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WEEKLY COURIER. O. DOA.N'K, liiblihii. JASPFR. INI it AX A HER LETTERS.

-Tajr )UMl't sejr smm- talkr-set (mw nee, you know, TMt Ml aswn sfce wtM mm tet, m' ynHM Umnv'4 wfd AfcwM hrr euMck 1vm4os pr teat At Mtin Mttn4, that jjirt 44 MM 1'otefK. Tk wot kiut tit kaew, tfcy Bet still I Uk4 19 git ttf they umwpJ te Mjr At a hain't jH tofyt ab.mt that iy June dm- hrr prtltv fee A4ooki' lor a lily-peed Uutt we mm ar A' all n.eOwrl!tU tin we ed Jo hmvt, two, WluatlMM's' 1iM kttea ckwtc rcfi4 iU ttew. Bat vroat Mm cIm4 a deM Xm oar haiMr ky. An kid tww tiwnee et wo weriljr writhkbt bar Ytm ehuU rUa-ioi wb-j he IhI kU Mart. Vh thinks tea we Ms ffw go Ts Hit Urri t-t klr.4 e' Mm.

lift Hf, jee A' etu unbix KmS te take ia alt tkw when I kem to fcern kcr aV.4, a' mx ikoMi 'm the name. I UmhkM aNMt the enaa, ta fcller-o knew Hullkt 'At wr tl) tx-try sUJT abcl tb afc e' itea.l ho Aa how tho folic trtf tkf tiark world fm mU'ry Ak wkn Ut Ntraei'i stilt row, tranr. iJon'l vott rie! 2tJ tklo ktMu U-rbaca Mtott et iR lcy cy! ALTERED INTENTIONS. How the Cowbowa Came to Ex hiblt the Circus Elephant. Erer since sunset the prairie bree Tiktl rniuiMl fever-JhHhed little fnoe.

lUAl upright in a plint-buttoined chair hv the WdaUle, a man hiui fallen Hleep airHm and xirain, in. spite of hies de termination to remain awake. I hit. notwithstanding hU weariness, he had slept lightly, and had often awakened at the Miund of a fnint moan, or the touch of the night wind at it tirred the erect and unruly wijw of hU mop of tangled hair, ami often ectd to him, half like the soft, caressing touch of childish lijf rs. Kvery time he woke with an anximi sttt he saw that the fever-Wight eyv of the siek child were fixed longing upon the pictured handbill upon tb wall, a it Muttered in the gentle nitfht wind.

And, each, time when the man had cooled the arehe4 lips with 'water or patted the eaaty pillow, the child hail piped: "Tell me more'hout the ole elephant. And the man ha! toht again of the old elephant how he almost a big the "shock," and was dirt-colored, and had long-, white Uiks and great nappy and had a trunk that wung from side to side at he walked. "An he likes little boys don't "Likes 'em first-rate! the man would antiwer. "Thinks a heap of cm!" Ami the ferer-bright eye? of the child wouM toe bent more eagjriy iv on th long hilt that fluttered on the vail, ami, in spite of his loring anxi ctv, the man would nod, his head world slowly sink forward on his breast, and lie would be asleep from sheer weartnew. Presently, a the candle burned al most out, the eai grow jj ray.

then lighter. A turtle-dove, that had winged her way through the misty half narkne to a restm-place upon the topmost trand of the settler's piece of barbed-wire fence, greeted the coming morning with her soft, solemn coo-woo! If titer had looked from the window of the shack." and the gray of the morning had turned a little more to geld, the tattler and the sick child might have seen a novel procession wMig along the section-road, a qnar ter of a mile away. There were queer, canvas-wrappeu venictea and queerer blanketed animals that looked strange enough in the coming light, but which. denuded of their wrappings in the glare of the sunlight and on the main street of Range City, would blossom out into the more or leg gorgeous cliariobi, cages and curiosities of circus-parade. Tills last crawling end of the procession was dimly discerned by a little squad of broad-hatted, jangle-spurred horsemen, whose galloping cavtise ponies had carried them swiftly across the prairie in the direction in which the circus a slowly taking its way.

"Thar!" cried one of the cowboys. as they reached the forks whoro the Jittlc-worn by-road that paoeed the settler's cabin left the section-road "Thar they air! Come on!" The squad seemed on tho point of cashing along the section-road in the wake of the circus. "Hold on thar, Scottyl" cried the oldest man of the group. "We've jot" "But thar's a elephant, Slade!" in temHriedttoa first spgaker. with an at Meet eerifth eathuoiaew.

"Ketched a glimpee ar khn amewg the wagons, jisl aa-" "Never mind the elephant," broke in old Slade. "We've got other busi Bees on hand jest now. Got to ketch a gUmpiHj uv a grander, 'stead of an elephant, an' sorto" "Sorte start a raagsr proeeesieal" P-wd, mtiJWm kaiul-hatteii. ontM. Te," growled 'It'll irocMiou that'll wlart quick and go a- tearin', U'aht't got no time t) pregiu now!" "You hot! when thai-'s a elephant biif's a taiMtfe movin' down the road away from tw," said another.

Twoa't take Imt lUtU bit," said old Slade. "We kin-" Itut s'poen he shows fight? Reckon he'll cut up rusty, or" Let him cut all lie durn ploHSOSi broke in Scotty, yaragely. "Let him cut! We're able for him, all the same. Grangers ia granger!" Grangers were granger, and there fore entitled to little but indignities at the hands of the cowboys and "cattle king." Though, legally, granger, aa the cattle-men Kwniully denominate the MuaUer aitd home leader, have a right on the range, they are regarded a interlopers, and the littla patches of prairie that thy are brave ly and toilsomely trying" to convert into fertile farms are rcga-ded as so much stolen from the rightful foodlttg-g tt ml of the cattle. He kin cut up all ho wants to," said old Slade.

"Wu'tx able for aim." Which statement was substantiated by the huge revolver hoWteml at tho hip of each one" of the riders. Kver" now and then, a the eayusos bounded along, Srcotty turned to gazo regretfully toward theplaco where tho circus had di-appeared in the timber. lilabt the granger!" he growled once. "That thar elephant was mighty nigh as biy as a f-hack, an'" Plenty time enough to see him," interrupted old Slado. "We'ro sorto killing two birds with one stone this-a-way runnln' out the granger an' bce-in' the circus, both tho same trip." "They'll begin to put up the tents as soon as they git to town," said Sootty, half regretfully.

"I never wed" "Wal," broke in Slade, "as 1 said, it won't take us but a little bit yore. We'll chuck the granger's outfit into his wagin an' tell him to git. He'll git. or" He completed the sentence by letting las hand fall to the butt of the huge re volver at ins nip. "That's what's the matter," growled Scottv.

full of wrath at the innocent granger, who ougtu to nave Known i i that the cattle interests were the only ones regarded on the range, and have governed himself accordingly. The turtle-dove new trom tno piece of a fenco tho squad came ciose, but the half-dulirtous child did not notice the cessation of her soothing, mournful coo. he orange in the eastern hky was climbing higher. ami the invriad forms of nrairie-lue were wakening all about to greet the day. Impatient at any delay, sug ger'tcd a verv simple and effective mode of action, but this was rejected by old Slade.

Yes, run yer head into some durned trap! the latter said, scorn- fullv. "Kamt tell what thee granger 11 do. Some uv 'em air pizen!" Then old Slade crept forward to re- connoitcr. the cay usee were withdrawn to one side, almost out of range of the little window of the shack whore the night wind had drifted in, fanning the sick child's feverish face. Soon a baggy head was lifted cautiously above the window-sill, when tho sick child's eyes opened they rested on the bill that Muttered gently upon the wall.

Then, as the candle-flame, as if wearied with it spluttering struggle. expired, the child tossed uneasily, pant ing in feeble gasps, and the man In the splint-bottomed chair awoke with an an.xioiH start. He did not see the old cowboy's shaggy pate, for it had been quickly jerked below the sill. Linn ole elephant likes little boys, don't he, pappy?" tho child's voice piped. lo the anxious father the weak voice seemed weaker still, and It was with a face, gravely apprehensive, and tones a-tremble, that he told of tho old elephant, in obedience to the piping.

Tell me mere 'bout the olo ele phant, Presently the sound of tho granger voice had ceased, and after several momenta of silence old Slatlo cautious ly raised his head. UiHiu the opposite side of the poor bed tho granger was kneeling, with his bearded face buried in the quilt beside the sick child, and his frame shaking with soundless sobs, almost in unison with the child gasping. Then'iimpatient and wondering at old Made delay, tne rest ot tno cow boys, with the exception of ono who held -the oayusos, hurried, and then crept forward till they wore all squat ted beneath the window. At first their hands wore on the butts of their huge revolvers, but as tho granger spoke in trembling tones every hand was withdrawn from its weapon Then, one by one, they peered cau tlously in. "Prayin'l" Scotty whispered softly to his neighbor.

Then the child's foeble voice inter runted the prayer. "Pappy." it moaned, half reproach fully, "I never saw a olo elephant!" I'm afcard ho never will," old Slade whispered, softly. Perhaps nono of the cowboys squat ting beneath tlte window were marvels of acuuien, but a the prayer vehe ment, almost agonixing wont on, they understood most of the story of tho struggles of the despised granger, The prayer ceased presently, but the srranrer still knelt with his head' bowed, and the cowboys heard some sounds that made Scotty whisper husk Uy to hk neighbor Then the thought that was always uppermost In the child's delirium assorted itself again. "Pappy," tho little voice piped, gaspingly, "tell me more about the ole elephant I never seed him The prayer began again, more fervently, despairingly than bofore. God the granger prayed, "spare him Let him live to see tho ole elephant!" As he went on the prayer grew more rambling, "Let him live Think of the (tore little feller; never seed the ole elephant l'er days uvor since that bill was dropped out thar he's looked an' longed fer to-day, that ho might fco tho ole elephant.

An' now" Ho broke down for an instant, and the men squatting outside stirred uneasily. "Never seed the ole elephant!" tho prayer wont on, half incoherently. "Pore little feller! An' when his maw died I promised to be both hither an' mother to him. An' what have 1 done? Nnth'n nuth'n No pleas ures he on. "Hut, what could I do, way out yero on a claim, with no monov to buy nuth'n with? An1 now.

when I managed to scrapo sjMirc money enough together so's to Wal, he's a-glttlit' worse an' ot he'll nuvorsoe tho olo olophant, I'm afeard." Very soon after tho bright rays shone full in the faces of tho group of cowboys, as the cay uses bounded across tiro prairio towarus tno poini whore tho seotion-roud wound Into the strip of timber tlmt fringed Huswurd crock. No ono had suggested this movement, but all had started as if moved by a common impulse though, to be exact. Scotty, tho impatient, was little ahead of his comrudos. Of "tunning out" tho granger notmng was said. Prayod fer him to llvo to see tho ole elephant!" muttered Scotty.

Will," said old Slude. earnestly. "If ho livos half an hour, an' wo have luck, blamed if he dont see" "That's what!" broke in soma one. "Mebby wo kalnt began another. "Mebby wo interrupted Slado.

firmly. "Hut elephants Is mighty "No difference! We'ro able fer him, I reckon, an' an' the sick boy never seed a elephant!" Tho advance of the circus towards the cattle country had r.bt nil been attended by good fortune, but, as tho armed cowboys dnshed up, tha malinger feared he was about to sustain his crowning misfortune. Tho talus he had heard of their reckless disregard for the persons and property of stratf'eiM were fully as Muuchauson- llke ih those the cowboys had heard of Uta elephant- Tha weapons drawn, a the manager felt sure, to slaughter any opposors, were but as protective measures against tho anticipated charge of tho elephant." The manager's feard seemed realized ae there was a nervous rusn upon me pari oi the cowboys which hurried the elephant, driver and all out of the pro cession. Perhaps, if he had beheld the bank-bill that found its way into the eady hand of tho elephant-driver, ho would not have wondered at tho slight resistance of tho latter. When ho had recovered from tho astonishment into which, he had been thrown by the summary proceedings, the few words spoken, and the bank-bills old Slade dropped as ho hurried past, tho old elephant was lumbering rapidly away in the midst of the frightened and flouncing cayuses.

Tho turtle-dove flew from tho piece of a fence as tho olophant and his cap tors hurried up to the shack, lho grass mufllcd the footfalls of the ani mals. The granger was still on his knees. with his faea buried in tho qmlt of the poor bed, and the morning breeze that fanned the sick child's face and fluttered the pictured bill on tho Wall ruflled the unruly tufts of his hair till it felt like tho touch of baby lingers. Tho little face was less flushed now, and tho gasping feebler. Tho child's dim thoughts wandered still more, and his dim eyes could hardly seo tho fluttering bill.

"Pappy," the weak voice whispered, will the olo elephant over come?" A great bulk barred the sunlight from the little window, and tho long, snaky trunk glided in, and the linger- like protuberance at tho end very softly clasped tho sick child's hand. "Oh, pappy! pappy! lho olo olophant has cornel" The bowed head of the granger was raised. Tho child had started hall upright, and lho littlo hands wore clasping tho caressing trunk of tho old elephant. Then, Insforo tho granger could give expression to astonishment, tho clinging hands rolaxei, and tho old elephant's trunk cased the child's woight softly back to tho pillow again. And tho turtlo-dovo that had returned to tho pleco of a fence uttered her mournful coo.

When tho elephant went away, tho granger was kneeling bosldo his dead, and on tho pillow near tho still face lay tho bank bill that had boon given to old Nero's driver, and boside It wore other bank-bills. As the littlo cavalcade journoyod back towards tho placo whoro tho soc-tion-road wound into tho IHixznrd creek timber, old Slado said: "I'm agin this runnln'-out business!" "And mo, too!" answered every cowlwy of tho group, and the subjoct was dropped. In tho audience at the circus, that afternoon, was a little squad of broad-hatted and lieweaponod cowboys, who surprised tho neighbors by being oa their good behavior dtt.lng tho ontire performance. Only once did they ap- jut thlMg like cowboy boiMtenmsness, und thut was when the children laughod and emptied their hands tha old elephant Nero cams into the ring. Tom P.

Morgan, in Leslie's Xewpajir. LEGEND OF ARCOLINI. A CurlH Venetian That Ailve 1'Mur I.tivrr' In the ootuU of Venice a curious custom has ben observed for five hundred years. When the Council of Ton, a liody of men acting as a jury, brings in a sentence of death, lefore the presiding Judge puts on the black cap the venerable crier advances and criort three times in a loud voice, "llecordatevi del povera Marcollttl." Near tho grand landing place of the gondolas am, the columns of Saint Mark and Saint Theodore Nearly all the people passing the grand landing place pass around the columns. Only foreigners and strangers paws between the two slender pillars.

It lri tho ancient place of execution, and there Marcolinl met hisi death. Many years ago Marcolinl, young Venetian noblo, paid court to the beautiful Gluliotta, whoso family occupied a patitco on tho same square. One night as tho dial on the clock towor marked tho early morning hour ho whs returning homo from a visit to his Inamorata, softly singing in tha exuberance of his spirits, for ho had boon accepted, und tho parents of his llancoe had given consent to their nuptials. Passing across a small campo ho picked up an embroidered belt, with an empty jowelod scabbard, and fiiKtcning the girdle around him, he continued his course, still humming his tune. When ho came to the stops of tho Ilhilto he was seized by the guard and accused of murder.

Ho wastalconto tho spot wheto Senator Kinaldi lay dead with a dagger in his heart. It was found that tho Ktilctto exactly fitted tho sheath which Marcolinl carried. lie was speedily tried, condemned and beheaded. Gluliettu went mad and was confined on tha littlo island devoted to tho insane. Many years after a bandit on his death-bod confessed to a priest that ho had been hired to murder the Senator, Tho sentence against Marcolinl was reversed and his confiscated est'ites were restored to his family.

Hut poor Cihtliottu's reason could not bo restored by an Odict of law. When tho judge who condemned Mareolini came to dio he provided in his will that a miU'S should bo sun; every night forever in a chapel of tho ducal church. St, Mark's, for tho soul of Marcolinl and others who had stiff orod from unjust judgments. Such is the story of tho Twilight Masi and the words of tho court crier: "Uemutnber poor Marcolinl." Every night tho bull is rung and a ray of light is seen to issue from tho little Gothic window that looks upon the ancient place of execution. Y.

Star. Cultivation Overdone. Woods are only an effort of the soil toward self-protection. Bareness favors packing, burning and mechanical deterioration of tho soil, and tho os-eapo of nitrogenous plant-food by drainage or evaporation. A weed crop luis tho effects of a mulch; keeps tho soil open and mellow, and holds and stores tho fugitive nitrogen.

Ground not otherwise occupied, therefore, enn hardly bo given hotter treatment than by leaving it in weeds, provided, however, that thoso are not permitted to uuvturo or scutter seeds. So long its weeds are harmless, continued cultivation of ground not intended for Immediate planting, merely for tho sake of wood-destruction, is not to bo commended. Kvcry thing lias its time, cultivation as well as weed-growth. And then a heavy growth of weeds plowed under, although not as good perhaps as a coat of good manure, is at least a substitute for sulllciontly important to deserve consideration. T.

Groinor, in Y. Tribune. Edison's Talking Dolls. Kdison's attention to toy-making is no less honorable to him than his con- tributions to tho comforts and business affairs of older people. To invent a phonograph was sign of invOntivo power; to put ono insido a doll so that tho doll should bo made to talk showed his heart All grout men lovo children; nil children lovo such great men as Tom Edison.

Tho Jnpnnoso have so far vastly outwitted us in the matter of val- liable toys, adapted to tho tastes of chll- dren; but nothing has ever equaled a real live doll that talks good sense. It will ho a capital educational imple ment utso; for tho mother can miiko tho doll do hot reprimanding and teaching for her. Just think of a scold insido of doll. May its insidos soon out St. Louis Globo-Domo-crat.

The Proper Place for Her. Wild-oyod parent I want to brlnR my daugltto', aged fifteen, to this institution undhiivo hor closely guarded and given your best treatment for about thrco years. Money is no ob-jecL Keeper oi private lunatic asylum-Is sho violent? Wild-cyod parent Sho la ungovernable Sho writes poems of passion. Keeper Stuto lloform School is just across tho way, Chicago Tribune. Manure is the koyto all successful gardening, whether tho crops are for home consumption or tho market Tho gfood gardener may bo judged by the 8i.o of his manure pile.

to have known a markot gardener to take in a lot of horses to board at a low rate for the Hake of the tnantira supply whtoh they lulu American Agriculturist. PERSONAL AND LITERARY. Mrs. Henry Ward Reecher wrUee at a small, businew-like dek, with ft photograph of Mr. Beeeher standing on it.

Mrs. Hurton Harrison, the wife oi Jefferson Davis' former secretary, is a Virginian, and one of the moet jwpu-lar literary women in New York. The late Hiram Prentioe was oae of the oldest journalist of New York. He was eighty-seven years of age, and was the principal writer of the cute sayings of children ia the New York papers. Mrs.

Gladstone's social, educa tional and charitable projects have always been seconded by her husband. who is more proud of his wife tlma any thing else in the world, not excepting his own honorable and brilliant career. "Tho Pilgrim's Progroes" hat been translated into the language spoken in Zanzibar, a tongue called Swahili. It was found necessary to make an rathor than a literal translation. A part of the version was prepared by the late Bishop Stecre.

Mario Henriette, Queen of the Belgians, has started a magazine called La Jeune Fille. Tho Queen und her daughter Clementine are the editors, while the Queen of Houmnnia will write poem for each number, and it is expected that tho Crown Princes Stephanie, of Austria, will do the pictures, When Miss Fnwcott, daughter oi tho lato Postmaster-General of i.ng Ll 1 themat-1 land, applied to a famous ma ical coach at Cambridge to bo taken us his pupil, fho was rudely repulsed, and the ungallant tutor remarked that ho would take no tnbbles." 11ns same Miss Fawcott has been system-1 atlcally lwatlng tho beet man of her year in tho Trinity Collego exami-1 nations, and will doubtless bo senior wrangler for tho ensuing your. On ono of tho shelves of Mr. Spur-peon's library is that precious copy of one of Mr. Spurgeon's sermons which was found in Dr.

Livingstone's box in Africa, after tho groat missionary explorer's death. It was brought to his daughter, who. thinking Mr. Spurgcon tho most suitabha possessor, sent it to him. The pajwr is brown with age and travel and climate, but on tho top of the front pago can be seen the words, "Very good D.

in faint pencil. Georiro of tho Public Lodger, Philadelphia, walks daily to his olfico from his homo in Walnut street, a distanco of over a mile. Ho passes along Philadelphia's chief thoroughfare Chestnut street partakes of tho nature of a public reception mid many aro the greetings, nods and handshakings to which the first citi zen of the Quaker city" is subjected. His constant companion is Anthony J. Droxel, tho well-known banker, and their dally walk has become so prom inent a feature of Philadelphia life that the spectacle is familiarly dubbed tho parade of "mo and Tony." HUMOROUS.

Young men aro respectfully Informed that when the young lady's father stamps his foot, he is preparing to send it through tho mall. Photographer (who has been summoned to photograp a dying- man) "Now, then, all ready! Wink all you want to, and look pleasant." Judge. Through tho efforts of a public-epiritod Mr. Bonos, an Adirondack hike Is to bo stocked with trout The eternal litnoss of things would have been better exemplified if Mr. Bones had devoted himself to' shad.

First Coal Merchant "Say, I saw a man in very moderate circumstance4 walk Into a coal offico to-day, order two tons and plank down tho cash." Second Coat Magnate "My gracious! Wo must raise the price at once." Actor (to friend) "Didn't ltstriko yon, Charley, that large number of tho audience wore considerably moved over my soliloquy in tho second act?" Friend yos; I notlcod quite a numlMjr got up and mo veil ouL" Kpoch. Sunday-School Toucher (touching her bofcom) "Johnny, don't you foel bad in hero when you have been doing wrong?" Johnny (bashfully) "No'm, ma uses tho back of a brush and takes mo over her knot." Burlington Froc Press. "Sir," said sho, "do you oxpoct mo, a saleslady at Tapoly Jaxon's 1 dry-goods emporium, to marry a com mon clerk?" "I am not a common clerk," ho answered; "I am a sales-1 gent" Sho foil into his arms and murmured "I am thine." Torre Haute Express. Mrs. McCorklo "John, doar, the doctor's sormon this morning was from the text, 'loaretho salt or tne Whore do you suppose I can find tho passago?" Mr.

McCorklo "I should think you could find It in tho Psalter." Drako's Magazlno. Butlor (after the Mate" has lieon rendered four ttmos and repent) "'Era's a dollar, an' th' mas-tar says would you kindly move lion? e's hill!" Leader Schwanenflugel "Dot vost a squaro mans, fellers. Ve him blay der 'Dot March in out! ohf coiiibl intents." Puck. "Uod-hewlotl girls don't tan, oh?" paid Poola, scornfully, as he laid down the newspaper in which he had been reading a statement to that effect "Well, when I was a boy thjre was a red-headed girl teaching our distriot school, and she tanned so much that I haven't forgotten it to this day," and he rubbed his shouldor ruefully with the thought Texas Silting THE FIERCE DEMONIAC. KwlH-uMt-y 1ft, 1M.

Specially nrrungetl trom K. QMwrtrty.l Ixmos TexT-Mark Sa Ooi.kkx Tkxt-Go heme to thy friends, aim tell them how great things the Lent bath done for thee, and hath bad oonqwiiioa ea tbs. Cbstkai, Tncra-God bes aivtrd es from the power of tUrkneMt, sad traaatated us Into tn Kingdom of Ilia dr Hon. Tims Autumn, A. 1.

The next hunts-tag after our last lou. 1i.ack The country of the Gedanmes, whloh wsa a large district seeih-eaat of the 8eef Galilee, of which Gedara (seven or cightir.ikM south-east from the Rhw) wwa the capital. It included the smaller dmtriet nf the Grfeeee (er GeraaeHe), isfeaWv lata of Gergesa. swill town on the eastern shore of the lake, opposite TiUorUs. It Is bow eallod Gers.

It was probaWy aear this latter place that Jesus met with the demoniac. Pakaixkl Accocvrs-Matt. Lake 8:940. IIku-s ovsa Hak Places 1. Tht Mtr t4k: from Capernaum.

the enntnt Ik on the southeast coast. (See iHace.) S. "tmlm: caves formed by natere, or cut in the rocks. There are many Mien around Gadara. Utulean tptrit: demos.

9, DuhWhs nmw th hmh: there were ao asylums for the insane, and they had to keep in desolate places. 4. rA ItUen antl ftomw; fetters were for the feet; chains for any other part of the body. iHHeM aHHdet-; he was so strong and fierce that nothingoould hokl him. Matthew says that It was dangerous for any one to pass that way, and Luke says he was naked.

5. t'rjffMtfi with loud, uncartnly yells. Cutting and maiming himself with sharp-edged stones. 6, UTwh htmwJt he ran: to Jesus. This was probably row a longing of tha man to get rid of the demon and break from his fearful master.

7. 1 (vljurc: entreat solemnly, as under oath, or iliotionnlivnf iwiirw. 0. Thu tuimf: HkHl WHS IVUIUilll lUgJUU. urra.

iui larKO number. 10, Out of the wintry: out of their normitted abode on earth They dkl not want to go back to their punishment 11. Swim' The property or Uentilesordews. IforthoJews.it was forbidden; If of the Gentiles, it was a temptation and insult to God's people. ir.

G'otAwl, a type of what Christ does for all sinners who come to Him. AfraM: they were in tho presenee of a power thut filled them with awe aad alarm, and their consciences were awakened. 17. To dtixirt: for fear of still greater harm to them or their property. They did not care for the rettef of poor men, but only for their own property.

3J). ieiHW(; the region (of ten cities east of the Jordan) of which Gadara formed a part. Comments In many respects the case of the sinner resembles very closely that of tho demoniac of Gadara. In writing to the church at Laodicea, the Spirit charges them wita oetng ueceiveu wiwi rcg selves. saycM, I am rich and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest notthat tliou art wrMwtf, and tnlnraliie, and jkwc, and Uiml, and mhed" (Iter.

What an exact description ot the state of that demon wcJ And yet it is used in to those who were surrounded b'v every luxury and refinement which the times could afford. Of course it r.fira to tWir snl ritual state. They were like some leper, all filled with ueHlement, Who, because of his living In a well-furnished house, prided himself on his conditions, forgetting, the while, that he wai a leper. Drawing this out a little, we see (a) that the sinner te really in a wrMcfml and mkmhte state. Sin has the upper hand with him, and rules his life.

As the yars go by. ho grows worse and not better, Evil Iwbits, evil motives, selfish tendencies strengthen, ami he is a captive to one stronger than himself, This condition of off i mo. a wnru lit-1 liu fiut that. IMO man is self-deceived. Like the demoniac who preferred tombs to homes as a dwelling-place, so the sinner prefers his state to tlte better one which is offered him.

AgiUa we see that, like the demoniac, the sinner is 1 (b) ixwr. Poor In every sense of the word, he was. la true riches the sinner is as jxwr as the man of our lesson was ia things temporal In this world he may have seme consaferable gold-dast to play with, but lie liai no provision for a douimikss oierauy. He that layeth up treasure for htmseir, ami is not neb towards God is a fool. Of all 1 poor persons in this world the unsaved sinner is the very poorest.

He is really withoutGod and without hope la this wcrkl. Once more, the signer Is (c) h4. The demoniac was blind to his own Interest's. He would not accept the well-meant efforts of his friends. To his eyes nothing appeared in its true light All was distorted and out of right relationship.

Yet he thought ho saw alt things aright. This is one of the saddest characteristics of The sinner sees himself as all right He ran not understand way his friends and teachers are so anxious about him. If they tell him the truth with regard to his real state lie thinks they are harsh and censorious. There are very few unrepentant persons who would not feel offended were they told that In God's sight they were like lilthy rat? pkked out of an ash-barrel. Yet tlte prophet says (not that the wickedness of men, but) that our righteousnesess are like filthy rags (1b.oI:o.

Such language, though Inspired by God, Is an offense to the carnal mind. It scorns the very thought It can not see its own state, and will not pray: "Search thou me," Finally, notice that tho sinner is (d) iMkt. He may think himself clothed in the gorgeous garments or his own respectability and good deeds. Hut these have no existence. They are fig ments of his own disordered brain.

Unless God provide the sinner a robe, naked he is, and naked he will remain forever. ltev. A. F. Bchauffier.

I'KACTlCAL SUaOBSTIONS. 1. The demoniac a type of the terrible effects of sin on the soul. 2. Bin takes many forms, and works ia many ways.

Its name Is legion. 8. Christ's work is to cast out evil spirits. 4. To leave sta Is to come Into one's right mind.

B. Tho demonteo restoml is a type ot what Christ docs for sinners. T.ot overv one that is saved user wit ness to the goodness and power of God. It is a truth that lie wno oees not Know God can not know that which is beat and truest In humanity, just as it is true that he who does not love his follow wen can et truly love Times, JbbcsIs in Himself worthy of ourheB.it. and affection.

He is "fairer than the children of men." He Is reverenced and adored by the brightest angels around the throne. There Is such honor given to Prince er Emperor on earth, as they constantly ascribe to Him In Heaven. They see Him in all His loveliness and excellence. Hew reasonable, then, to expect that He whe adored by angels In Heaven should be reverenced by Mien on earth. It is a great comfort te people of owemea-place gifts and talents to know that the measure of success, la the Master's sfcht at the last, will net be largeness or result bat faithfulness In the use ef what the Matter hMeatrasted tens..