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1,1ST FOR EARLY FALL. ; i ?- ? ? * ?/C PkCCirKI ? IMtW MNL) Ml IRMwIivt uljiuk t FOR HOME WEAR. i The Material 1m of Foulard Silk, Showing ( Leaf Fattern, and the Decorations Are of Lace and Narrow Passementerie ?A Waist in French ISlue Tafleta. With the established popularity of ? the stylish little Etons, blazers and ] top coats, writes May Manton, there ' is a constant demand ior new uesiyua i u. ' ' j WAIST OF FREKCH-BLTTE TAFFETA. ? - ^ in separate waists that can be made of i silk or -wash fabrics. A stylish ex- | Ample is here given, developed in French f _ blue taffeta. It is made over a g e-fit- c ATTRACTIVE WAIST FOR E ting lining that is trimly adjusted to the i: figure by means of the usual seams s and darts, and closes as does the v waist, invisibly at the centre-front, s The full fronts have clusters of tucks e that are laid at yoke depth, separated a by bands of insertion that have mitred 'J points. The back fits smoothly across k the shoulders with a slight fulness at r the waist line. The two-seamed c sleeves fit comfortably close with a fulness at the top, caught through the t centre by bands of insertion that can t be omitted in favor of a small puff, as shown in back view of engraving. The neck band is concealed by a stock of satin relieved by the inevitable touch of white lace or chiffon above. The belt that encircles the waist is of silk with handsome metal buckle. Light inexpensive silks can be purchased at a trifling cost, so that every woman can number among her outfit several dainty waists. The readymade garments are invariably highpriced, but with these reliable patterns, a few yards of material and a t little ingenuity, satisfactory results may be obtained. To make this waist for a lady in the medium size will require five yards of. twenty-two-inch material. A Waist for Karly Autumn Wear. The attractive model shown in the : large illustration is well adapted, ac-: cording to May Manton, for early autumn wear. As illustrated, the material is of foulard silk, showing a leaf pattern. The decorations consist of lace and narrow passementerie that defines the edges of the rever and the wrists of the sleeves. The waist is supported by a glovefitted lining having the customary seams, double bust-darts and smooth under-arm gores, and closing invisibly _i. r x rn-1 ~ T 1- : .3 ~ at me ueuu tt-iruuu xue uuuk is >viue and seamless, fitting smoothly across the shoulders, with a slight fulness at the waist line. The right-front shows , fulness at the shoulder edge, with for- < ward-turning pleats at the neck edge, < while at the waist line the material is drawn well to the centre-front by over- 3 lapping pleats. The left-front lies 3 smoothly at the shoulder and neck, t with the additional material at the t waist laid iu forward-turning pleats, t On tiie edge of the left-front is a full rever that falls iu jabot effect from the shoulders to the waist. The neck is completed by a smooth band over 1 which is a stock of ribbon. A soft 1 ? frill of lace rises above the collar, af- * fording a stylish finish. The sleeves are mousquetaire, fol- * lowing the arm closely from the wrist H 1 to well above the elbow, where they s are finished by a puff of moderate di- c mensions. me waist is encireieu ny 1 a wide ribbon girdle that finishes with a bow and ends. All varieties of silk, including taffeta, foulard, India, etc., 1 are adapted, to the style, while soft' t wool textures, or silk and wool, -will ; i levelop equally well, lace, ribbon, j mssementerie or insertion forming j mitable decoration. ' $ To make this waist for a woman of j netlium size will require two and a j piarter yards of 44-inch material. j Organdie Gowns. Organdie gowns are exceedingly i smart this season. One charming de- i sign is a white ground with sprays of pink flowers and heavy white stripes. 1'he skirt has a graduated full flounce, c tvith an entre deux of wide white lace. e rhree bands of entre deux are placed E ibove the flounce, and the waist is i heavily trimmed with the lace. A j 8 collar, belt and sash of old rose pink * taffeta give a smart look to the gown, t rhe hat is of cream-white straw, i trimmed with taffeta ribbon and pink ? roses. The parasol is of taffeta and e jhiffon. ii d .Tnnntv Suit For a Little Rot< r The jaunty suit here represented is made of dark blue serge, with a wide [ sailor collar of white. It is neatly fin- i shed with machine stitching and deco- b rated with narrow braid. The coat, of c becoming length, is simply shaped by J shoulder and under-arm seams; the c Dack is wide and seamless, and has a ' slight fulness at the waist. The clos- * ng is effected in the centre-front, with j, jutton and buttonholes. Above the e losing the fronts open upon a shield- 1 shaped portion, the neck finishing T ivith a narrow braid. On the left front 1 0 i useful pocket is inserted. An at- | e :ractive feature is the wide sailor col- | I: ar, falling deeply across the back and [ t >houlders. The sleeves are provided I t r-i'+li incirla conma nnlv anfl firfi ftr- ! t """ ?-? J I ? I anged at the wrists iu small box- i t jleats stitched to position, while the , c 'ulness at. the top is collected in j r jathers. The short trousers, extend- j ? ? ! c ! ^ ^ ^ 1 ^ ^ ' 5 i ARLY MORNING WEAR. e 1 t Qg to tlie knee, have inside and out- a ide leg seams, and close at the side, a ,*here pockets are inserted in the out- v ide seam. Inside bands are provid- " d at the top, having buttonholes to t ttach to buttons on the shirt waist, e ?he trousers display a fulness at the n :nee in knickerbocker style, which is ; ? egulated by an elastic run through a ! n asing. j a Useful and becoming suits for small ? oys can be fashioned in this style in ! a weed, cheviot, serge or light-weight | e K M 1flfy M c 1( BOY'S IIUSSIAN SUIT. ?' ? t jlotli in shades of blue, tan, gray or j " sardinal. ? To make this suit for a boy of four rears will require one and five-eighths c rards of fifty-four-inch material or Jhree yards of twenty-seven-inch ma- , erial, with five-eighths of a yard of f :ontrasting material for collar. j ? The Keefur Jacket. j v i \ The latest reefer jacket has a short ' > msque, a high standing collar in the a >ack and wide revers, and is slashed * >u either side of the front where the >elt passes through and fastens over t he remaining portion. A simple cor.t c tleeve with wide pull's completes this d itylisb, trim little jacket, which re- I j juires a very fluffy, much befrilled | t - est to givo it the desired effect. I S o In most parts of Asia where coffee is f ised, the "grounds" are drunk with j J .he infusion. li DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON. SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED DIVINE. Il Plea ForCheerfulness?'Three Preaorlp tions For the Cure of UiHlnvnK I>epresitioit: Cheerful Conversation and | Behavior, Proper Clirintian Investment, and a Great Spiritual AwakeningText: "Wherefore doth a living man :omplain?"?Lamentations iii., 3'J. A cheerful interrogatory in the most melincholy book of the Bible! Jeremiah wrote 10 many sad things that we have a word lamed after him, and when anything is mroharged with grief and complaint we :all it a jeremiad. But in my text Jernniah, as by a sudden jolt, wakens us to a hankful spirit. Our blessings are so much nore numerous than our deserts that he Is urprised that anybody should ever find ault. Having iife and with It a thouaud blessings it ought to hush into perpetlal silence everything like criticism of the lealiugs of God. "Wherefore doth a living nan complain?" While everything in our national finances 9 brightening, for the last few years the and has been set to the tune of "Naomi." . uere nas oecn nere ana mere a cneeriui oloist, but the grand chorus has boon one >f lamentation, accompanied by dirges over >rostrated commerce, silent manufactories, inemployed mechanism, and all those disirders described by tho two short words, 'hard times." The fact is that we have >een paying for the bloody luxury of war nore than thirty years ago. There were ;reat national differences, and we had not inough Christian character to settle them ty arbitration anil treaty, and so we went nto battle, expending life and treasure and Fell nigh swamping the national llnances, ,nd north and south, east ami west, have ver since been paying for those four years' udulgonce in barbarism. But the time has come when this depresion ought to end?yea, when it will end if he people are willing to do two or three hings by way of financial medicament, for he people as well as Congress must join in he work of recuperation. The best polltial economists tell us that there is no good eason for continued prostration. Plenty if money awaiting investment. The naional health with never so strong an arm >r so clear a brain. Yet we go on groaning, ;ronning, groaning, as though God had mt thia nntinn lirmn lrriiul jiml nllntraH nu iut one decent breukfast in six months. ?he fact is, the habit of complaining has lecomo chronic In this country, and after .11 these years of whimper and wailing and ibjurgation we are under such a momentum if snivel that we cannot atop. There are are three prescriptions by which believe that our individual and National Inances may be cured of their present deiression. The first is cheerful conversaion and behavior. I have noticed that the leople who are mo3t vociferous against the lay in which we live are those wuo are in omfortable circumstances. I have made nquiryof those persons who are violent in heir jeremiads against these times, and I, lave asked them, "Now, after all, are you' lot making a living?" After some hositaion and coughing and clearing their throat hroe or four times they say stammeringly, 'Y-e-s." So that with a great multitude of >eople it is not a question of getting a ivelihood, but they are dissatisfied because hey can't make as much money as they vould like to make. They have only 1520 00 In the bank, where they would like o have ?4000. Thoy can clear in a year >nly $5000, when they would like to clear *10,000, or things come out just even. Or n their trade they got 63 a day when they pish they could make 64 or 65. "Oh," ays some one, "are you not awaro of the act that there is a great population out of imployment, and there are hundreds of he good families of this oountry who are tt tueir wits' end, not knowing which way o turn?" Yes, I know it better than any uan in private life can know that sad fact, or it comes constantly to my eye and ear, mt who is responsible for this state of hings? Much of tha( responsibility I put upon aen in comfortable circumstances who by n everlasting growling keep public confl;ence depressed and new enterprises from tarting out and new houses from being uilt. You know very well that one depondent man oan talk fifty men into depondency, while one cheerful physician an wake up into exhilaration a whole asyum of hypochondriacs. It is no kindness o the poor or the unemployed for you to oln in this doploration. If you have not ho wit and the common sense to think of omething cheerful to say, then keep silent. Now I will make a contract. It the peoile of the United States for one week will alk cheerfully, I will open all the manu autories, 1 win give employment to an tae inoccupled man and women, I will make a lvely market for your real estate that is atlng you up with taxes. I will stop the ong processions on the way to the poorlouse and the penitentiary and I will spread , plentiful table from Maine to California ,nd from Oregon to 8andy Hook, and the chole land shall carol and thunder with lational jubilee. But says some one, "I rill take that contract, but we can't affect he whole nation." My hearers and readrs, representing as you do all professions, ill trades and all occupations, if ou should resolve never again to utter , dolorous word about the money larkets, but by manner and by voice ,nd by wit and caricature and, above ,11, by faith in God to try to scatter this ational gloom, do you not believe the inuence would be instantaneous and widepread? The effect would be felt around he world. For God'ssake and for the sake f the poor and for -the sake of the emloyed quit growling. Depend upon it, If ou men in comfortable olrcumstancea do iot stop complaining, God will blast your larveats and see how you will get along without a corn crop, and He will sweep you rlth floods, and He will devour you with :rasshoi)ners. and He will burn your citv. f you men in comfortable circumstances :eep on complaining, God will give you omething to complain about. Mark that! The second prescription for the alleviaion of financial distress is proper Chrisian investment. God demands of every ndividuai state and nation a certain proioition of their income. We are parsimotious. We keep back from God that which lelongs to him, and when we keep back nytblng from God he takes what we keep ack, and he takes mors. He takes it by torm, by sickness, by bankruptcy, by any >ne of the 10,000 ways which he can em>loy. The reason many of you are cramped q business is because you have never earned the lesson of Christian generosity, 'ou employ an agent. You give him a easonable salary, anil, lo, you find out hat he is appropriating your funds, boidos the salary. What do you do? Disharge him. Well, we are God's agents, le puts In our hands certain rnon ys. Tart is to be ours, part is to be lis. Suppose we take all, what then? le will discharge us. Ho will turn us over o financial disasters and take the trust way from us. The reason that graat multiudes are not prospered in business ie simily because thoy have been withholding rom God that whi<;h belongs to Hitn. ?he rule is, give and you will receive, administer liberally and you shall have more o administer. I am in full sympathy with he man who was to be baptized by imraerlon, and some one said, "You had better save your pocketbook out; it will got wet." No," said he, "I want to go down under he wave with everything. I want to eonecrate ray property and all to God." .\nd o he was baptized. What we want in this ountry is more baptized pocketbooks. The only safe investment that a man an make in this world is in the cause of Christ. If a man give from a superabunlance, God may or he may not respond rith a blessing, but if a man give until he eels it, if a man give until it fetches the ilood, if a man give until his selfishness ringes and twists and cowers uuder it, he liil get not only spiritual profit, but he rill get paid back in hard cash or in con ertilde securities. \><? oiten see men wno ,ro tight-fisted who seein to get along with heir investments very profitably, notwithtaading all their parsimony. Hut wait, iiiddealy In that man's history everyhing goes wrong. His health fails, ir his reason is dethroned, or a lomeetic eurse smito3 him, or a middght shadow of ?"lie kind drops upon lis soul and upon his business, what is he matter? God Is punishing him for his mall hearteduess. He tried to cheat God, ,nd God worsted him. Ho that one of the reIpesfor the cure of individual aud national Inanoes Is more generosity. Where you (estowed Si on the cause of Christ give .52. rod loves to be trusted, and ho is very apt o trust back again. He says: "That man :n$ws how {q handle ?opey. ah^y have s more money to handle." And very scou the property tliiit was on the market for a 4rrn.1t vrlilln a mir<!has?r. and the bond that was not worth more thaD llfty cents on a dollar goes to par, and the opening of a now stroet doubles the value of his house, or in any way of a million (rod blesses him. Once the man finds out that secret uud he goes on to fortune. There are men whom I have known who for ton years have been trying to pay God 51000. They have never been able to get it paid, for just as they worti taking out from one fold of their poeketbook a bill mysteriously somehow In some other fold of their poeketbook there came a larger bill. You tell me that Christian generosity pays in the world to come. I tell you it pays now, pays in hard cash, pays in Government securities. You do not believe it? Ah, that is what keeps you back. I knew you did not believe it. The whole world and Christendom is to be reconstructed on this subject, and as you are a part of Clnistendom let the work begin in your own soul. "But," says some one, "I don't believe that theory, because I have been generous and I have been losing money for ten years." Then God prepaid you, that is all. What because of the money that you made in other days? You say to your son, "Now I will give you 8500 every year ai long as you livi*." After awhile you say, "Well, my son, you prove yourself so worthy of my confidence I will just glva you ?20,000 In a single lump." And you give it to him, aid ho starts ofT. In two or three years he does not complain against you: "Father Is not taking care of me. I ought to have s?500 a year." You prepaid your son, and ho does not^omplaln. There are thousands of us now who can this year get just enough to supply our wants. But did not God supply for us in the past and has he not again and again and again paid us in advance? In other words, trusted you all along?trusted you more than you had a right to ask? Strike, then, a balance foi God. Economize in anything rather than in your Chrlstiai. charities. There is not more than one out of 300 of you who ever give enough to do you any good, and when some causa of Christianity, some mis sionary society or Bible society 01 church organization, comes along and pets anything from you what do you say? You say: "I have been bled." And there never was a more significant figure of speech than that used in common parlance. Yes, you have been bled, and you are spiritually emaciated, when if you had been courageous enough to go through your property and say: "That belongs to God, and this belongs to God, and the other th;'.ng belongs to God," and no more dared to appriate it to your own use than something that belonged to your neighbor, instead of being bled to death by charities you would have been reinvigorated and recuperated and built up for time and for eternity. God will keep many of you cramped in money matters until the day of your death unless you swing out into larger generosities. People quote as a joke what is a divine promise, "Cast thy bread upon the waters, and it will return to thee after many days." Y/hat did Gbd mean by that? Thore is an allusion there. In Egypt when they sdw the^corn it is at a time when the Nil* is overflowing its banks, and they sow (he seed corn on the waters, and as the Nile begins to recede this seed corn strikes In the earth and comes up a harvest, and that Is the allusion. It seems as if they are throwing the corn away on the waters, but after awhije they gather it up in a harvest. Now says God in His word, "Cast thv bread upon the waters, and it shall coine back to thee after many days." It miy seem t? you that you are throwing It away ou charities, but it will yield a harvest of green and gold?a harvest on earth and a harvest in heaven. If men could appreciate that and act on that, we would have no more trouble about individual or national finances. Prescription the third, for the cure of all our individual and national financial distresses, a great spiritual awakening. It is no mere thaory. The merchants of tils country were positively demented with tie monetary excitement in 1857. There never before nor uince has been such a state of financial depression as there was at that time. A revival came, and 500,000 people were born Into the kingdom of God. What came after the revival? The grandest financial prosperity we have ever had in Miia nniintrv Tll? flnfwt fortunes, the largest fortunes iu the United States, have been made since 1857. "Well," you siay, "what lias spiritual improvement and revival to do with monetary improvement and revival?" Much to do. The religion of Jmsus Christ has a direct tendency to mak% men honest Hud sober and truth telling, and are not honesty and sobriety and truth telling auxiliaries of material prosperity? If we could have an awakening in this country as in the days of Jonathan Edwards of Northampton, as in the days of Dr. Finley of Basking Ridge, as in the days of Dr. Griffin of Boston, the whole land would rouse to a higher moral tone, and with that moral tone the honest busi ness enterprise of the country would come up. You say a great awakening has an influence upoa the future world. I tell you it has a direct influence upon the financial walfare of this world. The religion of Christ is no foe to successful "business. It is its best friend. And if there should come a great awakening in this country. and all the banks and insurance companies and stores and offices and jhopsshould close up for two weeks and do nothing but attend to the public worship of Almighty God, after such a spiritual vacation the land would wake up to suoh financial prosperity as we have never dreamed of. Godliness is profitable for the life that now is as well as for that which is to come. But, my friends, do not put too much emphasis on worldly success as to let your eternal affairs go at loose ends. I have nothing to say against money. The more money you get the better, If it oomes honestly and goes usefully. For the lack of it sickness dies without medicine, and hunger finds its coffin in an empty bread tray, and nakedness shivera for clothes and lire. All this canting tirade against mouey, as though It had no practical use, when I hear a man indulge in it, maltM me think the best heaven for him would be an everlasting poorhouse. No; there is a practical use in money, but while we admit that we must also admit that it cannot satisfy the soul, that it oaunot pay for our ferriage across the Jordan of death, that it cannot unlock the gate of heaven for our Immortal soul. All the mines of Australia and Brazil, strung in one carcanet, are not worth to you as much as the pearl of great price. You remember, I suppose, some years ago, the shipwreck of the Central America? A storm came on that vessel. The surges trampod the deck and swept down through the hatches, and there went up a hundred voiced death shriek. The foam ou the jaw of the wave. The pitching of the steamer, ae though it would leap a mountain. The glare of the signal rockets. The long cough of the steam pipes. The hiss of extinguished furnaces. The walkinirnf ftiwl nil fhfi WUVft Oh It WftS H stupendous spectacle. But that ship did not go down without a struggle. The passengers stood in long lines trying to bail it out, and men unused to toil tugged until their hands were blistered and their muscles w?re strained. After awhile a sail came in sight. A few passengers got off, but the most went down. The ship gave one lurch and was lost. 3o there aro men who go on In life?n fine voyage they are making out of it. All is well" till some euroclydon of business disaster comes upon them, and they go down. The bottom of this commercial sea is strewn with the shattered hulks. But because your property goes shall your soul go? Oh, no. There is coming a more stupendous shipwreck after awhile. This world?God launched it fiOOO years ago, and it. is sailing ou, but one day it will 9tagger at the cry of "Fire!" and the timbers of the rocks will burn, and the mountains llamt* liko masts, and the clouds like sails in the judgment hurricane. God will take a good many off the deck, aud others out of tin: berths, where they are now sleeping in Jesus. How many shall go down? No one will know until it is announced in heaven one day: "Shipwreck of a world! So many millions saved! So many millions drowned!" Because your fortunes go, because your house goes, because all your earthly possessions go, do not let your soul go. May the liOru Alimymy, mo MIUUU UI mo everlasting covenant, save your souls! Good Times In Sweden. Times are reported to be good in Sweden, and have been for three or four years, t.nd wa^ea to-day in all branches of iabor, It te said, are higher than they are in this country. French railroads earned 810,850 per mile last year, of which 51.6 per <jeat ? a* used for working expose*, ? I i IN THE QUIET HOUKS. PRECNANT THOUCHTS FROM THE WORLD'S CREATEST AUTHORS. SoDfjof Freedom - Bear the Burden With I'utlcnco - "Take No Thought for the Morrow"-Hiirinonv Throuirh Discord ? Calm Spirits Work Methodically. Good-by to pain and care! I take Mine ease today: Here where thes-^ sunny waters break, Aud ripples this keen breeze, I shake All burdeus from the heart, all weary thoughts away. I draw a freer breath?1 seem Like all I see? Waves in the sun?tho white-winged gleam Of sea-birds in the slanting beam,? And far-olY sails which flit before the southwind free. ? ? miner. Bear tho Burden With Patience. In a peculiar manner the Christian may be fortilied for what he is called upon to endure. The consciousness of reserve power is in itself a source of confidence and strength. Sailors do not fear the storm very much so long as their vessel is stanch and their are strong anchors and reliable cabUs on board; so the Christian enters upon the duties and responsibilities of a new day with confidence because he knows where there are unfailing resources upon which hb can draw. God's promise of daily strength is like a sure anchor, that holds even in the most terrific tempests of life. That anchor never fails; that cable never parts. Tho Christian must not expect exemption from the cares, burdens and disappointments *>f. ;his life. They will come, and pay come like an avalanche. "Many," says the Psalmist, "are the afflictions "of the righteous, but the Lord delivereth him out of them all." And the way of deliverance is frequently through the acceptance of the strength that He gives to meet the daily need. In view of these things the chil'4 o! God should take courage, and bear with natience whatsoever burden may be placed upon his shoulders. Bear the "burden iust for todav. and let the strength that God imparts help you to bear it. Deliverance may come tomorrow. Be patient and be hopeful.?Christian Advocate. "Take >'o Thought for the Morrow." Eternal One, what are days and yean but drops in the one river? They are much to us, they are as nothing to thee. Thou dwellest in eternity. From everlasting to everlasting thou art God. We are troubled by moments, we look forward to tomorrow with distress and fear; we look back and see nothing but a gaunt row of dead days looking reproachfully at us. May we not enter for one moment the sanctuary ol eternity and be with thee whose years are eternal, that from thy throne we may look down an all the restlessness and folly, al] the disappointment and tumult of what we call time? Thy Son, our Saviour, was always lifting our thoughts up to highet things. He would not have us distressed: his word was: Fear not, little flock; take nc mougnc ior ino morrow, iiora, increase our faith. If thou wilt increase our faith thou wilt increase our strength, our insight, our patience. Thou wilt take away from us the sting and the weight of fear and All us with the perfectness of love. These are great gifts we ask, but we ask them of a great Giver. Amen. Harmony Through Discord. Mrs. Gatty, in her "Parables from Nature," gives a beautiful Illustration of God'j use and our use of imperfect instruments in doing His work?imperfect apostles, imperfect churches, imperfect Christians, and yet really good work is done. She relates the story of a young minister, who insisted that everything must be squared according tc bis ideas of perfect right. On one occasion he undertook to tune the church organ in an emergency. He took the scale of notes used, and tuned the organ perfectly according to it. Then he 9truck the notes ol Haydn's ''Mass" in five flats, and wa? astonishod at the terrible discords he made. An orgarf tuner explained afterwards tc him that hi:* scale was right, hte system was right, but if you stick /iIacu tn I* if onto nn.< fcviw wivoo i.Kf ik, ib acta juu n iUU5. Most fifths must bo left flat, some few madt sharp, the octaves alone tuned in unison, because the organ is an imperfect instrument. But by making proper allowance for this imperfection, wonderful and harmonious music may be produced by it.?Rev F. N. Pcloubet. Calm Spirits Work Methodically. The people in all lines of duty who do the most work are the calmest, most unhurried people in the community. Duties nevei wildly chase each other in their lives. One task never crowds another out, nor evei compels hurried, and therefore imp rfect doing. The calm spirit works methodically! doing one thing at a time and doing it well, and it therefore works swiftly, though never appearing to be in haste. We heed the peace of God in our heart just as really for the doing well of the little things of oui secular life as for the doing of the greatest duties of Christ's kingdom. Our face ought to tihine. and our spirit ought to be tranquil, and our eye ought to be clear, and oui nerves ought to be steady, as we press through the tasks of our commonest day. Then we shall do them all well, slurring nothing, marring nothing.- We want heartpeace before we begin any day's duties, and 1 we should wait at Christ's feet ere we gc I forth.-J. It. lliller, D. D. Prayer Will Sweeten Affliction. Are you in sorrow? Prayer cat mak? your affliction sweet and strengthening. Art you in gladness? Prayer can add to youi joy a celestial perfume. Are you in extremt danger, whether from outward or inward enemies? Prayer can set at your righl hand an angel whose touch "could shattei a millstone into smaller dust than the floui it grinds," and whoso glance couid lay an I army low. When St. Felix of Nola was I hotly pursued by murderers, he took refugf in a cave, and "instantly, over the rift of it, i the spiders wove their webs, and, seeing | this, the murderers passed by. Then saitf i the saint, "Where God is not. a wall is bul ; a spider's web: where God is, a spider's wet is as a wall." What will prayer do for you< I I answer, All tnnt uod can do for you I When He bids us pray it is as though He said to us, "Ask what I shall give thee."? | Canon lfarrar. A Foundation of Sand. The thing that is all the while surprising us is the collapse of fair characters: the good man, the trusted man. the honorable | man, in an hour stands out a perjurer, .0 ! thief, a liar; but in every case it will be found first that he had 110 tup-root of character, and then that he was moved by a double purpose. On such a foundation nc man can long stand. Some wind of chance or blow of circumstance assails him, some thread of suspicion trails behind him. some crisis close?ln upon him, and he passes tc the ever-sitting judgment that uncovers and heperates him into his two selves. Character and conduct must rest on one and the same foundation, and they must be of one piece.?Itev. T. T. Muuger, D. D. Be thy duty high as angel's flight, T?tiltf II if nn/l ? In'.rhur trill nriju Even from its ushes. Duty is iullnite, Receding us the skies. Were it not wisdom, then, to close our eyes On duties crowding only to appall/ No; duty is our ladder to the skies; And, climbing not, we fall. ?ltobert Leighton. There is no greater gift or possession than to believe God speaks to us. If we believe that wo ure already blessed.?Martin LutLer. TWENTY-FIVE TIMES A FATHER. Illinois Man, Age<l Seventy, Has a Quarter of a Uunilrcil Children. James Clark aroso a few days ago to the realization that for the twenty-fifth tlmo ho ! was a fond father. A still more wonderful | thing than the size of James Clark's family is James Clark's age. He is seventy years ' old. This man of many olive branches lives at New Grand Chain, in Pulaski County, 111. 1 He is a well-known farmer. Clark ha* three wives in the graveyard. His fourth j better half presented him with a fine boy yesterday, making a grand total of twentyfive, most of whom are still alive and Uearty. _ 1 I THE SABBATH SCHOOL. A INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS T FOR AUCUST 15. fx Leggon Text: "Abgtalnlnjf For the Sake of Others," I Cor. Till., 1-13 (A Temperance Lesson)?Golden Text: Romans, vlv., 7?Commentary by Rev. Stearns. Tf 1. "Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowl- .. edge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity {:: edlfleth." The R. V. has for the last clause, " "Love edlfleth, orbuildethup." The words "Now as touching" introduce us to a new T, section of the epistle. Compare chapters vil., 1; xii., 1; xvi., 1. This section seems to reach to the end of chapter xi., and 11 might be summed up in the words of chap- ? ter x., 31, "Whether therefore ye eat or w< drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the , glory of God." The great incentive to this A1 is "Remembrance of Him till He come" ! (chapter xi., 24-26). 2. "And if anv man think tlmt ho tnnw. eth anything, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know." It is said that "to know our ignorance is the first step to _ knowledge." The great men of the Biblo 11 story knew nothing except as they were told by God. Noah knew nothing concerning the ark, nor even when to enter it or leave it, except as God told him. Moses . knew nothing concerning the tabernacle, nor the journeyings of Israel, except as . God told him. The prophets, and even our ~ Lord Jesus Christ, were told by God what to say (Ex. iv., 12; Deut. xviii., 18; Jer. i., 7). . 8. "But if any man love God, the same is known of him." The Lord knoweth them ~ that are His, and those who know His name will put their trust in Him. We love Him < because He first loved us. He so loved as to give His only begotton Son, and the Son I of God loved me and gave Himself for me. Unless His great love so takes hold of me and constrains me that I give myself wholly to Him to serve and please Him ?r( only I do not know His love as I should. > Love seeks not its own. and is not provoked; . but sufTereth long, and is kind and beareth t all things (chapter xiii., 4-7). God is love, and will manifest it in us. th 4. "We know that an idol is nothing in the world, and f.hA.f. thrtrA la hnna n+h?r finH but one." This is fully set forth In Isa. xli., 24; xliv., 9-20: "Ye are worse than nothing, and your work worse than of a viper. An abomination chooseth you." "They that !:, make a graven imago are all of them vanl- ? ty, and their delectable things shall not profit, and they are >their own witnesses. They see not nor know; that they may be ashamed." But the people of God are wit- L nesses that He is the living and true God, t and that there is none beside Him (Isa. xlv., 5, 6. "For though there be that are called 01 gods, to us there is but one God, the Fath- .i er, of whom are All things and we in Him, m and one Lord Jesus Christ, by Whom are . all things, and we by Him." AU things ej were created by Him and for Him, and He is before all things, and by Him all things consist (Col. i., 16, 17). From Rev. iv., 11, _ and I Pet. iv., 11, we may learn to say, "Thou art worthy, 0 Lord, and I am for Thy pleasure, that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ." 7. "Howbeit, there is not in every man L. that knowledge." There are those to-day, nj as there were those at Corinth, who beax " the name of Christ and yet offer their time and strength and money to the Idols of ? fashion and pleasure and the vain things b of this world, and think it all right so to do. ? If you ask, Are they truly Christ's people? ' we can only answer that if they are they r are not truly serviilg him. As to this being u His, chapter ill., 14,15, and v., 5, seem to X suggest that possibly they may be, and they may be saved as by fire, just bare'y ^ saved. -i 8. "But meat commendeth us not to God." ? What we eat or do not eat Is a small questlon, except as regards the body's health. The kingdom of God is not meat and drink, fl. but righteousness and peace and joy in the j. Holy Ghost (Rom. xiv., 17). Our Lord Himself said, "whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him; that which cometh out of the man, that deflleth the man" (Mark vil., 18, 20). Tho b< salvation of the soul depends wholly upon i0 the finished work of the Lord Jesus, and C? we are accepted by God as His children en- &< tirely upon the merits of Christ. We de- 0j serve nothing but punishment for our sins. Yet, coming as sinners, we are justified sa freely by His grace (Rom. ill., 24). The go same grace, and that alone, makes acceptable what we do unto Him. w 9. "But take heed lest by any means this st Af TTAM i?a Kannm AO o of n TTI KUn n KIaaI* uuciij vi juui<3 Mvtuuivo a oiuuiuiiu^ uiuia. g[] to them that are weak." Liberty Is always I ( out of place when it hurts others. Love yC seeketh not her own. Many things may be Wl lawful for us that are not expedient. The hs question is not, How will this or that affect f0 me, but how will it affect Him and His ha cause for whom I am living here? We are ar on the witness stand all the day long, and m we are either true or false witnesses unto au Him by the books we read, the company we tl< keep and the places we frequent. We are go either pointing people to Christ and draw- or ing'them to . Him, or we are like Naomi, th sending some Orpah back to Moab and pi Idolatry. au 10, 11. "Through thy knowledge shall co the weak brother perish, for whom Christ ba died." As Christ died for all, then all who <jr will may come to Him and be saved. But ba li I, a Christian, am seen in the idol's tem- 8a pie, the theatre, the ballroom, the card Ca party, and there Is present some poor soul _ enjoying these things because he knows of pc nrkfMnrr hof+or vot hnncrAHnf* fnr anmp. *.i? "-"01JA*"0 ~ m thing he has not and cannot find, although sa possibly having heard that Christ can sat- pi isfy, and he sees me in such a place, then he may well say or think that there is nothing in It, for, see, these Christians are just as hungry as I am for the pleasures of this world. 12. "But when ye ein so against the w: brethren and wound their weak conscience 00 ye sin against Christ." All that is done for ?e or against a child of God is done for or , against God and His Christ. The "Inas- ie' much" of Math, xxv., 40, 45. is always ap- mi plicable. A Christian may be a stumbling block over whom some unsaved soul may stumble Into eternal torment, or may by inconsistent conduct not only lose his own .. works, but lead others so that their works '8 will perish too. This will be avoided if we 'n< remember that wo are embassadors for Christ and that we are here in His stead to say and do what Ho would if He were here (II Cor. v., 20). wl "18. "Wherefore, if meat make my broth- co er to offend, I will eat no flesh while thf sei world standeth, lest I make my brother to a? offend." One says that'whatever hurts Be the weak ought to bo avoided by the strong. sometimes it is as impuruiui, uut to do as to do. Daniel was a great re- a | frainer. Ho refused the dainties and eeem- th ingly essential things of the king's table tic for conscience's aako toward God.?Lesson dr Helper. wi BICCEST HARVESTER ON EARTH. It Reaps, Threshes and Sacks Three an Bushels of Wheat In a Minute. en it ! Farmers are going to Stockton, Cal., from toi miles around to see at work the biggest 8u< grain harvester in the world on Eooerts ha Island in the San Joaquin Eiver near that E0 city. The machine turns out three sixty- . pound sacks of wheat every minute. The machine has a cutting line of fifty-two ?,' feet, and it also threshes and sacks the grain. In one run around a 4000-acre field it will turn out hundreds of sacks of wheat f ' , ready for market. rT,l,rt ?.! kA?nnl-'n<? has Kaon J.uo CUDL %JI uarvookuig uc? to a minimum by this machine and the I number of days consumed in getting a large I P0' field ready for market will be about half that of the regular harvester. Eight orten 'c' men handle it easily while it Is turning out from 1500 to 1800 sacks a day of tea hours I ' and sweeping 100 acres of grain. [ A At present it is working in the heaviest j ing wheat ever grown in this country. The olo grain on the islands has always been tall | wil and of rank growth, but this year it was I reli much heavier than in past seasons. No prf difficulty hits been experienced in harvest- alo lng, as the traction engine, which was built in especially for the machine, pushes it exc through the thick grain with about the ' wil same ease that an ordinary engine would j dir draw a wagon orera countrv road. j pet Tli? Smallest Kxpertitinn. ^ Tho smallest military expedition evei au. sent out on a pacific errand is at present engaged in completing tho survey of the t]le River Damba. It consists of a single sol- tot dier, a Corporal of the Royal Engineers. Industry at Tiiskesee. Dill mu_ ?? TnoVnnoo A Ift cant of i P"^ 1UU SbUUUUkS til- ? wv*" " the remarkable labors of Booker T. Wash- A ington, have made over 1,000,000 brick this (-^1' year. . . . l TEMPEKANCE COLUMNj ' y HE DRINK EVIL MADE MANIFEST! IN MANY WAYS. ow It Comes?The Tramp's "Distillery'# ?How Thirst Is Quenched at Soma New York Groggcrles? Fiery Whisky Through a Hose?A Touching Story^ wine foil down from heaven as falls the rain; ale like dew descended on hill and plainj shining rills and rivers with brandy ranj 3r cnange, nor fermentation were caused by mail, hen might we say God's blessing is on tho cup, lat He indeed has sent it for us to sup. ot thus, however, comes it, but trailing vine, ad grain, and fair hop-blossom, and streams that shine, re taken and polluted to make them yield tiat draught which with man's patent alone is sealed; hat thing which, since to Noah it proved a snare, as aye been working misohief and causing care. tierefore not as a "creature" which God has given, i XirjEgg gift which like pure water comes down from heaven, JVawg et us receive and use it, but rather shun . A2 as a dark "invention" which sin hath won; potion blessed by Satan, a draught of woe, ! hich whoso would walk wisely will aya fdrego. v 1f ?Faith Chiltern. v 1 ? The Tramp's "Distillery." Prompt action and the movements of ^ lese last few years toward driving away aw York's long-established army of amps have done much to blot out of ex4 tence the worst of these places. Some 111 remain, however, on the outskirts of le town, over toward the river front, and ley are curious enough to be well worth a 3it from those who do not mind touching ' j bows with rough and unpleasant company; There was a year or so ago?and the placq certainly still in existence, though Its lique custom may have changed?a "dlsllery" in the "gas-house district," aj igioa between Fourteenth and Twenty-* ilrd streets, and east of Second avenue*' hich had a fame among tramps from here i Chicago. It was situated on a dark,] .*$ idly-lighted street, which was not safe toj avel after nightfall. Originally it ha<J aen a stable, and had come to be a groggery ' I the lowest type. I Barrels of spirits lined its walls, and thai ngle gas jet overhead made dark corners.' he interior was gloomy in the extreme^ id for a purpose. Customers were not icouraged to lounge about there, as is the $ lie in the ordinary saloon. What waa anted was for a man to pay over hia oney, get his drink and go. 1 Few besides the average "hobo" of the J >ad and the street ever came there. FojJ : 38 10 better-dressed men tbere were glasses id "ten-cent drinks," but this class of \wJj ade was not wanted. The tramp with a -,}3 Ickel in his grimy fist was the animal this distillery" catered to. ? When the shambling wretch stood before ' le little counter1, the one word of the man shind it would be, "Price!" The coin be- ;M ig produced and thrown into a drawer the ''Wffl ./% ^ 11 U A A# ml Vjfl IL/ywCVVi WUU1U UUUU UYCX UUO CUU VI a ngth of hose. The other end rested in a irrel of whisky of the worst sort under le counter. The rule of the "distillery" as this: The tramp could pull upon the oge until his mouth was full. That confuted his drink. It must be doiit^ vtth> it swallowing, however. At the slightest: idication of an attempt to swallow the Dse would be jerked away, and another ve cents must be paid for even a single [fl rop more.?New York Tribune. ' ' A Touching Story. ' ^ "No, I won't djink with you to-day, >ys," said a drummer to several companns, as they settled down in a smokingir and passed the bottle. "The fact Is, >ys, I have quit drinking. I've sworn t "What's the matter with you, old boy?" ngoutone. "If you've quit drinking,' >mething's up. What is it?" < "Well, boys, I will tell you. Yesterday I as in Chicago. Down in 8outh Clark! reet a customer of mine keeps a pawn top m connection wun nis otner Dusiness. sailed on bim, and while I was there a >ung man of not more than twenty-five* earing threadbare clothes and looking as ird as though he hadn't seen a sober day; r a month, came in with a package In his,' - A! ind. He unwrapped it and handed the tide to the pawnbroker, saying, 'Give e ten cents. And, boys, what do you. ppose it was? A pair of baby shoes; llt-j 3 things, with the bottoms only a trifle V iled, as if they had been worn only once; twice. 'Wnere did you get these?* asked e pawnbroker. 'Got 'em at home,' reied the man, who bad an intelligent face id the manner of a gentleman, despite hia ndition. 'My wife bought them for our iby. Give me ten cents for 'em?I want a1 Ink.' 'You had better take the shoea >ck to your wife; the baby will need them,' id the pawnbroker. 'No, s-she won't, beuse she's dead. She's lying at home nowdied last night.' As he said this, the; >or fellow broke down, bowed his head on. e show case and cried like a child. Boys,". id the drummer, "you may laugh If you, ease, but I?I have a baby at home, and* rear I'll never touch another drop." A Drunkard's Will. I leave to society a ruined character, a retched example, and a memory that will on rot. I leave to my parents during the st of their lives as much sorrow as imanlty in Its declining state can bear. I ive to my brothers and sisters as much ortiflcation and injury aa I could bring >on them. I leave to my wife a broken iart, a life of wretchedness and shame, to sep over my premature death. I give and queath to each of my children, poverty, norance and low character, and the resmbrance that their father was a brute* The Queen'g Pedlar. This story is told of a Scotch Highlander, 10, from being a great drunkard, had heme an earnest abstainer. The Queen, it ems, had purchased some of his wares, d had given him permission to wear the >yal Arms, as "the Queen's Pedlar." On e occasion the Earl o^ Carlisle, who was attendance on Her Majesty, offered him ?lass of wine, in which he was to drink e Queen's health. It was a great tempta>n, but Donald bravely said: "I cannot ink the Queen's health in wine, but I 11 drink it in water." Temperance News and Notes. ro ask a man long accustomed to wine d beer to abstain totally from such beviges is to require quite a sacrifice. But seems prudent, in view of what the doers say, to train up the new generation in ?h a manner that, not having formed tho bit of beer-drinking, they will experience craving for alcohoi. i v, ! am far from saying, remarks a temperce lecturer, that moderate drinking is yays unhealthy; but I simply echo the animous statement of physicians when I irm that total abstinence is more liealththan even moderate drinking. Tho al abstainer is favored more than any ler person by the life insurance comnies; his head is clear, his heart beats adily.not being excited by alcohol; bis ill functions work regularly and normally, 1 when he gets sick he is easily cured. ?idents apart, he lives to a good old age. alcoholism is a distinctive disease possesses own etiology, symptomatology, pathgv, etc. A cure can not be effected by I power or any other agent, except the ieving of the system of the alcoholic imsston. In many cases by will power ne a man is enabled to hold the disease abeyance. That requires the constant Tciseof will power, so that when the 1 power, so to speak. Is diverted in other ections, the alcoholic influences or apite having full sway would cause a rest). 'lie doctors say alcohol doesn't do a man f good; the moralists say that it leads i into temptations. Wisdom would refore urge that our )>oys be brought up al abstainers. i woman may lie willing to die for a man, : unwilling tak<> a direct road to the u-housu with him. . young liniy student teaching in the intry wrote, "Please send me some ternance badgea and a couple ol beaux." ?