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REV. DE. TALIAGE. fHLJ BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN. DAY SERMON. Subject of Discourse: "On TriaL" Text: ''We have an advocate icith the Father, Jesus Christ the riuhteous."?l John ii., 1. Standing in a court-room you say to your self: "At this bar crime has often been ar raigned; at this witness stand the oath has often been taken; at this jurors' bonch the verdict has been rendered; at this judgo's desk sentence has been pronounced." But I have to tell you to-day of a trial higher than any Oyer and Termiuer or Circuit or Supreme or Chancery. It is the trial of every Christian man for the life of his souL This trial is different from any other in the fact that it is both civil and criminal. The issues i 1, at stake are tremendous, and I shall in my sermon show you, first, what are the grounds of complaint; then, who are the witnesses in the c ause, and lastly, who are the advocates. When a trial is called on. the first thing is to have the iudictinent read. Stand up then, O Christian meu, and hear the indictment of the court of high heaven against thy souL It is an indictment of ten counts, for thou has directly or indirectly broken ail the ten commandments. You know how it thundered on Sinai, and when God came down how the mouutaia rocked and the smoke ascended as from a smouldering furnace and the darkness gathered thick and the loud deep trumpet utt.-red the word-: "The soul that sinneth, it shall die!" Are you guilty or not guilty? Do not put in a negative plea too quick, for I have to announce that "all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. There is none that doeth good: no, not one. "Whoso -ver shall keep the whole law, yet offend in one point, he is guilty of alL :' Do not, th Tefore, bo too hasty in pronouncing yourself not guilty. This lawsuit before us also charges you ?with the breaking of a solemn contract Many a time did we promise to be the Lord's. We got down on our knees and said: 4,0 Lord, 1 am thine now and forever." Did you keep the promise? Have you stood up to the contract? I go back to your first communion. You remember it as well as if it were yesterday. You know how the vision of the cross rose before you. You remember how from the head and the ban Is aud the side and the feet, there came blooding forth these two words: "Remember Me." You recall how the cup of ccmmunion trembled in your hand \vh9u you first took it; and as in" a s.-a-sheli you may hear, or think you hear, the roaring of the surf even after the shell has been taken from the beach, so you lifted the cup of communion and yon beard in it the surging of the great ocean of a Saviour's a^ony; and you came forth from fhof catn'ii-n n?if K fona chininiy oa VUttb V 'UlUlUUtVU ? 4VV ?1VU i UV.U JUIUlUg UJ though you had been on the Mount of Transfiguration ; and the very air seemed tremulous with the love of Jesus, aad the woods and the leaves and the g< ass and the birds were brighter and sweeter-voiced than ever hefore, and you said down in the very depths of your soul: "'Lord, Thou knowest all things; Thou knowest that I love Thee." Have you kept the bargain, O Christian man? Have you not sometimes faltered when you ought to have b?en true? Have you not been proud when you ought to have been humble? Have you not played the coward when you ought to nave been tha hero? I charge it upon you and I charge it upon myself?we have broken the contract. Still further; this law suit claims damages at your hands. Tne greate t slanier on the Christian religion is an inconsistent professor. The Bible says religion is one thing; we by our inconsis ency say religion is some other thing, and what is more deplorable about it is that people can sea faults of others while they cannot see auy in themselves. If you shall at any time tind some miserable old gossip, with imperfections from the crown of her head to the sole of her foot, a perfect hlnt/^h r>f sin herself, she will en tattlinc. tat tling, tattling all the years of her life ab ut the inconsistencies of others, having no idea that she is inconsistent herself. God save the world from the gossip, female und male. I think the males are the worst! Now the chariot of Christ's salvation goes on through the world; but it is onr inconsistencies, my brethren, that blo^k up the wheels, while all along the "lie there ought to have been cast nothing but palm brauches, and the shout should have been lifted: "Hosanna to the son of David." Now you have heard the indictment read. Are you ready to plead guilty or not guilty i Perhaps you are not ready yet to plead, Then the trial will go on. The witnesses will be called and we shall have the matter decided. In the name of God I now make proclamation. Oyez! Oyezl Oyezl Whosoever hath anythiug to offer in this trial, in which God is the plaintiff and the Christian soul the defendont, let him now step forth and give testimony in this solemn trial The first witness that I call upon the stand in behalf of the prosecution is the world?all critical and observant of Christian character. You know that there are people around you who perpetually banquet on the frailties of God's children, You may know, if you have lived in the country, that a crow cares for nothing so much as carrion. There are those who imagine that out of the faults of Christians they can make a bridge of boats across the stream of death, and they are going to try it; but, a'as, for the mistake! W ben they get amid stream away will go the bridge, and down will go their souls to perdition. O world of the greedy eye and the bard heart, come on the stand now and testify in behalf of the prosecution against this Christian soul on trial What do you know about this Christian man? "Oh," savs the world. "I know a groat deal about him. He talks about putting his treasures in heaven, but he is the sharpest man iu a trade I ever knew. He seems to want us to believe that he isa chill of God, but he is just full of imperfections. I do not know but I am a great deal better than he is now. Oftentimes h? is very earthly,and he talks so little about Christ and so much about himself. I am very glad to testify that this is a bad man." Stop, O World with the greedy eyo and liar l bears, i iear you are roo mucu interested in this trial to give impartial evidence. Let all those who bear the testimony of this witness know that there is an old family quarrel between these two parties. There always has teen a variance between the world and the church, and while the world on the witness stand to-day has told a great deal of truth about this Christian man, you must take it all with some allowance, remembering that thov still keep the old grudge Rood. 0 World of the greedy eye and the hard heart, hat will do. You may it down. The second witness I call in this case is Conscience. Who art thou, O Couscience? What is vour business? Where were you born ? What are you doing here? "Oh," says Conscience, "I was born in heaven; I came down to befriend this man; I have lived with him, I have instructed him. I have warned him. I showe I him the right and the wron?, ad vising him to take the one and eschew the other: I have kindle 1 a great light iu his soul; with a whip of scorpionsi hare scouged his wic'ceutiess and 1 have tried to c'icer him when doing right; and yet 1 am compelled to testify on the stand to-day that he has sometimes reiected my mission. Oh. how many cups of life have Ip-es?edto his lira that he dashed down, and how often has he stood with his hard heel on the bleeding heart of the Son of God! It pains me very much that I have to tostify against this Christian man, and yet 1 must, in behalf of Him who will in no wise Hear the guilty, say that this Christian man has done wrong. He has been worldly. He has been neglectful. He has done a thou and things he ought not to have done and left undone a thousand things he ought to have dona " That will do, Conscience. You can sit down. The third witne-s I call in the case 1s an angel of Go 1. Bright and shining one. what doest thou here? What hast thou to say against this man on trial? "Oh." says the ance-1, "I havo been a messenger to him and have guarded him. I have watched him. With this wing 1 defended him, and oftentimes when he knew it not I led him into the green pastures an 1 beside the still waters. I snatched from him the poisoned chalIces. Whon bid spirits came u-ion *- - ?> J lrt'm T fnn rrlif fham Ty UIIII IA? H^tlVV II UI, x v?.v?? ba k w'th in'nita fierceness; and yet I f have to testifv to-day that he has refeet-d my mission. He ha* rot done as he ought to have done. Though I came from the sky he ?& drove me back. Thomh with this -wing I defended him and though with this voic-o I wooed him. I have to annouace his multiplied imperfections. I dare rot keep back ' V t the testimony, for then I th-ould not dare to appjnr again amou'^ the sinless ones before the crreat white throne." There is only one more vritness to be called on behalf of the prosecution and that is the great, the holy, tho august, the omnipotent Spirit of God. Wo bow down before him. r? I" Holy Spirit, knowesc thou this mail? "Ob, yes,'' says the Holy One, "I know him. I have striven with him ten thousand times and though sometimes he did reem to repent, he fell back again as often from his first estate. Ten thousand times ten thousand has he grievad me, although tho Bible warned him, saying: 'Grieve not the Holy Gh>st. Quench not tho Spirit.' Yes. "he has driven me back. Though I am the Third Person of the Trinity, ho has trampled on my mission, and the blood of T Kr/Minrlif u-ifh TvVllVh fA tllo ZX 0 Jlicuiouu uuav jl mi uukuv "iwu vv cleanse his soul, lie sometimes despised. I came from (be throne of God to convert, and comfort and sanctity, and yet look at that man and see what he is compared with what, unresisted, I would have made him." Theeviden-e on tho part of the prosecution has closed. Now let the defence brinz on the rebuttal testimony. What have you, 0 Christian soul,to bring in reply to this evidence of the world, of the conscience, of the angel and of the Holy Ghost? No evidence? Are all the e things true? "Yes. Unrlean. unclcan," says every Christian soul. What? Do you not begin to tremble at the thought of condemnation? We have come now to tho most interesting part of this great trial. The evidence all in, the advocates speak. Tho profession of nn advocate is full of responsibility. In England and the United States there have arisen men who in this calling have been honored 1 y their race and thrown contempt upon those who in the profession have been guilty of a great many meannesses. That profession will be honorable as long as it has attached to it such names as Mansfield and Marshall, and Story, and Kent and Southard, and William Wirt The court-room has sometimes bean the scene of very marvellous aad thriling things. Somo of you remember the famous Girard will case, where one of oui advocates pleaded the caue of the Bible and Christianity in masterly Anglo Saxon, every DaraerraDh a thunderbolt. Some of you have read of the famous trial in Westminster Hall, of Warren Hastings, the despoiler of India. That great man had conquered India by splendid talents, by courage, by bribes, by gigantic dishonesty. The whole world had rung with applause or condemnation. Gathered in Westminster Hall, a place in which thirty Kings had been inaugurated, was one of the most fa-nous audiences ever gathered. Foroign Ministers and Princes sat there. I'eers marched in clad in ermine ani gold. Mighty men and women from all lands looked down upou the scene. Amid all that pomp and splendor, and amid an excitement such as has seldom been seen in any court- I room, Edmund Burke advanced in a speech which will last as long as the English language, concluding with this burning I charge which made Warren Hastings cringe and cower: "I impeach him in the name of the Commons House of Parliament, whose trust h > has betrayed. I impeach him in the j name of the English nation, whose ancient honor he has sullied. Iimp.ach him in the name of the people of India, whose rights ho has trampled on, and whose country he has turned into a desert. And, lastly, in the name of human nature, in the name of both sexes, in the name of every age and rank, I impeach him as t.'ie common enemy and oppessorof all." Rut 1 turn from the recital of those memorable'ocrasions to a giander trial and I havd to tell you that in this triai of the Christian for the life of bis soul the advocates are mightier, wiser and more eloquent. The evi. dence all being in, Just'.ce rises in behalf of the prosecution to make his plea. With the Bible open in his hand, he reads the law, stern and inflexible, and the penalty: "The soul that sinueth, it sha'.l die." Then he says: "0, thou Judge and Lawgiver, this is Thine on n statute and all the evidence in earth and heaven agrees in stating that this man has sinned against all these enactments. Now let the sword leap from its scabbard. Shall a man go through the very flames of Sinai uns:ngei? Lat the law be executed. Let judgment be pronounced Let him die. I demand that he die." O Christian, does it not look very dark for fcbes? Who will plead on thy side in so forlorn a cause? Sometimes a man will be brought into a court of law and he will have no friends and no money, and the judge will look over the bar and say: "Is there anyone who will volunteer to take this man's case and defend him?" and some young man rises up and says: ''I will be his counsel;" perhaps starting on from that very point to a great and brilliant career; Now, in' this matter of the soul, as you have nothing to pay for connsel, do you think that any one will volunteer? Yes, yes; I see One rising. He.*is a young man, only thirty-three years of aj?e. I see His countenance suffused with tears and covered with blood, and all the galleries of heaven nro t.hri!1f>H with fcha KTW'tAplo. Thanks ba unto God, ''wo have on advo;ato with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous." 0 Christian soul, your case begins to look better. 1 think perhaps after all you may not have to die. The best advocate in all the universe has taken your side. No one was ever so qualified to defend a man as this advocate is qualified to defend you. Ho knows all tbo law, all its demands, all its penalties. He is always ready. No new turn of the case can surprise Him, and He will plead for you for nothing as earnestly a9 though you brought a world of treasures to His feet Besides that, He has undertaken the care of thousands who were as forlorn as you, aud he has never lost a case. Courage. 0 christian soul. I think that after all there may be some chance for you, for the great Advocate rfoas to make his plea, he says: "I admit all that has been' proved against my client. I admit all these sins, aye, more; but look at that wounded hand of mine, and look at that other wounded hand and at my right foot and at my left foot. By all these wounds I plead for his clearance. Count all the drop's of my tears. Count all the drop3 of my blood. By the humiliation of Bethlehem, by the sweat of Gethsemane, by the sufferings of the cross I demand that he so fre<j. On this arm he fcr.tb leaned; to this heart he hath flown; in viy tears he hath washed; on my righteousness ha hath depended. Let hin go free. I am the ransom. Let him escaj o the lash, I took the scourg ngs. Let the cup pass from him, I drank it to the dregs. Put on him the crown of life, for I have worn the crown of thorns Over against my cross of shame set hi* throne of triumph. Well, the counsel on both sides have fepoken and there is oniy more thing remaining, and that is the awarding of the judgment. If you have ever b?on in a courtroom you know the silence and the solemnity whea the verdict is about to be rendered or the judgment about to be given. About this soul on trial, shall it be saved or shall it be lo t? Attention! above, around, boneath. All the universe cries: "Hear! Hear!" The judge rises and gives this decision, never to be ohanged, never t) be revoked1 "There is therefore now no condemnation to them who are in Christ Jesus." "The soul that on Je3us hath leaned for ropose, I will not, I will not desert to hi3 foes; That soul, though a!l hall should endeavor to shake. Til never, no never, no never forsake." But, my friends, there is comiug a day of trial in which not only the saint but the sinner must appear. 1 hat day of trial will come very suddenly. The farmer will be at the plough, the merchaut will be in the countingroom, the woodman will bo ringing his axe on tho hickories, the weaver will have his foot on tho trealle, the manufacturer will ba walking amid the baz^ of loom; aa I the clack of tlvinz machinery, th'i counsel may b3 stau lsn^ at the bar, pleading the law, tin minister may be pleading the Gospel, tho druukard may be reeling amid his cups, and the blasphemer i with tlio oath caught between h s too.h. Lo! *he sun bid's. Night comes down at , I111U-I1UUU. ?1. wavo Ul uaihuc33 IUU3 WW ail tho earth. The stars appoar at noon-day. The earth shudders and throbs. Thore aa earth ,ua\*e opens and a city sinks as a crocodile would crunch a child. Mountains roll in their sockets and f>eu 1 down their grauite clitfs in an avalanche of ro.k. Rivers pause in thair chase for the sea, a-d ocean uprea ing cries to flying Alps and Himalayah. Beasts bxlo v and moan and suutt up the darkness, clouds fly like flocks of s-.viit eagie.*. Great thunders beat an I boom ani bur>t. Stars shoot and fall. Thj almi?hty; rising on His throne, declares that time shall bo n) longer and the archangel's trump repeat > it till all the living j hear and the continents of d ad spring to j their feet, crying: "Time shallbenolongorlr ; Oh, on that day will you bo ready? j I have shown yon how well the Christian will get oi' in his trial. Will you get oil' aa well in your trial? Will Christ plead on your side or will He plead against you? Oh.what will you do in the last great assize, it your conscience is agaiust you, and the world i? against you, and the angels of heaven are against you. and the Holy Spirit is against you, and the Lord God Almighty is against you? Better this day secure an advocate. ? Of the 137 counties in Georgia, 108 have absolute prohibition and twelve others have partial prohibition. There are only seven counties in Georgia where whisky has full swin^. WOMAN'S WORLD. PLEASANT LITERATURE FOF FEMININE READERS. Ode to Woman. Oh, woman! Thou who rulest the bandbox j And would'st yauk tho lid off j The ballot box . For thino own pleasure and profit, Lead on! Iu domestic matters thou art The boss, And why should'st thou be Scepterless In all airairs of State? Tho hand that spanketli a baby If placed uj>on the holm. Which guideth the governmental ships, "Would show au equal grace; And thou could legislate Some other plan by which the baby Could pull through, And some day run against its Mother for Congress! Women make men of children, And the men unmake their makers, Which is neither lair in law nor equity. And calls for reform. As long as there are boarding houses In tho land, What's home and wife and mother? And if we grant you man's Prerogatives You will know how it is yourself Ti ying to wind your watch up With a night key after election, And will kick less vigorously than nowl Wherefore, oh, woman, Lead cn! My voic3 is still for erjual rights, And I don't care who knows it! A Hairdteasing Competition. The "Societe du Progrc3 do la Coiffure''holds its annual so rec on Tuesday ! in the Portman rooms, lJaki-r street. The ' competition iuthe art of dressing ladies' i hair was the event of the evening. In ! all, sixteen ladies, setting cach before a 1 mirror, where the sub.ecti or models j on whom the artists expended I their best skill. The chief oblect was I to produce novelty in the head-dressing of a lady about to attend a dinner, ball or evening party, the difference of oc1 cas'on being distinguished, of course, by I different ornaments. For the prize of honor, it was not until a third scrutiny that the absolute majority was obtained, which is necessary here as at French parlimnnfnrv Kvf>ntlin.llv. the lucky winner was declared to be M. J. Dupunt, whose coiffure was of a highly ornate character. The hair, being drawn upward toward the crown of the head, was arranged at the back in waved rolls, and upon the forehead in what is technically called frange a la neige, or light bushy fringe. Jet ornaments were added, together with a diamond star and a salmon-colored bow with white aigrette. The second prize, a smaller gold medal, was won by Herr J. Stehr, and MM. Badelino aud Roussel obtained respectively a gold and a bronze medal.?fall Mall Galette. The Clothes of Japanese Girls. Japanese young men of fashion visit the girls just as they do in this country, take tliem out to restaurants and till them up with ice cream. They have balls and forties where walt/.ing is indulged in ad ib^tum. The wait/., however, is a recent innovation, but is liked by the Japanese exceedingly. The costumes of the ladies in Japan arc more in consonance with the dress reform movement th:>n those of Ameri an and European girls. First of all no corsct is worn. The long silk sash supplies the place of steel and whalebon". This .'ash is wrapped round and round the waist loosely, aud the ends hang down behind. There is no large, elaborate bow pinned against the back, like those seen in the representation of the ".Mikado"' on our stage, tome of the ultra-fa3h:onable girls of Tokio, bowever, have adopted a method of making their waists look smaller, according to the Europe modes, but no corset is used?simply a belt buckled around the waist. The lidies are fond of picking the strings of a banjo, and are up to the times in a fashion which has been greatly in vogue among American girls. Japanese girls attire themselves in pretty much the same underwear as American women, but their storking* arc built more on the order of a mitten for the hand, there being a separate receptable for the big toe. A very curious fact the reporter gleaned from the inteipretor was this: The Japanese think that all Europeans have very old types of faces.?Baltimore News. Mr*. Cleveland's Development. A "Washington letter to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat says: Mrs. Cleveland has succeedcd in winning Iricnds in the most wonderful way, and one may listen to a dozen women of either political camp singing her praises with espial sincerity. Even those who were the most prejudiced against her and had a very aistinct idea of what she must be, to judge from certain things in the man ncranci tnepiaceo: me weuuinganu cue wholesale portrait photography that had been indulged in, have b.en most completely won over by the simplicity, dignity, and <rreat charm of her manner. There has be n so much gushing and extravagant praise of her beauty aud one thing and another, that each person has to see aud decide for himself, whether sho possesses the whole sum of attractions. In her parlor at the White House she receives a string of callers each evening, and disposes of them with an case, a grace, and a tact that arc really wonderful. She appears a slender, graceful young woman, in height and figure very like the pretty Mrs. JJon Cameron; anil the long-trained dresses th it sho wears add measurably to the grace and elegance of h-r figure. She has a beautiful throat and shoulders, good arms, and bands that plainly tell she can wield a tennis racket or pull an oar with some ellcct. As to her countenance, every one knows that by the photographs, with the fine eyes that overshadow the defe cts [ of the mouth and chin, and the h gh I coil of hair, with the prominent curled bang?a style of her hair dressing, by the way, now faithfully copied by every ! shoj) girl in town. For so youn? a woman. her tact and ease in conversing with the variety of people and strangers that come to her is remarkable; the more so that when she visited the White Home less th. n two years ago she had none of : this self posso>sion. nor apparently this great talent for society. The plump. ; bread-and-buttery, rosy-cheeke l school girl of the inauguration season is hardly to be recognized in the slender, elegant woman o' the world who presides over the White House now. Ilerc is one of the most remarkable cases of unfolding and development, and of a clever woman meeting the emergency and proving herself thoroughly qualified for it. I She Stayed. ! It is a very good story wlucU genial Treasurer Prior, of the Chicago Opera House, tells about a young man of his acquaintance. The young man, it seems, I is good looking, of nice family, and n j good deal of a favorite with the ladies. I But he is altogether too fond of a little red liquor, trimmed with lemon and things, and served in cut glass?so fond, indeed, that some of the more careful girls have of late fought shy of his esj cort to places of amusement. One day last week he invited a young lady living on Indiana aqenue to go and see "One of Our Girls." She wanted to see the play, >y and, the trr.th is, she rather liked Tom? we will call the young man Tom for short?but she hesitated about accepting the invitation. Her friends advised her to decline, and warned her that if oVio nnnnntofl Tnm wmiM l/?nvfi hnr nloiifi ?">, IVVVj.lVU ? a few minutes after every act while he wns out interviewing the nearest barkeeper. "Oh, no, he wouldn't do that," said the young lady. "Yes, but he would," the advisers replied; "he took Em Johnson week before last and went out three timei and came in chewing cloves and coffce, and Em was so mortified that she eays?" "But he wouldn't leave me alone in the theatre. I know," the young lady retorted, confidently, "and to prove it I will accept his invitation." On the way to the the ltrc Tom was all gallantry, and the curtain once up he was greatly interested in Mr. Howard's neat drama. But at the end of the first act he made a brief apology to the effect that he wished to speak with a friend whom he saw standing in the foyer, and rose to go. But he didn't go. Something seemed to take hold of his coattails and pull him back into his seat. Imagine poor Tom's chagrin and surprise when a second's investigation showed him that his fair companion, who sat with such an innocent look hi her brown eyes, had pinned his coat to the upholstering of the seat wi th a good, strong safety-pin. Tom's face felt as if it was on a broiler, and a cold wave or two ran I up and down his spinal column, but he I didn't say a word. Nor did he leave his seat until the curtain felL on the happy denouement in the play. The end of the little drama in the parquet seats was equally agreeable, for on their way out Indiana avenue Tom smilingly confessed that the joke was on him and the reproof a merited one. He also promised that ifa^ain given the pleasure of escorting his charming companion to the theatre no safety-pins woul.d be needed to keep him in his sent. "I hope he'll marry tlut girl," added the genial Mr. Prior, ''because if ho does she'll reform him and make a man out of him, as sure as guns."?Chicago Herald. Fashion Notes. Chinchilla is still the fasionable fur for children. Plain and silk-striped serge arc used in combination. The square neck again appears upon bridal and full-dress toilets. . The newest ties for bonnets are of ribbon two to three inchea wide. Plush is as much in vogue for children's dresses as grown people. Lifflit reddish-brown plush is a favor te material for children's dresses. Wired beads in lace patterns are used to finish the edges of poke bonnets. New metallic buttons are square in shape, the design being an open fan in relief. Daiaty plastrons nre made of folds of blue, maize or pink crepe bordered with Irish guipure. Gray gloves embroidered with black are the fancy for the hour for use with black costumcs. Loose sleeves, drawn in to a cuff at the wrist, are U9ed upon the English "blouse" costumes. Embroidered crepe lisse with delicate designs and scolloped edges is used for jabots and ruching. Epaulettes are popular with slender ladirs. as they give an appearance of breadth to the figure. Some new gloves have three rows of broad stitching on the back, and are fastened by four large buttons. An odd trimming for waists consists of but one epaulette, attached to cord and trimmings for but ono side. Bands of velvet or plush from four to six inches in width are a favorite trimming for the foot of wool skirts. The latest fashion in gloves, whether for day or evening wear, is to have heavy lines of stitching down the back. I'rctty evening frocks for little girls arc of cream-white cashmere g.ithered into a plush yoke of the same tint. Underskirts of gray and black silk moreen have a number of flounces in the back. If properly made they sit excellently. Tailor costumes are decorated with three sizes of buttons, large for the skirt, medium for the jacket, small for the basque. Promenade and tailor costumes have very Ion draperies both front and back, leav ng both sides of the skirt, open from the hips down. Many young ladies are adopting the braided coil at the tuck or tnc tieaa in place of the high coiffure which has been so universally popular. Cut jet trimmings for mantles and bodices arc mostly in one piece, the neckbaud, epaulette-*, plastron and V-shaped piece foi the back'being united. Elegant gowns have skirts of Romanstriped bcngaline and velvet, wf-tli polonaises of faille Franchise in one plaia. color, according with one of the colors of the Roman stripe. Bulgarian h)ods are becoming to pretty fuccs. Tliey resemble the odalis.pie hcuddress, having the stiff embroidered front; over this is draped fine nun's veiling, which gives ample protection to head aud neck. A charming fan of dark heliotrope gau/.e has Scotch thistles in mauve aud silvery tones painted on the edge. Daiatv birds aro perched upon the still leaves. The efTect is exceedingly light and airy.. Velvet basques may be made more elaboite for dressy wear by the addition of plastrons of shirred net, pink, blue or yellow. The shirring is cllected by narrow ribbons, and the plastron is outlined by velvet revcrs. B.mds of gathered net are set around the neck and form undersleeve puffs. "T?ns!nr?ss is Business." A story is told of a lawyer in this city, known nearly as well for his love of a fee as for his legal ability, hoth of which are undoubted. On one occasion when he was in the law school he wa3 up for examination, and the professor put a dillicuit nuesiion to him. "Do you mean that for business, 01 just for fuu?" he asked. "For bu-inojs, of course, sir," replied the nrofessor, with some show of wrath , at the young man's impcrtincncc. "Oh, well," he said, coolly, "you needn't get mad about it. I was only asking for information. As it is a business mutter, I must say to you that I can't give you an answer unless you give me a retainer. B.isiness is business.''? Waa'iingt.on, Critic. It requires'a m m of real genim to be a financier w.thout being the possessor ot any linanees. Extensive planting of olives is to be made in ISuttc County, Cal. JACK TAR'S WORK. INGENIOUS WORK OP SAILORS IN HOURS OF LEISURE. Realistic Marino Pictures, Carvings From Tusks of Sea Lions, Tennis Nets and Racquets, Mended. Pipes, Mats and Toys. The favorite placc for laying up the great yachtiDg fleet that graces the harbor of New York is South Brooklyn. Wfirfi in hfisins eaneciallv reserved for them may be fouud scorcs of the sleek racers and cruisers. Nearly every one has a shipkeeper, whose chief occupation is in keeping his pipe well filled with tobacco and the tire in it burning, although if occasion required he would not hesitate to shovel snow from the deck of his vessel or give it a rinse down after a long dry spell. Still, this is not all that these sailor men find to do. The barroom or a hotel where many of them go is ornamented with two unique specimens of the handiwork of Tom Willis, one of the yacht sailor men, who has cruised of! and on about this port for no one KQOWS uuw umuji jirara. in ucai. frames hang curious pictures of the sloop yacht Atlantic and the steamer Corsair. At a little distance they seem to be ploughing through water that rises up around the vessel and drops gleaming back again, while the spectator is quite sure that he detects a shadow thrown by the sails on to other part3 of the picturc. A closer inspection shows that the shadow is not altogether a delusion, for the sails actually stand out clear cf the background, being made of stiff paper and painted so as to look exactly like miniature canvas. The hull, spars, and rigging are found to be not painted, as at first glance one might think they were, but embroidered or worked with silk. The sharp bows that seem to be glistening wet with spray are made of shin v black silk thread. The yellow masts, for all the world like Oregon pine, are made of yellow silk. The ' *- - *? * _ _ J - ? C sneecs ana naiuarus art: aiuut; ui uuu threads of the same material and are exceedingly realistic, but the best feature of all is perhaps the brnss handrails supported by brass stanchions, where lemoncolored silk makes the delusion perfect. The most minute details are all worked out, the effect being heightened by the fact that everything is made to an exact scale. The background is painted, and it is creditnbly executed. The old sailor has so many of them to make that he no longer ships as a foremast hand even in the siupmer season. Ap^old sailor who sat the other day in the South Brooklyn hotel mentioned said that sailors on long voyages worked over such things because they had to do something to pass the time, and not from any great hope of making money. The market value of such a thing was very small when the time required to make one was considered. Even Tom Willis's artistically embroidered pictures were sold for only cacn. jtsui picture making was not the only employment of the sailor man when off duty. In whaling voyages it was common for the men to get hold of the tusks of sea lions, which they engraved with figures of ships, or of dancing girls with voluptuous forms and scanty apparel, or, rarety, of a cottage with a neat yatd that had children playing in it. "A shipmate of mine," he said, "once spent his leisure for eighteen months on a pair of those tusks. When finished they showed illustrations of the natives of the Northwest coast, their habitations and implements, etc., that would tell more at a glance of the life of a Northwest coast Indian than could be learned in three chapters of a big book, and yet when he got ashore he sold them to the boarding-nouse boss for a night's liquor, and last week they were on sale in a Chatham street pawnshop for a dollar und a half. His stock of tools included a sheath knife and two or three bits of wire sharpened on a holystone. Reckless of their money as sailors are .Known to be wn.in on a spree, mey ure models of economy when at sea on a long voyage. Spare hours are devoted to mending their clothing, the solo object in selecting a patch where one is needed being to get a patch that will litand as much wear as possible. Dungaree trousers patched with a piece of a jib or topsail that has been blown to pieccs are not uncommon. The pipe which Jack brings on board, if of clay, may be broken, but the pieces are carefully saved and dowelled together with bits of wire ingeniously. If the pipe be of wood a piecc of an old tin can that has held cabin gnb is obtained from the titeward, and with it a neat fitting lining is made for the pipe that prolongs the existence of the wooden bowl until it has a strength that would make a long iihoreman turn pale. The sailor's sheath knife cuts the tin to the right size, and n marline spike helps to round it into :form. Now and then a sailor is found who is forehanded enough to carry material along in his clothes bag with which he can while away hours below more profitably than in making the ordinary hal1'- 1 inodil pi tures or engraving a sea lion's ysks. Twine for making tisli nets is a favorite article fr- Jack to work with. Thf> priec of nets is so w these davs. however, that hu does not make v*> much at that work as he used to do. Not long ago a sailor came a9hore here after a round voyage to Portland, Oregon, carrying two good tennis rtcqucfs in his hand. He had got the materials in Oregon. Not unfrequently a sailor can be found who can so manipulate a gold coin that a ring nicely p-lishcdon the outside and yet showing the name and dare of the coin on the inside is produced. A marline spike and a hammer with a piece of leather for a polisher are the only tools used. Matmaking is another favorite occupation of the sailor man. He usually works with fine materials such as silks and worsted, and the care and skill and taste with which these materials are wrnnnrht together are wonderful. Many a cabin in the vessels that enter this port is ornamented with no end of banners and?mottoes for ihe bulkheads and mats for the table, sideboards, and iloor that were made by themen in their oil hours, and if purchased at a fancy store would cost hundreds of dollars. j A toy store on Third avenue makes a i specialty of miniature yachts anrl boats of various kinds. A reporter who n- ! quired about the specialty was told that the proprietor happened to make the ac u.iintancc of a deep-water sailor who whittled out a neat boat model while talking for a few minutes casually with tim trw nmn. The model was so crood , ;:nrt so quickly madj that the toy man . s;uv that the thing could be profitably i sold, and now Jack 110 longer hands ( reefs and steers or turns out on a snow , storm when the mate bawls for all hands, llis name is Kobcrt Petersen, and he is : one of the few men to whom off-hour labor has been of material advantage.? Nno York Sun. A man who had a scolding wife, being asked what he did for a living, replied that he "kept a hot-house." WORDS OF WISDOM. Every body drags its shadow, and every mind its doubt. Those who have scorned the worl most hare been most scorned. The influence of on? good woman Is moro than that of ten great men. A mipfoin lo/tfiirn fa wnrfh all flip OAT XL IsUlVCftlU xuvvui v *0 n V*WM ?uv mons in the world for teaching the virtue of patience and long-suffering. Failure, after long perseverance, is raueh grander than never having a striving good enough to be called a failure. Most of us lay up a good stock of patience, but we make the mistake of putting it where we can't find it just when we need it most. Love alone is wisdom, love alone is power; and where love seems to fail, it is where self has stepped between and dulled the potcncy of its rays. Hope nothing from luck, and the probability is that you will be so prepured, so forewarned and forearmed, that all shallow observers will call you lucky. Alas! it is not till time, with reckless hand, has torn out half the leaves from the book of human life, to light the fires of passion with from day to day, that man begins to see that the leaves which remain are few in number. The best part of health is fine disposition. It is more essential than talent, even in the works of talent. Nothing will supply the want of sunshine to peaches, and to make knowledge valuable, you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom. Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished. The joy of the spirit indicates its strength. All healthy things are sweet-tempered. Tobogganing. Here is a pretty girl done up like a soft, warm bundle in a gay blanket suit, clinging tremblingly to the young man's hand as she puts her little arctic distrustfully upon the impatient and uncertain board. The young man falls upon one knee and steadies the sled. The girl drops upon it like a bag of feathers, and also something like a tailor, for she crosscs her feet as she drops. She tucks in her skirts and grasps the hand rails or the ropes attached to them. Then he sits down beside Her witn 111s great awKward legs stuck out ahead on either side of her. If she is a veteran tobogganist she will grasp his trousers; if not, then she won't. At all events, he seizes her arms, and just then, with an "All ready! away she goes," the steerer leaps on behind or one kGee, with the other foot projected like a rudder behind, and down they go, precisely as if they had all fallen olf the edge of a house-roof. If the girl screams she will be a quarter of a mile from the scream as soon as she sends it forth 1 In fact, the flight is s6 rapid that of all the young ladies who hnrl fnlltr in+ondod fnir.fc on their first rides not one has had time to do so. It takes a grept deal of preparation and study and solid foundation to faint, and it can't be done when . one is flying through the air like a bullet. Still, there is time for a girl to dematerialize her spinal column and fall limply in her companion's arms, and this is sometimes accomplished?when the companion is a nice young fellow and worthy of the trust. Unfortunately it often happens that tho young man in such cases has to serve as his own steerer, in which case all he can do is to hop behind the lady and rest his chin on her shoulder and his face against her fleecy hood. This requires self-sacrifice and nerve.?N?w York Sun. The Hare in the Moon. There is a common supersition against pointing the finger at the new moon; and in Swabia children are not allowed to make the shadow figure of a hare on the walls with their fingers, in imitation of tV>? !? ? cnmnHma snnr>OR??<l to be visible in the moon. This latter custom is curious, because in China, India, and Ceylon there is also thought to be a hare in the moon, and in connection with definite traditions. In Indian mythology the god of the moon carries a hare; in Ceylon the story is that the hare, meeting Buddha in n wo.;d, bade-him light a lire, and then proceeded to jump into it, to be cooked for his benefit; whereupon Buddha snatched the good animal from the iiames and translated him to the moon, i And the Chinese hold thct the hare's figure was placed in the moon to commemorate the action of the ruler of heaven, who once changcd himself into a hare to assuage the pangs of a hungry traveler. Some such story must ? j_-ii. ii.. rtuefAm -nrVnoh 1 ilrrt unuerue lUC gnauiou IT other customs in counection with the moon, is sometimes thought to be a survival of an old system of mocn worsnip. But how came it that the sun and the moon were ever worshiped at all? Is it not, with greater probability, because human attributes were once tscribe:l to them with fear and dread than because they were regarded as the svmbols of light, or fire, or heat? From the belief in their humanity to belief in their divinity the transition would be natural and obvious, and, in fact, on no other theory can we understand all the propitiatory sacrifices connected with their worship. ? Gentleman's Mayazine. The Coon That Fought a Horse. At Malvern, Ark., last month a young man put his little brother upon his horse and sent him to the braneh near the stable to water. Soon the boy came back running the horse, and said that a coon came down the bank of the branch while the iiorse was armsing uuu juuijjcu upon the log beside him and bit and scratched the horse so that it nearly threw him off in trying to get out of the branch and up the bank. The young man looked at the horse and found the blood trickling from several rakes and scratches on one of its forelegs, lie and the little boy went to the branch, taking a large dog with them. The dog followed the track of the coon and soon came up with it and gave battle, and after a few moments succeeded in killing it. But after the coon was dead the dog could not get rid of it, the coon having seized him by the under lip and would not let go even after life was extinct. The young man trieil to get the coon's jaws open but could not, so he cut the head off and the clog went to the house with the coon's head hanging to its lip. After going to the house the young man tried again to pry the jaws open, but finally iva< compelled to unjoint the head before he could succeed in getting it loose.? Forest and Stream. Merely a Suggestion. The late l?ev. Joel ITawcs, of Hartford, is remembered by many as an clo rjuent divine, singularly angular in person and quaint in manner, he preached truth in a most forcible manner. On one occasion, after announcing that the usual collection would be taken for foreign missions, he added, in his most inpressive manner: "And I would say to those persons who nrc in the habit of putting buttons in the box that I would thank them not to hammer down the eyes, for the Lord is not deceived, and as buttons they are valueless " Ir need not be said that there were no buttons that day,? Ua.-ficr1* Ma-jaiint. J TEMPERANCE. xne urniiKaru * nwuuiKi Touch not the sparkling bowl, Taste not its waters bright, Twill fill with fireth'jr jkhH, And dim thy youthful sight. Touch not the sparkling bowl; Although 'tis bright and fair. Its magic can't betold, Yet death lies hidden there. Touch not the sparkling bowl; 'Twill poison with its breath; Beneath its surface roll The seeds of strife and death. Touch not the flowing bowl. But spurn It as your foe, With grief 'twill nil thy soul, And strew thy path with woo. Touch not the drunkard's bowl; I've drank it to its dregs, And now my inmost soul Is filled with grief and rage. Touch not the sparkling bowl; ? There is a better fount, N Whero crystal waters flow, And living streams gush out. Touch not the sparkling bowl, But drink from Nature's springDethrone King Alcohol, Anrl olinnf Wofai* Wn? Regulating the Elephant. Everybody had heard that the great elephant was loose, and several families whose gardens he had torn up and whos0 boys he had trampled upon, were sure of ^ it. There was great excitement, and the town held a meeting to decide what should be done. They did not want to exterminate him; in fact, many of tlicm did not believe that they could exterminate him, for he was a pretty big cle- i [ phant. Besides, he was useful, in hi# \ proper placo?in shows, in India, and ia story-books. "Our best plan is to try and regulate , / him," said an enthusiastic speaker.! "Let us build toll gates along the route we find he is going to take, and make him pay?" "Yes, but tnat leaves him roaming -, round," shrieked an old woman. "AndI don't want my boy killed." "Keep your boy away from him; that's your business. Why, madam, don't you know that an elephant's hide and tusks are valuable for mechanical and surgical purposes, and that he is useful in India? Besides, there's the toll he will pay. We ehall by this means get money enough into the public treasury to build schools for a good many boys who are not trampled to death." ' .. "That's the plan. Regulate him! Regulate him 1" shouted the crowd. So fHfey appointed a great many committees, and drafted constitutions and * by-laws, and circulated petitions, and by the time the elephant had killed several more boys and trampled down a quanti- . >. ty of gardens, they had erected very comfortable toll-Jiouscs for the gate- . keepers and gates for the elephant; and then they waited with great satisfaction ^ to see the animal resulated. .. Slowly the great feet tramped onward; slowly the great proboscis appeared in K view; aod, with a sniff of contempt, the ~ elephant lifted the gate from its hjnpes snd walked of! with it, while the crowd started after him in dismay. "Well!" exclaimed the keeper, catching his breath; "we haven't made much money so far, but the regulation plan -y would have been first-rate if the elephant hadn't been a leetle stronger than the obstruction." The elephant's name was whisky.? W. 0. T. U. -'Ji ' ; The Saloon Power. A contributor to the Citizen, of Boston, ;! writes: "An inoffensive and upright clergyman was appointed to an office within whose function lay the gift of several minor appointments. The saloon at once confronted the astonished office-holder with its dicta and its threats. " 'I shall do what is best for the State,' 1-ia renlind tr> the disninle.q of 'hoodie.* *T ? IT ? , 'Do as we say, or we will make it hot for you in the newspapers; we'll show up a scandal.' 'But there is nothin,' to show up.* '"We can find something,' was the grim threat. . "No wonder that, with corruption '-y hissing and seething to the surface, in all our great cities, thoughtful men have J trembled not only for municipalities, but | for the foundations of the republic, and that men morally sensitive have drawn back from the awful maelstrom of politics. Whatever may be thought of it in any other relation, as a school of politics the sa'oon much go, or the republic itself must become its football. Civics must f fhrntMp itn inflnencfihv illuminfltinj* i the path of a purer politics and a better citi/ensfcip. Already taught by patriotic | and clear thinkers, there is manifested an ! earnest effort to burst asunder the banda j that have held the Samson of party politics bound down to the dreary mill of this Philistine.^ But One Remedy. Nations that license murder for pay will be murdered for plunder; nation9 that batten wild beasts of 1* sion will be devoured by wild beasts of rapine and | ruin. The rum hole must be closed, or I the rum hell will engulf Christendom. What shall be done with Christian rum? I i- !_ il 1-1 WU,.* oV.nl! 13 111 LLIU JJIUU1C1U. ?I w ouan w uuuu with the Christian world? Answer it with license, or authorizations, or tem! pering policies?-is it dirhcult to see the 7^ I end? Strike it down, cage tho bcast9 j that vent the frenzy in the only place to which they belong, the criminal cell, and the kennel will disperse. There is but one remedy. 'J here is but one road of deliverance from this pestiferous evil. It is not obscure; it is the plaiu, straightj forward road of simple honesty in dealI in# with ft case of pronounced crime. The rum-seller is a criminal, pure and simple; he must be treated as such in law and administration. * The brand of felon must be upon his b ow; and he must be made to take his place in the felon'9 dock, and in the felon's ccll, or on his gibbet.?Bishnn Foster. ; 'i neJNew York Observer says: "It is a fact beyond dispute that there is scarcely eny form of public vice that is not found I in conduction with the saloons.