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REV. DR. TALMAGE. |
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUNDAY
SERMON.
Subject: "Dominion of Fashion."
Text: "The woman shall not wear that i
which pertaineth unto a vtan.neither shall a
man put on a woman's garment: for all j
I that do so are abomination unto the Lord
thy God."?Deuteronomy xxii.. 5.
In this, the fourth sermon of this series of
sermons. I wish those who hear to boar in J
mind that I take into consideration not only :
those whom .1 have before me on Sabbath !
days, but the~wider audience opened through j
the printing press, and while some things j
may not be particularly appropriate for one !
locality, they are appropriate lor many other j
localities. And here I will tell a secret that |
I have never before told in public. About i
twenty years ago I began to pray that God
would open to me the opportunity of preach
ing through the secular newspaper press.
The religious papers in which my sermons
had been published chiefly went to positively
religious families. So 1 aslced God for the
Wider tifld in which to proclaim the great
truths of religion and good morals. In a
strange way the answer came. And the syndicates
having charge of these matters "inform
me that every weok there are now
13,600,000 copies of my discourses puplished
in this country, and about -1,000,000 in other
lands, whether English speaking countries or
by translation in many foreign tongues. I
want \aj uiiuci.ttaim uutt iu id an ui
answer to prayer to (lod that this opportunity
has come, ami I pray for grace to occupy
the field. It is not, therefore, presumptuous
when I give wido scope to these
. discourses and address them " to the women
of America, with important hints to men."
God thought womanly attire of enough
importance to have it discussed in the Bible.
Paul the apostle, by no means a sentinentulist,
and accustomed to dwell on the great
themes of God and the resurrection, writes
about the arrangement of woman's hair and
the style of her jewelry, and in my text
Moses, his ear yet filled with the thunder of
Mount Sinai, declares that womanly attire
must be in marked contrast with masculine
attire, and infraction of that Jaw excites the
indignation of high heaven. Just in propor
tion as the morals of a country or an age are
depressed is that law defied. Show me the
fashion plates of any century, from the time !
of the deluge to this, and I will tell you the
exact state of public morals. Bloomerism in
this country years ago seemed about to break
down this divine law, but there was enough
of good in American society to beat back the
indecency. Yet ever and anon we have imported
from Franve, or perhaps invented on
this side of the sea, a style that proposes, as
far as possible, to make women dress like
| men. and thousands of young women catch i
the mode, until some one goes a little too far 1
in imitation of masculinity, and the whole
custom, by the good sense of American i
womanhood, is obliterated. i
The costumes of the countries are different,
and in the same country may change, but <
there is a divinely ordered dissimilarity 1
which must be forever observed. Any di- :
vergence from this is administrative of vice <
and runs against the keen thrust of the text. 1
which says: "The woman shall not wear ]
that which pertaineth unto man, neither \
shall a man put on a woman's garment; for i
all that do so are abomination unto the Lord
thy God.'1 j
Many years ago a French authoress, sign- I
ing herself George Sand, by her corrupt but 1
brilliant writings depraved "homes and libra- f
ries innumerable, and was a literary grand- t
mother of all the present French and Ameri- i
can authors who have written things so t
much worse that they have made her putre- f
faction quite presentable. The French au- c
thoress put on masc uline attire. She was ?
consistent. Her writings and her behavior i
were perfectly accordant. ?
My text by implication abhors masculine i
women and womanly men. What a sicken- s
ing thing it is too see a man copying the
speech, the walk, the manner of a woman, c
The trouble is that they do not imitate a t
sensible woman, but some female imbecile. ?
. And they simper, and they go with mincing 1
step, and lisp, and scream at nothing, ana i
4-.Ua r*,xA fUii. C
Mi&O vii ft lau^unuiu^ ivua, uuvi uau^ iuvu v
hair, and are the nauseatiou of honest folks t
of both sexes. Oh, man, be a man! You belong
to quite a respectable sex. The starting s
figure of the human race was a man. Do
not try to cross over.and so become a bybrid,
neither one nor the other, but a failure, half
way between.
Alike repugnant are masculine women.
They copy a man's stalking gait and go down
the street with the stride of a walking beam.
They wish they could smoke cigarettes, and
some of them do. They talk boisterously and
try to sing bass. They do not laugh, th?y
roar. They cannot quite manage the broad
profanity of the sex they rival, but their
conversation is often a half swear; and if
they said "Oh, Lord!'' in earnest prayer as
often as they say it in lightness they would
be high up in sainthood. Withal there is an
assumed rugosity of apparel, and they wear
a man's hat, only changed by being in two
or three places smashed in and a dead canary 8
clinging to the general wreck, anl a man's
coat tucked in here and there according to an i
unaccountable esthetics. Oh, woman, stay a ^
woman! You also belong to a verv respect- a
able sex. The second figure of the human t
race was a woman, and sometimes a second g
edition of a volume is the first edition im- 1
proved and corrected. Do not try to cross 1
over. If you do you will be a failure as a 3
woman and only a nondescript of a man. t
We already have enough intellectual and t
moral bankrupts in our sex without your ?
/ coming over to make worse the deficit. c
In my text, as by a parablo or figure of e
speech, it is made evident that Moses, the in- ?
spired writer, as vehemently as ourselves, *
reDrehended the effeminate man and the j
masculine woman: '"The woman shall not i
wear that which pertaineth unto a man, t
neither shall a man put on a woman's gar- t
meat: for all that do so are abomination unto i
the Lord, thy God." s
My text also sanctions fashion. Indeed, it t
sets a fashion! There is a great deal of sensa- \
tioaal cant on the subject of fashion. A wo- i
man or man who docs not regard it is unfit <
for good neighborhood. The only question is '
what is ri^ht fashion and what is wrong }
fashion. Before I stop I want to show ycu |
that fashion has been one of the most potent j
of reformers and one of the vilest of usurpers. ?
Sometimes it has been an angel from Heaven 1
andatothersithisbi'i nthe mother of abomi- <
nations. As the world grows better there
will be as much fashion as now, but it will 1
be a righteous fashion. In the future life s
white robes always have been and always ?
will be in the fashion. 1
There is a great outcry againsr this sub- 1
missson to social custom, as though any con- j
sultation of the tastes and feelings of others
were deplorable, but without it the world ]
would have neither law. order, civilization
nor common decency. There has been a '
canonization of fcluntness. There are men <
and women who boast that they can tell you i
all they know and hear about you, especially <
if it Be unpleasant. Some have mistaken ]
rough behavior for frankness, when the two <
qualities do not belong to the same family. ]
You have no right with your eccentricities ]
to crash in uoon the sensitiveness of others, j
TTiere is no virtue in walking with hoofs over
fine carpets. The most jagged rock is cov- j
ered with blossoming moss. The storm tfeat
comes iarriDg Hown m thunder straws rain- 1
t>ow colors upon the sky, and silvery drop* j
on orchard and meadow.
There are men who pride themselves on ,
their capacity to "stick" othors. They say: j
"I have brought him down Didn't I make
him Bquirmf Others pride themselves on
their outlandish apparel. They boast ol (
being out of the fashion. They wear a queer ,
hat. They ride in an odd carriage. By din*
o* perpetual application they would persuade
the world that t-liey are perfectly in
different to public opinion. They are mor& '
proud of being "out of fashion'' than others .
are of being m, i noy are uiieriy ana universally
disagreeable. Their rough cornera
have never bean worn oft. They prefer a
hedgehog to a lamb.
The accomplishments of life are iu no wis*
productive of effeminacy or enervation
Good manners and a respect for the tastes of
others are indispensable. The Good Book
speaks favorably of those who are a "peculiar"
people; but that does not sanction the
behavior of queer people. There is no ex-cuse,
under any circumstances, for not being '
and acting the lady or gentleman. Rudeness
is sin. "We have no words too ardent to express
our admiration for the refinements of
society. There is no law. moral or divine, to
forbid elegance of demeanor, or ornaments
of gold, or gems for the person, artistic display
in the dwelling, gracefulness of gait
and bearing, polite salutation or honest comEllments;
ana he who is shocked or offended
y these had better, like the old Scythians,
wear tiger skins and take one wild leap back
into midnight barbarism. As Christianity
advances there will be better apparel, higher
styles of architecture, more exquisite adornments,
sweeter music, grander pictures, more
correct behavior and more thorough ladies 1
and gentlemen.
But there is another story to be told. '
Wrong fashion is to be charged with many
of the worst evils of society, and its path has j
often been strewn with the bodies of the
slain. It has often set up a false standard by
which people are to be judged. Our common
sense, as well as all th? divine intimations on
the subject, teach us that people ought to b3
esteemed according to their individual and
moral attainments. The man who has the
most nobility of soul should be first, and he
who has the last of such qualities should
stand last. No crest, or shield, or escutcheon
can indicate one's moral peerage. Titles of
duke, lord, esquire, earl, viscount or patrician
ought not to raise one into the first rank.
Some of the meanest men I have ever
known had at the end of their name D. D.,
LL. D. and F. R. S. Truth, honor, charity,
heroism, self sacrifice should win highest
! j:?L_ e~?Y.:?
luvur; out muruiimw i?muu soys; v/uuuu
nob a woman's virtues: count her adornments."
"Look not at the contour of the
head, but see the way she combs her
hair." "Ask not what noble deeds have
beenaccomplishedbythat man's hand; but
is it white and soft:" Ask not what good
sense is her conversation, but "In what was
she dressed?" Ask not whether there was
hospitality and cheerfulness in the house, but
"In what style do the}' live?"
As a consequence, some of the most ignorant
and vicious men are at the top, and some
of the most virtuous and intelligent at the
bottom. During the last war we suddenly
saw men hurled up into the highest social
positions. Had they suddenly reformed from
evil habits, or graduated in science, or
achieved some good work for society ? No,
they simply had obtained a government contract!
This accounts for the utter chagrin which
people feel at the treatment they receive
when they lose their property. Hold up your
head amid financial disaster like a Christian!
Fifty thousand subtracted from a good unan
leaves how much? Honor, truth, faith in 1
God, triumphant hope, and a kingdom of
ineffable glory, over which he is to reign forever
and ever.
t* *-?- o ? 1
I! uiu owiwr ul immune suuuiu iuixs a pcuuj
out of his pocket would he sit down on a
curbstone and cry? And shall a man pos- I
sessedof everlasting fortune wear himself '
out with grief because he lias lost worldly 1
treasure? You have only lost that in which 1
hundreds of wretched misers surpass you; 1
and you have saved that which the Coe-ars. ]
and the Pharaohs, and the Alexanders could j
never afford.
And yet society thinks differently,and you '
see the most intimate friendships broken up <
as the consequence of financial embarrassments.
You say to some one: "How is your '
friend?'' The man looks bewildered and says: ;
"I do not know.-' You reply: "Why, you
used to be intimate." "Well," says the man,
' our friendship has been dropped. The man (
has failed." ;
Proclamation has gone forth. "Velvets !
must go up and plain apparel must ccme
down," and the question is: ''How does the
coat tit?" not "Who wears it?" The Dower
that bears the tides of excited population up
and down our streets, and rocks the world of
commerce, and thrills all nations, transAtlantic
and cis-Atlantic, is clothes. It decides
the last offices of respect; and how long
the dress shall be totally black; and when it
may subside into spots of grief on silk, calico
or gingham. Meudie in good circumstances,
but by reason of extravagant funeral expenses
are well nigh insolvent before they
jet buried. Many men would not die at all
if they had to wait until they could afford it.
Wrong fashion is productive of a most
ruinous strife. The expenditure of many
iiouseholds is adjusted by what their neighbors
have, not by what they themselves can
ifford to have; and the great anxiety is as
jo who shall have the finest house and the
nost costly equipage. The weapons used in
;he warfare of social life are not Minnie rifles
ind Dahlgren guns, and Hotchkiss shells, but
:hairs, aud mirrors, and vases, and Gobelins,
md Axminsters. Many household establishnents
are like racing steamboats propelled
it the utmost strain and risk, aud just com
ng to a terrific explosion. '-Who cares,'
lay they, "if we only come out ahead V}
There is no one cause to-day of more finan:ial
embarrassment aud of more dishonesties
han this determination at all hazards to live
is well as or better than other people,
["here are persons who will risk their eterlity
upon one pier mirror or who will dash
>ut the splendors of hoaven to get another
xinket.
"My house is too small." "But," says i
orae one, "you cannot pay for a larger."
Never mind that, ray friends liave a better ^
esidence and so will I." "A dress of that c
tyle and material I must have. I cannot afo'rd
it by a ;;reat deal; but who cares for t
hat? My neighbor had one from that patern,
and I must have one." There are scores t
>f men in the dungeon of the penitentiary a
vho risked honor, business?everything, in j
,he effort to shine like others. Though the ?
leavens fall they must be "in the fashion." j
The most fatuous frauds of the day have
esulted from this feeling. It keeps hundreds r
>f men struggling for their commercial ex- c
stence. The trouble is that some are caught *
ind incarcerated if their larceny is small. >
f it be great they escape and build their v.
rastle on the Rhine. Men get into jail not ?
>ecause they steal, but because they do not _
teal enough. *
Again: Wrong fashion makes people un- ?
latural and untrue. It is a factory from 0
vhich has come forth more hollow pretenses g
ind unmeaning flatteries and hypocrisies than a
he Lowell mills ever turned out shawls and _
carments. Fashion is the greatest of all
iars. It has made society insincere. You i;
:now not wnat to oeiieve. w nen people ask t
rou to come you do not know whether or not ^
hey want you to come. When they send
heir regards you do not know whether it is #
in expression of their heart, or an external _
ivility. We have U arnad to take almost a
i very thing at a discount. Word is sent "not ^
it home" when they are only too lazy to dress t
hemselxes. They say: "The furnace has 0
lust gone out-' when in truth they have had h
10 fire in it all winter. They apologize for lj
;he unusual barrenness of their table when s
;he7 never live any better. They decry their a
nost luxurious entertainments to win a d
ihower of approval. They apologize for fc
;heir appearance, as though it were unusual, f
vhen always at home they look just so. They b
vould make you believe that some nice sketen 41
>n the wall was the work of a master painter. S
' It was an heirloom and once hung on the t
yalls of a castle: and a Duke gave it to their d
grandfather." People who will not lie about t
mything else will lie about a picture. On a t
imall income we must make the world believe J
;hat we are affluent, and our life becomes a i
;heat, a counterfeit and a sham. s
Few people are really natural and unaf- f
'ected. TV hen I say this I do not mean to i
ilur cultured manners. It is right that we i
should have more admiration for the sculp- J
lured marble than tor the unhewn block of t
the quarry. Prom many circles in life fash- r
on has driven out vivacity and enthusiasm, i
A. frozen dignity instead floats about the f
room and iceberg grimls against iceberg, t
You must not laugh outright, it is vulgar. \
Sou must smile. You must not dash rapidly *
icross the room, you must glide. There is a j
round of bows, and grins, and flatteries, and j
?hs and ahs, and simperings, and namby- (
pambyism, a world of which is not worth i
ine good, round, honest peal of laughter, j
From such a hollow round the tortured guest i
retires at the close of the evening and assures (
hi* host that he has enjoyed himself. ^
Thus social life has been contorted and de- ]
formed until, in some mountain cabin, where ]
rustics gather to the quilting or the apple
paring, there is more good cheer thin in '
all the frescoed ice houses of the metropolis.
We want in all the higher circles of so "ietv <
mnrs wnrm'h of hfvirt. ami naturalness of '
behavior, and not so many refrigerators.
Again : Wrong fashion is incompatible
with happiness. Those who depend for their
comfort upon the admiration of others are 1
subject to frequent disappointment. Some- j
body will criticise their appearance, or surpass
them in brilliancy, or will receive more '
attention. Oh, the jealousy and distraction ]
and heart burnings of thos9 who move in
this bewildered mue! Poor butterflies! !
Bright wings do not always bring happiness. ,
"She that liveth in pleasure is dead
while she liveth.'' The revelations of
high life that come to the challenge
and the fight are only occasional croppings
out of disquietude that are underneath,
like the stars of Heaven for multitude,
but like the demons of the pit for hate. Tlie
m'sery that will to-night in the cellar cuddle
up in the straw is not so utter as the princely
disquietude that stalks through splendid
drawinz rooms, brooding over the slights
awl offenses of luxurious life. Tho bitterness
of life seem3 not so unfitting when drunk out
of a pewter mug as when it pours from the
chased lips of a golden 6haliee. In the sharp
crack of the voluptuary's pistol, putting an
end to his earthly misery, I hear the confirmation
that in a hollow fastidious life there
is no peace.
Again: Devotion to wrong fashion is productive
of physical diaease, mental imbecility
and spiritual withering. Apparel insufficient
to keep out the cold and the rain, or so
fitted upon the person that the functions of
life are retained; late hours filled with excitement
and feasting; free drafts of wine
that make one not beastly intoxicated, btft j
only fashionably drunk, and luxurious in do- I
lence?are the instruments bv which this !
unusual life pushes its disciples into valetudinarianism
and the grave. Along the walks
of prosperous life death goes a-mowing?and ;
such harvests as are reaped! Materia mediea i
has been exhausted to find curatives for these
physiological devastations. Dropsies, cancers,
consumptions, gout and almost every
infirmity in all the realm of patho'ogv have
been the penalties paid. To counteract the
damage pharmacy has gone forth with medicament,
panacea, elixir, embrocation, salve
and cataplasm.
To-night with swollen feet upon cushioned
ottoman, and groaning with aches innumerable,
will be the votary of luxurious living,
not half so happy as his groom or coal heaver.
Wrone fashion is the world's undertaker, and
drives thousands of hearses to Grenwood
and Laurel Hill and Mount Auburn.
But, worse than that, this folly is an intellectual
depletion. This endless study of
proprieties and etiquette, patterns and styles,
is he-dwarfing to the intellect. I never knew
a woman or a man of extreme fashion that
knew much. How belittling the study of
the cut of a coat, or the tie of a cravat, or
the wrinkle in a sleeve, or the color of a ribbon!
How they are worried if something
gets untied, or hung awry, or is not nicely
adjusted! With a mind capable of measuring
the height and depth of ereat subjects: also
to unravel mysteries, to walk through the
univer.se, to soar up into the infinity of God'3
attributes?hovering perpetually over a new
style of cloak? I have known men reckless
as to their character and regardless of interests
momentous and eternal, exasoerated by
the shape of a vest button. What is the
matter with that woman wrought up into
the agony of despair? Oh, her muff is out of
fashion!
"\Vr>r?p t.hnri nil?tVn's fnllv ia nnt. snt><?fiftd
until it has extirpated every moral sentiment
and blasted the soul. A wardrobe is the rock
upon which many a soul has been riven. The
excitement of a luxurious life has been the
vortex that has swallowed up more souls than
the Maelstrom off Norway ever destroyed
ships. What room for elevating themes in a
heart filled with the trivial and unreal?
Who can wonder that in this haste for sungilded
baubles and winged thistle down men
and women should tumble into ruin? The
travelers to destruction are not all clothed in
rags. On that road chariot jostles against
rhariot; and behind steeds in harness golden
plated and glittering,they go down,coach and
four, herald and position, racketing on the
lict pavements of hell. Ciear the track! Bazaars
hang out their colors over the road; and
trees of tropical fruitfulness overbranch the
way. No sound of woe disturbs the air, but
ill is light, and song, and wine and gorgeousn^ss.
The world comes out to meet the da/
zlmg procession with: ' Hurrah" hurrah!"
But suddenly there is a halt and an outcry of
iismay, and an overthrow worse than the
Red Sea tumbling upon the Egyptians.
Shadow of gravestones upon finest silk! ,
Wormwood squeezed into impearled goblets!
Death with one cold breath withering the
leaves and freezing the fountains.
In the wild tumult of the last day?the
mountains falling, the heavens flying, the ,
thrones uprising, the universe assembling: (
iraid the boom of the last great thunderpeal 1
ind under the crackling of a burning world?
wiiat will become of the disciple of unholy
!&shion?
But watch the career of one thoroughly
irtificial Through inheritance, or perhap3
lis own skill, having obtained enough for
purposes of display, he feels himself thor>ughly
established. He sits aloof from the
'ommon herd, and looks out of his window '
upon the poor man and says: "Put that '
dirty wretch off my steps immediately!" On 1
Sabbath day he finds the church, but mourns !
lie fact that lie must worship with so many
>f the inelegant, and says: ''They are per- 1
ectly awful!" "That man that you put in
ny pew had a coat on his back that did not 1
tost $5." He struts through life unsympa- ,
ihetic with trouble and says: "I cannot bo 1
>othered." Is delighted with some doubtful 1
tory of Parisian lifo, but think that there 1
ire some very indecent things in the Bible.
Walks arm in arm with the successful man
>f the world, but does not know his own
>rother. Loves to be praised for hi3 splendid
louse, and when told that he looks younger
han ten j'ears ago, says: "Well, really; do
rou think so ?"
But the brief strut of his life i; about ov*r.
Jpstairs he dies. No angel wings hovering
tbout him; no Gospel promises kindling up
:he darkness; but exquisite embroidery, elejant
pictures, and a bust of Shakespeare on
he mantel The pulses stop; the minister
:omes in to read of the resurrection, that day
vhen the dead shall come up?both he that
lied on the floor and lie that expired under
>rincely upholstery. He is carried out to
mriai. Only a few mourners, but a groat
trray of carriages. Not one common man at
he funeral. l\o befriended orphan to weep
k tear on his grave. No child of want press- .
ng through the ranks of the weeping, saying: |
'He is the last friend I have, and t must see .
lim."
- * *T a. oi- _ n t
wnainowf ne wasa great man. oaau
lot chariots of salvation come down to the
>ther side of the Jordan and escort him up
o the palace? Shall not the augels exclaim:
'Turnout! A Prince is coming.1' Will the
ells chime? Will there be harpers with t
Heir harp* and trumpeter* with their trum>- c
>ets. t
No! no! no! There will be a shudder as s
hough a calamity had happened. Standing t
n heaven's battlements, a watchman will see >
omething shoot past with fiery downfall, 1
nd shriek: ''Wandering star, for whom is 1
eserved the blackness of darkness forever!" ^
But sadder yet is the closing of a woman's f
ife that hasbeen worshipful of worldlitiess,all ^
he wealth of a lifetime's opportunity wasted, t
Vhat a tragedy! A woman on her dying *
allow, thinking of what she might havedone
or God and humanity, and yet having done
othing! Compare her demise with that of
. Harriet Newell going down to peacefully
ie in the Isle of France, reviewing her life- ,
ime sacrifices for the redemption of India;
r at the last hours of Elizabeth Hervey, .
aving exchanged hor bright New Eng- '
wid home for a life at Bombay amid
tohd heathenism, that she might illumine it, | <
aying in lier last moments: "If this is the j
ark valley, it has not a dark snot on it; all
i light, light!" or the exit of Mrs. Lennox, \
ailing under sudden disease at Smyrna, .
reathing out her soul with the last words: j
1 Oh, how happy!" or the departure of Mrs. ,
larah D. Comstock, spending her life for
he salvation of Burtnah, giving up her chil- ,
ren that they might come home to America \
o be edcated, and saying, ns she kissed
hem good-by, never to see them again: "Oh,
esus, I do this for Thee!" Or the going of
0,000 good women, who, in less resounding
pueres, Have lived not for themselves, but
or God and the alleviation of human suffer- 1
jr. That was a brilliant scene when, in ]
455, in the campaign for the capture of <
*onda, Queen Elizabeth of Castile, on
lorseback, side by side with King Ferdinand, :
ode out to review the troops. As she in i
>right armor rode along tlie 'ines of the 1
Spanish host, and waved her jewed hand (
ro the warriors, and ever and anon uttered
vords of cheer to the worn veterans who, far ,
iway from their homes, were risking their
ives for the kingdom, it was a spectacle that
llumines history. But more glorious will be j
;he scene when that consecrated Christian
soman crowned in heaven shall review the
>ouls that on earth she clothed, and fed, and
nadicined, and evangelized, and then introluced
into the ranks celestial. As on the
white horse of victory, side by side with the
?ing, this queen unto God forever shall ride
!>a.st the lines of those in whose salvation
she bore a part, the scene will surpass any:hing
ever witnessed on earth in tne life of :
Joan of Arc, or Penelope, or Semiramis, or i
A.pasia, or Marianne, or Margaret of Anion <
Rideon.victor!--*** ~~ '***?'*
m ,
Senator Fair recently attended a
Catholic fair in San Franciaco, and
isked tlio price of some rosebuds at
the llower-stand. Before the young
lady in attendance had time to reply,
an older one came forward and answered:
"Five hundred dollars, Mr. Fair."
The Senator instantly drow his check
for the money anil passed it over without
a look of surprise or annoyance.
The woman who took the check was
his divorced wife.
Tue new railway under the Thames
is rapidly approaching completion. It
will tap a number of congested thoroughfares,
and though only three miles
in length, will be of immense service I
to the populatiou of London. It extends
from near the north end of London
bridge to Clapham Common.
Tee octopus, or devil fish, when
boiled and then roasted, is eaten in
Corsica, and esteemed a delicacy.
M -
TEMPERANCE.
Interrogation.
Did you ever think, when you meet and
drink,
Men of the country, men of the town,
That women's tears and children's fears
From your crystal glasses are draining
down if
That hopes so high are doomed to die,
Drowned in the liquor you long to taste!
That grand ambitions, and lofty missions,
Ana admonitions are going to waste?
That a demon dire, with fangs of fire,
Lurks in the wine-cap's sparkling foam,
While serpents of death, with fetid breath,
Are poisoning Youth, and Hope, and Home?
Pleasure you sought?what has it brought?
Has it not lost you friend on friend?
Do not delay; dash it away
Ere it shall compass its awful end!
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?ihuwur u sl/% Aiuue/ , \u nuuw/u?t j
Drunken Snakes.
It may be ui curious interest to trace the
Bingular connection which seem* to exist
between the serpent used figuratively in
Scripture to represent the evil one, and
intoxicating liquor. It is a fact, and one
perhaps not generally known, that a snake
will avail itself of any opportunity to
drink whisky and get on a debauch as
readily as any old toper. In the course of
a lecture by the Rev. Ben. Deering, a celebrated
temperance advocate, he stated
that upon one occasion when in early life,
he was employed in a distillery somewhere
in the backwoods in Kentucky, the employes
knowing the hubits of snakes in
the above connection, suspected that they
were stealing liquor from the establishment,
and ripped up the floor and discovered a concatenation
of drunken moccasin snnkes, a
foot or more thick. After that their habits
were more closely watched by Mr. Deering,
and they were often seen to cautiously apDroach
the premises, lap up the liquor, and [
either crawl lazily out in the sun to"sleep off
the intoxication, or to seek the soriety of
their companions; for it produces in snakes
the same desire for social intercourse that it
does in men. Some years since, in India, a
cobra was discovered in one of the military
OQmps, and the soldiers desiring to capture
it alive with its mate, a pan was filled with
wine and placed near it. The snake soon
discovered it, went after it, and after becoming
"mellow" sought the society of
its mate, which the soldiers knew would follow,
and were both captured and sent to the
British Museum in London. A snake at its
best is the most loathsome thing, but oh! a
drunken snake!
When a man is drunk his walk is serpentine
as the course of a snake, and when bis
spree culminates in delirum tremens, terror
takes tbe form of hideous reptiles coiling
ahottt him. Alcohol is well known to be one
of the most effectual remedies for the bite of
a snake. There are other facts which might
be mentioned in this connection. Tbe Biblical
metaphor, "it biteth like a serpent and
jtingeth like an adder," may have been
ehosen with a greater regard to the propriety
than is generally supposed.?Witness. <
Wfn'sfty ArfTfrmctre.
Under the above heading the Cincinnati 1
Enquirer print* the following: ' I
u 'How many drinlcs of whisky do you.
iverage a day ?' said one gentleman to another
as they were enjoying a social glass at
x well-known resort on Vine street yesterday
ifternoon.
'"Oh! taking the year round, I presume
ay average would be about ten a day.'
" 'And how long has this being going onF
;vas asked.
" 'Straight along for twenty years, I guess;
jut it never hurt me any, and 1 can tend to
ny patients [he is a professional man] just as
well as I ever could.'
" 'But how much whisky, taking your own
;tatement for it, do you< suppose you have
Irank during that time?' :
' 'I'm sure I don't know; I never thought ,
iKAnf. thot. ' t
" 'Woll, let us take another nip and then ,
Sgure on it,.' And they did, and here is the
esult of their work: (
'"Ten drinks a day would be seventy j
1 rinks a week, or 8,640 drinks in a year. In j
twenty years that would give the enormous ]
lumber of 72,SOI) drinks. Now, the average ,
Irink taken in this country is said to be sixty .
:o a gallon. Then divide this 72,800 by sixty, j
ind you will find that you have consumed
1,21:! and a fraction gallons. Now, there are I
.upposed to be, on an averago, thirty-six .
jallons to the barrel. Divide 1,213 by thirty- j
iix und you find that you have drank just j
ibout thirty-six barrels of the stuff.' ,
' The old toper looked at the figures and :
hen at his friend, and then remarked: ,
Well, let's take one more, and then I think
I'll give my stomach, a rest for a day or (
;wo.'"
Prohibition, ii* Florida* j
Within the last few months eighteen' cotw- (
ies in Florida have voted on prohibition, and ;
>f that number thirteen gave majorities for Arv
tiVi-nf Thn rasulfc was a genuine i
-urprise to the whisky men. They thought
hat with the negro vote almost solid for
vhisky, and the Northerners who had recenty
moved into that State supposed to be on
;hat side, there was no doubt that the vote
could be in favor of the bar-rooms. They
elt so sure of victory that but little effort |
vas made, and when the votes were counted ,
bey could hardly believe their own eyes and (
tars.
National AT. C. T. U. Notes.
The license fee in Atlanta, Ga., has been
educed from $15,000 to $1,000.
Detroit, Mich., has 1,035 grogshops where !
(5,563,125 aro yearly spent for strong drink. ,
The Washingtonian Home for Inebriates in \
Chicago has just celebrated its twenty-fourth j
muiversary. j
The Prohibitionists are standing true to 1
;heir traditions. From the founding of the ]
party in 1872 women have been recognized aa ]
members of committees and delegates to contention.
]
A mission for sailors is to be established in <
New York under the auspices of the W. C. T. 1
U., of that city. Funds sufficient to in- 1
lugurate the work have already been 1
ionattd. 1
The whiskey men of Washington are getting
up a mammoth petition in opposition to
the one presented to Congress asking for the
prohibition of the liquor traffic in the District
Df Columbia.
A vigorous prosecution of liquor dealers is
now in progeess in Wichita, Kan. Nine
men have been found guilty and sentenc ed to
both tines and imprisonment, and over fifty
other cases are on the docket.
Mrs. J. K. Barney, National W. C. T. U.,
ruperintendent of prison and almshouse
work, has, in company with her secretary,
Mrs. Walker, been holding a series of evangelistic
meetings at Worcester, Mass.
Mr. Howland, the Temperance Mayor of
rr- <? wflo/lAfaofnH of fho In fx* aIasv.
luruillru. UCUi* I nas UV't^UbvtA uw VMW .M.v
tion in that city, but twenty out of thirty-six
Aldermen elected are strong temperance
men. The present Mayor, though not a radical
temperance man, is pledged to take no
backward step.
Dr. Forel, who acted as President of the
recent International Temperance Conference
at Zurich, is Superintendent of a large insane
asylum at Burgbolyli, Switzerland. Both
Dr. Forel and his wife are total abstainers,
and he, with a number of students and medical
men, has formed a temperance club.
The Massachusetts Home for Intemperate
Women was founded in Boston in 187!). Devotional
exercises open the work of every
day, anil services are held every Sabbath.
The Home is industrial as well as reformatory,
and two-thirds of the money used in
supporting the institution is earned by its inmates.
Mrs. S. B. Forbes, State President of the
W. C. T. U., is chosen ?s one of the delegates
at large from Connecticut to the National
Prohibition Convention at Indianapolis, June
15 (her husband is also a delegate), and Mrs.
Fannie li. Raslall, President of tbe Kansas
W. C. T. U., is delegate at large from her
State. Illinois Prohibitionists meet in May,
and have invited the W. C. T. U. of the State
to send one delegate for every local union.
A bill recently presented w nw i\.eubucny i
Legislature provides that each county in the
State shall vote next November whether or
not it will have prohibition. If a majority
of tne votes in the whole State favor prohibition
it shall apply to tho whole Stat<v Any
single county or district in a county that
votes "dry" shall have prohibition. If a
county votes "dry" the question shall not be
referred to a popular vote again for ten
years, if it goes "wet" there shall be another
vote on it the next year. The penalty for illegal
selling shall, after the third offence, be
not less than $2,000 and three months' imprisonment.
There is soma expectation of
the passage of the bill
wisBBfaHMMBBiBaaHbMwanas:
EELIGIOUS BEADING. I
i
Questions.
3an you put the spider's web bads in plaoe
That onco has been swept away J
Can you put the apple again on the bough
Which fell at our feet to-day?
Can you put the lily-cup back on the stem,
And cause it to live and grow?
Can you mend the butterfly's broken wing
That you crushed with a hasty blow?
Can you put the bloom again on the grape,
And the grape again on the vine?
Can you put the dewdrops back on the
flowers,
And make them sparkle and shine?
Can you put the petals back on the rose?
If you could, would it smell as sweet?
Can vou nut the flower a train on the husk.
And show mc tho ripened wheat?
Can you put the kernel back in the nut,
Or the broken egg in the shell ?
Can you put the honey back in the comb,
And cover with wax each cell?
Can you put tho perfume back in the vase
When once it has sped away?
Can you put the corn-silk back on the com,
Or down on the catkins? say.
You think my questions are trifling, dear?
Let me ask another one:
Can a hasty word ever be unsaid,
Or a deed unkind undone?
?[Wide Awake.
The True R'ng.
I find to my sorrow that if the every-day
practice of my life fails to exemplify the
precepts which I try to inculcate, my teach- \
ing is in vain. The words I speak may be
fraught with the most precious truths, they
may feach only the home circle, or they may
go to the uttermost parts of the earth, but
unless they bear the impress of a life wholly
(riven un to God. thev lack the true rine and
Fail of their purpose. God's spirit will"never
accompany a set form of wor.is, however
good they may ber if they lack the impetus
of his presence m the heart.
I lately beard a young man talking with a
friend upon the subject of religion. I listened
and wondered. The words were good,
very good; but it seemed to me that they
lacked the ring of sincerity. "Are you a
Christian f' I wanted to ask as I looked in his <
face. I could not forget that I had heard
something to the contrary, but we so often '
hear evil spoken of another, this, I thought 1
might have been untrue. So I hoped and I
wondered but the wordb- he had spoken had
more than an empty sound; they seemed like
sacrilege, like the handling of sacred things
with unwashed hands, and I had afterward
unmistakable proof that; this was the' case. <
The circumstance turned my thoughts in- j
ward, and I asked myself if the words I .
sometimes try to speak" to the unconverted
do not often lack that which shall give them
permanence in the heart. The motive may
be good; we may truly wish to see those for
whom we labor benefited by our counsel; but
however much in earnest we may think ourselves
to be, our words will lack the true
ring unless the whole life correspond
Perhaps we sometimes wonder that we see
so little good resulting from our wellnneant
endeavors and forget to look down into the
depths of our hearts for the reason. The
glow of a true Christian life will shine from
the face, the power of a truly devoted'heart
will ring in the words, and each shall bear
sternal fruit for the Master. To such and
only such shall come the unspeakable joy of
having led souls from darkness to light;
"When our hearts are all alow
With the Pentecostal fire,
And our lives are pure and white
Before the Lord,
Then the work we try to do
With a purpose strong and true
Shall not fad to bring its own
Secure reward.
?[Susie E. Kennedy.
"Kepplngr the Soul on Top."
The story is told of a little girl who upon
returning from school was asked what the
bext had been. She replied, "I keep my soul
an. top!" Somewhat surprised to hear such
unfamiliar scripture, her father inquired
where the text could be found. The child c
eagerly pointed out the well-known passage
in the writings of the great apostle, in wmcn i ?
he say8: "I keep my body underl" If the i t
little girl had been the wisest philosopher in I t
th? universe she could not nave coined a j j
phrase which expresses more exactly the true I
jense of the apostle's language. Her inter- { ,
pretation voices the need of the century, t
The materialism of the age holds, with a 1
?rip of steel, the thought, brain and life that I <i
should throb with the invigorating pulse of j't
true spiritual culture. Much of the labor of i ,
to-day, in the words of Emerson, is but "a i t
malignant, haggard, care-worn running af- t
fcer luck." As a result men are old, c
weary, jc.'less, when they ought to be c
strong, alert, happv. The pressure of t
population upon subsistence renders the :
struggle for bread a desperate one to many *
classes in the community, at disadvantage in j
Jae race of life. The condition of thousands , i
>f our fellow-crontures is well described in a g
sentence quoted by Wm. Morris from the j
writings of Daniel De Foe: "And the men of I :
labor spent their strength in daily struggle i ]
[or Lread to maintain the vital strength | f
they labored with; so, being in a daily circa- j
lution of sorro\v; living but to work, and <
working but to live, as if daily bread were I
the only end of a wearisome life, and a J
wearisome life the only occasion of daily 1
iread." Thus habit and necessity combine j
to stifle the influences that might* "crimson t
our lives with brighter hope*."
But there is something better for all of u? i ,
than to live for pleasure, gain, and physical 1
well being. There is room for meditation at I
the eventide in the life of the humblest \
worker. God may be the apex of his think- I ^
inc. nnd ideals of lxumfcy the heavenly vision I .
an his pathway in the intervals of toiL | 1
"To keep the soul on top," the spirit upper- I c
most amid all the cares of the present?shall j a
this become a lost art to the mechanic, | j
farmer, tradesman, merchant,, manufacturer j i
md all other busy workers? It costs neither j .
time nor money to forswear the epicurean 1
philosophy of modern times which finds expression
in the debasing sentiment, "To drift !
with every passion, till my soul is a stringed j
lute on -which all winds can play." If we j
look for high things we shall live for high j
things. Lot a man watch the stars come j J
out every evening, and he will read t
the secret of his soul's peace in the mysteri- j
dus depths of their tranquil light. There is j j
no aspiration without meditation. The work- i ,
ingman who adds a good book to his library,
an inexpensive picture to the walls of his '
home, a pleasing ornament to his shelf, contributes
to his own elevation and refinement, j
More imDortant still, any man who values 1
his higher nature cannot neglect to make
religion as taught by Jesus Christ, his friend. J
To keep the soul on top requires constant *
effort. Try to swim in the atmosphere of ?
celestial aspiration, and a momentary sus- i
pension of strokes means a descent to lower j
and lower areas of endeavor. Refuse the ,
aid of the Divine Spirit in seeking to live for '
noble ends, and free progress in righteousness
is checked by a thousand obstacles, i
A friend outside the city showed me his silo, i t
a few days since crammed with grass and | .
clover slowly sinking beneath a platform
loaded with heavy stonos until it should pos- '
sess the requisite consistency. Out from | '
under the blue sky and bright sun the green i <
blades had been brought to the semi- (
darkness of the dusty barn. Thus do many j
of us confine our souls between | :
walls of habit four-square, and to them at- j
tach the stones of earfchinese, choosing dark- 1
ness in place of light, the downward instead <
of the upward destiny. Surely it were better
to keep the soul on topi In trouble, l
4 flmi?Q io atrao
III pLciLIUIL, blt'KMW:?, taiainivj t vuviv to \j r u* j
a window fronting the sky in this frail tone- |
ment of the body. Tho light that shines
through it will never grow dim. for it is a ;
fragment of the rainbow of God's love that j
arches eternity. Tho version of revelation ;
that blundered upon tho lips of the child con- i
tains the deepest and most abiding truth of [
the universe, to wit, that man only lives j
when all his thoughts and purposes are sub- j
ordinated to tho etornal interests of the noul j
in which the spark of divinity kindles the
flame of reb'cious hope.?[Rev. 1<. S. Root. |
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The Torch as a Weapon.
In retaliation for the hard fight that is be- ; 1
ing made by the tein]>orance people of Leeds j 1
County, Canada, eleven buildings have been : s
burned at Irish Creek, the Methodist Church I J
and a tannery have bwn burned at Kempt- ' ]
ville, and five constables have been stoned j <
and assaulted. Dr. Ferguson, M. P., and j 1
three other men, one of them a minister, : ]
were assailed ana threatened with murder, j ,
and two deacons of a Baptist Church have ,
been warned to dismiss their minister or j 1
have their church burned. The temperance I 1
people are undismayed, however, and have 1
naa forty or fifty tavern keepers fined, have ,
sent three offenders to the penitentiary, and ,
have had the assailants of ttrt CCDSt&bles
find Ntw York Sun,
W0?*9 OF WIS***)*.
Sin may be clasped so close ^'cannot
see its face.
Absence destroys trifling intimites,
but it invigorates strong ones.
Fame comes only when deserved, and
then it is as inevitable as destiny.
Holiness is love welling ap in the heart,
and pouring fourth crystal streams.
The innocence of the intention abates
nothing of the mischief of the example.
There is nothing that so refines the
face and mind as the presence of great
thoughts.
Idleness is the hot-bed of temptation,
the cradle of disease, the waster of time,
the canker-worm of felicity.
A man who has health and brains and
can't find a livelihood in the world,
doesn't deserve to stay here.
The best part of our knowledge i?th*t
which teachcs us where knowledge leaves
off and ignorance begins.
One of the greatest causes of trouble
in this world is the habit people have of
talking faster than they think.
Energy will do anything that can be
done in this world, and no talents, nocircumstances.
no opportunities wili1
make a man without it.?Qoethe.
It is idleness that creates impossibili
ties; and when men care not to do >
thing, they shelter themselves under a?
persuasion that it cannot be done.
Conversation opens our views, and> i
gives our faculties a more vigorous play; :
it puts us upon turning our notions on- 1
every side, and holds them up to a light
that discovers latent flaws.?Melmoth. \
Some critics are like chimney sweeps*,
they put out the fire below, or frighten* i
the swallows from their nests above; (
fchjey scrape a long time in the chimney, j
cover themselves with soot, and bring 1
nothing away bat a bag of cinders, and i
then sing from the top of the house as if >,
they haa built it. i
Gloucester Fisher-folk. 1
Thriftlessness is uncommon among i
Gloucester fishermen; drunkenness is 1
ilmost unknown,; harmless banter and <
bellowing and boasting are the nearest ]
ipproachi t? braiwls. There is a tender- <
tieartedness among them that is remark- 1
ible and almost pathetic. 3fany go away
that never come back. "Stand here, if ]
pou will, at these crowded wharves," <
writes a correspondent of the Pittsburg
Dispatch"ana watch the arrival and 1
ieparture of fishing fleets, and if you '
lave a heart you will feel something 1
leavy in your throat." I
The old. mothers and fathers, the
roung brothers and sisters, the wive3 and
vee fishers' children, are all there, score
>n score. They are trying to look brave
is the vessels sail out. There are pride
ind loyal valor in their faces all. They
(hout and shout to the departing ones,
vho send it all back in good measure,
;veTy manner of good'cheer and sea lore
or luck. As the schooners clear the
larbor, out past Ten Pound Island,some ;
vill run awav around the harbor edge,
is if to keep company to the last. But
hose who stay, leaning far out over
ho dark bulkheads, look fixedly on and i
>n until the white sails disappear be- j
tind cruel Norman's Woe, or sink
>ehind the horizon; and if you can see
n their eyes, as they at last turn to the 1
ittle home-spot for the weeks or months 3
?f dreary waiting, there is unutterable 1
adness behind the quivering lids. Then
vhen the fleet returns, who can picture i
he gladness and the woe upon these cen- 1
ury hold wharves and slips? i
They say that down at brave old Mar- i
lehead every third woman is a widow. <
bid so the going and coming ard
joing and never coming have woven a <
rarp and woof of smiles and tears i
tere, which have mellowed and softened 1
housands of human hearts in a way you 1
ian see and feel. Your fisherman who 1
:omes and the wife, sweetheart or child 1
hat is here to greet him are o'er tender )
or it all. <
The old city is used to it, and does not
nind it It is the way its toiler? of the ?
iea have. And so if vou ever walk her <
itreets and see a hulk of a fellow hold- 1
ng a happy woman as he would clutch a ?
ifc rail or a capstan head in a heavy J
;tormMyou will know he is simply i
' making fast" with the strong hawser of <
to honest love to th? very anchorage of
lis- life, utterly unconscious of you or <
inybody's- sense of the proprieties. And
his tenderness, too, is all-compassing. ]
There are many trusts and fund3 for J
he widow and fatherless, and these men j
jive generously to them. On every J
veek-day night the whole year through, vhen
the seoport is stirred by the arrival <
>f fleets with their "fares" or cargoes 1
>f fish, there is a "fisherman's ball," ?
md often many. These are never for <
ndividual protit, but invariably for the '
>enelit of women whose hearts are break- i
"o
Secrecy iu Inventions.
Comparatively tew inventions are now
worked secretly, remarks the Sanitary
Plumber, as the patent laws provide all
ho uecessury protection. In olden times
t was different, and valuable inventions
lad to be kept secret in order to derive
my benefit from them, and in most cases
he greatest precautions were of no avail.
The secret of the manufacture of citric
icid was stolen from au old chemist,
who had a shop near Temple Bar, by a
:hiruney sweep, who dropped down the
lue and took note of the process. The
iecret of the manufacture of tinware,
vhich was discovered in Holland, and
cept a secret for fifty years, was stolen'
jy James Sherman, a Cornish miner.
Cast steel was discovered by a watchr
naker named Huntsman, in 1760, in At;erclilf,
near Sheffield, for the purpose
>f packing improved watch springs. In
L770 a large factory was established at
Vttercliffe, the process still being kept a
:lose secret, but a benighted traveler
)nce gained access to the works through
in appeal to the feelings of the foreman
jy feigning exhaustion. He cruelly resaid
this kindness by divulging the se:ret.
Probably the ?nly secrect process which
las been kept inviolate, and for ages
jpenly ueneu inc worm ox acieuue, is vue ; t
ron trade of Russia. The secret of 1
Russian sheet iron is owned by the gorjrnmcnt,
and is such an immense molopoly
that it is currently supposed to
lefray the entire expenses of the govern- ,
nent. The works constitute an entire x
;ity, isolated and fortified against the j
est of the world. When a work- j
nan outers the service he bids j
i last farewell to his family and friends, i
md is practically lost to the rest of the (
tvorld. lie is never heard from after- (
tvard, and whether he lives or dies, all t
trace of him is forever lost. There have \
_i fA nffamnfe moAa IA
Decn several uuspcittiw ju?uw w j
steal or betray the secret, but in every \
instance it has resulted in the death of i
the would-be traitor. In one case a let- \
ter attached to a kite, which was allowed ,
to escape, was picked up by some peas- \
ints, and, despite the protestations that ,
they were unable to read, they were at <
5uce put to death by the guards to whom ,
they delitered the letter, ju*d it was
afterward decreed that the guards themselves
should pass the re^^adw of their
davs withm the worka, :
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~H?1K6 MOlfEf. 1
DEVICES IMMIGRANTS EMPLOt
TO CONCEAL THEIR FUNDS.
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Each Nationality Has Its Own W%f
at Packing Away Currency?
A Curious Feature of
Castle Garden.
True peculiarities of the people of different
nationalities in tlieir way of carrying
money, says a reporter for the New
York Ctmniercial AdcertUer, formed a
fopic of conversation at Castle Garden
the other day.
' Most of the English immigrants,"
said one of the money changers, ' 'carry
their coin in a small case in which their
sovereign or shillings fit snugly, and
have the case attached to a chain which
they keep in a pocket as they would a
watch. An Irishman always has his
little canvas bag in which he keeps gold,
silver and notes all together. But a
great many of the Irish girls have their
sovercigns rolled up and sewed on the
inside of their dress, very frequently,
too, inside of their corsets, and often
havft tn hnrrnw mv npnUniffi t.rt rut
them out when theyconio to get them. r.
changed.
'I have seen some old Germans who
would pull off from around their body a
belt that I am sure- must have cost forty
or- fifty marks, and fish from it three or
four marks in silver to have changed.
The French mostly carry a small tube in
which they can place forty or fifty twenty-franc
pieces, and remove them very
handily one at a time, and only one at a
time;. There are very few Italians who
don't own a large tin tube, sometimes a ; *
foot long, which they have hung around
their neck by a small chain or cord, and
:n which=they keep their paper money or
?ilver coins. Swedes- and Norwegians
ire sure to hare an immense poeketbook
;hat has been generally used by their
fathers and grandfathers- before them, .
ind which will have enough leather in it
bo make a pair of boots. The Slavonians
3r Hungarians generally do not carry
pocketbooks, but they find more ways of
:oncealing:what money they may have
than any class of people I know of.
Their long boots seem>to be the favorite
place, and in the lees of them they also
:a*ry the knife, ana fork and spoon with
which they have eaten on' their way
icross. But I have st en' them take money
from between the lining and outside , ' j
af their coats which they would
get at by cutting into a buttonbole.
Some of them use their caps
and very many use their prayer books,
placing the paper money on the inside ox
the cover, and pasting the fly-leaf of the
book over it."
"I suppose you get rather a curious col- Jj
lection of foreign coin?"
"That's what a great many people
think," was the reply, "but it is not actually
the case. None of the people who
come here bring any but the commonest
kinds of coin, and, in fact, the brokerage
has extended so much in ?urope of
late and also on the transatlantic steamships,
that a great many of the immigrants
have their money already changed
when they arrived here. If we had been
permitted to do an exchange here and ?3
buy up paper, there might have been
more money it, but we are not allowed
Vinnrllo onvtViinfr hilt PJLqh."
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The money changer, however, had
amassed quite an extensive private collection
of coins of the day. Included
imong them were English penny, l$d,
ind 2d pieces, all of silver and very
iiminutive, measuring less than half aa
inch in diameter; also a complete 3
collection of the English jubilee coins
issued last year, the six-penny piece of
which was very soon called from circulation,
as it was found that some of
ihem had been galvanized and passed for
lalf sovereigns owing to their exact similarity
in size aud design. A silver franc
}f the Roman states, which bears date
I0o2, is said to be worth $1. A United
States silver dollar of the special coinage
>f 183G is now valued at $o0. A number
of'collegiate advertisements in the
ihape of bank notes, which immigrants
laid had been foisted upon them aa genu
.DC money in .E?urupc, weie aiou auiuug
;oilection.
"Do you get much paper money and
5ver get cheated in it ?"
"There is a great deal of European - ;' ?
paper money now. Austrian, French,
Russian and Belgian paper Is common.
ind every one of the different German
itates give different issues of notes.
ibout a year ago a man came to our
)ttice with a ?50 Bank of England note
to get changed; but, when we sent it
lround to one of the bmks to make sure
)f its genuineness, the man disappeared.
The note was a counterfeit and we have
it yet."
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Eaten Almost Ererytliing.
In a recent interview Colonel Pat Doian,
the Dakotan, says: "I have eaten
with the Chinese in China, I have eaten
tvith the President of the United States
n the White House. I have eaten with
learly every nation on eartn. in many
:a3cs I don't know what I have eaten,
for I have always regarded it as a bad
:aste to ask questions about the dishes
;hat are provided in your honor by hospitable
people.
" In China I may have eaten rats, but
[ didn't know it; and what you don't
enow does you no harm. When the
5ioux want to do you honor they will
serve you up. roast dog. In Spanish
Honduras the dish of honor is baked
nonkey, and sweeter meat you could not
imagine. The monkeys live up in the
tranches of trees and on the vines; their
,'eet never touch the earth beneath them,
md they live on the choicest nuts and
'ruit. No chicken was everso sweet and
tender as a baked monkey.
"I do confess, though, that on one of
;he last occasions of my dining in Spanish
Honduras I did not feel that nil was
?ve!l when at the end of ihe meal I found
[ had stuffed myself with baked lizard.
Df course there" is nothing wrong with
he lizard cxcept our petty prejudices.
It tasted splendid, but when at last I
:aw ihe bis scaly leg and the claw of the
izurd, I didn't think I liked it."
Paper a Protection Against Cold.
It is well-known that paper is a g:eat
protection against the cold. On the
rentier miners aud woodsmen preserve
argc sheets of wrapping paper and newspapers
to put between the covering
bankets when their is an insufficiency of
>ed covering in the hotels or camp3. An
jxcellent protection out-of-doors for the
:hest when wearing the dress suit, with X-k
ho low cut vest exposing a portion that V
s generally well covered uy tne iasiuon*blc
high-cut coat and vest, is a few
'olds of paper underneath the overcoat.
Vlany roadsters in driving out put a few
"olds of paper across the chest under*
leuth the overcoat as well as at the. ^
jack, aud find effectual protection
igaiust the cold winds that prevail this
season. The paper is like a waH in completely
protecting the wearer.?Jfatc York
Times.
Australian market-g^eners arc b$ing
ruined by Chinese chjj&p labor,