NOW AND THEN. Oh, now and tliu then mh a day Wh-n nil onr skies sro 1 -ight, An I nil of life's appointed way U bathed In golden light , When roses hide no thorn beneitB , When love Iim no alloy An 1 itephyr full of perfume breatho From out tho hills of Joy. Tim present It a dieting thlni; The put will live for aye, Ami all It store of pleasures bring Forever and a day. Anil softer shall the echoes come From time's rece ling shore E '-li will itln.111 n pleasure fro The dsys thnt nro no more. Oh. memories of such, awake An.l glad thi- weary Now : A wreath of recollections make To crown the dreamer brow. Oil. silent voice and Vlllishel ImQ !, Uring ftnflt the goldcu sheaves The rippln of the waters an I The laughter of the loiv-s. -N.xsn Waterman, In Chlc.igo Journal. SEVEN DAYS! IIY KATK 1TTVAM OS'IOOP. T was Lot day in early summer. The t i tl of mountain travel i-r. .-y vc l n r r t up scasou. 3Wfl nl"1 Nnm CM- & tl u i( piiaseuKcr iu t'uo nitisly old Htart much which ha 1 joi-Ve l heavily along for twelve woiiry miles. The journey was enlivened by simoons of lnt that strengthened the camcl-libe suggestions of the four gauut jaded horses. Th young lady wuo sat in slate mono in this tincotu- ! fortahlo vehicle wm thoroughly worn out with heat and hendsehe, an !, worst of all, bored with her own so- : ciety. ! Niun CaMwdl was eighteen a:: 1 : very pretty. Sho wan also exceediii.rly i spoiled, and subject to occasional tits I of tinrfiwin. Iu one of incite the had ' left her hister and brother-in-law, n week in advance of thu time appoint .1 1, j and was uow ronpiug tho benefit of ' that rash net. She had leisure and to sparo for bitter reflection. She tried to read, ! yawned, eottnted the Hies, attacked '. some. oar..mcls and finally relapsed j into o'niilit r depression. I " Who i, Jeminy ! Whoa, there !" ! Nina started and looked urouud in ! bewilderment. A moment later the ! driver's suuburueJ face appeared ut i the door. She must have slept u ; utile. "Here you are, ruins, Maple Hotel. Stop half an hour, thuu chuuge w ith coach from Greene. Ooia' to stay, though, you be?" iis ii .Nina, even in alighting, took in hor rroundincra t a glance. - Maple a storfning-place tarra house, wi m,r? or linSerins. L ' '"afued oj jus u here a poo. 'H to o she had decided u-, T joined her. Under the great niale, from which the house van named, a gent'eniau lay asleep, hi Btraw hat and news paper beside him. "The only cool place," thought Nina. "How intensely eltish." From tho piazza, the yellow paint glared hot iu tho utuhine, hhe looked disdainfully at her recumbent enemy, mun of about thirty, and, so far u could be ju Ik.-.I from bin position, de cidedly fcoo Jdoo'ivin. His hair m liKht and close cut, his forehead sijuare, ud his mouth, even iu sleep, and un der tho shadow of his mustache, wore look of imperturbable good humor. The merits o.' his liijiir.; rather of the masiivo order wtre undeniable. On a bench near Xina w as a book. Sh-i too it up. On the rlvleaf was written, Merrick Uryoe. Undoubtedly hi, tthe thought, as sho turned it jver. Meanwhile tho late sleeper had awak ened. Oj tho piazza snt the prettiest girl he hud overseen, with black, will Tul hair, and eyes but tho book his book, monopolized those. Just then sho looked up, and he saw that they were dark gray. His own. light brown ones were keen tho'tgh indolent, and tittle escaped them. Ho arose and sauntered nwav, while she was vexed to lind herself spjculut iug about him. Maplo Hutel was, perilous, tho dull est place in the world. To CHij jt H "one horso concern" would be rank flattery. It was the merest oijuiue fraction. And if there were ever jus tifiable homicide, it would have been assuredly in the taking oil of the com pounder of its pies and puddings. Nina's rerculean mood deepened to indigo at the sight of the conglomerate nightmare supper, which sho enjoyed in solitary state with Mr. Jbyce, mar velmg, the while, to behold his up petite. There seemed a certain an tagonism between them, tho more un fortunate since they would bo thrown on each other's society for several days. Nina explained her position. She was in advauce of frieuds obliged to delay their arrival ( !) after which they were all going to the mountains. Mr. Dryeo remarked that his own ease was somewhat similur. His purty, also, was delayed -they were to have met here yesterday and he was consoling him-elf us best he could with fish ing. "Odious people," thought Nina pet tishly. "Jt is wonderful how mauy such there are iu the world, and how oue always meets them. Lthel would ay it served me right a married sis ter is no unsympathetic. Hut I will never own to homesickuoss." Next day sho made further acquaint ance with Mr. Uryoe ou the basis of h book aforesaid. They dweuwed it characters aud iucidtuu. "The story is entertaining. But the heroine" and Nina made ft little grimaco. ' "Exactly my ideal," smiled Mr. Bryoe. "I wonder how many men Lave aaid that," flashed Nina, "rfhe ia abso lutely slavish. Most women, thank heaven, have a little prido left." "Hut she has so much heart. Per haps, though, yon object to that?" "Ob, I have none at all." "You are to be congratuluted. has always lcen my misfortune possess too much." Nina had taken a treat dislike It to to Mr. Bryco. He had a vexatious way of involving her in a discussion "which left her angry and bewildered. She felt tempted to goaway, but pride anil convenience alike forbade. For seven days she must endure it. Hhe would remain in her room, or seek the fields and woods. As this seemed a tramp less country (even tramps disdained it, thought Nina bitterly) the idea was practicable. The next morning she had her break fast sent up to her. Then she slipped out of doors to a fragrant nook she had discovered. But the air was vitia ted by a cigar, where Mr. Bryce tat smoking. He rone and tossed it away. "I have something of yours. Com mend my honor that I have not pressed the spring." He badiu reality examined it, and knew that it con tained merely a woman's picture. Bat she believed it, as she took the miss ing locket. There was a truce established, and time even passed pleasau ly there in the locust shade. "I am going fishing to-day," he said presently. "What is tho attraction in Tho idea, after centuries of tion, of reverting to the fishing? savage. "Shall I confess that I am driven by the same motive that urges the sav age by the pangs of hunger?" "1 understand," replied Nina, laughing at his rueful look and tone. "And if you are successful. I will re tract my criticism. When do you re turn?" "To morrow night." Toward evening Nina, with an odd feeling of loneliness, was sitting bo side a laughing little stream, shaded oy elms and alders, a long-legged bird stood near by, balancing lumself thoughtfully on one foot, and eyeing her cautiously, while at iutervals he uttered a long plaiutire cry. From a neighboring field came the low of ap proaching cattle. "ricturesfjue, rather," said a voico Whin 1 her, "Mr. Uryco!"she started. "Is it possibly you are here." "I am here to be congratulated and generally laurel-crowned," he an swered with a lazy laugh. "I have left at Maple Hotel the result of my labor, and to-morrow I sooared from famine." "But your two davs; ihing?" "Kodnood to one.'V She colore. i- " of herself, and turned -i;A Jfcardle. 0 cattle. - "Xou are afraid ofNru?" lie said, I looking at her with a suule. j "A little why?" "Most city girls aro or seem so." I "No affectation, I assure you. I Think what horrors they must appear to us all horns anil hmf." In a novel I should rescue you from them stolid as they realBy are. What j do they know of 'the weariness, the fever and the fret' thatvex humanity ? j However, a uovol incident is at baud, worn witu age, out still vigorous enough to work us woe. The storm ! Look at tho wot." The sky was piled in 1luck and leaden masses. As she looked at it a ipiick lightning flash made her start. "That vacaut house youler will shelter us," said Bryce. "Only we must make haste. ' They reached it as the first thtuder rolled around tho hills. Enormous hailstones rattled on the roof, aud u cold wind suddenly arose. N'tua, over heated by her violeuut exertion, n w shivered iu her thin dress. Bryce threw olT his coat, and prc pured to put it over her shoulders. "You ought, Miss Caldwell," he urged as she objected. "I a:u used to rougU iug it, aud run no risk whatever, but it is don?erous for you. Very well," imperturbanly, s sue still refused. "I will try it outside." i He suited his action to the wordA This was more than sho could bear. She went to the door where be stooj coolly among the hailstone. "Come iu, and I will do as you wish." They looked into each other's eyes as no wrappoil tue covering about her. : jd He half smiled. ".Shall we cull this E don or the ark Or, perhaps, a desert island? I shou build you a hut with tools saved frojm tho shipwreck, and bring you fr iit aud goats' milk. Possibly we shoild havo rescued an ice cream freezer.'' "And I could braid our hat amV do the esthttic generally," laughed tfina. "Aud some day it always etud so a wandering vessel iu searnu of a coooauut cargo, or something) of thu kind, wculd take us bok to civiliza tion and then " Nina droppod her eyes, anddrummed on a broken pane. "Is the shower over? he asked, coldly. "liegardiug this as li4 ark, I will act the double role of A'oah and the dove," he rejofued v,;Vi seeming un consciousness of her i ,;.ered maimer. "I will send myself forth to see if the raiu has abated." He speedily returueld, bearing a green leaf in triumph, Lio 1 hive found it. plaoe for my foot not being a Chicago girl 'I am a Chiuago girl , sue hastily of the eyes. iuterposed, with a flash He gave onsgUnoa a t the small foot in its perfectly tlttinc dainty boot. For tin first lime in thl career of that legal gentleman, Merrick Bryce was. taken aback. "Beware of general ities," he mused, and made his peace as best he might. The last evening of their week's tete-a-tete had arrived. Once more they sat under the lo.itst trees. Mr. Bryce seemed moody, aud showed a repressed excitement. "My idea of the battle of life, lie said suddenly, "is to treat the mind and body to their utmost, and then give np the contest." Nina looked astonished. There was a certain latent weariness about him which she had never seen before. "Merely a breath from the Palace of Truth," he said iu reply to her questioning glauce. Do you dare enter it ?" "Yes," she said, wondering still more. "Then do you csra for me? Yon must answer," as sho sat in confused silence. "Yes" just nudible. "As for me, I envy the earth be neath your feet. What if I have known you but seven days? That is the talk of fools. Nina say that yon have a heart, aud that it belongs to me." "You kuow it already," she mur mured. "This is the hour of my triumph t What has become of your dislike and pride?" She felt in a half deam, controlled by her voice. Suddenly he started. "It is I who am a fool and worse I Miss Caldwell !" abruptly, to restore her to herself. "Mr. Bryce?" with her usual man ner. "The stago-coach is due," taking out his watch. "Shall we go to thd piazza?" The coach came lumbering up. A young uiau sprang off, and assisted a pretty blonde girl to alight. "That is the one I am engaged to," said Nina, meditatively, to Mr. Bryce. "And that is tho one I am engaged to," responded Mr. Bryce with equal calmuess. From the inside appeared three other figures, a young couple and an elderly lady. "Fru I and Ethel," exclaimed Nina. "And my prospective mother-in law," said Mr. Brvce. "What a happv family." After mutual handshakings, Fred whispered to Nina : "So you have been flirting hero these seven days by yourselves? Well, I cau assure you that your own Char ley aud the future Mrs. Bryco have taken ample revenge for their wrongs." "Poetical justice," mused Nina, as sue started for her room. Ou the stairs she mst Mr. Bryce. "Nina, forgive me," he whispered, "aud four mistakes may ba set right. We are not the only culprits." She withdrew her hand, but her heart sans as the continued on hn:v way. In her thvouViVn o was going orer n ,Wief interview with her brothr'-in-law. You kuow I never approved of your ball-room engagement withChar ley Feruald, Nina," he had said. "Miss Nellie Liuwood is much better suited to him. Slut is perfectly shal low and rattle-headed. Fancy hor tell ing us ingeuiously that she and Mr. Brypewero engaged, but did not ear anything for each other. He is hei guardian, and she declares that sue be lieves he was going to marry her be cause she bothered him an I he did noi know how else to dispose of her." Nina could iiotrefraiu from a merry peal of laughter. "Now, this Mr. Bryce, so far as I can judge ou bj very short an ac quaiutauce, seems to be a good sort o' fellow, ami one who will keep you in order. Oh, no use to flash your eye you need it." "But what makes you fancy, you absurd Fred, that there is nuythiu between Mr. Bryce and mo?" The bliuluess of u but has not hitherto been considered one o? my distinguished characteristics, "respond ed Fred oricularly. "15ut there is Ethel waiting for me. Tell me when you expect congratulation i, eh, Nina?" With which provoking speech he hail left her to go her own way, with thu result, altogether described, of a meeting with Mr. Bryce ou the stairs, and some words uttered which changed the whole outlook of life for her. De troit Free Press. ;ijsshlomr Fruiii T.iiiriujia. There is settled now upon the odge of the German quarter in New York a littlo colony of artistic and soientiflo glassblowers from Thurii. The colouists say they are the first and only persons to undertake in the United States exactly such work as they are doing. The show window of this little fac tory displays a curious variety of works in glass. There aro delicately wrought vases in mny colors, tuar mometer tubes, surgical appliances; little double bulbed glasses with water in the 1 iwer bulb and gold fish iu the upper. The glass flowers are the pride and specialty of the proprietor. He was oue of the earliest men in Germany to make them, says his voluble assistant, and they are really marvelous product of the glassblower' art. Tuon are roses, red, white and yellow, with soft and pliant-looking petils, curiously like the geuuiue rose. There are sprays of lily of the valley, a plant iu which the Germans spe"ially delight; moss-rose buds, forget-me not, aud all of fifty other flowers that oue may name. The glassblowers use ordinary illuminating gas, to which they com municate extra pressure by a simple device. They work with astonishing rapidity aud nicety. China, Glass aud Lamps. Charles Lamb, ttie Euglish essayist, was buried iu Eituoutoa ciiurohyard. TRAGEDYJF DRESS. SACRIFIZES FOR FASHION. Men Are as Bad as Woman. Bars Tal ma Effort to Be in Style. Tr.xt! . 'Whoss adorning lot It not hsthat nntward aitornlnff of plaiting the hair and the wearing of gold or of patting on of ap psrnl. hut let It tm the hidden man of the heart. "I Peter III.. 8, 4. That we should all be olad fs proved by thn opening of the first wur.lrohe In paradise, with Its apparnl of dark green. That we should all, as fnr as our means allow us, M rwautlfully and gracefully appareled Is proved by the fact that Ood never made a wave but He elided It with golden tunheams, or a tree but He garlanded It with blossoms, or a sky but He studded It with start, or al lowed even the smoke of a furnace toasoend but He eolumnnd and turreted and domed and scrolled It Into outlines of Indescribable graeefulness. When I see the apple or chards of tho spring and the pageantry of the autumnal forests. I come to the conclu sion that. If nature dons ever join the church, while she may he a Quaker la tbe silence of her warship, she oevsr will be a Quaker In the style ot her dress. Why the notches of a fern leaf or the stamen of a water lllyV Whv, when the day departs, does It let the folding doors of linaven stay open so long When It might go In so quickly? One summer morning I saw an army ot a million spears, eseh one adorned with a diamond of the first water I mean the gras, with the dew on It. When the prodigal came home, his father not "ily put a coat on his hack, but Jewelry on his hand. Christ wore a beard. I'aul, the bachelor apostle, not sffUcted with any ; sentimentality, admired the arrangement o ; a woman's hair when he said in his epistle, I "If a woman have long hair, it Is a glory unto her." I There will be a fashion In heaven as on earth, but It will be a different kind of fashion, ft will decide the color of the dress, and the population of that country, by a beautiful law. will wear white. I say these things as a background to mv sermon to show you that I have no prim, precise, . prudish or cast Iron theories on the subject of human apparel. Itut the goddess of fashion has sot up hnr throne In this world. I and nt the sound of tbe timbrels wears all I expected to full down and worship. The I Old and New Testament of her bible are the fashion plates. Her altars smoks with the sscritlco of tbe bodies, minds and souls of 10.000 victims. In her temple four ' people stand la the organ loft, and from them there comes down a cold drlxzle ot music, freezing on tbe ears of her worshipers, j This goddess of fashion has become a rival , of thn Lord of heaven and earth, and It Is ' high time that wo unllmbered our batteries i against this idolatry. When I come to count thn victims of fashion, I llnd as many '. masculine as feminine. Men make an easy ; tirade against woman, ns though sho wore the chief worshiper nt this idolatrous j shrine, and no douht some men In the mora conspicuous part of the pew have already ; cast glance at the more retired part of the I pew, their look a prophecy of generous dls- tribution. My sermon shall beasspproprlate ; for one end ot the pew as forthe otlior. I Men are as much the tdoliitors of fashion ! as women, but they sacrillan on a different part of the altar, With men the fashion go to cigars ana olubrooms snd yachting purtles snd wine suppers. In the United Ktates the men chsw up and smoke 100. 000. COO worth of tobacco every year. That fs their fashion. In London not long ago a man died who started In Ufa with 76O,OO0, but heats It all up in gluttonies, sending bis agents to all parts ot tns earth for soms rsre delicacy for the palate, sometimes one cVm i4J,V food ousting hti 300 or t400. He ate run bis whdle fortune and had oulv a milne. luit. With that be bought a woodcock and bud It dressed in the very best style, nte It, guvs two hours lor dlgostlon. then walked out on WeM minster brldgennd threw himself into tbe Thames and died, doing on a large scale what you and I have often seen dons on a small scale. But men do not abstain from mllliuery and elaboration of skirt through any superiority of humility, it is only because such appendages would be a blockade to business. Whut would sashes snd trains three and a half yards long do In a stock market And yet men are the dis ciples of fashion Just as much as women, home of them woar boots so tight they can hardly walk in the paths of righteousness. And there are men who buy expensive suits of clothes and Dover pay tor thum. and who go through tho streets in great stripes ol color like animated checkerboards. I say theso thimrs liecause I want to show you that I uin impartial in my discourse, and that both sexes, lu the lauguugo of the surro gate's ofllce, shall "share und share alike." As Ood may help me. I shall show you what are ihe destroying and (loathful lufluencos of Inordinate fashion. The first buneiul Influence I notice is In fraud, Illimitable and ghastly. Do you know tuut Arnold of the revolution proposed to sell his country lu or ler to got money to support his wife's wardrobe' I declare bora belore Ood and this people that the effort to keep up expensive establishments in this country Is ending more business men to temporal perdition than all other causes combined. What was It that sent Oilman to the penitentiary and Philadelphia Morton to the watering of stock, and the life insurance presidents to perjured statements about their assets, and has completely upset our American finances? What was It that over, threw the United Htates secretary at Wash ington, the crush of whose full shook the continent? But why should I go to these fa mous dcfuultings to show what men will dr In ordor to keep up great home style aud ex pensive wardrobe when you aud I know scores of mon who are put to their wits' end and are lashed from January to Deeembei In the attempt? Our politicians may theor ize until the expiration of their terms of of llce as to the best way of improving out monetary condition in this country, it will be of uo use, and things will be no neitei until w'i can learn to put on our beads and backs sod feet and bauds no more than wt can pay for. There are clerks In stores and banks on limited salaries who, In the vain attempt to keep the wardrobe of their family as showy as other folks' wardrobes, are dying ot muffs snd diamonds and shawls and high hats, and they have nothing left except whut shey give to cigars and wine suppers, and thoy die he fore their time, and thoy will expect us min isters to preach about them as tnougn they were tbe vb-ttms ot early piety, and after a high class funeral, with silver handles at the side of tbe coffin of extraordinary bright ness, it will be found out that the under taker Is cheated out ot his legitimate ex penses. Do not send to me to preaob the funeral sermon of a man who dies like that. I will blurt out tbe whole truth and tell that he was strangled to death by bis wife's rib bons. Our countries are dressed to, death. You are not surprised to find that the put ting up one public building in New Yok cost millions ot dollars more than It ought to have cost when you llud that toe man who gave out tbe contracts paid more thau tSOOO for his daughter's wedding dress. Cashmeres of a thousand dollars each are not rare o- Bmadwav. ft la estimated that there are 10.000 women lit these two cltiea who have expended on their personal array fttoo a year. What are men to do In order to keep np such home wardrobes? Kteal? That is the only respectable thing they can dot During the last fifteen year there have been In numerable flue businesses shipwrecked on the wardrobe. The temptation comes lu this way : A man thinks more of his family than of all the world outside, and If tbey spend the evening In describing to him tha superior wsrdrobeot the family across the street that they can not bear the sight of the man Is thrown on his gallantry and on bis pride of family, and without translating bis feelings Into plain language he goes into ex tortion and Issuing false stoek and skillful penmanship in writing somebody else's name at the foot of a promissory note, and they all go down togother the husband to the prison, the wife to the sewing machine, the children to be taken care of by those who were called poor relations. Oh, for some new Shakespeare to arise and write the tragedy of human clothes ! Will you torsive me if I say in tersest shsps possible that some of the men have to forve and to perjure and to swindle to pay forthelr wives' dress . I will say it whether you forgive me or not I Agsln. inordinate fashion is the foe of alt Christian almsgiving. Men and women put so much In personal display that they often have nothing for Ood and the oause of suf fering humanity. A Christian man cracking bis I'alals lloyal glove across the back by shutting np his hand to hldeths cent he puts inte tbe poorhox. A Christian woman, at the story ot the Hottentots, crying copious tears into a iS handkerchief and then giv ing a two cent ideee to the collection, thrust ing It under bills so people will not know but ft was at 10 goldplece. One hundred dol lars for Incense to fashion i two cents for Ood Ood gives ns ninety cents out of every dollar. The other tn cents by command of Ills Bible belong to HI in. Is not Oo 1 liberal according to His tithing system laid down In the Old Testament? Is not Ood liberal In giving us ninety nents out of a dollar wha He takes but ten? We do not like that. We want to have ninety-nine cents for ourselves and one for Ood. Now, I would a great deal rather steal ten eents from you than from Ood. I think one reason why a great many people do not get along In worldly accumulation faster Is be eause tney on not ooserve tnis aivine rule. Ood says, "Well, if that man Is not sstisfled with ninety cents of a dollar, then I will fake the whole dollar, and I will give It to the man or woman who is honest with Me." The greatest obstacle to charity In the Chris tian church to-lay is the fact that men ex pend so much money on their table, snd wo men so much on their dress, they have got aothlug lett for the work of Ood ami the world's betterment. In my first settlement st Bsllevllle, N. J., the cause of missions was being presented one Rabhath, and a plea or tne charity of the people was being made, when an old Christian man In the audience lost his bslance and said right out in the midst of the sermon, "Mr. Talraage. how are we to give liberally to those grand and glori ous cause when our families dress as they do?' I did not answer that question. It was the only time in my life when I bad nothing to say. Again, Inordinate fashion is distraction to puhllo worship. You know very well there aro a good many people who come to church Just as they go to the races to see who will come out first. What a flutter It makes lu church when some woman with extraordi nary display of fashion comes In! "What a love of a bonnet !' says one. "What a per fect fright !" ssys 600. Kor the most mr'i loss critics In the world are fashion critics. Men and women with souls to be saved pass ing the hour In wondering where that man got his cravat or what store that woman pntronix.es. In many of our churches the preliminary exorcises are taken up with the discussion of wardrobe. It Is pitiable. Is It not won derful that the Lord does not strike the meetinghouses with lightning? What dis traction of public worship 1 Dying men and and women, whose bodies are soon to bo turned Into dust, yet beford throe worlds strutting like peacocks, the nw:ul question of the soul's destiny submerged by the quos. tion of navy blue velvet and long fan train skirt, long enoug to drag no the church aisle, the husaand'a store, ofllce, shop, fac tory, fortune and the admiration of half the people in tho building! Men and women come late to church to show their clothes. People sitting down in a pew or taking up a hymnbook, nil absorbed at tbe same time lu personal array, to sing ; - Kn, mrWi, ti'. wsijfhYtfrtrtosiir Tby bettrr portion trace. ' i Blw from IraoAltorjr thin ' Toward batvn, isjf native piacs. I adopt the Episcopalian prayer anil ssy, 'Good Lord, deliver us '." Insatiate fashion also belittles the intel lect. Our minds are enlarged or they dwln- , die Just in proportion to the Importance of ; the subject on which we constantly dwell, j Can you imagine anything more dwarfing to the human lntollect than the study oi fnsh- j ion? I soe men on the street who, Judging I trom their elaboration, must have taken two ! hours to arrange their apptrol. After a few I years of that kind ot absorption, which one j or McAllister j magnifying glasses will bo powerful enough to make the man's oharaa : ter visible? Tney all lund In Idiocy. I I have seen men at the summer watering places, through fashion, tho mere wreck of I what thoy nueo were. Hallow of cheek. Meagre of limb. Hollow At the chest. Show j lng no animation save In rushing across a room to picu up a lady's fan. Simpering ! along the corridors the sa'ne compliments they si-npered twenty years ago. A New j York lawyer at United States Hotel, Sara toga, within our hearing, rushed across a ! room to say to a sensible woman, "Vou an as sweet as peaches !" The fools of fashion I are myriad. Fashion not only destroys tbe j body, but It makes Idiotic thu Intellect. I Yet, my Iriends, I have given vou only the I milder phase of this evil. It shuts a grout i multitude out of heaven. The llrst peal ol I thunder that shook Hiual declared, "Thou ! sbalt have no other Ood before Me," and ; you will have to choose between the go Ideas ot lashion and tbe Christian Ooi. There I are a great many seats In heaven, and tbey are all easy seats, but not oue seat for the j devotee of lashion. Heaven Is lor meek and , quiet spirits, lieuvon Is for those who think I more of their souls than of their bo lies. Heaveu Is for those who bava more Joy la j Christian ohurity than in dry goodBroligion Why. If you. with yoi-r Idolatry of fashion, I should somehow get Into heaven, you would be for putting a French roof ou the "bouse ; of many mansions." Give up this Idolatry ' of fashion or give up heaven. What would you do standing beside the Countess of Huntington, whose Joy It was to build chapals for the poor, or with that Christian woman of Boston who fed 1509 children of the street at Fanuuil Hall ou New Year's day, giving out as a sort ot doxology at the end of tbe meeting u pair of shoes to each one of them, or those Dorcases of modern society who nave consecrated their needles to the Lord, and who will got eternal rewurd for every stitch tbey take? Ob, men and women, give up tbe Idolatry of tushlon ! Tbe rivalries and tbe competi tions ot such n life are a stupendous wretch edness. You will ulwaya Mud some one with brighter array aud with more palatial resi dence, ami with lavender kid gloves that make a tighter fit. And If you buy this thing and wear it you will wish you ha I bought something else and wern It. And the frets of such a life will bring the crow's teet to your temples before they are due, and when you come to die you will have a miserable time. I have seen men ami women of fash ion die. and I never saw one of them die well. The trapplugs off, there they lay on the tumbled pillow, and there were just two thingsthat bothered them t waste I life and a coming eternity. I could not pacify them, for their body, mind and soul had been ex hausted In the worship of fashion, and tbev could not appreciate the gospel. When I knelt by their bedside, tbey were mumbling out their regrets and ssylng "OOot! O Ood !" Their garments hung up in the war Irohe, never agsln to be soon by them. Without any exception, so far as my mem ory servea tne, they died without hope an I went Into Hterulty unprepared The most ghastly deathbeds on earth are theoue where aumu dies of delirium tremens and the other whore a womau dies after hiv ing sacritlcsd all hsr fuculiios of body, mind and soul In the worship of fashion. Mr friends, wo must appear lu Judgment to an swer for what ws have woru on our bodies as well as for what repentuue.es ws have exer cised with our souls. Dntbstday I see coming In Beau Bruit mel of the last century, without Ills eloik, like which all England got a cloak, and with out his cans, like which all England got a cans, without his snuCtoox, like wblon all England got a snuffbox he. the fopy. ages, particular about everything tun! morals, and Asron Burr without the u that down to old ag be showed In nn- prove his early wicked gallantries, ,0'J aalom without his hair, and Marcbij Pompadour without her titles, an) ? Arnold, ths belle of Wall street, whe3 perles of vest a re. And In great bsggardness they w away into eternal expatriation, while J rJ iuw iijt-us Ul ut-nTemj vwitn j will on f- Vssntl, who wore the modest veil hrr. tut 1 1 palatial bacchanalians, and Handab, J annually made a little coat for 8amusfj temple, and Orandmother Lois, the J rlf trees ot iimoiny, wno imitatea ner ti-J A . I . I huu nnrj, wild kstq eua jurist to world, and many ot you, tbe wivsa mothers and sisters and daughters ot present Christian church, who, throuetn- r tn 0T kn tribulation, are entering Into the kln I J Ood. Christ announced who would J o-rthe royal family of heaven when Hi J Whosoever doeth the will ot Ood, ths J sai iJ t so a aij uroiuer, my sister, nj moiuer. T!tn Wonderful Outf Htream. roop'.o who visit the east cms: Florida, and especially tho In: lUvcrund the Luke Worth re iften wonder why the climate of t irlnl lis l ity icctino Is m delightful at ail 14 ns n the year and io different Id not every particular from what would expect In thoso latitudes. : ixplanatlon is simple enough. ' Inference be'.ween northern tcmlt'oplcal Flo Ida. apart from atltudlnal distance, Is due to ilevatlon of the former and the vance from It of the Gulf stre t-S . afc .S .V . at., la A ; to ho (ly ,fi i i tne waters or inn wun oi .tied vcmper the Immediate coast Their effect does not extend far 'and. The stream U pressed clns el ; It e VII , II II 'I III ;he cast coast shore alontf Dude ly by the llahama banks. Atla iteamshlps southwatd bound, i void the force of the current, u In so near the shore that they cat onie points be balled from L The Gulf stream is an obi story, It Is a (treat fact. This vast, c blue ocin river, a thousand t:: the volume of the MUslsslptil thirty miles wide, 2,000. feet d ind has a velocity of five nil Iim hour trie year round. Tho teni ture of the stream Is elirhty-four trees, or nine degrees higher t the waters of the ocean thr which It flows. Tho trade w blowing nine-tenths of the time, tcr and summer from tho east bear the stratum of warm air for by the Gulf stream westward a the land. This Is why the cant r Is milder and more equable than west, coast In the same latlt With the Gulf stream are found t other eiuullzinif agencies the I winds, the Everglades, with aw surfaco preventing a land br and the zono of high barometric p ure. The midsummer heat, might otherwise bo nlncty-fJvc jtrees, Is reduced to something eighty-eight degrees. The mid re Av -in 'oi t 1 11 ll . w li it l mj !iel Ug 111 ;urj ill' I we ;Ur ter chill, which might get dowt thirty degrees, is warmed up to s tV-' . Viko lorty degrees.' " ' A Government Puppy. Apropos of the distribution of se( from the Department of Agrlcultu Ky which was uuder discussion In 1 I. Houso recently, Rep esentatlve Tu er, of Virginia, to d a story. He s s 'i I' that down In Appomattox Coud there lived un old farmer to whom had on scve-al occasions sent pa ages of seeds and shipments ot ll from tho l-'lsh Commission, w which to stock tho creeks and io un his place. Ono court day, wl the Kepresentattvo tva In town, farmer friend approached and li confidential way said: -Tuck, you lent me seeds and fish two or tri times, and I am very much oblL to you for them, but there is other thing I wish you would d' you can." "What's that?" asked the Rej scntative. X "Well, I want a thoroughly bound pup for my kennel, an ; thought maybo you folks up at W:i ington could real It down to me j as well as not, If I only asked for ; "Why, ceitalnly." retiptnloJ Tn or. "It will give me great pleas to send the pup to you, and as s as I get back to Washington you c look out for him." Tho Represen tlve said that, so far as ho could - there was no reason hy the Govt ment should not go into the bush of supplying the constituents Congressmen with dogs t Impr their breeds as well as sued to prove their crops and dsn to ad their food supply. "So," he tlnued, "I hunted tip a thorough! hound pup, bad blm nicely crat prepaid the express charges and s him down. And you can bet t constituent U solid for Tucker. Washington l'ost. Fruit Eating to Cum All His. A new society of crinks hast started by a former lieutenant In German army. His name is Wat lie is the leader of a new "ism," us smh sailed recently from V Francisco to Honolulu. The Fru rlans" U the namo o. tho new sue he represents, and their belie f- rather notion Is that modern civ nation Is full of vanities und stra notions, and greatly needs reform i The uietn tiers eat notning imc r fruit, eschew cooued iooa of kind, and drink only water. T ure to live In huts, Lure nt the c forts of civilization, ami go tmk Kx-Lieut Wattie Intends to bu large tract of land In the .candv. Islands, or perhaps a small Ul outright, for tbe purposo of lound u colony. Itubbcr Tirea. In the use of rubber tires for cycles It must be borno In mind tl no oil, varnish or grease should allowed to touch them. Oil is enemy to rubber. Care io this pect should be had tn applying oil to bearlnts-fc ti P' 1 0
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