¥ Be § be ape sem rE ——r THE BIBLE'S GREAT CIRCLES. —pn. OUR GOOD AND EVIL ACTIONS. rrr fe ee Dr. Talmage Preaches a Sermon in tho Sunny Southland. Ee Rev. Dr. Talmage, who is now making a tour of the Southern cities, preached atAtlan- ta, Ga., Sunday. The throngs in and around the audience hall were beyond estimate. The subject chosen was, ‘The Circle of the Earth,” the text being Isaiah xi, :22, “It is He that sitteth upon the circle of the earth.” While yet people thought that the world | was flat, and thousands of years before they found out that it was round, Isaiah, in my text, intimated the shape of it, God sitting upon the circle of the earth. The most beautiful figure in all geometry is the circle. God made the universe on the plan of a cir- cle. When men build churches, they ought to imitate the idea of the Great Architect and put the audience in a circle, knowing that the tides of emotion will roll more easily that way than in straight lines, : The hisiory of the world goes in a circle. Why is itthat the shipping in cur day is im- proving so rapidly? Is it because men are imitating the old model of Noah's ark. A ship carpenter gives that as his opinion. Al- though so al derided by small wits, the ship of Noah's time beat the Majestic and the Etruria, and the City of Paris, of which we boast of so much. Where is the ship on whe sea to-day that could outride a deluge in -which the heaven aud the earth were wreck- «ed, landing all the passengers in safety?— wtwo of each kind of living creatures, thous- :ands of species. 1f the makers of colored glass go on im- proving, they may in some centuries be :able to make something equal to the east window of York Minster, which was built dn 1200. If the worldstands long enough, & may have a city as large as they had in olden {imes, Babylon, five times the size of London. You go into the potteries in Eng- land, and you find them making cups and vases after the style of the cups and vases exhumed from Pompeii. The world is not going back. Oh no! but it is swinging in a circle, and will come back to tle style of pottery known so long ago as the days of Pompeii. The world must keep on progressing until it makes the complete circuit. The curve is in the right direction, the curve will keep on until it becomes the circle. Well now, my friends. what is true in the material universe is true in God's morai government and spiritual arrangement. But 1t is sometimes the case that this circle sweeps through a century, or through mauy centuries. The world started with a theo- cracy for government; that is, God was the President and Emperor of the world. Peo- ple got tired of a theocracy. They said: “We don't want God directly interfering with the affairs of the worl; give us a mon- archy.”” The world has a ‘monarchy. From a monarchy it is going to have a lim- ited monarchy. “After a while. the limited monarchy will be given up, and the repub- Jican form of government will be every- where dominant and recognized. Then the world will get tired of the re- Publican form of government, and it will ave an anarchy, which is no goverament at all. And then, all nations finding out that man is not capable of righteously gov- erning man. will ery out for a theocracy. and say: ‘'Let God come back and conduct | the aftairs of the world.” 1 But it is often the case that the rebound | is quicker and the circle is sooner com- pleted. You resolve that you will do what good you can. In one week you put a word of counsel in the heart of a Sabbath school child. During that week same yougivea let- ter of introduction to a young man struggl- ing in business. During the same week vou make an exhor:ation ina prayer meeting. It is ali gone; you will never hear of it, per- haps, vou think. A few years after a man comes up to you and says, "You don’t know me, do you?’ Yousay: “No, I don't re- member ever to haveseen you.” Why," he says, *‘I was in the Sabbath school class over which you were teacher. One Sunday you invited me to Christ, I accepted the offer. You see that church with two towers yonder? “Yes,” you say. He says: “That is where I preach.” Or, “Do you see that | Governor's house? That is where live. One day a man comes to you and says, “Good morning.” You look at him and say. “Why, you have the advantage of me, cannot place you.” He says, “Don’t vou remember 30 years ago giving a letter of in- troduction to a young man—a letter of in- troduction to Moses H. Grinnell!’ *Yes, yes, 1 do.” He says, “J am the man: that was my first step toward a fortune; but I have retired from business mow, and am giving my time to philanthropies and public interests. Come up and see nie.” Or a man comes up to you, and says, “I want to introduce myself toyou, I went in- to a prayer-meeting in Atlanta some years ago; I sat back by the door: you arose to male an exhortation; that talk changed the course of my life,and if I ever getto heaven, under God I will owe my salvation to you.” In only 10, 20 or 30 years, the circle swept out and swept back again to your own gra.e- ful heart. But sometimes itis a wider cir- cle, and does not return for a great while, I saw a bill of expenses for burning Latimer and Ridley. The bill of expenses says One load of fir fagots.... ........ ..3s. 4d. Cartage of four loads of wood.. 2s. Jtermn, a pOSt........... eam a Item, two chains... Item, two staples....... . td. Item four laborers...... el 2s, 8d. 4 hat was a cheap tire, considering all the circumstaaces; but it kindled a light that shone all around the world and aroused the martyr spirit, and out from that burning Latimer and Ridley rolled the circle wider and wider starting other circles, convoluting, overrunuing, circumscribing, overarching all heaven —a circle. Put what is true of the good is just as true of the bad. You utter aslander against your neighbor. it has gone forth from your teeth; it will never come back, you tnink. You cannot dodge it. It rolls into your bosom, and after it, roll in a word ofan old book. which says, With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.” You maltreat an aged parent, You be- grudged him the room in your house. You are impatient of his whimsicalities and garrulity. It makes you mad to hear him tell the same story twice. You give him food he cannot masticate. You wish he was away. You wonder if he is going to live forever. He will be gone very soon. His steps are shorter. He is going to stop. But God has an account to settle with you on that subject. After awhile your eye will be dim, and your gait will halt, and the sound o the grinding will be low, and you will tell the same story twice, and your children wiil wonder if you are going to live forever and wonder if you will never be taken away. A gentleman passing along the street saw a son drageing his father into the street by the hair of his head. The gentlcmen, out- raged at this conduct was about 10 punish the offender, when the old man arose and said: *‘Don’t hurt him; its all right; 40 years ago this morning | dragged out my father by the hair of his head!" + Itis a circle. Do you know that the judgment day will be only the points at which the circles join, the good and bad we have done coming back to us, unless divine intervention hinder—com- ing back to us with welcome of delight or curse of condemnation. : ; Oh [ would like to see Paul, the invalid missionary, at the nioment when hw infla- ence comes to full orb—his inruence rolling out through Antioch, through Cyprus, through Ly 2, through Corinth, through Athens, through Asia, through Iaurope, through America, through the first century, through five centuries. throu rh A nturies, ghrough all the earth, through heaven; and at last the wave of influence having made full circuit, strikes his great soul. Oh, then I would like to see him. No one can tell the wide sweep of the circle of his influence, save the one who is seated on the circle of the earth. 1 should not want to see the countenance of Voltaire when his influence comes to full orb. When the fatal hemorrhage seized him at 83 years of aze his influence did not cease. The most brilliant man of his century, he had used all his faculties for assaulting Christianity; his bad influence, widening through France, widening out through Ger- many, widening through all Europe. widen- ing through America, widening through the one hundred and fifteen yeas that have gone by since he died, “Well now,” say pzople in this audience, “this in some rai 72C\8 is a very glad theory, and in others a very sad one; we would like to have all the good wc have every done come back to us, butthe thoughtthat all the sins we have ever committed will come back to us, fills us with attright.” My brother, I have to tell you God can break that circle, and will do so at your call. {can bring 20 passages of scripture to prove that when God, for Christ's sake, for- gives a man, the sins of his past life, never come back. The wheel may roll on and roll on, but you take your position behind the cross, snd the wheel strikes the cross and is shattered forever, The sins fly off from the circle into the perpendicular, falling at right angles with complete oblivion. Forgiven! Forgiven! The meanest thing aman can do is, after some difficulty has been settled, to bring it up again; and God will not be so mean as that. God's memory is mighty enough to hold all the events of the ages, but there is one thing that is sure to slip his memory, one thing he is sure to forget, and that is pardoned transgression. How do know it? I will prove it. “Their sins and their iniguities will [ remember no more.” Come into that state this morning, my dear brother, my dear sister. *‘Blessed is the one whose transgressions are forgiven.” But do not make the mistake of thinking that this doctrine of the circle stops with the life; it rollsion through heaven. You might quote in opposition to me what St, John says about tbe city of heaven. He says it ‘lieth four square.” That does seem to militate against tuis idea, but you know there is many a square house that has a family circ e facing each other, and in a eir- cle moving and I can prove that this is soin regard to Heaven. St. John savs, “1 heard the voice of many angles round about the throne, and the beasts and the elders,” Aganh he says: “There was a rainbow round the throne,” The former two instance a circle: the last either a circle or semicircle. The seats focing each other, the angels fuc- ing each other. Heaven an amphitheatre of glory. Circumferences of patriarch and prophet and apostle. Circumstances of Scotch Coven -nters and “Theoan legion and Albigenses. Circumstances of the good of all uges. Periphery of sp'endor unimagin- ed and indescribable. A circle! A circle! But every circumference must have a cen- tre, and what is the centre of this heavenly circumference? Christ. His all the glory. His all thee praise. His all the crowns. All heaven wreathed into a garland around about Him. Take off the imperial sandal from his foot and behold the scar of the spike. Lift the coronet of dominion from His brow and see where was the laceration of the briers. Come closer, all heaven. Nar- row the circle around His great heart. O Christ, the Saviour! O Christ, the man! O Christ the God! Keep thy throne forever, seated on the circle of the earth, seated on the circle of heaven! On Christ, the solid rock I stand; A!l other ground is sinking sand. BAD SERVICE IN AMERICA. “We Are the Only People Who Willingly Pay for Pour Help. The Americans are the only peopla in the world who pay well for bad cooking and detestable service, grudg- ingly given, glad in most instances (if rural housekeepers) to “get a girl,” no matter how inefficient and dis- qualified she may be, for the work of the house. She must be fed, clothed and respected and her wages paid, writes Mrs. Sherman in the North American Review. She may break crockery to any extent, often to that of thousands of dollars; she may throw away sugar and flour and meat and potatoes by bad cookery; she may be insolent to her mistress, taking her own time for going out day or evening; and she may badly wash the flannels and scorch the gen- tlemen’s shirts; the mistress must put up with if, else the precious creature will leave and the lady must do her own work; or as a dressmaker who had badly cut some gowns for an employer remarked, putting the frag- ments in at the door: “Here, finish your gowns yourself.” This is not good political economy. "The servant should be taught moral obligation. We must remember that there is no tyranny in a republic; there can be pone but the tyranny of the masses. And as the welfare of the millions is bound up in this question, as the comfort and prosperity of our great estate must depend upon the indus- trial ability and honesty of those who serve us for wages, it follows that the first thing to teach a servant isa sense of moral obligation. When we take into consideration the early his- tory of those who come to us as do- mestic servants, the marvel turns out to be not that they are so deficient, but that they are not more so. Look | at the poorer classes in the streets of Glasgow, for instance. We need nov cross to the adjacent kingdom. We krow all about “the pig and the pra- ties,” and really from Pig-and-t’ratie- . dom come some of the best of our nurses and maide. No one who has kept house a number of years but has a sprinkling of delicious and refresh- ing gratitude, in her reminiscence, over some dear and faithful Biddy. Their faults are those of ignorance and that double brain which is al- ways tripping itself up (the cause of the Irish bull), the impossibility of a clear comprehension of the straight road, blinking and being blinded by their own wit, and their aimless, in- accurate absence of logic. How much could be done by giving these Norahs the healthy and bracing influence of honest puritan training in a New England town! We all know what it has done for some of them—made them perfect servants. A Touisville and Nashville night watch man, benumbed with cold, caused a col lision on the Licking river bridge at Mill dale, Ky. Engineer Walter Gibson of Louis ville was fatally injured. Engineer James Carr and Fireman Goodman, of Leuisville snd John Wanks, of Milldale, were pain- fully hurt. Sea ee A Santa Fe passenger train was wrecked mear Keokuk, Ia, by a broken rail. Wil. liam Ross, waiter in the dining ear, was { killed and eight other train employes ia iured. SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON FOR SUNDAY, JAN. 29, “The Spirit of The Lord”, Zech. 1-10. iv. Golden Text: Zech, iv.8. Com- mentary. 1. "And the anzel that talked with me came again and wakel me, as a man that is wakened out of his sleen.” The mortal body can stand but little of joy or sorrow without refreshing sleep. Even on the mount of transfiguration and in the garden of Geth- semane, the mozt joyful and the most sor- rowful events of Scripture, wa see holy men asleep. As to an anzel's touch see I Kings XiX. 5, 7; Acts xii, 7; Dan. x., 10, and re- member that they minister unto you if yon are an heir of salvation (Heb. 1., 14.” A spiritual sleep or inability to grasp or evan Lecome interested very much in tha things of God i: greatly to be denlored, bur is very common even among Christians. Caresand riches and pleasures of this life ~hoke the word (Luke wviii., 14). Following men in- stead of THE MAX, or dependiny upon ordi- nances instead ot upon Hiy, tend to soirit- ual sleep (I Car. 1ie., 1; xi, 30). But see Rom., xiii., 11; Eph. v., 14, and set us ask God by His Spiritsto awaken us at any cost, 2. “And said unto me, What seesc thou? And I said, I have looked, and, behold, a candlestick all of gold.” The prophet would think of the golden candlestick of the taber- nacle and those of the temple. © They gava light in the holy plac: and were daiy trimmed and replenished with oi’. Israel had been chosen and brought out of Egypt to be a light for God among the nations. ‘I'heir sin and captivity hal obscured the light, which was God, in taeir midst. The prophet is now being tauzht that God will vetmake Israel a lignt notwithstanding her j resent desolate condition. Not only shall she be cieansed and ciothed as in tae pre- vicus vision, but it shall be said to her: *‘Arise, shine, for thy light 1s come, nodrthe glory of the Lord is risen upon thee.” ‘“I'ne Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory” (Isa. Ix. 1, 19, 20). 3. **And two olive trees by it, one upon the right side of the bowl and the eather upon the left side thereof.” By reading verse 12 with verses 2 and J it would seem that the prophet saw a lampstand bearing seven lamps; a great central bowl having either one or seven pipes leading to each lamp; then on the other side an olive tree, with a golden pipe trom each tree to the central Lowl—in other words, a self-supplying lamp stand apart from any help of man. 4. “So I answered and spake to the angel that talked with me, saying, Wkat are tbese, my Lord?’ This question js re- peated in verses 11 and 12 and answered in verse 14, and as those verses are not includ- ed in the lesson this 1s the place to consider them. As without the oil there could be no hight and without the trees no oil, we see the importance of this question and answer. What then is meant by the two anointei ones? The only cass of people anocinted in Scripture are priests and kings (a propbet once). Jesus is the great Priest-King. He was typefied in these offices by Aaron and Moses, tut at the time of the lesson by Joshua of the prevous chapter and Zerub- baebl of this chapter. lf you would ba a light in this world for Him, you must know Him not cnly as your priest, having put away your sins and living to make interces- sion for you, but also your personal king or Jord or proprietor, you being ready todo whatever He may appgnt. 5. “Then the angel that talked with me answered and said unto me, Knowest thou pot what these be?! And I said, No, my Tord.” See also versa 13. Contession of ignorance, combined with willingness to be taught, is a good attitude of soul, and where this is found God will send g teich:r—an angel if neal be—to show us that which is noted in the Scripture of Truth (Dan. x., 21). See the story of Cornelius and Peter and the angel in Acts x. 6. “This is the word of the Lord unt) Zerubbabel, saying Not by might nor by ower, but by My Spirit, saith tne Lord ol osts.? Not the wisdom nor the might ot map, but only the Spirit of God can accom- plish any work for Gol. We are not to glory in wisdom or riches or might, buc only in the Lord (Jer. ix., 23, 24). Jesus said, ‘Without Me ye can do notning” (John xv., 5). And even the men wno nad been nearest to Him had to wait for the decent of the Spirit, that they might be encured with power ior service {Luke xXiv., 49: Actsi., 8). 7. “Who art thou, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel thou shalt becoms a plain.” A mountain may represent any great ditliculty and is sometimes used to represent a kingdom (Jer. li., 24, 25... The kingdom of satan sball yec ve thrown down. All the kingdoms of this world <hall yet become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ (Rev. xi., 13). The true Zarubbabel (disperser ot confusion) shall yet be manifest in Jesus of Nazareth as head of the church, Messiah of Isreal, King of Kings and Lord of Lords, and from be- ginning to end the work shall ba seen to be all of grace. 8. “Moreover, the Word of the Lord cama unto me, saying,” while all else may pass away the Word of our God shall stand forever, and he that doeth the will of God abideth forever (Isa. xl., 8; I Joba ii, 1D. “Forever, O Lord, Thy word is settled in Heaven (Ps, cxix., 89). 9. “fhe hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also finish it.” This was literally true of that building, See Ez. vi., 14. 1b shall be true of Jesus and all that the Father has given Him to do. He finished the work of atonement (John xvii., 4). He will finish the building of His body, the church; He will put away the iniquity of Israel and bring in everlasting righteousness for her, and He will fill the chy Sak earth with His glory. He will subdue all things unto Him- self and give back to the Father a perfect earth without sin or stain (Eph. i., 32, 23; Dan. ix., 24; lsa. xi., 9; I Cor. xv., 23). For your own personal comfort eat, Ll Tim. i., 12: Phil. i., ©. : 10. “For who heth despised the day of small things?’ Itis not the seen but the unseen that moves the believer, who, like Moses, endures as seeing Him who is invis- ible (Heb. xi., 27; IL Cor. iv.,17, 18). He, by the grace of God, is able to say with Asia, “Tord, it is nothing with Thee to help, whether with many or with them that have no power” (II Chron. xiv., 11), and with Jonathan, *‘There is no restraint to the Lord to save by many or by few” (I Sam. xiv., 6). The Lord chooses the weak things of the world, and things which are not, to bring to naught things which are, for He will have no flesh to glory in His presence {I Cor. i., 27, B®. Then see the comfort in the last clause of this verse of our lesson and put with it iI Caron. xvi., 9, ani take it home toyour- self, and be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might (Eph. vi, 10). Be strong and work, for the Lord is with you (Hag. ii,, 4).—Lesson Helper. a RRANDY AND DIPHTHERIA, Dr. Alfred Carpenter, commenting ‘upon the use of brandy in the treatment of diph- thera, says. ‘1 have frequently met with cases of diphtheria which have been treated with brandy, either as soon as exhaustion super- vened, or from the very commencement of the disease, Most of these cases ended fa- tally. 1 wish to suggest that this kind of treatment is radically wrong. Some may have recovered to Whom brandy has bzen freely administered; but they are few, and did so, in my opinion, 1n spite of the rem edy rather than in consequence of it.” Such testimony as this from the author ity of so eminent a physician and scientist should suffice to make it quite clear that not y not needea in the treatment but that if admini dx | the chances ( | Focata. en rather than tc covery.—Tempel NEWSY GLEANINGS. T.OoNnOYX has 60,000 telephonas. ase : has a public debt of $§7.002,%0),- Goa. . _ Syarrzoz prevails in Washington and J 'egou. BripsToor's nots a general gain in pricas of prolucts. : EarraQUuakis. blizzwis ani small-pox ars prevaeas in Japa. ? Rica coal discoveries ar: reported in ths Stave of Hidalgo, Mexico. __ THEY opanad soup kitcasns in Cinctnaati, Dio, during the col l snap. Caxap y's Council will issus new currency to toe legal iim, $10,000,000. THE debt of the Dominion n of Canad June 3), 1392, was $241,130 434. = A T1IOUSAND claims nave been staked in tha opal delas at Opaline, [1aho. Tae Scaool of the Chicazo Art Institute has an atteadanca ol 6 pupils. A BILL to lezaliz» cremation has beep preszntad in the Garman Reicastag. MEess pork has risen from about $14 lass year wo #2) and $21.50 a barrel. SoME 35,00) lambs ars being fed and fat: taned iu tne Cicae ia loudrs Valley, Col., tnis season. Forrg-1wo passanzers wera killed last year on tus railroais ol Peunsyivania, and 238 injured. PosrvMasTER - GENERAL WANAMARER oroutises taat New Yora Jity suail nave an aptown postoit ze. THE Canadian cari of cinal tolls for 1833 puts aun eud tw discrimination azawse american interests. THE truscess ol r'indlay, Ohio, hava shut off ths supply oi naturat gas o. all ta2 glass factories iu tae town. FOREIGN Governments have anpropriatel nary $0,000) for rapresancacwa at tas Cmeago wWorw's Fair. ‘HE Pailadelphia Postoffica is embar- rass2a by a great increass o. mail matter wichoul sudicient clerks. Tae HEconomita Society of Pennsylvania Wul arge y aoandon faroung and tora ics ATLEN TION INOre [VU MANU ACIUrinZ. KaAvLisPeLL, the principat town in the newiy op2nsa fiacnead Hoaservation in Moa- Lana, &l'cady has a popu.acion oc 230). COMMISSIONER. RAUM estimates tnat an appropriaviou oc $1¢2,v05,0J0 will oe neces- sary LO PAY pensions uuscing the fiscar year cauinZ vuue, 18Js. . Ou exports to the Latin-American coun- tries or vieven moathns oc 189. were aoous $7,500,000 In excess Oc Those Lor the corre: SPONULNE POriod OL 1841, PHILADELPHIA firms are withdrawing thei: appiicacvas Lor spacs at tne World's far pecalse Laey can gec no lutorination HOOUL Space AUOW3A Tasu. ANARCHISTS are extremely active in Ger- muay and blance, noping (0 prot oy tne manag troduies iu the one couatry and the Panawa scandal in the other, THERE was a gain ot $7,000,000 in the col- lections of 1uterual reveaus wor tne first six moutas Oi tue presenc tiscar year over tae receipts or uae corresponding period of voe 1as0 year. 2L'HE ice in the bays and sounds of New Jersey trom Barnegat to Caps May has willea Toousanus of busnels of pianced oysiers in privace beas. Mosc of taem are wuz ln uae aeavy ice, waica will carry Tueul away waen a chaw comes. IU is estas mated voav Lully 00) busuess have been Kilted. ANOTHER transcontinental line has been AGdea LW wid lise PY Tae comoienon oi tne Great Norooora. A arougi traln servic: pecween Si. Paul and Seattle will be ar. ranged at once. Lhe new nue 1s 1785 mes: ong ana 1s said to De 120 mites snorer rom Tae Loe To The Lacie Jaewalter juan any otlues ous, Tae largest freight car ever built bas been turned ous of the tennsyivania Rai roaa Company’s snops at Altoona, Penn. It 1s 10 DE Useu TO transport from SParrow’s Pour, near Baitimore, to Chicago the 124 ion cannon peng manufactured av the works of Tne Krupp Gun Cowpany at £issen, Yrassia, 1or exbloicion at the world’s fair, ‘4s car practically consists of two cars, with elzhg pairs of Wheels each, joined by aniron oriuge, tous presentinz vhe appear- auce of one ong car, Witn siXteea paws ok wheels, TZ PROMINEN® PEOPLE, GryERAL Durnoa diel owning £7,920,- {Zing of Greace speaks twe.va lan- i . SENATOR INGALLS, of Kansis, says be is maging ¥5)00 a wonth by lecsuring. . “JAX” Carrgry, the new Louisiana Senator, is catied tae “Roaring Lion of St. Mare.” PRESIDENT BLECT CLzvsLaNn will re main in his resicencs at iuacewool, N. J, untit Mareb. Covenxon Cnzavas, of Maine, selec:al three ot the nan isowest men in his own town to be members of his staff. Ix the Hous: of 23prasantatives tha man wita the larzest unameis Arcaibili Hen- derson Arrington Williams, of North Caro- hina, Sr ARTHUR SULLIVAN is said to have strucd a milion notes on a piano in eight hours. The periormance was the result of a challenge. THE Prince of Wales has no intention of visiting Chicago this year, according to*a statement vy his Privat Secratary, Sir Francis Knollys. CeARLZs B. Lzmwrs, the humorist, who syrites under the namo of M. Quad, has iron gray hair and wears a mustacae, and is about the average in height. 5 Mes. Geoxcy Hearst, wife of the late Senator Hearst, of Caltoraia, is the most heavily insured woman in ths world, Her policies amount to $592.09). THE new President of the Swiss Republic —wano nas held ths office during six “prev.- ous terms--s a Calvinist clergyman and was regarded until lately as 023 of tae best all-round athletes in Switzarland. Tee late Professor Horslord devisad a profit-sharing system for tha employes ot the manulacturing company of whica he was President, that inciuled dowers to such of ths women as mizhsleava to marry. De. F. 8. SMrTH, author of ‘My Country, "Tis or L'hee,” was a member of the Harvard class of 132v. He is a clergyman, but seldom preacnes now. Neston, wlass., is his home; put he 1s vigorous enouzn to take the train into Boston occasionally, altaouzn ha 1s dis- inclined to maxe ioaz joaraeys. Dx. M. O. R1CXETTS (colored), of O naha is a meuiver or tne Neorasga Legis sure. t'he aoctor 1s a bright, intelligeni-iooking gentleman, and 10 conversa clon tae $moota- est 11 toe xouse. He enjoys tne uistincoioa ot being the ony cosorea man tnat ever ned a seat 1 ine Neovraska Lizzis.avure. Honacr SMITH, one of the founders of th2 Fevolver Naa OL ania & v/esson, wno died 2 lew uays ago at Springdela, Mass, nas oz- queatheu Otis entire sorvung, sald to amouat ww at least F2,U0,0J0) ww w2aevoienc and charitao.e OUD, Us, Wiiii the exceptoa cl p13,L00, which «3 given Lo @ provuer, FRrESIDENT Draz, of Mexico, is one of the haruest worked med in cae Hepuoue, ide us 31XTY =0WO years 01d, oui his ine nas beeu so Lemperate that 08 1v0ss muca younger. His dAliy YOULNE is OLS OL QeMOCra ils SLPLUCLTY, anu Oe ifeyuentiy rides in tng street cars, Vv pen ne uues wake Use 0. a carriage 1b 1s one vr tly piainest in «0c capital, and the ariver 1s noc in avery. vt Tae man who is able to say, ‘God oth,” never breaks down {s my stren under any kind of a load. FASHIONS VARIOUS PERIODS. —p THE DISTINCTIONS NOTED. ner’ Gowns Usually Described as Empire Ara Really of the Restoration Period. The Growth of a Fashion Suggested by Greek Classicism. HE fashion writers of the day are more Fu Teen than exact =a in their quotations of Nn periods. 7 Every- \\ thing short-waisted is ") called Empire. Strict- o) ly speaking the fash- jons of **The Kmpire”’ (1804) exaggerated those of merely the Republic in its later fancies (1706- 1804). The short-waisted gown was not invented by Josephine in the Empire, it was merely adapted to her. Her adaptation was the sack dress. with the waist close up under the arms, and the bosom pushed up to the chin. “BEAU BRUMMEL"’ PERIOD. A criticism of the time has it thus: “A fashion far from graceful, and a woman needs to be beautiful to look well in such a costume.” Gowns were indecently low for the street and at all times. Artificial flow- ers were an innovation,and were much used on gowns and in the hair. Mme. de Stael wrote ‘Corinne’ about this time, and the harp became the rage and flosting scarfs more than ever popular. But, after all.these things were hardly invented in the Empire period, and to speak of a Josephine gown is more correct when von mean the vervshort waists and very plain skirts, for the Empire saw many a fashion besides the short waist- ed one. Indeed, in this period stays came back. Most of the gowns labeled as Empire are really revivals from directory dresses in the period of the French Republic (1789 1804.) Bodices were then short waisted, dis-, playing a good deal of the bosom, unless it wererhidden by a gauze handkerchief or a long scarf, printed in colors, or braided or bre caded. In this early time of short-waist- ed dresses the woman has a dear affectation of innocence, and not a bit of the Empire immodesty, for all their low dresses. They wore straw bonnets and were the most demure things in the world, if they wanted to be. These were the Beau Brummel dress- es. (1789 Louis XVI. France, George J England,) A GREEK COSTUME. Then, as time went on, modesty became more and more foreign to the short-waisted gown. Exaggerations alone had vozue. Gowns were short-waisted with long tight sleeves or short ones, or the arms were bare or covered with long gloves. The skirts trail- ed and all sorts of headgear was in vogue. ‘The Greeks were horrowed from for head- firesses and wigs. tiarras and diamond cress cents. Spangles were invented and much used on dresses. Transparent muteriale came in vogue, and raiment became mere “gauze-veiled nudity.” +All this was more characteristic of the Republic than of the Empire. As for pretty modesty in short waists and long skirts and scarfs, that is not Empire at all. You may call it, as I have said, Bean Brummel, if you like. Another lot of gowns that are being label- ed ‘Empire,’ belong rightly to the period following the Empire, the Restoration (1815). Short-waisted gowns now took on dignity, valuable jewels, wide, bright-color- ed sastes, delicate fans and embroidered reticules were much worn. Plaid dres=es came 1, and you see now what has suggest: ¢d our sudden jump of late into Pp aids, though as yet we have not adapted them to the short-waisted gowns. Large chip hats had the edges cut into squares, green was much in vogue and so were cloaks with double collars. Silver was woven into stuffs, feather trimming and fur trimming were the rage, sleeves were puffed and trim- med with rows of ruching. You see the Restoration is well represented in our fash- ions at present, many of its characteristics have been classed under “Empire,” while many more have not been classed at all, which only goesto show that one lovely woman has epitomized several periods in herself, and just because Josephine is repre- sented in short-waisted gowns, all short waisted-gowns forever more are Empire. But if you do not want to go into just her kind of short-waisted gowns you wul find lots of other kinds in the periods covered by the terry Empire, the short-waisted dresses, for instance, that are short-skirted, too, wear bodices. short-waisted, but not unde: the arms, and very full skirts and sweel lit- tle short-waisted coats in Thermidor style. You may do your hair high or low and quite loose, solong as it picturesque. The women shown in the picture was the hostess ata recent reception, and she is caught just as she went forward to greet her first guest. See the prefty way that the hos. tess’ head tips back as she says, “Why, my dear!’ The hostess was a bionde and her gown was a French rainbow silk of change- able rose and apple green to start with, and snese shades, striped with hair lines of rose and with other stripes of solid rose sprink- led with rose and leaves and shining with a sleeves were ayple green. The upper part rimmed with wreaths of flowers or ribbons pirally wound about the skirt, a wreath of ( 3 or ribbon about the head. You may ) W golden lustre. ‘The corselet bodice and the | THE STYLE OF THE HOSTESS. of the bodice crossed peasant fashion and was of the rainbow stuff. The sleeves were split to show the arms. Black velvet made the throat more slender, and velvet abont the waist did the same for that. The skirt and sleeves were edged with black feather trimming, and the fan with which she made her little Delsarte gestures was black. She was in such a pretty hurry to greet her guest that she had to lift her gown to avoid iRppiag and that showed a petticoat of rose silk. run NEW SHADOW PICTURES. Two Hands, a Light, and a White Wall Will Furnish Lots of Amusement, Now that the long winter evenings » Ww W /Z Wa) W* =/ f/f; NN are here the amusement of the chil- dren is a serious consideration. Here An” ir | | h A THE CAPTIVE GOOSE. are some new shadow pictures that might be well ta try, and which, if TAE COW'S HEAD. well presented, are calculated to amuse grown veovple as well as little SAMBO. AY. Ty Y lpi THE BLACK SWAN. do not require abnormally developed hands and arms. Try them. er —————— A Lia, Ohio, man fired at an ap- parition which he supposed to be the rhost of his dead wife, with fatal re- sults. A practical joker, with that perverted idea of what constitutes fun which characterizes all practical jokers, had been playing ghost, and lost his life as the consequence. A well-directed bullet is an infallible test in this kind of spiritual mani- festation. The telephone is said to have beeR known in India for thousands of years. Yet there has been very little { talk over it.—Rochester Democrat. a I TT a A PTR 1 mem . equal Al “y Iwa gains Mr kind 1 glad t as H Mns. Get H HO! ly pre; Dr. tion here pow rapi Proj tain syst
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