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
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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
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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
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e
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, 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
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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
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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
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