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I NEW YORK |g Designs For Costu ||| come Popular ir i n" tt r\ id ;?l\ 4 on. HEW XUK& un X ^pctiai;. xi perb 110086 toilet or morning gown suitable for aDy time of the year is a successful creation of a New York r SIMPLE MOBNING GOWN. (It is made of white pique or duck, with bands of black or dark blue linen duck, i From Harper's Bazar.) house. The material is a brilliant iridescent Persian chifton, of the softest, richest coloring. The whole dress is appliqued over with black-thiead lace in graceful conventionalized flowerlike figures, the lace in turn being outlined with rucked baby velvet ribbon the shade of Parma violets. There is a V from the throat to the point of the bust of heavy cut wbite lace over satin, a white satin belt and very long | . ~ fm BOX REEFER FO] slightly shirred sleeves. As will be noted, the skirt trails all around and is very clinging, falling below the rich satin underslip on which it is mounted. Boys' Box Keefer. The popular school coat for a boy is the box reefer of a style similar to the one shown in the large engraviug. After twelve or thirteen years of age, boys more frequently wear trousers than knickerbockers, except, of course, when cycling. In England they give up the form earlier, or, at any rate, the knickers are worn with stDckings. A boy of from eight to ten years of age, clad in short knickers and socks, such as one continually sees here, would be the laughing stock of his comrades on ihe other /I /\ ?f A AVtAnnal 9 OIUO Vi bu^tuauugi, A sailor costume with long trousers and Jersey may at a pinch form part of the wardrobe of a boy from thirteen to fourteen years of age, especially in the country or at the seaside. But the dtess jast described, short jacket and knickers of drab or gray, are generally preferred here for boy3 up to thirteen or fourteen. May Tie the Bonnet Under the Chin. Are strings to hats and bonnets really coming again? It seems like it, at any rate, for tulle strings are tjeen on all the new hats. They are becoming as a rule?they are worn twisted ronnd the throat?and the ef feet is soft and pretty. Pretty Neckwear. The white or cream maline necktids that have been fastened in a bow at the throat are now brought twice abound the high, straight stock, fastened half way between throat and belt with a pretty pin, and tied in a bow there. Another pretty fancy is to bring a satin ribbon twice around the stock, put its ends through a small buckle of rhicestones or paste jewels, which is pushed close to the throat, leaving the ends of the ribbon to hang in two long scarflike ends. "Wide winged bows of white silk muslin edged with imitation Mechlin lace are becoming to every one, and Bmarten up a very plain waist. A New Set of Colors. Paris is inaugurating a new set of colors, and jiK'.ging from the titles given the various shades considerable attention is being given the question by the experts. A deep oream is called "Oream of the Meadow," as its shade is exactly that of the wild flower : FASHIONS. J mes That Have Be- g i the Metropolis. of that name. "Eventide" describes a new gray, and really the color is deep, mysterious and misty. A shade of pink is described as "poppy bud," as it gives one the idea of the silvery sheen seen on the poppy bud. Tlio Newest Shade*. As regards color, the fashions run principally on light sbaaes. These may possibly not be considered suitable for street wear in America, but will, without doubt, be much worn iu Paris. The newest shades are the so-called pastel shades: Delicate blues, greens, grays and pinky buffs like the under part of the mushroom. There are some exceedingly beautiful extra-wide width cloths in these colors, which would at first seem only fit for evening wear, but of which very elegant street costumes are made. A New Head-Dress. The Curzon coiffure is a style of head dress much in vogue at present. There is a large pompadour about the face, and the hair at the back is twisted into a figure eight. It i9 a trying style, and becoming to but few women A Pretty Idea. For weddings, garden parties and afternoon teas naturnl flowers on hats are very effective, and a pretty fad just now. Of course, onh such flowers and foliage a3 will not wilt quicKiy must be used. Black Dinner and tfgttption Gowns. For dinner and reception gowns black velvet will assume the precedence, over even the black spangled net affairs of the past seascn. ' Strings on All Headwear. Strings are appearing, both on hata and bonnets. \ Lounging Robe. - j The woman who likes a kimono, but who feels how impossible it is out of her bed-room, can make something very similar, so far as comfort and coolness are concerned, and yet have a gown she will not laind wearing about the house, in the morning, at any rate. illft it A SCHOOL BOY. To fashion it, take two pieces of florae pretty cotton material that is at least a yard wifle (crape cloth is good), having first cut them about ten inches longer than the distance measured frcin your neck to the floor, and make a round hole four inches in diameter in the middle of each piece about four inches from its end; this is to * 1 1 ^ - " A Afl Iak/VA oe tne arm-noie. a yuio j?i6c as seem* necessary should then be added to each piece, and the resulting diagonal edges stitched together to form the back seam, while I the opposite or front edges are neatly closed up to near the waist-line, and j from there left open to the neck. The neck itself should be gathered with more fulness at back and front than at the shoulder, and then bound, wide lace or embroidery being sewed in to form a collar and jabot. For the sleeves a shirt-waist sleeve is the best guide as it has but one seam; they I may be shaped precisely like it at the i top, but allowed to hang straight to the wrists instead of haviug the fulness gathered into a cuff, and then faced and turned back, which gives a Japanese look to the gown. Its owner ought to ask eome one else to turn up the hem around the bottom while she stands properly belted, and it is complete. Worn with the belt while she is visible, and without when she wishes TTPE OF LOUNGING ROBF. to lounge in solitude, she will find tbia simple production of her handa exceeding]/ satisfactory. j f A i . -J .v. < I SEAL FINISHERS. Good Work and Good Wages For Girl Who Can Sew Sealskloa. "About this time of year there i plenty of work for seal finishers o girls who know how to sew sealskii and other furs," said a leading Ne^ York furrier. "The employment o girls iu this sort of work is comp&ro tively recent. A few years ago th cutting and sewing of fur skins wa mainly done by men. Sometimes man would teach his wife or hi daughter, but men monopolized th best work and earned good wages I There is a skin cutter now working a j a journeyman in this city who is sail I to be worth $25,000, and yet works hi regular hours. ??e lias introduce* several generations of his family into one or another branch of the business "Of late years the sharp competitioi which has got into the fur business as well as other lines of trade, has lec I to increased employment of female I as sewers. The work is nice and re quires a good deal of skill. Tin smooth, even colors of a lady's seal skin coat are not produced without i good deal of patient skill and dexterity Of course, skins do not come perfect There are slight blemishes that mus be corrected. The skilful cutter take: a skin and blows the hair aside uuti he can see the roots all over the skin If he finds a spot that is bare of ha:i he must select a piece of skin to fit it and the hair must be exactly of th< right length. On a seal the hair neai the tail is shorter than the hair nea the head. Of course, a piece of fu from near the tail will not fit in a ban spot near the head of the skin. Thi cutter has a peculiar method of shap ^ - 1- 2 ? J 1U.' ing tne pieces 10 oe set iu, uuu im must be undenstood by the girls wh< do the sewing, so that a girl who ha: worked at the business becomes ex i pert, and a girl who has not sei've< any apprenticeship at sewing furs i of little use in the shop. "It is no unusual thing for on large establishment to have fifty o sixty girls sowing furs in the bus; season of the summer. The most ex pert girls readily get employment th? year round, while those who are les expert are the first to be discharged and go from shop to shop. Thi wages earned are somewhat highe: than the prices paid fpr ordinary sew ing, as the business is somewhat un healthy and requires considerable skill. Tbe girls earn from $9 to $2l per week." Nicaragua. The present population of Nicaragui 1- ? -l - i 1 ann r\nn ?? 1, 13 eSULUBieU. Ub UUUUt iUU,UUU, ui uiiia ibout eight to the square mile. O each hundred inhabitants there ar< fifty Indians, one negro, forty-five o tnixed blood, and four whites. The; are sharply divided into classes, th Oaballer^s, or "gentlemen," and th peons, or laborers, who can be dis tinguished by their costume as far a they can be seen. This elassificatioi is punctiliously observed on all occa dions, aud is particularly noticeabl on railroad trains and steamboats The upper classes dress very much a we do in summer, that season bein) perpetual in Nicaragua. Among th< lower classes the men's costume usual ly consists of a straw hat, a short cot ton shirt, and trousers of darker ma terial. No shoes are worn, but some times a pair of light sandals are usei as a pr'otection against hot or thorn; ground. The dres3 of the womeu i: even more scant, being minus the ha and sandals, a skirt substituted fo the trousers, and the arms entirel; bare. The country people and the poor o the cities live in thatched huts, witl walls rudely constructed of uprigh poles, or with no walls at all. Thi better buildings in the cities are o stone, brick, or adobe, stuccoed witl cement, aud covered with tile?. The; are cool aud comfortable, aud almos fireproof, but sadly lacking in light The President's palace in Managui has glass windows, aud a few Ameri cans in Grejtown enjoy the sami luxury; but in Leon, Granada, Eivas or any other [city of Nicaragua ther< is hardly a pane of glass.?Nationa Geographio Magazine. The Ilea) Way a Pope Is Elected. As a matter of fact the Pope is elec ted quite in the ordinary way. Ai many of the seventy members of th< Sacred College of Cardinals as happer to be in office meet iu solemn conclav* in the chapel and each writes on i ticket his own name with that of th< Cardinal whom he chooses. Thes< tickets, folded and sealed, are laid it a chalice which stands on the altar o the conclave chapel, and each eleotoi approaching the altar repeats a pre scribed form of oath. When all hav< voted the tickets are taken from th< chalice by tellers appointed from th< electing body. When it is found thai any Cardinal has two-thirds of th< votes in his favor he is declared elec ted. Should none have received t'x necessary two-thirds another proces: is gone through, namely, "access"? eo called because any Cardinal ma] accede to the choice of auother by fill mg up another ticket made lor tna purpose. The present Pope was chosei almost unanimously. The Sacred Col lege is seldom full. Just now then are only fifty-six members.?New Yori Press. A Quick Way to Multiply. Everybody knows that learning th( tens in the multiplication table is as easy a:i "pie" and that the fives an not much harder. But slight as is th< mental effort required in multiplying any number b.v five, it maybe lessenec still more by discarding the multipliei entirely aud substituting a divisor,in stead. This may souud paradoxical but by experimenting you will fiur that dividing by two will bring thi same result as multiplying by five, providing you auu a cipuer to me quo tient if the dividend be au even nam ber, or five, if it bo odd. For instance if you multiply 2734 by five the prod net j*3 13,670. "What is still easier divide 273A by two, which is done al most instantaneously. Then tack or your 0 and you have 13,070. Wrote Eighteen Honrs a Day. _ It is related of Professor Johnson the late eccentric professor of Biblica criticism in the University of Aber rlaon that lip ofteu wrote eicrhteer hoars a day. If at any time he be came tired he slipped into the nex room, where he kept a bath, and sammer or winter, plunged into thi cold water?breaking the ice if iw bj?and resumed his oeru r y-'h\:\ ' . . i'O . ' -<y : V^.v." " $" [ DR. TALMAGES SERMON SUNOAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTEC 3 DIVINE. r a V Subject: Mnslc In Worship?Dlstlnctioi if between Manic as an Art and Music a I an Aid to Devotion?National Airs o Q the Kingdom of Heaven. 3 [Copyright, Lonls Klopsch. 1889.] a Washington, D. C.?Dr. Talmage, In thl sermon, discusses ft most attractive depart 3 ment of ruliglcus worshlf?the service o a song. His Idea will be received with in terest by all who love to lift their voices li ' praise In the Lord's house. The text 1 , ftehemiah vll., 67, "And they bad two hun J | drod forty and live singing men and slag a 1UK VVULUDU. 3 The best music has been rendered uncle trouble. The first duet that I know any 0 thing of was given by Paul and Silas wbei . they sang praises to God and tho prisoner! a heard them., The Scotch Covenanters hounded by the dogs of persecution, sang ' the psalms of David with more spirit thai * they have ever since been rendered. Th< 8 captives in the text had music left in ttem . nud I declare that if they could And amid all their trials vo hundred and forty anc 9 five singing m<. . and singing women thee * in this day of gospel sunlight and free from 3 all persecution tnere ought to be a great multitude of men ana women willing tc * sing the praises of God. All our ehurchos * need arousal on this subject. Those whe t can sing must throw their souls into th? 9 exercise, and those who cannot sing must learn how, and it shall be heart to heart, voice to voice, hymn to hymn, anthem tc * anthem, and the music shall swell jubllanl r with thanksgiving and tremulous witl: pardon. ' Have you ever noticed the construction f of the human throat as indicative of .what c God means us to do with it? In only ac j ordinary throat and lungs there are four . teen direct muscles and thirty indireel muscles that can produce a very greai ? variety of sounds. What does that mean! 3 [t means that you should slngl Do yoi . suppose that God, who gives us such i musical instrument as that, intends us t( w keep it shut? Suppose some great tyranl ) should get possession of the musical in 9 struments of the world and should lock uj . the organ of Westminster abbey, and th< j organ of Lucerne, and the organ at Haar * lem, and the organ at Freiburg, and all th? 3 other great musical instruments of th< world. You would call such a man as thai a monster, and yet you are more wicked if e with the human voice, a musical instrur went of more wonderful adaptation thai 0 all tho musical instruments that man ovei | created, you shut It against the praise o ' God. a g Let those refuse to si ng Who never knew our God, ? But ch ldren of the heavenly King 1 Should speak their joys abroad. r Music seems to have been born in thi - loul of the natural world. The omnlpo' tent voice with which God commanded the world into being seems to linger yet witi * Its majesty and sweetness, and vou hear 11 L in the gralnfleld, in the swoop of the wine amid the mounta'n fastnesses, in th< canary's warble and the thunder shock, Ie the brook's tinkle and the ocean's paean There are soft cadences la nature, ant a loud notes, some of which we cannot heai a | at all, and others that are so territlc thai 1 i we cannot appreciate them. I The animalculro have their music, and 2 ' the spicula of hay and the globule of wate; } j are as certainly resonant with the voice ol n God as the highest heavens in which the ' armies of the redeemed celebrate tbeii 9 victories. When the breath of the flowei e strikes the air and the wing of the flreflj . sleaves It, there 13 sound and there is mol' a ody. And, as to those utterances of nature which seem harsh and overwhelming, it i: 3 j as when you stand in the midst of a great * j orchestra ana the sound almost rends youi 3 j ear because you are too near to catch the I blending of the music. So, my friends, wc * j stand too neor the desolating storm and 9 the frightful whirlwind to catch the blend5 log of the music; but when that musi( a rises to where God is, and the invisible Being who float above us, tbeu I suppose * ;he harmony Is as sweet as it is tremen^ i- lous. In the judgment day, that daj . >f tumult and terror, there will be nc llssonanco to those who can appreciate * ihe music. It will be as when some' J ,-imes af great organist, in executing y ;ome great piece, breaks down the ing strument upon which he is plAying the . music. So whon the great march of the * judgment day is played under the hand of C earthquake and storm and conflagration i the world itself will break dowu with the musio that is played on it. The fact is, we are al>. deaf, or we should understand that ' the whole universe is but one harmony? i the stars of the night only the ivory keys t of a great instrument on which God's fln| gers play the music of the spheres. Musio seems dependent on the law of f | acoustics and mathematics, and yet where l these lasss are understood at all the art is . ! practiced. There are to-day 500 musical [ : journals in China. Two thousand years be* i foro Christ the Egyptians practiced tho art. . ! Pythagoras learned it. Lasus of Hermolno ^ j wrote essays on it. Plato and Aristotle in| troduced it into their schools. But I have j not much interest in ttiat. My chief inter3 : est is in the musio of the Bible. t j The Bible, like a greut harp with innU' * ! merable strings, swept by the lingers of iu . ' spiration, trembles with it. So far back us 1 I the fourth chapter of Genesis you find the I first organist and harper?Jubal. So fat I back ns the thirty-first chapter of Genesis | vou find the first choir. All up and down _ j the Bible you find sacred music?at wed* | dines, at inaugurations, at the treading ol 3 , the wine press. The Hobrews understood ; how to make musical sigus above the musi ical text. When the Jews came from tlieit j distaut homes to the great festivals at ! Jerusulem, they brought harp and timbrel and trumpet and poured along the great i Judaeaa highways a river of harmony un! til in and arouud the temple the wealth ol | a nation's song and gladness had accuoiu; luted. In oar day we have a divlsloa ol ' labor in music, and we have one mau to I make the hymn, another mau to make the j tune, another man to play it on the piano ! and another man to sing it. Not so in I Bible times. Miriam, the Bi.ster of Mose3, j after the passage of the Red Sea, composed i a doxology, set it to music, clapped it on a j cymbal and at the same time sang it. David, the psalmist, was at the same time V . munUAl A^mttAeiAn l.nMAiaf nn,4 clnffap 7 JJUUl, Illusion I V.UIU J/VOVJl t uiiUu>unvA, . and the majority of bis rhythm goes vi. birating through all the ages. j There were in Bible times stringed in3 j struments?a harp of three strings played - I by fret and bow; a harp of ten strings, , responding only to the llneers of the performer. Then there was the crooked trum* pet, fashioned out of the born of tho ox or k the ram. Then there were theslstrum and l the cymbals, clapped in the dauce or beaten In the mar.-h. There were 4000 Levltes, the best men of the country, } I whoso only business it was to look after l the.musicof the temple. Those 4C00 Levites were divided Into two classes aud officiated on different days. Can you Imagine the harmony when these white robed Levites, before the symbols of 3od's pre*5 j enee, and by the smoking altars, and the I candlesticks tline sprang upwari and j branched out like treos of gold, and under , the wlni<3 of tho cherubim, chanted the One Hundred aud Thirty-sixth Psalm J of David? Do you know how it I I was done. One part of that great r I choir stool up and chanted, "O'1. | pivot banks unto the Lord, for He la pood!" Then the other part of the choir, stimulus i In some other part of tho tumple, would 1 | come In with the response, "For His mercy 3 j endureth forever." Thou the ilrst part | would take uo the sodi; uguia nud say, I "Unto Him who only doeth great woeI tiers." Th? other part of the choir would I come in with overwhelming response, "For i His mercy endureth forever," until in the j latter part of the sonar, the music floatiui; I backward and forward, harmony grappling ! with harmony, every trumpet sounding, ! every bosom heuviug, one part of this great white robed choir would lift the " ? * - i.i?~ AI nntuem, "uu, giv<j manxs uaio iuo uuu m heaven," ami the other part of the Levitt choir would come in with the response, . "For His mercy endureth forever." , But I am glad to know that all through tho ages there has neon great attention ' paid to sacred music. Ambroslus. Augustine, Gregory the Great, Charlemagne x:\ve. ! It their mighty Influence, aud in our daj the best musical gouius is throwing Itsell ' on the altars of God! Handel aud Mozarl I and Bach and Durante and Wolf and , scores of other men and women have giver 5 the best part of their genius to chutcl , music. A truth in words Is not halt sc ' mighty as a truth in song. Luther's set rnooa have beoa forgotten, Out the "Judj ' * v. . ' ment Hymn" he composed la resounding yet through all Christendom. I congratulate the world and the churel on the advancement made in this art?th< > Edinburgh societies for the improvement ot music, the Swiss singing societies, the Exeter ball concerts, the triennial musical convocation at Duseeldorf, Germany, and Birmingham, England, the conservatories 1 of music at Munich and Lelpslo, the 8 Handel and .Haydn and Harmonic and r Mozart societies of this country, the academies of music in New York, Brooklyn, Urtofnn P.lioflnflfAn Maw Hrlflono Plil>tn?n and every city which has any enterprise. 3 Now, my friends, liow are we to declda what Is appropriate, especially for church ' music ? There may be h great many differences of opinion. In some of the churches I they prefer a tralned.ohoir; in others, the 5 old style precentor. In some places they " prefer the melodeon, the harp, the cornet, the organ. In other places they think these things are the invention of the devil. Some r would have a musical instrument played * so loud you cannot stand it, and others 1 would have it played so soft you cannot 3 hoar it. Some think a musical instrument j ought to be played only iu the interstices ' of worship and then with Indescribable 1 softness, while others are not satisfied un' less there be startling contrasts and etac' cato passages that make the audience jump, with great eyep and hair on end, as from a 1 vision of tbe witch of Endor. But, while 1 there may be great varieties of opinion in J regard to music, it seems to me that the general spirit of the Word of God indicates ' what ought to be the great characteristics 1 of church music. ' And I remark, In the first place, a > mmUi- /-V piumiuouk uuuia^igiiotiu vug ui *.\j uo adaptlveness to devotion. Music that may ? be appropriate for a concert hall, or the oper<i house, or the drawing room, may be Inappropriate In church. Glees, madrigals, ballads may be as innocent as psalms in their places. But church music has only one design, and that Is devotion, and that which comes with the toss, the swing and the display of an opera house is a hindrance to the worship. From such performances we go away saying: "What splendid execution! Did you ever hear such n soprano? Which of those solos did you like the better?" When, If we had been rlghtlv wrought upon, we would have gone awuy saying: "Ob, how my soul was lifted up in the presence of God while they were singing that first hymn! I never bad such rapturous views of Jesus Christ as my Saviour as when they were singing that last doxology." I remark also that correctness ought to be a characteristic of church music. While we all ought to take part In this service, with perhaps a few exceptions, we ought nt the same time to cultivate ourselves in this sacred art. God loves harmony, and wo ought to love It. There Is no devotion 1 in a howl or a yelp. In this day, when there are so many opportunities of high culture in this art, I declare that those parents are guilty of neglect who let their sons and daughters grow up knowing notnmg aoouc music. in some 01 tne European cathedrals the choir assemble 5 every morning and afternoon of evrtry day the whole year to perfect themselves in i this art, and shall wo begrudge the halt J hour we spend Friday nights In the ret hearsal of sacred song for the Sabbath? 1 Another characteristic must be spirit 3 and life. Music ought to rush from the 1 audience like the water from a rock?clear, bright, sparkling. If all tLe other part of I the church service is dull, do not have the [ music dull. With so many thrilling things to sin? about, away with all drawling and stupidity. There is nothing that makes me so nervous as to sit in a pulpit and look off on an audience with their eyes three-fourths closed and their lips almost 1 shur, mumbling the praises of God. Dur iner one of my journeys I proached to an audience of 2000 or 8000 people, and all the ' music tliey made together did not equal one skyUrkl People do not sleep at a cor> onatiou, do not let us sleep when wo come i to a Saviour's crowning. : Aeuio, I remark church music must be r congregational. This opportunity must > be brought down within the range of the 1 wnole audience. A song that the wor VUUUV/b to \JL UU UJV/XU uoo wv/ them than a sermon in Choctaw. What an ! easy kind of church It must be where tlie 3 minister does all the preaching, and the 1 elders all the praying, and the choir all the singing! There are but very few ' churches where there are "two hundred > and forty and Ave singing men and singing J women." In some churches It Is almost considered a disturbance If a man let out his voice to, full compass, and the people get up on tiptoe and look over between the spring hats and wonder what that man Is making all that noise about. In Syracuse in a Presby- t terian church there was one member who 1 came to me when I was the pastor of an1 other church In that city, and told me his : trouble?how that as he persisted In sing* lag on the Sabbath day a committee, made ! up of the session and the choir, had come ' to ask him If he would not just please to keep still! 7ou have no right to sing. Jonathan Edwards used to set apart whole days for singing. Let us wake up to this duty. Let us sing alone, sing in our faml' lies, sing In our schools, sing in our ' churches. I want to rouse you to a unanimity in 1 Christian song that has never yet been exhibited. Come, now; clear your throats 1 and get ready for this duty or you will never hear the end of this. I never shall forget hearing a Frenchman sing the ' "Marseillaise" on the Champs Llvsees, Paris, just before the battle of Sedan in 1 1870. I never saw such enthusiasm before 1 or since. As he sang that national air, oh, how the Frenchman shouted! Have you 1 ever in an English assemblage heard a band 1 play "God Save the Queen?" If you have, you know somethlug about the enthusiasm of a national air. Now, I tell you that these songs we sing Sabbath by Sabbath are i the iiationalalrs of the kingdom of heaven, I ana h you uo not jearn to sing tuern uero, j how do you ever es peot to sing the sons of ; JI03B3 and the Lamb? I should not be surprised at nil It someof tho best anthems | of heaven were made up of some of the be3t songs of earth. May God Increase | our roverence for Christian psalmody and keep us from disgracing It by our indlCfor| once and frivolity. 1 When Cromwell's army went Into battle, he stood at tho head of It one day and gave out tho long meter doxolo^v to the tuue of the "Old Hundredth," and that ?reat host, company by company, regiment by regiment, division by division, joined "in the doxology: *i Pralso God, from whom all blessings flow; Praise Him all creatures here below; Praise Him above, ye heavenlv host; Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost. And while they sans? they marched, and . while they marched they fousrht, and while they fought they crot the victory. Oh, men and women ot Jesus Christ, let us go into all our conflicts "inging tho praises ot God and then, instead of falling back, as olten we do. from defeat to defeat, we will be i marching on trora victory.to victory. "Gloria in Excelsls" is written over many organs. Would that by our appreciation of the goodne?s of God, and the mercy of Christ, and tho grandeur of heaven, we i could have "Gloria in Ercelsls" written over all our ?ouls. "Glory to th* Father, ari.1 to the 3on, aud to the Holy Ghost, as it was in the beginning, in now and evei shall he, world without end. Amen:" SAID HE WAS THE MESSIAH. | i;x-Sln>v?>linaker made the Announce- i went anil Atlructod a Following. John B. Branch, of Watervllle, Me.,thirtr-.lve years old, who before he became a minister was a shovel-handle maker, created a sensation In a Gospel tent a few days i ago by announcing that ho wa3 the ilea- j aiah. Mauy of t.ho?e who have heard Mr I Branch are inclined to believe that what he j says i? true, aud lie is having many follow- . 1 ers In his new religion, which is not unlike tho J!ev. Frank W. Sanford's Holy Ghos* ami Us S>sio:y. Skeptical people in Waterville notified Mr. lirauch to leave town oj 1 be ridden on a rail, i | SAT UPON A WORSHIPER. A Woman Speaker Created Kxclteincnt it u Connecticut Tabernacle. i During service in the Scattergood Tabsr n.i:lo at Derby, Conn., a few days ago, th? i people In attendance, over 200 in number ' wero so worked up by religious fervor tiiui f sovera! faluted. t One speaker, Mrs. H. H, Loomis, sc 1 worked upon the feelings of her hearers i that several declared that they saw u vUioc i of the Holy Ghost. > J. H. Carleton became so excited that hi - had to be placed upon the floor and av upon to prevent him doing Injury. . THE ?ABBATH SCHOOL, INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS run scr i cmocn zt. Kevlerr of the Third Quarter, Uoaea xlr., 1-9; Kzek. xxxvl., 25-31?Golden Text: Psalm xxxiv., 7?Commentary on the Quarter'* Lesiions. Histobical Review.?"Extent of Time." Leaving out Lesson I., which i9n prophecy of an earlier period concerning the kingdom of Israel, though It Is applicable in principle to the period we have been studying, the period extends over about ninety years, from the beginning of the exile, B. C. 605, to the completion of the temple, B. C. 516, and dedication in March, 515. "Places." Babylon, the river Cuebar, near Babylon, Jerusalem. "Prophets." Hosea, Jeremiah, Daniel, Ezeklel, Eaggal, Zacharlah, Isaiah 40-6G, belong In effect to the exile, whatever view we may take of the date of their authorship. "Connection with secular history.'* Their contact with other nations made a marked impression upon the Jews. The Oriental monarchs, Nebuchadnezzar, Cyru9, and Darius Hystapes, are well known In secular history. In Italy tbe Tarqulns were reigning at ] P.ome (616-510). The rape of Lucretia by I Sextus, son of Tarquln the Proud, B. C. I 510, five years after the completion of the ; temple at Jerusalem, led to the expulsion of the kings and the formation of tne republic at Rome. In Greece, the seven sages flourished about B. C. 590, during the siege and destruction of Jerusalem. Lesson I. "Gracious Invitations." Hore we find God's call to repentance. The ten tribes were in captivity because of sin. Under Jeroboam, they became idolatrous and God punished them, as He did afterward the tribe of Judah, by allowing them to be carried into captivity. Before the division of the twelve tribes there was dissension amoDg Israel. Rehoboam, the son I of 8olomon, was king, and he, preferring to take counsel of the young men, made n very heartless ruler. The result was that ten tribes called Jeroboam to be their king, w'aile only two remained with Rehoboam. Hosea was prophet in the last days of Jeroboam from B. 0. 784 to 722. Lesson II. "Daniel in Babylon." Hero we enter upon the time when the two tribes called Judah were taken captive into Baby* Ion by Nebuchadnezzar, B. C. 606. This was more than a century after the ten tribes were taken Into captivity. Here we And Daniel and his three companions refusing to eat food offered to Idols or drink wine I poured out before them. T Annnn TTT WohMma In fhA PIAPV I XJUOOUU Xiil AUU UVM4Vn^ 4U VMW Furnace." B. 0 . 587. This lesson brings us to about the middle of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, when he had conquered nearly all of the kingdoms ot the known world, and had setupagreatgoldenimage, unto which he called all in his realm to : bow down in worship. To this idol he j gave praise for all his successes. He hoped | thus to bring all the nations that were unI dor his control to one religion, and thus to j secure permanent power to his kingdom. The faithful companions of Daniel were I victims to the king's wrath and Buffered | themselves to be cast into the flery furnace I rather than worship the idol. But God de[ llvered them. Lesson IV. "The Handwriting on the j Wall." B. C. 533. Belshuzzar was a young i man, ruling in Babylon in place of his j father, who was in refuge at Borsippa. At | this time the city was besieged by Cyrus, i but the reckless young ruler endeavored to I show his unconcern by entering Into a feast : with his lords. Engaged in drunken revI elry he saw a strange hand appear and | write upon the wall. Daniel declared its J meaning, that bis kingdom should be taken ! and his days ended. That same night he ; was slain, and Babylon fell into the hands i of Cyrus. _ Lesson V. "Daniel In the Den or Lions." I B. C. 536. When Babylon fell Into the | hands of theJIedo-Per3lans Daniel was exalted to a high office. Jealousy led the [ officers to lay a plan by which Dpniel ! might be put to death. They persuaded I King Darius to make a decres forbidding ! any prayer or request but through him. I Daniel continued to pray, and was sen> tenced to the lion's den; but God sent His I angel and his life was preserved. Lesson VI. "The New Heart/' B. C. j 585-572. We look back to the time soon af tur the destruction of Jerusalem (B. C. 53G), and tlnd Ezekiel, a captive in Babylonia, living on the river Chebar, prophesyI ing words of encouragoment to his people in exile. He.is called the prophet of the new heart; because he taught true repentance to the captive Jews. Lesson VII. "Ezeklel's Great Vision." B. C. 574. Here we have the valley cf dry bones, which represented the scattered | Jews, who were dead politically and spiritually. Bat their restoration was de! scribed in the coming together of the bones j and the entrance of life. I r irrrr tm Qolt-nfinn " JUC33UU T JL11. XUV V* vwtlwtv*.. I B. C. 571. After Ezeklel's faithful warnj ings to hfs people and the promises of their i return, God gave him views of the future, when the kingdom of Christ should spread through the earth. Lesson IX. "Returning From Captivity." B. C. 536. Here we have the grant of Cyrus, king of Persia, to the Jews who desired to return to their own land and there rebuild the temple for God's worship. He called upon the people to assist with gold and silver and horses and cattle for the jour* uey. Lesson X. "Rebuilding the Temple.'* B. C. 535. Here is described the scene of j the returned cnptlves at the laying of tho I foundation of the temple. The priests and Lovltes give a chorus of music and praise and the people shout. Le8sonXI. "Encouraging the Builders." | B. C. 520. Fifteen years after the laying of I the foundation, when the work had ce is>ed, I Haggal came with a message from God to encourage the people to resume the work, which they did with Zerubbabol still as leader, Jeshua as priest. Lesson XII. "Power Throug'i the Spirit." B. C. Zechariah as prophet, tells his vision of the candlestick and makes its applicaHon to the company of builders at JeruBalem * FRUITS AT PARIS FAIR. Agricultural Department Takes Steps to Obtain a Most Creditable Display. In view of the growing importance of tbo fruit industry of the United States an especial efTort will be made to make an (ittractive showing of fruits at the Paris Exhibition, and Director Dodge, of the Agricultural Department, Washington, who will have charge of the agricultural displa\, has prepared a circular which will be sent broadcast over the country asking for contributions to the proposed exhibit. He says that arrangements are being made for representative exhibits of canned, preserved and evaporated 'rait, but that especial pains will be taken to maintain during the entire period of the fair a display of fresh fruits of varieties suitable for export. To accomplish this It will be neeeosary to provide a supply of oholco specimens of the more durable fruits, suoh as winter apples, pears,- citrus fruits, oranberrle* and nuts, of the crops of tne season, for .play at the opening of the exhibition and until specimens of the orop of next year are available. It is Intended that all the more Important fruit growing districts of the United States shall be represented in this exhibit and the aotlve co-operation oi growers and other persons interested U> therefore solicited. The exhibit will be collective, but each contributor will receive the fullest oredit for what he shows and the same consideration from thelury of awards that he would have If Individual space were allotted him. Collections made by States, horticultural societies, boards of trade, shipping stations and railroad companies will have the same' consideration as those from individuals. l'Annlt!* Hear Danseroua Geruai. The sensaUouulfJIscovery has been made that the copper penny is au especially good meillum for distributing disease germs. A liirce number wn^ collected from school children at Chicago and only one was fouud free from dangerous germs. On j many the germs could be seeu wltli tne n!ibail ni'A a mnvMinHtit will be started to ! have souie other metal used in muklng ueuuird. Horse Sausage in Milwaukee. Chief Inspector Curtis, of the Health Department, says horse meat is again being made Into sausages in Milwaukee. It 19 alleged by the veterinarian who bus been dealing in horseflesh that all.the horse sausage made in the olty ha^ been shipped to theEist or to Chloazo. '.i ' i. - *r'- \ f . t J' J? -r.' i:.. - . '? i - :?v f ' . -.</ GOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN. pbfpwamt TwntirwTS from THE Yfl WORLD'S GREATEST PROPHETS" A Seasonable Prayer?Translated Enthn?iiisinn? Foundation of Oar ChrUtlaa iLife?Speaking Straight to the UeartAn Appeal for Bodily Purity. Give 6s, 0 Lord, enough of gold To share with those who need it more, Enough to clothe us from the cold And keep the gaunt wolf from the dooff Yet not enough to bring turmoil, v Or tbmpt us to abandon toll. Give us the fond and wholesome joys Of home and friends and tender ties, Yet since too much of sweetness cloys, ' And pleasure unmolested dies, Give us our mee4 of pain and woe, The soul needs shade at times to grow* Make us content with what we have, Dirt uiscontent wnu wubi wo mo, The boat that's anchored to a wave Goes not beyond the harbor bar. Give us the courage to break free, And find what we can do, and be. As down life's changing ways we grope, Joy may not always be our friend, ' But let sweet sympathy and hope. Walk with us to the very end. The first will help us thro' the gloom? The last will glorify the tomb. ?'Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Translated Enthmlain*. "He amounted to so little practically," said a wise man in reluctant criticism of his friend, "because be never translated bis enthusiasms into action," Convictions of duty and visions of opportunity are brought t* the test in practical application to the uees of oommon life. It is not merely that tho world has little use for enthusiasms which. . Vi it cannot understand, but that without embodiment in common speech and yital action thoughts are only disembodied ghosts. Action is the great test of all enthusiasm. It reveals and sifts. It brings opinions from Mia rnav-Hnf realm nf rlrftfimfl intrt tha H clear noontide of the work-a-day world. There is no disenchantment like the crlti clsm of the Indifferent and pre-occupied. , '% Yet this very criticism which sifts out worth- jl lessness confirms and increases good. We , S' never know the value of a real enthusiasm until we have translated it into action and seen its working outside our own thought. And by this process also our own character n 3 grows strong. It is not merely that what was a theory becomes a working fact and what was a dream a reality; but we also change from dreamers of dreams to doers of deeds, and taking hold of practical Ufa go on from strength to strength.?Congre- . ? Rationalist. Foundation of Our Christian Life. We make a great mistake and we do not understand the foundation of our faith if we do not regard that life as spent in Palestine and lasting only three short years, aa the very foundation of our Christian life. He rose from the dead, came back and is living, and that here today He is doing for us what He did for those of the olden time. He is still here, still pouring into them the treasures of His illimitable life. Tho auestion is not, What can you do? but, what can you and God together do; not what you ;> can do apart from Him to win your way td His favor? but, What can you do as the recipient of His favor? Christ In US Is the hope of our glory. This is the foundation. the heart, the life of our life. He is still L -? 1 .11 .U _. n? .... ?a S 'i ucro, ?UU nil tutu uo oajo nxj tou uu?nv can do because He can go It In ua and for us. This is prayer. It is not asking foe money. It is no such thing as drawing a check and carrying it up to the bank ot heaven and Retting it. It is opening oat heart to the heart of God, laying our own hands in the band of God, through Jesus Christ our Lord, and asking and receiving life.?Outlook. Speaking Straight to the Heart. How shall a man regenerate society, purK fy politics, bring in the social revolution? Rather, it appears, by Indirection than by immediate attention to the details of social problems. John Wesley,who is justly called "the father of vigorous sooial reform," set about this great work with thetBible in hia hand. He effected tremendous changes by speaking straight to the heart of man. The man .thus spoken to, stopping and listening, persuaded aad convinced, went out and conducted himself as he thought would , please Jesus Christ. That meant the aboli* tion of slavery, the reform of cities,the closing of saloons, the management of buslnett on Christian principles. It bad to do with a hundred matters of which the preacher said nothing, and of which he probably knew nothing. The preacher's business was i - I OU WKon rho.r LU Uianc LUCU orniobiaus. ?? ucu bug; nvi.? Christians they were good citizens and husbands and rneu of business, as a matter o* "oursc.?Churchman. An Appeal for Bodily Parity. Spirit of the Living God, who dwellest in our bodies as iu temples made for thee, so purify our thoughts and restrain our passions that we may not in any wise deflls the chosen placc of thine abode or grieve thee by any thought or word or deed. Tboa knowest our temptations?guard us that we may overcome, and by thy grace transform our weakness into strength. Help us to us? the powers which thou hast given us in joyful self-devotion. Bless us in labor that wo mav do thv will. Refresh us In the rest of sleep or change. Maintain our powers that we may serve thee faithfully and keep us alike from idleness and overwork. Uphold us in sickness and infirmity, and ma; the glory of the resurrection of our Saviour, Jesus Christ, shine upon every thought ot death, that we may wait before thee without 'ear. Amen. The Christian's Plensures. In the first placethe Christian's pleasures are the pleasures which belong to tho world's life so far as these aro Innocent and wholesome. He will exercise wisdom in the choice of them, and self-control in the use of them, but no one has a better right to a ' good time" than he. He may relish just as keenly a glass of soda water or a trip tc Europe as the man who never thinks of Jesus Christ or trie* to follow him. This it our Father's world, and ho has fitted it up with many things to minister to our physical oud a29tftetic senses. We can have acceaa to any and all of them so long as indulgence does not corapromiso our Christian principles or dull our spiritual vision.?Rev. H. \. Bridgman. Keep the Lord'* Day Eoly. What 19 true of nations is also true of in* dlviduals. Nowhere can men and women be found of deep spiritual life who neglect to keep the Lord's day holy. To neglect the Lord's day Is to declare disloyalty tc Christ. The workers In our churches (workers along spiritual lines) are nevei those who read newspapers, secular magazines, novels, etc.. on ibis day; they are never those who take their pleasure, nttend to business, do ordinary work, or use the day in any secular manner. That professed Christians are guilty of all these things I? undeniable; it is also undeniable that such are worthless as spiritual forces in the com. munity.?Morning Star. Either you are necessary to Providence and then you have no right to kill yourself by overwork; or you are not necessary to Providence and then you have no need to kill yourself by overwork. I put that dil emma to you in an seriousness ana leave von to escape from it if you can.?Charles Kingsley. It is thy duty oftentimes to do what thoa wouidst not; thy duty. too. to leave undon? what thou wouldst do.?Thomas a KemoU WIPING OUT A TEXAS PEST. Prairie D?;j Caught l>y the Thotuanda in n New Kltul of Trap. The prairie dojrs in the Texas Panhaudia are Oeing eradicated by means of a new device for catching them which has boeu adopted by all the ranchmen and farmers of that section. On one larjje Aneh over 12,000 were captured and killed last week. The trap is plaued over the animal's mound and makes it a prisoner when it emerges from the hole. This pest has been destroying over fifty per cent, of Kip LTitrli??iimiis and crass annually ? < Killed Annually on tha Railroad*. More than six thousand persons are killed on the railroads of this (?onn>rv ov*rv . . /' - J