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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.
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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