of extravagance and waste. Xo member need go around the capi- tol like Diogenes, with a lantern in broad day, if he really wants to retrench expenses and avoid an increased tax rate. The proposition to tax salaries is not the true solution of that question. If they are too high, reduce them, instead of furnishing the officer with an additional incentive to mulct the people with unlawful fees, and for which the State provides no adequate remedy. When Governor Foraker was inaugu rated the Republican party of Ohio was united and harmonious.

After three years of his administration iactionai quarrels prevail, and on the threshhold of an election for Governor and a Legis lature which will choose a successor to Senator Payne, the wretched quarrel is at its height. The Governor's office and some of the State bureaus filled by him are nests of plotters and intriguers, the persons in them seeming to think the offices they hold were designed for the advancement and glorification of their chief. The benevolent and reformatory institutions of "the State are treated as the personal belongings of the executive. Apparently, the well-being and harmony of a great party, to whom all of them owe what political preferment they have enjoyed, is a matter of indifference. These are cold truths, however disa greeable their utterance may be; and to undertake to disguise or belittle the danger is not good politics nor fair treatment of men who look to Republican newspapers for the truth.

The Republicans of Ohio owe nothing to any man. The men they elevate to oflice owe them everything. The party will not be bossed, and men who under take it are apt to be hurt The crisis is a serious one. If Repub licans are equal to the occasion, all will be well; if they are not, the probabilities are the people of the State will have another era of Democratic rule. General John Beatty has express ed himself, in his emphatic way, of Governor Foraker and his administration He says he has not seen the Governor for a year, and is not certain that he would know him if he should meet him, and that Grosvenor, McKinley, Foster, and others who once knew him quite n'ell would not now recognize him.

He says the flags incident originated with George K. Xash, and that Foraker's demonstra tive friendship for ex-soldiers is insincere, and in proof of that reviews his appointments. Cappeller should be removed, and the oflice abolished. The interview is breezy reading, and is calculated to create a sensation. The Committee on Revision of the Ju diciary should find some way to relieve this great county of the whims and caprices of Monroe county politicians, who, to a great extent, have dictated and controlled the choice of the Common Fleas Judges since the adoption of our present Constitution.

That county has no inter est in common with this, and the admin istration of the law and the character of buriness is widely different in the two counties. Yet, unless there is a revolt among the Democrats of this county, which has occurred twice in thirty-eight years, the choice of a Judge is, practically, determined by a few politicians of Monroe county. THE WAITING TIME. There are days of deepest sorrow. In the season of our lite: There are wild.

uesiairing moments, are hours ot mortal strile; TJiere are times of stortuv anguish. When the tears refuse to' fail. But the waiting time, mv brothers. Is the hardest time of all. Youth and love are oft impatient.

Seeking tilings beyond their reach; And the heart grows sick with hoping. Ere it learns what life can teach. For. lielore the fruit be" gathered, We must see the blossoms fall: And the waiting time, my brothers. Is the hardest lime of Loving once, and loving ever, It is sad to watch for years For the light wIiom- fitful shiniug a rainbow of our tears.

It is sad to count at morning AH the hours to even-fall: Ob, the waiting time, my brothers. Is the hardest time of ail! We can bear the heat of conflict, Ihoush the sudden, crushing blow, 1'eatinir back our gathered forces. For a moment lays us low. We may raise again l-eiieath it. None the weaker lor the fall: But the waiting time, mv brothers.

Is the hardest time of all For it wears the eager spirit. As the waves wear the stone, Hoiie's gorgeous garb grows threadbare, Till its brightest tints are gone. Then, amid youth's nulient tresses. Silent snows" begin to fall: Oh, the waiting lime, inv brothers. Is the hardest time of all.

Yet at last we lear the lesson. That God knowetli what is best, And a silent resignation Makes the spirit calm ami blest; For we know a day is cmuing For the changes of fate. When our hearts ill thank Him meekly Tliat He taught us how to wait. "JOHN BROWN'S BODY." Youth's Companion. In the song, John Brown's Body," we have an example of a melody and a set of words which seem never to have been written or composed by anybody.

It is a genuine folk-song," growing out of a wide-spread sentiment, as many old folksongs have done, which far more closely respond to the musical wants of the common people than any carefully prepared and cleverly composed song could be. In the case of this song, however, its recent origin and almost instant growth into common use give us an opportunity to trace its beginnings and development in a way which impossible with older sons. The tune of "John Brown's Body had its origin before the words that are now known or remembered in connection with it. It was sung before the War of the Rebellion, as long ago, at least, as 1850, to words which do not now remain in use, at certain Xew England camp-meetings ana revival services. Two members of the Boston militia company called the Tigers," happening to be at a camp-meeting in a small town in Xew Hampshire, heard the song sung to religious words, ann remembered the air.

The name of one of these men was Pur-ington. and the other John Brown. Xot long after this the war broke out, and the Tigers were made a part of the Twelfth Regiment of Volunteers, which rendezvoused at Fort Warren, in Boston Harbor. Here the two men already named, Purington and Brown, formed, with two others, named Fdrjerly and Greenleaf, a quartette, and uie quartette sang, among us omer songs, all sorts of words of their own getting-up" to this tune. John Brown was a good-natured Scotchman, and members of the quartette say they sang "John Brown this and John urown that to the tune, until, Dy an almost unconscious change, the hero of them was changed from John Brown, of the Tigers," to John Brown, of Harper's Ferry, and the grand and simple verse came into existence: "John Brown's body lies a-mou'dering in the ground.

But his soul is marching on." Before this time masses of the Xorth had not been in exact sympathy with the purposes of John Brown, but the excitement of the early days of the war called out a sentiment these words exactly fitted. Whenever the soldier quartette were in Boston they were called upon to sing this song. 1 lie I weiitn i-f egiment toos it up. Samuel C. Perkins, of Brockton, a mem ber of Maitland's Band, which was sta tioned with the regiment at Fort Warren, wrote down the air while a soldier whistled it.

Then the band played it every day. When "Edward Everett formally presented the set of colors of the Twelfth Regiment on Boston Common, the speech of acceptance being made by Colonel Fletcher Webster of the regiment, the tune was played, and the multitude fairly went wild over it. The band played the tune going up State street in June, 1851, and the soldiers sang it as they marched along. The crowd along the sidewalk took up the air and joined in the chorus. "G'orv, glorv, hallelujah.

His" soul is marching on!" Soon after, the regiment sang it in marching through Xew York on the way to Baltimore, with the same effect. It spread at once through the army and throughout the country, and became the anthem of the Union. In December, lStil. Mrs. Julia Ward Howe wrote for the air the words beginning, "Mine eyes have seen the g'ory of the coming of the Lord," which was called the Battle Hymn of the Republic," which soon became immensely popular, but never supplanted in common use the old simple words.

This is the story of the origin of "John Brown's Body" as told by the members of the band and the regiment with whom it had its use as a popular gong. a a SEEDING TO GRAIN. The time is now near when the fields of Fall grain will be sowed in grass seed. In the Central States most farmers sow timothy seed in the Fall with the wheat, and clover in the Spring, and this practice is not likely to be changed, although some of the best "catches" of timothy we have ever seen were sown in the Spring. As a rule farmers sow clover too early in the Spring.

On the March snows was the former rule, and many still follow it, but we have frequently seen the germs destroyed bv the late frosts or freezes of April. Where both timothy and clover are sown in tlie Spring, or where either goes in alone, it is a good plan to precede the sowing by a stroke with a light but very fine sloping toothed harrow. The wheat will be benefitted rather than injured, and it gives the grass seed a bed in which to take root. at of HALF A MILLION STRANGERS. Between four and five hundred thousand people are expected in Washington for the inauguration ceremonies, and the inaugural committee on public comfort, in view of arrangements already made, announces that it can accommodate them all.

Tlie Pennsylvania Lines for this occasion will place ii) service thcireiitireequip-eqnipment, running through cars from all principal points, and rules have been adopted that will i nsure their prompt, safe and satisfactory movement. The sidetracks and yards "nt Washington will be kept clear in order that trains may be run in and out on schedule time. -For full information regarding the cheap excursion rates and other matters apply to the nearest passenger or ticket agent of the Pennsylvania Lines. THE TRAINING FOR JOURNALISM E. L.

Godkin, in Youth's Companion. Simple facility in writing clearly and forcibly is, of course, an essential for success in all this, but it is only one essential, and not the most important one. Many a young man is turned into jour nalism simply by fi nding that he possesses this facility, but if this be the whole of or the greater part of his equipment, he may depend upon it, that, although he may easily earn a livelihood, he will never achieve distinction nor rise to the higher or more trusted places in the profession. To achieve distinction he must have a good stock of knowledge in certain fields, of which the chief are modern history, political economy, law, jurisprudence and tnglish literature. hatever knowledge he has on any of these subjects he must have within easy reach; that is, if it is not in his head, he must know where to get it But the young journalist who thinks he can continue to hold a high place witnout incessantly adding to the stock of knowledge with which he started, deceives himself greatly.

In no calling is the reading of books so necessary, in order to keep the mind stocked with ideas and suggestions and illustrations. The young journalist who gives up reading books or pursues no line of study, and contents, himself as many do, with getting mental nourishment by "looking through the exchanges," very soon degenerates into a mere hack writer capable of producing slipshod and windy verbiage which rills space, but which dwells in no one's mind after the paper is thrown aside. Xothing does more to produce mental laziness and make one's knowledge of things hazy than exclusive newspaper reading. If there, be any such thing as special preparation for journalistic work, it is undoubtedly the study of law. I do not know of a better mode of getting ready for journalism, especially for a young man whom facility in writing has made eager to enter it, than a course in a good law school like that of Harvard, or Yale, or Columbia College.

Burke, perhaps, exaggerated when he said the law is "a science which does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding than all the other kinds of learning put together," but it certainlv does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding than any other kind of learning the young journalist is likely to cultivate or be able to reach. There is hardly any question of the day which a journalist is called on to discuss in the United States, which has not a legal aspect, or a legal history, or is not in some way affected by legislation or judicial interpretation. It is, therefore, most desirable that the journalist, if he does not know much law, should be familiar with the lawyer's way of looking at things, and with the way in which the courts attack the various social and political problems which are presented to them in litigation. THE HANDS OF PROMINENT MEN From the New York Sun. Benj.

F. Bctler has a hand like a dough ball. Secretary Bayard has a hand like Henry Clay's. Lawrence Barrett trims his nails to suit his moods. WnEN excited in debate the hands of Sunset Cox become eloquent in their interpretation.

A modern belle is not more fastidious and exacting with her manicure than is Mr. Berry Wall. William K. Vanderbilt has large, square hands, but he manages to warm both at the fire of life. William M.

Evarts has a habit of rubbing his hands together, with a sort of What can I do for you air. A hand which describes the very poetry of motion is that of Edwin Booth. It is one any woman might envy. Dr. Paxton's hands look as if they might toss a baseball with as much relish as they punctuate his pulpit oratory.

President-elect Ben Harrison has hand firm enough to keep the powers behind the throne in the bachground. Jay Gould is in a perpetual state of warfare by trying to prevent his left hand from knowing all the secret corners of his right Dr. T. DeWitt Talmage has a hand that comes down like a pile-driver when the Brooklyn dominie wishes to emphasize a point. Like Uriah Heep, Oscar Wilde has a ghostly, clammy hand, which makes one feel like rubbing his afterward to warm it, or to rub his off.

President Cleveland gives one a real Captain Cuttle grasp with his large chubby hand, which makes one feel that his Jieart has been the prompter. Alexander H. Stephens had hands so thin and bony that they looked like a skeleton's, but they were always ready to minister to the wants of the suffering. A nAND which bespeaks the man is that of Henry M. Stanley.

When he takes yours between both of his, he establishes current of geniality which lingers long after the act. Henry Irving, the actor, gives one a Mr. Merdle shake, his hands seeming to retreat up his coat sleeve, leaving the honor to his cuffs, except when diplomacy dictates a more suitable form. Justice L. Q.

C. Lamar has a hand as soft as a woman's, but his manner of shaking hands always suggests Dr. Chill-ips in David Copperfield, he seems relieved when he gets his hand safely back. Col. James A.

Wood died recently his home in Bloomfield, aged 74 years. Col. Wood went to Texas in 1 835 and took part in the rebellion against Mexico. He was at the massacre of the the Alamo, and with two others escaped, they being the only survivors of that bloody event. Col.

Wood, in his account his escape, said that when Santa Anna ordered the prisoners to be shot dropped to the ground, as if he had been killed, at the first discharge. He began to roll over, and continued rolling until the river was reached, when he sprang to his feet and got away. He never stopped traveling from the Alamo until he reached Kentucky. It is asserted that nearly all the idols now worshipped in India are of English manufacture. John Bull's principle would seem to be "Iet me but make the idols of a country and I care not who makes its religion." The Bible contains 3,566,480 letters, 773,476 words, 31,173 verses, chapters and C3 books.

THE TREASURE-CHEST. A Spanish Moor, being on the eve of setting out on a pilgrimage to Mecca, entrusted all his money to a man. who had hitherto borne a reputation for unblemished probity. His fortune consisted of two thousand besants. On his return he was not a little surprised when the reputed honest man denied all knowledge of himself or hi3 money.

The pilgrim entered complaint against him, entreated the Judge to help him to his property, and took his oath on the truth of his statement but all in vain! The old man's good name outweighed all he could say; the plaintiff was nonsuited, and went away in despair. Presently he met an old woman, who was toddling along with the help of a staff. Touched by the stranger's grief, she stopped him him, halted him in Allah's name, bade him take good heart, and listened to his unvarnished tale. "Be of good cheer, voting man," said she; "mav be, with Allah's aid, I shall get back your gold. Do you buy a chest, and fill it with sand or mold; only let it be bound with iron and well locked.

Then choose three or four discreet men, and come to me. AVe shall succeed, never fear." The Spanish Moor followed her advice punctually. He came with four friends, bringing a chest which the strongest porters could scarcely drag along. "Xow follow me," said the old woman kindly. On'reaching the door of the supposed honest man, she went in with the Spaniard's four friends, bidding the latter wait below, and not make his appearance until the chest had been carried upstaiis.

She now stood in the presence of the hypocrite, when she introduced I.er four companions. "Beh ld!" said she. "Here are some honest Spaniards about to make a pilgrimage to Egypt Their treasures are boundless. They possess, among other things, ten chests full of gold and silver that they know not where to stow away just at present They desire to entrust them to safe hands for a time; so well knowing your honesty and unsullied reputation, have brought them hither. Prav fulfill their wishes." Meanwhile she had the heavy chest brought in, which the pretended honest man gloated over with greedy looks.

But just then the despoiled pilgrim rushed in, impetuously claiming back his two thousand besants. The faithless depositary was frightened lest the young man should reproach him with his treachery in the presence of strangers, who would then take away their chest with its untold treasures, which he had already determined to appropriate to himself. "Be welcome!" he cried to the Moor. "I was almost fearing you would never come back; and was puzzled what 1 shonll do with the two thousand besants. Allah be praised! who has brought you back safe! Here is what belongs to you." The Spanish Moor went away with his treasure as triumphant as though he were carrying off so much booty.

The old woman begged the master of the house to put this first chest in a safe place, while she went and ordered the rest to be sent. She went off with her four companions, and, of course, never returned. REMEDY FOR TYPHOID FEVER. Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette. The attending phvsician to the -1 hattan General Hospital, Dr.

Simon vi-v Baruch, has published some facts in connection with the treatment of ty- phoid fever which go far to show that the cold bath is the most efficacious rem- edy known for that peculiarly fatal dis-1 ease. The fact demonstrated is that the present methods of treating fever patients the death-rate is f'rightfullv large. Out of 7.712 cases treated in Xew York Ciiv, from 1876 to 1885, there were 3,184 deaths, or 41.28 per cent. The deaths in Xew lork hospitals in 1885 were 24.66 per cent, i In Germany, under similar treatment, out of 11,124 cases reported there were 21.7 per cent, of deaths. i Xow for the second fact.

Dr. Baruch quotes statistics obtained in the German I militarv hospitals which show that out of 19,017 case3 treated with "all kinds of cold baths" ttiere was a mortality of 7 9 per cent. Out of 2,841 cases in I which the treatment was "intermediate, I with water," the mortality was 12.2 per cent Out of 2.198 cases' treated with "strict cold baths" the mortality was 1.7 per and in the same cases 2.150 patients, who were treated before the disease had progressed five days all recovered. It is not to be wondered at that, in view of facts like these. Dr.

Baruch advocates the abandonment of the present method of treating this dangerous disease and substituting the cold bath. Hydropathy is not as popular as it once was, but it "st ill occupies an important place in therapeutics, and deservedly so in the light of these results. The schools may not take kindly to the new remedy, but why should patients be permitted to languish and die by thousands when they can be saved by cold baths? I It has been settled that the explosion of its boiler caused the destruction of the Hartford hotel with nearly all of its inmates, and that no engineer was on duty at the time of the explosion between midnight and daylight The custom of the engineer was to bank his fires and go home to the sleep of security, while those in the hotel remained to the kind of sleep a boiler left to itself was bound in time to give them. He has been arrested, but he cannot be held to account. He hail to have sleep, and the boilers could not be watched while he slept, The fault lies with the owners of the hotel, whose parsimony would bear the expense of but one engineer when there should have been two, one for the night and the other for the day.

At one of the recent Moody revival meetings on the Pacific Coast the customary request was made that those suffering from any particularly heavy burden should stand up and ask for the prayers of the assembled multitude. After a few moments' silence a tall, meek-looking man arose, and in a voice choked with emotion asked that the prayers of the congregation might be offered for his mother-in-law. Instead of praying, the congregation first began to titter, and finally roared with laughter. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. LESSON FOR MARCH 3d.

JESUS THE VIII. 27-IX, 1. Self-denial is a bore that few dare face, The cross is a hardship few would lift To follow him is to travel on too rough a road. fcw have fit constitutions. We are enthuiastic about being Christians in the modern fashion; it is a different thing to be the spiritual martyr, What is the world? Pleasure without stint; honor without limit; wealth with-under out exhaustion.

That is a high esti-tvphoid mate of it; that is all What is the soul? It is the only part of us that is immortal, f. that is worth keeping. Xotes. "Cesarea PhtlippL There were two Judean cities called Cesarea. One was on the coast of the Mediterra-an Sea, while this was situated near the headwaters of the Jordan at the foot of Mount Hermon.

It was magnificently improved by Herod the Great His soa Philip enlarged it and called it after Caesar and himself. "Into the villages" The country places outside of the city where he could teach without interruption. "John the Baptist." Returned to life. "One of the prophets" Jeremiah, Moses, or any one of the famous leaders of the people. "Ye." An emphatic plural, addressing himself directly to the disciples.

"Peter ansicereth." As usual taking the lead, not only on account of his seniority but his impulsiveness. Matthew adds, in his great answer, "Tlie Son of the Living Uml." His divinitv, as well as his Mes- siahship, is thus recognized after two years of ministry. "Ttll no man of him." His death and resurrection proved conclusively his claims. It was not yet time, the -people were not ready for the stupendous announcement that the Messiah had come. "And after three days rise ayniw" Xote how simply, and as a matter of course this greatest miracle of all was foretold.

We blame Peter for his rebuke, but not for the astonishment that occasioned it In their state of mind, before they bad fairly gotten used to the idea of his divinity, utmost credulity could hardly take in such facts to come. We must transport ourselves into their places to sympathize with all their doubts and fears. "Oet thee behind me." Peter's mistake was also a natural one in another direction. It was that of all the Jews; to expect a temporal instead of a spritual kingdom. He could not bear the idea of the King of the Jews dying like a malefactor.

"His cross." The cross was the symbol of the most igno minious suffering and death. The hight of self-abnegation was thus flashed before the minds of his followers. Instruction. There are degrees of faith that lie potentially in the heart They have the power of activity, but need to be drawn forth. The keen, searching question, that must be answered without evasion, may prove just what is needed.

Spiritual torpor and blindness often require a shock from without to be changed into the ardent confession. The great mass of humanity has accepted Christ with reverence, and has assigned to him a position as lofty as their intelligence permits. There are thousands everwhere about us who accept Christ as they would a preeminent teacher. The true disciple, he who has had a personal experience and knowledge of him, goes far beyond a limited acceptance and says: "Thou art the Christ the Son of God." The day is past when none shall be told. He that gives the message to most men has in him the largest spirit of Christ The tendency of the Church toward temporal power has always been misdirected.

Social power, the power of influence, these are sinful abuses of the Church. Her true power is to raise by self-denial and suffering the spiritual standard of her constituents. True followers of Christ are too few. lo gain a soul is to gain eternal jiappi- ness and usefulness. To lose a soul is to gain a mite of the world and a dark hereafter.

The world is a good servant and a ruthless master. After a life has been spent what can one give as ransom to nave it oacKi ine Christian gladly yields it up at the end. The sinner is never ready to. Few are ashamed of the life of Christ, but many are ashamed to lead the life he commands. Timidity may lead to shame.

Leaving aside the respect tnat is always paid to a bold stand for Christ, ne wno respects nis iaun oy sia-iuiug up for it when it is in peril will have Christ appear as his advocate when his judgment comes. Xone need die ignorant of the kingdom of God; it is at hand with ever increasing powers. In the disturbance created in political circles by the discharge of Judge Edger- ton from the Civil Service Conimissiotr some queer facts about the workings of the civil service reform laws have come to light. For instance: On the rous ot the Treasury Department appears the name of an employe who is known as a "mechanical expert." His duties require the highest order of intelligence and mechanical skill, and it is said there are only four other "mechanical experts" of the same kind and qualifications in the United States. The one in the Treasury is the only one in the Government service.

He has been there many years, and will doubtless remain as long as he lives. When the civil service was introduced it was deemed proper to place him under its provisions, and it was accordingly decided to examine him "to see if he was qualified to fill the position." It was in vain that the Commission sought for questions to ask him. Finally at their request he prepared the questions himself, and the Commissioners gravely examined him. He answered his own questions and was passed. The benefits of such a system of reform are obvious.

A woman near Ventura, California, recently made lOO.fXH) in land speculation. This tired her wtih the ambition to get up a special "boom," and make million, if possible. So she chartered a train from San Francisco, 600 miles away, gave a free ride, a free lunch, and free tnusic to all who would come, and held a big sale. But though the train was crowded from San Francisco, no one would buy; and instead of making a fortune she "lost 20,000. Bring your sale bills to Tax Chromi- clh office..