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The front 1s slightly gathered at the top, and the two sides'are but a trifle bias where they join the front breadth, so little, in fact, as to be hardly noticeable. The skirt is a little over three yards wide at the bottom and but few pleats are laid at the top in the back. It is lined with satin or silk and is finished with a narrow cord- ing. Nothing is interposed between this and the fabric as the latter is heavy enough ard any additional lining would prevent the folds from hanging properly. The lining of the waist is tight-fitting, and the goods is draped over this, being only caught in the A VISITING TOILET. \ shoulders and underarm seams. The front is closed with hooks and eyes and is entirely without folds or pleats. The fichu arrange- ment of changeable gray and green velvet is crossed and sewed into the aide front seams. A standing collar closes in. visibly with hooks and eyes and one side, where the chinchilla cape is also fastened, as the toilet can be worn without it, if de- sired. The cape also has a high standing collar and the seam where it is joined to the cape proper is hidden with a trimming of green and gray velvet ribbons which form a rosette at the back. The belt around the PRETTY DRESS FOR A STOUT PERSON. waist, too, is made of these ribbons, The sleeves are of velvet, have but one seam and are tacked to the lining here and there to form tiny puffs. 3 The gecond picture shows a dress that is well suited to a stout figure. It is of black silk with light gray stripes and cornflowers. Black ribbon velvet trims the bottom of the skirt and forms the waistband. So little attention is paid by fashi n writers to the needs of stout women, that I give directions which will enablealmost any one to make the costume. The skirt isgored and is edged with two rows of velvet. The bodice has # short basque and it is worn under the skirt, A little plastron is made both at the front and back, ending on the latter about five inches from the waist, while in the front it decends to the ribbon bow. The plasiron starts from the edge of the shoulder touch- ing the collar and it is advisable to draw _ it with a pencil on the lining before cutting the material. The back, side, and under- arms pieces are first sewn to the lining, pressed, boned, and well stretched. The plastron is cut on the straight and pinned on the part marked out for it, the middle being placed on the center seam and tacked in position there. A piece of material on the cross is next taken and two pleats made following the cutiine of the plaston on the left, the material being drawn slightly over ta the right side at the waist; the pleats are formed in the same way on the opposite side and cross the others at the point of the the plastron. The stripes of the dress must be disposed in the way indicated in the engraving, as thus they tend to decrease the apparent size of the waist. Careshould be taken to place them symetrically on each side, as the slightest deviation has a very ugly appear- ance; the two pleats should be very deep so that they do no pull apart. The remainder of the material is well stretched, and any superfluous fullness taken into the pleats. If the dress is for a stout person it is best to cover the back and side pieces only with the full material, making those under the arm plain. In front the dress is fastened with hooks and loops. The frontsare cov- ered with silk cut on the cross, with two deep pleats arranged to follow the contour of the plastron, and so arranged that they meet the back pleats at the shoulder. Those on the left side terminate at the end of the plastron, and the silk is sewn down the edges of the fastening, first being well stretched over the darts, The pleats on the right side also start at the shoulder, but, in- stead of ending at the plastron they are carried down tothe waist terminating near- ly at the seam which joins the front and under-arm pieces. The ribbon which forms the V has its point of departure at the same seams on its right side and is fastened at the point of the plastron with a rosette, rede- ‘scending to the same seam on left side, where it fastens with a hook and eve. The top of the skirt is edged with a ribbon like that employed for the V, and it is advisable is best cut with two seams, as it is almost impossible to cut a sleeve in silk with only one seam, as it is too narrow, except for a yerson with a very thin arm. The dress is finished with a military collar. THE ART OF MAKE UP. Some of the Expedients By Which Dra- matic Effect is Heightened. A face, if you please, though it bring a droll expression into the world with it, can the powerful aid of a bit of chalk. One's conntenance, like one’s parlor, can have its furniture, otherwise its features.re- arranged. There are the eyebrows! Perhaps ) 7 you inherit it materially, or perhaps nature fell out with the family likeness when it gave you an arching eyebrow. Such a feature produces a bland, “‘I'm-just-come- on-earth’’ expression. indicative of a belief in everything from a nickel in the slot to a greens goods speculation. Yet a judicious use of chalk’'and paint would make one willing to swear that the owner of #0 keen a glance would spend his season in the Promised Land.betting ten to one that its streets were only gilt. Your nose nay be timid and retiring, de- siring to seclude itself among the cushions of your cheeks. Lo! ye, it suddenly satnds forth a nez such as Napoleon would have had marry into hisfamily immediately and have given a kingdom to—all caused by a few lines at its base, and, maybe, for the improvement of its contour a bit of wax on its bridge. A retrousse nose may have its facinations spoiled by a tong and severe up- per lip. Thix a little red remedies, a cupid’s ow being the result. Then what wonders may be worked upon the month itself! Have you not seen one that looked as if it had been born old, dumb, uninteresting, un- ravished of its fruit, that had grown wither- ed by waiting in vain to be plucked? Such a mouth becomes, under the kindly guid- ance of a skillful hand and the grease pot, a haven of bliss for some hungry man. In burlesque, make-up is a matter of su- preme importance, for the woman must be made beautiful and the men grotesque. lattle Ida Mulle, of the **Ali Baba’ Com- pany, looks on the stage like a French wax doll, She says that she sees no more harm in a woman using paint land powder, than in her wearing false hair, false teeth or a bustle. The crucial points in beginning make-up with herare the eyes and hair. The complexion takes its tone from that,not carried up carefully into the roots of her hair on the brow and the neck, The me- chanism in those innocent eyes of hers is most intricate. Thatshelving portion be- tween the eyelid and eyebrow and also the part over the cheek-bone are filled with short black lines, radiating from the eye- ball—the doil’s face illustrates this. The eyelids are dashed with black and the lash- es thickend with black grease paint. A near view of all this usually is disagreeable, but not so in the case of the diminutive Miss Mulle. This by the way, she says. is be- cause of her knowledge of prospective. Tu the matter of grotesnie make-up, per- haps Henry Norman, as the Chief of Police, Arraby Goorah, carries off the palm in *‘Ali Baba,” although Eddie Foy’s chalky-white countenance, with its inquiring imbecile expression, is not far behind. fe is seldom that a good-looking woman can be found who will consent to disfigure her counten- ance for the sake of act Invention of Balloons. The admirers of crinoline will be proud to learn that the invention of balloons is owing to a similar con. trivance. The French give a curious anecdote of a simple occurrence which led the inventor of such machines— Monatgolfier—to turn his attention to the subject. It is to this effect: A washerwoman of the Rue aux Jnifs, in the Marais, placed a petticoat on a basket-work frame, over a stove, ito dry. In order to concentrate all the heat, and to prevent its escaping by the aperture at the top, she drew the strings ciosely together which are used to tie it round the waist. By degrees the stuff dried, became lighter, and the stove continuing to heat and rarefy the air concentrated under the framework, the petticoat began to move, and at last rose in the air. The washerwoman was So as- tonished that she ran out to call her neighbors; and they, seeing it sus. pended in the air, were amazed. One individual, however, a simple paper maker from Annovnay, named Mont- golfier, as much astonished but more sensible than the others, returned home, and without loss of time studied the work ot Priestly on dif- ferent kinds of atmosphere. The re- sult was the discovery of the first balloon, called Montgolfier’s, of which he was the inventor. The Nautilus probably gave the idea of a sailing vessel; so also very simple causes often produce great and unexpected resulta ae ITs queer about shops—they're to fasten it under the arm, where the fast- ening always shows the least, The sleeve never shut up unless they're shut down.—Elmira Gazette. become the exponent of tragedy through , a point being overlooked, for the color is. Pennsylvania Legislature. Sixtierir Dav. —In the Senate to-day these bills passed finally: To recover dam- ages to trees along highways by telegraph, telephone and electric liszht companies; to authorize the erection and maintenance of eel weirs and fish baskets in streams for three months in the year, for four years; House bill to prevent superintendents of schools from teaching for profitduring their terms of office; to authorize Councils of cities of the second class to fix the saiary of the Board of Assessors; to enable street railway companies to begin the circuit, change the original place of beginning and make other alterations, provided they do not change the incorporated route; to premit chemical companies of other States to erect establishments in Pennsyl- vania, to prevent the spread of tuberculosis; to prevent the adulteration of honey; to make dying declarations in cases of abor- tions, where. death results, admissable in evidence; to extend the law prohibiting the sale of articles of traffic within one mile of campmeetings, to any religious meeting. In the House the Governor was sustained in his veto of the bill to secure uniformity of proxies. These bills passed finally: Re- lating to corporations oreanized for relig- ious, educational, literary, scientific and charitable purposes; authorizing the courts to issue a decree permitting the increase of the amount of real and personal . property held by the corporation. To provide com- pensation for physicians and surgeons who may be called in to attend paupers in emergency cases. Forbidding insurance companies not incorporated in this State from doing business in Pennsylvania except through agents or officers residing within this State. Senate bill to confer on the Board of Public Education or any board of school directors power to sell public school property and to provide for application of the proceeds to school purposes;to authorize notaries public to administer oaths and take affidavits in proceedings in divorce. Sixty-First ay.—In<the Senate to-day these bi'ls passed finally : To designate the several judicial districts of the State; to regulate the sale of baking powders; to fix the date of the commencement of the rent of office of constables; to provide for the licensing and regulation of houses for the boarding of immigrants; to authorize courts into whose hands money has been paid to deposit it with corporations for the insur- ance of owners of real estate, etc., from loss by reason of defective titles, liens and in- cimbrances; to provide for the payment of fees of justices of the peace and constables in civil suits:;to allow Sheriffs not exceeding 50 cents a day for boarding prisoners; to emvower Chief Burgesses to preside . at borough Conneil meetings,and to give them the rights of members of Councils; to repeal the act which prohibits borough officers from receiving any compensation for their services; to empower courts to grant trans- fers of licenses for the sale of intoxicating liquors; to aimhre trustees or other proper officers of any urch, congrezation or presbytery. to abandon schoolhouses or land conveyed for school purposes and to sell the same in fee clear of all restriction; to prevent schoo! officers and other persons officially connected with the common school system to become agents for the sale of school books, charts. maps.school apparatus or stationary; to authorize certain corpora- tions, not for profit, to issue shares of capi- tal stock; to restrict electric light, heat and power companies in constructing lines along public streets and highways. The senate concurred in the amendments of the house to the bill constituting Law- rence county a separate judicial district. The bill to establish a liquor license court was passed second ‘reading. A bill was .introduced providing for the appointment by the Governor of a commission of nine persons whose duty it shall be to examine into the sources of the water supplies of the chief cities of the State, with a view to the purification of stre8ms. Soon after the in- troduction of the measure Senator Flinn re- ported it favorably. , : The Fenrose bill to abolish the public- building commission of Philadelphia took up the greater part of the time of the House to-dny and was finally agreed to on second reading. The bill introduced by Mr. Kearns authorizing county treasurers, instead of the courts, to issue licenses to wholesale liquor dealers and brewers, was reported athrmatively. The House to-day passed finally the bill to provide for the appoint- ment of a receiver in cases where corpora- tions have been dissolved by judgment of ouster in proceedings of quo warranto. Ad- journed. : SixTTY-SECOND DAv.—In the Senate to- day a majority of bills on third reading were passed finally. after which many of the billson first and second reading were disposed of. Among the bills passed final- ly were these: Giving husbands the same rights as wives in cases of divorces on ac- count of brutal treatment; to provide for the gssessment, for special benefits, of the lands of cemeteries for municipal improv- ments; to empower cities and boroughs to appropriate money for the payment of fire- men disabled in the performance of their duties;to grovide that municipal corpora- tions shall not be required to file atfidavits of defense in actions or assumpsit, to pro- vide for the licensing and regulation of ly- ing-in hospitals; for the better protection of pipe lines and telegraph lines and for the punishment of persons damaging or de- stroying the same; to repeal the act limit- ing the duration of lien of county, city, borough, cownship and school taxes and municipal improvement claims. Senator Flinn made an unsuccessful attempt to-day to have the tommittee on vice and immor- ality discharged from further consideration of the bill to repeal the act of 1855 relating to the violation of the Sunday law of 1794 in Allegheny county. It was stated by linn that the committee stand four to four. The senate adjourned until Monday evening. : In the House Mr. Boyer of Philadelphia introduced a supplement to the wholesale liquor law to require druggists to pay a li- cense fee of $250 he Boyer bill to pro- vide revenue by the taxation of banks was passed second reading. The bill to tax brew- ers 16 cents a barrel passed second reading with an amendment thatall the reve- nues derived from the tax shall be paid into the State treasury, the bill originally allow- ing the counties one third. In the House to-night Mr. Kline, Chairman of the Print- ing Committee offered a concurrent resolu- tion which was adopted, instructing the chief cierks of the Senate to arrange for postage for the Legislative Record, the Post- master General having finally decided that it is not a newspaper and cannot go under newspaper rules, which decision will cost the State 2bout $15,000 additional a session. Adjourned. 4 Sixty-THIRD DAY.—The Senate wasnot in session. 1n the House Mr. Ritter, of Lycoming, offered the following resol ution, which was adopted: : ** WHEREAS, the national celebration of the four hundredth anniversary of the dis- covery of America is to be begun by = grand naval parade in New York, Thursday, April 27 next; and, a WnEeRrEeas, This naval parade will be the grandest spectacle of a century, and an event of great political significance and in. ternational comity, in which all Americans and their representatives must be repre- sented; therefore, be it, ‘‘Resclved, If the Senate concur, that we deem it a patriotic duty that this Legislature adjourns irom 10 o'clock p. m. Wednesday, 26, to 9 o'clock a: m., April 28, and that a committee of five, three on the part of the House and two on the part of the Senate, be appointed to make arrangemants for the at- tendance of members of the Legislature at the aforesaid naval review, which attend- ance which shall not be at the expense of the State.”’ On motion a special order was secured for the consideration of the bill providing for the purchase of tablets to mark the forts of the revolution of this State. The house adjourned until Monday evening. KEYSTONE STATE CULLINGS a CRUSHED UNDER THEIR HOUSE. Er1E— Another gale struck this section of the country Thursday, blowing at a fifty- five mile an hour rate. Great damage was done to buildirgs, forests and fruit trees. The only casualties reported occurred at Johnsonburg, a town on the line of the Philadelphia & Erie railroad. Harry Hutch- inson, finding a gas leak under his new house which was set upon temporary blocks, crawled under to investigate. is wife started under the house to deliver a wrench to her husband, when the gale struck that section and threw the house off its pins, crushing Hutchinson and his wife to death, ll THREE MEN DROWNED. Lock Haven—The steam scow owned by the Queens Run Brick Company, while re- tarning from Queens Run to Lock Haven, loaded with 20 cars of clay and carrying nine men, became unmanageable from high wind soon after starting and overturned. Thomas Reed and Frederick Sonn. of Lock Haven, and an unknown man from Phillipsburg, hunting work, were drowned. The bodies have uot yet been recovered, as it is too dangerous to venture on the river with common skiffs. Le TWO MINERS INSTANTLY KILLED. Wasuiveron.—Dell D. Butler and James I. Wilburnwere killed and William Hartand a man named Carson seriousiy, if not fatal- ly hurt by a fall of slate at the Champion mines, near Woods Run, Saturday. Coroner Johnson of this county, held an - inquest. The verdict was accidental death, caused by the miners’ own carelessness. eo LIVES LOST BY GROSS NEGLIGENCE. Hazerron—The coroner's jury appointed to enquire into the Laurel Hill “disaster, by which three miners were drowned, rendered the following verdict: “That the said Wm. Trembath, Richard J. Williams and Thomas Hodgeson came to their death through the gros negligence of the operators—A. Pardee 0. A NEW SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT. HaArRrIsSBURG—Governor Pattison has ap- pointed Dr. N. C. Schaeffer. principal of the State Normal school at Kutztown, Superin- tendent of Public Instruction, to succeed Dr. D. J. Waller, Jr., whose term expired April 1. i el DRANK LYE AND DIED, * GREENSBURG.—A 2-vear old child of Jacob Burke, of Shafton, got hold of a quantity of lye which its mother was using in making soap and drank a portion of it, dying in great agony a short time after, I May. R. J. Prrpps, superintendent of the Forest Oil Company’s wells in the Butler district, shut aown the production over Sunday as an experiment. So far he is satisfied, for no diminution but some in- creaso was shown in the daily production of the wells. NextSunday the shutdown will be extended to the Big and Little Creek fields, and will embrace 200 wells, Other operators in the vicinity shut down their Tells last Sunday, and others are expected o do so. The State Typographical Union,in session at Harrisburg. has adopted resolutions fa- voring legislation to" protect union trade- marks and labels,and indorsing the Sundav laws affecting the pnblication of Sunday newspapers. Officers for the ensuing year were elected as follows: President. J. Kre t- er, Harrisburg; secretary and treasurer, R. D. Lowry, Pittsburg; organizer, Eli J. Davis, Scranton. THE Erie Presbytery, in session at Green- ville, has adjourned, after approving all the roposed revisions to the Confession of “aith. The Edinboro case was referred toa commission of seven, with power to act. The Sandy Lake trouble was laid over until the fall meeting, with the understanding that the Rev. Mr. McDowell would resign by that time. Patrick HANLEY, a section boss on the Baltimore and Ohio road, and six men were run down by a shifting engine near Union- town. The men were on a handcar and all jumjed out of danger except Hanley, who was struck and probably tatally injured. Isaac ROBERTS, a young farmer of Hun- tingdon county, committed suicide by blow- ing his brains out. He was worried over a ‘‘green goods’ transaction he had been fleeced in. NEAR New Castle, a gipsy passin a school house, infuriated by taunts and be- ing struck by a stone, leaped from his cov- ered wagon and attacked the children with s horsewhi One little girl was seriously injured and has been in convulsions. Mgrs, GrorGE Fink of Irwin gave her 10- months-old son a dose of laudanumTuesday by mistake for another medicine. Two physicians worked with the child for hours efore it died. Four boys escaped from the Huntingdon Reformatory Wednesday night. Crow,Shar- per, Matlick and Pickering. Crow, who is from Pittsburg, and the two last named, who are from Philade!phia, were captnred. AT Burgettstown John Perry beat his mother insensible and then red three shots at her. « He was jailed at Washington. The woman is 87 years old, and will prob- ably die. ; Tar opera house in Clarendon burned. $5,000. The center of the town barely escaped destruction. . Tue 7,366 claimants of the defunct Amer- ican Life Insurance Co., of Philadelphia. will receive 24% per cent at the first distribu- tion, and perhaps 7% per cent at the final distribution. EpwArDp SEIGLE, a young man about 22 years of age, was drowned in the Shenango at New Castle while attempting to cross in a rickety boat. ALL travel on the Franklin branch of the Lake Shore road has been interrupted bv the burning of a bridge over Sandy creek, a- few miles from Franklin, Saturday. THE Lewistown ax works were destroyed by fire Thursday night, Loss $75,000; in- surance unknown. At New Wilmington Thursday night four masked men entered the house of Squire Johnson, and after gagzing the old man, took $45 and decamped. New Hoprk, has an epidemic of twins. MOREEARTHQUAKES AT ZANTE. Historic Houses Wrecked. Frightful Tidal Waves. English Send Relief. Zante was shaken by another severe earthquake at midnight Thursday. Slight disturbances were felt almost hourly until noon, when another violent shock qaused a repetition of the recent panics. The historic houses of the poets Foscilo and Salomcg were tumbled into ruins. The telegraph office was partly wrecked, but clerks remain at their posts. The harbor was thrown into violent commotion and enermpous waves broke over the. water front. The British warship Inflexible, of the Mediterranean squadron, has arrived with food and tents. Over 150 dead bodies {have been recovered from the ruins caused by the shocks of Sunday. — ti Seven Killed in a Cycione. News was received at Little Rock, Ark.,of a fearful cyclone in Fourche Valley, Scott county. The town of Boles was almost ene tirely destroyed. Seven persons were killed and a large number injured. The path of the storm was a half mile in width and everything was swept befora it SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON FOR SUNDAY, APELL 30, “Wisdom’s Warning,” Prov. i., 20-33. | Golden Text: Heb. xii, 12. Commentary, 20. ‘‘Wisdom crieth withont: she uttereth her voice in the streets.” When wa read in the New Testaament such words as these, *Christ the Wisdom of God,” Who of God is made unto us wisdom” (I Cor. i., 24, 30), we haveno difficulty in understanding wno is meant in this book by wisdom, Just as Jesus Christ is both the living personal word and also the written word, so He is wisdom as to His person and as to His utterances. It is no wonder, then, tnat it is writtew, **Wis- dom is the principal thing; thereiore get wisdom” (iv., 7). 21. “She crieth in the chief place of con- course, in the openings of the gates. In ths city she nttereth her words, saying.” Tae great multitude arsin the broad way of seif and self pleasinz, with little or no thouzht of a hereafter and a day of judgment. They care not for the fact that ‘‘whaatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap,” and their only thought is pleasure and prosper- ity here and now (Math. vii., 13; Gal, v., 7). Wisdom is represented as calling unto them as they hurry along their downward road. 22. “How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity, and the scorners delicht in their scorniang, and fools hate knowledge?’ Simple ones, it they believe the devil, are easily led astray. If they beiieve God, they are easily led aright. If they go astray, they are soon among the scorners and the fools. Yet wisdom loves them and cries unto them: “How long?’ How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?’ *‘Hiow long wilt thou refuse to humble thy- self before Me" (Jer. iv., 14; Ex. x., 8)? 23. “Turn you at My reproof; bsoold I will pour out My Spirit unto you: I will make known My wordsunt) you.” Hecalls so lovingly, ‘so vatientiyv. so perseveringly. “Come unto Me; return unto the Lord; turn, O backsliding children; take with you’ words and turn to the Lord.” These are some of the many words of the Lord to the erring ones as He entreats them to come unto Him (Isa. Iv., 3, 7; Jer. iii,, 1, 7, 12, 14; Hos, xiv., 2). He oniy asks us to tura to Him, and He will do all the rest, giving His words and His dpirit, His woras which are Spirit and Life (John vi., 63). 24, “Because L havecailed, and ye refused: I have stretched out My hand, and no man regarded.” 1t does not seem possible that a people who had been so wondrously dealt with could so treat such love, but the human heart is still the same, and the same love on His part is turned away from by those to whom His hands are imploringly stretched out. How is it with you? 25. ‘But ye have set at nauzht all My counsel, and would none of My reproof.” They mocked the messengers of God, and despised His words, and misused His propi- ets until the wrath of the Lord arose against His people, till there was no remedy. (If Chron. xxxvi., 16). They even went so far as to say, ‘We have made a convenant with death, and with hell are we at agree- ment; we have made lies our rzfuge, and under falsehood hava we hid oursalves” (Isa. xxviii, 15). Like the men before the flood, whose houses God filled with good things, they said unto God, “Depart from us; waat san the Almighty do for us” (Job xxii., 13- )9 28. *‘Ialso will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh.” What soever a man sowetb, thatshall healso reap, and he that sowsth the wiad shall reap tne whirlwind” (Gal. vi., 7; Hos, viii, 7). Con- cerning all who take counsel against Him it is wri “He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh; the Lord shall have them in ‘ derision” (Ps. ii., 4), and if His loving invi- tations are persistently despised we must re- member His words, “None of those men which were bidden shall taste of My sup per” (Luke xiv., 24). . 27. *When your fear cometh as desolae tion'and your destruction as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.” In due time these things will come upon all who despise His love and make light of His salvation. Bacause thera is wrath, beware lest Ho take thee away with His stroke, then a great ransom cannot de- liver thee (Job xxxvi., 18). 28. “Then shall they call upon Me, but I will not answer; they shall seek Me early, but they shall not find Me,” Then shall taey cry unto the Lord, but He will not hear them; He will even hide His fac from them at that time, as they behaved vhemssives ill in their doings (Mic. iii., 4). Hb told Jere. miah tbat the intercessicn of Moses ant Samuel could not save the Nation, and Hi told Ezekiel that the presence of Noa, Daniel and Job would be of no avail (Jer. xv., 1; Ezek, xiv., 14, 20). Sin may become so great that nothing will do but judgment. 29. “For that they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the Lord.” They say unto God, Depart from us, for we desire ‘not the knowiedge of Thy ways (Job xxi, 14). The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, a foundation of life. a great treas- ure (Prov. i.. 7; ix., 10; xiv., 27; fsa. XSxiil., ¢). But they had no reverence for God, no respect for His ways, no gratitude ror His gifts. The fool says there isno God, and many a one who would not say this wisnes that there was no God. The carnal miad is snmity against God (Rom. viii., 7). 30. “They would none of My counsel; thay despised all My reproof.” Our Lord Jesus said that whosoever heard His words, but did them not, was like a man building on sand, only tO have everything swept away (Math. vii., 28, 27). 81, ‘““I'herefore, shall they eat of the fruit of their own way ard be iilled with their own devices.” Their own wickedness will correct them and their backslidings reprove them. Hear, O eartn; behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the iruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkene i unto my words (Jer. ii, 19; vi, 19. It cople will not receive the truth, God will et them receive delusion and a lie (If Taess. ii., 10-12). He simply lets them have their own way, with its consequences, if they insist on having it. 82. “For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity oi fools shall destroy them.” To turn way from God is to turn one's back on the onl of loveand light. Itis to choose rather than light (John iii., 19). 33. “But whoso harkeneth unto Me shall dwell safely and shall be quiet irom fear of evil.” What a wonderful salvation our wonderful Lord has provided for His ene- mies if they will only turn to Him in true penitence, Life, eternal life, abun lant pax- don, forgiveness of all sins, with the assur- ance of there being no more remembere!, an inheritance incorruntible, a joint heir. ship with Jesus Christ, with the promise of all things temporal and spiritual that we can possibly need.—Lesson Heloer. 3 eee te ttereeseret— Terrv.» vi Lhe Aawiui £aUse, We usually valk about the weather ~hen there isn’t anything else to talk about. This fact may tend to rob the subject of its importance, yet it should not. In fact it ought to be greatly in its favor, as it is ever ready and eflicient in breaking the ‘awtul pause.” Have you ever been over- taken by the awful pause? ¥ortun- ate, indeed, if you have not, and en- titled to heartiest sympathy if you have. 1t is truly awful, especially if courtesy demands that you should break it. It settles upon the best regulated companies like a nightmare, and seems to paralyze the tongue and put thought to fiicht. No one can think of anything to say, or fears to attempt to say it. Then, if ever, a fool is welcome, because he doesn’t think before he speaks. —Pittsburgb Commercial-Gazette. : rkaess soutes | SOLDIERS COLUMN —_——— BATTLE OF CEDAR CREEK. gee ! A Comrade Claims that Custer did More than Anybody to Save the Day. I —.. i L ”L THIS battle was fought Oct. 19, 1864. Gen. Sheridan was in command of the Army of the Shen- andoah at that time, but on this particular day he Wey. was absent from his nN command on busi- ness, which was no 3 ev) fault of his. Wheth- W “= er the rebels knew 2 he was absent or SS pot I cannot tell; if ==" _they did, no doubt : selected that opportunity to make "+r L2G the attack, for they would be more likely to do that than to wait for us to get ready. Speaking of getting ready puts me in mind of an incident that took place in Chenango County, N. Y., near where I re- side, during the war. Allow me to digress a moment from the line of thought I have in mind to relate the incident, Two neigh- bors, both of whom were natives of the Emerald Isle (and it was said were not par- ticularly in sympathy with the Union cause), were in the habit of meeting after a battle had been fought and talking over the result, rejoicing or feeling sad, according as to what it had been. At the time of which I speak there had been a signal victo gained by the Union forces and. as usual, one of the good old neighbors called on the other and, after the usual salutation, said: “Well, Mr ——, another battle has been fought and the Confederate army has been badly beaten; but.'’said he,‘‘there was noth- ing fair about it, for the Yankees attacked them before they got their breastworks done.” Now, my object in writing this is not so much to give a description of that terrible day's fight, for that has been done by the historian long ago, but I have ever felt that the credit of that day's battle was never given to the man who did more to bring participated in the great struggle. It will be remembered the attack was made in the early dawn, when our men were slum- bering in their tents, and they had no op- portunity to form in line, or to make any defense whatever. And the result was a Zeneral stampede of the whole army, which fell back in disorder and confusion. Now, something mus: be done to cause a reac- tion of this state of affairs, or the day was lost; and, mark me, as I have before this was earlv morn and, ‘Sheridan 20 miles away,’”’ and, as a matter of course, he could not be of any benefit to that strug- gling, disorganized, routed army. As I said in the start, it was no fault of his that he was not there. Fortunately for the Union forces, George A. Custer (whose tragic death we all lament), commanding the Third Cavalry Division,of which the writer had the honor to be a member, was encamped on the ex- treme left. and the moment his well-train- ed ear caught the sound of musketry, and the roar of artillery, his headquarter bugle rang out, ‘Boots and saddies!”’ whieh means saddle up in haste, and almost sim- ultaneously came the orde s. (which every cavalryman will understand): ‘Lead Qut—Prepare to Mount—Mount—By Fours —Forward, March!” and in less time than it takes to relate it, his division, with drawn sabers. were on the move. fi mass of s'ragglers that were running pel arrived the oncoming rebel hosts were checked, turned back, their guns captured, turned on them. and they were falling back through our camps, which they had so ruthlessly demolished in the morning, pur- sued by the Third Division, led by its - lant cominander; and before the sun had | shed its last rays over that scene they were making a hasty, disorganized retreat far up the Valley. As the boys re':rned to their old quarters and had partaken of their scanty meal of hardtack and coffee, and the shades of night had thrown its sable mantle o'er the field, we see them gathering in groups around their glowing campfires; me- thinks I hear them singing, “We are {ent- ing to-night on the old camperound.” of the different corps commanders and their deserve great credit. The poem entitled ‘Sheridan's Ride,” or “Sheridan Twenty Miles Away,” has been read and declaimed from the rostrum in al- most every hamlet, not only in this country, but in other countries, until the peop'e have come to believe that Sheridan’s pres- ence when he arrived on the field inspired the army with such indomitable prowess that By put forth extra effort, and by se doing w turned into a glorious victory. Now, every soldier knows that it would be impossible for Gen. Sheridan to have seen bus x small per cent. of the rank and file of that army when he arrived, and I very much doubt if one-half of one per cent. knew when he arrived or even knew that he was absent, for officers of his rank were net sup- posed to go through the camps and inform the soldiers that they were going to be absent. I would not detract one star from the crown of Gen. Sheridan's military glory, or cast one reflection on his ability as a com- mander, fur I know from my own personal ablest commanders we had in the service, and his name should be, and it is, written high on the tablet of fame, and it will - handed down to coming generations by the side of Grant, Sherman, Hancock, Reynolds, Meade, and others, as one of the great ‘military men of the period. In conclusion, I say, without fear of sue- cessful contradiction, that Gen. Geo. A.Cus- ter did more and is entitled to more credit ' for the final result of the battle of Cedar Creed than any man who. was engaged in it.—H. L. M1LLER, in National Tribune. Bret Er — Practical Boston. Boston notions are numberless aad very apt to be good. In that city notices in English, French, German, and Swedish are hung in the waiting- rooms of the failway statious and pier sheds warning young girls against strangers and stating at what hours a matron, who will be recognizable by her prescribed badge, may be found to give all needed information and advice. 1n the same city, which is peculiarly the home and originating place of practical charities. a second good scheme is that of the Young Travelers’ Aid Society. auspices matrons meet the chief trains, both incoming and outgoing, and aid by suggestion or information the traveler who nceds it. A coun- try girl, a foreigner, a mother wrest- ling with an unwieldy family pery children, parsicularly if stranger in a strange land —ti similar helpless and d farers are righted, relisved on tixeir way rejoicing. about the happy result than anyone who He deployed the division in front of the : mell to the rear, and long before Sheridan I would not ignore the valuable services subordinates; they all did noble work and y ; at appeared to be a total defeat was a very knowledge of him that he was one of the Under its a +5 |
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