Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 January 1891 — Page 10

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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. WEDNESDAY MORNING. JANUARY 21. 189 1-TWELV1S r AGES.

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TO THE iNOX-CHUKCIl-GOERS

OR. TALMAGE'S POWERFUL APPEAL. Always Room in th Heavenly Fold Word to tbo Oateatt, th Skeptic, and the Prodigal A Favor That All May Grant, The following powerful sermon to non-church-gocrs was delivered by Dr. Talmajre Sundar morning at the Academy of Tropic ami again in the eveniopr at the Christian Herald service in the New York academy of music. At the latter servire the new choir of 100 voices most effectively led the musical exercises. Dr. Tal mage's text was John x. 10. ''Oiher cheep I have which are not of this fold." There is no monopoly in religion. The (Trace of God is not a nice little property fenced off all for ourselves. It is not a king's park at which we look through a barred gateway, wishing we might go in and pluck the flowers and look at the deer and the statuary. It is a father's orchard, and there are bars to let down and gates to ewing open. In my boyhood days, next to the country echool-houae where I went, there was an apple orchard of great luxuriance, owned by a very lame man who did not gather the apples, and they went to waste by scores of bushel. Sometimes the ladB of the school, in the sinfulness of a natureinherited from our firt parents who fell through the same temptation, would climb over the fence and take some of these apples, and notwithstanding the fact that there was a surplus, and all gointr to waste, the owner of that orchard, reckless of making his lameness worse, would take after these lad, ani shout: "IWiys, drop those apples, or I'll set the dog on you!" Now there are Chiistians who have severe guard over the churcli of God. They have at rough and unsympathetic wav of treating outsiders. It is a great orchard into which God would like to have all the people come and take the richest and the ripest fruit, and the more thy take the better he likes it. But there are those who stand with a hard and severe nature guarding the church of (Jod, and all the time afraid that K)me will get these apples when they really oucht not to have them. Have you any idea that, because you were baptized at eijrlit months of ajre, and becaute you have all your life been surrounded by hallowed influence?, you have a right to one whole side of the Lord's table, spreading yourself out so nobody e'ee can sit there? You will have to haul in your elbows, for there will cornea great multitude to eit at the tab'e, and on both sides of you. You are not going to have this monopoly of reMgion. "Other sheep have I which are not of this fold." 3IcDouald, the .Scotchman, has, on the Fcotch hills, a great llock of sheep. McTonald has four or five thousand head of sheep. Som? are browsing in the heather, some are on the hills, some are in the valleys, a few are in the yard. One day Cameron cornea over to McDonald and says: "McDonald, you havo thirty sheep"; I have been counting them.'' "Oh, no!" eaya McDonald, "I have four or five thousand." "Ah," 6ays Cameron, von are mistaken; I have just counted" them; there are thirty." "Why," Pays McDonald, "do you suppose that is all the sheep I have? I have sheep on the distant hills and in the valleys, rangingand roaming everywhere. Other sheep have I which are not of this fold." So Christ cornea. Here is a group of Christians, and there is a group of Christians. Here is a methodist fold, here is a presbyterian fold, here is a baptist fold, here is a Lutheran fold, and we make our annual statistics and we think we can tell vou jut Low njany Christians there are In the world ; how many there are in the church ; how many of all these denominations. We aggregate them, and we think we are ftivinj: an intelligent and accurate account; but Christ comes, and he says : "You have not counted tbem right. There are those whom you have never seen, those of whom you have never heard. I have my children in all parts of the earth, on all the islands of the s a. on all the continent, in all the mountains, and in all the valley?. Do you think that these few sheep you have counted are all the s beep I have? There is a great multitude that no man can numtar. Other sheep have I which are not of this fold." Christ, in my text, talks of the conversion of the Gentiles a confidently as though they had already been converted. He sets forth the idea that his people will come from all parts of the earth, from all ages, from all circumstances, from all conditions. "Other cheep have I which are not of this fold." In the first place, I remark, the Heavenly Shepherd w ill find many of his sheep among those who are at present non-church-goers. There are different kinds of churches. Sometimes you will find a church made up only of Christians. Everything seems finished. The church reminds you of those skeleton plants from which, by chemical preparation, all the greenness and the verdure have been taken, and they are cold, and white, and delicate, and beautiful, and finished. All that is wanted U a glass case put over them. The minister on the Sabbath has only to take an ostrich feather and brush off the dust that has accumulated in the list six days of business, and then they areas cold and beautiful and delicate as before. Everything ia finished finished sermons, finished music, finished architecture, finished everything. Another church is like an armory, the uoand of drum and fife, calling more recruits to the Lord's army. We say to the applicant?, ' Come in and get your equipment. Here is the bath in which you are to be cleansed, here Is the helmet you are to put on your head, here are the sandals you are to put on your feet, here ia the breastplate you are to put over your heart, here is the sword you are to take in vour right hand and fight His battle with. "Quit yourselves like men. There are thone here, perhaps, who say, 'It is now ten, fifteen years since I was in the habit, the regular habit, of churchgoing." I know all about your case. I am going to tell v ou something that will be startling at the first, and that is, that yon are going to become the Lord's sheep. 'Oh," you say, "that is impossib-e; you don't k'now my case; you don't know how far I am from anything of that kind." I know all about your case. I have been up and down the world. I know why some of you do not attend upon Christian serrices. I go further, and make another announcement in regard to you, and that is, you are not only to become the Lord's beep, but you are going to become the Lorda sheep this hour. God is going to call yoa graciously by his spirit; you are eoing to come into the fo.d of Christ, this sermon shall not be so much for tbof who are Christians. I have preached to them hundreds and thousands of times. The sermon that I preach now is going to be chiefl v for those who consider themselves outsiders, but who may happen to be in the house, and the chief employment of the Christian people here today will be to pray for those who are not accustomed to attend upon Christian sanctuaries. When the steamer Atlantic went to pieces on Mars Kock, why did that brave minister cf the go?pel, of whom we have all read, go out m the lifeboat? Why did

be not etay and look after the passengers that got ashore, wrapping flannels around them and kindling fires tor them and preparing them foo l? There waa plenty of work to be done on the ehore tor those who had already escaped. Ah ! that brave niHn knew that there were others who would take care of those, and so he said, "Man the lifeboat! Pull away, my lads, pull away! Yonder is a man; there is a woman freezing in the rigging. I'ull away!" I gee the oar-blades bend in the strong pull of the oarsmen. Then they come up to the wreck. The woman is frozen. She drops into the waves alas! poor woman and washes out to sea. But then Mr. Ancient says: "There is a man yet hanging to the "rigging. I'ull away, my lads! pull away!" They come up, and he rays, ''Hold now there five minutes, and we will save you. Steady! steady ! Now give me vour hand. Leap! Thank God he is saved! Thank God ha is saved !" So there are men now in the breakers. They, have made a shipwreck Of life. While we come out to save, them, some are swept off swept off before we can reach them and there are others still hanging on. Steady there among the Slippery places! Steady! Leap into the lifeboat ! Now is your chance for heaven ! This hour somo of you are going to be saved. Far away from God, you are going to be brought nigh. "Other sheep have I which are not of this fold." Christ says that the ministers of the gospel are to be fishers for men. Now, when I go fishing I do not want to fish in anybody el.-e's pond. I do not want to go along Hohokus cn-ek, where there are ten or fifteen men fishing, and drop my line i"uit about where they ar dropping their ines. I should like to get in a Newfoundland fishing smack and push out to sea fifty miles bevoiul the breakers. I do not think the church of God gams a great deal when you take sheep from one fold and put them in another fold. It is the lost sheep on the mountains you want to bring back the lost sheep on the mountains. And they are coming to-day. You are now "this hour in the tide of Christian influences. You are going to be swept in, your voice is going to be heard in prayer, you are going to be consecrated to God, you are going to live a life of usefulness, and your death-tied i going to be surrounded "by Christian sympathizers, aud devout men will carry you to your burial when your work is done, and these j words will be el line led for your epitaph: "Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints." Aud all that hi-tory is going to begin to-day. "Other sheep have I which ar n"t of this fold." Again I remark, the Heavenly Shepherd is going to find many of his sheen among i those who are now rejecters of Christianity. I do no: know how you came to reject Christianity. 1 do not know whether it-was through "hearinz Theodore Parker preach, or whether it was reading "Kenan's Life of Jesus," or whether it was through some skeptic in the store or factory. Or it may be probably in the case that you were disgusted with religion and disgusted with Christianity because some man who professed to be a Christian defrauded you, and he being a member of the church, and you taking him as a representative of the Christian religion, you said: "Wei!, if that's religion, 1 don't want any of it." I do not know how you came to reject Christianity, but you ir.mkly till me you do reject it; you do not think the bible is the word of God, although there are many things in it you admire; you do not think that Christ was a divine being, although you think he was a very good man. You say, "If the bible be true the most of the bible be true I nevertheless think the earlier part of the bible is an allegory." And there are fifty things that 1 believe you do not believe. Nevertheless they tell me in regard to you that you are an accommodating, you are an obliging person. If I shomd come to you and ask of you a favor you would grant it if it w ere possib e. It would be a joy for you to grunt me a fax or. If any of your friends came to you and wanted an accommodation, and you could accommodate them, how glad you would be. Now I am goiug to ask of you a favor. I want you to oblige me. The accommodation will cost you nothing, and will give me great happiness. Of course you will not deny me. I want you as an experiment to try the Christian religion. If it does not stand the teat discard it; if it does, receive it. If you were very sick and you had been given up by the" doctors, and I came to you and I took a bottle of medicine from my pocket and said, "Here is medicine I am sure will help you; it has cured fiftv people," you would say, "Oh, I haven't any confidence in it; they tell mo all these medicines will fail me." "Well, I say, "will you not as a matter of accommodation to myself, just try it?" "Well," you say, "I have no objection to trying it ; if it wiil be any satisfaction to you I will try it." You take it. Now vou are sick in disquietude, sick in sin. You are not happy. You laugh Hometimes when you are miserable. There come surges of unhappiness over your soul that almost swamp you. You are unhappy, struck through with unrest. Now will you not try this solace, this febrifuge, thin anodyue, "this Gospel medicine? "Oh," you say, "I haven't any faith in it.' As a matter of accommodation, let me introduce you to the Lord Jesus Chrit, the Great Physician. "Why," you say, "I haven't any faith in him." "Well, now, will you not just let him come and try his power on your soul? Just let me introduce him to you. I do not ask you to take the advice of clergymen. Perhaps the clergymen may be prejudiced; perhaps we may give y'ou wrong advice; perhaps we are morbid on that subject; so I do not ask you to take the advice of clergymen. I ask you to take the advice of every respectable layman, such as William Shakespeare, the dramatist; as William Wilberforce, the statesman ; as Isaac Newton, the astronomer; aa Kobert Itoyle, the philosopher; as Locke,th metaphysician; as Morse, the electrician. These men. never preached they never pretended to preach but they come out, and putting down, one his telescope, and another the . parliamentary scroti they come out and they commend Christ aa a comfort to all the jieople, a Christ that the world needs. Now I do not ask you to take the advice of clergymen. Take the advice of these layman. It does not make any difference to m at this juncture what you have said against the bible; it does not make any difference to me at this juncture how you may have caricatured religion. Take the advice of men who are prominent in secular affairs, as theje men whom I have mentioned, and others who immediately occur to your mind. You see 1 do not scoff at skepticism. I never acofed at skepticism. 1 had a good reason for not scolhng. I have been a natural skeptic. I do not know what the first word was that I uttered after entering this world, but I think it must have been "w hy?" There were times when I doubted the existence of (iod, when I doubted the divinity of Christ, when I doubted the immortality of the soul, when I doubted my own soul, when I doubted everything. .1 have lieen through the whole curriculum of doubt, and you can tell me nothing new about it. I have come out from a great Sahara desert into the calm, winn sunshiny t land of the gospel. I know about the other land. I haTe been there. You can tell me nothing new about it, and I know all about the other condition of which you do not know anything the peace, the comfort,' the joy, the triumph of trusting in God and

in Jens Christ whom he has sent. So I am not scoffing in regard to it. There are Fome things I believe that you do not, but there are some thines that I believe and you believe. You believe in love a father s love, a mother's love, a wife's love, a child's love. Now, let me tell you. God loves you more than all of them together and you must come in, you will come in. Christ looks in all tenderness, with the infinite tenderness of the ecwpel into your soul and he says: "This is your time for heaven," and then he waves his band to thepeople of God and he says: "Other sheep have I which are not of this fold." Agiin I remark, the Heavenly Shepherd is going to get many of hia sheep among those who have been flung away because of evil habits. It outrace me'to see how soon Christian jeople give up the prodigal. I hear Christian people talk as though they thouzht the grace of God were a chain of forty or fifty links, and when they had run out then thete was nothing to touch the depth of a man's iniquity. If a man were out hunting for deer, and got off the trail of the deer, he wonld hunt amid the bushes and brakes longer for the lost game than he will look for a lost soul. They say if a man has had the delirium tremens twice he cannot be cured. They say if a woman has fallen from integrity she can not be redeemed. All of which is an infinite slander on the gospel of the son of God. Men who say that know nothing about practical religion in their hearts. How many times will God take a man who has fallen ? Well, I cannot give you the exact figures, but i can tell you at what point He will certainly take" him back. Four hundred and ninety-nine times. Why do I say four hundred and ninety-nine times? Because the bible says seventy times eeven. Now figure thir out, you who do not think a man can fall four times, eight times, ten times, twenty times, one hundred times, four hundred times, and yet be saved. Four hundred and ninety-nine times! Why, there is a great multitude before the throne of God who plunged into all the depths of iniquity. There were no sins they did not commit, but they were washed of body, and washed of mind, and washed of soul, and they are before the throne of God now forever liappv. I say that to encourage rny uau who feols there is no chance for him. Good templars will not save you, although they are a grand institution. Sons" of temperance w ill not save you, although there is no better society on earth. Signing the temperance pledge will not SHe vou, although it is a gram! thing to do. No one but God can save you. Do not put your contidenco in bromide of potassium, or anything that the apothecary can mix. Put your trust in God! After the church has cast you off. and the bank has cast you off, and social circles have cast you off, and all good society has cast you off, and father has cast you off, and mother has ca?t you oil,, at your first cry for help God will bend clean down to that ditch of your iniquity to help you out. Oh, what" a God ho is! Long suffering anil gracious! There may be in this house somo whose hand trembles so with dissipation they could hardly hold a hymn-book. I say to such, if they are here. "You will preach the gosiiel yet; you will yet, some of you, carry the holy communion through the a.sles, nnd you will be acceptable to everybody, because everybody will know you are saved and purified by the grace of God, and a consecrated man, wholly consecrated. Your business has got to come up, your physical health is to be rebuilt, your family is to be restored, the church of God on earth and in heaven is to rejoice over your coming. "Other sheep have I

which are not of this fold. If thi is not tho gospel, I do not know what the gospel is. It can scale any height, it can fathom any depth, it can compass any infinity. I think one reason why there are not more people saved is wo do not swing the door wide enough open. Now there is only one class of persons in this house about whom I have any despondency, and that is thoBC who have been hearing the gospel for perhaps twenty, thirty, forty years. Their outward life moral, but they tell you frankly they do not love the Lord Jesus Christ, have not trusted him. have not bf-en born again by the Spirit of God. They are gosp !-hardened. Tho gopjiel has no more effect upon them than the bluing of the moon on the city pavement. The publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of (iod before they. They went through, some of them, the revival of 18o7. when 500,000 souls were brought to God. Some of them went through great revivals in individual churches. Still unpardoned, unblessed, unsaved. They were merely spectators. Gospel hardened! After awhile we will hear that they are dead, and then that they died without any hope, gospel-hardened. Put I turn away from all such with a thrill of hope to those who are not gospel-hardened. Some of you have not heard, perhaps, five sermons in five years. This w hole subject has been a novelty to you for some time. Y'ou are not gospel-hardened ; you know you are not gospel hardened. The whole subject comes freshly to your wind. I hear some soul saving: "O, my wasted life! O, the bitter past! O, the graves I stumbled over! Whither shall I fly? The future is so dark, so dark, eo very dark. God help n.e!" Oh, I am so glad for that last utterance! That was a prayer, and as soon as you begin to pray, that turns all heaven this way, and God steps in, and he beats back the hounds of temptation to their kennels.and he throws all around the pursued soul the covert of his pardoning mercy. I heard something fall. What was it ? It was the bars around tho sheepfold. The Heavenly Shepherd let them fall, and the hunted sheep of the mountain came bounding in, some with fleece torn of the brambles, and others with feet lame from the dogs, but bounding in. Thank God! "Other sheep have I which are not of this fold." God forbid that any of vou should have the lamentation of the dyinsr nobleman who had had every opportunity of salvation but rejected all, and who wrote or dictated these words: "Before you receive this my final state will be determined. I I am throwing my last stake for eternity, and tremble and shudder for the important issue. Oh, my friend, with what horror do I recall the hours of vanity we have wasted together; but I have' a splendid ftassage to the grave. I die in state and anguish under a gilded canopy. I am expiring on soft and downy pillows and am respectfully attended by my servants and physicims. My dependents sigh, my sisters weep, my father bends beneath a load of years and grief; but oh, which of these will answer my summons nt the high tribunal? And which of these will bail me from the arrest of death? While some flattering panegyric is pronounced at my interment I may be hearing my just condemnation at a supreme tribunal. Adieu 1" If th ttea. t'barnisceu Ileal Era. I. She "John, what does the heroic treatment mean?" Dr. John H. Omepath "Kill or curegenerally kill." II. She "Dear, what is the literal translation of aimida, ainmibun rurantur?" Dr. AL 0. Pattie "Simple cures for simple people." An Aett tit Void. Muomt's Weekly. She "Have you ever thought what an appropriate type of marriage the wedding ring is? A ring is a thing with no end." He "Yea, an I there's nothing in it,"

GAMBLER AND GENTLEMAN.

INSULT FOR THE SAKE OF SENTIMENT. A Boy Called Gambler Moors a Coward, lint the Insulted Man Only Smiled "I Loved III Mother Once, lie Kld.' ' N. Y. Tribune. I "I am a believer," said the co'oneL tilting his chair, and resting his perfectly polished boots on one of its rungs, "in man's natural goodness. I had the pleasure once of knowing an honest gambler. I iiked him too, for he was a gentleman. The days of this class of gamblers are past, however, and today they seem to be a scurvy lot. "Moore, when I knew bim, was a Mississippi river gambler. He traveled, in fact, lived on the big river steamboats. He never attempted to conceal the truth about himself. It was simply 'Gentlemen, I am a gambler by occupation, and a good one. If you care to . have me play with you it wi.l give me great pleasure. If you don't, it don't make a particle of difference." ."I got to know".Moore very well, and I soon discovered that when playing with the average man, luck being equal, he would win ninety-nine times out of a hundred. I never touched cards, but I used to like his society. He was a wonderfully entertaining talker. On summer nights the steward used to serve dinner on deck for those who preferred to have it there. After dinner we would go up to the hurricane deck, and when Mooro was on board he would bring out his flute and play for u. When the n.oon was out and threw a thin blue veil over the water, or when the boat carrying the passengers dweptso close to the Fiiore that it brushed the dark wi.lows on the bank, the rising and falling notes that came from his instrument were gentle music to the ear. I never knew him to propose a game at cards. He would play there until some one suggested a game, when he would take his instrument apart and put it away in an indifferent manner." ."I watched him at play one night, when Satan seemed to throw every card to tlm calm, self-composed man. There wan a cool, matter-of-fact way about him which froze the ardor of c-ry one else except a voung man about twenty-five vears old. This player was iu iil-luck, but with Hushed face aud feverish eye he made his beta furiously, only to lose every time. It soon became evident that he was playing beyond his means. Moore must have noticed it, for he ceased to bet heavily against the 3-ounger man. This angered the other. "There was a pet of 300 once, and every ono had dropped out except Moore and the young man. Moore had been playing his hand like a wonderful automaton, passionless, but sure. No man, except his opiionent, perhaps, could doubt that ho lull the winning hand. Suddenly, when his rival had made a bet of $50, Moore laid down his hand saying, 'I won't bet. I have nothing. You played that well.' "The young nun reached out feverishly for the pile of money, and then his hand lay on the table. " 'That is not true,' he said. You have a good hand and you are afraid to play it against me.' "Moore shot a hot glance across the table at him and two red spots flushed into his cheeks. "'I lay down my hand,' he said slowly, but with a slight tremble iu his voice. "'And 1 say,' added the other in a low tone, 'that you are a gambler, and therefore a coward.' "'Hush,' I said, laying my hand on the young man's sleerV. You don't know what you are saying. He is not a coward by any manner of means.' The young man shook off my liand vehemently. "'He is a coward,' be repeated, 'and I will answer for my words at the first land-in.-.'" I looked at Moore. I had seen him sit on the hurricane deck, a revolver in hand, and as a waiter threw champagne bottles over the rail, raise his arm swiftly and shatter the falling glass with a bullet. There were graver stories, too, by far, rbout hia deadly aim in duels. He sat stiff and motionless w ith a terrible-fire in his eyes. I was amazed by his next words. " 'Does the game go off?' he asked, quietly. " 'Not with you,' said tho young man, bending forward, tho veins in bis forehead swelling. 'Not until I prove that you are afraid to bet and with a sudden motion he thrust his hand across the table and seizing Moore's hand turned the cards face upward on the table. "I was on my feet in an instant to arrest Moore's riht ami for 1 felt that he would draw his revolver at the insult. But a hush fell over those around the table aud the hot-headed young man was gazing stupidly at the cards before him. Four aces lay there an invincible band, for st nights were not v ayed. There was a blue tinge in Moore's white lips, and the young man looked bewildered. The young fellow burst into tears. " 'U'e can't play together any more,' he cried. 'You threw money into my ocket because I was losing to much. I can't take it,' he said, rising from his chair. "You can,' sail the gambler, i. an even voice. I laid down my hand. The money is yours. Besides,' he added ith a little shiver, I held out an ace on you.' "Every man at the table know that Moore had lied. We all got up and left the young man sitting there before his money. I found Moore shortly afterward on deck, looking into the darkly whirling water. '"Give me your hand,' I said. 'What in the world did you mean? You never cheated at cards in your life. " Tut, tut!' he answered, with a little laugh that was slightly harsh, 'he is only a boy and I loved his mother once." Keep rig Hint n Lover. IN. Y. Weekly. J Mrs. Sbarptongu "D'ye mean t'say you've been married ton years, an' never had a quarrel with v'r husband?" Fair tranger "That is true, madam." "And ye always let him have the last word?" "Yes, madam ; I wouldn't for the world do anything to lessen my husband's love forme. He might get careless." "Careless?" "Yes. We ara jugglers by profession, and at two performances every clay I stand against a board while he throws the knives." ; Feminine Tact. N. Y. Weekly. Hostess Cat dinner) "You own a very fine telescope, I understand, Mr. De Science." Guest "Yes, madam, I was fortunate enough to secure a most excellent instrument." . Hostess "Are you interested in microscopes?" Guest "No, madam, I never had oue." Hostess "Marie, pa3 Mr. De Scienco the cheese." . Curing frtrnt Street 1 Smith's (JooJ Kewi Patient "In't there somo mistake about that bill you sent me?" Doctor "No, sir j it's correct; fivo hundred dollars." PatieAt 'To pay that will take every cent 1 have; I'll starve." Doctor "W'il, dietiog is what you need."

DIED WITH HIS BOOTS ON.

A Game of Draw Patter Which Ended In th Hem h of m O imbl.r. Helena, ia 1883, was a rough minine town. The Northern Pacific railroad had just been built into the place, and civilization had not yet had time to drive the rowdy element into the savage hauuts of isolated mining districts. I remember walking along a business thoroughfare in the evening, says a San Francisco letter, with the souuds of boisterous voices, clinking glasses and repulsive oatliB on every hand. I entered a gambling den, its broad doors were wide open, and the great electric arc-light invited melo a study of the crowded room. I watched a game of draw-poker. Till the dav of my death I will never forget it. The piayers were three in number. At the right hand side sat a man whose tout ensemble bespoke the villain. He wore a black slouched hat, which was drawn low down over his eyes, with the brim bent so as to shade them from the gaze of the other two. Not a movement, not a turn of a card escaped him. At every str.ge of the game he had figured out hia exact chances ; he knew precisely what to do at any given time. He played for gain. He was constantly on the lookout for treachery. He was silent. He had the devil in his heart. He was a gambler by profession. At his right was a young 'man with a face flushed with liquor. His countenance rellectcd his feelings. His eyes were mirrors, and in them the gambler at his left saw every hand he played. The youth talked much, boasted occasionally and sneered often. Nevertheless he lost and ot heavily. Thd remaining player was a middleaged man, swarthy of feature and rough of dress. He wore a flannel shirt, and held his cards with two great rough hands that knew toil with a pick and a shovel. He p!ayed recklessly, and, like all reckless players, his luck was wonderful. He watched only his own hand; he smiled pood-n at u redly at the voluble and liquorheaded youth, for he was winning, and a winner generally smiles. The gambler and the youth lost steadily to the miner, the first because his cards were poor, the latter because hia face w as an index to his cards, good or bad, an index which the miner, though attending strictly to his own play, could not help noticing. At last there was a "jack-pot." The youth dealt and every one passed. The miner dealt a like result, but when the gambler dealt he "opened." To do this, he was obliged to have a pair of jacks or better. The miner had watched him deal much as a cut watches a mouse. I saw in the miner's eyes a gleam so determined, so reckless, that I involuntarily started. He played calmly. Cards were drawn and bets made. The miner wagered his last chip. The youth, with a howl of wrath, threw down his cards, and the gambler drew out of his pocket some shining gold pieces. He placed them on the pile of chips. The miner took a large, ugly-hioking six-shooter fron his pocket and put it on the table, then he lait down an equal amount of gold and demanded to see his opponent's hand. Three kings and two aces. "A full house," said the gambler, calmly. He reached out his hand to tako the money. "No you don't," cried the miner. "See this hand?" He laid his five cards face upward before the players. lie had not even a pair. The gambler smiled contemptuously and made another movement to take the money. "Wait! You've seen that hand, now look at this one." J lis revolver was pointed full at the gambler's breast, and his eye gleamed along the barrel. The gambler never winced. He waited in apparent consternation for a second. "Boys," said the miner, appealing to the bystanders, "he took them kings from the bottom of the pack, an' he slipped the cut before dealiu' " Spin! Sping! Quick as a flash the gambler bad drawn a weapon and shot his opponent, killing him on the spot. I was dazed and can remember nothing more, but as I left the hall amid the confusion that followed I recall these word?, spoken by some one beside me: " Joe Henderson. Good 'nuff feller, but I alius Mowed he'd die with his boots on. Can't stick to gamblin' an' live nohow 1" QUEER KIND OF A DUEL Foaght by m I'alr of Italians With Keen. Edged Khoveln. A bloody nnd perhaps fatal duel between two Italians with small, sharpened shovels occurred late Monday afternoon in the alley between Chicago and Cass and Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth-sts., says the Omaha i'V. The duelists belonged to a grading gang that was just quitting work. Both are said to have been deadly enemies for some time and only waiting for the slightest pretext to come together. This opportunity came at the time mentioned. One was a large and the other a small man. After striking each other with their lists, each seized his shovel, which it seems, had been sharpened to a knife-like edge. With these they fought almost with the dexterity of swords, each raining the blows upon the other with deadly intent. After each had been badly wounded on the shoulders, legs and head, the larger man succeeded in compelling his enemy to drop to his knees for an instant, when he followed up his advantage by dealing the little or.e a horribly murderous stash, over tho head with the keen edge of his murderous shovel. The result was a sickening wound extending almost from ear to ear and fracturing the skull in a manner that will probably cause death. Still not satified with his fiendish work the big fellow drew from his bootleg a great glittering stiletto fully six inches in length, aud sprang to his fal ing victim was about to plunge it into the latter's heart when he in turn was felled to the ground by a blow from the fist of a bystander. Then the fellow-workmen of the bloody combatants hastily removed each of the latter to their homes, some distance away, and succeeded in keeping the affair from the police; Keeping Brforo thi I'ubllc N. Y. We-kljr. Wife "Must you go out tonight?" Husband "Indeed I must. Important, very important. It won't do to stay around home these days. A man must ke p himself before the public, or be forgotten." Wife "How are you going to keep yourself before the public tonight?" Husband "Easy enough, l'b just look around until I come across some sort of a meeting some where or other, and then I'll go in and nominate Chauncey M. De- ' pew for somethingor other, and my name will be in all the papers tomorrow. Mind Heading. N. Y. Herald. "We had some mind reading at our party last night. Johnny hid a pin and the new ininister tried to find it." "And did he auceeed?" "Oh, yes he found it when he Eat down." On Tune. IN. Y. Star. Tillinehast "Look herp. Ploobnmrer. I r r . you promised to come at a quarter to 12. ; and here it is 3 o'cock." xjiuuuulu tii, isu ion uuai iti vi 127"

THE CELEBRATED JUGGERNAUT.

Seme .Facta About the Great Temple, Chariot and Idols. The city of Joegernaut has about fifty thousand inhabitants, but as there is a religious festival hdd there once every month the population constantly within its borders labs but little short of 150,000. On both aides of the principal street are almost unbroken lines of Hindoo temp.es, all of which are overshadowed by the great temple of Juggernaut, which stands at the southern extremity of the main street The "great temple" rises to a height of nearlv three hundred feet, and is surmounted by a bronze-covered dome, the point of which reaches 100 feet higher. The wall which surrounds this gigantic f)ftgoda is a square with sides C")0 feet ia ength; is eighteen feet thick at the bottom and nearly forty feet high. B "sides the great pagoda in honor of Juggernaut, the inclosure contains temples and idols dedicated to dozens of other Hindoo deities. All of the ido!s, says the St. Louis 7!'pufjic, are monstrous ia design and frightful in appearance. That to Krishna (another name for Juggernaut) is painted blue, and has a face hideous in the extreme. According to Hindoo legend Krishna was killed by a hunter. His bones, were found under a tree, and brought before King Indradvuma, who was directed by one of the gods to form an image of Jagantah (perhaps Juggernaut; 6ee John W. Wright's "Idol Worshipers of India," page 3V), and place Krishna's bones inside. Visvakarma, a divine architect and sculptor, undertook to make the image, but, being hurried by the king, left off in anger. So Jagantnh was left without hands or feet. In comjensation, Brahma gave the image eyes and a soul. It may be seen by this legend that it was originally on account of the saintlv bones within that the image was venerated. Besides Kri-dina or Juggernaut, two others of the idols are provided with immense cars or chariots. The car of Juggernaut is thought to be the largest wheeled vehicle that lias yet been made in the world. It is thirty-four and oue-half feet square atthe base and forty-three and onehalf feet high, mounted on sixteen wheels, each six and one-half feet iu diameter. Once a year, at the great annual March festival, Juggernaut, mounted on the apex of his stately car, is taken to a house about one and a half miles in the country, where a female ima'ze is supposed to be waiting to become hia bride. The removal of the chariot from the shrine to the country house being a proceeding holy in the extreme, no animals are used for drawing the chariot, men, women and children only being permitted to perform such righteous services. On this occasion either five or seven ropes are attached to the front of the car, the middle one having been twisted from hair cut from the headsof female devotees. It was a long-charished belief in Christian countries that many pilgrims sacrificed themselves upon these gala days by fading prone before the car and allowing the poiiderous wheels to pass over their bodies. It is probable that the accounts of these self-sacrifices have ben too highly colored, and that tho great loss of life upon such occasions, when thousands of frantic devotees arc congregated together, comes more from accident than from a desire to fctart for heaven from directly underneath the wheels of the holy car. MISTOOK HIM FOR PAPA. The Clever Rune by Which a Girl Robbed a Kich C liforntan. J L'Uce Uerald. "During September, lSO, I was employed on a confidential case in St, Paul, Minn.," paid Detective Ainge of the New York, Ontario & Western railway service, to a reporter, "and was one day standing in the union depot watching for a suspected party, when a train came in well filled with passengers. Among those who alighted was a wealthy gentleman from the Pacific coast. "Just as he stepped on the platform a handsome young woman, apparently about twenty years of age, rushed into his arms, saving: 'Oh, papa, papa, I'm so gld you've come,' and with that she began to shower tho bewildered Californian with kisses. Then she gave a short, frightened scream, rushed through the crowd, entered a hack, and was driven away. ' We ali suptosed it was a case of mistaken identity. Ihe Lahtornian enjoyed the mi-take. "He came to me and the railway officer, who were talking about some business, and said it w as a good joke, and he guessed we had better take something on the strength of it, as the kisses were worth considerable. We proceeded to the hotel and lie took his smile, while the otlicer and myselt took a cigar. When the Westerner came to pay for the wine and cigars he discovered that his pocketbook and .J00 were gone. "Further search developed the fact that his fine gold watch and diamond shirtstud were also missing. The Ca'.ifornian could not iimgine where or when the things had been taken. I examined bis shirt front and discovered teeth marks where the diamond stud had ben. There was no doubt but that the handsome girl who had given bim such an affectionate embrace had done the work. The Californian was mad, and called the policeman a stupid dolt After telling him that I was a detective, be a-ked me to taka charge of the case and find the girl, and he would pay me for services and all expenses. "After placing my special agent on the case I was then engaged with, I proceeded to Minneapolis, where I located the woman at one of the hotels. She had registered from Milwaukee. When I arrested her she told me her history. She had been a member of a wealthy fa'nily in Colorado. 1 told her that if she would return the money, watch and diamond stud, the Californian would likely not prosecute her. I wired him and he answered the telegram in person. "The woman gave him all the plunder, and then 6he told him her etorv of misfortune, lie was much impressed by the recital, and I saw him with her at the theatre about a week afterward." Bit Laudable Intention. (N. Y. Sun.l Javsmith "Can you lend me $20, Glandcrs i Glanders "No, I can't. You havn't returned tho $10 you borrowed last week. " Javsmith 'I know. Glanders. That is what I wanted the twenty for. I intended to pay you bade in your own coin." A lisc"iitentt Spirit. N. Y. Sun. Wife "Do you remember ten years a.ro vou promised me when you had made $500,000 you would retire from business? Now that you have it (sobbing) why do you go on? " Husband "That's just like you. You are never satisfied." Moromi'i Fading. Chicago Tribune. Algernon- (making a call) "What are these noises I hear, Miss Maud?" Miss Maud (whose mother is vindictively making a wholly unnecessary racket in washing the dishes) "It's dear mamma. She dearlv loves to sort over the bric-a-brae." Her 1'nrtlns: Words. Cap Cod Item.j "So your wife has left you?" "She has." 'AVIint. mn hpr last wrml nn loavino i vuu i iV"Is my bat on straight?' "

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