Pike County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 21, Petersburg, Pike County, 1 October 1885 — Page 4

PIKE C01I.W DEMOCRAT. ■4Published ftvery Thursday. PETERSBURG. - - - INDIANA. •RESPECTABLY DRESSED.' * An unknown man, respectably dressed.** That was all that the record said: Wondering pity might guess the rest; One thing was sure, the mai ; man was dead. heart to lire; and failed the And dead, because he'd Bis courage had faitei test; Bow little the all we now loan give, A nameless sod to oover his breast! •Respectably dressed I" the thoughtless read The sentence over, and idly say: • What was It, then, since It was not need. Which made him thus iliug his life away?" •Respectably dressed know. How little they Who never have boon for money pressed, What it costs respectable poor to go. Day after day, “respectably dressed "l The beggars on sidewalks suffer less; They herd all together, clan and clan; Alike and equal in wretchedness. Ho room for pride between man and man. Nothing to lose by rags or by dirt, More often something U gained instead; Nothing to fear but bodilj’ hurt. Nothing to hope for save daily broad. But respectable poor have all to lose; For the world to know, means loss and shame; They'd rather die. if thoy; had to choosoy They cling, as for life, tb place and name. Cling, and pretend, and conceal, and hide; Never an hour but its terror boars; Terror which slinks like guilt to ono side. And often a guiltlor countenance wears. •Respeotably dressed” to the last; ay, last! Lost dollar, last Jcrust, last proud pulse beat; • Starved body, starved soul, hopo dead and past; What v wonder that any death looks sweot! ‘An unknown man, respectably dressed," That was all that the record said. When will the question let us rest; Is It fault of ours that the man was dead? : —N. Y. Independent. tCCpurlpM Secured. All Right* RetemA.] Driven From Sea to Sea; Or, JUST A CAMPIN’. BY O. O. POST. Published bt Permission op 3. B. Downbt A Co.. Publishers, Chicago. CHAPTER XXII.—Continued. With his arms about her, telling her over and over again how dear she was to him, and how it was because he thought sh<f could not love him as he wished, that lie had gone away, the two pinight have stood there until tb.e sun had hidden itself from sight behind the mountains and‘the night had come up from the valley below, but that the roan horse, in his efforts to nibble at the grass by the roadside* jerked so hard upon the bridle which Erastus held upon his arm as to bring them back to a knowledge of their surroundings.

-Ihen they started slowly homeward along the by-road that wound around the rocks, and over the stones, and in and out of gullys washed by centuries of rainy seasons. So slowly in fact did they go on that the cows, lazy as they were, had got home and been' milked, and Mrs. Parsons had looked many times in the direction from which they dame, and in which she knew Jiucy had started in Bcarch of them, hoping to see her comf ing. Finally, a little worried at her long absence, she suggested to her husband that he go up the mountain a little w^y and call, and he, quick to take the alarm,,was on the point of starting when he saw the lovers approaching; the roan horse following the length of his bridle rein behind. for a little space John Parsons stood In doubt, then raised his hand to his •eyes as if to gather more of the failing • light. Only mi instant he stood so, and then bringinff his hand down upon his thigh with a slap, he exclaimed: “I knowed it! I knowed ’Ras could take a hint! That’s him, Marty, that’s ’Ras, an’ he an’ Lucy hev made up. Don’t ye see? he’s, a-holdin’ of her hand.” CHAPTER XXIII. THE COTTAGE AT THE 8I.OT7GH. A very' happy little group it was that sat under the new porch of the shanty until long after the stars came out that night. So many changes had taken place; there was so much to talk about that it was ten o’clock before they once thought of the time, and still they talked on for another hour before retiring—the family to their beds and Erastus to a bunk on the floor. The young man remained three days with them, and during that time they talked over all matters relating to family aflairs—past, present and future. Mrs. and Mr. Parsons of course gladly gave their consent to the engagement of the young people, but it was necessary to postpone the wedding until Erastus could get his place irrigated and in shape to produce a living. It seemed very hard to part again so soon, but since he could not take Lucy with him, evory day spent away from his own ranch delayed their marriage that much the longer. And then there would be the pleasure of writing and receiving letters, which, of course, they would do every week at the farthest. The project of selling the mountain ranch and all going to the Slough to live was talked of, and Mr. and Mrs. Parsons agreed that when Erastus got his place irrigated and was ready to marry, if he was satisfied with the country and the prospect, they would sell their own home and buy again as near him as possible, and ft not they would both sell and go elsewhere and buy together. And thus all were comforted by the thought that Lucy’s marriage, when it should occur, would, instead of sepa- • rating her from her parents, reunite them all with Erastus, and it is probable that for theso three days the inmates of the shanty upon the mountain side were as happy as it often falls to the lot of people to be. Certainly John Parsons was happy. Lucy and Erastus wandered about the place, and through the gulch and up the mountain side together. Together they went for the cows, as Lucy had done alone the night Erastus came.

ciiHtus nuipcu mr. i arsons sprout tne i grape-vines, and Lucy helped Erastus; and if occasionally, as they worked together at a vine, their hands met and tlieir fingers intertwined it was no more than the tender tendrils of the vine they were trimming did. If, as they walked hand in hand over the mountain, or sat to rest in some 3niet nook, his lips sought hers and rank deep of love’s nectar, they only followed the example of the birds that near them billed and cooed, and talked of where their next year’s nest should be. And have not you, dear reader, done the same? Then have you not known the sweetest and the best thing that life has to give? I will not describe the parting, when at last the day and the hour came, and the roan horse stood ready to be mounted at the door. There is enough of sadness and suffering in this true story without dwelling upon the parting of those loving hearts. ° It was noon when Erastus started on : his return; it was night On the fourth day when he lod the roan iot^ns stall at the Slough and ate supper Mr. •nd Mrs. Johnson, to whom hwfrankiy

told the purpose and result of his visit, and from whom be received hearty congratulations. The next morning he went back to work on the ditch, and if his companions were ready with their jokes, be was in far too good a humor with the world and all things in it to be offended at what he knew was kindly meant For months he worked early and late at the ditcti, and when it had been completed, and the water, in its slow seeping through the soil, had rendered it capable of sustaining vegetable life, ho began planting trees and vines, and breaking the soli for future crops. When the year closed he found his place beginning to look quite like living. He had intended going again to visit Lucy and her parents at this time, blit his place still lacked a dwelling, and the little it would cost to make the journey would aid just that much towards buying the material towards the cottage which he had planned, and he finally decided not to go, but instead to take his team and work a month for the rancher who had pastured his colts during two dry seasons; aud thus, instead of spending what little he had, obtain enough morB to enable him to get tlie material to begin building with. When this was done he procured the assistance of a neighbor who had a few carpentors’ tools and some knowledge of the trade, and together they framed and sided up the cottago. Then he worked at night to finish it Often when thus engaged, after a hard day’s work in the lield, would ho take from his pocket one of Lucy's letters, and sitting upon the workbench or a saw-horse, re-read the linos ho already knew by heart, or lose himself in dreams which those lines gate rise to; then, rousing himself, take up his tools anil work far into the night, that the cottago might be the sooner completed and the face and form which he now saw only in dreams be ever present with him in reality. At last the cottage was” finished and ready for occupancy. A plhin cottage it was; not unlike the one on the mountain side, only a little ’longer, and wider, and higher. There wore two rooms below and one above, and there was a little porch over the front door—not long or broad, but sufficient to shade the room from the sun a little and give relief from tlie bare and inhospitable look which a dwelling without any projection always has. He meant to add a larger structure in front in a few years, when his ranch should be fully irrigated and in cultivation, and so reproduce the cottage :in the foot hills in accordance with the plans he had laid the night he slept, under the stars on his hastily made visit the tinio ho won Lucy’s consent tobe his wife; but for this he must wait yet awhile. And so, with a heart filled with hope and courage, and running over with affection for her who was to return wi sh him as his bride, he took a long look about the cottage, and going out, carefully closed the door behind him that it might not become unfastened during his absence.

claiming in ironi oi nis collage, no cast liis eyes over his ranch with a fooling of pride and satisfaction. That which three years before hod been a bit of desert was now a farm, with an orchard and vineyard and fertile fields; none of them very large, it is true, but everylhing there was the work of his own hands, the result of his own energy and economy, $md it was somethin" of which he might well be proud. When he had taken it all in—the cottage and the green fields and the young orchard and vineyard—as a picture which he could hold in his memory until he returned, and could describe to Lucy and Uncle John and Aunt Martha and Johnny, he lunied and walked rapidly away in the direction of Mr. Johnson’s. He was to start early the next morning, and was to drive h's own team; the colts now fully grown and hardened to work. Ho had decided upon this after conferring by letter with Lucy and her parents. Mr. and Mrs, Parsons desired to give as much as possible of the furniture necessary to start the young folks in housekeeping, and they could do this to -some extent out of what still remained of that brought from the old home in the foot-hills, and it was just as cheap and a good deal nicer, these lovers thought, to make the journey this way, in the'r own conveyance, with their household goods packed in the wagon, than to first transport them fifteen m'le.s to Phippsburg, ship them by boat and cars, and then go a long distance after them at the other end of the route. Besides, in thus going across tire country they would have a whole week to spend in each other's company; in which to talk of their love and lay plans for the future. It would be almost as good as a real wedding tour, Lucy decided. And so one afternoon the dwellers on the mountain side saw a wagon drawn by a pair of bay horses, whose driver was a dust-covered younman with a sun-tanned face and sandy mustache, wearing a wide-brimmed straw hat, coming up the by-road which ended at their gate, and knew that the bridegroom had come to claim his bride. The place had changed considerably since Erastus had seen it two years before. The addition to the shanty had been erected, and with the little porch in front fairly raised it to the dignity of a cottage. The rose bushes which Lucy and her mother had planted had grown as all things do grow in that climate and soil; had clambered all over ttie porch and were in full bloom, having been watered and tended by loving hands. Back of the cottage and on either side great hollyhock bushes, with purple and white and yellow blossoms, stood “ thick as people in a street,” and over the low windows, and reaching elear up to the eaves, Madeira vines mingled their soft, green leaves with those of the morning-glories, that in the early hours of the day were sprinkled thick with beautiful, bell-shaped flowers. In front were long beds of pinks, and verbenas, and lark-spurs, and great crim-son-hearted dahlias, that lifted up their faces and bloomed and nodded, in, the breeze; bent low as if to inhale the fragrance of the mignonette that looked up from the borders of the beds in which they all grew.

The grape-vines upon the sloping ground above the house had added two years of growth to their stems; and, although yet unable to stand erect without the supports to which they were tied, their symmetrical arrangement in rows, together with the richness of their foliage, formed a background tha t brought out the coloring of as pretty a picture of simple home life as one may hope to see in a long drive in the mount ains or foot-hills; and it is in the mountains and the foot-hills that beautiful pictures are to be sought for. Outside of the inclosure, and a little further up the mountain, the cows which Lucy had driven home on that blissful evening two years before, when Erastus had told her of his love, werj chewing their cuds beneath a ticraj; low-branched oak. Below, brown in the October sun , wnen j, vora jlll

me siuuoie ueiu iroiu wuieu me had been harvested. and whic| stood in a ritik near the shed wh horses were munching at their f<| Beyond the cottage was orchard of peach, and pear, trees, and over aU the ’ skv of California Mow than a hundr dered at will thr down into the stub

on the mountain side. Or they cluttered about the shed and rick of grain, or oame with the chiokens at feeding time to the bare bit of earth near the kitchen door to receive their portion of the food thrown to them by some member of tlie family dwelling within the vine-wreathed cottage. And here, one morning a week after Erastus’ coming, a little party, composed of neighbors and their families, gathered to witness the marriage of the young couple who had plighted their faith two years before, standing in the road while the cows went laiUy home without them. It was not an assembly such as would have graced a fashionable church in a great city. Not one among them all, perhaps, but would have felt ill at ease in a richly furnished parlor of a brownstone front in New York or Chicago. They were common country peoplehusbands and wives who gained their living as John and Martha Parsons gained theirs—by the tillage of the soil and tho raising of fruits, and grain, and poultry. Young men and maidens, the sons and daughters of these people in the common walks of life, dressed— the girls in cheap, light-colored lawns, with may be a bit of bright ribbon at the throat or about the waist; the young men in suits of linen or some other light and not costly fabric, and all of them with hands and faces tanned by the sun, but with hearts that throbbed as quickly at whisperings of love, or capable of feeling as keenly tho stings of unjust criticism, as if they were robed in velvet, with diamonds sparkling upon soft, white hands. Before these friends and neighbors, Lucy, dressed much as the other mai'lens were dressed, only that her robe of pure white was of liner material, and without ornament except some roses upon her breast and in her beautiful dark hair, stood up with Erastus and gave the responses that made them husband and wife aa they were propounded by the gray-haired minister whose services had been secured for the occasion. The kisses and congratulations over, and the tears which would come in spite of her determination not to let them dried upon the cheek of the bride, they all sat down to a meal at which there was a bride’s cake, of course, and a cold roast turkey, and great mealy potatoes, and the most beautiful bread' There was fruit also; the first borne by the trees and vines planted, since coming to the place, by the hands that sought out and plucked these, the occasional first oSerings found scattered hero and there among the foliage. And afterwards there were kisses and hand-siiakes again, and foldings of the bride to the bosom of father ana mother, and tears in the eyes of all, and fervent “God bless you’s.”

And then Lucy was helped to a seht in the wagon, over which a canvas cover had been stretched and into which the little store of household goods which formed her dowry had been packed. Then her husband climbed up by her side and amid .wavings of handkerchiefs and more “God bless you’s,” they drove down- the lane and out upon the' road which led away over the mountain and the foot-hills towards the new cottage which awaited their coming at the Slough. - Oh, what a happy, happy journey was that for seven whole bright October days; traveling by easy stages during the day, and camping out, and sleeping in the wagon at night! What beautiful bits of scenery they pointed out to each other! How they laughed over the little incidents of the journey or the camp, as the tipping over of their coffee-kettle while getting their evening meal in some quiet little grove, after the day’s drive, What memories of the longer journey across the plains when they wore children came back to them as they watched the camp-fire smoldering in the darkness and the twinkling of the stars overhead; and what beautiful secrets they disclosed to each other as proofs of their mutual love and confidence! And when, on the evening of the last day’s journey, they drove up to the Johnson shanty', what a hearty greeting Mrs. and Mr. Johnson gave to the young bride who had come to make glad the home of her husband and to be a neighbor and friend among neighbors and friends! And when, after a hearty meal of the best that could be found in the house, they went to take a look at their own home, walking hand in hand across the fields, with what pride Erastus pointed out the boundaries of his own claim; to the vineyard, and orchard, and fields, made fruitful by the water that, coming through the open ditches cut by his own hands and those of his neighbors, was fast turning tho desert into a garden. And the cottage; how pleased Lucy professed to be—really was—with its appearance and conveniences! What pleasure they took in deciding just where each piece of furniture should be placed! They would have a carpet on the larger down stairs room, and the bureau and the best chairs should go in that; and the small table, with a few books, should stand near the center of it Lucy’s guitar should hang on the wall with Erastus’ flageolet, and just as soon as they could they would get a few pictures to help make the room still more bright and tasty. Their bed they would put up stairs, and, until they could build larger, would eat in the kitchen, or in pleasant weather, out of doors, and so keep the best room always cozy and nice.

Ana so, still planning for the future, yet perfectly happy in the present, they returned as they came, hand in hand across lots to Mr. Johnson’s, where they were to spend the night On the morrow Mr. Johnson helped Erastus to unload the few heavy articles and place them in the cottage, and then they went away, and together the young couple put down the carpet and arranged the furniture, returning to Mrs. Johnson’s to dinner, as that lady insisted that they should do. Indeed, she would have had them remain with herself and husband for a week, “until they got rested from their journey,” as she said, but to this they could not think of consenting. They were both anxious to get into their own house, that they might together take pp the work of making still more beautiful and productive the spot upon which they expected to remain all their lives. CHAPTER XXTV. THS THREATENING WHIRLWIND. The year that followed was a very happy one to the young couple, working away upon their claim at the Slough. True, they were poor, and were forced to live very economically; but what was poverty when they had' love, and health, and the assurance that poverty would be vanquished in a few years more? It lacked less than two years of thi time when they ... get a Government, under the Homeste„ time they would ha fruit and vegetabl “prove up” and their land that le a

TALM AGE’S SERMON. Return of the Eminent Preaoher From His Vacation. A Dlsoonrse on “Castaways,” Foil of Nautical Illustrations of the Sin* ner's Course On the Ocean or Lire. Brooklyn. N. V., September 20.—Dr. Talmage, who has just return ad from Europe, delivered to-day a sermon on "Castaways,” at the Tabernacle, to a crowded audience. He gave out the familiar hymn, beginning:_ Out on the ocean all boundless we ride, After which he read and expounded the tenth chapter of Aots. Hii text was: Lest that by any means, when I have preached to others. I myself should be a castaway.—I. Corinthians, ix., 27. The following is a complete report of the sermon: The apostle, in the text, indicates that some religious teachers may fail to reach the heavens, to which they point others. Gown and surplice and cardinal’s red hat are no security. Cardinal Wol3ey, after having been petted by kings and having entertained foreign embassadors at Hampton Court, died in darkness. O le of the mo3t eminent ministers of religion that this country has ever known plunged into sin and died, his heart, in post -mortem examination, found to have been not figuratively but literally broken. O, ministers of Christ, because we have diplomas of graduation, and hands of ordination on the head, and address consecrated assemblages, there is no reason why we should necessarily reach the realm celestial. The clergyman must go through the same gate of pardon as the layman. The preacher may get his audience into heaven, an 1 he himself miss it. There have bom cases of shipwreck whore all on board escapod excepting the captain. Alas] If, having preached to others, X myself should be a castaway. God forbid it. 1 have t xamined some of the commentaries to see what they thought about this word “castaway,” and I find that they differ in regard to the figure used, while they agree in regard to the meaning. So I shall make my own selection, and take it in a nautical and sea-faring sense, and show you that men may become spiritual castaways, and how finally they drift into that calamity. We are a seaboard town. You have all stood on the beach. Many of you have managed vessels in groat stress of weather. There is a sea-captain; and there is another; and yonder is another, and there are a goodly number of you who, though onco you dil not know the difference between a brig and a bark, and between a diamond knot and a sprit sheet Bail knot, now you are as familiar with a ship as you are with your right hand, and, if it were necess ary, you could take a vessel clear across to the mouth of the Mersey without the loss of a single saiL Well, there is a dark night in your memory of the sea. The vessel became unmanageable. You saw it was scudding toward the shor.N You heard the cry, “Breakers ahead I Land on the lee bow !'* The vessel struck the rock, and you felt the deck breaking up under your feet, and you were a castaway, as when the Hercules drove on the coast of California, or when the Portuguese brig went staving, splitting, grinding, crashing on the Goodwins. But whether you have followed the sea or not, you all understand the figure when I tell you that there are men who by their sins and temptations are thrown helpless! Driven before the gale! Wrecked for two worlds! Cast away! cast away!

Ky talking with some sailors 1 nave found out that there are three or four causes for such a calamity to a vessel. I have been told that it sone'imos comes from creating false lights on the beach. This was often so in olden times. It is not many years ago, indeed, that vagabonds used to wander up and down the beach, getting vessels ashore in the night, throwing up false lights in their presence and deceiving them, that they might despoil and ransack them. All kinds of infernal arts were used to accomplish this, and one night on the Cornish coast, when the sea was coming in fearfully, some villains took a lantern and tied it to a horse, and led the horse up and down the beach, the lantern swaying to the motion of the horse, and a sea captain in the offing saw it and made up his mind that he was not anywhere near the shore, for he said: There’s a vessel; that must be a vess el for it’s a movable light.” And he had no apprehension until he heard the rocks grating on the ship’s bottom, aud it went to pieces, and the villains on shore gathered up the packages and the treasures that were washed to the land. Anl I have to tell you that there are a multitude of souls ruined by false lights on the beach. In the dark night of man’s dan- . ger Religious Error goes up and down the shore shaking its lantern, and men look off and take that flickering and expiring wick as the signal of safety, and the cry is: “Heave the main topsail to the mastl All is well!” when sudden destruction cometh upon them and they shall not escape. Bo there are all kinds of lanterns swung on the beach—philosophical lanterns, educational lanterns, humanitarian lanterns. Men look at them and are deceived when there is nothing but God’s eternal lighthouse of the Gospel that can keep them from becoming cast

man's soui are unavailing. wnat tne Human raoe wants is light bursting forth from the cross standing on the great headlands—the light of pardon, the light of comfort, the light of Heaven. Yon might better go to-night and destroy all the great ligbt-honses on the dangerous coasts—the Barnegat Lght- house, the Fastnet Hock Light-house, the Skerry vale L'ght-house, the Longs hip’s Light-honse, the Holyhead Light-house—than to put out God’s great ocean lamp, the Gospel. Woe to those who swing false lanterns on the beach till men crash in and perish I Cast away 1 Cast away I By talking with sailors, I have also heard that ships sometimes come to this calamity by the sudden swoop of a tempest For instance, a vessel is sailing along in the East Indies, and there is not a single cloud on the sky, but suddenly the breeze freshens, and there are swift fe«t on the ratlines, and the cry is, “Way 1 haul away there I” but, before they can square the booms and tarpaulin the'hatchways, the vessel is groaning and creaking in the grip of a tornado, and falls over in the trough of the sea, and broadside oa rolls on to the beach and keels over, leaving the crew to struggle in the merciless surf. Cast away 1 Cast away I And, so I have to tell you that there are thousands of men destroyed through the swoop Of temptations. Some groat inducement to worldliness, or to sensuality, or to high temper, or to some form ot dissipation, comes upon them. If they had time to examine their Bible, if they had time to consult with their friends, if they had time to deliberate, they could stand It; but the temptation came so suddenly—a curoclydon on the Meiiterraa whirlwind of the Caribbean. One surge ot temptation, and they per.nd so we often heair the old story : i’_t seen my friend jin a great many ‘ re were very glad to meet. He [nk, and he took me by the me along, and filled the ia_pver the edge,

troubles; but the temptation came upon me so fiercely that I could not think. I did wrong, and having done wrong once, I could not atop.” Oh, it Is the first step that costs; the second is easier, and the third, and so on to the last. Once having broken loose from the anchor, it is not so easy to tie the parted strands. How often it: is that men perish for the reason that the temptation comes from some unexpected quarter. As vessels lie in Margate (toads safe from southwest winds, but the wind changing to the northeast they are driven helpless and go down. Oh that Clod would have mercy upon those upon whom there comes the sudden swoop of temptation, that they perish not, becoming, for this world and the world to come cast away, cast away. By talking with sailors, I have found out, also, that some vessels come to this calamity through sheer recklessness. There are 3,000,000 men who follow the sea for a living. It is a simple fact that the average of human life on the sea is loss than twelve years. This comes from the fact that men. by familiarity with danger become reckless—the Captain, the helmsman, the stoker, the man on the lookout, become reckless, and in nine out of ten shipwrecks it is found out that some one was awfully to blame. Bo I have to tell you that men lost their souls through sheer recklessness. There are thousands of my friends in this bouse to-night who do not c ire where they are in spiritual things. They do not know whether they are sailing toward Heaven or toward hell, and the sea is black with piratical hulks that would grapple them with hooks of steel and would blindfold them and make them “walk the plank.” They do not know what the next moment may bring forth. Drifting in their theology, drifting in their habits, drifting in regard to alt the future. Ho God, no Christ, no settled anticipations of eternal felicity, but all the time coming nearer and nearer to a dangerous coast. Some of them are on fire with evil habits, and they shall burn on the sea, the charred hulk bossed up on the barren beach of the lost world; many of them with great troubles, financial troubles, domestic troubles, so • cial troubles; but they never pray for comfort With an aggravation of sin that stirs up the ire of God, tbey pray for no pardon. They do not steer for the light-ship that dances in gladness at the mouth of Heaven’s harbor, reckless as to where they come out, drifting farther from God, farther from early religious influences, farther from their present happiness, farther from heaven. And, what is the worst thing about it is, that they are taking their families along with them; and if one perish, perhaps they will all perish; and the way one goes, the probability is tbey will all go. Yet no anxiety, its unconscions of danger as the passengers on board the Arctic one moment before the Vesta rushed into her. Wrapped up in the business of the store, not remembering that soon they must quit all their earthly possessions. Absorbs 1 in their social position, not k towing that very soon they will have attended the last levee and wbiried in the last schottisc he. They do not deliberately choose to bs ruined; neither did the French frigate Medusa aim for the Arguin banks, but there it went to pieces. O, ye reckless souls! I rrish that to-night I could wake you up with some great perturbation. The perils are so augmented, the chances of escape are so few; you will die just as certainly as you sit there, unless you bestir yourself. I fear, my brother, you are becoming a castaway. You are making no effort, you m putting forth no exertion for escape. You throw out no oar; you take mo soundings; you watch no compass; you are not calculating your bearings while the wind is abaft, and yonder is a long line of ft am bounding tbe horizon, and you will be pnshel on toward it, and thousands have perish el there, and yon are driving in the same direction. Ready abiuti Down helm! Hard down! or in the next five minutes, or four minutes, or three minutes, or two minutes, or one minute, you may be a castaway.

O unforgiven soull It you could see your peril before God to-night on account of your lifetime sin and transgression, there would be fifty men who would rush through this aisle crying for mercy, and there would bo fifty who would rush through that aisle crying to | mercy, and they wou'd be as men are when they rush across the deck of a foundering ship; and there would be thousands of arms tossed up from the galleries; and as these Christian men rose up to help them, it would be as when a vessel drives on the rocks and on the shore, the command is, “Man the lifeboatl Man the lifeboat 1 Pull my lads, pull, a steamer with 200 cn board making the last plunge!” Why does your cheek turn pale, and your heart pound until listening you hear it? It is because, my dear brother, you realise that, owing to your lifetime sin and rejection of God’s mercy, you are in peril, and I really believe there are thousands of people in this house this moment saying within themselves, “What shall I do?” Do? do? Why, my brother, do what any ship does, when it is in trouble—lift a distress-signal. There is a fiiash and a boom. You listen and you look. A vessel is in trouble. The dis-tress-gun is sounded, or a rocket is sent op, or a blankot is lifted, or a bundle of rags—anything to catch the eye of the passing craft. So if you want to bs taken off the wreck of your sin, you must lift a distress-signal. Use. Lift your hand. Cry out for mercy. The publican lifted the distress-signal when he cried, “God be merciful to me a sinner!” Peter lifted the distress-signal when he said, “Lord save me, perish!” The blind man Id the distress-signal when he said, rd, that my eyes may be opened I” jailer lifted the distress signal when aid, “What must I do to be saved?” : help will never come to your until yon lift such a signal as that. . must make some demonstration, give some sign, take some heaven-piercing outcry for help, lifting the distress signal for the Church’s prayer, lifting the distress signal for Heaven’s pardon. Pray 1 pray! 'I he voice of the Lord to-night sounds in. jour ears. “In me is thy help.” Too proud to raise such a signal, too proud to be saved.

There was an old sailor thumping about in a small boat in a tempest. The large vessel had gone down. He felt he mast die. The surf was breaking over the boat, and he said: "1 took off my lifebelt that it might soon be over, and 1 thought somewhat indistinctly about my friends onshore, and then I bid them goodbye like, and I was about sinking back and giving it up, when I saw a bright star. The clouds were breaking away, and there that blessed star shone right down on me, and it seemed to take right bold of me; and, somehow—I can not tell bow it was—but somehow, while I was trying to watc'i that star, it seemed to help me, and seemed to lift me.” Oh, drowning soul, see you not the glimmer tetween the rifts of the storm-cloud? Would to God that that light might lay hold of you to-night I Death struck, I ceased the tide to stem, Wiien suddenly a star arose. It was the star ot Bethlehem0, ye cast aways, God is doing everything to save you. “Did you ever hear of Lionel Lukin? He liras the inventor of the insubmergible lifeboat. All honor is dm his memory by seafaring mm. as well ah by landsmen. How many lives he saved by this invention. In after days that invention was improved, and one day there was a perfect life-boa', the Northumberland, ready at Ramsgate. The life-boat being ready, to test it the orew cams out and leaped on the gunw.ale on one side to see if the boat would upset; it was impossible to upset it, Then, amidst the huszas of excited thousands, that boat was launched, and it has gone and corns, picking up a great many of the shipwrecked. But I have to tell you to-night ot a grand >r launching, and from the dry-docks of heaven. Word came np that a world was beating on the rocks. In the presence ot the p itentates ot heaven the life-boat of the wcgld’u redemption was launched. It shoved off the golden sand* ^rnldnt angeijo\hc« annas. The

large* of darkne** boat against its bow, bat it sailed on, and it comes in sight tonight. It comes for yon and oomes for me. Boull soul! get into it; make ona leap for heaven. In 1833 the Isabella went ashore off Hastings, England. The air was filled with sounds—the roaring sea trumpet, the crash of the axes, and the bellowing of the tornado^ A boat From the shore came under the stern of the disabled vessel. There were women and children aboard that vessel. Borne of the sailors Jumped into the small boat and said: “Now, give us the children.” A father who stood on the deck took his first born and threw him to the boat. The sailors caught him safely, and the next, and the next, to the last. Btill. the sea rocking, the wind howling. “Now,” said the sailors, “now the mother,” and she leafed, and was saved. The boat went ashore; but before it got to the shore the landsmen were so impa tient to help the suffering people that they waded dear down into *the sort vrith blankets and garments, and promises of help and succor. • I have hope to-night that a great many of the families here are going to be saved and saved altogether. Give ns that child for Christ—that other child—that other. Give us the motherj give us the father, the whole family. They must all come in. All Heaven wades in to help you. 1 dal u this whole audience for God. There are some of you who, thirty years ago, were consecrated to Christ by your parents in_ Baptism. Certainly I am not stepping over the right bound when I claim you for Jesus. Then there are mauy here who have been seeking God for a good while, and am I not right in claiming you for Jesus? Then there are some here who have been farther away. I saw yon come in to-night in clusters—two, three, four men together—and you driak, and swear, and you are bringing up your families without any God to take care of them when you are dead. And I claim you, my brother; I claim all of you. You will have to come to-night to the throne of mercy. God’s Holy Spirit is striving now with you irresistibly. You will have to pray some time; why not begin now, while all the ripo and purple clusters of Divine promise bend over into your cup, rather than postpone your prayer unt 1 your chance is past, and the night drops, and the sea washes you out, and forevr and forever and forever you become a castaway?

EDITOR ARKELL. A Man Who Wears 8{if! Pieces of Strange KpWlermls. [Saratoga Letter.] Mr. Arkell, editor of the Albany Journal, who is only thirty-one years of age, has a most remarkable history. He is the son of Senator Arkell. He was in his father’s factory when he was seventeen years of age, at the moment of a terrible gasoline explosion. The workman who was with young Arkell was blown out of sight Not enough of him was left to be gathered together for identification. Young Arkell, who did not lose consciousness, covered his mouth and eyes, and made a dash for the door. The building in which this explosion took place became filled at once with black smoke. The boy butted his way with his head through five doors, going literally through fire. In his passage he became frightfully burned. The time of the accident was winter. When be finally reached the outer air he rolled in the snow, and left in the snow the front and back of both of his handstand the covering of much of the lower part of his face. He was burned so hopelessly that the doctors for a long time despaired of him. Senator Arkell, who was on one of the upper floors of the building when the explosion took place, escaped by dropping from a window downs fall of t wenty-five feet upon a strip of bare rock. His son was in bed for two years. Hh face was so badly burned that it was impossible for the natu ral skin to recover it. His hands were equally afflicted. Senator Arkell discovered in his reading experiments in the direction of transplanting skin from one person to another. He asked the surgeons in charge of his son to try this experiment. The result was one ol the most interesting known in the chapters of surgery. Upon the face of young Mr. Arkell there were transplanted 80S pieces of skin from the arms of various people. The result is that his face was entirely built up, so that to-day, while he bears very heavy scars, he yet looks very well, considering what he has been through. He has indomitable courage and pluck, and aspires to a high position as a publisher of newspapers.

Lost His Bride at Last. [Abbeville Medium.] Monday evening ubont six o’clock our people witnessed ono of the most exciting chases ever seen in this section. Jim Harris, colored, had gone below town some mites to see his “Dinah” to make some “proposals" to her, ns he puts it, The old folks being away, they concluded to ran off and marry. So he took his “gal,” Kate Devlin, a good -looking mulatto girl, into his buggy and struck for town. Passing McMillan’s brickyard an uncle of the girl spied the runaways, seized a huge pistol, mounted a horse and gave chase. Jim entered town at full speed, lashing his horse at every jump, his girl sitting by him In a broad grin. Close behind the irate uncle followed at a gallop with h's pistol ready to fire. Behind him came a man on a big mule that tried to stop at all the stores, and two on foot, all in pursuit. Every spectator raised a yell as the party passed by and the fugitives were overtaken at the upper end of town and the girl snatched from the hands of her lover. Jim says he is bound to have her, and we guess he will. It was an exciting scene, and Jim had many offers of assistance if he w ould steal her away that night.

A Rainbow of the Moon. [Cor. N. Y. Post.j ~ Nearly a third of the moon was spanned by the mystic bow. There was a peculiar luster about this bow, not seen In a sun rainbow, and as it touched the horizon and seemed to bury itself in the waters of thelake, a most peculiar and penetrating green light streamel up in long plumes from either side. The whole heavens presented a fantastic array of colors. To the west the lovely bow; in the extreme east) a heavy cloud gave out vivid flashes of lightning—great sheets of yellow flame that came in waves, the cloud-bank never for an instant being quite dark. Above, the moon, almost full, and shining with a steady light, made unusually silvery by contrast with the yellow waves of electricity. Just below the moon was a small bank of light, fleecy clouds of a deep rosy oolor as intense as a sunlight reflection. This wonderful combination the moonlight, lightning, and rainbow; the silvery raidance, yellow flames and green light; the colors so vivid, so mysterious and evanescent, so cvpr cious and bewitching, produced an effect altogether indescribable. Where the clouds were from which fell the shower we did not d scovar. ___ Interfering With Chinese Civilisation. ICleveland Plain-Dealer.] The eloping coachman industry, far from active among the best American families, Is thriving in other fields. Chinatown In San Francisco- 1s convulsed by a sensation which In its way Is as big as was the Morisiui-'Huelsoatnp episode. Lean Him, a rich Chinese merchant, had a beautiful daughter, Ah Moy, aged fourteen. Lem Ah Hop was a profligate Chinese youth and his friend Wongtn Toy aided him. Lem saw Ah Hoy only to love her and, disguised as a coachman, he got into Lean HPn’s house. Ah Moy, romantic and silly at an American girl, encouraged her disguised suitor, robbed her father, eloped with Lem and by an affidavit that she Was eighteen years old got a license and was married- But It didn’t end here. Lean Hind got after Lem and his friend, secured ms erring child, and lodged the adventurous pair la Jail. An American court wl i give the outraged parent bit

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