REV. DR. TALMAGE, | THE BROOKLYN DIVINE’'S SUN=- DAY SERMON. The Bible gives an intimation that tho first duty of an idler is to starve when it says if he “will not work neither shall be eat.” Idleness ruins the health, and very soon nature says: ‘This man has refused to pay bis rent. Out with him!" Roolety is to be reconstructed on the sub. | joot of woman's toll, A vast majority of those { who would have woman industrious shut her Subject: ‘““Martyrs of the Needle.” Text: ‘“It is easier for a camel to go through the eyo of a needle." Matthew xix., M4. Whether this “eye of the neadle” be the small gate at the side of the big gate at the entrance of the wall of the ancient city, as is generally interpreted, or the eye of a neodle such as is now handled In sewing a garment I do not say. In either case it would be a tight thing for a camel to go through the eye ofa needle, But there are whole caravans of fatigues and hardships going through the eye of the sewing woman's needle, Very long ago the needle was busy, It was considered honorable for woman to toil in olden time, Alexander the Great stood in his palace showing garments made by his own mother, The finest tapestries at Bayeux were made by the Queen of William the Con- queror. Augustus, the Emperor, would not wear any garments except those that were fashioned by some member of his royal family. So let the toller everywhere be re- spected, The greatest blessing that ecculd have hap pened to our first parents was being turned out of Eden after they had done wrong. Adam and Eve, in their perfect state, might hava got along without work or only such slight employment as a perfect garden, with no weeds in it, demanded, But as soon they had sinned the best thing for them was | to be turned out where they would have to | work. We know what a withering thing it | is for a man to have nothing todo. Good oid | Ashbel Green, at fourscore years, when asked why he kept on working, said, “I do so to keep out of mischief.” We ses that a man who has a large amount of money to start with has no chance, Of the thousand pros- perous and honorable men that you know, 999 had to work vigorously at the beginning. But I am now to tell you that Industry is gust as important for a woman's safety and appiness, The most unhappy women in our communities to-day are those who have no engagements to call them up in the morn- ing ; who, once having risen and breakfasted, lounge through the dull forenoon in slippers down at the heel and with disheveled hair, reading the last novel, and w having | dragged through a wretohed forenoon and taken their afternoon sleep, and having spent an hour and a half at their toilet, pick ap their eardease and go out to and wh weir evenings somebo me in and break notony. olla Stuart never {in so d t as make calls i waiting pass t up the r was {mpris J iy . ly to ne ngeon a There | y be with be wretche families must curse of « J young women a ond, third, tenth, fiftieth, usandtl I is to get somebody to take care of them. In- stead of that the first lesson should be how, under God, they may take care of themselves, The simple fact is that a majority ofthem have to take care of emsalves, and that, too, after having, through the false notions of their parents, wasted the years in which they ought to have learned how successful to maintain themselves, We now and here declare the inhumanity, cruelty and outrage of that father and mother who pass their daughters into womanhood, having given them no facility for earning their livelihood, Mme. de Stael sald, “It is not these writings that I am proud of, but the fact that I have facility in ten occupations. in any one of which I could make a livelihood.” | You say you have a fortune to leave them, | © man and woman, have you not learned | that, like vultures, like hawks, xe nila, ] 4 have w and away? Rerrhuatid Samant sand, Thnet petency behind you, the trickery of execu | tors may swamp it ia a night, or some elders or deacons of our churches may get up a | fictitious company and induce your orphans to put their money into it, and if it be lost prove to them that it was eternally decreed that that was the way they were to lose it, and that it went in the most orthodox and heavenly style Oh, the damnable schemes that professed Christians will engage in—until Godjputs His fingers into the collar of the hypoerite’'s robe and rips it clear down the bottom! You bave no right, because you are well off, to conciude that your children are going to be aswell off. A man died, leaving a large fortune, Hisson fell dead in a Philadelphia grogshop. His old comrades came in and sald as they bent over his corpse, “What is the matter with you, Boggsey?”’ that the f The surgeon standing over himsald : ‘Hush up! He's dead I” “Ah, he is dead!" they sald, “Come, boys, let us go and take a drink in memory of poor Boggwey ™ Have you nothing better than money to leave your children? If you have not, but send your daughters into the world with empty brain and unskilled hand, you are ilty of assassinasion, homicide, regleide, fanticide, There are women tolling in our cities for #3 and #4 per week who were the daughters of merchant princes, These suf- fering ones now would be glad to have the crumbs that once fell from their fathers’ table, That wornout, broken shoe that she wears is the lineal descendant of the $12 gaiters in which her mother walked, aad that torn and faded calico had an- cestry of magnificent brocade that swept Broadway clean without any ex- eTISH to the street commissioners, hough you live in an elegant residence and fare sumptuously every day, let your daugh- ters feel it is a disgrace to them not to know how to work, I denounce the idea, preva. lent in society, that, though our young wo- men may embroider slippers and crochet and make mats for lamps to stand on with- out disgrace, the idea of doing anything for a livelihood is dishonorable, It is a shame | for a young woman, belonging to a large | family, to be inefficient when the father tolls | his life away for her support, It isa shame | for a daughter to be idle while her mother toils at the washtub, It is as honorable to | sweep house, make beds or trim hats as it Is to twist a watoh chain, As far as I ean understand, the line of re- | gpectability les between that which is useful and that which Is useless, If women do that which is of no value, their work is honora- ble. If they do praction]l work, it Is dishon- | orable, That our young women may escape | the consure of doing dishonorable work I | shall particularize, You may knit a tidy for the back of an armchair, but by no means make the money wherewith to buy the chair. You may, with delicate brush, beautify a mantel ornament, but die rather than earn enough to buy a marble mantel, You may learn artistic musto until you ean squall Italian, but never sing “Ortonville” or “Old Hundred.” Do nothing practieal it you would in the eyes of refined soclety preservo your respectability, I seout thess finioal notions, Itell you no woman, any more | than man, has a right to occupy a place in this world unless sus pays a rent for it, ] In the course of a lifetime you consume | whole harvests and droves of cattle, and every day you live breathe forty hogshends of good | pure air, You must by some ind of useful. ness pay for all this, Our race was the last thing orested—the birds and flshes va the fourth day, the cattle and lizards on the fifth day and man on the sixth day. If geol ogists are right, the earth was a million of yoars in the sajon of the insects, beasts and birds before our race came upon it. In one sense ws were innovators, The eattle, the lizards and the hawks had pre-emption right. The question is not what we are to do with the Uzards and summer insects, but what the lizards and summer insects to do with us, : 1f we want a Jlase in this world, we must The makes its own nest { up to a few kinds of work. this matter is that a woman has a right to | | cents | { tired! | the employers of theses women, {them down to the last penny and try to | baok, My judgment in do anything she ean do well, There should be no department of merchandise, mechan- | It | | Miss Hosmen has genius for sdiptur, give | fam, art or scienon barred against her, her a chisel, If Rosa Bonheur has a fond ness fcr delineating animals, let her mako “The Horse Fair,” If Miss Mitchell will study astronomy, let her mount the starry Ind Yer, If Lydia will be n merchant, lot her soll purple, quence the Quaker meeting house, It is said that i a woman {8 given such op portunities she will occupy places that might be taken by men, I say if she have more skill and adaptedness for any position than a man has let her have it, Bhe has as much right to her bread, to her apparel and to her home as men have, But it {5 said that her nature is so delloat o | that she is unfitted for exhausting toil, 1 ask in the name of all past history what toll yn enrth is more severe, exhausting and tra. mendous than that toil of the needle to which forages she has been subjected? The battering ram, the sword, the earbine, the battieax, have made no such havoe needle, I would that these living sepulehres in which women have for ages been buried might be opened, and that some resurrection trumpet might bring up these living corpses tothe fresh air and sunlight, Go with me, and I will show you a woman who by hardest toil supports her children, her drunken husband, her old father mother, pays her house rent, Always wholesome food on the table, and when ean get some neighbor on the Sabi some in and take care of her family appear in church with hat and cloak that are from indicating the toll to which she is sab- jected ns the body and soul position. mMmAjJoriy Such a woman as that has encugh to fit her for any stand beside the IAYH © Fiat prin 8 $150 J. thousands of y women in to-day there is only this alternative tion or dishonor, Many of the santile establishments of cossory to their large estabiist souls being pitched of employers know it! I# there a God? Will thers be a judgment? I tell you, if God rises up to redress woman's wrongs, many of our large establishments will be swallowed up quicker than a Bouth American eart ever took down a oily, God will satel these oppressors bet ween the two millstones of His wrath and grind them to powder! I hear from all 10 ng Argest our ¢ ties thess COTES O ito death, and their this land the wall of wo- manhood. Man bas nothing to answer to that wall but flatteries, He says she is an angel, She is not. She kn yws she is not She is a human being, who gets hungry when she has no food and cold whea she has no fire, OGlve her no more fistteries, Give her justice | There are about 50,000 sewing girls in New York and Brooklyn, Across the of this night I hear their death groans, It is not such a ery m saddenly hurled larkness an comes 1 grinding, horrible them before you asd pinched, ghastly, their fingers, neadls tipped! See that premature stooj shoulders! Hear that dry, hacking, u less cough ! At a large meeting thessa woman, held in a hall in Philadelphia, grand spesches wore deliverad, but a needle-woman took the stand, threw aside her faded shawl, and with her snrivelad arm hurled a very thunder bolt of eloquence, speaking out the horrors of her own experience Stand at the corner of a street in Now Yok in the very early morning as the wo men go to thelr work, Many of them had no breakfast except the crumbs that wore laft over from the night before or a crust they chew on their way through the stroods, Here they come-the work- log girls in beadwork, these in flower making, in millin- ery, enameoling, cigar making, bookbinding, labeling, feather picking, print eoloring, paper box making, but, most overworked of all and least compensated, the sewing women, Why do they not take the city cars yn their way up? They cannot afford the five cents, II, contluding to deny hersel! something else, she gets into the car, give harseat, You want te see how Latimer and Ridley appeared in the fire, Look at that woman and behold a more horrible martyr dom f death of dha + ! T™h TY of the eity Thess engaged «a hotter fire, a more agonizing One Sabbath night, in the vestibule of my church, after services a woman fell in vulsions, The dootor said she needed medi- cine not 80 mach as something to eat, As she began to revive, in her delirium she sald gaspingly * “Eight cents ! Eight cents | Eight f wien I sould get it done! eon must get it done ! Bight cents ! Eight cents! Wa found afterward that she was making garments at eight cents dplece, and that she could make but three of them in a day. Hear ft! Three times sight are twenty-four. Hoar it, men and women who have comiortable homes | Some of the worst villains of the city are They boat Ibe cheat them out of that, woman must | deposit 81 or &2 before she gets the gar- ments to work on. When the work Is done, {it is sharply inspected, the most Insignifi- | cant flaws ploked out and the wages relused, and sometimes the #1 deposited not given The Women's Protective Union re- worts a caso wheres ons of these poor souls, finding a place whores she could get mors | wages, resolved to change employers and wont to got her pay for work done, The employer says, “I hear you are going to leave me?’ “Yeo she sald, “and I have some to get want you owas me.” He made no answer. Bhe sald, “Are you not going to pay me?’ Yes," ho sald, “1 will pay you," and he kicked her down stairs, How are thess evils to be eradloated? What have you to answer, you who sell conts and have shoes made and contract for | the southern and western markets? What help is there, what panacea, what redemp- | tion? Some say, “Give women the ballot,’ What effect such ballot might have on other questions I am not here to disceuss, but | what would be the effect of female suifrage upon woman's wages? I do not belleve that woman will ever get justice by woman's ballot, Indeed, women oppress women as much as men do, Do not women, as much a8 men, If Lucretia Mott will preash the | Gospel, let her thrill with her womanly elo- 1 Iam so | I wish I could get some sleep, but I | | boat down to the lowest figure the woman wlio sews for them? Are not women as sharp ns men on washerwomen and miliiners and mantun makers? If a woman asks #1 for her work, does not her female employer nsk if sha will not take ninety cents? You say, “Only ten conts differance.” But that is sometimes the difference between heaven { and hell, Women often have less commis- | eration for women than men, If a woman steps aside from the path of virtue, man may forgive-~woman never! Woman will never got justice done her from woman's ballot, Never will ghe get it from man's ballot, How, then? God will rise up for her, God | has more resources than we know of, The flaming sword that hung at Eden's gate when woman was driven out will cleave with its tarribln edge her oppressors, But there is something for our women to do, Lot our young peoples prepare to exasl in spheres of work, and they will be able | after awhile to get larger wages, If it be shown that a woman ean in a store sall more goods in a year than a man, she will soon be able not only to nsk but to demand more wages, and to demand them successfully, Unskillad and incompetent labor must take what Is given, Skilled and competent labor will eventually make its own standard, Ad- mitting that the law of supply and demand iintes these things, 1 ntend that the lemand for skilled labor is very great and the supply very small, Btart with the idea that work is honorable and that you ean do soms one thing better than ary ing. you will take care of yourself are after a while called into another relation, you will all the better be qualified for it by your spirit of ance, or if you are | called to stay as you are you ean be happy | and self-supporting. Poews and w haya seen went it. 1 Resolve that, God help- ne else, polf-roll nd of talking about man the vine t many a tres down itsalf, but man As an at olimbs it, but I all that not only all the vines with othing stronge thing rouger wre fi y OAK Ld f ean tell y win an oak for an ivy to climb on, and that is the throne of the great Jel izle wr afflancea, that w aang wan is str on God hy lo may and does her best The neo reak, the factory band may slip, the Wages may fall, but over every good woman's head thers are spread the two great, geatle, stu- pendous wings of the Almighty, Many you will go single handed through ie wid you will have t choose betwen ur roman, I am sure sleoas, of sharactors you will turn you | & 1 pon i 1% ® wildy and iden actress whose life had been “T% att Draw the as first the |! hs tragedy o fered a hand in that untrams- meled she might irs biessing. Whenever the siok were to be visited or the poor to be provided with bread, she went with a blessing, Bhe oould pray or wag “Hook of Ages™ Tor any pauper | asked hor. As she got older there wers days when she was a little sharp, but for the most part auntie was a sunbeam-—just tt for Christmas eve Ehe know than any one how to fx Her prayer, as God heard ' body whe had troub 5 aul the house dropy he had peculiar ne know that she srriage, Si ba everybo 1% Ons better things, alse every it, was fall every "he brightest tt y her fing it the ngs grandest n 2 happy. | pease Ale YY AYH was that of n the sight $ : f great prios, you all ered lovingly it her, and a= arried her out to rost Randarschool o wt covered the ns, and the poor peopie of the alley, with their A bitterly, and with Soiomon, *and Jesus, as faci 4 commanded, “I en she die wits prong. to ti man of the worl “Her price was above ru unto the mal in Ju say unto thee, arise | eves shhiing tet en . ———— . High Bred Dogs Not the Most Intel. ligent, 80 long as our dogs were employed in the labor of the organized recrea- tions of man, the tendency of the associstion with the superior being was in a high measure educative. They were constantly submitted to a more or less critical but always effective selection which tended ever to develop a higher grade of intelligence With the advance in the organization of society the dog is ever losing some- thing of his utility, oven in the way of sport. He is fast becoming a mere idle favorite, prized for unimportant peculiaritios of form. The effortin the main is not now to make creatures which can help in the employment of man, but to breed for show alone, de- manding no more intelligence than is necessary to make the creature a well-behaved denizen of the house, | The result is the institation of a won- derful variety in the size, shape and special peculiarities of different breeds with what appears to me to be a con- comitant loss in their intelligence. It appears to me, in a word, that our treatment of this noble animal, where he is bred for ornament, is, in effect, degrading. —Seribner. - pi —— A Practical Solution, A professor at the University of Texas was explaining some of the habits and customs of the ancient (Gireeks to his class, ‘The ancient | Greeks built no roofs over their the- atres,” said the professor. ‘What did the ancient Greeks do when it rained?” asked Johnny Fizzle- top. The professor took off his spectacles, | polished them with hia hv Iherehiof, and replied ealmly: ‘They got wet | I suppose,” Texas Siftings, a —— Austin K, Jones, who has rung the college bell at Harvard for nearly forty years, was not a bit flustered | when he discovered the other morn- ing that some mischievous students { had carried away the bell's tongue. He obtained a hammer, and at the hour of 7.80 a, m. made noise enough by means of it to summon the students to duty, thar Mitton, of Boston. A Marriage Between Pygmies, In 1710, Zoto! (the dwarf of Peter the Great) and his royal master ar- ranged another wedding between two dwarfs. This was celebrated at St. Petersburg with great show and pa- rade. Zotof, high official, was head and front of the performance, It took a long time to prepare for this great event, Invitations to the wed- ding were sent out severnl months be- fore the day appointed for the cere- mony, and all the courtiers and am- bassadors were bidden to the ringe of this tiny and All the dwarfs liv within dred miles of the capital manded to be pres nt. The bride and groom rode on an elephant under a the midgets followed on camels, or rode in sledges ns n MAar~ man woman, two hun- were cotn- some of canopy ; carved Many dozen in the shape of va of the dwarfs at a time ple did not like the den or commanded the proces followed to the and the Py made sport of ; s vehicles CONrse f InwW, and he puni who were yf the 1itable K124 with small d ther articles to the sis wo are tol 1d gravity “Dead” Languages ‘ Yoo ' AMmnguage “The expression, ‘dead is almost constantly used in a mislead ing cosnection,” said Professor Ar “There are doubtless hundreds of dead languages, of which none but antiquarians any knowledge, but the d have nages taugnt ir the man who know stand the otl modern br the Greek now spoken is has Deel ige over difference very pure nly is Latin in use now among church dignitaries and others with any variation since the and Cesar, but there people in Earope who use everyday life, is not at all like the Italians. As to Hebrew, it has purity, reasoning be soaroely Virgil 1 " IAYS O ATe alth LIWAN been maintained in ils and eannot by any stretch of regarded as a dead lan Louis Globe Democrat guage. - 38, The English asylums and homes for the aged and infirm cost anuually 313, 000, 000, : Do You Wish the Finest Bread and Cake? It is conceded that the Royal Baking Powder is the purest and strongest of all the baking powders. The purest baking powder makes the finest, sweet» est, most delicious food. The strongest baking pow- der makes the lightest food. That baking powder which is both purest and strongest makes the most digestible and wholesome food. Why should not every housekeeper avail herself of the baking powder which will give her the best food with the least trouble? Avoid all baking powders sold with a gift or prize, or at a lower price than the Royal, THROW IT AWAY. 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