Pike County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 19, Petersburg, Pike County, 17 September 1885 — Page 4

s PIKE EOllffi DESiOCiUT. Published Every Thursday. PETERSBURG. - - - INDIANA. REMARKING ON THE WEATHER. ▲a I «*■ passing o'er a stils, 1 »“d ujy sweetheart true together, Uui Kn< t>urk«e _ __L * . think -Mill bo to-morrow’s weather?" Chen stood wo on tho top step there,* My sweetheart and my sotf together I gated up to the bright blue sky. Che winds from West were gently blow- . Ing; '*d. on the fields of waving rye, Che noon-day sun was warmly glowing. A could not tell. Indeed, not I; I saW twos knowledge past my knowing; The re might be rata, there might beshlue, Or morrow’s troubles past undoing; Bo oft, I whispered, every sign Doth fail tor shadows closo pursuing. . He kissed my Ups ss there I stood; Alas, what could 1 do for blushing! Then cried I—"Oh, my pretty snood, You are most rudely crushing!" Be kissed my Ups; 1 knew ‘twos wrong; Yet Joy went thro’ my heavt swift rushing: He held me In his arms so strong. My pretty snood quite enishtag. The morrow brought 11s wealth of beams And strewed them all the meadow over. And to my heart brought brighter gleams, for O, It brought to me my lover. He kissed my lips; what could I do? And swore me love heart-true forever; Blurt- shadows all so close pursue," Taid he: "Now list my prayer unto. And lot us haste the wooding over.** And every time we cross that stile, 1 and my sweetheart true together, Somehow my Btiood slips off tho while, A few bright moments wo beguile » Remarking on the weather. —ill. Rrsnnan, in Current. f Copyright Secured. AH Mghli Mssrved.] Driven From Sea to Sea; Or, JUST A CAMPIN’.

Rat JfOBT. Fcbmsbnd by Permission ot J. B. Downey ft Co.. PubiasHsits, Chicago. CHAPTER XXI.—Continued. From Erastns they heard but seldom, but knew him to be at work on his claim “ at the Slough. Mrs. Parsons had written him of the destruction of the old home, and of their removal to the new, soon after its occurrence, and also of Jennie's marriage to Ensign and tlieir removal to Chicago. Of Lucy’s breaking with Mr. Annelaey she did not write, thinking possibly it might not bta permanent, in which case it would be better for Erastus, if still feeling attached to Lucy, not to have his hopes raised to be again dashed to the ground. Mr. Annelsev, however, did not plead very earnestly with Lucy to reconsider 1 her action in dismissing him. It was several weeks before his reply came; and then, while he expressed regret at her decision, he did not urge her very strongly to reverse it Knowing that his parents woulif oppose his marriage with a poor girl, he had not informed them of his engagement aud no comments would therefore be made at its being annulled; a fact upon which he now congratulated himself. He had already begun to feel his af- * fection for Lnoy weaken with absence; was, in fact becoming enamored of another young lady in whose society he had frequently been thrown since his return to New York, and whose position in wealth was equal to his own; and although he told himself that Lucy’s letter had broken his heart it is probable that after the shock to his selfesteem was over he was rather glad than otherwise. If Lucy expected or desired a more vehement protestation of love from her disguarded suitor than she received, her manner upon opening his letter did not reveal It She read the letter in the presence of the family, and then calmly handed it to her mother. The next" day she replied to it, reiterating her desire to be free from their engagement and asking the return of her letters. “I shall send yours, together with the ring and other jewelry, by the same mail that takes this letter,'” she wrofe him, and haviug sealed it and seen it, in company with the package, safely on its way to the office, she went about her usual duties with a cheerful, even merry air, which was a great source of comfort to her parents, and of especial satisfaction to her father. ‘‘If Rastus ’ud only come back now it ’lid be all right,” lie mused, and feeling oertain that the young man’s affeo- • tion for Lucy had not waned because of absence, fully expected him to’come back and ask her to be his wife. For this ho waited with impatience, wondering at Erastns’ delay and inventing excuses for it. ’’ “’Spectthe poor fellow hasn’t jest got the money by him to come on,” he ■aid to himself. And then again: “May be he’s a puttin’ in his crop an’ wants to finish so it will be growin while he’s gone." Or, “like enough, lie's a-workin’ for some body else for a spell an’ can’t honorably get oft' right away.” llut as tho weeks passed into months and the only evidence that Erastns had not forgotten them was a letter expressing his sorrow at the loss of their home, and a hope that he might some time assist them if they should require it, but never a word about Lucy or any inteno . tion of visiting the family, all hops of seeing Lucy married to the man whom ho loved as a son and respected for his manly qualities began to die out of John Parsons’ bosom. •* ’Rastas was always awful proud," be said to himself, “an1 I reckon he can’t get over the girl’s preferrin’ of that young jackanapes to him in the first place. He still supposed that Mrs. Parsons had written Era-tus of Lucy’s dismissal of, Annelsev, aud it was not uutil months had passed and summer was giving place to fall that he learned dif-fe.-ently. lie had never mentioned his hope that tho young folks would “mako up" to any one. Erastus knew that Lucy was with her parents, but supposed her only waiting for her aflianoed to come and claim her, and so worked on, striving to conquer his love, but nover succeeding, even for

M *IIWIUVUM And Lucy, although knowing that she loved Erastus, had always loved him, .either supposed that he knew of her broken engagement, and knowing It was Bilent because he had no love for her, or, if she suspected ho did not know, was restrained by maidenly reserve from taking any steps to.acquaint him with the fact. One day Mrs. Parsons was helping her husband in the garden, when something was said about Erastus. ••1 wonder,” remarked Mrs. Parsons, “what he is doing now? It is a good while since we board from him. 1 wish I know "hew he is getting along. Poor boy, ho must have a hard time of it with no one to keep his clothes in order or do a thing for him. I wonder if, he over tninks of getting married? ••Of course he must," she added, answering her own question; “ho has got a little start by this time and every young man on a farm needs a wife. 1 bopelte will get a good one when he docs marry.” John Parsons gave his olotbes a llttlo bitch, a habit he nad when at a lose for a word. Then turning his back to his wife and putting an extra bit of forae Into the hoe he was using, saidi “I had sort o’ thought may be he an* Luoy’d make up. now Anneleey’s auto* the way, but it seems they don’t

’fears like ’Rastas is too prowl to toko •p with bein’ second choice, though I don’t b’lieve tike girl ever oared halt as much lor that nr popenjay Atnelsey as she did for him, even if she did promise to marry him. I wish she’d write to ’Rastas and tell him so. I know that *ud fetch him. ’Ras ain’t the fellow to get over that kind of a thine in a hurry, and I know he loved her desprit, an’ it seems no more’n fair that she should tak e the first step towards makin’ up, under the oircom stances.” His manner of saying this showed that he intended it to be an argument too strong for his wife to rebut;, showing reason why Lnoy could, and should, let Erastns know that she had changed her mind and was ready to marry him if he still desired it When be paused he felt that he had not made the ease aa strong as it should bo, but not knowing exactly how to make it stronger he waited for a reply from hiswife, still keepiug hie back towards her and his hoc going vigorously. But Mrs. Parsons knew that her husband had not finished what he wished to say. and she remaned silent pretty soon ho began again: ‘•You see. Marty, it holds to reason that Lucy should he the one to speak first ’Kastus loved her, an’ Bhe knew it; leastwise lie thought she did; an’ knowing it she went an’ engaged herself to that ar fellow from Hew York an’ so gave ’Itas to think she wouldn’t have him no vray it could be fixed. So he went off to git away from the sight of ’em. An’ now, though knowiu’ that Annelsey’s got his walkin’ papers, he don’t know as I.uoy’d have him no more’n she wouhl afore; an’ ’Ras ain’t the kind as goes spoonin’ round hoggin’ for what folks don’t want|to give him. it ain’t right, an' it ain't fair, when I know the girl ’nd give everything she’s got in the world to have nitn back, that they should be kept apart jest because it’s customary for the man to speak first He has spoke first once an’ now it’s her turn.” All the time John was speaking Martha Parsons was thinking. She believed that Lucy loved Erastns and was secretly in 'hopes that he would yet return to her,, but she was not sure, and she saw the delicacy of the situation more clearly than did her husband, who had never been able to discover ">y necessity for the concealment of .no truo feelings of either party to a love a Hair. When licr hnsband had ceased speaking she was silent. for a moment and then said simply: “ Are you sure Erastns knows that Lucy has broken with Mr. Annelsey?” John Parsons suddenly stopped hoeing and turned quickly around facing bis wife. “Didn’t yon write him that, when the girls first come home?” he asked in surprise. “No, I did not; I was not certs,in that she eared for him and feared to awaken anew hopes that, alter all, might be useless. It was not certain that. Lucy's engagement with Annels<y might*nol be renewed, or that because she dismissed him she loved Erastns, and I thought it best to let him learn of it by accident. I supposed he would find it out through Jennie or some one else, but 1 do not think he ha».” Her husband made no reply but resumed his booing and the subject was not referred to again. Indeed very little further conversation occurred bbtween them during the entire afternoon, both appearing busy with their own thoughts. At the supper table tbat evening Mr. Parsons proposed that the two women should go to town the next day with some butter and eggs and suck other articles as they could spare, and make an exchange for family supplies. “Johnny and me’ll keep house while you're gone,” he said; “we’re capital at keepin’ house, ain’t wo, Johnny? And mother’ll bring you some candy or somethin’.” There was nothing very unusual in this proposition. Mrs. Parsons and Lucy had made similar trips on several occasions, leaving Johnny and hia father at home. John Parsons hated to “peddle,” as he called it, and his wife always got belter prices for tho butter and eggs and chickens than did he; besides which she knew better how to invest the proceeds economically in necessit'es for the family, and 'there was need of economy now. And as neither of the women liked either to go to town alone, or to stay alone with Johnny while the other went with the husband or father, it had become tho rnle for both to go and leave Johnny to the care of his father, and so they decided to do now. Accordingly such vegetables as they wero to fake were gathered and placed in the spring wagon. A hunt was made for eggs, which were carefully packed, small end down, in oats, to prevent their breaking, and tho bit of butter which they had saved was taken from the well where it hung by a rope, and rewrapped in white cloths. When it became dark they went with a lantern and caught two dozen chickens and put them in a crate, previously made and kept in which to take fowls to market; and bright and early the next morning the horses wero hitched up and they started. When they were gone John Parsons washed tho dishes, which the women hadnot stopped to do, tidied up the house thp best he knew how, talking to Johnny all tho time, and then went into the garden to work, taking the bov with him, as was his almost invariable custom when the weather was fine, and placing him, in his wheeled cot, where they deuld talk together aa the father worked. The fresh air and sunshine did the child good and he amused himself in manways. The chickens and turkeys learned to regard him as a friend and would come around him, often jumping upon his cot for some bit of food which he had brought, some of them becoming so tame as to permit him to handle them. When noon came the man and boy returned to the honse, where the father prepared and they ate dinner. Then, when the dishes had been washed and Johnny liad dropped off to sleep, ns he always did after dinner in the lone days, John, Sr, went to the bureau and rummaged around until he found some writing paper and finally a pen ao£ a bottle of ink.

ihe.se he brought to Um table, drew up a chair and sat down. •TU jest give ’Kastus a hint,” he was saying to himself, “an’ it he’s still of tho samo mind as he used! to be, he’ll be hero in less'n two weeks an* mother an’ Lucy ’ll never know what fetched him. “Wimin’s curis about some things; I never did understand ’em very well. There's Marty, now; best woman livin’, tender hearted as a chicken, an’ Luoy’a jest like her; but they're a-lettln’ ’Bastus an’ her break their hearts fer eaoh other rather than to speak up an’ tell him how the land lays; but I ain’t goin’ to ’low it” He dipped the peu in the ink and then let it slip through hin fingers and make a great blotch on the white table oloth. This was unfortunate; it would be a tell-tale spot informing the women of what ho nad been doing In their absence. Ho aroao and wet the dish rag and tried to remove the Ink spot, but only suooesded in making It larger. Finally he oarried the pen, Ink and paper to the bureau, took off the table olotlii and hung it In the window to dry. brought back the writing materials and again set down to his task. It was a long time sinoe be bad written a letter; he tried tp think how long,

and could not remember of having done so since the family came to the coast. Siestas was a tolerable pea* man. and good at composing, and nad. at Mr. Parson's request, written a few business letters that there had been a necessity for, and since he had left, there bad been no business letters to writer and until now John Parsons bad contented himself with simply sending his love or supplying some bit of news for Lnoy or her mother when they wrote to either of the absent ones on family affairs; Bet now he had an object to acooro. plish and must write, and he squared himself to the task. Again he dipped the pen in ink, but discovered that he bad forgotten the day of the month and got up and consulted the almanac which always hung on a nail driven into the window casing near the clock. When he had the date safely down he began: “1>KAR Rastus: ‘‘Ter mother and Luor hav gon to town with some chickens and things and are goin te bring back some groceries. “laic; atilt a goin to marry Mr. Annetsey after all; she's give him his walktn papers for good. "We are gittin long purtr well oonstderln, though this place atnt quite so comfortable and nice as the old one was. There alnt no young folks around here much, and buoy dont act like she wanted to hav anything to do with any of the young fellers that does come. Hadn’t you better come homo and make us a bi t Your mother and me wants to see you awful bad and so does Lucy; leastwise 1 think she doos. “We're gittin the place fixed up some better than It was wheu wu came here. Built a porch over the front door torn week Rnd the wimea has set out some rose bushes on both sides of It; you know Lucy always was terrible fond of rbses. “Johnny is bout the same as when you left. He and 1 hav been at work In the garden this forenoon, but he's asleep now thatg the reason I’m wrltin* you. You see I dont want the wimcii to know It, they are so awful curia about such things. 1 spent Lucy ud think It wasn't proper If she knew it. I reckon she thinks you cant never forgive her, cr lore be* any more, cause she went and engaged herself to that feller Annelsoy.foro she knew what she wanted. You see a woman thinks she urns’n't chirp even ef her heart is a breakin. “Wall, they 11 bo eomln back fore long an 1 must quit wrltin and get ready for em. When you come up you needn’t say anything to Lucy or mother bout my bavin writ to you.cause y ou see it wont do em any good to kuow it, an Lucy might not like it; might think you come out of pity fer her er somethin. They’re awful curie eritters, wtmen is. “This from yours affectionately. “John Pabsons." He read tab letter over slowly and carefully, and then adde<y “P. S. It was l.uey’s doine breaking off with Annelsoy, an I don't see why ebo should have done it ef she hadn’t loved somebody else better.” The letter finished, he sealed it upt directed it and placed it in the inside pocked of his vest. He had yet to get it to the post-office without the knowledge of the family, and he was at some loss to know how to accomplish this, as it was fifteen miles to the landing, and he could think of no excuse for going there immediately after his wife and Lnoy hatf purchase ! all needed family supplies; but he determined to bring it about somehow. “May be they’ll forget something,” he said, mentally, as no replaced tue pen and ink in the bureau. “1 hope they willed they do I'll jest lope a horse au’ r.de over there to-mor-row an’ mail this letter, for I’m bound to give ’Bastus a hint of how the lead runs." CHAPTER XXII. TBS LOVERS’ MEETING. Although having said, in his letter to Erastus, that he expected h's wife and daughter soon and must prepare for their coming. John Parsons didn’t really look for them yet for some hours. It was fifteen miles to Phippsburg over a hilly road, and it re juired the whole of a long day to make the trip, dispose of the articles taken, and return; and it was not yet the middle ol the afternoon when the letter was fin-t isheil. Yet John Parsons had no intention of telling a falsehood. Liars and cowards were his especial detestation; anil this slip of his from the path oi truthfulness, like nine-tenths of the white lies so common among all classes, was the result of an inability to readily command language in which to express his thoughts. He had given the “hint” which was the purpese of his writing, and could think of no proper way in which to close his letter and at the same time tell Erastus not to mention, to Lnoy ot to Mrs. Parsons, the fact of his having been written to. The whole affair wa| intended to be a fine stroke of diplomacy by which the father hoped to reunite those whom he loved, and whom ho believed were warmly attached to each other, without wounding the modesty and self-respect of his daughter. ft was dusk when Mrs. Parsons and Lucy returned. The husband and father met them at the gate which opened into the inclosure where the shanty stood, and kissed as lie helped them, dusty and tired, to descend from the wagon. Then he handed out the bundles and packages which they had purchased, after which he cared for the horses while the women ontered the house. They found the fire burning brightly, tho tea-kettle simmering on the stove, and tho table set. The ink spot on the tabic cloth was not visible, for it had been carefully covered with a broad dish; and if Mrs. Parsons noticed it when she removed the cloth and shook out the crumbs that evening, she was wise enough not to nventiou it, and in the morning a clean one was substituted and the stained cloth thrown into the wash. Johnny was of course anxious to see the various packages unwrapped, but was persuaded to defer seeing all except the articles purchased especially for him, until they nad eaten and cleared off the table, when they would all take a look at them. As the family sat at supper they talked of the-day’s journey, the prices received for chickens and eggs and vegetables, and what they bad purchased with tbeprooeeds; of what those who remained at home had done, and of what they would do with the money to be obtained from the next bit of produce which they would have to spare. “Just as soon as possible we must put up tho addition to the house of whioh we have been talking,” said Mrs. Parsons. “It won’t .cost much, and will add more to our comfort than anything else we could get with that amount of money.” “Did you ask the price of lumber at the landing?” asked her husband. “Why, no; Idid not suppose we could buy it now, and so did not think to ask.” “Well, I d’know; we’ve got a few dollars laid up now, and by sellin’ the calves we might scrape up enough to buy the lumber and get it home before the rains set in. The roads ’ll be too bad for haul n' after that If we had tho lumber home, then we'd get the nails and other things along as wenvus able, and I could do the work myself during a clear spell In the winter.” “But can we sell the calves for a fair price? Who is there to buy them?” “Bob Meeker, over on t’other side o’ the mountain ’bout four miles, said ths other day he’d buy ’em, an’ pay cash, ef Pd bring 'em over any time within a week. I guess wo’d better let h'm have ’em an* git tho lumber. It’ll be mighty unpleasant bein’ oooped up here all through the wet season agin’, an’ el we had the lumber 1’d manage the rest of it some way.” pro U CONTINUE!*.] ---

—You trnyel through the country end see some struggling house# end ■ couple of shanty stores and are told that it ia Bnngtown. A couple cd weeks later, under the head of “apeoiid dUpatoh," you read in the papers that thi “business oontor*’ of Bungtown h^i boon do#troyol by fire, "loss will reoji foliijr 9mm,"—m*bur9k tArendoh

DE. TALMAGE. ▲ Recent Elermon Preached at Belfast, Ireland. Seeking the tut-The Snlvatlou Through the Bloo«il of Christ That Is OfTereti to AM—The Joys of Bellevlng.

Rev. T. De Witt Talmsge, D. D., of Brooklyn, S’. Y.t preached on a recent Sunday in St. Enoch's Church, Belfast, Ireland, and in order to gratify the wishes of the immense concourse of those who had been unable to gain admission to the church he repeated the sermon out of doors. It is estimated that at the two sermons he addressed not less than forty thousand persons. He took for his text the following: The Son of Man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.—Luke, jrir., 10. The reverend gentleman spoke as follows: When Kossuth visited the United States over thirty years ago, so great was the; enthusiasm for Hungary that I remember very well the trees around the New York Battery were crowded with people who had climbed there to see the distinguished stranger as he passed. I shall never forget that seene. Indeed, if one be well poised he can not stand in a better place to see a passing crowd than in a tree-top. Well, Christ was coming to Jericho, and there was a small man, whose head did not come up to the shoulders of other people, who despaired of seeing the distinguished stranger while standing on the dead level, so he climbs up into a sycamore tree—broadbranched, stretching its arms clear across the highway and sits there while Jesus advaiices. Christ, coming up with a great multitude, casts His eye up aud sees, this man on the branch of the sycamore, and says: "Comedown;'' and after the man has alighted He says, among other things, to him: “ The Sou of Man is come to seek and to save that which was lost-” Our sympathies are always aroused when we see anything that is lost. Even a dog that has wandered away from its master we feel sorry for. Of a bird that has escaped from its owner, we say: “ Poor thing 1” Going down the street near nightfall, in the teeth of the sharp northeast wind, you feel very pitiful for one who has got to be out to-night. ' As you go along you hear the affrighted cry of a child. You stop. You say: "tVbat is the matter?” You go up and find that a little one has lost its way from home. In its excitement it can not oven tell its name or its residence. The group of people gathered around are all touched, all sympathetic and helpful. A plain body comes up, and with her plaid she wraps the child, and says: “I'll take care of the poor bairn.” While in the same street, but a little way on, the crier goes through the city, ringiag a bell, and uttering iu a voice that sounds dolefully through all the alleys and byways of the city: “A lost child! Three years of age; blue eyes, light hair. Lost child!” Did yon ever hear any such pathos as that ringing through the darkness? You are on shipboard. You see against the sky a vessel. It comes nearer. Yon hoist a Hag.. It makes no response. You say: “ What is the matter with that vessel?” You put the sea-glass to your eye, and you find there is no one in the rigging —no one on the deck. “ Ah,” you say, “ I guess that must be an abandoned ship. '' It comes on, falling over into the trough of the ocean. It floats every whither, tossed by the wild sea, and the crew say to the passengers, and the Captain says to his Mate: “ It is a lost ship.” You are goiug down the street, and you see a man that you know very well. You once associated with him. You are astonished as you see him. " Why,” you say, " he is all covered with the marks of sin. He must be in the very last stages of wickedness.” Aud then you thiuk of his blasted home, and say: “God pity his wife and child! God pity himt” A lost man. But, my friends, we are lost. “ All we, like sheep, have gone astray;” and the bellmen of Heaven come out hunting up and down to find those who have missed their way, ringing through all the streets of the city, and all the valleys and mountains of the earth, the old Gos)>el-bells: “ The Sou of Man has come UPseek and to save that which was lost.” 1 am glad that it is the Son of Man who has come to seek us. It is not one armed with thunderbolts, riding down the sky in ponderous chariot to crash us, but the Son of Man; His nature just like our nature, with one exception; His infancy rocked in the cradle of a mother’s arms; His boyhood spent iu Nazareth amid a boy’s temptations. Afterward, with blistered bands learning a trade. Afterward preaching, not with priest’s gown, bul; in citizen’s apparel; talking as brother talks with brother. O He was the Son of Man! He walked like a man, He slept like a man, He ate like a mau, He drank like a man, He wept like a man, He suffered like a man—He was a man! He knew what sin aud temptation are by jiersonal contact, for He lived in a most abandoned village, and He moved around amid fishing villages known in all ages ter their vice; and in after years He preached iu Jerusalem, a city which, though it had a temple, was worse than New York. And when Christ comes now He comes not to a new world to make a discovery, but He comes to an old world where He once lived; to a race whose nerves, and muscles, and bones, and flesh were just like those which lie inhabited. Like us, the cold chilled Him; like us, fire warmed Him; like ns, betrayal exasperated him. 1 warrant yon that in that hostile and rough society He receired many a kick, and bruise, and cuff that have never been recorded. I am glad! to know that He comes in the fresh memory of His sorrows on earth, and of those thrilling night scenes arid day scenes of His earthly citizenship, "to seek and to save that which was lost.” In the first place, I remark that we are lost to holiness. Are you not all willing to takv. the Bible announcements that our nature is utterly ruined? Sin has broken in at every- part of our castle. One would think that we got enough of it from our parents, whether they were pious or not; but we have taken the capital of sin with which our fathers and mothers started us, and we have by accumulation, as by infernal compound interest, made it enough to swamp us forever. The heart a battleground, across which armed battalions sweep right and left. The ivory palace of the soul polluted with the filthy feet of all uncleanliness. The Lord t Jesus Ch rist comes to bring us back to holiness. He comes not to destroy us, but to take the consequences of onr guilt. He breaks through lacerating tbo.us, and He dies to offer us cleanliness. Hero is a mat) who a few weeks ago said: “All is right with me. I am not willing to confess I am a sinner.” Now, the spirit comes to his soul, and he feels himself to be so great a sinner that there is no mercy ter him. When did he make the most accurate estimate? Now. “The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked.” But, says some one in the audience: “I have sinned so much I do uot-believe Christ will take me.” A great commander thought of going over into Italy. His friends laughed at him and said: “You can never get over the Alps. If you know anything about the Alps, 3rou know you can never get over there.” The commander waved his hand, and said: •‘There shall he no Alps.” Then the raad was built through the Simplon Pass—the wonder of following ages. We stand and see the mountain of our guilt. The obstacles seem so great that it is impossible for ns to find a way into the peace and life of the Gospel; but Christ comes, and He waves His wounded hand, and cries: “There shall be no obstacles. I will came over the mountain of thy sin and the h ills of thine iniquity.”" O ye who have sinned, instead of Hying away from Christ, if you only knew who it is that comes to save you, you would fly no farther, but turn around, and while Christ seeks you you

would seek Christ, and thin house would be a scene of a penitent sinner and a pardoning Saviour, throwing each other’s arms around each other’s necks; while Hearen could afford to stop half an hour and hang oyer the battlements gazing. What is that flutter among the angels? Who is that horseman rushing through the city with quick dispatch? What is that announcement on the bulletins of •Heaven? I know what it is. Christ has found that which was lost. “ Kor angels can their Joy contain, But kindle with new Ore; Ihc sinner lost is found, they sing. And strike the sounding lyre.” I remark again, we are lost to happiness, and Christ comes to fiud us. A caliph said: “I have been fifty years a caliph, and 1 have had all honors and all wealth, and yet, in the fifty years I can count up only fourteen days of happiness.” How many there are in this audience that can not count fourteen days in all their life in which they had no vexations or annoyances. We all feel a capacity for happiness that has never been, tested. There are interludes of bliss, but whose entire life has been a continuous satisfaction? Why is it that the most of the fine poems .of the world are someho w descriptive of grief?t It is because men know more about sorrow than they do about joy. John Milton succeeds when he writes “Paradise Lost,” bat fails when he comes to write “Paradise Regained.” Dante’s “Inferno” is a chime of horrors. Biryaut’s “Thanatopsis” is a poem of tears. Take the pathos out of the writings of Tennyson and Longfellow, and you have taken threefourths their power. John Ruskn writes his most effective passages aliuut the ruin of Venice. It is because men know more about sorrow than about joy that they are more effective in describing the former. Tho dog of bad news runs faster than the carrier pigeon flies with good tidings. There are flushes of satisfaction in the heart; but whoso life has beea a prolonged delight? The soul has four ranks of keys, and the world does not know how to play on such an elaborate instrument; but religion comes, and with her right baud she touches the higher keys of the soul, aud then sweeps them with the symphonies of Heaven. Christ comes to find those who have been lost to happiness. He soothes them. He inspirits them. He lifts them. He opens the door of the lost Eden, and invites them to come in again to peace. Oh, how many in this house have been I goaded, and stung, and plagued! Had it l not been for risking your eternal interests, some of you would have put an end to the scene of earthly suffering with your own hand. A deep undertone of sadness rolls through the soul. You would be wiltiug now to give up your money and your social position and all you have achieved for one day of the peace which the good old slave expressed when he said, with broken language: “In owning Christ I seem to own everything. The air is mine, for I can breathe it; the sunshine is mine, for I can sit in it; the earth is mine, for I can lie down in it.” To have something of the complete satisfaction which belongs to the humblest of God’s children, you would give almost anything. Oh, ye who are struck through with unrest, Christ comes to-uight to give you rest. If Christ comes to you, you will be independent of all worldly circumstances. So in the hour of suffering and martyrdom was Rose Allen. Wheu the persecutor put a candle underneath her wrist, and held it there until the sinews snapped, she said: “It yon see fit you can burn my feet next, aud then also my head.” Christ once having taken you into His custody and guardianship, you can laugh at paiu, aud persecution, and trial. Great peace for all those whom Christ has found, aud you have found Christ. Jesus comes into their sick room. The nurse may have fallen asleep in the latter watches of the night, but Jesus watches with slumberless eyes, and He puts His gentle band over the hot brow of the patient, and" says: “ You will not always be sick. I will not leave you. There is a land where the inhabitants never saith: ‘lam sick.’ Hush troubled soul! Peace!” This Jesus comes into tho house of bereavemeut, and He says: “I took your lost darling. I come now; to make up for bis absence. I wanted him at the gate when you came through. The days of your separation will only add to the joys of reuuion. Peace. ‘I am the resurrection and the life. He that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.’ ” Just as sometimes a child is so sick that it can not lie any longer iu the cradle, and the mother has to take it up, so sometimes the Lord’s children are so troubled that they cau not lie easy anywhere but in God’s lap, while He bends over them and sings this sweet song: “As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you.” “ The soul that on Jesus hath leaned for repose, I will not, I will not, desert to his foes; That soul, though all hell should endeavor to shake. I’ll never-uo never, no never, forsake." Again, I remark that we are k»jk-to Heaven, and Christ comes to take us there. I can not imagine anything more distressful than, without having mtasical taste, to sit and listen to an oratorio fort wo hours and a half. Though it be tho best of oratorios, if a man have no musical tstte it is distress to him, while. it is joy to others. And I can not imagine any thing more distressful for a man who has no love for pictures than to be shut up in the Luxembourg gallery in Paris. Yes/I can think of one thing worso than that,' and that will be for a man to enter Heaven without any taste for it. I sometimes hear people talk as though all a man had to do was just to leave this world and go into Heaven and sit down to its enjoyments. If a man can not stand Christian society here for one day, how would he stand a million ages of it? I see an unregonorate soul entering Heaven. It enters Heaven, looks around, and sees God there, and angels there, and hears the cry: “Holy, holy;” and tho unregener&te soul says: “This is no place for me,” and he flies to the battlements, and he cries: “I can stand it hero no longer,” and ho leaps off into outer darkness. In other words, the worst hell for a man would be Heaven, if he has no qualifications, no preparations, for it. But Christ comes to take the discord out of oar sonl and string it with a Heavenly attuning. He comes to take out that from us which makes us unlike Heaven, and substitute that which assimilates us. Ten thousand times the gate of Heaven has swung back and forth but it never Bwings back and forth save as Christ opens it, and you will go in through Him or not at all. Christ wants you there. How do I know it? Suppose a man lost a diamond, and he looked for it eight or ton days, would you not conclude from the fact that he looked for it so long that he wanted the diamond? And when I find Christ seeking for your soul, seeking for it ever since it has been a soul, seeking for it by day and by night, seeking for it through heat and through cold, seeking for it with tears in His eyes and blood upon His brow and scourges on His back and a world of agony in His heart, I know that it is because He wants to find you. Oh, He has prepared a glorious Heaven for you! It is all ready. Not merely a throne, but steps by which to mount it. Nor only a harp, but a song to play on it: not only a banner procession, but a victory which it is to celebrate. God wants no vacant chairs at that banquet. He does not want those who stand around Him in glory to wonder why you have not been solicited. He does not want the book of life to thunder shut till your name is in it. What do I breathe? It is the fragranot of Him whose garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces. What do I hear? It is the footstep of Him who comes with worn sandal in the journey from Bethlehem to Nazareth, and from Nazareth to Jerusalem, and from Jerusalem to Golgotha, and from Golgotha to glory, and from glory here, seeking that which is lost. Oh, jostle Him not from thy door-step. Do not drive this Christ away, as though He were an unworthy beggar soliciting your alms. Hear His

voice. Trust Hi$ sacrifices. Respond tp Bis lore. Take His Heaven. Do yon not know, O man! C woman! that you are the lost one spoken ef in my textf “ The Bon of Man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.” Yon may hide away from,' Him, bat there are some things which will find yon, whether Christ by His grace finds yon or not. Trouble will find yon. Temptation will find yon. Sickness will find yoa. Death will find you. Judgment will find yon. Eternity will find yon. Soon yon will be gone from all these scenes, and if a thousand men should come out with lanterns, and torches, and St Bernard dogs used to hunting up missing travelers, and search for your soul you could not be found by them. The grave will have your body. Your heirs will have your estate. Eternity will have your soul. In the flash of a second your last opportunity for Heaven may go out. Postpone this question of the soul and you are postponing getting into the last life-boat that shall put out from the wreck fcr the beach ere the hulk lurch Over and go down. God forbid that any of you should at the last have the dismay of the woman of whom I was reading. One night she could not sleep because of her soul’s wandering from Christ She got up and wrote in her diary: “ One year from now I will attend to the matters of my soul.” She retired, but she could not sleep. So she arose again and wrote a better promise in her diary: “One month from now 1 will attend to the matters of my soul.” Sho retired again but found no sleep, and arose again and wrote: “ Next week I will attend to the matters of my soul.” Then she slept soundly. The next day she went into scenes of gayety. The following day she was sick, and the middle of next week she died. Delirium lifted from her mind just long enough for her to say: “I am a week too late; I am lost.” Oh, to be a year too late, or a month too late, or an hour too late—aye, to be a second too late, is to be forever too late.

'FINALLY DISCOVERED. Wliat It Was That Matte a Whole Pennsylvania Mining Village Sick. LShenandoah (Pa.) Special.) The danger of miners is not always confined to the dark and gloomy interior of a coal mine, where they are constantly confronted with the treacherous top roof and the possibility of an inexperienced companion igniting the deadly damp. A strange case of black-damp and its effects has just come to light at Dean’s Patch, situated on the outskirts of this place, the particulars of which are as follows: Tuesday last the inhabitants of the patch, which is made up exclusively ot miners and their families, were visited by a peculiar smell, similar to that of black- damp cxjierieuced in the mines, accompanied by a foul and sickening stench. It produced a stupor among many of the people, especially the children aud the female portion, Its effects were of short duration, and apparently of no serious nature. The strange visitation was therefore almost overlooked, when the canine population, chickens, etc., began to die without shelving any previous signs of illness. The water in this section being not of the best quality, their death was by some attributed to that cause. Wednesday night, howeve-, the entire neighborhood of fifty or seventyfive families complained and appeared restless. Later on during the night a whole family was overcome and only escaped death from suffocation by the father,; who was awakened by the strange smell, and who, from long exi>erience in t» mines, understood the situation and t no time in arousiug Ids wife and three children from their lethargy and with the assistance of his neighbors soon removed them to a place of safety, where they were restored to consciousness* It transpired subsequently that many other families were affected in a similar way, but recovered. The whole populace was now aroused, and the miners began to search where the deadly black-damp came from, for it was that which had invade^ the bed-chambers of the .miners and their families. The whole mountain-side is liued with deep and dangerous mine-breaches in that locality, one of which is situated about the center of the town, over the workings of tho Lehigh Valley Coal Company’s No. 2 colliery, from which it was discovered the poisonous gas was rapidly issuing like a volcano. The breach is about one thousand feet deep, seventy-five feet Wide, and has been used for some years as a burial place for dead dogs, cats, etc., producing the sickening smell which accompanied the gas. The origin of tho damp is a mystery, as expert engineers and miners are on the ground and claim fire does not exist, but that the seat of the trouble is in the lower lift one thousand five hundred feet from the surface, around which a water-proof battery of brick is now being built to drowu out that portion of .the mine. Many of the families have moved away, and others will be forced to vacate unless. the experiment now under way proves successful. The colliery is a profitable one, shipping two hundred cars daily and employs three hundred men and toys. A TRAPPER’S ADVENTURE. Me Was Imprisoned In a llenr-Trap ThirtySix Hours With Neither Food Nor Water. < [Boston (Mass.) Special.] Ira Linuell, a young man in the employ of IL H. White & Co., while spending his vacation in Uraudville, near Rochester, Vt, last week, had an adventure which nearly resulted iu his death by starvation. With several others he was engaged in trapping not only for the sport but for the bounty which the State offers forbears. A week ago last Sunday morning he went to visit a distant bear-trap to which only weekly visits were paid, and, although hb did not return when expected, no anxiety was felt by his friends, as it was thought he had gone with a trapping party farther than he intended. Late Monday afternoon a farmer happened to pass near the trap in question and thought to examine it. Listening in vain for any indication of the presence of a bear he opened the trap, and there, in a fainting condition, he found young LiunelL It appears that Linnell had gone inside of the trap— a big |tox affair for catching animals alive—and while arranging the bait accidentally touched tho spriug that closed the door, and he found himself imprisoned. For thirty-six hourshoNremained in his prison with no water and bWt little air, and his only food was the repulsive raw meat with .which the trap was baited, and whichhunger finally compelled him to eat.

A Deer Chase with Cots of Fan. [Macon (G a.) Telegraph and Messenger.] Last Friday, while Mrs. James Pritchard and her colored servant, Julia, and Master Budinot Pritchard were out in a small skiff boat fishing for mullet, near Titusville, they saw a young deer run from the hummock into the river. They succeeded in getting before it and the shore, continuing to force it out into deeper water. With Mrs. Pritchard at the oars and Julia poling their plan was working admirably, but Julia failing to teS Mrs. Pritchard which direction to change to, the animal dodged them and made for the shore. Budinot was soon on the shore and tried to head it off and drive it back into the deep water again, but the deer was too active and made a bounding leap just in front of him, when it entered the hummock again. Half-Dollar In a Horse’s Heart. . [San Francisco Call.] The Chico Keconl tells how a horse belonging to Charles German, living seven miles west of town, died suddenly last Tuesday, and upon being opened a fifty - cent piece was found clogging the right ventricle of the heart, so firmly imbedded as-to stop the flow of blood. From appearances the coin must hare been in the heart for mouths.

—As Colonel Billson was going down the steps he met a suspicious-looking boy with a lot of "bills. “Is Colonel Billson’s office up-stairs?” “Yes, but I’m not iu—or, rather, the Colonel’s notin.” “Ain’t you the man?” “No. my son.” “Fd like to find him. I’ve got a telegraph money-order lor him.” “Let’s see. ‘ Who is the man you want?” “Colonel iiillson.” “I thought yon said Colonel Billings, I am ColoaelEillsoa.”—Arkansaw Traveler. —Professional beauty on the Pacific Coast finds lucrative employment as a pretend* d illustrat on ol the merits of a patent medicine. A wonderfully lovely young woman travels in a chariot of a vender ot medicine, whieh, he declares, caused the perfection of her complexion. He sells a tonic, too, to which he attributes the abundance of her hair, and drugs for the increase or reduction of flesh to her standard. -X. r. Sun. —A box containing two hundred dollars in counterfeit gold coins of dates prior to the late war was unearthed by a Cataposa County (Georgia) farmer a few days ago.

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SOD Sheep and Swine Pens, a Poultry House for i.iiOO Fowls, twenty-eight new Exhibition llalls and Pavilions. Applications 'or Stulls or Pens should be made at once. Trotting and Pacing Races Every Day, The horses contending being the most celebrated in the country. (UUNU ILLUMINATION. During the entire week the streets of the city will be illuminated by 150,000 gas jets, intermingled with hundreds of calcium, incandescent and are electric lights. YKILF.D PROPHETS’ PAGEANT. On the night of Tuesday, October 6th, the grand annual nocturnal pageant ot the “VEILED PROPHET,” comprising thirty"live floats, wilt tie given at an expense of thousands of dollars. TRAPES PAGEANT. On ti>e night of Thursday. October sth, the “TRADES PAGEANT” will bo given for the, purpose of Illustrating the industries, wealth and resources of the Mississippi Valley. SHAW’S GARDEN. “SHAAV’$ GARDEN,” of world-wide fame, will he open free to nil visitors during the week, through the generosity of its owner, b HALF FARE RATES. . Ali railroad and steamboat compan lea have generously made a rate of one fare for the round trip during the entire week. A PUBLIC HOLIDAY. _ The municipal authorities have agreed to declare Thursday or Fair Week a holiday to all. Itoonis and board for 25fl,00t> guests have been provided fur at gently reduced rates. COMMERCIAL EXCHANGES. The Merchants’ Gotten. Wool.’M oohanics’ and Real Estate Exchanges, will b i open, free to ail visitors. Exhibitors should apply for space, stalls or pens at once in order to secure a desirable location. Address FESTUS J; AVADE, Secretary, 7iS Chestnut street, it. Louis, Mo. When a miner has beeu eaten by a grizzly, the Western people speak of him as being admitted to the b’ar.—Yonkers Gazette. Delicate Diseases of either sex, however induced, speedily, thoroughly and permanently cured. 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