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SPRING - TIME THOUGHTS.
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REV. DR. TALMAGE’S SERMON.
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The Church of Christ Compared to
Beautiful Garden Where All the
(Gates Are Kept Open and
Christ Is the Gardener.
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living waters and Nar yh ney
Solomon's Song iv., 15. .
gardens of olden times
were to be found at the foot of Mount Le-
text when it speaks of the fountain of gar-
streams from Lebanon.
Again and again the church is represented
as a garden all upand down the word of God,
and it is a figure specially suggestive at this
season of the year, when the ks and the
orchards are about to put forth their blossom
and the air is filled with bird voices.
A mother wished to impress her child with
the love of God, and so in the spring-time,
after the ground had been prepared in the
garden, she took a handful of flower seeds
and scattered these seeds in shape of letters
all acrossthe bed of the en. Weeks ed
, and the rains and the sunshine done
eir work, and one day the child came in
and said, ‘‘Mother, come quickly to the gar-
den—come now." The mother followed the
child to the gard~n, and the little child said :
“Look here, mother. See! It is spelled all
over the ground in flowers, ‘God is Love.'”
Oh, my friends, if we only had faith
enough we could see Gospel lessons all
around and about us—lesscns in shells on
the beach, lessons in sparkles on the wave,
lessons in stars on the sky, lessons in flowers
on: my fonds
ell, my friends, you know very well that
there have been some beautiful gardens
created. There was the garden of Charle-
magne, and you remember that this king
ordered gardens laid out all through the
realm and decided by decree of government
what kind of flowers should be planted in
those gardens. Henry IV. at Montpellier
decreed that there should be flowers planted
throughout his realm and gardens laid out,
and he specially decreed that there should be
Alpine pyrana and French plants. Shen-
stone, the poet, was more celebrated for his
gardens than for his poetry. His poetry
has faded from the ages for the most part,
but his gardens are immortal. To all the
beauty of his place he added perfection of
art. P e and arch and arbor and
fountain and rustic temple had ‘ their
most wonderful specimens, and the oak,
and the hazel, and the richest woods of the
us, and he had industry, and all his gen-
us and all his industry he applied to the
beautification of that garden. He gave for
it 81500, and he sold it at last for $85,000, or
what was equal to that number of dollars.
It was an expensive garden, laid out with
great elaboration. And yet I haveto tell you
now ot 8 garden of vaster expanse—the gar-
usn spoken oO my text—a fountain of gar-
dens with the streams from Lebanon.
Walter Scott had the great ambition of his
life to build Abbotsford and lay out extensive
gardens round about it. It broke his heart
that he could not complete the work as he
desired it. At his last payment of £100,000,
after laying out these gardens and buil
that palace of Abbotsford, at that time his
heart broke, his health failed, and he died
almost an imbecile.
A few years ago, when I walked through
those gardens and I thought at what vast ex-
pense they had been laid out—at the expense
of that man’s life—it seemed I could see in
the crimson flowers the blood of the old
man’s broken heart. ‘But I have to tell you
now of a garden laid out at vaster expense.
Who can calculate that vast expense? Tell
‘me, ye women who watched Him hang ; tell
me, ye executioners who lifted and let Him
down ; tell me, thou sun that didst hide and
yo rocks that did fall, what the laying out of
this garden cost. This morning, amid the
aroma and brightness of the springtime, it is
appropriate that I show you how the church
of Christ
a en.
I remark first it 8 a garden because of the
rare plants in it. That would be a strange
garden in which there were no flowers. If
you cannot find them anywhere else, you will
them along the paths, and you will find
them at the gateway.
If there be no especial taste and no es-
ial means, you will find there the helly-
ock, and the daffodil, and the dahlia.
there be no especial taste and no especial
means, you will find the Mexican cactus, and
the bluebell, and the arbutus, and the clus-
ters cf oleanders.
Flowers there must be in every garden, and
I have to tell you that in the garden of the
church are the rarest plants. Sometimes
you will find the violet, inconspicuous, but
sweet as heaven—Christian souls with no pre-
tense, but of vast usefulness, comparatively
anknown on earth, but to be glorious in
pelestial spheres. Violets and violets ail the
time. You cannot tell where these Christians
have been save by the brightening face of the
invalid, or the steaming tureen of the stand
near the sick pillow, or the new curtain that
keeps out the glare of the sun from the poor
man’s cot. Such characters are perhaps bet-
ter typified by the ranunculus which goes
greeping between the thorns and the briers of
this life, giving a kiss for a Sting, and many
@ man has thought that life before him was a
black rock of trouble and found it covered
all over with delightsome jasmine uf Chri
tian sympathy.
In this garden of the Lord I find the Mexi-
san cactus loveliness within. thorns with.
put, men With great sharpness of behavior
and manner, but within them the peace of
God, the love of God, the grace of God.
They are hard men .to handle, ugly men to
touch, very apt to strike back when you
strike them, yet within them all loveliness
- and attraction, while outside so completely
unfortunate. Mexican cactus all the time.
Said a placid elder to a Christian minister,
you would do better to control your
tem er.’ “Ah,” said the minister to the
placid elder, “I control more temper in five
minutes than you do .in five years.” These
people, gifted men, who have great exaspera-
tion of manner and seem to be very different
from what they should be, really have in
their souls that which commends them to the
Lard. Mexican cactus all the time. So a
man said to me years ago: ‘‘Do you thirk
I ought to become a member of the church?
I have such a violent temper. i
“Yesterday I was crossing Jersey City
ferry. It was very early in the morning, and
I saw a milkman putting a large quantify of
water into his can, and I said: ‘That is
enough, sir,’ and he got off the cart and in-
sulted me, and I knocked him down. Well,”
said he, “do you think I could ever become
a Christian?” That man had in his soul the
grace of the Lord Jesus, but outside he was
full of thorns, and full of brambles, and full
of exasperations, but he could not hear the
story of a Saviour s merey told without hav-
ing the tears roll down his cheek. There was
loveliness within, but roughness outside.
Mexican cactus all the time.
But I remember in boyhood that we had ir
our father’s garden what we called the Gian!
of Battle, a peculiar rose, very red and ver)
flery. Suggestive flower, it was called th
Giant of Battle. And so in the garden of the
Lord we find that kind of flower—the Pauls
and Martin Luthers, the Wyelifs, the John
Enoxes—giants of battle. What in other men
is a spark, in them is a conflagration. Wher
they pray, their prayers take fire ; when they
suffer, they sweat great drops of blood ; when
they preach, it is a pentecost; when they
fight, it is Thermopyle®e; when they die,
it is martyrdom—giants of battle. You say,
“Why have we not more of them in the church
of Christ at this time?” I answer your ques-
tion by asking another, “hy have we not
more Cromwells and Humboldtsin the world?”
God wants only a few giants of battle. They
do their work, and they do it well.
But I find also in the church of God a
plant that I suall call the snowdrop, very
beautiful, but cold. It is very pure—pure as
the snowdrop, beautiful as the snowdrop
and as cold as the snowdrop. No special
sympathy. That kind of man never loses
his patience; he never weeps, he neve:
flashes with anger; he never utters a rash
word. Always cold, always precise, always
poem I SUNN ShoRerp, il Sou like
o rather have one Giant of Bat.
tle than 5000 snowdrops.
ve me a man who may make some mis-
takes in his ardor for the Lord’s service
rather than that kind of nature which spends
its whole life in doing but one thing, and
that is Jeoping equilibrium. There are snow-
drops in the Shurchics nea without any
sym; ¥. ery good; they are in the
pi the Lord ; therefore I know the)
ought to be there, but always _snowdrops.
You have seen in some places perhaps 2
century plant. I do not suppose there is 2
person in this house who has ever seen more
than one century plant in full bloom, ant
when you see the century plant your emo
tions are stirred. You look at-it and say
“This flower has been gathering up its beaut;
for a whole century, and it will not blocn
again for another hundred years.” Well, |
have to tell you that in this garden of th
church, spoken of in my text, there isa cen
tury plant.
In Fa gathered up its bloom from all th
of eternity, and 19 centaries ago it pu
forth its glory. It is notonly a cantury plant
but a passion flower—the passicn flower o
Christ, a crimson flower, blood at the roo
and blood on the leaves, passion flower a
Jesus, the century plant of eternity. Come
© winds from the north, and winds from th
south, and winds from the east, and wind
from the west, and scatter the perfume o
this flower through all Nations.
His worth, if all the Nations knew,
_ Sure the whole earth would love Rim too.
Thou, the Christ of all the ages, has: gar
ments smelling of myrrh and aloes and cas
sia out of the ivory palaces.
I go further and say the church of Chris
is appropriately compared to a garden be
cause of its thorough irrigation. There ca
be no I garden without plenty a
water. Isaw a garden inthe midst of th
desert amid the Rocky mountains. I said
‘How is it possible you have so man
flowers, so much rich , in a desert fo
miles around?” I pose some of you haw
seen those gardens. ell, they told me the
had aqueducts and pipes reaching up to th
hills, and the snows melted on the Sierm
Nevada and the Rocky mountains and the
poured down in water to those aqueducts
and it kept the flelds in great luxuriance
Ana 1tnougnt to myself—how likethe gare
den of Christ! All around it the barrenness
of sin and thebarrenness of the world, but
our eyes are unto the hills, from whence
cometh our help. There is @ river the
streams whereof shall make glad the city of
our God, the fountain of gardensand streams
from Lebanon. Water to slake the thirst,
water to refresh the fainting, water to wash
the unclean, water to toss up in fountains
under the sun of righteousness until you can
see the rainbow around the throne,
I wandered in a garden of Brazilian cashew
nut, and I saw the luxuriance of those gar-
dens was helped by the abundant supply of
water. I came to it on a day when strangers
were not admitted, but by a strange coinci-
dence, at the moment I got in, the king's
chariot passed, and the gardener went up on
the hill and turned on the water, and it came
fashing down the broad stairs of stone until
sunlight and weave in gleesome wrestie tum-
‘ed at my feet. And so it is with this garden
of Christ. Everything comes from above
pardon from above, peace from above, com-
ort from above, sanctification from above.
Streams from Lebanon. Oh, the consolation
in this thought! Would God that the garden-
ers turned on the fountain of salvation until
the place where we sit and stand might
become Elim with twelve wells of
water and threescore and ten palm trees, But
hear His sound at the garden gate. I hear
the lifting of the latch of the gate, Who
somes there? It is the Gardener, who passes
in through the garden gate. He comes
through this path of the garden. and He
omes to the aged man, and He says: ‘‘Old
nan, I come to help thee; I come to
trengthen thee. Down to hoary hairs I will
shelter thee ; I will give thee strength at the
Ame of old age. I will not leave; I will
aever forsake thee. Peace, broken hearted
old man ; I will be thy consolation forever.”
And then Christ, the Gardener, comes up
another path of the garden, and He sees a
soul in great trouble, and He says, ‘Hush,
troubled spirit ; the sun shall not smite thee
by day, nor the moon by night; the Lord
shall preserve thee from all evil; the Lord
shall preserve thy soul.” And then the Gar-
dener comes up another path of the garden,
and He comes where there are some beautiful
buds, and I say, ‘Stop, O Gardener ; do not
break them off.” But He breaks them off,
the beautiful buds, and I see a great flutter
among the leaves, and I wonder what He is
doing, and He says: “I do not come to
destroy these flowers. I am only going to
plant them in a higher terrace and
in the garden = around pal-
ace. I have como in*o My garden to gather
lilies. I must take back a whole cluster of
rosebuds. Peace, troubled soul ; all shall be
well. Suffer the little children to come unto
Mo and forbid them not, for of such is the
kingdom of heaven.” Oh, glorious Gardener
of the chunch! Christ comes to it now, and
He has a right to come. We look into the
face of the Gardener as He breaks off the bud,
and we say : “Thou art worthy to have them.
Thy will be done.” The hardest prayer a
bereaved father or mother ever uttered —
Thy will be done.”
But you have noticed. that around every
king's garden there is a high wall. Youmay
have stood at the wall of a king's court and
thought, “How I would like to see that gar-
den!” and while you were watching the
gardener orened the gate, and the royal
equipage swept through it, and you. caught
a glimpse of the garden, but only a glimpse,
for then the gates closed.
I bless God that this garden of Christ has
gates on all sides ; that they are opened by
day, opened by night, and whosoever will
may come in. Oh, how many there are who
die in the desert when they might revel
in the garden! How many there are who
are seeking in the garden of this world that
satisfaction which they can never find!
It was so with Theodore Hook, who made
all nations laugh while he was living. And
yet Theodore on a certain day, when in the
midst of his reveiry he caught a glimpse of
his own face and his own apparel in the
mirror, said : ‘That is true. I look just as
I am—lost, body, mind, soul and estate, lost I"
And so it was with Shenstone about his gar-
den, of which I spoke in the beginning of my
sermon. He sat down amid all its beauty
and wrung his hands and said, “I have lost
my way to happiness; I am frantic; I hate
everything ; I hate myself as a man
ought to.” Alas, so many in the gardens of
this world are looking for that flower they
never can find except in the garden of Christ !
Substantial comfort will not grow
In nature’s barren soil.
All we can boast till Christ we know
Is vanity and toil.
How many have tried all the fountains of
this world’s pleasure, but never tasted of the
stream from Lebanon! How many have re-
veled in other'gardens to their soul’sruin, but
never plucked one flower from the garden of
our God! I swing open all the gates of the
gdrden and invite you in, whatever your his-
tory, whatever your sins, whatever your temp-
tations, whatever your trouble. The invita-
tion comes no more to one than to all,”
¢éWhosoever will, let him come.”
The flowers of earthly gardens soon fade :
but, blessed be God, there are garlands that
never wither, and through the grace of Christ
Jesus we may enter into the joys which are
provided for us at God's right hand. Oh,
come into the garden. And remember, as
the closing thought, that God not only
brings us into a garden here, but it is a gar-
den all the way with those who trust and
love and serve Him, a garden all through the
struggles of this life, a garden all up the
slope of heaven.
There everlasting spring abides
And never withering flowers.
Death, like a narrow stream, divides
‘I'hat heavenly land from ours.
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During the year 1892 there were shipped
from Florida 324,327 tons of phosphate, an
increase of 173 tons over 1891
SUNGAY SCHOOL
LESSON FOR SUNDAY, MAY 21.
“Against Intemperance.” Prov. xiii., 21.
85. Golden Text: Prov.xx., 1.
Commentary.
29, “Who hath woe? Who hath sorrow?
Who hath contentions? Who hath babling?
Who hath wounds withoutcause? Who hath
redness of eyes?” The Golden Text tells us
that ‘‘wine is a moeker, strong is rag-
ing, and whosoever is deceived thereby isnot
wise.” Yet there are fools without number
who seem to prefer the woe.and sorrow and
contention, At least they prefer the wine
and strong drink, even though it bring these
things. The woes of Scripture against those
who have to do with wine are notfew. ‘‘Woe
to them that rise up early in the morning
that they may follow strong drink ; that con-
tinue until night till wine inflame them."
“Woe unto them that are mighty to drink
wine, and men of strength to mingle strong
drink.” “Woe unto him that giveth his
neighbor drink, that puttest thy bottle to him
and maketh him drunken also” (Isa. v., 11,
22; Hab. ii., 15). Then it is plainly written
that drunkards shall not inherit the kingdom
of God (I Cor. vi. 10), so for this life andthe
life to come it is naught but woe fgrthose
who are slaves of strong drink. But thank
God for deliverance, even for those who are
bound with such chains, for the drunkards
and vile people of Corinth had, many of them
experienced the power of the Grace of God
JEWEL BONNETS.
mame natin
Brilliant Combinations of Lace Ruffles
and Imitation Gems.
A novelty in millinery are the jewel bon-
nets. They are like the modifiea coif with
very full lace ruffles around the edge and
butterfly or oreilies d’ Ane bows, the crown
of the bonnet and nearly all the trimming
sewed thick with imitation jewels, rubies,
diamonds, emeralds, turquoises, pearls and
and hecome washed, sanctified and justified
in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the
Spirit of our God (I Cor. vi, 11). .
30. ‘They that tarry long atthe wine ; they
that go to seek mixed wine.” This is the
answer to the previous verse. Drunkenness
is invariably associated with trouble. In
verse 21 it is said that ‘the drunkard shall
come to poverty.” The story of drunken
Nabal, HY of Elah. whe was slain while he
was drunken, are among the sad records of
the Bible. (I Sarn. xxv .36, 38:1 Kings xvi..
8-10). But perhaps more sad is the story of
righteous Noah, who forgot himself and his
high calling and became druken. thus bring-
ing great humiliation to himself and one of
hissons and giving great occasion to the
enemy to blaspheme (Gen. ix., 20-25). Worsa
still is the story of David making Uriah
drunk (II Sam. xi., 18). Surely every man
at his best estate is altogether vanity, but
what can be said of a drunken man except
that he has descended lower than the brutes?
81. “Look not thou upon the wine when it
is red, when it giveth his color in the cup,
when it moveth itself aright.” The R. V.
has for the last clause, ‘‘When it goeth down
smoothly.” Wine has its attractions and its
pleasures, but they are wholly on the side of
self and sensuality when carried to excess.
There is no manner of use in making a joke
of Paul's advice to Timothy to muse a little
wine for his stomach’s sake (I Tim. v., 28),
nor in saying that the wine of the New Testa
ment was wholly unfermented, forhow could
unfermented wine burst wineskins? But there
is use in letting the word of God stand, and
in all humility and teachableness take it to!
mean what it says in itz plain, literal sense,
unless it is clearly’ a figure or a symbol.
Happy are those whose stomachs need ro
wine ; happy those who prefer to let even meat
alone, if need be, rather than be a stumbling
block ; happy the church that prefers to use
an unfermented wine at the communion
rather than put temptation before any weak
one. Happiest of all those who can truly
say, “Not I, but Christ, who liveth in me.”
32, *‘At the last it biteth like © serpent and
stingeth like an adder.” It is on the prin.
ciple of ‘‘he that soweth to the flesh shall of
the flesh reap corruption” (Gol. vi, 8). ‘‘For
the mind of the flesh is death” (Rom. viii., 6
R. V.). The flesh will manifest itself in
greater or less degree in some or all of the
works named in Gal. v., 19-21, and the record
is “that they which do such things shall not
inherit the kingdom of God.” If a man is
simply a natural man, a mun after the flesh,
never born from above, he cannot see the
kingdom of God, but must in due time ex-
perience the second death, which is the lake
of fire (Rev. xx., 15, 14.) Then shail he in-
deed know to his eternal sorrow the serpent’s
bite and adder’s sting. Foretastes of hell ara
in mercy given in this life (let any drankard
testfy) if perchance men may repent and so
escape the lake of fire.
88. ‘Thine eyes shall behold strange
women, and thine heart shall utter perverse
things.” Woman in Scripture is tho of
the very bestand the very worst. The church
is spoken of as a chaste virgin, espoused to
Christ, and as a bride adorned for her hus-
band (II Cor. 2; Rev. xxi., 2), while all that
is vile and false is described as 2' woman
seated upon a scarlet colored beast, full of
names of blasphemy (Rev. xxii, 3). The
strange woman is described in verses 27, 28,
of this chapter, and more fully in chapter v.,
8-5; vi., 24-26. The way to be saved from
destruction is to give heed to verse 26, “My
son, give me thine heart and let thine heart
observe my ways.” Not only do we need: to
be kept from uttering perverse things, but we
need to he kept from foolish thoughts, for the
thought of foolishness is sin (chapter xxiv.
9). And since we are not sufficient to think
anything as of ourselves, how utterly help-
less in our condition, but our sufficiency is of
God (II Cor. iii., 5).
84, ‘‘Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth
down in the midst of the sea or as he that
_ lieth upon the top of a mast.” Dangerous
positions surely. Such a one might say, in-
deed, what David thought was true’ of him.
self, “There is but a step between me and
death” (I Sam. xx., 3).
death shall usher us into the presence of the
King, that to die is gain and to depart is to
pe with Christ, then indeed cne has no cause
to fear that enemy. But if one’s sorrow have
already begun through wine and women, on
the edge of what a fearful precipice does such
a one stand! But the figure is that of ons
asleep in danger. This is more fearful still,
for if one is only awake there is some hope of
escape, but what hope can thes be for Sam-
son asleep in the lap of Delilah.
35. “They have striken me. shalt Thou say,
and-I was not sick ; they have beaten me, and
I felt it not. Whenshall I awake? I will seek
it yet again.” Reiusing to receive correction,
they make their faces harder than a rock and
refuse to return (Jer. v., 3). They say come
and we will fill ourselves with strong drink,
and to-morrow shall be as this day and much
more abundant (Isa. lvi., 12). Of such it will
doubtless become true, '‘He that, being often
reproved, hardeneth his neck shall suddenly
be destroyed, and that without remedy”
(Prov. xxix., 1). And yet God is not willing
that any should perish, but that all should
come to repentance. He has no pleasure in
the death of the wicked, but cries imploring-
ly, Turn ye, turn ye ; why will ye die (II Pet,
iii., 9; Ezek. xxxiii., 11)? How deceitful and
desperately wicked is the human heart !—
Lesson Helper.
A Palr oi Pets.
Training will do many things, but
it has seldom brought together two
such incongruous mates as in this
story told by the St. Paul Globe:
Little Barbara had been sick, but
was convalescent.
“Are you my doctor?” she said,
waking up suddenly and finding a
strange lady at her beaside.
“No, dear,” said the strange lady,
“] am your trained nurse.”
“Ah, that’s better,” exclaimed ihe
little girl. “I shall like you very
much. Trained purse,” she contin
ued, pointing to a cage hanging near
the window, “let me introduce you to
my trained canary.”
CroTH that a rifle Duiley cannov
penetrate has been invented by a
tailor. The tests have been severe.
It only remains to subject the ma-
terial to the trial of facing an unload.
When we know that
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JEWEL BONNET.
sapphires. These while pretty enough to
wear by day, are really magnificent at night
with their scinzillant rays of color and light.
Some of the jewel bonnets have a very
light foundation of tulle, and the jewels are
sewed to it or hung on spiral wires and
fastened like a boquet or perhaps a butter-
fly of tine lace will be thickly sewed on the
wings, and the eves will be rubies or dia-
monds. The effect is really very fine at
night.
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A PERIOD OF RAPID FASHION.
THE STYLES GIVE
THE EXTRAVAGANCE OF
SCOPE TO ECCENTRICITY.
The fin de sieele young lady finds the
present fashions vastiy to her taste. She
“may be seen in some things so bright and
individual that one cannot help admiring
the pert little face under the blood red
cavalier hat with its fluffy pearl plumes.
She holds herself in a mann>r which says:
“Well, here I am in a new frock and a ha*
that I imagine will set all the girls crazy.
morrow, so look at me well, and how do
you like me anyway?” And it is all done
with such an airy grace that one wants to
catch the bright hued butterfly to look at in
dreary, dark days. *
And the frock? Oh, it is of old 10se serge.”
with a suggestion of gold and dara ceep red
in its shadings, with lace around tke bottom.
with a tat waist, a square cape
and sleeves of ‘beef blood’’ velvet. Perhaps
right behind her will glide a demure young
maiden in a dove gray surah gown, a quaint
black taffetas mantle and a dove and brown
BEAUTIFUL NEW HATS.
“‘coal scuttle’’ bonnet. fuch is the style
now—that is every one cun and is freely
allowed to make a style for herself, but she
is honored for progressiveness if she copies
as closely as may be after the styles of 1830.
BEAUTIFUL NEW HATS.
The new hats are beautiful. There is
really no other word worthy to use this sea-
son in describing them. The hats of straw
with ribbon garniture and perhapsa metal
ornament vie with those where lovely flow-
ers are mingled with ribbon, and when a
girl is obliged to say which one she prefers
is ghe to blame if she does as little children
do and says ‘*both?”
THE HOOPSKIRT 8CARE SUBSIDING,
After all thetalk and scare it is not at all
likely that hoops will be worn. Even the
stiffened skirts have found few supporters
comparatively, and they are among the few
that enjoy creating a sensation. When it
comes right down to the question, the
skirts that just clear the ground and set out
full and free around the bottom are much
more comfortable and yorely healthier than
the long skirt of last season, dragging an
accumulation of al! sorts of things.
THE NEW SLEEVES.
Some dressmakers gssert that the sleeve is
the dress now, or at least the most impor-
tant part of it, and judging from some of
the gowns, one 13 obliged to admit that
there is much truth ia the assertion. The
THE NEW SLEEVES.
enormous leg o’ mutton 1s the favorite with
the extremists, and this has to be distended
with stiff lining until it will take the de-
sired proportions. The outside material is
fulled on over the lining and held in place
by invisible stitches, and the sleeve is so
tight at the wrist that the hand cannot be
passed through it, and a narrow slit is left
with a small hook and silk loop which fas-
tens it snugly over the glove.
‘When sleeves are made in this pronounc-
ed style, there is generally a plaited or gath-
ered beriha or bretelles, which falls quite
wide over the shoulder and tapers to a point
at the waist. This is a natural sequence of
those large sleeves, which would appear
larger than the body if there is not some-
thing to hide the joining part. With such
a waist, the eye would not be satisfied un-
less the skirt flared ont at the bottom with
some narrow ruffles or narrow trimming.
His DAUGHTER'S LETTER.—“Dear
Father—We are all well and happy:
"The baby has grown ever so much,
and has a great deal more sense than
he used to have. Hoping the same
of you, I remain your daughter.
Molly.”-—Tid-bits. . 5
I'm this to-day, I'll be something else to-
cme
ed pistol
‘ LATEST SPRING COSTUME.
———
THE LABOR WORLD.
MassacuuseTTs has 26,755 K. of L.
UxcLe Sam has 2,000,000 unemployed.
Loxpox hospitals employ 6000 persons.
BroommakERs will form a National body.
LoweLL (Mass.) city laborers get $2 a day.
nw Louis is to have a $%50,000 labor tem-
on.
New Yo=k stonecutters $4.50 for t
hours. get Sigh
Prrrseurc’s new Mayor is a union iron
moldér. 2
IN Germany Sunday work is general amo
iron iron ge Bjpong
Braz is about to undertake public works
that will attract immigrants.
Women clothing workers in San Francisco
are paid from $5 to $12 a week.
THERE are only a few carpenters’ unions
outside the pale of the Brotherhood.
Tae annual eight hour labor demonstra
tions were held throughout Europe.
TE Prussian Government has erected
B00 dwellings for the Government railway
AT Naples, Italy, 10°0 women cigar work-
oe struck against making cigars without to-
co. :
AT Cincinnati, Ohio, a bureau of justice
collects wages from the bosses wno fail to pay
their hands.
A croak which sells for $20 in London
shops is sewed by women who receive two
cents per cloak for their labor. * ;
At Detroit, Mich., reduced rates of fare
are allowed workingmen by the railroad
company betwen 5:30 and 7 a. m.
Tue Lake Shore Railroad will give every
employe transportation to the World's Fair
and a vacation on fuli pay when the trip is
en.
IN Germany every employer of a servant
girl is obliged to contribute five cents per
week, exclusive of wages, to provide a sick
fund for her.
NEAR Alfred, Me., there is a woolen mill
that pays twenty per cent. higher wages than
any other coneern in the State, and the work
is correspondingly superior.
HobcARRIERS are on strike in Kansas City,
Mo., and several wealthy contractors, who
could not get anybody to take the place of
their strikers, took up the hod and carried
mortar and bricks for several days. ¢
Tae British Royal Commission .on ' labor
says in a recent report that the annual rate
of remuneration for farm labor inthe United:
States is $282, compared with $150 in Great
Britain, $125 in France, $100 in Holland, $90
in Germany, 860 in Russia, $50 in Italy, and
830 iz India.
MARKRLTS.
PITTSBURG.
THE WHOLESALE PRICES ARE GIVEX BELOW.
GRAIN, FLOUR AND FEED.
$
No. 2 Western, New..... . 64
FLOUR—Fancy winter pat 4 50 4
Fancy Spring patents..... 4 50 4
Faney Straight winter.... 375 4
XXX Bakers....... cornu v3 25 3
Rye Flour... (i... 3 50 3
HAY —Baled No. 1 Tim'y.. 1475 15
Baled No. 2.Timothy..... 13 50 14
Mixed Clover. ............ 13 00 11
Timothy from country... 17 00 19
STRAW — Wheat...... .... 550 6
Oats.c....00.00. yh 7 50 8
FEED—No.1 WhMd® T 175 18
Brown Middlings........ 15 50 18
Bran, sacked....... . 18 00 16
Bran, bulk...... . . 1550 16
DAIRY PRODUCTS. :
BUTTER—EIlgin Creamery 28
Fancy Creamery......... 23
Fancy country roll....... 18
Low grade & cooking.... 10
CHEKSE—Ohio fall make.. n.
New York Goshen........ 12
Wisconsin Swiss....... .. 16
Limburger (Fall make)... 14
FRUIT AND VEGETABLES.
T PHILADELPHIA.
FLOUR ,.... 5 5 .
WHEAT—No. 2. Re
CORN—No. 2, Mixed.. . 49 50
OATS—No. 2, White........ 41 42
BUTTER—Creamery Extra. 29 36
EGGS—Pa., Firsts.......... 15 16
FLOUR. Pat NEW YORK.
] —Patents...cec..0v0n 4 50
WHEAT-—No, 2 Red........ 73 3 »
RYE—Western......ccecveee 56 57
CORN—No. 2....0...u.. Rane 51 52
OATS—Mixed Western..... 36 36
BUTTER—Creamery........ 25 29
EGGS—State and Penn...... 15 16
LIVE-STOCK REPORT,
CATTLE.
Prime Steers..... ee . 5 !
et pid 3
Bulls and dry cows......... +250to 400
Yeal Calves. ........... . 4 50to 5 10
Heavy and thin calves 200to 400
Fresh cows, per head....... 25 00 to 50 00
’ SHEEP.
Prime 95 to 100-1» sheep....$ 5 20to 5 50
Good mixed. ............. 10; 400to 510
Common 70 to 75 1 sheep... 300to 350
Lambs, fair to good........ 6 00 to 9 50
HOGS.
Selected,............. ZL 8 00 to 8 10
Good Mixed......... .5k.. 79to 79
Gond Yorkers......iessss=» 780to 790
Common Yorkers..coeee... 760t0°'7 70
ROUZHS coves. sannnazian ada 5 50 to 8 50
DIS. diese rin tetas annie 70¢t0 72
.
NEw York Crry has a Spanish waiters’
WHEAT—No. 1 Red B@8 74
No.2 Redoioaers onions i 72 :
CORN—No. 2 Yellow ear 52 i
High Mixed ear...... 50
No. 2 Yellow Shelle 51
Shelled Mixed..... 47
OATS—No. 1 White 41
No.2 White........... ove 39
{0.3 White......... ie 38
ixed. i ieme.avrisiinece : 36
RYE—No. 1 Pa & Ohio.... 67
8 «sek Izamnnune IszessssssuusedsaBREERERTEY
ShEam
APPLES—Fancy, # bbl... 300 3
Fair to choice, ¥ bbl.... 2 2
BEANS—hand picked ® bu. 200 2
NY & M(new)Beans®bbl 215 2
Lima Beans;........c....
POTATOES—
Fancy White per bu...... ; 90 1
POULTRY ETC.
DRESSED CHICKENS—
PB. 118
Dressed ducks #1 ..... Pl 17 18
Dressed turkeys 2D... 20% 21
LIVE CHICKENS— ]
Live chickens # pr....... 90 100
Live Ducks ® pr......... 60 65
Live Geese pr.......... Pht 100
Live Turkeys En A +12 13
EGGS—Pa & Ohio fresh. ... 14 15
Goose......... cco iteies 35 40
Puck. vo... vciiiiieiiiads 20 22
FEATHERS— y
xtra live Geese ® T..... 55 60
No 1 Extra live geese® Db 48 50
Mixed. ...... a Rias sn 2 35
MISCELLANIOUS.
TALLOW—Country, #1... 4
EY iT. 4
SEEDS—Clover... .... . 8 25 8
‘Timothy prime... 220 2
fie grass. ..........c.. 140 1
RAGS—Country mixed.... 3 i
HONEY—White clover.... 12 15
MAPLE SYRUP, new crop. 75 80
BUCKWHEAT............. : 10 12 47
CIDER—country sweet®bbl 5 00 5 50
STRAWBERRIES—per quart 10 15
Tennessee, 21 qt. crate...... 17 2.00
: CINCINNATI.
$2 20@ $3
$3 25@ $4 40
76 71
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