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OR. TALMAGE'S SERMON.
SBUNDAY'S DISCOURSE 3BY THE
. BROOKLYN PREACHER.
Subject: “Divinity in the Stars!
TEXT: “Seek Him that maketh the Seven
Stars and Orion.’—Amos v., 8,
A country farmer wrote this text--Amos
of Tekoa. He plowed the earth and thrashed
the grain by a new thrashing machine just
invented, as formerly the eattle trod out the
grain. He gathered the fruit of the syca-
more tree and scarified it with an iron comb
Just before it was getting ripe, as it was
necessary and customary in that way to take
from it the bitterness. He was the son of a
poor shepherd and stuttered, but before the
stammering rustic the Philistines and Syr-
fans and Phoenicians and Moabites and Am.
monites and Edomites and Israelites trem-
bled,
Moses was a law giver, Daniel was a
rince, Isaian a courtier and David a king;
nt Amos, the author of my text, was a
peasant, and, as might be supposad, nearly
all his parallelisms are pastoral, his proph-
ecy full of the odor of new mown hay, and
the rattle of locusts, and the rumble of carts
with sheaves and the roar of wild beasts
devouring the flock while the shepherd came
out in their defense. He watched the herds
by day, and by pizht inhabited a bootn
made out of bushes, so that through thess ho
could see the stars all night long, and was
more familiar with them than we who have
tight roofs to our houses and hardly ever ses
the stars, except among the tall brick
chimneys of the great towns. But at sea-
sons of the years when the herds were in
special danger, he would stay out in the open
field all through the darkuess, his oaly
sheiter the curfain of the night heaven, with
the stellar embroideries and silver tassels of
dunar light,
What a life of solitude, ail alone with his
herds! Poor Amos! And at 12 o'clock at night
bark to the wolf's bark, and the lion's roar,
and toe bear's growl, and the owl's te-whit-
te-who, and the serpent’s hiss, as he unwit-
tingly steps too near while moving through
the thickets! Bo Amos, like other herdsmen,
got the habit of studying the map of the
heavens, because it was so much of the time
spread out before him. He noticed soms
stars advancing and others receding, He
associated their dawn and setting with cer
tain seasons of the year, H had a postic
oature, and he read night by night, and
month by month, and year by year, the
poems of the constellations, divinely
rhythmic. But two rosettes of stars espe-
cially attracted his attention while seated on
the ground or lying on his back under the
open scroll of the midnight heavens—the
Pleiades, or Seven Stars, and Orion. The
former group this rustic prophet associated
with the spring, as it rises about the first of
May. The latter he associated with the
winter, as it comes to the meridian in Janu-
ary. The Pleiades, or Seven Stars, con-
nected with all swestgess and joy; Orion,
the herald of the tempest, The ancients
were the more apt tostudy tue physiognomy
and juxtaposition of the heavenly bodies,
because they thought they had a special in-
fluence upon the earth, and perhaps they
were right. If the moon every few hours
lifts and lets down the tides of the Atlantic
ocean, and the electric storms of the sun, by
all scientific admission, affect the earth, why
not the stars have proportionate effect?
And there are some things which make me
think that it may not have been all super.
stition which connected the movements and
appearance of the heavenly bodies with
great moral events on earth. Did nota me
teor run on evangelistic errand on the first
Christmas night and designate the rough
cradle of our lord? Did not the stars in
their courses fight against Slseca? Was it
merely coincidental that before the destruc-
tion of Jerusalem the moon was eciipsad for
twelve consecutive nights? Did it mersly
happen so that a new star appeared in cone
stellation Cassiopeis, and then disappeared
just before King Charles 1X of France, who
was responsible for ths Ht. Bartholomew
gnassacre, died? Was it without significancs
that in the days of the Homan emperor Jus.
tinian war and famine were preceded by the
dimness of the sun, which for nearly a year
gave no more light than the moon, although
thers were no clouds to obscures it?
Astrology, alter all, may bave been some-
thing more than a brilliant heathenism. No
wonder that Amos of the text, having heard
these twoanthems of the stars, put down
the stout rough staff of the herdaman and
took into his brown band and cut and
kootted fingers the pen of a prophet and
advised the recreant people of his time to
return to God, saying, “Seek Him that
maketh the the Seven Stars and Orion.”
This command, which Amos gave 73) years
3. C., iz just as appropriate for us, 1592
AD
In the first place, Amos saw, as wo mnst
see, that tue God who made the Pleiades
and Orion must be the God of order. It
was pot so much a star here and a star
there that impressed the inspired herdsman,
but seven in ose group and seven in the
other group. He saw that night after night
and semson after season and decade after de-
cade they had kept step of light, each one in
its own place, and sisterhood never clashing
and never contesting precedence, From the
time Hesiod called the Pleiades the ‘seven
daughters of Atlas” and Virgil wrote in his
ZEneid of “Stormy Or.on” until now, they
have observed the order established for their
coming and going; Order writen not in man.
uscript that may be pigeonholed, but with
the hand of the Almighty on the come of the
sky, #0 that all nations may read it. Order.
Persistent order, Bublime order, Omnipo-
tent order,
What a sedative to vou and me. to whom
communities and nations sometitnes seem
going pelimell, and world ruled by some
fiend at haphazard and in all directions
masladministration ! The God who keeps
seven worlds in right circuit for six thous
and years can certainly keep all the affairs
of individuals and nations and continents in
adjustment. We had not better fret much,
for the peasant's argument of the text was
right, If God can take care of the seven
worlds of the Pleiades and the four chief
worlds of Orion, He can probably take care
«of the one world we inhabit.
So | feel very much as my father felt one
day when we were going to the country mill
to get a grist ground, and I, a boy of seven
years, sat in the back part of the wagon, and
our yoke of oxen ran away with us and along
a labyrinthine road throuzn the woods, so
that [ thought every moment we should be
dashed to pieces, and 1 made a terrible out.
ery of frigut, and my father turned to me
with a face perfectly calm, and said: “De
Witt, what are you crying about? 1 guss«
wa can ride as fast as the oxen can run.”
And, my hearers, why should we be affrighted
and lowe our equilibrium in the swilt move
men} of worldly events, especially when we
are assured that it is not a yoke of unbroken
steers that are drawing us on, but that or-
der and wise government are in the yoke?
In your occupation, your mission, your
sphere, do the best you can and then trust
to God; and if all things ars all mixed ani
disquieting, and your in is hot and your
heart sick, get some one to go out with you
into the starlight and point out to you the
des, or, better than that, get into some
observatory, and through the telescope see
further than Amos with the nak eyeconid
~-pamely, two bundrei stars in
and that in what is called the sword of Orion
there is a nebula computed to be two trillion,
o doi
gronn-—oronn after groun, To the Pleiades
He adds Orion, It seems that God likes light
so well that He koeps making it. Only one
lwing in the universe knows the statistics of
solar, lunar, stellar, meteoric ereations, and
that is the Creator Himself. And thoy have
all been lovingly christened, each one a name
ns distinct as the names of your childran,
“He telleth the number of the stars; He
calleth them all by their names.” The
seven Pleiades had names given to them, and
they are Alcyone, Meropa, Celmno, Electra,
Sterope, Tavgete and Maia,
But think of the billions and trillions of
daughters of starry light that God calls by
name as they sweep by Him with boaming
brow and lustrous robe! So fond is God of
light-—natural light, moral light, spiritual
light. Again and again is light harnessed
for symbolization ~~ Christ, the bright
morning star: evangelization, the dav-break:
the redemption of nations, Sun of
Righteousnes rising with healing in His
wings. O men and women, with so many
sorrows and sins and perplexities, if you
want light of comfort, light of pardon, light
of goodness, in earnest prayer through
Christ, “Seek Him that maketh the Seven
Stars and Orion.”
Again, Amos saw, as wo must see, that
the God who made these two archipelagoes
of stars must be an unchanging God, Thera
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Elibu, according to the book ol Job, went
ont to study the aurora borealis; the samo
under Ptelemaio system and Copernican sys
tem: the same from Calisthenes to Pythag-
ras, and from Pythagoras to Herschel,
Surely, a changeless God must have fash.
foned the Pleiades and Orion! Oh what an
anodyne amid the upsand downs of life, an |
the flux and reflux of the tides of prosperity,
to know that we hava a changeless God, thy
same “yesterday, to-day and forever!”
Xarxaes garianded and knighte 1 ths stears-
man of his boat in the mornin anil hangel
him in the evening of ths sama day. Cha
world sits in its chariot and drivas tandem,
and the horse ahead is Huzzy and the horse
behind is Anathem Lord Cobham, in
King James's time, was applauded, and had
shirty-five thousand dollars a year, but was
iiterward exescratel and lived on sorans
stolen from the royal kitchen. Alexander
the Ureat afler death remained unburied for
thirty davs, becauss noone would do the
aonor of shoveling him under. The Duke of
Wellington refused to have his fron fence
meaded becauss it had been broken by an
nfuriated populace in some hour of political
axcitement, and he left it in ruins that men
sight learn what a fickis thing is human
lavor. “But the mercy of the Lord is from
rvarlasting to everlasting to thaia that fear
Him, and His righteousness unto the chil
dren's children of such as keep His covenant,
and to thoss who remember His command.
ments to do them.” Thiz moment
Him that make:h the Seven Stars
“Jrion."
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Seek
and
Again, Amos saw, as we must ses, that
the (vod who made these two beacons
srienta’ night sky must br a God of love and
zindly waraing. Tbs Pleiades rising in
nidsky said to all the herdsmen and shen
terds and husbandmen, “Come out and eo-
joy the mild waather and cultivate your
gardens and fielde” Orion, coming in win-
ter, warned them to prepars for tempest,
All navigation was regulated by theses two
sonstellations. The one said to shipmaster
and crew, "Hoist sail for the sea and gather
merchandise from otha lands” Bua: Orion
was the storm signal, and ssid, "Real sail,
make things snug or put into harbor, for the
hurricanes are getting their wings out.” As
the Pleiades were the sweet evangels of the
spring, Orion was the warning prophet ol
tae winter,
Oh, now [ get the bast view of Goi lever
hat! Theres are two kinds of sermons |
never want to preach-—the one that pressats
God so kind, so indulgent, so lenieat, =) im-
becie that men may do what they will
against Him and fracture His every law and
put the pry of their impertinencs and re
bellion under His throne and while they ars
spitting Ta His face and stabbing at His
neart, He takes them up in His arms and
kiss s their infuriated brow and chaek, say-
ing, “Of such is the kingdom of hesven.”
he otaer kind of sermon | want to
preach is the one that represents God as all
fire and torture and thandercioud, ani with
redd hot pitchfork tossing the human ras
{ato paroxysms of intinits agony. Ine ser -
mon that | am now preaching bDelievas ina
God of loving, kindly warning, ths Gol of
spring and winter, the God of Pleiades anl
Orion.
You must remember that the wins is just
as important as ths spring. Let ons winter
pass without frost to kill vegetation and ice
to bind the rivers and saow Lo etirica our
fields, and then you will have to enlarge
your hospitals and your cemsiares “A
green Christmas makes a fat graveyard,’
was the old proverb. Storms to purify tha
air. Thermometer at ten de zraes abovs zaro
to tone up the system. Decambar and Jan-
uary just as important as May and June, |
tall you we neel the storms of ifs just as
much as we do the sunshine. «hers are mors
men ruined by prosperity than by adversity.
If we had our own way in life before this we
would have been impersonations of ssifish.
ness and worldliness and disgusting sin, and
puffed up until we would nave been like
J linus Cmasar, who was made by sycophants
to believe that he was divine, and that the
freckles on his face were as stars of the firm.
ament,
One of the swiftest transatiantic voyages
made last summer by our swifteat steamer
was because she had a stormy wind abaft,
chasing her from New York to Liverpool,
But to those going in tha opposite direction
the storm was a buffeting ani a hindrancs,
It is a bad thing to have a storm abead,
pushing us back; but il we be Go i's children
and aiming toward heavan the storms of
life will only chase us the soonsr into the
harbor. 1 am so glad to believe that the
monsoons and typhoons and mistrals and
siroccos of the land and ses are not un
chained maniacs let looss upon the earth,
but are under divin supwvision! [ am wo
glad that the God of the Seven Stars is alo
the Gol of Orion! It was out of Dante's
suffering came the sublime *‘Divina Com.
media,” and out of John Milton's blindness
eame “Paradise Lost,” and out of miserable
infidel attack came the “Bridgewater
freatiss” in favor of Christianity, and out
of Davila exile came the sags of coasiia-
tion, and out of ths sulferings of Christ
come the possibility of the world's relem).
tion, and out of your bsreavemsat, your
persecution, your poverties, your mistor-
tunes may yet com: an eternal heaven,
Oh, what a mercy itis that in the text and
all up and down the Bible God induces us to
look otit toward other worlds! Bible astron-
omy in Genesis, in Joshua, in Job, in the
Paal in the prophets, major and minor,
in Bt. John's A lypse, practionlly saying:
“World's! worlds! worlds! Get ready for
them!" Wa have a mice little world hie
that wa stick to, as though losing that we
joss all, We are afraid of failing off this
little raft of a worid, We are afraid that
some meteoric iconoclast will some night
smash it, and we want everything to revolve
around it, are d nted when we
find that it revolves the sun instmad
of the sun revolving around it. Whata
fuss we make about this little bit of a world,
of the
never
— Resin os
under Christly pilotage. Don't let us be so
agitated about our going off this little barge
or sloop or canal boat of aworld to get on
soma Great Eastern of the heavens, Don't
let us persist in wanting to stay in this barn,
this shed, this out-house of a world when all
the King's palaces already occupied by many
of our best friendsare swinging wide open
their gates to let usin.
When [ read, “In My Father's house are
many mansions,” I do not know but that
each world is a room, and as many rooms as
thers ara worlds, stellar stairs stellar gal.
levies, stellar hallways, stellar windows,
stellar domes. How our departed friends
must pity us, shut up in thess cramped
apartments, tirad if we walk fifteen miles,
when they some morning, by one stroke of
wing, can make circuit of the whole stellar
system and be back in time for matins!
Perhaps yonder twinkling constellation is
the residencas of the martyrs; that group of
twelve luminaries is the celestinl home of
the apostles, Perhaps that steep of light is
the dwelling place of angels cherubie, sera-
phic, archangelic, A mansion with as many
rooms as worlds, and all their windows illu-
minated for fes.ivity.
Oh, how this widens and lifts and stimu-
lates our expectations! How little it makes
the present and how stupsadous it makes
the future! How it consoles us about our
pious dead, who, instead of being boxel up
and under the ground, have the range of as
many rooms as thers are worlds, and wal.
coms everywhere, for is the Father's
house, in which thers are many mansions!
Ob, Lord God of the Seven Btarsand Orion,
how can I endure the transport, the ecstasy
of such a vision! 1 must or my text and
sock Him. I will seek Him. I seak Him now,
for I call to mind that it is not the material
universe that is most valuable, but the spir.
itual, and that eaah of us bas a soul worth
mora than all the worlds which the inspired
herdsman saw from his booth on the hills
of Tekon,
I had stadied it before, but the Cathedral
of Cologue, Garmany, never impreasei me
as it did the last tims I saw it. It is ad-
mitted the grandest gothic structure in the
world, its foundation laid in 124% ouly eight
or nine years ago completed. Mors than six
hundred years in building. All Earope
taxed for its construction, Its chaps of the
Magi with precious stone: enough to pur
chases a kingdom. Itschapsl ol St. Agnes
with master-placas of painting. Its spire
sprioging five hundred and eleven fest into
toe heavens. Its stained glass the chorus of
all rich colors, Btatuss encircling the pillars
and encircling all. Statues abova statues un-
til sculpture can do no more, but 1aints and
falls back against carved stalls and down on
pavamesnts over which the kings and queens
it
and aisles nnd transept and portals combin-
ing the splendors of sunrise. Interlaced,
Interfoliated, futercolumned grandeur. As
I stood outsude looking at the double range
of flying buttresses and the forest of pinna-
sles, higher and higher and higher, untii 1
almost reeled from dizziness, r exciaimad:
“Great doxology in stone! Frozwn prayer of
many nations’
But while standing there I saw a poor man
suter and put down his pack and koesl be-
side his burden on the hard floor
cathedral, And tears of deep emotion came
into my eyes as | said to myself: “There isa
soul worth more than all the fasterial sur.
roundinze. That man will live after the last
pinnacle has fallen, ani not one stone of all
that cathedral glory shall remain uscram-
bled. He is pow a lazaras ia rag
and poverty and weariness but immo
tal and a son of the Lord
Almighty, and the prayer he now offers
though amid many superstitions, |
believes God will hear, and among ths apos.
ties whose sculptured forms stand in the sur
rounding mches he will at last be Jifted, and
into the pressace of that Christ whos suf.
ferings are repressated by the cruciiix
fore which he bows, and bs ralesi in dus
time out of all his poverties into the glorious
ae
who maketh the Seven Stars and Orion.
————————— III 0 ANAT A,
How Was It Donel
The following has been submitted for
publication in this department: A cham-
bermaid is said to have put twelve com-
arate apartment. Here have tue
eleven rooms:
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“Now,” smd she, *“1f you two gentle.
men will go into bedroom No. 1 and
wait a few minutes I'll find a spare room
{ you sssoon as I have shown
the others their rooms.’ Having thus
stowed the first two ia No. 1, she put
the third in No. 2, the fourth in No. 3,
the fifth in No. 4, the sixth in No. 5,
he seventh in No. 6, the eighth ia No.
7. the ninth in No. 8, the lenth in No.
¥ and the eleventh in No. 10. Having
completed the task she went back to
room No. 1, where you will remember
she had left the twelfth gentieman aloag
with the first, and said: *‘I have now
furnished each the others with a
room, and have a room to spare; If you
please, step into room No. 11 and you
will find it empty.” How was it donel
—~5t. Louis Republic.
*
mh
Big Grapevines.
Ihere is a phenomenal grapevine in
Gaillac, a southern town in France,
Althouzh the plant is only ten years old,
it gelded last year 1287 bunches of de-
licious fiuit, There is but one vine
which excels this wonderful shrub, and
that is the noted historical vine of Hamp-
ton Court, England, which was planted
in 1768, and now measures forty-seven
yards, In the first year of the last
comet it gave from ita single growth over
2500 bunches of grapes. The fruit from
this vine is kept exciusively for the use
of the table of the Quen, and the sur.
plus is made into wine for Her Majesty
and her family. Baltimore American.
To Remedy the Smokeless Powder.
A certain Herr Paul Riehm has in.
vented a mist or fog ball with which to
envelop your enemy in a deep mist-—nay,
even a thick fog— which shall not be sur-
assed, claims the intentor, even by a
Jondon particular. These fog balls are
easily-broken spheres, containing am.
monia and acids, which upon ry
create a fog that envelops all around it
until blown away by the wind, Battles,
though, are not always fought on wind.
less, calm days. But, says the inveator,
with this fog around them it will be im.
possible for the enemy to fiad the range
or to reply to the fire of the attack,—
Western News.
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The Elevated Railways.
On the Bixth Avenue line in New
York City, there are 500 trains daily
each way; on the Third Avenue line, 504
trains; ot the Second Avenue line, 373
trains; on the Ninth Avenue line, 205
trains—esch way daily. The trains are
run from one minute to eight minutes
ahart, depmding a the hour of the
to 6 a. u., fifteen
wi
: luton apatt, Fare, five cents. —Scien-
WOMEN PHRENOLOGIATS.
Among the carious additions to the
professions of women is the woman
phrenologist. She is fast gaining in
popularity, and, in short, it is ex.
pected she will rival the fortune-teller
in trickeries,
must admit
that she bas science of a certain kind
on her side. Just now she is quite a
refined faddist and performs only
among the select <400,” who pay her
a goodly sum to keep exclusive and
amuse only those of their set.—{San
Francisco Examiner.
her mysticisms, and
though, of course, you
OLD FASHIONS REVIVED,
In looking over a rare old book of
illustration of fashions 120 years ago
it is noted that many of the modes of
the present day are almost identical in
feature with those of long ago. For
instance, the bell skirt, with borders,
ruches and other horizontal trimmings;
finished
with clasps, girdles and chatelaine or-
bodices with round waists
f
nements; the leg-o’-muttor sleeve
buttoned half way up the arm, ete.
the
coiffure corresponding in several styles
These fashion prints also show
to the present method of arranging
the hair. — [Chicago Post,
WOMEN KEEVING BANK ACCOUNTS.
The president of one of the big up-
sitnated
near Murray
has
Hundreds
come
of
women now keep small bank accounts
pay
womankind.
they
when
deal of annoyance.
hawed when
All this is
New York women are
and hemmed and they
signed a check.
now. becomes
ing sccustomed to business
‘hey no longer carry rolls of bills in
l » ’
kerchiefs,
the
New
the
It's
ever knew a
woman of
—[New York Mail and Express.
books.
and who York
to be out fashion?
WOMAN'S STATUS IN CHINA
During her first ten years the girl
enjoys as
Like a boy, she wears
long *pigtail,”
about in boy's attire, especiaily where
there are no sons in the family, for in
selected a particularly cold evening
last month, when the mercury was
burrowing in the ground, and made
his little speech on my front steps.
My teeth were chattering, my nose
was red, I had a cold in the head and
it was getting worse every minute,
My refusal of George was kind but
prompt.”
“My experience was worse than
that,” gaid another member. +The
youth proposed to me at supper, after
the theatre, and his remarks were
varied by bites of bread and butter,
and by delicate attentions in the way
of urging food upon me, 1 actually
became before he got
did't know whether
confused
throngh that I
80
chicken. declined them
both.
eating long enough to ask a woman to
be his wife.”
Anyhow, 1
I want a man who can stop
“The most interesting proposal of
third,
‘‘was that of an absent-minded young
my experience,” remarked «
man who used notes.
little reception, and
time was much occupied.
man realized that this be the
case and, facilitate he
brought with him a memorandum. I
afterwards found it on the
where he had dropped it in Lis agi.
tation.
»
I was giving a
ny
The young
of course,
would
to matters,
floor,
“Mention raise in salary.
“Mention loneliness.
“Mention pleasure in her society.
“Mention prospects from Uncle Jim.
“Never loved before,
“Propose.
“I'm being a sister to him now.”
“You're all very critical,”
| President, ‘but what do you think a
man ought to do?”
«He shonld exercise tact,” said one.
“He should wait until the
alone, with no chance of interrup-
| tion,” said another.
“He should
roundings
that the sur-
are in harmony with the
be sure
| #ituation.”
“He should give his undivided at-
tention to the woman.”
Above all this rose the quiet voice
| of a little woman who had not spoken
before.
“The man who doesn't propose at
the right time is exasperating,”
“but what of the
who doesn’t propose at ali?”
said softly ;
There was a sudden calm,
member settled a
| look of patient suffering. ~-[New York
World.
| the face of every
FASHION NOTES
Plaids and checks are very large at
| present,
rosettes and bows of ribbon,
male decendants. During this
Lier station,
she is trained in all
dowry with her own hand.
less fortunate than a European clilds
during these years of impressionable
them
This
their danghiers by letting
grow up without any schooling.
South, particularly in the Quang-Tong
province, in which Canton lies, a bel-
ter report was obtained; although
there education among women did not
begin to be so common as among men,
there were a few schools for girls un-
der women's direction, while many
received instruction from private
teachers at the homes of their pare
ents,
HOW MEN PROPOSE.
The I. 8. O. 8, Club was
the matter cver a few evenings ngo
and one woman held the floor,
“Of course, Charlie's case las
brought the matter forcibly before
me just now,” she said mournfully;
“but I always have contended that
men don’t know when and how to
propose. I've refused at least three
whom 1'd have married if they had
asked me at the right time.”
A woman in a brown ulster, who
sat off in one corner, suggested that it
might have been bad policy to marry
all of them, but the speaker treated
this remark with the contempt it de-
served.
«Charlie, you know,” she went on,
“poured the story of his passion into
my ear at Harrigan’s Theatre, during
a performance of the “Last of the
Hogans,” and while the Knights of the
Mystic Shrine wero singing their
touching lay. He said it reminded him
that he had been worshipping ata
cortain shrine, ete. 1 rofused him on
“A man whom I'll eall George
Spanyles of different -
for trim-
are employed in profusion
| ming bonnets.
Striped taffetas sprinkled with jar-
delicate shades.
Blue, in all shades, is in great de-
mand, and especially the medium and
very bright Ulues.
A preity fashion for dressing the
hair is the use of soft puffs fastened
| with jeweled pins.
| linmense buttons of bone, ivery or
{ smoked pearl fasten the openings on
| long basques or jackets,
The newest skir. is either the
| brella shape or that with a crosswise
ume
| seam down the centre of the front,
The buttonnole flower of the season
is the green pink. Thanks to chemi-
everything
changed now to suit fashionable ca-
The green pink looks like tis-
It is frightful,
cal Invention can be
price.
| sue paper cleverly cut.
but correct.
Evening gowns are made of velon-
tines, of very heavy soft silks em-
broidered in Byzantine patterns, silken
crepes, changeable gauze embroidered
in Japanese designs, bamboos and
chrysanthemums in silken and golden
thread.
The most popular wrappers just
now are dainty, airy creations, to be
worn over the night-robe. These are
of India silk, accordion-plaited from
top to toe. A bow, made of wide
satin ribbon with long ends, is tied at
the collar, and the ends should fall to
the bottom of the wrapper.
The newest dress wraps are a sort
of princess garment with double.
breasted front opening down the entire
length of the side over a panel of some
centrasting material, There are full
elbow sleeves of plain goods edged
with far, over close-fitting sleeves of
the material like the panel
Black silks are to be worn more
than ever for dross occaalons, but they
will be brightened up by admixtures.
A front and sleeves of black silk, with
a rosebud spray, will be used with the
plain goods. They will also be made
with narrow rofilss around the skire
ench ruff; headed with a colored gimp.
The Louis Quatorze waist will remain
CHILDREN’S COLUMN,
VREE THOROUGHFARE,
In hollow trees
Live white owls, chipmunks, bats, and bees.
If I were a chipmunk, bat, or bee,
I'd pack my stores in an empty tree!
Under the ground
Ants and beetles and snakes are found;
And troth! the snake with a leather skin
Needs a cellar to hide him in!
iy the brook’s brink,
Bplash! go the beaver, muskrat, mink.
Clasped in a doublet close as he,
A beaver's hut were the place for me!
High o'er the rocks,
Lord of his wateh-tower, dwells the fox;
Were | more fleet than the west wind is,
I'd have a staircase stecp as his!
Of nose and beak,
Tooth and tall, it were long to speak ;
Every cresture I much admire
Who lives in winter and needs no fire,
Whome'er one meets
Has roofed his chamber or paved his streets;
Yet of all thelr wits, not one, you see,
Has learned the secret of lock and key.
R. Harper's Young
Pe ople.
~~ {Dora Goodale, in
GOLDEN ARITHMETIC.
“Phil,” little Kenneth
drooks, «I've got a secret to tell you
RULE
whispered
“Nice?’’ asked Phil
Yes,” was the answer—+*‘nice for
‘'s : :
“Oh!” said Phil;
He
and his eyebrows
Kenneth around
after
followed
school-house school
“My Uncle George,” said Kenneth,
Ever see him?”
“No,” said Phil, hopelessly.
«Well, it’s first-rate, and my ticket
cutting a little caper of delight.
«Same thing both times?” asked
¢+No, sir-ree; new (ricks every time.
Phil!” Kenneth
struck with the other's mournful look,
I say, continued,
«I ain't got any Uncle George,"said
“That's a fact. How about your
“Can't afford it,” answered Phil,
ticket out of his
It certainiy
Kenneth took his
hen he
which
zart Hall two afternoons.
at Phil, and a secret
ty
uwruggle, “Phil,” he
cried, “I wonder if the man wouldnt
moments’
that would take you and me in one
time?’
Phil's eyes grew bright, and a hap-
face.
“Do you think he would?” he asked,
*
“Lot's try,” said Kenneth; and the
«Bat Kenneth,” said Phil, stopping
short, “it ain't fair for me to take
vour ticket.”
«It is, though,” answered his friend,
tspause I'll get more fun
from going once with you than twice
by myself.”
This settled the matter, and Phil
gave in.
«80 you want two tickets for one
time?” said the agent.
“+Yen, sir,” said Kenneth, taking
off his sailor hat—‘‘one for me and
one for Phil, you know.”
“You do arithmetic by the Golden
Rule down here, don't you?” asked
the ticket-man.
“No, sir; we use Ray's Practical,”
answered the boys: and they didn’t
know for a long tilne what that man
meant by the Golden Rule.—[Daugh-
ters of America
stoutly,
A AIA SAI, ON
Okra or Gumbo.
The okra is a native of the West
Indies, writes C. W. Murtfeldt. It is
one of the most delicate of vegetables,
often given to invalids whose stomachs
will refuse almost everything else, It
is mostly used in soups and stews,
ete.
This esculent requires also a warm,
rich soil and frequent enltivation.
Like the asparagus, it needs cutting
every day when the seed pods are
formed. If loft over a day or two
longer they become woody and taste-
less and indigestible. !
It should be sown in May when
the season is well advanced, the soil
warm, in rows about three feet apart.
The sceds are quite large and hard; &
twenty-four hours’ soaking in warm
water will help their
The dwarf variety is preferred for the
family garden. The sced pods (the
parts used for table) can also be used
when prepared as dried apples are,