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and cried all night bdcnusc X was sc Jordan-the ~o~~to~io~isJordan! : homesick.” Then, flushing up intc won’t he seen washing in such a riv fore the sistxr-in-law. of tbe level? childish indignation, she might havc er as that. Why, we watered oui llorses in a better river than that or our way here-the beautiful river, thc jasper-paved river of Plia,rpar, Be sides that, we have in our eonntry an. ninascene river, Abana, wit1 AILWAY travel bank, and torrent ever swift lalmqst free from am1 cver clear, under the fiiclrering have soiight their ~7ivcs upon tlit sl.l;tclows of sycamore and oleander, stage, the most notable casc bei fiq.uces in this country am simpl: Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers oj of the late King Ii’ frightful by contrast. z)an~;~scus,better than. all the waterr tian soul, how kmg‘;s it since yon go of Israel?” ere we have a warrior sick, no rid of the lepro~~y’bf sin? You say After all, it seeins that this health with pleurisies or rlie~i~~atis~or con monial charactel ;,‘Let meaeo. fit musl be Gve year: excursion sf General Na:tman is to be a hm been consum. sumption, but with a clisea,se wars now,” Fih pars. Who was it tha cle,,a.d failure. That little IXelsrcw cap than all %f these put together. A rec mated between pointed pou <to the divine pllysicinn’ t\vc might :LS well have not toldhim ol mark has come out on the forehead Great Dritain’s aris. ‘8,”you :SQY, “it was my littlr: Annie the prophet, and this long journe3 tocracy a$l, tlzc or Ercd or Charley, that clambcrcd or might as well not a have been talien. and dissolu tio have ~oIneth~n~ stage. This time it and loslcecl into my face Poor, sick, dying Naninan! Are you is the second son ol me why I didn’t becoxnc c going away in high dudgeon,and worsc the earl of IXotve, commander in chief of all tho Syriar Christian, and, all the time stroking than when you came? As his chariol forces, has the leprosy! It is while the lady is an my cheek, so I couldn‘t get angiy, in halts a momept,, his servants chmbex Irish girl by tlic hands, on liis face, on his feet, sisted upon linowing why I didn’t havt up in it and coax him to clo as Elisha en$ire person, The leprosy! clPrcys, who is tlac family prayers.” There are grand said. They say: ‘“It’s easy. If tlie principal attraction just now at Terry’? of the way of the pestilence! If it: parents who have been brought tc prophet hacl told you to walk for a breath strike you, you are a dead man theater in London. The affection be- Christ by their little ~randclzildren mile on sharp spikes in order to get rid tween the two is of long standing and Ommander in chief of all tht T1i;cre are hundreds of Christian moth of this a.rvfnl disease, you would havc of Syria! And yet he would bc they werc to have been mi~rriecitwc ers tvho had their attention first callec done it. 1t is easy. Come, my lord, years ago, when the eng~~~cinentwas exchan~econditions with the to Jesus by their li&tle children. XIOM just get down and wash in the Jordan. is stirrup or the hostler whc did you get rid of %heleprosy of sin‘ You take a bath everyday anyhow and blankets his charger. Tlie dews, goe: Bow did you find your way to the di in this climate it is so hot that lilre wildfire all through the realm vine physician? ‘60,’yyou say, ‘%n;! and the people are sympathetic, anc child-my clyjslg child, with wan anc they cry out: “Is it possible that OUI wasted finger, pointed that way. inancl, and for the sake of the nation ance of their son Fredrly as a manifes- great hero, who slew Ahab and arounc 0,I never shall forget,” you say, “thai that admires you. Come, my lord,just tation of their ~lis~le~Lsure,the result war and beseechai whom we came with such vociferatiox scene at the cradle and the ekib thai try this Jordanic bath.” ““Well,” he i the European powers to int,~i~f~rean( when he returned from victorion: awful night. It was hard, hard, verj says, “to please you X will do as you ~~ensle~,upon w~oinhe confer battle-can it>be possible that OUI hard; but if that littleone on its dying say.)’ The retinue drive to the brink title of countcss of Edla in lorious Naainan has thc bed had not pointed me to Christ, : of the Jordan. The horses paw and right. Prince Alexander of Ratten. thing ludicrous about a big boob! don’t tliinlc I ever woulcl have got ric neigh to get into the stream them berg, the former ruler of Bulgaria, cplling on ~ystandersto call the littlt of my leprosy.” Go into the Sab bat1 selves and cool their hot flanks. General mperor ~illiain’ssifter, Vic fellow off and when a country of 400, school any Sunday and you will finc Naaman, assisted by liis attendan t, gets toria, to marry the actress 91111e. Lois. ~0~,~00 inhabitant^ asks to be savei thorn to sting him; Job, carbuncles tc hundreds of little fingers painting ir down out of his chariot and pai~full37 inger. Prince ~~inaisch~raet%,uncle from the fists of a count plague him; Samson, a Delilah to sheai the same direction, toward Jesus Chris1 comes to the brink of the river, and of the present prime minister of Rus- im half its size the civilize and toward heaven. steps in until the water comes to the tria, married, not ~organatically,but im in tlie fullest sense of the word, one of not but regard- it with derision Years ago the astronomer^ ca ankle, and goes on deeper until the tc the Taglione girls, the mast notable that there must be a world ~angingai water comes to the girdle, and now an’ ballerinas of the present century, The CCO~D~N~to a reciint decision o and c standing so far down in the stream, wife to pester him; Leah, weak eyes a certain point in the heavens, reigning duke of ~a~~-~~einin~enis the state supreme conrt of ~~nnesota large prize was offered for some onc just a little inclination of the head will the bicycle has come to stay, with a1 Pope, a crooked back; Byron, a clul thoroLiglzly immerse him. married morganatically to an actress, foot; John Milton, blind eyes; Charle: who could discover that world, Thc telescopes from the great observatorie! once into the flood and co and so, too. is the eldest brother Lamb, an insane sister; and you, ant empress of Austria. were pointed in vain; bat girl a1 shakes tlie water out of nostril and you, and you, and you, something a ~antucl~et,Mass., fashioned a tele. eye; and his attendants look at him which you never bargained for, anc and say: “Why, general, how much SQUAW MEN would lilre to get rjd of. The reas01 scope, and loolhg throu~hit dis covered that star and won the prize, better you do 1oo1c.” And he bows a of this is that Qod does not want thi! world to be too bright; otherwise, w( and the admiration of all the astrono. would always want to stay and ea1 mica1 world, that stood amazed at he1 supreme court of Minnesota decide( genius. And so it is often the case thal his eye. He bows the third time into The discovery that XIenry that the defendant’s bicycle was a$ these fruits, and lie on these lounges the fiood and comes up, and the had beenpersonating a girl, E and sliake hwds in this pleasant so grown people can not see the light, good as tho plaintiff’s buggy, and ir while some little child beholds the stai shriveled flesh has got smooth again. servant in a Brooklyn house, finds. its its decision the court used this sweex) ciety, We are only in the vestibule. o’ EIe bows the fourth time in the fiosd ~ounterpartamong the ~~exica~housc- a grand temple. Cod does not want us of pardon, the star of hope, the star oj ing language: 6 Tlie bicycle is neith& and comes up, ancl the hair that had to stay on the doorstep, and thereforc consolation, tlie star of Bethlehem, thc morning star of Jesus. “Not inanj fallen out is restored in thick loclis he sends aches, and annoyances, anc again all over the brow. ne bows the sorrows, and bereavements of all sort2 mighty men, not inmy wise incn arc not usad-in the garder called; but God hath chosen tlie weab fifth time into the Aood and comes up, inale by sex, who all their lives lmve am and Eve.” to push us on, and push us up towart and the hoarseness has gone out of his chosen to wear women’s clothes and to riper fruits, and brighter society, anc throat. He bows the six labor at those 110use~olcl avocations more radiant prosperitics. Cod ir ings, and thing: s~o~A~~~the tramp incots hif comes up, and a11 the soren reclroned distinctive~y as woman’s. only ~vllipping us ahead. The rea that are not, to to nought things aterloo, and retires from the field that are.” 8,do not despise the prattle anguish have gone out, of the upset with the coach the other day and uch a case is thus clescrib of little children when they are speak- “Why,” he says, “I am almos came narrowly near visitor to New Mexico: “Stop ing about God, and Christ, and heaven.