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= *REV. DR. TALMAGE. I t jTBLK BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUNDAY SERMON. 1 : Subject: "Easter in Greenwood." I, ^ " AtnA Afl tfaW a/ JToJwrvn Ifihifh. 1MB n AClAi XX '*VA WW /K?v? Vy UVt/< Vl*t vvivvvw ,1n Machpelah, which was before Mamre, (he field, and the cave which was therein, and a/! <Ae *ree.<? tfiai were in the field, were tn aft <Ae borders round about, were made sure unto * Abraham."?Genesis xxiii., 17, 19. i Here is the first cemetery ever laid out. Machpelah was Its name. It was an arbol descent beauty, where the wound of death f was bandajjed with foliage. Abraham, a rich man, not being able to bribe the king of terrors, proposes here, as far as possible, to cover up the ravages. He had no doubt previously noticed this region, and now that [ Sarah, his wife, bad died?that remarkable '^person who, at ninety years of age, had born . [to her the son Isaac, and who now, after she i had reached 127 years, had expired?Abraham is negotiating for a family plot for her last slumber. | Ephron owned this real estate, and after. In mock sympathy for Abraham, refusing to take anything for it, now sticks on a big price?400 shekels of silver. The cemetery lot is paid for, and the transfer made in the Sresence of witnesses in a public place, for lere were no deeds and no" halls of record in those early times. Then in a cavern of limestone rock Abraham put Sarah, and a few years after himself followed, and then J nn/1 *Kan TB/iaK nnrl 'JJXtUU OUU cuiu IUUU vovvi/ Leah. Embowered, picturesque and memorable Machpelah! That "God's acre" dedicated by Abraham has beea the mother of Innumerable mortuary observances. The necropolis of every civilized land has vied with Its metropolis. 1 The most beautiful hills of Europe outside the great cities are covered with obelisk and funeral vase and arched gateways and columns and parterres In honor of the inhum ted. The Appian way of Borne was bordered by sepulchral commemorations. For this purpose Pisa has its arcades of marble sculptured into excellent bas-reliefs and the features of dear faces that have vanished. Genoa has Its terraces out into tombs, and Constantinople covers with Cyprus the silent habitations, and Paris has its Pere la Chaise, on whose heights rest Balzac and David and Marshal Nev and Cuvier and La Place and Uoliere ana a mighty group of warriors and tooets and painters and musicians. In all foreign nations utmost genius on all sides Is extended in the work of Interment, caumml flcation and incineration. t> Oar own country consents to be second to Bone in reepeot to the lifeless body. Every city and town and neighborhood of an intelligence or virtue has not many miles away Its sacred inclosure, where affection has engaged sculptor's chisel and florist's spade ana artificer in metals. Oar own city has shown its religion as well as its art in the manner which it holds the memory of those who have passed forever away by fts Cypress Hills, and its Evergreens, and its Calvary and Holy Cross and Friends' cemeteries. All the world knows of oar Greenwood, With now about 370,000 Inhabitants sleeping among the hills that overlook the sea, and by lakes embosomed in an Eden of flowers, oar American Westminster abbey, an Acropolis of mortuary architecture, at Pantheon of mighty ones ascended, elegies in stone, Iliads in marble, whole generations in peace Watting for other generations to Join them. No dormitory of breathless sleepers in all the World has so many might}- dead. ? Am one the Dreaohers of the Gospel. Be TKtukt'OkLThomas De Witt and Bishop Janes and Tyng and Abeel, the missionary, and Beecher and Buddinptonpand., McCllntock and Inskip, and Bansra and Chapin*. and Koah Sohenck and Samuel Hanson Cox. Among musicians, the renowned Gottschalk and tne holy T&omas Hastings. Among philanthropists, Peter Cooper and Isaao T. Hopper, and Lacretia Mott and Isabella Graham, and Henry Bergh, the apo3tle of mercy to the brnte creation. Among the litterati/ the Carys?Alice and Phoebe? James K. Paulding and John G. Saxe. Among journalists, Bennett and Baymond and Greeley. Among scientists, Ormsby, Mitchell, warrior as well as astronomer and lovingly called by his soldiers 4'Old Stars;" Professor Proctor and the Drapers ? <jplendid men, as I well know, one of them my tender, the other my classmate. Among inventors Elias Howe, who through the sewing machine did more to alleviate the toils of womanhood than any man that ever lWed, and Professor Morse, who gave as magnetic: telegraphy, the former doing his work with the needle, the latter with the thunderbolt. Among pnysicians and surgeons - Joseph C. Hatchinson and Marlon i ? trA44 nun* ohu ur. Twomiuv uwi, nnu iuo *w?lowing epitaph, which he ordered cut In honor of Christian religion: "MyImplicit faith and hope is in a merciful Redeemer, Who is the resurrection and the life. Amen and Amen.** This is oar Amerioan Machpelab, as sacred to ns as the Machpeiah in Canaan, of which Jacob uttered that pastoral poem in one verse : ''There they buried Abraham and Sarah, his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah, his wife, ana there I buried Leah." At this Easter service X ask and answer What may seem a novel question, but it will be found, before I get through, a practical and useful and tremendous question, What will resurrection day do for the cemeteries? First, I remark, it will be their supernal beautifl cation. At certain seasons it is customary in all lands to strew flowers over the mounds of the departed. It may have been j suggested by the fact that Christ's tomb was In a garden. And when I say garden I do not mean a garden of these latitudes. The late frosts of spring and the early frosts of autumn are so near eaoh other that thera aroonly ew months of flowers in the field. All the owers we see to-day had to be petted and coaxed and put under shelter, or they would not have bloomed at alL They are the ohildren of the conservatories. But at this season and through the most of the year the Holy Land is all ablush with floral opulence. ' Xou find all the royal family of flowers there, some that vou suppose indigenous to lhe far north and others indigenous to the far south?the daisy and hyacinth, crocus and anemone, tulip and water lily, geranium and ranunculus, mignonette and sweet marjoram. In the college at Beirut you may see Dr. Post's collection of about 1800 kinds of Holy Land flowers, while among trees are the oaks of frozen climes, and the tamarisk of the tropics, walnut and willow, Ivy and hawthorn, ash and elder, pine and sycamore. If such floral and botanical beauties are the wild growths of the field, think of what a g#den mast be in Palestine! And in Bach a garden Jesus Christ slept after, on the soldier's spears, His last drop of blood had coagulated. And then see how appropriate that ail our cemeteries should be floralized and tree shaded. In June Greenwood is Brooklyn's garden. "Well, then," you Bay, "how can you make out that the resurrection day will beautify the cemeteries'? Will it not leave them a plowed up ground? On that day there .fill be an earthquake, and will not this split the polished Aberdeen granite as well as the plain slab that can afford bat two words?'Our Mary' or 'Oar Charley? " Well. I will tell you how resurrection day will beautify all the cemeteries. It will be by bringing up the faces that were to us once, and In our memories are to us now, more beautiful than any calla lily, and the forms that are to us more graceful than any willow by the waters. Can you think of anything more beautiful than the 1 eappearance of those from whom we have been parted? I do not care which way the tree falls in the blast of the judgment hurricane, . or If the plowshare that day shall turn under the last rose leaf and the last china aster, if out of the broken sod shall come the bodies of our loved ones not damaged, but irradiated. The idea of the resurrection get9 easier to understand as I hear the phonograph unroll some voice that talked into ltayenr ago, just before our friend's decease, lou touch the lever, and then come forth the very tones, the very song of the person that breathed Jnto it once, but is now departed. If a man can do that, cannot Almighty God, without halt trying, return the voice of your departed? And if he can return the voice, why not the lips, and the tongue, and the throat that fashioned the voice? And if the lips, and the tongue, and the throat, why not the brain that suggested the words? And if the brain, why not the nerves, of which the brain Is the headquarters? And if he can return the nervee, why not the muscles, which are less ingenious? And if the muscles, why not the bones, that are less wonderful? And if the voice, and the brain, and the muscles, and the bones, why not the entire body? If man can do the phonograph, God can do the resurrection. Will it be the same body that In the last day shall be raanimated? Yes, but infinitely U.. ito4 KBSBE$fi^B^aafe3Kl3 . # improved. Oar bodies change every seven years, and yet In one sense It Is the same < body. On my wrist and the Beoond finger < of my right hand there is a scar. I made < that at twelve years of age, when, disgusted < at the presence of two warts, I took a redhot 1 iron and burned them off and burned them t out. Since then my body has changed at 1 least a half dozen times, but those scars t prove it Is the same body. ' We never lose our identity. If God can 3 and does sometimes rebuild a man Ave, six, 3 ten times in this world, is it mysterious that c ?iQ can reouua mm once muia uuu mu m the resurrection? If He can do it ten time?, 1 I think He can do it eleven times. Then | look at the seventeen year loousts. For 1 seventeen years gone, at the end of seventeen s years they appear, and by rubbing the hind c leg against the wing make that rattle at which all the husbandmen and vine dres3ers i tremble as the insectile host takes up the 1 march of devastation. Resurrection every 8 seventeen years?a wonderful fact! ^ Another consideration makes the idea oi ? resurrection easier. God made Adam. Ha was not fashioned after any model. There < had never been a human organism, and so 1 there was nothing to copy. At the first at- 1 tempt God made a perfect man. He made f him out of the du3t of the earth. If out oJ 1 ordinary dust Of the earth and without a 1 model God could make a perfect man, surely t out of the extraordinary dust of mortal body 1 and with millions of models God can make I each one of us a perfect being in the resur- * rection. 8urely the last undertaking would * not be greater than the first. See the gospel ^ algebra. Ordinary dust minus a mode) t equals a perfect man. Extraordinary dust ! and plus a model equals a resurrection body. > Mysteries about it? Oh, yes. That is on? reason why I believe it. It would not be much of a God who could do things only as far as I can understand. Mysteries? Oh, yes. But no more about the resurrection ol your body than about Its present existence. I will explain to you the last mystery of the resurrection and make lt'as plain to you aa that two and two make four if you will tell me how your mind, which Is entirely Independent of your body, can act upon your body so that at your will your eyes open, or your foot walks, or your hand Is extended. So I find nothing in the Bible statement concerning the lesurrection that staggers me for a moment. All doubts clear from my mind. I say that the cemeteries, however < beautiful now, will be more beautiful when the bodies of our loved ones come up in the morning of the resurrection. e They will come in improved condition. They will come up rested. The most of them lay down at the last very tired. How * often you have heard them say, '*1 am so tired!" The fact is, it Is a tired world. If I * should go throe ?h this audience and go round the world, I could not find a person in 1 any style of life ignorant of the sensation of i fatigue. I do not believe there are fifty persons In i this audience who are not tired, Your head is tired, or your back is tired, or your foot is i tired, or your brain is tired, or your nerves < are tired. Long journeying or business application or bereavement ox sickness has put ? ? ? Qrv f>in ?DQt molnHfo i ua yuu aoa>j nci^ms. uu >Uu <? of those who vent out of this world went ( ont fatigued. About the poorest place to rest In Is this world. Its atmosphere, its surroundings and even its hilarities are exhausting. So God stops our earthly life and j mercifully closes the eyes, and more especially gives quiescence to the lung and heart, 1 that have not had ten minutes' rest from the i first respiration and the first beat. i If a drummer boy were compelled in the army to beat his drum for Jwenty-four hours without stopping, his officer would be court- i martialed for cruelty. If the drummer boy , should be commanded to beat his drum for a ' week without ceasing, day and night, he 1 would die in attempting it. But under your < vestment is a poor heart that began its drumbeat for the march of life thirty or forty or sixty or eighty years ago, and it has had no < furlough by day or night, and whether in i conscious or comatose state it went right on, jfor if it had stopped seven seconds your life Eild have closed. And your heart will p going unt<l some time after your spirit flown, for the auscultator says that after the last expiration of lung and the last throb of mi tan. ?nd nftnr the sDirit is released, the heart keeps on beating tor a time. What a mercy, then. It is that the grave is the plaoe (where that wondrous machinery of ventricle and artery can halt! Under the healthful chemistry of the soil all the wear and tear of nerve and musole land bone will be subtracted, and that bath of good fresh olean soil will wash off the last j&che, and then soma of the same style of dust oat ot which the body of Adam was constructed may be infused into the resurrection body. How can the bodies of the human race, which have had no replenishment from the dust since the time of Adam In paradise, get any recuperation from, the storehouse from which he was constructed without our going back Into the dost? That original life giving material having been added to the body as it once was, and all the defects left behind, what a body will be the resurrection body! And will not hundreds of thousands of suoh appearing above the Gowanus heights make Greenwood more beautiful than any June morning after a shower? The dust of the earth being the original material for the fashioning of the first human being, we have to go back to the Mme plaoe to get a perfect bod?. Factories are apt to be rough places, and those who toil In them have their garments grimy and their hands smutched. But who cares for that when they turn out for us beautiful musical instruments or exquisite "upholstery? What though the grave Is a rough place?it is a resurrection body manufactory, and from it shall come the radiant and resplendant forms of our friends on the brightest morning the world ever saw. You I put Into a factory cotton, and it comes out anDoreu Xou put into a factory lumber and | lead, and they oome out* pianos and organs. And so in the factory of the grave yon put i in pneumonias and-consumptions, and they come out health. You put la groans, and they oome out halleluiahs. For us, on the final day, the most attractive places will not be the parks, or the gardens, or the palaces, | but the cemeteries. | We are not told In what season that day will come. If it should be winter, those who come up will be more lustrous than the snow that covered them. If in the autumn, those who come up will be more gorgeous than the woods after the frosts had penciled them. If in tho soring, the bloom on which they tread will be dull compared with the rublouad of their cheeks. Oh, the perfect resurrection body! Almost everybody has some defeo Jtto cnnf In hla nhraina.1 f(institution?a dull ?ax, or a dim eye, or a rheumatic foot, or a neuralgic brow, or a twisted muscle, or a weak side, or an inflamed tonsil, or some point at which the east wind or a season of overwork assaults him. But the resurrection body shall be without one weak spot, and all that the doctors aud nurses and apothecaries of earth will there* after have to do will be to rest without interruption after the broken nights of their earthly existence. Not only will that day be the beautiflcatlon of well kept cemeteries, but some of the graveyards that have been neglected and been the pasture ground for cattle and roosting place for swine will for the first time have attractiveness given them. It was a shame that in that place ungrateful generations planted no trees and twisted no garlands, ana sculptured no marble for their Christian ancestry. But on the day of which I speak the resurrected shall make the place of their feet glorious. From under the shadow of the chnrch where they slumbered among nettles and mullein stalks and this* ties and slabs aslant, they shall ari?e with a glory thai shall flush the windows of the village church, and by the bell tower that used to call them to worship, and above the old spire beside which their prayers formerly ascended. What triumphal procession never did for a street, what an oraiorio never did for an academy, what an orator never did for a brilliant auditory, what obeiisk never did for a king, resurrection morn will do for all the cemeteries. This Easter tells us that in Christ's resurrection our resurrection, if we are His, and the resurrection of all the pious dead, is assured, for He was "the first fruits of them that slept." Itenan says He did not rise, but 680 witnesses, sixty of them Christ's enemies, say He did rise, lor they saw Him after He had. If He did not rise, how did sixty armed soldiers let Him get away? Surely sixty living soldiers ought to be able to keep one dead man. Blessed be God! He did get away. After His resurrection Mary Magdalene saw Him. Cleopas saw Him. Ten disciples in an upper room at Jerusalem saw Him. On a mountain the eleven saw Him. Five hundred at once saw Him. Professor Ernest Renan, who did not see Him, will excuse us for taking the testimony of the 530 who did see Him. Yes, yes, He got away. And that makes me sure that our departed loved ones and we ourselves shall get away. Freed Himself from the shackles of clod He is not going to leave us and ours in the lurch. There will bt) no doorknob on the Inside of >ur family sepuloher. for we cannot oome oat )f ourselves, Dot there Is a doorknob on the \ntaMn nn r\ fKof Taana a Vt o 11 1 a vr hnl/1 nf nnrl jpenlng, will say- "Good morning! You lave slept long enough! Arise! Arise!" And hen what flutter of wings, and what flashng of rekindled eyes, and what gladsome ashing across the family lot, with crlos of: 'Father, is that you?" "Mother. Is that rou?" "My darling. Is that you?" "How rou all have changed! The cough gone, the sroup gone, the consumption gone, the paralysis gone, the weariness gone. Come, let is ascend together! The older ones first, he younger ones next! Quick, now, get into lne! The skyward procession ha3 already tarted ! Steer now by that embankment of iloud for the nearest gate!" And, as we ascend, on one side the earth jets smaller until It Is no larger than a mounaln, and smaller until It Is no larger than a ihlp, and smaller until it Is no larger than a vheel, and smaller until It is no larger than i speck. 11 Jl 1?1 -J.V. I T?n?. /<n .cartweii, uissuivuik nnui uut wu ?ther side, as we rise, heaven at first appears 10 larger than your hand. And nearer It ooks like a chariot, and nearer it looks like i throne, and nearer it looks like a star, and learer it looks like a sun. and nearer it looks ike a universe. Hail, scepters that shall alravs wave! Hail, anthems that shall always oil! Hail, oompanionships, never again to >art! That Is wnat resurrection day will do or all the cemeteries and graveyards from he Maohpelah that was opened by Father Lbraham in Hebron to the Machpel&h yes* erday consecrated. And that makes Lady luntington's immortal rhythm most appoiter When Tbou, my righteous Judge, Shalt coma To take Toy ransomed people none, Shall I among them Stan l? Jball suoh a worthless worm as I, Who sometimes am afra d to die, f Bo found at Thy right hand? Among Thy saints let me be found, Whene'er th' archangel s triumph shall sound. To see Thy smiling face. Then loudest of the turong I'll sing While hsaren's resounding aroies ring With shouts of sovereign grac*. POPULAR SCIENCE. T.;Trat.nnnl_ England. has a class shimney. Ants have a regular system of iports, including races. Magneto and automatic telephones ire now coming to the front. Roasted ooffee and ground coffee jeans mixed with honey are used to estore broken-down horses in Gernany. An explosive with power equal to ;hat of high grade dynamite is being nade in Germany from a preparation )f common hemp. The amount of silk produced by ;ach spider is so small that Reaumur jomputts that 663,522 would be re* juired to produce a pound of thread. Artificial wood for furniture, roofs, insulators, etc., is now made by burn?'it. J ing magnesite togetner wim wuuu, shavings, sawdust, cotton, hair or (fool. Artificial India rubber from cottonseed oil is one of the latest industrial products, and claimed to possess commercial adaptations of peculiar practical value. F. M. Kinne, of Knoxville, Iowa, owns a finely-artioulnted skeleton of an emu. It is as tall as the average man and has leg bones almost as large as those of an ox. Although Jupiter is 1300 times as large as the earth, it is only 316 times as heavy. In order to become as solid an the earth it must condence to one-quarter of its present size. Evidently such a process of condensation is now going on. Several experts who have been viewing the coal fields at Brazil, 111., for several days reported that they had discovered a four and one-half-foot vein of cannel coal on William Mace's n.i rrru? iarm, near n.ei rviver. me uuu ia considered a very valuable one. A Dramatic Scene Between Lovers. A curious scene was witnessed outside Paddlington station. A respectably-dressed young woman who had arrived at the terminus from the country was quietly proceeding in the direction of Edgware Boad when a young man, also respectably dressed, met her, turned deadly pale, and exclaimed: "Oh, Helen, we thought you were dead!" and would probably have fallen to the ground in a fainting condition had not the young woman and sympathetic wayfarers who witnessed the unusual occurrence assisted him into a temperance refreshment house, where restoratives were obtained. Their case proved to be a strange one. The girl had for some time been a shop assistant at a village on the outskirts of South London, and had there become engaged to the young man. She left her place and returned to her parents in the country for a holiday. Somehow or other a report was spread in the village that the girl had suddenly died from influenza, and the news aooeared so circum stantial and detailed that it obtained general credence. The lover was disconsolate, mentioned his grief to the pastor of the Methodist chapel where he and his sweetheart had worshiped, and the minister next Sunday preached a funeral .sermon, drawing suitable lessons from the unexpected decease of their young friend. All was over. The young man was, it appeared, actually on his way to Paddington station, en route to the home of the girl with the view of visiting the grave, when he met her in the flesh, alive, and looking very well. She declared that she had written to him once, and was astonished not to have got an answer. He, on his side, averred that the missive never reached him. It is very probable that the Methodist minister who pronounced her funeral oration will soon be asked to officiate at a still more interesting ceremony, in which she will be one of two principal participants. ?London Telegraph Low-Built Bedsteads. Art furniture dealers ara down on the metal bedsteads, brass, iron anci all. What these decorators say ic heeded, and auctioneers may be buriec under iron beds before the green leaves come again. The prettiest bed is made of some dark wood, beautiful in grain and construction, but absolutely without decoration. The headpiece is straight in lines, and so low that if pillows were used in the dressing they would reach the top. The footpiece is lower, but with the rolled bolster and silk or embroidered spread it looks cosy as well as sumptuous, and furnishes the room as no metal bed could.?St. Louis Republic. Meat SKewers Dearer. Manufacturers of skewers announce that !hey have advanced prices ten per cent., owing to the scarcity of hickory wood. The product of the trade foots up 32,000,000 a year. FASHION'S REALM. DAINTY DESIGN3 IN DRESSES AND BONNETS. Shopmen Show a Lovely Array Silk and Woolen Textures ? Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher ?Feminine Small Talk The really charming weatner 01 tne past few weeks has been a real inspiration to all those who have any pretense to fashion. The spring of last year is decidedly outshown by the new and elaborate gowns, pretty bonnets, hats, gloves, parasols, jewelry and the thousand and one small things needed for a complete spring outfit. One would think that hard times were c thing of the past, judging from the costumes displayed this year in the realms of fashion. More care and better taste are shown this spring than ever before, for there are many new fashions as well as fads. The bodice shown above Is suitable foi house or theatre. It Is of the new swivel ilk which needs no trimming, bat mast be made over a tight-fitting lining. Grenadine is being worn again and the new designs are most exquisite. Designs of black moire, mingled with trimmings of cream lace are shown to the greatest advantage by skillful window designers. A novel and beautiful design in skirt width is seen in coarse black silk net covered with an insertion in deep points of cream white lace aboat one and one-half Inches in width. This is to be used over black moire or plain blaok silk. The laces, both wide and narrow, are more varied and beautiful than ever. As spring advances combinations of fancy patterned silks and laces seem to be taking the place of cloth goods. TVio rni?tnms shnwn nhovfl fa made Of ffoldec brown rough serge or camel's hair. Skirt full and well pressed and entirely devoid of trimming of any kind whatever. Lined twothirds up with crinoline, placed between the outer goods and lining. Long, tight-fitting coat reaching to the knee, and thrown open over a low cut, double breasted vest of the same material. High, baloon-like sleeves, revere on coat faced with same material. The 1 whole with a thorough tailor finish, liner, shirt with besom and culls of striped pink &nd white, white or pink cravat; gloves and hat to match, patent leather shoes. Even in woolen goods colors and texture are light and they contain a charming delicacy of tint and lightness of weave. There is a new and charming goods called silk lace striped gingham, in such exquisitely fine work and delicatc, dainty colors that if carei fully and tastefully made up, it combines | beauty, elegance, lightness and economy. l Novel and fetching designs are also being | displayed in challies, light ground covered , with dainty, tiny sprays of grass and spears i intertwined with stems and beautiful deliI eatelycolored moss rosebuds on long, almost leafless twigs that intertwine in the same way. Among the many beautiful imported hats , seen to-day, none are more striking than the three illustrated herewith. First is a beautiful little theatre Donnet, the crown made en tirely of gold-spangled flowers, surmounted by a fan effect of spangled black net; gold anil 1 white aigrettes and pink moss rose buds 1 compose the back and front of this charm^ ing little creation from Paris; ties of narrow black velvet. The second is a broad-brim French hat made of black shirred net on silk wire. The edge of brim of fluted straw in natural color and covered with jetted laoe; crown of flat square straw, trimmed in black plumes, velvet and black aigrettes. The third la composed of a flat crown of olive green porcupine straw, with medium wide brim composed of black silk wire covered with stiffened jetted black lace; the straw crown studded with large jet balls and surmounted with three black plumes and black lace bows caught up with Rhine stones; brim turned up slightly on both sides and pointed in the front. Bewildering in quantity, beauty and variety *e the hats and bonnets displayed at the SDrinc oDenines. Gold spangles are the leading and newest thing on most of the more exquisite hats and bonnets. They are seen everywhere and upon everything. One hat in particular that caught my eye was made upon a cap-shaped foundation fitting snugly to the crown of the head and composed entirely of gold spangles and floral designs. Above that aroso a broad, flaring brim ol black silk net, surmounted by black plumes and flaring velvet bows and black aigrettes?a chic and striking hat, but needing a beautiful face underneath It. A hat very becoming to almost anyone la the Spanish hat, flat-crowned, something on the sailor order, only with a broad, turned-upall-around brim. It Is very charming if tastily trimmed, and lends ai exceedingly youthful look to Its wearer. J. Florence Wilson. aipe and beautiful old age op mbs. hex by ward beecheb. Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher 1b one of the remarkable women of the century. Hei prominence is not entirely due to the splendid position won by the great divine whose wife she was, though that in itself would have given emlnenco to a eommon-piace character. She has the force and strong personality that would have given her position in any society with which she might be associated. Indeed, It may bo asserted with truth that her being the wife of so great a man tended to dwarf her own strong Individuality by its contrast. She showed her fidelity at a time when the clouds hung blackest about hei hu3band, and proved that no matter who might be sceptical, she, whose life and happiness were most concerned, never entertained a doubt, never wavered In her loving loyalty and wifely devotion. Since 1847 Mrs. Beecher has been a resident of Brooklyn; that city was the scene of her husband's greatest trials and triumphs. In It nearly an ner cmiareu were mmuicic are the many friends who have grown up 01 grown old with her, and there are the associations that give a golden glow to the sunset of her life. The fine mansion on Eicks street, in which Mrs. Beecher lived till her husband's death, she still owns, and derives from it a handsome rental; but not far away, and nearly in the shadow of the church which her husband made famous, and a shrine for millions of admiring pilgrims, she has a cozy little home all to herself?and one servant. This house Is at the corner of Hicks and Orange streets, the parlor windows having a sunny exposure. Children coming from school gather on the pavement and look up at the window where the white haired old lady, with gold spectacles on nose, sits framed, busy reading or writing. She smiles and waves her hand to them, then goes on with her work, for despite her years, Mrs. Beecher's mind Is as active as in the past Physically she is not so strong, nor is that surprising, but the well-stored brain is quite MBS. HEN BY WABD BEECHES. as'active as or yore, tsne greets her visitor with ^asy grace, and is glad to talk about the past rather than the present, and is rejoiced to dwell with loving reminiscence on the life with which her own was so long and so intimately blended. Mrs. Beecher writes regularly for a number I of publications, and, if driven to it, could still support herself with her pen. She is engaged an a voluminous work, but as she does not volunteer its purport nothing is said about - ? character, though it is safe to infer that it is autobiographical, and that it will throw mush light on the life of her husband and the men with whom he was associated durj ing the days that tried men's souls even more I than the Revolutionary times. Mrs. Beecher has four children, three sons and a daughter, living. Hattle, the daughter, is the wife of the Reverend Samuel Scoville, of Stamford, Connecticut, where he is a Congregational olergyman. Mrs. Scoville is a frequent visitor at her mother's home. Harry Is married and was formerly in the insuracje business, but he does not seem to have prospered. Willie C. is married and occupies a fine position at the New York bar. Herbert is married and living at Seattle in Washington, where he is practising law with success. Mrs. Beecher could find a wrf'come home in the houses of any of her children, to all of whom she is greatly attached, but this would not at all comport with her love of independence. The mistress of her own home so long, it would not be an easy matter for her to occupy a position where even a loving voice directed and kindly hands controlled. Although she walks with more effort than a few years ago, Mrs. Beecher stoutly resists the inexorable advances of time and will not use a street car except for long distances. Every Sundoy, rain, snow or shine, she is always to be found in the old family pew at Plymouth church. She is a great admirer of Dr. Lyman Abbott, her husband's successor, though two men more opposite in temperament it would be difficult to imagine. Mr. Beecher was the embodiment of intellectual fervor; Dr. Abbott impressed one as being as bright as a diamond and as cold as an icicle, Yet those who know the man intimately, declare that he is as simple as a child in his manners, and full of that brotherly feeling that is so broad in its catholicity as to embrace all creeds and races. Mrs. Beecher, though eighty-two yoars of age, does not look more than sixty-live. Her eyes are bright, there is a set to the lips that denotes unusual will-power, and a curve to the chin that is one of the best indications of her strong yet entirely feminine character. Blanche Elliott. feminist: small talk. Ladies having no maid, yet who possess flno handkerchiefs are foolish to send them away to the laundry, where thoy are apt to be torn or lost. By putting in warm water a few drops of ammonia and using castile soap, they are easily washed and made a beautiful, clear white. Then do not iron, but spread the handkerchief out smoothly on marble or glass, gently pulling out or shaping the lace. Just before it is entirely dry, fold evenly and ^oothly and place under a heavy book or ^ / - .-aa? SABBATH SCH0OE. H'lrrmv i rriirvv * r T rccnv unc ! T A weight of some kind, and 70a will find your handkerchiefs lasting thrice aa long as ever before. If ladies would only realize how disappointing it is to go a long distance to call upon one and then find the one they desire to see "just gone out," there would be more who would set aside some particular day each wees, upun wuicu uiey wouia oeat nomt), uuve that day understood by all their friends, and above all things make it a point to stay In upon the appointed day. And a call seems so much more home-like and cheering if a cup of chocolate, glass of wine or tea and 3ome light cake are in readiness. Try it and see if you and your friends are not both better satisfied with each other. If the white of an egg is immediately ap-? plied to a burn it will take away the pain and prevent a scar. .; Any stain upon the hand or under the Bnger nails can be easily removed with lemmon juice. Immediately after using apply cold cream to prevent hardening the skin. Bathing the feet in cold water immediately after getting them wet will prevent one from taking cold. KAH. CURIOUS FACTS. America has 20,000 newspapers. California has a 3300-acre prune orchard. Victoria, Australia, had a gold output of about 815,000,000 last year. In 1887 a cherry tree at Oroville, Cal., yielded 2800 pounds of fruit. ".Esop's Fables," by Caxton, 1484, was the first book with its pages numbered. Mr. B. F. Gregg, of Liberty, N. tf., has ar. anvil 574 years old. It weighs 300 pounds. By the old system of chronology in vogue in China the year 1894 is marked as the year 7,910,343. While dissecting a large alligator, a Florida physician discovered part of a gold watch chain in the saurian's stomach. George Eliot wrote for eight years with the same pen, and when she lost it bewailed her misfortune as almost too hard to bear. A Marshall County (Ala.) man, ninety-five years old, plows in the field every day and preaches on Sunday. He is also a great reader, bat does not use spectacles. The Chicago Fair consumed two and a quarter billions of gallons of water between September, 1892, and February, 1894. The city received a ; trifle over $20,000 for furnishing the supply. The baby girl of a lady who fed soldiers while passing throng Zenia, Ohio, on the way to the war in 1863, hasjust inherited from one of them, now that she is a young lady, a fine estate near Tacoma, Wash. rtna ?vf fhn Vipsf known newstjauer editors in Philadelphia has such au unconquerable antipathy for red flannel that it makes him ill and distressed if a piece of the fabric is exhibited in his presence for five minutes or more. A piano made for Napoleon in 1810 has been unearthed in London. In shape it is a grand with silver keys and, curiously enough, there are five pedals. Two of these work a drum and cymbals, and were presumably added in compliment to the military tastes of the Emperor. The largest pearl fishery in the world is in California Bay, and daring the year just closed hundreds of divers employed found nearly 500 tons of shells. One blue pearl weighing sixteen carats was found and sola for $10,000, and it is estimated that the value of the year's find will be over $300,000. He Intended totiet Even. "They are not all alike, anyway," remarked a Congressman to his clerk, laying a letter he had just read down on his desk. "Who are not?" inquired the clerk for more definite information. "People who want office. Here's a man living on the Pacific slope now, who used to be a constituent of mine. I failed in securing him an office he wanted once, and he swore he would get even with me, 6aying I hadn't tried tried hard enough, which was to some extent true, for I thought lie had Better stuff in him. Listen to what he writes," and the Congressman read from the letter. " 'I told you once I would get even with you for not getting me that office, and I will. You may think because I have gone West that I have forgotten how you treated me when I was a constituent of yours, but I have not. You refused to help me then and practically drove me out of your district, and I came here. I have made a tenstrike in business and have got more money to throw away than you can make in forty years in Congress, and part of that I have set aside as a revenge fund. I have $10,000 ready to put where it will serve my purpose, and twice that much more in reach if that is not enough. Forgotton you, have I? Well, not much. This amount I propose to spend in vour campaign on your behalf, and I intend to do it every year, if necessary, until you get so sick and tired of going to Congress that you will get down on your kneea to your former constituent and beg him with tears in your eyes for the | Lord's sake to let up. You, sir, have put me in a position to be able to do this thing, and you must be the one to Buffer. If you had secured me that office, this condition of affairs would not have been possible, and there is no one to blame for it except yourself, and I am free to confess that 1 am not sorry things have turned out as they have. " "There,said the Congressman, laying it down again, "what do you think of that?" and the clerk was willing to admit without extra pay that the Congressman's late constituent was a corker.?Detroit Free Press. Curious Story of a Spur. The death of W. Oswald Charlton in England recalls the curious 6tory of the Charlton spur?au interesting relic exhibited not long ago before the Newcastle Society of Antiquaries. From time immemorial the Charltons had possession of this tpur, which, according to a border custom, was served up at dinner. The dish in which it was placed was covered; and, on the lid being lifted and the spur seen, the retainers knew that the larder was empty and that they were expected to fill it.?Chicago Herald. > -'v. ... Ill 1 CiA^l A.11VII APRIL 15. Lesson Text: "Joseph Sold Tatfe Egypt," Gen. xxxvll., 28-36 ?Golden Text: Gen. L, 20?Commentary. 23. "And it came to pass when Joseph was come unto his brethren that they stripped Joseph out of his coat." Beinsr sent by his father he went forth cheerfully to see if it was well with his brethren, but when they saw htm coming they determined to kill him , (verses 13, 14, 18-20). How suggestive of tha Jews' hatred of Jesus, their brother who came seeking their welfare (Math, xxi., 38; xxvli., 1)! They stripped Him to mock Him, and when crucified parted His garments amonff them (Math, xxvlf., 23, 35). 24. "And they took him and cast him into a pit, and the pit was empty; there was no water in it." Compare Zech. ix., 11, and contrast the miry pit in which Jeremiah was put (Jer. xxxviU., 6). The sinner's deliverance from sin is compared to being taken from a horrible pit and miry clay and having his feet placed on a rock (Ps. xl., 2). 25. "And they sat down to eat bread." When the decree had gone forth to kill all Jews, it is written that the king and Haman sat down to drink (Esth. ill., 15). When they crucified Jesus it is said that "Sitting down, they watched Him there-' (Math, rxvil., 38). The question of Jeremiah cencerning the sorrows of Jerusalem, "Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by?" (Lam. 1., 12) should conio home to all who are indifferent to th? sufferings of Jesus. 26. "Ard Judah said unto his brethren. What profit is it if we slay our brother and conceal his blood?' This same Judah long afterward became surety tor Joseph's brother Benjamin (Gen. xlili,, 9 ; xliv., 32, 33). It was from him that the Messiah, the great deliverer, came in the fullness of time1; (I unron. v., i!: Heb. viii, 14). They might conceal Joseph's blood from his father, bat like Abel's it would cry to God (Gen. iv., 10.) 27. "Come and let us sell him to the Ishraaelites, and let not our hand be upon him. for he Is our brother and our flesh. And his brethren were content." Thus Jadah saved his brother from death and his brethren from actual bloodshed. See how one can influence a number! One with God can chase a thousand (Deut. xxxli., SO). 28. "And they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit and sold Joseph to the IshmaelltG3 for twenty pieces of silver, and they brought Joseph into Egypt." Thirty pieces of silver was afterward in Israel the value of a slave (Ex. xxl,, 32). This was the price at which they valued Zechariah, the prophet. and for this amount Judas sold Jus saviour (Zech. xJ., 12; Math, xxvi., 15). Some people to-day seem to sell Jesus for the veriest trifles?that is, chey do not care what becomes of Him or His caree, if only they can be gratified. 29. "And Reuben returned unto to the pit, and, behold! Joseph was not in the pit, and he rent his clothes." It was Reuben who naTCiiaHoH fho Afhar HmfhftF tint Irfll Joseph, but to cast him into a pit, thinking that he might, unobserved, get him out ana > restore him to his father (verses 21, 22).. Reuben was the oldest of all the brothers, he and Jadah being both sons of Leah (Gen. xxbc., 32,35). He had a heart to save his brother, but not the power to deliver him. from those who hated mm. He was evidently absent when Joseph was sold. 30. "And he returned to his brethren and said, The child is not, and I, whither shall I goV" The same p hrase is used concerning the absent in chapter xilL, 13, 39, and Jer. xxxl., 15. What a contrast in that glorious name of Jehovah, "I am" (Ex. ill., 14)! Whether in the body or out of the body, if we are only identified with Christ we can never be said not to be, for He is our life, and because He lives we live (John xvl., 19). . The anguish of Joseph's soul as he besought his brothers not to sell him is spoken of In chapter xlii., 21. 31. '-And they took Joseph's coat, and killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the cost In the blood." Since the day that Adam, sinned it has been sorrow and suffering and death all along the line, and will be till He shall come again who. when He first came, bore our griefs and carried our sorrows, and in His own body bore our sins on the tree (Isa. llll., 4; I Poter ii., 24). While the blood of a kid stained Joseph's coat, It was Jesus's own blood that soiled His garments, even the blood from that poor, scourged back and thorn crowned head. Bat the day comes when the enemies' blooJ sball stain His raiment (Isa. llll., 3. 4). gflP* 32. 'And they sent the coat of many colors, and {hey ItfdugM It to their father and said, This have we found; know now whether It be ihy son's coat or no." Jacob was truly their father after the flesh, but they were making it very plain that they, like their descendants long afterward, had another father, even he who la iho father of all liars and murderers (John viil., 14). 33. "And ho knew it and said, it is my son's coat: an evil beast hath devoured him; Joseph is without doubt rent in pieces." There was no chemical analysis to prove that the blood on that coat was not human; there was no son honest enough to tell the facta in the case, and so Jacob must be allowed to think that nis much loved son was actually slain, and twenty years he believed the same (xllv., 23). What an evil beast is envy and hatred, true children of the roaring lioa (I Pet. v., b)! 34. "And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sii'.'kclotn upon, his loins and mourned foe nis son many flays." Whatever we sow we TnrtnW hoH sntpn thfl wind and was reaping the whirlwind (Gal. vi., 7 : Hoa. viU., 7). He had cruelly deceived his father and lied to himself (Chapter xxvli., 24), and now he was reaping a terrible harvest. This principle of retribution is seen continually and enough of it to make all but the moat hardened believe that God means what Ha says. 35. "And all his sons and all his daugh-t ters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted, and he said, For I will go down into the grave \mto my son mourning; thus his father wept for him." How many * daughters Jacob had we are not told. One, Dinah,Is mentioned byname (xxxiv., 1). We can understand how they might sincerely try to comfort their father, but how these ly' - ? ? 1J ?,*Aa la aAmAtvhof /\t ing SOUS COUIU uumiui L UllXl *0 oviuvnutti Vfc a mystery. He is surely to be pitied, for he had not the light which we have upon the future. Ha looked into the grave ; wo loolc uo and know that "to die is gain," '*to depart and be with Christ is far letter" (PhiL i. 21, 23). 86. "And the Mldianltes sold him into Egypt, unto Potiphar, an officer of Pharoah'a and captain of the guard.' The curtain falla upon the sorrowing father and the deceitful sons, and we are given one glimpse of the poor boy so cruelly torn away from his home. He Is now a slave In Egypt in the house ol the chief of the executioners (see margin). Bnt whether a slave in Potiphar's house or a prisoner falsely accused ho. is always prosperous, for "the Lord was with him (chapI ter xxxix., 2, 3, 21, 23) and there was blessing everywhere. He was one of the blessed men of Pa. 1., 1-0.? LessOn Holpor. Fish Go on a Big Spree. Considerable excitement was created alonjf the 8andusky River north of Tiffin, Ohio, by the effect upon the fish in that stream of 425 barrels of spoiled beer which was turned Into the stream from Hubach's brewery. The beer was ruined by the recent natural gas 9xplosion in the brewery and was turned Into the river by order of Revenue Agent Charles W. Harris, of Bettsville. The beer seemed to collect just above the dam and i had an intoxicating effect upon the fish, [ which wero seen disporting themselves in a j lively and hilarious manner. A number of the fish were easily captured. The Mary Washington Monument. The Fredericksburg (Va.) City Council has Invited President Cleveland and Mrs. Cleveland, Yice-President Stevenson, Chief Justice Fuller, the members of the Cabinet,Governor U'Ferrall and their ladies to attend the dedi:ation oj the Mary Washinjton monument to take place in that city May 10. A committee of twelve citizeus has been appointed to act in conjunction with the Mayor and City Council. A Kettle Full of Greenbacks. Joseph Stephenson, while excavating for a cellar on a lot, recently purchased by him at Warsaw, Ind., threw out an old iron, kettle containing S9000 in greenbacks. An old man named Bluo formerly lived atona near the place and committed suicide about eight years ago.