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COnsory took the B53. raiser of n length, uzht of 18 ind verti- 00) horse- 0 pounds. sels inthe of a main gunsand secondary ders and 2 lr torpedo ary, 1890, nachinery peed will LY, tead Pa., f.a large ip hatred orth Sun- red non- into play ne of the 1 with ‘a oman, All y from be- and other s, . whose dden and hot by the 1en could ots were under ar- posed to . and was en. and witnessed prevailed 1e greater > made to boarding DED. il strike in. being: nd wages. back in so- tracts al- serve the. n, ng, the oyes ‘was: proposi- employes agreed by ould be" | pending returned. Wi “altitude into fruits and flowers and arbo- g gh mettled horses with grooms by their side, ; ; asleep, bus all ‘the saloons of saturnalia vv Nera in full blasi, and at tha king's castle y Fhrenad © city of Bours thy : ; die? Oh, yes; there isgreat mortality anmiong iE seventy pyramids on the east side of Phidias, after Dem , 8 | wiéad, Sporta, after Leonidas, 2 biades, after Salamis, after Thermopylm, ! nel on the north, by tha Euphratet on the holding no more apostolic prisoners, and the "ghs right! of suffrage, and | to set'betore you the evils that, threaten to _ ¥he eddlers EVILS OF MONEY IN POLITICS| 2 | THE NATION IN DANGER. 8 Vigorous. Sermon Preached By the Rev. Dr. Talmage, on the Sunday ; rior to Election Day. = Text: “Alas; alas, that great city Babi Ton, that might city, for in one hour is thy Judgment come” Revelation xviii. 10, Modern scientists are doing a endid: . svork in excavting the tomh ot 4 Fo adil pire holding in its arms a dead ‘citv—moth- er and child of the same (nama, Babylon, The arcent mornd invites: the spades and shoveisand crowbars while tha univashed natives look on with surprise. These scien- tists find yellow bricks still impressed with the name Nebuchadnezzar; ‘and they go Sowy into the sarcoi us monarchy ard and Chevaliers and Chesney | be eclipsed. arocbmological nncoverinet ‘But is it possible this is all that remains of Babylon—a city once five times larger than London and twelve times larger than New York? Walls three hundrai and sev- enty-three feet hich and ninety-thres feet thick, Twenty-five burnished gates on. “wach side, with streets’ runnine clear through to corresponding gates on the other : side. Rix hundred and twenty-five squares. More pounp and wealth ‘and splendor and sin than could be found in any five modern cities combined.. A city of ‘pals =mces and temples. A city havinz within it a garden on an artificial hill four hun-| <ired feet high, the sides of the mountain terraced. All thig built to keep the king's wite, Amytis from becoming homesick: for the niounteinous region in which she had spent her girlhood. The waters of the Hue phrates spouted up to irrigate this great .Kescence unimaginable. A great river run- wing from north to south clear through the city, bridges over it, tunnels under it, boats onit. de “iid JA city of bazaars and market placas, an- rivaled for aromatics and unguents, "and and Saye wood, and trom 2 Sve green, and KEzyptian dipen, and all styles of <ostly textile fa rie. aud rarest 1 tracted from shellfish on the Mediterranean Cast, 2nd ares catiels taken from: bril= iant insects in Spain, aud ivories brouzht from prasbde Sip pat: t huats in ai and diamonds whose flash was a repartee to the sun, Foltress within fortress, embat- tlement rising above embattlement. Great capital of © the ‘ages. But one ight, ~~ while honest eitizans = were y.-had filled the tankards for the tenth time, and reeling and guffawinz and bie- | coughing bron fhe 5 i ! ‘table wera the | rulers of the land, General Cyrus ordered his: besieging army’ to take “shovals and d, they diverted the river from its 3a the path on which the besieging army en- tered: 0 La : ‘When the morning dawned the conquer- | ors were inside the oulside trenches, Baby~. don had fall d hence. the sublime | ct: #Alns, alas, that great aby ight city, for in one jadgmentceme?’ Buf do Nations | onarchies and republics, Theyare like in- i the fact that the: rn; sitions and some of the dead me one answer for them. Hgyptian civilization, stand up. ‘Dead!’ answer the ruins of Karnak and Luxor, and the Nile there comes up a great chorus cry= ing, ‘‘Dea¢, dead!’ Assyrian Empire, stand up and answer. ead’ ory ‘the charrad ‘ruins of Nineveh, After six hundrad years of magnificent opportun d itish Kin dom, stand up. A dred and fifty years 0 and of miraculous si behavior, and of appalling depravity, dead. PLeenicig, stand up and answer. After in. venting the alphabet a A word, and sending out vans in one direction to t Pillars of Hercules and rocks on which the Tyrian fisherman dried their nets all answer, “Dead Pheenicia.” Athens, after osthenes, aft rliltiades ‘Hvis déad, Roman empire, stand up and answer empire once bounded by the British Chan- east, by tlie great Sahara desert in Africa On the south, by the Atlantic Ocsan on the avest: home ori thiee great civilizations, owning all the Then discovered world that was worth owning —Roman empire answer. Gibbon in his *‘Risa and Fall of the Roman Empire” says, “Dead!” and the forsaken seats of the rumad Colisenm, and the skele- ton of the aqueducts, and the miasma of the Campagns, and the fragments of the marble baths, and the useless piers of the Bridge 'riumphalis, and the Mamertine prison, silent Forum and Basilica of Constantine and the arch of Titus, and the Pantheon coms in with great chorus, crying, “Dead, dead.” After Horace, atter Virgil, after Tacitus, after Cicero—dead. After Horatius on the bridge, and Cincinnatus, the faraer oli- arch, after Pompey, after Scipio, after Cassius, after Constantine, after Cessar— dead. ‘fhe war eagleof Rome Hew so high it was blinded by tbe sun and came whirling down through the heavens, and the desolation and darkness built its nes forsaken eyrie. Mexican empire—dead. French empire daad. You ree, my friends, it is no unusual thing fora government to perish, and in the same necrology of dead Nations and in the same graveyard of expired governments will go the United States of America unless thers Le some potent voiceito calla halt, and unless God in His mercy inters feras, and through a purified ballot box and a widespréad public Christian sentiment the catastrophe be averted. = This nation is about to go to ‘the ballot box to exercise 1 ‘propose destroy the American Government and to annihilate American institutions, and if God will help me I will show you before [| get through the mode in which each and every one may do something to arrest that appalling calamity. And I shall plow up the whole field: SA a The first evil that threatens the annihila- tion of our American institutions is the fact that political bribery, which once was cons sidered a crime, has by many come to be considered a ‘tolerable virtue. There is a legitimate uss of money in elections, ‘in the printing of political tracts, and in the hiring of ise hails, and in the obtaining of cam- paign oratory, butis there any homunculus svho supposes that this vast amounntof money now being raised by the political parties is going ina Jegitimata divection? “Lhe vast: majority of it will go to buy votes. A Hundreds and thousands of men will have. set before them so pmich money for a Re- ‘ publican vote, and so much Joonoy for a Yemdcratic vote, and the superior financial inducement will decide the action. You’ want to know which party will carry the doubtiul ‘States day after to-morrow? [ will telt you, The party Shai, Spends ihe Tho § carrying gold from Wall street gold from 1 streef, go State street, TL Ee nua tion are in x il gir fl out. the. infa- es ,, The han Two ‘hundred and fifty | the torch droppe: to and! Liottus | Sh 3 by Shs present. i? ‘demioninm withithe star route infamy: a a Of ths Senate’ 3 3,000 among them in bonds. Sixty. members of the other housa received from #5000 to $10,000 each. The Lientenant-Gov- ernor received $10,000. The clerks of house received from. $500 to $10, ach, hank comptroller received $10,000, thousand dollars were divided among the lobbyists. You sse the railroad company was verv generous: But all that was hidden, and only through lative committes was this iniquity displaved.. Now political briberv defies you, dares you, is arrogant, and will probably decide the election next Tuesday. Unless this diabolism ceases in this eoun- try Bartholdi’s statue on Bailoe’s Island, with uplifted taveh to light other Nations into the harbor, had better be changed and ped as a symbol of universal shas> and sale of snffrags’ rican Uozernment wil ire, mig ht as wel getting ‘ready the monument for another dead Na- tion and Jet my text inscribeupon it thess words, “Alas, alas, for Babylon, that great city, that mighty city, for in one honr is thy judgment come!” Mv friends, if yon have not noticed that political bribery is one of the ghastly crimes of this day, you have not kept your eyes open. ed . Another evil threatening the dastruction of American institutions is the solidifying of tha sections azainst each other. A solid north. A solid South. If this zoss on we. ‘shall affar a while have a solid East against a solid West: we shall have solid Middle Btates against solid Northern States: we shall have a solid New York against a solid Pennsylvania, and a solid Ohio against a solid Kentucky. = 1t is twenty-seven years since the warclond, and yet at. everv Pres: idential election tha old ant n is the severest scrutiny on the part of ‘a legis | the explorers and navigators develon their When I a5 the cheater and wantonmes and the manifold ¢ 0 pry on our inskitutions, it seems ito me tt lips that. heretofore haves heen dumb boughttn break the silencs with canorous tones of fiery st. Sa : 1 want to put all of the matter bafora ¥ou, so that evary hoasst man and woman will krdow _hGw matters what they ought fo doif th what they oucht to do it they 5 bo, Nation is not going to perish. Ee aairior y tl dived Sass ionla fri ix m - he replied; ng ne hat jewel I keep a shininz in my soul, whatever else. I shall surrender. Hope thou it God: He will set back these oceanic tides of moral devasta- tion. ‘Do you know what is the ‘prizs for which contention is made to-day? 1% is the prize of this continent LE : er sine, Someding re John Milton, ‘when ‘satan was hurled he ong fam from the ethereal skies in as Suinend combustion down,” have the powers of darkness’ be 80 determined” to win this continent as they now are. What a jawel it is=-g jewel carved in relief. ‘ths cameo of this planet! On one side of us ths Atlantic oak 1 eo cg ob luarope. (nthe other side the Pacific Océan, dividing us from the 'super- stitions of Asia. . On the north of us the Arctic’ Sea whieh is the gymnasium in which courage, - A continent 10,50) miles long, 17,000,000 squaras miles, and all of it but aout one-seventh capable of rich cultiva- Off, aide . FEES £2 One hundred millions of poptilation on this continent of North and South Ams3rica — ona hundred millions, and room for many: hundred millions more. All flora, and all fauna, all metals, and all precions woods, and all grains and all fruits. The Appa- aroused. When Garfield died and all the States gathered ‘around his casket in sym- pathy and in tears, and as hearsy telegrams of confidancs came from New Orleans and Charleston as from Boston- ani Chicago, 1 said ‘zo myself, “I think sectionalism’ is dead.” But, alas, no! The difficulty will ‘never be ended until each State of tha Na- tion is split up into two or thres great po- itical parties. Ex 4 3 This country cannot exist unless it exists as one body, the Natiomal Capital, the ‘heart, sendinz out through all the arteries of. henobsery ‘communication warmth and 1ifé to ths very | ties, the wh extramities. This Nation cannot exist un- Jess it exists as one family, and you might as well have solid brotaers against solidi sisters, and a solid bread tray against a solid cradle, and a solid nursery against a solid dining roow, and you mi%ht as well ‘have solid ears fgtins #0lid eyes, ‘and solid head against solid fo What is ths intir- | ater the tof ‘South Carolina, Does the Ohio River changs its politics when it gets below Louisville? It is not possible for thess sectional “antazonisms- to continua for a great many years wita permanent com- nd fracture; | : SE ae ther evil threateninz the destruction of our American institutions is the low state of Suvlie morals, ’ 3 ‘What killed B sbpion of my text? What own depravity, and ths frand, ‘and the drunkenness, and the lschery which have destroyed other Nations will destroy ours you'the low stats of public morals: T have to call your attention to the fact that many men nominated for. offices in different | States at! different times ate entirely unfit : t ) for A a for the postions for wiich thay hava been |isin the midst of a garden. By that time : this! country will be all paradise or all dry. nominated. : They have no mora qualification for them than a wolf has qualification to bs professor of pastoral theology in a flocs of sheep, or a ‘blind mole has qualification tolectureé a class of eagles on optics, or than a vaitare has qualification to chaperon a dove. The mere pronunciation of some of their names raakes a demand for carbolie acid ani fumigation! Yet Christian men. will. 1ollow right under the political standards. 3 I nave to tell you what you know already, hat American politics bave sunken to such depth’ that there is nothing be- neath, Woat we se in some directions we see in nearly all directions. The pecula- tion and the knavery hurled to the sur. facs by the explosion of banks and busi- ness firms ‘are only specimens of great Co- topaxis and Stromoolis of wickedness that boil and roar and surge beneath, but bave nod regurgitated to the surface.’ © When the heaven descended Democratic Party enacted the Tweed vascality it seemed to eclipse everything, but atter awhile the heaven descended Republican Party outwitited pan-. My friends, 'wé have in this country people who say the marriage institution amounts to nothing. They scoff at it. We have peopie walking ia polite parlors in our day who are not good enough to be scavengers in Sodom! I went over to San Francisco ten or fifteen years ago-—that beautiful city, that queen of the Pacific. May the blessing of God come down upon her great churches and her noble men and women! When I got into the city of San Francisco the Mayor of the city and the President of the Board of Health called on me and insisted that I go and see tha Chinese guarler, no doubt so that on my return to the Atlantic coast I might tell what dreadful people the Cainess are. But on the last nicht of my stay in San Francisco, before thousands, of people in their great opera house, I said, “Would you like me to tell vou just what I think, plainly and honestly?! They said, “Yes, yes, yes!! I. said, ‘Do. you think vou can stand it all? ‘They said, ‘‘Yes, yes, yes!” “Then,” I said, ‘‘my opinion is that the curse of San Francisco is mob your Chinese quarter, bus your millionaire liber. tines!” ign , And two of them sat right bhefors me— Felix and Drusilla. And so it is in all the cities. I never swear, but when I see a man go unwhipped ot justice, laanghing over his shame and calling his damnable deeds gal- lantry and peceadillo, I am tempted to hurl red hot anathema and to conclude that if, according to some people's theology, there is no hell, theres ought to be! There is enouzh out ani out licentiousness in American cities to-day to bring down upon them the wrath of . that God who, on the 24th of August, 79, buried Herculaneum and Pompeii so deep in asaes that the eight- een hundred and thirteen subsequent years have not been able to compléte exhumation. There are in some of the American cities to- day whole blocks of houses which the au- thorities know to be infamous, and vet by purchase they are silencad by hush money, so that such places are as much uadsr the defense of goverament as public libraries and asylums ofmerey. ‘These ulcers on the body politic bleed and gangrene away the life of the Nation, and public authority in many of the cities looks the other way You cannot cura stich wounds as these with a silken bandage. You will have fo cure them by putting deep in the lancet of moral surgery. and burning them out with the caustic of hoiy wrath, and with most decisive amputation cutting off the scabrous and putrefying abominations. As the Romans were after: the - Celts, and ag the Normans were aiter the Britons, so thera are evils aftsr this Nation which will attand its oosequies un- loeg ¥ we Bras sctend tefre. po The: ol) ' Superstition tells of a marine reptile, the cep tera, whi atold i ani crushel a ‘ship of war; but itis no superstition whe telt you that the history of many of the dead Nations proclaims to us the fact that cur ship of state is in danger of being crushed by the cephatoptera of ‘National de- pravity, Where is the Hercules to slay this ydra? Is it not time to speak by pen, b tongue, by ballot box, ‘tho moral and temporal and | sprituat killed Phceuicia? What killed Rome? Ther | take in the largest, and there will bs room unless a merciful Gol prevent. ‘To show |and the happiness of the gensrations that ‘resemblance ‘to a needle, and, second, -teign of Thothmes IIf.—1500 years B. | supplementing the terrestrial resources, hian range the backbone and the rivers the ganclia, carrying life all thro; and out to the extremities. Istumus of Darien the narrow waist of a giant continent, all to be uvder one government, and all free, and all Chvistian, and the scens of Christa’ personal reign on earth if, according to the expectation of many people, He shall at last set up His throne in this world. 3 Who shall have this hemisphsre? Christ ori satan? Who shall, have the shore of her inland seas, the silver of her Nevadas, the gold of her Colorados. the telescopes of yatories, the brain of ber usiversi- sab f hier prairies; tha rice of her savannahs, ‘two great ocean beaches, the. ome reaching from Baffin's Bay to Peira del: Fusgo, ha “other from Bsbring Straits to Cape’ Horn—and all and everlasting interests of a population vast beyond ‘all computation save by Him with whom a thousand years ars as one day? Who shall have the hemisphere? You and L will decide that, or help to decides it, by.con- a 5 earnest prayer, by main- tenance of Christian institutions, by support of great pb 1 ies, ' by putting body. mind and soul cn the right side of all moral, religious and National movements, © Ab, it will not be long before it will not make any difference to you or to me what becomes of this continent, so far as ‘earthly comfort is concerned. Ail wa will want of it will be seven feet by three, and that will and to spare, Thatis all of this country we will need very soon, the youngest of us. But we have an anxiety about the welfare ara coming op, and it will oe a grand thing if, when the archangel's trumpst. sbuads, we find that our sepulcher, lice the one Joseph of Arimathea provided fcr Christ, tortugas. Eternal God, to Thee we commit the destiny ot this people! Cleopatra's Needle. ~~ The name +{Cleopatra’s Needles” isa double misnomer; for, first, they bear no" Cleopatra had nothing to do ‘with their erection and in all probabilities never saw them. History tells us that the un- fortunate queen had been dead ‘seven en the two obelisks whi ‘were taken to ‘the tal. ~ The story of Oleopatra’s the rise and fall of many migkty Em- piresy it; takes ‘us back tothe time of 9ephy Moses, ad the Bible Pharaohs, and then follows the winding thread of time down the apes for more than 3400 years!" It was in the time of the C.—that these two gigantic columns of hard granite were hewn from the solid strata of the bluff at Svene, in Southern Fopyt. First they were transported down the Nile fcr a distance of 500 miles and set up in ancient Heliopolis, “The City of the Sun.” After standing as grim sentinels before that marvelous piece of architectural splendor, the “Temple of the San,” for a full 1500 years, they were taken down and re- moved to Alexandria. This time they were stationed in front of “*Cwmsac’s Tem- ple” and stood for almost a full 2000 years in one position before they were again molested. At the time they were. placed before Cmsar's Temole a bronze tablet was cast in commemoration of what was really a triumph of engineering and architectural skill. This tablet, als ter a lapse of 2000 years, was found at the base of one of the obelsiks. It bore this inscription in both Greek and Latins “In the eighth year of Augustus Cwpsar, Barbarus, Prefect of Egypt, caused these obelisks to be placed here. Pontius being architect.” Again, within the last score of years, they have: been disturbed for a third time, and at last separated, one being taken to London and the other brought to this side of the Atlantic and set up in | Central Park, New York City.—St. Lous Republic. A a ————— Possibilities of Sea Farming. A study of the phenomena of marine life, writes George W. Field, shows that the water as well as the land, through cultivation, is capable of producing a greatly increased food supply for man. The necessity of cultivating the marine resources is even now apparent, and many. Governments have already begun to cope with the guesticn by the establishment of commissions of fisheries. Of these commissions that .of the United States stands’in fhe front rank by virtue of its positive results. But in the near future individual attention must be turned to thi fields, the cattle and sheep ranches, by an increasing utilization and development of the possibilities of marine farming} by on, by planta- anifold erime of this country ati¢ | toapting to. commit patricide— yea, matri- PORTICALLY NAMED COLORS. Some of the new, colors have very po- etic names. ‘‘Paradise” is a brilliant yellow, *‘Salammbo’ 1s a vivid red, #Pygmalion™ is a yellowish: brown, ¢*lolande” a new shade of blue, “Ceri- sette? a cherry red, ‘‘Coquelicot’” the red of the wild poppy, “Angelique” a tender apple green and *‘Floxine” 4 red- dish lilac, : CHINESE GIRLS STUDYING MEDICINE. Michigan College at Ann Arbor is the first institution to enroll among its stu- dents representatives of the Chinese Em: pire... Two young women have come from the heart of China to. pursure, their. studies there. The translation of their names is Mary Stone and Ida Kahn. They are pioneers in the reform of Toot bending, being. the first to go without bandages. They will take a medical course there, ‘after which they will by turn to their homes to do mission work. There are also three young men there whe are taking literary work, prepara- tory to studying, medicine, —Chicago Herald. : i E "A CHAMOIS LEATHER HAT. A conspicuous bonnet in an uptown importing house is made of fine chamois leather. It is edged with black velvet and trimmed with ‘a trio of blackbirds, but chamois leather, nevertheless; and the contrast is effec- tive and the style good, even though carried out in a material usually asso- ciated with window cleaning and the butler's pantry. On the pale yellow the black trimming and birds stand out in excellent relief. Among the kid bon- nets exhibited is one trimmed with steel and bronze gimp dotted with fine gold nail heads, . Another of a russet tint is trimmed with a roll of sable fur, brown ostrich tips, aud a cluster of velvet Isa- bella roses,~—~New York Post. WOMEN FLORISTS. One of the most successful florists of shis country is Mrs. Charles H, Wilson, of Cleveland, Ohio. This enterprising woman commenced the business ovz™ ten years ago, at a time when “she found it aecessary to increase her incotde, Having a large collection of plants in her own home, she intuitively turned t> these as 8 means of help, and in order to improve on her methods went to a floral estab- lishment to learn the business, Her first greenhouse was a very. small affair, Noss the total glass area of her green: houses is about 10,000 feet. Mrs. Wil- son's specialty id decorating, and she is now the recognized tloral artist of Cleve- land. ¢i/Fhe greatest part of her work is done by. girls, for whom she has inaugu- rated social clubs, and often places tne reception rooms of her office on Jennings avenue at their disposal. Other Amer- ican women who have succeded in this -business are Miss Eadie, also Cleveland; Mrs, H. H. Berger, of San Francisco, and Mrs, A. B. Nickels, of Laredo, Tex- _as.—Public Opinion. LOOK TO YOUR HANDS. ‘When the hand is broad the unreleat- mg cull or tightly fitting wristband makes it appear doubly so; so also does the fashion of wearing a little finger- ring. Rings on any but the third finger agaravate the breadth and give a roturier "effect in spite of the ‘exertions of the manicure. In the choice of rings and their disposition on the hand much art may be brought to bear. On a fat hand pearls look well; on a’ bony one. they look atrocious—at least, the hands do. It may be difficult to persuade our fair friends that a bony hand is best left ab- solutely alone and unadorned, that precious stones but add to its hard and horny look. : Red hands should shun contiguity with pearls, turquoises, or even diamords. Fine old signet rings, black pearls, sap- phires, onyx, antique intaglii and lapis lazuli, or pigeon. blood rubies, are the most suitable ornaments, if decoration be hungesed for, Illformed finger-nails, whatever the teaching of the manicure, should vever be highly polished, Al mond-shaped tips, lustrous as gems, ate fascinating to' a degree; but an un- natural gloss is. apt to make square, ud: shapely nails terribly prominent. Even when taper fingers terminate in lengthy uvails whose shape is irreproachable, if there be opacity beyond the flesh they have no attractions, ‘and careful cutting and ‘trimming should be resorted too. — New York World. CHILDREN'S FASHIONS. ; Children's: fashions are characterized by simplieity, comfort and’ appropriate- ness. Tiny girls wear dresses with yokes of embroidery and lace, and full, straight widths with tucks at the hem, and short sleeves for the house. = For the street there are charming little cloaks of cash- mere, cloth or velvet, made with a square yoke, box-plaited widths falling down their full length, a very wide belt with ntetal buckle, full sleeves with straight, narrow cuffs and high collar. ‘The edges of the garment are trimmed with stitching orinarrow braid. Larger girls wear shoulder capes, Jong garments—some of them on the New- market . order—and loose double- breasted coats. For the coming season the most approved school cloak will be he { of medium weight camel's hair, either with or without lining, and a threo- quarter length cape which will button on below, the collar. «A made-to-order garment is long, three-quarter fitting, with slightly loose sleeves gathered into wide cuffs, a deep military cape with wide collar and an adjustablehood which may be worn or not, according to faney. The cloak proper and ‘he cape are lined with sural of contrasting color; the ‘cape is-pinked at the edges; the lining is also pinked, apa is caught to the out- 'side at intervals by stitches that do not show through. . The cape and hood may be worn separately, or the hood may be left. off, as occasion ' requires.—I'ne Ledger ) “HELLO” GIRLS ARE SAD. . Therage for uniforms has captured Chicago. The other day there was mourning | in the Chicago telephone offices, not for friends deparied nor pa- rents dead,but over a uniform as devoid of color as the shades of night and as plain as a Quaker’s habit. ©. Three weeks ago the Chicago Tele phone Company issued an order that “all 118 operators should dress in black after October 1st. Several resigrations at once took place, but the large majority yielded and donned their nun’s costume, They do not take as kindly to the idea as the police matrons, who within the pasi few days have been officially uniformed in the regulation blue of the department. It was done to preserve a uniformity | of dress among the girls,’ said Manager Tetu, of the the telephone company, who insists that it was a request. not an’ order. The request applied to every- body, even to the chief and her assist. ants. : = No uniform has. been furnished, but the general orler is that each girl be dressed in black, even to apron and shoes. Those of the young ladies who are fond of gay colors, and they are iu a large majority, bitterly resen: the new rule and scoff at it. ‘Better number uslike conviets,” said one black-gowned damsel. We will have to wear something to distinguish each other. Fancy 300 girls all dressed alike, It'sall right for the girls who look well in black. «But the rest ‘of us —well, I think it's a shame.” It has been sugzested that the havoc created among the young gentleman em- ployed by the company by the witchery of the operators was the basis of the or- der, but the girls claim that the elevator boy is the only member of the opposite sex they see, and that Le is shy and ute terly charm proof, : : ¢¢These uniforms are just simply awful;’’ said another of the girls, *tand when you get 300 of them in a room the shadows are so deep that we have to light the gas. Not a single patch of white or red can we wear. It must all be as black as night or, we ‘lose our places,’ —San Francisco Examiner, : FASHION NOTES, The cavalier cuff is a new appendage to dress sleeves. § The latest fashion craze is a collection of souvenir stick pias, Seasonable feathers are sprays of fine feathers shaped like the horns of a but terfly. A new skirt-trimming has lace a: ranged in festoons, butterfly hows ap- pearing where the flounce is caught up. Double jacket fronts, the outer ones of the dress material, the inner of sill, continuing to form a high collar, are popular. Alsatian bows, with a full eluster of fine flowers or feathers standing up from the middle of the bow, are a stylish and becoming trimming for young ladies. Napoleon blue broadcloth is used for French walking coats, finished with shawl collars of dark mink fur, also for parts of costumes and long Russiap cloaks, Butterfly bows are a popular trimming. As many as seven or eigat of these are seen on ore sleeve of u new costume. There are very nearly or quite four dozen oi the entire uress. Sleeves are growing more elaborate. A few new importations, with plain leg- o -mutton sleeves, are seen, but the ma- jority of them: are puffed and frilled and trimmed with bows, lace, ribbons, galloon and metal garmitures of various sorts, : An attractive dress-trimming is made of a row of shell-shapsd puffs. Below this is a band of ribbon with bows tied at intervals of about six inches, and be- low this is a box-plaited ruffle of the material which is set under the edge of the skirt. Some of the new skirts in cornet shape in the back, and only medium in length have a rich trimming surround- ing the front breadth, which defines a tablier.. This trimming, 1n pointed passementerie or cut-jet gimp, is repeat: ed along the back seams. : It is very evident that long skirts for the ‘street have. seen ‘their best days, There is much to be thankful fo: in this, and 1t is comforting, too, in that it shows that American women will not for any length of time tolerate a fashion. ‘which has ‘in it nothing but discomfort, ill health and untidiness to commend it. Velvet is used on even the. coarsest ‘cloth, A favorite disposition of it is in the trimming of the cloth cuff with a velvet band sewed down on all edges and a big button at each end. If the velvet is used to face the cuff almost to the back no buttons are employed. Gauntlet cuffs are on all varieties of sleeves. 1 LE THE LAW WORKED WELL. EXCELLENT RESULTS FROM THE BAKER BALLOT 1M COAL REGIONS. The Commiss‘oners of Northumberiand county have received several hundred let- ters since Tuesday's election from promi- nent Republicans and’ Democrats, express- ing their great satisfaction with the work- ing of the new ballot law, It wasfeared that much difficulty would be experienced in the coal regions owing tothe large num- ber of “oreigners. but election officials from Shamokin and Mt. Cafriiel state that (they found the average foreigner displayed more intelligence in voting under the new systems than most Americans. Sai PENNSYLVANIA'S CEREALS. 4 BULLETIN FROM THE CENSUS BUREAU GIVES FIGURES FOR FARMERS. A bulletin was issued by the Census Offica ot Washington on the cereal production of Pennsylvania. The total area in cereals in 1889 was 4,448,000 acres, #8 compared with 1,724,000 acres in 1879, a decreass of 277,000 acres. Oats are thé only cereals showing any increase whatever, in area under caltiva- tion, the acreage having increased from 1,237,000 in 1879 to 1,310,000 in 1880. The areas in wheat, corn, rye, buckwheat and barley show a decrease of 126,000. 120,000, 62,000, 35,000 and 2,000 acres respectively. s rete — WANTS $20,000 FOX A BROKEN ARM. ; J.Ross Mateer,a druggist of Altoona.enter ed suit in the Blair county courts at Alteo- na against the Pennsylvania Railroad Com- pany, to recover $20,000. damages for hav- | ing his left arm broken by being struck by a locomotive, while be was attempting to pass over a dangerous railroad crossing.’ A FATAL BOTLER EXPLOSION. “The boilers in Blaidsell’'s Bros. kindling wood factory at Austin, Potter county, blew up, killin; Andrew Epal and William Bru- ner, both firemen. All the other operators escaped without injury. ‘The factory was . badly wrecked. "The loss is $10,000, * i Miss Nina Deming, of Tiogd, aged 18, shot herself Wednesday night. Disappointed in love. ; Miss Af srrie DICKSON, aged 23, a colored school teacher of Erie committed suicide by shooting. She had been ill. Warre James Harvey of Raccoon town- ship, Beaver county, was hunting his gun was accidentally discharged. He will die. Ar Allentown Murderer Keck, who was to have been executed Thursday, commit- mitted suicide by poisoning the night be- fore. : Tue son of Councilman Green of Philadel. phis is at Johnstown to bring suit against the Pennsylvania railroad for damages for te death of his father, who walked off & train platform while'en route to Chicagoto the world’s fair dedication. It is alleged . the company should have suppiied vest: bule cars... TIES DAL Tue - Sometimes Ia most. wish there was no hook but the Bivle. No other book, except a few primary school books, seems absclutely necessary. The Bible tells us all'we really need to know, mani’and about the earth and sir and ren, and the things therein. How beautifully it discourses of the stars, of the hills, of the waters. Where ¢an such grand descriptions of animals. be found as that book furnishes? Tt teaches good firming, good gardening. good management, in atl walks of «lifes It teaches, the perfection of pure writing, and its poetry 1s beyond com: nre. : ; Xt gives rule of life for every human being, from the king to thie siuve; tells men what their work is, and women what is hers: tells the young their duty, and the old theirs. For the life that is, und the life thar is ta come, it is an allembracing avd a perfect guide. If we all give full attention to it and steadfast obedience, we should hive belte: health. prosperity and happiness than we do. Iawlessness and crime would be un- heard of, and this world would bea good” place in which to dwell. And ove reason why it word be well to have no other book: but the Bible ir ‘the world is that then the Bible would stand a better chance of lieing well read and appre- ciated. People are now so bent on reading ‘other things thay they think they have very little time for the study of the Word of God. Thatis the book they allow to be *“‘crowded out” from their attention. More pity it is for them. The only book they cannot afford to neglect is the book that is most reglected. Walter Scott was right when he suid, ‘There is but one hook.” It certainly would he a great mercy were all the professors in all the theologicil semi- naries in these United States to become con: verts to Walter Scott's iden, so that they would never any more turn out upon ths churches more preachers who do not know whether or not the “record” given in the New Testament of our Lord Jesus Christ is free from errors.” What a miserable thing it is that people should have reason to fear, as they enter some churches, that they may hear words suited not to “build them up in the faith,” but to shake their foundations. This is too often the case. Surely the “making many books” is **vanity,” aud thousands of them ere ‘“‘vexation of spirit.” Ldt us insist more than we do upon the paramount importance of Bible study-— [N. X. Evangelist. The Waorid’s Fair Eskimo Baby Dies. Little Colnmbia Susan Munck, who was Jot only the fest Bskimo baby born in the United States, but the first child born on the World's Fair grounds, died at Chicago. At Buffalo, N. Y.. Robert Kilcourse, a. \ Democrat, dropped dead at the polls just as he was about to cast his ballot on election day. : One of Whittier's Last Poems. The three-page poem by John & Whittier, which appeared in the Nos vember “St. Nicholas? Magazine, com~ memorates the visit of a party of young girls to the poet’s home. | It containg the following lines, which have a pe: culiur significance now that ' the good Quuker poet has passed away: “I would not if I could repeat A life which still is good and sweet; 1 keep in age, as in my prime, “A not uncheerful step with tine, And, grateful for all blessings sent, I go the common way, content To make no new experiment. Ou easy terms with law and fate, For what must be I calmly wais, And trust the path I cannot see, — , hat God 1s good suttieth me, = And when at Jast vipon life's play |The cartain falls, 1 ony pray. = at hope muy lose atsélf in truth, And age in heaven's immortal yous And all our loves and longing prove ‘Ube foretaste of diviner love!” : gi
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