"REV. DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN- DAY SERMON. Subject: “The Human Face.” Text: “A man's wisdom maketh his face fo shine, and tha boldness of his face shall be changed,” or as it may be rendered, *‘the gsourness of his face shall be sweetened,’ Ecclesiastes viii, 1. * Thus a little change in our English trans- lation brings out the better meaning of the text, which sets forth that the character of | the face is decided by the character of the soul. The main features of our countenance were decided by the Almighty, and we can- | not change them, but under God we decide | whether we shall have countenances be- nignant or baleful, sour or sweet, wrathful or genial, benevolent or mean, honest or | scoundrelly, impudent or modest, courage- ous or cowardly, frank or sneaking. In all the works of God there is nothing more | wonderful than the human countenance, | Though the longest face is less than twelve | inches from the hair line of the forehead to the bottom of the chin and the broadest face 1s less than eight inches from cheek bone to cheek bone, yet in that small compass God has wrought such differences that the 1,600, 000,000 of the human race may be dis- tinguished from each other by their facial | appearance. The face is ordinarily the index of charac ter. It is the throne of the emotions, It is the battlefield of the passions, It is the | catalogue of character. It is the map of the | mind. It is the geography of the soul. And | while the Lord decides before our birth whether we shall be handsome or homely, we are by the character we form deciding whether our countenance shall be pleasant or disagreeable. This is so much so that some of the most beautiful faces are unattrac- | tive because of their arrogance or their de- | ecoitfulness, and some of the most rugged | and irregular features are attractive because | of the kindness that shines through them. Accident or sickness or scarifleation may veil the face so that it shall not express the soul, but in the majority of cases give mea deliberate look at a man's countenance | and I will tell you whether he is a eynie or an optimist, whether he | 48 a miser or a philanthropist, whether he is | noble or ignominious, whether he is good or | P bad. Our first impression of a man or woman is generally the accurate impression. You at the first glance make up your mind that some man is unworthy of your friend. ship, but afterward, by circumstances being put into intimate association with him, you come to like him and trast him. Yet stay with him long enough, and you will be com- lled to return to your original estimate of is character, but it will be after he has oheated you out of everything he could lay his hands on. It is of God's mercy that we have these outside indexes of character, Phrenology is one index, and while it may be carried to an absurd extent there is no doubt that you can judge somewhat of a| man's character by the shape of his head. Palmistry is another index, and while it may be carried iz: the fanciful and necromaantic there is no dount that certain lines in the palm of the hand are indicative of mental | and moral traits Physiognomy is another index, and while the contour of the human face may some- | times mislead us we can generally, after looking into the eye and noticing the curve of the lip and the spread of the nostril, and the correlation of all the features, come toa right estimate of a man's character, fit] were not so, how would we know whom to trust and whom to avoid? Whether we will or not, physiognomy decides a thousand things in commercial and financial and so- cial and religious domains. From one lid of the Bible to the other there is no science | #0 recognized as that of physiognomy, and | nothing more thoroughly taken for granted thao the Ln of the soul to transfigure the face. Bible of the “face of Gud,” the “face of Jesus Christ” the ‘face of Esau" the “ince of Israel.” the “lace of Job," the “fuce of the old man.” the shining ‘ince of Moses ™ the wrathful “face of Pharaoh,” the ashes | on the face of humiliation, the resurrection- | ary staff on the face of the dead child, the hypocrites disfiguring their face, and in my text the Bible declares, “A man's wisdom maketh his face to shine, and the sourness of his face shall be sweetened.” If the Bible | has so much to say about physiognomy, we | do not wonder that the world has made it a | study from the early ages. In vain the Eng- lish Parliament in the time of George IL ordered publicly whipped and imprisoned those who studied physiognomy. Intelligent | people always have studied it and always will study it. The pens of Moses and Joshua | and Job and John and Paul as well as of | Homer and Hippocrates and Galen and Aristotle and Socrates and Plato and Lavater | have been dipped Into it, and whole libraries of wheat and chaff have been garnered on this theme, Now, what practical religious and eternal use would I make of this subject? I am go- ing to show that while we are not responsi ble for our features, the Lord Almighty hav- | ing decided what they xaall be prenatally, as the psalmist declares when he writes, “In thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fnshioned when as vet there was none of them," yet the character which under God we form will | chisel the face most m ghtily, Every man | would like to have been made in appearance an Alcibiades, and every woman would like | to have been made a Josephine, We all want | to be agreeable. Oar usefulness depends so much upoa it that I consider it important | and Christian for every man and woman to be as agreeabls as possible, The slouch, the sioven, the tian who does not care how he looks, all such people lack equipment for usafulness, A minister who has to throw a | quid of tobacco out of his mouth before he | begins to preach or Christians with beard un- trimmed, making them to look like wild | beasts come out of the lair—yea, unkempt, | uncombed, unwashed, disagreeable men or | women--are a hindrance to religion more thau a racommendation, Now, my text suggests how we may, inde- pendent of features, make ourselves agree | able, ‘A man's wisdom maketh his face to shine, and the sourness of his (ase shall be sweetened.” What I say may come too late for many. Their countenance may by long ears of hardness have been frozen into stol- dity, or by long years of erusl behavior they may have Herodized all the machinery of ex. pression, or by long years of avarice they may have been Bhylocked until their face is as hard as the precious metal they are hoard. ing, but I am in time to help multitudes if the Lord will. That it is possible to over come disadvantages of physiognomy was In this country mightily ils rated by one whose life recently closed after having served in the Presedential cabinet at Washington, By accident of fire in ohildhood his face had been more piteously searred than any human visage that I ever saw. By hard study he arose from being a Juat hoy 16 ths vary height of the legal pro- , and when an Att General for the United States was needed he entorad the Presidential cabinet, What a triumph over destroyed human countenance ! I do not wonder that when an opposing at- torney in a Philadelphia court-room erusily roferrd to this disfigurement Bea. lod In these words When I was a babe, I was a besutiful blue child, [know this becnuse my dear mother told me so, but I was one du playing with my sister when ber olothas took fire, and I ran to her relief and saved her, but In doing so my clothes took fire, and the fire was not put out until my face was as black as the of the scoundrel who has st now referred to my d rement,” erolsm conquering physical Helos ! That scholarly regular features are not neo. { on the down grade, | of good womanhood, | upon a man's countenance, | heaven impersonated, | sannas in human flesh, { It | Divine Seuiptor. | heart | man { with him | in the revengeful with pale and siek face In invalids chair while he thrilled the American congress with his eloquence, and thousands of invalid preachers and Sabbath-school teachers and Christinn workers, Aye, the most glorious being the world ever saw was foreseen by Isaiah, who deseribed His face bruised and gashed and searified and sald of Him, “His visage was so marred, more than any man," S80 you see that the loveliest face in the unl- | verse was a soarred face, And now I am going to tell you of some of { nnd the smoothed hair that the chisels that work for the disfiguration or | irradiation ofthe human countenance, One of the sharpest and most destructive of those | chisels of the countenance is cynicism, That | | sours the disposition and then sours the face, | It gives a contemptuous curl to the lip, It draws down the corners of the mouth and inflates the nostril as with a malodor, What { David said in haste they say in their deliber- ation. “All men are lars,” everything is go- ing to ruin, are going to be, Society Tell them of an act of benevolence, and they say he gave that to advertise himself, They do not like the | present fashion of hats for women or of coats They are opposed to the adminis | for men, tration, municipal and State and National, Somehow food does not taste as it used to, and they wonder why there are no poets or | orators or preachers as when they were boys, Even Solomon, one of the wisest and atone time one of the worst of men, falls into the pessimistic mood and cries out in the twenty-first chapter of Pro- verbs, “Who oan find a virtuous woman?" If he had behaved himself better and kept in | good associations, he would not have written that interrogation point implying the scarcity Cynicism, if a habit, as it is with tens of thousands of people, writes itself all over the features ; hence so which he so well {llustrated when he sald, “Some of our generals complain that I im- pair discipline and subordination in the army by my pardons and respites, but it makes me rested after a hard day's work If [ ean find some good excuse for saving a man's fe, and I go to bed happler as I think how Joyous the signing of my name will make him and his family,” Kindness! It makes the face shine while life lasts and after death puts 4 summer sunset between the still lips makes me say sometimes at obsequies, ‘‘Bhe seems too beautiful to bury." But here comes another chisel, and its name is hypoerisy. Christ, with one terrific | stroke in His sermon on the mount described | this charroter, “When yo fast, be not as the | possession of the soul, All men and women are bad or | and the church are | hypoerites, of a sad countenance, for they disfigure thelr faces that they may appear unto men to fast,” Hypocrisy having taken it immediately ap- pears in the countenance, Hypocrites are always solemn, They carry several country graveyards in their faces, They are tearful when there is nothing to ery about, and in their peayues they catch for their breath and have such general dolefulness that they dis- gust young people with religion. We had one ofthem in one of my churches, When he ex- orted, he always deplored the low state of religion in other people, and when he prayed | it was an attack of hysteria, and he went into | demand resuscitation. | way until we had to expel him from the | how showing it in his face, many sour visages all up and down the | | street, all up and down the church and the | world, worse is to say it is worse, and foreboding opinion of everything take possession of you for twenty years, and you will be a sight to behold, It is the chastise. ment of God that when a man allows his heart to be cursed with cynicism his face be- comes gloomed and scowlad and lachrymosed | and blasted with the sams midnight, But let Christian cheerfulness try its chisel Feeling that all things are for his good, and that God rules, and that the Bible being true the world's i floralization is rapidly approaching, and the day when beer mug and demijohn and distil- lery and bombshell and rifle pit seventy-four sounders and roulette tables and corrupt book and satanic printing press will quit work, the brightness that comes from a paroxysm of obs and ahs that seemed to He went on in that church for stealing the property intrusted to him as administrator and for other vices that I will not mention, and he wrote me saveral letters not at all complimentary from the West, saying that he was dally praying for my everlasting destruction. A man can- not have hypocrisy in his heart without some- All intelligent people who witness it know it is nothing but | & dramatization, One good way to make the world | Let a depressed | Oh, the power of the human face! I war- rant that you have known faces so maguetic and impressive that, though they vanished long ago, they still hold you with a holy spell, How long sinee your child went? “Well,” you say, “if she had lived she would have been ten years old now, or twenty or thirty years.” But does not that infant's | face still have tender supremacy over your entire nature? During does it not look at you? many san eventide What a sanctifying, | hallowing influence it hes been in your isl have | | days, such anticipation not only gives zest to his work, but shines in his eyes and glows in his entire countenance, look for in an audience are sections of millennial glory. They are They are the sculp- turing of God's right hand. They are ho- They are hallelulahs alighted. They are Christ reincarnated. I do not ears what your features are or whether | you look like your father or your mother or } look like no one under the heavens, to God and man you are beautiful, Michael Angelo, the sculptor, visiting Florence, some one showed him in a back yard a piece of marble that was so shapeless that it seemed of no use, and Angelo was asked {f he could make anything out of it, and if so was told he could ownit The artist took the marble, and for nine months shut himself up to work, first trying to make of it a statue of David with his foot on Go- liath, but the marble was not quite long | ride, Those are the facts I Those countenanons | | 8 father's enough at the hase to make the prostrate | | form of the giant, and so the artist fashionad the marble into another figure that is so Ia- mous for all time because ness, A critic came in and was asked by Angelo for his criticism, and he sald it was beautiful, but the nose of the statute was not of right shape. Angelo picked up from the floor some sand and tossed about the ing he was improvement “What do you {aoe using his chisel to make the suggested by the eritie, think of it now?" said the artist, “Wonderfully improved,” said the eritie. “Well,” said the artist, “I have not changed it at all.” My friends, the grace of God comes to the heart of a man or woman and then attempts to change a forbidding and prejudicial face into attractiveness. Per. haps the face is most unpromising for the But having changed the it begins to work on the countenance with celestial okisel and into all the laea- ments of the face puts a gladness and an ex- pectation that changes it from glory to glory, and though earthly eriticism may disapprove of this or that in the appearance Christ says of the newly created countenance that which Pilate said of Him, “Behold the Here is another countenance, and you may call it revenge or hate or malevolence, taken possession of the heart, it sncamps seven devils under the eyebrows, It puts cruelty into the compression of the fips. You ean tell from the man’s looks that he is pursuing some one and trylag to get even There are suggestions of Nero and Robespierre and Diocletian and thumb- sorews and racks all up and down the feat- ures, Infernal artists with murderses’ dag- gers have been cutting away at that visage of its expressive | | mother's f the statue pretend. | You can say in the words of the poet, ‘Bet. ter to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all Or it may bave been a» sister's face, Perhaps she was the invalid of the family. Perhaps she never want out except on very clear and then she Baa to be carried down the stairs to the plasza or for a short but she was 80 patient and cheerful under it all, As that face looks at you through the years with what an elevated and heavenly emotion you are filled. Or was it face? The storms of life had somewhat roughenad it. A good deal of the brightness of the eye had been quenched, and the ear was turned with the haad behind i in order to hear at all, But you remember that face so vividly that if you were an artist you could put it on canvas, and It woukl mean to you more than any face that Rembrandt ever sketched, That face, though long ago velled from human sight, fa as plain in your memory as though you this moment saw it moving gently forward and backward in the rocking chair by the stove in the old farmhouse, Or was it your mother's face? A good mothers face is never homely to her boys and girls. Itis a “Ma- donna” in the ploture gallery of the memory. What a sympathetic face it was! Did you ever have a joy and that face did not respond tot Did you ever have a grisf and no tears trickle down that maternal cheek? Did you had thing and a shadow did not Oh, 1t was a sweet face! The spoe- round glasses through you, how sacredly they bureau or closet! Your your mother's smile, your mother s What an overpowering memory | Though you have come on to mid- lis or old age, how you would like just ones more to bury your face in her lap snd havea : ever do a ross it? tacles with large, which she Jookead at have beans kept in tow tears | »d ory ! But I can tell you of a more sympathetic and more tender and more loving face than any of the faces | have mentioned, “No, you cannot,” says some one, I oan, and 1 will it is the face of Jesus Christ as Je was on earth and is now in heaven, When prepar- ing my life of Christ, entitled “From Man- ger to Throne,” | masacked the art galier- | fas and portfolios of the world to find a ple- f the face | ture of our Baviour’s face that might be most expressive, and [ saw it as Francesco Francia painted it in the sixteenth century, and as the emerald intaglio of the sixth century presented it, and as a fresco in the ostacombs near Rome preserved it, and as Leonardo da | Vinel showed it in “The Last Sapper,” and I mightly ohisel for the | This aplrit baving | | for the most looked in the Louvre, and the Luxembourg, and the Vatican, and the Dresden, and the Berlin, and Neapolitan and London galleries inspiring face of Christ, and many of the pressntations were wonderful for pathos and majesty and power and exe. eution, but although I selected that by Ary Scheffer as in some respects the most expres. sive 1 felt as we all feel <that our Christ has | never yet besn presented sither in sculpture or painting, and that we will have to walt | until we rise to the upper palace, where wo The revengeful heart has built its perdition | countenance, tion of diabolic passion! But here comes another chisel to shape the countenance, and it Is kindness. There came a moving day, and into her soul moved the whole family of Christian graces, with all their children and grandchildren, and the command has come forth from the heavens that that woman's face shall be made to cor- respond with her superb soul. Her entire face from ear (0 ear becomes the canvas on which all the best artists of heaven begin to put their finest strokes, and on the small compass of that face are put pletures of sun rise over the sea, and angels of mercy going up and down ladders all aflash, and mount ains of transfiguration and noonday in heaven, Kindness! It isthe most magni cent sculptor that ever touched human countenance, No one could wonder at the unusual gentality inthe face of William Windom, Sec retary of the Treasury of the United States, Disfigura- | after seeing him at the New York banquet just befors he dropped dead, turning his wineglass upside down, saying, “I may b doing this offend some, but by not doing It i might damage many.” Be kind to your friends. Be kind to your enemies, Be kind to the young. Be kind to the old. Be kind to your rulers, Be kind to your servants Be kind to your su ts. Be kind to your inferiors. Be kind to your horse, Be kind to your dog. Be kind to your oat, Morn. ing. noon and night be kind, and the effects of it will be written in the language of your face, That is the gospel of physiognomy, A Bayonne merchant was in the south of Europe for his health, and sitting on the ter ros one morning in bis invalidism he saw a from a horse into a river, and of 10 Hh : i | | mother's arms inte His arms! shall see Him as He is. What a gentle face it must Fave been to induce the babes to struggle out of their What an ex- pressive face it must have been when one re- proving look of it threw stalwart Peter into a fit of tears! What a pleading face it must have been to lead the psalmist in prayer to say ot it, “Look upon the face of thine anlointed |" What a sympathetic face it | must have been to encourage the sick woman { who was beyond any help from the doctors to touch the hem of His garment! What a suffering face it must have been when sus- pended on the perpendicular and horizontal pieces of the wood of martyrdom, and His antagonists slapped the pallid cheek with their rough hands and befouled it with the saliva of their blasphemous lips! What a tremendous face it must have been to lead St. John to describe it in the coming judg- ment as soattering the universe when he says, “From whose face the earth and the heaven fled away.’ O Christ | Ones the Nazarene, but now the polestial | Once of cross, but now of throne | Ones crownsd with stinging brambie, but now coroneted with the jewels of ransomed empires! Turn on Thy pardoning face and forgive us, Thy sympothorte faoa and console us, Thy suffering face and have Thy stone ment avall for us, Thy omnipotent face and rescue us, Oh, what a face! Ho scarred, so Incerated, so reaplendent, so overwhelming ly glorious that the seraphim put wing to wing and with their conjoined pinions keep off some of the luster that Is too mighty even for eyes cheruble or angelic, and yet this morning turning upon us with a sheathed splendor lke that with which He ap- rod when He sald to the mothers ful about presenting their children, “Suffer them to come.” and to the or wall of the street, ‘Neither do I con thes,” and to the eyes of the blind of , “Be opened.” 1 think my brother John, the returned foreign mission ary, dying summer before last at Bound Brook, caught a glimpse of that face of Christ when in his dying hour my brother said © “I shall be satisfied when I awaken in His like- ness.” And now unto Him that loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood hath made us kings and » unto God is Father, to Him be and domin- Amen and amen! Bi ————— ee ——— Oregon's salmon fisheries produce about 600,000 casos a yenr and its wool olip exceads 16,000,000 pounds, There are 25,000 square miles of pine forests, and the annual gold yield exceeds 81,- 000,000, —— In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries nearly all the rulers of Eu- rope were bitten by the alchemist’s 5 | thy father and the God of Isaac {| to th | last three beholds i the angels, behold the 1a { the earth, and thou shalt | the west and tc the east and to the north and | to the south, and in thee and in thy seed | i shall all the families « Em SABBATH SCHOOL, INTERNATIONAL LESSON MARCH 11. OR Lesson Text: ““Jacob Gen. xxviii, 10.22. Golden Text: Gen. xxviil., 15 —~Commentary, at Bethel,” 10. “And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran.” Sines the last les- son Isaac has been to the Philistines and, being forbidden to go to Egypt, he sojourned at Gerar, where he fell to his father’s sin concerning his wife, He afterward made his home at Beersheba in the extreme south, where his father dwelt when called upon to offer up his only son. Then follows the story of the deception practiced upon Isane by Rebekah and Jacob, with Esau's consequent hatred of Jacob, resulting in Jacob's leaving home to go to his mother's people at Haran, in Badanaram, where Abram had sojourned on his way to Canaan till Terah died, 11. “And he lighted upon a certain place and tarried there all night, because the sun was set, and he took of the stones of that place and put them for his pillows and lay down in that place to sleep.” If we consider Jacob from this on apart from his nature and eonduet as a sinful man, there are sev- eral things in his history suggestive of facts is the history of the Lord Jesus. He goes forth to obtain a wife (verse 2), for whom he labors patiently a long time (chapter xxxi., 40, 41), but it seems short to him because of his great love to her (xxix., 20). Christ loved the church and gave Himself for it (Eph, v., 25). Ellezer seeking a bride for the son at home with his father is sugges- tive of the present work of the Spirit in gath- | ing out the church. As you ses Jacob in his loneliness with the stones for his pillows you can't help thinking of Him who wd not whereto lay His head (Luke ix. BR). | 12. “And he dreamed, and behold a ladder | sot up on the earth, and the top of it reached | to heaven. And behold the angels of God | ascending and descending on it." By cem- | paring John i., 51, the ladder Is suggestive of the Bon of Man, who becoming man reached down 10 where we were, and being God reaches up to heaven, the angels being min- istering spirits unto the heirs of sa. vation, It will be fully seen lu the hereafter of the millenial kingdom. | 18. “And behold the Tord stood above #8 | and said, I am the Lord God of Abraham, | the land | whereon thou Hest, to thee will I give it and sead.” Notice in this verse and the | behold a ladder, behold rd be as the dust of spread abroad to 14. “And thy seed shall { the earth be blessed." Abram was promised a seed as numerous as the dust of the earth and as the stars of hearen (xili., 16; xv., 6). Thelatter was ro peated to Isase (xxvi, 4), and now the former Is confirmed to Jacob 15. “And behold I am with ‘hee and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest and will bring thee again into this land, for I will pot leave thee until 1 have done that which I have spoken to thee of.” Here ls a fourth behold and associsted with what seems to me the most comprehensive assur anos in the Bible, “Iam with thee," Com- fi... 12: Joshua i, 5; Judg. vi, 16 , 8 19; Isa xii, 10; Hag 1,13; KK, 4: Math, xxvill, 20, ete, Consider well this promise of God's presence and loving care and gracious purpose in the light of Jacob's unworthiness and crookedness and see if your soul is not comforted and strengthened by the fact that this God is your God, the { same yesterday, to-day and forever, 16. “And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, | | and he said, Surely the Lord is in this place, | and 1 knew it not. His partnership with | his mother In the deceit Jrascisnd upon | Isaac would not tend to fellowship with God, but tobe alone and awa sometimes causes thoug! from home , and it Is possible that ere Jacob slept be had turned to God with true penitence and confession, and that this vision was the answer to his | prayers, 1. "And he was afraid and sald, How | dreadful is this place | This is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.” Ever since Adam sinned and said, “1 was afraid“ (Gen. iil. ,10) sin has made man afraid at the presence of the Lord, And yot God is love and Joved us when we were dead in sins, and Christ died for sinners We cannot have pesce in the presence of God apart from the forgiveness of sing, but this also He has provided in Jesus Christ (Acts xiii, 38, 99 Eat £.6, 7 1%, “And Jacob rose up early in the morn or and took the stone that he put for his pillows and set it up for a pillar and poured | oll upon the top of it “ A senae of the pres enoe of the Lord is now upon him, and he Is awed and subdued and grateful, It should be always so with the believer, with joy added joy in the Lord and the joy of the Lord, serving the Lord with gladness, The stone that was prostrate, but now upright | and annointad, may stand for Jacob himself, 19. “And he called the name of that place | Bethel, but the name of that city was oalled | Luz at the first,” Near this place was one of | Abram’s first tenting pisces in Canaan (chap ter xil., #), and later God appeared to Jacob | as “the God of Bethel” (chapter xxxi., 18) But Jeroboam defiled it when he here sot up | one of his golden calves (I Kings xii, 29), | Every spot in our pligrimage may be to us a Bethel if we will not defile it by any idol, 2, 21. “And Jacob vowsd & vow, saying, If God be with me and will keep me in this way that I go and will give me bread to eat and raiment to put on, so that I come again to my father's house in peace, then shall the Lord be my God.” Ia view of the most gra. clous and unconditional assurances of verse 15, it is surely too bad to hear Jacob come io with his great big “I1.” and yet how many of us leave out all the “ifs,” and when God says a thing boldly declare, ‘I believe God, that it shall be even as it was told to me,” or gratefully say, ‘Be it unto me according to my words’ (Acts xxvil., 35; Lukel 38)? 22. “And this stone which | have set fora illar shall be God's house and of all that shall give me [ will surely give the tenth unto Thee.” Yet there are O inns without number who never yet began to give God atenth and are therefore more mean than crooked, scheming Jacob, If we are children of God by faith in Christ Jesus, then we are Abraham's seed (Gal, 1H, 29), but Abram gave Melohisodes tithes of all, Lot us therefore cheerfully give our Mel chisedee tithes of all as the very least we should do, and then plle high the free will offerings on top of that, Let no one try to mon hy saying, “All I have is His" Well, rie Lord grant it to be so, but show up the tench anyhow as a little evidence that are all His, Read Prov. xi, M4, 256; xii, 7.~ Lesson Helper, - I — — Theft of an Orchard. A novel theft has been reported to the by a iarmer who lives near French This farmer | reader. | BOOTS | ence-—for they | ance of travelers and explorers, and in LAND OF THE TINNEES, CIVILIZED INDIANS OF THE FAB NORTHWEST. Chey Subscribe For a Paper Pri: in Their Own Language and H. n Postal System, WAY to the Northwest ol America in the mysterions corner of British Columbia, fo bordered by ‘npexplored territory” and hemmed in by mighty mountains, dwells a race of red men | who daily grow more numerous, who | have made themselves proficient in many of the arts of pesce, and who, us they become known in their customs | and conditions, must excite the won der and attention of the civilized | world. The people are known to the few travelers who have found their way among them as the Tinnees, and they have their infrequent cominuni ontion with “‘civilization’’ chiefly | through the Hudson Bay Company | posts at Fort George and Fort Fraser. Their morals are more strictly guarded than are those of any white Nation of | to-day ; they esteem cleanliness both of person and surroundings as they | do courage; snd they have a saying | that *‘to desert a friend is worse than | to slay him," The last white visitors to the home / v | of the Tinnees were the men compos | ing the Government survey party sent north last summer under A. L. Pou drier, which has recently returned. The appended notes of the chief of the expedition give some interesting facts concerning the Tinnees and the | land they live in. “The immense country north of the fifty-fourth parallel, generally de scribed as the ‘lake region,’ is hardly known to the present generation Years ago, during the gold excitement in Omineca, s great deal of trade and travel was taken that way, and nearly all the old pioneers are familiar with the wonderful scenery of the section “Since the gold boom the only in habitants of this exis Indians snd a few Hudson The natives thi 3408) nsive country have been Bay Company employes. are known as the Tinnees, TAT including the whole race, » of the representatives of which inhabit the country east of the Rocky Mountains othe res peopling the lake region prope: and still others living as far to the as the Chileotin River The divided into many families the Chileotins, living on the that the ‘Car ‘porteurs,’ around Fi again, the Siee south race First, plain of riers,” or is name ; then rt Fraser, and anies and the Nahanies, north and east of the N¢ “In language the 1 relationship with the the North, but, cur ing as far south the Navajoes, for example Okla- homa, the Chilootees, speak a tongue very similar to that of the Tinnees | “Of late years a young and ener etic missionary, Father Morrice, of | occupyl the country haco River have nd other tribes of usly, Indians iv nnees as California , Or In mas ind i tnart Lake, has been giving his Lime | grest-grandchildren. and talents to the upbnilding of a Tinnees Nation which shall compare not unfavorably in many ways with that of the whites The mother tongue of the Tinnees, which is ex ceedingly rich in expression, has been through his efforts reduced to a sys tew of phonetic writing, the charac ers being remarkable for the simplic ity and from the fact that they rest tather than weary the of the The written language simple and so systematic thats child | or & man may with equal facility learn to read or write it to perfection. Not one of the tribe, from a child of six to the old men and women of three and ten, is unable to-day either read or write “The phonetic Tinnees is employed by the Indians in their correspond have risen to the dig- nity of a postal system of their own in the marking of signs for the guid. ove is so | | the hundred and one other ways fa miliar to civilieed Nations “To further develop the theory and render its success more complete | | Father Morrice, with theaid of the In- | dians, had special types cast from his | own designs, bought a printing press and three years ago printed and pub. lished several elementary works on the | language and history of the Nation, For the past two years he has been is- suing a monthly newspaper, to which every Indian in the vast district is a willing subscriber. It is called the News. Its first page is devoted ex. clusively to local affairs, such as hunt ing and trapping and all else which may practically interest the commun ity in which it eireunlstes. Another portion is devoted to religious sub: jects, and the remainder of its sixteen pages of space treats of the world in general, a great deal of attention be ing paid to science, the customs and | manners of foreign countries, useful inventions, ete, “There is,” says Mr. Poudrier, '‘no other part of the province where the Indians are so highly civilized, so | truthful and so honest rare qualities indeed for an Indian race, One great advantage traceable to the publication of the News ie the development of a taste for and a knowledge of agrical. | ture. The hunting and trapping are | pearing an end in the lake region, and | the natives see that the resource which they muss in future look to is farming. The new generation is fast becoming | a community of scientific tillers of the soil. Were all the Indiansof Amerion in so advanced a state they would at no time be a cause of anxiety; the Government would never be called upon to suoply their wants, sand the white brother could learn not a little from them that he does not now know.” EL ——n In fourteen States snd Territories of the Union marriage between first eunsing is by law, | house on upper Fifth avenue, | York, is being built of white sosp- | stone, | ex-President of France, Amateur classes in nursing are ® new fad. A woman's hair is said to weigh om the ave rage fourteen ounces, Mrs. John Jacob Astor, of New | York, is fond of all outdoor sports. The female members of Wesleyan's Freshman class, have voted to carry {| CRADES, The Empress of China has sent five | ladies to the court of Berlin, in order leurn German manners and etiquette, There are few spinsters in the Osu- oarinn settlements in South Africa, as the men outnumber the women ten to me. Mrs Astor's fine Jacob new New John Mme. McMahon, widow of the late has sold her residence in Paris and removed to the country. The mother of the Sultan of Turkey ws supreme authority in his harem, and is the only person who is allowed to go unveiled. Mrs. Cleveland's favorite jewel, it is said, is a rose leaf spray of diamonds, a wedding gift from cx-Secretary of the Navy Whitney. Queen Elizabeth was annoyed by a red nose. Her attendants were accu tomed to powder it every few minutes to keep it presentable, The number of medical women 1n Great Britain is now 186, and of these twenty have become members of the jritish Medical Association. The pretty fan carried to a recep- tion the other evening by a Gotham “bud,” was of pink ostrich feathers, with dismond set mother of pearl | sticks Sir Edwin Arnold ssys that there are 30,000 young women in England who write poetry and look forward to the day when fame will perch on their brows, England has a womsu coroner, only over there they call her the ‘lady coroner. Women in the vestries are no novelties in Queen Victoria's country. Mre. Gladstone is an artist in mak- ing home-made mince pies The Queen is so fond of them that Mrs Gladstone sends one to her st Christ- mas each year Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, wife of the Standard Oil magnate, teaches a Sunday-school class of young men of which her son, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., is a member. The dowager Viscountess Sidmouth, | who died the other day at the age of ninety-six, in England, bad ninety living children, grandchildren and Mrs. Potter Palmer, of Chicago, has a penchant for Mexican and duchesse laces. She probably owns one of the finest assortments of these delicate embroideries in the world. The palace hotels of New York are | employing maids to wait upon guests at a oost of fifty cents an hour. The maid must be able to do hairdressing and to array a lady for a ball. Twenty years ago Queen Victoria was taught how to spin by an old wo- man {rom the Scottish Highlands. Her Majesty is very fond of the occupa- tion, being proud of her kill Mrs. Bishop, whose nom de plume is Isabella Bird, has left Liverpool for Corea in search of material for another book. She is more than sixty, and thinks nothing of the long journey ahead of her A tiny sachet bag hidden away in | the depths of a eost or wrap will make it smell delicious. The furry odor | which often clings to capes and coats, even of the best of seal, will be neu- tralized by this plan Don't look for novelty as much as quality in china and glass, for many novelties have no intrinsic | merit, while the finer goods like Coal port, Royal Vien aa and American cut glass are always desirable. When the wrist bone presents a prominent, ungsinly knob, ruffles of Ince are a delightful resource, and so is the Flemish cuff. An over-fat wrist is quite as unlovely, and should be just as carefully concealed. Slizabeth Cady Stanton, the vet. eran woman's rights agitator, despite her years, is actively engaged in or- ganizing a grand rally in the interest | of female suffrage, which will bo held | simultaneously all over the country. The Czarina of Russia, forgetful of her own serious aitack of the grip, pursed back to life with her own hands ber third son, the Grand Duks Mich- sel. A mother's love is the same in the palace or in the peasant’s home. Mrs Hoke Smith, Mrs. Bissell and Lamont ave the Jonnie three *‘Cabi- pot ladies,” unless Miss Herbert is counted in. Miss Herbert is then the most youthful, then Mrs. Cleveland, then Mrs Smith, then Mrs Bissell and Mrs. Lamont a close fifth, Mme. de Matos is the Joan of Are of the Bragilisu revolution. She enters the field with her husband attired ins dress which is a mixture and woman's attire. Nhe is about thirty years of age, with blue eyes and © hair, and possesses a groat deal of personal
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