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INTERNATIONAL MEM ASSOCIATION. CHAPTER XIV.—(CoKTtm'Bn.) "What n streak of luck for you. my | £ood brother,” he observed, when the ^ table wan over. "If you bad gone to Paris, you would have pluyed dlok duck-drako with the whole consign ment In three months. Your own would have followed; and you would have come to me In a procession like the last time. But 1 give you warning —Stasle may weep and Henri ratioci nate It will not serve, yon twice. Your next eolbyme will be fatal. I thought I had told you so, Stasle? Hey? No sense7” The Doctor winced and looked fur tively nt Jean-Marie; hut the boy seemed apathetic. "And then again,” broke out Oasl mlr, "what children you are vicious children, my faith! How could you tell the value of this trash? It might have beiii worth nothing, or next door.” "Pardon me," said the Doctor. "You have your usual Mow of spirits. I per ceive, but even less limn your usual deliberation. I am not entirely Igno rant of these matters." ■ "Not entirely Ignorant of anything ever i heard of," Interrupted Caslmlr, bowing, and raising his glass with a sort of pert politeness. "At leust,” resumed the Doctor, "I gave rny mind to the subject that you may ho willing to believe and I esti mated that our capital would be dou bled." And he described the nature of the And. p “My word of honor!” said Caslmlr, "1 half believe you! But much would depend on the quality of the gold." Jw "The quality, my dear Cuslmlr, " was And the Doctor, In default of language, kissed his Anger tips. Hp "I would not take your word for It, my good friend,” retorted the man of buhincrM. Vou are a titan of very rosy views. But this robbery," he contin ued “this robbery is an odd thing. Of course I pass over your nonsense about gangs and landscape-painters. For me, that is a dream. Who was in the house last night?” "None hut ourselves,” replied the a3|: Doctor. "And this young gentleman?” asked ' Caslmir, jerking a nod In the direction of Jean-Marie. & "He too?”—the Doctor bowed. "Well; and, if it is a fair question, who is he?” pursued the brother-in law. "Jean-Marie,” answered the Doctor, , "combines the functions of a son and atable-boy. He began as the latter, but be rose rapidly to the more honorable rank In our affections. He Is, 1 may say, the greatest comfort In our lives.” ')(t "Ha!” said Caslmir. "And previous to becoming one of you?” "Jean-Marie has lived a remarkable existence; his experience has been em inently formative," replied Desprez. “If I had to choose an education for my son, I should have chosen such another. Beginning life with mountebanks and f- thieves, passing onward to the society V and friendship of philosopher!!, he may be said to have skimmed tho volume | of human life.” "Thieves?” repeated the brother-in law, with a meditative air. The Doctor could have bitten his | tongue out. He foresa w what was com (lug, and prepared ms rmud lor a vig orous defense. "Did you ever steal yourself?” asked ; Casliulr, turning suddenly on Jean Marie, and for the first time employing a single eyeglass which hung rouud his neck. "Yes, sir,” replied the boy, with a deep blush. CHAPTER XV. AS1MIR turned to the others with pursed lips, ami nodded to them meaningly. "Hey?” said he; “how pt that t ■ "Jean-Marle Is a teller of the truth." returned the lVic tor, throwing out his bust. "He has never told a Re." added tun dunie. "He Is the best of boys.” "Never told a He, has he not?” re flected t'sslmlr. "litrangs, very strange. Olve me your mttwnllon. ruy young frlsud,” h« continued. 'You knew about this treasure?" "He helped to bring U home." Inter posed the Duller. Iiespres, I ask yuu nothing but to hold your longue,” returned Csaimlr. • I nteaa to question this stable-boy of youis; snd If you are no certain of His Innocent*, you can afford to let him answer for himself Now, air," he re sumed, pointing hta eyeglass strwlghl *1 lean Merle you knew II tould b* stole,i with impunity* Yuu knew you rwoId IMU be prose Hied? Corns! Did ywu or did you not*” "I did * answered J«an Marts, In n miserable wkteper. He set there • banging cuter Ilk* s revelring pharos I wist lag his Unger* hysterically, swat tewing sir, the picture of guilt "You hn*w where It was put T' re sumed the inquisitor Vs*.'* from lean Mart* You any you hwve been a thief He lm* ,outlawed t'sslmlr ViW ho* nm I tu sn«w that yew are nut on* •DIP t soppwwt ywu tashl «Mmb lie (teen gat*' " |MH ffhr#n l|fr» |*f 11 • \WU. IImHIi ll VIM tdH vN iluU these things. You know It, and you dare not deny It. l>ook me In the face! Raise your sneak's eyes, and answer!” Hut In place of anything of that sort Jean-Marie broke Into a dismal howl and fled from the arbor. Anastasia, as she pursued to capture and rcnssure the victim, found time to send one Par thian arrow—"Caslmlr, you are a brute!” "My brother," said Despret, with the greatest dignity, "you take upon your* self a license - ” "Despret," Interrupted Caslmlr, "for Heaven’s sake be a man of the world. You telegraph mo to leave my business and come down here on yours. I come. I ask the business, you say ‘Find roe this thief!’ Well, I find him! I say ’There he Is!’ You need not like It, but you have no manner of right to take offense.” "Well," returned the Doctor, "I grant that; 1 will even thank you for your mistaken zeal. Hut your hypothesis was so extravagantly monstrous "Ixjok here,” Interrupted Castmir; "was It you or Sta«ic?” "Certainly not,” answered the Doc ; lor. “Very well; then It was the boy. Say ! no more about it,” said the brother-in law, and he produced big cigar-case. "I will say this much more,” returned Desprez; “If that boy came and told me so himself, I should not believe him; and if 1 did believe him, so Implicit i Is my trust, 1 should conclude that he i had acted for the best.” "Well, well,” said Caslmlr, indul j gently. "Have you a light? 1 must be An/I t It/. w;i v I Wl«h VOIl would let me sell your Turks for you. I always told you, it meant smash. 1 tell you so again. Indeed, it was partly that that brought, me down. You never acknowledge my letters—an unpardon able habit.” "My good brother,” replied the Doc tor blandly, "I have never denied your ability In business; but I can perceive your limitations.'’ "Egad, my friend, 1 can return the compliment," observed the man of business. “Your limitation is to be downright Irrational.” "Observe the relative position,” re turned the Doctor with a smile. "It is your attitude to believe through thick and thin in one man's Judgment —your own. I follow the same opinion, hut critically and with open eyes. Which is the more irrational?—I leave it to yourself.” "Oh, my dear fellow!” cried Oasimlr, "stick’ to your Turks, stick to your stable-boy, go to the devil in general in your own way and be done with it. But don’t ratiocinate with me—I can not bear it. And so, ta-ta. 1 might as well have stayed away for any good I’ve done. Say good-bye from me to Stasie, and to the sullen hang-dog of a stable-boy, if you insist ou it; I’m off." And Casimir departed. The Doctor, that night, dissected his character be fore Anastasie. "One thing, tny beau tiful,” he said, "he has learned one thing from his lifelong acquaintance wi'h your husband: the word ratioci nate. It shines his vocabulary, like a jewel in a muck-heap. And, even so, he continually mkapplie- It. Eor you must have observed he u.-xa it as a sort of taunt, in the case of to ergotlze, im plying, as it were-the poor, dear fel low!—a vein of sophistry. As tor his cruelty to Jean-Marie, it must he for given him it Is not his nature, it is the nature of his life. A man who deals with money, my d< ar. is a man lost.” With Jean-Marie the process of re conciliation hud been somewhat slow At first he was inconsolable, Insisted on leaving the family, went from par oxysm to paroxysm of tea re; uud It wus only alter aiimumu nan mill cios<-[eu for an hour with him, alone, that she came forth, nought out the Doctor, and with tear* In her eyes, nmualutcd thut gentleman with what hud passed, “At lirst, my husbaud, he would hear of uoihlug." she said. "Imagine! if he had left us! what would the treasure be to that? Horrible treasure. It has brought all this about! At last, after he has sobbed his very heart out, be agrees to stay on a condition we are not to mention this matter, this III , famous suspicion, not even lo mention the robbery. On that agreemcti' only, the poor, iruel hoy will cousout- to re main among hla friends." “Hut this Inhibition," said the Doc tor, “this embargo - It cannot poastbly apply to me?" “To all of us." Anastas Is assured him. * My cherished one.'' Desprw* protest ed, “you mutt have tuisundersnwid it. It cannot at ply lo me. He would nat urally c**me to ate." “Ilearl,' she said, “It d>»a; I swear tu you tt does" “This la a painful, a vary painful dr vumatanee." the Doctor sat t louhln* a Utile bach “I cannot affeol, Ansataat* to be any thing but Justly wounded I feel this, I fee! H, tu> wife, mutely ' “I knew you would," she said “Hut If you had sewn his dtattesst We most make altowanvee, we maet tacrtgce our feeling*. “I trust, my dean, ywu have never found toe avers* to so. ><te«s. ‘ return* I ; the 1*0 tor very sllMljr “And you will let m« gw and tall him that p«u have agre*d? It nfti ha Ilk i t»ur noM-* salute she s< - I lbs U would, ha pwr-elvad-M would I ha Its* hla selde salute! I'y Jumped his spirits, triumphant at the thought. "Go, darling," he said nobly, "reassure him. The subject is buried; more—I make an effort, 1 have accustomed m will to these exertions* and it is for gotten.” A little after, but still with swollen l eyes and looking mortally sheepish, Jean-Marie reappeared anil went os tentatiously about his business. Me was the only unhappy member of the party that sat down that night to sup per. As for the Doctor, he was ra diant. He thus sang the requiem of the treasure: “This has been, on the whole, a most amtMlng episode,” he said. "We are not a penny the worse nay, we are Immensely gainers. Our philosophy has been exerted; some of the turtle is still left -the most wholesome of del icacies; I have my staff, Anastnsle has her new dress, Lean-Marie is the proud possessor of a fashionable kepi. Be sides, we had a glass wf Hermitage last night; the glow still suffuses my mem ory. I was growing positively niggard ly. Let me take the hint; wo had one bottle to celebrate the appearance of our visionary fortune, let us have a sec ond to console us for Its oceultutlon. The third I hereby dedicate to Jean Marie’s wedding breakfast.” CHAPTER XVI. ME Doctor's house bus not yet ret elve.l the compliment of a description, and it is now high time that tiie omission were supplied, for C* ' the house is itself ““ _ an actor In the sto ry, and one whose part is nearly at an end. Two stories in height, walls of a warm yellow, tiles of an ancient ruddy brown diversified with moss and lichen, It stood with one wall to the street in the angle of the Doctor’s property. It wan roomy, draughty, and Inconvenient. The large rafters were here and there engraven wltii rude marks and patterns; the handrail of the stairs was carved in countrified arabesque; a stout timber pillar, which did duly to support the dining-room root, bore mysterious characters on its darker side, runes, according to the Doctor; nor did he full, when lie ran over the legendary histo ry of the house and I’s possessors, to dwell linoti the Scandinavian scholar who had left them. Floors, doors, and rafters made a great variety angles; every room had a particular Inclina tion; the gable had tilted toward the garden, after the manner of a leaning tower, and one of the former proprie tors had buttressed the building from that side with a great strut of wood, like the derrick of a crane. Altogether, it had many marks of ruin; it was a house for the rats to desert; and noth ing but its excellent brightness-the window-glass polished and shining, the paint well scoured, the brasses radiant, the very prop all wreathed about with climbing flowers—nothing hut its air of a well-tended, smiling veteran, sit ting, crutch and all. in the sunny cor ner of a garden, marked it as a house for comfortable peoole to inhabit. In poor or idle management It would boo i have hurried into the blackguard stages of decay. As >t was. the whole family loved It, and the Doctor wan never better Inspired than when he narrated its imaginary story and drew the character of its si ecessive masters, from the Hebrew merchant who had re-edified its walls after the sack of the town, ami past the mysterious en graver of the runes, down to the long headed, dirty-handed boor from whom he had himself acquired It at a ruin ous expense. As for any alarm abou its security, the idea had never present ed itself. What had stood four centu ries might well endure a little longer no ii3 » AMERICA A WHISTLING NATION The Yaul>«*<•'* Huy Method of Working off lint NervouvneiMt* The right of a person to whistle, to the paralysis of other persons' nerves. Is becoming almost as burning a qu • - tlon ns the right of persons to smoke to the no ntnl and bodily detriment of milt ip, rjiB iin i * Mil i i Hi ir" i 11'« »a Americans are probably, next to our own colored pcap> In the tout hern towns, whom we have educated In tin art, the most addicted to whistling There are apparently two re. -on* fur this. One In that we ure the most nervous cf peopl - wc have gut to i doing something, we can't go down stolidly at our work like Buroj;«ttu or wit silent amt contemplative, so work off our fidget* wifh whistling. Yh* other reason Is that ** are i—» ty a cheerful and cvprc-slv* poop* In spite of all that has ever lasen said to the contrary. The national whtotltni; habit haa recalled In the production of a great number of really skillful and musical whistlers. With one consider ation nnd another there la a ireuund (Mi* amount uf whistling It seems cheerful sad hi*s, tu the whistler, It Is really cheerful. Now, unduutd*d* It this would be very nice If every one's whistling wsw heard only by him »elf It would to a Idessed way uf working off one s nervousness, too tVh»i shout that ’ U ordlaarv whistler * pc-rforaesnee gits* absolutely st pleasure to any use but btaseelf Vest Swell. ' Now, Usurps, ‘ sold Mr kilaor, pour laa out a Knpsr af wbtabey and band tug It to the street darby, ibis la *b* hnswt stuff in tbs world Vott bat* never tasted anyiktkff Iths H, It I* t* tears tdd Wba* dw y«u ltd** af It*' After tic - rg» bad rutted i| user bt* tvMMf'M aud «ie- keo it toi*»g bt* l«« rvmatatap teeth than swallowed It st isrly gad redeetivelv Uhls, bts SMS to heaven he re plied Mats Jvefcu, bit yu« fut Itttts fur s' *gw — Nee \ ib l’» * FARM AND GARDEN. MATTERS OF INTEREST TC AGRICULTURISTS. Some Cp-to-l>iite Mini* About Cultiva tion of the Soli mill Yield* Thereof— Horticulture, Viticulture uud flori culture. Water In Crop*. (HUC water Is sold by farmers than any other sub stance, anil It brings a higher price In proportion to cost than any ma terlal Known, u writer In Philadel phia Record sayti. Water is sold lu so many forms, how ever, that Its value varies daily. \ crop of green clover contains I COO pounds of water per ton, and win n a ton of dry clover hay Is hauled to market 200 pounds of tho load consists of water. Every hun dred pounds of milk sold contains 87 pounds of water, and the mixed stable manure which is rpread on the fields Is more than one-half water. No mat ter how dry o. well cured the hay and fodder crops may be, from the farm er'.! point of view, there 'will be water to haul Hint is contained In the plant. A ton of cured fodder contains 076 pounds of water, and even salt hay, which Is in ually apparently as dry as if passed through a kiln, contains over 100 pounds of water per ton. The far mcr sells this water, and the more wa ter he can sell the larger his profit, us all nitrogenous and mineral matter taken from tho soil by the plants Is a direct loss unless the price at which the crop Is sold Is sufficiently large to reimburse the farmer for his loss of plant food, as well as afford him a profit. The greatest profit from the use of water as an Ingredient of farm pro ducts is wricn tho farmer grows sir'll r./ps as beets, carrots, potatoes and turnip!!, ni* thev can b<* utilised on the farm Instead of entailing cost of trans portation to market. While these crops contain a large amount of solid matter In proportion to the yield per acre, their chief value Is In the water, as the water Is a valuable aid to digestion and contains the nutritious matter In solu tion to a large extent; hence the water a not a u-ele’i substance which adds weight only, but Is as desirable In the form In which it exix.ts in the plant as the solid portions, hut while the sol id portions cost the farmer sometimes the water does not, and that is an Im portant consideration which must not bo overlooked. The water In plants ■unnot he supplied artificially, livery one knows that there Is a difference be tween green apples and apples that have been dried and cooked in water, it is the same with vegetables and roots. We can dry them and render them Juicy again by cooking them in water, but we cannot regain the condi tion In which the water existed in the plant before dryitig or evaporating it. it is more valuable than that which is supplied. Beets and carrots contain l.SOO pounds of water per ton. A crop of twenty tons of beets per acre de notes that the farmer has taken from •hut acre as a crop 2(1,000 pounds of water, and such a yield of beets is .ot a large one compared with results fre quently obtained. Turnips, one of tli. t.taple crops of the farm, contain out little less water than beets or carrots, and potatoes are sold at good prices •.ome years, although there Is about 1. :,00 pounds of water in every ton. '1 li proportion of water In fruits is min It greater, especially with grapes, straw berries and cherries; in fact, water in fruits brings a higher price than is ob tained for any material, as a box cf strawberries selling at 10 cents wouid allow less than one cent for the solid matter contained, leaving nine cents for the water To secure this crop of water, however, the farmer will be compelled to ubo care and Judgment It comes from the clouds, it is true, but there are periods when the plant cannot store It; hence the fruit and vegetables do not grow to perfection and the far mer will lose a portion of his crop of water, while Ills land will have already given up more than the proportionate upply of mturral matter. K|iray* stul Npr^yiog. In spraying currants there la danger t making an application within three ttl:» cf the time the fruit la used 'or food. Currants should he sprayed a soon as worms are seen with parts ’raid* It lh»v »»untM-Ar rriu-st the Mirny, adding bordeaux for mildew. It worma *1111 trouble uaw pyrethrum or hellebore The ihlrd application to ap plea should ha made a week after the bloeaoma have fallen of bordeaux and parla green; repeat after tan to four* teen daya and again In ten to fourteen daya uae bordeaux or weak copper eul phat* Whan rherrlaa have aet nee i’urdeaux and parla green; repeat In ten to twelve daya later. If *tgna of tot appear. In ten tu twelve days more «m copper tulpbate solution weak and repeal If neeeeaary Cabbage* may need It* t prate. When worma tret appear use parla gtaen It worma or *phtde* are present repeat It ike plants are eat heading using using emulsion far tphia If *phia per*t*t. or If «<»■ w* ■ ■appear, use herweenn emalatun If planta era not heading After hand* form, use saltpetre lor tore*, a tea vpuuafol la a gallon of eater emetelwa for aphtden This may ha r«panted if neeaaaary Tematoaa may be sprayed three tia>*« as follow* When lot ftalta ha<e set ear berdsaua If die in appeate r*p*at «r u** naah sapper sulphate tutmiott If anreaaary eprar • tih weah tapper telphau aatattoa Meter eptay with eieeniis* while tree* *«e ta bh*** >m( aa the Wa# *dt ha Pibutei; they are neeeeaary ta fetid- , tpt the i«w*m Meideeua llittnro la th« Hands id , remedy for all fungous diseases. Us« four pounds copper sulphate and four pounds of fresh lime to forty gallons of water. It is comparatively Inex pensive, does not Injure the most ten der foliage if properly prepared, re mains for a long time upon the plants and In fungicidal powers has few II any superiors. If a large quantity Is to be used It Is well to prepare a consid erable amount of the materials so that they will only need to be mixed before using. The copper sulphate will dis solve readily If suspended in a barrel of water la a coarse sack or basket. By thus dissolving twenty-four pounds in, say, thirty-six gallons of water, we shall have enough for six barrels of forty gullons each. Tho lime Bhould bo slaked slowly, adding water only ns fast as it Is taken up. Twenty-four pounds Is nil that Is needed for the above amount of copper sulphate, but If It will be required within a week or two tho entire barrel may bo slaked at once. It will not deteriorate if kept covered with water. Tho above form ula Is adapted for use with most crops but It may be slightly modified. Thus for the second spraying of grapes the amount of water should bo reduced to thirty gallons, and for most other crops It may he Increased to fifty gallons af ter the second application, especially If they urc made at frequent intervuln. Iiiatinlty In Horn*** Whether there arc nut some hordes that are actually Insane Is a subject upon which opinions differ. On this question an Kngllsh writer says: "1 have little doubt but that In many eases where the horse shows sudden, unaccountable lit* of ill temper, vice, or other demonstrations of strango conduct, that the cause Is due to cere bral affection. Horses may become temporarily Insane from certain forms of disease, such as, among others, the development of a tumor on the brain. Kits of unaccountable vice uriy occa sionally bo tho result of organic changes in the brain matter, as in man, and not to normal mental disposi tion. 1 wits recently told of it young foal which sometimes was subject to demonstrations of strange conduct, ac rompunlod at Intervals by wliut ap peared fits or convulsions. He was found to he suffering from water on tho brain, otherwise hydrocephalus. He was operated upon surgically with it view to his relief, but even after he was broken-ln and became a "made hot se,” he never afterwards was trust worthy either under tho saddle or In harness, consequently the owner part ed wltli him. Singular to relute, both his dam and graudum were queer cat tle, und at various times were subject to strange periodical aberrations of conduct, lu the i ase of the foal men tioned, there can he little doubt that he was the victim of hereditary brain disease, productive of temporary in sanity. Such cases, I believe, are more frequent than Is generally supposed. Horses are not always responsible for their actions. Two Kinds or llorsemrn. All mankind may, with great clear ness, he divided Into two part*—those who understand horses and those who do not, says an exchange. There are people who will drive or ride a nag all day—nay, who may own one and use It for years- whose powers of ohserva ilon are not sufficiently enlisted In the details of tho animal to distinguish ‘t from uny strange horse in the next stall unless there ho some gross dif ference In color. Such equestrians will he content to seo a fine horse, with nerves, eyes, muscles and possibilities for good or evil cashiered in favor of tho dead certainty of a peripatetic steam engine. The second, smaller, and aside from horse dealers, more no ble group of individuals cannot so much as enter a fortuitous close cab without taking unconscious note of the stockings, the withers, the size and the facial expression of tho creature be tween the shnfts. One whose sym pathy stands this test haa felt the thrill Imparted by the responsive spring of a glorious saddle horse, has enjoyed mental conversations with the shape ly, all expressive oars of the sensitive creature, has been fairly exalted by mere proximity to the splendid spirit of a hard driven thoroughbred and has quivered with the sume heady drink which brtllant frosty mornings have brought to the smoking muzzles of his dancing hays, with their Hashing eyes anil strong, curved becks but U U nut uliMuni to defend t*. good bora* from a boraelcaa carnage? tlnluu Cut IVlltUU. Bulletin No. US Of the New York experiment autlou atatea that there la hut one brood of the dark elded cut worm a year. The young worrna ap pear In the aprtng upon the graaa and weeda which line the fence* aud dltrbe* and waat* »p*it* about th* field*, from the** negl#cted or un cultivated place* the worm* advance to attack the young ouloe*. and au •pr*ad over »b* held* by degr**a though often quickly. An opportunity I* thu* given to atay their programs by pulling aarua* their line of march a harrier of pal*ua*4 f net. and thla plan waa aucceoafully na*d by th* *t*tion gpraying (he y»un« union* with n t>uiauw«4 toaln lime mialure, • prink ling th* worm* whd* at worh with heruaan* *mul*u»n. end th* nan of pot toned gteen or umiaUued hull* proved lu*f**twnl or had nm a*rlon* objection* i hut tb* dry ball of bran *«4 middling* and pari* green **» *a*lly applied by mean* of th* onion teed drlU. *aa eaten readily by th* • oftM and •«* deadly In It* vleeu. lapnn*** Tluma -J, tt Hale ifeinh* that la Jap*u plum* w* have • me* that will h* progtnhl* They dttar from th* Kuropean. being hardy m the bad. i mum m than th* peach. The *bl*e in Ihteh and th* fruit l* hwnd«..m* Hvftaak, 1*Mou Jar hut tar ghahm and thaadaiMM aro th* oidtf of merit Mormon, * y*M»w daah. hand* tapert manttag with th* ttuon fat all right, bat bloom* tether aatif-—Jfa. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. LESSON II., JULY II —PAUL IN JAIL AT PHILIPPI. Golden Text: ‘‘Itrlleve on the Lord Jesa* Christ ami Tliou Shall Ite Saved, anil Thjr House,"—Arts, 16:11. A Jailer's Conversion. F take for to-day * lesson Acts 1(1: 22-31. as follows: 22 An.I the multitude rose up together against them; and the mag lal rates rent off their clothe*. and com manded to heat them. 23. And when they had laid many stripe* upon them they cast them Into prison, charging the taller to keep them safely. 24. Who, having recalved such a charge, thrust them into the Inner prison, und made their feet fust In the stock*. ?&. And at midnight Paul and Hilo* pray ed. and sang praise* unto Uod; und the prisoners heard them. PI. And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shak en: and Immediately all the doors were: opened, and every one's hands were loosed 27. And the keeper of 'he prison awaking out of Ills sleep, and seeing the prison floors open, he drew out his sword, and would have killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had been lied. 2*. But Paul f ried with a loud voice. saying. Do thy ei'df no harm; for we are all here. 29. Then he called for a light, and sprang In, uiul earne trembling, and fell down before Paid and Hllas. 30. And brought them diit, and said, Hlrs, what must I do to he saved? 81. Atifl they said, Helleve on the Igird Jesus f'hrlst, mid thou shall be saved, and thy house. 22 And they spake unto him the word of the Lord, and to all dial were In his house, 33. And he took Hum the same hour ol the night, and washed their stripe*: and was baptised, lie and all his, straightway. 34. And when he hod brought them Into his house, he set meat before them, and rejoiced, believing In God with all hi* house. mi,_ a w rn cm.. ..si. ..fise (ho ot'.-nti nf lust lesson, Place The court of Jus tice ami prison in Philippi. Connecting I,Inks Hoft ns tho steps with which i In 1st In nil y entered the fair Helds of Eu rope, uml kindly as the welcome given to It l hioi, It soon met with Its tuuul lot. It soon uwnk nod close attention, roused strong opposition, and Iri the midst of persecution vindicated Its power. As Paul and his associates were going to tho meeting place by the rlvci side they wero mot more than once hy a femule slave who was possessed hy a spirit of divina tion. Hhe wns the property of a company who derived large gains from her sooth saying arts. Whether because he waa annoyed ami disturbed when miking In the proseucha hy her shrill cries and wild distortions, wtts stirred to action by pity for her sufferings or tilled with holy In dignation at th<- misapprehension of his work which her witness waa likely to produce, he commanded the spirit to come out of her. The command was Instantly obeyed. All Philippi wits thrown into a ferment. Tho wrathful musters dragged the preachers Into the Korum. As they could not sue for damag<» for the de preciation of tlielr properly hy exorcism three other charges were preferred. They were Jews. They troubled the city. They taught an unlawful religion. The magis trate, without any regard to the forms of Justice, ordered the llctors to strip and scourge them: after cruel treatment Paul and Bllos were thrown Into the Inner prison; at dead of night tho sufferers made the dungeon resound with praysr and praise. Then came the earthquake crash, opening the doors and bursting the fetters. Paul's presence of mlrnl saved the jailer from suicide. To Ills troubled question Paul responded with an answer which contains the whole marrow of the Gospel. The now life which came lo him was evidenced by his kindly treatment ol tho Instruments of his salvation. The Tlanmr. Prison must he oon-elvod of as something very different from our own. It contained interior cells of ex ceptional itreugth. b-lke the Tulllanuni at Home, these were probably under ground, and hence dark. damp. cold, pes tilential dungeons. The word "sprang in” (verse 29) seems in the Greek to Imply a springing down Into a subterranean cell. The stock:', were so constructed that the legs could he drawn apart at the will . .• 4 ex 11 as* u til , v’nrnMn tlntr Inrtlll'A caused, Tho original make* it clear that tho Jailor's housi wait over the prison. Truths from tho Lesson.--1. A prison may become a sanctuary. Many oonfes ors since those early days Inn'" bean encouraged by the example of Haul and Silas to Ming tho midnight hymn. 2. Con version came In different ways. The heart of tho Jailer was opened like It's own prison shaken by cat thquaka and trembling with shod:. Other ease* like Lydia's are as the opening ri se touched hv the dew and expanding In the sun beam. 3. There I only one way of salva tion. Trust III Jr s is the one com mand. and work:* of love are the signs ol saving faith. 4. In family religion there i» groat*.loy. Happy Is It when all in I ho hum* hold total the same path to in even. Lesson Hymn: Let ns keep steadfast gunrd with lighted heart* .til night. That when Christ eotne*. we "land hr* pared, and inset hint w'ltlt ill light. At midnight's season chill lay I'aul amt ■Silas bound — !tou:id. «r. I In prison sans they still, and singing, freedom found, our prison la this earth, and yet w« sing to Ills*: ttreak sin's strong fetters, lead as forth, set us. believing. free! — Breviary. Tho fopwiatioa of Canada. The population o( Canada steadily pi, (greases. 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