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THE BGfiDEX CASE. | BISXORY O* AS EXTRAORDI NARY DOUBliE TRAaEOY. \ I The 34nrd?roi Mr. and Mrs. Kordea 1 at Fall Hirer, Jfas.? Why Sou- ! pi cion Attaches to the Ar rested Lizzie Borden. The double murder of Andrew J. Borden and his wife at Fall River, }Iass., j on the 4th of August, culminating ts it i did in the awest-of his youngest daush- ! ter, Lizzie Jfcrden^ has been cne of the ] most extraordinary snd mysterious crim inal episodes of the oenttry.^ The cirssmstaaces surrounding the as t ias&iration of Borden and his wife, who was Lizzie's stepmother, -were such as to astound these who would pounce, off hand,. upon a motive. Borden was rich and pious, aged seventy-six yeare. a man whose probity was equal to his thrift. He had not led a public life, he had no known enemy who it could be conjec ' t tired would go to the extent ol killing - h>m, much les3 his wife, and when the mutilated bodies of tfeecoupie were dis % covered, ia their own house, shortly be fore noon on August 4, the police and the public were utterly at a loss foj? a motive, and in toe intense cxcitement that overwhelmed the community they turned to one another in helpless aston ishment an?J horrdr. The body bf Boitlen wa* found on a | velvet sofa in the parlor of the house. Bis head had bee? iiterally hacked to pieces. There were seven long gasbes on his face and skuli, some of them aa inch and a half deep through the flesh and boE?. In the 6t?pare" bed chambet on the second lioor was discovered the body of Mrs. Borden, who was sixty tcven years old. There was at first no sight of blood and the momentary guj> zjwsition was that heart failure had oc cHied, \ Mrs. Borden was lying p\>ne on the fl4or on her face with her^ arms out stretched and the toes of ha^sijoes rest ng on the carpet- On r$S?ng>fee body there was seen a pool of blood, and an parlor for * dose. Bridget 0nffi*?n* who bad been walking is thelriicfeKv passed throogh ibe parlor* abortl? after bis retcru and asked him Iwr hi frit; The reason for this ^flection was tf* plained to the police. The whole family had been slightly in for a day ot two, and Dr. Bowen, the attending physician, ASDREW J. B0BDE5. SECOND VICTIM. j had given ft as his suggestion that they had betr* poisoned. Mr. Borden told Bridget that be was feeling all right, and she went up to the third floor and washed the windows. 1 According to Lizzie Borden she slept late that morning, and did not get up until Mrsi Borden had gone out, as she thought, in response to the note from | the neighbor. On going down stairs Lizzie passed through the parlor and saw | and spoke to her father. , Supposing her i mother was out, she went into the yard | and entered the barn in search of a piece of lead, from which to cut * 'sinkers'7 for a fishing excursion she expected soon to make to Marion to join some Sunday school friends who were already sojourn ing there. While in th? barn she^beard a cry of distreis coming apparently from the house. Rushing in, she found her father dead on the sofa. 8he called THE BORDEN HOMESTEAD TTHEBE THE MURDERS WERE COMMITTED. examination disclosed the fact that death bad been caused, as iu the case of the husband, by reptated blows of some h??7y sharp insirumenton the face, neck > and- head. In the case of both there was found a deep eut into the braio. A circumstance, which was not at once observed, but which was afterward noticed and put down as a clue, was the . remarkable absence of blood from the numerous wounds on both bodies. It wa? aa if the life current had been re tarded and partly congealed from other causes before the murd&ous blows were > struck. MRS. ABBIB D. BORDEN, FIRST VICTIM. A slight survey served to make it equally plain that the murder* -were both committed unexpectedly so far as the ^ictiras were concerned. ' Borden's body reclining on the lounge, the le^s ?rc resting easily *>m the floor, the left Vim lay am the ha?fche right was folded icfji$r) the bre?U?^WReyes were closed aatfthe f eat ure^-rf ere Unmarked by any exps&siom of sur?*ri-:e 01 apprehension. Tfcefpttitude was one of repose. The featsrres of Mrs.*Bordeu were not drawn an? fhere was absolutely no evidcncc of HH^ntfgle. Theffi w?re, so far as yet known, but two persons otheT^teas-J^den aod his wife oiii the premises when the" murders were committed. These were Bridget Sullivan* a domestic, tnd L zzie Borden, ih(j youngest of tae two daughters. The older dinhter *?as visiting in another iown. 1 fRS alarm wa3 given by Lizzie ran out into the yard and A. neighbor responded I jlice were telephone J. for. I ^arrived they were told the i bad been visiting i ^Jlaveo. At 8 >'ciock^ aorriag Jlr3. Borden re- | ;?eived a Dote asking her to call on a j Iciend who was ill. She Idt the* house I ?ad sfaortlT after Ver husband , followed j ujd i^ent w? the barrk, of w&icfc he was-f i director. Re returned ?abou^10':3 ) i >*c!ock and Kciioed on t^e" sofa in tae I ??- v : . Bridget jwd they gave an alarm. Then they searched upstairs for Mrs. Borden. a*4 found her as described. The door o: spare room, the police were told, was c'9*ed; SEtcfc: was the story as related to the police b$r Lizzie Borden and the servant, and it furnished no clues on whicih to work. A searSSj^i the house revealed a hat chet which bore traces of blood, a bun dle of bloody rags under a bucket in the cellar and two spots of blood on a white skirt hanging i a a clo3et in Lizzie's room. This skirt would hardly stand aa evidence, however, unless it could be proven that Lizzie wore it when she killed the stepmother, but removed ij be'ore she made the assault on the old man. She did not have time to change any of her clothing between the time ilr. Borden was killed and the time when she call Bridget Sullivan. There was absolutely &o stain of blood on Liz zie's bands or clothing when the officers took possession of the house. - . The first theory of the police was that a murderer famiiiar with the place had concealedfeimself in the house and had taken desperate chances for the plunder that might be at hand. This view was relinquished when it was lound that nothing had been taken. The police next turned their attention to the theory that the murdera were a family' matter' and had gTown out of the efforts of one of the girls to secure a half interest in the estate, valued at #500,000. At the outset there were several false clues on which the police worked, sev eral parties being arrested on suspicion, but each one established an alibi. TH8 ACCTTSTO WO*AW, LIZZtB A. BORDEN. A careful examination of the bodies j of Mr. and Mrs. Borden the day after the killing served to convince the phy sicians that Mr?. Borden had been dis patched some time? probably an honr and a ha'f ? before her husband. It wa? after this discovery, coupled with their . failure to locate any anst>icious character \ 0ft Of near tbe premise* before or After tragedy, and with the seeming im probability that a stranger could hare larked in the Borden house without de tection by Li2zie Borden or the servant, that the police fell back on the theory (hat the asmssin was some member of the household who knew the premises 4feoroughly. So much having been settled to their satisfaction the poiice proceeded to look lor their victim. Their attention was first drawn to John V. Morse, a cousin of Borden, living in a neighboring town . Morse was a sort^of horse trader, had recently come from the West and was known to have been afc the Borden home several time.1, and especially on the morning o? the murders. He was shadowed and questioned by the police, and several of the Borden relatives came out and aired their suspicions in relation to him, but he convinced the police of his innocence. Morse was undoubtedly in and about the Borden house shortly before the tiagcdy, but there was no evkleoce of any sort discovered against him, and he was not arrested, although he was under surveillance for several days. L zzie Borden was suspected chiefly by reason of certain discrepencies betweea her statements to the police as to the cir cumstances under which the bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Borden were found. Bridget Su.livan was involved in several of the earlier of these discrepencies, but i the police decided that she was a victim of a bad menory and abandoned all sus picion of her. THii FATAL? HATCHET. The suspicion against Lizzie Borden was rendered stronger by a statement ma ie to the police by Eli Bence, a clerk at D. R. Smith's drugstore, to the effect that Miss Borden had been in his store two days before the murders inquiring for prussic acid or hydrocyanic acid. She failed to secure either. The drug c;erk made a partial identification of , Borden, buc later the accuracy of his identification was denied. Miss Bor den denied that she bad bought or tried to buy either poison. Hydrocyanic acid leaves no outward trace on the body, and it was the conjecture of the physicians for the prosecution that this was the drug that had been used. Miss Borden was put under ptfk; BUr. veil lance two days after the murders but was not arrested until some days later. In addition to the police there *as a Pxnkerfcon detective early on the scene. The detective worked in the in ferest of the Borden family and xidiculed e police theory. His idea was that the murders were the work of a lunatic. ?or^en on the day of hi*death wen; investigated, with the result that the police were able to trace .him u., to within a half hour of his T ' minutea after he was seen to enter the house his body was found on the so,*. Jt was between 10:5(1 and 1U.52 a. m. wnen Borden entered the hou3e. At 11:13 the news of r,hs mur der was on the 3treet. In the case of Mrs. Borden tho polic* were utterly unable to locate her outside the house on that fearful morning not withstanding the statement of ^Lizzie Borden that Mrs. Borden had been sum moned U> a sick neighbor. According to M.ss B >rden the cote was delivered to M.-a. Borden by a messenger boy, but she could not defcribe the boy. She did not Ihe De:^bo r and diligent search !l t0*eveiil tce slightest trace of either. The note which jYr . Borden is said to have receive.l could not be found It was regarded as singular by the police that Either Miss Borden nor Brilgec Sulhvaa had heard the noise of the laii of Mrs. Borden's bods Mrs Borden weighed 200 pounds, and it was cfear that sae nad tumbled headlong nnd at full length to toe fi jor. Dr. Bowen, the family physician, who a-> ca. ed to the Borden house a few minutes after the discovery of the bodies, told the po|ee that Mr. Borden was, in his judgment, asleep when attacked. He thought that an ax wa3 used, as there were several cuts on the head four and a half inches long. Miss Borden told the police that she was in the barn when the murders curr^* A P?Iic?man visited the bam f ? > A, aftcr 'he 'ragedj and exam ined the floor whicn was covered with a frn* Tl J There wcre 00 foot pr-nta m this duat except those made by the officer in his investigation H.ram Harrington, a brother-in-law of Borden, had an interview with Miss Borden the evening of the day of the murders. She told him that she was in ?e.n '5? f"thei at 10.30 o clock. Mr. Borden sat down on the lounge m the next room, and she went in there and helped him to remove h? coar, luq-.iired solicitously as to his condition, put on his dressing gown as sisted him to a reclining potion, 'and withdrew on finding him comfortable, u bouse and weDt to the barn about 10:45 o'clock, and staied there i tw.nty to thirty minute. On returning she found Mr. Burden s body. M is* Borden told Harrington that she thought the murders bad been committed ?bv | strangers. * T j The police were clear on the question | of motive. They alleged that it was [ the purpose, of Lizzie Borden, by killing Boraen and h is wife, to inherit one-ha'f of his estate. \ Befcrc the tragedy Lizzie Borden lived the humdrum life of a small place. She once taught a Sunday school class and was bright but sedate. She made an estanded tour of Europe a rear or two ago, since which she has devoted her self largely to novels and has resumed her Sunday school teaching. Through oat her surveillance snd arrest she ac?ed with wonderful calmnese Washington fctar, ? ' > Railway is ?ar#pf. The highest railway in Esrupc is the j Brienz mountain railway in SwitzerUiaa, ! connecting the village oi Bcleaz with tbo ? - summit of the R->thhom. It is opeu to ' visitors this summer. It is ran oc t'ao : tocthed-wheel system. It starts oloia i ? bj the shores of Like Brier.z and sviads opt the mountain past Geiiried, tiaus stadJfaad Oberst-$ta2el, ani the inciiao is one metre la four. The carriages ara partly ckiaed aud partiy open, and e*ch ^ compartment has two benches, seating four persons oa a side. Tke ascent of the Rothhora on horseback used to *ako fire hoars. T^e time of the foua i irip by raihvay is three * hours. .?Boston ** Transcript. Professor iiluge, oljens, in an ^ddrees, s, Itated that Shakespeare, in hia-works. - asea 23,003 words. T.ie le^tnrsr then r Sxowed that the Otd Tesu?mear con .taiaid ^ir330Q:difisr?at words. Washington City contains in its streets au3 squares over seventy thousand trees, although the work of systematic plant ing was not begun until 1892. There are 330 little parks at the intersections of -$he streets and avenues, besides the great consolidated Government reserva tion extending westward from the Capi tol to the Washington Monument, two milea away. About $75,000 annually is expended by the Government and the District of Columbia in planting and earring for trees. White Egyptians. Not the least interesting fact of to-day ! is that the history of E^ypt in very ancient tiroes is now as clearly proved as the his- j torj< of Rome or England. And the . j J^test conclusion is that the Egyptians of ?*000 B. <5. were a pure white race of tba same slock as. the Hebrews. ? New York Aiver-iser. - I \ The invention of Paper. The exact date of the introduction or manufacture of paper i* as rauc'i or more j uncertain, A3 the actual date of the inven- j ? & ti tion o! printing. Casiri states paper to hare been first manufactured in Bucharia, and that the ; Arabs ascribs its invention to Joseph Amnu, in the year of the Hegira 88, of Christ 706. 'Otaer learned men have thought that we are indebted to the Chi nese for it, from whom it passed succes sively to the Indians, Persians and Arabs ; and by the Utter was communicated to the Western Nations. The manufacture of r cotton paper is said to be still carried on in the Levant. ? American Art Printer. ? ??? 3 tie (to Cousni fcreorge,wn& aas just re turned from the tropics)? "Oh, George, dear, how kind of you t > 'oriaj me thia dear little monkey! How thoughtful TOCI are! Bat? but? it's just like jouf"? .F-.mnv A colored man lives loager in the South than he do** is the North. '' ? i BOCK HOPPER ROOKfftM * S ? ?? ' ?f. ? WON D EKE UX SEASIDE KESo4tS OP THE PENGUIN. / I Habits oi These Qaeer Birds?They Use Their Wings lor Swimming, Not Flying. N many of the antarctic islands j when they were first discovered i by civilized man the fur seals j and; the penguins were near! neighbors daring the season of repro duction; they came out from the water, in which they were alert and active, on to the land, on which they were con strained and fairly helpless; but come out they must, and come out they did in multitudes that astonished the eyes of man when first laid pn them. Tne penguins cannot fly from auy dan ger on land nor can they run like the os trich. They arc simply droll, grave ?waddlers until they touch the water. Tden they are oft like i. flash under water, for their useless wings are the finest fins, and they literally swim like fishes with them. They are confined to the south ern hemisphere, and to the moat lone some and desolate regions of that area, naturally, since they are so helple3* on land, which- they must visit regularly to reproduce tftSir kind. Their plumage is harsh and/Gilyand they do not look un like our aorthera loon or diver, at least, eeveral qtf the thirteen species do which make up ihe penguin family. They oc cupy in the antarctic relatively the name place that our auk? do in th? .arctic, but they range up as high a? thej^quafcor, though the greater number are found below south latitude twenty-eight de grees. The most singular feature connected with this family of birds is the odd coin cidence of their habit with that of the fur 3eals. Like those animals they re pair to the land in immense numhsrs, where the isolation, the drainage and ' the temperature is as the seals elect. There they spread themselves over the face of acres and acres of gerund, reach ing inland sometimes a thousand yards from the sea beach. Theie rockhopper rookeries are de signed with great order and regularity? ' they are frequentljthe resort of several different species, and but the ground is so laid off that the " town" or "camp" | of one kind is never confused with that ] of the other. These "camps" are often extensive enough to eover a space of twenty or thirty acres; but a "town" that embraces four or five acres is a very lively one and about the usual thing. The penguins lay this ground out in several squares, with tolerably straight streets, the squares occupied by the nesting birds and the streets by those which are coming and golBg from the sea. Sailors delight in telling of the perfect regularity of the lives of a pen guin town, and declare that a surveyot of our own kind could not get it into greater regularity. The marching and countermarching of the rockhoppers as they come and go from the rookery is said to resemble the manoeuvres of our soldiers on parade. The gravity, the rigidity of the upright backs and necks, the stiffness of the use less wings and the firmness of their foot ing make the resemblance quite sugges tive. Their erect attitude and bluish black N backs contrast so strongly with their white bo.lie3.erad thro its that on6 English navigator declared that they "resembled so many children at a dis tance with white bibs." The penguins come out on to these rookery grounds for the sole purpose of moulting, laying their eggs and hatch ing them; thsy lay a 3ingle one, large apominateor pear-shaped egg, and strad dle it, making no nest or suggestion of one, but right on the bare ground the bird squats over it, sitting perfectly erect, without leaving its charge for a moment day or night, until the three weeks' time of incubation closes; if the mother doe3 leave her egg it will to stolen or appropriated by another pen* guin, and she will not be able to relo cate her property; so it appears that the male^bird regularly goe3 to and from the sea anct brings his consort food, which keeps he'; in good condition, since the sailors say that a sitting rockhopper is always the 1 attest. These "towns," "ca nps" or rookeries oi these birds have always proved to be of the greatest fascination to our sailor^ and w'naier3 who have voyaged in the antarctic, and they have bsen of super lative interest to every naturalist who has had the good fortune to visit them. Those of the Falkland Islands have been the mo3t accessible and hive therefore attracted the most attention, and long accounts are given by the old Dutch, English, French and Spanish navigators of the q-ieer sights which these strange birds arforded them. These odd "Manchots," as the French called tneaa, received those first white men just as they receive us to-day; re ceived them without giving the least evi dence of alarm and hardly looking up at them as they stride in after stepping ashore from their \boits at the rookery margin. In some Of the "camps'' there would be a perfect Stillness on the part of thousands and tens of thousands, whiffe heightenel the dFeir desolatioa of the place; then again the jackass penguins would set up at night horrible braying, making an infernal discord when arising from countless throats thai was simply indescribable. When the sailors go ashore on one erf these rookeries the birds give no ouW ward evidence of any concern. The} will not move and stand quietly by while their companions are knocked down with sticks till it comes to their turn for the club. The penguins hardly do more than turn a side glance up and at the men. -r jf The largest penguin is the Appenodes "^atachonica, which is three feet from the crown ot its head to the tip of its abor tive tail ; but the other species are none of them over two feet up and down the back. The bones are very hard, com pact and heavy, with no apertures for the admission of air, but they contain, ? ? of them, a thin, oily marrow. Their sensations do not seem to be very acute, in spite of their brilliant rei ey^s,, which glitter and wink most knowingly* at you. They sleep so soundly t'^at they have beeqi kicked a yard or two c?ver /.he groand before awakening. -Then1 when they do Muse up they march off with their usual gravity if taey go at all awaj from you. . v 4 ' The name of "rocVaopoer," winch the sailors have given these birds aUover the world, arose from the odd action of a penguin when it gets among loos; rocks. It cannot walk then in its peculiar slow waddle, but instead leaps or hops in short jumps along, with out stretched wings as a balancing rod. When in a grassy place or among tus soiis these littie piu nelcss win^s arc used as fore lega, for it really crawls, as it were, on all fours, and moves then so quickly that it may be" well mistaken for a quadruped. ? Washington Star. Suicide of a Clergyman. . ; Leesbcro, Fla ? Rev. J. E. Julian, rector of the Episcopal church here, committed suicide at a late hour in the night. No cause is assigned. He wjs an Englishman, and had only been about five years in th s country. IREV. DR. TALMAjBL - ? THE BROOKLYN BIVINB^ SUN- ; DAY SERMON. ' ! ? 1 Text; "And an highway shall b? there% and a way, and it shall be called the t cay o f holiness ; the unclean shall not pass over it: but it shall be for those,' the wayfaring though fools, shall not err therein. $.0 uon shall be there , nor any ravenous beast shall go up hereon. It shall not be found there, but the redeemed shall loalk there , and the ransomed of the Lord shall return and come to Z!on urith songs and trer.as'ing joy uvon th*ir heads ? they shall obtain joy a>rd gladness, and sorrow and s-gh'ng shall fles aircy.? Isaiah xxxv., ?-10, There p.re thousands of people herd this morning who want to find the right road, ^cu sometimes see a person halting at cross roads, and you can tell by bis looks that he wishes to ask a question as to what direction he had batter ta;ce. And I stand in your presence this morning couscious of the fact there are many of you here who realiza that there are a thou-an 1 wrong road?, but only < ne right one, and I take it for granted that *ou have come in to ask which one it is. Here is one road that opens widely, but I have not muea faith in it. There are & great inany expensive tollgates scattered aU along that way. Indeei at every rod you must pay in lear?, or fay in flagellations. On that roa?1, if you get through it at all, you have to pay your own way, and since this differs so muph from what I have heard in regard to the right way, I believe it is the wrong way. Here is another road. On either side of it are homes of sinful entertainment, and invitations to come in and dine and rest, but from the looks of the people who stand en the piazza I am very certain that it is the wrong house and the wrong way. Here is another road. It is very beautiful and macadamized. The horses? hoofs clatter . end wring, and they who ride over it spin a'ong the highway until suddenly they find that the road breaks over an embankment, and thsy try to halt, and they saw the bit in the mouth of the fiery steed and cry "Whoa! whoa!" But it is too latt, and? crash *? they go over the embankment. We shall turn this morn in jc aui see if we cannot find a different kind of a road. You have heard of the Appian Way. It was three hundred and fifty miles long. It was twenty-four feet wide, and on either side the read was a path for foot passengers. But I 'have this morning to tell you of a road built before the Appian Way.and vet it is lis good as when first construed. Millions Of sculs have gone over it. Millions more will come. First, this road of the text k thb King's highway* Well, my Lord the Kiq^ decided to build a highway from earth to heaven. It should span all the chasms of human wretch edness; it should tunnel all the mountains of earthly difficulty; it should be wide enough and strong, enough to hold fifty thousand millions of the human race, if so many of them should ever be born. It should be .blasted cut of the "Rock of Ages," and cemented with the blood of the Crow, and be lifted amid the shouting of angels and the execration of devils. The -King sent His Son to build that road. He put bead and hand and heart to itv and after the road was completed, waved His blistered hand over the way crying, "It is finished." Still further? this road spoken of is a clean road. " Many a fine road has become miry and f on) because it has not been prop eriy cared for-, but my text says the f un clean shall not walk on this one. Room on either side to thr ow away your sins. In* deeJ, if you w ant to carry them along, you are not on the right road. That bridge will break, those o verhanging rocks will fall, the night will come down, leaving you at the mercy of the mountain bandits, and at the very next turn ol the road you will perish. But if vou ore really on this clean road of which i have been speaking, then vou will stop over and anou to wash in the water that stands in the basin of tha eternal rock. Aye, at almost every step of the journey vou will be crying our, "Create within me a clean heart ?' If you have no such aspirations as that it proves that vou have mistaken your way, and if you will only look up and see the fingerboard above your head you may read upon it the words, "There is a way that seemeth right uuto a man, but the end thereof is death." VV ithout holiness no man shall see the Lor d, and if y;>u have any idea that you can carry alom your sins, your lusts vou worldlintss aud yet to the end of th3 Christian race you are so awfully mis taken tuat, in the name of God, tms morn ? iDg I shatter the delusion. ? ? Still further, the road spoken of is a plain road, "l'he wayfaring men, though fool?, ?ball hot err therein" ? that is, if a man is th-ea-fourth a a idot ha can find this road just as well as if he were a philosopher. Many a man has been familiar wita all tne higher branches of mtthsmaticj an;l vet could not do the simob su n, " ?Vbat saall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul*'" Many a man na? baen a fina lvader of trsge.lies and poems and yet cou'd not "i-ead his title clear to mansions in the t>Kies."' Many a man has botanize! across the coatiaeut an 1 yet did not know th-? "Rose of Saaroo and the Lily oi the Ya lav." H&ut i-i one shall come in the rignt 'piriti as':in)\ttie way to heaven, he will fin i it a pla n way. The pardon is plain. Tfce i*cac.i is plain. Everything is plain He who tru:s to cct o:i the road to heaven tluvu r-i th Sew Testtmeut leacain^ wilJ get ou beautiiu'ly. He who j;oes through philosophical discussion will not get on at -?>l Christ says, "Co ne to Me, anl I will tai-oe all your sins awav. s.nd I will take all your troubles away." Now. is th* use of my discussing i: any mo: v.. Is not that plain? After this BiKe has p 1 rou the way to heaveD, is it wise for m? to" de tain you with any discussion about the rature of the hu-nan will, or whether the atonement is limited or unlimited? There is the road? go on it. It is a plain way. .Still further, this road to heaven is a safe f>ad. Sometimes th? traveler in thosa an cient highways wouM thin': himself perfect ly secure, not knowing there was a lion bv* th-? W3y burying STs taea 1 deep between bis paws, aud thc-n when the right moment came, uuder tha fear.ul sprin;-, the man's Me was gone and there was a mauled car ca?s by the roadside. But-, s*ys ray text, "No lion .sha I be there."' I wish i coulo ma'-i? ycu fee' this morning your entire se curity. i ten you plainly that one minute alter a man lias brcorae a child of God he iv as safe as though he ha:l been ten thousand years in heaven. H? may siip, he may slide. h?may stumble, but he can-.o: be de stroyed. Kept by ths po a er of <-!od through faith unto complete salvation. Everlasting ly safe^ * > The severest trial to which you can sub ject a Christian man is to kilfhim, and that is glory. In other words, the worst thing that can happen a child cf Go3 is heaven, 'i he body is only the old slippers that he throws aside just be.'ora putting on the sandals of light. His soul, you cannot hurt it. No fires can consume it. Nofl;o:lscau cirown it. No devils cm capture it . His soul is safe. /-His reputation is safe. Everything is safe. "But." ycu sar, "su>v posa his store burns up;" " Why," then it wji! only ba a change of invest ments from earthly to heaven'. y sc-curi tier. "PJut," yon say, ".-upoose his name goes down under the 'hoof of scnri r nd contem t?" The name will bs so much brighter in glory. "Suppose his phys ical hen.lt i fails?"' God will pour into him thsfloolsof ever1a>t:ng health, and it wiil not make any difference. Earthly subtrac tion is heavenly alditioD. The tears of earth are the crystals of heaven. As they take rags and tatters and put them through the par>er mill and they come cu' beautiful white sheets of paper, so often the rags of earth' y destitution, under t'^e cylinders of death, come out a white scroll upon which shall bo written eternal einanci?>ation. Still further, the road spoken of is a pleas ant road. God gives a bond., of indemnity against all evil to every man that treads its. "All things work together for good to those who love God." No weapon fornaed against them can prosper. That is the bond, signed gealed and delivered by the President of the rniverse. What is the uas of your fretting !p child of God, about fool? tlBehold the * fow;s of the air, for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into band?, vet your heavenly Father feedeth them." And wiil H* take care of the sparrow, will He take cer<j of the hawk, and let you die* Wnat is the use of your fretting about clothes? "Con sider tha lilies of the fieid. Shall He not much more clothe you, 0 ye of little faith?" Ob. this King's highway*! Trees of life on either side beading over until their branches interlock and droo midwav their fruit and shade. Houses of entertainment on either side of the road for poor Pilgrims. Tables spread with a feast of good things and walls adorned with apples of gold in pictures of River. 1 start out on this King's highway, and I find a harper, and I say, "What is your name?' The harper makes no response, tut leaves me to guess, as with his eyes to ward hfaven and his hand upon the treai bling strings this tune comes rippling out up on the air: "The Lord is ray light and my sai vation. Whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?"' i -^1 go a little farther on the same road and I meet a trumpeter of heaven, and I say, j "Haven't you ;Ot some itusic lor a tired ? pilgrim?'' And wiping his lio and taking a long breath, he puts his mouth to the truo> I pet ana pours forth this strain: "They shall i hunger no more, neither shall they thirst Any mo?\ neither shall the son light on them, nor any heat, for the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall lead them to living fountains of water, and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes." 1 go a little dista nee farther oa the same* road, and I meet a maiden of Israel. Sht has no harp, bat she ha* cymbals. The> look as if they had rusted from sea spray, and I say to the maiden of Israel, "Have you no song for a tired pilgrim?" &.nd lite the clang of victors' shields t&e cymbals clap as Miriam begin s to discourse, "Sing ye to the I/)rd, for H e hath triumphed gloriously; the hcrso aui the rider hath He thrown inte th? sea." I pursue this subject only one step farther. What is th 3 terminus? 1 do not cr.re bow line a rozd^ou may put me od, 1 want to k now watre it cr,n??s on*. My text declares it, "The redeemed of the Iiori come to Zion." You know what Zion was. Th*t was the Kind's palaco. It was a mouutaiu fastness. It was impregnable. And so heaven is the fastness of the universe. No howitzer has long enough range to shell those towers* Let all the batteries of earth and hell blazaaway ; they cannot break in tbese gates. Gibralter was taken, Sebit topol was taken; Babylon fell, but those walls of hexveu shall never surrender either to humanity or satanic besiegemen^. The Lord God Almighty is the defense ol it. Great capital of the universe ! Terminus of the King's highway I When my last wound -is healed, when the last heartbreak is euded, whoa the last tear of earthly sorrow is wiped away, and whan the redeemed of the Lord shall come to Zion, then let the harpers take down tbel^ harpjx and all the trumpters take down their trumpets, and all across heaven there be chorus of "morning star*, chorus of white robed victors, chorus ot martyrs from un der the throne, chorui of age?, chorus of worlds-, and there b9 but one song sung, and but one name spoken, and but one throne honored? that o' Jesus onlv. THE LABOB WOBLD. About 55,000 London tailors are locked out of work. Grape cultivation employs 2,800,000 per sons in France. Hackmen of Chicago have the word "Uuion" painted on each side of the driver's se.it. # "{ . Great distress prevails among the l0$00 idle employes of the tin plate factories in the W ales. \ * The Socialists of Paris have collected a fund wherewith they are to publish a daily labor paper. The Amalgamated Society of Carpenters 8n1 Joiners has withdrawn from the Board of Walking Delegate?. Thehe are 37,000 women telegraph oper ators in the United States and the nutnbar is constantly growing. Ik several large factories in Cincinnati, Ohio, the working hours of cabinetmaker? have bee i reduced from ten to nine." A member of the Illinois Legislature^ as sued a tobacco manufacturer of Chicago for using his photograph on a brand of non union cigars. A movement is on foot to organize the in 6urauce men, the agents and collectors into a National labor union under the auspices of the American Federation of Labor. The sixth annual convention -of the In ternational Association of Factory Inspec tors has just been held at Hartford, Conn. There are about lorty members in attend ance. William Reese, the oldest iron-worker In the United States, died recently at hit home in Bolivar, Peuu.. aged 104 years. He was a nativa of vV ales and came to this coun try in 18?2. In consequenee of the recent troubles be tween Belgian and French workmen in sev eral cities ot Franc? a large number of Bel. gians have been sent over the frontier by the French au thorite?. The Pacific Coast Seamen's Union has a membership of 4000 and maintains a large employment office. Be.'ore the Union was established wages of ?e -.men were about $25 per month, while now they are from $35 to $50. PROMINENT PEOPLE. Carl Scburz >6 an adept^at the piano. Frederick Douglas3 pfeys the fiddle. Gladstone is the only Englishman who has held tbe office of Premier four time*. The Turkish Sultau's daughters take a daily music lesson from their father, who is an accomplished pianist. M. E. Galladay, of Holden, Mc., is proud of tbe fact tbat he is the lineal de scendant of tbe original Mother Goose. A Democratic nominee for Congress in Texa?, Judge Pascal, bas a moustache that measures sixteen inches from end to end. | Labor Commissioner Peck, of New ! York, has held office for nine years, having been appointed in 1883 by Grover Cleve lan '. _ ; Ike Queen Regent of Spain refuses to tcuoh a penny of the $100,000 a year to which, as the widow of the late King, she is entitled. Fismarck used to spell his. name without tie c. The present spelling does away with monetary signiticace of the names Bis-mark j ?two mark. J The motner of Rev. Robert Fulton Crary, of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., is tbe only surviv ing child of Robert Fulton, the inventor of the steamboat. Bev. Db. Milbttrn, the biind preacher and ex-Chaplain of the House of Repre i scr.taiives, has completed a work on the ! eariy history of the Mississippi Valley. j Mrs. A. E. N. Robertson, of Muscogee, Indian Territory, has been made a doctor of philosophy by the University of Ohio for translating the New Testament out of the ! Greek into the. language of the Creek In j diau-\ John I. Blaib. the railroad magnate, whose first sale was a muskrat skin, and who now is a very many millionaire, re cently celebrated his ninetieths birthday at bis home at Biairstown, S. J. His most recent enterprise is the VVali^reet banking j house of Blair & Co. Called Shad Hard Names. Abner Stone had lived -^aland" al$ | his days, and knew all there waKto b? j known about pork and beef as articles of ! food. His acquaintance with the prod ; ucts of tue Eea, on the" oth>r hand, was ; very slight. Ooce, however, when at j the seashore, he was introduced fo shad, ! and asked how he liked it. "Well," i said the old farmer, with a brave attempt ; at a smile, "I calculate I shell, when I I pet kinder wonted to it, raebbe; but it : does seem, jest at fust, ye know, con i airi'able like tryin' t' eat a paper o' buttered pins!" ? Argonaut. ? A general expansion of trade h? de j re! oped itself. A Greni Bool*. Owing tf. the growth <>t the English language ! and its continually increasing prevalence, very I much more is required of an English diction 1 ary to-day than ti-rmeriy. and Noah Webster, j who spent twenty years in preparing his i "American Dictionary." would hurdly recog nize it in the perfect on which it has attained j in the hands of modern *cho!ar--. W ebster's International Dictionary, tbe last of the long line or revisions and enlargements I of tbe ordinal "Webster." represents fifty ! tunes the hi noun t of literary )a!>or expended ; uj'on the earliest edition, ana is the nio^t com ' piete and reliable w<-rk of the kind ever pub i lisbed. Every family of children should nave J ready access to this grand volume. It will answer hundreds of questions for each wide awake child, and be an ever-present and relia , hie schoolmaster to the whole family. A contemporary lays down a number of rules of action in case of one's clo th - 1 mg taking fire. One of them is' 'to keep as cool as possible. ? Tit Bits. He ? "That's that as3, Bounderson, i isn't it? He should have been drowned as a puppy.'' S le ? "Fnere's tin* ! enough yet, isn't t ier*?'' ? Punch. ? For Impure of thin Blood, Weaknaaa, Mala ria Neuralgia, lodicrestum. and Bilion?nea% take Brow n's Iron Bit'ers? it gives strength, making old penK>ns feol young? and youn? persons strong; i leasant to take. ! Kohtherx Mexico is a^a;n confronted by a tnial cron taiiun*. Indigestion Cured " I Lave for years been troubled with distress in re 7 stomach and indiges tion. When I took Hood's Sarsaparilla the effect was surpris ing1. It gave me great relief, and I now eat without that terrible dia ** m. ? a ae. tress. I also rest well at night and am in stood several health, for all of which I thank HOOD' 8 8 ARSAP ARIL LA." Wit. Wade, Boot and Snoe dealer, 17 Merrimack Street, Lowell, Maas. Hood's Pills cure liver ills, constipation. bil !' cnsaeaajaundice and sick headache. Tr y them Sample Package Frte? Address Small Bile Beans, York, The New Zealand Government pro Dcses starting a silk indusfry in its north' em districts. ? * j t Cure for Colds, fevers and General Debilit>, Small Bile.Bc^ng. ~5c. i*er bottle. The Salvation Army arc about to build a headquarters for Ireland at Bclfwt, to cost $-10,000. Guaranteed. We are willing to stand the loss. If you buy h bottle of Bilo B' icns Small and. do not -pet double value write us and tva ^vill checrfully refund your money. J- F. Smith & Co.. yew York, X. \ . Clusters of clover, if hung in a room and left to dry and shed cht$ir perfume through the ai?. will drive away flies. Melancholy pflSftptly relieved by Small Bile fc^aus. The acreage of water jijion* at the J^outh is tweuty five per c^at, less this year than last. . . .? i The Only Oae Brer PrlntwL CA5 TOO FXVD THE WOBI>? fheselsa3 Inch display adver. iseraent la this paper, this week, which b&$ no two words . ali-ce except one word. The tamo la true or each new one appearing each week, from The IJn Harter .Vlodicine Co. Tkls house p'acef* a ,^reeccnt" on everything they aiake and pub lish. Loo '< for it. Bend them the name of th# word and they will return you IvXML, MU.CTI vcl nxnootLipaa or sampled rusx tSzRVAXT girls are organiainj in Chicago and intend to strike for more wages during the World's Fair. Oca Old Kluable Kyk watkr ceres or inflamed eyes, or MMenla'eri IMn without pain o Cents. J oils R. Dickey L>ruj Co.. fcn*t- !. Va. Thirty sardine factories in Miine are closed because thsre is no ruu of suitable litidfish to paek. [ J. S. Parker. Fredonia. X. Y., enys; "Shafl not call on you for the $190 reward, for 1 bey ?we Hall's Catarrh Cure will cure any CAM of catairh. Was very bad." Write him for particulars. Sold by Druggists. 71c. It doesn't take a bit of meanness out of a rascal to polish him. ? Ram's Ilora. The Russian Government has decid to permit free importation of tee BibT^ in other languages tha-i Russian, but no Russian Bible can circulate ui;les^j>rinted bv authority of the State church. For Dyepepeia, Indifeatfon, and Stomach disorders, use Brown's iron Bttters. The Bew Tonic, it rebuild* the system, eleatui the Biooa and etrengtheus the muscta. ? bplendjd ton k for weak and deblli>-at??d poraona No Chinese haj been naturalized for thirteen ytar.v Dtspepma. Impcircd digestion, weak stomach, and consultation will be instantly relieved oy teecham's Fills. 25 ceata a box. The Knights of Laoor have at present about 9000 members We?t Virgioii . ONB ^STJOYS Both the method and resulta wh3 Bjrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acta gentl j yet promptly on tho Kidneys, Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys tem effectually, dispels colds, held aches and fevers and curca habitual constipation. Syrup of Figs is the only remedy of its kind ever pro duced, pleasing to the taste and ac ceptable to the 'stomach, prompt in its action ivcd truly beneficial in its effects, prepared only from the most hcaiiby and agreeable 6ubetanccs, its many excellent qualities commend it '.o all and have mado it the most rrpular remedy known. I Syrup of Figs is for eale in 50? | and $1 bottles by pll leading drug j gists. Any reliable druggist who may not have it on bund will pro it promptly for any one who wishes to try it. Do net accept any substitute. CALIFORNIA HO SYRUP CO. y FRAXCtZCO, CH. L0U!3VILL?, Ki . hZU XORK. N.V. I Young isfeirs! T7o Ojfcr Fou a Remedy which Insure* Safety to Life of M.other and Child. "MOTHER'S FRIEND" Bobs Confinement of its Pain, Horror and Bisk. After aslnRoneboUleof "31 other's Friend" V suffered but ltttlo paia.and did uotexporlence that weakneec afterward usual la such cases.? Mrs. A5st e Oacs, Laaiar, M.O., Jan. 15th, lb91. Sent te7 express, charges prepaid, on r?cdnt of price, $1.00 per bottle. Look to Mothers mailed free. SRA23FIELD REGULATOR CO., ATLANTA, GA. BOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. ; "German yrup" Justice of the Peace, George Wil kinson, of I,owville, Murray Co., : Minn., makes a deposition concern | lug a severe cold. Listen to it. "In the Spring of 1 888. through ex posure I contracted a very severe i cold that settled on my lungs. This 1 was accompanied by excessive night j sweats. One bottle of Boschee's German Syrup broke up the cold, | night sweats, and all and left inc ' i:i a good healthy rendition lean give Gentian Syrup uij most earnest | commendation ' <v FT 1 P A N 3 TABULES r lir ?fn.v'i. iiv* r an<J N>w?i$ l'Ur/7 t >??? ".'.f- <M1'J !?[ tr ct'-'i ",*? !?<( ifr.rr.-.i ir.rrAtj wnown U - I : t j ? j {??' ConctJi>a::on . Koui Breath, H Citifl'tlC, ilHa! 'J'".' n. L-,-< of A:'pctiu?. ik-aial 1) ?pri^ion. rsjiiful Ittsrezt'.w, IlmpW**, 3i!io?? Coron'.cxlcj. Tired FceiiB?, u><l CTfcry rywnVom or diwwo rcjuKlos: Xrotn 5*>pure* blood, or a fniJurc by the ^tonac b. Ijv^r'*^ iBtOtlM] to perform tfccjr proper funotiotn. Persons srlt> n tpj o*er-?-^tlcK?"C bCDCnt?*'l bv taking a TA Bri.K after! o*rh tri?l I l*r1<?e. b^ nuul. lirrosslJ ; J bOltliilSC. Afl; drc * TH U KIP \ KM ICAL CO JOSpnice St ,N. Y. , Ar?nU V. FItHTY per cent proit. i IT m A DI'T\ you oncyou: ? ??If * nd family to get tb? br?t ralur for your monov. Kcono nice in your foaiwcnrhvpnt'. chawing W. L. Dotizlnx Slior*. whieh rcprp*f-ii! ? )><? br-t vnlue for prirt-* n-ki-'l. n* '"omamlit will t*'?t k fy. CTTAKEXO st b^titi te. %S GENTLEMEN, [HF 85ST 8K9S if. THE VIORiO FOR THE MONEY. 1 ** ? . >( .. ,i ?? , .,?'???' i t rip. P.n* oalf , ??airlt?a, * ?. .. ?:;??? ?? ?.??u and durable than ,'-V" - ? ? ' y"r - ' ? * ' ' '? '?'*? t'l'1?1*. cu*tom mad* ?h<>et QA ' "tts ' ,"'' ?. .^MA$i!hWeprlCec They^Si Si** *? > *, *??:< '.W<w and all othtm wha ? ,u'r;r.'^^xtwwn^w?h^ * 1 Y ' '?o and ^ arm Q?/'? V:;'' Sh<*, r ? nry tbao any other '?V'" 1 ? ' r' ^lc? Ntl<* *how that vrork ..-jn mat work BOYS' Vontbs- SI. 7.', School Shoe* ? . .I.?,* ';?!<<*'** *y*ri'vth*n- Th?m??Sk? 1 p,S sr rrt. *2.50. *2 ?*.? ?- - -? ? . Tj*- '. i~w- ? . ? r ?l ? ? ?1.75 ,,,-*??* art macSeof the t*?t Don. . -red. Troy are very nylUh, ?m The $4 ih?y- equals c-u?om t. (,'?? I.s.4;? wV,~ r* fin m? this out '?ccvoo. *5K FUR If not for wanted ? ?vciWUll* an?i tt\e on bottom. ,... ; tn.rl n* are fraululent ami subject toprosecu u/ 1 nniir.l AS' ?"? ? a.- r r o>a?ituus money ufcder r-retenoe*. W. L ,UV J ..p t .liri-V- t? Factory. ?tntl?K kind, ?ls? and width for *ale In >0J' \1., ?? r ??itV?- dealer* and general met Ho.tast freo. ^i.TYVrlt* far Ca^lcjrue. \\ . |T. Do?gl??- SrocVto*. ihaatt w?ere 1 i /' JKBB.iod the conr:,m?jp 5^'lS^cfcxsc xvUhevcryjmr^T GOING to GUI for fclustTAt.?l Catalogue. cot* Kmc &. i-1'.i e- "I 3 1 (H>ek^ ? 111 6* yoursk... liiiiSSffi u*;.civwoer? CaroU * iPnrtki-k-'?3c.? 40c- OUc. per j awl lit* Sr^jv .] {)i.. x Stool* vtrn ali eol|$?!?%4?!?p- - M&j Serial ScMlngU^. Urfei taipUiifttJM uUtvutlO tr.Mt Of JM ne*. oa >it ? DtftttS Kott boMtii vSKJr jpno o* ut.thonklQM fUo'?Oor#f?? fcon*nmptlon. It bU eer?4j 53T>"?. It U n06b?d tOtftktl ft it it>? be??coB<h syrtp. : gold tTtirwbf. ** ?? CHOIERI Its Origin and Histoiy ? -its? PREVENTION AND CUI An interesting Pamphlet1 mailed to aaj ^iess on receipt ct S tamo; Dr. Ik H. HARRI^, Pittsbmgb, J Unlike U uutcii Prontfl No Alkalies 'ij Other CiienilcalJ are used 1b th* n preparation of ha W. BAKER & COJ Brakfasl vthieh it abtriut&Jf j:urt and tolubft. It has morrthan three Um m * tie strength of Cocoa wlxi ? ,, vitfc Starcfc, Arrowroot < 1 3 Su-Mr. *xA is far nor* eoi> r.oinical. coating itss fftan cne ccnpa c*? y I: is delicious, eoarishlqg, xnt ruiMT 0 ?:ciiiT?:\ S?W ?j fitters rrerjnh?r?. R f W BAKER i CO., Dorchester, Kui i LITTLE LIVER PILLS DO SOT GRIPE HOR StCEXff. 8nre for SICK HEAD* ACHt, imtvilrr-i A ,<re?tio?. eonitU p#tion,torp:d glands. Thfytroo?? vital oigini, remove ntu?et. 41*. . tineis. Ntriful dfect On Kirl DfTgtndl)Iudd<?r. Conqorr bilious a?rvou? ai* orders. E?tablUh n&t? k >ii*l Daily actio*. Beautify Complexion by purifying blood. FCBELT VtCETiLBJK. 1 lie do?e is nicely idjuited to to'.t ra>?, as ore piU can ECTrrbctoomuch."E?chT';ilconUii*<lcarrtoti in vest pocket, like U?d pcneil. Hu.sinM4 man's preat convenience. Ts-ken enter than ?ec*r. Sold every* wh<re. All genuine good? bear "Crctctrt." bend S-cint crUxap . You get 3d pt^r-beck wrh acmji* OR. HARTER MEDiCWE CO , St Louit. 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