11 fSfii IJSliS I ill B. F. BOHWEIEB, THE OONBTITUTION-THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS. VOL. XLIX MIFFLINTOWIS. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 27. 1895. NO. 11. CnATTER XII. Itdv I:aymond had given her ball, tier ono bail of the season. aDd now thought it time to have something else, nnd, it being the end of June, hot ladyship presently fixed on a Ftraw berry tea. with a" recital, or lecture, or concert, orsomethingof that nature, bv wav cf food for the n.ind. Eventj ally a recital van on, the proper per ron for thi san:e enirnged, the ices, cakes, cream, nnd strawberries or dered, and two or three hundred invi tations sent out. ' I a-ked Ilellcnden yesterday," an ooune d her son one morning, as the family sat in conclave. "1 say. mother, ( think he has been rather neglected anion? us. for when I gave him the in vitation, though I a de l that I did not think theee sort of things were in hia line, he lnughed and said he wrs far too proud o. being invited to refuse." "I am sure I r-hould have in ited fiim if I had ever t ought he wo 'Id have ca-ed to come," said she. "But he never called on us till this summer, and 1 only took his doing so once to be bees s he had tak-n Kthel in to din ner i.t t it wilbraliums.'' "i'e: haps it was," said Cecil, signi ficantly. At all events," he added, after a pa te. '"he is coming to the tea, and I should ay we might ask him to Sinner. Did ou not say we had a place acant, that some ono bad failed tor Thursday?" "Ho would neer come on so short a notice u:y dear." "1 don't know about that. Judging from to-tlay. I should say he would, (le does not go out half so much as he used to do and it might happen he was niscnyagc.l. At all events he could not otcct to being asked." It ended in his carrying oil the note In his pocket and the same evening taw it accepted. ' I really iloa't know wDat has come over the fellow." Cecil privately in formed his mother. "It was no fancy Df mine, he really did look delighted when he read your note, and said he would come stiaight away, without re ferring to Ins engagements or any thing. 1 dare say ho was engaged, b t he s not the "man to stick at that; ho would t: ml an excuse sharp enough if he wanted on;; and he evidently meant to come to us. Do youth nk can t le Kthel Mow long did she have of bin? And did it strike you that he was taken with her' "I certainly observed that he went p to her as so n as the gentlemen ap peared after dinner." replied her lady ship, "but we had such a very short time in the dr.iwing-roora before we had to leave, and as Kthel said noth ing, and we met so many people that same evening at I ady Marion's dance. I forgot all a!.o t Sir Frederick iiel lenden. He is a lcmarkably fine look ing man, and. I am told, t opular in the coti try. He is, I suppose, res. e ta ble?'' and she looked in uiringly at her son, for the same id.-awas in boththelr mind, and up to her lights La y ltay niond was a .ood mother, and it was a Bine o,: a non with her that any appli cant fo the hand of either da ghter niu.t bo " res ecta' le." "Oh, I sno.-ld say particularly so " re'oined Cecil. 'I have ah -1 een matting in ,uiries about him once or twi e lately. He lives now almost en tirely upon his own place, and has gone in for being the country gentleman, and all that. He secmsquito di! erent from what he used to be in several ways: hardly cares enough far appear ances. ou "know, whereas he used to be such a very great swell. He still goes to the same tailor, but his bcots ve.-.terday were simply disgraceful. Made by'sotnt village shoemaker down at Dellen .en. I sho Id say." "And very right if thr-y were." sa'a Lady Raymond, briskly. "A landed proprietor ought to encourage his own peopl-'. And he has stood for I'arlia ment. too. 1 hear? Very right, very pro; er. I u'd not much care lor him as Capt. Delio: den. I own; ho waa too n. u h the n:an of fashion for mo. bat Bin. e he has. as you say. turned Lit at tention to a more sensible ana rat.onul mode of life. why. there is no reason no renson" and she drew herself up emphatically, "why he should not come to our house as often as ever he pltanes." I erhaps it was in accordance with In s onclusicn t'uLt it was arranged to pive Lellcnden the agreeable Kthel as his partner at the Thursday dinner party. Ethel ir not strictly good-looking, was charming and accomplished enough, and had enough conversation, and j resence. and deportment to make her ,uite mil cicntly attractive, her mother felt, for any terrible man. es pecially for one who hau now settled cown on his own i states, and wm not nshamod to be seen in Fall Mall in boot made by his own village shoe maker. It is impossible to say to what the ladescribable pleasure she experienced in the mental ontemplation of those boots can be attributed. They seemed to her to lie a landmark in the young baronet's life, in them she felt she had something tangible, indisputable to point to. something to take hold o'. They formed a distant line of demar cation between the past and present in her eyes. A man who could wear stout village boots, roughly toel and broadly heeled, at bis club, and up an 1 down M. -lames' and Piccadilly, must be. let who would ?alnsay it a man of fiber, a n an of resolution and princi ple: a men. in short worthy of he-self, her family, and her daughter. She i re arod for her Thurslay din-nr-par!y wit ha sense of unwonted ex hilarnt on. . Gcra'dino was to 1 e present at it, but not Mrs. Campbell, who was to take her granddaughter on to a very grand ro. ei.tion at lomo foreign embassy, and who ohsldered she would not re e iual to more on one night. Granny had sometimes been a little overdone of late, and now husbanded her Strength moro ealously. She would, she taid. call for C'eraldioe a little be fore 11 o'c ock. 'And Cecil goes with them," said Lady I'avmond, informing her Hus band. "He has secured an invitation for himself, although he could not sret one for i s. It is a pitv the girl'" honl'' not go, I roust say, for it would have been such an excellent opportunity for then1 to have talked trench, and they so seldom have that opportunity: b .t, 1 oweyer l am glad Cecil goes. Ger aldine will not ft el uncomfortable if she has him I dire say her French is poor enough! What advantages can she have had in that out-of-the-way lace, yon know?" Huirpu! She seems to do uncom monly well without them," retorted the old peer, with a knowing look. It struck him that if his wife should now be lamenting the few opportunities hia daughter had for airing a language, the alvantago of ac quiring which had I een so often dinned into hlsears.be hardly saw the force of her arguments. Here was her niece whom he under stood for he kept bis ears open -to bo ri nuing the gauntlet as one of the ac know edg ed beauties ana fortunes of the seascn, leing lamented over, i. oreo er for a deliciency which in all firobabi ity would never come to light, t was humorous and Lord Raymond had more humor than any of his fam ily. He saw the fun of the thing, and his eyes twinkled. ' So erry goes and they stay away," he said. well 1 don't suppose it wU be m,;cb ods in the long run. You do not imagine the embassy is a desert land of r ranee? If Jerry likes to spo. t their lingo, the mo n seers co doubt will let her. an J pay her every com, li mentaliout it under the sun; but I war rant she needs none of it to help her . along.' "My dear Raymond, not to speak French looks so shockingly ignorant." "Which is worst? Not to speak it, or to speak it badly?" '"Rea ly, I hardly know. Both are oad.' "Well, I don't speak it at all. and you, jay dear, speak it abominably even I can perceive that so now which of us is the most 'shockingly ignorant," eh? I dare say little Geraldine could give us points equally," added my lord, who was a bit of a bear, and who now went o.T chuckling over the snub so happily viministered. His wife, however, turned to Cecil tor consolation. "I am very glad vou are goinjto the foreign reception on Thursday," she added: "but I do wish Cecil, you could have obtained an invitation for your sisters a so. You know what excellent linguists they are, and it is really a pity they should not have this oppor tunity for showing it. Sir Frederick BellonJen is a gool French scholar also, I remember hearing," added she, carelessly. "Ho is not likely to be going, mother." "Is ho not? But no doubt he could go if he chose, and If we went, we could give him a seat in our carriage, and all go comfortably together. You will, of course, accompany my mother and Geraldine." "I do not think he would care to go," responded Cecil, following her train of thought with acumen and sympathy. "But I will see what can be done. I will try to-day, and if 1 succeed, I will take care Bellenden knows." Then Lady Raymond went out and herself ordered her turjot and salmon, her w..itebait, and larks, and tru t es, and what not -for she was by no means too great a lady to know anything cf such matters, and althojgh she had been left behind to potter about the rooms, get the chimneys cleanei, and the carpets shaken, get the proper "spring cleaning." in short, generally accomplish. so that her ladyship, hav ing held high conference with the lesser luminary, willingly proceeded to do her part -by no means an unpleas ant one - of driving about on a lovely June morning, ordering in all that was grateful to the eye, and tempting to the palate, from fishmonger, and poul terer, and fruiterers. Her mind was very busy, and her heart light that gladsome morning. She slicok her heal quite graciousiy attho persevering flower girl's, who would not be dissuaded from hovering round ber carriage in bones of a pur chaser: she did not scold her coach man, who trundled her through so.ne long, disagreeable, and narrow streets, whereas she coula herself have shown him a quicker and b3tter route: she praised the freshness of the fish and flowers, the size of the pigeons, and plumpness of the poultry. .Nothing came amiss to her. If only she could be thus driving about, and stepping in and out of the shops, ordering her darling Ethels tro sseau! Or, even dear Geraldine'9-dear to her as a daughter already as she was ready to assure Cecil at any mo.r.ent when he should make known to her the crowning of his hopes ana her own. She would not more willingly exert herself for the one tnan for the other, for the daughter than for the neice. As for the young people themselves, every one had but to see that Cecil and Geraldine were made for each other. From his boyhood her son had irade nchmarew his second home; and bow delight ul it wo ld be fcr her dear mother, now in the decline of life, to have him come, and take up his abo le there permanently, instead of having to undergo the anxietv and uncertainty of finding out who or what some other cboice of Ceraldine's might prove to be. The risk was always so great when an heiress chose among her suitors. But such a man as Cecil! And such a favorite as he had always been of his grandmother's. Could anything be more perfect" Strange to say granny did not see it o. She was fond of young Raymond, hei only grandson, regarding him in the light of a dear, kind, useful boy, whom she could talk to or not, just as she chooic; who could be left by himsell in the drawing-room to wait if sh were not inclined to come down to him at any time: whom she could dictate to on some points, and take counsel with on others who was, in short, unim peachable in the capacity in which he at present stood but she conld not see him in an V nth nr. Teast Of all dl.l Mil, ' fancy his banging his hat up perma nently at Incnmarew, anu nor i-eaui..-ful Gegald oie, the pride of her heart, the queen of the day, was going i o further and faring no better than only her cousin, whom she might have ha i any moment of her life, and without budging an inch from her own door step. Not but what the boy was weli mough, and had be been any one e se, any cne but the lad she had seen grow up thro, gh all the stages ot petticoats and n . rserydom. and Jacket and tro -era and scnoolboydom, she might have put up with bim she would have liked hercbildtobe 'my lady" yes: and she would not have minded some cf th-Campbell money passing into the Raymond bands; ' but - but - and the upshot was that she had hitherto ae rified to perceive any hints and innu jnuors thrown out upon the sub.ect. Charlotte had thought her mother uncommonly donM) at the first, but had latterly wondered whether there had not been bO-iie cause for the slight dea'neas. or absence of mind, or the lik-e with which the old lady had par ried her attempts. She was not alto gether s jrry that Geraldine was to come alone -as she could do to her own aunt's bouse -on Thursday. Gerald was to have Cecil's arm to the dinner-table, of course. Ce il ha 1 not said a word when the naper with its lists of names and ap propriations had been submitted for his appro al: but she had understood, nevertheless, that all was right. And when it had further come to light that by Lady Raymond's adjustment of her table, Geraldine would have on her other side a quietold gentleman.whose attention would certainly be fixed upon his plate during the greater portion of the meal, Cecil had still cheerfully (auctioned everything. But alas! for the ''best laid schemes V mice and men!" Thursday came, and with it the ap pointed guests, save and except one - a 'ady. A lady, and a somewhat inportant one, had been detained by illness: and poor Lady Raymond's face tell at least an inch as she strove not to appear too much disconcerted on ber own account, and sufficiently anxious on that of her "riend. But it was hard work. Hero wa Mr. Le Masserer, their country member, a man of considerable standing, their own neighbor and ally, yet not one too intimately known here was he left in the lurch. A man wah a temper and a dignity moreover, and worst of all, a man of whom Lord Raymond bad a favor to ask. It was out oT the question that he should be unprovided for. whoever was. And she had not a minute to consider, and here was her nusband s'gnalling to her with raised eyebrows and portentous si :e glances, and at any moment the dinner might be an no need. She murmured one word in Lis ear. He nodded. Another whisper. An other acquiescing nod. The next in stant it was "Mr. Le Masserer, will you take my daughter Kthel into din ner? We had hoped to have given you lady Dawlish, but she has, unfor tunately failed ius," with the ne- Leessary explanation. So far. well: but, of course. Lady Dawlish's defection could no more be permitted to bereave bir Frederick Bellenden than Mr. Le Masserer. In a trice he had been coupled with Ger aldine Campbell, and the unfortunate Cecil was seen to be the victim of the whole, the stranded solitary, the one who had a real and ;ust cause for ut tering maledictions on her ladyship's complaint, her absence, and the havoo she had wrought. He cou d not even slip in on his cousin's other side. All the table had been disarranged when at last he got down, and the places on either side of Bellenden and his partner bad been tailed, and as neither of them had beard a word as to the ea i-e of disarray, or indeed had been aware of any disarray at all, all having been so quietly and elegantly managed, each was now silently won dering why they had been so brought together? lieiienden conjectured that bis hostess must be a sensible woman who would not throw her daughter at any one's head - Geraldine fancied it -ni'.st be Cecil s doings. He was always speaking to her of Bellenden, and the more sho showed that the sub ect was distasteful, the more would it seem as if he were im pelled to pursue it. That he should have desired his mother to deliver her over for the next two hours to the sole society and entertainment of a man for whom he was aware she had once ex perienced a feeling which she would fain now have buried in oblivion, was strange, ani was hardly like Cejll, in variably attentive, courteous, and obliging; but if it had been done from a desire on tne part oi tue extremely well mannered young gentleman that she shoull vindicate her own claim to an equal share of good-breeding by her deportment on so trying an occasion, she was ready to carry out nis wisnes. TO BE CONTINUED. Ber Title Acknowledged. Whan Marshal Lefebvre was made Duke of Dantzic, the new duchess (who was the original of Sardou's Mme. Sans-Gene) want to the Tuileries to thank the impress Josephine, as Mme. la Marechale ha1 not demanded an audience, the usher, accustomed to call her by that name, entered to iaka the orders of the chamberlain-in-wait-ing: he returned and addressed her: "Mme. la Marechale may enter." The lady looked askance at him, but en tered the salon, and tne impress, ris ing, advanced a few steps to meet her, saying, witn engaging graciousnessi "How is the Duchess of Dantzic?" La Marechale, instead of answering, winked intelligently, and then, turning toward the usher, who was in the act of shutting the door: "Hey, my boy," said she, "what do you think of that?" boat Her Money. Ouida is reported to be poor now. after a considerable career of extrava gance. One who knows her says that "life without riches, perfumed boudoir, priceless bits of china, and the rest will seem almost a desert to her," but for the present she is retrenching. She has sold her Italian palace and fittings, and his living quietly. Part of her large earnings has been lost in reck less s3ucilation. The fiist bnildingand loan associa tion in the eonntry was organized near Fhiladelphia in 1831. Soldiers in the United States Army lose on an average twenty -one days every year from illness. An injured nail on the right hand will be renewed ten days or two weeks sooner than if on the left Cast iron blocks are being snbstint ted for granite bloc is along the tram way ra Is in Paris streets. The two fields of Waterloo and Linden are each covered with a crop of crimson poppies every year. According to Muller the total num ber of words, or rather ideas, expressed by Chinese characters is 43,596. A fatal fall from a great height is aid tt be painless, aa nnconsoiousnesa precedes the crash of concussion. A new application of electro plat ing is the seabitg of cans of fruits and meat, and of bottles of chemicals. Antomatio machines have been ( devised for nae on a moving train which mechanically record the condition of t every foot of the track. REV. DR. TALLAGE. ram bbookiiTh Dimnps smu OAT BEBHOI. Subject: ACallto OaUIdrs.n Txt: Other sheep I have which are ud If this foldVWohn x., 16. There Is no monopoly In religion. Tht gnoe of God U not a little property that wi may fenoe oft and have all to ourselves. II Is not a king's park at which we may look through the barred gateway, wishing thai we might go In and see the deer and th statuary and pluck the flowers and traits t the royal conservatory. No. It Is tht father's orchard, and everywhere there an ban that we may let down and gates that w tay swing opn. ' In my boyhood next to the country ehool Boose there was aa orchard of apples, owned pya very lame man, who, although then were apples in the place perpetually decaying and by acores and aoores of bushels, neve would allow any of us to touch the fruit. One day, in the sinfulness of a nature Inner tted from our first parents, who were ruined by the same temptation, some of us Invaded that orohard, but soon retreated, for the man Same after us at a speed reokless of making hit lamansss worse and cried out, "Boys, drop those apple, or I'll set the dog oa you.1 Well, my mends, there are Christian men ho have the church under severe guard. There Is trait In this orohard for the whole world, but they have a rough and uo rrmpathetle way of aooosthuj outsiders, as though they had no business here, though, the Lord wants them all to come and take the largest and ripest fruit oa the premises. Have yon an idea, because you were baptised at thirteen; months of age, and because yon nave all your life been under hallowed in fluences, that therefore you have a right to one whole side ot the Lord's table, spreading runelf out and taking up the entire room? tell yon no. You will have to haul In your elbows, for I shall place on either aide of you those whom you never expected would sit there, for, as Christ said to ilis favored peo ple long ago, so Ha says to you and to me, "Other sheep l have which are not oi hl fold." MacDonald, the Scotchman, has four or flv doaen head ot sheep. Some of them ace browsing on the heather; some of them are lying down under the trees; some of them are In his yard they are scattered around in eight orten different places. Cameron, hia neighbor, oomes over and says: "I see you have thirty Sheep. I have Just oounted them." "No," Says MacDonald, "I have a great many more sheep than that. Some are here and some are elsewhere. Thev are scattered all around abort. I have 4U00 or 5000 in my flocks. Other sheep I have which are not in thif told." So Christ says to us. Hare is a knot ol Christians, and there is a knot of Christians, but they make up a small part of the Hook. Here is the Episcopal fold, the Methodist fold, the Lutheran fold, the Congregational fold, the Presbyterian fold, the lt.iptlst and the Pedo-Baptlat fold, the only diiTurence be tween these last two being the mode of sheep washing, and so they are scattered all over, and we oome with our statistics audsaythere are so many thousands of the Lord's sheep, but Christ responds: "No, no. You have not seen more than one out of 1000 of My flock. They are scattered all over the earth. 'Other sheep I have which are not of this fold." Christ In my text was prophesying the con version ot the gentiles with as much confi dence as though they were already eon verted, and He is now, in the words of my text, prophesying the coming of a great multitude of outsiders that you never supposed would come in, saying to you and saying to me, "Other sheep I have which are not of this told." In the first place, I remark that th Heavenly Shepherd will find many of His sheep among the nonchurchgoers. Thereart congregations where they are all Christians, and they seem to be completely finished, and they remind one ot the skeleton leaves which by chemical preparation have had all the greenness and verdure taken off them and are left cold and white and delicate, nothing wanting but a glass case to put over1 them. The minister of Christ has noth ing to do with such Christians but to come on-e a week and with ostrich feather dust off the accumulation of the Ian six Joys, leaving them bright and crystalline as before. Hut the other kind ot a ohurch is an armory, with perpetual sound of drum and fife, gathering recruits for the Lord of Hosts. We say to every applicanti "Do you want to be on God's side the safe side and the happy side if so, come In the armory and get equipped. Here is a bath In which to be cleanwd. Here are sandals to put upon your feet. Hera is a helmet for your brow. Hero is a breastplate for your heart. Here is a sword for your right arm, and yonder is the battlefield. Quit your selves like men." There are some here who say, "I stopped ing to church ten or twenty years ago." y brother, Is it not strange that you should be the first man I should talk to to-day? 1 know all your case. I know it very well. You have not been accustomed to come Into relig ious assemblage, but I have a surprising an nouncement to make to you you are going to become one of the Lord's sheep. "Ah, you say, "it is impossible. You don't know now far I am from anything of that kind." I know all about it. I have wandered up and down the world, and I understand your ease. I have a still more startling announcement to make In regard to yon you are not only going to be 3ome one of the Lord's sheep, but you will become one to-day. You will stay after this service to be talked with about your soul. People of Ood, pray for that man. That Is the only use for you here. I shall not break off so much as a orumb for you. Chris tians, In this sermon, for I am going to give It all to the outsiders. "Other sheep I have which are not of this fold." When the Atlantic went to pieces on Mars' rock, and the people clambered upon the beach, why did not that heroio minister ot the gospel of whom we have all read sit down and take care of those men on the beach, wrapping them In flannels, kindling fire for them, seeing that they got plenty of food? Ah, he knew that there were others who would do that. He says: "Yonder are men and women freezing in the rigging of that wreck. Boys, launch the boat." And now I see the oar blades bend under the strong pull, but before they reached the rigging a woman was frozen and dead. She waa washed off, poor thing. But he says, "There Is a man to save." and he cries out: "Hold on five minutes longer, and I will save you. Steady; steady. Oive me you hand. Leap Into the lifeboat. Thank Ood, he is saved !r' So there are those here to-day who are safe on the shore of God's mercy. I will not spend any time with them at all, but I see there are some who are freezing in the rig ging of sin and surrounded by perilous storms. Pull away, my lads! Let us reach them. Alas, one is washed off and gone. There Is one more to be saved. Let us push out for that one. Clutch the rope. Oh, dying man, dutch it as with a death grip. Steady, now, on the slippery places. Steady. There saved, savedl Just as I thought. Tor Christ has declared that there are some till In the breakers who shall oome ashore. "Other sheep I have which are not of thif told." Christ commands His ministers to be fish ermen, and when I go fishing I do not want to go among other churches, but Into the wide world, not sitting along Hohokus creek, where eight or ten other persons an Sitting with hook and line, but, like the fish ermen of Newfoundland, sailing off and dropping net away outside, forty or fifty miles from shore. Yes, there are nonohurch goers here who will come in. Next Sabbath they will be here again or In some better ehuroh. They are this moment being swept Into Christian! associations. Their voice will be beard la publlo prayer. They will die in peace, their bed surrounded by Christian sympathies and to be carried out by devout men to be buried, and on their graves bs ahialed the words. "Precious in the sight o! the Lord is the death of His saints. And on tesurrectlon day you will get up with the ear children you have already buried and rlth your Christian parents who have already won the palm. And all the grand and glor ious history begins this hour. 'Other sheet t have which are not of this fold." I remark again, the Heavenly Shepherd Is folng to find a great many of His sheep among those who are positive rejectors ol Chrlstianitv. I do not know how you earns to reject Christianity. It may have been through hearing Theodore Parker preach, ot Umuidt leading Bsnan'a "T-tf at Jesus, ol through the lnaeTtaIkof some "young man in your store. It may have been through thf trickery of some professed Christian mat) who disgusted you with religion. I do not ask you how you became so, but you frankly tell me that you do reject It. You do not believe that Christ is a divine being, although you admit that He was a very good man. You do not believe that the Bible was inspired ol Ood, although you think there are soma very fine things hi it. You believe that th Boriptural description of Eden was only an allegory. There are fifty things that I be lieve that you do not believe. And yet you are an accommodating man. Everybody that knows you says that of you. If I should ssk you to do a kindness for me, or if an) one else should ask of you a kindness, yon would do it. Now, I have a kindners to ask Of you to-day. It is something that will cost rou nothing and will give me great delight, want you by experiment to try the powerol Christ's religion. If I should come to you, and you were very sick, and doctors had K" en you up and said there was no ohanot you. and I. should takeout a bottle and lay: "Here is a medicine thai will cure you. tt has cured fifty people, and it will curs Sou," you would say, "I have no confidence i it." I would :iv, "Won't you take it to tbllge me?" "Well," you would say, "if It's iny aooommodatlon to you, I'll take it." My riena, win you be just as accommoaaang in natters of religion? There are some of you irho have found oit that this world cannot latisfy your soul. You are like the man who luld me one Sabbath after the servios was ven "I have tried this world and found il in inuHlcient portion. Tell me ot somei :hing batter." You have oome to that. You u sick for the need of divine medicament. Now I come and tell you of a physioiai fflio will cure you, who has cured hundred! al humlrods who were as siok as you are, "Oli," yo'i say, "I have no oonfldenoe in dim" 1 tut will you not try Htm? Aooonv modate me in tms matter; obuge me la this matt jr; just try Him. I am very certain H will cure you. You reply, "I have no es pecial confidence in Him, but if you ask ml iis a matter of accommodation introduce Kim." So I introduce Him Christ, the Physician who has cured more blind eyes an healed more ghastly wounds and bound up more broken hearts than all the doctors ince the time ot iEicuIapiua. That B-ivins Physician U iiore. Are you not ready to try him? Will yon not, as a pure matter of ex periment, try Him and state your case be fore Him this hour? Hold nothing back !rom Him. If you cannot pray. If you do tt t know how to pray any other way, say : uO Lord Jesus Chist.'this is a strange thing' 'or mo to do. I know nothing about thd lormulas of religion. Tiio.4e Christian peo ple have been talking so long about what thou e.tost do for me I am ready to do what sver Thou eomniandest me to do. I am ready to take whatever Thoucommandestme x take. If there be any power in religion, aa mess people say, let me have the advantage ol t." Will you try that experiment now ? I do lot at this point of my discourse say that ihere is anything in religion, but I simply lay try it, try it. Do not take my counsel or ;he counsel of any clergyman, If you despise len,ymen. Perhaps we may be talking pro fessionally; perhuis we may be prejudiced in ;he matter; perhaps we may be hypocritical In our utterances; perhaps our advioe is not rrorth t aking. Then take the counsel ot some rery regpe-.table laymen, as John Milton, the poet; as William Wilberforce, the statesman;! is Isaac Newton, the astronomer; as Bobert Boyle, the philosopher; as Looke, the meta physician. Tht-y never preaohed or pretended to preach, and yet putting down, one his telescope, and another his parliamentary X'roll, and another his electrician's wire, they ill deolaro the adaptedne&s of Christ s re iKion to the wonts ani troubles of the world. If you will not take the reoommendatloa Ol ministers of the gospel, then take the reoora nondaiion of highly respectable laymen. O men, skeptical and struck through with mre-t, would you not like to have some ef the peace which broods over our souls to-dayf I know a'l about your doubts. I have been through them all. I have gone through all the curriculum. I have doubted whether there is a Ood. whether Christ is Ood, I have doubted wh.-tuerthe Bible was true, I have ioubted the immortality of the soul, I have doubted my own existence. I have ioubted everything, and yet out of that hot iesert of doubt I have come Into the broad, luxuriant, snn.-hiny land ot gospel hope and eace and comfort, and so I have eonndence n preaching to you and asking you to oome n. However often you may have spoken igainst the Bible, or however much you may lave caricatured religion, step ashore from that rocking and tumultuous sea. If you go home to-day adhering to your infidelities, you will not sleep one wiuk. You do not want your children to come up with your Ikepticism. You cannot afford to die in that midnight darkness, can you? If you do not believe in anything else, you believe in love a father's iove, a mother's love, a wife's love, a child's love. Then let me tell you that Ood loves you more than them all. Oh, you must come in. You will come in 1 The reat heart ot Christ aches to have you come In, and Jesus this very moment whether rou sit or stand looks into your eyes and lays, "Other sheep I have which are not a' this fold." Again I remark that the Heavenly Shep lerd Is going to find a great many sheep tmong those who have been flung of evil habits. It makes me sad to see Christian people give up a prodigal as lost. There are those who talk as though the grace of Ood rere a ohain ot forty or fifty links, and after tfiey had run out there was nothing to touch the depth of a very bad case. If they were luntlng and got off the track of the deer, Jiey would look longer among the brakes mil bushes for the lost game than they have )een looking for that lost soul. People tell is that if a man have delirium tremens twice he cannot be reclaimed; that after a woman has sacrificed her integrity she cannot be re itored. The Bible has distinctly Intimated that the Lord Almighty is ready to pardon IJ0 times that is seventy times seven. There ire men before the throne of God who have, wallowed In every kind of sin, but saved bvj the grace of Jesus and washed In His blood) :hey stand there radiant now. There are ihose who plunged into the very lowest of ill the hells in New York who have for the lenth time been lifted up, and finally, by the pace of Ood, they stand In heaven glor iously rescued by 'the grace promised to the shief of sinners. I want to tell you that Ood loves to take hold ot a very bad case. When die church casts you off, and when the club room casts you off, and when society casta fou off, and when business associates casta fou off, and when father casts you off, and when mother casts you off, and when every body easts you off, your first cry for help will Send the eternal God clear dowa into thf litch of your suffering and shame. The Oood Templars cannot save you, al though they are a grand institution. The Ions of Temperance cannot save you, al though they are mighty for good. Signing the temperance pledge cannot save you, tlthough I believe in it. Nothing but th trace of the eternal God can save you, and that will If you will throw yourself on it rhere Is a man in this house who said to tnei 'Unless Ood helps me I cannot be delivered. ( have tried everything, sir, but now I have rot in the habit ot prayer, and when I come a drinking saloon I pray that Ood will take ne safe past, and I pray until I am past. He loes help me." For every man given to itrong drink there are scores ot traps set. and s-hen he goes out on business to-morrow ha sill be in infinite peril, and no one but th rverywhere present Ood can see that man through. Oh. they talk about the catacomb Of Naples, and the catacombs of Borne, and the catacombs of Egypt the burial places under the city where the dust of a great muU tltude lies but I tell you New York has its rotacombs, and Boston its catacombs, and Philadelphia its catacombs. They are the un terground restaurants, full of dead men's bones and all nncleanliness. Young man, you know it. Ood help you. There is no need of f oing into the art gallery to see in the skill ul sculpture that wonderful representation it a man and his sons wound around with lerpents. There are families represented in this house that are wrapped in the martyrdom f fang and scale and venom a living Laoooon of ghastliness and horror. What are rou to do? I am not speaking Into the air. t am talking to hundreds ot men who must e saved by Christ's gospel or never saved at UL What are you going to do? Do not put your trust in bromide of po tassium, or in jamaloa ginger, or anything that apothecaries can mix. Put Tour trust only in the eternal Ood, and He will see you wrougn. some or you qo not nave tempta tions every day. tt is a periodic temptation that oomes every six weeks, or every three months, when it seems as if the powers of darkness kindle around about your tongue the fires ot the nit. It la Wbli enough at euoh a time, as saasmLTPp, flo, toaeak msa- loafeounser, but your first and most Impor tunate cry must be to Ood. If the fiends will drag you to the slaughter, make them do it on your knees. O Ood, now that the paroxysm oi imrst is coming again upon hat man. help htm 1 Flinir back into the olt of hell the fiend that assaults his soul this moment. Oh, my heart aches to see men go pn in this fearful struggle without Christ. There are in this house those whoee hands so tremble from dissipation that they can hardly hold a book, and yet I have to tell you that they will yet preach the gospel, and on communion days carry around oonse- cratea areaa, acceptable to everyooay, De cause of their holy life and their consecrated behavior. The Lord is going to save you. Your home has got to be rebuilt. Your physi cal health has got to be restored. Your Worldlv business has not to be reconstructed. The church of God is going to rejoice over your oisoipiesmp. "inner aneep a navt which are not ot this fold." While I have hope for all prodigals, there are some people in this house whom I give up, I mean those who have been church goers all their life, who have maintained out ward morality, but who, notwithstanding twenty, thirty, forty years of Christian ad vantages, nave never yielded tnelr heart to Christ. They are gospel hardened. I could call their names now, and if they would rise up they would rise up in aoores. Gospel hardened! A sermon has no more effect up on them than the shining moon on the city pavement. As Christ says, "The publi cans and harlots will go into the kingdom of Ood before them." They have resisted all the importunity of divine mercy and have gone during these thirty years through most powerful earthquakes of religious feeling, and they are farther away from Ood than sver. After awhile they will lie down siok, and some day It will be told that they are dead. No hopel But I turn to outsiders with a hope that thrills through my body and souL "Other iheep I have which are not ot this fold." You are not gospel hardened. You have not heard or read many sermons during the last few years. As you came in to-dav evervthhur was novel, and all the services are suggestive of your early day. How sweet the opening avinn aouaaea in your tars, ana now blessed Is this hour I jsverytning suggestive oi heaven. You do not weep, but the shower is not far off. You sigh, and you have noticed that there is always a sigh in the wind before the rain falls. There are those here who would give anything if they could find re lief in tears. They say: "Oh, my wasted life ! Oh, the bitter past 1 Oh, the graves over which I have stumbled I Whither shall I fiy? Alns for the future! Everything kl dark so dark, so dark! Ood helD me! God pity me!" Thank the Lord for that last ut terance. You have begun to pray, and when a man begins to petition that sets all heaven Dying this way. and God steps in and beats back the hounds of temptation to their ken nels, and around about the poor wounded soul puts the cover of His pardoning mercy. Hark. I hear something aomethinir falil What was that? It is the bars of the fence around the aheepfold. The shepherd lets them down, and the hunted sheep of the mountain bound in, some of them their fleeoe torn with the brambles, some of them their feet lame with the dogs, but bounding In. Thank God! "Other sheep I have which (tre not ot this fold." A Bemaxkabla Tribute. The recent meeting ot the North Dakota Legislature In Joint memorial session to ex- fireas the common sorrow that prevails hroughout North Dakota over the death of lira. Hansbrough, the wife of the senior Sen ator from that State, Is perhaps the first in nance of the kind on record. There is not in mind a similar oeeumnoe as transpiring in any other commonwealth of the Union, and It will ever stand as a oredlt to the new north Btate that its Legislature is the first to meet In joint memorial session to pay tribute to the memory of a woman. The proceeding! of this remarkable assemblage were of a most Interesting nature, the speeches by prominent Senators and members of the Legislature be. ng unusually eloquent and touching. Upon the announcement of the death ot Mrs. Hans brough both houses ot the Legislature, thci In session at Bismarck, Immediately a ! journed, committees of the two brand: -a were appointed to draft resolutions, and a week later the two houses met in joint sec tion. Lieutenant-Governor Worst presided, and made a feeling address, speaking of the suf fering uncomplainingly endured by Mrs. Hansbrough for over four years. The joint committee on resolutions presented Its re- f'Ort, extending the sympathy of the Leglsla ure of the State to the Senator In the time of bis bereavement. Bemarks were made, in leconding the resolution, by Bepresentatives Prosser, of Katnsay County, and Edwards, of Cass, and Senators Day, of Bamsay; Greg Dry, of Ward; Stevens, of Dickey, and Burke, of ltolette, after which the resolutions were adopted by a rising vote, and this remarkable 'egislative session adjourned. Matter of Taste. Two little oranges la Chicago, the other lay, brought twelve physicians and several fruit dealers into consultation. After an hour of serious conversation on the scientific fioints involved it was found necessary to per orm an operation. This consisted in di ecting the two oranges. The recent freezing of one-half of the Florida orange crop, mean ing a loss to growers of over t2.5O0,0O0, was what brought about the consultation. No one of the twelve physicians could tell the chilled orange from the good one. There ap parently was no difference, and the dealers were consequently happy. This did not end their troubles, however, as the consumers declined to be convinced, and, to emphasizs the fact, continued to a man to buy Califor nia oranges. Chicago people do not appreci ate the favor of having their fruit iced, no matter how nice it tastes. Death of the Original Trmla Bobber. John Beno is dead at Columbus, Ind. He rras a member ot the first train robbing gang In the United States. He planned the idea for several years and made a success of it in the end, but his brothers were hanged in 1869. In 1866 an express train, then known as "the outh-bound J. H. and I" fast train, was) stopped at Boekf ort station. The robbers eat tered at a aide door and soon overpowered the expressman, securing packages of money amounting to 90,000. Fully this amount was dropped from the ear window and left lying on the track, the thieves being unable o oarry away the spoils. Menacing Onlookers la China. In Chinese waters at present Great Britain has twenty-eight war ships, representing a total water displacement of 71,913 tons and an ordnance armament of Si 2 guns. Bussia has twenty-two ships of 71,590 tons displace ment, carrying 816 guns, and France thirteen vessels, representing 29,543 tons displace ment and armed with 155 guns. Although numerically smaller, it will be noted that tha Russian fleet is stronger than the British by 131 gnus. News in Brief. A horseshoe to be afflixed without nails Las been invented. Charles IL was the mutton eating King from bis fondness for spring lamb. Leon Lilienfield, a young chemist in Berlin, has prodnoed artificial white of egg. The African ostrich hac but two toes on each foot, and one of them has no claw. The slashes or openings in an outer garment to show the one beneath were formerly cslle panes. Birds as a rule, cannot focus their eyes on an object eave at a considerable distance, and then only with great difficulty. Vienna, Austria, is to have at ele vated railroad with the wheels on top of the cats, which will hang suspended from the rails. A New York florist is selling flower pots and "ground to fill them." They are for window gardeners who live high above the ground. PORTRAITS BY TELEGRAPH. device Bapeclalljr tTawful in 1''- to Do tret Criminals. With no tools but a working wire, a rtump of a lead pencil and a sheet of paper ruled off into minute squares, a Ban Francisco inventor, Charles Wll- TBS OBIGIXAL. COPT. loughby, says he can telegraph a pic ture of anything anywhere, around tho globe as well as from one room to an other. A few months ago he evolved out oi the simple process of checkers by ire his Ingenious system of photo-telegraphy, as he has chosen to call It on his application for a patent. The pro cess and the system are very similar. On the telegrapher's checkerboard tho squares are indicated by figures or let Wrs, and in the system by which pic tures are telegraphed the squares aro Infinitely smaller, and are located by Tombinlng letters and figures. Here, for example, Is a picture aa It goes over the wire: Da93 Cu89 Cp87 CinS5 Z CmS2 & CkSl & half, Cb.80 Z2 Dd56 break, etc. It looked rather like a cryptogram tt the Inventor's audience of one, but Willoughby was ready for a practical test of his Invention. He sat down with a sheet of finely ruled paper, and as the groups of letters and figures were read off to him his pencil described straight lines, curves and curls, some heavy nnd some light, and when the reader with a sigh of relief said "Nabob," the last word of the cryptogram, the Inventor held up an outline picture of a man's head, al most an exact reproduction of the orig inal at which he not not once glanced THE TELEQRAPHED COPT. while he worked. Measured together the drawings showed hardly so muct is a hair's breadth of difference. HE IS SORRY FOR HIS SINS. How Chinese Fenitenta Make It Prof itable to Keform. This Chinese person deserves no sym pathr, though be Is suffering physical pain inflicted by his own desire, and doubtless for money-making purposes. A long bodkin has been thrust through both his cheeks. His eyes are nearly closed, and the large photograph from which this picture was made plainly shows the torture that Is depicted In the mnn's face. He is voluntarily doing pt-nance for his sins, and the tory of bis various enormities Is told In larg characters on the board behind him. Although be Is suffering, he derlvei Doth pleasure and profit from this act ol self-immolation. The public heart la A TEBT W1CKKD TOUHO MA2T. touched to see this young man so very, very sorry for the evil be has done, and the public pocketbook flies open and coppers are showered on him, for, of course, he cannot do anything to sup port himself while he la standing here advertising his wickedness. On thla aide of the sea we would probably call him an Impostor and a mendicant, and lock him up. But In China his action Is looked upon aa very commendable, He has probably been drafted Into thy Chinese army. The Soasa Compoeciv stacks What's Fred doing down? Tanks He's trying to write a popo ar song. Banks Heavens! Does he want to jecome the most unpopular man In tho United States? New York World. Easier to Get Traated. Featherstone "Well, I suppose Fve ot to get me a new suit, and I ought to order it right away." Rlngway "Why don't yon get a- ready-made suit?" Featherstone "I would, old man, but I can't afford It." Clothier and Fur-aiuber. MAXlM'rPYINa MACHINE. tt Baa Been Given Ita Flrat FubllS Exhibition In Enaland. Hiram S. Maxim's fiylng-machlnt made its first public appearance In England tecently, when It was exhib ited at Baldwyn's Tark, Bexky. in at J of the funds of the Bexley Cottage Hospital Mr. Maxim's experiments have been so far perfected on the basis of his observation that while small birds, such as sparrows, are able to move In any direction through the air, It Is quite impossible for very largo birds, such as the condor and some other forms of vultures, to rise in the air In a vertical direction. To use Mi Maxim's owa words, these latter "can only rise by taking a long run, and then, springing into the air, work their wings very vigorously for a short time, and raise themselves in the air At an Incline." "In studying the question of maxim's ri-rrxo machixe. a flylng-machlne," says Mr. M&iim, "I raine to tho conclusion that it would have to raise Itself after the manner of the large birds; that Is, it would have to run along the earth until a certain speed was attained, and then, as Its sails or aeroplanes were forced forward on the air, the weight on tho ground would become loss and less, until the velocity would bo great enough to ralsa It completely off tho earth, and, like tha condor, it would run up an Incline In stead of directly up as the sparrow It able to do." The mnchlne as It ap peared, standing ou a short railway ol very wide gauge, presented a curloui spectacle, says the Westmlnstei Budget On the platform which stood on the rails was a peculiarly formed steam engine, and from the platform sprang a series of what looked like very thick wires, reaching up to and supporting tho great aeroplane which covered the whole like an awning, while midway appeared two huge propellers, the rnl rotation of which furnished the motive power of tho machine. When Mr. Maxim was ready to begin the perform ance the propellers were set In motion, rapidly generating a powerful current of air; and on the machine being "let go" It scudded along the track at a great rate but without quitting the ground. Precautions indeed were taken to prevent the machine from fill ing In nny degree its proper purpose, though It was not fitted with Its full flying rig, which Includes, In addition to the central aeroplane, a pair of "wings" on each side and smaller aero planes before and aft. So, for the pres ent, we must perforce be content with Mr. Maxim's declaration that his ma. chine will fly If it Is allowed to, though he admits that he has yet to solve the problem of controlling It when it 1 "nce off the ground. Solving a Difficulty. The problem of comfortably houslnA the poor In crowded cities has been partially solved In London. Thirty years ago the condition of the tenement dwellers was most pitiable. Filth abounded, and there was little atteuijd to Impose sanitary regulations. Squal or was everywhere, and the ghost ol disease walked abroad at nil llmca. A company organized by philanthropic men undertook a project of reform. Immense blocks were erected nud sub divided into little apartments of two or three rooms each, sometimes more, each "self-contained." The rent was about the same ns would have to bo paid for filthy rooms In an undesirable quarter, and ranged from five to eight shillings a week. Owing to the ad vanced price of lots it has become diffi cult of late for the builders to keep within the centers of labor, as they have always tried to do, thus saving the tenants a long daily Journey to work and return. The etaks and land ings are on the outside of the building, thus giving no central shaft or elevator well to Invite the flames should fire catch In them. This niclbof also gives more privacy to the inmates than with the common central hallways. Forty five estates belong to this company, comprising 5,303 separate dwellings. Nearly 80,000 people are accommo dated. The Sacred Beetle. Thousands of Images of the Scant, baeus or sacred beetle of the Egyptian! have been found. They are of gold, silver, agate, carnellan, marble, gran ite, wood and earthenware. Manj have a small socket at the back, ind) eating that they were worn as broochef It Still Flourishes. As an Indication of bow the slavt trade survives in Africa, It Is stilted that last summer a caravan of 10.00C camels and 4,000 slaves left Tlnibucto for Morocco. The Kespuuh.uie l-ereon. "When I cet to heaven," said tha small boy who has but lately begun the study of Genesis, "the first thing I am going to do is to hunt up Adam and give him a licking." IndIanapoll Journal. Autograph Fiends Fifty Tears Agb. It is related of Mendessohn at a pub lic dinner, at which ladies were pres ent, and where he was surrounded by a chorus of aggressive women clamor ing for bis autograph, that he allowed himself to be victimized with good na ture until finally a fleshy matron of mature years handed him her card. Whether with malice prepense or not tt is not stated, but the composer wroto upon the card the music and words from Haydn's "Creation:" "And Ood created great whales." This personal pleasantry brought the autograph-hunting to an end, and Mendelssohn was a) lowed to go on with his dinner. It is the proper thing to say of a young man not up to date: "His over coat is not long enough." Some men never get gay except when they eat at a hotel; then' they want to flirt with the dining-room glrla. ti
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