: ..
NOW AND THEN.
Oh, now and tlin then eo-ne a day
Whm nil our skies are I -ight,
An 1 All of Ufa's nppolntn 1 way
Is bnthed In golden light ,
When roses hide no thorn beneith ,
When love has no alloy i
Anl Rophyr. full of pcr'time brent ho
From out the hills of Joy.
The present Is a flwtlng thing
The pt will llv for aye,
And all Its store of pleasures tiring
Forever and a day.
Anil softer slwill th echoes coins
From time's receding shore;
Etch will glean a pleasure fro
Tho Jys that are no mor.
Oh. memories of such, awake
And glad tlio weary Now t
A wreath of recollections make
To crown the dreamer s lirow.
Oh. silent voice nu.l v.inishe I tin a 1,
llring ftni-lj the goldeu sheaves
The ripple of tho waters an I
Tim laughter of the Imv.
"N'.x ju Waterman, In Chicago Journal.
SEVEN DAYS!
KATR rrtNAM OS'IOOP.
, T wan a Lot day
. ' in nnwtw asst.. ....u
The t i il of
tnotmtain travel
had not yet net
in for theseasou,
nml Nina Cal.l-
well was tho only
tMlMKntriir itl t'l.n
y vw
iuuhi.v uiti stage coaeli which ha I
jogged heavily along for twelvo woarT
inili K. The journey was enlivened by
simoons of lut that etrengthoueil the
camel-like suggestions of the four
gauut jailed horsea. Tho young la.ly
who sat in state ulouo in thin uncom
fortable vehicle was thoroughly worn
out with heat anl headache, an !,
worst of all, bored with her own so
ciety. Nma Caldwdl was eightoen a::.l
very pretty. She was also exceedingly
spoiled, ami subject to occasional flu
of unreiMin. In ono of thesn the hud
left her Muter unil brother-in-law, a
week in advance of the time appointed,
and was now reupiug the benefit of
that rash net.
Khe had leisure and to sparo for
bitter reflection. She tried to read,
yawned, counted the flies, attacked
some caramels and finally relapsed
into somber depression.
"VVho.i, Jetniny! Whoa, there!"
Xiua started nud looked uround in
. l-. i i . . '.' . . . "
Dowaaerinent. A moment later the
driver's sunburned face appeared ut
the door. She must have slept u
little. 1
"Here you arc, miKg, Maple Hotel.
Stop half an hour, then chuuge with
coach from Greene. Uoin to stay,
though, you be?"
, Nino, even in alighting, took in hor
rroundina. st a glance, - Maple
a Btorrning.place
rarm imnu .. mere
- . v,
onmgrring. I
sojourn hero a poo;.
so she had decide li..
iroamed
as to
r
joined her. li
Under the great maple, from which
the house was named, a 'gent'emaii
lay asleep, his straw hat and news
paper beside him.
"The only cool place," thought
Nina. "How intensely seltish."
From the piazza, the yellow paint
glared hot in tho sunshine, she looked
disdainfully at her recumbent enemy
man of about thirty, and, so far a
could bo judged from his position, de
sidtdly RooJ-looking. His hair vM
light and close cut, his forehead square,
ud his inoutb, evu iu sleep, and tin
der the shadow of his mustache, wore
look of imperturbable good humor.
The merits o' his ligiir.! rather of tho
massive order wire uudeuiublo.
On a bench near Nina was a book.
Shu took it ti.. On the flyleaf was
written, Merrick Uryoe. Undoubtedly
bis, bhe thought, as sho turuoi it
over.
Meanwhile tho late sleeper had awak
ened. Oj the piazza sat tho prettiest
girl he had ever seen, with black, will
ul hair, ami evenbut th book Hs
book, monopolize.! those. Just then
she looked up, and he sjw that they
were durk gray. His own light brown
oues were keeu though in lolout, and
llttlo escaped them.
Ho arose and sauntered awav, while
bhe was vexed to find herself spjculat
ing about him.
Maple Hotel was, p. rhai.s, the dull.
Mt place in the world. T0 call it a
"one hors... concern" would bo rank
flrtttery. It was tho merest ciniiie
fractioi, And if there were ever jus
titial.I.) homicide, it would have been
assuredly in the taking oil of the com
pounder of its pies and pudding.
Nina's cerculean mood deepened to
indigo at the sight of the conglomerate
nightmare supper, which sho enjoyed
in aohtary state with Mr. Urvce, mar
veliut;, tho while, to behold" his up
petite. There seemed a certain an
tagomsm between them, the more uu
fortuiiale since they would bo throwu
on each others society for buveral
days.
Nina explained her position. She
was in advance of friends obliged to
llay their arrival ( !) after which they
WerU fill Hr.lll.r In II .
Bryco remarked that his own case was
somewhat similar. His party, also
was delayed -they were to have met
here yesierday-and ho was consoling
hilu-elf as best he could with tish
lug. "Odious people," thought Xina pet
tishly. "It is wonderful how u.auy
such there are in tho world, and how
one always meets thoiu. Ethel would
ay it served mo right-a married sis
ter w so unsympathetic, liut I will
never own to homesickness."
Next day she made further acquaint
ance with Mr. Bryoe on the basis of
he book aforesaid. They ducuwd
iU characters and iucideuts.
C "San n .T
"The story is entertaining. Bui the
hrroino " and Nina made a little
grimace. '
"Exactly my ideal, smiled Mr.
Bryce. ,
"I wonder how many men Lave said
that," flashed Nina, "rfhe is abso
lutely slavish. Most worn-Mi, thank
heaven, have a little prtdo left."
"But she ha so much heart. Per
haps, though, yon object to that?"
"Oh, I have none at all."
"You are to be congratulated,
has always Won my misfortuno
possess too much."
Nina had taken a great dislike
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 and
convenience alike forbade. For seven
days she must endure it. Bhe would
remain in her room, or seek the fields
and woods. As this seemed a tramp
less country (even tramps disdained
it, thought Niua 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 sat
smoking. He rose and tossed it away.
"I have something of yours. Com
meud my honor that I have not
pressed the spring. " He had in 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 the attraction in fishing?
Tho idea, after centuries of civiliza
tion, of reverting to the original
savage."
j ".Shall I confess that I am driven by
' the same motive that urges the sav
i oe by the pangs of hunger?"
"I understand," replied Nina,
j laughing at his rueful look and tone.
! "And if you are successful. I will re
i tract my criticism. When do vou re
Iturn?"
"To-morrow night."
Toward eveniug Nina, with an odd
feeling of loneliness, was sitting bo-
side a laughing little stream, shaded
i by elms and Aiders, a long-legged bird
! siood near by, balancing lumself
thoughtfully on one foot, and eyeing
her cautiously, while at intervals he
uttered a long plaiutive cry. From a
neighboring field came the low of an-
; proaching cattle.
j "Picturesque, rather," said a voico
; b-'hin I her,
"Mr. Bryco !" ahe started. "Is it
posaiblyyott are here."
"I am here to be congratulated and
gouorally laurel-crowned," he an
swered with a lazy laugh. "I have
left at Maple Hotel the result of my
labor, and to-morrow t nrooared from
famine."
"But your two days ihing?"
"r.oduced to one." Jf"
She colored ii- of herself, and
turned. a-"''i-d.9 cattle.
"You are afraid ofSem?" "he said,
looking at her with a surtle.
"A little why?"
"Most city girls aro or soemso."
"No affectation, I assure you.
Think what horrors they must appear
10 us an norns an. I hour."
In a novel I should rescue vou from
th em stolid as they really are. What
do they know of 'the wtariness. the
fever and the fret' that vex humanitv ? j
However, a novo! incident ia at baud,
worn with age, but still vigorous
enough to work us woo. Tho atorm !
Look at tho wet. " '
The sky was piled in Mack and
leaden masses. As ahe looked at it a
quick lightuiug flash made her start.
"That vacaut house youder will
shelter us," said Bryce. "Only we
must make haste.
They reached it aa the first thn):i b r
rolled around tho hills. Enormous
hailstones rattled on the roof, and a
cold wind suddenly arose. Nina, over
heated by her violeuut exertion, uuw
shivered iu her thin dress.
Bryco threw olT his ooat, and pro
pared to put it over her shoulders. ,
"You o.ignt, Miss Caldwell," he urged
as sho objected. "I am used to rougU
ing it, and run no risk whatever, but
it is dangerous for you. Very well'
impertut-bably, -as sue still refused. "J
will try it outside." i
He suited hia action to the wor.lA
I his was morn than she could bear
Alio wont to the door where he stoo
coolly among the hailstone.
"Uomo iu, and I will do as you
WISH.
Thoy looked into each other's eyes
as uu wrappon tue coveriug about her,
no Halt smiled.
".Shall we call this E lo
Ion or the arkff
land? IshouL'd
Or, perhaps, a desert isl
build you a hut with tools saved frolm
the shipwreck, and bring you friit
and goats' milk. Possibly we shoild
havo rescued an ice cream freezer.''
"And I could braid our hat arnV do
tho estlu tie generally," laughed Wins.
'Aud some day it always enids so
a wandering vessel iu searnh of a
cocoauut cargo, or something) of tho
kiud, wcul.l take us baok to civiliza
tion and then "
Nina dropped her eyes, anddrummed
on a broken pane,
"Is tho shower over?" she asked,
coldly.
"Kegardiug this a,he ark, I will
act the double role of KoaU and the
dove," ho rejoiced v'-J'i "uemiug un
consciousness of her j ered manner.
"I will send myself foV.th to see if the
rain has abated."
He speedily returns d, bearing a
given leaf iu triumph.
"Lo I hive found t. plaoe for my
foot not being a Chio.i go girl"
"I am a Chioago girl ," sne hastily
interposed, with a flash of the eyes.
He gave on glanoa a t the small foot
in its perfectly tittine . dainty boot.
For th4 first lime in th 4 o-vreer 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 tho lo.ust trees. Mr.
Bryce seemed moody, aud showed a
repressed excitement.
"My idea of the battle of life, lie
said suddenly, "ia to treat the mind
and bo ly to their utmost, and then
give up 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 care for me? Yon
must answer," as sho sat in confused
silence.
"l'es" just audible.
"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, and that it belongs to me."
"You know it already," she mur
mure.!.
"This is tho hour of my triumph!
What has become of your dislike aud
pride?"
She felt in a half deaui, controlled
by her voice.
Suddenly he started.
"It is I who am a fool and worse !
Miss Caldwell !" abruptly, to restore
her to herself.
"Mr. Bryce?" with her usual man
ner. "The stage-coach is due," taking
out his watch. ".Shall we go to the
piazza?"
The coach came lumbering tip. A
young man sprang off, and assisted a
pretty blonde girl to alight.
"That is the one I am engaged to,"
said Nina, meditatively, to Mr. Bryce.
"An ! that is the one I am engaged
to," responded Mr. Bryce with equal
calmness.
From the inside appeared three
other figures, a young couple and an
elderly lady.
"Fro ! and Ethel," exclaimed Nina.
"And my prospective mother-in
law," said Mr. Bryco. "What a happy
family."
After mntual handshakings, Frod
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 revengo for their wrongs."
"Poetical justice," mused Nina, as
sho started for her room.
Ou the stairs sho met Mr. Bryce.
"Nina, forgive me," he whispered,
"aud four mistakes may be set right.
We are not the only culprits."
sue withurew her haud, but her
heart sang as she continued on hsa
way. In her tli-vu-ViVs Hi was going
orer a,. ,Wicf interview with her
brothr-in-law.
You know I never approved of
your ball-room engagement with Char
ley Feruald, Niua," he had sid.
"Miss Nellie Liuwood is much better
suited to him. Hint is perfectly shal
low and rattle-headed. Fancy hor tell
ing us ingeniously that she and Mr.
Bryce were engaged, but did not cart!
anythiugfor each other. He is hei
Kuar.liau, aud sho declares that sue be
lieves he was going to marry her be
cause she bothered him au I lie did nol
know how else to dispose of her."
Xina could uotrefraiu from a merry
peal of laughter.
"Now, this Mr. Bryoe, bo far as I
can judge on hj very short au ac
quaintance, seems to be a good sort of
fellow, aud ono who will keep you in
order. Oh, no u.so to flash your eyes
you need it."
"But what makes you fancy, you
absurd Fre.l, that there is anything
between Mr. Bryco and mo?"
Tho blindness of a bat has not
hitherto been considered one of my
distinguished characteristics, "respond
ed Fred or iciilurly. "But there is
Ethel waiting for me. Tell mo when
you expect congratulation!, ch, Xina?"
With which provoking speech ho
had left her to go her own way, with
the result, altogether described, of a
meeting with Mr. Bryco on tho stairs,
and some words uttered which changed
the w hole outlook of life for her. De
troit Free Press.
(ilassblowpM Frmii T.iurliijia.
There is settlod now unou the odtro
f the Herman quarter in Xow York a
nttlo euloay of artistic and soientitio
glasablowers from Thuriugia. The
colonists say they are the llrst aud
only persons to undertake m the
United .States exactly such work us
they aro doing.
Tho show wiudow of this little fac
tory displays a curious variety of
works in glass. There aro delicately
wrought vases in many colors, ther
mometer tubes, surgical appliances ;
little double bulbed glasses with water
in the bwer bulb and gold tish in tho
upper.
The glass flowers are the pride and
specialty of the proprietor. He wai
one of the earliest men in (iormany to
make them, says his voluble assistant,
and they are really marvelous product
of the glassblower'4 art. i'uor. are
roses, rod, white and yellow, with soft
and pliant-lookiug petals, curiously
like tho geuuiue rose. There are
spray of lily of the valley, a plant iu
which the Hermans specially delight;
moss-rose buds, forget-me not?, aud
all of flfty other flowers that one may
name. The glassblowers use ordinary
llluminatiug gas, to which they com
municate extra pressure by a simple
devioe. Thty work with astonishing
rapidity aud uieety. ChiDa, Ula aud
Lamps.
Charles Lamb, the English essayist,
was buried iu Eimoutou caurohyard.
TRAGEDYJF DRESS.
SACRIFIZES FOR FASHION.
Men Are as Bad as Woman. Bays
niaae Effort to Be tn Style.
Tal-
Tsxt? "Whose a'lornln lot It not he that
ontwaM ailomlnff of plaiting the hair and
the wearing of gold or of putting on of ap
paral. hut let It h the hidden man of the
heart." I Peter III., 8, 4.
Tbat ws should all be otad Is proved by
the opening of the first wardrobe In paradlso,
with Its apparnl of dark green. That we
should all, as far as our means allow us, M
beautifully and gracefully appareled is
proved by the fact that Ood never made a
wave but He elided It with golden sunbeams,
or a tree but tie garlanded it with blossoms,
or a sky but Ho studded It with stars, or al
lowed even the smoke of a furnace to ascend
but He columned and turreted and domed
and scrolled It Into outlines of indnscribahlo
gracefulness. When I see the apple or
chards of the spring and the pageantry of
the autumnal forpsts. I come to the conclu
sion that, if naturedooaeverjolnthechurob,
while she may be a Quaker In the silence of
her warship, she never will be a Quaker in
the style ot her drees. Why the notches of
a fern leaf or the stamen of a water Jily'r
Whv. when the day departs, does It let the
folding doors of heaven stay open so long
When It might go In so quickly?
One summer morning I saw an army ot a
million spears, each one adorned with a
diamond of the first water I mean the
gray", with the dew on If. When the
prodigal came home, his father not -.ly
put a coat on his back, but jewelry on his
hand. Christ wore a beard. Paul, the
bachelor apostle, not afflicted with any
sentimentality, admired the arrangement ot
a woman's hair when he said In his epistle,
"If a woman have long hair, it Is a glory
unto her."
There will ne a fashion In heaven as on
earth, but It will be a different kind of
fashion. It will decide the color ot the dress,
and the population of that oountry, by a
henutiful 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. but the goddess ot
fashion tins set up her throne In this world,
and at the sound of the timbrels we are all
expected to fall down and worship. The
Old and New Testament of her Bible are
the fashion plates. Her altars smoke with
the sacrifice of the bod Ik, minds and souls
of 10.000 victims. Ia hor temple four
people stand In the organ loft, and from
them there comes down a cold drlnle of
music, freezing on the ears of her worshipers.
This goddess of fashion has become a rival
of the Lord of heaven and earth, and It Is
high time that wo unlimbered our batteries
agnlnst this Idolatry. Vhn I come to
count the victims of fashion, I Dnd as many
masculine as feminine. Men make an easy
tlradu agalnt woman, ns though she were
the chief worshiper at this ldolstrous
shrine, and no doubt some men In the more
conspicuous part of the pew have already
cast glnncMH at the more retired part of the
pew, their look a prophecy of generous dis
tribution. My sermon shall be as appropriate
for one end of tho pw as forthe ottior.
Men are as much the Idolntors of fashion
as women, but they sni-rillnn on a different
part of the altar. With men tha fashion
goes to cigars anu olubrooms and yachting
parties and wine suppers. In the t olled
(state the men chaw up and smoke 100 -000.000
worth of tobacco every year. That
Is their faihlon. In London not long ago a
man died who sinned In life with t76O,0OO,
but he ate it all up in gluttonies, sending bis
agents to all parts of tne earth for soms rare
delicacy for the palate, sometimes one oliA-
ill' roJ V,,n" btvn 30 or oa- He ate
rup "Is whdie fortune and had onli- mil...
lelt. With that he bought a woodcock and
had It dressed in the very beet style, nte It,
guvs two hours lor digestion, then walked
out on Wefcimintterbrldgennd threw himself
Into the Thamesand died, doing on a large
scale what you and I have often seen dona
on a small scale. But men do not abstain
Irom millinery and elaboration of skirt
through any superiority of humility. It is
only because such appendages would be a
blockade to business. Whut would sashes
su 1 trains three aud 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 thetn wear boots so tight they cau
hardly walk in the paths of righteousness.
And there are men who buy expensive suits
of clothes nnd nover pay lor them, and who
go through the streets in great stripes ol
color like animated chnckerhosr.ls. I say
these things because I want to show vou that
I urn linniiril.'tl In my discourse, and that
both sexes, Iu the iHUguage of the surre
but m's onW, sliull "share and share alike."
As Ood may help me. I shall show you what
are tb destroying and doathful luflueucos
of Inordinate fashion.
The first baneful Influence I notice Is in
fraud, Illimitable and ghastly. Do you know
that Arnold of the revolution proposed to
sell his country iu order to get money to
support his wife's wardrobe? I declare here
belore Ood and this people that the effort to
keep up expensive establishments in this
country Is sending more buslnes men to
temporal perdition than all other causus
combined. What was It that sent Ollmsn 10
lha penitentiary and Philadelphia Morton to
the watering of stock, aud the lifo lnsuranes
presidents lo perjured statements about
their assets, and has completely upset our
American finances? What was it that over,
threw the United (states secretary at Wash
ington, the crash of wuose fall shook the
continent? But why should I go to these fa
mous defaulting to show what men will df
in order to keep up great home style and ex
pensive wardrobe when you aud I know
score of mon who are put to their wits' end
and are lasbed from January to Decembei
in the attempt? Our politicians may theor
ize until the expiration of tbulr terms of of
lice as to tha best wav of imnrovinir nnr
monetsry condition in this ooumry. It will
be of uo use. and things will be no beitei
until W'l can learn to put ou our heads and
backs and feet and bauds no more than w
can pay for.
There are clerks In stores ami mnk nn
limited salaries who. In the vain attempt to
keep th wardrobe of their family as showy
ns other folk' wardrobe, are dying of muffs
and diamonds and shawls and high hats, and
they have nothing left exaept what shey give
to cigars and wine suppers, and thoy die be
fore their time, and they will expect us min
isters to preach about them as though they
were the vU-tlms of early piety, and after a
high class fuueral, with silver haudles at the
side of the coffin of extraordinary bright
ness, it will be found out that tha under
taker Is cheated out ot his legitimate ex
ponies. Do not send to me to prune. n the
funeral sermon of a man who dies like that.
I will blurt out the whole truth and tell that
be was strangled to death by his wife's rib
bons. Our countries are dressed to, death.
You are not surprised to find that the put
ting up one publlo building in New Vo.-k
ooit millions ot dollars more thau it ought
to have cost when you Hud that the man
who gave out the coutraets paid more thau
tSOOO for his daughter's wedding dress.
Cashmeres ot a thousand dollurs each are
not rare on Hmadwav. It I timated that
there are 10,000 women in these two cities
who have expanded oa their personal array
trtooayear.
What are men to do In order to keep up
such home wardrobes? Steal? That Is the
only respectable thing they oan do I During
the last fifteen years there have been In
numerable flue businesses shipwrecked on
the wardrobe. The temptation oomes Iu
this wsy: A man thinks mors of his family
than of an the world outside, and if tbey
spend the evening In describing to him the
superior wardrobe of the family across tha
street that theyoannot bear the sight ot the
man is thrown on his gallantry and ou his
pride of family, and without translating his
feeling into plain language he goes into ex
tortion and. Issuing falss stoek and Skillful
penmanship In writing somebody else's
name at the foot of a nromlssorr note, and
they all go down together the husband to
tne prlon. the wire to the sewing machine,
the children to bo taken, eare ot by those who
were called Door relations. Oh. for some new
Bhakespeare to arise and write the tragedy
oi nnman oi nnn i
Will you forgive m If I say in tersest
shape possible that some of the men have to
torre and '.o perjure and to swindle to pay
for their Ives' dresses. I will say it whether
yon lorgrr me or not i
Again, inordinate fashion Is th foe of all
Christian almsgiving. Men and women put
so much In personal display that they often
have nothing for Ood and the cause of suf
fering humsnlty. A Christian man cracking
dis ratals iioyal glove across the baok by
shutting up his hand to hldethe cent he puts
mv mo poornox. a i nristtan woman, at
the story of the Hottentots, orvlnff eonions
tears Into a 123 handkerchief and then glv-
in iwo cent piece to tne collection, thrust
ing It under bills so people will not know but
It was a 10 goldpleee. One hundred dol
lars tor inoenso to fashion i two cents for
Ood Ood gives us ninety cents out of every
dollar. The other ten oents by command of
His Bible belong to Him. Is not Ool liberal
according to His tltblng system laid down
In the Old Testament? Is not Ood liberal in
giving us ninety oents out of a dollar when
He take 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
eausa they oo not observe tms oivine rule.
Ood says, "Well. If that man Is not sstisfted
with ninety cent of a dollar, then I will
take the whole dollar, and I will givs it to
the man or woman who Is honest with Me."
The greatest obstacle to charity In the Chris
tian church to-day Is the fact that men ex
pend so much money on their table, and wo
men so much on their dress, they have got
nothing loft for the work of Ood and the
world's betterment. In my first settlement
st Belleville, N. J., the cause of missions
was being presented ono Habhath, and a plea
for the charity of the people was being made,
when an old Christian man In the audience
lost hi balanoe and said right out In the
midst of the sermon, "Mr. Talraage, how are
w to give liberally to those grand and glori
ous causes when our families dress as tbey
do?" I did not answer that question. It
was the only time in my lite when I had
nothing to ssy.
Again, inordinate fashion Is distraction to
public worship. You know very well there
are 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 Iu
church wheu some woman with extraordt
nary display of fnshlon comes In ! "What a
love of a bonnet !'' ays one. "What a per
fect fright !" esys 600. For the most merci
less critics In the world are fashion critics.
! Men and women with souls to be saveil pass-
: Ing the hour In wondering where that man
1 got his cravat or what store that woman
I piitronlm-s.
In many of our churches the preliminary
i exercises are taken up with the discussion
of wardrobes. It is pitiable. Is It not won-
I derful that the Lord does not strike the
meetinghouse with lightning? What dis
i traction of public worship 1 Dying men and
i and women, whose bodies are soon to be
j turned into dust, yet before three worlds
! strutting like peacocks, the aw:ul question
,of the soul's dnstlny submerged by the ques.
, lion of nsvy blue velvet and long fan train
I skirt, long enoug to drag up the church
aisle, the husaand'3 store, office, shop, faa
I tory, fortune and the admiration of half the
I people In tho building ! Men and women
i come late to church to show their clothes,
! People sitting down In a paw or taking up s
hymnbook, all absorbed at the same time iu
personal array, to sing ;
ai-i. i.ij an,,... Mix. ,v. ku, t. tUf ....
Tb better portion trace. '
( Rl from lrollorr talus i
Towtr J ntavta, tay satire plac.
I adopt the Kpls?optllan prayer and say,
Oood Lord, deliver us !"
Iusatlate fashion also belittles the Intel
lect. Our minds are enlarged or they dwin
dle just In proportion to the important of
the subject on which we constantly dwell.
Can you Imagine anything more dwarfing to
the human intollect than the study ot fash
ion? I see men on the street who, judging
from their elaboration, must have taken two
hours to arninge their appirnl. After a few
years ot that kind ot absorption, which one
of McAllister'.! magnifying glasses will bo
powerful enough to make the man's oharaa
1 ter visible? They all land In Idiocy.
I I have seen men at tho summer watering
j places, through fashion, the mere wreck ot
what they once were. Hallow of cheek.
Meagre of limb. Hollow at the ohnst. Show
Ing uo animation save in rushing across a
room to pick up a lady's fan. Simpering
I along the corridors the same compliments
! they si-npered twenty years ago. A New
i York lawyer at I'olted Htates Hotc', 8ara
I toga, within our hearing, rushed across a
room to say to a sensible woman, "You ara
as swmit na poaches !" The fools of fashion
I ar myriad. Fashion not only destroys the
body, but It makes Idiotic the intellect.
I Yet, iny Irionds, I have given vou only the
I milder phase of this evil. It shuts a great
multitude out ot heaven. The llrst pent ol
' thunder that shook Ktual declared, Tliou
sbalt have uo other Ood before Me," and
( you will have to oboose between the go bless
I ot fashion and tha Christian OoJ. Thorn
are it great many seats in heaven, nnd tbey
j are all easy seats, but not one seat for the
; devotee of fashion. Heuven is lor meek and
; quiet spirits. Heaven is for those who think
more ol their souls than ot their bo lies.
Heaven is for those who have more Joy la
Christian charity than In dry goo is religion.
Why. if you. withyoiT idolatry of fashion,
should somehow get into hnaven, you would
be for putting a French roof ou tha "house
ot tnauy mansions." Give up this idolatry
of fashlou or give up heaven. What would
you do standing ielde the Couutee of
Huntington, whose joy it was to build
ohapsl for the poor, or with that Christian
woman of Boston who fed 1600 children of
the street at Fanuull Hall ou New Year'
day, giving out ns a sort ot doxology at the
end of the meeting a pair of shoes to each
oueot them, or those Dorcases of modern
society who nave consecrated their needle
to the Lord, and who will get eteruul reward
lor every stltoh they take?
Oh, men aud women, give up the Idolatry
of fashion ! The rivalries and the competi
tions ol such a lib) are a stupendous wretch
adness. You will ulway Hud soma oue with
brighter array aud with more palatial resi
dence, nnd with lavender kid gloves that
make a tighter tit. And If you buy this thing
and wear it you will wish you ha I bought
something else and worn It. And the frets
of such a life will bring the crow's loot to
your temples before they nre due, and whan
you come to die you will have a miserable
time. I have seen men and women of fash
ion die. and I never sw ona of them die
well. The trapping off, there thev lay on
the tumbled pillow, and there were Just two
thlngsthat bothered them waste 1 life and
a coming eternity. I could not pacify them,
for their body, mind and soul hud been ex
hausted in the worship of fasiion, and tbev
could not appreciate the gospel. When I
knelt by their bedside, tbey were mumbling
out their regrets and saying OQoi! O
Ood!" Their garments hung up in the
war irobe, never sgsin to be seen by them.
Without any exception, so far as my mem
ory serves me, thev died without bops an t
went Into eterulty unprepared
The most ghastly deathbeds on earth are
theone where a mnu dies ot delirium tremens
aud the other where a woman dies after hav
ing sacrltlced all bsr faeultie of body, mind
and soul in the worship ot fashion. My
friend, we muit appear in judgment to an
swer for what w have woru on our bodies as
well a for what repentunoe we have exer
cised with our souls.
On that day I see coming In Beau Brun
roel of the last century, without bis eloik,
like which all Eaulsnd got a cloak, and witb
out bis can, like whloh all England got a
cane, without his snuffbox, like srbioa all
England got a snuffbox he, the fops,
agee, particular about everything
untie, eaii aerou uurr wiinoni tns
ins i:
MsrxhJj
L n I J-
mat uown to old age he showed
prove his early wicked gallantri
salom without his hair, and Man
Arnold, the belle of Wall street, wh05
was the center ot fashion, without her 3
perl of restore.
, umimnvui hiiuvvi imr iiui-v. en
And In great haggardnese thev tha
away Into eternal expatriation, while tIJ
the miM.nl Af hM-nlv aMui will k. . 1
Vasntl, who wore the modest veil hofonj
palatial bacchanalians, nnd Handsh J
annually made a little cost for Hamuel'.l
temple, and Orandmother Lois, the
tress of Timothy, who Imitated her ij
nH U..r T nk.l-. . 1
' -", rt ti-j ,na mrmwf bll.m I Q
world, and many of you, the wivs
mothers and sisters and daushters af
present Christian church, who, through J
tribulation, are entering into the klnt
vi.. viii nil nuuuutlimi WUQ WOUI1
up the royal family of heaven whon H, J
I'Whnan.v.p K- .III nff f.l . l. 1
is My brother, My sister, My mother."
T!io Wonderful Gulf Stream.
IVop'.o who visit the east coist
Florida, and especially the Ind
Itlvcr nnd tho Luke Worth re.
men wonacr wny mo annate or til
lection la so delightful at all tl J
r the year nnd o different lo
nost evtry particular from what i
would expect In thoso latitudes.
ixplanatlon Is simple enough, i
lluercnco be'iween northern
wrultroptcal Flo Ida. apart from
atltudlnal distance. Is due to
levatlon of the former and the
;ance from it of the Gulf sire
The waters of th tiulf of Met
vempcr the immediate coast 1,
Their effect does not extend far
'.and. The stream Is pressed clus?
;he east coast shore alon Dade Co:
ly by the Ilahama banks. At Ian
iteatnshlps southwatd bouml,
l void tho force of tho current, st
Id so near the shore that they car.
lonie points bo balled from la
The Gulf stream Is an old story,
It Is a xreat fact. This vast, d
blue ocean river, a thousand ti
the volume of the Mississippi.
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thirty miles wide, 2,000. feet de
tnd has a velocity of five tulles
hour the year round. Tho temp
ture of the stream Is eighty-four
jrcos, or nine degrees libber t!
the waters of the ocean thr
which It flows. Tho trade w;
blowing nine-tenths of the time,
tcr and summer from tho eustw
bear the stratum of warm air for
oy tne if uir stream wenward an
tho land. This is why the east o
Is milder and more o.'uablc than
west, coast in the "satuo latlt
With the Gulf stream arc found tti
other dualizing agencies the Iti
winds, the Everglades, with a wu
Mirfaeo preventing a land brei
and the zone of high barometric p J
ure. mo midsummer heat, :
might otherwise bo ninety-five
grees. Is reduced to something
eighty-eight degrees. The mid
ter chill, which might get dowt
thirty degrees, Is warmed up to so
v-o liito Iorty degrees,
A Government Puppy.
Apropos of the distribution of seeJ
from the Department of AgrlculturJ
which was under discussion in til
Ilouso recently, Rep e tentative Tuc
sr, of Virginia, to d a Jtory. He sa
that down in Appomattox Gout:
there lived an old farmer to whoni-1
had on sove-al occasions sent pa
ages of seeds and shipments of ft
from tho Fish Commission, wi
which to stock tho creeks nnd ionf,
on ills place. Ono court day, wh;
the Representative was In town, 1
farnior friend approached and in
confidential way said: "Tuck, you '
jent me scuds and tish two or thr
times, and I am very much obllg
to you for them, but there Is o:
other thing I wish you would do
you can."
"What's that?" asked tlio Reprl
scntatlvo.
"Well, I want a thoroughbriii,'
hound pup for my kennel, and
thought maybe you folks up at Wu
ington could een I It down to me Jul
as well as not, if I only asked for I
"Why, ceitalnly," responded Tut
or. "Itwlllglvo mo great plcast
to send the pup to you, and as soY'
as I get back to Washington you u
look out for him." Tho Represent
tlve said that, so far as ho could s
thore was no reason hy tho Coven
ment should not go Into tho busin
of supplying the constituents
Congressmen with dogs t lmpn
their breeds as well as seed to u
prove their crops and tlsli to add
their food supply. "So," he o
tlnued, "I hunted up a thoroughly
houud pup, bad hliu nicely era t1
prepaid the express charges and s
him down. And you can bet tli
constituent is solid for TucUcr."
Washington Tost
Fruit bating to Cure All Hie
A new society of cr.inks has ne.
started by a former lieutenant In t
German urmy. His name Is Wat!
He Is the leader of a new "ism," u;
as such sailed recently from S
Francisco to Honolulu. The Fruit:
rians" I the namo o. tho new soch
he represents, an1 their belief
rather notion I that modern civi
zation Is fun of vanities and stran.
notions, and greatly needs reformln
ine uiein tiers eat notning but n
trust, eschew cooKcd loon of ui
kind, and drink only water. Tli
ure to live in huts, bare of the con
forts of civilization, and go nakei
.x-L.leut Wat lie intends to buy
largo tract of land In the and wit
Islands, or perhaps a small lsl.ui
outright, for the purpose of lound.n
u colony.
Itubbor Tires.
In the use of rubber tires fnr till
cycles it must be borne In mind thiitl
no oil, varnish or grease should txtl
allowed to touch them. OU Is aol
enemy to ruDDer. uare in this ro-l
spect should be had la applying the
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