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haig.em Georgia
pl KVt.RY THVRSVAY.
I'HOltaUlToß*
They here at last invented something
fcew. albeit very gni>-~>nir. in the way of
• <-ir< u- performance in Europe. I* U P
pear that the i*t<-t freak of female < ir' ox
rider there i« to hold a living python
outatretehed in their hand* aa they awing
around the -awdnat. Front seat* are not
at a premium.
The 'log* are having a hard time of it
If they should rise in their might, all get
mid and atta' k their present enemy,
man. the chance* would lie in their favor
at flrat. A well known dog fancier in
New York sent to a pajarr the following
statist i'* concerning the number of < a
ninea in and mar the metropolis: New
York city, 800,000; Brooklyn, 150,000;
Long Island City and Bliaaville, 10.000;
WeaUheater county, 50,000; Hole,ken
and suburbs. 15,000; Jersey City and
auburni, 15,000; Newark and suburb*,
150,000, Staten Island, 20.000.
Aged and able old horaes are the result
of human rare and usage. Thia is ex
cnpliflcd from an English amin en- fol
low*: “A gentleman bad three horses,
which severally <li«-«l in hia possession at
the age* of 35, 37 and 39 year*. Ihe
oldest was in a carriage the very day ho
died, strong and vigorous, but wax car
tied off by a spusni'slii colic to which he
wax subject. A horse in use at a riding
school in Woolwich lived to le- 40 years
old, and a barge horse of an English
navigation company is declared to liuvo
been in hi* 02d year when he died."
The Ht. Louis Globe Ik inirrat lihh Iwcn
compiling tom* interesting figures con
earning the num tier of prisoners in the
country now serving terms for embezzle
mrnt or forgery. Th<•«*<• Mtntistics reveal
the Homrwlmt surprising fact that New
York prisons contain only seven. Ohio,
on the other hand, has sixty -two; Kansas,
forty four; Indiana, thirty . Massachusetts,
twenty-six, aud New .Jersey, eighteen.
The natural pride that a New Yorker
should take in su< h a condition of affairs
is rudely shoikifl by the Troy Time*,
which snys that New York ‘•financiers’*
are not punished; they go to Canada.
The average man knows, perhaps, a
•core of inm'cts familiarly by name ; he
has more or less knowledge, perhaps, of
a hundred, and he sees in thest* a won
derful variety of forms and colors. But
the resources of nature are vastly greater
than any one realizes who has not made
a «|H*cial study of some branch of natural
history. Think of Dr. Kiley’s collection
of North American insects, which is said
to contain 20,000 species, reprtn nted by
more than 115,000 pinned siMcimcns, and
others preserved in alcohol or by other
methods. Ht* has given this collection
to the National museum, where all who
care to do so may study the fruits of hi*
Ul»or.
A traveler in New Mexico gives a glow
fag d escription of the country through
which a new road passes, and tells of the
Seven Cities of the Chico valley w hat al
most reads like the romantic explorations
of the meml»crs of the Smithsonian In
stitute. lb* says that there arc to dav in
that valley ruins of large buildings five
stories high, and ftnmcof them in such an
excellent state of preservation that the ma
sonry ami plastering an* lotiking as new
ami frefah as though done but a few years
instead of centuries ago. These build
ings are popularly sup|x>sed to be of
Aztec origin, but, strange to say, there
b at present no historical account of
them or of their builders.
Aa to the silver Mediling and golden
wedding most of us know about those
anniversaries, but here now is something
new in the same pleasant line -a bit
about a crown-diamond wedding. The
crown-diamond anniversary is the sixty
fifth, and such an anniversary was ob
served a short time ago at Maebuell, in
the Island of Alsen, Having completed
their sixty fifth year of wedlock, Claus
JacolMcn and his venerable s]a>use were
solemnly bleaaed by the parson of their
]«arish. and went for the fifth time in
their long wedded life through the form
of mutual troth plighting More the altar
at which they had for the first time been
united before the Imttle of Waterloo was
fought. The united age of the couple is
178 years.
Some interesting facta concerning the
relative vitality of males and females are
shown in the forty sixth annual report of
the English register general. In each
1.000 living persons there ar. 457 mal. x
and MS females; but for every IM fe
males 103 .1 males were kirn. At even
age of life the death rate was lower in the
females, and the difference is greater in
early years. In both s. xe" a diminished
death rate is taking place This is more
marked in females than in males, at all
ages. The improvement is especially
noticeable in women upto forte-five, and
in men to thirty five. The mean expec
tation of life of a male at birth is 41.35,
and of a female 44 «2 years. The annual
expectation of illness is, counted by days
nearly the same in both texes.
! “Cranmrr. of Colorado,' a* ho M
popularly called, i* probably the most
extensive cattle-raiser in th'- world. Hi*
rattle are all branded with three circles,
the three ’ irrle brand he calls it. Once
he wax (it a cattle convention, and while
I conversing with a party of friends one
of them happened to mention the nam<
!of Shakespeare. “Sliak<‘«]>eare?” ob
served Cranmer, “where have 1 heard
that name Morel What kind of u
i brand does he unc on hi* cattle?
The question of insanity and its greater
W less prevalence to-day as compared
with former times, appears to be far from
settlement. Th'- fact that cases which
were considered hopeless fifty year* ago
are now often cured means that person*
who would have died under the treat
ment then without the knowledge ever
la-coming general that their complaints
were of the brain rather than the l>ody
j are now added to the table of statistic* as
j lunatics. The great increase in the num
; Ist and perfection of asylnms
also swells the number of the
recorded insane and aids in com
plicating any attempt to judge
' whether the brain troubles are really, as
it is often asserted, on the increase
among civiliaed nations.
B|*-aking of how ocean steamship
companies are annually defrauded, an
officer of one of them says in an inter
view : ‘ Every person who ha* ever
crossed the Atlantic has noticed several
elegantly attired gentlemen who nt times
would wander haughtily among the
steerage passengers, condescend to con
verse with the intermediate |K‘ople, and
on fine days invariably promenade the
hurricane deck. No one knew who they
were; no one had ever seen them eat
anything, and the passengers, one and
all, discussed the mystery of ‘where those
fellers hung it out every night ! ’ M ell,
these same gentlemen obtain nil this
freedom and luxury by simply buying a
steerage t icket and boarding during the
: voyage in cither the carpenter a or
I boatswain's room.”
The telephone has liecome an indis
pensable means of communication between
I the civilized countries of the old and new
world, and to show the use each country
is making of the invention the following
table is given:
(lennany 13,000
England, over 12.000
France, alamt 10,000
Italy 7,000
Sweden 11,000
Switzerland 5,000
S|xiin, estilnabsl 1,100
Holland 4,000
Belgium 5,000
Ruwia 3,000
Austro-Hungary 4.500
Byway of comparison it may be of in
terest to add that the number of tele
phones now in use in the United States
is estimated at 250,000.
The lowa courts have made an import
ant decision regarding the civil rights of
; colored people. A negro who was re
fused admission to a place of amusement
because of his color appealed to the law,
when the circuit court held that it did
not appear from the averments that
plaintiff had any legal right to enter the
place of amusement. The supreme court
affirms this ruling and says: “The act
complained of by the plaintiff was the
withdrawal by the defendants, as to him.
of the offer which they had made to ad
mit him, or to contract with him for ad
mission. They had the right to do this,
I as to him or any other member of the
public. This right is not bast'd upon th 1 '
fact that he belongs to a particular race,
but arises from the consideration that
neither he nor any other person could de
mand as a right under the law that the
privilege of entering the plate be accord
ed to him."
Beaching Great Bepths.
It has been found difficult to get cor
rect soundings of the Atlantic. A mid
shipman of the navy overcame the diffi
culty, and shot weighing thirty pounds
carries down the line. A hole is lx,red
through the sinker, through which a rod
of iron is passed, moving easily back and
forth. In the end of the bar a cup is dug
out and the inside coated with lard. The
; bar is made fast to the line and a sling
holds the shot on When the bar which
extends Mow the ball touches the earth,
the sling unhooks and the shot slide's off.
Tin 1 lard in the end of the* Imr holds sonic
of the sand, or whatever may be on the
bottom, and a drop shuts over the cup to
keep tlw water frxmi washing the sand
e>ut. When the grounel is reached a
shex'k is felt as if an electric current bail
passexl through the line.— lndtpendmt.
Agrt'eably Nettled.
Together in the gloaming they stooei, the lov
ing pair,
A charming Boston school ma'am ami a s outh
of stxvpisli air
He> whis|x<rexl ''lXsarest maiden, I love you
as my life.
Ami tusk you. as I've askeel before, will you
become mv wifef’
‘"lhear John." the- maieien answered, I love
yexi. it is true.
But ere- I answer, there's a question I wenild
JHlt tee you:
Are yon willing 1 shMl rule the house- when
I lee*e-cme vour wife'
If net. them. John, ajxu-t must lie my path
and yvurs m life-.
FUr. being a disciple of the Lucy Blackwell
whool.
I in tirmly of . pi mon that tlw woman ought
to rule."
John laugt-.0l ami sill. "Just as vou will; I
know you won’t he cress;
So long as you become mv wife I can- not
whe's the boss."
" Tis well." the- nuuden whispered, “I know
we will not quarrel.
Though I insist on wearing the bifurcates! am
parel."
I —Boston Courier.
' DR TALMAGE'S SERMON.
COSTUME AND MORALS.
•
ftev Dr Talmage cboao for his sixth dis
ronrse in the series upon the "Marriage
Ring the theme, “Costume and Moral*.
The text was "Moreover the Lord said. Be
■ aiu«e the daughter* of Zion are haughty and
I walk with stretched-forth necks ami wanton
eyes, walking an i mincing as they go, nnd
making a tinkling with their feet, in that day
the lord will take away the bravery of then
tinkling ornaments al out their feet, and their
<-auls and their round tires like the moon,
i th<- chains, and the lira—lets, and the mufflers,
the rings, and nose jewels, the changeable
uits of apparel, and the mantles, and the
v. unples, ami the crisping pins, the glasses,
aud the tine linen, and the hoods, and the
| veils.”— Isaiah ill., 16, 18, 19, 21, 22. The
pastor said:
This is a Jerusalem fashion plate. It putt
us back 2,5'J'J years and seta us down in an
am-ient city. The processions of poople are
moving up and down the streets. The season
is at the height of the fashion. While sen
sible men and women pass along without at
tracting our attention on those streets, my
text calls attention to the daughters of Jerusa
lem who go leaning far forward, leaning very
far forward, somir h forward thatit is unnat
ural teetering, wobbling, wriggling, flirting,
or as my text says, "Walk with stretched forth
necks and mincing as they go.” In an
astounding style they have arranged their
bonnets and their veils and their entire ap
parel, and they are going through th'- street*
taking more of the pavement than they are
entitled to sw< eping along with skirts which
my text descriliea as “round tires like the
moon." See! that is a princess. Look! that
is a Damascus sword-maker. Look!
that Lx a Syrian merchant The
jingling of the chains, the flashing of the
heedlian is and thee.xibitionsof the universal
swagger attract tlie attention of the prophet
Isaiah and he brings his camera to bear upon
the scene and takas a picture for all
Where is that scenes Vanished. Where are
those gay streets? Vermin covered popula
tion jiass through them. Where are the hands,
the necks, the foreheads, the shoulders, the
plate that sported all that magnificence’
Ashes! Ashes! That we shoubl all be clad
is proved by the opening of the first ward
robe in Paradise with its apparel of dark
green. That we should all be beautifully
and gracefully appareled so far as our means
may allow is proved by the fact that
God never made a wave but He gilded it, or
a tree but He garlanded it with blossoms, or
a sky but He studded it with stars, or allowed
even the smoke of a furnace to ascend except
it lie scrolled, and arched, and turreted, smd
tower<sl and domed, and pillared in outline
of indescrilnbl ■ gracefulness. When I see the
apple orchard m the springtime and the
autumnal pageantry of tne forest, I come to
the conclusion that if nature ever does join
the church, while she may boa Quaker in
the silence of her worship, she will never be
a Quaker in the style of her dress. Why
the notches on a fern leaf? Why the
stamen in a water lily! Why when
the day departs does it leave the folding
doors wide open so long when they might io
quickly closed I On a summer morning I have
seen an army of a million spears each
adorned with a diamond of the first water. I
mean the grass with the dew on it. When the
prodigal got back his father not only put a
coat on his back, but put jewelry on his
hand. Christ wore a beard. Paul, the bachelor
apostle, affected with no sentimentality, ad
mired the arrangement of a woman’s hair
when he said, “If she wears long hair it is a
?;lory unto her.” There shall as certainly be
ashion in heaven as on earth, only a dif
ferent style of fashion. It will decide the
color o." the dress, all the populatio i in that
land w earing white. I say these things as a
background to my sermon so that you may
know that 1 have no prim, precise, prudish
or cast-iron theories in regard to human ap
pa el; that the fact is that the goddess of
la bion has lift'd a throne, and at the sound
ing oi the timbrels we are all expected to
bow down and worship. There are thousands
of victims smoking on the altar in her
temple. Four people in the organ loft stand
while there drizzles down some cold music
that freezes on the ears of worshipers. I have
noticed that there are as many masculine
victims as femenine. Men sometimes
make easy tirade against woman as
though she were the chief worshiper at the
shrine, ami I have no doubt that in the more
conspicuous parts of the pews some have al
ready turned and looked at the more retired
parts iif the jiews. a prophecy of a generous
distribution of the sermon to others. But
what I sav to day shall be as appropriate for
one end of the pew as for the other. Men are
as much thedisciples of fashion as are women,
althouugh they may sacrifice on a different
|»rt of the altar. It is the wine suppers of
the clubhouse, or the yachting expeditions,
or the cigars. That is their fashion. Om\hun
dred million dollars’ worth of tobacco
smoked and chewed up by the men in Ameri
ica every vear. That is their sash-
ion. In England a man was left
(750,000 as a fortune. He went all through
it He sent his agent to all parts of the
world to gather up the rarest luxuries for his
palate and sometimes he had a dish that
would cost $::oo or S4OO. After a while he
Eot down to his last guinea, and with that he
ought a woodcock, had it well dressed and
cooked, sat down and ate it, gave two hours
to digestion, then walked out on Westminis
ter bridge, leaped into the water and died,
doing on a large scale what you have seen
people do on a small scale. Men are asjmich
the victims of fashion as are women. It is not
through any superiority of simplicity they do
not have the same attire. Such appendages
vould lie a blockade of all business. What
would the long sashes and the trails three or
our yards long do on the stock market! But
there are men who sacrifice themselves in
these directions, and someof them have boots
so tight they cannot walk in the paths of
righteousness, and others buy anparel they
never pay for, or go through the str ets great
stripes of color, animated ckeckboards. Isay
these things liecause I want to show you that
1 am impartial m the discussion, and that the
sexes according to the language of the surro
gate’s office shall “share and share alike.”
If God will help me. I mean this morning to
set b. tere you wliat are the evils of improper
dress, and also of the excessive discipleship
of fashion. I state what the most of you
know to lie true when I declare that much
of the womanly attire seen in society to-day
is the cause of the temporal and eternal dam
natiou of a multitude of men. There is a
shamelessness in what is called high life that
calls for most potent protect. In some di
rections there seems to be a strife to
see how near they can go to
the edge of indecency without falling
over The tide of masculine dissoluteness
will never be stopped until much of the bold
ness of womanly attire ceases aud there be
complete reformation in manv directions. I
am in full sympathy with that officer of the
law who in Philadelphia last winter, or win
ter before last, at a levee went up to a so
called lady of S]iarse and incompetent apparel
and told her she must either leave the house
or habilitate herself immediately. It is high
time for the good women and’ ths sensible
women to either protest in behalf of the dig
nity of their sex, and if the women of the
houA'hold do not understand the terrible
extreme to which this evil has gone,
then let husbands implead their wives and
fathers prohibit their daughters. The evil is
terrific and overshadowing. I charge much
of this evil ujxm the American stage As I
do not go to theaters I am obliged to take the
eviden-e of actors and managers, men every
where known for ther genius, such men as
John Gilbert. Mr A. M Palmer. Mr. Daniel
E. Bandmann. who have recently declared
and within ten days, that the evil’of undress
is blasting the theater: that institution which
many oonsider a school of morals, the supe
rior ,>ithe church aud the forerunner of the
milletmium Mr Palmer says:
“The bulk of the performances on the
stage is degrading aud pernicious. The man
agers strive to come just as near the line as
®ible without flagrantly breaking the law.
There never have been costumes worn on the
j stage of this city, either in a theatre, hall
or dive, so improper as those that clothe some
of the chorus in recent comic opera produo-
U And he goes on to say, in regard to female
“It'S not a question of whether they can
sing, but just how little they will consent to
wear ”
Mr. Bandmann, who has been twenty-nine
years on the stage and appeared before all
nationalities, says:
“I unhesitatingly state that the tastes of
the theatre-going people of America to-day
f. of a coarse anil vulgar nature. The Hindoo
would turn with disgust at such exhibitions
which are sought after and applauded on the
stag'- of this country. Our shop windows are
full of and the walls covered with show
cards awl posters w hich should Is- a disgrace
to an enlightened country and an insult to
the eys of a cultured c< mmunity. ”
Mr. Gilbert says: “Such exhibition is a
disastrous one to the morals of the commune
tv. Are these proper pictures to put out for
the public to look at? to say nothing of the
propriety of females appeanng in public in
dress like that It is shameful.
I am Obliged to take the testimony of these
actors and managers and friends of the then
tr„—testimony confirmed by the board fences
anil the show windows presenting pictures
snowing the way the play actresses
suppose those are accurate pictures. It they
are not they are swindles, getting people into
the theatres with the promise of spectacular
nudity that they do not perform. If those pic
tures are accurate they show the damnable cos
tumes of play actresses. If they are false
pictures then thev swindle the pub.i". . ow,
mv friends, all this familiarizes the public
mind to improper apparel. Your common
sense tells vou that. All that depresses pub
lic conscience as to what is allowable
and as to what is right. The parlor and the
drawing-room are to-day running a race
with the theatre and the opera bouffe. and
thex’ are nearly neck and neck in the race,
and though the parlor and drawing-roonr
may be a little behind now, thev are
catching up very fast, and the probability is
that by the time they pass the stand they
will be nearly even—the opera bouffeand the
parlor—that one-half of jiandemonmm will
<-lap their hands liecause the parlor is
ahead, and the other half of pandemonium
will clap their hands because opera bouffe is
ahead. I charge you in the name of God. oh,
Christ an woman, neither by style of dress
nor ail justment of your apparel a'lmimster to
this awful evil. Show me the fashion plates
of any city from now back to the time of
Louis XVI. of France, or Henry VIIL of
England, and I will tell you what were
the morals of that age, or that year.
There is no exception to the
rule. Modest apparel the sign of good society
Immodest apparel the sign of a contaminated
and depravea society. But my friends 1
not only reprehend the boldness of fashiona
ble indecency, against which pulpit and
platform and printing press ought to hurl
their red-hot anathemas, but I also reprehend
costliness of costume beyond cur means.
When I say that you cannot dictate to me
and I ennnot dictate to you, fo r I do not
know what your means ar?.. Bi tth is dress
ing beyond one’s means is an evil illimitable
and ghastly. Arnold attempted to S?ll this
country in the time of the Revolution. What
for* To get money for his home war irobe.
The attemnt to keep showy wardrobe and
great establishment is taking many more
burinees manto ruin than all other cause
combined. Go into the history of the pa.'
fifteen wars anil see how many in this way
have been led to the watering of stock, or as
bank president, to perjure them-elvei about
assets, and business men in various depart
ments conspicuous, going down in their at
tempt to keep up great home establishments
and splendid wardrobe. Why should we go to
those cases when you and I know scores
of men and s<'oresof women, who are at their
wits end from January to December in the
attempt to keep up as great establishments
neighborsand as splendid wardrobes.
Our politicians at Washington may theorize
until the<*xpiration of their official terms
about the best way of bettering the finances
of the country; but I tell you plainly that
until we, the people of America, learn to put
on our heads and backs and hands and feet
no more than we can pay for, the evil
will go on. There are young
men in banks and stores on
limited salaries, in this attempt to keep up a
great wardrobe, almost dead in the effort to
provide the diamonds and the cashmeres and
the apparel far beyond their capacity to fur
nish, and they have nothing left except that
which they spend for their cigars and their
wine suppers, and they die before their time,
and they want us ministers of the gospel to
come and preach about them, as though they
were the victims of early piety. High-toned
funerals they will have, with silver handles
at the side gloriously polished, and afterward
it will be found out that even the undertaker
has been chealed out of his legitimate
e.xnmses. Do not send for me to preach
such a man’s funeral sermon, for I will blurt
out the whole truth and tell that he was
strangled to death by his wife’s ribbons. It
is deplorable—this nation Is being dresswl to
death. You are not surprised that a public
building in New York cost millions of dollars
more than it ought to have cost xvhen you
find out that the man who gave out the con
tracts paid ss,<rio for his daughter’s wedding
dress. I have been told that for years gone by
cashmeres of SI,OOO worth have been no rar
ity on Fulton street, or Broadway. New York.
I have had it from good authority that
there are s,OOO women in these two cities who
expend on personal array $2,000 a year each.
What are men to do in order to provide such
xvardrobe beyond their means? There is only
one thing they can do. Steal! That is the
only respectable thing they can do! Tens of
thousands of business establishments during
the past twenty years have foundered on the
wardrobe. Temptation comes in about this
way: A man naturally thinks more of his
own family than of anybody else’s family,
and when they spend the whole evening de
scribing the superior array of the family
across the street—jxiople they cannot liear to
look at—the father and the’ husband is put
back upon his pride of family and upon his
gallantry, and while he does not actually
tran-late his feelings into plain language he
goes into extortion and i.-sung of false stock,
and skilful penmanship in the signing of other
men s names at the foot of promissory notes,
until they all go down together—the husband
to the penitentiary, the wife to the sewing
machine and the children to be taken
care of by those who are called
the “poor relations.” Oh, for some
Shakespeare to write the tragedy of
human clothes. Act the first of the tragedy-
Plain but beautiful home. Enter the newly
married couple. Enter all simplicity of man
ner and behavior. Enter as much happiness
as ever enters a home. Act the second: Dis
content with circumstances, end enter jeal
ousy, enter envy. Enter desire for display.
Act the third: Enlargement of expenses.
Enter queenly dressmakers. Enter French
milliners. Enter all kinds of costlv expendi
tures. Act the fourth: Tip top of society.
Enter the princes and princesses of New
York and Brooklyn life. Enter all magnifi
cence of plate and equipage. Act the fifth ■
Winding up of the whole affair. Enter the
assignee. Enter the sheriff. Enter
the creditors. Enter humiliation.
Enter the wrath of God, and enter the con
tempt of society, and enter Death. Drop the
silken curtain on the stage. The farce is
ended and the lights are out. Will you for
give me if I put in tersest shape the truth
that there are thousands of men in America
who must forge, and lie, and perjure, and
swindle to pay for their wives’ dresses ! I
will say it, whether you forgive me or not
Excessive discipleship of costume and
worship of the world are the foes of
Christian beneficence. and I tell
you what you know before that the simple
fact is men and women put so much money
on their houses and their stables and their
equipage and their dress that thev have no
money left for making of the world better or
alleviating human suffering. The Christian
man cracking the back of his Palais Roval
glove enclosing his hand tight enough to put
a pennvinthepoorbox. V\ omen at the story
of the Hottentots weening copious tears into
pocket handkerchiefs and putting two
cents under the dollar bills so far that no one
£ UO '"J > V 1 was « gold Piece. One
hundred dollars for incense to the goddess of
fashion. Two cents for God. Is not the Lord
generous to give us ninety- cento out
“ .t-iniv as it ever was-the timing
i nineto‘^nte e ?ut n os a doUar' 1 ten
x
cents for ourselves and one cent for God. I
believe that w the reason a. great many men
have failed in busmesa When t t^ 3 L h
prosperity they gave nothing to God
ISr they did not give the tenth.
After a while God said: That
man has declined to let me have the tenth
part of a dollar, while I gave him the ninety
Now, I will take the whole dollar and
I will give it to the man or woman who will
be honest With me.” I declare'tod»y that
one of the greatest evils abroad is the fact
that men and women have nothing to give to
God because they bestow so much upon per
sonal adornment and sacrifice so many things
to their own appetites.
I charge upon this evil also much of the
destruction of public service. In many of the
churches people go just as they go to the
races to see which will come out ahead,
the o ening parts of many services taken
in the di» u»i<>n atout wardrolie. wondering
where that man got his cravat, «>d *ffiat
store that woman patronizes Men and
women dying, yet before three worlds
strutting like peacocks, all absorbed in them
selves, taking up the hymn book and
my soul, and stretch thy wings,
Thy better portion trace,
Rii toward Heaven, thv native place.
I cry out in the words of the Episcopal
prayerbook: “Good Lord, deliver us ”
More than that, this evil belit
tied the intellect. ou know that in
for than thinking on questions of cos
tume or of worldly preferment? I haveseen
men on the street whose elaboration of ap
parel implied two hours’ preparation After
uinan has gone through that process for sev
eral years, which one of McAllister’s magni
fying glasses will lie powerful enough to dis
cover his character with the naked eye.
(’an vou imagine anything more pe
littling for a woman than to have her mind
constantly on questions of costume.
they all end in idiocy. I have seen men at
summer watering places . m thr
discipleship of fashion untill they were hollow
of ckest and meagre of limb and sallow of
cheek and had no animation except when thev
flow across the room to pick up a lady’s fan
simpering along the corridors the very com
pliments they simpered twenty years ago.
But I have not touched the chief evil, it
keeps multitudes out of heaven. The nrst
thunder from Sinai declared: ‘Thou shalt
have no other gods before me, and
som** of you will have to decide between
the goddess of this world and the Christian s
God. Heaven he.s a great manv beautiful
seats, but not one for a devotee of this world-
That place is for those who thought more of
their souls than of their bodias. Why, if
some of you got there, with your extrava
gant fondness for the world, you would be
putting a French roof on the house of many
mansions,” and introducing the patterns of
Butterick’s Delineator. Give up this world,
or give up heaven. What would you do stand
ing oeside Lady Huntington,whose joy it was
tr build chapels for the poor i or beside that
•oman in Boston, who,in Faneuil Hall on New
fears Day fed 1.500 children of the street,and
then as a sort or doxology, at the close gave
each one a pair of shoes? or beside these
modern Dorcases who have consecrated their
needle to the Lord, eternal rewards coming
for every stitch they take? Oh, the stupen
dous wretchedness of these devotees of the
world. Why, you will always find some one
who has brighter array, or more palatal resi
dence, or lavender kid gloves of tighter fit.
You buy this and wear it, aud you
will be sorry you did not buy
something else and wear that. Then all
these frets will bring crows’ feet to your
temples before they should come, and when
{ou die you will have a miserable time.
have seen those sons and daughters of the
world expire, and I never saw one die well.
Their apparel was all put away, never to be
seen again. There they lay on the crumpled
pillow, all the trappings off, and just two
things bothered them. A wasted life and a
coming eternity. I tried to pacify them,
but they were so exhausted in the disciple
ship of the world that they could not ap
preciate the Gospel. When I knelt by
their side to pray they mumbled in
their regrets for the past,
saying: “Oh, God; oh. Go I; oh, God!” The
two ghastliest deathbeds on earth are, first,
the man who dies with delirium tremens.
Seeon lly, the woman who dies who has been
a disciple of fashion. Oh, my friends, in the
last great day we will have to give 411 ac
• count for what we wore as well as for the re
pentances with which our souls have been ex
j ercised. There we see coming up Beau Brum
; mel of the last century without his cloak, like
! which all England got a cloak, and without
his cane, like which all England got a cane,and
without his snuff-box, like which all Eng
land got a snuff-box—he, the fop of the age,
1 particular about everything but his m orals.
Aaron Burr, without those letters which he
showed with pride down to old age, proving
his early wicked gallantries.' And Absalom
without his hair, and Marchioness Pompador
' without her titles, and Mrs. Reynolds who
was the bell of Wall street when that was the
centre of fashion, without her fripperies of
vesture. And then they will go away in
great haggardness to eternal expatriation,
while among the queens of heavenly society
will lie Vashti; who wore a modest veil before
the bacchanals, and Hannah who annually
made a coat for Samuel at the temple, and
Grandmother Louis, the ancestress of
1 Timothy, who imitated her virtues, and
Mary, who gave Jesus Christ to the world,
1 and many of you.the wives and mothers ana
sisters and daughters of the Christian church,
who will through great tribulations enter
into the kingdom of God. Christ declared
who would make up the royal family of
heaven when he said: ‘ ‘Whosoever doth the
will of God the same is my brother and sister
and mother I”
She Wanted a Japanese Kiss.
There are two little Japanese boys,
i ibout five years old, at the Japanose
tillage in Madison Square Garden, New
York. They afford a great deal of amuse
ment for visitors, being very jauntily
■ dressed and weanrig wooden shoes. The
other day a little American miss of about
: their age was greatly struck by their
1 appearance and followed them about
\ -rherever they went. Her mother
called her several times, but she followed
• on with infatuation, and when close to
one of the little Japs she suddenly threw
her arms about his neck and endeavored
to plant an American kiss on his lips
: The horror-snick -n mother nearly faint
ed. A Japanese relative was about to
drag away the innocent victim, but was
spared the trouble as the little fellow
stoutly resisted the kissing and actually
pushed the pretty girl away. It is
doubtful which was the more exasper
ating to the mother, the kissing attempt
of her child or the refusal of the Jap
enese boy to submit to it. Her vexation
had to give way to the laughter of
mo*e who witnessed the scene.
Thb late Miss Katherine Bayard hsd
Oscar Wilde introduced to her when
that young man was in Washington.
It was in the afternoon, and two brilliant
social events were to occur that evening,
•‘"aid she: “Mr. Wilde, will you go to
reception to-night?” “ Well/’he replied,
“if 1 am not too much fatigued after my
lecture.’’ A thort pause followed, and
then he said: “Miss Bayard, of course
you will be at the reception?” “Well ”
came the answer, “if I am not too fa
tigued after your lecture.
BE KIND.
Oh, be kind to those who love youl
Grieve no human love away!
Twine it tenderly about you,
Let it bless you day by day,
Tho’ the sunlight now may dazzle,
Life has many a clouded sky;
Hoard your treasures of affection,
You will need them by and by.
Oh! be kind to those who love you!
Give them gladness while you may
Here to-day, to-morrow’s sunrise
May behold them pass away.
Lavish love on all around you;
Smiles and sunshine freely strew
And, like bread ujion the waters,
They will yet return to you.
—Lillie Sheldon, in Inter-Ocean
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
A smart boy—Just after a whipping.
Even the honest farmer will water his
stock.— Call.
Better an empty head than one with a
.told in it.— Life.
There is one thing that is always pretty
sound about a church, and that is the bell.
No man should complain about his lot
—unless it be a lot of old rubbish.— Hut
Springs Neu>».
A philosopher says that the best way
to avoid getting into debt is to die young.
—Boston Budget.
THIRTY-TWO DEGREES.
The way to school the small boy hatetli.
On learning, turns his back, and skateth.
—Life.
If a passion, like love, grows by what |
it feeds upon, there is no doubt the wish i
is fodder to the thought. —A«m> Orleans I
Picayune.
It costs |IO,OOO to convert a South Sea ;
cannibal to Christianity, and then he is
only worth |9 a week in a dime show.- |
Fall Biver Advance.
IN CANADA.
The firelight dances on the walls,
My heart throbs with love’s elation,
When like a cat my darling squalls—
“ Ouch! Dear, don’t squeeze my vaccina- ,
nation!”
—Burdette
“I want the music of the ‘Mikado,” 1 :
said a little boy, entering a New York
music store. “For singing, or for the
piano?” “I don’t want it for either. I ■
want it for my sister.”— Siftings.
Dio Lewis says that we busy, high
pressure “Americans should go to bed
at 9 and rise at 5. Such things make
us tired. How can a man get out of bed
four hours before he lies down?—Brook
lyn Eagle.
We see by the burning of a cigar store
in Chicago nearly a million cigars were I
smoked up at one sitting. Did it make
anybody sick? you ask. You bet, simple
one. It made the owner of the store sick.
—Burdette.
Another of the old settlers is gone. We
had a piece of him at our landlady's ,
table this morning. Immediately beneath ’
the epidermic formation from his back
we found a piece of eggshell, bearins
the legend, “Laid 1849.” — St. Pai.
Herald.
A standard target for American ride
men has just been adopted by the clubs |
of the United States, which have had the ,
matter under discussion for several
months. We hope it is large enough to
protect the indiscreet cows and pigs that I
wander about the various ranges.— >■
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A Great Hop Field.
A Tacoma (Wyoming Territory) cor- :
respondent of the Cleveland Leader says: I
“At the rear of the house appeared to me
a rare scene. Here stood acres of Imp
vines, wonderfully luxuriant in growth,
and falling in rich brown festoons from y
poles eighteen or twenty feet in height.
From these messes of vines not a single
hop had been picked this year, and they |
were now laden with their scaly fruitage. 1
From the leafy crown on each pole |
dripped a shower of glistening drops, 1
producing all over the field a ringing
pit-pat as they touched the ground, while
above them, exhaled under the increasing
heat of the sun, rose thin clouds of shin-1
ing vapor. On every hand tall trees |
hemmed the clearing in. There wereonly |
two dwellings in sight. One of these >
stood across the river slightly obscured
by mist. As everybody knows, the ex- .'
cessive dampness of the sound country is
due to its position between the Great Sei
and the Cascade Mountains. The vapors H
exhaled from the ocean, not being able, 9
as they roll inland, to surmount these I
mighty summits, are turned back, con- a
densed and precipitated to the earth a 9
plentiful rains, fogs and mists.
“I hav ( said that from these sixty-three I
acres of h.; not a bale has been markewß
this season, no:’ will be. ‘Why is tho: ■
Simply because the price of hops this.wß
at the picking season was too low to pa’ ■
for harvesting. The owner had sunk se'-M
eral thousand dollars in the cultivate: S
of his crop. The picking and curing®
would add several thousands more to"-®
amount, and, as he believed, from tbi®
tendency of the market, would put noth®
ing in his pocket. So he let the acrij 9
fruit hang. Further along the season;: ■
will fall to the ground and the mot? ■
with it. Next spring both will
plowed under, the combination form::-'®
one of the most unique fertilizers f■
employed. It turned out, however, wb
too late to harvest, that the market i'■
proved a little, enough so that something■
like $2,000 might have been put in b?->®
hud the ingathering taken place, hy'm
year’s crop on these same acres sold:’’
nearly $14,000. From this
may be formed some idea of the loss i
tained the present season.
“The average yield of hops per acre 2 g
any of these extremely fertile valleys
from 1,800 to 2,000 pounds. In speein ’ B
favored locations it amounts up to 3.0”' |
pounds, while on thin soils it may dr” ®
to 1,000.
Bull against Buck.
A remarkable fight occurred recent 1 : ■
on the farm of the Hon. Oscar Turner
Ballard county between a large Durh-'g;
bull, belonging to Col. Turner, and J®
buck weighing over 200 pounds. ®yß
were found in the forest dead, only a t |
feet apart. The bull had been g or “
three times by the buck, the last thr-y ■
entering »the animal’s heart, and ffij; C,
have killed him almost instantly, “y B
deer was dreadfully bruised, though t- B
skin had not been cut through. B
ground where the fight occurred was c® B
up by the feet of the animals. — Ls>w r - 1
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