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THE BIBLE'S GREAT CIRCLES.
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OUR GOOD AND EVIL ACTIONS.
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Dr. Talmage Preaches a Sermon in tho
Sunny Southland.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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NEW SHADOW PICTURES.
Two Hands, a Light, and a White Wall Will
Furnish Lots of Amusement,
Now that the long winter evenings
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Wa) W* =/ f/f;
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are here the amusement of the chil-
dren is a serious consideration. Here
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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
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THE BLACK SWAN.
do not require abnormally developed
hands and arms. Try them.
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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.
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