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An ne confec- if destroy- of $1,000. al. the engi it. engine passenger - ester and svening of at Roches- 1fined to a juries re- ign. ir county anized for Mayor lidaysburg, The secre- rumbaugh, ve and Ed- treated. rs, a farm- rday after- was found beaten and 1e hospital money -and Ip. urrounding cks ago of resident of up through the Alle- ince from Fuse. low up the t Renfrew, An Italian - under the way. An bomb with se. instructed to proceed ction of a cer county rk of tear- old build- for clem- ery lawyer r, was for- t in behalf ar-old Ital- anged here jurors were ans. 2, or ordered he case of county, fix- date of his fe government. At the - are ‘earnings of onyx, i Women Scientific Hunters. . It may surprise some readers to earn what a very large share women #6W have in the purely scientific work United tes naval observatory, says the merican Home Monthly, women as- sist in making the astronomical cal- - culations for the Nautical almaarc— the sea bible of the mariners—and at eo Smithsonian institufion and the operons of agriculture women are ectly responsible for much of the intricate technical work. it lllinois Woman Decorated. Gne of the few American women who have been awarded the Palmes Academiques, a decoration given by e French government for distin- ished service in the field of letters, Miss Arcadie Villere of Lake Forest, . She is of French descent and was or many years a teacher in Chicago. he decoration, a small gold wreath of palms worn on, a violet ribbon, was given for the work she has done in creating an interest in French in this country.—New Orleans Picayune. A Contrast in Brilliants, The New York Sun tells how the color of the earring effects the color and brilliancy of the eyes; how a prin- cess discovered that the diamonds in her ears outshone the brilliancy of her eyes and she discarded them for ear- rings of turquoise that brought out the blue of her eyes. There is a Hun- garian beauty of Budapest who is noted for the wonderful glow of her deep black eyes. Always in her ears smooth and beautiful, or balls of jet that bring out the black of the eyes. The Limelight on Divorce. To Wellesley college girls recently - the Rev. Dr. Endicott Peabody, head master of Groton School for Boys, said: “The shame of cur land today is the frequency of divorces. Why is it? Be- . ¢ause men and women are immoral, Because they have not the self-control and the patience and the courage to endure unhappiness and disappoint- ments which may come in married 1ife; because there is a spirit abroad of feeling ‘I have a right to be happy.’ This is the fallacy at the back of what is called ‘new thought,’ the determina- | tion to have happiness, the cry that the person has a right to be happy, and, if there is anything to produce unhappiness, to get rid of it. Character - growth comes often in no more uncer- tain way than through the patient, brave endurance of disappointments and sorrows.” * Oppose Women’s Rights. The New York State association op- posed to Woman Suffrage is the rath- er unwieldly name of an organization that is doing all it set out to do. The president is Mrs. Francis Scott, and among the vice-presidents are Mrs. Elihu Root and Mrs. Richard Watson Gilder. In the report recently issued: it is stated that women have in no instance got what they sought in the way of equal voting rights. Massachu- setts defeated the bill by a vote of 163 to 14; Indiana killed its bill, 24 to 22; the Maine committee reported “ought not to pass” on a similar bill; West Virginia defeated the bill, 40 to 38; Rhode Island did not report it; Ne- braska and Oklahoma defeated bills, and so on, but still the report says the women in favor of equal suffrage de- clare that their cause is gaining. —New Driers Picayune. Queen Who Objects to Corsets. Queen Amalia has the most wonder- ful taste in dress, and Paris costumers are never tired of sounding her praises. At the same time her majesty believes it quite an easy matter for a woman to have a perfect fitting gown without the aid of corsets. When the Roentgen rays were dis- covered she had a tight laced lady photographed in order-to demonstrate scientifically to the ladies of her court the evils of the practice. i Her majesty has very practical ideas of the advancement of her sex, and considers that nursing is one of the best professions for women. She her- self is famed thoughout Portugal as a nurse, and is well known in the hospi- tals of Lisbon. - + Above all Queen Amalia is never “tired of preaching the value of outdoor and athletic exercises for women. She isa magnificent ! swimmer, a wonderful rider, an untiring cyclist and a good shot. And to such pursuits she attri- butes thé beautiful figure which she possesses, —From Tit-Bits, ' = rx] : 1 A Notable Woman, Mrs. Virginia Campbell FHopeOn, a daughter of the Rev. Alexander Campbell, who founded the Christian or Campbellite church, died in Wash- ington at the age of 74. For 13 years Mrs. Thompson was postmaster at Louisville, Ky. Her successive cam- vaigns for re-appointment to that office are still remembered by those who rere conversant with public life dur- ing the presidential terms of Hayes, ‘Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland and Harri- gon. Mrs. Thompson was born in Beth- any, W. Va. She was married to Wil- liam R. Thompson of Kentucky, a bril- iiant lawyer. After he died in 1877 she journeyed to Washington with her young children and asked President Hay es for the appointment of postmas- i ter at Louisville. Although her seles- tion was bitterly fought by Kentucky politicians, she received the appoint= ment. President Arthur re-appointed her, as did President Cleveland when he took office in 1885. There were over 80,000 letters on file requesting the re- appointment of Mrs. Thompson when President Harrison entered the White House. The determined opposition of Postmaster-Geperal Wanamaker, how- ever, kept her from serving a fourth term, Mrs. Thompson of late years had been employed in the congression- al library. She leaves two sons and an invalid daughter.—New York Sun. Writers’ Views of Women. Consideration for woman is the measure of a nation’s progress in so- cial life.— Gregoire. No man has-yet discovered the means of giving successfully friendly advice to women.—Balzac. Woman is an overgrown chilu that one amuses with toys, intoxicates with flattery and seduces with promises.— Sophie Arnould. I have seen more than one woman drown her honor in the clear water of diamonds.—Comtesse d’Houdetot. Women are never stronger than when they arm themselves with their weakness.—Mme. du Defand. ~~ Women know by nature how to dis- guise their emotions far better than the most consummate male courtier can do. —Thackeray. Women see’ through -and throieh each other; and often we most admire her whom they most scorn.—Buxton. A man should choose for a wife only such. a woman as he would choose for a friend, where she a man.—Joubert. A coquette is more occupied with the homage we refuse her than - with that we bestow upon her.—Dupuy. The one who has read the book that is called woman knows more than the one who has grown pale in libraries.— Houssaye. When a woman pronounces the name of a man but twice a day, there may be some doubt as to the nature of her sentiments, but three times!— Balzac. Would you hurt a woman most, aim at her affections.—Wallace. Tears are the strength of women. —Saint Evremond. The heart of a loving woman is a golden sanctuary, where often there reigns an idol of clay.—Limayrae. As asp would render its sting more venomous by dipping it into the heart of a coquette.—Poincelot. The breaking of a heart leaves no traces.—Sand. Women are twice as religious as men; all the world knows fthat.— Holmes. A light wife doth make a heavy husband.—Shakespeare. A preity woman’s worth some pains to see.—Browning. : Friend, beware of fair maidens! When their tenderness begins, our ser- vitude is near.—Victor Hugo. etween a woman’s “yes’ and “no” I would not venture to stick a pin.— Cervantes. There is nothing - more beautiful than a frigate under sail, a horse gal- loping, or a woman dancing.—Balzac. It is only the men who have the strength net to forgive.—Dumas fils.— New York Evening Post. Fashion Notes. Even the jumper suits are made of ! wools, and with good effect. Only the slender woman should at- tempt the high-waisted coat. White shoes and stockings prevail with all white gowns worn now. The very best tailors®are using a great many mohairs this season. Many of the newest coats show waist coats of various contrasting ma- terials. Smartly tailored in their inimitable way, there is no suit equal to a mo- hair suit. To make such a velvet bow dressier a small aigrette of white or the color of the frock white can be added. y There are to be many different wash materials listed as fashionable and the plain and fancy piques stand near the top. Cafe au lait (coffee with milk) is one of the season’s new shades that’ is ex- ceedingly soft and pretty in the,silken materials. An idea that is novel as well as pretty is a neat little bow tied in the front, with a jeweled pendant hung from the center. A rather clever scheme is the cut- ting of a velvet in narrow lengths to be used as a ribbon in running through lace or in piping a gown. ‘The wide, straight brim or the small close shapes are the best models to choose from for hats. These are most ly trimmed with flowers and feathers. The embroidered collar curved high just under the ears is finished at its lower edece with a narrow black vel- vet ribbon tied in a tiny bow at the front. A most effective little neck orna- ment may be made in this way, using a tiny hook and eye under the bow to fasten the ribbon end that goes round the throat. * Among the new ornaments that are becoming to older women are small upstanding bows of black velvet or tulle spangled either in jet or in col- ored sequins to match the gown worn. - THE PULPIT. A BRILLIANT SUNDAY SERMON BY THE REV. LEWIS T. REED. 1 Theme: Suggestive Therapeutics. Brooklyn, N. Y.—In the Flatbush Congregational Church the pastor, the Rev. Lewis T. Reed, preached. a sermon on “The Theory ‘and Practice of Suggestive Therapeutics.” The text was. from Matthew 8:13: “And Jesus said to the centurion, Go thy way; and as thou hast believed,'so be it done unto thee. “And his servant was healed in the selfsame hour.” Mr. Reed said: . In this theme of “The Theory and Practice of Suggestive Therapeutics,” it is not my purpose to expound nov- elties or to satisfy curiosity, but to assist all of you who worship here to lay hold of some of the great princi- ples within this movement by which it will be possible for you to live con- fidently and joyfully. I should be glad to make all of you practitioners of the art of suggestive therapeutics. There are a few great principles which it is essential you should honor and obey. First—the power of sug- gestion. We have been wont to.be optimistic about everythingthat takes place in our lives, provided nothing evil appears at once on the surface. We have proceeded on the faith that the psychical system: could take up and dispose successfully of every sug- gestion made to it. Evil thoughts, envy, anger, greed, concupiscence, gluttony—all the vices abhorred: by St. Paul might present their vile pic- tures to the mind, and as long as we did not act on their suggestion, we still preserved our character. We de- luded ourselves with a hope that we were what we appeared:to be. And now we have had to learn afresh :the truth of that Scripture: “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.” ' I know. of no process in man’s life more calculated to give him thought than this function of ithe subconsciousness of storing up the suggestions that the outer life. brings. Day by day. as we touch the world, and get our own reactions of courage or cowardice, of self-control or self- defeat, of purity or selfishness, of love or hate, we are continually drop- ping, dropping these suggestions into | the reservoir of this subconscious self, to come forth some day to bless or curse. Abraham Lincoln lives day by day the sacrificial life of the burden- bearer of this people. Day by day, hour by hour, he gives himself the suggestion of devotion, sacrifice and faith; and then, when the hour for utterance has come, takes up his pen and writes on a few scattered sheets the supreme English masterpiece of half a century. Benedict Arnold was always passionate and revengeful. Day after day, year after year, the re- action of life on him resulted in sug- gesting to his deeper self hate, envy, pride, and self-will. When his hour for expression came, he took up his pen to sign his name to the betrayal of his trust. There is nothing in the process of the soul that needs to cause us more of joy and more of fear than this amenability of the soul to suggestion. Secondly, you must come to a new realization of the supreme place of the will. Heredity must have some place in the formation of character, although that place is not yet very clearly determined—but the most weighty discovery of the present day seems to me this rediscovery of the regal power of the will to do right; These psychologists, and hypnotists, in their investigations into the unex- plored tracts of personality have come across not only a God-like aspiration after virtue in every soul, but also an unlimited power for the attain- ment of that aspiration. Just as’ the Master of Life stooped over the crip- ple, saying, “Arise and walk;” and knew that within that stricken form there was the ability to rise and walk; so modern psychology stoops over every sinful soul and repeats the Scripture command, “Be ye there- fore perfect,” for ye are in the image of your Father in Heaven, who is perfect. This is a tremendous doc- trine of individual responsibility. It is an old Scriptural doctrine, but it gains a new force when, by the mod- ern hypnotists’ appeal to the soul of goodness in a man, you see the drunk- ard go forth a néw man, thé spend- thrift reformed and the invalid made well. If there are in us those pos- sibilities of virtue, there is no escape for us from the responsibility of at- taining that for which we were cre- ated. There has come to us the con- viction that inspired Jeremiah: “In those days they shall say no more. The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge. But every one shall die for his own iniquity; every man that eateth the sour grapes his teeth shall be set on edge.” There is no more proper incentive to earnest living than the realization of the fact that God has intended life to be perfect for every creature; and that if it is otherwise, the fault is in ourselves. “Dark is the world to thee; thyself art the reason why.” Whoever would possess the reality of the Christian life must achieve the victory over his moods; and the most heartening mes- sage of this or any age is that by our God-given endowment of the will it is possible for us to give to the deeper life of the soul the suggestions of courage and faith and patience and strength, which altogether means eternal life. In the third place, you will have to form for yourself very likely a new, and very stern, doctrine of sin and virtue. The old doctrine of a forensic justification before God was an ad- mirable thing to look at, but it did not work very well either for the justified or for his family. Those who deemed themselves “saved” very often failed to possess the homely vir- tues of cheerfulness, kindness, cour- age and forgiveness; while many who were obviously “good” were not con- scious of salvation. The religion of to-day: gives the genuinely “good” man his due, and placards in their proper place these hateful sins of un- kindness, intolerance, moodiness, worry and hardness of heart. It is a great service that any sect bestows when that body of people stands forth to proclaim that the ills of the flesh have an origin in the ills of the mind, and that the thoughts that issue in { these bodily ills are sins against the serious’ | High and Holy One. From whatever source derived, the conviction of the necessity of controlling the outbreaks of our evil moods would be the great- est conceivable blessing in so-called Christian homes. This is surely no new gospel. All this teaching is from both Christ and the apostles; but it is undeniable that the recent presen- tation of it has amounted almost to a discovery. The fourth principle which must govern your thought is that of the very great influence that we exercise over one another. If you believe in the telepathic communication of one subconscious mind with another, you will believe that the condition of your subliminal "consciousness—of irrita- tion, or quiet, ;of hope or fear—even though you speak no word, will af- fect those associated with you. In no hazy way, but very definitely, then, we are our.brother’s keepers, respon- sible for the world’s stock of cheer and faith. The home is the peculiar field for the operation of this sub- conscious power. There the quickest of sympathy exists, there influence is felt most readily and most deeply. The atmosphere of a home, although a hackneyed term, expresses a clearly defined reality. The atmosphere is the spirit of the house, emanating from the deep well of the subcon- scious mind of the homekeeper. God has created no more gracious figure in His great world than that of the wife and mother, who gives. to the very place of her abode her own quiet, buoyant, soothing spirit. What she is in the unsounded deeps of her being will appear in time in the house where she dwells and in the faces of the little children that look up to her. On the other hand, the home of the card-club woman and the home of the gad-about! Who does not Know them and shudder at the thought? Their atmosphere is that of restlessness and spiritual poverty. Woe betide her children and her hus- band; for she cannot give them, after ‘their day of temptations and vexa- tion, that by which they are renewed, the ‘spirit of peace and quiet _confl- dence in good. II. Now, it will sometimes happen that, despite our best endeavors, we shall be overborne in the press. Ill- ness comes. on, whatever the cause, and the causes are often complex. What are we to do? Every physician would join with me, I believe, in say- ing: make the spiritual attitude cor- rect. To use the terminology of the books, give yourself the auto-sugges- tions of courage, confidence in God, faith in His willingness and power to care for and restore you. Make it the genuine conviction of your spirit that God does provide for all His creatures. Rest in the promises of divine health with which the Scrip- tures abound. If there is any cause of irritation, remove it, if it be pos- sible, by the right action on your part. Nothing is more irritating than harboring a vigorous grudge. I need not remind you how, strictly scriptural is all this method ‘of creat- ing a correct mental attitude; and I believe that your own careful obser- vation would come to my support in the statement that the great majority of the diseases from which our hoise- holds suffer can be finally traced to the fret and ambition of our present life. As the pastor, then, of your souls and the minister of the Lord Jesus Christ, who, through faith, re- stored the body, I would exhort you to cultivate to the utmost the virtues that Christ always insisted upon— trust in God, humility, self-forgetful- ness, forgiveness, sincerity. - Still, in many cases, the conditions of ill health will continue. What is to be done then? Manifestly, if the trouble be serious, it is the time ta employ the physician, who can diag- nose the case and prescribe the regu- lations under which recovery can be most rapid. I earnestly hope that in the excitement of this new discovery of the therapeutic power that is in the mind no one here will believe that he is privileged to sin against either himself or his brother. All laws of action are laws of God. The best re- sults ensue when we learh how to use all of God’s laws in harmony with each other. Quinine is just as much a creation of the divine spirit as is the mind of man, and we may as well acknowledge that infection is a process likely to take place under pre- vailing conditions, unless guarded against. The employment of mental healing in cases of physical disorder is the employment of a therapeutic agency. You may use medicines if you see fit and they produce the results, al- though as a matter of fact medical practice of the present day makes less and less of the treatment by drugs and more and more of the rest, air and water. On the other hand, you may employ the mental healer, provided your own spirit is so attuned to the spiritual life that you are able to receive its benefits. My own belief is that those who are wonted to the spiritual life—Dby which I mean the life of communion with God through prayer, the life of faith in a controlling power, and of inter- est in the life of the spirit in its higher manifestations—are best pre- pared for the reception of these ben- efits. - No one can be benefited who sets himself even secretly against his healer, who prefers his own will and way to the will and way of God, or who cherishes a false self pride in his own condition. The only way of restoration is the sincere and humble committal of oneself into the hands of God that He may work His restor- ing will. Ons must learn the very heart of the meaning of the sixth chapter of Matthew, the core of which is the insistence upon the necessity of the genuine union of the life of man with God. If there is one place in which no deception is possible it is in this relation of life with God. hoever the healer may be, the pre- requisite to success is the sincere de- sire of the patient to be helped. Greater than the desire of having one’s own way, and of cherishing one’s own foible, must be the desire to receive that more abundant life that Christ came to bring. Therefore, while, on the one hand, this is only a system of therapeutics, on the other, it is a system the suc- cess of which is so intimately related to the attitude of a man’s spirit to- ward the infinite that it becomes a matter of religion. An Epigram by Dr. Frank Crane. Life is a rpetual choosing; road to rui if treatment by the natural agencies of |. Standard Oil’s Champion. JAMES ROSCOE DAY, D. D, LL. D, Chancellor of Syracuse University. A New Capboard. .No better receptacle for old china has ever been found than a corner cupboard, but unfortunately the sup- ply is not equal to the demand. There are more collectors than cupboards. If one were clever enough to copy a Colinial cupboard, as did P. D. Clif- ton, of Pittsburg, it would hardly be worth while hunting for an old one. As a faithful reproduction: of a famous eighteenth century design, it would be hard to find anything better A Copy of a Colonial Cupboard. than his work. It has all the feeling of the genuine and might easily be taken for an old piece. Mr. Clifton is an amateur who made the cupboard for pleasure, hav- ing for a model merely a magazine illustration of the original. The lat- ter is owned by Dr. Coburn, of South Norwalk, Conn. It was made in 1740, .and has the scroll top, urn finials, pilasters, rosettes, and other details which marked the best cabinet-work of that day. We publish Mr. Clifton’s cupboard as an incentive to other amateurs, particularly those with a china hobby.—The House Beautiful. Don’t Fold Your Arms. By folding your arms you pull the shoulders forward, flatten the chest and impair deep breathing. Folding the arms across the chest so flattens it down that it requires a conscious effort to keep the chest in what should be its natural position. As soon as you forget yourself down drops the chest. ‘We cannot see ourselves as others see us. If we could many of us would be ashamed of our shapes. The position you hold your body in most of the time soon becomes its natural position. Continuously folding your arms across the chest will develop a flat chest and ‘a rounded back. Here are four other hints which should be made habits: Keep the back of the neck close to the back of the collar at all possible times. Al- ways: carry the chest farther to the front than any other part of the an- terior body. Draw the abdomen in and up a hundred times each day. Take a dozen deep, slow breaths a dozen times each day.—Family Doc- tor. Lincoln's Sarcasm. Probably the most cutting thing Lincoln ever said was the remark he made about a very loquacious man, “This person can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.” No fewer than fifty-two memorial stones were laid at the foundation of a new primitive Methodist church at Scunthrope, England. Tibeion Priests With Their Telescopic Trumpets Which Emit a Note Like Thunder. stic ritual. he s festivals of the lame Chatsa monaste g length.—The the trum pets they are hol These huge brass trumpets are sounded at intervals during solemn standing figures are two lamas of the are sixteen feet in
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