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. # ?I REV. DK TAUT AGE THE BROOKLYN DIVINERS SUNDAY SERMON. RnhlMt "Thft Onfntr Trrr: "When Herod's birthday -was kept, the daughter of Herodlas danoed before them and pleased Herod."?Matthew rlT., 6. It la the anniversary of Herod's birthday. The palaae is lighted. The highways leading thereto are all ablaze with the pomp of Invited guests. Lords, captains, merchant princes, the mighty men of the land, are coming to mingle In the festivities. The table Is spread wJth all the luxuries that royal purveyors can gather. The guest, white robed and anointed and perfumed, oome In and sit at the table. Musio! The jests evoke roars of laughter. Riddles are propounded. Repartee Is Indulged. Toasts are drunk. The brain Is befogged. The wit rolls on Into uproar and blasphemy. They are not satisfied yet Turn on more light." Pour out more wine. Muslo. Sound all the trumpets. Clear the floor for a dance! Bring In Salome, the beatuifu] and accomplished princess. The door opens, and In bounds the dancer. The lords are enchanted. -* i -a 1 * iV. V-111 wottmu uacK ana mase room lur ujo uiuilant gyrations! These men never saw such "poetry of motion." Their soul whirls in the reel end bounds with the bounding feet. Herod forgets crown and throne and everything but the fascinations of Salome. Allthe magnlfloence of his realm is as nothing now oompared with the splendor that whirls on tiptoe before him. His body sways from side to side, corresponding with the motions ot the enchantress. His foul Is thrilled with the pulsations of the - < feet and bewitched with the taking postures and attitudes more and more amazing. After awhile he sits In enohanted silence looking at the flashing, leaping, bounding beauty,. and as the dance oloses and the tinkling cymbals oeaseto olap and the thunders of applause that shook the palace begin to abate the enohanted monarch swears to the princely 'performer, "Whatsoever thou snalt ask of me I will give it thee, to the half of my kingdom." Now, there was In prison at that time a minister of tho gosE1 of the name of John tho Baptist, and he d been making a great deal ot trouble by preaching some vt y plain and honest sermons. He had donounoed the sins of the king and brought down upon him the wrath of the females of the royal household. At the instigation of her mother Salome takes advantage of the extravagant promise of the king ana says, "Bring me the head of John the Baptist on a dinner plate." Hark to the sound of feet outside the door and the clatter of.swords! The executioners are returning from their awful errand. Open the door! They enter, and they prelect the platter to Salome. What Is on this nlatfaii? A nmr fflnn nf vfnA (n AflnHnne the uproarious merriment? No. Something tedder and costlier?the ghastly, bleeding bead of John the Baptist, the death glare till la. the eye, the locks dabbled with the gore, the features still distressed with the last agony. This woman, who had whirled so gracefolly In the dance, bends over the awful bur* den without a shudder. She gloats over the blood, and with as much indifference as a watting maid might take a tray of empty glassware out of the room after an entertainment Salome carries the dissevered head of John the Baptist, while all the banqueters hout with laughter and think it a good Joke that in so easy and quick a way they nave got rid of an earnest and outspoken minister of the gospel Tou will all admit, whatever you think of that style of amusement and exercise, that from many circles It has crowded out all Intelligent conversation. Tou will also admit that it has made the condition of thoue who do not dance, either because they do not know how or because they have not the neaim to enaure it, or Deoaase tnroagu conscientious scruples they mast decline the exercise, very uncomfortable. You will also ? admit, all of you, that It has passed In many oases from an amusement to a dissipation, and you are easily able to understand the C bewilderment of the educated Chinaman, I who, standing in the brilliant circle where i there was danolng going on four or five hours and the gnes* seemed exhausted, turned to the proprietor of the house and said, "Why don't you allcw your servants to do this for you?" | You are also willing to admit, whatever be r your idea in regard to the amusement that I l am speaking of. and whatever be your idea I of the old fauhioned square dance, and of I many of the Drooessional romps in which I can see no evil, the round danoe is administrative of evil and ought to be driven out of all xfspeotnble circles. I am by natural temperament and religious theory opposed to the position taken by all those who are horrified at playfulness on the part of the y6ung. and who think that all questions are I decided?questions of decency and morals? . by the position of the feet, while, on the I other hand, I can see nothing but ruin, temSraland eternal, for those who go into the ipaticns of social Hfe?dissipations which have already despoiled thousands of young ' men and Toung women of all that Is noble in character and useful in life. - Dancing Is the graoeful motion of the body adjusted by art'to the sound and measure of musical Instrument or of tbe .human voice. All nations have danced. I The ancients thought that Castor and I Pollux taught the art to the LacedamoI nlans. But whoever started It all climes I have adopted It. In ancient times thev bad tbe festal dance, the military ' dance, the mediatorial danoe, the bacchanalian dance, and queens and lords swayed to and fro In the gardens, and tbe tough backwoodsman with this exercise awakened the eoho of the forest. There Sg b something In the sound ot lively music to evoke the movement of the hand and foot, whether cultured or uncultured. Passing down tbe street we unconsciously keep step to the sound of the brass band, while the Christian in church with his foot beats time while his soul rises upon some great harmony. While this is so In civilized lands, the red men of the forest have their scalp dances, their green corn dances, their war dances. In ancient times I the exercise was so utterly and completely depraved that the church anthematlzed it. The old Christian fathers expressed themselves most vehemently against it. St. 'Chrysostum says: "The feet were not given for dancing, but to walk modestly; not to leap impudently, like camels." O-ie of the _ dogma's of the ancient church reads: t "A dance is the devil's possession, and he that entereth into a dance entereth into hie possession. As many paces as a man makes in dancing, so many pases does he make to helL" Elsewhere the old dogmas declared this: "The woman that singeth in the dance is the princess of the devil, and those that answer are her clerks, and the beholders are his friends, and the music is his bellows, and the fiddlers are the ministers ot the devil. For. as when hogs are Btrayed, if the nogsaera can one, an assemoie togetner, so when the devil calleth one woman to sins In the danoe, or to play on some musical instruments, presently all the dancers gathei together." This indiscriminate and universal denunciation or the exercise came froir the raot that it was utterly and completelj depraved. Social dissipation is the abettor of pride It is the Instigator of jealousy. It is the sacrificial altar of health. It is the defller of th< souL It is the avenue of lust, and it is the curse of every town on both sides of the sea. Social dissipation! It may be hard to draw the line and say that this is right on the one side and that 1b wrong on the other side. It If not necessary that we do that, for God ha> put a throne in every man's soul, and I appeal to that throne to-day. When a man does wrong, he knows he doee wrong, and whet he dAs right he knows he does right, and tc that throne, which Almighty God lifted It the heart of every man and woman. I aDDeal As to tne puysietil ruin wrought "cy the dissipations of social life there can be no 1 doubt. What may we expect of people who work all day and dance all night? After awhile they will be thrown on society nervous, exhausted imbeciles. These people who indulge in the suppers and the midnight revels and then go home in the oold unwrapped of limbs will after awhile be found to have been written down In God's eternal records as suicides?as much suicides as If they had taken their life with a pistol or a knife or strychnine. How many people have stepped- from the ballroom Into the graveyard? Consumptions and swift neuralgias are close on their traok. Amid many of the glittering scenes of social life diseases stand right ana left and balance aitil chain. The breath of the eepulcher (lost* up through theserfume^and the froth \ E L *;'?\\V ''"Vim*":- :*r>Xr r, of Death's lips babbles up lathe champagne. I am told that In some of the otttes there are parents who have actually glvmi up houseKeeping and gone to boarding that they may give their time illimltobly to social dissipations. I have known such cases. I have known family alter family blasted In that way in one of the other cities where I preached. Father and mother turning their hacks upon all quiet culture and all the amenities of home, leading forth their entire family In the wrong direction. Annihilated?worse than annihilated, for there are some things worse than annihilation. I give you the history of more than one family when I say they went on in the dissipations of social life until the father dropped into a lower style of dissipation, and after awhile the son was tossed out Into lociety a honentity, and after awhile the daughter eloped with a Fronoh dancing master, and after arhile the mother, getting on further and ftirther in years, tries to bide the wrinkles, but fails in the attempt, trying all the arts of the belle?an old flirt, a poor, miserable butterfly without any wings. If there is anything on earth beautiful to me, it is an aged woman, her white locks flowing back over the wrinkled brow?looks not white with frost, as the poet3 say, but white with the blossoms of the tree of life, in her voice the tenderness of gracious J memories, her face a benediction. A3 grand* mother passes through the room the grandchildren pull a: her dress, and she almost falls In her weakness, but she has nothing but candy or cake or a kind word for the little darlings. When she gets out ot the wagon in front of the house, the whole family rush out and cry, "Grandma's oome!" And when she goes away from us, never to return, there Is a shadow on the table, and a shadow on the hearth, and a shadow on the heart. There Is no mor? touching scene on earth than when grandmother sleeps the last slumber and the litttle child is lifted up to the casket to give the last kiss, and she says, "Goodby, grandma!" Oh, there is beauty in old age. God says so. "The hoary head Is a crown of glory." Why should people decline to get old? The best things, the greatest things, I know of are aged?old mountains, old seas, old stars and old eternity. But If there is anything distressful it is to see an old woman ashamed of the fact that she is old. What with all the artificial appliances she is too much for my gravity. I laugn even in church when I see her coming. The worst looking bird on earth is a peacock when it has lost Its feathers. I would not give one lock of my old mother's gray hair for 50,000 such caricatures of. humanity. And If the life of a worldling, If the life of a disciple given to the world, is sad the close of suoh a life is simply a tragedy. Let me tell you that the dissipations of social life are despoiling the usefulness of a vast multitude of people. What do those people care about the fact that there are whole na tions In sorrow and suffering and agony when they have for consideration the more Important question about the size of a glove or the tie of a cravate? Which one of them ever bound up the wounds of the hospital? Which one of them ever went out to care for the poor? Which of tndm do you find in the baunts of sin distributing tracts? They live on themselves, and it is very poor pasture. Sybaris was a great oity, and it once Bent out 800 horsemen in battle. They had a minstrel who had taught the horses of the army a great trick, and when the old minstrel played a certain tune the horses would rear and with their front feet seemed to beat time to the music. Well, the old minstrel was offended with h!s country, and he went over to the enemy, and he said to the enemy, *Tou give me the mastership of the army, and I will destroy their troops when those horsemen come from Sybaris. So they gave tne old mintstrelthe management, and he taught all the other minstrels a certain tune. Then wher the cavalry troop came up the old minstrel and all the other mlnstreb played a certain tune, and at the most critioal moment in the battle, when the horsemen wanted to rush to the conflict, the horses reared and beat time to the music with their fore feet, and In disgrace and rout the enemy fled. Ah, my friends, I have seen it again and again?the minstrels of pleasure, the minstrels of aissi Eatlon, the minstrels cf godless association ave defeated people in the hardest fight of life! Frivolity has lost the battle for 10,000 folk. Oh, what a belittling process to the*human mind this everlasting question about dress, this discussion of fashionable infinitesimals, this group, looking astance at the glass, wondering with an infinity of earnestness how that last geranium leaf does look, this shriveling of man's moral dignity until it Is not observable to the naked eye, this Spanish inquisition of a tight shoe, this binding up of an immortal soul in a ruffle, this pitching off of an immortal nature over the rooks when God created it for great and everlasting uplifting I , With many life is a masquerade ball, and as at such entertainments gentlemen and ladies put on the garb of kings and queens or mountebanks or clowns, and at the close put off the disguise, so a great many pass their whole life in a mask, taking off the mask at death. While the masquerade ball of life goes on they trip merrily over the floor, gemmed hand is stretched to the gemmed hand, and gleaming brow bends to gleaming brow. On with tho dance! Flush and rustle and laughter or Immeasurable merrymaking! But after awhile the langnor of death comes on the limbs and blurs the eyesight. Lights lower. Floor hollow with sepulchral echo. Musio saddened into a wall. Lights lower. Now the maskers are only seen in the dim light. Now the fragrance of the flowers is like the sickening odor that comes from garlands that have lain long in the vaults of cemeteries. Lights lower. Mists gather in the room. Glasses shake as though quaked by sullen thunder. Sigh caught in the curtain- Scarf drops from the shoulder ol beauty?a shroud! Lights lower. Over the slippery boards in dance of death glides jealousies, envies, revenges, lust, despair and death. Stench the lamp wicks almost extinguished. Torn garments will not half cover the ulcerated feet. Choking damps. Chilliness. Feet still. Hands closed. Voices hushed. Eyes shut. Lights out. Oh, how many of you have floated far away from God through social dissipations, and it is time you turned, for I remember that there were two vessels on the sea In a storm. It was very, very dark, and the two vessels were going straight for each other, and the captains knew it not. But after awhile the man on the lookout saw the approaching ship, and he shouted, "Hard a-larboordr and from the other vessel the cry went up. "Hard a-larboard!" and they turned just enough to glance by and passed in safety to their harbors. Some of you are in the storm of temptation, and you are driving on and coming toward fearful collisions unless you change your course. Hard a-larboard! Turn ye, turn ye, for "why will ye die, O house of Israel?" , FARM HANDS KILLED. Four Deaths by a Boiler Explosion and Five Men Injured. A holler exploded on the farm of William Cain, near Crystal, North Dakota. Four men were killed and four badly wounded. one fatally. The dead are: Robert Hawthorne, Chris Behrens, F. A. Barrlger and ' Nick Phillips. The injured are: Charles Shepard, fatally; Alex. Rue, Morris Getty and Thomas Morgan. A team belonging to Thomas Morgan was also killed. Lack of water Is Bald :o have been the cause ot the explosion. BLOODY ARMENIAN UPRISING Turkish and Kurdish Soldiers Killed and Wounded. Advices from Erzeroum, Armenia, 6aytttat the Turkish and Eurdlsh soldiers at Sassuo have been attacked by the people of that region and more than 300 of them killed and wounded. The Turkish troops are represented as being in a pitiable condition, their sufferings being greatly increased by the severe weather prevailing. Cigars Make Good Freight. There are 15,000,000,000 cigars sold in the United States every year. This was the statement of a prominent dealer In an Eastern freight department. The statement was immediately disputed, but as immediately acquiesced In when it was agreed that there were at least 7,500,000 smokers in the United States and that the enormous total named would give each smoker an average of less than six cigars a day. The railroad official then reduoed this annual consumption of cigars to tons and found It would make 450,000 of this unit of measurement. At the high average of twenty tons to the car this would fill 22,500 cars. If coupled together these cars would make a train over 150 miles long. At a conservative estimate over $2,000,000 a year is paid to railroads for freight on these cigars. SABBATH SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOB OCTOBER 21. Lesson Text: <rA Sabbath In Caper- \ nanra," Mark 1., 21-34?Golden Text: Mark i., 22?Commentary. 21. "And they went Into Capernaum, and straightway on the Sabbath day He entered into the synagogue and tanght." This lesson probably comes in order after the call of the four from mending their nets, etc.. rather tban after the call from the draft of fishes, but let us see Jesus, and the order of events may not matter so mnoh. Capernaum signifies the village of Nahum. the comforter, and the true Comforter has come to His own city (Math. ix.. 1). It was His custom to be in the synagogue on the Sabbath (Luke iv., 16). and we may be sure it was His custom never to be late. 22. "And they were astonished at His doo- | trine, and He taught them as one tnat naa j authority, and not as the scribes." He al- I ways preached the word and In the words | which the Father pave Him to say (John j xli., 49;xiv., 10). His words were the as- j sertions of absolute confidence in God and , in the Scriptures. He said, "We sneak that | we do know" (John iii.. 11). We also, If sent by God, may SDeak boldly the message which Hp gives us (Ex. iv., 12; Jer. L. 7, 8; Acts iv., 81). 23. "And there was in their synagogue a mac of an unclean spirit, and he cried out." Evil spirits still ao to church and Sundayschool in the bodies of men and women and bovs and girls, but not without the consent of those in whom they go. Anger, wrath, malice, worldliness, deceit, hypocrisy, are surely evil spirits. In fact, all that is not holy and true mu?t be evil. 24. ''Saying: Let us alone. What hav? we to do with Thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? Art Thou come to destroy us? I know Thee who Thou art, the Holy One of God." Let us alone is still the cry. We will go to church and contribute to the cause if you will only let U9 alone about the theatre and the ball, social customs, Sunday newspapers and Sunday driving, Veceiving Jesus, preparing to meet Him and such like. But it is no use; we must all have to do with Jesus. He will destroy the work of the devil (I John Hi., 8), and if those works include any of U3 then we shall have to hear Math, xxv., 41. 25. "And Jesus rebuked him, saying,Hold thy peace and come out of him." He spoke to the spirit who was controlling the man. He hates sin, but loves the sinner. Let us - * A- -* ---.ill 1 Of. ? iiiso see to cms hqu act iikhwib^. oili miui be destroyed, and If the sinner persists in cllnsring to his sin he, too, must perish, bat the Lord wishes to save the sinner and blot out his sins (II Pet. ill., 9). 26. "And when the unolean spirit had torn him and cried with a loud voice he came out of him.M He cast out tne spirits with His word (Math. vllL, 16). Where the word of a king Is there is power (Eccl. vlil., 4), and Jesus gave His disciples power over all the i power of the enemy (Luke x., 19). What a strength it would be for service as we go forth in His name if we would only believe His word, "All power Is given unto Me In Heaven and on earth, and, lo, I am with you all the days, even unto the consummation of the age!" (Math, xxvill., 18-20). 27. "And they were all amazed, Insomuch that they questioned among themselves,saying : What thin? is this? What new doctrine is thlsV" The obedience of the demons to His word surprised them, and well it J mlRht, for whoever heard of evil spirits con- j trolled by a word which men resist? Let j His word be now received in all simplicity i and meekness, and no evil spirit of fault I finding, fretting, slander or evil speaking j can abide In that person. Then will some i have to say, "What new doctrine is this?" 28. "And immediately His fame spread | -1 J --U 1 .11 4U? .AnUtt ' aurunu laiuu^uuui an iud i^ivu iuu?u- . about Galilee." If the preaohing In any i ohuroh to-ilay should cure even the majority of its members of the evil spirits which seem | to possess so many, what a name Jesus would get in the community! Why not with our hearts determine that by His grace we will seek in every way to magnify that honorable name which is called, upon us (Jas. 1L, 7 B. V., margin). 29. "And forthwith, when they were come 1 out of the synagoffu", they entered into the j house of Simon and Andrew with James and ! John." Happy men to take Jesus home ! from church with them. How many get all | they want of Him while in church, more | than enough to do them a whole week, for once a week is all that some pastors see many of their people In the house of God! j If such should take Him home from churoh I with them, they could no* go out driving in the afternoon, nor go visiting, nor read novels. SO. "But Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a fever, and anon they tell Him of her." Per- ; haps a poor day for Simon to bring company ! (four men) home to dinner?his wife might j mink 80. Wltn ner momer suck m wu? | but we will hope she was one of those blessed women whom some of us know, who are j always glad to exercise hospitality, who live to minister. 31. "And He came and took her by the hand end lifted her up, and Immediately the fever left her, and she ministered unto them." It was a good day to have company, after all. especially His kind. Mars is ! specially the gospel of service, and Je3us is ! here, in a very marked way, the servant { ministering; hence many touches like this, ' "He took her by the hand." Note also tlie words straightway, anon, Immediately, j forthwith, all the same word in the Greek? : see P.. V.?used over forty times in this gos- J pel, and only about eighty times In the j whole New Testament. 82, 33. "And at even when the sun did set they brought unto Him all that were diseased and them that were posssssed with devils. And all the city was gathered together at the door." The Sabbath ended at sunset, so they could then do this without, in the estimation of the Pharisees, breaking the day. See chapters li.. 24; ill., 2. The | manifest power of God will draw the people. There are weary and heavy laden ones ' everywhere, sick in body and in soul, and I this Jesus is to-day the very same Jesus ' (Heb. xili., 8), waiting to give rest of soul | and quietness of mind to every weary heart, ' and when He giveth quietness who then can ; make trouble? (Job xxxiv.. 29). 84. "And He healed many that were sick ; of divers diseases, and cast out many devils, j and suffered not the devils to speak, because : they knew Him." The margin says that He I suffered them not to say that they knew 1 Him. The testimony of the evil spirit in j Actsxvi.. 17, sounds well. What could be ; better? Yet it was not tolerated. God re- i quires no help from the devil. When will j His people sea this and stop seeking Help for j the Lord's work from those who are not His ; children, and therefore must be children of the devil? (John vili., 44.)?Lesson Helper. Dollar Wheat lu the Dakotas. Acting Secretary Sims, of the Interior D? partment. at Washington, has been considerlng a bid for wheat to be furnished th< Sioux Indians at Crow Creek agency, South . Dakota, whioh he thinks is positive proo: ; tbat the low price for this cereal does not ex 1st. The lowest bid was $1.01 per bushel > The wheat is for milling purposes, and th? i grade required was "No. 1 spring, at sixt] j pounds to the busheL This is a very higl j grade, and in ease of a partial failure of crof j might be hard to obtain. This bid for wheal | for Indian supplies has been before the do- j partment before, and when returned the last i time it was with the statement that it wai impossible to obtain a lower rate, and thai the wheat was needed for the Indian* ni I once. Secretary Sims says that more thai | one dollar per bushel seems to be a verj . high price to pay for wheat right In th< midst of the wheat-growing region. The Revival in the South. A Chattanooga (Tenn.) ban'i President, who is said by his correspondent in New York City to oe one ol the most conserva- ! tive bank officers and best judges of credit in the South, writing of the business oatlook, said: -'The outlook lor business in this section is good. Money is scarce and 4a rttit <n fair i^Amnnri hnf nrnna n*?o magnificent, and tho people are probably nearer out of debt than in thirty years. Recovery In confidence and good feeling is slow, but is growing." Wheat Displacing Oats. The high price of corn and the low price of wheat have caused no little experimentation In the use of wheat as a ration for horses. In the big stables of Armour <k Co., Chloago, a mixture of half wheat, ha'f corn was tried some weeks ago. and it is reported that the experiment has given complete satisfaction. Feed men are quoted as saying that not halt the livery stables In Chloago are using oats now, but are feeding wheat or mixtures instead. RELIGIOUS READING. HOW TO KEEP A GOOD MIXI8TEE A>-D MA ITT! HOI BETTER. When he comes among you and enters upon his sacred office, receive and treat him as an ambassador of Christ "Esteem him very highly in love for his work's sake.'' Attend punctually on his ministry, and "take heed how you hear." To see the church well filled every Sabbath, even in stormy weather, will ' greatly quicken and encourage him in his (veeklv preparation for the pulpit. Rememoer him daily in the prayers of the family , and closet, and be especially large and earnest in your supplications on the Lord's ( day. that God will enable him to "come to you in the fullness of the blessing of the gospel of peace." This, while it helps ; him to preach better will prepare you to j receive the word into good and honest , hearts." If he is becoming dull in the pul- . pit, wake him up, by keeping wide awake yourselves. Nothing quickens a preachor more, than that fixed a id solemn attention . which assures him, "Now then are we all here present before God, to hear whatsoever is commanded thee of God." Allow him time for study, and when he is prevented by sickness or other unavoidable interruptions, make every reasonable allowance, and be satisfied with the best he can cive vou. This will help to keep up his spirits, and he will exert himself the more when he is well. Give your pastor a liberal and comfortable support, and a little over what he is obliged to expend as he goe3 along, "for a rainy day." This is more necessary than it used to be, when ministers were -'settled for life." It is not well that they should be cumbered with ' fat endowments; but there cannot be a more miserable policy, than to keen them upon the shortest allowance. It compels them "to leave the word of God and serve tables." j When your pastor goes beyond his strength, as he will sometimes feel constrained to do.especially in seasons of extraordinary religious ligious interest, don't wait till he is quite run down?but allow him seasonable relation,and even urge it upon him if he does not feel inclined to take it. A short journey and a few week's rest will often prevent utter prostration, and add years of health aDd usefulness to a laborious "minister. Always put the most favorable construction you can upon your pastor's motives and administrations. If he sometimes commits (mistakes, and who does not?) overlook them?bear with them. As long as he shows himself ready to 'spend and be spent' for j you. stand by him and let him know that he j shall be sustained in his place, and in the discharge of his duties. Give no countenance to such restless and unreasonable men as sometimes conspire against their minister without any just cause; but on the contrary, frown upon them. Meet them, the moment they begin to agitate, and convince them at i once that they nave undertaken a hopeless i task; that you will not allow the peace of the society to be disturbed, nor the standing of . a faithful pastor to be shaken in this way. If they choose to withhold their support, let them withhold it; if they have a mind to withdraw, let them withdraw: but give no place, 'no, not for an hour,' to those who seek to deprive you of a pastor whom you love. By rallying round him, and properly repelling every attack, you will attach him so strongly to you, and yourself so strongly to j him that neither party will consent to a separation till overruled by the most Imperious circumstances. [Dr. Humphrey.] god's coxtsaxt providence. Providence has no Sabbath. No night susEends it; and from its labors God never rests. EI may compare small things with great, it Is like the motion of the heart. Beating out march to the grave, since the day we began j to live, the heart has ceased to beat. Our ; limbs may grow wear}*, not it. We sleep; it ; never sleeps. Needing no period of repose to ; recruit its strength, by night and day it : throbs in every pul>e; and constantly sup- ' plying nourishment to the meanest as well as the noblest organs of our frame, with mea- | sured, steady untired stroke it drives the blood along the bounding, arteries, without any exercise of will on our part, and even when the conscience of our own existence is lost in dreamless slumbers. If this be a just view of divine providence, may we not rest securely? Shall we not bid j our troubled spirits be quiet? "The steps oi a good man are ordered by tbe Lord," says the inspired volume. There is an unslumbering eve upon us?there is a heart of inllnite love beating responsive to every need of out earthly life?there are arms of omnipotence underneath and around us. Let us be stillquiet as an infant in its mother's arms. Let us commit all our interests to the keeping of our heavenly Father ADMONISH KINDLY. We must consult the gentlest manner and softest seasons of address; our advice must | not fall, like a violent storm, bearing down ; and making those to droop whom it is meant | to cherish and refresh. It must dcscend as I dew upon the tender herb, or like melting j snows, the softer it fails the longer it dwells i upon and the deeper it sinks into the mind, t If there are few who have the humility to re- I ceive advice as they ought, it is often because there are few who have the direction to convey it in a proper vehicle, and qualify the j harshness and bitterness of reproof, against which corrupt nature is not apt to revolt, by an artful mixture of sweet and agreeable ingredients. To probe the wound to the bottom with all the boldneseand resolution of a good spiritual surgeon, and with all the del- ! icacy and tenderness of a friend, requires a ] mnctarlv linn<l An offo. ! >Cl V UC.\klVUi7 (UiU UiUCk^IIJ 11UUU. .xu IlllU- J ble "deportment and complacency of behavior, : will disarm the most obstinate, whereas, if . instead of calmly pointing out their mistake, we break out in unseemingly satire of passion, we cease to have any influence. THE WORLD HATH NOT KNOWN THEE. Then what has the world known? Not known God! Not known him with whom it has to do! Not known its Saviour?its best ; friend! What then does it know, to the pur- ! pose? If you inquire of the world, it wilt j only tell you that the present age in partic- i ular is the most illuminated of any; but it will tell you of its wonderful discoveries it science, its great knowledge in politics, in . progress in the arts, etc. Some will profess j to tell you what progress religion has made ( in the world; and they will go on to say ; more, as knowing what progress it will make; : the world is so illuminated?so comprehen- i sive! Now with all this knowledge, discovery and instruction I read the text, "0 righteous j Father, the world hath not known thee!" Not known thee! and yet so wise? With all ' its little discoveries, cannot it discern the J things belonging to its peace? Then, it is but telling me of the bustle and industry of nuts?of thn incftnnitv nnil nnliHps nf I.ppa' Ail this is trifling to him who wants a sliel- . ter. CHEAP RELIGION I entreat you do not covet a cheap religion. What costs nothing is absolutely wortli noth- j ing. To becomi a new man and a better man, and a strong man and an heir of glory, ! means more than signing a card or "rising for prayer," or to ro into an inquiry meeting. ; It meaus the thorough uprooting of old sins and the implanting in you of a new nature. The whole question of your salvation must be settled between you and j \ our Saviour; the inquiry meeting "you need ' most is an honest hour with the loving Jesus. I No book, no sermon, no friend, no pastor can i save you; Jesus can! Whatever he bids you. | as he speaks through your conscience, do it! The loving Saviour?who has waited for you 500 long already?says to you, ''Follow me;" jtart .it once, and you will tlnd the path of obedience is the one straight road to heaven. -Dr. T. L. Cuyler, in Independent A quiet lifo often makes itself felt in better ffays than one that the world sees and applauds ; and some of the noblest are never inown till they end, leaving a void in many learts.?Louisa M. Alcott. Cattle Fattened on Wheat, W. W. Parish, Jr., the wealthy Konkakeo (111.) larmer, was in Chicago a few days ago purchasing cattle. He has bought all the wheat near his home and will fatten a large number of cattle during the next few months. He says wheat is more profitable than corn for feeding purpose-*. The Year at the hummer Resorts. Beports from the v.uious summer resorts throughout the United States indicate beyond .i? .1.1. v nn or/ianHnnnllf quesuun ium iuis una incu . prosperous season for the resort proprietors I and their business associates. | WOMAN'S WORLD. PLEASANT LITERATURE FOB FEMINIZE READERS. A TTtrr.vvuT, WIFE. Every woman who crosses Brooklyn Bridge should recall that a woman did well the work that came to her in connection with its building. When Colonel W. A. Boebling, the Chief Engineer, was prostrated by caisson fever, so that he could not leave the house, Mrs. Boebling, his wife, acted as his assistant so capably that the - * x ii i. * wont 01 construcuoa was uut impeded, but was carried forward under Colonel Roebling's supervision, through Mrs. Roebling.?New York Times. EARBING9 COMING ESTO FASHIOH. Earrings are fast coming into fashion again, thongh novelties in designs will be worn more on the streets than the resplendent solitaire. Screw earrings will be the most popular for street wear, and in these there will be decided novelties a? the season advances. One dainty design recently exhibited represented small gold lilies of the valley, with a small diamond flashing in the centre of each flower. Turquoise, rubies and sapphires are the lavorite stones for young girls.? ftew York Advertiser. A GIBXi CAKPENTEB. A lively young Danish woman, Miss Sophie Christensen, is anxious to get work in Chicago as a carpenter and 1 joiner. In the city of Copenhagen she 1 learned the trade, to which she was bound as an apprentice. When her apprenticeship was completed, a short < time ago, she was admitted to fall membership in the union. She displayed great aptitude and skill as a worker at the trade, and she is ready to display specimens of her handicraft. Among other things she has made a "self-closing book-case" which is serviceable, artistic and beautiful, and which is admired by everybody who sees it.?N^ew York Journal. "yes," aatt) the old jeweleb. "Very few women know how to put on their brooches and lace pins. Let me see how you v.ould do it." So Aminta took it up by the setting, to oblige him, and proceeded to work it into the bit of velvet at her throat. "Yea, X thought so," he continued, i "That's just the reason it will break soon again, and you will be bring- ( ing it baok for repairs. It may be j against my business, but I'll tell you how it should be done. Take hold of . the brooch by the pin! Don't make j a leverage by using the jeweled part as a handle. Take it up by the pin and put it in by the pin, handling the ornament only when yon clasp it, so so will save your 'quarters' for renewing the pin." I FRENCH MARRIAGES. When a French bride marries she 1 does not assume the hymeneal white 1 satin, as is our custom, if her family or her husband's are in mourning, but ; goes to the altar in simple white mus- ' lin, as M. Ernest Carnot's wife did a J few weeks ago. Though in view of the late President's tragic death it i seemed somewhat soon for the wed- i ding, Mme. Carnot wished that it 1 should take place, as it accordingly did, but with so much privacy that ( not even a single relative, except j those immediately connected with the ( young people, were informed. The bride's family wore costumes of pale gray and violet, while the Carnot ! ladies were, of course, in deepest mourning. The bridegroom's mother * appeared deeply moved during the service, and an air of silence and sad- I ness hung over the bridal. Mile. I '-* ? - - t -'i.- J.L i umrxs was an especial ittvurue wmu 1 the late M. Carnot, and is extremely pretty. She had no ornaments, ex- ] cept a bouquet of white roses, with ] some fastened into her simple dress. < The Lady Chapel of St. Pierre de Passy, in which the marriage took ] p!a?e, 'was adorned with similar flow- ( ers, but there were none in any part ( of the church.?New York Advertiser. , HOUSEHOLD DUTIES AND QniNASTICS. A doctor who has many of the j weaker sex among his patients declares t that to keep both spirits and complex- , ion in good condition, and to preserve j grace," strength and agility, there is no gymnasium 60 valuable, no exer- , cise more beneficial in its result, than the vigorous round of household j duties, sweeping, dusting, making , beds and uolishincr silver and brasses and washing dishes. He furthermore 1 avows that a single year of such work will do more for a woman's complex- 1 ion than all the powders and lotions ? that ever were made. Which is all * well enough, though the assertions 1 are a trifle time-worn, providing the ? woman thus prescribed for has suffi- * cient strength to get through her round of sweeping and washing and e polishing and is not hereby turned t into a drudge. If she is too tired to s get ready to go out for a brisk walk, c or attend a lecture or concert, if she t cannot sit down with a fresh, alert e mind to read and assimilate, there i isn't a word of truth in it. It is true c that any exercise which is immediately and perceptibly productive of use- e ful results is more interesting and in- t vigorating than a mechanically per- ] formed series of gymnastics. But the ( truth is more women need to be urged i to refrain from overwork than from < laziness.?Philadelphia Press. ( ? FASHION'S IN SLEEVES. There is not the least indication ? that the huge sleeves of current j fashion will be renounced for seasons < to come. Returned importers and i designers bring word direct from E Paris that sleeves there are larger if i possible than ever. If it is true that f we are proverbially one year behind the French in our fashions, then the ^ modiste is certainly safe in recom- t mending to her patrons voluminous ^ sleeves. The mutton-leg, the draped chatelaine, and the Queen Anne puffed shape are in constant use. The forearm portions remain close-fitting, but not tight, though they are snugger i when the turn back gauntlet is added, r this cuff appearing upon not a few of \ the new "dress" gowns. The puff ? above the elbow is cut in one piece, I and is sometimes pleated, sometimes c softly festooned, draped, or shirred to < the outride of the arm, directly through the centre, the shirring delicately done, and bo left, or it is covered with a rich galloon, insertion of Bilk passementerie, or other sort of trimming. Flounces falling above the full sleeve-tops are still popular, also long Vandyke points and rounded or square Hungarian shoulder-caps. On evening toilets are pretty sleeves showing a number of puffs placed horizontally or perpendicularly, as best suits the shape of the wearer's arm, and straps of velvet, satin ribbon, or pearled gimp are placed between each pufl.?New York Post. fashion notes. White cloth capes are in vogue. Socks for women are really here. Metal and jeweled girdles are worn. Fancy buckles are one of the fads of the season. The big Gainsborough hats are to be worn this winter. Ivy leaves are a late and unique idea in millinery devisings. Fashionable women should never wear anything but suede gloves. Elegant fall evening wraps are lined with moire and with plain or brocaded satin. Dachesse satins in evening shades line long and short opera cloaks of velvet. Dainty bib collarettes are of coffeecolored net-top lace and cherry velvet ribbon. Military capes of covert cloth are seen in mixtures of brown, gray, blue and fawn. Ribbons have come to stay for a while, bat laces will receive their share of patronage. Blue and green and bine and heliotrope are two of the fashionable combinations just now. Umbrellas were never cheaper. Dresden and natural woods are the prevailing styles in handles. The hair of every woman, whatever her age, contour of complexion, must be parted to be fashionable. One of the features of hair-di easing just now are the flat pointed curls set in the middle of the forehead. The ribbons used upon the new hats ttaw tttt ^ q o.r?/1 o nrrQaf ia TA quired to fashion the new bows. Along with the red browns are seen the familiar doll leaf shades, deepened and melted into indistinct greens. Red ourrants are being used for dress trimmings for evening wear, and make a most brilliant trimming. Most of the ultra-fashionable veilings, whether of coarse or fine mesh, 3how widely scattered .black chenille spots. Deep collars of handsome lace, in white, eoru and beurre shades, will be worn with fall and winter # house gowns. Gray serge of the black and white mixture wears well and is a welcome change from the blue and black serges 30 long worn. Little girls' dresses, with velvet yokes, shirred waists, full sleeves and relvet collars and cuffs are preferred for ordinary wear. Among the new materials of the laoann ia tho nhnt fThina cranadine. usually on a dark groand, and made tip over shot glace. In day dresses broad horizontal stripes are being treated very successfully. They are cut so as to form jhevrons down the front. Fin spots in white on black, or black Dn white, are used a great deal, and black satin is intermixed with almost svery material and color. The enormous collars in the various kinds of heavy lace are very stylish, but need to be worn with very large jleeves to really look well. Old-fashioned bandana silk made in [ndia, thirty-six inches wide, are waist novelties, exactly like the handkerjhiefs used by the old snuff-dippers. The dainty sets of side combs shown by jewelers are very expensive. These :ombs are of shell, entirely plain or ornamented with gold or silver filagree srork. Black, in velvet, silk and ribbons, is jelling very well; indeed, so well that I it has been observed that "one might mppose our fashionable women on tho rerge of going into wholesale mourn_ l> mg. The old-fashioned snuff brown, so Decoming to fair, high-colored complexions, will be much worn, and for ;his shade Persian embroidery or black Russian fur makes the handsomest ;rimming. In tailor-made coats and skirts pleasng combinations may be found that ire at once economical and smart. Capital Holland coats and skirts tailornade, with the skirts boasting suffi- | sient fullness to meet the dccrees of ashion, can also be made for little cost. | The leg-o'-mutton sleeve is in for mother year. It comes wrinkled, like he mousquetaire, to the elbow. It is ieen not only in silk and stuff, but in sloth, bodices and coats of light maerial. It is not good judgment, howsver, to put it in a bodice to be worn inder a coat, for'reasons of grace and somfort. The new tones in brown for autumn . ? J minto* rronr ehnTO o rlOfirlOf! mu taiij iTiuvv* 'IWM WMV ?. iendency toward red inflections. Burned flour, auburn, mahogany, rust :olor and autumn leaf are the names )y which some of them are kno.wn, au;umn leaf being hardly more than a lull red, with bronze shadows, which ihow only in folds. A pretty, simple gown, recently seen, was of white dotted Swiss over sale yellow. The overskirt was just :aught up on one side to show the larrow ruffles of yellow silk. The ileeves were not lined, and were in leep puffs, ending in equally deep rufles. There was a belt of ribbon, md the low half-neck was finished pith a ruffle edged with yellow. A ortoise-shell comb in the sweet young rearer's hair completed the costume. Japauese Soldiers Are Gymnasts. Every Japanese barrack has a gymlasium, and the Japanese soldiers ank among the best gymnasts in the eorld. In half a minute they can scale k fourteen-foot wall by simply )ounding on each otner's shoulders, me man supporting two or three others.?Chicago Herald. y .J ? t HOUSEHOLD HATTEB8. ^ i EOMB-MADB PAINT FOB THE E3TCHET. If your kitchen .or any other floor that you do not wish to carpet shows unsightly cracks try the following recipe lor them: One pound of flour, three quarts of water and a teaspoonful of alum and make a paste of them, oooking well together. After remor-r ing it from the stove stir it into a lol of paper that is torn in small piece# and let it soak, stirring as much aa you can. > The paper should be stirred until it is all in a pulp and th6 mass id so thick that it is difficult to stir any longer. Apply it to the cracks?b? sure the floor is freshly cleaned first?and force it in* smoothing it ofl even with the surface. Leave it to dry , thoroughly and you will find that it is more lasting and a great deal cheaper than putty. This can be painted right over as though it were wood,?Pittaburg Dispatch. THE CABS OF FEME CHINA. Every woman who owns beautiful find costly tableware knows with what misgivings she sees it go down into the kitchen to be chipped and marred in the careless handling ol servants. Now, in some of the best regulated homes of New Orleans, there is a pretty custom handed down from generation to generation, and that is the habit of washing the china by the mistress' own hands. As soon as the meal is over a little cedar tub is bronght * into the dining-room, and the lady of the house dips the Ldainty cups and saucers into the hot water with her own delicate fingers, carefully drying them with a clean towel. It is a good rule for any owner of fine china to follow, 'and will be appreciated by thosj N who have had their beautiful Dresden ruined by cooks and waiting maids. ?* New uiieaas ricayune. Dtrsrrcro a. boom. A careful housekeeper will cover up her furniture while sweeping, take t]j? bric-a-brao from mantel and cabin eta and laying it oat oarefully in one plaoe cover it over, and when she doesthia, will find her dusting far easier, and a Boft cloth* with possibly an ordinary paint brush for reaching the crevice? in the carving on the furniture, all that is necessary to accomplish the task satisfaatorily. Indeed, 1 know Un energetic little woman who has made a business of this dusting, and these are the only tools she uses. She goes to a house, and being told the number of rooms that are to be dusted and the number of times per week that her services will be required, sh* ?! 1.' i. ? ~ In. gives till tjfiwuuu) uu IUC uuuuaut the season. The lady of the house is then relieved as to all anxiety of intrusting her fragile bric-a-brac, her delicate tinted furniture and her art treasures to servants, and knowing, they are in the hands of a person who appreciates their worth and beauty she is willing to pay the price, ana: my little woman is very sucoessfuL? New York World. ABOUT THE HOUSE IX CLEAXEJG THEE, Use powdered borax for roaches. Use kerosene and whiting to clean tinware.] Use soda, potash or copperas for eleansing the zinc-lined sinks. Use a furniture polish made of lin- . seed oil and hard cider or vinegar. Use whiting and a qjaamois skin to olean delicate paints, much as you do for silverware. Use plenty of turpentine, to whioh a few drops of carbolic acid is added, to keep insects from the pantry. Use a cloth or bag tiea over your broom to sweep ceilings-and side walla with if you haven't a brush for the purpose. Use old newspapers to wrap woolen things in for the summer, as the moths don't like printer's ink. A sprinkling of camphor gum is also good. Use very strong lye when cleaning ap the floors and let it dry in the cracks to keep moths from under the ?rpet. Use a cloth dipped in weak ammonia water with which to lightly wipe off the carpets. It brightens them wonderfully. Use a little ammonia in the water in which you wash -window lights and mirrors. Then polish quickly with chamois skin or tissue paper.?Farm, Field and Fireside. RECIPES. Plain Fritters?Beat two eggs together until light, add to them one cup of milk, a half teaspoonful of salt and sufficient floor to make a thin batter that will pour from a spoon. Beat until smooth. Have ready a deep pan of hot fat; add two teaspoonfuls of baking powder to the batter, mix thoroughly and drop by spoonfuls into the hot fat. When brown on one side turn and brown on the other; take out with a skimmer and serve very hot. Do not pierce them with a fork, as it allows the steam to escape and makes the fritter heavy. Quick Muffins?One pint of milk, one ounce of butter, one teaspoonful of salt, three cups of flour, two heaping teaspoonfuls of baking powder or a half teaspoonful of soda and one of cream of tartar, three eggs. Beat the eggs separately until light; add the yolks to the milk, then the flour, which must be more or less, according to the quality. The batter must be thin, and poured from the spoon. Now add the baking powder and the well beaten whites; stir nntil thoroughly mixed. Make in muffin rings in & quick oven or on the griddle. Huckleberry Pudding?The very best batter for berry puddings is made by beating two eggs, to which add a little salt, a pint of milk and flour enough to make a thick batter. Sift two level teaspoonfuls of baking powder through one cup of the flour, stir this in and add enough to make the batter of the right consistency; dredge i pint of huckleberries or any small fruit with flour, stir in at the last and boil in a buttered mold or floured cloth for one hour, A raised batter for huckleberry pudding is preferred by some and is made like tbe above, omitting the baking powder and adding one-half cake of compressed yeast and a half tsaspoonful of soda dissolved In boiling water. Set to rise in a tvarm place for four or five hours, stir in the dredged fruit and boil for two houra _ . There are two persons tick for every death during the yean