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I \ KEY. DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN\ DAY SERMON. The Subfcct: "Recovered Families" k. (ireacnea at Ldttie kock, atk.j. Text : "'Then David and the people that Were with him lifted up their voice and wept i tin til they had no more power to weep. * * David recovered all."?I Samuel xzx., 4,19. ' There is intense excitement in the village Of Zikla^. David and his men are bidding goodby to their families and are off for the wars. In that little villaze of Ziklaj? the defenseless ones will be safe until the warriors, flushed with victory, come home. But will the defenseless ones be safe? The soft arms 4.U ~ nnA1.n A# ikA VI UUUUiCU ttID niuauu lUC UCCH9 VI lUO bronze warriors until they shake themselves free and start, and handkerchiefs and flags are waved and kisses thrown until the armed men vanish beyond the hills. David and his men soon get through with, their campaign and start homeward. Every nieht on their way home no sooner does the soldier put his head on the knapsack than in his dream he hears the welcome of the wife and the shout of the child. Ob. what Ions? stories they will have to tell their families of how they dodced the battleax, and then will roll up their sleeve and ghow the half healed wound. With clad, quickstep, they march on. David and his men, for they are marching home. Now they oome up to the last hill which overlooks Ziklag. id they expect in a moment to see the dwelling places of their loved ones. They look, and as they look their cheek turns pale, and their lip quivers, and their hand Involuntarily comes down on the hilt of the sword. "Where is Ziklag? Where aro our homes?" they cry. Alas, the curling smoke a*bove the ruin tells the tragedy * The Amalekites have come down and consumed the village and carried the mothers, and the wives, and the children of David and his men into captivity. The swarthy warriors stand fora few moments transfixed with BtiuttUi. Xiiuu luoir cjrs ^itiuuc ?;auu other, and they burst into uncontrollable weeping, for when a strong warrior wi?eps the grief is appalline. It seems as if the emotion might tear him to pieces. They "wept until they had no more power to weop." But soon their sorrow turns into rage, and David, swinging his sword high in air, cries, "Pursue, for thou shalt overtake them, and without fail recover all." Now the march becomes a "doublequick." Two hundred of David's men stop by the brook Besor, faint Wth fatigue and grief. They cannot go a step farther. They are left there. But the other 100 men under David, with a sort of panther step, march on in sorrow and in rage. They find by the side of the road a half dead Egyptian, and thevresuscitate him and uiur iu ivu iuo uwio sivi *. ucja;a, "Yonder they went, the captors and the captives." pointing in the direction. Forward, ye 400 brave men of Are! Very soon David and his enraged company eome upon the Amalekitish host. Yonder they see their own wives and children and mothers, and under Amalekitish guard. Here are the officers of the Amalekitish army holding a banquet. The cups are full; the musio Is roused; the danoe begins. The Amalekitish host cheer and cheer and cheer over their victory. But, without note of busle or warning of trumpet, David and his 490 men burst upon the scene. David and his men look up, and one glance at their loved ones in captivity and under Amalekitish guard throws them into a very fury of determination, for ?>u know how men will fight when they fight r their wives and ohildren. Ah, there are lightnings in their eye, and every finger is a spear, and their voice is like the shout ot the whirlwind! Amid the upset tankards and the costly viands crushed underfoot, the wounded. Amaietites lie, tneir oiooa mingling with their wine, shrlekins; for mercy. No sooner do David and his men Win the victory than they throw their swords down into the dnst?what do they want with 6Words now??and the broken families come together amid a great shoat of joy that makes the parting scene in Zicing se9m very insipid in tne comparison. The rough old warrior has to use some persuasion before lie can get his ohild to come to him now after so long an absence, but soon the little finger traces the familiar wrinkle across the scarred face. And then the empty tankards are set up. and they are filled with th? best wine from the hills, and David and his men, the hosl>ands, the wives, the brothers, the sisters, drink to the overthrow of the Amalekltes and to the rebuilding of Zlklag. So, O Lord, let Thine enemies perish! Now they are coming home, David and his men and their families?a long pro cession. Men, women and children, loaded with jewels and robes and with all kinds of trophies that the Amalekites had gathered up in years of conquest?everything now in the hands of David and his men. When they oome by the brook Besor, the place where staid the men sick and incompetent to travel, the jewels and the robes and all kinds of treasures are divided amoni? the rick as well as among the well. Surely the lame and exhausted ought to have some of the treasures. Here is a robe for a palefaced warrior. Here is a pillow for this dying man. Here Is a handful of gold for the wasted trumpeter. I really think that these men who fainted by the brook Besor may have endured as much as those men who went into the battle. Some mean fellows objected to the sick ones having any of the spoils. The objectors said, "These men did not fight." David, with amagnanlmcu3 heart, replies, "As his part is that goeth down to tne tmttie, no shall his part be thai tarrleth by the stuff." This subject is practically suggestive to me. Thank God, in these times a mac can go ofl on a journey and be gone weeks and months and come back and see his house untouched of incendiary and have his family on the Btep to greet him if by telegram he has foretold the moment of his coming. But there I are Amalekitiah disasters, there are Amalekltlsh diseases that sometimes comes down upon one's home, making as devastating work as the day when Zlklag took Are. There are families you represent broken up. No battering ram smote in the door, no ic&noclast crumbled the statues, no flame leaped amid the curtains, but so far as all the joy and merriment that once bslongei to that bouse are concerned the home has departed. Armed diseases came dojvn upon the quietness of the scene?scariet fevers or pleurisies or consumptions or undefined disorders came and seized upon some members I of that family and carried them away. Ziklag in ashes! And yoa go abont, sometimes weeping and sometimes enraged, wanting to get back your loved ones as much as David and his men wanted to reconstruct their I despoiled households. Ziklag In ashes! Some of you went off from home. You counted the days of your absence. Every day seemed as long as a week. Oh, how glad you were when the time came for you to go aboard the steamboat or railroad and start for home! You arrived. You went up the street where your dwelling was, and In the night you put your hand on the doorbell, and, behold! it was wrapped with the signal of bereavement, and you found that Araslakitish death. wuich has devastated a thousand other households, baa blasted yours. You go about weeping amid the desolation of your once happy home, thinking of the bright eyes closed, and the aoble hearts stopped, and the gentle hands folded, and you weep until you have no more power to weep. Ziklag in ashes! A gentleman went to a friend of mine In the city of Washington and as':ed that through him he might get a consulship to some foreign port. My friend said to him: "What do you want to go away from your beautiful home for into a foreign port?" "Oh," he replied, ''my home is gone! My six children are dead. I must get away, sir. I can't stand it in this country any longer." Ziklag in ashes! Why these long shadows of bereavement across this audience? Why is it that in almost every assemblage black is the predominant color of the apparel? Is it because you do not like saffron or brown or violet? Oh. no ! You say * "The world Is not so bright to us as once it was," and there is a story of silent voices, and of still feet, and of loved ones gone, and when you look over the hills expecting only beauty and loveliness you find only devastation and woe. Ziklag in ashes! One day, in Ulster County, N. Y., the village church was decorated until the fragranoe of the flowers was almost bewildering. The maidens of the village had emptied the place of flowers upon one marriage altar. One of their number was affianced to a minister of Christ, who had come to take her to his own home. With hands joined, amid a congratulatory audience, the vow3 ware taken. In three days from that time one of those who stood at the aitar exchanged earth for heaven. The wedding march broke down into the funeral dirge. Th^re were not enough flowers now for the coffin lid, because they had all been taken for the bridal hour. The dead minister of Christ is brought to another village. He had gone out from them less than a week before in his strength; now he comes home lifeless. The whole church bewailed j nun. The solemn procession moved around to look uoon the still face that once had beamed the messages of salvation. Little children were lifted up to look at him. And some of those whom he had comforted in days of sorrow, when they passed that silent form, made the place dreadful with their weeping. Another village emptied of its flowere?some of them put in the shape of a cross to symbolize, his hope, others put in the shape of a crown to symbolize his triumph. A-hundred lights blown out In one strong gust from the open door of a sepulchre. Ziklag in ashes! I preached this sermon to-day because I want to rally you, as David rallied his men. for the recovery of the lored and the lost. I want not only to win heaven, but I want all this congregation to go along with me. I feel that somehow I have a responsibilltv in youi arriving at that great city. Do you really want to join the companionship of your loved ones who have gone? Are you as anxious to join them as David and his men were to Join their families? Then I am here, in the name of God, to say that you may and tc tell you how. I remark in the first place, if you want to join your loved ones in glory, you must travel the same way they went. No sooner nad the nail dead Egyptian been resuscitated than he pointed the way the captors and the captives had gone, and David and his men followed after. So our Christian friends have gone into another country, and if we want to reach their companionship we must take the same road. They repented. We must repent. They prayed. We must pray. They trusted in Christ. We must trust in Christ. They lived a religious life. We must live a religious life. They were in some things like ourselves. I know, now they are gone, there is a halo around their names, but they had their faults. They said and did things they ought never to have said or done. They were sometimes .rebellious, sometimes cast down. They were far ?rom being perfect. So I suppose that when we have gone some things in us that are now only tolerable may be almost resplendent. But as they ware like us in deficiencies we ought to be like them in taking a supernal Christ to make uo for the deficits. Had it not been for Jesus they would have all perished, but Christ confronted them and said, "I am the way," and they took it. I have also to say to you that the path that these captives trod was a troubled path, and f-hftt David and his men had to go over the same difficult way. While these captives were being taken off they said, "Oh, we ar* so tired ; we are so sick; we are so hungry!" But the men who had charge of them said "Stop this crying. Go on!" David and his men also found it a hard way. They had to travel it. Our friends have gone into glory, and it is through much tribulation that we are to enter into the kinglom. How our loved ones used to nave to struggle! How their old hearts ached! How sometimes they had a tussle for bread! In our childhood we wondered why there were so many wrinkles on their faces. We did not know that what were called "crow's feet" on their faces were the marks of the black raven of trouble. Did you ever hoar the old people, seated by the evening stand, talk over their early trials, their hardships, the aocidents, the burials, the disappointments, tne empty flour barrel when there were so many hungry ones to feed, the sickness almost nnto death, where the next dose of morphine decided between ghastly bereavement and nn unbroken home circle? Oh, yes! It was trouble that whitened their nair. It was trouble that shook the cup in their hands. It was trouble that washed the luster from their eyes with the rain of tears until they needed spectacles. It wa3 trouble that mad* the cane a necessity for their journey. Da you never remember seeing your old mother sitting on some rainy day looking out of the window, her elbow on the window sill, her hand to her brow, looking out, not seeing the falling shower at all (you well knew she was looking into the distant past), until the apron came up to her eyes because the memory was too much for her Oft the bis, unbidden tear. Stealing clown the furrowed cheofc, Toll In eloquence sincere Tales of woe they could not spealc. Bnt, this scene of weeplnij o'er. Past this scene of toll anil pain. They shall feel distress no more, Never, never weep again. "Who are those under the altar?" the question was asked, and the response came, "These are they which came out of great tribulation and have washed their robes ana 1 made them white in the blood of the Lamb." Our friends went by a path of tears into glory. Be not surprised if we have to travel the same pathway. I remark again, if we want to win the socletv of our friends in heaven, we will not only have to travel a path of faith and a path of tribulation, but we will also have to positively battle for their companionship. David and his men never wanted sharp swords, and Invulnerable shields, and thick breastplates so much as they wanted them on the day when they came down upon the Amelikites. If they had lost that battle, they never would have got their families back. I suppose that one glance at their loved ones In captivity hurled them into the battle with tenfold courage and energy. They said. ''We must win it. Everything depends upon it. Let each one take a man on point of spear or iword. We must win it." And I have to tell you that between us and coming into the companionship of our loved ones who are departed mere is an Austerutz, tnere is a Gettysburg, there is a Waterloo. War with the world, war with the flesh, war with the devil. We have either to conquer our troubles, or our troubles will conquer us. David will either slay the Amalekltes, orthe Amaletltes will slay David. And jot is not the fort to be taken worth all the pain, all the peril, all the besiegementV Look! Who are they on the bright hills of heaven yonder? There they are, those who sat at your own table, the chair now vacant. There they are, those whom you rocked in iniancy in the cradle or bushed to sleep in your arms. There they are, those in whose life your life was bound up. There they are, their brow more radiant than ever before you saw it, their lips waiting for the kiss of heavenly greeting, their cheek roseate with the health of eternal summer, their hands beckoning you up the steep, the feet bounding with the mirth of heaven. The pallor of their last sickness gone out of their lace, nevermore to be sick, nevermore to cough, nevermore to limp, nevermore to be old, nevermore to weep. They are watching from those heights to iee if through Christ you can take thsl fort, and whether you will rush in upon t)tecj?victors. They know that upon this battle depends whether you will ever join their society. Up! Strike harder! Charget'ore bravely! Remember that every inch you gain puts you so much farther on toward that heavenly reunion. Tf this morning while I speak you could hear the cannonade of a foreign enemy hlch was to despoil your city, and if they teally should succeed in carrying ycmr families away from you, how long would we take before we resolved to go after them' Every weapon, whether fresh from the armory or old and rusty In the garret, would be brought out, and we would urge on, and coming in front of the foe we would look at them and then look at ?ur families, and the cry would be, "Victory or death!" and when the ammunition was gone we would take the captors on the point of the bayonet or undei the breech of the gun. If you would make such a struggle foi the getting back of your earthly friends, will you not make as much struecle for the-gaining of the eternal companionship of yout heavenly friends? Oh, yes, we must join them! We must sit in their holy society. We must sing with them the sons. We must celebrate with them thp,triumph. Let it never be told on earth or in heaven that David and his men pushed out with bravei hearts for the getting back of their earthly friends for a few vears on earth than we to get our departed! You say that all this implies that our departed Christian friends are alive. Why. had you any idea they were dead? They have only moved. If you should go on the 2d ol May to a house where one of your friends lived and find him cone, you would not think that he was dead. You would inquire nest door where he had moved to. Our departed Christian friends have only taken another house. The secret Is that they are richer than they once were and can afford a better residence. They once drank out of earthenware. They now drink from the King's chalice. "Joseph is yet alive." and Jacob will so up and see him. Llvlne. are they? Why, if a man can live in this damp, dark dungeon of earthly captivity, can he not live where he breathes the bracing atmosphere of the mountains of heaven? Oh, yee, they are living! Do you think that Paul is so near dead now as he was when he was living in the Roman dungeon? Do you think that Frederick Robertson, of Brighton, is as near dead now as he was when, year after year, he slept seated on the floor, his head on the , bottom of a chair, because he could find ease in no other position? Do you think that Robert Hall is as near dead now as when on hfa couch he tossed in physical torture. No. j Death Rave them the lew Diacic aropa mat cured them. That Is all death does, to a Christian?cares him. I know that what I have said implies that they are living. There I is no question about that. The only ques- I tion this mornia* is whether you will ever J join them. " j Bnt I must not forpet those 200 men who fainted by the brook Besor. They could not ' take another step farther. Their feet were t sore; their head ached; their entire nature c was exhausted. Besides that they were ^ broken hearted because their home3 were gone. Zlklaj; in ashes! And yet David, when he comes up to them, divides the a spoils amonpthem! He says they shall have a some of the jewels, some of the robes, some o of the treasures. I look over this audience j this morning, and I find at least 200 who have fainted by the brook Besor?the brook of tears. You feel as If you could not take ? another step farther, as tnough yoa could t never look up again. But I am going to Imi- $ tate David and divide among you some glorious trophies. Here is a robe, "All thfnnvi nrnrb frtcothpr for CTOOd tO thOSO WhO lore God." Wrap yourself In that clorious promise. Here is for your neck a string of pearls made out of crystallized tears, "keeping may endure for a night, but joy eometn in the morning." Here is a coronet. "Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life." Ob, ye fainting ones by the brook Besor, dip your blistered feet in the running stream of God's mercy, bathe your brow at the wells of salvation, soothe your wounds with the balsam that exudes from trees of life. God will not utterly cast you ofif, 0 broken hearted man, 0 broken hearted woman, fainting by the brook Besor'. A shepherd finds that his musical pipe i3 bruised. H9s3ys- "I can't get anymore music out of this instrument, so I will just break it, and I will throw this reed away. Then I will get another read, and I will play music on that." ButGodsaysHe will not cast you ofif because all the music ha3 gone out of your soul. "The bruised read He will not break." As far as I can tell th9 diagnosis of your disease, vou want divino nursing, and it is promised you, "As one whom his mother comforteth so will I comfort you." Goi will see youall the way through, 0 troubled soul, and when you coma flown to tho Jordan of death you will find it to be m thin a brook as Besor. for Dr. Robinson says that In April Besor dries up and tl^te is t qo brook at all. And in your last moment T you will be as placid as the Kentucky min- ? ister who went up to God. saying in the . dying hour: "Write to my sister Kate and 1 tell her not to be worried and frightened * about the story of the horrors around the t deathbed. Tell her there is not a word a of truth in it, tor I am there now. and Jesus fl is with me, and I And it a very happy way, not because I am a good man, for I am not. 1 I am nothing but a poor, miserable sinner, Dut X Have an Aunfxuty Saviour, and both of e His arms are around me." c May God Almighty, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, bring us into the 6 companionship of our loved ones who have c already entered the heavenly land and into I the presence of Christ, whom, not having i seen, we love, and so David shall recover t all, "and as his part Is that goeth down to t the battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth bvthe stuff." f WORDS OF WISDOM. ' t t A man will turn over half a library 8 to make one book.?Johnson. g The way of the world is to make t laws but follow customs. ?Montaigne. r The one exclusive sign of a thorough c knowledge is the power of teaching.? I Aristotle. 1 A great thing is a great book, but * greater than all is the talk of a great man.?Disraeli. t For where we love ia home, ho me i that our feet may leave, but not our ? hearts.?Jean Ingelow. In character, in manner, in 6tyle, 1 in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.?Longfellow. The pure and benign light of reve- , lation has had ameliorating influence on mankind.?Washington. Keep your hearts warm feeling for others, and your powers active by work done in earnest.?Hall. Do but your duty, and do not trouble yourself whether it is in the cold or by a good fire. ?Marcus Aurelius. Every evil to which we do not succumb is a benefactor. "We gain the strength of the temptation we resist ( ?Emerson. What must be, shall be; and that which ia necessity to him that struggles is little more than a choice to him that is willing.?Seneca. A father who loves his child wishes to keep that child forever; he who can see without pain his daughter pass under the domination of another, is not a real man. ?Balzac. Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all for him to bear; but they are so, because they are the very ones he needs.?Richter. Is Eye Power Deteriorating ? "I think the eye power of the present generation of civilized men mast have deteriorated a good deal," said an occulistto me the other day. "I am called upon to examine so many young persons nowadays whose eyes show no symptoms of disease or strabismus, but are simply unable to do the ordinary amount of work required of school boys, school girls, college students or moderate readers without showing symptoms of overwork. . "This weakness seems to be constitutional and glasses are required which lessen the muscular strain on the eyes only. In spite of the invention of the typewriter, which has relieved the eye of so much work, the state of things f is almost equally as prevalent in busi- , ness circles as among students. , "That this is a deterioration from the men of old is evidenced, I think, by the vast amonnt of work some of them are known to have done without any trouble from their eyes. Take Dickens's voluminous works, for irstance. He wrote them all with his own hand, volume after volume, and composing is a far greater strain on the eyes than mere copying or reading, since composing or studying involves mental effort as well as physical. "Dickens wrote a great deal of the time with blue ink upon blue paper, and his erasures and interlineations were done in so fine a hand that it used to be the despair of the printers. . "Scott wrote all his numerous works and poems without the aid of an amanuensis; Johnson did the vast amount of work involved in his dictionary in the same way, and Thackeray, who wrote his long drawn out 6tories in an almost microscopic hand, used to say laughingly and truthfully that if he failed to make a living as a novelist he could earn money by exhibiting his abilities to write the Lord's Prayer on his thumb nail."? New York Fervid, DRESS DEVICES. MAXY NEW ONES, BUT FEW IMPORTANT CHANGES. What Has Happened and May Happen in Summer Dress ? A Wide Field for Individual Taste. The most beautiful trimmings which have f >een brought over this season savor of the ienalssance period, a style second to none In jeauty and outline. All kinds of detached )ieces are made as plastrons and vesta to xxlices, most of them in a bold scroll work >f open jet, enclosing appliques of brilliant elvet, suoh as peach pink, which shows up idmirably against the jet, while others have t background of gold cloth. Most of these .re six to eight Inches deep for trimming, nd perhaps twelve inches for the plastron. 5ieated lace, kept in place by bands of jet imbroidery and stars of jet, is in universal [emand, and one of the new features in the rimmings is the Introduction of large pearhaped pieces of jet, which help to emphasize he designs. For evening and light gowns, rhite silk, silver and pearl arre often blended or shoulder trimmings. Guipure laces1 In he new butter color, or, as it is called in 'aris, "Isigny"?a place from where much inttercomes?are of every possible kind; ind there are many straw embroideries ipplied to straight-edged insertion and interaingling with jet The white muslin gown that used to be o much worn years ago, is likely to again . ome into favor. One beautiful one was In | oft French batiste, embroidered with "pols" ( if electric blue on stripes of insertion, form- ] ng the princess shape, every seam of which j s veined with point a jour. A long satin ( lbbon is loosely tied around the waist, and | he edge of the skirt is surrounded with a j rill. The new gored skirt used for summer ma- j erial is very graceful. Each pleat is gored o the waist, and the front fits up closely with k long hip seam. ( The most original and chlo dresses of the ( ,Bason are displayed in a leading Fifth Avenue j ailor*s. One I saw was of plain grey sum- ] ner tweed, with three box pleats at the back' . >f the skirt, and flat bos pleats on the banded ( )odlce; while another had a round basque, a ( ull pleated skirt, square tabs at the waist, md puffed sleeves. A most effective navy ( jhie serge bodice was made with horizontal ( raffing of green velvet to the bust, let in beween straps of blue serge, the samo treatnent being introduced at the top of the ileeves. Moire is the distinctive feature in new nantles, but they are watered after a novel ashion, the newest suggesting the graining )f wood, in which prominent knots appear. , L beautiful jacket in .this material bad large revere covered with jetted lace, and was jdged with long fringe of jet, seven or eight strands together, falling from the bast to the :eet The collars are high and full at the leek. Taffeta in evening shades, ranging from a leep lemon to the faintest rose tint, and taffetas In all the neutral tones, moire antique affetas, Dresden striped taffeta, all are shown is a new and popular material. The Swiss taffetas are beautiful, but the most durable as well as beautiful is the moire Francaise, with striped watered effect It :omes entirely #with tiny dots, hair stripes mm and very small figures. The beautiful soft clinging China silk is a thing of the past now, and only stiff silks that make the big puffed sleeves stand out well is called for or used. Individual taste In dress, whether it be good or bad, has a wider field in the midst of spring and summer fashions than at an,, other time of the year, and certainly no season has surpassed the present one in variety of modes and artistic accessions of dress. Everything from fur to gauze is permissible, and the varied resources of color and contrasts have revealed their tempting, as wel! as unattractive possibilities, without limit In the midst cf such a profusion, a woman can easily create a distinction in dress suited to her own physical qualities, if she will but study her good points and solve the mystery of concealing her bad ones. Lace is to be superseded by embroidered silk or muslin, especially for evening wear, and white tulle is ono of the favorite trimmings. The tendency to sleeves is to increase the size rather than diminish it, five yards ol silk being used in the butterfly sleeve. Green is the favorite color of the season. Royal blue and green combined are tho favorite colors. Black and green still finds favor. Tiny checks of black and white silk crepon, crepe cloths, *nd grenadines are equally popular. The newest thing in material is "Tussah silk." It is very dainty in texture, combining tho lightness of muslin with the tenacity of silk, and comes in brocade designs. The tailor-made gown Is more popular than ever for morning wear. I beautiful one was made with plain foil skirt of green plaid-bey lark-doable-breasted cutaway coat with the fronts ending in two long points. Skirt lined ivlth purple satin and large re vers and collar >? Dlonlr O+r-OTTf hn* 4U;tW ICltOU, A/uava w?*wn framed with twisted straw, green aigrettes md royal purple velvet, and patent leather shoes completed a very natty costume. Dimity, organdie, batiste and muslin iresses form a conspicuous part of the eumner outfit, and pure white muslin is the ao jepted material for graduation dresses. The- double and treble capes on jackets are so far modified that they now simply covertbe 5olnt of the shoulder, and are braces rather han capes; sometimes these are double, ;ither one silk and one moire, or one velvet knd one moire. A fringe- of ostrich feathers s a frequent edging to cape and collars, and 1 ribbons are used they are moire, lined with satin. The jackets this year fit closer than hey did of old, and paillettes appear on the ace and net frilling, also intermingling with he fringes. Many of the collars which are loven down the center of the back have a oo se pleating, and this pailletted net in the renter. There are two distinctive lengths in ill these jackets; while some simply end a svr Inches below the waist, others are three? (outer length, and many are trimmed with >cru lace and Insertion, a mixture of black md ecru being fashionable, especially when >rnamented with jet cabochons and paillettes. A clever Invention this year Is the covering >f the ribs of the parasol with an interweavng of silk. Lined parasols are ont of date; he one object of the maker being that they shall roll into the smallest possible compass. Light Chine glace silk makes pretty summer parasols. Sticks are not ornate; close metal japs finish some, while others either have' painted china tops or natural wooden bandies. J. Floeesce Wmsox. pbopeb cjlez axd teeat1iest 0? the sets alvd teeth. Ladles wishing a smooth skin made withant barm can obtain it by purchasing ten :ents worth of tincture of benzoin. Dissolve It In a pint of wine and use on the face at alght The face should first be washed with pure und fine soap, and then rinsed off in elear, cold water. The benzoin can be dissolved in water, but wine is preferable. For a rough or sunburned skin, use two nimpea of distilled water, one of glycerine, one of alcohol, and half an ounce of tincture of benzoin. Without the 'water, and with the addition of two ounces of prepared chalk, free from bismuth, it makes a fine cosmetlo for whitening the face, and is not injurious, like the expensive "balms" or "blooms" so highly advertised. Another wash is made of medicated soap, which can be bought of any druggist, melted and made Into balls, with finely ground oafcmeaL Oatmeal and buttermilk together possess wonderful beautifying qualities, and oatmeal by itself now occupies a place on many dressing tables. Steeped in water in small quantities, its balsamic qualities and glutinous oiliness makes the flesh beautifully Soft and Wfllte. a ntue lemon juice u u> j uo added advantageously. The comfort of a pure breath, and the agreeable effect of a clean and healthy mouth, are things to rejoice over and be proud of In these days of dentistry, when the dentists seem to be the best patronized of any in the medical profession. Decay is not the only enemy of the teeth, but the accumulation of tartar upon them has an equally bad effect This must in any case be removed by an experienced dentist, and after that the teeth must be carefully attended to. Simple measures, regularly attended to, are sufficient for healthy moutts. A tootn powder for a nealthy condition o! the mouth and teeth' should Tie purely a mechanical agent, possessing a hardness sufficient for the removal, without liability to injure the enamel, of slight accumulations of food and tarter. The brush should be moderately soft, the bristles should be long and eiastio and of uneven lengths, so as to facilitate their introduction between the teeth. Once daily is quite enough to use a powder, if any is used at all, and the best time to use it is just before retiring. After meals it la sufficient to use a little tepid water. As a frlctlonal powder, precipitated chalk is a soft and generally efficient agent. If the skin be coarse looking and you desire to improvo the texture, bathe it before going to bed in very hot water and good toilet soap and rub thoroughly with a coarse Turkish towel. For pimples on the face use this recipe: Thirty grains of bicarbonate of soda, one drachm of glycerine and one ounce o! ariArmaeeli ointment. Rub on the face; let it remain for a quarter of an hour, and wipe off all but a slight film, with a soft cloth. For a weak person when bathing, especially in summer, a gill of ammonia in a email tub of water, or some rock salt, is a wonderful invigorator, almost as good as a em bath. Peroxide of hydrogen rubbed on the face two or three times a day, for tea days, will also free the skin of any discoloration. A simple remedy for removing freckles Is to put one ounce of alum and the same of lemon juice in a pint of rose water; apply at night \Vhen the feet are sore, as from long walking, take a teasponful of Epsom salts, Ave or els drops of tincture of capsicum, and put in a shallow basin of water?just enough to cover the soles of the feet?and soak them twenty minutes. One will be surprised at the relief this will give. It will also cure burning of the feet that so many are troubled with in the summer. If you must bathe in your bedroom, then get a square of white enameled cloth or heavy Turkish toweling, sow a heavy rope around the edge tightly, and you can take a shower bath without getting the water on the carpet. In bathing uso the wrong side of the oilcloth, as the right side ia apt to chill nnn_ Johnstown Flood Aftermath. Suits arising out of the Johnstown (Penn.'> flood, asjgrocratinc $210,003, are penl'n,* aerainst the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Cluh. British Deserters. There wcr? 0 desertions from the British army last year. A Cheap Milking.Stool. _Rg.l shows the stool complete. Fig. 2 shows the shape of the five pieces that compose it Make two pieces, A, 12x18 inches, for the legs; , 5=nt A B 'A " . one piece, B, 12x18 inches, for th$ eeot, with two slots in the centre for a hand-hole; and two pieces, C, 4x18 inches, to brace the legs together and rapport the seat. Use one-half-inoh lumber throughout, and give it a good coat of paint?R. W. J. Stewart, in Farm and Fireside. Bird and Kitten. "I once saw a curious exhibition given by a free mocking bird toward a young kitten," said James F. Gilli* gan, of Pensacola, Fla., who was at 4-lin "Thp hird had taken its position in a tree just in front of onr house, and the kitten was rolling aronnd on the grass directly beneath it. The bird had worked itself into a state of great excitement and was chattering away at a great rate. Finally it flew down on the lowest branch of the tree, and, leaning as far as possible toward the kitten, uttered a peculiar sound like the 'fufF of an enraged cat This was evidently the bird's war cry, and although the kitten did not pay the slightest attention, it struck me as very droll that the bird should thus declare war upon the hereditary enemy of its race, even in its infancy. "?St Louis GlobeDemocrat Holland's Girl (Jneen. The little Queen of Holland seems to have passed out of that delicate st&te WILHEL5ITNA, QTJEE>* OF HOLLAND. of health which so alarmed her loyal subjects a year or so ago, if this pic* ture represents her accurately. She is certainly a blooming enough young person here. It is her latest portrait ------- t i-1_ L and delights Jier people greauy, uuo only because it shows her in so robust a state but because she is wearing in it the national peasant dress.?New York World. How Old Are Horseshoes ? The earliest form of the horseshoe was a leather boot, says Dr. S. J. Harger, of the University of Pennsylvania Veterinary School. But this boot was only worn bv heavy war horses. The ordinary horses of the Greeks, Romans, Arabians and other natives were unshod, though methods of hardening the hoof were occasionally used. The earliest written record of metal shoes is found in a book by the Emperor Leo VI., who died 911 A. D., but horseshoes have been found in tombs that date back to the sixth century. The earliest Oriental form of shoe was nearly circular, and was fastened on, not by nans, Dut oj flanges driven into the side of the hoof. The Arabian farriers even today shoe their horses cold, and regard the European method as injurious.? The Pennsylvanian. The Eagle on the Dollar. The figure of the eagle on the dollars of 1836, 1838, 1839 are exact portraits of a famous American eagle. "Peter, the Mint Bird," he was called by everybody in Philadelphia, and during his life his fame was equally as great as that of "Old Abe," the Wisconsin war eagle, the latter being really a spring chicken when compared with Peter. Peter was the pet of the Philadelphia mint for many years. Finally he was caught in some coining machinery and had the life jerked out of his body in a jiffy. The figure on the coins named above is au exact reproduction of a portrait taken of Peter after he had been stuffed and placed in a glass case in the mint cabinet?St. Louis Republic. Bespoken. Lady of the House?"I am a poor, lone widow, sir; and?" Ragged Haggard?"I'd like to accommodate you. Ma'am; but I am already betrothed."?Puck. CURIOUS FACTS. End of the century" years are not leap years unless divisible by fooJ hundred. Mrs. Betsy Davis, of Mansfield, Mass., celebrated her 101st birthday the other day. Phcenix Park, Dublin, covers nearly two thousand acres; Central Park, New York, 862. A novel team driven by a North Waldoboro, Me., man consists of ? sleek bull harnessed to a top buggy. Native Australians have their war , boomerangs, their Hunting boomerangs and their amusement boomerangs?all different weapons. In Northern France a rabbit is bred which produces a long, fleecy wooL. Experiments show that it will produce a fabric softer and finer than from sheep'B wool. "Honors of war" is the privilege allowed to the enemy, on capitulation, of being permitted to4 retain their arms. This is the highest honor a victor can pay a vanquished foe. A." J. Lewis, of Arlington, Ga., has a gander which its owner declares is forty years old. The bird moves around briskly. He has paid for himself several times over in feathers. Mrs. Jestin Pool, of Fallville, Mo., is 100 years old and has been a church ' member for ninety years, and still walks one mile to church. Some of her children are nearly eighty years oid. t Thomas Wentworth Higginson says that he thinks that Charles Sumner was the man who first introduced envelopes into the United States, as he brought some samples of them from England to Boston in 1840. As a Monterey (CaL) fisherman was unloading his catch at the wharf, an immense hallibut swam up alongside 1 ? ? TT JS t- - - r* _1_ ma ooat. ne seizeu am usu a pear, and with a dexterous thrust secured the fish, which weighed twenty-seven pounds. The proprietor of a small traveling menagerie in Toronto, Canada, discovered a few days ago that one of his monkeys had the letter "M" branded on the palms of his hands. The discovery was made while the animal was lying ill and helpless. Diamonds occur in the United States in two regions. One extends along the southern base oJ the Allegheny Mountains from Virginia to Georgia, the other on the western side of the Sierra Nevada and Casoade range in Northern California and Southern Oregon. "Bulldog Tavern," situated at the North End, Providence, R L, has been sold under the hammer. The place has many queer stories connected with it, and it is related that Washington lodged in its western corner room in the days of the Revolution. The tavern was built in 1690. Laborers engaged in the construction of a road between Smyrna and Vouria have unearthed a sarcophagus at a spot situated opposite Clazomene. The tomb bears engraved figures of men, animals, 6uch as lions, bulls, bears, horses and goats and of barley stalks. It is said to be 2500 years old. The tunnels of the world are estimator! tn number abont 1142. with ft total length of 514 miles. There are about 1000 railroad tunnels, twelve subaqueous tunnels, ninety canal tunnels and forty conduit tunnels, with aggregate lengths of about 350 miles, nine miles, seventy miles ani eightyfive miles respectively. Abd-ux-Rahman, the Emir of Afghanistan, has sent an extremely valuable copy of the Eoran to the holy city of Isnan-Euza, in Persia, according to foreign papers. It is in a casket of gol i and silver, whose carvings are said to be of great beauty. The book, which is valued at $1*25,000, was placed in the mosque with appropriate ceremonies. The Elce Paper Tree. The rice paper tree, one of the most interesting of the entire flora of China, Von -n Vinan cn nnoocf n 11 v pvnprf I uao i. tvtiiuj vwu x J fia^nted with in Florida, where it now flourishes with other subtropical and oriental species of trees and shrubs. When first transplanted in American soil, the experimenters expressed doubts of its hardiness, fearing that it would be unable to withstand the winters. All these fears have vanished, however, and it is now the universal opinion that it is eqnally as well adapted to the climate of this country as to that of the famed Flowery TTi r? rrd r\m It is a small tree, growing to a height of less than fifteen feet, and with a trunk or stem from three to fite inches in diameter. Its canes, which vary in color according to the season, are large, soft and downy, the form somewhat resembling that noticed in those of the castor-bean plant The celebrated rice paper, the product of this queer tree, is formed of thin slices of the pith, which is taken from the body of the tree in beautiful * > -i? - i it cylinders several mcuea m icugnu. The Chinese workmen apply the blade of a sharp straight knife to these cylinders, and, turning them around, either by rude machinery or by hand (in which latter operation they display much skill and dexterity), pare the pith from circumference to center. This operation makes a roll of extra quality paper, the scroll being of even thickness throughout. After a cylinder has thus been pared, it is unrolled and weights placed upon it until the surface is rendered uniformly smooth throughout its entire length. It is altogether probable that if ricq paper making becomes an industry in the United States these primitive modes of manufacture will all bo done away with.?St. Louis Republic. Ail Aquatic Bicycle. The bicycle-boat is said to be a new invention, but has been talked of for years by persons who are fond of boating. The new models are miniature propellers, the screw being worked by a contrivance arranged on the principle of the bicycle. The idea is, however, merely in its infancy, bat is susceptible of great improvement. A twin-screw bicycle-boat, long, light, narrow and with the propellers set far forward on either side, is the plan for J a boat that is expected to distance all smaller craft on ary water.?New 1 York Ledger.