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self. God - Z knows, he cared but little for that! What he objected to was to be taken away, to 1x3 separated from his brother, and that others should be at his side, while he would be far, far away. He smothered the avowal that scorched his very lips, so deep seated was the hor¬ ror with which he looked upon himself, and when they questioned him, he found courage enough to lie. He said he had found his brother, lying wounded by the roadside, and had car¬ ried him there; that was really all he knew about it. And as the doctor looked at him, he sat down, and hid his face in his hands, fearing that liis crime would be discovered in his eyes. John became more quiet. He had not recovered consciousness, but, as he no longer moaned, the dressing of his wound had doubtless afforded him relief. The physician and the sisters withdrew, going to other sufferers, leaving John alone at the side of his brother. He had seated himself on the straw, watching the least movement, catching the feeblest sigh, awaiting with untold agony the first symptoms of returning life. From time to time he would lean over, clasping his rough hands together as he hud not done for many a day, muttering fragments of prayer that he had long thought forgotten, and, when words failed him, when he no longer knew what to say, he would exclaim: “Oh! brother, hr* thcr, say that you forgive me!” * * * * >f * PUL- ' j a little while John A been get tiiiGT restless. He accrued to J© trying to p, ’!• lip. i I i. fee r \\ u* contracted as if he were mailing iLrva ioufl efforts, and he murmured words, the meaning of which his brother vainly tried to under stand. The frightened workman called the doctor, who knit his brows as he passed his aims around the wounded man and gently raised him up. This afforded a slight relief, but soon the choking re¬ turned. The physician shrugged his shoulders m a way that plainly intimated that there was no more hope. One of the sisters knelt down and prayed in a low tone. All at once, the poor soldier, uttering a hoarse cry, shuddered convulsively. His eyes became glazed. He was dead. Petor felt that he was losing his senses; lic could not believe that all was over, Ho lay down at hie brother’s side, draw¬ ing nearer and nearer, and with fixed look and trembling lips, he still mur¬ mured mechanically: “John, say that you forgive me!” Then, as the doctor attempted to spread a blanket over the body, the workman stopped him, and, raising his head, he said, in a voice that had nothing human in it, “Let him be. He is my brother, you know, and it was I who killed him. ” ‘ ‘He is delirious, ’ ’ murmured the sister. Peter added softly: “Yes, ’twas I. You may believe me, and send for the gendarmes. Now that he is dead, I don’t mind being taken away. Go ahead. I shall await them here’.”—Emil Roustan. Translated for Tho Times-Democrat. Poisoning 1 by Nutmeg. A case of poisoning by nutmeg is re¬ corded in The British Medical Journal, . winch nutmeg had , , been eaten , by m one a patient as a cure for diarrhea. It caused him to become giddy, stupid, and very drowsy all next day. The narcotic properties of these seeds, as of Others of the same natural order, do not appear to be generally known, and seem worthy of investigation.— Chicago Times. A shorthorn , bull and a valuable staUion got into a quarrel at \V ellsvilie, O. The stal lion, ammal, vuiivu “ifi'l'} v.us a Clydesdale < onsn^rable and pluck a beautiful and for haViitmrnSn JP ^ ^ huge animals. All efforts » to . wpaiuto the , brutes were lutile, an continued Sinmstontly . o. Wrrscir J v ^ in a vital sdoL killind kUUng INDORSEMENT OF JOHN. EXPLANATORY NOTES BY REV. L. HAYS, D. D., LL. D. L,i:hhoii VII of the International (Fourth Quarter) for Sunday, Nov. Text of the Lesson, Matt, xi, Golden Text, John v, 35. John’s discouragement must have been treme as month after month he lay in under Herod’s oppressive government. strange meditations he must have had in prison! He could look back on no fulness that deserved the reproof of his moval from public activity. In no case he sought to thrust himself into to the exclusion of Christ. It would not be strange, then, if in his loneliness there should be times when his faith would waver. He might well say, Surely if Jesus is the Mes¬ siah whose forerunner I really was, and he has the miraculous power of which I hear so much, ho will speedily come to my deliver¬ ance. It seems to have been out of this spirit of discouragement under Christ’s neglect that John sent these messengers (v. 2, 3). It would have been a solace to know that his imprisonment was part of the programme, and that, after all, all was right. Christ’s methods.—Christ rarely gave di¬ rect replies. One difference between a direct reply and a statement of evidence is this: A direct reply assumes responsibility on the part of the person giving it; a statement of evidence leaves the responsibility on the per¬ son to whom the evidence is submitted. If Christ had simply said “yes,” John could fairly have said, “Then I have no further responsibility in the matter.” This was not Christ’s purpose with John any more than it is with us. How many have wished that God would, by an audible voice from heaven, tell them just what they ought to do? If he did, however, that would relieve them of the responsibility of determining their duty; and this is just what God lays on every one of us. Christ shuts John up to act upon the evi donee the facts afforded as to the Messiah Shi ^ ttrious tran S lations.-This fact is curi ously nUn<led to by tho throe different trans i a tions which in various editions of the Eng Hsh Bible have been given to the sentence, “The poor have the Gospel preached to them.” A very early English Bible has it, “Poor men have taken to preaching the Gos pel;” another translation was, “Poor men re¬ ceive the Gospel;” now we have it, “The poor have the Gospel preached to them.” Christ’s estimate of John.—When John’s messengers had departed, Jesus turned to tne multitude and discussed John. There is a keen criticism upon one phase of human na ture in Christ’s question (v. <)> ‘ What went ye out to see?” Multitudes find what they detormine beforehand that they will find. They find a prophet when they go out to seek a prophet, and a reed shaken with the wind when they go to look for it, and a man clothed in soft raiment when they have con¬ demned him for that beforehand. Christ’s question suggests a re-examination of their preconceived opinions and a re-examination of John s elaiins to a divine commission. As to John, each step is a reproof of some popular prejudice and an indorsement of John. A reed shaken with the wind was then and is still a metaphorical name for an undecided and irresolute man. Those who looked for such indecision in John were won drously mistaken, from King Herod down through all the rest. So those who made temporal ease and comfort a proof of divine favor were sadly mistaken in John’s case, His raiment was camel’s hair, his girdle leather and his food locusts and wild honey, His life was hard, but his mission was sub lime. So those who had thrown around the Old Testament prophets their imaginary halo °f unreality were much disappointed at John’s directness and simplicity. The Saviour, however, puts him before all the prophets whom the Jews then so highly glorified. Blood earnestness.—Earnest people nearly ai ways succeed, and usually deserve success, The indifferent and slovenly never succeed ^^pt when success is thrust upon them. In ^ there have been large numbers who admitted that the question of all questions was the question of religion. The crowds that gathered around John (Luke iii, 1-18) were c ^ ass * ^ was not true of them that their earnestness carried them vnrougn repentance of sin into a life. The earnest ones, however, did persevere through all obstacles and enter into the kingdom of God. It is not in reproof, therefore, that tho Saviour says (v. 12), “The kingdom of heaven suffereth vio lence, and the violent take it by force.” It is precisely that holy violence that is needed to enter into the kingdom and spread abroad the kingdom. Elias already here.—\ erso 13 calls attorn tio:i to tho difference between John’s utter ances and tho utterances of tho Old Testa ment prophets. They all point to something yet to come. John, howerer, pointed re that which had already com. and was now pres eut Verse 14, like verse 10, is an explicit inter pretation of John’s mission. It is also an im* plicit interpretation of Christ’s own mission. If John was Elias, then Jesus was the Mes siah. Tbe two offices are not separated in prophecy, and could not be separate In ful¬ fillment. HINTS FOR PRIMARY CLASSES. BY ALICE W. KNOX. The persons in this lesson are John and his disciples, Jesus and the multitudes. State that John was in prison, not for any wrong doing, but for confessing and teaching Christ and faithfully rebuking sin. Herod, the king, had “laid hold on John and bound him and put him in prison,” etc. The disciples of John used to visit him and tell him of what things they had seen and heard outside the prison. Among other things they told John about the wonderful works of Jesus. (Ask the children to repeat some of those works.) These stories seemed very remarkable to John, and ho sent two of his disciples to say, “Art thou he?” etc. (See v. 3.) In the word which Jesus sent back he speaks of six things to prove that he was the Christ. 1. The blind receive their sight.—Give ex amples, as in Matt, ix, 30; xii, 22; xx, 34; Mark viii, 23; John ix, 7. Isaiah had fore told that Jesus would do such works more than 700 years before Christ was born. 2. The lame walk.—(See Matt, xxi, 14; Luke vii, 22.) 3. The lepers are cleansed.—To see the frightful lepers in India, Palestine and other lands where this dreadful disease prevails enables one to realize more fully how wonder¬ ful such cures were. For instances see Matt, viii, 3; Mark i, 40-42; Luke v, 13; xvii, 14. 4. The deaf hear.—Children who cannot hear cannot learn to talk. A young father and mother began to fear that their baby boy was deaf. Neither spoke of it to the other, but each watched anxiously, and tried ex¬ periments to test the child’s hearing when alone with it. At length their anxiety be came so great and their fear so strong that, they talked together about it, and decided to ft re a pistol in the room to see whether the child would notice that loud sound. Alas! the little creature kept on with its play with ou ^ paying the least attention to the noise. That settled it, and together the parents wept an( j mourned. Imagine, if possible, how g rea t their joy would have been if by a word some’ noted physician had made that deaf child able to hear. But Jesus made the deaf to hear. (See Mark vii, 85; ix, 25.) 5. The dead are raised.—Most wonderful of a ll! The widow’s only son, and the only brother of the two loving sisters, are in stances. (See Matt, ix, 25; Mark v, 41; Luke vii, 14; viii, 55; John xi.) 6. The poor have the Gospel preached to them.—Jesus came to bring good tidings of great joy to all people—the rich and poor, the high and low. All the world over, the poor are more ready to believe on Christ than the rich are. To them the Gospel is good news for this life and also for the world to come. The rich are but a very small part of the world’s people. Where there are thou sands of the rich, there are millions of the poor. This is very apparent in Oriental where most of the people are distress inglypoor. Ten cents is thought to be good p a yfor a day’s work. Many men who till the land for others cannot afford to eat the rice they raise, but they eat millet, and pick the kernels of corn from the cob after it has b^ baked hard and dry. They live in mud cab ins without windows, and no place for except a hole in the ground. For drees they wrap around the body a strip of cloth; » f or beds thev use rough b boai'ds or the bare ground.* In India thousands have no home at all. In Bombay they go to roost like chickens on the curbstones of the streets. It is a sad sight to see long lines of the poor ci eatures thus seated for t rhi When they hear the sound of sinyi SOI band of Christians who have c * eld an open air meeting for thei h ue h< ' gather around and listen to the C with the greatest interest ft} places in Bombay where < 4 t • narics their native helpers hold f r.i.v' u s uc multitudes listen and man v r - Christ. ! The change which conver o r Jras in these poor creatures is marvelt lioness they go to industry, from Ida to cleanliness, from deepest gloom and p , erfcy to joy and * j comfort. Bat lot none dare to pray ,'or tb-,, who do 1 not also give and work as awh pombte i The poor are calling aloud all o-er the .vorla for the Gospel. ‘ * Why did you not ■ • • ai i d , „ . . °“ | ^kma. us Nv hj did not a yo; p ° 01 motoei VV01 ;T tei mv m 1 mother? said the little d uig Iumiiui gir .— * Sunday School World, In Old Kentu« .y T»»’ In general the laws were perhaps the est. Some it is vital to he subject in 1 not to pass over. If slaw ; were inhum .,nly treated by their owner or o t supplied with proper food and clothin they could be taken from him and sold V a > setter .r aster, This law was not inoperati ' . 1 he. re mind tho instance of a family who lost txu-ir negroes in this way, were socially dis£ raced, and left their neighborhood. If the own r of a slave had bought him on conditi .n f not selling him out of the couaty, or irb tt » southern states, or so as tc separate him t com his family, lie could be sued for violati- i of contract. This law show the op; .sitk u of the better class of Kentu :y masters tc the slave trade, and their pec ar regar fo> the family ties of their negroc In the earliest Kentucky newspapers ' ill be found advertisements >f the sac* of negroes on condition that they would bf bought and kept within the county or the state. It was within chancery jurisdiction to prevent the separation of families. Tho case may be mentioned of > master who was tried by his church for necessarily sepa rating a husband from hi wife. Sometimes slaves who had been libei ated and had gone to Canada voluntarily re timed into service under their former mi iters. Lest these should be overreached th< v were to bo aside and examined by th< m.‘ art to . t> un they understood the coi -v'on >v their own action and were free oru impr per con traint. On the other bar 1, u lave had a right to his freedom lit -,!d file a bill chancery and enforce Ids vi:v-arV assent thereto.—James Lane AI n in The Century A Lawyer Applies for n Pension. An Indiana soldier, who fi-.s an apyi for a pension pending, in a. iffidav' <-k ; • the circumstances under v ieh tin injv was incurred as follows: “T at while o 1 of duty in front of Petersbu rg, Va., v U skirmish line, by the gross carelessnes' . > immoral conduct of the enemy and wi v< fault on his part, he then and there, in in year 1S65, by the gross and willful care • ^ ness of the Confederate t ’oops, was shot a wounded through the right forearm by r j Confederate troops to his 1 leroetual —Washington Cor. Cincium i Enquirer. , Practice Make» Perfect. Stranger (who has chanced in to a church wedding)—What perfect seif possession tha bride displays! Guest—Yes, sir. She boen married three times before.—New ' >rk Su Be Sure and K t » The >. A dangerous counter if dollar is made of eroun with tin lead and otl ia\ ^erienced bank tel lei 9 detect rmi* te • rrlncednllnrc Qr o hrit-r t a t/ ® ‘ f . P , . p .. , umale, « the go! a e 41 spilt. I hey have the metaib genuine ^ dollar, the are ix-rrc of nearly the exact weight phia Call. _ No System Aboi t ' “Bridget, you are never in it when I want you. How is uf “Sure, mum, it's for the rai^ there j tellin’ when you’re a-wenth me.*’ Epoch.