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UNCLAIMED MILLIONS.
Property in rlinnrcry anil Those SVh*
Slave a Claim to It
The frout of an uninviting briefe
building on a street near the Five point*
contains a sign, the most prominent let
ters of which is “Next of kin; over
£77,000,000 unclaimed.” This sign
marks the business and printing olficc of
a man whose occupation is that of
seaching old foreign records and chan¬
cery lists for people of this country who
believe they are heirs to property and es¬
tates in Europe. When asked for par¬
ticulars regarding his unusual occupa¬
tion tho proprietor of the place said:
“Yes, it is a fact that the records of the
Bank of England, the court of chan¬
cery, and the Somerset house show tha f -
the enormous sum of over £77,000,000,
in money and property, has been left in
England bv persons who have died in
testate or without any known heirs. This
gigaDtie sum has been accumulating for
the past three hundred years, subject to
the demand of the direct issue or right
ful heirs, and it is unquestioned that a
large percentage of the rightful heirs
are now settled in the l nited State* and
Canada.”
“Are often '
.arc you you onin successful successful tn in your vour
searches?” asked the reporter.
“I i nave li-ivc been been in in this this wnrb work for twenty
two years, denliue particularly with
claims in England,^France pnd Holland
the last six vears. In this time I have
visited Europe regularly twice a year,
taking on each trip an average of about
tvvem,. fi,. a U i„_i..... look »>P- 0ut ot
tho twenty-five I ani'lisually successful
'
with „ about . . three. ., I go Only as-h.tl Utter
cey, to investigate, but each person foi
whom I go must pay me $25 for expen¬
ses, beside agreeing to give me three per
cent, on the amount of property or money
obtained, should his claim prove suc¬
cessful.”
“What is the largest amount you have
ever obtained . . . this . way for . a claimant? . .
“It was for a resident of Long Island,
and reached 5185,000. An estate that I
am looking up now for a resident of
Otuo, .... if .. successful, , t it to
as now appears
be, ’ will amount to $400,000. I have
, had the , hand the begining
case in since
of the rear and it all depended on find
ing certain will drawn . 1740. Only
a m
this this week week have have 1 1 received received this this will will from lrom
England, afte,r a long search. It
is an old, musty document, and one of
its specifications is that the property left r
bv the testator shall not be sold nor
mortgaged . for hundred
one vears
from om the tne date uarc of oi the me will will, I l snau shall sail sail
for England soon to investigate this
case and about forty 5 others ‘ ”
How much money do those forty
claims re present?” ’
.. rp Io not familiar . ... with , 8 , the , busi- _
one
ness the amounts claimed ‘ -ire most as- "
tonislung. . ... Hus bundle of claims ,
one
which I shall take over with me renre- I
sents millions .... of dollars—more
money,
in fact ’ than would nav off the national
debt. 1 ue claimants are a’l of tne bet
ter ler class class oi of intelligent intelligent neoolo people, ton- too, k,»q bus
mess men, bankers, newspaper men, and
profcBsiomi, men from of ,b.
country, but particulary from the West.
It Rnciu aim,,? a >out * $400 4 n o “frx to make i one of f
these trips. When I get to London
there are onlv four or live nl-ices to ^ <*n
t to, and , it . f . 1 do 7 not t find n i n lhe u there ■
names
subject are all open for - Th “ inspection. b “ k -»> h If 'i
I find before troin<r that anorson I
”
Is to get a laige amount
1 .j.;.. . g0 ., lctn
selves. But when a person savs to me,
asmanvdo ’ ‘Whv y ’ as vou are g iroirnr over ’
’ -
anyway, just . lookup please.
rar name,
I refuse ' to do so most decidedly for if T
- ’
uld business in this way I would not get
over there at ail. I have a great many j
people come to me with large cl a 1 maltha t
theveannot move P at all ’ bavinn- S been
started in the idea by seeing some one
else successful Why jv ny, I t have nave received received -
ns many sixly-four . letters week of
as a
inquiries 1 rits, and ana lately ureiy the tne business business has has
grown so extensively that I have had to
have a special r man stationed regularly J at
—. o
Loudon. —_
“Do von charm. foi i looking „i, - into • , your
-rrr" lists here?”
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.... ics. T 1 . have secured , at . much . trouble .
and exnetise lists of about 200,000 names
n ll ' ‘,, f ' sons « , o , ia\c
. been advertised
for in these matters, to
"ether with full chnnr-erv y liato r>f V,,,.
‘ a
land, France, Ireland and other coun
tries In order to md - some some r.tnm r*turn for for
my outlay, 1 charge each person who
wishes uisnes to to look look in in these these lists#” lists f*. Fvcrv Every
‘ snd ^ a 80
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have. A fine thing for the heirs of these ;
unclaimed estates is the e law nMsed pas-c » a few few
• England. , This is that
years ago in un
moaej oi Hi, VMltall be„«,l
r
return for the use of the money the gov
eminent allows three ; per cent. Thus, ’
when the rightful heir . is found or proves
his title, he gets ” not onlv the money J
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originally due him, but if the govern
meat has used it he gets ° three per 1 cent ’
additional. . , , —-JVeie . } ork Mad and Kr]■rts*. :
Fall Mall ant “the Gazette.”
The notice into which a London news
paper has come by its articles on the • ,
moral depravity of the great city makia
it interesting to know the origin of the
name and the paper. The words are
pronounced “Pell Mell,” and were used
to designate an athletic game, in which
7, a mallet l "" * n wa3 pu.^ea “ i ,0 in “ **: the
neighborhood . of St. Jame/ park in the ! j
«* <*«*- U S «*- a« »*■*« .0
the celebrated street Pall Mall. Thack
eray, in his “Pendennis,” tescribed * i i
an
imaginary newspaper under the name of )
the />„/,’ if .ii f v ^ ...__ afterward . i
»' 1 r Ut *• _____ * r3
the present paper bearing ‘hat name was
started, thus perpetuatin' the fancy of
the great novelist.
The dentist and etymologist both delve
for roots. ■
Dealing in Old Clothes.
A New York dealer in old clothes said
to a Sun reporter: “Let a poor man come
to me or any other man who makes*
specialty of second-haud clothing, and
I’ll guarantee to furnish him with a
of c’othes that will make him look as
near like a refined, gentlemanly fellow
as nature ever intended. The clothes
will bear the mark of a first-class tailor,
and wili look well as long as they last,
We frequently sell suits of clothes for $15
that have only been worn by careful,
fastidious . . , for short , ... tune, and . that
men a .
never cost less than $10 or $50 when , they
were new.
“I began the business by going around
buying old clothes myself, and have hud
some strange adventures. We
have to carry a big stock, for we seldom
get any clothing that is seasonable. In
tbe 8 P dn S we S c *' winter clothing, and
' n * be bad summer clothing, and so on.
Very often the clothes are laid aside and
never bothered with until the seasons
call them forth. One cold winter day
I was tramping along Fifth avenue with
my bag under my arm, and stopping here
and tbere the basements looking for
bargains, when I came to a handsome
brown-stone house near Fiftieth street,
here was a colored man in tho basement,
and when i asked him if he had any old
fdothes to sell ho opened . the . door . very
^ly, 0 sa ^ a al W01C ‘ d - *> cautioning rne ln ^° me the back not
^ ho ' cft me ^
11 P stairs, but returned in a few minutes
with an armful of very good clothing, ”
„ lls • actions . . . but T
„ were veiy suspicious,
didn’t feel called upon to ask for an ex
planation, even though the clothes were
built for a small man and the negro
weighed about 200 pounds. The cloth
ing was of the best quality ' and was worn
so little ,, that , it .. was almost , . as good , as
new. I offered a prett y good price for
an(1 th ° ncgr ° lr "‘ du "' K feul 80rry for
having r done so by accepting ° my offer
° n ‘f‘. 1 Cram med the clolhcs , o in m y . ba 8
a "d/hen invitation giviflg , tolet the negro know my card, if hei with had
an me
any more bargains, I went away. Early ”
the nCit morning the negro was at my
, house, nearly scared to death. He said
he . mUSt have . tLe .. clothes . back right
off, and tried to shove the tnonev I had
pa,d ., '° . r them '" . 4 t0 my ha , ' ,d , ’ J Sa,d , J ,
wouldn , t ive them back un i CS3 hc ]iai(1
™ something ____. or my trouble m lugging
them all the way down town, and ex
lilln . . . . he wanted . , Al them. lie , _ finally
P
gave $5 for my trouble, ’ and then par
, . )ne b , y saying . that the clothes , , , be
( d {0 hjs maste who lia(1 bee „ sick
a l0ng , Urae .. - TI IIe was 80 bad , . thu , day be '
fore that everybody ;' thought ® he would
‘
die during , . the . night, . lhe took ,
negro
advantage of the old gentleman's death
t0 . d,8 ,. P oso of . about . , half ir i- his wardrobe. , ,
Instead of dying the old chap took a
tui , n for r the , , better, and , that ,, . morning .
everybody was sure he would eventually
rccover ‘ , 1 8 ave thc clolb,,s , , back , t0 tlic ,
negro, and the way he climbed up town
Wlth . 4l them w as a caution. ,,
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hll ‘„^ . r k Tu^»u.,- R , e nrri f: r(1 r
tr 1 Ieni 7 M Stanley , tells ,, this story of , the ,
h liman butcheries perpetrated ' to annease
, gods , wben cblef . . dle8 .. Tbe
le a ‘ V1C ‘
are slaves taken in battle or bought 6
*
founccn . f . the interior, . . and, . be-
1Ile n r «mi
ing notified by the villagers that the
execution . about , to , begin, . M. Van
was
gele and his friend proceeded ‘ with a
, feW ° f . th , ® lr . mC ' 1 t0 VleW . the , scene '
They found quite a number of men
gathCred , ar0Und , - „„ Tlle d0Omcd , , men
Booa were kneeling with their arms
b , «“» d b ^« d «>om m the neighborhood , ,
of a tall young ® tree, near the top r of
which the end of a rope . had .. been lashed. , , ,
A number of men laid hold of the cord
iU 3 , U , ' e<1 , Hp ° n 1 ., ‘ the .. upper
j, art of the trec wa8 bent bke
, ' °ne .. of the captives was selected, , . ,
the danglinK e nd of the rope was
f fasten . ® d •, 'bund , , lns neck; , the tree , sprang
mches higher, drawing the man 8
form - straining . . . the ,v neck, , and s almost ,
up,
b f t i n „ t be body from the ground. The
* • then advanced , , with ... . his . short .
broaibbl adod fashion, and measured his
distance . by , stretching . , , . , his . weapon from .
the position he intended to strike across
' be nape of the neck. He lepcated , , this ...
operation twice. At the third time he
8ll . uck ,, Bering ,, the head , , clean , from , ,, the
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bo( j y It was whipped up in the air by
tbc 8 l irln n of the ., relcaset. tree and a sent
rebo unding several yards away. The re
after another in like manner. Their
bn -j H n uere , pr „ unfieshed hv bv bn boiling, ;,: n „ that n,„.
tbc gku p g might decorate the poles
. ” ..
dr , gge<1 nd
was gathered up and buried with the dt
^ . chief
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The First Interviewer.
A recent Washington a letter to the
New 1 ork Herald says: Anne Royal,
who was the originator of the American
system . of interviewing, had her ofiice in
one of them for a number of years. She
published . , two weekly Paul
papers one,
Dry. and afterward Huntress. Anne
Royal had an assistant named Sally
Brass. They both had the reputation of
being blackmailers. They forced hun
dreds to subscribe by threatening thatif
thev did not the Paul Pry or Huntress
would print some scandals about them.
female ;•«“»' lobbyists “wore scouped *» *»« hals KOJ* and
long veils ” Thev dress differentlv now
m .ttt Ann, i.fcj to ,
being 8 a common scold * She v died viieu in in
18o4, - aged . Sally
nmety-two. Brass pre
ceded her about ten vears Anne Roval
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was the widow of a Revolutionary offi
cer. She was of Irish descent and was
born in Maryland,
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' DR. TALMAGEIFIREL AND
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A SeiUDn at Be'fast Oil ‘‘ TilO Lost
Found.”
^ ^ ^ ^ df BrookIyn ,
j l)reached Ht Enoch’s church at Belfast,
Ireland, recently, on “Lost and Found.”
The streets in and around the chnreb wore
crowded, at least 40,000 people clamoring to
hear the distinguished stranger. Mr. Tal
,na ^ e Mext read « a 8cri P ture leBSim the
parable 1 of the two virgins, and followed it
with prayer and a hymn, when ho gave as his ..
text:
The Bon of Man is come to seek and save
hit which was lost.—Luke xix., 10.
The sermon, which was deli vered With groat
hrvor, was as follows:
“When Kossuth Visited the United States,
about twenty yoars ago, so great was the en
thusiasm for Hungary, that I rememhervery
well the trees around the New York ‘Bat¬
tery’ were crowded with people who had
limlied there to see the distinguished stranger
ns ho passed. I shall never forget that scene.
Indeed, if one be well poised, he cannotstand
in a better place to see a passing crowd than
in a tree top. Well, Christ w-as coming to
Jericho, and there Was a small man, whose
head did not come up to tho shoulders of
other poople, who despaired of seeing the
distinguished the dead stranger while standing mi
level; so he climbs up into a syca¬
more tree, broad branched, stretching its
arms clear across the highway, and sits there
while Jesus advanc^. Christ, coming up
with a groat multitude, casts his eye up, and
sees this inan on the branch of the sycamore,
and says,‘Come down;’and after the man had
alighted, 'The ho says, among other things, to him:
Bon of Man is come to seek and to save
lo»t. Even dog that has XK
a wandered away
thing.’ in Going down the street near nightfall,
the teeth of the sharp northeast wind, you
l«el very pitiful for one who has got to be
out to night. As you go along you hear the
afinghied cry of a child. You stop. You
say, ‘What is the matter!’ You go up and
flnd lhat a little one lias lost its way from
home, in its excitement it cannot even tell
',1 1 «"a| , | Vi’rd' a>-,',u I id areal 1 tem.Tied/ m 1
pathetic and helpful. A plain body comes
up, | and with her plaid she wraps the child
a ;d says . -m take care of the poor bairn.’
While in the same street, but a lit tle way on,
a,ld through ut ^ e all *f 1 n g the a alleys ' n °^ e and by sounds® ways of dolehSy the city:
‘A lost child! Three years of age, blue eyes,
light hair. Lost child!’ Did you ever hear
any^pathos as that ringing through th.
“You are on shipboard. You see agaiast
the sky a vessel. It comes nearer. Yon
hoist a flag. It makes no response. You
say: ‘What is the matter with that vessel?’
You put the sea glass to your eye, and you
find there is no one in the rig guels ig—no one on
the deck. ‘Ah,’ you say: ‘l that must
bean abandoned ship.’ It comes on falling
over into the trough of the ocean. It floats
every whither, tossed by the wild sea, and
the crew say to the passengers and the cap
tain says to his mate: ‘It is a lost ship.’
..y ou aregoing down the streetandvou
seen man tliau you know very well. You
onc * e associated with him. You areaston
ished as you see him. ‘Why,’you say, ‘h.
lsa h covered with the marks of sin. He
must be in the very last stages of wickad
noss.’ And then you think of his blasted
home God andsay: ‘God pity his wife and child!
pity himi’ A lost man.
“But, my friends, we are lost. ‘All we,
like sheep have gone astray;’ and the bell
men ot heaven come out hunting up and
down to find those who have missed their
wa y» and ringing through all the streets of the
city all the valleys and mountains of
tb„ earth, the old Gospel bell: ‘The Bon of
Man has come to seek and to save that which
is lost.’ I am glad that it is the Son of Man
who has come to seek us. It is not one armed
with thunderbolts, chariot ridinr down the sky ia
ponderous to crust: us, but the Son of
Man; his nature just like our nature, with
one exception; his infancy rocked in the
cradle of a mother s arms; his boyhood spent
in Nazareth amid a boy’s temptation. After
with blistered hand, learning a trade,
Afterward, preaching, not with pr*est’*
Son of Manl He walked like a man; he
,i ep t like a man; he ate like a man; he was a
manl He knew what sin and temptation are
by abandoned personal contact, for he lived in a most
village, and he moved around
am ! d fl j hin g villages known in all ages for
their vice, and m after years he preached in
M *
And
when Christ comes now he comes not to a now
world to make a discovery, but he comes to
al l old world where he once lived; to a race
whose nerves and muscles and bones and
flesh were just like those which he inhabited.
bikB us > t he void chilled him; like us, lire
warmed him; like us, betrayal exasperated
hi '"- I warrant you, that in that hostile and
rough brui.se society ami mill he_ that received have many been a lack rword- and
never
ed. I am glad to know that he comes in the
fr»sh memory of his sorrows on earth, and of
those thrilling night scenes and day scenes of
a '> d to save
tnat wmen was lost,
“In the first place, I remark that we are
lost to holiness. Are you not all willing to
take the Bible announcements that our nature
is utterly ruined? Sin lias broken in at every
rt 0 f o„r castle. One would think that w*
got enough of it from our parents, whether
thoy the''capital were pious or not; but wo have taken
of sin with which our fathers and
mothers started us, and we have by accumu
lation, as by infernal compound interest,
made it enough to swamp us forever; the
neait a battle ground across which armed
battalions sweep right and left; the ivory
of palace all of uncleanliness. the soul polluted Tho with the filthy feet
Un-d Jesus Christ
comes to bring us back to holiness. He comes
not to destroy of us. but He to take the eonse
lacerating quences our guilt. breaks through
cleanliness. thorns, and he du-s to offer ns
Here is a man who a few weeks
ago said: ‘All is right with me. lam not
willing to confess 1 am a sinner.’ Now the
spirit comes to his soul and he feels himself to
be so great a sinner that there is no mercy
for him. When did he make the most ac
curate estimate? Now‘the heart is deceitful
above all things and desperately wicked.'
^ “Rut says some one in tbe audience:‘I
| have sinned so much 1 do not lwlieve t'nrist
i will take me.’ A great commander thought
the Alps. If you know anything about the
Alps, you know you never can get over
there.’ The commander waved his hand, and
said’ ‘There shall be no Alps! Then the
r--^d was built through the Si in Ion Ra-s—the
JSWSKf
Gospel; wounded but hand, Christ com^. ami he shall waves his
and cries: ‘There be no
obstacles' I will come over the mountain of
si l and the hills of thine iniquity.’ Oh,
ye who have sinned, instead of flying away
from Christ, if you only kn >w who it is that
comes to save you you would fly no further,
hut turn around, and while Christ seeks you,
Z ou Rhrist. and this house would
be a scene of a penitent sinner and a pardon
ing Savior, throwing each other's arms
around each other’s necks, while heaven
I could afford to stop half an hour and hang
over the battlements gazing. What is that
j amon K the angels! M ho is that
me,,t on tbe bulletins of heaven! I know
j ^ “ is - Christ has found that which was
! “Nor angels can fueir joy contain,
But kindle with new fire;
Jffjswsvtaa’ And strikethe*sounding ljrnn" 8 ’
I have been fifty years a caliph and 1 have
ia ' 1 a11 honors all<i aU weal th, and yet in fifty
luJience lhat *SK cannot ZUf’sHS'S fourteen S'lS days in
count
ill their life in which they had no vexations
nr annoyances! We all feel a capacity for
i happiness that has never been tested. There
! are interludes of buss, but whose entire life
has been a continuous satisfaction? Why is
t that the most of the fine poems of the world
! are somehow descriptive of grief 1 Is it be
I i-ause men know more about sorrow than
j - hey know about joy. John Milton succeeds
ion ami Longfellow, and you Hare taken
three-fourths of their power. John R " skl "
writes his most effective pas ages about the
ruin of Venice. It is because men know
more about sorrow than about jov that they
are more effective in describing the former,
The dog of bad nows runs faster tl, authd
carrier pigOon Hies with good tidings. There
ate flushes.of satisfaction in the Heart, but
whose life has been a prolonged delight* The
toulhas four ranks of keys, and thfi world
does not know how to play on such an elabor
ate instrument; but religion comes, and with
her right hand she*touches the u^er keys of
the soul, awl then sweeps to and
symphonies of heaven. Christ comes
those who have been lost to happiness. He
soothes them. He inspirits thorn. He lifts
them. He Opens the door of the lost itdea
and invites them to comem again to i^ace.
“Oh, how many in this i.iUsehavebeen
immled anil ^king stUnz and plagued! Had it not
been for yoiu- eternal interests some of
of you would have put an end to the scene ,8
earthly suffering with your owh ^*00.
s d oul P tt YoU would bTwuiinr^wTlve social position and up all
vour money and your of the
you have achieved for one expressed day when peace he
wh.ch the good old slave
fo^I M^br^the TheTir fs mtal
it- tto Mnsbtoe is mine, for
T ran sit In in it-the haviomething earth is mine, for I can lie
down ,t' To of the com
plete satisfaction wh» belong to the hum
West n h of unfest°ChrUt (^od|s children you would give^dmost
w ith comes to-night to give
vourest If Christ comes to you, you will be
independent of all worldly circumstances.
Bo in the hour of suffering and martyrdom
•was Rose Allen. When the and persecutor held it put there a
candle underneath bec wrist
see fit you can burnmy ket next and then
also my head.’ Christ once having taken you
into his custody and persecution guardianship, and you trial. can
laugh at pain and
Great peaco for all those whom Christ has
found, and you have found Christ.
comes into their sick room. The nurse may
have fallen asleep in the latter Watches of
the night, but Jesus watches with
eyes, and he puts his gentle hand over the
brow of be the sick; patientnnd I will not says: leave ‘You vyill There not
always you.
a land w! ere the inhabitants never saith, Reace “
am sick.” Hush, troubled soul!
This Jesus Comes into the house of bereave
merit and he says: 'I took your lost darling
I come now to make up for his absence. l
wanted him at the gale wheif you cann
through. The days of your separation Rea wit
only add to the joys of reunion. :e.
I am thi resurrection and the life: ho that
believeth in me, though be wore dead, yet
shall he live.”
“Just as sometimes a child is ro sick that ii
cannot lie any longer in the cradle and tlw
mother has to take it up, si sometimes tin
Lord’s children are so troubled that they can
no’ lie easy anywhere but in God's lap, whilt
he bends over them and sings this sweet song.
‘As one whom his mother eomforteth, so will
1 comfort you:’
‘The sou! that on Jesus hath leaned for ro
I will pose, 1 will desert to bis foes:
•That not, not endeavor
soul, shake, though all bell should tc
I’ll never, no never, no nevor, forsake.’
“Again I remark that wc a re lost to I heaven,
and Christ comes to take us there. cann it
imagine anything more distressful than,
without having mu deal taste, to sit and listen
to an oratorio for two hours an 1 a half.
Though it be the best of oratorios, if a mail
have no musical ta-ta it is distress to him,
while it is joy to others. And I cannot
imagine anything more distressful for a man
who has no love for pictures to be shut up in
the Luxembourg gallery in Raris. Yes, I
can think of one thing worse than that, and
that will be for a man to enter heaven
without any taste for it. 1 sometimes hear
poople lalk as though all a man had to do was
just to leave this world an 1 go into heaven
and sit down to its enjovinouts It a man
day cannot how stand would (Ihristian he stand s'o.dety million hero for of one
a ages it*
1 see an unregenerato soul entering heaven.
It enters heaven, looks around and sees God
there and angels there, and hears the erv,
‘Holy, holv,’and the unifgenerate soul savs,
‘This is no place for me,' and hc flies to the
battlements and he cries, ‘I can stand it here
no longer,’ In and he leaps off into utter dark
ness. other words, tho worst hell for a
mm would lie heaven il he had no quafifica
tious-no take preparations the discord for it. But Christ
comes to out of our soul and
string it with a heavenly attuning. He comes to
take out that from us which mikes us unlike
lieaven, and substitute that which assimilates
us. Ten thousand times the gate of heaven
has swung back and forth, but it never swings
back and forth save as Christ oiienod it, and
vou will go in through him or not at nil.
Christ wants you them How do I know it!
Suppose for it eight a man lost days, a diamond, would and he looked
or ton you not con
elude, front the fact that he looked for it so
long, that Christ he wanted the diamond! And when
l find seeking for your soul, se-ki-g
for it ever since it has been a soul, seek
ing through for it heat by day and and by night, seeking for it
with in his through cold, seeking for it
tears eyesjmd blood upon
world™? 1 ! °Ls a a K n gony OU LMd'i iThH n hear know
that Oh
he has ^aS nranarml Sy 1 a a irlm-ioiis g o“ lieuven 1 fnr >0 vnn i.
It N merely throne, bui
steps by which play to mount it; not only a harp,
but a song to on it; not only a banner
procession, but a victory which it is to cele
brate. God wants no vacant chairs at that
banquet him He in does glory not want thoso who stand
around to wonder why you have
not been solicited. He does not want the
Book of Life to thunder-shout till your name
is in it. What do I breathe? It is the fra
granco of him whose garments smell of mvrrh
and aloes and cassia out of the ivory palaces,
What do I hear! It is the footstep of him
who comes with worn sandal in the journey
from Bethlehem to Nazareth and from Naz
areth to Jerusalem and from Jerusalem to
Golgotha and from Golgotha to glory and
from Oh, jostle glory him here, seeking that which is lost.
not from thy doorstep Do
not drive this Christ away as though he were
an unworthy beggar Trust soliciting your alms.
Hear his voice. his sacrifices. Re
spend know, to his oh, love. Take his heaven. Do you
not man! oh, woman 1 that you are
of'Man kTcometo’^andto s;u4 that thteh
tot^there whether Christ are Mittetiii^m by his which finds wiUftndycn
grace you or not,
Trouble will find you. Temptation will find 1
you. Sickness will find you. Death will find
you. find Judgment w ill find you. Eternity will
you. i
“Soon you will be gone from all these i
scenes, and if a thousand men should come
out with lanterns and torches, and St Ber
nard dogs used to hunting up missing travel
ers, and search for your soul you could not be
found by them. The grave will have your
body. Your heirs wili have your estates
Eternity will have your soul. In the flash of
a second your last opportunity for heaven
may and go out. Rostpone this question of the
soul you are postponing getting into the
hist life-boat that shall put out from the
wreck for the beach ere the hulk lnrch over
and go down. God forbid that any of you
should at the last have the dismay of the wo
man of whom I was reading. One night she
eould net sleep Christ. because of her soul's wander
ing from Bhe got up and wrote in
berdiarv: ‘One Year from now I will attend
to the matters of my soul. She retired, but
Blie could not sleep. So she arose and wrote
a better promise in her diary . ‘One month
from now I will attend to the matters of my
soul.’ She retired again, but found no sleep.
she slept soundly. The next following day she went
into scenes ofgayety. The day she
was sick and the middle of next week she
d.ed Delirium fitted from her mind just
long enough for her to say: ‘I am a week too
late. 1 am lost! Oh, to be a year too late,
or a month too late, or an hoour tooMate
av T aseCOnJ 100 lat °’ 15 t0
ever too late
Several cases oT natives of India hav¬
ing Mr. a white skin have been reported.
A. T. Fraser mentions the finding
of a family in which several white per¬
ed, sons, the resembling Europeans, had appear
blackness parents of natives. having the ordinary
The whiteness
was not a result of leprosy. The skin oi
the Albinos is much more sensitive to
the sun's rays than of other natives or
even of European*, The contrast be
tween white snd black relatives having
I a striking resemblance of feature is saia
to be most remarhabl*
1 annum Hats. ,
Guayaquil is famous for the finest
pineapples ill the tne worm, wor ld grea great J iniev
fruits, as white as snow and as swee
honey, It is also famous, writes a cor
respondent, J for its llats and hammocks,
™ f th j t flbeJ . * H »,rt of palm, *
J he well known pa & ,j
made in Guayaquil, hut get their names .
because Panama merchants formerly
controlled the trade. They are braided
under water by native women of strands
twe twelve ] ve and ana fifteen nuetu feet ieei wufruu long, and line
ones are very expen si V. A woman
often takes two or three weeks to braid
a ging i e hat, which sells for five or six
dollars and wears forever. 1 saw a hat
111 wiayaquu i WHICH ...i,; rb is ; K H1 said j.i to to i.,, DC W dill t|,
1260. It was made of a single straw of
fibre, as hue as Ihroad and as soft as silk,
and the woman who made It was engaged quinine
four months in the wo. It. The
has almost died out, and the forests of
Ecuador have been stripped of their
bark) antUhe trees hRVe thus been de
f r oyed In the meantime trees have
been introduced into the East Indies by
the British Government, wuere they
have been cultivated with great success,
thus securing a better quality i of quinine
^ ^ lrouble _ Q u ni ne, of Peruvian
bark, was discovered by the Jesuits in
: Ecuador in 1630, and was named'‘Chin
■ c h on a,” -V after the Countess of Chinchona,
th me wlIe 01 f lQe . y: vu .eroy.
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As if by magic ones pains vanish if he
be. ft sufb lor lrom rheumatism or neural
' „j a ani j applies St Jacobs OH, the pain
ban :„ b „..
For Coughs and Folds Fed Star Cough
Cure is a , afe, pleasant, sure remedy.
Two girls met three other girls in a
Boston street and all kissed. How many
kisses were exchanged ?
Precioun Stones and Precious Metnl#.
The teacher asked his class to tell him the
names of the precious answered stones. bright boy. As
“Brimstone,” of one precious the
this was not one the stones
teacher was thinking of, the boy was sent to the
tail end of the class.
“Young man,” said the pedagogue, address¬
ing himself to the n xt lad in turn, “now teli
me the name of the most precious stone you
know of V”
“Grindstone,” replied the boy, whose father
is a well-known carpenter. The boys laughed,
but the teacher was cross, and whacked the
poor fellow ever the shoulders.
Whatever we may think of the boy with the
brimstone, he who thought the grindstone :
precious was not far out of the way. It is noi ’
only the looks of an article, but its actual worth. \
that m Slits it valuable.
Gold is popuariy considered the best known
of the precious metals, and yet there is a plain
looking inetai vastly which for certain very important gold. Its
purposes is more precious than
money valueis only a few cents a pound, while
that Tliat of gold is about sixteen dollars an ounce.
plain looking metal is IhoX.
Every medical man knows that there is iron
In , the b.ood, and that there must be a certain
Proportion of that precious metal, or else the
Wood is thin and poor, and its owner is pale
»hd weak and languid,amiI subject to the at
Jack of every <lis. a-« in the catalogue. Now.
how to get it there, is the question. Well, it
was a long, long while after medical science
discovered the existenc i arid the need of iron
j 11 blood, that chemical science found out
how to make a preparation which would carry
it into the circulation in such a way as to do
good and to do no mischief. Many were the |
Attempts, and much was the mischief that attained, foi
At last complete produced success was which the
i-nd the preparation was w
wor.ds most popular medicine.
Brown s Iron Bitters.
It is pleasant to follow up the work of such a
beneficent , compoundas this Brown s Iron Bit
ter ” an< l 8 ee 18 doing in enriching the I
, blood of the , people, and driving out disease.
Wi ‘b thi8 inteut , one of »! lr correspondents re
cently of went on a tour of .Memphis, inquiry leiiu. among some
the best citizens of
He visited the store of M ssrs. Berry, Jack
A Co., on Mam street. J ins house is one of
|J Mr.W.H- e largest Berry, m the tlie wholesale head of clothing the house, business. thm,
replied to “Both an inquiry wife as to a matter of personal suffer
health. iny and myself were
mg from deb^ty We were ran down by the
effects of the hot weather, which in We this found cli
mate is sometimes very prostrating.
great comfort and relief m the use of Browns ,
Iron Enters. There is something very umg
ora fi n & 111 this _ preparation of iron. It coniers
«uch strength an I have never received from
an T other medicine. I regard this Bitters as a
. I high
very superior tome. have heard it very |
>7 spoken of among our people, and I am glad ;
to know that it is m as general use as it is.
You are at liberty to say that I heartily en
Messr“ .fohnMHdl h(1 A^toV.Xl^deal- to ... 8for , of
- Hill, 338 Main street. to '.‘Two years 1 ago,” had said tvplnud Mr
in answer an inquiry, severe J,
-tarrhal fever, a very atl.ck it oh
st lnat ” 8 " ‘ protracted. and after It reduced doctors me to a done state
of . great weakness were
wldl ia e, I lelt as if there was not much left of
me ; I needed a tonic, which no ordinary pre
scription seemed able to give me. And as you
mi 5 *uppo»e, I tried quite a variety of mix
tores. After going through the list, I came to
Bromi 8 { ron lhtters, which seemed to possess
a restorative nowhr which I had not met with
in anything marked else. effect; Hie first bottle which produced 1 continu'd or,
me a after
usto g 1 I a ? d t,,,,k a< ',T. ,a! lK,tt ‘ eR m " re ’ At ttr f
gt^uallv, , then rapully, my strength returnee., .
most and / excellent a »i now tonic. perfectly well, thank, to tins
b ! 8 a fa< ; that . r ” ,ui< '’ 8
? el1 Cllratlve 'P«*ie* of
^Miss ix’™ Bessie H w 'wli; tedlis, u-or Willudon, i ^ S r (.., says:
1 bad chilis and tevers for a long time and
ouf physician said I needed something to keep
Bt,e ” g ‘ h “P’ ani1 advi8e ‘' br “ v, ' 8 ln ’ n lin '
" ”• wh ‘ oh I ^, M ’ k and „
„ says: “I
“"t ottor"^’Uinteof '
n ‘ ed >y 8 1 6 -
-
Before legislators attack newspan -r men
breastplates. lliey had better lay in a supply of sheet-iron
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Yonr Frlcnitt will Never Tell Y«n,
hut perhaps somebody, who isn’t your friend,
will, that your presence is rendered offensive
by the foul, fetid smell ot your breath, fiv
erv word you titter, though it bo the very
echo of wisdom and poetry, disgusts your
hearers, and your laugh is producti ve of any
thing but mirth to them. It is a duty you
owe, not only to yourself. Put to society, to
remove this cause of offense. Dr. Sage’s
Catarrh Remedy will heal the diseased mu
cous membrane, will bring relief to yourself
*nd other*. Do not hesitate to employ it.
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The Jersey cow is fast losing her good char
acter at the hands of the milkman anil the
pump,
xoung or middle .,,, aged men. suffering from
, ? 8rT l ls ‘ ! •'' an d kindred weaknesses,
Jhould j send j ten cents in stamps for large
“.eatise Dispensary giving Medical successful treatment. World’s
A«sociation.Ruffalo.N. Y.
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Mensmas'r Pepwwieed beef towic, the nutr?- onlv
preparation W, of beef containing its entire
force properties. It contains blood-making
invaluable generating for and life-sustaining properties
prostration, and indigestion, all fotWof dvsperaia, gSTral iVervous
al "‘k ln /II enfeebled condition,, debilitr
result of exhaustion, whether th.
nervous prostration, over
"ork or acute disease, particularly if resulting
from pulmonary complaints. Casw'eil, Hazard A
Co., Propn etors, New York, Bold b y druggists.
“ What are little boys made of, mam
ma 7” asked a Brooklyn toddler. “ Lust.
my child.’’ “Dust, mamma?” “ Yes,
darling. ” “ Well, I gness that’s what
makes ’em like to muss in the ash bar
rels so much. Aint it, mamma T”
By a long course of mental discipline
a man may be able after a while to keep
his temper under all circumstances, but
nothing hang in philosophy can help him to
on to an umbrella.
The Epidemic of Crime.
Whence comes this epidemic of suicides and
murders! Kecent discussions have_ named
several causes. Hon. C. H. Reeve,Of Indiana.
cba it to infidel teachings—holding that
hopelessness of a future state cripples forti
tude for bearing life’s ilia Another declares
suffering from the universal business depres
don the cause. A third writer attributes it
to Increasing insanity, a phys man thinks
much of the tendency is inherited, while tem
perance a(lv ocates lay the responsibility upon
strong drink.
Free thinkers have committed suicide, biit
so have orthodox churehmeu. Financial
straits have beset many, but the wealthy
have also taken their life.
insanity and dissipation have preceded
suicides and family murders. almost such
One feat-re common to every
crime challenges attention Well nigh every
report of suicide and family murder mentions
ihe perpetraior as having for seine time
ten suMect to melancholy.” Whence comes
this? All recognized medical authorities toll
us that the Are which consumes the brain is
Without
pnr6 blood, and pure blood is never known
when the liver and kidneys are out of order.
Ruder such circumstances, ft iweventive
authorities in the laud, and it is Dio especially Lewis.
commended by the celebrated Dr.
-Rochester Democrat.
Arizona has had no rain since December.
An Item of Interest.-“B eeson’s Aromatie
Alum Sulphur Soap prevents, cures anil heals
skin d'seases, softens and beautifies face and
hands 25e. by Druggists or by mail. Address
Wm. Dreydo ppcl, I hiladolphia, 1 a .
0ver fifty musical compositions, marches and
songs have been put on the market since G»n
eral Grant b death,
“One Nall Ilrlves Out Another,”
in is a French saying that finds exemplification itself
the way one disease will substitute
for another and graver one, in very many
cases. Liver disease, for instance, will soon
induce blood disorders, throat ailments, skin
affections and eventually, because of impov¬
erished blood, consumption itself, unless, in¬
deed, it be treated in its incipicncy and early
progress by Dr. Pierce’s “ Golden Medical
Discovery ” which acts as a specific in these
ailments, accomplishing a rapid the cure great by its
powerful alterative action upon or¬
gans of the body.
If we can’t inherit a good name, at leaat v?c
can do our best to leave one.
Important.
When you Tieit or leave New Vork oity, save bagC***,
expressive and carriage hire, and stop at the Grand
Union Hotel, opposite Grand Central depot.
600 elegant rooms, fitted up at a cost of one million
dollars, $1 and upward per day. European plan. Ele¬
vator. Kestaurant supplied with the best. Horse cars,
stages and elevated railroads to all depots. Families
can live better lor legs money at the Grand f Ton
IloteJ than at anv other first-class hotel in the city.
It. will cost ¥500,000,000 to complete the
Panama canal.
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mail 10c. , Onego, N, Y,
H. Dudley Coleman,
Engines, Boiler* anil Machinery,
Representing goods I have seven makers of steam unexccU engines,
whose in stock, with
^ “a&Sshop uuuiy ami inaenme Rliop to'Z in tins
tndneements to purchaser..
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No. 9 Perdido 8t., New Orleans, La.
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young men. in fact alt classes, oan procure
PROFITABLE EMPLOY MENT, during a 11 or
any ffOH.VSON part of their CO., time, 1013 by addressing B. W.
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on MOST POPULAR and FAST SELLXNQ
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Cureilo remedies , and has ^iven
’Guaranteed 1 T ro 5 days’ Uoa, u miversal sattfifac
act to MURPH BROS.,
cauae Stricture. Y
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wr d only by tha has won the favor of
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So re?e I i r .“1. E o! u -
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WITH SOLID FRENCH BURR STONES,
Invented in 1850, continued and repeated im¬
provements since then keep them in the lead of
all competition. Others have tried to copy
after them and sell the imitations on the repu¬
tation of the COLEMAN CORN MILL, the
Maid of the South.” Send for prices.
H. DUDLEY COLEMAN,
No. 9 Perdido SL Nrw Ohi.exur, La.
r o' R. U. AWARE
+ THAT
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red tin tag, that Lorlllard’f
■affinecut; >villard’s that Lorfli&rd’*
tho bea t an< Hnuffs art
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on
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Questions Answered j \ j j
Ask the most eminent , physician
j Of any school, what is the best thing l n th«
world for allay all ing all irritation of the nerv^
and giving curipK natural, forms childlike of nervous refreshing complaint^
sbe ’
always? '
And they Will tell you unhesitatingly
-Some form of Hops ! ! F
CHAPTER I.
" A k any * or a n 0 f the most eminent MT nh„
8 , a ,, s;
■< What is the only remedy that kidney^a can b« ,
, i0(1 to cure al i diseases of the
urinary of Bright’s disease, diabet«
retBllti on, or inability to retain urine, and ali
the ' diseases and ailmentB peculiar to Uv w °
“ And they will tell you explicitly and ^
i p hatically “ Buchu ! !!
As5( the same the physicians reliable
“ Wlittt is most and surest our.
, ton“indigestion, uv-er iliapasen biliousness,Malaria, or dvsrreosia f^?
’ & ,i they will tell
an you
Mandrake I or Dandelion !!!
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w( rful a whictms nd mysterious varied . in its poweM,
fhjvbloped, -ill so health possibly operations
that no disease or cani evi st
or resist its powei-, and >et it.is
Harmless tor the most trad woman, weak,
or —* use.
A
*• Patients”
“ Almost fleatl or nearly dying”
For years, and given up by physicians, of
Bright's and other kidney diseases, liver com
plaints, severe coughs, called consumption,
have been cured.
Wo iien (June nearly neuralgia, crazy ! / / / /
From agony of nervousness
wakefulness, and various diseases peculiar to
women. of shap» from
People u.-iwr. out oxerutia
ting pangs of suffering rheumati from an. scrofula. inflammatory sud
chronic, or
Erysipelas! “Saltrheum, blood poisoning, ily.jivi.sia,
indigestion, and, in fact, almost all diseases
frail”
Nature is heir to
Have been cured by Hop Bitters, proof of
which ran lie found in every neighborhood in
the known world.
"None genuine label.--Shun without $yn)jic>-«/ gj.^
Hops on the white all the vile,
poisonous stuff with ‘‘Hop” or “Hops” in their
name.
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■ ■ Freckles, Ked Nose, Acne, Bl’k
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A Clear Skin
is only a part of beauty;
but it is a part. Every lady
may have it; at least, what
looks Balm both like it. Magnolia and
freshens
beautifies.