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REV. DR. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUNDAY
SERMON.
Subjectf "The Sabbath Rest."
Text; "Verily, My Sabbaths ye shall
keep."?Exodus xxxl.~, 13.
The wisdom of cessation from hard labor
one day out of seven is almost universally
acknowledged. The world has found out
that it can do les3 work in seven days than
In six, and that the flfty-two days of the
year devoted to rest am an addition rather
than a subtraction. Experiments have been
made in ail departments. The great Lord
Castlereagh thought ne could work his
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broke down and committed suiolde, and j
Wilberforce said of him : "Poor Castlereagh f j
This is the result o! the nonobservance of
the Sabbath!"
A celebrated merchant declared. "I should
have been a maniac Ion? ago but for the
Sabbath!" The nerves, the brain, the
muscles, the bones, the entire physical, in- j
tellectual and moral nature crv out for the .
Sabbatic rest. What is true of man is. for
the most part, true of the brute. Travelers J
have found out that they come to their
places or destination sooner when they let
their horses rest by the way on the Sabbath.
What is the matter with those forlorn
creatures harnessed to some of the city
car?? Why do they stumble and stagger and
fall? It is for the lack of the Sabbatic rest.
In other days, when the herdsmen drove
their sheep and cattle from the Far West
down to the seaboard, it was found out by
experiment that those herdsmen and drovers J
who halted over the seventh day got down
sooner to the seaboard than those who
passed on without the observance of the
holy Saboath. The fishermen off the coast
Of Newfoundland declare that those men
during the year catch the m'03t fish who stop
during the Lord's day.
When I asked the Rocky Mountain locomotive
ena-ineer why he changed locomotives
when it seemed to be a straight route, he
said, "We have to let the locomotive stop
and cool ofT, or the machinery would soon
break down." Men who made large quantities
of salt were told that if they allowed
their kettles to cool over Sunday they would
Bubmit themselves to a great deal of dam""
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age. i ne experiment was uiuue, sumo w- >
serving the SabbHtb, and some not observing
the Sabbath. Those who allowed the fires to
go down and the kettles to cool once a week
were compelled to spend only a few pennies
In the way of repairs, whiie in the cases
where no Sabbath was observed many dollars
were demanded for repairs.
In other words, intelligent man, dumb
beast and dead machinery cry' out for the
Lord's day. But while the attempt to kill
the Sabbath by the stroke of ax and flail and
yardstick has beautifully failed it is proposed
in our day to drown the Sabbath by
nooding-it with secular amusements. They
would bury it very decently under the
wreath of the target company and to the
music of all brazen instruments.
There are to-day in the different cities 10,000
hands and 10,000 pens busy in attempting
to cul out the heart of our Christian Sabbath
and leave it a bleedin? skeleton ot what
it once was. The effort Is organized and
tremendous, and unless the friends of Christ
and the lovers of good order shall rouse up
right speedily their sermons and protests will
be uttered after the castle is taken. There
are cities in the land where the Sabbath has
almost perished, and it is becoming a practical
question whether we who received a
pure Sabbath from the hands of our fathers
shall have piety and pluck enough to give to
our children the same blessed inheritance.
The eternal God helping us, we will!
I protest against this invasion of the holy
Sabbath in the first place because it is a war !
on Divine enactment. God says in Isaiab, j
"If thou turn away thy foot from doing thy j
pleasure on My holy day, thou shalt walk
apon the high places." Wnat did He mean
by "doing thy pleasure?" He referred to
secular and worldly amusements. A man
told me he was never so much frightened as
in the midst of an earthquake, when the
beasts of the field bellowed in fear and even
the barnyard fowls screamed in terror.
Well, it was when the earth was shaking and
the skies were all full of fire that God made
the great announcement, "Remember the
Sabbath day to keep it holy."
Go through the streets where the theatres
are open on a Sabbath nlght.go up on the steps,
enter the boxes of those places of entertain- |
ment and tell me if that is keeping the Sab- i
bath holy. "Oh." says someone, "God won't j
be displeased with a grand sacred concert!" j
A gentleman who was present at a "grand |
sacred concert" one Sabbath night in one of j
the theatres of our great cities said that during
the exercises there were comic and senti-. I
mental songs, interspersed with coarse jokes, i
and there were dances and a farce and tight- j
rope walking and a trapeze performance. I !
Buppose It was a noiy dance ana a consecrated i
tight rope. That Is what they oall a "grand J
sacred concert."
We hear a great deal of talk about "the
rights of the people" to have just such
amusements on Sunday as they want to
k have. I wonder if the Lord has any rights.
You rule your family; the governor "rules the
State; the president rules the whole land.
I wonder if the Lord ha3 a right to rule the
nations and make the enactment, "Remember
the Sabbath day to keep it holy," and if
there is any appeal to a high court from
that decision, and if the men who are warring
against that enaotment are not guilty of
high treason against the Maker of heaven and
earth. They have in our cities put God on
trial. It has been the theaters and the opera
houses, p'aintiCts, \ersu3 the Lord Almighty,
defendant. The suit has bean begun, and
who shall come out ahead you know.
Whether it be popular, I now announce it as
my opinion that the people have no rights
save those which the great Jehovah gives
them. He has never given the right to man
to break His holy Sabbat b, r.nd as long as His
thronestands He never will give that right.
The prophet asks a question which I can
easily answer, "Will a man rob God?" Yes.
They robbed Him l*st Sunday night at the
theatres and the opera house*, and I charge
noon them the infamous and high handed
larceny. I hold the same opinion as a sailor
I have hear J of. The crew had been discharged
from a vessel because they would
not work while they were in port on the
Lord's day. The captain went out to get
Bailors. He found one man, and he said to
him, "Will you serve me on the Sabbath?"
"No." "Why not?" "Well,"replied the old
sailor, "a man who will rob God Almighty
of His Sabbath would rob me of my wag03 if
he i;ot a chance."
Suppose yon were poor, an l you came to
a dry^oods merchant and asked for some
cloth for Rarments, and he should say, "I
will give you six yards," and while he was
oflf from the counter and binding up the six
yards you should ko behind the counter and
steal one additional vard. T.iat is what
every man does when he breaks the Lord's
Sabbath. God gives us six days out of
seven, reserving one for Himself, and if you
will not let Him have it, it is mean beyond
all computation.
Again. I am opposed to this de33cratijn
of the Sabbath by secular entertainments because
it is a war on the statutes of mo3t of
tho State?. The law In New York State says:
"It shall not be lawful to exhibit on the
first day of the week, commonly called Sun^
day, to the public in any building, garden,
grounds, concert room or other room or
place within the city and county of New
York, any interlude, tragedy, comedy, opera,
ballet, play, farce, negro minstrelsy, negro
or other dancing, or any other entertainment
of the stage, or any part or parts therein,
or any equestrian, circus or dramatic
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glers, acrobats or rope dancing."
Was there ever a plainer enactment than
that? Who made the law? Yoa who at the
ballot boxes decided who should 1:0 to Albany
and sit in the Legislature; you who iu any
region exercise the right of suffrage. They
made the law for you and for your families,
and now I say that any man who attemps to
override that law insults you and me an J
elerv rnnn who has the right of suffrau?.
Still further, I protest against the invasion
of the Sabbath because it is a foreign war.
Now, if you heard at this moment the booming
of a gun in the harbor, or if a shell from
some foreitrn frigate should drop into yout
rtreet, would you keep yourteats in church
You would want to face" the foe. and ever?
?un that could bemanasred would be brought
Into use, and every ship that could be
brought out of the navy yard would swinq
from her anchnrase, and the question would
be decide 1. You do not want a foreign war,
and yI have to tell you that this invasion
of God's holy day is a foreign war.
As amon? our own native born population
there are two classes?the good and the bai,
so it is with the people who come from other
snores?triers are^Ttte" laflr abfdlhg ancTTtre
lawless. The former are welcome here. The
mor-3 of them the better we like it. But let
[ not the lawless come from other shores expecting
to break dowa our Sabbath and in!
stitute in the place of it a foreign Sabbath.
How do yon feel, ye who have been
brought up amid the hills of New England,
about giving up the American Sabbath? Ye
who spent your ehlidbo^ I nn-ier the shadow
of the Adirondacks or the Catskills, ye who
1 were born on the banks of the Savannah or
Ohio or Oretron. how do you feel about givin?
up tho American Sabbath? You say:
"We shall not give it up. We mean to defend
it a3 long as there is left anv strength I
in our arm or bloo i in our heart! Do not |
brin? your Spanish Sabbath here. Do not
bring your Italian Sabbath here. Do not
bring your French Sabbath here. Do not
brini? your foreign Sabbath here. It shall be
for us and for our children forever a
pure, consecrated, Christian, American Sabbath."
I will make a comparison between the
American Sabbath, as some of you have
known it, and the Parisian Sabbath. I speak
from observation. On a Sabbath mornincr I
was aroused in Paris by a great sound in the
street. I said. "What is this?"' "Oh," they
said, "this is Sunday." An unusual rattle
Ql VJJUlCiys uu 3u;ic. xuc> vi/icca ancmau
more bo.sterous than on other days. People
running to and fro, with baskets or bundles,
to set to the rail trains or gardens. It seamed
as if all the vehicles ia Paris, of whatever
sort, had turned out for trie holiday. The
Champs Elysees one great mob of pleasure
seeking people. Balloons flying. Parrots
chattering. Footballs rolling. Peddlers
hawking tholr kaickkaacks through tae
streets. Punch and Judy shows ia a score of
places, eacb one with a shouting audience.
Hani organs, cymbals aad every kind of
racket, musical and unmusical. When the
evening cams down, all the theaters were ia
full blaze of mu3ic and fuil blaz? of light.
The wine stores and salooas ware throagei
with aa unusual autnber of customers. At
eveatlde I stood and watched the excursionists
coming home, fagged out men, women
and children, a gulf stream of fatigue, irritability
and wretchedness, for I should think
it would take three or four days to get over
that miserable way of Sundavine. It seemed
more like r.n American Fourth of Juiy than
a Christina Sabbath.
Now, ia coatrast. I preseat oae of the Sabbaths
ia oae of our best Amerlcaa cities.
Holy silence coming down with the day
dawn. Business men more deliberately looking
into the faces of their children and talking
to them about their preseat 'and future
welfare. Mea sit loager at the table ia the
moraing, because the stores are aot to be
opeaed. aad the mechaaical tools ar9 aot to
be taken up. A hymn is sua?. There are
coagratulatioas aad good cheer all through
the house. The street silent until 10 o'clock,
whea there is a regular, orderly tramp
churchward. Houses of Go J, vocal wit*a
thaaksgiviag for mercies received, with
prayer for comfort, with chiritios for the
poor. Rest for the holy. Rest for the soul.
The nerves quieted, the tnmple9 coole 1, ttie
mind cleared, the soul strengthened, an i
our entire population turned out on .Monday
morning ten years younger, better prepare !
for the duties of the life, better prepared for
the life that is to co-ne.
Which do you like best^-the American
Sabbath or the Parisian Sabbath? Do you
know in what boat the Sabbath came across
the seas and landed on our shores? It was
in th9 Mayflower. Do you know in what
boat the Sabbath will leave u?, if it ever
goes! It will be in the ark that floats over a
delude of national destruction.
Still further, I protest against the invasion
of the Lord's day because it wrongs a vast
multitude of employes of their rest. The
play actors and actresses can have their rest
between their engagements, but how about
the scene shifters, the ballet dancers, the
caliboys, the innumerable attendants and
supernu merles of the American theatre?
Where is their Sun lay to come from? They
are paid small salaries at the best. Alas,
for them! They appear on the stage in tinsel
and tassel with halber is, or in gauze whirling
in toe tortures, and they might be mistaken
for fairies or queens, but after 1 o'clock
at nitfht you may sen them trudging through
the streets in faded dresses, saiveriug- and
urea, ll UUUUlO uuua uiou c**. au, svcmu^
their homes in the garret9 and cellars of the
city. Now. you propose to take from thousands
of these employes throughout this
country not only all opportunity of moral
culture, but all opportunity of physical rest.
For heaven's sake, let the crushiag juggernaut
stop at least one day in seven.
Again. I oppose this modern invasion of
the Christian Sabbath because it is a war on
the spiritual welfare of the people. You
have a body? Yes. You have a mind? Yes.
You have a soul? Yes. Which of the secular
halls on the Sabbath day will give thiit soul
any cultura? Now, admitting that a man
has a spiritual and immortal nature, which
one of the places of amusement will culture
it? Which one of the Sabbath performances
will remin 1 men of the fact that unless they
are born again they cannot see the kingdom
of God?
Will the music of the "Grand Duchess"
help people at last to sin? the song of the
one hundred and forty and four thousand?
Besides, if you gantltifmen of the secular entertainment
have six days in the week in
which to exorcise your alleged beneficial influence,
ought you not to allow Christian institutions
to have twenty-four hours? Is it
unreasonable to demand that if you have six
days for the body and intellect we should
have one day at least for our immortal soul?
Or. to put it in another sbapj, do you rdally
think our imperishable soul is worth at
least one-seventh as much as out' perishable
body?
An artist has three gems?a cornelian, an
amethyst and a diamond. He has to cut
them and to set them. Which one is ht?
most particular about? Now, the coro?Uas
Is the body, the amethyst is the intellect, the
diaraoui is the soul. For the two former
you propose six days of opportunity, while
you offer no opportunity at all for the last,
which is in value as compared with the
others like $100,000,ODO,ODD to one farthiog.
Besides you must not forget that nine-tenths
?aye, ninety-aiue ono-huuire Itks?jf all
the Christian efforts of this country are put
forth on the Lord's day. Sunday is the day
on which the asylums and hospitals an 1 the
Srisons are visited by Christian men. That
i the day whttn the youth of our country
get ttieir religious information in sua my
schools. That is the day when tha most of
the charities are collected. That is the day
when, under the blast of 60,00.) American
pulpits, the sin oi the lan I is assaulted and
men are summoned to repent. Waen you
make war upon any part of Go l's day, you
make war upon the asylums, an 1 the piuitentaries,
anlttio hospitals, and the reform
associations, and th;? homes of tho destitute,
and the church of the living God, whica Is
the pillar and the grounl of the truth.
I am opposed to the invasion of the Sibbath
because it is a war on our political Institutions.
When the Sabbath goes dowu,
the republic goes down. Men who are no:
willing to obey God's law iu regard to Sabbath
observance are not tit to govern themselves.
Sabbath breaking means dissoluteness,
and dissoluteuess Is incompatible with
self government. Thev wanted u republic in
France. After awhile they got a republic,
but one day Napoleon III., with his cavalry,
rode through the streets, and down went the
republio under the clatterlnz hoofs. They
have a republic there again, but France
never will have a permanent republic until
she emits her roistering Sabbaths and devotes
one day in everv week to the recognition ot
God and sacred institutions. Abolish the
Sabhath, and too abolish your relisious
privileges. Let the bad work ro on, and voa
have "the commune." and you have "the
revolution," and you have the sun of national
prosperity going down in darkness and
blood. From that reigrn of terror may the
God of peace deliver us.
Still further, I am opposed to this invasion
of the Sabbath becau*e it is unfair and it is
partial. While secular amusements in different
cities are allowed to b? open on the
Sabbath day, dry eoo ls establishments must
be closed, and plumbing establishments. and
the butcher's, and the baker's, and the shoemaker's.
and the hardware stores. Now, tell
me by what law of justice you can compel a
man to shut the door of his store while you
ke<?p open the door of your worldly establishment.
May it please your honors,
judges of the supreme court, if you give to
secular places the right to be open on the
Sabbath day, you have to give, at the same
time, the right to all commercial establishments
to be open, and to all mechanical establishments
to be open. If it is right in the
one case, it i3 risrht in all the cases.
But we are told that they must <?et money
on Sabbath niehts in order to pay the deficits
of the other nichts of the week. Now. In
answer to that I say that if the men cannot
manage their amusements without breaking
the Lord's day they had better all go into
bankruptcy together. We will never surrei>
der our Christian Sabbath for the purpose of
helping these violators to pay their expenses.
Above all, iny confidence is In the good hand
of God that has been over our cities since
their foundation. Bnt I call this day npon
all those who befriend Christian principle,
and those who love our political freedom,
who stand in solid phalanx in this Thermopylae
of our American history, for I believe
as certainly as I Btand here that the triumph
or overthrow of American institutions depends
upon this Sabbath contest.
Brlnp vour voioes, your p<;ns. your printing
presses and your pulpits into the Lord's
artillery corps for the defense of our holy
day. To-day in your families and in your
Sabbath schools, recite, "Remember the
Sabbath day to keep it holy." Decree beI
fore high heaven that this war on your religious
rights and the cradles of your children
shall bring ignominious defeat to the
enemies of God and the public weaL For
those who die in the contest battling for the
right we shall chisel the epitaph, "These are
they who came out of great tribulation and
had their robes washed and made white in
the blood of the Lamb." Bat for that one
who shall prove in this moral crisis recreant
to God ana the church that there shall be no
honorable epitaph. He shall not bo worthy
even of a burial place in all this free land,
bnt the appropriate iuterment for such a one
would be to carry out his remains and drop
them Into the soa, where the lawless winds
which keep no Sabbath may crailop over the
crave of him who lived and died a traitor to
God, the church and the fr<?o institutions of
America. Long live the Christian Sabbath!
Perish forever all attempts to overthrow it!
POPULAR SCIENCE.
Artificial auroras have been produced.
Red spots in the lieart-line of the
hand indicate liability to disease.
A Parisian dentist filled a hole the
size of a silver dollar in an elephant's
tooth with composition and tin.
The Massachusetts Legislature has
passed a law requiring all the wires in
Boston to be put under ground.
Tiberias, Palestine, has n meteorological
observatory situated 682 feet
below the level of the Mediterranean
Sea.
A Chicago chemist has discovered
a method for rendering all kinds of
wood incombustible and practically
indestructible.
The Government is about to start a
psycho-physical laboratory in Washington,
and Professor Elmer Gates
T ~~~4-oL-o nf it..
ilttO UCCii CU^CU^UU VU Uuav vuw^^v v. ...
It is computed tbat all the houses
in London and New York could be
built of the lava thrown out by Vesuvius
since the first recorded eruption
in A. D. 79.
A Paris physician who lived to the
age of 107 ascribed his longevity to
placing his bed so that it stood north
and south, in the direction of the
great magnetic currents.
The bodies of persons who have
perished in the sandy deserts become
so thoroughly dried by the sun and
wind as to be reduced to thirty-nine
per cent, of their weight in life.
A bicycle ambulance is one of the
latest inventions, and consists of a
bicycle with an ambulance attached.
The stretcher is fastened to the top of
the bicycle, and the wounded or sick
person lying on the stretcher can then
be rolled along in a very gentle and
safe manner.
An order has recently been issued
from the British Admiralty to the effect
that sentries on duty on men-ofwar.
Hvill not wear side arms in the
neighborhood of electric dynamos.
This is because the bayonet becomes
highly magnetized through close
proximity to dynamos, with the result
that compasses are affected by sentries
passing near them.
"Water is compressible theoretically,
but not practically. That is, when
an amount of water is subjected to an
additional pressure of one atmosphere
it is compressed one-twenty-thousandth
part of its bulk. Thus, for all
practical purposes, it is correct to say
that you caunot get more than four
quarts of water into a gallon vessel
under any circumstances.
The following instance of tenacity
of life in land snails is given by Mr.
Stearns, of the United States National
Museum: "Certain snails were collected
on Cerros or Cedros Island off
the coast of Lower California in 1859.
Six years later one of them, on being
placed in a box of moist earth, began
? ' *--il
to move &DOUI. Anumtsr Ducix,
from Lower California, woke up from
its lethargy after a long nap of two
years, two months and sixteen days."
It is surprising in how high latitudes
are to be found animals that
live on herbage, thriving as though
pasturage were abundant. The musk
ox, reindeer and hare belong to this
order, and are found as far north as
explorers have yet gone. These creatures
have to feed under the snow for
a large part of the year. They remove
the covering with the hoof or
paw and feed over large patches of
ground even when the snow is several
inches in depth.
A Lynx on llis Back.
George Maschmeyer, out in the
Weed Patch, tells of an experience he
had a few days ago near his home that
is hair-raising in its details. The other
day while among the brush he heard a
strange and unearthly noise, something
like the concentrated hum of a
thousand angry rattlesnakes. A paralytic
sensation seized him and he
turned to retreat, when suddenly the
source of the noise bounded upon hid
back.
The animal straggled and clawed,
growled and moaned and tore his coaj
into strips. George completely lost
his head and did not regain it until he
had covered fifty yards in the direction
of the house, when his burden
suddenly released itself and sprang
back into the brush. Then the
frightened man had a chance to look
at his assailant, and to his amazement
saw that he had been carrying a huge
and savasre she lvnx.
George hastened home and with his I
brother and some dogs returned to the
scene, and in short order they captured
the whole family, the old one
and three young ones about the size
of half-grown house cats. The capture
of the mother was secured by
placing the young in an improvised
trap. In the fight, however, she received
injuries which caused her
death. The three young ones were
taken home, where two of them afterward
died. The third one is doing
nicely, and is now a real civilized
lynx, as gentle as a house cat.?
Bakersheld Californian.
Chicago's Phenomenal Growth. M
According to the tabulated returns of the
school census canvassers, just completed.
Chicago has a total population of 1.562,796
souls. This is an increase of 124.78G over
the population as recorded by the census
taken two years ai:o
WOMAN'S DRESS.
HOT WEATHER NOTIONS AND
CHANGES IN FASHIONS.
Blouses and Tailor-Made Suits Ever
Popular?Fine Vests?Summer
Silks, Cotton Dresses?
Popular Straw Hats.
On the cars and on the steamer's deck we
note that covert coating has almost superseded
serge for traveling dresses. Covert is
an admirable fabric. At present it is seen in
light tan. and fawn colors and occasionally In
light green and or gray blue. For traveling,
I think tan, on the whole, the best shade. To
be sure, it is not always la harmony with the
complexion of a brunette; but this can be
remedied by adding a vest of warm red
basket cloth or of light yellow pique; while
a blond can choose a vest of white blue twill,
with white lines and cross-bars. I notice
also that, almost without exception, the
skirts in such gowns are plain. The skirt,
which should escape the floor all round, is
untrimmed, except by stitching above a
nem, ana is usuauy vimuuc uuui?. mo
coat may be long or short, according to
fancy, and either single or double-breasted.
The revers and collar are. of masculine cut,
and there are no fancy collarettes, butterfly
collars, or epaulettes seen. I notice that
the pockets are more modest, being mere
slits, cut diagonally, and stitched, without
flaps.
Fixe Vests.?Covert coating suits are sold
ready made in many of tho stores, and at
prices that are within the reach of all. While
this is the case, I have seen suits of the same
material made expensively, if not elegantly.
I have see yachting suits of this material, at a
tailor's, with two coats, one short and tho
other reaching to the knees. With these
coats, several vests are provided, in old style
brocades. Otherwise i' e richest of these
costumes that I have seen have been rigidly
simple, and can be made with very little
cost.
I have noticed in some crowds of summer
travelers that mohair gowns are to be seen.
For Bummer travel they have the advantage
of being light and they are rather more
elaborate in design than the usual tailor
gown. One of light gray blue, with a coat
quite long in the back, and belted there by
folds of dark blue coming through tho
sides on the front of a short coat, attracted
attention.
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Sommeb 8rr.ES.?The ahrap and pretty
Chine suits introduced early in the season
are being superseded by tho new check silks.
These silks are shown in black and white?
which are especially popular this year?
though I have seen soma ia violet, white,
rose and turquoise, and f.ther .shades that
were very attractive. The most popular way
of making up these silk? is with a plain
skirt, rather full and flar ng, round bodice
with a garniture and ecru lace, full bertha,
and large sleeves reaching nearly to the
elbow where they are mot by wrinkled
gloves. A dress of palo rose, turquoise blue
and black check is made with plain skirt
and round bodice. The bodice is finished
with points of black satin, back and front,
extending from the neck to the waist line.
The remainder of the body of the bodice is
covered with blue satin, overlaid with ecru
guipure, the scollop of the lace bordering the
blaok satin points. The sleeves of the bodice
are of plaid silk, and the wrinkled stock
collar, soft bolt, and soft trimming at the
bottom of the sleeves, are of turquoise velvet.
This combination of turquoise and black is
one of the most becoming and popular I have
seen this season.
TVprrwrvn <7nTrriv TliiFssrs?Ot-.hnr rnnlA.
rials may como and go, but for summer wear
the dainty cotton gown must go on forever.
The most becoming o? these dresses are
made with four breadths, a gored breadth in
front, one gore on each side, and a straight
back breadth, very much as they were made
before the introduction of th? belt skirt.
This pattern can bo recommended for all
dresses of serviceable wear that aro intended
to clear the ground. Tho skirt should bo
cut four yards around tho bottom, gathered
slightly at tho belt in front and at tho sides,
while the greater part of the fullness is
massed at the fiack in round box ploats, or
gathered, if tho gown is cotton. I have
Beeti some very dainty gowns in cream white,
figured with tiny blossoms in the colons and
pattern's of Drosden china. They resemble
the t>ld-fashionod brilliants; but tho dress- ,
makers call them "dimities." These dimities
are not to be confounded with tho dimity
lawn, .vhich is a sheer goods, and has
been In the market for a long time. These
new dimities are almost as heavy as satine.
A. most becoming way of making up these
dresses Is with a four gored skirt, edged
with three narrow ruffles overlapping each
other so as to make the-group of ruffles only
five inches wide. Three rows of laoe beading
of the-narrowest kind border each ruffle,
and in thee? rows of beading the narrowest
black velvet ribbon Is run. The effect is very
pretty; and the black velvet may be revived
when the dress is washed. The bodice of
frfri* gown is made with a full round waist,
finished with a five-Inch bertha trimmed
with three rows of black velvet run in the
beading. Similar rows of velvet trim the
collar and end in little rosettes at the side.
The full leg-or'-mutton sleeves are finished
with five rows of beading run with velvet
and tied to form rosettes on the outside
seam. A black velvet scarf about two and a
half inches wide passes around the waist
and ends at the left side of the front breadth.
?'opula-b dtkaw hats.?uunng me pas |
three years a very becpming little bonnet haa
been generally worn with tailor-made dresses,
but this is now being superseded by the
straw hat. The woman of middle age wears
this hat as becomingly as a school girL
There Is one thing I like about this straw
hat, and that is that it is genuine. It makes
no pretense to being a bonnet, either In its
trimmings or in the position in which it is
worn. These trimmings are usually made
o! amour braid. This I remember was introduced
wwt seMtST. hut did not become a
success. There is no accounting ror ta3tes,
for what was rejected last year we And decidedly
popular this. A small Russian turban
of amour braid with rather a small
crown and rolling brim I And quite popular
with tailor costumes. The hat is generally
of some delicate color to harmonize with the
mixed colors of the suit, or to contrast with
it if the suit is dark. This hat is quite often
trimmed with a twist of biack nat or black
chiffon, finished at the side with a cluster of
quills or a wing, or aigrette of black sparvgled
with jet Another most becoming hat is
In the English walking shape, with a brim
rolled up at the side instead of being turned
up sharply. This hat is called the Duchesfi
of York, and is to bo found in various picturesque
straws as well as in the amour
braid. I notice that the tendency of all
shapes in millinery, and of all trimming, is
toward low, broad effects. For elaborate
wear, however, the tiny bonnet, which is so
small that It has become a head-dress of lace
and spangles, Is generally chosen. Only the
sheerest and most gauzy materials are used
in these little bonnets.
OF LNTEBEST TO WOMEU.
Professor Bruhl, of Geneva, Switzerland,
who, like all sensible scientists, has cotno to
believe that tfc.* liraln is the organ of thought,
concedes that volume, all things being equal,
is an evidence of power, but he says that
texture and temperament are quite as important
factors as size. Judged by these
standards, the professor says that the female
hrain i*. as a rule. suDerior to that of the
male, for what it lacks in volume it makes
up in tho delicacy of its formation and the I
vitality of its cells as well as the larger ex- j
fanso of gray matter in its convolutions.
There are no people in the world fonder of j
music than the Welsh. From the humblest I
hut of the miner to the hall of the wealthy
landowner in Wales, music may be &aid to
be part of their daily lives. It is a curious
fact, however, that with all their love of
music, and their ability to render the same,
the Welsh have never given the world a great
musical genius, either as a performer, a composer
or a singer. But it is safe to say that
in proportion to the population there are np
people in the world who appreciate music so
much or can render it so well as the Welsh.
Miss Emily James Smith, who has won a
fellowship in Greek at the University of
Chicago, at which institution she will receive
the degree of Ph.D. in July, will enter upon
her duties as Dean of Barnard College in
October.
A marble portrait bust of Mrs. Harriet
Beecher Stowe from tho hand of Miss Annie
Whitney, of Boston, has been purchased by
subscription by Connecticut women, and
placed in Wadsworth Athenaeum at Hartford,
Conn.
In a square inch of human scalp the hairs
number about one thousand, and tho total
number on an adult scalp is about ono hundred
and twenty thousand. Black hair is
tho thickest; then comes fair hair, and lastly
the red and light brown.
It will interest women, particularly those
living in the country, to know that there are
eight edible and twelve poisonous varieties
of mushrooms to be found in the United
8tates. As these mushrooms, edible and
non-edible, resemble each other very much,
a knowledge of them can only be had by personal
observation. This is certainly a luscious
vegetable, but unless one is absolutely
sureof it, it is better not to eat mushrooms
at all than to run any risk.
Professor Garner, who has become famous
through his study of the so-called Simian
language, is firmly convinced that physically
the quailrumana are closely allied to man.
"If there were any doubt of this," ho said to
tho writer, ono day, "it would bo dissipated
by the fact that tho female gorillas do ten
times more talking than the males. Indeed,"
he added, laughingly, "when the female monkeys
become excited, and express themselves
with indignant llueney, the maloa sit by and
scratch their heads, looking as if they had
forgutleii every word ip their limited vocabulary."
Qu<>'*n Victoria generally breakfasts alcxie,
When at Windsor, in a room adorned with
tho jK>rtraits of h?r daughters-in-law, the
Princess of Wales and the Duchess of Coburg.
Toa of a peculiar kind, known as Earl
uiiAuiiu, ifj a jyupuu**. uu>uiiv^o ?? !
her majesty. The Queen usually takes
luncheon with her (laughter, the Princess
Beatrice, but sho has always with her any
member of hor family who may be staying
with her at the time. She Is very fond ol
fine-flavored pi me, and has a thorough
English liking for a sirloin of cold beef.
EMSITOOffffil]
A TPS FOUNDERS WITH A
BOATLOAD OF FISHERMEN.
The Nicol With Scores of Pleasure
Seekers From New York and Vicinity
Goes Down Off Seabright,
N. J. ? Conflicting Reports as to
the Cause of the Disaster.
loss of life by the disaster to the fishing
tug James D. NIool, off Seabright, N. J.,
was increased by particulars gathered on, the
day aCtor the tragedy. Till then the narratives
of the survivors were so conflicting
that no one could say, with any degree
of accnracy, how many persons were on
the tug when she foundered, much less
give any definite Idea of.the number of
the missinz. A sifting of the recitals
and the finding of the homes of all
of them proved that there were at least
niaety-two persons, including the crew of
five, on board when the Nicol went over and
down. Of that number iorty-seven were
saved, and seven bodies recovered, leaving
thirty-eight to be accounted for. As none of
the missing returned home or sent word to
their grieving kinired on the day following
the calamity, it was considered pretty safe to
presume that they were all drowned. Had
any of them been picked up alive along
shore itwa3 thought that the fact would
have been reported.
Following were the victims whose bodies
were recovered immediately after the boat
upset; Walter J. Buckridge. No. 982 Halsey
street, Brooklyn, leaves a wife and two children:
John Dunn, No. 874 Eighth avenue,
New York City, leaves a wife and one child;
Herman Everard, No. 402 East Eighty-fourth
street, New York City; William Keyser, residence
unknown: Thomas Massen, No. 157
DeGraw street, Brooklyn ; Frank McAleer,
No. 95 Washington street. New York City;
unknown man. believed to be Louis Hocherin,
fireman of the tug Nicol.
The attendants at the Morgue, Police Headquarters,
and the various police stations
throughout New York City had a busy time
of it attending to the dozens of people who
kept coming in to report friends supposed to
have been lost with the Nicol, or to inquire if
missing friends had been heard from. Police
Headquarters was probably the busiest place
of all. At the Bureau of Information there
were women in search of husbands and sons,
tattlers in searca 01 sons, onosou muiuug iut
a father, and any number of weeping srlrlg
whose brothers went out on the excursion of
the Herring Fishing Club, who had chartered
the NIcol, and had not come back. It was
with difficulty that some of the people could
be handled.
Jersey beachmen say they were not surprised
at the accident It had been common
remark with them that more than ninetenths
of the tugs whioh come down on
Sundays to flsh off the Cholera Banks are
overloaded. These boats plunge alone with
almost as big loads as a side-wheeler would
carry, amd they run risks which the bigger
boats would shrink from.
The opinion along the beach is the Nicol
had very little coal, and as a result stood
well out of tho water. The higher she stood
the more top heavy she became. The waves
obtained a better chance, too. to wash under
her counter and lift her. Had there been
plenty of coal aboard she would have lain
low and the coal would have kept her on
even keel through a much worse storm.
It was impossible on the day after to determine
where rested the responsibility for
the disaster, owing to countless assertions
and denials made by passengers and captain
and members of the tug's crew. Captain
Hyde, who is smooth faced and ruddy
cheeked, and says ho is twenty-five years
old, though he appears to be only
nineteen, asserted that if all
the excursionists had been sober
no accident would have resulted. "It was a
heavy sea." he said, "but the Nlcol was a
good little tug and wo could have come in
safely but for the drunkenness of a great
number of the passengers. They shouted
and yelled and climbed all over the tug,
even up to the pilot house. If the
- * ' -II
crowd nao. oeen luainuuicu mi nvum
hAva been well. But what they did was to
crowd on the port side like a flock of sheep,
and when the bis wave3 struck the tug she
went over. I saw them coming and tied the
whistle down hard to blow for help. The
story that I had been drinking Is a lie. I
drank nothing until after being rescued, and
had swallowed so much salt water that I
had to."
Captain Hyde'3 official report to United
States Local Inspector of Steamboats Fairchild
is as follows
'I offer the following report of the foundering
of the tug James D. Nicol, on Sunday,
June 24. 1894, about six miles off Atlantic
Highlands, east of north :
;I left Fifth street. East River, with the
Herring Fishing Club at a quarter to seven,
and made a stop at Pier 3. East River, for
bait and refreshments, and left Pier 3, East
River, at quarter past seven and proceeded
direct to the Fishing Banks, whera we arrived
at half-past ten and anchored, the
weather at the fime being fine and the sea
smooth. About half an hour after we had
anchored the wind breezed up lightly from
about east, we iaia sun xmm awui
quarter past twelve p. m., and I noticed the
wind began to rise and the sea increase, and
I immediately got under way to get inside
the Hook. I headed up about north-northeast
and proceeded cautiously as possible,
the sea and wind still increasing to hurricane
violence as I got up off the Highlands.
"They were bearing about west by south.
The boat did not make any water and there
was no water shipped other than the spray,
until those two heavy seas struck us that
sent her down. When I saw tfrea joining,
quite_a ways off, I ported fny neln? and
tooif~ them head on, the passengers
being on the port side. She bad quite a
heavy list, causing the water to rush down
the port side, careening her over, and j
she filled. I tied the whistle rope down to
keep It blowing as she was above water for
assistance, and then I climbed out of the
window on the starboard side and assisted in
cutting the life raft and boat as much as possible,and
shouted to the people to save themselves,
as the boat was going down.
In about five minute3 she had foundered.
As near as I could tell it was
about fifteen or twenty minutes after when
the tug Robert Sayres came to our rescue,
followed by the tugs Sammie and C. E.
Evarts and steamship Algonquin, which latter
sent out lifeboats to our assistance.
These picked up all the passengers, as far as
I could tell, and brought us to the city.
"Johx Hyde."
A number of ttiose who were saved are exceedingly
indignant at Captain Hyde, Oi the
Nicol, and assert that he deliberately ran his
tug in the trough of the sea in order to
"give a bath" to the managers of the excursion,
who had made him shift the tug half a
dozen times in order to set good fishing.
DYNAMITED THE CAE.
The Messenger Knocked Senseless, j
and the Bandits Got 9122::.
Train No. , o* the Savannah, Florida and
Western Railroad was hold up near Hotnervllls,
Ga., 125 miles southwest of Savannah
at 1.50 a m., by six masked white men. Tha
safe in the express car was robbed ot its contents.
$1222 in cash.
Two of the men boarded the train at
Homerville, concealing themselves behind
the tender. Later they cilmbed ovar the
tender, covered the engineer and fireman
with pistols and toVl Eugineer JsukLns to
stop. J
Tuea four other masked men appeared, i
While two kept the engineer covered the |
others went to the exorsss car. Coudnctor
Fnrris and a train hand got oil to investigate
tii?* cause for stopping, but did not stand on
ceremony when ordered to return.
While two of the men kept watch the
other two ordered Messenger Cilder to op ?a
ths door. Herefused. Tao msn told him
he had better get out. Then ho hear 1 one
of the men lighting a fuse, and boforo he
could reacti the corner a dynamite cartridge
exploded, breaking tiio door from its fastening.
The explosion stunnod the messenger, and
when he came to he was looking into the
barrel of a pistol. He did not hesitate long
when the robher wuo was in the car told him
to open the safe. He also took out the packages
as directod.
The robber gathered up the moaoy in his
arm and jumped out. The sftc then climbed
on the engiue, mad* the ilreman uncouple it
from the cars and compelled both euginear
and Ilreman to get off. Thay ran tha engine
eleven miles from the scene of the robbery
and took totho woods.
<1
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle States.
Tboops wens ordered to go to Pui^asutawney.
Penn,, as striking miners there wer?
miming things with a lawless hand.
E. C. Knappe. assistant teller of the Chicopee
National Bank, of Springfield. Mass.,
acknowledged embezzling about $25,000 of
its funds.
Mas. Lizzie Hallida? was convicted of
murder in the first decree in Slonticello. N.,
Y., for the killing of her husband, Paul Halliday,
and the two McQuillan women.
About three hundred representative Southern
business men met New York and Eastern
captitalist3 at the Fifth Avenue Hotel,
New York City, ana discussed plans by which
Northern capital may be attracted to the
South. Secretary Hoke Smith made a telling
speech.
The eleventh Suburban was run over the
Coney Island Jockey Club's course at Sheepshead
Bay, N. Y., in the presence of 25,000
w kr iZ1Aat\n Ar
OilU WCK5 WVU l/J ? 4 ?
chestnut horse, Ramapo, 120 pounds, Taralup,
with. II. F. Dwyer'sbay gelding, Banquet, 119
pounds, 81ms up. second, and Gilpin A
Taylor's Sport. 114 pounds. Thompson up.
third. The time was 2.06 1-5, the fastesti ,
Suburban ever run by two-fifths of a second.;
The stake was worth $12,170 to the winner,
$3120 to the second horse and $1810 to tha
third horse.
These were 10.000 men ia line in the night
parade of the National Saongerbund, New;
York City. The spectacle was magnificent.)
Governor Flower and Mayor Gllroy reviewed'
the procession.
The Rev. Charles Warmkessel, of Mahantango
Valley, Pennsylvania, committed suicide
by hanging. He was of the Evangelical
faith. While his body was being cut;
down his nephew was killed on the railroad.,
Mrs. Lizzie Haixiday was sentenced at;
Monticello, N. Y., to die in the electric ohair
during the week beginning August 6 for the>
murder of her husband, Paul Hallfday, and<
the two McQuillan women.
Woxen in State street, Passaic, N. J., by:
force prevented workmen from erecting!
trolley poles.
An unknown man made a fatal plunge
from the Brooklyn (N. Y.) Bridge.
Biotebs in the Clearfield-Jefferson District
of Pennsylvania were held in cheok by;
the arrival of State troops, and the backbone
of the miners' strike was broken.
John Kibchneb, a laborer, fifty-nine years
old, killed his wife, Margaret, at Williamsburg,
N. Y., as the result of a quarrel caused
by Mrs. Kirchner objecting to his actions at
tne table.
Camden, N. J., experienced one of the hottest
and at the same time one of the saddest
days in its hl3tory. With the meroury at 108
in some localities ana niiieiy-iuur iu ius
coolest part, the mortality footed up a total'
of nine children, whose deaths were due, directly
or indirectly, to tad heat, and one infant
was found dead in a lot. Four oI the
victims were boys who sought the cool
waters for a bath.
Fbedebick Bahb, forty-eight years old, a
workman in the United States Babber
Works, and living in New Brans wick, N. J.,
killed his wife. Ida, aged thirty-eic'at. Ho
fired at her three times. One bullet penetrated
her brain, causing death almost instantly.
He then turned thfe revolver and
shot himself in two places, dying soon afterwards.
His wife was in a delicate condition.
Thomas A. Edison.'the inventor, is at his
home in Orange, N. J., suffering from what
was feared might prove to be serious internal
injuries received by falling backward
from a chair.
A vast audience heard the closing concert
of ihe Saengerfest in New York City, the
most successful of the series.
The five persons drowned by the sinking
of a sloop in Gowanus Bay. Brooklyn, N. Y.,
are found to have been Charles Nelson, of
?-j- i, jo
Z04 VJOlUUIUlft aireoi, muuiuju, uu nuu,
eldest child, servant and a boarder.
At New York City Erastus Wiman Drocured
a stay of execution of his sentence lot
forgery.
South and West.
Kelly and Baker, Commonweal leaders,
were arrested in Louisville, Ky., as vagrants.
The American Railway Union at Chicago
declared a boycott upon all Pullman cars la
the United States, Canada and Mexico.
While Frank and Ralph Lindsay were
standing under a tree at Tuscola. Ill, lightning
struck it. The flash killed Frank instantly,
and Ralph was severely injuredLightning
killed two men named Brummend
and Hagedorn. whe were asleep in the
same shed at Sugartown, Wis.
The carriage of J. P. Maddox was struck
by a train at a crossing in McHenry, Ky.
Mrs. Lewis Maddox, of Texas. Mr. Maddox*s
sister-in-law, and her two children were instantly
killed. Mr. Maddox died in an hour.
Thbee persons were killed and several injured
in a railway wreck near Cailllcothe,
Ohio.
A crcLoxE struck the town of Keighley,
Batler County, Kan., nearly wiping it out or
existence. A courier on horseback reported
that many were killed.
Mas. Cabbie Reed, a pretty brunette
twenty-four years of age, was shot and instantly
killed at Chicago, 111., by an unknown
man, who immediately turned his
pistol upon himsslf with fatal remits.
Washington.
-The Montgomery has been placed in commission.
jk
The President revived the new Korean1"
Minister, Mr. Ye Sung Soo.
Pbofessor Mendexhall, in Charge of the
Coast and Geodetic Survey, has tendered his
resignation to the President.
Ex-Clebz Cbaio, in the Carnegie mills'
testified at Washington that, although ViceChairman
Hunslcker admitted that more
furnaces were needed at the mills to do Gov
ernment work properly, they were not built ;
also that Hunsicker knew all about armorplate
frauds at tha time they were committed.
Pbesident Cleveland, in an interview,
commends the New York banks for replenishing
the Treasury gold reserve, and saya
the financial condition of the country is
favorable.
Foreign.
Trouble Is brewing between the republics
of Nicaragua and Costa Rica, and war seems
likely.
Mb. Gladstone has declined to be a candidate
for the British Parliament at the next
general election.
SaaroAtf rebels, unintimidated by foreign
warships, are fighting Malietoa's warriors.
Japax has landed an army of 19,000 men
in Corea, and has occupied the capital.
Sixty cases and fifteen deaths from cholera
have occurred at Jemeppe, near Liege, Belgium.
A mine was discovered along the line on
which the Czar intended traveling to Central
Bus3ia for the army manoeuvres.
Ax explosion occurred in the Albion coal
mine near Pont-y-Pridd, Glamorganshire*
Wales. Two hundred men were underground
at the time. Eighty were killed.
Rebels in Peru were defeated by the
Federal troops.
A dispatch from Pont-y-pridd, Wales, says
that 172 bodies have been recovered fromtha
Albion colliery, near Ciifyndd, the scene of
the late explosion.
ST. GAUDENS FAILS AGAIN. .
Secretary Carlisle Finds His Second
Design Expressionless.
Artist Augustus St. Gaudens, of New York,
was notified by the Secretary of the Treasury
that his seconi design for the World's F.iir
medal, submitted a few days a^o, ha 1 bean
rejected, and the mednl would be struck
from a design prepared at the Philadelphia
Mint.
The artist's latest design was a baldheaded
eagli>, with wirn^s extended, and
bearing a streamer in its beak, on which was
to be inscribed the exhibitor's name. Secretary
Carlisle informed St. Gaudens that it
was objectionable because it "doesn't express
auything.'^^^^^^
a colonization* company proposes to s<*ttle
between 400 and 500 families on the Big
Horn River, near the mouth of Fifteen Mile
Creek, Wyoming, this summer.
The bri lge across the Mississippi, to be
built at New Orleans, La., by the Southern
Pacific Railroad, is to co3t '$5,000,000.