I THE REALM OF FASHION. § mmmmmmmmmmmmmmemmi NEW YOKK CITY (Speoial).—Guimpe effects are a special feature of the light summer gowns, and a great variety of fancy yoking, ready tucked YOKE WAIST. and alternated with stripes of lace in sertion or embroidery, is in evidence. The one shown on the figure in the large engraving is the type that is most popular. The home dressmaker does well to take advantage of these pretty fancies, which, although add ing to the cost materially, enhance the effectiveness of a waist in this style and also simplify the making. COMBINATION AND STRAIGHT GATH EKED SKIRT. As illustrated iu the accompanying small engraving white Persian lawn is the material chosen, the yoke, collar and sleeves being of Valenciennes lace insertion and fine tucking. White French tafl'eta ribbon is used for the sash belt, which is gracefully bowed at the left side. A lace-edged nich ing of lawn three inches wide outlines the yoke and passes over the shoul ders, where full-looped bows of the ribbon are placed. The waist is ar ranged over fitted linings that close in centre front, the full fronts and back being gathered at the top and applied to the lining at round-yoke depth. The smooth round yoke is included in the right shoulder seam, joined to the gathered edge of front and closed invisibly at the left shoul der. The full fronts can be closed invisibly in centre front or cut with out a seam, joined to the lower edge of yoke and closed at shoulder, arm's eye and under-arm seam. ' r he fulness at the waist is drawn down tightly iu back, v/hile in front a slightly bloused effect is stylishly maintained. The standing collar is shaped with fashionable points that rise up behind the ears and are cut away in centre back. The closely fitted sleeves are correctly shaped, with wide upper and narrow under portions, tho scant fuluess at the top being collected in gathers. The mode is also suitable for waists of silk or fine woolen fabrics, in which yokes and sleeves of all-over lace, shirred, paflfed or tucked chiffon may be inserted. Narrow frizzed satin ribbon applied in evenly spaced rows forms appropriate trimming for yoke and sleeves, and great elaboration may be displayed on waists of net or lace with splangles or incrustations of lace or embroidery, with ruching of mousseline or ribbon on yoke and sleeves. To make this waist in the medium size will i squire one and a half yards of material thirty-six inches wide. New Gowua That Cling, "Glove-fitting" rightly expresses the appearance of the latest gowns. The? cling so clotelv respond so readily to every movement of the fig ure that they seem a part of it. Modes are more exacting than ever before, since they demand perfect figures with almost fragile slenderness to demonstrate their leading charms, but there are many and pretty modifica tions which retain the necessary chio and still make the styles possible to women of all sizes. There are varied opinions as to the becoming qualities of the new summer gowns, according to the degree in which the special figure resembles the favored model of fashion; but while we are deciding the question to our satisfaction the wheel moves on re gardless, passing every point between the two possible extremes of extrava gance and economy once in a period of years. A costume such as is shown in the large engraving is very popular. The yoke waist and the skirt with straight gathers form a combination that i? difficult to surpass. Scallops also are seen everywhere and anywhere that an edge is present ed which can be cut in scallops. It is a favorite mode of finishing the overdresses and the bottom of short jackets, and some of the ruffles are cut in scallops. You may have them deep or shallow, as you fancy, and trim them round with ruchings, in sertions, or knife plaitings. Another feature of decoration is lacing with fine silk cord over a contrasting color. Narrow openings up and down the bodice are laced across with cord either matching the gown in color or in some paler shade of the same color. A Stylish Skirt. The handsome combination shown in this stylish skirt is of Venetian cloth in a rich fawn color, the flounce portion being liberally showered with chenille polka dots in a slightly darker shade. The trimming that outlines the head of flounce is of silk and chenille, to match cloth and dots, ornamental straps being buttoned across the placket in centre back. The skirt shows a new variation of a popular style, consisting of an upper and lower part, both circular shaping. The upper portion is fitted closely by darts over the hips, and laps closely at centre back. The flounce forma the lower portion, which is shallow at the sides and widens to deep points in centre frout and back. While a combination of material ia a fad of the present moment, the skirt may be as stylishly made all of oue fabric, broadcloth, covert and Venetian cloth taking the lead among plain, sinooth-faced dress goods. Braid, gimp, passementerie and plain WOMAN'S SKIRT. of "frizzed" ribbon in satin or vel vet will form a fashionable decoration that may be applied in many ways. To make this skirt for a woman of medium size will require four yard* of material forty-four inches wide. DR. TALMAGE7S SERMON. SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED DIVINE. S abject: Whispered Venom—.The Voice of the Gossip Like the derpent's Hiss— Purveyor, of Idle Tales Are Poisoners of Society—An Arraignment of Liars. [Copyright, Louis Kiopsch, 189E.1 Wabhinotos, D. C.— ln this dlsoourse Dr. Talmage vigorously arraigns one of I tho great evils that have cursed the w.orld nnd urges generous Interpretation of the [ character of others; text, Romans 1., 29, "Full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, ma lignity; whisperers." Paul was here calling the long roll of the world's villainy, and he puts in the midst of this roll those persons known in all cities and communities and places as whisperers. They are so called because - they generally speak under voice and in a confidential [ way, their hand to the side of their mouth acting as a funnel to keep the precious in formation from wandering Into the wrong ear. They speak softly not because they have lack of lung force or because they are I overpowered with the spirit of gentleness, I but because they want to escape the conse quences of defamation. If no one hears but the person whispered unto, and the of fender be arraigned, he can deny the whole thing, for whisperers are always first-class liars! Some people whisper because they are I hoarse from a cold or because they wish to convey some useful information without disturbing others, but the creatures photo graphed by the apostle in my text give muffled utterance from sinister and de praved motive, and sometimes you can only hear the sibilant sound as tho letter "S" drops from the tongue into the listen ing ear, the brief hissed the serpent as it projects its venom. Whisperers are masculine and feminine, with a tendency to majority on the side of thosjje who are called "the lords of creation." Whisperers heard at every window of bank cashier nnd are heard in all counting rooms as well as In sewing societies and at meetings of asylum direc tors and managers. They are tho worst foes of sooiety, responsible for in numerable; they are the scavengers of the world, driving their cart through overy community, and to-day I hold up for your holy anathema and execration these whisperers. From the frequency with which Paul speaks of them under different titles I con clude that he must have suffered some what from them. His personal presence was very defective, nnu that made him, Cerhaps, the tnrget of their ridloule. And, esides that, ho was a bachelor, persisting In down into tho sixties, in deed all the way through, nnd, some hnv inn failed in their connubial designs upon him, the little missionary was put under the raking Are of these whisperers. He was no doubt a rare morsel for their scan dallzatlon, and he cannot keep his patience any longer, and he lnys hold of these miscreants of the tonuue and gives them a very hard setting down In my text among the scoundrelly and tho murderous. "Envy, murder, dobate, deceit, malignity; whisperers." Tho law of libel makes quick and stout grip of open slander. If I should iu a plain way, calling you by name, charge you with fraud or theft or murder or uu eleanness, to-morrow morning I might have peremptory documents served on me, and I would have to pay in dollars and cents for the damage I had donu your character. But these creatures spoken of in my text are so small that they escape the line tooth comb of the law. They goon, and they go ou, escaping the judges and the juries and the penitentiaries. The district attorney cannot find them, the sheriff cannot find them, the grand jury cannot find them. Shut them off from one route of perfidy and they start on another. You cannot by the force of moral sentiment persuade them to desist. You might as well read the Ten Commandments to a flock of crows, |ex pectlng them to retreat under the force of moral sentiment. They are to be found everywhere, these whisperers. I think their paradise is a country village of about 1000 or 2000 people, whero everybody knows everybody. But they also aro to bo found in large quantities In all our cities. They have a prying disposition. They look into tho basement windows at the tables of their neighbors and can tell just what they have morning anil night to eat. They can see ns far through a koyhole as other peoplo can see with a door wide open. They eun hear conversation on tho opposite side of the room. Indeed, tho world to tbem Is a whispering gallery. Some morulcg a wife descends Into tho street, her eyes damp with tears, and that is a stimulus to tho tattler and is enough to set up a business for three or four weeks. "I guess that husband nud wife don't live happily together. 1 wonder If he hasn't been abusing her? It's outrageous. He ought to be disciplined. Ho ought to be brought up before the church. I'll go right over to my neighbors aud I'll let them know about this matter." She rushes in nil out of breath to a neighbor's house and says: "Oh, Mrs. Allenr, have you heard the drendfui news? Why, our neighbor, poor thing, came down off the steps in a flood of tears. That brute of a husband hns been abusing her. Well, it's just as I expected. I saw him the other afternoon very smiling aud very gracious to some one who smiled back, and I thought I would just go up to him and tell him he hnd he ter go homo and look after his wife and family, who probably at that very time were upstnirs crying their eyes out. Oh, Mrs. Ailear, do have your hus band go over nud put an end to tbls trouble. It's simply outrageous that our neighborhood should be disturbed In this way. It's awful." The fact Is that one man or woman set on lire of this hellish spirit will keep a whole neighborhood a-boil. It does not require any 7ery great brain. Tho chief requisition is that the woman have a small family or no family at all, becouso if she have a large family, then she would bavo to stay at home and look after them. It is very important that she be single or bavo no children at all, and then she can attend to all tho secrets of the neighborhood all the time. A woman with a large family makes a very poor whisperer. It Is astonishing how these whisperers gather up everything. They know every thing that happens. There are telephone und telegraph wires reaching from their Mrs to all the houses iu the neigfiborbood. Thev have no taste for healthy news, but for the scraps and peeling thrown out of scullfry into tho back yard they have great avidity. Ou the day when there is a new scandal In the newspapers they have no time togo abroad. On the day when there are 112 >ur or five columns of delightful pri vate letters published in a divorce case she stays at home and reads and rends nnd rends. No time for her Bible that day, but toward night, perhaps, she may find time to run out a little while and see whether there are any new developments. Satnn does not hnveto keep a very sharp lookout for his evil dominion in that neighborhood. Ho has let out to her the whole contract. She gets husbands and wives into a quarrel and brothers aud sis ters into antagonism, and she disgusts the pastor with the flock nnd the flock with the pastor, and she makes neighbors who before were kindly dlspos«d toward ouch other over suspicious and critical, so when one of the neighbors pnsses by In a car riage they hiss through their teeth nnd say, '"Ah, we could all keep carriages if we never paid our debts!" When two or three whisperers get to gether, they stir a caldron of trouble, which makeß me think of thethree witches ot "Macbeth" dancing around a boiling oaldron in a dark cave: Double, double, toll and troublo, Fire barn and caldron babble. FJUet of a fenny snake In the caldron boll and bake; £ys cl newt and toe of frog. Wool of bat find toogne of dog, Adder's fork and blind worm's sting. Lizard's leg and owlet's wing For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell both boil and bubble. Double, double, toll und trouble, Fire burn and caldron bubble, ticale of dragon, tooth of wolr, Witches' mummy, maw and gulf Of the ravin'd salt sea shark; Make the gruel thick and stitrk; Add thereto a tiger's chaudron For the ingredients of our caldron, Double, double, toll and trouble, Fire burn and caldron bubble; Cool It with a baboon's blood, Then the charm is Arm and good. I would only chunge Shakespeare in this, that, where he puts theword "witch", I would put the word "whisperer." Ah, what a caldron! Did you ever get a taste of It? I have more respect for the pool wnlf of the street that goes down under the gaslight, with no home and no God— for she deceives no one ns to what she is— than I have for these hags of respectable society who cover up their tiger claws with a flue shawl and bolt the hell of their heart with a diamond breastpin! The work of masculine whisperers is chiefly seen in the embarrassment of busi ness. Now, I suppose, there are hundreds of men here who at some time have been in business trouble. I will undertake to say that in nine cases out of ten it was the result of some whisperer's work. The whisperer uttered some suspicion in regard to your credit. You sold your horse and carriage because you had no use for them, and the whisperer said: "Sold bis horse and carriage because he had to sell them. The fact that he sold bis horse and carriage shows he is going down in business." One of your friends gets embarrassed and you are a little Involved with him. The whisperer says:"l wonder if he can stand under all tbls pressure? I think he is going down. X think be will have to give up." You borrow money out a bank and a direc tor whispers outside about it, and after awbllo the suspicion gets fairly started and it leaps from one whisperer's lips to an other whisperer's lips until all the people you owe want their money and want it right away and the business circles come around you like a pack of wolves, and, though you had assets four times more than were necessary to meet your liabili ties, crash went everything! Whispeiers! Oh, how much business men have suHerod! I think among the worst of the whis perers are those who gather up all the harsh things that have been said about you and bring them to you—all the things said against you, or against your family, or against your style of business. They gather them all up and tbey bring them to you, they bring them to you In the very worst shape, they bring them to you with out any of the extenuating circumstances, and ufter they have made your feelings all raw, very raw, they take this brine, this turpentine,' this aqua fortis, and rub it In with a coarso towel and rub it in until it sinks to the bone. They make you the pincushion in which they thrust all the sharp tilings they have ever heard about you. "Sow, don't bring me into a scrape. Now, don't tell anybody I told yon. Let it be between you and me. Don't involve me in it ut all." They aggravate you to the point of profanity, and then thev wonder you cannot sing psalm tunes! They turn you on a spit before a hot lire and wonder why you are not absorbed In gratitudo to them because they turn you on a spit. Ped dlers of night shade. Peddlers of Canada thistle. Peddlers of nux vomica. Sometimes tbey get you in a corner whore you cannot very well escape without being rude, and then they tell you all about this one, and all about that one, and all about tho other one, and they talk, talk, talk, tulk, talk. After awhile thoy go away leaving the place looking like a barnyard, after the foxes and the weasels have been around; here a win l /, and there a claw, and yonder an eye, and there a crop. How they do make the feathers fly! Jesus Christ had these whisperers after Him. and they charged Him with drinking too much and keeping bad company. "A wine bibbor and tno friend of pubiicans and sinners." You take the best man that ever lived aud put a detective on his track for ten years, watching where he goes and when he comes, anil with a determination to misconstrue everything, and to think lie goes here for a bad purpose and there for a bad purpose, with that determina tion of destroying him, at the end of ten years ho will be held despicable in the sight of a great many people. If it Is an outrageous thing to despoil a man's character, how much worse is it to dnmage a woman's reputation? Yet that evil grows Trom century to contury, nnd It is all done by whisperers. A suspicion is started. The next whisperer who gets hold of it states tho suspicion as a proved fact, nnd many a good woman, as honor able as your wife or your mother, has been whispered out of all kindly associations and whispered into the grave. Some people say there is no hell, but if tbera be no hell for such a despoller of womanly character it is high time that some philanthropist built one. Hut there is such a place established, aud what a time they will have when all the whisperers get down there together re ding things! Everlasting carnival of mutn Were it not for tho uncomfortable surroundings, you might suppose they would be glad to get there. In that region ■s'dere they are all bad what opportunities for exploitation by theso whisperers! On earth t* riespoll their neighbors some times f hdy hnd t« lio about them, but down there they can say the worst things possible about their neighbors and tell the truth. Jubilee of whisperers. Grand gala day of backbiters. Seinlheaven of scandal mongers stopping their gabble about their diabolical neighbors only long enough to go un to tho iron gate und ask some new comer from the earth, "What is tho last gossip in the city ou earth where we used to live? ' Now, how are we to <var against this~"Tn iquity which curves every community on earth? First by refusing to listen to or believe a whisper. Every court of the land has for a law, and all decent communities have for a law, that you must hold people lnnocont until they aro proved guilty. There is only ono person worse than the whisperer, and that is the man or woman who listens without protest. Tho trouble is you hold tho sack while they 1111 it. Tho receiver of stolen goods is just as bad as the thief. An ancient writer declares that a slanderer and a man who receives tno slander ought both to be hanged—the one by the tongue and tho other by the ear. And I agree with him. Oh, my friends, employ the tongue which God so wonderfully created ns the organ of tnste, the organ of deglutition, the organ of articulation to makis others happy and in the service of God! If you whisper, whisper good— encouragement to the fallen and hope to the Inst. Ah, my friends, tho time will soon come when we will all whisper! ~ The voice will be en feebled in tho last sickness, aud, though that voice could laugh nud shout and slug and halloo until the forest echoes an swered, it will be so feeble then we can only whisper consolation to those whom wo leave behind and only whisper our hope of heaven. While I speak this very moment there are hundreds whispering their last utter ances. Oil, when that solemn hour comes to you and to me, as como soon it will, may it be found that wo did our best to serve Christ and to cheer our comrades In the earthly struggle and that we conse crated not only our hand, but our tongue, to Godl So that the shadows that fall around our dying pillow shall not be the evening twilight of a gathering night, but the morning twilight of an everlasting day. This morning, at half past four o'clock, I looked out of my window, and the stars were very dim. I looked out a few mo ments after, aad the stais were almost in visible, I looked out an hour or two after ward. Not a star was to be se«D. What was the matter with the stars? Had they melt ed into darkness? No. They had melted into the glorious light of a Sabbath morn. _ ... 112 ' V * \ ) I®p A i "i %<]vj Mr. Eben E. Rexford, probably the best Known writer on the culture and care of flowers, gives the following recipe for an insecticide that he has found to be more satisfactory than hellebore or Paris-green: Shave a quarter of a pound of Ivory Soap in water sufficient to cover it and dissolve upon the stove, then add five gallons of warm water. Spray this solution upon the plants with a florist's syringe, or if they are small dip them bodily into it. In either case he sure to reach every part. Let them stand half an hour and then rinse with clear water. Every aphis that the solution comes in-contact with will be promptly killed. COPYRIGHT 189* «Y THE PROCTER * GAMBLE CO. 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