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r REV. DR. IALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUNDAY SERMON. Subject: "The Martyrs of EveryDay Life." (Preached at Lakeside, Ohio.) Text: Thou, therefore, endure hardness. ?II. Timothy, ii., 8. Historians are not slow to acknowledge the j merits of great military chieftains. \\ e have the full length portraits of the Crom wells,ihe Washingtons, the Napoleons and the Wellingtons of the world. History is not written ! in black ink, but with red" ink of human j p blood. The gods of human ambition do not r drink from bowls made out of silver, or gold, j or precious stones, but out of the bleached j kulls of the falien. But I am now to unroll before you a scroll of heroes that the weld has never acknowledged: those Mho faced no guns, blew no bugleblast, conquered no critics, chained no captives to their chariot wheels, and yet, in the great day of eternity, will stand higher than those whose names startled the nations; and seraph, and rapt spirit, and arohangel will tell their deeds to a listening universe. I mean the heroes of common, very-day life. In this roll, in the first place, I find all the heroes of the sick room. When Satan had failed to overcome Job, he said to God: "Put forth thy hand and touch his bones and his ilesh, and he will curse thee to thy face." fc'atan had found out what we have found out, that sickness is the greatest test of one's character. A man who stand that can stand anything. To be hut in a room as fast as though it were a j bastile; to be so nervous you cannot endure ' the tap of a child's foot: to have luxuriant J fruit, which tempts the appetite of the robust and healthy, excite our loathing and disgust when it first appears ou the platter; to | have the rapier of pain strike through the j side, or across the temples, like a razor, or to j put the foot into a vice, or throw the whole j Dody into a blaze of fever. Yet there | .. have been men and women, but more women than men, who have cheerfully endured this hardness. Through years of exhausting rheumatisms and excruciating neuralgias they have gone, and through bodily distresses that raspoi the nerves, and tore the muscles, and paled the cheeks, and stooped the shoulders. By the j dim light of the sick-room taper they saw on i their wall the picture of that laud where the ' Inhabitants are never sick. Through the ueuu suence ui luo ni?Ub tucy uctuu tuo choru3 of the angels. The cancer ato away her life from week to week and day to day, and she became weaker and weaker, and ? every "good night" was feebler than the "good night" before?yet never sad. The children looked up into her face and ' saw suffering transformed into a heavenly smile. Those who suffered on the battle-field, amid shot and j shell, were not so much heroes and heroines i as those who in the field hospital and in the j asylum had fevers which no ice could cool ; and no surgery cure. No shout of a comrade to cheer them, but numbness, and aching, ' and homesickness?yet willing to suffer, ; confident in God, hopeful of heaven. Heroes of rheumatism. Heroes of neuralgia. Heroes of spinal complaint. Heroes of sick headache. Heroes of lifeloog invalidism. Heroes and heroines. Ttaev shall reign forever and ever. Hark! 1 catch just one note of the eternal anthem: "There shall be no more pain.'-' Bless God for that In this roll I elso find the heroes of toil, who do their work uncomplainingly. It is comparatively easy to lead a regiment into battle ! when you know that the whole nation will j applaud the victory; it is comparatively easy to doctor the sick when you know that your kill will be appreciated by a large company of friends and relatives; it is comparatively easy to address an audience when, in the I gleaming eyes and the flushed cheeks, you know that your sentiments are adopted; but to do sewing where you expect that the employer will come and thrust his thumb through the work to show how imperfect it is, or to have the whole garmamf fKv/\t?n Konlr an ttaii frt Ka Hon a avak UICUW uuivnu vav.iv v/u j vu bv uc uvuc ?v* again; to bui!d a wall au 1 know there will be : " no oue to say you did it well, but only a i wearing employer howling across scaffold; I ' to work until your eyes are dim and your j back aches, and your heart faints, and tc know that if you stop before nignt your ( "-' children will starve. Ah! the sword has 1 ; not slain so many as the needle. The great j ?? battle-fields of our last war were not Gettysburg and Shiloh and South Mountain. The great battle-fields of th? last war were in the arsenals, and in the shops and in the attics, where women imde army jackets for a sixpence. They toiled on until they died. They had no funeral eulogium, but, in the name of my Go.1, this day, 1 enroll their names among those of whom the world was not worthy. Heroes of the needle. Heroes of the sewing machine. Heroes of the attic. Heroes of the cellar. Heroes and heroines. Bless God for them. In this roll 1 also find the heroes who have j uncomplainingly endured domestic injustices. There are men who for their toil and Anxiety have no sympathy in their homes. Exhausting application to business gets them a livelihood, but an unfrugal wife scatters , it. He is fretted at from the moment he en' * ters the door until he comes out of it. The exasperations of business life augmented by the exasperations of domestic life. Such j men are laughed at, but they have a heartbreaking trouble, and they would have long l ago gone into appalling dissipations I Due lor me grace 01 uoa. oociety i to-day is strewn with the wrecks of \ , | men, who under the northeast storm of j , t domestic infelicity have been driven on the j f rocks. There are t?nsof thousands of drunk- j (Wis in th'13 country to-day, made such bj j their wives. That is not poetry. That Is ' pro3& But the wrong is generally in the op- I posite direction. You would not have to go ' tar to find a wife whose life is a perpetual ; ! martyrdom Something heavier than a j stroke of the fist; unkind words, staggering ! ' home at midnight, and constant maltreat- | ment which have left her only a wreck of j what she was on that day when in thj midst j p of a brilliant assemblage the vows were taken, > and full organ plays l the wedding march, | and the carriage rolled away with the p. benediction of the people. What was the i burn? ag of Latimer and Ridley at the stakr j eompare l with this? Those men;Den became J Unconscious in the fire, but here xs a fifty ! years' raartydom, a fifty years1 putting to j death, yet uncomplaining. "No bitter words j when the rollicking companions at 'J o'clock ; in the morning pitch the husband dead drunk j into the frout entry. No bitter words when ; wip?pg from the swollen brow the b'.ood i itruck out in a midnight carousal. Bending over the battered and i hmiicnri form of him who when he toolf her from her father's home, promised love, I and kindness, and protection, yet nothing but sympathy, and prayers, and forgiveness r>efore they aro asked for. No bitter woicio wben the family Bible goes for ram, ami th? pawnbroker's shop gets the last decent dres3. Some day, desiring to evoke the story of her J sorrows,"you say: "Well, how ore you get- j ting along now?' and rallying her trembling j voice, ana quieting h?r quivering lip, she ( says: "Pretty well, I thank you, pretty well." She never will tell you. In the delirium of her last sickness she may ]r Veil all the sec vts of her lifetime. Out she will not tell that. Not until the books of eternity are opened on the j thrones of judgment will ever be known ! what she has suffered. Oh! ye who are | twisting a garland for the victor, put it on I that pale brow. Wlien she is dead the ' neighbors will beg linen to make her a j shroud, and she will be carried out in a plain box with no silver plate to tell her years, for ' she has lived a thousand years of trial and anguish. The gamblers and swindlers whc destroyed her husband will not come to the funeral. One carriage will be enough for that funeral?one carriage to carry the orphans and the two Christian women who presided over the obsequies. But thjre is a LUi-Ml, uuu mo \jl c* vcicdiiiai uuu> } ami ashont: "Lift up your head, ye everlasting ! jate, and let her come in!" And Christ wiil i itep forth and say: "Coma in! ye suffered ; xlth m9 on earth, be gioriaed with me in aeaven." What is the highest throne in heaven? You say: ''The throne of the Lord 3od Almighty and the Lamb." No doubt ibout it What is tiie next highest throne in heaven ? While I speak Jt seems to me that it will be the throne of th_> drunkard's wife, if -she with cheerful patience endured all her sarthly torture. Heroes and heroines. I find also in this roll the heroes of Christian charity. We all admire the George Peabodys and the James Lenoxes of the earth, who give tens and hundreds of thousands of dolarstogood objects. But I am speaking this morning of those who, out of their pinched poverty, help others?of such mm as those Christian missionaries at the West, wl.oare on -;j-50 j a year that tney may proclaim Christ to the j peop.e; one of them, writing to tne Secretary ; ? .. -'i afc;& . : ; .... .. ?>.; in Nevr York, saying: "I thank you for that $25. Until yesterday we have had no meat in our house for three months. We have suffered terribly. My children have no shoes this winter." And of those people who have only a half loaf of bread, but give a piece of it to others who are hungrier; and of those who have only a scuttle of coal, but help others to fuel; and of those who have only a dollar in their pocket, and give twenty-five cents to somebody else; and of that father who wears a shabby coat, and of that mother who wears a faded dress, that their children may be well apparelled. You call them paupers, or ragamuffins, or emigrants. I call them heroes and heroines. \ ou and I may not know where they live, or what their nama is. God knows, and they have more angels hovering over them than you and I have, and they will have a higher s at in heaven. They may have only a cup of cold water to gire a poor traveler, or may have only picked a splinter from under the nail of a child's finger, or have put only two mites iiito the treasury, but the Lord knows them, nnnsiflftrinir what thev had. thev did more than we have ever clone, ani their faded dress will become a white robe, and the small room will be an eternal mansion, and the old hat will be a coronet of victory, and nil the applause of earth and all the shouting of heaven will be drowned out when God rises up to give his reword to those humble workers in his kingdom, and to say to them: "Well done, good and faithful servant." You have all seen or heard of the ruin of Melrose Abbey. I suppose in some respects it is the most exquisite ruin on earth. And yet, looking at it I was not so impressed ?you may set it down to bad taste?but I was not so deeply stirred as I way at a tombstone at the foot of that Abbey?the tombstone placed by Walter Scott over the grave of an old man who had served him for a good many years in;his housa. The inscription most significant, and I defy any man to stand there and read it without tears coming into his eyes. The epitaph: "Well done, good and faithful servant." Oh! when our work is over, will it be found that because of anything we have done for God, or the church, or suffering humanity, that such an inscription is appropriate for us? God grant it Who are those who were bravest and deserved the greatest monument?Lord Claverhouso and his burly soldiers, or John Brown, the Edinburgh carrier, ana his wife? Mr. Atkins, the persecuted minister of Jesus i^nns& in ocotiana, was secrecea oy jonn Brown and his wife, and Claverhouse rode up one day with his armed men and shouted in front of the house. John Brown's little girl came out. He said to her: "Well, miss, is Mr. Atkins hereif" She made no answer, for she could not betray the minister of the GospeL "Ha!" Cleverhouse said, "then you are a chip of the old block, are you? I hare something in my | pocket for you. It is a nosegay. Some peo- , pie call it a thumbscrew, but I call it a nosegay." And he got off bis horse, and he put it on the little girl's hand, and be^an to turn it until the bones cracked, and she cried. He said: "Don't cry, don't cry: this isn't a thumbscrew; this is a nosegay." And they heard 1 the child's cry, and the father and mother j came out, and Claverhouse said: "Ha! It j seems that you three have laid your holy head; together determined to die like all the | rest of your hypocritical, canting, snivelling 1 crew: rather than give up good Air. Atkins, j pious Mr. Atkins, you would die. I have a telescope with me that will improve your | vision," and he pulled out a pistol. 4'Now," ' he said, "you old pragmatical, lest you saouia caica coiu in mis com morning ui o oland, and for the honor and safety of the king, to say nothing of the glory of God and the good of our souls, I ] will proceed simply anl in the neatest 1 and most expeditious style possible to blow i your brains out." John Brown fell upon his I knees and began to pray. "Ah!" siid Claver- 1 house, "look out, ifyou are going to pray; I steer clear of the king, the council and Richard Cameron." "01 Lord," said John I Brown, "since it seems to be Thy will that I I should leave this world for a world where I I can lore Thee better and serve Thea more, I I I rat this poor widow woman and three help- I ess, fatherless children into Thy hauls. We 1 have been together in peace a good 1 while, but now we must 'look forth to ; a better meeting in heaven, and a? \ for these poor creatures, blindfolded and infatuated, that stand before me, convert them before it be too late, and muy they who have sat in judgment in this lonely place on this blessed morning, upon me, a poor, defenseless fellow-creature?may they, in the < Last Judgment, find that mercy which they ] have refused to me, Thy most unworthy, but i faithful servant. Amen." He rose up and ( said: "Isabel, the hour has come of which 1 ( Bpoke to you on the morning when I proposed < hand and heart to you; and are you will- 1 ing now, for the love of God, to let me i rli'al" Rha nnfc Vinr ?rm? nrnnnrt him 1 and said: '^The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away. B'.essed be the name of the Lord!" "Stop that snivelling," said Claverhouse. "I have had enough of it. Soldiers, do your work. Take aim! Fire!" and the head of John Brown was scattered on the ground. While the wife was gathering up in her apron the fragments of her husband's head?zathering them up for burial?Claverhouse looked into her face ani said: "Now, my good woman, how do you feel about your bonnie man?" "Oh!" she said, "I always thought weel of him; he has been very good to me; I had no reason for thinking anything but weel of him, and I think better of him now. Oh, what \ grand thing it will be in the I^ast Day to see God pick out his heroes and heroines. Who are those paupers of eternity trudging off from the gates of heaven? Who are tnev? The Lord Claverhouses and the Herods and those who had sceptres, and crowns, and thrones, but they lived for their own aggrandisement,and they broke the heart of nations. Heroes of oorHi hnf-. miirx?r? in pfcprnitv. I beat the drums of tkeireterual despair. Woo! woe! 1 woo! But there is great excitement in heaven, f Why those long processions? Why the ' booming of that groat bell in the tower? It J is coronation day in heaven. ! Who are those rising on the thrones, with 1 crowns of eternal royalty? They must have 1 been great people on earth, world renowned 1 people. No. They taught in a ragged school! ' Is that all? That is all. Who are those wav- 1 ing sceptres of eternal dominion? Why, they ] are little children who waited on invalid < mothers. That all? That is all. She was J called "Little Mary" on earth. Siie is an em- > press now. Who are that great multitude i on the highest thrones of heaven? < Who are they? Why, they fed the 1 hungry, they clothed the naked, they healed i the sick, they comforted the heart-broken. 1 They never found any rest until they pat i their head down on the pillow of the i sepulchre. God watched them. God laughed 1 Jetiance at the enemies who put their heels i hard down on these His dear children; and ] one day the Lord struck His hand so hard on His thigh that the omnipotent sword ratt ed i in the buckler, as he said: "I am their God. 1 and no weapon formed against them shall prosper." What harm can the world do you i when the Lord Almighty with unsheathed sword fights for you? I preach this sermon for comfort. Go home to the place just where God has put you to play the hero or the heroine. Do not envy any man his money, or tiis applause, or j his social position. Do not envy any woman ! . Jior n'a Pilrnlto I~1 T. amiticifd annanp. 1 ar.ee. Be the hero or the heroine. if there be 110 flour in the house, and you do not know where your children are to get bread, listen, and you will hear something tapping against the window-pane. Go to the window and you will find it is the beak of a raven, and open the window and there will fly in the messenger that fed Elijah. Do you think that the God who grows the cotton of the South will let you freeze for lack of clothes? Do you think that the God who allowed the disciple.? on Sunday morning to go into the grain field, and then take the grain and rub it in their hands and eat. Do you think God will let you starve? Did you ever hear the experience of that old man: "I have been young, and now am I old, yet have I never seen the righteous forsaken, or his seed bezging bread;'' Get up out of your discouragement, O! trouble! soul, O! sewing woman, O! man kicked and cuffed by unjust employers, ()! ye who ar.1 har 1 beset in the battle of lil'e and lct.ow not which way to turn, O! vou bereft one, 0.' you sick one with complaints you have tDlci to no one, come and get the comfort of this subject. Listen to our great Captain's cheer: "To him that overcomoth will I give to eat of the fruit of the tive of life which is in the midst of the Paradise of God." Next fall Now York City will vote for President, Governor, and Mayor. Bometliing it lias not done at the same time before since 187G, says the Troy Northern Budget The Mayor is elected for two years, the Governor for three years, an*l the President four i years, so this triple election can occur only once in twelve years. RELIGIOUS READING. Ifo Thorn Without a note. "There ia no rose without a thorn;" Who has not found this true, And know that griefs of gladness born Our footsteps still pursue? That in the grandest harmony The strangest discords rise; The brightest bow we only trace Upon the darkest skies! No thornless rose! So, more and more Our pleasant hopes are laid Where waves the sable legend o'er A still, sepulchral shade. But Faith and I/)ve, with angel might, Brenk up life's dismal tomb, Transmutiug into golden light, The words of leaden gloom. Reversing all this funer.il pall, wl:.? . 1 A . TV UllO IdlJIIGUU UIDJ UnUlUJOf Their bappy song floats full and long, "No thorn without a rosel" A L'tlle Thing: yt at Decide, A Cunarder put out from England for New York. It was well equipped, but in putting uo a stove in the pi lot-box, a nail was driven too near the compass. You know how that nail would affect the compass. The ship's officers,deceived by that distracted compass, put the ship two hundred miles off her right course, and juddenly the man on the lookout cried, "Land ho!" and the ship was halted within a few yards of her demolition on Nantucket shoals. A six-penny nail fame near wrecking a great Cunarder. Small ropes hold mighty destinies. A minister, reated in Boston at his table, lacking a word, puts his hands behind his head and tilts back his chair to think and the ceiling falls and crushes the table, and would have crushed him. A minister in Jamaica at night, by the light of an insect called the candle-fly, is kept from stepping over a precipice of a hundred feet. F. W. Robertson, the celebrated Englishman, said that he entered the ministry from a train of circumstances started by the barking of a dog. Had the wind blown or-.e way i on a certain day, the Spanish Inquisition I would have been established in England; but it blew the other way, and that dropped tho j accurseu luswuiuuu, miu ij, iuui v? shipping, to the bottom of the sea, or flung the broken splintered logs ou the rocks. "Cben-Ezer." How many years have you lived? Has God been very good to you, leading you day by day, protecting you by night; leading you in green pastures and beside still waters; or, because the way must needs be rough, helping you over all obstacles; becauso the waters of trial are about and around you, are they parted so that you can go through iry-sbod? When you ask for daily bread, is there manna for your hunger and water for your thirst? Has He who clothes the I i 1 i33 of the field with beauty, not clothed you, O ye of little faith? Are there falling all around you the showers of blessing? Are you thankful that the same loving care that forb ds even a sparrow to fall to the ground without His knowledge, has you in such keeping that not the slightest harm can come bo you, that no trouble cau assail, except as He wills? When Samuel prayed unto Ood for help against the Philistines when tlioy wore about to go to battle, and the assistance was given so that the enemies were smitten before them, Samuel took a stone and set it up, and called it "Ebenezer," saying, "Hitherto hath the Lord helped us." You may not have sot up a "stone of help," but is there an Eben ezer in your heart? And If God has helped you hitherto, is not the same assistance waiting for you in the fulure? There cannot be even a doubt of that, Tor even in sucu gentle tonos as oniy iue near Lord knows how to use we hear tho precious words: "Fear not, little I Jock; I am with pou even to the end of the world."?(.Christian at Work. The EM?r Brother. "Who is this elder son?" The question was )nce asked in an assembly of ministers at Elberfeldt, and Daniel Krummacher made mswer: "I know him very well; I met him 5nly yesterday." "Who is he?" they asked aagerly: and he replied, solemnly: "My?lf." He then explained that on the precious day, hearing that a very gracious visitation of God's goodness had been received ay a very ill-conditioned man, he had felt not a little envy and irritation. That was ;he true reading of the story, and it is capible of manifold application. It fits the case jf the scribes and Pharisees, to whom it wa3 addressed, and who sneered at Christ for m -f Ti At,. ?La in a is reception 01 burners, x i? aim iud vona iu ;he Saviour's day, and even in the early ;hurch, who looked askance at tbo Qentiles, ind complained because ynto them also the gospel had been preached. It fits the dis;iples at Jerusalem, who, immediately after Paul's conversion, were "afraid of him, and relieved not that he was a disciple." The appropriateness of this explanation pvr.s very singularly impressed on my own nind, in a manner which I can nover forget. Some nineteen years ago I preached to my jongregation in Liverpool, one Lord's Day norning. from this episode to the parable of ;he Prodigal Son, and gave the same interpretation of it as I have now presented to (rou. As I was leaving the church for my aome, I was requested to visit a dying man whom I had seeu frequently before, but who was just then apparently about to pass within he veil. He had b -en for many years a ;areless and irreligious man; but as 1 spoke with him from time to time I marked that a *reut change had come over him. 1 bad :onversed earnestly and faithfully with lim of Jesus and His salvation, and le had turned in sincere penitence to lis Father, and was. as I sincerely believe, accepted by Him. When I entered his room that morning I found him in great happiness, rejoicing in the near prospect of being with the Lord,and apparently perfectly hap py. 1 talked witn aim a acne on tuo vainga jf the kingdom, and aftsr prayer I took my leave. His brother in-law followed nie down stairs, and said: "I cannot understand this at all. Here have I been serving Christ these twenty years, and I have never experienced the joy he expresses, and yet he has not boen a Christian, if he be really one, for more than a few weeks." Immediately I recognized the elder brother, and I staid long Bnough to show him just how he looked in the light of this parable. The result was that he saw his error, and was delivered from his envy. Tho pastor of ago and excellence, who is mourning over tho apparent fruitlessness of his labors, and is tempted to ask why God makes a young brother in the neighborhood, of little experience and less eminence, instrumental in bringing multitudes to Christ, whilo ho has no such results from his ministrations; the Sabbath school teacher who throws up his work in wounded self-love because another, who has no such qu ilifications as he possesses, seems to be so much more successful than he; tho laborer in any department of beneficence, who, because he thinks I hat more is mid? of some ono else I thun himself, gives way to personal pique, and withdraws altogether from the enterprise; the over-sensitive, conceited roan, who ' is always taking offence where none is meant, I and is so continually anxious for tbo duo recognition of his dignity, that he manages to exclude himself from every society with I which he is connected, may all look hero, and ! in the elder brother each will see himself. But lot not even these imagine that thoy are beyond God's acceptance. The father came out and entreatei the elder brother to go into the feast, and so God is still appealing to the envious. The door is open to ; them if they will but enter; and when they j consent to do so in the spirit of sons and nyt ! of servants, in humility and not in self-conceit, in love and not as hirelings, then they j too will rejoice, and tbo festival, instead of aggravating them into misory, will bo foil bv them to l>e an appropriate expression^ 0/ i their gladness.?[William 11. Taylor,D. D. Congressman' Plumb, of Kansas, has : offered an amendment to the Sundry Qivil Bill providing an appropriation for building a public drinking fountain in the CapitoL Almost any food or drink may be purchased in the Capitol restaurant, but no one con get a glass of water oxcept in the private committee rooms. The number of liquor saloons in 493 American towns and cities is about 80,000, or one for every ItiJ persons; and $1,500,000 is i derived from the licenses held by the saloons, i being one-tenth of tha cost of the police j departments fgr the wpq, i v'-vi'-.tjii. ' j:- ' if. WORDS OF WISDOM. ,v Most great works are accomplished ilowlv. Moral strength is the highest kind of health. A friend should bear his friend'3 infirmitics. He who buys hath need of a hundred eye3, and he who sells hath enough of one. In adversity men must discover pruience; in prosperity, folly and extravagance. A merchant should familiarize himself with every line of goods which he bandies The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. Be content to do the things you can and fret not because you cannot do ev eryining. Seasons of depression in trade are generally followed by years of success and prosperity. As long as woman ha3 to work to support government she should have a voice la its management. Some people talk so smoothly and fluently that they almost seem to believe what they say themselves. It is love by proxy when a woman accepts the advice of another man how 6he shall treat her husband. The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blanches, the thought that never wanders, are the harbingers of victory. Some tlnng3, after all come to the poor that can't get in at the doors of the rich, whose money somehow blocks up the entrance way. To read aloud is to assure one's self of what one is reading. There are people who read very loud, aud who have the appearance of giving themselves their word of honor us to what they are perusing. The best preliminary preparation for even the studies of a specialist is a liberal education. Such an education connects him with the wide circle of thought and knowledge, and saves him from narrowness and hobbies. The man who can do one thins best is usually a man who could have^done other things well. Modern Lace Manufacture. Jennie June writes to the New York World that lace manufacture has declined in Brussels since the imitation of it by machineiy has reached such a degree of perfection. Still, one cannot see how a lady can wear anything but real lace with a rich dress; and the laces of Brussels are so beautiful and so cheap. That they grind the worker down to starvation point now is certaiuly true, in the eager competition of trade, and when one sees the marvelous fabric they produce, the swift movements of the fingers, which must be delicate and cannot be clumsy among the bobbins and pins, and the art required to produce the wonderfully minute but faithful copies of leaf and flower, of wheel and star, one wishes for power and wealth to distribute and save these lovely arts from being crushed and lost under the pressure of modern life and the cross of civilization. To nroduce even a yarn ot lace or tne smallest article a number of bands are requisite. First tbe pattern is pricked in glaced paper, and then it is traced in outline in line cotton thread. Then an expert worker puts in the leaves and flowerets, another the tiny, starlike figures and borderings, another the fine, netted mesh, which unites the whole together. A pattern is shown of the bridal veil made for the Princess Stephanie, which took four hundred workmen three months to complete, and for which was paid $1000. Brussels round-point is the fine3t lace made?there is nothing better, at its best, in the world. The flat-point, now known as "Duchesse," is inferior. Then there is Vallencienne3, "Binche," which is a finer and closer Yallenciennes, all made on the pillow, ana reijuir.ng ior a gooa pattern iour hundred bobbins and two hundred pins, and the black "Brussels" lace, which is Vallenciennes made with silk thread instead of cotton. Applique lace consists of real sprigs applied to machine net upon a frame, with lace stitches put in upon the under side. Facial Peicepttion in the Blind. The tenth biennial meeting of the American Association of Instructors of i the Biind was held recently iu Balti- j more. Thn delegates representod al- j most every section of the country and embraced both sexes. The chief address of the first afternoon was that prepared by Robert W. Swann, of Baltimore, on "Facipl Perception." The faculty of detecting objects by the feeling iu the face, he said, was a skin sense, and that people having it perceived through the face and forehead. The speaker related the case of a Frank Smith, who. although, deaf, dumb aud blind, could detect the presence of trees, posts, etc., by the feeling in his face. Mr. Swan had made a number of experiments with the subject, and fouud that such a person, when wearing a mask, would be "blind." The faculty did not depend upon light or hearing. Objects and some of their properties hud been detected by facial perception at a distance of from (? to 27 iuches. Mr. N. B. Kneass said that facial perception depended on echo and shadow. The latter could be felt by the blind. A number of experiments were made in presence of the members of the association, with results quite wonderful in their way. In the case of Frank Smith a number of variously shaped figures, arches, tubes and different sized flats were placed directly before the subject, and he readily told their form. Others with whom experiments were ma'le were equally positive. The object was placed before the sace at various distances, varying from six inches to twenty-sev'fen. Mr. Miller, of Kansas, told of a totally blind young lady in his institution who could, upon > -nnm <-n n'lififtidv n niomher I fuvui iu^ a i uwm} ou r "uvvu.. ? ? of the faculty was in the room, nnd, if so, call the person by name. lie also had in his place a boy who could tell the clothes of everybody in the place by his sense of smell. When laundry would come home and the superintendant would not be able to tell to whom it belonged, the services of the boy would be called into use, and he would name the owner without ever making a mistake. Tiic Dollar Plant. A queer little growth makes its appearance in the wire grass country of Georgia. It is called oy the natives the dollar plant, from the singu'arity of its leaves, which are perfectly round, lying l!at upon the gro.ind, and when full grown the exact size of a dollar. When the plant is pulled up it is seen that, the leaves retain their perfect roundness from their incipiency, and grow through oil iV>o orvnrlntlniiQ tlio mnnev takes from the size of the silver live cent piece to dimes, quarters, halves and the coin from which it takes its name. At this season it throws out from the centre a cluster of yellow flowers,?Brooklyn Eagle. WOMAN'S WORLD. PLEASANT LITERATURE FOR FEMININE READERS. A Dairy School. Mrs. Hanna Neilson i9 the manager of a successful dairy school in Denmark. She traveled extensively, learning how to make the finest kinds of cheese peculiar to each country. She now ha3 hundreds of DUDlla. innllldinor Pnnnta nnrl Barons, from all over Europe. She ha3 taken a number of premiums, and at her silver wedding she was presented with a silver cup by the Royal Danish Agricultural Society as an acknowledgement of her share in the progress of Danish dairying.?Detroit Free Press. / Care of Gloves. In buttoning a glove for the.first time, do not begin at the top battou, but with the second or third; go on to the lowest button, and then return to the top one. The strain will not come by this means on the kid ot the upper wrists, a part which is important should fit snugly. Experts say that you should take o?E a glove from the wrist always, and never by the finger-tips; rather peel it of!, turning all the fingers inside out. This helps to remove the slight moisture, and the glove is better dried and in better shape when it is turned again to the right side out, which should be done before laying it away. Keep a long box for kid gloves; they should never be rolled into each other or left in a ball, as the moisture then dries into them and makes them stiff and hard. A Classic Wedding in Arkansas. While upon a recent visit to Little Rock, Ark., Mrs. LuellaSteele witnessed a most beautiful and unique wedding at one of the fashionable Episcopal churches of that city. There were teu bridesmaids, beautiful young girls, attired in Grecian costumes which consisted of some soft white material, gracefully draped over the figure and con'ined I to the waist by silk cord and tassels. ; The hair was arranged in a Grecian knot, crossed over by bands of white velvet. They entered the church, one in each aisle, followed each other in turn, and formed a semicircle around the altar. 1 Then came the bride, unattended and 1 attired in the usual fashion, slowly and gracefully, with drooped eyes, keeping i step to the wedding march which was < being sung by the choir. At the altar she i was met by the groom and minister, each emerging from opposite sides of the J vestry. The whole effect was beautiful ; and impressive.?Atlanta Constitution. Names of the New Colors. The syndicate of Faris manufacturers uavo auu^icu iuo iuiiuwiug uo ouiuu^ < the leading colors for the coming season: : Emeraude?a deep, rich, emerald green. Scarabee?a dark, yellowish green. Couroncou- a shade lighter than scar- , abee. Peupliere ?a shade lighter than cou- ' roncou. j Nil?a light water-green. Couquelicot?a rich blood red. Cardinal?a dark scarlet. j Boulanger?a bright live blood red. Bouton d'or?a gold yellow. Mais?a straw yellow. Yolcan?a reddish terra cotta. Aleznn -a dark reddish brown. Pactole?a light golden brown. Oxide?a dark; slate. Lionceau?a dark fawn. Heron?a gray drab. Luciole?a gendarme blue.?New York 1 Journal. I A Stylish New Hat The satin braid Panama is the name of a very stylish round hat of palest golden tan color. The brim of the bat is very wide and pliant, so that it can be bent here and tnere at will, as found most becoming, or simply caught up at the side with a loop of gauze or net. One hat of this kind was trimmed with a trail of hops, shaded oats, and a bunch of hazel nuts mixed, with a little golden green gauze the shade of the nuts on the left side. The hat was faced with olive velvet. Nearly all hat brims are lined except the Happing leghorns?some with a bias piece of shot velvet or of plain black or colored velvet. Otherwise, lace is put j in extremely full under the edge, or net j or tulle is shirred and puffed as a finish. ' Some of the straw and rush hats are ab- j surdly large, and there are piles of artificial flowers heaped upon the crown. Often it is one enormous garland of roses and foliage, which looks as if it had just been flung at the wearer and alighted on her hat. The pretty little tulle draperies which veil the flowers on hats and bonnets look like an afterthought, and are a j dainty and becoming addition.?New York Post. i Foraging For Her Cats. The spectacle of a handsome woman i in an unmistakable Worth gowu pluck- j inor rrrasa out of a Fifth avenue doorvard , ? O-? . . , would, I am certain, says a writer in the ; New York New,have attracted the attea- I ( tion of an even less cur'.ous person than my-1. self. The fact that I was well acquainted ; with the charming wearer of the gown | ] and had never known her to be addicted \ ] to excesses of lunacy added to the inter- j, est her act inspired in me. Her e xplanation was simple enough, however. She j ( was foraging for her cats. Pussy, it , seems, has a gastronomic fondness for ] gras3 second only to that which she cher- . ishes for catnip. She devours grass, my ] fair friend avers, as a tonic, and a cat ( well dosed with grass will, she states, preserve its good condition against all j the ills that felinity is heir to. Having ( two cats in her family, my gentle iu- | formant should certainly be au authority. ] She goes to the trouble of canying a ( handful of grass home every day to her , pets to nibble on, and they do it justice, j she says, as a properly constituted , Frenchman would render its due to the , most succulent salad. They get the grass , as a reeular diet, and catnip as an occa- { sional^reviver at this season, but in win- I ter time have to worry along oa catnip a'one. An additional and curious item, according to my enlightcner, is that a fairly well bred cat infinitely prefers the dried catnip one buys at the druggists to the leaves fresh from the field. Pussy will roll herself on the fresh leaves, and perhaps nibble them just a little. She will roll on the dried catnip, too, then devour it to the last crumb and stagger away to sleep off her debauch in a quiet co.uer, like any experienced rounder that travels on two legs. Significance of Moles. The nonsense or tortune-ieuing 13 one ] in which not only our servant girls indulge, but the daughters of wealth and education are addicted to it. The surreptitious visits to a fortune-teller is one of the common escapades of society matrons and maids, and anything new in that line is bound to recompense its operator. A New York astrologer has set up in a curious variation of his business of humbug, and his specialty is the telling of fortunes by the means of moles. lie pretends to be able to read character and make prophesies by means : f V . ' ------ -- - - - r' of these blemishes of skin. It would bother other than an ingenious man to pu4 this method into practical use, but thti difficulties are surmounted by the "proi fessor" in question. He has printed oq cards four outlines of the female human figure?showing the form from each point of the compass, so to speak. His clients on their first visit are provided with a set of these cards, which they have taken home, and mark in just the right spots with the moles they happen to bear. Then they return to the fortune-teller, and he reads their attributes and destiny from the diagrams as filled out. A mole on the shoulder means one thing, one on the side has a totally different interpretation, and so on through a vast number of locations and combinations. The fellow has adapted himself to his particular humbug by growing a tremendous beard, wnicn makes turn look like a wiso man of the East, and he wears an Oriental robe, which increases his impressiveness. His gravity is perfect; he talks like an ! educated man, and ho is doing an im- ! mensely lucrative business, his price being $2 and his customers so many that usually one has to wait in tho ante-room an hour or so for an audience.?Chicago Herald. Fashion Notes. Red hold3 its own in Paris. Fancy ribbon sashes are stylish for young girls. Handsome costumes are made of black lace over white surah, jet ornaments. Ribbon bows, large and small, are scattered about promiscuously upon the skirts and bodices. The long scarf3 of Brussels or Spanish net, which are used to trim large black hats of fine Milan straw. The fancy belts of gray and tan suede kid are very stylish, as well a3 those in fancy leathers and morocco. Lace dresses for young ladies' wear are often made of the straight lace.gath erca into tne belt, over a silk skirt. The manner of making lace costumes must be decided by the wearer, as there are no arbitrary rules laid down by Dame Fashion. . Too much drapery docs not diaplay the pattern of the lac'e, while full draperies are much more becoming to the figure. Graceful modifications of the polonaise are constantly appearing. It is no longer a simple garment, but in most instances is decidedly complicated. It is now stated that ultra-fashionable brides require two wedding dresses, one for the church ceremony and the other for the festivities which follow. The braided jersey is chosen by many young ladies to wear with tennis costumes, instead of the universal blouse, and they are both comfortable and graceful. Shirting cambrics, which are used for the comfortable neglige waists now in vogue, are shown in white and tinted grounds, figured with small conventional patterns. Braided tulle is a novelty in bonnet making, and it would seem unsuitable as a material for this sort of manipulation, yet when made in two different shades the effect is very pretty. Brides may now wear V necks back and front, finished either with lace draped around, but not filling the opening, or else with many folds of the tulle, net or silk mull that makes up the drapery of the whole gown. The beat dressed society women have abandoned the mere strap which lias served in many full dress toilets as a sleeve. Although the sleeves are often extremely short, still a sleeve in some form must be distinctly visible. Printed mohairs, bengalines, challie3 and the like are chosen for morning wear at watering places, or in the country, and almost smothered in white lace, to match which the wearer needs a lace jhade hat, lace parasol and airy gauze fan. It i3 the judgment of Paris that the traveling gown be of wool, in stripes jither wide or narrow, mude up into a skirt with narrow pleats alternating with wide ones, and a tight round waist, over which comes a plain redingote, that jometimes opens at the side. The housemaid's skirt, which is so .!_! 1 iL. P 1 "L 11 i_ siynsn wun ine Jingusn mouse waist 01 ;olorcd silk, is a simple full skirt with a [j-.oup of tucks at the bottom, or near the bottom of the skirt. The fine tucked pokes are prettiest in plain fabrics, but many of the most stylish blouses are af fgured India silk, and these have a pretty look when they are tucked or smocked. India silks in plain colors ire smocked. Pekin Pickpockets. The Chinese Timis, in an article on the Capital of China, says that beneath the superficial quiet and order of Pekiq there are many evil agencies at work. The bandittti, for example, think nothing of sei/.iug honest folks and holding them to ransom. Their special victims ire the silver porters. The currency consists of large lumps of silver, like partially consumed halves of monster aranges. The carriers are said to derive heavy emoluments from their judicious handling of the metal while it is in their care, but they have their own trials. When one is known to be going on duty the banditti waylay hira, and if they succeed in beating his guards he may be held to a ransom amounting to half a pear's profits. These wealthy porters aee!c the protection of the Princes, a3 traders did iu Europe in the Middle Ages. If a princc lends a silver carrier his cart and mule, in return for a share of the profits, the bandits will not care to meddle with the august vehicle. Sometimes prize fighters are hired to sit jn the shafts, and have to be extravag- ; intly paid for their protection. Pick- ( pockets infest the city in every direction, especially in wet weather. Ladies are jften the victims, even when riding in :arts, the thieves springing on top and matching the valuable head ornaments ? -1 * 1 1 - .3 ? !i. 1. iL. _ 31 me luancnu iuuics wuuui, ine ur'ver j ;aking no notice for fear of his own skin. | The thieves have regular depots, where j: itolen property is placed, and persons of j nfluence can generally recover what < ;hey have lost if they are persisteut j: inough. Near one of the city gates is a .' narket where stolen goods are regularly j ] told for one hour at daybreak. Spurious i irticlea are often offered at this place; a i nan purchases a roast duck, and finds | j >n arriving at home that it is only a ; :lever imitation in mud; and rain boots ] ire counterfeited in paper which melts i iway when wetted. "In the social ar- i angements of the Chinese the philoso- J )hy of grin-and-bcar-it lias been culti- j rated to an extreme perfection, and is ( ilso, no doubt, arcbaic. Bystanders will J i icver interfere with the commission of a 1> :rime in the open street in open day, j J ind the whole system of predatory ;: :rime i3 tolerated, as vermin is, as the jrdinary lot of humanity. In fact, foul- 11 iess, impassable roads, defective laws, 1 ind all other forms of suffering, are \ jorne with for want of the energy to re- . list and overcome them, aod not, as is ,ometime3 supposed, because the people j i oaliv love these things." ( ; ... jji"-'i n.. - Vu % *'' C:' "'.' .... y ' ? <v / ' * T* * TEMPERANCE.. No Papa for Us Threa A man of intemperate habits bad been absent from home for a long time, and did not oft&a write; and when no letter cAne bis little threeyear-old girl would say, "No papa for us three?* which incident Inspired these verses: k 'Tis four months and a day, dear, Since we kissed you fond good-by; Oae letter only came to us To ke^p the tear-fount dry. Wee Maggie lists the postman's call, j When letters come for me, 3 And Willie asks, "one from papa!" I shake my head; my baby says, v "No papa for us three." The days drag, Oh, so slowly by, The nights are sad and dreary _ __ you do not write; say wny, un wnyi > Where are you straying, dear? The chilly aatamn winds are out, Our children's feet near bare; The coal-bin empty long ago, In cupboard scanty fare. Oh, James, where can you be to-night! j What are your thoughts for me? Our baby's words go through my heart: "No papa for us three." i Last night I thought her lost in sleep, Wrapped in her tiny bed. r heard her softly ask, "Dear God, Can papa dear be dead?" I ask the question o'er and o'er, No answer comes to me; The postman's gone, and baby says, 'No papa for us three." Ob, husband, wandering far To-night, in paths of sin if be, List you the cry from breaking hearts, "No papa for us three." Please send a letter soon to cheer tk/% iav/ui ttfvirt waif And change the sad tone to the glad, "A papa for us three." ~Danville {N. Y.) Good Time*. Effects of Strong Drink. Most of the misery, want and suffering tha human family endure to-day may be justly . attributed to our non-conformity to the will and design of the Creator. Mankind Is ever too ready to contract habits that are evil and vile, habits that are productive of misery^ Buffering and crime. Our useless habits ana foolish fashions draw hundreds down to want and beggary where monopoly and capital do one; and, of all the habits that ever cursed the human race, the habit of using strong drink as a beverage ranks first. That alona has produced more misery, want, wretchedness and crime in the land since the Christian era than war, pestilence and famine combined, and has done more to corrupt tba morals and impede the prosperity of oar country than any other cause. This old King Alcohol is one of the most cruel and heartless despots ever known, one ~ who imposes the heaviest burdens on his tub- ^ J jects, and, no matter how loyal and devoted Jm/k they may be to him, they never get any act S of kindness or favoi^from him in return for their menial servitude; and as soon as (mo j enlists in his service he begins to brand and ^ torture not only him,but his whole household, family and friends.and he soon destroyn everything of value to the poor man. Above all, he ruins or destroys that great and priceless gem} the talent or intellectual power of me mma, UJUI; euttUJtn mm uu uinjg uut auu utilize all the blessings given as by the Creator, the germ that makes him so superior to ' the brute. The continual use of alcohol in any form soon destroys qualities that are pure and noble, and arouses passions that are vile, brutish and dangerous. Authentic statistics show that a very large percentage of the misery, pauperism and crime in the land is directly or indirectly the result of the use of strong drink as a beverage. We can hardly take a paper in our hands in which is not chronicled one or more bloody and fatal crimes committed by some poor drunken fiend who has been fitted and prepared for this cruel and bloody work by some avaricious landlord or druggist who sometimes seems to care little or nothing for the safety or well-being of the poor suffering wife and helpless children at the home of the drunkard,as long as the business brings them in a good profit The greatest sufferers from the evils of intemperance are the poor and destitute wives ana families of drunkards, who are at home in some lonely hovel without necessary food, fuel or clothing, shivering with cold and hunger, and the little innocent children huddling around their poor heart-broken and grief-stricken mother, begging and crying in vain for bread or something to soothe or allay the pangs of hunger and cold. Perhaps this same mother once faithfully labored early and late with her heart buoyant with hope, looking forward to the near future when she should sit in the midst of plenty, where she and the partnar of her life, surrounded by children, could en? joy the highest type of earthly bliss and happiness; but ere she was aware this monster intemperance laid his ruthless hand upon her once fond husband, and transformed him into a brute, and now her burden of poverty, shame and wretchedness becomes so great that in her frenzy and despair she takes her own life or the lives of hpr dear little ones whom she would giadly have laid down her own life to protect before this monster-intemperance invaded her once happy homo. Oh! have the mind, talent and energies of our American people become so dwarfed that they are unable, or the avenues to the heart so closed, or the heart itself so calloused, or eyes so blind, that they cannot be made to feel, see and realize the fearful responsibilities resting upon them ? Very often, in stating event3 or clrcum- stances, the subject is exaggerated and enlarged, but in portraying the evils of intemperance it is impossible for the greatest artist to overdraw the picture, as his greatest efforts and gandest results come far short of the reality. No pen can write, or pencil paint, the fearful anguish that is produced by thismonster;itmust bo experienced to be realized. Let no one think or feel himself guiltless who treats this thing lightly or turns these things one side as of no account. This vile curse, with its sad effects and results, has become a thing of so common occurrence that it fails to excite in us that degree of horror that it otherwise would. Somo of the brightest and most aspiring youths of our land, those who bid fair to rank high in intellectual ability and usefulness, ere they are aware of any danger, are environed witn the powerful meshes of this vile curse and have begun to descend the drunkard's ladder, which is made for descending but never to ascend. The rounds or steps in this ladder are named in the following order, commencing at the top: Evil associations, tea, tobacco, rum, crime, delirium and death. The evils of intemperance are not so common out in the country as in our large towns and cities, where you wili often find the depraved of both sexes joining in drunken carousals.? Qeorge W. Cooh, in the "Battle Axe of Temperance." Evils of the Treating Custom."^ The following extract irora a uwuigv journal illustrates the hold of the "treating) custom" upon the business interests of the country, and its terrible effects upon those' who, for the sake of obtaining busiest patronage, sacrifice often both wealth and morals and finally even success itself. ; "*) A brilliant young man of Chicago recently, said to the writer: "I have always held a first-class place in my business, much abovaj the average journeyman, but when all the) necessary expenses attached to my position are paid, I have not very much left, I do not drink or I would long since have gonq to the doss, but it seems to be an eternal round of cigars, oysters, theaters, billiards, and many other thing3 by which I am supposed to entertain patrons of the house when I would much prefer to be in ray snug little home. This ls simply a matter of business with me. It is really a part of my work. I am acquainted with the gentleman who for-, morlv hnlri mv He WHS a noble fel iow, and as kind hearted a man as it was ever my privilege to know. He understood the business thoroughly in every detail, and was almost invaluable to the firm. But he had the same trouble with which I now have to contend, and he was not aware of the terrible enemy lurking in the social glass. He drank with the customers. He drank to excess. His indulgences became frequent and .deep. He became neglectful of his business," and, going from bad to worse, the firm felt obliged to dispense with bis services. That man is now in the Chicago Bridewell, a total wreck of his former self. I consider him a victim of this terrible custom of trying to hire patronage in business by the expenditure of money in dissipation. It is a fact that it is done by a great many reputable houses. It is a shame, and I hope the day will come when the tempcrance sentiment will be so strong it will be considered a di+ ijrace for a foreman or superintendent to take customers to neighboring saloons to treat them." *