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1 WOMAN'S WORLD. PLEASANT LITERATURE FOR FEMININE READERS. | A NEW SKIRT. [ s A trimmed desicn for a silk fikirt is | of exceeding simplicity, and yet is B most effective. The skirt is godeted k and front and back laid in five wide I tucks at the bottom, sides remaining P plain, and when fashioned in this way one of the now Changeable silks is II commonly employed.?New York Ad1/ Tertiser. 7 ffiNQULAK PERSONAL IDIOSYNCRASIES. I Rich women in New York indulge I in singularly few personal indiosyn1 crasies in their rooms. Their apartments are apt to show little except the notions of the professional decorator. There is nobody left who is an individual in this field as was the late Mrs. HickE-Lord. Her bedroom was of a Spartan simplicity that would have suited the Duke of Wellington. A sipall iron bedstead, wicker chairs, white matting, and scrim window curtains were its main features, and not a piece of feminine flummery disturbed the esthetic atmosphere.?Detroit Free Press. SHE HAS MADE A SUCCE&S OF FARMING. iC >? \* A young woman who is making a big success of farming on a large and varied scale was one of the principal exhibitors in the agricultural sections at the Atlanta Exposition. She is Miss Annie Dennis, of Talbotton, Ga., and is about twenty-five years -old. She has a fine estate of. about a thousand acres, on which she has a stock farm, a dairy, an extensive piggery, a vineyard, and canning and preserving establishment. She personally directs the work on the estate, and has made a notable success in every branch. She began farming seven years ago, and since then has taken more than a hundred prizes at fairs with various products of her farm. She ascribes her fluccess to a long course of study in agricultural problems, and to the utilization of every proved scientific method in her farming operations. ? New York Sun. THE SILKEN SKIBTS. Silk petticoats are stiffened with many cords stitched in their overlapping frills, and sometimes a very pli ' aDio wire is ruu iu -.uo nuug just above the narrow pinked ruche which finishes the foot of the nicest skirts. This is a practical and sensible fashion, for it gives just the support needed for the full-grown skirt, holding it out so as to be much more comfortable in walking. The richest bro' cades are employed for these handsome petticoats, all those for evening wear are made of all delicate tints, and elaborately trimmed with pink ruffles Tender flounces of lace. Gayly plaided taffetas are made up in inexpensive petticoats for street wear; and it really seems the best use to put them to, as they are only effective for linings, or where a glint only of their mixed colors is disclosed. For waists they are very trying, and look no better than a plain giagham, which they so closely resemble. ? Demorest's Magazine. ELECTED THE CHINESE GIRL. For the first time in the history of the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, a foreigner has been elected to fill a class office. At the class election of the '96 medics Miss Mary Stone was chosen as Vice-President. About ten years ago Miss Howe, a missionary to China from the United States, picked tip two little -R aifs?Mary Stone and Ida Kahn. At this time the girls were heathens, but Miss Hon-,3 put them in a missionary school and taught them to speak and read English, and soon converted them to the Christian religion. Mary proved a brilliant student and after three veers' studv in the mission was able to read and write English perfectly. Knowing the brilliant mind of her pupil, Miss Howe determined to bring her to America for a college education. Mary Stone and Ida Kahn, her companion, left Kinkiang, China, with three Chinese boys udder Miss Howe's care. On arriving in this country the party was allowed to enter withoat trouble, so much did they resemble English people. Tbey started at once for Ann Arbor, and Miss Stone and Miss Kahn and two of the boys took the entrance examinations and all passed with high honors and are still studying at Ann Arbor in the university. Miss Stone entered the medical department and soon showed herself to be an apt scholar.? Chicago Times-Herald. THE GIRLS OP JERUSALEM. Of social life the girls of Jerusalem know nothing?absolutely nothing, writes Edwin S. Wallace, United States Consul at Jerusalem, in the Ladies' Home Journal. They occasionally meet, a few together," and appear to enjoy each other's company a little. They talk about their house' hold work?wliich is really everything they know?and indulge in some light gossipy chat about friends, though their gossip is never of a harmful kind. In conversation they show some little animation and spirit, but, beinjr ignorant and illiterate, they have no idea of grammatical form o! expression. Occasionally cards, dom inoes and checkers are played, but the native girls have little inclination foi any pa3time involving mental effort. Such things as dances, fetes and fain are unknown to the girls of Jerusalem: occasionally tney are taken on a fam ily picnic to some olive orchard near tbeir homes where they pass part o the day. From these and all bimilai gatherings men are barred. There ii absolutelv uo commingling of the sexes. For a girl to appear at any as sembla^e where there ure msn wouli be regarded as audacious and shocking. No Jerusalem girl would do suoh & thing; she would not dream of com mitting so fata! a breach in the uu written, though well-delined, law gov <?rning the conduct of her sex. S< cfrinf. in fhia ln.w. nr enstnm nf fiXfiltl sion that under no circumstance: would a girl attend the wedding o her brother to which were bidder guests outside the immediate families ORCHESTRAL WOMEN*. It is quite true that an ocoasiona and v^ry exceptional woman has beet known to make a fair soloist on bras & 4V.V.^. - . v j i r'j?*' '' I' . / and wood wind Instruments, and dint of searohing as many worn might be discovered in a generation might be trained to handle the bri and wood wind sections in an orch tra, bnt the same argument will apj to them as to their sisters of the t die. It is one thing to be able to pi form a solo well and quite anocher I ^ ? sustain a position m nu u<uu??a. ' appear before the public for twenty thirty minutes incidentally and plaj sonata and concerto is no test whi ever of the capacity to work Bteadi in an orchestra from two to thr hours at a stretch, attention concc trated on a conductor's desk, and tl point of a performance having be reached through months of arduo rehearsal. The most capable and i telligent of women can never,becoi factors in an orchestra of any serio aims for this reason. It boots little to argue the questi of feminine capacity to handle one i strument better or worse than t other. Taking it for granted that * man could accomplish as good resu with every other instrument of t orchestra as she can with the violi her physical incapacity to endure t strain of four or five hours a day 3 hearsal, followed by the prolong tax of public performances, will t her against possible competition wi male performers. She may learn play the trombone if she please jt as well as the fiddle, but 6he will ne\ arrive at playing it in an orchest throughout works of special momei which have demanded consistent ai protracted labor for their study. T female violinist who laudably divid honors with her male brethren is w equipped technically for a good po tion in an orchestra. There are d< ena of young women who play w enough for an orchestral place. B even were a mixed orchestra of m and women together a condition pro able enough to consider, about h< many works of novelty and magnitu in a year would the ordinary worn find herself physically equipped carry through rehearsal? Not mc than a third, probably, of what m are able to do. Women for solo wc can increase their repertoire by < grees of their own arbitration, : hearsing how and when they plea but the grinding tax of rehearsals wi an orchestra which undertakes 1 production of several weighty nov ties each season, together with kei ing in the best order a long list standard works, would send her ph, ical forces completely to the wall Musical Courier (South Africa). FASHION NOTES. ?-~.il At* Vrtin Anrl AlninA Tiofa TIT JC tjlli Banui uauo auu. ui^ftuv UMU>J .. indented crowns are still used. Soft crowned hats are the fancy the moment, whether of velvet, fur satin. Changeable velvets in color m tures are employed in the making Louis XVI. theatre and opera ca] and coats. The dahlia, mulberry and redd plum shades in velvet and cloth i much used for elegant fur-trimm costumes. Changeable effects in ailks, sati: silk and wool mixtures and in fai velvets are still the very correct fa ion, notwithstanding their long lii of favoritism. The Louis Seize coat embroide: with gold along the open front! revers and collar of white sa striped most effectively with "tails Russian sable. Jacqueminot or poppy-red velo in ribbed patterns, edged with cutgimp, is used for decorating bodices of handsome black costun JLUr IUO UlUtCi. The chinchilla cape, fall on shoulders, is perhaps the most chi< all far wraps, rivaling even those Russian sable, because it ii> conside: more youthful looking. Very handsome costumes are mi of moss-green corduroy trimmed the coat front with rich iridescent j: sementeries and elsewhere decora' with narrow bands of dark mink f One cf the handsomest hats of season is of velvet. It has a coro front, close crown and very nar: brim at the back. The trimming i? velvet loops and clusters of rich vel flowers. Ribbons or narrow galloons spang a very little on the edge make an fective and inexpensive garniti which can be arranged for neckban belts, edgings and braces over shoulders. Velvet jackets that are distinc French have the straight box c back hanging from the neck in < broad box plait, while others have 1 Watteaa-like double box plaits he ing their great fullness. 1 The jacket with stitched bands sit | lating box-plaits belted in the ba ^ and having open front;) over a fa: vest, retains favor for youthful ' ers, both here and abroad. 1 model has full sleeves and two ci k cellars edged with narrow fur. | A long coat of dark-blue broadcl ; is doable-breasted and has enorm sleeves and large pocket-lids at sides. The cape collar is of Hud Bay sable, with a high rolling coll The overlapping side of the coat ha I continuation of the fur that exte ^ a short distance below the waist-li A Minrminrr dttmi-toilfttfcft of tit1 ; satin has the skirt trimmed with 1 I narrow ruffles of the satin separa by one of black lace. The bodice ] 5 a short, odd jacket made of black ^ . vet squares and gold and black pa< ; menterie. This is edged with osti feathers, and the rolling velvet co [ has ti lining of short black tips. : One of the handsomest cloaks of 5 season is of black with woven plait astrakhan eSects. It is a half-titt garment at the back with strai I fronts. The leg-o'-rautton sleeves of piain fabric to match and are v fall. The cape has a hood and h rolling collar, and is fastened aci - the front with straps of the mate - and largo buttons. > A long cloak of black satin been much admired. It is half-titt s and double-breasted, over which ' worn a cape of satin with a roll i collar of velvet. Pointed sectioni velvet are set on in yoke fashion, points extending to the collar, wide portions coming over the eh< 1 ders and down the front and bs j The cape is lined with plaid, am q fastened with buttons and ?trap9. 4 ll [ JAPANESE FENCERS. iag ass TWO-HANDED SWORDS USED es- WITH MUCH SKILL. >iy * I?l??n??r!na ITnnniintPP AfCOrdiDST ^ to the Approved Rules of the p Orient?Much Depends Q? On the Eyes. r a .at* CC~Y HAVE been challenged to y I fight; the weapons will be ee I swords." said the young Japanese, calmly. "Excuse me 113 while I prepare." en Then he put on an iron-barred hel!U8 met, sheathed his body in a loose padin' ded suit of cotton stuff, grasped his ne weapon and stood on the defensive. a8 The weapon was not a Damascus blade. It was, in fact, bamboo. The fight ,on was not to the death, but for points, in* and such bouts can be seen at the "e rooms of the Japanese Club off Pond '?* street, near Powell. Its The opponents stood facing each "e other, each with a glare of suspicion in his eyes, and each too cautions to even wink lest the other take advanr?" tage. The point of each sword was ed held at the height of the throat. The handle was grasped in both hands. ~ Suddenly the men spun round, and ? one of them leaping into the air by a IS" drtmnwnTfl efriilro frnm that. UVAtiiVUB uvnunwiM UVAWMV ?? er elevated position whacked the other :ra on the back of the head, where there no protection by iron barp. The man f who was hit blinked as though at a i e vision of stars and called ont a word e? which being interpreted means that . the other had scored. He made his 3I" sail promptly, for had he neglected to)Z: do so the one delivering the blow would have done so himself, and ac'ut cording to the rules of the game ?n would have been entitled to an extra point. But there wa3 no pause in assault da and parry. The man who had the *n vision of stars recovered himself, made to a lixrhtnincr narrv and had the end of >r0 the sword against the throat of the e? foe, bestowing it with & palpable jolt. 'rk And even yet there wan no relaxation. ie* Each strove to strike the other on the re" wrist. This member is proteoted by 8?' a ganntlet, but above the gauntlet the arm is bare save for a covering of one cbe thickness of light cloth. So many a el* stroke was received od. the arm?and some of them must have hurt?before 0 the bamboo iell across the wrist. F8" Such a blow ia supposed to disable an enemy, or at least be a start in that direction. The swords are held in both hands or in either one, as the exigency of the moment may reauire, and the charges are made with a celerity that the observer can hardly . follow. The two men circling about each other, thrusting, dodging, making or parries, falling to escape a blow or from that position to make a vicious 1X' upper cut, remind one irresistibly of ?* two gamecocks. >es A fourth point is a blow on the side, under the arm, of such a nature that ish 3truck with real weapons it would end ire the fight and the fighter's earthly ied career. When this blow falls it gives a sounding whack that shows the ueeQS> fulness of padding, even where the icy broad blade is represented by strips sh. of bamboo. nit The Japanese are fine fencers, but their methods are so different from red ^ose *n vogue in this country that there is no familiar standard by whioh * to judge them. Certain it is that when half a dozen bouts are in progress at once, half a dozen men calling out the blows that have been suecessfully delivered, a dozen swords cutting the air into streaks and circles til0 as a dozen men duck, jump, stoop, fall 2es down, 6pring high, beating the bamboo on iron bar and wadded doublets, the there are lively times in the Post street 5 of clubroom. of As one of the fencers explained red while resting, mnch depends on the eye. It is the guide. fcjometime3 in ide Japan in deadly conflict two fencers on of skill will face each other for a long ias- time, grasping the two-handed sword, fced eying each trther grimly, eaoh ready ur. to move, but not moving until the rovthe *nS eye ?* 'k? foe makes an opening. net To stand this indefinitely, refusing to ow be led into hostilities that may give , 0f the other a chance is regarded as evivet dence of the highest skill, as it is certainly evidence of wonderful powers of endurance. el_ The mimic swordj used in the olub are made of four pieces of bamboo joined in the form of an elongated ' hollow square. They are not fixed at the edges, so when a blow is delivered with any side of the instrument the '"7 j bamboo yields, breaking the force of oat the impact. But for this the tool >ne would be battered to pieces in a short '*? term of service. In a fencing match there are sought to be obtained four principal points, nu- these being a blow on the back of the ck, head, a fair blow, for glancing strokes acy do not count; a thrust at ttio throat, sar- r stroke on the wrist and a stroke on 'his the side. So many are the positions ipe from which those blows can be delivered that there seeai3 to be no rale oth as to how delivery shall be made. The ous stroke may come from the right or the left hand or be dealt with both, in son which case it is apt to be no trifle, ? ar. 9an Francisco Examiner. ts a nds Qe Bodies Petrified in Lava. nne When the pick used by the excavat;wo or at Pompeii gives forth a hollow ted sound when striking the great bed of lias lava, care is Immediately taken to open /el- the cavity that is known to be near, jse- Into this cavity liquid plaster of Paris ich is poured. The cavity serves as a meld, liar and the plaster soon hardens. When the lava has been removed the statue tho obtained usually proves to be that of 1 in a woman or man in the agonizing con jno. vulsions of death, the limbs contorted. and the features drawn out of shape, lire M as they were when the person was erv overtaken uy the Hood of red-hot lava jrr'k 18)0 years ago.?New York Adverro.ss tiser. rial The Smallest Bank in London. has Qne of the little historic banks of ping London?Praed's, of Fleet street?has is closed its door3, the partners with ing whom it amalgamated having removed 3 of to larger premises. It was the smallthe est bank within the city limits, and, the like "Fvogera, Olding & Co.," nourjul* ished a poet. Mackworth Praed was, tck. in his way, almost as well known and 1 is admired as Samuel Rogers.? London Ncw3. i / Names ot Carriages. The faot that the first coach ever brought to this country?it being imported by Colonel DeLancey Kane, son-in-law of Commodore Vanderbilt, some twenty years ago?was named by itfi owner "the tallv-ho" , is not any more justification for twisting the meaning and enlarging upon the importance of the word, so as to make it refer to coaches generally considered, than it would be to call all yachts "Alvas" because Vanderbilt chooses to call his boat by that name. The word "tally-ho" is used in a perverted sense l- i-s? Ti as applied 10 UUttlJUlUg. J.t id n uuuuug term, pare and simple. Take the common expression that you hear on every side. "Mr. Soand-so has just pissed by in his drag." Now, a man up in such things would expeot to see a po::son go by with a swell four-in-hand toumout. Drag is the name applied to a coach when it is used privately. As soon as a fourin-hand coach is put into publio service and a fare is charged for riding upon it, it ceases to be a drag and becomes a coach, just as a hansom when driven publicly becomes a hansom cab. Another common mistake is the calling of two horses a team instead of a pair. A pair of horses is never a team unless hitched tandem. A team is something more than a pair, such as a tandem, unicorn, four-in-hand, etc., and to hear people talk about a pair of horses as a team is quite as bad as to hear a person say, "John, put that single set of harness on the bay." A single set of harness is an impossibility, as it take s a double equipment for a set. Used in the sense of the' word trap is another expression which you never hear except in the very Yankee States, j It seems to be a generic name for all kinds of traps, and nothing is too lowly or too lofty to apply the terra to. A name almost an general as a rig in its significance is "dog cart." It seems as if anything having two wheels should he given this name, ascording to the notion here. The only thing that should be given that name, however, is a two-Wheel cart having a box under the seat, called a dog box, for the reception of dogs, guns, game and such things. You very seldom hear the arrangement of one horse in front of two spoken of as a unicorn; it is more usually called a "spike," yet this is the slang name for it. Properly speaking, a "spike" is the name that should be applied to such teams as you find working in iion or dray wagons, when the driver rides the near) horse and drives the lead horsa with a jerk line. ?Pittsburg Dispatch. Mining by Fire. ? J. 0. Hestwooi, who is well-known in this city, returned from Alaska on the last trip of the Alaska Commercial Company's steamer to San Francisco, arriving in this city on Monday night. Mr. Hestwood has some mining claims on the upper Yukon, near Forty-Mile City. He left that point in the early part of September, and it took him over a month to get home. He came 2000 miles down the Yukon to St. Michaels, on tbe coast, then down to Unalaska, and from there across to San Francisco. "About 700 people went into the upper Yukon country last season," said Mr. Hestwood, "by way of Juneau, making their way over the mountains at Chilkat Pass, then on the ice over the great lakes for 300 miles; from there they had to go 400 miles farther by boat, when they reached Forty-Mile City. There ha3 been a great deal of activity in the mines at Forty-Mile. It was demonstrated last winter that these mines can be worked as profitably in the winter as in summer, in fact, at much less expanse. . This is done by the use of fire. A hole is sunk by fire down to the pay streak, the earth being thawed out by the heat. The dirt is then hoisted by windlass and left on fr.nn of the cround and is washed out "T o in the spring. I opened up quite a rich claim this season on Glacier Creek, and have men employed this winter burning. I expect to take in prospeoting machinery next spring, which will enable me to locate the pay streak in the gulch in a comparatively short time. By using this machinery a hole twenty-five feet deep can be sunk in a day, when eighteen inches a day by burning is a pretty good day's work."?Seattle Post-Intelligencer. A KIcli Tramp's Peculiar Purse, \ Wooden-legged Dick is in Washington and announces his intention of going South. Dick has tramped in every State in the Union, and an account of his forlorn appearance, hobbling on a badly made wooded (substitute for a leg, has received more favors than usually fall to the lot of a tramp. Aside from an occasional spree, he has no expensive habits, and eaves every dime that is given him. The result is that he has grown fairly well off, but dees not allow that fact to interiere with his wandering habits. He is well known to the tramps throughout the country, for the reason that he will never wear his wooden leg when asleep. Taking it off, the man removes the top, secures a pistol that he carries in it, and sleeps with the leg for a pillow, and the pistol where he can reach it handily. The reason for this is that his wealth, consisting of a roll of bills, the possession of which would bo envied by many a man supposed to be ricb, is Kept inside the leg, and Dick does not intend to take any chaucesof its disappearing while he is asleep. No one knows how much money is carried in this peculiar safe deposit vault, but it is popularly supposed to be euoug'u to buy a coin fortable hocue if the tramp ever concludes to settle down. ? Washington | Star. M|!finel$ uiiii Fruit. Squirrels aro very abundant in some places this year, and we hear bv letters from friends that they are troubling fruil; in a new way. T e growers of pears complain most. The squirrels do not eat the fruit, but knaw into it to reach the seeds, which they devour as a choice morsel. Of course this makes the fruit worthless, as it quickly decays. Squirrels are enemies to the fruit; grower in another way. They destroy the eggs and young of insect-eating birds, and thus keep down the numbers of the fruit growers' best helpers.? Boston Oulfci! vatui. TEMPERANCE. A little farm woil tillfttf. A littlo wife well willed: Their good effects can ail be kille J By a little corn distilled. WHY 3E BECAME AN ABSTAIJfEB. Dean Farrar, of Westminster. who is onn of the most prominent, as he i9 also one oi the best known clergvmea In the Church of England, tells in th? following words why io uecamu a icuai awiaiaer som'J years smuo from all species of intoxicating liquor. Says tbs Dean* "About ten years ago or more I became a total abstainer because I was easily con.vinced that the use of alcohol was not n necessity, and a great deal turns upon that. I saw, for instance, that whole Nations had not only lived without it, but bad flourished without it. I saw the remarkable l'act that there were some 20,000 persons in England, who, though many of them had made themselves mere funnels for drink, though most of them had been accustomed to drink from their childhood, though most of then: had been brought to prison, either directly or indirectly, through drink, yet the verj day that they entered the gates of a prison all drink was entirely taken from *hem, and yet thera was not a single instance on record in which any of them had suffered in consequence. On the contrary, men whc have entered prisons sickly and blighted have been made compulscriiy sober by acl of Parliament, and after a few months lefl prison hale and strong and hearty; and women who have been put into prison perfectly horrible and hideous in their loathsomeness and degradation, after a shorl period, of deprivation from the source ol their ruin, lett prison with the bloom ol health and almost of beauty. All thesr proofs and many others convinced me verj spesdily that it was not nocsssarv for me tc continue to touch any form of alcohol, 'Twas the great philanthropist and politically wise Benjamin Franklin who used the words, 'Temperance puts wood on the Are, meal in the barrel, flour in the tub. money in the puree, contentment in the house, an olothes on the barins.' WpII, then, coming ,kof fAtol OK. IU IUC311 UUUVilUSiUlU, UOU<ITUI?S ?UWI, tvvu^ UVstinence would tend to simplicity of life, tc health, to strength of body, to clearness ol mind, to lengch of days. I then saw that foi me, at any rate, it became a desirable thing to give up alcohol altogether, and I did so. for these reasons, with perfect gladness, and without ever having suffered in consequence of the fact so muoh as even a single day." DESECRATION OF A NOBLE 8TBUCT0BE. New York City has over 8000 saloons and the city of Brooklyn over 4000 saloons, says George R. Scott in the New York Witness. The two cities are conneoted by a bridge which is one of the wonders of the world. The latest news regarding the bridge is, that Mr. John H. O'Brien has mpde another application to the bridge directors to have the "privilege of placing refreshment booths on the promenade of the bridge at both the New York and Brooklyn towers, for the purpose of dispensing beverages of every charade) to the thousands of persons who daily uss this thoroughfare, and who feel the neces, sitv of such publlo convenience." Mr. O'Brien is willing to permit the terms of the Sermit to be fixed by the bridge officials, ear the New York and Brooklyn entrance to the bridge there are scores of saloons but Mr. O'Brien thinks that the public is ii need of something t o drink on the way over He demands a hearing, and no doubt wil get one. But that the Brooklyn Bridge should be turned into a saloon is not to be thought of. and it is to be hoped-that the rHrnntnra nrill not Crant this aDDliCatlOU Over twelve thousand saloons In the twc cities ought to be sufficient to supply all th< hell-fire that the people "need" for the present, at least TEMPERANCE AND HEALTH. A paragraph In the Government Gazett< of Australia throws light upon a phase o the temperance reform that is well wortl the study of every true lover of his countr; and his race. It occurs in the annual repori of the Assistant Government Statist upon th< Vital Statistics of Greater Melbourne, re cently published. Dealing with the decreasi in the death rate of the metropolis, whieb has been going on dnring the past few years, the statist says: "It has also been influenced by the beneficial effects on the genera health of plain living, absence of luxury and increased sobriety and temperance, as evl denced by the arrests for drunkenness (ii the whole colony) having fallen off by thirt> per cent, since 1890. and the revenue fron spirituous liquor (excepting the newly imposed pxclsn duty on beer) from ?854,000 ii 1890-1 to ?576,000 in 1893-4, or by thirty three per cent., notwithstanding an increasi in the rates of duty." From statistics ir this same report it is further evident tha with the loss of drink rav?nue there hat been a loss of siokness and of death. COHTEEITED BABK2EPEBS. "Bill" Fife, the "drummer evangelist,' who for the last five or six years has had ( phenomenal success in revival meetings ii North Carolina and other Southern states, has just closed a three weeks' revival at Wins ton, N. C., after {'converting the whob town." There were' more than one thousand converts, including all the saloon-owner: and barkeepers in the place, and now the business men and citizens generally areaskec -A- _ ? * - AL?? ? ??? Alf fV*A to nejp intsao wtuany uidu whisky business, which they propose to d( by goin& into other businesses. Unitec States District-Attorney R. B. Gleen, who ii one of the converted, has started a move< ment in aid of these mei). They are to be assisted in disposing of theirstocks of liquoi ?how, it has not yet been deoided uponand then the business men will be asked tc prive all the ex-barkeepers positions in the different lines of business.?New York Post, TOX.D OF JOHN B. DBAKE. The Chicago Evening Post tells a numbei of characteristic stories about the late Joht B. Drake, for so many years proprietor o the Grand Paciflo Hotel, Chicago. On on* occasion a traveling man saw him go into f little room behind the key box frame anc drink some water, as was his habit, and h< accosted the little man: "Say, John, wh] ' don't you patronize the bar?drink minera water, cider or some such thin?, instead o that plRin water'? If I owned this place. I'c have the best, you cim bet." "I had t( break the ice out of the water-bucket wiutei mornings, and melt it to (ret a drink." re plied Mr. Drake, "when I was a boy, anc somehow iust plain, clear water out of ( white pitcher does me quite well." the normandy wat. An American traveler in Normandv say; that in a country tavern he found the follow in? printed card on the wall detailing the law of that land against intoxication: "Aftei two formal condemnations for scandaloui and public drunkenness ("mere committal* do not count), the offender, ipso facto, in curs the following disabilities: (1) jLoss ol his vote,(2) may not be vo.id for, (3) maj not serve on a jury, (4) may not exercise anj administrative facultv, such as actin? a; executor of a will, and (5) loses the right tc carry arms." HOW TO KEEr DBUNKARDS DRUNK. There is hardly any nouDt tnai tue reauines3 of many foolish people to laugh ovei the drunkenness of others, to treat iutoxication as h subject and occasion for fun, is falculaied to opcoura^e ralher than to re< form or avert intemn-'v.nc^. There is jusl as little doubt that tbo habit of ridiculing, abusing or degrading an uu'oriunata pjivson who happens to fall between his cups doss quite as much in tiv. sail v.-ork o." malting and confirming drunkard".?Dallas News. DETUIMEXTAL TO EVTIKVBODV. fiov.u-nor Hughe?. o" Arizona, i:i his animal mepsaijo to Urn Secrojary o?" the In t?ri'>r, urges the bnivshmeut of Ihj liquoi traffic from that Territory. One of tht reasons he gives is, that it costs the Govern ment more than the revenue derived from it Jpjr.t is noor policy for n Territory is nls( gbor policy lor a state. me nub m inioxi cants is detrimental t'j '.vh pp, blacks nut Indians, and in fact Is '/ ca ): of misery tc even animals. temperance new8 and xotes. It is stated that, of 4930 pareons who were convicted of crime in Canada last year, onlj' thirty wore not users of intoxicating liquoi more or less freely. "The church people caq down us whez they try, and we know it," said a New Yort brewer. "Our hope Is in working after they ppt tired and continuing to work 303 days it ih'? vra<\" ; ' " v ' . t- '* Vi ? > SABBATH SCHOOL ' INTERNATIONAL LESSON FC DECEMBER 22. Lesson Text: "The Birth of Christ Luke 11., 8-20?Golden Text: Luke 11., 10?Commentary. "And there were in the same counl shepherds Abiding in the field keeping wat over their flooks by night." The love of Dai and Jonathan seen In our last lesson ^ but a faint type of the love of Him whp this lesson Is seen as a babe in Bethlehe These shepherds, and all th? good shephei of the Bible, such as Abel. Moses, David a Amos, are sucgestive of Him who was bo to be the good and great and chief Shephei 9. "And. lo, the anjjel of the Lord cai ! upon them, and the glory of the Lord she round about them, and they were^ 9< | afraid." These ministering spirits are" e1 with us (Heb. 1., 14). having constant acc , to heavea, listening to the voice of God a doing His bidding (Math, xviii., 10; Ps. ci 1 20). There are several causes of fear, su as sin, ignorance and superstition, but sin back of all. With our sins forgiven a | assured of the same (I Johnii., 12; Isa. xll [ 20), ana 01 me penect iu*r< ui uuu w ?d John iv.. 18), we should always sine. "I v trust ami not be afraid" (Isa. "xii., 2). [ 10. "And the angel said unto the . Fear not, for behold I bring you gc tidings of great joy, which shall "be to people." I would heartily urge upon evi [ believer a prayerful study of all the "/< nots" of the Bible, that thus great joy a J come to you personally and then throu . you to all whom you may reach. The fl , one is found in Gen. xv., where we read the first time of righteousness and of sa< flee as the ground of all assurance. Ui , we know Him as our righteou?ness we hi not received the good tidings (Rom. x., 4) ! 11. "For unto you is born this dav in city of David a Saviour, which is Christ Lord." Isaiah had written, "Unto us child is born, unto us a soti is given." (1 , lx.. 6), and now after 700 years the proph > is literally fulfilled. So surely and liters ! shall the rest Qf Isa. ix.t 6. 7, be fufllled due time, bringing salvation to all 1st and to all the world. This is He who \ I foreordained before the-foundation of i i world, but in due time made manifest , Pet. i., 20). \ 12. "And this shall be a sign unto you. shall find the babe wrapped in swaddl; clothes, lying in a manger.' In a man L because there was no room for them in 1 i inn (verse 7). See how poor He became us that we through His poverty might , rich (II.Cor. viil., 9). We may well the fore "let our turn oftalnd be free from love of money; constant with such thing! we have; for Himself hath said, I will In i wise fail thee, neither will 1 in any wise I l sake thee. 8o that with good courage Th? T.opd mv heloer: I will : f ??- ? ? M i fear" (Heb. xitl.. 5. 6, R. V. and margin). 13. "And suddenly there was vrtth i angel a multitude of the heavenly ho; John describes the multitude whloh he $ as ten thousand times ten thousand i , thousands of thousands (Rev. v., 11). Th also of the host that cared for Elijah i Kings vi., 17), and of the legions which Je might have had for the asking. "God [ us," includes all the powers at His c< mand. How can we fear? i 14. "Praising Ood and saying. Glory , God in the highest, and on earth peace, g< ) will toward men." ' See thenong of serapl s and cherubim in Isa. vi., 3; Rev. lv.. 8, th is no self praise, but "Holy, hoi", holy is ? Lord." "Worthy Is the Lamb," is the s< 5 of angels and redeemed (Rev. lv., 11; v., I 12). Let us be ever singing it, while a'Mde here in these mortal bodies and hi ourselves wholly for His pleasure, t! through us He may proclaim to others t there is peace for them, too, in Jesus Chi s (Acts x.. 36). f 15. "Let us now go even unto Bethlehi i and see this thing which Is come to pi which the Lord hath made known unto v t Simply and delightfully they believed G 3 They could say, "We have known and lieved" (I Johniv.. 16). The Lord by J angels made them know, and they simply l ceived the message. It is our privilege , believe all that God says and thus makes I the heart of our Lord, for He was surely? I when He said to His Father, "I have gi 1 unto them t^he words which Thou gavest and they have received them" (John n k I H\ 16. "And they came with haste and foi i Mary and Joseph, and the babe lying i - monger." They did well to go quickly, i It is well to make haste to believe God: tl there will be no occasion to make haste fi s fear (Isa. xxviii.. 16), but quietly and r i fully nasten on Hia business. They foum t they bad been told (Luke xix.. 32; xxii... 3 and so shall we always And; therefore we well to say, "I believe God that it shall even as it was told me" (Acts xxvii.. 25). 17. "And when they bad seen itthey m , known abroad the saying which was l them concerning this child." We must / \ see for ourselves and then live to m 1 others know and see. Here is the great r take of the vast majority of Ctfrlsttaus; t * seem content to .*>ee Him for themselves, ' have little ambition to make Him knc ' abroad, notwithstanding His word thai } the power of His Spirit we are to be His \ 5 nesses into the ends of the earth (Acts i., 18. "And all they that heard it wonde > at?those things which were told them by > shepherds." Wondering is not believl I There is a great deal of hearing the g ? news which ieads to nothing more than w dering (see Luke iv.. 22; ix.. 43; xi., 14), > the word preached ioes not profit those \ r hear unless they believe it (Heb. iv.. - ''Without faith it is impossible to pie > God" (Heb."xi., 6), which certainly imp ? that by faith we eau please Him. Let then -Have faith in God." "Be not afri only believe." 19. "But Mary kept all these things ) pondered them in her heart." That is thing to do, receive the wdrd, keep it; ' bring forth fruit with patience (Luke v * 15). It is written of her, "Blessed is ' that believed; for there shall be a perfo a# ,?Knoi> things which were told (IUIU Ul ) IUVJU ?M.UOM I from the Lord" (Luke i.. 45). Daniel he ' many things which he could not understa ' but he kept them in his heart (Dan. 1 I 28). f 20. "And the shepherds returned, gl 1 fying and praising God for all the thi > that they had heard and seen, as it'was t r unto them." When we believe, we becc - filled with such joy and peace that wee 1 not but speak the things which we have s t and heard (Rom. xv., 13; Acts iv? 2),? when we would refrain it becomes like a in our bones, and we cannot forbear (? xx.. 8, 9). Compare Luke v.. 25. 26; vii., xiii., 13; xvii., 15; xviii,, 43; xxiii.. 47, ' glorifying God. The summit of life i.< know Him and to make Him known (J ' ix., 24; II Cor. iv.. 11). ?Lesson Helper. " ' CAVE DISCOVERED IN NEW JERS! i I Large Underground Chamber Opened o Farm Near I'hiUlpaburg. r There are a number of men at work quai i ing stone on the Carpenter farm, a short < > tance from Phillipsburg, N. J., and one the men struok his crowbar into what thought was a piece of stone, when to surprise the crowbar went into the ea and disappeared. This led to an investi | tion, and a mammoth cave was discovered So far as the explorations of the cave h! gone, it has been found that there is a m ! chamber of about 150 fest in diamel I branching off from which are a number passages. From some of these there is rush of air, which leads to the belief t t-horo is mi onenimr to the cave somewlu ; Graat pieces of something which looks I ' petrified wood have been taken from cave, and there are millions of stalactil some of them marvelously beautiful. 1 specimens taken out have been sent Philadelphia for examination by geologi: antiquarians and archaeologists. The farm is owned by Mr. Carpenter, 1 < at present is being conduoted by How< . Richards, wno is trying to purchase it fr . its original owner. It is believed that 1 flud is of great value from a scientific stai . point, and may net the owner a largo prict 1 ) Gold Discoveries In Montana. Rich gold discoveries on Harley Get Montana, caused a great rush of prospect* ' and the new camp has beennamed Johani J burg. t London Eats Horseflesh. The horseflesh trade in London gives e 1 ploymentto thirty wholesalers aad over 1 retailers. ' * RELIGIOUS READING; t ir j,;'.' STIMULUS OF CONTIOTIOK-. In nine cases out of ten a man of strong convictions is a man of force. His actions it are prompt, energetic, decisive, persistent. * He accomplishes more than the man of weak >* or vacillating couvictions, even when the latter is physically or mentally better , equipped, - There seemu to be something Irresistible and Titanic about a firm believer in anything. Even the man who believes in l nothing but hims?if, so he believe honestly cl and firmly, is a distant power in whatever ,id movement he may take part It is the best ' thing In the wor.d for a young man or a in young woman to be so filled with believe in m any good thing that they cannot, even .dg for one ^ moment, put it out of their nd thought and life. What a wonderful stimu riA ius mere is id any auiumg cuuyicuou: . Take, for in?tance, faith in parents. The mtl child who bellevesutterly in; the goodness ine and wi9dom of father and mother is Inevita- , 5re bly moved to pattern after thera,; to grow rei. into the Same likeness, to become wise and e3S good in its measure and kind. There is s ad constant incentive in every kind; of fWtb. U The man who believes earnestly in a prfncl'h pie finds that'there is an undying impulse [ l(, within him to adjust. hls.Ufe, and All Jlip, to lQ(j the measure of that principle. "I believe, H therefore I do," is jnst as much an axiomatic /j thith a$, "I believe, therefore I am." " rtll We h&ve seen youtfg people growing up ' who had absolutely no convictions ;.-.an?i la )ID every instance their characters showed defl)0(j ciency in force. Thereseeraed.to be nothing all in them to overcome the mental'and moral 9ry inertia of an unawakened soul?no enthatiBar asm, no strong zestfal grasp of life. Bat on iay the other hand, we have seen boys and girls zh who belived in a truth, or a movement or a ;rst science, or a man, with all their hearts and f0r have marked the force, the directness, the 5ri- persistent, definite Activity of these young lives. They felt, and shadowed that* they ? lve felt, the stimulus of < conviction. And the , ' greater, and deeper, 1 and- stronger, ? the and more significant the belief, .pf the course the more power it pots Into life. Class ; a feeling, for instance, is a kind of belief in & 9a, prevailing social condition, that makes men , aCy strongly and faithfully olannlsh, but patrio.11 v tism is a higher and broody- and nobler be1 in UeT in the solidarity of a nation, that makes adl men heroes and martyrs when occasion calls, ras The grandest and most potent oonvlctlon la the the world is the belief that God is,, and .that (I. He governs and loves the universe When * young person is possessed of strong religious Ye faith, the whole life springs Into a kind of , Ing joyous, triumphant enthusiasm. There Is ger an unfailing source of inspiration in the ? the so^1! -a glad, outflowing earnestness la tor the heart, that enrioh life and make it be fruitful. The young Christian never knows ire- what It Is to lock Incentive, purpose, dlreCi ji the energy. Every day is suffused with-meani as log* eloquent with opportunity. The listless- ' no nesa which so often curses a life without for- faith, has no place in the life of the Chris,wo tian. All Is joyous activity, grateful earnestnot ness, glowing nope. Blessed are tb?y who in their youth are baptized with the loy at the God's service ! Tbey will never lack the dest." termining purpose and abundant energy " iaw which alone con meike llfe full, joyoua, tri *nd umpnani?a victory, ana a song, ana & ink crown forever and ever. (II _ SUB, for , CHnJJHOOD-KAJfHOOD. )m" This life is the obildhood of. which yonder life is the manhood. As the childhood is, so to shall the manhood bo. We are making sod heaven now. By building into ouroelvea ?m principles, by creating in our souls noiy ?r? tastes, we are rearing the wall of jasper, and the paving the streets of gold, and beautifying Jon the eternal mansions. I believa- heaven to' *9. be jnst this: a new setting of the principles wtj we ttre mastering, and working into our perola sonalities, and embodying in our works and hat character, here and now. By doing well oar k31 fragmentary duties day by day we are getting rl3: ready to sins the new song of heaven. This Htpry is told in connection with a celebrated 9m< musician who bad a large number of pupils. It was his purposo at the end of a specified time to give a grand, con- ; l?d- cert, at which his favorite pupil was to be t be P?" conspicuous figure. There was one among tbL' the others to whom was given fragmentary r^* work. No part of his instruction seemed ta to hare the least connection with any other : part It was dull work, but he practiced ',aa upon the dull fragments and fought discourJ^n agements. He did bis best and forced the ~e> whole man into the work. When the day of '" > celebration came he was. chosen as the favorite pupil. He felt that he did sot know a ma single complete piece Qf music. Trepibling? a ly he took .bis place at the instrument; but Ior when the score which he was to play was "ou placed before him he throbbed ana tnrilled om delight to find- that all of tne ?3t" completed work was made up of p*? the fragments whi<?h be had mastered, and 'v- which were now perfectly arranged... This 9? gave bim courage, and so be performed in suoh a way as deservedly to win the plaudits of the great audience. We are that musician. a,* When we go hence we shall tind that the fragmentaiy Christian enrth-iife, with its " principles and its loves and its Christ-spirit, ' ' H, js that out of which heaven is made. Heaven ? " is the holy life of earth glorified and pery ? fectly arranged and grandly transfigured.? "" Jtev. JJavia uregg, u. jj., in "iuh noaveiiLife." vlt8). i imSO TO 0HBI6T. >r?d Living to Jeans Christ every day and ia the the minutest things of life is the secret of n?- fruitfulness. A fruitful Christian is a growth,. 00" not a sudden creation. A noble Christly on- character cannot be finished up by a religion but 0f Sundays and sacraqjen'tg and npeclal servvho ices; it is the product of many days of sun' shine nnd storm, of drawing in the vital sap from Jesus as the living Head, of conflict and prayer and eelf-deniais, and of downrf pourings of the Holy Spirit The religion ' which nculd rather be poor than toach a , dishonest dollar," .which would rather go J?" through a Sunday's fierce storm to its mlaj": siou school than to lie on Its lounge, areligr:a ion which in all things serve Christ for the YV' sheer love of serving Him?this is the kind fl* of spiritual growth whose fruit "tastes of the divine life within it." Blessed ia that Chria? { tian whose broad boughs areladen with nd "aPP'es of go'd" for God's '"baskets of silvil ver*' Sueh blessedness is within the reach. '' of every one who reads this. Ask yourself, ori. "Am I bearing the genuine fruits of the Holy spirit?"?Theodore L. Cuyler. old ' >me an. CEOWD IT OUT. v een Life is very much a matter of emphasis, ind Just ns some" booke, according to Bacon, are fire to be tasted, others to be swallowed, while fer. some few should be chewed and digested, so 16; it is with objects of interest and pursuit, on Some things may without iDjury slightly oo 5 to pupy u?, which would inevitably degrade us Fer. were we to become wrapped up in tbem. If men would sit down quietiy with their conscience and settle on the things of primary importance, and the pursue those things with all diligence, letting their matters fall into the n a background, the occupation, of the preacher would be gone. If men would edit their lives with half as much painstaking as a good newspaper is edited, crowded out and ilsT crowding in according to a fixed ruling ? principle instead of following the whims of .b.? the hour, we should see better results. They rt\? would care let* about conditions and more about conduct, less about dollars and more P " about duties, less about ] leasures and more ' about principles, less about fortune and more ajQ about laithfulness, less about trouble and er more about truth. of ' ** VALUE UA1L.I roAllLll. )rp We are ia touch with the Invisible every iul hour; in His hand our breath is, and Hia aro the all our ways. We talk with Him when wo eg I pray. This is the holy secret of our prayer. The I We have but to believe to see this secret, not ' t0 I necessarily to understand it, only to know }ts l that this is its mysterious quality, its match' less splendor, in order to feel the need and to )ut recognize the worth of daily prayer.?KolUn. ird A. Sawyer, D. D. om i I Inventor of Iiefrlcerator Car Dead. i ai- Wilson Bray, a prominent citizen, the, >. patentee of the first refrigerator to carry"; heats across the ocean aud also the origin jHtor of the railroad refrigerator, died a fewr lavs aso at Lambertsville, N. J. j le'j Beets Xow an Ingredient of Co!fee. 1 srs. Chicory, used to adulterate coffee, is itself les- adulterated with sugar beat. A farmer is Port Washington, Wis., has sold a flve-acrf crop of beets to a chicory company for $400^ Pumpkin* Thre? Dollar* a Ton. im. Pumpkins are just now worth $3 a ton ta 000 'he Pennsylvania farmers, who raise them ltk argu quantities for the canning factories* ] ' - ** A" - i , V-^,