Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 January 1891 — Page 11

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 23, 1891-TWELVE PAGES.

A POWERFUL SOUCITANT.

INFLUENCE OF THE WORD "COME." Tor Good or Bud s Mighty Persuader The Key to the Christian Religion Yictltua of tho Word Wrosgly Tsed Talroage'e iirmoo. Dr. Talmago preached tho following eeriiion to an overflowing congregation in the Academy of Music, Brooklyn, Sunday morning. At niitht, when the Christian Jftraf i service was held in the ew York Academy of Music, fully 6,000 persons were masfed in the larjre building. A marked solemnity pervaded the assembly, and Rt its close irany persona in various parts of the house rose at the invitation of the preachf r to aak for prayer for their pal vat ion. Dr. Talmagc chote the followin? texts for his sermon: "Conic" (iene9i., vi, IS. ''Come" Ilevelation, xxii, 17. Imperial, tender and all-persuasive is this word "Come." Six hundred and twenty-eiht times is it found in the scriptures. It htand.s at the front gate of the bible as in iny first text, inviting antedeluvhms into Noah's ark, and it stands at the other gate of the bible in my second text, inviting the post-diluvian a into the ark of the Savior's mercy. Come" is only a word of four letters, but it is tho cjueen of words and nearly the entire nation of Knlish vocabulary bows to its 6cepter. It id an ocean into which empty 10,000 rivera of meaning. Other words drive, but this beckons. All moods of feeling hath that word "come." Sometimes it weeps and eometitnes it laughs. Sometimes it prays, eometimes it tempts and sometimes it destroys. It sounds from the door of the church and from the tferafflio of pin, from the gates of heaven and the gates of hell. It is confluent and arrressent of all power. It is the heiress of most of the past and tf:e almoner of most of the future. 'Come!" You may pronounce it to that nil the beayeng will be. heard in its cadences, or pronounce it fo that all the woes of time and eternity shall reverberate in its one syllable. It is n t hp lip of taint and prollipate. It is the luihtieni of all sobcitants either for good or bad. Today I weigh anchor, and haul in the planks, ami set sail on that jrreat word, although I am sure I will not be able to reach the further hore. I will let down the fathoming line into this sea and try to measure its depths, and. though I tie together all the cables and cordage I have on board. I will not be able to touch lottom. All the power of the christian religion is in that word "Come." The dictatorial and com mandatory in religion are of no avail. The imperative mood is not the appropriate mood when we wouid r2ve peopie Havingl y impressed. They may be coaxed, but tney can not be driven. Our heart? are like our homes; at a friendly knock the door will be opened, but an attempt to force open our door would land the assailant in prison. Our theological freniinancs, which keep young men three years in their curriculum before munching them into the ministry, will do well if in so short a time they can teach the candidates for the holy office how to say with right emphasis and intonation and power that one word ' Come!" That mtn who Isas such eulcioucy in Christian work, and that woman who lias such power to persuade people to quit tho wmn? and begin the ri:ht, went through a series of losses, bereavements, persecutions and the trials rf twenty or thirty years before they rould make it a triumph of grace every timethey uttered the word "Corue." "You must remember that in many cases our "Come" has a mightier "Come"' to conquer before it lias any effect at all. Just give me the accurate census, the statistics of how many ae down in fraud, in drunkenness, in gambling, in impurity or in vice ot any sort, and I will give you the accurate census or statistics of how many have been slain by the word ''Come." "Come and click wine glasses ivith me at tids ivory bar." '"Come and tee what we can win at this gaming table." "Come, enter with me this doubtiul speculation;" "Come with me and read those infidel tracts on Christianity." ' Come with me to a place of bad amusement. "Come with me in a gay bout through underground Xew York."" If in this city there are 20,000 who are down iu moral cfiaractcr, the 10,000 fell under the po-.ver oi tho word "Come." I was reading of a wife whoso hesband had been overthrown by strong drink, and she went to the saloon where he was ruined, and ehehaid: "Give me bark my husband." And the bartender, pointing to a maudlin and battered man drowning in the corner oi the bar-room, paid: "There he is; Jim, wake up; here's your wife come for you." Ani the woman paid: "Do you call that my husband? What have you been doiiv; wi'th him? Is that the manly brow? is that the clear eye? Is that the noble heart that I married? What vile drug have you given him that has turned him into a hVnd ? Take your tiger claws off oi him. Uncoil those srpeui folds of evil habit that are crushing him. Give me back my husband, the one with whom I stood at the altar ten 3-ears ago. Give him back to me." Victim was he, as millions of others have been, of the w ord Come." ow, we want all the world over to harries this word for goo i as others have harnessed it for evil, and it wiil draw the five continents and the seas between them, yea, it wid draw tho whole earth back to the God from whom it ha wandered. It is that wooing and persuasive word that will lead meu to give up their sins. Was ekepiicL-ni ever brought into love of the truth by an ebulition of hot words against infidelity? Was ever the blasphemer stopped in his oaths by denunciation of blafphemy ? Was ever a drunkard weaned from his cups by the temperance lecturer's mimicry of ataggering step and hiccough? .'o. It was ' Come with me to church today and hear cur singing;" "Come and let me introduce you to a Christian man whom you will be sure to admire;" "Come with mo into associations that are cheerful and good and inapiring;" "Come with me into joy, such a von never before experienced." With that word which has done bo much for others I approach you today. Are you all right with God? "No," you sav. "I think not; 1 am sometimenalarmed when I think of ilitn ; 1 fear 1 will not be ready to meet Him in the last day; my heart is 'not right with God." Come, then, and have it made right. Through the Christ who died to save you, corue! What is the use of waiting? 1 he longer you wait the further oil" you are and the deeper vou are down, fr-tnke out for heaven! You re-member that a few years ago a steamer cabed the Princess Alice with a crowd of excursionists aboard sank in the Thames, and there was an awful sacrifice of life. A boatman from the hore put out for the rescue, and he had a big boat, and he got it so full that it would not hold another person, and aa he laid hoid of the oars to pull for the chore, leaving hundieds helpless and drowning, he cried otit: "Oh, that I had a bigver boat!" Thank God I am not thus limited, and that I can promise room for all in this gospel boat. Get in; get in! And yet there is room. ILoom in the heart of a pardoning God. Room in heaven. I also apply tlic words of my text to f hwe who would like practical comfort. It adj ever escape the struggle of

life, I have not found them. They are not certainly among the prosperous classes. In most casea it was a s".ruargle all tho way up till they reached tho prosferity, and since they have reached these leights thero have been perplexities, anxieties and crises which were almost enough to shatter the nerves and turn the brain. It would be hard to tell which have the biggest fight in this world the prosperities or the adversities, the conspicuities or the obscurities. Just as soon as you have enough success to attract the attention of others, the envies and jealousies arc let looso from their kennel. Tho greatest crime that you can commit in the estimation of others is to get on better than they do. They think your addition is their Fiibtractioo. Five hundred persons start for a certain goal of success; one reaches it, and the other V.r.) are mad. It wouid take volumes to hold the story of the wrongs, outrages and defamations that hav come uton you as a result of your success. The warm sun of prosperity brings into life a swampful of annoying insects. On the other hand the unfortunate classes have their struggles for maintenance. To achieve a livelihood by one who has nothing to start with, and alter a while for a family as well, and carry this on until children are reared and educated and fairly started In the wcrid, and to do this amid all the rivalries of business and the uncertainty of crops and the fickleness of tarill' legislation, w ith an occasional labor Mrike and here and there a iinaucial panic thrown in, is a mighty thing to do, and there are hundreds and thousands of such heroes and heroines who live unsung and die unhonorod. What we all need, whether up or down in lite or half-way between, is the infinite solace of the Christian religion. And so we employ the word "Come!" It will take a 1 eternity to find out the number of business men who have been strengthened by the promises of God, and the people who have been fed by the ravens when other resources gave out, and the men and women who, going into its battle armed only with needle or saw, or ax, or vard stick, or pen, or type, or shovel, or hoelast, have gained a victory that made the heaver.s resound. With all the resources of God promised for every exigency, no one need be left in the lurch. I like the faith displayed years ago in Prury Iaue. London, iu an humble home where every particle of food had given out, and a kindly soul entered with tea and other table supplies, and found a kettle on the lire ready for the tea. The benevolent lady said: "How is it that you have the k ttle ready for the tea when you had no tea in the house?" And the daughter in the house said: "Mother would have me put t lis kettle on the tire, an 1 when I said 'What is the use of doing so, when we have nothing in the house?' the said, 'My child, God will provide ; thirty years he has already provinedformethrouehall my painand helplessness, and he wii! not leave me to starve at last. He will send u'help, though we do nt yet mo how.' We have beetrwaiting all the day for something to come, but until we saw you we knew not how it was to come." iSuch things the world may call coincidences, but I call them almighty deliverances and, though you do not hear of them, they are oeciirriiij; every hour of every day in all parts of Christendom. I'.ut tho word "Come" applied to those who need solace will amount to nothing unless it bo uttered by sonic one who has experienced that solace. That spreads the responsibility of giving this gospel call among a great many. Those who have lost property and been consoled by religion in that trial are the one-: to invite those who have failed in business. Those who have lost their health ami been consoled by religion are the ones to invite those who are in poor health. Those who have had bereavements and been consoled in those bereavements are the ones to sympathize with those who have lost father or mother, or companion or child or friend. What mu titudes of us are alivo today and in good health and buoyant in this journey of life, who would have been broken dow n or dead long ago but for the sustaining and cheering help of our holy religion! So we say "Come !" The well is not dry. The buckets are not empty. The supply is not exhrusted. There is just as much mercy and condolence and soothing power in God as before the first grave was dug, or the first tear started, or the nrt heart broken, or the first accident happened, or the first fortune vani hod. Those ci us who have felt the consolatory lower of religion have a right to speak out of our own experiences, and say "Come." 'What dismal work of condolence the world makes when it attempts to condole! Tho plaster they spread does not stick. The broken bones under their bandagvs do not knit. A farmer was lost in the snow-storm on a prairie in the far Went. Night coining on, and after he was almost frantic from not knowing which way to go, his 6leih struck the rut of another eleigh, and he said: "I will follow this rut and it will take me out to safety." He hastened on until he heard the bells of the preceding horses, but, coming up, he found that that man was also lost, and as is the tendency of those who are thus confused in the lorest, or on ti e moors, they were both moving in a circle and the runner of the one lost sleigh w :is following the runner of the other lost tde.igh round end round. At lfit it occurred to them to look at the North star, w hich was pe-ring through the night, and by the direction of that Ktar they got home again. Thofe who follow the advice of this world in time of perp'?x,ty are in a fearful round, for it is line bewiidered soul follow ing another lewndered soul, ami only those who have in uch time got their eye on the morning star of our Christian faith can find their way out, or bo strong enough to lead others with an all-persuasive invitation. "But," says some one, "you Christian people keep tel ing us to 'come' yet you do not tell us how to come." That charge shall not be true on this occasion. Come believing! Come repenting! Come praying! After all that God lias been doing for 0,000 years, sometimes through patriarchs and sometimes through prophets, and at last through culmination of all tragedies on Golgotba, can any one think that God will not welcome your coming? Will a father at vast outlay construct a rnansijn for his son, and lay out parks wtiite with statues and green with foliage, and all a-sparkle with fountains, and then not adow his son to live in the house, or walk in the parks? Has God built this house of Gospel mercy, and will He then refuse entrance to His children? Will a government at greatexpense build life-saving stations all along the coast and boats that can hover unhurt like a petrel over tho wildest surge, and then, when the lifeboat has reached the wreck of a ship in the othng, not allow the drowning to seize the life-line or take the boat tor tho shore in safety? Shall God provide, at the cost of Hi only son's assassination, escae for a sinking world, and then turn a deaf car to the cry that comes up from the breakers? "But," you say, "there are so many things I have to believe and so many things in the shape of a creed that I have to adopt that I am kept back." No; no! Yon need believe but two things ; namely, that Jesus Christ came into the world to ave sinners, and that you are one of them. "Hut," you say, "I do believe both of those things!" "Do you really believe, then, with all your heart?" " Yes." Why, then, you have passed from death into life. hr, then, you are a hon or a daughter of tho Lord Almighty. Why, then, you are an heir or an heiress of an inheritance that will declare dividends from now until long after the fetars are dead. Hallelujah I Prince of God, why do you not come and Uko your coronet?

Princess of the Lord Almighty, why do you not mount your throne? Pass up into the light. Your boat is anchored, why do you not go ashore? Jut plant vour feet hard down, and you will feel under theni the Koek of Ages. 1 challenge the universe for one instance in which a man in the right spirit appealed for the salvation of the gospel and did not get it. Man alive! Are you going to let ah the years of your life go away with 3011 without your having this great jeaee, this glorious hope, this bright expectancy? Are you going to let the pearl of great price lie in the dust at your feet because you aro too indo'ent or too proud to stoop down and pick it up? Will fou wear the chain of evil labit when near by you is the hammer that could with one stroke snap tho shack 'es? Will you stay in the prison of sin when here is a gospel key that could unlock your incarceration? No; no' As the one word, "Come," has sometimes brought many souls to Christ, 1 w ill try the experiment of piling up into a mountain and then send down in an avalanche of power many of these gospel "Comes." "Come thou and all thv house into the ark;" "Como unto :ne all ye w I10 labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest;" "Come, for all things it re now ready ;" "Come with us and we will do you gKxl;" "Como and see;" "Tuo Spirit and the P.ride say 'Come' and let him that heareth say 'Como and let him that is athirst come." The stroke of one bell in a tower may be sweet, but a score of bells well tuned and rightly lifted and ski Ifully swung in one great chime fill the heavens with music almost celestial. And no one who has heard the mighty chimes in the lowers of Anister.latn, or Ghent, or Copenhagen, can forget them. Now it seems to me that in this Sabbat li hour all heaven is chiming, and the voices of departed friends and kindred ring down the eky saying, "Come!" The angels who never fell, bending from sapphire thrones, are chanting, "Come!" Yea; all the towers of heaven, tower of martyrs, tower of prophets, tower of apostles, tower of evangelists, tower of the temple of the J .ml God and the I.amh. are chiming, "Come! Come!' Pardon for all. and peace for all, and heaven for all who wiil come. When Russia was in one of her great wars, the sullVringof the 6o'diors had Ik'CH long and bitter, and they were waiting for the end of the strife. One day a messenger in great excitement ran among the tents of the army, shouting "Peace! Peace." The sentinel on guard asked: "Who says peace?" And the sick soldier turned ou his hospital mattress and asked: "Who says peace?" And all up and down the encampment of the Russians went the question, "Who says peace?" Then the messenger responded: "The czar says 'peace.' " That was enoucrh. That meant c.oing home. That meant the war was over. No more wounds and no more long li'.irches. So today, as one of the Lord's messengers, I move through thes:? great encampments of Fouls and cry, "Peace between earth and heaven! Peace between God and man ! Peace between your repenting soul and a pardoning Lord!" If you ak trip, "Who say peace?" 1 answer, "Christ our king declares it," "My peace I give unto yon !" "Peace of God that pas.-eth all nndeistandiiig !" Kvcr1 as till 5 peace ! A FARO TABLE FOR A PULPIT.

A Clergyimn Relates How He Had a Chnncn fit tlie Hity.c. IN. V. Observer. No class of men knew better how to treat a minister they liked in a royal manner than the class of men who went into those rugged mountains in southwest rn Colorado during the time 01 the "great San Juan excitement"' iu 1S70, 1S7C5 and 177. Nor could a more intelligent, plucky, warm-hearted set of men be found, men w ho knew what was right. Among thein were many who had been taught in eastern homes by pious parents that "man's chief end is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever" Yet ttrar.ge as it now seems when looking back to thone exciting times, many of th.se very men from the best of homes found their way into the great gambling halls that were to be found in the "live" mining camps, claiming that they went there only to r-ee what was going on and not to take pait in the gamed ; yet, notwithstanding these claims, many of them, after getting, as thev thought, "the run of the game," did "fight the tiger." ome did so successfully ; others did not. When entering some of the camps where they had no miuister I invariably went to the right place to find an audience, and in every case was courteously and kindly received, and generally told: "Ju.-t wait, Brother Harlev, until the games can bo stopped, and then wo w ill give you a chance at the boys." It was not always aa easy matter to etop the games. Winners were generally wi. ling, whd-. lowers were not as ready to ;uit. Uut as soon as the games dos d, then 'roulette," "keno,' "poker and 'laro" wouid give place for a time to the irospel. A more convenient pulpit than a "faro" table ould not bo found, nor a more respectful ami intelligent audience, and occasionally what singing we did have! Men wtio had trained voices, rich and sweet, would lead in singing, without books, those grand old h vines, "Jesus, Iver of My Soul," and ,:Po k of Ages ( left for Me," and with bowed heads listen to the praver, and often with tears in their eyes listen to the "Old, Old Story." told a.s they had often heard it "back F.ast," whi:e sitting in a pew beside father, mother, or fond wife and dear children. The contrast was just as great between the Eastern pew and the beer kegs, whisky barrels and chairs, as it wa3 between the Kasiern pu'pit and a WVfteru faro table, behind which the minister stood, but the Christ presented was just the same, and those men's souls were just as dear to the Saviour. In one camp I became acquainted w ith a "faro dealer ' who had a decidedly clerical look, and his beautiful gray beard and clerical dress added much to his elegant manners. He always called me "Brother Darley." During those years I was often reminded of the words of the "weeping willow:" "Weep ye not for the dead, ne.ther bemoan him; but weep sore for him that goeth away." One night I said to a voung man, fresh from the Kast, as I met him at the door of a large gambling hall: "Were you in the habit of enter. ng sut h houses in the Fast?" He answered: "1 was never in a saloon nor gambling house in my lite until I came to this camp. My folks would beasbamcd if they knew that I ever entered such places," Having hold of his band, and the light shining into our faces I said: "Should you be any the less of a man out West than you were back Kast?" Py the Hash of his eye and the color in hia faco I saw that he was offended, but I held his hand and kept looking him in the eye. Finally he droptd his head and said : "I ought not to be." IraakinK thcNtm Ocntly. 1'aris Figaro. Two Tolish peasants happen to meet: "Tell me, did you know that Naida's cow was dead?" "Good heavens! Hut you are not going to tell him the news as bluntly as that?" "No, I shall prepare him. First I nm going to tell him that his mother has died ; then I can break the new s about the cow." All tii Mm to Her. Il'aria Figaro. At the grocer's. "Give me half a pound of tea, please." "black tea or green, Miss?" "I don't care which. My mistress is blind."

A SHARP YANKEE TRICK. Oirnblll Mayatluo for Ijfrar. 'Sail ho!" Never, eurely, did the cry fall upon more welcome ears, save aud except those of men becalmed in a boat upon the open sea. For twelve weary days and nights had we, the officers and men of H. M. ship Petrel (six guns, Commander II. IL Neville), been cooped up in our iron prison, patrolling one of tho hottest sections of the terrestrial globe, on the lookout for slavers. From latitude 4 north to latitude -P south was our beat, and we dared not venture beyond these limits. Our instructions were to keep out of sight of land and try to intercept some of the larger vessels which, it was suspected, carried cargoes of slaves from the coast. The ship, tho soa, the cloudless sky; there was nothing else to see, nothing elso to think of. Work, fctudy, play even, were alike impossible in that fierce, scorching heat. If you touched a bit of iron on deck it almost burned your hand. If you lay down between decks covered w ith a sheet, you awoke in a bath of jterspiration. "Sail ho!" The mau, in his excitement, repeated tho shout before he could bo hailed from the deck. "Where away?" sang out the captain. "Two points on the weather bow, sir," was the reply. That phrase about the "weather bow" was a nautical fiction, for there was no wind to speak of; and what there was was nearly dead astern. "Keep her away two points," said Commander Neville," and the order wa: promptly obeyed. In a few seconds the news had spread through the ship; and the men clustered on the bulwarks, straining their eyes to get a glimpse of the stranger. Even the stokers, poor fellows, showed their sooty faces at tiie engine room hatchway. Of course the stranger might be, and probably was, an innocent trader; but then she iHiohtho a slaver ; and golden visions of prize money floated be: ore the eyes; of every mau and boy on board the Petrel. We diil not steam very fast, as, of course, our supply of coal was limited; and it vas about fwo hours lefote sundown when we fairly sighted the stranger. She was a long three-ma ted schooner, with tall raking masts, lying very low in the water. All her canvas was set; and as a little wind had sprung up, she was slipping through the water at a fair pace. "she looks forall the worid like a slaver, sir," remarked Mr. lirabazon, the first lieutenant, to the commander. Neville said nothing; but his lips were firmly compressed, and a gleam of excitement was in his eves. "File a blank cartridge, Mr. O'Riley," said be to the second lieutenant: "and signal her to ask her nationality and her code number." Ibis was done, and in answer to the signal the schooner slowly hoisted tlie American colors. "She has eased away her shoe's and lulled a pointer two, sir," said the quarter-a.aU-r, touching his cap. The captain merely answered this by a nod. "Put a bbot in your gun, Mr. O' Riley," said he. "Ixjwer your hoist and make a fresh hoht, demanding her name." This was done, but tho American took no notice. "Fire a shot, Mr. O'liiley wide, of course," said the commander. Again the deafening report of the big gun sounded in our ears, and we could see the splash of the shot ns it struck the water about li it y yards Irom the schooner, linuediately a "ttag was. run up, then another, and another, and we saw that she was not giving us her code number, but was spelling out her name, letter byjetttr The Black Sv:m. "Just look that in in the F. S. merchant registry," said the captain to the lird lieiunant. And in halt a minute he had reported "No such name, sir." Tills was something more than suspicious. And the wind was rising. "hoist the signal for her to heave to!" cried Commander Neville. "Take a boat and a half a dozen, hands, Mr. O'Riley," he continued: "board her, inspect her papers, and como back to report. If her papers are not in order," a Jded he, "you may search lor slaves ; but if they aro you had better do nothing further. You know it is clearly set down in the Protocol that we are not enti'led to search the hold if toe papers are in order; mid there have been complaints lately against some overzealous otlicers, who have got into trouble in consequence. So be careful. liut keep your eyes open. Note any suspicious circumstances, and come back as soon as you can, to repor." Me fore Lieut. O'Riley reached the sh'p he saw that everything about her had beeu sacrificed to speed. Her spars, especia ly. were unusual. y heavy for a craft of her size. The P.ritish otlicer was received by a li: tie, thin, e derly man wearing a Panama hat, and speaking with a f-trong Yankee accent. "Produce your papers, if you please," said O'Kiley. They were handed out .'it once, and seemed to be perfectly regular. "What have you got on board?" was the next question. "iencr d cargo dry goods, and so on." "Why isn't your name on the register?" "Ain't it now? Well, I guess it must be because this is a new ship. We can't put our name on the register by telegraph, mister." "Just tell your men to knock off the hatches. I want to have a look at your cargo." The skipper shook his head. "I've been le ayed long enough," srud he, "and havo lost a great part of the only wind we've had in this darned latitude for a week." "I'll do it myself, then ! ' cried O'liiley. "Not now, sir; not with six men. while I have fifteen. You have no light to search the hold of a respectable merchantman and disturb her cargo. lo you take me for a slaver, or w hat? Ff you must have the hatches up, send back to your mau-of-war for a larger crew, so as to overpower roe, you understand, and you im-y do it with pleasure. Hut I guess there'll be a complaint lodged at Washington, and vou tolka in London will have to pay for it. That's all, mister. 1 only want things fair and square, within my treaty rights." And having delivered himself of this long speech, the Yankee skipper turned on his heel. Of course O'Kiley could only return to the Petrel and report all this to his commander. "I'm convinced she is a slaver, sir," said he in conclusion. "liut you have no evidence of it; and you say the papers were all in order." "Apparently thev were, sir." "Then I'm afraid 1 can do nothing." said the commander. And to the deep disgust of the whole ship's crew, the order was given for the Petrel to return to her course. All that night, however, Commander Neville was haunted by a doubt whether lie bad not better have run the rUk of a complaint and a reprimand rather than forego tho overhauling of so suspicious looking a craft ; and in the morning a rumor reached his ears that the cockswain, who had accompanied Mr. O'Riley to the Plack Swan, bad noticed something about her of a doubtful feature. The man was tent for and questioned, and ho said that while the lieutenant wa. on board, the

loat of w hich he had charge had drop-J ped a little way astern, and that he had then noticed that tho name of the vessel

had been recently painted out, but that the last two letters were distinctly visible. And these letters were LK, not AN. "The scoundrel said she was a new ship!" cried tho commander. "'Pout ship!'' "We can't porsibly catch her up, sir," said the first lieutenant drv'y. "I don't know that. Mr. Urabazon," answered Neville. "Thero has been hardly any wind; and we know the course sho was steering. She could ' not expect to see us again ; so in all probability she has kept to that course, lly making proper allowances wo may intercept h-r. I am convinced of it." Tfie hope of again encountering the l.iack Swan, faint as it was. caused quite a commotion in our little world. The day passed "without our sighting a single sail; out when the morning dawned Lieut, P.raba.on wa fored to own that the commander's judgment proved better than his own. l'y the greatest good luck we bail hit upon the right track. There, right in front of us, was the American schooner, her sails lazily llapping against her ma-ts. "Full speed ahead, and stand by !" shouted the captain down tho engine-room tube. "Signal to her 'to heave to. and if she does not obey, fire a shot right across her bows, Mr. O'Riley," continued the commander. "Mr. Prahazon, you take a boat and thirty men well armed. Hoard her, and have her hatches oil at once. You'll stand no nonsense, I know." "All right, sir," cried the lieutenant, an active, somewhat imperious officer, of the Ciris lloinanuA tye. He had been unusually disgusted at his commander's decision to leave the Black Swan without searching her, and he was delighted that a more active policy had lieen begun. "1 say, lirabazon," whispered the commander, i he was going over the side, "you know I'm stepping a bit beyond bounds, and I'm just a little anxious. If she turns out to be a slaver, as we suspect, step to the tatl'rail and wave your handkerchief, will you?" "I will, sir 'I'm certain it will be all richt," cheerfully resionded the first lieutenant. A tall, slim, youngish man, dressed in white linen, received the P.ritish officer as he set foot on the deck of tho Flack Swan. "I am at present in command of this craft, sir," a:d the voung American. "The skipper is not fit for service just at present. We had a visit from you two days ago, I think. Can I do anything for you?" "Ves, I want you to take oft your batches," said the lieutenant sharply. "Well, sir," begun the Yankee. "I guess your demand is beyond your treaty lowers." "I know all about that. I must have the hatches off." "And you are detaining me and overhauling inv cargo on no grounds whatever " " "Will you do it at once?" broke in the liritish oilicer. "I repeat, on no grounds vhatcrrr, will ciitisc an in tor na tional difficulty, and may bring re markably unpleasant con sequences to your captain. Now " "Oir with your hatches!" cried the lieutenant. "S r!" "If you don't, by George, 1 will :" "You know clearly what vou're doing, sir?" "I do." "And you know the risk you run?' "1 do. No more palaver. Off with them at ence, or 1 11 break them cpen." Further resistance was useless. Tho thing was done, and the moment the last hatch was raised tho sickening efiluvium that issued from the hold proclaimed the truth. Nearly three hundred slaves were packed between decks, many of the poor creatures standing so close that they could not lie down. With a lok of speechless contempt at the young mate of the schtKiner the lieutenant walked lo the side of the ship and waved his handkerchief. That instant a ioud P.ritish cheer rang over the water, given by the blue-jackets, who could be seen clustering in the rigging like bees. "I tol l our skipper judgment would overtake us," said the Yankee. "Sny, mister," he added in another tone, "seeing that the guue's up, suppose we have a .Liss of iced champagne down 6taira?" The Jieutenant hesitated. To drink with the mate ofasltver ! But ice J champagne ! slowly he moved toward the companion-way. "I don't mind if I do!" he said at length ; "and you may as well bring up your papers with the drinks, fori shall carry them on board the Petrel. Of course you "und- retan J that you are my prize," And having set a guard at the hatchways, the lieutenant decended the cabin stairs. The iced champagne was duly forthcoming, and under its genial influence Lieut, lirabazon began to feel something like pity for the young man who had been so early seduced into the path of crime. Probably he had a mother or a sweetheart somewhere in the states, who imagined that he was already on his way home, whereas, now his character was ruined, even if he escaped a long term of imprisonment. This feeling was strengthened, as he saw that his companion was gazing mournfully at his glas, without speaking a word. At length the young man lifted his head. "Say. mister, what'll thev do to me, think?" "I can't tell. Of course, you know that what you have been engaged in is a kind of piracy?" "No!" "I believe so. Cargo and crew are confiscated, of course. What they will do with you I can't tell." "They won't hang me, will they?" "Probably not," said tho lieuteuant; "but let this bo a warning to you. You see what it is to wander otr the straight course and hanker alter forbidden gains. Lead an honest life in future, when you are released from custody. Avoid vicious companions liut, what's this?" he cried, as his eye fell on an empty scabbard hanging on the wall. It looked very like a U. S. service sword-scabbard, and immediately the thought darted through his mind that this hyocritical young Yankee (who had been pretending to wipe away a tear as he listened to the lieutenant's good advice) had been doing somet hing worse, or at least more heavily punished, than running careoes of slaves. The British othYcr looked round the cabin. A U. S. navy cap was lyin on a plush-covered bench. "Ah ! you've been having a brush w ith an American man-of-war!" cried Lieut, lirabazon. "You will have to tell my superior officer how you came into possession of these articles. I must place you under arrest!" And, bitterly regretting that Jic had sat down to table with the fellow, the British oliicer rushed on deck. "Quartermaster !" he cried, "bring up a guard of four men, and take this mau," fointing to the Yankee, who had followed urn on deck, "to the Petrel. If he tries to escape, shoot him at once!" The quartermaster advanced to seize the prisoner; but before he reached him he involuntarily stopped short. A roar of laughter sounded ki his ears. The American mate and his companions were shrieking ami staggering alu ut the deck; even the crew of the slaver were,' every jack of them, grinning from ear to ear. The lieutenant was dumbfounded. "Excuse me, sir; but the joke was too good," said the Yankee, coming forward and holding out his hand. "I am the first lieutenant of tho U. 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board this vessel, taking her to to havo her condemned. We seized her yesterday. Hearing that vou bad been on a visit to her the day before, and bad pone away without doing anything. I couldn't resist the temptation of taking you in. Hope you don't bear malace. lt't finish that magnum of champagne." It was"" evidently the best thing to bo

lone; but the lieutenant was not a nretrate companion on that occasion. "Give my respects to your commander," called out the F. S. officer as his guest went down into his boat, "and advise him from me not to h so jolly particular another time. And I'll try to take your kind advice ani sail a straight course in future !" he cried, as her majesty's loat shot away for the last time froai the side of the Black Swan. THE SMART SET NOW PLAIN. A Social Iteartlon In New York That lit and a the ChtMtt Simplicity. The last and loudest and most poignant cry in society, says the New York Ilerahl, is for simplicity in entertainments. Sweet simplicity. Chaste simplicity. Elegant simplicity. Noble simplicity. The simplicity that distinguished the dinners and dances of our grandmothers, when hospitality apiH-aled to the heart more than it did to the senses. Small, quiet dinners, nice little dances, and modest and unpretentious suppers after the dances are over. These furnish the themes now for drawing-room panegyric and 3 o'clock tea enthusiasm. It is the characteristic of tho human mind that it can not build up without pulling down at the same time. The ioople who are building up a sentiment in favor of simplicity in the conduct of social afTairs are doing what they can to bring what is costly and complicated into disrepute. Big balls are plebeian. Large dinners are vulgar. Elaborato receptions are snobbish. The idea of ostentatious display has been at the bottom of all tuch social demonstrations. They have been given chiefly for the ptirpcst3 of surprising and amazing society friends and acquaintances, and, above all, society rivals. The dinner-tables have been spread with gold plate and burrounded by liveried servants. The menu has recalled the feasts of imperial Pome. At the balls the rooms have been docorated with costly llowers.and the favors for the german have been expensive presents. They have been industriously announced in advance, and tho invited crowds have hurried to the entertainments with all the curiosity and anticipation felt by a firstnight crowd at the theater. Oi course they have been surprised and in many cases mystified. But now comes the reaction. Sweep all this over decoration and cmbelishment or ornamentation away. Let us be sweetly simple. A great many people will doubtless assert that the swells mean that they want to be cheaply simple. But the present movement is not to be accounted for in that way. 1 1 is true that neit her M rs. A st or nor any of the Yanderbilts have as yet joined the reformers. They are in sympathy w ith the reform movement, however, and may join later on. In the meantime Mrs. Astor serves terrapin, cauvasback duck and choice Johannisberger for the refreshment of those who attend her big receptions, and her dinners are, for the present, quite as elaborate as they have been. Little by little, though, dinners, luncheoue, collations and ball suppers will be cut down to simpler proportions. It may be ftated without further preliminary that this cry for simplicity is directed against what are now familiarly known as the new rich and their social pretensions. ' Millionaire famiUes have come here San Francisco, Chicago, and even froni Boston and Philadalphia, and have captured our best society with their superb dinners, their priceless wines and their gorgeous and theatric dances. They have purchased cottages at Newport, costly equipages, and boxes at the opera, and they have startled and surprised society into accepting them and the spectacular hospitality they dispensed. No birth. No breeding. No education. No cultivation. No grandfather. No family tree. No genealogical records. No eoats-of-arms, 'unless purchased with their Newport cottage and their opera box. Simply rich men and women. The "best society" has been contemplating this condition of things. They have been watching the aggressive progress of the new rich, and they recoil in horror from the contemplation of it. I t;is scarcely necessary to sav that the tendency toward simplicity will be overdone, precisely as the teudency toward what was handsome and costly was carried to an absurd developmentCostly decorations, rich viands for dinner and supper, superb favors for the german, wid le replaced, not by what is sensible and appropriate, but by what is silly and inappropriate. It is useless, however, to attempt the checking of thi movement toward the meager anil unsatisfying. I hear of a dance supper that consisted chiefly of bouillon, sandwiches and lemonade. We will soon be tol 1 that Ward McAllister and his followers are satisfying their midnight appetites with crackers and cheese and water. Judge Mitchell. A noble man thin planet has so few I,ik unto hlra, that torroir'atal rafra'a Invito tbs w'ls of gr ef to flow anew When torn fond memory draws him back again. A sIdier brare hi patriotic lit Wat fre!y offered fur hla country ' weal; Errr advancing in tho battle's rtrif With fortitude and true courageous zeat. An upright judfte his clear discerning mind Reflected justiee in its purest light; His was the mission to toil on and lind And publish to bia fellow men the right. Warm-hearted friend are friend and something more A benefactor to the struggling roulh His traeit worth was never known before. But gratitude must now speak out the truth. Sweet Christian tonl bis many virtues shine W'ith radiance that never shah grow dim; His life was true unto this single line He loved his fellowmen and they loved him. Elkhart, Jsn. 2L IHarkt 8. Cumteb. Work and I'Iat. iruek.l "I wonder what the base-ball players do during the winter?" "They usually loaf; but this winter they are at work by the day, trying to pay last summer's expenses." Apropos of the Pianist, IPuck. "I don't like his technique. He pounds so. "That isn't technique. It's Wagner." The Tltle-IUIe. rued "Amelie Rives seenis to have dropped out of sight." "Yes ; her literary reputation was quick ; but it's dead!" A Doctor o' Journalism. Puck. Prof. Stardust "How do you account for the daily revolutions of the earth?" Student Presby"Becausa South Amer- ', ica U a part of iu"

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