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DR. TMABE'S SEffiOK : NON-CHURCHGOERS, {Prcached at the Hamptons, Loog Island.] Text: "Other sheep I have, which aro not of this fold."?John x., 10. There is no monopoly in religion. The grace of God is not a little property that we may fonco oif and have all to ourselves. It is not a king's park, at which we look through a barred gateway, wishing that wo might po in and soj the doer and the statuary, and plu'.:k thj> flowers und tho fruits in the royal conservatory. No; it is the Fathers orchard and everywhere there aro bars that wo may let down and gates we may swing open. In my boyhood,next to tho country schoolhouse, there was an orchard of applos.owned Dy a very lame mail, who, although thoro were apples in the place perpetually decaying by scores and scores of bushels, never would allow any of us to touch the fruit. Ono day, in the sinfulness of a nature inherited from our iirst parents, who were ruined by the saino temptation,some of us invaded that orchard,but soon retreated,for the man came after us at a speed reckless of making his l&menois worse, and cried out: "Jioj*s. tirop tiiose apples, or I'll set the dog on you!" Well, my frionds, there aro Christian men who have the church under severe guard. There is fruit in this orchard for tho whole world, but thoy have a rough and unsympathetic way of a?eooting outsiders, as though they had no business here, though the Lord wants thom all t j come and take tho largest and tho ripest fruit on tho promises. Have you an idea that becauso you wore baptized at thirteen months of ago, and Iw-'aus? you have all your life bsen uuder hallowed influences, that therefore, you have a right to ono whole sido of the Lord's table, spreading Iourself out and taking up tho entire room* tell you no. You will have to haul in your elbows, for I shall to-day place on either sido of you those whom you never expected would sit thoro; for, ns Christ said to the Jews long ago, so he says to you and me: "Other sheep I nave, which are not of this fold." MacDouald, tho Scotchman, has four or live dozen head of sheep. Some of them ar* browsing on the heather, some of them lire lying down under the trees, some of them are in his yard; they nro scattered around in eight or ten different places. Cameron, his lseighbor, comes over, aud says: '*1 see you bave thirty sheep ; 1 have just counted them." "No,'' says MacDonald, "I have a great many more ?hce '> than that. Some are here, and some aro elsewhere. They are scattered all around about. I have 4,U00 or 5,00J in my (locks. Other sheep I have, which are not in this fold." So Christ says to us: Here is a knot of Christians and there is a knot of Christians, but they make up a small part of the flock. Here is the Episcopal iold, th9 Methodist .fold, the Lutheran fold, the Congregational fold, the Presbyterian fold, the liaptist and the l'edo-Baptist fold?the only difference betwocn these last two t>eing the mode of ?heep-washing; aud so they are scattered all over, and wo come with our statistics, and say there are ?o many thousand of the Lord's sheep; but Christ responds: ' No, no; you have not seen more than nnn mit. nf n and of my flook. They are scattered all over the earth, and 'other sheep I have, which are not of this fold.'" Christ in my text was prophesying the conversion of'the Gentiles with as much confidence as though they were already converted, and he is to-d:<y, in the words of my text, prophesying the coming of a great multitude of 'outsiders that you never supposed would come in. saying to you and saying to me: "Other sheep I have, which are not of this fold." 1. In tho first place, I remark that the Heavenly Shopherd will find many of his sheep amid tho non-churchgoers. There are congregations where they aro all Christians, and they seem to he completely finished, and ithey remind one of the skeleton leaves which, by chemical preparation, have had all the greenness and verdure taken off of them, and are left cold and white and delicate, nothing wanting but a glass case to put over them. The minister of Chri.it has nothing to do with such Christians but to come once a weekv-and with ostrich feather dust off the accumulation of tho last six days, leaving .them bright and crystalline as before. But the other kind of a church is an armory with perpetual sound of drum and life, gathering recruits for the Lord of Hosts. We say to every applioant: "Do .you want to be on Godfe side, tho safe side and the happy side ? .If so, come to the armory and get equipped. Hprfl isn hnl h in whir-l> tn " ? ? m.vu w gou vicauaua. xici ? is a helmet for your brow. Hero is a breast plate for your breast. Here is a sword for your right arm, and yonder is the battlefield. Quit yourselves like men." Thereare some here who say:* "I stopped foing. to phuroh tea or twenty years ago." ly brother,, is it not strange that you should be the first man I should talk to today? I know all your case; I know it very well. You have not been accustomed to come into >a religious assembly, but I have a surprising announcement to make to you. You are igoing to become one of the Lord's sheep. "'Ohl'Kyou say: -"it is impossible; you don't .know bow; far l am from anything of that kiBd." 1- know all about it I have wandered up and down the world and I understand your c aso. 1 have a still more startling, announcement to make in regard to you. You are not only .going to become one or the Lord's sheep, but you will become one to aay. xou will ga from this service to talk vwith some one about your soul. People of God, pray for that man. '*L)ther sheep I have, which are not of this fold." When i the Atlantic went to pieces on Mara Rock and the people clambered up on the beach, why did not that heroic minister of the gospel, of whom we have all read, sit down and take care of those men on the beach, wrapping them in tlanne's, kindling Ores for*thenv?eetog that they got plenty 6t rfood? .Ah! he Knew that there were others who wotlld do that! He says: "Yonder are men and women freezing in the rigging of -that wreck. Boys, launch the boat!" And now I see '.the . oar Jblades bend under the strong pull; but (before they reach the rig:ging a woman is frozen and dead. She was washed off, poor thing! But he says: ''There is aimanto save," and he cries oat: "Hold ob live minutes longer and I will -save you. rfiteady! Steady! Give me your haad. Leap linto the lifeboat. Thank God, lie <is saveJ." So there are those here rto-day -.who are safe ou the iihore of God1* mercy, but I see there are SOme WhO anefreftaintr in t.hn riiriTlnrr r\F tfin ^-0 ? ?^ - ?t5b*"b U4M? Mid surrounded .by perilous storms. Pull away, my lads! Lit us reach them. Alas, oue is washed off and gone! There is one more to be paved. Let us push out for that one. "Clutch the rape, < >dying man! .Clutch it with a death-grin. Ktoady, now, on the slippery places. Steady! There! Saved! Saved!" Just as I thought. For Christ has declared that there are some still in the breakers who shall come ashore. "Other sheop I have, which are not of this fold." Christ commands his ministers to bo fishermen, and when I go fishing 1 do not want to go among other churchcs, but into the wide world; not sitting along a small creok where eight or ten other TM?rsons are sitting with hook and lino, but, like the fishermenttf Newfoundland, sailing olf and dropping net away outside, forty or fifty miles from shore. Yes, there afo noa- churchgoers hero v?ho will oome in. Next Sabbath tlioy will neain bo in tho rflliorimu T'mw ?? ? "O""** ' "w* * "* w this moment being swept into Christian ossouiation-i. Their voices will be heard in public prayer. Tliey will die in peace, their b^d nurrounilod by Christian sympathies, and bs carrie:l out by devout men to ho b iried, and on their graves be chiseled tho words: "Precious in the sight of the Lord is tho death of his saint*." And on resurrection iay you will get up with the dear children you have already buried, aud with your Christian paronts who have already won th? Calm. And all that grand and glorious hte? >rv l>egins now. "Other sheep X have, which aro not of this fold." 2. f remark again: The heavenly sheph?rd in going to una a groat many of his sheep among those who aro positive rejectors or Christianity. I do not know how yon earn* to reject Christianity. It may have bean through hearing Theodore Parker preach, off through reading Ronan's "Life of Jesus," of | cNi ^'< '* .(' -'A- jRi .*>. :k.\v -L.&tii'A. . .? .>:. = through tho infi-lel ta'k of some younr man f in your store. It may havo boon through j tho triclcery of some profess mI Christian man j who disjmestod you with religion. I do not ; ask you how you became so; but vou frankly j tell jne that. vou do reioct it. You do not ! believe that Christ is a divine* being,although j you admit that lie was a crood man. You do . iiot believo that the Bible wns inspirod by | God, althouzh you think that there are some , very duo things in ife. Yon believe that tlvi I scriptural descrintion of Eden was only au | : allegory. There nre fifty things that I bolievo i i Ihnt you do not believe. And yet you are an aecom*uo lating n-ai ! I Everybodv that knows vou says that of you \ : If I should ask you to do a kindness for mo j | or if any one ebe should nsk of you a kin 1 ! noss. you would do it. Now, I havo a kind j I ness to nsk of you to-day. It is something , that -will cost; you nothing and will give mo j | great, delight. I want you by experiment to , iry Hi? power u> v_ unsi, sreligion. n 1 snuuil ; i ronie to yon nnd you were very sick, and <!o~- ! tors had given you un and said there wns no i chance for yon, and I should take out a littlo i bottle and Ray: "Hore is a medicine that will : cure you: it 1m* cure 1 fifty peoplo and it will J euro you," you would say: "I have no confidence in it" I would snv: "Won't-yon take it A> oblige mo?" "Well," you would say, "if It's any accommodation to you I'll take it." My friend,will you bo just as accommodating in mattors of religion? There are some of you who have found out that this world cannot satisfv your soul. You aro liko the man who told me after the cervine was over: "I have tried this world j and found it au insufficient portion. Toll ' me of something hotter." You have come I to that. You are sick for tlio need of divine | medicament. Now, I come and toll you of ! a physician who will cure you, who has j cured hundreds and hundreds who wore sick as you are. "Oh," you say, "I have no confidence in him!" But will you try him? Accommodate me in this matter; oblige me in this matter; just try him. I am very certain he will cure you. You reply: "I have no special confidence in him; but if you ask me as a matter of accommodation, introduco him." So I introduce him?Christ, th? physician who Aas cured more blind eyes, and healed more ghastly wounds, and bouud up more broken hearts, than all the doctors since tho time of ^Esculapius. Tbo Divine Physician is here. Aro you not ready to try him? Will you not, as a pure matter of experiment, state your case j utimro jLiiui uuwj noiuing noLning DncK j from Him. If you cannot pray, if you do ! not know how to pray any other way. say **Oh, Lord Jesus Christ, this is a, strange thing for me to do! I know nothing about the formula of religion. These Christian people have been talking so long about what thou canst do for me, I am ready to do whatever Thou comraandest me to do. 1 am ready to take whatever Thou commandest me to ; take. If there be any power in religion, as theso people say, lot me have the advantage of it." Will you try that experiment? I do not a* this point of my discourse say that there -is anything in religion; but I simply say try it ?try it. Do not take my counsel, or the counsel of any clergyman, if you despise clergymen. Perhaps we maybe talking professionally; perhaps we may be prejudiced in the matter; perhaps we may bo hypocritical in our uttorances; perhaps our advice is uot worth taking. Then take the counsefrot'eome very respectable laymnn?as John Kilton, the poet; as William Wilberforco, the states| man: as Isaac Newton,, the astronomer; as I Robert Boyle, the philosopher; as Ix>cko, the ; metaphysician. Thjy never preacfaed or | pretended to preach; and yet putting down, o$e his telescope, aud another his parliamentary scroll, and another his electrician's wire, they all declare the adaptiveness of Christ's religion to the wants and'troubles of the world. If you will not take the recommendation of ministers of the gospel, then take the xeaomraondation of highly respectable lay mon. Oh, men, skeptical and struck through with uuro?t, would you not like to have some of' the peace which broods over our souls to-day? .1 know all about your doubts. I have been through them all. I have gone through>^ill the curriculum. 1 have doubted whether there is a God, whether Christ is God. Lhavedoubted whether the Bible was true. !I have doubted the immoriality of the-soul. I have doubted my own existence. I have doubted everything, and yet, out of -that hot desert of doubt, 1 have come into the<broad, luxuriant, sunshiny land of gospel hope, and peace, and comfort: so I have confidence in preaching to you, and asking you to come in. However often you may have spokenagainst the Bible, or however inucih you may have carioaturod I religion, step ashore from that rocking and I tumultuous sea. If you go away adhoringto your infidelities, yoa will not sleep one wiuk to-ni^bt. Yoa do not want your children to come up with your skepticism. You caunot afford to die in that midnight darkness, can youf If you do not believe; iu any thing eh-e, you believe in love?a father's love, a mother's love, a wife's love, a child's love. Then ! let me tell you ?bat God loves you more than ' thev do. Oh! VOU must pnmftin Vnn will I como in. The great heart of Christ aches to 1 have you come in, and Jesus, thi; very moment?whether you-sit or stand.?looks into your eyas and says: "Other sheep I have, which are not of this .fold.:> 3. A?ain, I remark, that; the Heavenly Shepherd is goimgtto finda great many sheap Qnong those who .have <be3n ilung of evil habit. It makes me fceltmad.to seo Christian people give up -a prodigal as Jest. There I aro thos3 who ttalk as though the grace I of God were a chain of forty or fifty | links, an.l alter ;th?y had run out there ] was nothing to touch .a very bad case. If they were hunting and got off the track of ' the deer, they would look longer among the banks and the bushes fo:* rthe lost game choc i they have been looking lor that lost soul. ' People tell us that if atnan Ibas delirium tremens twice that he cannat'be i eclaimed; that i after a woman has fallen from her. integrity I she cannot be restored. 'J he Bible has distinctly intimated tfcat?he Lord Almighty it ready to pardon 490 times: ithat is seventy times seven. There one men before the throne of God who have wallowed in every kind of siu: but, saved by the graae of .tfesus, and washed in his blood, they stand there radiant now. There are those <who plunged in the very lowest be 1 of abomination,iwho for the tenth tim9 have been lifted tup, and, finally, by the Grace of God. rlhey stand in Heaven gloriously rescued by the grace proraI ised to the chief of sinners. I wantta tell you I thatGod loves to take hold of a verybod ease. I When the church casts you off, *nd.when the club-room casts you off. and whan society casts you off, an<l when business : associate* cast you off, and when father casta you off, Mid when your mother casts you off, and when everybody casts you off, your first crj for help will send the eternal Godclean down into tt? ditch off yoar suffering and sha?*\ The Good Templars cannot save you, although they are a grand institution. The Sons ol Temperance cannot save you, although the; are mighty for good. Signing the temperanci pledge cannot save you, although I beliovo is ! it. Nothing but the grace of the eternal God can save you, and that will if you will throw ! yourself on it. A man said to me: 'Unlesi God helps me I cannot be delivered. I have j tried everj'thing, sir; but now I have got intc the habit of prayer, and when I come ito a drinking saloon I pray that God will take me Bafely past, and I pray uubil 1 am post. He does help mo." For every man given io i strong drink thoro are scores of trap^set, tand no one but the everywhere present God | i can soo that man through. Oh! they talk : I uuuui ma caiacombs of .Naples, and the cata- ; combs of Rome, and the catacombs of Egypt i ?(the burial places under the city whore the j dust of a great multitude lie?but I tell you ; New York has it3 catacombs, Nashville has its catacombs, and New Orleans its catacombs, and Boston its catacombs, and Phila>- ' delphia its catacombs, aud every town and j city neighborhood its catacombs. They are ! tho underground restaurants, full of dead i men's bones and all uncleanness. Young ! man, you know it. Qod help you! Thero is no need of going into the art gallery to Bee in skilllul sculpture that wonderful representation of a man and his sons wound around with serpents. Thero are familim mnriwmM in " * . r- ?" iiinau iieiTO VD(It I are wrapped in tho martyrdom of fang and s.ale and venom?a living Laocoon of ghastllness and horror. What are you to dof Do not pnt your tru3t in bromide of potas* viom, or to Jamaica ginger, or Anything eb* ?'* .,?'*' ; ?*!? -,C .>/. ' that apothecaries can mix. Put; your trust only in the eternal (Jod, and ho will tea yon through. Some of you do not have tenipta tion every day. It is a periodic te/nptaiioi that comes every six weeks, or every tlire< months, when it seem? ub if the powers oi darkness kindle around about your tougui the tires of the pit. It is well euou^h ut sucl a titno, us some of you do, to .seek medica counsel; but your first aud most importunate cry must be to God. If the liends v.ii drag you to tho slaughter, make then do it on your knees. O (Jod! nov that tho paroxysm of thirst is comin; again upon that man, l.elp liim. Fling bael into the pit of hell the fiend that assaults hi soul this moment. Oh! my heart aches t< see men go on in this fearful struggle with out Christ. There are hero those wtlO.se hand so tremble from <!i station that they cai hardly now a book; and yet J h ve to tel you that they will yet preach the gospel, am on communion days carry arouuu the conse cralol bread, acceptable to everybody, he causo ot their holy life and their consecratoi behavior. The Lord is going to save you Your home has got to be rebuilt. Your phys ical health has got to ba restored. I'ou worldly business has got to be reconstructed The church of Uod is going lo rejoica ove your disciplosliip. "Other bheop 1 have whic aro not of this fold." While I have hope for all pio-lignls, ther are some people for whom 1 am not so hopt fill. I menu those who huvo been churcl goers all their lives, who have maintained oul ward mol ality, but who, n Jtwithstandin twenty, thirty, forty year.s of Christian at vjsntiige.-, have never yielded their hearts t Christ. They are gospel hardened. A soj mon has no more effect upon them than th shiniug of the moon on the city pavemeni As Christ says: "The publicans aud harloi will go iuto the kingdom of Cod befoi them. ' They have resisted all the importi nities of divmo mercy, and have gone, du ing these thirty years, through moit powe Jul earthquakes of religious leeling, an they are larther away from God tha ever. After a while tbey will 1 down sick, and some day it will be tol thay are dead. No hope! But I turn to ou siders with a hope that thrills through m body and soul. Other sheep 1 bavo, which ai I not of this fold." You are not gospel har< enetl. You have not heard uiany sermor ! thrt Inct. fow vom-o A ?> va.? ? ??? into a religious meeting to-day overythiu WQ8 uovel, and all tho sorvioes are suggesti> of your early days. How sweet the openir hymn sounded iu your ears, and now bless* it is in this place! Everything suggests of Heaven. You do not weep, but the sh jw< is inot far ofT. You sjgfc, and you have n tcced that there is always a sigh in tLe wic before the ruin falls. '1 horo are thoio hei wLo would give anything if they could hi relief iu tears. They say: "Oh, my waste life! Oh, the bitter past! Oh. tho gravi over which I have stumbled! Whither sha I fly? Alas for the future! Everything dark?so dark, so'dark! God help me! Gt pity me !" Tbaukthe Lord for that, last u terance. Yon have begun to pray, and wh( a man begins to petition, that sets all heav< flying his way,-and God steps in and bea back the houiids of temptation into the Ice nd, and around about the poor woundedsoi Euts the covert of his pardoning mere lark! I hear something fall. What wi that! Itis the bars of tho fence around t! sbeepfoid. Tbe shepherd lets them dow and the hunted sheep of the mountain boui in; some of them, their (leece torn with tl brambles; some of them, their feet lame wi the dogs; but bounding in. Thank Go "Oth?r sheep I have which are not of ti fold." I " How General Lee Courted Death. Mr. Reagan gives mc a new faot i QcBcr.il Lee's history which is not g-e era'.Iy known in the North. He said tb toward the close of the downfall of tl Confederate government there was a ve geKCral impression among the high ol! ciels .of the Confederacy that Ge?ei Lee intended to lose his life on the tie i . . ? | of buttle. The impression was shar< by the officers of Lee's army. Gener Lee never lo-t an opportunity of placir himself in a position of dirnger. Gener Reagan says that lie drove out from Ric mond to see Lee on the day the princ | pc.1 battle of Cold Harbor was fougl As he cam-.: up near where be could s Lee's headquarters, he saw the she! bursting continua ly around his lent ai plowing up the ground in front 'Of liii Some of the officers asked ?.lr. Keagj to try and persuade General Lee to mo ! bis headquarters behicd a piece of tii j ber near by. All felt that h? was expo I ing his life too much. Mr. Reagan-sa I tc General Lee: "I do mot iircsume i ^ vise any Gereral in the midtt of a ba | tie, but are you not exposing yoursc too much? Ought you not goback near i your reserve?" General Lee said he he ! do reserve. lie had only one line of me I He did not dare t<j shorten J is line fi | foer it would be turned, and did not da I to. thin it for fear it would be broke: I General Lee evidently soughidecth mar j times during the c'osing days of tbewa I That was the view of the Southern lea< | ers-.then, and is still believed bymany.j Wash'uigton Letter. Thoroughness. Ev^ry-day religion is the foundation ? thoroughness, which is another word fc truthfulness or honesty. Workmen wh light -.their work, whether they mat shirts for. a living, or sermons, buil housee or-ships, raise flocks or familie will be some day or ether found out. Y) : want ck>the3 which will not. rip, vesse [ which will not leak, and bridges whic ; will not break down. So we wai rhuractprs which will stn.nd temntatior nnd will .not snap asunder under th sudden pressures of life.?Neio Yor \ Evangelist. Important no ."Uerrhunt Tut I or*. M. von Keller & Co.. successors to Kell< & Kuhl. at the old Cloth House, corner An and William St*.. New York city, are doin an extensive taurines by means of furnishin to the Merchant TaJ-oring trade thronghoi the United Btates, complete sample col'e tions of their Woolens in season, and racoiviv and executing orders received through tl samples. Whenever a style has been sol out, they notify their customers to that eflfec so that the parties holding their samples ai always pr&j?erly informed as to which styl thej can offer to their patrons. The Me nhoilf Toiln? t'u fUtiu n r? ?/itt i v ?*? **W ? mru *."7 limn |iinv III a LIVIt < show a largo veriety of styles without encun l*?rin? himsslf with a large stock. We ui tier, tarnl that any Merchant Tailor desirir such collection of sample* cnn have san pent fret* of charre, * Address JfesnM. M. v< Keller & Co. "It 5s worry, not wortc, that is killin me," said the tramp, sadly, as he tried 1 worry down a slice of bread and butt* without any jam spread 09 it. ': . ' ;> " ' ' ' *: ' "v.- , ; Essence of Business Law. ' It is a fraud to conccal a fraud. ? I Ignorance of the law excuses no one. f ! iNotcs bear intcrcstonly when so stated, J j A receipt for money is not always coa- ' j j :iusivc. i ; Signatures made with a pencil are good ' , , .n law. r The law compels no one to do impossi- j I i ailitics. s | Principals are responsible for the acts . )f tlieir ai* nts. I s [ No consideration i.? snflicicnt iu law if i I It he illegal in its nature. 1 The payee should be distinctly named ' _ ! in the note, unless it is payable to bearer, j i I A bill may b? vitten upon any paper ! ^ ' jY substitute <*r it, either with ink or r pencil. r | A note obtained by fraud or from a k 1 person in a state of intoxication cannot e | oe collected. I Notice of protest may be sent either to t- ihe place of business or of residence of p the party notified. o j An indorsee has a right of action r" ! )gainst all whose names were on the bill c. ' when he received it. j The time of payment of a note must x- not depend xipon a contingency. The j r- i nrnmicn nuicf nhcnlnfn r- 1 id j A note made by a minor is void; a con .n tract made with a minor is void: a conie i IU tract made with a lunatic is void. ^ If the drawer of a check or draft haa y ; ro changed his residence the holder must | use all reasonable diligence to find bin. 10 I An agreement without consideration '8 i is void; a note made on Sunday is void; i<r 1 contracts made on Sunday cannot be en! forced. ,'0 ir j Each individual in a partnership is responsible for the whole amount of debts re ! of the firm, exccpt in cases of special ' partnership. ?s j A note indorsed in blank?the nam* N : of the indorser only written?is transxi : ferable by delivery, the same as if made : payable to bearer. jo I If the letter containing the protest ol 43 | non-payment be put in the post office, any al ; miscarriage does not affect the party giv j' sni' notice. as bt. : If a note is lost or stolen it does not ^ ! release the maker. He must pay it if lj0 tlie con-ideratiou for which it was given to and Che account can be proven. ,ic "Value received" is usually, and shoold be, written in a note, but is not essential. If ntft written it is presumed by law, or may be supplied bj in Proofn. An oral agreement must be proved by R. 'evidence. A written agreement provec 'itself. The law prefers written .to oral ry evidence, because of its precision. : Checks and drafts should be presentee aj during business hours, but in this coun Id I :*ry?except in eases of banks?th? ;(j i time extends through the day and eveaul j iQglg If one holding a check as payee o: al . otherwise transfers it to another, he haj h. a right to insist that the check be pre :i- | sented that day or, at the farthest, tb? it. | day following. ee No evidence may be introduced to con lis i 'f ro/liot nr vorv n rxr rit f on y?rmfrtU'f 1m IfiitUlV/l' VI ' J ?? ? IVbVU t?Vy Vj MU id such evidence may be received in ordei n. | o explain the contract when it is inne? an ; of explanation. ve | The maker of an accommodation bil n- .or note?that is, one of which he has re s- ! ceived no consideration, having lent bii id i name or credit for the accommodation ol to the holder?is as fully bound to ail othe: >t- :parties as if there were a good consider* slf ,tion. er | 1(1 ; Facts About the Stars. Q* j Alpha Centaurii, the leading star in or : ithe constellation of the Centaur, is the re j nearest star to the earth,so far as known. Q* ! Jts distance is usually placed at from 20,W 000,000,000,000 to 20,000,000,000,000 r* imiles from the earth. A star called Sixty-one Cygni is classed as second in ~~ ! ..distance, being put at 54,780,099,000,000 | miles distance from our globe. Most of t-V?n afawo awncapo mill mno af 4-!mna I iiu ?i u j c?i u aiiuiuuo vi tiuui/B I farther away from us than these. Light ^ j (travels about 180,000 miles in every second of time, and yet with this inconceivable rapid velocity it would take light about twelve years to traverse the ^ space separating us from that star. From i the greater portion of the stars light r' would ba many centuries in reaching us. ^ That is to say in these particular in1 stances, the stars which we see are not i the stars as they exist to-night, but as 1 : they existed before Columbus sailed on ; his voyage of discovery, or even before the creation of Adam. VJ Thankful fop One Thinj. "Vasilievitch," said the Czar of Russia to a servant the other morning, '-have you looked under the carpet for nitro?r i glycerine and examined the hair brush n for dynamite bombs and tested the coffee ' for strychnine and made the cook eat it ! part of the rolh and looked down cellar ! for barrels of gunpowder and sent orders for nil the auspicious persons arrested ^ ! around the palace last night to be hung?" re I "Yes, most noble sire!" answered the at^ tendant. "Then help me on with my to woven steel-link ulster and call the pla? toon of police to escort me across the hall ii/t V? <r\ iw!n ?aam> '^1* ?- -- *s ; tuv uuiiiig luum, i uuiu is uut xuuuxi 1 enjoyment in this kind of a life but I thank heaven every day now that I don't live in Chicago."?Estelline (Dale.) BtVg i * " ;o ; For removing dandruff nnd curing all scalp diseases, use Hall's Hair Rcnewer. Ayer's Ague Cure is acknowledged to be. th) standard remedy for fever and ague. fiip&S rjl'i"" "v?i- <fv.'V " vifi > V*'V The name* of Miss Francis E. "VYillard and Mrs. Hannah "White*! Smith, of this country, have been placed on the Executive Committee of the International Co*i'^cs of the Socjal Purtau Fcueratiou f that met recently in London. j A hugo derrieli-pole fell and severely injiiml the foot of mechanical engineer K. R. j Hoyfc at th?! New Orleans Kxposition, ami after only three applications of iSt. Jacobs Oil, ail the swelling and pain disappeared. - The entire- assessment of Dakota Territory 1 is $i:i<) (MIUXKI. The most astonishingly benelicinl r?^u!ts have followed the use of Red Star Cough ' Cure by those aft'e? ted with throat ami lung troubles. Price, twenty-live (,-ents. Ciiief John Smoke Johnson (lied at his residence on the reserve at lirantford, Out, recently. Deceased was it I years <il age, bjing the oldest Indian of the Mohawk Tribe. He fought in the American war of 1812. If you have numbness in arms or limbs, | heart skips beats, thumps or flutters, or you are nervous aud irritable?in danger of't shock? Di\ Kilmer's Oceax-Weed regulates, ' relieves, corrects and cures. A professional beggar die J recently in Rio ; Janeiro and left a fortune of $'2<Mi,(KJU. In every community there aiv a number | of men whose whole time is not occupied, j such as teachers, ministers, farmers1 sons ami j others. To these classes especially we would i say if you wish to make several hundred dol- ' lars during the next few months, write at | once to B. F. Johnson & Co.. of Richmond, | Va.. asul they will show you how to do it. " i There are six poets in the British House of j Lord?, Tyson, of course, heads the list. SonictbinK About Cntnrrh. A great many people are afflicted with Catarrh who <lo not know what; ails thems and a great many more continue sufferer: | who might l>e tTired. Thickening of the membrane which lines j the nnsal passages, thus making breathing difficult: a discharge from the nostrils, more I or less copious, watery or thick, according to | the stage of the disease; a sense of fullness in ' the head; a constant inclination to spit: and, 1 in nrivanced cases, a dropping of intensely disgusting matter into the throat., are a few of the prominent symptoms of Catarrh. Deafness, inflamed eyes, neuralgic pains, sore throat and a Ires of sense of smell, are very often cause 1 by Catarrh. All these troubles are cured by Piso's Remedy for Catarrh. Relief is had immediately after beginning its use, but it is important that it be continued without intermission until the catarrhal virus is expelled from the system and healthy secretions replace the diseased action of the mucous membrane, i Manifestly it is unreasonable to expect a 1 cure in a short, time of a di ease that has I been progressing for months or years. ! This uuest ion of time is nrovided for in the putting*up of Piso's Remedy for Catarrh. It is so concentrated that a very small close is directed. The quantity in one package is sufficient for a long treatment, consequently the expense is a mere trifle, and there is no l excuse fur neglect nor reason for it but forI get tuhsess. | A cold in the head is relieve 1 by an ' applcation of I'iso's Remedy for Catarrh. The comfort to Ik? got from it in this way is worth many times the cost. The. following letters are specimens of those received every day, testifyingj to the worth of Pise's Remedy for Catarrh: Allegheny, Pa., Kept. 10, 1SS5. I'iso's remedy for Catarrh is doing wonders forme. I believe it will cure any case of Catarrh, if used according to directions. Mils. F. JOHNSON, -19 E. Diamond fSt. Spring IIill, W. Vn.. Oct. 30, 18S5. Enclosed find on e dollar for two packages of Piso's Remedy f or Catarrh. The sample l>ackage received in June, gave perfect satis) faction. GILL. MESSER. Hakfohd Mlls, N. Y., Aug. S, 1SS.*?. I have used a liittle over half a package of Pi; o's Remedy for Catarrh, and it has helped mo more than any of the different medicines I have used. 1 feel confident that it will cure me. I can and do recommend it to others who j are troubled with the disease. Rev. A. DAMON. Cyrus Fillmore, the brother of President Millard Filtnore, is still living in Indiana. A Knaedy for Lnnt Diiensei. Dr. Robert Newton, late President of the "Eclectic College of the city of New York, and formerly ?f Cincinnati, Ohio, used Dr. Wm. Hall's Balsam very extensively in his practice, as many of his patients, now living, and restored to health by the U6e of this invaluable mcdiclne, can amply testify. He always said that so good a remedy ought to bo prescribed freely by every physician as a sovereign remedy in all cases of lung diseases. It cures 'Consumption, and has no equal for all pectoral complaints. Henry Ward Beecher is to lecture in this country next winter on Ireland. The pure-st, sweetest and beet Cod Liver Oil in the world, manufactured from fresh, healthy livers, upon the seashore. It is absolutely pure and sweet. Patients who havonoe taken it prefer it to all others. Physicians have decided it superior to any of the other oils in market. Made by Caswell, Hazard A; Co., New York. Chapped hands, face, pimples am. "->ugh akin cured by using Juniper Tar Soap, made by Caswell, Hazard & Co., New York A Mexican village is to be exhibited in Horticulture! Hall in Boston, in October"Nothing Ijlke It Known." Among the 150 kinds of Cloth Bound Dollar Volumes given away by the Rochester (N. Y.) American Jiural Home for every $1 subscription to that 8-page, 48-col.. Hi-yearold Weekly, (all 5x7 inches, from COO to 900 pages, bound in cloth) are: I Law Without I^aw- Danelson's (Medical) I yers. Counselor. Family Cyclopedia. Boys'Useful Pastimes. I Farm Cycloi>edia. Five Years Before the Farmers anil Stock Mast. i breeders' Guide. People's H story of Common Sense in United States. poultry Yard. Universal History of World Cyclopedia. all Naitons. Popular His. of Civil War (both sides). Any <me book and paper ono year, postpaid for #1.15 only! Satisfaction guaranteed. Reference: Hon. C. R. Paifons, Mayor Rochester. forll years past. Sample papers '-'c. Rukal Homk Co.. Ltd.. Rochester N. Y. | JJJPiko's Peak, Col., has been climbed by 1,2.19 | persons this season. D A T ? (Vf ~f~ C Obtained. Son<l stnmu for | r.T^. ??,..? *? Inveiiinr's OnWo. L. Uinq- I ham. l'at?-nt: Lawyer, Washington. d. C. feSglgf i P In I UT H Tb%VISn BBAVD BLTI D A lOt? ? t-> t Mil the harden norm. T I* i\ U D U R vi M coyer*tbaentlrafwltll g Dn** Brand" tnwle-tu?rk. 1 W O ME N ???'?'<] lllfT rOM'lVi><l f. n.l... n - w ...v?? ? puuvr imm liil!rniltlcH uci'ullur (o their ncx? Mtiould try ^ ITtjg Tiiis medicino combines Iron with pure vcretnblo ti-nicH. mid io invnlu.iMo for DiseoetB peculiar to \Vomciu mi'l ml who lead sedentary liven. It I0nriclii-N nti'l I'ariliON tho Kloml, Stimulate* ilio Appetite, StrciiKtlifn? the JliiKrlcN and Nerves iu fact. th<in>uiclily I itvifroriU***. OloarB the ccmploxion. ana muUns the ukin smooth. It does not blacken the teeth, cause heartache, or produce constipation? ?i// m/nr trim mttlichic* In. Mibb k. .1. Thompson, HI Columbia Ave.. Haitimore, .Mil., says: " 1 have Buffered ereatly with Female Weakness nnit r?nt.irnH ?< ?? ' ....*.1 t used Brown's Iron Bitters. Tivo butt ion b?vu cured mo. I heartily lecominend it." Mns. L. O. CUAI'LINK, 1BI Fourteenth St .. "VVheolW. Va? says: " I suffered with Femnln Weakness. Bad obtained Krenter relief from the use of Brown's Iron Bitters than any medicine I ever u:>od." Genuine has above Trado Mark nnd cropand red lines on wrapper. Taitc uo other. Made oul.v by HllOWN CIIKMICAL CO.. RALTIMOHC. MI>. Efl __ ? _ to Soldiers *& Heirs. Send stamp r">- Circulars. COL. I,. IJINti U vllwiUllw HAM Att'.v.WiuhliiKtun..B. C. Invalids'HoteliSurgicai Institute BtJFFALO, IT- TTl Orfn1i?d -with m fall Stair mt ?I|Umb Kxpcrlaaced And Btelliral rhjilclaw;' ud Bargeom f?r Ike treatment of / all Chrenle Disease*. ! OUR FIELD QF SUCCESS. Chronic Nana] Catarrh, Throat ant linuv Diseases. Liver and K. Id nay Diseases, Oladfler Dlaoancs, Dlnoaata ' olWomon.Blood DUcnsoauud Nervoua Affections, curctl hero or Rt home. ; with or without seem?? tho pattern. Come and i see us, or Bona ten cents in stamps for ou* i "Snvttltda> Guide Book," which gives i all particulars. .I, NcrvomS)oM!lty,Impo> i (1-....? lencr, Nortiirnnt I.oisai. t UELlCflTE and nil Morbid Condition* R caused by louthlul FoU ' lll^FAIC^ lieN and I*ortilctntiw Soil* , uioi.noK.Cia j tary iM-aciicoi r.re speedily ??mma permanently curod oy oui* Specialists. Book. post-paid, 10 ct?. 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Leu* corriioo, or "white?." cvceitalve flowing, painful iiiCKxirciailon, uu? i natural nuprrctRloiiN, prolapsus or. v (ailing of tlio ulci-iiH, uenii back, antovemion, retrovorsfon. bearing, i down aenantlonR, chronic '-oiiffes* ; tion, inflammation au<l u Ireration ; of the womb, inflammation, pain and tenderne** in ovaries, internal beat, and "female wcakucsu." It promptly relieve# and curt-e Nnnua and weakneu of Stomach, Indigestion, Bloating, NcrvoiiH Prostration, and SleeplosuueaB, in either vex. PRICE $1.00, U82SS1 ^ old by Druggists everywlier^ Send ten cents in stamps for Dr. Heu-ev large ? Treatise on Diseases of Women, ii* unrated. World's Dispensary Medical Assouan, 608 Main Street, BUFFALO. ?N. T. SICK-HEAOAcW^ Bilious Headaeha, L . VL Dizziness, Constlpatlon, Indigestion* jHwaly^ and Bilious Attacks* mfmm promptly cured by Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Wy Purgative Pellets. onnt# m vial, by DruinrM* $700 to S2500^K expense, can be made working for us. Agents ; preferred who can furnish their own horses v I and give their whole time to the business. S I Spare moments mnv Vw> r>mfH?Kivr ?i j , -J viupiojuu , ! also. A few vacancies 111 townH nncl citiee, B. F. JOHNSON & CO., "1 1013 Main St., Richmond, Va. Skunk, Raccoon, ftflink, h And all other Rnw Fur? BOUGHT FOR CASH at I HIGHEST PRICES. Send for circular at once. \ E. C. BOIUVHTON, 44 Bond St., New York. \ nR Kll MFR"5 One of every five we _ ? b meet has some form of * | Heart Disease, and is in conlK?SSS&Ai]SSl.T I USai vsnssssftsa- I i IHiF. ' ' | iniCO -A- now &nd reliable compilaI PillP^ Hon of 1,000 Cooking and Baking Receipes, mailed on rccelpt of 25 cents in stamps. Address. <JEO. it. BKIjIjOWB, 28 N. Holliday St., Baltimore, Md. ; H N I'?36 * !pe1MS I? 1 l FOR ONE DOLLAR. V > ! 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