TALMAGE'S SERMON.
DR.
Behind the Counter.
“A certain woman named Lydia, a seller of
purpie.” ete. —ACTS 10: 14.
“Seest thou a man diligent
shall stand before kings. — Pri
his busi-
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Lydia, a Christian merchantess, Her
business is to deal in purple cloths or
She is not a giggling nonentity,
but a practical woman not ashamed to
wo for her living. All the
women of Philippi and Thyatira have
n forgotten, but God has made im-
mortal in our text Lydia, the Christian
mleswoman,
I'he other text shows You a man wit!
wad. and hand, and heart, and foot a
toiling up until he gains a
success, ‘‘Seest thou a man
tilicent in his business? he shall stand
before kings.?' In these
there is great
i URAGEMENT FOR
WOMEN
will be busy, but no solace for
those who are waiting for good luc
show them, at the foot of the rammbow,
a casket of buried gold. It is folly for
ybody in this world to wait for some-
* to turn up. It will tur
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silks,
DC
busy on
princely
dil
{
ot
two p WS8ages
MEN AND
Wi
arn down,
he law of thrift is as inexorable as the
if the tides. I would lil
umbition of young people
ympathy with those who wo Id
voung folks for | Dy i
down their expectatior
or woman will be worth
~tate
I'he bu
e to fire
We
hurch o1
i down.
{
and
ing?”
¢eon
tal and
oe
does
tl
tions, sayl
our me
APS a bout ©}
earned prof
vears t
1i¢ of ¥
but the
y mn
Hy
yf Lhe
office.
Ww. you
going tod
you to hg
graced
3 if I onl;
¢ like that young man :
y father to put hundred thou-
dollars in a business for me, ti
il have some chance!’
BE NOT ENVY IOI
ons
y IY
on
Y ou have advantages over tl young
which he has not over you, As
might 1 come down to the docks
when a vessel is about to sail for Val
paraiso, and say, ‘‘Let me pilot this
out of the Narrows.” Why, I
d sink crew and cargo before 1 got
it of the harbor, simply because I
know nothing about pilotage.
sea captains put their sons before the
t for the reason that they kaow
yt it is the only place where they can
to be successful sailors. It is
vy under drill that people get to un-
rstand pilotage and navigation, and
want you to understand that it takes
more skill to conduct a vessel out of
he harbor and across the sea than to
ma
wie
shi
woul
ot
LH
it o6y
of the rocks,
*
¥y
K ie
into a business they know noth.
ng about,
one business; thinks there is another
occupation more comfortable; goes into
it and sinks all, Many of the commer-
a
cation as thorough as Yale, or Har-
vard, or Princeton are giving scientific
attainment to the students matricu-
lated,
men foundering in business from year
to year is because their early mercantile
education was neglected, Ask these
men high in commercial circles, and
theg will tell you they thank God for
this severe discipline of their early
clerkship. You can afford to endure
the wilderness march, if it is going to
end in the vineyards and orchards of
the prom'sed land, But you say, “Will
the
WOMANLY CLERKS
in our stores have promotion?” Yes,
Time is coming when women will be as
well paid for their toil in mercantile clr.
f
| (les as men are now paid for their toil,
| Time is coming when a woman will be
| allowed to do anything she can do well.
| It is only a little while ago when wo-
{ men
| they were kept out of a great many
commercial circles where they are now
{ the counter
3
woman who at one in a
store sells ten thousand dollars
| salary as the man who ab the
counter of the same § tore sells ten thou-
| sand dollars’ worth ol goods, All hon-
or to Lydia, the Christian saleswoman,
And in passing, I may as well say
that voa merchants who have female
clerks imsvour stores ought to treat them
with great col When
they are engaged, let
| them sit wland ard the
United States phy 18 have prote
| against the hi
| manly clerks intl
it was not necessary
Therefore 1 add to t
Clans
irtesy and kindness,
pos
1h lw
IVIVELY
stores to stand when
them to stand,
fO1
the
of good health
her
y man’s, 1
lown
wn,
bsg + + ¥
lie protest Ol
Church, and in the name
1 has made Cone-
cate thar
her sit de
nse] 1
that you
have to
y
seer out
ATIONS,
and then submit
H-ordered house
ary life, on sl
ti nust
i
{ 1 3
deck, in comi
order and d
(10 not t
were
ari
Know
what your
more adm
than for these who st
to hi vil d i
will
down,
ali
ie
mit
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they sink, you
i
vou
nl
ictation ; an
rise,
W) ROT GIVE UP YOUR CHARACTER,
ng man, of seeming tem-
porary advantage. Under Grod, that is
| the only thing you have to bulld on.
{ Give up that, you give up everything,
| That employer asks a young man to
hurt himself for time and for eternity
who expects him to make a wrong
{ entry, or change an invoice, or say
goods cost so much when they cosl ess,
or impose upon the verdancy of acus-
| tomer, or misrepresent a style of fabric.
| How dare he demand of you anything
s0 insolent |
There is one style of temptation that
| comes on a great many of our clerks,
| and that is upon those who are engag-
| ed in what is called
DRUMMING,"
ror because
| Now. that occupation is just as honora-
ble as any other, if it be conducted in
| accord with one’s conscience. In this
day, when there are so many rivalries
in business, all our commercial estab-
| lishments ought to have men abroad who
| are seeking out for opportunities of
| merchandise, There can be no objec-
jut there are professed
| Christian merchants in the week-night
| prayer-meeting who have clerks abroad
| in New York conducting merchants of
| tion to that,
through the debaucheries of the great
town. in order to secure their custom
for the store. There are
New York and Brooklyn drawers in
which there are kept moneys which the
clerks are to go and get whatever they
want to conduct these people through
the dissipations of the city. The head
men of the firm know it and in some
places actually demand it professed
Christian merchants, One would think
that the prayer would freeze on their
lips, and they would fall back dead at
the sound of their dwn song. What
chance is there for young men when
commercial establishments expect such
expectation of that finn dismippoint
you! You may sell
an oextira
fase or goods; you may gall an extra roll
B
he bargain,
IV. Again, I counsel all clerks to
sition, One great trial for « lerks is the
INCONSIDERATION OF C1 STOMERS,
se. but gruff and dictator-
into a store to buy anything, There are
men and
from store to store 10 price
thousands of
They are not
Of
out any idea of purchase,
atisfled until
brought down
every roll eoods
they have pointed
imaginary defects,
inds of kid gloves, and
and they put
11k
SLL
4
instand
f the firm asked,
re reorge now?’ “Oh, he isn™
A lad might
BETTER STARVE TO DEATH
8 were not
any more,
a blasted heath than take one ec
from his employer. Woe be to that em
ployer who unnecessaril
tion in a bov’s way! There have |
great establishments in these
building marble palaces, their owners
dying worth millions and millions and
millions, who made a amount of
their estate out of the blood and muscle
and of half-paid clerks,
men well, T will not mention any
name: but I mean men who have gath-
On
Vv puts a tempta-
wT
cities
vast
nerve Such
ns
the people who were ground under their
heel, “Oh.” merchants, ‘if
vou don't like it here, then go and get a
| better place.” As much as to say,
| “I’ve got you in my grip, and I mean to
hold vou: vou can’t get any other place,’
Oh, what a contrast
gay such
| they pay the salary, acting in this way,
| my interest in you,
tal man; you are an immortal woman; I
| am interesfed in your present and your
| everlasting welfare; I want you to un-
| derstand that, if I am a little higher up
in this store, I am beside you in Chris-
tian sympathy.” Go back forty years
to
ARTHUR TAPPEN'S STORE
in New Youk-a man whose worst ene-
mies never questioned his honesty. Every
morning he brought all the clerks and
accountants and the weighers into a
room for devotion, They sang. They
They exhorted, On Monday
i
i
:
i
i
a HI
It must have sounded strange-
the devotees of mimmon were
failed, NY ¢
a many ¢
men: but I understand he met all
obligations before he left this world, and
I know he died in the peace of the Go
he is before the throne of
If that be failing, 1 wish
you might all fall,
There are a great many
18 city
Arthur Tappen
like great (
h
young men in
vea, in this hous who want
a word of encouragement, Christian en-
uragenent,
ON}
iid be
morning in their places
of fifty thousand
Lh, I
MILE OF GOOD CHEER
WO worth more to them Lo-Inorrow
of business Liu
dollars ten
the
ih
a present
vears hence,
remember ap
‘ i '
a Prolession.
with the tip ends of the
1 I remembx
r man w took my hand in
and said, Hod
vou have entered a glorion
ful to God and He
Why I feel this
bia k » l.ahalir
1A hand-shaking
a |
3 of the left hand; and
jless you
s the Ch
twer
THE
wn: and down
TRIAL
in an avalanche of
destruction will g who wronged
man or woman, insulted God and defied
the judgment, ON, that will be a great
for you, hi Christian clerk!
No getting up early; no retiring late;
no walking around with weary limbs;
but a mansion in which to 1 and a
realm of light, and love, and joy over
which to hold everlasting dominion.
Hoist him up from glory to glory, and
and from throne to
throne: for while others go down into
the sea with their gold like a millstone
to their neck, this one shall
come up the heights of amethyst and al-
y those
ws ith
yest
day
ive,
ORIGIN OF FASHIONS.
Man's and Woman's Slavery to the
Whim's of those High ia Social
miation,
In observing the characteristics and
changes of fashlon it impossib’'e not
ridicule them. We may become
familiarized with a present fashion and
the at-
may clothe
to
which
in 10LHE
historic-
devices which have
we find
humanity
for her
amusenen
folly.
been
been used OCCASIONS
t in the records
f
f luxurious (queen
1 111
aenoul Wil
antasy has
of the church, stigmal
ridi
lv crus
but
ow and she
Many of the fashi
invented to con
fers and other mon
f Nature, wi
The soldier.
lussian
passion of
greatest
was his
)
lefl’'s
general
iation of the peculiarit
he men he commanded. He had a
wonderful hold on their sympathies,
and he enjoved a popularity with the
rank and file such as no other Russian
general has ever a quired. It was Sko-
beleff who conducted the pursis and
harrying of the wretched Yomud Ti
thorough appre
by his friend and admirer, the Amen-
can correspondent MacGahan; and it
was Skobeleff who, after the storming
of Geok Tepe, and the route of its brave
Tekke defenders, gave 25 hours’ com-
soldiers to
work their wicked will on the persons
the defenseless families
of the dispersed Turcomans. Skobeleff
thoroughly understood his men, and re
!
NORTHERN APPETITES.
}
of People of the Arctic Circle
an Esquimau
iinaman, bat ha
n appearance
what resembles a Cl
1
f
He is
short
rath
To a stranger some of Lhe
strange and
--——
Vegetable Life in the Everglades,
of
Sern i=
Lake
+H
the en mps
ciu
dense
between
inlerspers
woodland The most
tropical growth
Okeechobee and the sawgrass, Here is
a belt of trees comprising every species
of the regions, thickly interlac ed with
the vines of gourd, and often forming a
solid, almost impenetrable wall.
AIA
11638
Japanese FootGear.
3
In Japan children’s shoes are m aude of
wood secured with cords,
The stocking resembles a mitten,
having a place for the great As
these shoes are lifted only by the toes,
of
foe,
pearl of great price in a sparkling, glit-
tering, flaming casket,
-———
Land and Water has done a useful
wide-spread belief that ivy tramed
against the walls of a dwelling-house is
unhealthiness, The very opposite of
this is really the case, 1f anyone will
carefully examine an ivy clad wall after
a shower of rain, he will notice that
while the overlapping leaves have con-
ducted the water from point until it
has reached the ground, the wall be
neath is perfectly dry and dusty. More
than this, the the thirsty shotts which
force their way into every crevice of
the structure which will afford a firm
hold, act like suckers in drawing out
any particle of moisture for thelr own
nourishment, The ivy, in fact, acts
like a great coat, keeping the house
from wet and warm nto the bargain.
One more virtue it has, in giving to the
ugliest structure an evergreen uty.
he permitted unbridled license. For
94 hours the captors of Geok
uncontrolled; within six
hours of the termination of that period
soldiers were shot for trifling
This circumstance, coupled
with the fact of Skobelefl’s great popu.
larity in the army,
indication of the character of the Rus
alan soldier as judged by the man who
As a Gnish orcovering for walls and
ceilings pulverized steatite 1s coming
into use quite satisfactorily. It is
simply soapstone. It takes a high pol-
ish, is pearl gray In tint, is said to pre-
sent the best possible surface for paint-
ing, either in ofl or water-color, and,
what is very desirable, it will peither
erack nor chip, It is claimed for it that
1t is a non-cond uctor and non-abgorbent;
that it can be washed without injury;
nails can be driven into it without dam-
age. When subject to heat, moisture
and chemical fumes it gives no smell,
and it does not turn yellow with age.
It is thought to be especially adapted
for hospitals, factories, cellars, markets,
slo.
owners walk,
ina crowd,
which is quite stunning
They are not worn in a
house, as they would injure soft
straw mats with which the floors are
covered. You leave your shoes at the
door. Every house is built with refer-
ence to the number of mats required for
the floors, each room having from eight
the
pay for a mat. They think it extrava-
ourselves. The Japanese shoe gives
n the
COrns, no in-
oar
toes are cramped until they are deform.
ed. and are in danger eof extinction,
of the human foot is only seen
Japanese, They have no
use of his toes in holding his work.
Every toe is fully developed, Their
shoes cost a penny, and will last six
months.
Russia's coal Deias on the Black sea
and in its neighborhood are almost
equal in extent to those of Great
Britain, but, whereas England produces
100,000,000 and 150,000, LOns A year,
the yiell of the Russian coal mines for
the last year for which statistics are
attainable, was about 135.000