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Y9JtMOM _ ' w-I -f--- ' 'I ' I , IBYHENRYN EN/BD . . J/ i it/TEIU/AiiOM4L PRESS ASSOCIATION. 6Y PERMISSION Of RAND.MsNA ! L ) ' t CO. . C IAPTEIt XW.--1CosrtxuI I'.t lie spade a sign to Johnstone , who took Dick in his arms and swung him lightly down the companion-hatch like a bundle of hammocks. In two minutes - utes he was In his old seat at iie ! end of the table in the salooii , with his ankles fast to the chair , which ht its turn was screwed into the floor. For a long time he did not move. lie had little hope Left now , but he steeled himself - self to wait with , patience , if any unforeseen - foreseen chance might yet give hint his opportunity. The sunset gun was heard from the shore ; it grew rapidly dark. Jolumtone entered to light the lamp ; In his hand was a heavy Iron capstan bar. bar.He He laid ft down upon the table , with the letter beside it. "There's your choice. " he said. "Ail right ! " said Dick , stoutlyI'm ready but you'll all go , too , my man ; you're lost without me. " Johnstone laughed brutally. " ' " he said. "Don't you flatter yourself , t "Dead or alive , you'll do our business j for us. " Dick was sfent. "Look you } here , " said the other , "this I is the way of it , and if you don't un- derstand it now , you'll never have the I chance again. The brig's standing in ! straight for Jamestown : she's not three i milts off at this moment ; ' and the flag- ship's lying ready for her just outside the harbor. If you put your name to that bit o' paper you're a free man this minute. You'll stand in with the rest of us for prize-money , and the lass , that's worth it all , she's yours into the , bargain. But if you're forl enough to be obstinate-there's the colonel upon deck there watching : when the guard-boat comes , he gives me a last signal-one- i ! two-and before threes out your necks I broke , and you lying quiet in the hold. 'Sad accident , gentlemen ! An old friend ! of Sir. Pulteney's , too ; and just had a letter written to him asking leave to anchor ; on his way to sign it when he fell. P'r'aps the admiral would let us ! 1 bury him ashore tomorrow ? ' So either tvay we stand to win easy , d'ye see ? " Ile did Indeed see , and that with a supreme anguish of bitterness. Not even by death was he to thwart them , 1 or clear his own name from dishonor. i But his conscience was without re ; preach , and Camilla knew the truth , 1 on these two thoughts lie anchored himself - ' self to meet the fury of his last storm. The moments fled. The colonel called down the hatchway that the boat had left the flag-ship. Camilla heard him shout , and fell upon nor lances beside a nvLthole gasping for air. A second time that inexgrable calm voice came down to the deck below. Johnstone took the iron bar In his hand. The boat came alongside , and an of- ficer's voice shouted close to Camifa's fainting head : 'Brig ahoy' Throw us a rope there ! " Dimly , as one In a dream of horror , she heard the , colonet's answer. i "You needn't trouble to come on board. " he called down , is Itis smoothest - est tones. "This is the Speedwell , Captain - tain Estcourt. He is an old friend of Adiniral Malcolm and is just writing to him for leave to anchor. . Johnstone ! " fie shouted , louder still , "ask the captain tain if ht's letter's ready. " "Do you hear ? " said Johnstone , balancing - ancing the bar in both his hands. "There's the last signal , Now then- ; .onc-- " .oncThe ' The clear voice of the officer outside rang through the ship and drowned his words. "Estcourt ! " It cried. "Pass in , pass In ! The Emperor's dead ! " CHAPTER 1V , i ; l 1 tha ! a ILENCE followed the words that seemed as if it would last forever. j It was as though' ' that cry- had stunned at one blow all on board the , brig. At last the iron bar fell clanging I from Johnstone's' ' 3 , hands upon the I ' floor of the saloon , and Dick sprang up , struggIing fiercely In his fetters. "Camilla ! Camilla ! " he shouted. She heard , his voice and awoke to life again , trembling' in every limb. "Off with these things ! " he thundered. ! And Johnstone unlocked the irons without - out a word. Dick took them in his hand and ran up the ladder. The lieutenant from the flag-ship was in the act of springing : on board. "Where is Captain Est- court ? " he cried. "Are you all asleep here ? " The colonel , glided before him , and lowered his voice to speak to Dick. 'We are. all in your nands , " lie said , hastily ; "Camilla too , remember , among the rest. " "No ! " 'returned Dick , triumphantly , "you haven't a jot of evidence against tier. My mind's made up , and you'll obey me now , or swing at the yard-arm within the hour. Stand' by the bulwark , there ! " And he pushed him back from the hatchway. I The lieutenant came up as he spoke. 1 "Estcourt ; he asked , "have you forgotten - 1 gotten me ? " "Not I , Wilmore ! " cried Dick ; "and I never shall , though I live to be a thqu- sand ! " "Well said ! " laughed the other. "But why am I so desperately in demand ? " "why ; you're in the nick of time. I Ras shorthanded till you came , and I've a pair of mutineers on 'board. "Right ! " said Wilmore. And he called over the side : "Send tltree men aboard ' there , with cutlasses. " I - - - ' ' ' - - _ . : . The colonel made a rush for the main hatch , calling to Johnstone for help. I Dick caught him in time , and handed hint over to the men from the flagship , giving them the Irons at the same time. "Are they for this fellow ? " asked WIl- more. "Oh ! " said Dick , contemptuously , "as far as fighting goes no one need be afraid of him : but he's a wretch without - out a rag of honor , and his tongue would twist anything less stiff than 1 steel. " , I The Irons on in a moment ; the colonel seemed to find them cold , for he shivered pitiably. + "Now for the other one ! " said the I lieutenant. I .1s lie spoke , Johnstone came on deck by the forward ladder , and stood there at a little distance from the group , peer- lug about him In the lantern -light to see I the position of affairs. Dick went up to him. "here he is ! " he cried. " .lohnsto7e , you're my pris- Loner ! " : lohnstone's right hand - ' I went swiftly- to his pocket , but before he could grasp hi. . pistol Dick's fist shot home between - tween his eyes , and he fell like a log , disappearing backward down the open hatehway. Two of ' the men-of-war's men ran down , and found him motionless at the ' bottom of the ladder : they brought him on deck , and got a'rope to secure hint when he should come round. But he never moved again ; the fail broken his neck. "Nell , " said Dick , when they told him , that seems only just ; he was the bet- ter of two bad men , and his punish- meat's the soonest oyes. As for the other , " he continued , . turning to Wil- more , "a quick death's too good for him , and no prison would hold him long. " lie reflected : t moment , and then turned to the captive anti his guards. I "Bring him below , " he said , and led the way to the saloon. In Dick's own seat they placed the colonel , with Dick's own irons upon him , and in his hand they made him take the pen with which he had commanded - manded Dick to sign away his honor. "Now , kf you will please leave us alone together , " said Dick to the others - ers , "I dare say1 shall soon have done with him. " They went out wondering , and he turned to the prisoner. "Write the date , " he said , shortly ; "and note go on as I dictate to you : " 'I hereby acknowledge and confess that I conspred ! with one Herman Johnstone , since deceased , to effect the escape of the Emperor Napoleon f > ; om the Island of St : Helena on the 5th of May , 1531 , and to levy war against the king of France and the peace of Europe ; that for this purpose I bribed the said Herman Johnstone and the crew of the brig Speedwell , four of whom I knew to be French subjects ; and by fraud and forgery induced my sister-in-law , Madame de Montaut , and Captain .Richard Estcourt to accompany - pany me , in complete ignorance of the object of our voyage. ' The colonel stopped. "But that is not the truth , " he objected. "Truth ! " said Dick , scornfully ; "what is truth to you ? Write as I tell you , I every word ! And wait before you sign , " he added ; "we want a witness whom your slanders can not to ich. Wil- more ! " he called , and the lieutenant entered. The signing and witnessing done , I Dick , folded the paperund laid it again before the colonel , "Address it , he said , "to the Minister - ter of Justice , at Paris. " The colonel started and drew back. "Deal gently with me , " he said , in a low voice ; "courage and mercy should go together. " "Courage and mercy , " replied Dick , "are no concern of yours ; your province is obedience , and , if you can manage it , a little decent shame. " The address was written. "And now , " said Dick , "after writing - ing that letter , you will , I think , see that it w'ould newer suit your health to , live in England or France again. To keep you , however , from all temptation of such risks for the present , I propose to ask Lieutenant Wilmore here if he i will be so good as to put you ashore at Jamestown. You have , I 'believe , some friends on the island who will condole with you on the failure of your enterprise. " "Shall I take him at once ? " asked Wilmore. The colonel was in despair. l "An exile and a beggar ! Death would be preferable' " he exclaimed , with a gesture which was a really fine piece of acting , and went to Wilmore's heart. But Dick knew his man better. "All right , lie said , gravely. "you have your choice. " And he took the iron bar from the floor where Johnstone had left it , and raised it above the colonel's head. The actor's collapse was swift and lamentable. "Hold him ! " he cried to Wklmore ; "for God's sake hold him. He is capable - a able of anything. " "I begin to think so. said Dick ; lowering - ering his weapon , "since I have learned t to outwit you. " "Well , then , said Wilmore , holding t out his hand to Dick , "good-by until tomorrow. " "Yes , " said Dick , "I'll thank you then. Good-by. The colonel was taken on deck again , t and lowered into the boat. As they left the ship's side , he saw , or thought he saw , a white figure leaning - ing over the bulwarks. a "Camilla ! " he cried. "Is that you , Camilla ? " But there was no reply. The boat 1 shot forward , and the Speedwell vanished - ished from him into the darkness. Dick turned to look for Camilla ; she was gone , and he would not follow her now , for he remembered what the Emt i peror's death.must mean to her. t The brig was moving slowly in toI I : ward the harbor , guided by the lights aboard the flag-shin. An hour afterward - ward she dropped her anchor for the night and swung round to the wind. t Dick turned in early , but' lie could not sleep ; there was still thunder iu the air , a remnant of last night's storiv + and his mind went whirling incessant ly through the tangled history of the last few months. . little before dawn he went on deck ; it was less sliflingJn the open air , and stars were shining here and there between - tween drifting clouds. lie sat down against the bulwark , and looked up at them , listening to the faint lapping. of the water under the ship's sides. Little by little the night lifted , and daylight began to , broaden over the sky. The stars grew pale , and died out one by one ; a marvelous color , mingled of faintest blue and delicate red opal , flushed , in the height of heaven and burned slowly into deep crimson on the horizon to the east. A light' wind blew cool upon his face ; his eyelids dropped , and slumber took him unawares. When he opened his eyes again , Ca- mllla was kneeling on one knee before him , transfigured by a golden light that shone from behind her through and through the glory of her hair. A strange sense of new life filled him with bewildering prescience of joy. "Where are we ? " he asked , not yen- turing to move , lest he should break the spell. She bent yet lower over him. "We are In harbor , " she said ; "and look ! the sun has risen. " THE END. AN INDIAN BOY'S PONY. : Li Ac coout of 1Iis First Attempt to Lido It at a Buffalo Hunt. Thus led by those dedicated to religious - ligious service , the tribe leaves its village - lage , the people by families dropping into line-men , well-mounted , bearing their weapons ready for use ; women , in gala dress , riding their decorated ponies , older ones leading the packhorses - horses ; little children in twos and threes upon the backs of steady old nags , or snugly stowed away in the swinging pouch between the tent-poles ; and the dogs trotting complacently everywhere. Here and there along the litre of the cavalcade is a lad being initiated - tiated into individual responsibility. He has been upon the hunt before , as one of the family , but this is the first step toward going independently uti- cared for as child. The father has lassoed - seed a wild horse , sadied and bridled him , and now bids his son mount the animal. 'Phe boy hangs back ; the colt is a fiery creature and already restive under restraint. The father tcils his son that the horse shall be his own when he has conquered it , but the lad does not move. The lookers-on are smiling , and the cavalcade does not wait. "Get up , says the father. The boy slowly advances , and .the colt quickly recedes but the boy , grasping his mane , swings himself into the sad- die. The father lets go , and so dces the colt-rears , jumps , wriggles , humps his back like an infuriated cat , stands on his fore-legs and kicks at his own tail , paws the air and stamps the earth , but the boy clings to him until with a sudden - den jerk the saddle-girth is broken , and he is landed over the head of the excited - cited creature , which runs for dear life and liberty. Brought back , protesting by twists and shakes of the head , he is again mounted , and again frees him- self. After two or three repetitions of this sort of thing , the boy becomes angry , and the mother grows anxious. She runs to her son as he is scrambling up frcm the ground , feels him all over. and moves his legs and arms to see if is hurt. He is impatient at the delay - lay ; lie is gohig to master that pony now or die for it. This time he stays on. In vain the animal lashes himself into foam and fury ; the boj sticks him like the shirt of Nessus , and the father at last leads the indivisible pair between the tent poles which trail behind - hind a sophisticated family horse , and there , fenced in , they journey all day , trying to get used to each other. The pony does not see his way out of the poles , and is forced to keep up with the procession. THE CHINESE DOCTOR. lie tidied the Snaie In the l'atimit' L80(1' , ' with a Yin. "When I was acting American consul at Amoy , China , " said Dr. W. E. hales , 'one of my employes fell sick with a severe attack of rheumatism. He stood the pain bravely for three days , refus- ng all 'foreign devil medicine , ' and on the fourth sent for a native physician. The latter duly arrived and began prep- trations for treatment of the malady , which lie announced to be due to the presence of a 'darting snake' in the sufferer's body. Incense sticks were ighted and placed just outside the door , Ind also in the room. A pack of firecrackers - crackers was set of and a talismanic paper pasted to the wall. This was done to drive away evil spirits and attract - tract good ones. The doctor next wrote I. lot of characters on a thick piece of paper with a vermillion pencil and set fire to it. It burned into a black ash , c which was broken into a cup of water and drunk by the patient. A great bow 1 of herb tea was made , of which ettp an hour was the allotted dose. The son of Esculapius neat bared the body of my servant and drove deep into t at nine points a long needle mois- ened with peppermint. He did it with such skill in avoiding large blood yes- sels that the itemmorrhage has insig- I nificant. He then covered each acupuncture - puncture with a brownish paste , and his , in turn , with a piece of dark paper. He then collected his fee , 50 cents , and departed. ' The sufferer soon fell 'into sleep , and the next day announced that his pains had departed. He remained - mained in his bunk two more days , angling , chatting , smoking cigarettes and onceor twice using the opium pipe , Ind then reported as being well. Ha eft the paste and paper in place until hey fell off. The skin was smooth and t he scar hardly perceptible. He took in recovery as a matter of course , his only comment being that the darting snake was thoroughly dead. - New fork Recorder. Hl 3 E { T WORLD. TURN TOWARD CHRIST IN OUR ADVERSITIES , This Iefore Alike to Individuata and Nations-Cbrlstmastide Sermon by Dr. a Talmago-A Beautiful Picture of the Redeemer. ' i ASHINGTON , D.C. , Dec. 22.-In his sermon to-day , Dr. Talmage chose the j universal theme of the season - t h e Christmas - t i d e . Tha tet selected was , "Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Matt. 11 , 1 , At midnight from one of the galleries of the sky a chant broke. To an ordinary - nary observer there was no reason for such a celestial demonstration. A Poor man and wife-travelers , Joseph and Mary by name-had lodged in an outhouse - house of an unimportant village. The supreme hour of solemnity had passed , and upon the pallid forehead and cheek of Mary , God had set the dignity , the grandeur , the tenderness , the , everlasting - ing and divine significance of motherhood - hood , But such scenes had often occurred in Bethlehem , yet never before had a star been unfixed , or had a baton of light marshalled over the hills winged orchestra - chestra , If there had been such a bril- llant and mighty recognition at an advent - vent in the house of Pharaoh , or at an advent in the house of Caesar , or the house of Hapsburg , or the house of Stuart , we would not so much have wondered ; but a barn seems too poor a Center for such a delicate and archangelic - gelic circumference. The stage seems too small for so great an act , the music too grand for such unappreciative auditors - ditors , the windows of the stable too rude to be serenaded by other worlds. It is my joy to tell you what was born that night in the village barn ; and as I want to make my discourse accumulative - tive and climacteric , I begin , in the first place by telling you that that night in the Bethlehem manger was born encouragement - couragement for all the poorly started. He had only two friends-they his par- ents. No satin-lined cradle , no delicate - cate attentions , but straw , and the cattle - tle , and the coarse joke and banter of the camel drivers. No wonder the mediaeval painters represent the oxen us kneeling before the infant Jesus , for there were no men there at that time to worship. From the depths of that poverty - erty he rose until to-day he Is honored in all Christendom , and sits on the imperial - perial throne in heaven. What name is mightiest to-day in Christendom ? Jesus. Who has more friends on earth than any other being ? Jesus. Before whom do the most thousands - sands kneel in chapel and church and cathedral this hour ? Jesus. From what depths of poverty to what height of renown ! And so let all those who are poorly started remember that they cannot be more poorly born , or more disadvantageously , than this Christ. Let them look up to his example while they have time and eternity to imitate it. Do you know that the vast majority of the world's deliverers had barnlke ! birthplaces ? Luther , the emancipator of religion , born among the mines. the of litera- Shakespeare , emancipator - i tore , born In an humble home at Strat- ford-on-Avon. Columbus , the discoverer - erer of a world , born in poverty at Ge- noa. Hogarth , the discoverer of how to make art accumulative and administrative - I trative of virtue , born in an humble home in Westmoreland. Kitto and I Prideaux , whose keys unlocked new j apartments in the Holy Scriptures 1 which had never been entered , born In i want , Yes , I have to tell you that nine f out of ten of the world's deliverers were . , born in want. I stir your holy ambitions to-day , i and I want to tell you , though the whole world may be opposed to you , and in- sidc and outside of your occupations or professions there may be those who would hinder your ascent , on your side and enlisted in your behalf are the sympathetic - s pathetic heart and the almighty arm y of One who one Christmas night about eighteen hundred and ninety-five years a ago was wrapped in swaddling clothes I anti laid in a manger. Oh , what magnificent - nificent encouragement for the poorly o started ! Again , I have to tell you that in that a village barn that night was born good s will to men , whether you call it kindness - I ness , or forbearance , or forgiveness , or t geniality , or affection , or love. It was no sport of high heaven to send its fa- write to that humiliation. It was sacrifice - d rifice for a rebellious world. After the r alamity in Paradise , not only did the f ax begin to gore , and the adder to sting , rand and the elephant to smite with his tusk , nand and the lion to put to bad use tooth and paw , but under the very tree from d which the forbidden fruit was plucked were hatcheddout war and revenge and y malice and envy and jealousy and the Y whole brood of cockatrices. c But against that scene I set the Eeth- ehem manger , which says , "Bless G rather than curse , endure rather than I assault ; and that Christmas night puts out vindictiveness. It says , "Sheathe s your sword , dismount your guns , dismantle - b mantle your batteries , turn the warship Constellaticn , that carries shot and 1 shell , into a grain ship to take food to e famishing Ireland , hook your cavalry E horses to the plow , use your deadly gun- F : powder in blasting rocks and in patrit otic celebration , stop your lawsuits , quit writing anonymous letters , extract h he sting frcm your sarcasm , let your fi wit coruscate but never burn , drop all a the harsh words out of your vocabulary 10 Good will to men : " st " 01 ; you say , "I can't exercise it ; I t won't exercise it until they apologize ; I t wont forgive them until they ask me t o to forgive them. You are no Christian - tian hen-I say you are no Christian , or you are a very inconsistent Christian. If you forgive not men their trespasses , how can you expect your Heavenly Father to forgive you ? Forgive them if they ask your forgiveness , and for- give thorn anyhow. Shake hands all around. "Good will to men. " Oh , my Lord Jesus , drop that spirit Into all our hearts this Christmas time. I tell you what the world wants more than anything else-more helping hands'more sympathetic hearts , more kind words that never die , more dispo- sitlon to give other people a ride , anti to carry the heavy end of the load and give other people the light end , and to ascribe good motives instead of bad , and to find our happiness in making others happy. Out of that Bethlehem crib let the bear and lion eat straw like an ox. "Good will to men. " That principle will yet settle all controversies , and under it the world will keep on improving - ing until there will be only two antagonists - nists in all the earth , and they will side i by side take the jubilant sleigh-ride intimated - timated , by the prophet when he said , "Holiness shall be on the bells of the ' horses. " Again , I remark that born that Christmas night in the village barn was sympathetic union with other worlds. From that supernatural grouping of the ' cloud bank over Bethlehem , and from the especial trains that ran down to the scene I find that our world Is beautifully - tifully and gloriously and magnificently surrounded , The meteors are with us , for one of them ran to point down to the birth-place. The heavens are with I us , because at the thought of our redemption - i demption they roll hosannas out of the j midnight sky , Oh , yes , I do not know but our world t may be better surrounded than we have ' sometimes imagined ; and when a child is born angels bring it , and when it dies another takes it , and when an old min bends under the weight of years angels uphold him , and when a heart breaks angels soothe it. Angels in the Itospi- i tal to take care of the sick. Angels i In the cemetery to watch our dead.t t Angels in the church readyto fly hen- i venward with the news of repentant I souls. Angels above the world. Angels - I gels under the world. Angels all around the world. Rub the dust of human imperfections out of your eyes , and look into the heavens - ens and see angels of pity , angels of mercy , angels of pardon , angels of help , angels crowned , angels charioted. The I world defended by angels , girdled by angels , cohorted by angels-clouds of , angels. Hear David cry out , "The chariots of God are twenty thousand. ! Even thousands of angels. " But the mightest angel stood not that night in the clouds over Bethlehem : the mightiest - iest angel that night lay- among the cat- tie-the Angel of the new covenant. As the clean white linen was being wrapped around that little form of that I Child Emperor , not a cherub , not a ser- iph , not an angel , not a world but wept and thrilled and shouted. Oh , yes , our world has plenty of sympathizers ! Our world is only a silver rung of a f great ladder at the top of which is our F ather's house. No more stellar soli- j tarlness for our world , no other friendless - j less planets spat out into space to ' . freeze , but a world in the bosom of divine - vine maternity. A star harnessed to a i maugcr. j Again , I remark that that night born n that village barn was the offender's . tope. Some sermonizers may say I j aught to have projected this thought' at the beginning of the sermon. Oh , , no ! I wanted you to rise toward it. wanted you to examine the cornelians and the jaspers and the crystals before j showed you the Kohinoor-the crown j ewel of the ages. Oh , that jewel had ; ' very poor s'e'tting' The cub of bear l S born amid the grand old pillars of the crest , the whelp of lion takes its first tep from the jungle of luxuriant leaf and wild flower , the kid of goat is born I n cavern chandeliered with stalactite and pillared with stalagmite. Christ I was born In a bare barn. j Yet that nativity was the offender's hope. Over the door of heaven arc : written these words : "None but the iniess may enter here. " "Oh , horror , " ou say , "that shuts us all out ! " No , a Christ came to the world in one door , nd ire departed through another door. s ie came through the door of the Ivan- ger , and he departed through the door f the sepulchre , and his one busit ; Hess was so to wash away our sin that I fter we are dead there will be no more in about us than about the eternal God. i know that is putting it strongly , but hat is what I understand by full re- i mission. All erased , all washed away , 11 scoured out , all gene. That uns ergirdling and overarching and it- ' ii adlating and imparadising possibility or you , and for me , and for the whole s t ace , that was given that Christmas I ight. Do you wonder we bring flowers to- ' b ay to celebrate such an event ? Do a ou wonder that we take organ and It outhful voice and queenly' soloist to I ti elebrate it ? Do you wonder that Raphaei and Rubens t and Titian and , lotto and Ghirlandajo , and all the old j f talian and German painters gave the Sketch mightiest stroke of their genius to ketch the Madonna , Mary and her oy ? i Oh ! now I see what the manger was. Yet so high the gilded and jeweled and mbroldered cradle of the Henrys of t ngland , or the Louis of France , orthe , i edericks of Prussia. Now 1 find out . ° hat that Bethlehem crib fed not so much the oxen of the stall as the white the orses of Apocalyptic vision. Now I I ad the swaddling clothes enlarging . b nd emblazoning into an imperial robe r a conqueror. Now I find that the b ar of that Christmas night was only he diamonded sandal of him who bath ! he moon under his feet. Now I comet the understand that the music of that c 1 eight was not a compacted song , but only the stringing of the instruments for a great chorus of two worlds , the bass to be carried by earthly nations saved , and the soprano by kingdoms of glory won. Oh , heaven , heaven , heaven ! I shall meet you there. After all our imperfections - fections are gone. I shall meet you there. I look out to-day , through the msts ! of years , through the fog that rises from the cold Jordan , through the wide open door of solid pearl to that re- union. I expect to see you there as certainly - tainly as I see you here. What a time we shall have in high converse , talking over sins pardoned , and sorrows comforted - forted , and battles triumphant ! Some of your children have already gone , and though people passing along the street and seeing white crape on the doorbell may have said : "It is only a child , " yet when the broken-hearted father came to sofitit ; my service , he said. "Come around and comfort us , for we loved her so much. What a Christmas morning it will make when those with whom -you used to keep the holidays are all around you : in heaven ! Silver-haired old father young again , and mother who had so many aches and pains and decrepitudes tvcll again , and all your brothers and sisters and the little ones. How glad they will be to see yon ! They have been waiting. The last time they saw your face it was covered with tears and distress , anti pallid from long watching - ing , and one of them I can imagine today - day , with one hand holding fast the shining gate , and the other hand swung out toward you , saying : Steer this way , father , steer straight for me ; Here safe in heaven r am waiting for thee. Ott , those Bethlehem angels , when they went back after the concert that night over the hills , forgot to shut the door ! All the secret is out. No more use of trying to hide from us the glories to conic. It is too late to shut the gate. It is blocked wide open with hosannas marching this way , and hallelujahs marching that way. In the splendor of the anticipation I feel as if I was dying -not physically , for I never was more well- but in the transport of the Christmas - mas transfiguration. What almost unmans me is the thought that it is provided for such sinners - ners as you and I have been. If It had been provided only for those who had always thought tight , and spoken right , and acted right , you and I would have had no interest in it , had no share in it ; , you and I would have stuck to the raft mid-ocean , and let the ship sail by carrying - rying perfect passengers from a perfect life on earth to a perfect life in heaven- But I have heard the Commander of that ship is the same great and glorious and sympathetic One who hushed the tempest around the boat on Galilee , and I have heard that all the passengers on the ship are sinners raved by grace. And so we hail the ship , and it bears down this way , and we come by the side of it and ask the captain two questions - tions : "Who art thou ? and whence ? " and he says : "I am captain of Salvation - tion , and I am from the manger. " Oh , bright Christmas morning of my soul's delight' ! Chime all the bells. Merry Christmas ! Merry with the thought of sins forgiven - given , merry with the Idea of sorrows - rows comforted , merry with the raptures - tures to come. Oh , lift that Christ from the manger and lay him down in all our hearts ! We may not bring to hIm as costly a present as the Magi brought , Lut zve bring to his feet and to the hanger to-day the frankincense of our joy , the prostration of our worship. Down at His feet , all churches , all ages , all earth , all heaven. Down at His feet the four-and-twenty elders on their faces. Down the "great multitude - tude that no man can number. ' ' Down Michael , the arch-angel ! Down all vrorIds at His feet and worship. "Glory God in the highest , and on earth peace , good-will to men ! " WOMEN OF NOTE. , Mra. John Jones , one of Chicago's colored people , is worth 8300,000. The wife of President Cleveland has most mellifluous voice , and an admirer - mirer lays : "Her speech is a continual eng without words. " On of the richest heircizcs in the world is Lady Mary Hamilton Douglas , he 11-year-old daughter of the late 1 ruke of Hamilton , whose income is LOW about 1G0,000 a year. Princess Waldemar , wife of the youngest brother of the Princess of Wales , is a courageous woman. At Copenhagen recently , when a fire tarted in a building adjoining her res- ence , she borrowed a fireman's helmet - met , mounted a wall and assisted in ex- inguishing the flames. The es-Empress Frederick of Germany - many , in her early married life , em- rodered ! a piece of tapestry , on which 11 her children knelt when confirmed ; he late Emperor's collln rested upon it ; e present German Emperor and the Princeases Charlotte , Sophia and Vic- oria , were married standing on it. Mrs. Barney Baranto , a pleasant- aced , unaffected woman , was born in outh Africa of English parentage. GENERAL LABOR NOTES. Printers of Toronto are unionizing he town. The new bicycle workers' union starts it with 2,000 members. All state printing of Nevada bears printers' union label. A 8500,000 iron mill has been erected y co-operators at Edinburgh , Scotland. A national anti-sweating league has een formed at Melbourne , Vfe , , N. $ . An effort Is being made to combiuo four central labor bodies of Clti- ago.
