Nebraska Newspapers

    CHAPTER XIII.—(Costisued.)
•Til have the law for this/’ he
growled. "I ain't paid to be beaten by
a madman.”
“You’re paid to do my work, not an
other's,” said Carriaton. ''Go to the
man who baa overbribed you and eent
you to tell me your lie*. Go to him,
tell him that once more he has failed.
Out of my right!”
A* Carriaton showed signs of recom
mencing hostile operations, the man
tied as far as the doorway. There, be
ing In comparative safety, he turned
with a malignant look.
"You’ll smart for this,” he said;
“when they lock you up as a raving
lunatic I'll try and get a post as keep
er.”
I was glad to see that Carriston paid
no attention to this parting shaft. He
turned hlr hack scornfully, and the
fellow left the room and the house.
“Now are you convinced?” asked
Carriaton, turning to me.
"Convinced of what? That his tale
is untrue, or that he has been misled,
1 am quite certain.”
“Tush! That is not worth consider
ation. Don't you see that Ralph has
done all this? 1 set that man to watch
him; be found out the espionage; sub
orned my agent, or your agent I should
say; sent him here with a trumped-up
tale. Oh, yes; I was to believe that.
Madeline bad deserted me that was to
drive me out of my senses. My cousin
Is a fool after all!"
Without further proof 1 cannot d<*
llevo that your suspicions are correct,”
I said; but I must own I spoke with
some hesitation.
"Proof’ A clever man like you ought
to aee ample proof In the fact of that
wretch having twice called me a mad
man. 1 have seen him but once before
—you know if I then gave him any
grounds for making such an assertion.
Tell me, fgrom whom could he have
learnt the word except from Ilalph Har
riet on?”
I was bound, If only to save my own
reputation for sagacity, to confess that
the point noted by Carrlston had raised
certain doubts In my mind. But if
Ralph Carristou really was trying by
some finely-wrought scheme to bring
about what ho desired, there was all
the more reason for great caution to be
exercised.
"I am sorry you beat the fellow.” I
said. “He will now swear right and
left that you were not in your senses.”
“Of course he will? What do I care?”
“Only remember this. It is easier to
get. put into an asylum than to get out
of It.”
"It is not so very easy for a sane
man like me to he put in, especially
when he is on his guard. I have looked
up the law. There must he a certifi
cate signed by two doctors, surgeons—
or, I believe, apothecaries will do—
who have seen the supposed lunatic
alone and together. I'll take pretty
good care I speak to no doctor save
yourself, and keep out of the way of
surgeons and apothecaries.”
It quite cheered me to hear him
speaking so sensibly and collectedly
about himself, but I again impressed
upon him the need for great caution.
Although I could not believe that his
cousin had taken Madeline away. I was
inclined to think, after the affair with
the spy, that, as C'arriston averred,
he aimed at getting him. sane or insane,
Into a mad-house.
But after all these days we were not
a Htep nearer to the discovery of Made
line's whereabouts, t’arriston made no
sign of doing anything to facilitate that
discovery. Again I urged him to in
trust the whole affair to the police.
\gnin he refttsed to do so. adding that
he was not quite ready. Ready for
what, I wontiered!
XIV.
MUST confess. In
spite of my affec
tion for Carrlaton.
I felt Inclined to re
bel against the
course which mat
ters were taking. I
was a prosaic, mat
ter-of-fact medical
man. doing nt>
work to the twat of
ray ability, ami
iiixtou* when that work was done that
my hours of leisure would be aa free
front worry and care ** pa»«iblr With
I'arrlaton'a advent several dtaturbtna
<- tenants entered Into my qitlef Ufe
tail Ralph t’arrl»to« be guilty Vi tu
norent of th« extraordinary crime
which hta cousin laid al hU door. I
tell certain that he was anxious tu «b
lulu puaaeexbni of the enppwaed tana
ik i petwon If would autt bia j,„r.
pam a fur hi* usulx tu ter pi ulec| mad.
I 4W not belle** that, even H ty, , Al,
litre waa legally effected t'arrteien *
tihuratfua •wmM fel# 4 ttMlikiV g»l |rv«t
liiflhuttv Ml 44 iill K$4
Midi iM* lulf 44 | 4
loexur af «ara# atandiag • »<*M a» tata
the wtltvem hex *ad •*•<» tu tv . «aa
Uy. Uui »» old *4»*l*4>» miik
mo (he dread I ha an* tu ether .ho. b
would «NMn -he hafauie „f M. s.
do tl waa (hat i»* » ' *or that 1*1*1
t MM Wat «M< of ■*> '* 1 woe >ra ■»*<
With xlMilf If halt , it-t.-u %a
really a* n*»* rwpwlow. *« m* I* * t.»
nanrl If ha had PM-l ae *»a> 1
xliwaf prohah** ewhwrw* h»«4* i^rH
M ov(«h\ Ip warn* .wit* *tMt sXi«»
th# beovtiut rspttmaio *wu •
I t| gsaH uMw lew* and ffou * 'a* • *«■»»
bed boea removed la uorh a •*** I
iwwal great irwww* aad d*et»ve«
Besides, after all that had occurred,
tt was as much as I could do to believe
that Carrlston was not mad. Any doc
tor who kn?w what I knew would have
given the verdict against him.
After dismissing his visions and hal
luclnatons wth the contempt which
they deserved, the fact of a man who
was madly, passionately In love with a
woman, and who believed that she had
been entrapped and was still kept In
restraint, sitting down quietly, and let
ting day after day pass without mak
ing an effort toward finding her, was In
Itself prlma facia evidence of Insanity.
A sane man would at once have set all
the engines of detection at work.
I felt that If once Ralph Carrlston
obtained possession of him he could
make out a strong case in his own
favor. First of all, the proposed mar
riage out of the defendant's own sphere
of life; the passing under a false name,
the ridiculous, or apparently ridicu
lous, accusation made against hte kins
man; the murderous threats; the chas
tisement of his own paid agent who
brought him a report which might not
spent at al 1 untrue to anyone who knew
not Madeline Rowan. Leaving out of
the question what might be wrung from
me In cross-examination, Ralph Car
rlston bad a strong case, and I knew
that, once In his power, my friend
might possibly be doomed to pass
years, If not his whole life, under re
straint. Bo I was anxious, very anx
ious.
And I felt an anxiety, scarcely sec
ond to that which prevailed on Car
rlston's account, as to the fate of Mad
eline. Granting for sake of argument
that Carrlston's absurd conviction that
no bodily harm had as yet been done
her, was true, I felt sure that she with
her scarcely less sensitive nature must
feel the separation from her lover ns
in Ill'll U U ho lllltiuillf fail* • Via n»n Inn
from her. Once or twice I tried to
comfort myself with cynicism tried to
persuade myself that a young woman
could not In our days be spirited away
—that she had gone by her own free
will—that there was a man who had at,
the eleventh hour alienated her affec
tions from Curiston. Hut I could not
bring myself to believe this. Ho I was
placed between the horns of a dilem
ma.
If Madeline had not fled of her own
free will, someone must have taken her
away, and If so our agent's report was
a coined one, and, If a coined one, Is
sued at Ralph's Instance; therefore
Ralph must be the prime actor in the
mystery. ■
Hut in sober moments such a deduc
tion seemed an utter absurdity.
Although I have said that Carrlston
was doing nothing towards clearing up
the mystery, I wronged him In so say
ing. After his own erratic wav he was
at work. At such work too! 1 really
lost all patience with him.
He shut himself up In hie room, out
of which he scarcely stirred for three
days. By that time he had completed
a large and beaulIfni drawing of his
imaginary man. This he took to a
well-known photographer's, and or
dered several hundred small photo
graphs of It to be prepared as soon as
possible. The minute description
which he had given me of his fanciful
■ creation was printed at the foot of each
I copy. A* oon as the first batch of
! these precarious photographs was sent
j home, to my great joy he did what he
should have done days ago: yielded to
my wishes, and put the matter Into the
hands of the police.
1 was glad to find that in giving de
tails of what had happened he said
nothing about the advisability of keep
ing a watch on Ralph aCrriston’s pro
ceedings. Me did Indeed offer an ab
surdly large reward for the discovery
of the mWsing girl. and. moreover,
gave the officer in charge of the case a
packet of photographs of his phantom
man. telling him in the gravest manner
that he knew the original of that like
! ness had something to do with the dls
j appearance of Miss Rowan The otti
<-er, who thought the portrait was tha'
j of a natural being took his Instructions
! In good faith, although he seemed
greatly surprised when he heatd that
| t'arnaton knew neither the name noi
nu< u«-i iiimiiuu in IUii an#* nothing
J -oinerntug the man mint wa* to l»
nought for H»»n»r at farrlalnn .«»
•ur#4 him that Uniting thin man nutilil
Inaor# »h# reward a* much at if h
found MwMiuo, lb# nil. mr rnadllt
litmiiln.l to lomblo* lb# inn lath*
IIUI# kHoning n Hal na*l* «f 11mm
att*m»t lo |«if nm tb# lait*r mini be
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of m# 1*0 | «o« lo go from i.t*. • Iw
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*»•«• tlboH iw <>»»•*» in. m-.ait**.
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ibai •*« aOothar atiiti
III* M»n ttwmm* to b* *bu tbomot
i mooM 'wooer of bit* Vt*o blm Ml t oo
tact with the man of his dream. How
ever. now that the search had been lu
trustcd to the proper persons, his own
action In the matter was not worth
troubling about. I gave him many
cautions. He was to be quiet an 1
guarded in words and manner. He
' was not to converse with strangers.
If he found himself dogged or watched
by anyone, he was to communicate at
once with me. But. above all, I begged
him not to yield again to his mental
Infirmity. The folly of a man who
could avoid it throwing himself into
such a state ought to be apparent to
him.
"Not oftener than I can help." was
all the promise 1 could get from him
"But see her I must sometimes, or I
shall die."
1 had now given up as hopeless the
combat with his peculiar idiosyncrasy
Bo, with many expressions of grutltude
on his part, we bade each other fare
well.
During his absence he wrote to me
nearly every day, so that I might know
his whereabouts In case I had any
news to communicate. But 1 had none.
The polic e failed to And the slightest
clew. I had been called upon by them
once or twice In order that they mlgbt
have every grain of Information I could
give. I look the liberty of advising
them not to waste their time In look
ing for the man, us his very existence
was problematical. It was but a fancy
of my friend's, and not worth thinking
seriously about. I am not sure but
what after hearing this they did not
think the whole affair was an Imagined
one, and so relaxed their efforts.
Once or twice, Carrfston, happening
to be In the neighborhood of I#ondon.
came to see me, and slept the night at
my house. He also had no news to
report. Still, he seemed hopeful as
ever.
The weeks went by until t'hiistraas
was over and the New Year had begun;
till# #IPl uiirtl urni'lt up I run# r\f Uuilullnp
Rowan. "I have seen her,” wrote Car
rlston, ’’Several times. Hhe la In the
same place—unhappy, hut not Ill-treat
ed.”
Evidently his hallucinations were
still In full force.
At first I Intended that the whole of
tills tale should be told by myself; but
upon getting so far It struck me that
the evidence of another actor who
played an important part In the drama
would give certain occurrences to the
reader at first instead of a second hand,
so l wrote to my friend Dick Fenton,
of Frenchay, Gloucestershire, and
begged him, If he felt himself capable
| of so doing, to put in simple narrative
form his impressions of certain events,
which happened in January, 1866;
events in which we two were concerned.
(TO BB COtiTItlUIII.I
Flouting MfluU.
If a small rod of Iron a straight
piece of wire, for instance be greased,
it can be made to float on water. The
grease apparently prevents the break
ing of the surface of the water and tha
Iron lies cradled In a slight depression
or trough. Recently Dr. A. M. Mayer,
experimenting with rods and rings of
Iron, tin. copper, brass, platinum, alu
minum, German silver, etc., found that
all metals, even the densest, will float
on water when their surfaces are
ehemtcally clean. A perfectly clean
piece of copper or platinum wire, for
instance, forms a trough for itself on
the surface of water just as if It were
greased. The same is true of a small
rod of glass. Doctor Mayer believes
! the floating is due to a film of air con
! densed on the surface of the glass or
j metal, because if the tod be heated to
redness, and as soon as it cools, be
placed on water, it will sink, but if it
’ be exposed to the air for a short time
I it will float.
I.iltlr but strong.
A young lady who is well known In
' society circles is now being given the
giund laugh” on account of u remark
she made some time ago. She was pres
ent at a small gathering of friends
I and after the discussion of several top
ics the conversation turned upon the
| size of the average person s hand. Af
i ter a time some one said; "Don’t you
think Mr. A. has a very small hand?”
i paying considerable attention to the
young lady under consideration. With
out stopping to think, the young lady
replied: Ye* hut he can squeeze so
hard: why, he squeezed nay hand uutll
" itilt here she realized what she
was saying and stopped, crimson with
confusion lo lie oyet whelmed In a gala
of laughter whiih threatened to take
! the roof off the house Minis* tile
t'tMirler-Jiiurnal
Mt» Hnysol.
The old southern planter «m dying
tor fifty years fee ha«l ridden <>yei Ma
plantation and directed th# men al
their work a»«‘ In all that tin* not
a sprig of loitiin had tieen known lu
gios upon hi* land Cara atone the
tdd man had raised t'mrn and mini.
Mow through the duak settling .town
user the great ptare hts tune beamed
•tdn thiwugn the shadows and rest 4
pats teddish light upon the remainder
uf hi* ■ ounteuah * hit said he.
weekly as he i* »»t • I hi* lime bad
I *w*n* gat ipos mg lemhaiane the
smiI* lie tad the straw hetweeg
j hts tram»ii«g ls|*t* a hit* the Mint
si ih you p shared with *itew«e the
inliir fata but MM her rattan/ **
%nd »>i* I ha* did It Mew Verb
Yt * fid
Ms Ms
%lh. *|MM I mthi grad the hey to tear
I whdwtwie h*wrt' sighed the I at tag
' dhs'etwa gaattg teadl* at tha Iht
la*i III tail »« Mg hi naa that d
. atn i Mt ssetsio* keg said the Int lady
m *»«wa, and the tea-headed girl pat*
* termed h laughing duet Mi mthaa
FARM AND GARDEN.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO
AGRICULTURISTS.
Some t'p-to-ftate Hints About Cultiva
tion of the Moll ami Yields Thereof
► Horticulture, \ Itlrultnre ami Flori
culture.
t! M E R O U S at
tempts to eelablish
beet sugar factories
in America have
failed. and the
principal cause of
failure has been
staled to be the in
ability to secure a
sufficient supply of
beets. The culture
of the sugar beet
Involves different methods from thoee
pursued with ordinary farm crop*,
and In order that a factory
may be successfully started in
any neighborhood the farmers of
that vicinity should have had
some previous experience In the cul
ture of this crop. Since the sugar beet
Is a very valuable stock food and is
culllvated by many farmers for this
purpose alone, (be experience neces
sary to Its successful culture may be
obtained without loss, though no sugar
factory should ever be located In the
neighborhood; and In view of the
probable development of the beet
sugar Industry in northern Ohio the
Experiment station recommends to the
farmers of that region that they begin
Immediately to get the practical ex
perience necessary to the successful
management of this crop. Sugar
bests and mangolds have been grown
for a number of years by the Ohio Ex
periment station for stock food and the
experience thus gained is summarizeu
below. This crop may be successfully
grown on any soli well adapted to po
tatoes or corn, (be Ideal soil being a
rich loam, somewhat sandy and well
drained. The two extremes of heavy
clays and light muck lands should be
avoided, and drainage, natural or ar
tificial, is essential. The ideal site
for a beet crop is a clean clover sod.
It should be plowed not less than eight
inches deep, as early in the spring as
possible and most thoroughly pulver
ized. If a garden seed drill is at band
the seed may be sown with that, set
ting the drill so as to drop the seeds
two or three Inches apart. If no
drill is to be bad, murk out the ground
with a sled marker, making the fur
rows one Inch to an inch and a half
deep, and two feet to thirty Inches
apart and drop (be seeds by band, cov
ering about one inch and packing the
earth over the seeds. The planting
may be done at any time from the mid
dle of April to the first of June, prefer
ably not later than the middle of May.
When the plants reach a height of
about four inches they should be
thinned so as to stand about six inches
apart. I<arge beets are not desirable
for sugar making, as they contain a
smaller percentage of sugar than the
medium-sized ones, and for the same
reason medium beets are more valu
able for stock food. After thinning,
the weeds must be kept down and the
surface kept loose. To accomplish
this at least cost, some harrow or
weeder should be used at least once
a week from the date of planting un
til the tops shade the ground, going
over the crop at least once before the
plants appear above the surface. If
this is neglected the hoeing required
may easily double the cost of the
crop.
Mtiftltrnoins in < ave«.
A correspondent of the Chicago
Record, writing from Grand Rapids,
Michigan, says:
A. H. Apted has a mushroom "plan
tation,” the only one in this city and
so far as heard from the only one In
Michigan. Florists and market gar
deners raise mushrooms in the dark
corners of their hothouses, but with
them it is merely a side issue, while
Apted makes a business of it. The
“plantation” is not remarkable for the
number of its spreading acres, but It
could easily be developed into a farm
of good size, it is located in the old
plaster quarry, and while some
“farms” are available for crops only
at certaiu seasons of the year, Apted
can pluck his mushrooms all the year
around and ran regulate the quantity
JM WtIUtCU UJ MRUI lllg I Ul to III |UUI
month* ahead; mid (hi*, too. without
the slightest difference in (he expense.
The piaster quarry is Just outside of
the southwest corner of the .-tty limits,
on the west side. It was the hist quarry
opened here and runt Into a side hill,
cropping out at the highway. It has
been worked for forty years and the
escalations spread under twenty acre*.
The quarry is being wurktd aa stead
ily now as at any time tu its history,
with crews of turners puundlug away
and blasting out the gvpsum to be
manufactured lata stucco or wall fin
ish A pled a father Is supei intendent
of tho works snd his plantation la to
taled la some of the deserted gaiter,
m Use must be famtilat sub the
route to tad the beds, and Ike tam
est y of the way is a saf*g Mil against
marauders as geod as ate police er
dogs The muse to always upon, day
sad sight. but there has amrr heee
say trouble trio tr«*pa»*srt I be
1 temperature does nut aery k degrees
from see y*ar s end to tks gibe*, rang,
lag frogs «e lath degrees sad set a
beiuw this e«*n la the «u d*st wtste?
weather 14 web two eta would stead ta
advantage a slightly higher temper*'
tut*, hut ihl* due* »«. y Wetk. The
a»d eertiMto **•>*- ima t* the mis* it**
la the fact that it dries up ta «>tt*t
sad the roam to w large that It to
impassible ta I set ease the acinus by
snukul met bads, aa could tn done ta
a cellar er greeahewse to baa tea dry
! the mwaheoatoe are Idieiy ta ha at
t ia> bed py a twkdwe *k•> k impair* that#
I quetity and e»aa deatrwyr them U id
, <«•« farm eg to eimpto ahsa the sa
ls ret* e| the business ate toeiatd, ead
t v* ssadwctrd by Mr Ayisd it c nighty
profitable. Fresh horse manure and
loam la carted into the cave and laid
In beds fifteen inches deep and 10 by
20 feet in area. The mixture heats to
120 or 130 degrees at first and when
this subsides the bed is sown with
spawn. The mushroom spawn ia pro
duced in England and France chiefly
and is Imported into this country in
the form of bricks or as flakes and
the fungus is propagated by growth
and division. The mushrooms give oft
spores which act as seed for the growth
of the plant, but all efforts to gather
the seed have failed. The spawn
grower prepares a bed of manure and
loam and when its condition is just
right it is cut into bricks and into each
piece Is placed a small piece of spawn.
The growth Is rapid and In a few weeks
each brick is Impregnated with the
fungus. The growth Is stopped at Just
the right time by drying the brick and
these bricks will keep Indefinitely un
der proper conditions. When the
spawn Is to be used to sow a bed of
mushrooms It Is divided Into small bits
and these bits are planted about two
inches deep ten to fifteen Inches apart
in the beds prepared for It In the cave,
cellar or mine. About three months
are required for a bed to develop. Then
the mushrooms come up thick and
fast. The mushroom Is not the plant
• . I . * . . « m . . s ,L . _ I_a
iiovii uui tun uim. ui mu y• —
plant, as It fills the soli, resembles a
thick net of little white threads or
fibers. When the mushroom has been
given to the world the plant die* and
a new bed must be prepared and re
I planted. The Urand Rapids planter
quarry where the mushrooms are
grown Is dark to absolute blackness
and the cultivation and harvesting are
all done by torchlight. To a stranger
the sight la weird. Indeed, to come
suddenly upon one of the mushroom
beds. The mushrooms, growing singly
and in bunches, in the torchlight have a
brilliant whiteness and seem to reflect
the light. Around the mushrooms, If
closely examined, will be found hosts
of little files, which seem to thrive In
the darkness.
_
Mot a lure of lh« Hull.
Harrowing to save moisture Is thus
treated in bulletin No. 120 of the New
York experiment station. “The har
row, besides pulverizing und fining the
soil for the seed-bed, is most efficient
in furnishing a soil mulch. The
spring-tooth harrow is In reality a cul
tivator and Its action is similar to that
of the cultivator. When used as an In
strument to conserve moisture, the
teeth should penetrate to the depth of
about three inches, and to produce the
best effect the ridges left by it should
be leveled off by a smoother which can
now he purchuHed as an attachment to
the harrow. The tillage of orchards
by the harrow is now practiced exten
sively and nothing short of irrigation
will so nearly meet the demands of
trees for moisture, particularly upon
the heavier soils. A harrow having a
plow-like action of its blades serves to
pulverize the surface soil, to spread the
loose mulch evenly, and it leaves a
most excellent seed-bed. The cut
away or disc harrow may be beneficial
or of absolute injury. If the discs are
ao set that they cover but a portion of
the surface with the mulch, they leave
a ridge exposed to the action of the
wind and sun and the rate of evapora
tion is greatly Increased. The discs
should be set at such an angle that the
whole surface shall be stirred or cov
ered. Their chief value lies in their
cutting and pulverizing action on clay
soils, but as conservers of moisture
they are inferior to the harrow with
plow-like action or the spring tooth.
Soils which need the disc harrower
should generally be gone over again
with some shallower tool. The mel
lower the soil the lighter should be the
work done by the harrow. On most
heavy orchard soils it will be found
necessary to use the heavy tools like
the spring-tooth and disc harrows in
the spring, hut if the land is properly
nanaiea n suuuiu ue m >utu wuuiuuu
as to allow the use of a spike-tooth or
smoothing harrow during Bummer.
This light summer harrowing should
be sufficient to keep down the weeds
and it preserves the soil mulch In most
excellent condition. With such a tool
and on land In good tilth a man can
harrow ten or more acres a day.
Epra.vlng Grape Vines. -The uilvau
tage of spraying grape vines Is not
alone In preserving fruit from mildew
and rot. Even when these are not
present on vines unsprayed, a close ex
amination of the leaves will show
t patches of brown, beginning early In
the summer, and gradually spreading
during the season. The ripening both
of fruit and of this yeat'a growth of
> wo«»l drpvinU on the v Iger and health*
| fulness of the leavea during the grow
ing season. Whatever Injures the leaves
must by s<> mu h delay the ripenlug of
1 fruit aud Injure Its duality. Now that
| the llordeaua mixture applied early
| In the aeasou la known to secure
I healthful foliage, there should he no
J urg e t in applying It.
I'egiher Fulltag There te no eute
! remedy for feather pulling The Prat
■ gsa -aught at It should be kilted dome
i smear the Imre pla-e* with tar. and wth
j are trim the edge* of the upper and
j iiisvt inaudible* ao that lha hens >nn
! s.H bold n hsiiwf iMb#ra eepaiais
j ih*m, rwtxAuing them for two week*
* The heap#*! I * >*niite le to keep the
hen* at work, hot aa a euro U difficult.
I it to he*4 to eewd them to market and
j begin *a« * id
Xhaded Ground The ehnda of the
tureet tends to peetofvo mokeiuro. and
igt. Is the alt important condition of
j the soil hitanaaif to pr«g»o«e geonth
The f.wde penetrating the earth to ait
dim tlone to groat depth* p>en> a
* mellow rondtthMX «# aotl. and these tee
I rondtttona are the oeeeaual* d pleat
growth, end they inrariahty promote
I growth to the greateet poeaihle ctitct
j- K*
THK SUNDAY SCHOOL.
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I _ESSON XI MARCH I ♦ CON
VERSION OF SAUL
Holden Trill "This Is a faithful say
ing ami Worthy of All Areeptatlon,
Thai Jesus Christ Caine Into lha
World to.have Hlnners" Tin*- I-IS
ro-DAVH Mason In*
eludes Ads 9. I-ISL
J7-22. Time.- Prob
ably midsummer.
A. D. xi Place.—
Near Damaarua IW
miles northeast of
\ Jerusalem Parallel
J arrounts Paul's
v own arrounts of
Ids conversion. Acta
i a. «-n w
rial. L bi-M
Saul. The fiery
young zealot who
led In Ihe martyrdom of Stephen and ' je
persecution of the Jerusalem chur
was a native of Tarsus, in Asia. ■',|uor.
descended from pure Jew ish elix's. ‘,
lrlbe of Heiijamlu of a family iJt:
ihe prlvllage of Roman cltlasnshlp. i>
had (lien trained In the law under Oama
llel, the greatest raidd of that age an I
was evidently a leading spirit unions the
young men of Judaism Damascus Is one
of the oldest cities of Ihe world It baa
been famous In all aip-s for the beauty
of Its surrounding* isce note on verse si
ind for Its wealth of trade and
manufacture It has been repeat
edly the seal of Imperial power.
Keen now Its population lx e*"
inateil as between one hundred anil nrt>
thousand and two hundred thousand and
It was much larger and more populous Hi
Paul's lime. The following Is the '■
the lesson: I And Haul, yet breathing
out tlirratenlugs ami slaughter aaalnsi
Ihe iHscIples of Ihe Lord, went unto Ihe
high priest, 2 ami desired of him h',,rr*
lo Damascus to the synagogues I hat If
he found any of this way whether tin v
were men or women, lie might bring
I them Itound unto Jerusalem, t *nu r,»
tourneyed, lie came near Damascus: aiuf
suddenly there shined round about him
h light from heaven: 4 And he fell to the
♦ arth and heard a voice Haying unto him.
Haul Haul, why persecute*! thou me' r.
And he said. Who art thou, f*ord ' And
the Lord aald. I am Jeans whom ihou
persecutes!: it i» liard for then to kt< k
against the prick*. ♦» And he trembling
and astonished said. Lord, what wilt thou
have me do? And the Lord sanl unto
him. Arise, and go into the pity and it
shall he lold thep what Ihou must do.
And the men which Journeyed with him
stood speech leas, hearing a voice hut
seeing no man. * And Haul aro»* from
the earth; and when hi* eyes wife
opened, he saw no man but they led
him by the hand, and brought him Into
Damascus. 9 Arid lie was three days
without sight, and neither did eat nor
drink. 10 And there was a certain dis
ciple at Damascus, named Ananias and
io him said the Lord In a vision. Ananias.
And he said. Heliold. I am here. Lord 11
And flie Lord said unto ill in. Arise, and
go Into the street which Is called
Straight, and inquire in the house of Ju
das for one called Haul, of Tar-m* for
behold, he prayeth. 12 And hath seen in
a vision a man named Ananias coming In.
and putting Ids ha ml on him. that he
might receive Ids sight. 17 Arid Ananias
went his way and entered into the
house, am] putting his hands on him said.
Brother Haul, the Lord even Jenin that
appeared unto thee in th** way a** thou
earnest, hath sent me. that thou mightest
receive ib\ sight, and he filled with the
Ifoly Ghost. IS And immediately there
fell from his eyes as it had been *« ales;
and lie received sight forthwith arid
arose, and was baptized. 19 And when he
ha«l received meat, he was strengthened.
Then wus Saul certain days with tin* dis
ciples which were at Damascus 2<* And
straightway he preached Christ In the
synagogues, that he is the Son of Go I.
LESSON FROM THIS LESSON.
I ye 9*o n* from thl* Lesson. !. Glorious,
indeed. Is the change in fire new birth,
in which the Holy Spirit sheds abroad in
the heart the love of God. makes us hi*
children, ami give* us power to overcome
sin and serve Christ. It was a wonder
fill transition In Saul's cane, but it Is
equally real in every case ft is the be
ginning of a new life, a life of faith of
prayer, of holy living, that finis it*
blessed fullness In heaven. How differ
ent Saul's life was from that day! 2.
Saul’s case shows us that no honesty, or
sincerity, or morality, or attempt* at
obedience, can save the soul or serve as
substitute* for Christ as a Savior and the
new birth by his Spirit. Thl* man of
splendid and vast learning found it neces
sary to fall at Jesus' fe**t; and so must
we! And what a Joy In found, Just as
also may we.
HINTS TO THE TEACHER
I. Look briefly at Haul the sinner, is he
calls himself, “the chief of sinners. We
see in him:—1. A pronounced, open ene
my of Christ. Verse t. lie could not he
like his teacher Gamaliel, hut h^ must be
decided and uncompromising in his con
victions. 2. An active enemy. Verses 1.
2. lie fought the Gospel and it* followers
with all the power of his being ;t. A
cruel enemy. Verse 2. II** bound, lie
scourged, he imprisoned the followers of
Christ. See 22. I. 2*'». 11. 1 A persistent
enemy (verse ;»>. resisting the conviction
of the Spirit and the striving* of his own
conscience, “kicking against the pricks.”
Notice also the steps of Haul as a seeker.
Tills conversion, sudden on the surface,
was In reality gradual, for the Spirit had
l/.l.ir ul l'l\ III" U il ll llim •.»</! I,.. I.o.l
resisted stubbornly. I A sudden surren
der. Verses (i This struggle ..guluet
hls better nature had been long, but at
the last hls will broke down, and Saul
became a seeker after Christ. 2. An ab
solute submission. Verse x. ' What wilt
thou have me to do?" Me gives up hls own
will to Ihe will of Christ, and makes Je
sus hls ahsoluts master. Henceforth he
Is a servant of Christ ,t A deep contri
tion Verse ft. 80 sharp is hls agin. of
soul that he cannot cat, drink or see
The laxly feels the anguish of the mlnil
This was not strange when we cot * Id ru
ble temperament end hls former condui t
4 An earnest prayer. Verso II Hs
hnld, he prayrlh." lie had prayed, but
as a Pharisee; now lie prays as , pe„j.
tent
An Aiusrlrau Woman's Wit.
At a luncheon given the other day f
In I son don several well-known poets
were telling good stories, and one ut
them related about the poet Words
worth a tale for which good authority
was given Wordsworth, it seem* was
In ihe habit of wrtliug at ulgltt and
In the earl) morning and would fre
quently rtnlee hls Wife about I u clic k
and exclaim "llarla get up' I have
thought of a good word" Whereupon
hls obedient helpmate would arise aud
record It upon paper About an bom
later a new inspiration might relr* th»
purl. and he would call not Maria
get up' I've thought «f a better
word* A willy Auteibaa woman who
was uf the port) listened to ihe little
| hlater* with attention and remtiksd
j*»Wlt» waving ihe red roar in her tun!
AA ril if he’4 been MV huatmad I
j should hove mid Words w<oth f,, >
j i*%r ifeuufttit *#l ft U»v| ftftf«|* **
wars Won im u,., g,
J ) react* awlth U vwrv popular p, ■
j a Koroge It i# told m brt. s < d.f
j «(#»• 4 Hi I ftft4|ftft|«i«| ||| irtufm
l awd tweel Helgtom t go. rum ... m
: t# **jt*ii|n*' ill# 11 ly am ,
[,w“*** »*** **'»•’ »• Ogfmw.hggsl a
. ><a»*M»av has bee a for M«d «ad
|ia»as«*wt* hove been tmmUMmt to*
j the regular * v pen t of tru#sa mlih 1 he
J womu plant haa been ereeled and
| "*"•* ** Mmi b*ew made alrws-t* h».
ithe delivery d 1W<W poogufo « o-wh,
.nboh w tl w ,rat la «|| p*rt, *.»
, avoid to b*w ha or btu» hs ith# .,-w.