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; New York City.?The fitted jacket of hip length is always in style whatever others may come and go. This one is exceptionally desirable for" tne rea FITTED JACKET.. sou that its sea res are so arranged as to give tapering lines to the figure, and that it is quite close to the throat As illustrated it is made of black kersey stitched with, corticelli silk and trimmed with'collar and cuffs of velvet, edged with broadcloth, but all the materials in vogue for coats are equally appropriate, and the collar and _ cuffs can be made either of the ma terlal or of the velvet as may be liked. The sfeeves are the new ones that are . . full at the shonlders and narrower at wrists, where they are finished with becoming roll over cuffs. The jacket consistB of fronts, side fronts, backs, sldebacks and underarm gores with sleeves which are cut in | two portions each. Pockets are inserted in the side fronts. -vhicb add both to the stvle and to the convenA LATE DESIGN I lence, and the closing is made at the left of the front with buttons and buttonholes. The quantity of material required foi -1 - the medium size is three;and a quar ter yards twenty-seven inches wide two and three-eighth yards forty-foui inches wide or one and scven-eightl yards fifty-two inches wide, with ontv half vard of bias velvet to make as illustrated. Chinese Coat Latest. a Any woman with an eye for the pic turesque is bound to fall in love witl a Chinese coat done over into a roon gown. These coats of richest satii and silk are of a sort which the Chi nese Minister might wear with eclat Of yore it was the vogue to wear then over a pretty petticoat and let it g< at that. Now we are more elaborate The latent examples show a graduate! accordion flounce of Liberty siilr. Tbi: trailing flounce is edged with a ruclx and is fitted , up .into the side slits tha distinguish the Chinese coat. Tbi flouncing is also used inside the broa< sleeves. This flouncing does not nec essarily match the coat color iu ma terial. It may contrast vividly. Oik DiaCK coat srunniugjy emuruiuein with brilliant birds and blossom: boasts flounclngs of vivid cerise. Re< is, indeed, very much the vogue, espe cially in the raspberry and strawberry shades. Half light hyacinth and peri winkle blues are much liked also, ai these colors often figure superbly ii these embroidered garments. All thi pretty rose shades are noted in thesi flouncing?. So is emerald green. Suol a robe i? much less undress than th< > same ccat when worn with a petti coat, however ornate. A Picture Wfdrtir jp. At a recent wedding the bride's wed ding gown had a long train suspendei from tbe shoulders with pearl orna . ments, the train was lined with whit chiffon and the girdle of the gown wa made of silver embroidery. The brides maids' gowns wer? ail of pompadou ' . , I w : I chene silk, opening in the front ovei ! | tucked white chiffon petticoats, and rj f chene strips of the silk crossed the , jt petticoats ancl were caught with straps | J and bows of pale blue. The pointed I ? bodices had fichus of Mechlin lace ' t over vests of finely tucked white chif- I 1 fon. Their large "vrhite felt cats Baa r> pink roses under the brims and loope ^ of pale blue velvet ribbon adorned r their tops and came around under the I brims and tied in strings. The little * girl train bearer wore a Puritan bonnet j of drawn blue silk and a blue 6atin j frock, and the page was in a Georgian i page suit of blue cloth, with a white j 1 waistcoat, white silk stockings, and hie j J shoes had paste buckles. I | i Handiome Black Gown*. Entire dresses of black panne are j * another Parisian novelty, and a very j j. attractive one; the skirts are circled } with broad pleats a la religeuse, but at j ^ the waist the fulness is reduced to a ; | myriad, tiny pleats taking the place j 8 of the heretofore stoutening shirrings, i becoming only to the very lean sister 1 e hood. These handsome black gowns c are worn with a deep, beautiful col- e lar of rich old Venetian or other thick c lace, and corresponding cuffs in Louie 1 XIII. style; while the cavalier hat of i j felt, panne, or soft, hairy felt, now de- { c nominated poiluchon, instead of fentre ' 1 castor?an old friend under a new name j ' ?k; simply trimmed with long, elegant ? | drooping feathers of the same sable t hue, or with biacfc ana wnue ieatuers, i > the latter shading up from black to j white through numerous intersbades ! of gray, the white tip in several Instances lightly flecked on the edge* -with black.?Washington Times. Revival of Old Style Repp. A novelty material, already offered in Paris, and to be in evidence here, is repp. This repp material has not been shown to any extent for two or three years. In colorings, grays, browns, ; certain- not bright shades of ruby, and green are the favorites, blues being relegated to the background. Favorite Three Piece Skirt. Full skirts that are oo arranged ci BY MAY MANTON. ~" ** ! ' to leave a narrow, plain panel at the front may safely be called the favorites of the season, and are exceedingly " graceful and generally becoming. This > one includes also a flounce that is j ; > joined to the sides and back and is " finished with box pleats that conceal f the seams at the front. The model is made of willow green crape de chine > trimmed with ruches of silk and full ' | rosettes, but all materials which are soft enough to make the fullness attractive are suitable. The skirt is' made with front gore i and circular portions; which are joined j i at the centre back. The box pleats j i are separate and are applied over the i front seams, while the closing is made j invicHiir nt thi* hnr?lr 1 "hn i turned under at its upper edge and 3 sliirred in successive rows, so form- I ing a Lending, and the fullness at the j 1 upper edge is aiso collected in shir 5 rings. e The quantity of material required i . 1 1 THREE PIEOE SKIB T. e for the medium size Is eleven yards s twenty-one, nine and \ three-quarter yards twenty-seven, ? five yards fortyr four inches wide. 1 SERMON FOE SUNDAI | g ha st kN ELOQUENT DISCOURSE ENTITLED, cr 'THE WORLD'S INTEREST IN CHRIST." Jef lii er lie Kev. Dr. Cleland Boyd McAfee Tells jjj What Is tbo Beat Argument For Jesus -His Own Character With Its Striking es Symmetry is Completely Conducing* fill Brooklyn ?Dr. Cleland Boyd, McAfec, P' lastor-elect of the Lafayette Avenue Pres- " yterian Church, preached there Sunday. ,' lis subject was "The .World's Interest in ^ he Success of Christ." The text was from 21 rohn xii:9: "Much people of the Jews, r* herefore, knew that He was there: and *? hey; came not for Jesus' sake only, but hat they might see Lazarus also, whom He lad raised ffom the dead." Dr. McAfee 12 aid: r This is.at least candid. There was no i" nagic magnetism about Jesus. He drew J nen to Him in no subtle, indefinable way. 71 le drew them by what they saw Him do, r* >y what they saw Him to be. Here was a rowd drawn to Jesus by the effect He had B~ "" .1- _? il ci proiouna irum ui v/misuami,}. j. nwu .. ? Beemed possible, for example, to get a t tvide reading for the two-year-old book by ii Principal Fairbairn of Oxford, Mansfield y College. He has callcd it "The Philosophy ii Df the Christian Religion." The book a grew out of Principal Fairbaim's aopoint- d ment as Haskell lecturer in India. He had the sacred books of Hinduism and felt that he knew how to meet its positions with sympathetic understanding. When he reached India, however, he found Hindu- jj ism a very different thing in practice. That ^ turned him hack upon a candid study of 0 his own faith, to see vhether and wherein 0 it might differ in present practice from ito j, Driginal form. Such a study was certain a to result profoundly, and it is a profound book. I wish all of us Christians might 0 follow an argument which results in such sentences as there: "The Son of God holds E in His pierced hands the keys of all re- j, ligions, explains all the factors of their jj being and all the persons through whom r they have been realized." "The Incarna- j tion is the very truth which turns nature f and man, history and relieion into the t luminous dwelling place of God." I think ^ I shall not forget tnat phraae that the In- ]( carnation turned the world into the lum- 8 inous dwelling place of God, that Jcsu3, once born into manhood, has never died out of manhood, and shall instead draw manhood into His own fellowship and t likeness. . > We shall be able to feel the personal . meaning of all this when wc stop to name' , over some of the traits w..ich mark the changed life. It is a life of faith?of quiet e confidencc in God. There_ is^no idleness nor lazy trusting that things will come J crut right by some mysterious method. It is the life of belief that we are in a Father's world, making our way to a Fa- / ther's house. That faith stands over against the doubt and fear and anxiety of j. the unchanged life. And because it is 0 faith in God it accomplishes faithfulness a to men and our duties. And this is what the world sees. It cannot see faith in God. ^ It can see only the faithfulness in the life we live. From gross dishonesty on up to unreliability, at whatever stage it appears, unfaithfulness prevents an argument for . Christ. 1 This is the argument of the changed 2 life- And f. cannot mistake that it is ? cuch argument which Christ Himself most 1 prizes and which the world most needs? c needs not in these larger ways and places ? alone, there so much as in the men wifh whom it must deal most clocely. My brcthern, it is the argument of ur own ^ changed, Christianized lives that is uost * needed. The books are strong?and un- 8 read. The uncommon, marked cases arc 6 many?and unobserved. Our lives are T daily before our fellows, closely read, con- ? stantly observed. These are the worlds J' arguments. And what is .coagut is not * eomc impossible perfection. Many of our fellows are not unreasonable. No, but e there is wanted r.n alignment between our projpssions and our actions that shall indicate that something higher and better has actually taken hold of us. We claim to be t ecrvants of the best Master; we are not v faultless servants; wo do not claim to ' i we do not claim to be better than other a people. Wc claim only this, 03 Christians, n that wo arc seeking to do as Christ ap- f proves, that we re seeking to Jive the a kind of iife He lay3 out for us. The practi- a eal James in his New Testament epistle (5 puts it in a succinct way: You say you F are honest; v.ery well; show me your hon- t esty without paying your debts and I will pay my debts to snow my honesty. It is the practical outworking which' convinces other men. Men arc saved by their faith I in Christ. But other men know that ii they are saved by the way they act. n Argument resulting so is worthy of r study. But it would be so wild as to be v silly to expect men who look on the re- h ligion of Christ for the outside to labor J; pver COO pages of/Piofoucd work. WVwe l * . . lad on a man. in at is me sermon ui wc _ norning in a sentence. The best argunent for Jesus is the effect He h:.s on nen. I call it best, not as most philo- 91 ophical or profound, and not as bearing *r ogical tests better than others. It is 01 >est because we can all see it and feel the orce of it. i I asked a wise man once what he count- x id the best argument,in behalf of Christ. Je replied, "Christian." And what is the A. >est argument against Christ? Instantly le replied again, "Christian." Broaden it. PJ ^Vhat is the best argument for Christ and H' lis gospel? The Christendom of to-day. " set Christendom over against heathenism md see what Christ can do \vith men. Set t over against the. Christendom that ihould be and see what Christ has still to c< lo. ' ' n' Now all that is very simple, and it is at 111 iuch simple points in our lives that Christ S,' :omes into closest contact with us. The * ?nly claim He makes to Kingship is based >n the fact that He is one who can. 1)1 ie can brine things to pass. He can aclomplish. He can achieve. You remem- |a >er how constant His fame ran ahead of Jim in His journeying. He healed some ^ tnd they told it. He taught others and " hey announced it. He fed a multitude a md they clung to Him. I am not supposng that the crowd really believed in Jesus or what He claimed to be, but the crowd b ras drawn to Him by the effect He had c' iad on men. and thus was brought under e: lis spell. And no man will ever believe cs n Jesus on the mere evidence of lives j" ibout Him. He must accept Him for Him- ^ lelf. But the effect.. He has on lives will ? lave its part to-ddy as then in turning Cf nen to Him. The unchanged life does not 11 Iraw. The thoroughly changed life is His E< jest argument. v You remember I have already said that ^ :here are better arguments for Christ than ?' ;he lives of His followers?better philo- 11 sophically and logically. He is Himself Eis best argument. Just a careful, candid 8< jtudy of His own character with its pe- 8 :uliar balance of traits, with its striking n rymmetry?that would be very convinc- ^ ng. For my part I enjoy the 6o-called netaphysical arguments, even some which w ire not popular in the philosophical facul- o: ;ies nowadays. There are very profound i: jooks written which men might read with cl srolit. c. But we are just common men, and we do tl rery little profound thinking, almost no lc ibstract thinking, and we are reached n looner and most effectively by the argu- ai nent of results. There are men, of course, h 3ot so bright as ourselves, who would be p iiard pressed; gust to read the books which n present theeJe* obstru'se arguments. In my tl reading, the other day, I ran across a sen- fi tenoe from one of these profound writers g which will interest you, just by way of u illustration. It is a definition of religion A ind runs this way: "Religion is the ulti- c< mate and vital apprehension by the indi- a ridual of what is conceived to ' c reality in tl its fullest sense, the inner truth of things; h whether 6uch reality be regarded as co- is jxtensive with, as included in, or as die- n tinct from the world of natural phenom- si ;na, it always, however, being regarded as tl in some way related to the individual him- a self; any euch apprehension embracing be- li lief, emotional response and the determin- S ition of conduct, in so far as conduct is t; supposed to have a bearing on the con- \i aedtion of the individual with such real- v ity." Now that is not a very bad way of n stating certain facts about religion, and ? yet I doubt if some of us would care to jo far in boohs worded that way. Some of e v-ou have been under the influence of re- fi ligion a good many years, tut have never o worded it just that way. I There are easier ways of wording the n < - xt it V ' ' I ' I rued back again to tbe easier argument Christ's behalf?the visible effect He is on life around. It waB possible to udy Jesus in His own character. The owd came that day to see Him and to e Lazarus, "whom He had raised from the :ad. Indeed, Lazarus, -changed into new ;e, was so strong an argument that his lemies would have killed him to silence m. And it is still the Commonest method to :plain away or to deny the effects of Jeis in the world. If He has laid hold on a :ople, we must find out how climate and ice&try and customs have been the real lifting agencies. If He makes a characr attractive and winsome, we tali: about eposition and training. That is, we want azarus explained away unless * ? mean acknowledge the power of Christ. The langed life is the argument which tbe orld finds most forceful. The World is terested, not in Christ's theory, but .in is success. That argument can he made . a large way. His influence can be aced through the long stretch of years, ur own race and nation could be made 1 illustration. Or the minds of men could i pointed to peoples only yesterday in vnorerv and now lifted into a well begun vilization. I read recently the life of imes Chalmers, the missionary in the juth Seas. Just after he became acrninted with the people one of his wife's ienas, as a mark of respect and affection, rought her a piece of human flesh, nicely >oked, as a dainty for her own table, hey were often invited to cannibal feasts, n a new island, only four years ago, halmers was killed and his body eaten, nd the gospel of Christ, with the arts of vilization, nas taken hold upon such peoe and make them fraternal and safe and ;lpful. There is no Christian island in le South' Seas where a voyager is not fe; there is no non-Christian island where ? is safe. It is a life of hope.It has not. yet rerived its best things. The best times are Dt past nor present, however glad they iay be. There are better things to come it of the Father's love as we go on in the ather's world. And thi6 hope works into je sight of men in the form of cheer, of tightness, of encouragement. Some one sked the other fay what I thought of ughing Christians. It was a new phrase ) me." We do not think much of silly hristians, I suppose, of shallow Chrisana, whose joy compares with real joy as giggle compares with a laugh. But what 1- "t n Pliri'a+inn life whope in one imiia. ut a , ope never comes out into the cheer and tightness of a joyous life? I heard a aild say a little piece once, in which was rplained that one day in heaven God beime weary of the dinging of the harps ad'the singing of the angels, so He sliced them all and sang a strain of music [imself. and ere it had died away He lught it, threw about it a beautiful plulage and cast it into the air,' and soothe ragbirds came to earth. They are God's lusic sent into life. And are we other? 7ho ?o well as we may catch the glad :rain of joy and make our lives a gladdenig influence in the world? And if instead e droop and pine, and will not bear the jrrows as though they Were charged with [ad meaning from our Father, and will ot cast a radiance of joy into other lives, here is the changed life? The Kings of the Holy T.oman Empire 'ere crowned with a tnpie crown, m one f which was a nail of the true cross. And 1 the triple crowning which marks the hanged life, one bears the nail of the ross. For supremely the changed life ia be life of love, and love means sacrifice, >ve means service, leva means helpfuless. No man can see another's love save s it shows itself in the service' of helpfuless it renders. When men seek the sureme example of love they look upon a gure which glorified the cross, which had he pierced; hands and feet and side?a gure of One who came as a ^ e.senger of lad tiding: of peace?His feet beautiful pon the mountains, but bloodstained, ind love is the hid fact of that best life, oming into sight of others as helpfulness nd service. This is the supreme mark of he Christian life?such a love as makes us elpful among men for Christ's sake. It i no mere pity of other men's needs; it is o shallow sentiment which cannot bear to se suffering. It is a far deeper thing han that. It is the commanding motive in 11 life?to serve. It means laying out our ves for that wherever they are lived, ometimes it demands large things. Someines it cones out in the daily, common fe. Wc may not do for men what they rant, but we learn to do for them in one leasure what they need. And eo life beones a constant help to others. ' ~r These are tne pium iuauu> ?<. w.v hanged life, which stands as argument sr Christ. Faith, within which comes ut in view as faithfulness everywhere lope, coming out into view as cheerful:ess. encouragement, brightness. Love, ireaking out into service. Is your life to riply marked, not by fortunate birth, not a shallow ways, but deeply and because ou have known Him? If it is, then you i your commonplacc life are His c'.iily rgument, the Lazarus of the present day, rawing men to Him. The Highest neroUm. There is yet a harder and higher fierosm?to live well in the quiet routine r.1 fe; to fill a little space because God wills t; to go on cheerfully with a petty round f little duties, little occasions;-to acccpt nmurmuringly a low position; to smile or the joys of others when the heart is .chinc: to banish all ambition, all pride nd all restlessness in a single regard to ur Saviour's work. Moreover, to do this for a lifetime is a till greater effort, and he who does this 3 a greater hero tfc..n ho who for one lour storxrs a breach, or for one day ushes onward undaunted in the flaminc ront of shot and shell. His works wi'J ollow him. He may not be a hero to th'* rorld. but he is one of God'o heroes: end hougj the builders of Nincvali and Babyan be forgotten and unknown, his memory hall live and be blessed.?Dean Farrar, "Thy Kingdom Como." Let us advance on our knscs.?Joseph' lardy Neesima. He prays not at a".l in whose prayers hero is no mention 01 uc ^ln^uoiu }od.?Jewish Proverb. Prayer and pains, through failh in reus Christ, will Co anything.?John EIiott. He who embraces in his prayer the widst circle of hie fellow creatures is most n sympathy with the nind of God.?Dean Joulburn. Unprayed for, I feel like a diver at tlis ;ottorj of a river with no air to breathe, r like a fireman cn a blazing building wit j n empty hose.?James Cilmour. I feci and grievo. but by the irracc of 3od, I fret at nothing.?John Wesley. Coil Never Arts Too Soon. CoJ doc 3 net provide ce!i\*cranco untT t i3 needed. You who boast of Cod'9 ,Taoo, remember God's law cf parsimony nd trust Hit). When gift or scrcnsth is rdicpcr.eab.e Cod never fails. God wjta opportunities?the opportune time. Net ine hour too soon, not one moment too ate, is God. The Rtta-ncr n'.led its Tray among the Thousand Islands. Often its course was oward.3 r, rocky height or p. wooded hore. Surely, unless tlic engines were peedilv reversed the vessel would be tracked. One tar.: of the pi'.ot's wheel, * - ? ^'/vrtr r*x fho in na ceiorc us tpjtuu ? ? and s:a, and unimpcd?d was the channel o it. With?not before or after?the cmptatio i or trial lie provides a way ol scape.?Pacific Baptist. Have Wo Little laitll? Arc wc to kaVo sn little faith in men hat wc must assume that great wealth ri'.l te to them a curse rather than r. blessag? O'r does not there now come to us. as . people, the call so to adjust our political nethods by the highest statesmanship, our inancial system by the greatest wisdom, nd our characters by the closes: training, a to make this wealth not a source of [anger and destruction, but of bencficent ower??Bishop ' William Lawrence, Boson. What i? Life? Our business is,, not to buiid quickly, lut to build upon a right foundation and a a right spirit. Liie is more than a ncre competition as between man and nan; it is not who can be done first, but if ho can worj^ k.es'! not who can rise Importance of I"tinctnation. | At one of the schools the inspector | began to examine the pupils in punctu'ation, but was told by the M,ayor, "We don't bother about commas and such like." The inspector made no reply, but told one of the boys to write on Hie blackboard the following words; "The Mayor says the inspector is an ass." "Now," he continued, "put a comma after Mayor and another after inspector." N The boy did so and the Mayor changed his mind about the importance of punctuation.?Kansas City Journal. A Recommendation to General Spinner* Applicants for Government positions under the civil service have a more or less discouraging time of it. It was not so in the olden days, when positions were first thrown open to women during the Civil War. Here is the story of the appointment under General Spinner, of one who is still a clerk in the Treasury Department: "It was ,n 3SC4," she said, "two years after the appointment of women had become a permanent thing. I was in Washington visiting a sister. I made up my mind that I wanted a position, coTrmff o TTArd +A nnv <11111 SV, UlUiVUt u KV4. v* M one, I went to the Treasury and made my own application. I simply walked into General Spinner's office and said: " 'General Spinner, I would like a position in the Treasury.' The General looked up carelessly, and then went on with his work. " 'How long Bave you been in Washington?' he asked. ".'Three years.' " 'What influence have you?' he asked. " 'What influence?' I stammered. 'I don't know what you mean.' I was beginning to get embarrassed.' " 'Yes, influence,' he said. 'What Congressman do you know?' " 'I don't know any,' I faltered. This time the General threw down his pen, leaned back in his chair and looked at me. "You're been in Washington three years and don't know any Congressman?' he queried. 'Good! That's recnmrnonrtntinn Annneh. The DOSition is yours.'Washington Post. "Who Owni a Wouun'i Hair? * There is nowadays virtually nothing that a wife can do for which she cannot make her husband pecuniarily responsible. Whatever happens he has always got to pay her costs. And though he leaves her at his peril, she can always leave him at her pleasure; and the law she can put in force to compel his return to her is of no use whatever to compel her to return to him. "When," a benedict had occasion to plead lately ? 'when I married, her I became in a sense part proprietor of her hair." Now she had brought him before the Ca<li on the charge of steal: ing that same hair. If it had been the hair of her head and he had exercised 1 it in the course of business the charge of stealing might perhaps have been unsustainable. But she had bought the hair with her own money and had been at charges for making it up. The husband had, as the Cadi pointed out, no "V a. linger +>yo r>lrr>nm stances; there was no part ownership, as there might once have been considered to be, in the product, and no right to raise money on it In point of fact the relation between man and wife had come to be such that there, was only a committal for trial?Pall Mall Gazette. Otd-Tline Dlgentlon. Now and then one heais of lamentation that Americans are not the sturdy race they used to be. The homespun-ways of the pioneers are contrasted with the silken ways of their descendants, and the conclusion is reached that the American of to-day is a creature of predigested foods and skim milk. Even out here in Oregon such a voice is sometimes heard.' Let all such Jeremiahs glance at the bill of fare for Senator Piatt's recent breakfast and be forever silenced. Here is what a lot of politicians tackled for their morning meal: Buckwheat cakes and maple syrup, venison, and pumpkin. apple and. mince pie. Tl^ink of that, ye pepsin swallowers?mince pie for breakfast?Portland Oregonian. / FITS permanently cared. No fits ornervoas" first dav's use of Dr. Kline's Qreat NerveRestorer,$2trial bottleand treatise free Dr. R. H. Kline,Ltd., aaiArch St.,Pnilu., Pa. Near to Katnre. Why bad the rich mar. purchased this wilderness? For fun, healthy fun. "I'm having the forest fitted up with a heating r?ant and a ventilating apparatus," said he, " and as soon as I get these things working I'm going to i&ve my friends out there to rough at with me."?Puck. How'i We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Bail's Catairh Cure. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, 0. We, the undersigned, have known F.J. 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