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POINTERS FOR MEN.
Men's ringa are usually worn on the
little flayer of the left hand or tho
right hand. Seal rings, or polished
gold ones with monograms engraved
upon them, are the preferred styles.
Seal rings are used for sealing letters,
and are, therefore, as useful as they
are ornamental. Merely decorative
lings are seldom seen on men's hands.
Cosmetics, or face washes of any
kind, are not for the use of men. You
will find, by .taking cold baths every
morning, by vigorous exercise, and by
refraining from eating rich food, that
your complexion will soon be relieved
from olliness. Timples are indications
of impurities of the blood, which can
becuredby regular habits and a healthy
regime.
Morning Weddings. The black cut
away coat is not the garment pre
scribed for either morning or after
noon weddings. Wear a black frock
coat and waistcoat, light enssimere
trousers and patent leather boots, a
white Ascot or four-in-haud tie, and
gloves of earl gray or white kid. This
would also be uprpoprlate for a bride
groom when the bride is tnurried in
her traveling dress.
Evening Weddings. The costume for
the bridegroom consists of dress coat,
waistcout and truusers, white shirt,
high collar, white tic and patent leather
shoes. If you and your bride are to
take the train immediately after tho
ceremony, and she is to wear a trav
eling gown, then you should wear frock
coat und light trousers, bluek or fancy
wuisteout, white four-in-hand tie and
gray gloves.
Sunday Evening. Although the ma
jority of very fushlonuble men wear
evening dress ulwnvs ufter dusk a gen
eral exception is made in favor of Sun
day evening. A young man is best em
ployed on that evening in attending
church service or In visiting very in
timate friends. It is a time set apart
for rest, worship and the family. Even
ing dress is seen in church only at
cvuning weddings.
The tlrst dance is supposed to belong
by right to the young man .who ac
companies the young lady And her
chaperon to a ball; he is also supposed
to have the privllego of taking her in
to supper, lie may also ask her for
as many dances as he thinks proper,
but he must be careful not to claim her
entire attention, as such conduct would
Imply an engagement, and consequent
ly would be embarrassing to the young
lady. Ladies' Home Journal.
THIS AND THAT.
Steam heat is not good, because it is
too dry for the healthy development of
p hints.
Bees, according to statistician, must
in order to collect a pound of clover
honey, deprive 62,000 clover blossoms
of their nectar.
The RuBslan minister of agriculture
is planning the. establishment of an ag
ricultural school for womeuwltha four
years' course.
The average niiaober of novels Issued
100 years ago inAmerica and Great
Britain was 10 a year. Now the average
is two or three a duy.
There are now 7lls fountains for hu
man beings, 280 large troughs for
horses and cattle and 473 small troughs
for sheep and dogs in the streets und
suburbs of London.
In Finland, jurists nre obliged before
they can secure government to serve
for some timo as ordinary policemen
for the purpose of gaining practical ex
perience. It is said that land crabs of the West
Indies once every year leave their na
tive home in multitudes, and in regular
order march down to the sen, passing
over, and not around, any and every
obstacle thut may come in tho way.
Atthebattleof Trafalgar, the heaviest
gun used threw a projectile weighing
only 32 pounds, which was 0.41 inches
in diameter; the modern 110-ton gun
uses a shell weighing 2,000 pounds of
10 inches diuraeter.
Iiauk of England noten are made from
new white linen cuttings never from
anything thut has been worn. So care
fully is the pnper prepared that even the
number of dips into the pulp made by
each workmun is registered on a diul
by machinery.
THIS JOLLY ROUND WORLD.
The difference between the astrono
mer uiid the chorus girl is that ono
studies the stars and the other under
studies them. Philadelphia Record.
Fuiidy "They say you have a liking
for Miss Spontel." Duddy "Nonsense!
Tho woman is insupportable." Fuddy
"That's just it. You won't have to
support her. Site's got enough for two."
lloston Transcript.
"Under Gen. Weyler's supervision,"
remarked one Spanish statesman, "Cuba
has produced a great many 'pacifica
tions!'" "Yes," replied another;
"there's no denying that. But there is
a great deal more money in cigars."
Washington Star.
"In Austria," she said, "nearly all tin
barbers are women." lie looked up
from his paper and shook bis head doubt
fully. "I, wouldn't like it," he said ot
last. "It's bad enough to have prize
fight news dinned into your ear when
you're helpless, but It would be infinite
ly worse to have to hear all about the
latest fashions." Chicago Evening
Post
BE PROMPT.
Thank a person for a gift the day it
arrives.
; Acknowledge an Invitation for din
ner, luncheon the day it arrives.
Thank your hostess for your visit the
day you return home.
Either leave your card or write a note
to a friend as- soon as yon hear that
friend is 11L
Keep sufficient paper and, envelopes
on. hand, so your notes can be written
note is the hallmark of grod breeding.
BLESSINGS OF DEATH.
In the followini
sermon Dr. Tal
mage shows u i
why we should
LfeiTS 7 I ih not consider tht
I A entw!n.f ,nt0
next me as a ais
ater to be
mourned, and
uses this season
of the year and the husking of tht
corn as a simile. His text Is taken
from Job v, 26, "As a shock of corn
cometh in In his season."
Going at the rate ot 40 miles the houi
a few days ago, I caught this sermon
It you have recently been in the field
I of Pennsylvania, or New Jersey, ot
New York, or New England, or any ol
the country districts, you know thai
the corn is nearly all cut. The sharp
knife struck through the stalks and
left them all along the fields until a
man came with a bundle of straw
and twisted a few of these wisps ol
straw into a band, and then gathering
up as much of the corn as he could
compass with his arms he bound it
with this wisp of straw, and then
stood It in the field in what is called a
shock.
It Is estimated that there are now
several billion bushels of corn stand
ing in tho shock, waiting to be husked.
Some time during tho latter part ol
next month the farmers will- gather,
one day on one farm, another day
on another farm, and they will put on
their rough husking apron, and they
will take the husking peg, wnleh is a
piece of iron with a leather loop fas
tened to the hand, and with it uu
sheath the corn from the husk and
toss it nto the golden heap. Then
the wagonB will come along and taka
it to the corncrlb.
How vividly to all those of us who
were born in the country comes the
remembrance ot husking time! We
waited for It as for a gala day of the
year. It was called a frolic. Thi
trees having for the most part shed
their foliage, the farmers waded
through the fallen leaves and came
through the keen morning air to the
gleeful company. The frosts, which
had silvered everything during the
night, began to melt oft of the top ol
the corn shocks. While the farmers
were waiting for others, they stood
blowing their breath through their
fingers or thrashing their arms
around their bodies to keep up
warmth of circulation.
Roaring mirth greeted the late far
mer as he crawled over the fence.
Joke and repartee and rustic saluta
tion abounded. All ready, now! The
men take hold the shock of corn and
hurl It prostrate, while the moles and
mice wnleh have secreted themselves
there for warmth attempt escape. The
withe of straw ia unwound from the
corn shock, and the stalks, heavy
with the wealth of grain, are rolled
into two bundles, between which the
husker sits down. The husking peg
is thrust in until it strikes the corn,
and then the fingers rip oft the
sheathing of the ear and there is a
crack as the root of the corn is snap
ped off from the husk, and tho grain,
disimprisoned, Is hurled up into the
sunlight.
The air Is so tonic, the work Is sa
very exhilarating, tho company is so
blithe, that some luugh, and some
shout, and some sing, and some ban
ter, and some tease a noighbor for o
romantic ride along the edgo of the
woods In an eventide, In a carriage
that holds but two, and soma proph
esy as to tho uumbor of bushols to
the field, and others go into competi
tion as to which shall rifle tho most
corn shocks before sundown.
After awhile tho dinner horn sounds
from the farmhouse, and the table la
surroundud by a group of Jolly and
hungry men. From all tho pantries
and the cellars and tho lurches ol
fowl on the plueo the richest dainties
come, and thero are carnival and
neighborhood reunion and a scon a
which fills our memory, part with
smiles, but more with tears, as we
remember that the farm belongs now
to other owners, and other hands
gather in the fields, and many ol
tboso who mingled in that merry
husking scene havo themselves been
reaped "like as a shock of corn cometb
in In his season."
There is a difference of opinion aa
to whother the orientals knew any
thing about the corn as it stands in
our fields, but recent discoveries have
found out that the Hebrew knew all
about Indian maize, for there have
been grains of the corn picked up oat
of ancient crypts and exhumed from
hiding places where they were put
down many centuries ago, and they
have been planted in our time and
havo come up Just such Indian maize
as we raise in New York and Ohio.
So I am right when I say that my text
may refer to a shock of corn just as
you aid I bound it, Just as you and 1
threw It, just as you and I husked it.
Thiye mny come some practical and
useful and comforting lessons to all
our souls while we think of coming in
at last "like a shock of corn coming
in In his season."
It Is high time that the king of ter
rors were thrown out of the Christian
vocabulary. A vast multitude of peo
ple talk of death as though it were
the disaster of disasters instead ol
being to a good man the blessing ol
blessings. It la moving out of a cold
vestibule Into a warm temple. It li
migrating into groves of redolenc
and perpetual fruitage. It Is a changi
from bleak March to roseate June
It is a change of manacles for gar
lands. It la the transmuting of th
Iron handcuffs ot earthly incarcera
tion into the diamonded wristlets ol
n bridal party, or, to use the sugges
(Ml
tion of my text R to only husktni
time. It Is the tearing off of tht
rough sheath ot the body that tht
' bright and the beautiful soul may g
free. Coming In "like a shock of con
cometh in In his season" Christ broki
up a funeral procession at the gat
of Naln by making a resurrection da
for a young man and hie mother. Anc
I would that I could break up youi
sadnesses and halt the long funera:
procession of the world's grief b
some cheering and cheerful view oi
the last transition.
We all know that husking time wai
a time of frost. Frost on the fence
Frost on the stubble. Frost on tht
ground. Frost on the bare branchet
of the trees. Frost In the air. Frost
on the hands ot the huskers. You re
member we used to hide behind tht
corn stacks so as to keep off the wind
but still you remember how shivering
was the body and how painful wai
the cheek and how benumbed wert
the bands. But after awhile tho sun
was high up and all the frosts wen)
out of the air, and hilarities awakened
the echoes and joy from ono corn
shock went up, "Aha aha!" and was
answered by Joy from another corn
shock, "Aha, aha!"
So we all realize thnt the death ol
our friends is tho nipping of many ex
pectations, the freezing tho chilling
the frosting of many of our hope. II
is far from being a south wind. II
comes from the frigid north, and
when they go away from us wo staml
benumbed In body and benumbed In
mind and benumbed in soul. Wt
stand among our dead neighbors, oui
dead families, and we say, "Will we
ever get over It?" Yes, we will gel
over it amid the shoutings of heaven
ly reunion, and we will look buck tc
all these distresses of bereavement
only as the temporary distresses ol
husking time. "Weeping may eiidurt
for a night, but joy cometh iu the
morning." "Light, and hut for a mo
ment," said the apostle as he clapped
his hands, "light and but for a mo
ment." The chill of the frosts fol
lowed by the gladness that cometb
in "like as a shock of corn cometb
In in his season."
You remember that In the time ol
husking It was a neighboring reunion
liy the great fireplace in the winter,
the fires roaring around the glorified
backlogs on an old fashioned hearth,
of which the modern stoves and regis
ters are only the degenerato descen
dants, tho farmers used to gather and
spend the evening, and there would be
much sociality, but it was not any
thing like the Joy of the husking
timo, for then all the farmers came,
and they came in the very best hu
mor, and they came from beyond tho
meadow, and they came from beyond
the brook and they came from re
gions two and three miles around.
Good spirit reigned supreme, and
there were great handshakings, and
there was carnival, and there was the
recital of the brightest experiences
in all their lives, and there was a
neighborhood reunion the memory of
which makes all the nerves of my
body tremble with emotion as tho
strings of a harp when the fingers of
a player have swept tho chords.
The husking time was tho timo ot
neighborhood reunion, and so heaven
will be Just that. Thero they como
up! They slept in the old village
churchyard. There they come up!
They reclined amid the fountains and
th sculpture and the parterres of a
city cemetery. There they come up!
They went down when tho ship foun
dered off Capo Hatteras. They come
up from all sides from potter's Held
and out of the solid masonry of West
minster abbey. They como up! They
come up! All the hindrances to their
better nature husked off. All their
physical ailments husked off. All
their spiritual dospondencics husked
off. All tbolr hindrances to useful
niMs husked off. Tho grain, tho gol
den gruln, the God fashioned grain,
visible and conspicuous.
Now, In heaven all tholr off cnsl ve
il ess has boon busked off. Each one
Is as happy as ho can bo. Every ouu
he meets as happy aa ho can bo.
Heaven one great neighborhood re
union. AH kings and queens, nil
songsters, all millionaires, all ban
queters. God, tho father, with his
children all around him. No "good
by" In all the air. No grave cut In
all the hills. River of crystal rolling
over bed of pearl, under arch of chry
soprastis, Into the sea of glastt mingled
with fire. Stand at the gato of the
granary and soo the grain como In,
out of the frosts Into the sunshine,
out of the darkness Into the light, out
of the tearing and the ripping, and
the twisting, and the wrenching, and
tho lacerating, and the husking timo
of earth, Into the wido open door cf
the king's granary, "like as a shock
of corn cometh In in his season."
Yes, heaven a great sociable, with
Joy like the Joy of the husking timo.
No one there feeling so big he declines
to speak to some one who is not ho
large. Archangel willing to listen to
Bmallest cherub. No bolting of the
door of caste at one heavenly mansion
to keep out the citizen of a smaller
mansion. No clique in one corner
whispering about a clique in another
corner. David taking none of the airs
of a giant killer. Joshua making no
one halt until he passes because he
made the sun and moon halt. Paul
making no assumptions over the most
ordinary preacher of righteousness.
Naaman, captain of the Syrian host,
no more honored than the captive
maid who told him where lie could
get a good doctor. O my soul, what a
country! The humblest man a king.
The poorest woman a queen. The
meanest house a palace. The shortest
lifetime eternity. And what is more
strange about it all is, we may all get
there. "No L" aart some one stand
tng back under tht galleries. Tea
you. "Not I." says some one who hai
not been In church in 15 years before
Yes. you. "Not I," says some ont
who has been for 50 years filling u(
his life with all kinds of wickedness
Yes. you.
There are monopolies on earth, mo
nopolistic railroads, monopolistic tel
egraph companies and monopolistic
groin dealers, but no monopoly In re
ligion. All who want to be saved may
be saved, "without money and with
I out price." Salvation by the Lord
Jesus Christ for all the people. Ol
course use common sense in this mat
ter. You cannot expect to get tc
Charleston by taking ship for Port
land, and you cannot expect to get tc
heaven by going In the opposite direc
tion. Believe In tho Lord, Jesus'
Christ and thou shalt be saved
Through that one gate of pardon and
peace all the race may go In.
"But," Bays some oue, "do you real
ly think I would be at homo In that
supernal society If I should reach It?"
I think you would. I know you
would. I remember thut In the husk
ing time there was a great equality
of feeling among the neighbors. Them
at ono corn shook a farmer would bu
at work who owned U00 acres ol
ground. The man whom he was talk
ing with at tho next corn shock owned
but 30 acres of ground, and perhaps
all covered by a mortgage. That ev
ening at tho close of tho husking day,
one man drove homo a ronn span so
frisky, so full of life, they got their
feet over tho traces. Tho other man
walked home. Great difference lr ed
ucation, giat difference in worldly
means, but I uotieed at tho husking
time they all seemed to enjoy ouch
other's Boclety. Thy did not nsk any
man how much property ho owned or
what his education had boon. They
all seemed to be happy together In
those good times.
And so It will be In heaven. Our
Father will gather his children around
him, and tho neighbors will como In,
and tho past will ho rehearsed. And
some one will tell of victory and we
will nil celebrate It. And some one
will tell of great struggle, and wo
will all praise the grace that fetched
him out of it. And some ono will
say: "Here Is my old father that I
put away with heartbreak. Just look
at him, he Is as young as any of us!"
And sonio one will say: "Here Is my
darling child that I burled In Green
wood, and oil the after years of my
life were shadowed with desolation.
Just look at her! She doesn't seem
as if she had been sick a minute."
Great sociality. Great neighborhood
kindness.
What though John Milton sit down
on one side and John Howard sit
down on tho other side. No embar
rassment. What though Charlotte
Elizabeth sit down on one side and
Hannah More sit down on the other
side? No embarrassment. A mon
arch yourself, why be embarrassed
among monarchs? A songster your
self, why bo embarrassed amid glori
fied songsters? Go In and dine.
All the shocks coming In in tholr
season. Oh, yes, in their Beason.
Not one of you having died too late or
having died at haphazard. Planted nt
Just tho right time. Plowed at Just
tho right time. Cut down at Just the
right time. Huskod at just the right
time. Garnered at Just the right time.
Coming iu in your season.
I do not know how you are coun;!
tuted, but I am bo conntlt.utrwl tlr.'.t
thero Is nothing that so awakent rem
iniscences Iu me as tho odor:; rf a
cornueld when I cross it at thli time
of year after tho corn has hoou cut
and It Htandn In shocks. And so I
havo thought It might bo practically
useful for us to-day to cross the corn
field, and I have thought perhnps
thero might bo somo remlnincenco
roused In our soul thnt might he salu
tary and might bo snvlnr. In Sweden
a prima donna, while her houso In tho
city was being repaired, took a houso
In tho country for temporary resi
dence, and sho brought cut her great
array of Jowols to ehow a friend who
wished to soo them. One night after
displaying these jowe!s and loavlnr,
them on tho table, mid all her frlendd
had gone, and the servants had gone
one summer night sho sat thinking
and looking into a mirror Just In front
of her chair, when sho saw In thnt
mirror tho face of a robber looking in
nt the window behind her and gazing
at those Jewels. She was In great
fright, but sat still, and hardly know
ing why she did so she began to sing
an old nursery song, her fears making
tbo pathos of tho song more telling.
Suddenly sho noticed while looking
at the mirror that the robber's face
had gone from the window and It did
not como back. A fow days after thu
prima donna received a letter from
the robber, saying, "I hoard that tho
Jewels wore to bo out that night and
I came to tako them at whatever haz
ard, but when I heard you sins tbn:
nursery song with which my motheV
so often sang mo to sleep, I could not
stand it and I fled, and I have reeolved
upon a new and an honest life."
Oh, my friends, thero aro jowcla in
peril richer than thoso which lay upon
that table that night, They aro the
Jewels of the Immortal soul. Would
God that some song rolling up out of
the deserted nursery of your child
hood or some song rolling up out of
the cornfields, the song of the huskers
20 or 40 years ago, might turn all our
feet out of the paths of sin into the
paths of righteousness. Would God
that those memories wafted In on odor
or song might start us this moment
with swift feet toward that blessed
place where bo many of our loved
ones have already preceded us, "as a
shock ot corn cometh In in his sea
OB." .... . - .