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FASHION SDICTATIS
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A Pretty Dress for a Stout Person, and
How to Make It.
fe
VISITING TOILET
of rep or Bedford |
cord, having a cape of
. chinchilla fur,is to be
seen in the picture,
The skirt is perfectly
plain and is compos-
ed of three breadths;
one front and two
back breadths. The
NN center seam of the
<A latter is bias. 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
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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
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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,
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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SOLDIERS COLUMN
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BATTLE OF CEDAR CREEK.
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! A Comrade Claims that Custer did More
than Anybody to Save the Day.
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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
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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
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