Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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r t ? THE REALM ! New York Oity.?Every woman recognizees the value of a house or breakfast Jacket that is tasteful and becoming at the same time that it means ease and comfort. The excellent May ManIon model illustrated combines many advantages and is simple of construction. at the same time that it is eminently smart. If desired it can be made from India silk in plain color, from Japanse wash silk. French tlau woman's house jacket. flannelette and all the range of tvashable stuffs. As illustrated, ;er, the material is flue white r. the ttlmming embroidery on muslin, with hydrangea blue xlbbon at waist and necli. WThe fronts' are in one piece, full at ittic neck, the effect of the vest being Obtained by the trimming and adjustment' of 'fulness. The back itf in one < piece, the fulness drawn down at the waist, where it is stitched to a narrow belt on the under side, which passes round to the front and through openings made beneath the trimming, to close at the centre front. The big collar is seamless and attached to the Kfc round neck. Ribbons are attached at the neck and to the belt, which they M??onceal. The sleeves are one seamed HBmd bell shaped after the latest-mode.,. ^Ato cut this jacket for a woman of KBedium size four yards of maJtyHta] [^^Bvonty-oile Inches wide, three andN>$etturth' yards thirty-two inches Bir IWO j'UI'US luiyiuuj iuvuco. n iut| Iftill be required. , gm OarinotiU For Fklt. H^H^Lffeta jackets hare been constantly Btog in favor until now they arc ^H^S^Kered necessary adjuncts to- the E^BgS^tne wardrobe. Most K of the new made of tucked xl>laek taf shaped so they can be w?rrn illustration, reproduced Bls. shows a smart Etfw (of fta.and lined thrqujfhbut satin. i n g, being bias, forms in MAD E BASQUE. ^ V shape in the centre back. It is simply adjusted with shoulder and underarm seams. The fronts are shaped with single bust darts and small steel buckles are applied 011 the narrow taffeta bands . which finish the edges. The shallow collar reaches only part ;way in front, the opening displaying a high velvet stock ou tlie waist. Tin- stylish sleeves are correctly shaped with upper and under portions, linviug just enough fulness at the 'shoulders to give the fashionable ' rounding effect. They are finished at the hand with a narrow baud of taffeta, which is also used to outline the lower edge of the jacket. Etons in this style may be made of Lansdowne and taffeta, or of light .weight cloth tucked and trimmed with bands of gold, silver or self toned braid and small buttons. It is exceedingly jaunly for cloth when made perfectly 1 plain and finished with machine stitched bands of the fabric. To make the Eton in the medium size will require one and one-eighth yards of fifty-four inch material or three and one-half yards of tucking eighteen inches wide. Bnckles to Be Worn on Fall Hntg. 1 There is an ornament, the buckle, "which is destined to an important role in the autumn anil winter millinery. Buckles arc of various forms: square, obloug. oval, round and fanciful, any of which may be had flat and more or less curved backward.and the shape | chosen depends on the place it is to joccupy. Very large and medium-sized buckles have the preference over small, and those set with siniili aud with cut steel hold the first rank, nevertheless |jet buckles are in some demand, as |are those of tinted silt metal in fanciful "art nouveau" designs, sometimes set with colored stones, pearls, or bits of amber. Some new ways of using buckles imagined for straw hats?for instance, the insertion of n long oblong one. curved backward, in the front of a hat brim?are applicable to fe't:. Cm the more novel applica-i I ' f * \4 mmmmmsmmm OF FASHION. 1 | tioiis consists in using the buckle as a viv* viiniuu ivi uur uju:i\5? ul oiunu hats aud toques.?Milliucry Trade lieview. Den or All Sort*. I Cropo de chine and chiffon scarfs with fringed edges are worn as "twice around ties." They may be used j without a separate stock by having a ; wired collar of firm white uet. unlined. , This sunnorts tlie tie and prevents it ; from wnuklinpr. Handsome fasten* j in.es are used for these long scarfs in many cases, and reaHy good lace pins ! of the old-fashioned kind have merged | triumphantly. from their long seclti- ' sion iu the jewel box. In simpler ties the butterfly bow of tulle or mousse- J line, edged with narrow lace or velvet , ribbon is popular. The bat wiag bow i of silk is also liked. There are, too. j stocks of tucked silk, the ends finished , with tassels, which are one of the new- j est offerings in the department of fash ionable neckwear. > Taffeta Strap* on Wanh Gowns. Straps of black taffeta now adorn ( wash frocks when such arc. what is ; known as tailor-made. The straps art j carefully edged with rows of machine . stitching. They should ho ripped ofl i when the gown is laundered because; ; they are usua^y. put u^on a eolored dress. Although ^his is extremely sty lisb, it is not to be recommended for the wardrobe of a girl who is not well off. It is a tedious business rotrimming the frocfc after it lias scoure<l. The White Veil Fad. In the trail of the green veil faS comes the wbH|! vail, which has not been so tafevidence in several seasons^ Atpfc?jp*?nshore, in fact, at all summer resorts, the green veil is J omnipresent, bat tbe woman who floats the green 'veil in the morning don? tha whttp voil Irhtho nfternnnn. These ' green "complexion veils," as they are j called* more often drnpe the hat brim ?faan fall over the face. Diaphanous Tonnes. Toques of diaphanous stuffs to match the costume with which they are to 'be worn are a noticeable feature of the milliuery world. Desirable Children's Dretsos. Princesse models, very new, stylish and numerous, are among the most desirable children's dresses. 'Jfflr ?? i*<?w Golf CApe. iPfiere is'an ever increasing demand for double-faced cloths that has brought forth many new and artistic comblat^gis of colorings in the plaids. This mnirt^cope, reproduced from Modes, Is nuMfe of an effective plaid in brown, fawto and beige, the yoke and circular flounce being of plain 0 mmflmswrnL LADIES' ETON JACKET, heiiro cloth, machine stitched, in dark > brown silk. The yoke and collar are in one. conlisting of six soctions, flaring stylishly at the neck and forming a yoke with scalloped outline. The circular cape is adjusted at the lower edge of the yoke, titling plain over the shoulders and falling in graceful fulds at the lower edge. The flounce gives an additional flare (o the garment. Convenient straps of the plain material are provided, which fasten on the shoulder and meet at { the waist lim* in back. When the | cape is open these straps keep it in proper position and distribute the weight eveuly. The garment may be made of the plain goods and trimmed with plaid, or in self-color, as preferred. VV' "''W//7W"rl" " ladies' golf cape, with yoke. For traveling, as well as for golf ami mountain wear, these capes are exceedingly comfortable and much more convenient to handle than a j close-fitting jacket. To make the cape in the medium size will require two and one-half yards of fifty-four-inch material. 1 -BE. TALMAGUS SEEMON. j + | SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED DIVINE. Subject: The Minnlnn of Citlen? Morally They Are No Worse Than the Country ?Vice In More Apparent, But Not More Prevalent?A Flea For Iloueat Living, [Copyri?Iit 1HUU.1 Washington, D. C.?From St. Petersburg, the Russian capital, where lie was cordially received by the Emperor and Empress and the Empress Dowager, Dr. Ta.'mage sends this discourse, in which he shows the mighty good that may he done by the cities and also the vast evil they ' may do by their allurements to the unsus- 1 pecting and the unguarded. The text is Z'j'hariah i, f',\ "My cities through prosperity wall yet be spread abroad." The cfty is no worse than the country. The vices of the metropolis are more evi- ! dent than the vices of the rural districts, 1 because there are more people to be bad, J if they wish to be. The merchant is as good as the farmer. There is no more ! cheating in town than out of town?no j worse cheating; it is only on a larger ' scale. The countryman sometimes prevarcates about the age of the horse that he 1 sells, about the size of the bushel with ' which he measures the grain, about the ! peaches at the bottom of the basket as ueing as mrgu as uiusu ?iu nic tu(if auuuo f the quarter of beef as being tender when it is tough, and to as bad an extent as the ( citizen, the merchant, prevaricates about ' calicoes or silks or hardware. . ' 4nd as t> villages, 1 think that in some ' respects they are worse than the cities, * because they copy the vices of the cities ' in the m&nest shape, and as to gossip, its ' heaven village! Everybody ' knows evtfmojfril business better than < he knows irlnmself. The grocery store j or the blacksmith shop by day and night is the grand depot for masculine tittle tat- f tie, and there ar* always in the village a J half dozen women who have their sunbonnets hanging near, so that at the first { item of derogatory news they can fly out 1 and cackle it all over the town. Country- ! men must not be too hard in their criti- J cism of the citizen, nor must the plow run too* sharply against the yardstick. r fin in was the founder of the first city, i 1 And I suppose it' took after him in morals. f ttt takes a city a long while to escape from 1 the character of the founder. Where the j founders of a city are criminal exiles, the j filth, the vice, the prisons, are the shadow ' of those founders. It will take centuries J for New York to get over the good influ- 1 ence o^ the pious founders of that city? < the founders whose prayers went up in ' the streets where now banks discount, -1 and brokers bargain, and companies de- 1 clare dividends, and smugglers swear cus- 1 torn house lies, and above the roar of the < wheels and the crack of the auctioneer's ' mallet ascends the ascription, "We wor- < ship thee, 0 thou almighty dollar!" t Cities are not evil necessarily, as some i have argued. They have been the birth-. { place of civilization. In thera popular lib- .? erty has lifted its voice. Witness Genoa'i* and Pisa and Venice. After the death of t Alexander the Great among his papers i were found extensive plans ot cities, some t to be built in Europe, some to be built in j A?:?, /tifino in WPrA fcA lift r4 occupied by Asiatics: the cities in Asia ' were to be occupiea, according to hia Elans, by Europeans, and so there should e a commingling and a fraternity and a kindness and a cood will between the continents and between the cities. So there always ought to be. The strangest thing in my comprehension is that there should be bickerings and rivalries among our American cities. New York must stop caricaturing x'hiladelphia, and Philadelphia must stop picking nt New York, and certainly the continent is large enough for St. Paul and Minneapolis. What is food for one city is good for all the cities, [ere is the great highway of our national prosperity. On that highway of national prosperity walk the cities. A city with large forehead and creat brain?that is Boston; a city with deliberate step and calm manner?that is Philadelphia; a city with its pocket full of change?that is New York; two cities " **-!- ? ?- -1- tUn /inn. going vrun u rubii mat aowuuua vuc wu j tinent?they are St. Louis and Chicago; a j city that takes its wife and children along f with it?that is Brooklyn. Cincinnati, Louisville, Pittsburg, all the cities of the ( north, and all the cities of the south, , some distinguished for one thing, some for another, one for professional ability, , another for affluence, another for fashion, ( but not pr.e to be spared. What advan- , tages one auvantages all. What damages , Boston Common damages Washington , square. Laurel Hill, Mount Auburn, , Greenwood, weep over the same grief. ( The statue o 1 Benjamin Franklin in New j York creeling the bronze statue .of; Ed- } Vi-nr-otf in llrxfon. All the cities a i confraternity. I cannot understand how there should go on bickerings and rivalries. I plead for a higher style of brotherhood or sisterhood among the cities. Again, in all cities I am impressed with the fact that all classes and conditions of society must commingle. We sometimes cultivate a wicked exclusiveness. Intellect despises ignorance. Refinement will have nothing to do with boorishness. Gloves hate (he sunburned hand, and the high forehead despises the flat head, and the trim hedgerow will have nothing to do with the wild copscwood, and Athens hates Nazareth. This ought not so to be. I like this democratic principle of the gosEel of Jesus Christ which recognizes the ict that we stand before l?'o(l on one aod the same platform. Ho not take on any airs. Whatever position you have gained in society, you are nothing but a man, born of till same Parent, regenerated by the same Spirit, cleansed in the same blood, to lie down in the same dust, to get up in the same resurrection. It is hisih time that we all acknowledged, not only the Fatherhood of Uoil, but the j brotherhood of man. Again, in all cities I am impressed with the fact that it is a very haru thing for a man to keep his heart right and to get to 1 heavn. Infinite temptations spring upon us from places of public concourse. Amid ' so much affluence, how much temptation 1 to covetonsness and to be discontented 1 with our humble lot! Amid so many op- < portunities for overreaching, what temp- < tation to vanity! Amid so many saloons i of strong drink, what allurements to dis- ] sipation! In the maelstroms and hell I gates of the street, how many make quick I and eternal shipwreck! If a man-of-war ) comes back from a battle, and is towed i into the navy yard, we go down to look t at the splintered spars and count the bul- < let holes, and lo 'c with patriotic admiration on the flag that floated in victory ? from the masthead. But that man is ] more of a curiosity who has gone through < thirty years of the sharpshooting of bust- i ness life, and yet sails on, victor over the i temptations of the street. Oh! how many have gone down under the pressure, leaving not so much as a patch of canvas to tell where they perished. Their dishones tips kent tolling in their ears. < Again, in all these cities I am impressed with the fact that life is full of pretension and sham. What subterfuge, what double uealing, what two facedness! Do all the people who shake hands love each other? Are all those anxious about your health who inquire concerning it? Do all want to see you who ask you to call? Does all the world know half as much as it pretends to know? Is there not many a wretched stock of goods with a brilliant store window? Passing up and down the streets to your business and your work, are you not impressed with the fact that society is hollow, and that there are subterfuges nnd pretensions? Oh, now many there are who swagger and strut, ana how few people who are natural and walk! , While iops simper and fools snicker and simpletons giguie, how lew peupie are naiural.and laugh! 1 say these things not to create in you incredulity or r.iisauthropy, nor do I forget there are thousands of people a great deal better than they seem, hut I do not think any man ia prepared for the conflict of this life until he knows this particular peril. Again, in all cities 1 am impressed with the fact that there is a great field for Christian charity. There are hunger and suffering and want and wretchedness in the country, but these evils chiefly congregate in our great cities. On every street crime prowls and drunkenness staggers, and shame winks, and pauperism thrusts out its hand asking for alms. Here want is most squalid, and hunger is most lean. A Christian man going along a street in New York saw a poor lad, and he stopped / I and said: "My boy, do yon know how to read and write?" The hoy made no answer. The ^nian aMicd the question twice and thrice. "Can you read and write?' and then the boy answered, with a tear plashing on the hack of his hand. He said in dcfiance: "No, sir; I can't read nor write neither. God, sir, don't want me to read and write. Didn't He take away my father so long ago I never remember to have seen him? And haven't I had to go along the streets to get something to fetch home to eat for the folks. And didn't I. as soon as I could carry a basket, have to go out ar.d pick up cinders, and never.have nc schooling, sir? God don'.t want me to read, sir. 1 can't read nor write neither." Oh! these poor wanderers. They have no chance. Born in degindation, as they get up from their hands and knees to walk? they take their lirst step on the road to despair. Let us go fort hi, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, to4 rescue tfiem. Let uf* ministers not be afraid of soiling our black'clothes while we go down on that mission. While we are tieing an elaborate knot in our cravat, or while we are in the ?tudy rounding of! some period rhetorically, we might be saving a soul from death, and hiding a multitude of sins. ? In all cities, east, west, north, south, I notice great temptations to commercial fraud. Hc:e is a man who starts in business. ITe says, "I'm going to be honest," but on the same street, on the same block, in the same business are Shylocks. i'hose men. to get the patronage of any ine, will break all understandings with )ther merchants and will sell at ruinoti9 ;ost, putting their neighbors at great disadvantage. expecting to make up the deicit in something else. If an honest prin:iple could creep into that man's soul it kvould die of sheer loneliness! The man twists about, trying to escape the penalty * < ' J J--_: /i.J i-:t_ l.? )i cne jaw, ana uespisus vjuu, ?uuc uc in iust a little anxious about the sheriff. The honest man looks about him and says: "Well, this rivafcy is awful. Perlaps I am more scrupulous than I need be. This little bargain 1 am about to enter ia i little doubtful, but then I shall only do is the rest." And so I had a friend who itarted in commercial life, and as a book nerehant, with a high resolve. He said, 'In my store there shall be no books that [ would not have my family read." Time sassed on. and one day I went into his itore and found some iniquitous books on the shelf, and I said to him, "How is it possible that you can consent to sell such looks as these?" "Oh," he replied, '1 lave got over tLose Puritanical notional \ man cannot do business in this day mless he does it in the way other people lo it." ijjto make^a long story short, he ost his'; hope of heaven^and in a little irltSfjv Kift* mArnlrfi ftnrl fcViPn he ^ent i^^&madhouse. other words, i^ea cas^s Him Qne of the sugfijpat /tfljnptatioTia in :ommercial- life ^^ttpfitrcK/'to-day is in ;he fact that ra&^jArofessed Christian Tien are not sq'uaPK?in their bargains. Such men are iagflHBm and Methodist ind C>)DgiegatioiiiiyWl*Aeg. and our own ienomination u asrtergelr represented as my of them.' > go^^Mmunts are irt patronize of art7^iDantttropic and jatnptic. God witt"\atteivi to tnem in ;he $kj of His coronation. . I am not ipedkifeg of ihem,.trat of thdse in commer:ial' life who are setting-'a'ruinous exam)!e to our young merchants. Go through ill the stored and offices in. our cities and ;ell me in how many of th(*te stores and jffices are the-principles of ChnstV reli;ion dominant? . Iiji three-fourths of them? S'o. In one-tenth of them? No. Decide 'or yjurself. The impression is abroad somehow that charity can consecrate iniquitous gains, and that if a man give to jiod a portion of an unrighteous bargain !??*? *kn T /nk/^ w!11 fnrnriro Kim 4 lip rPflfc_ 'HCH II1C iJUlU YT AH 4ViAl?v UIM* V.*-. - ? L'he secretary of . a benevolent society :ame to me and said, ''Mr. So-and-So ha9 jiven a large amount of money to the mislionary'-cause," mentioning the sum. 1 mid, "I can't,believe it." 'He said, "It is 10." Well, I went home, staggered and :onfounded. I never knew the man to jive anything. But after a while I found >ut that he nad been engaged in a most nfamous kind of a swindle, and then he uroimsed to compromise the matter with ;he Lord, saying: "Now, here is so much ;or Thee, Lord. Please to let tne off!" Hundreds of men going down in our sities every year through the pressure of 70'itics. That man in the tear and love of God ifwUU fknf ir^on anH with I :he resolution that lie will come out un:ontaminated and as pood as when he ivent in, but generally the case is, when a nan steps into politics, many of the newspapers try to blacken nis character and to listort all his past history, and after a ittle while has gone by, instead of conndering himself an honorable citizen, he s lost in contemplation and in admiration )f the fact that lie has so long been kept >ut of jail! Jf a man should go into politics to reform politics, 'and with the right spirit, :ie can come out with the right spirit and ?hurt. That' was'Theodore Frelinghuvsen, of New 'Jersey. That was George I3riggs, of Massachusetts. . That wae Judge McLean, of Ohio. Then look around and see the allurements to dissipated life. Bad books, unknown to father and mother, vile as the reptiles of Egypt, crawling into some of the best of families of tne community, tvho may read them while the teacher is \ looking the other way or at recess or on | the corncr of the street when the group? | ire gathered. These books are read late j ?t- nir?}i(- Xnfan finflq them a smooth I plank on which he can elide down into I rendition some of your son3 and daughters. Reading bad books, one never gets over it. The books may be burned, but there is not enough power in all the apothecary's preparations to wash out the stain froja the soul. Fathers' hands, mothers' lands, sisters' hands will not wash it out NTone but the hand of the Lord can wash it out. And what is more perilous in regard to ioine of these temptations we may not mention them. While God in His Bible From chapter to chapter thundered His lenunciations against these crimes, people i jxpect the pulpit and the printing press to be silent on the subject, and just in 1 ?,.a fi,v?, prupuruuii us ^cujiic uie iui|;uic c**w v??vj fastidious on this theme. They are sc full of decay and death they do not want their sepulchers opened. Cod will turn into destruction all the unclean, and nc splendors of surrounding can make decent that which He has smitten. God will not excuse sin merely because it ha* costly array and beautiful tapestiw and palatial residence any more than He will excuse that which crawls, a blotch oi sores, through the lowest cellar. Evei and anon, through some lawsuit, thert Hashes upon the people of our great cities svhat is transpiring in seemingly reanecta ble circles. You call it "high life,' you call it "fast living," you call it "people'i eccentricity," and while we kick off thi sidewalk the poor wretch who has not the means io garnish his iniquity, these lordi and ladies, wrapped in purple and it linen, go unv/hipped of public justice. Ah the most dreadful part of the whole thinj is, that there are persons abroad whos< whole business it is to despoil the young What an eternity such a man will havei As *he door opens to receive him thou sands of voices will cry out, "See hen what you have done," and the wretel will wrap himself with fiercer flame ant leap into deeper darkness, and the multi lie has destroved will nursue him an^ h?*.'l at him the Inn?, bitter, relentless e/erlasting curse of their own anguish. I' there be one cup of eternal darkness more bitter tlian another, they will have t< drink it to the dreg*. If in all the oocai of the lost world that comcs billowing uj there be one wave more fierce than an other, it ?i}l dash over them. But then is hope for all who will turn. Young men. while you have time to re fleet upon fhese things and before th? duties of the office and the store and tin shop come tip on you again, look over thii whole subject, and after the day hai passed and you hear in the nightfall th( voices and footsteps of the city dyinj from your ear. and it gets so silent thai you can hear distinctly your watch unde: your pillow going "tick, tick," then opei your eyes and look out upon the darknesi and see two pillars of light, one horizontal the other perpendicular, but changini their direction until they come together and your enraptured vision beholds itthe cross. J GOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN. PRECNANT THOUGHTS FR07I THE WORLD'S CREATEST PROPHETS. Symputhy?The fMeJainc of Sacrifice?Do slrins a lietter Counlry?A Fruyer lor lloueKty ? If ftp Uh to 1 rii.Ht Theo ? ' .Send Thy W?s??mI Spirit." A woman sang within the markct-placo, Uuto tin? motley throng thut passed hat li.v; A hooded cloak half hid her wrinkled luce, And clung about her gautlt form pityingly. l'o youth and maid she sang of Love and .May. To tired hearts slio crooned a vesper hymn. And children langhted to hear h:*r round clay. And death was calmer for her requiem. She cheered a wanderer with <ong of I home, A doubting heart she led to Hope's fair morn; Such varied songs! and when the night had come Tins sweetest singer of the world had j gone. Men seek her vainly through the passing years. She only comes to theui an unsought guest, Giving lier tender songs for smiles and tears, | Leaving their tears and smiles foreVci ldest. I -Alice Joy Mason iu Universal! >t Leader. The lllemin; of Sacrifice. History tells of the servant wlr.ist, master was sold into Algeria, and whe sold himself and wandered years in the great desert in the mere hope of at last finding and freeing his lord; of the obscure man of the Eastern city who, misunderstood and unpopular, left a will stating that he had been poor and suffered for the lack of water, and so had starved and slaved through life to builil an pquenuct ror nis nauve town mac uie poor might not suffer as he had; of the soldier in the battle, wounded iu cheek and month and dyiiiir of thirst, but who would not drink lest lie should spoil the water for others, and so yielded up his . life. But this capacity of sacrifice and sympathy is but the little in man answering to what is large in (rod. Here deep ' answer." unto deep. The definition of i the Divine One is, He remembers those ' in bonds, and it is more blessed to give ; than to receive; more blessed to feed the hungry than starving to be fed; more j blessed to pour light on darkened misunderstanding than ignorant to be taught; I more blessed to open .the path through > the wilderness of doni't than'wandering to be guided; more blessed to bring in | the bewildered pilgrim than to be lost I and rescued; more bk-ssed to forgive j than to be forgiven; to save thnn to be saved.?Newell Dwight Hillis, D. L>. T1??lrinr? a Rpftftr fnuntrv. God's end iukI the soul's good arc nt- j fained, if the breaking up of the temporary desert home quickens the onward march: lip and heart attuned to the re- j solve, "Sow we desire a better country, I that is. an heavenly!" But for that trial you might have forgotten that the wilderness was not your final rest or portion. You might otherwise have permitted fond fibres of affection to root you to earth. You might have continued in the pursuit of tinted air-bubbles; like one of Bunyan's well-known characters in his dream, preferring feathers and dust to the beckoning angel j and the gleaming crown, dimming your j eye to "the Better Country." God has, ! > in mercy, shut out the garish noontide, j and lighted up His own fiery column j with its own golden splendor. He has il- j [unlimited -it with the words which you I can turn, in all time to come, into a pil-1 grim cnant?a song 01 uegretw, uixi* hub ; 1 of tilo^o used by the Jews in going up to ' ; their greatest feast: "God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He ; hath prepared for them a eity4." Your ' affliction has brought heaven nearer. It , has served to wean from the too allur- j" ing fascinations of the present. It has I forged adamantine chains to link you to J 1 the unseen and eternal.?J. It. ?M:icdufF, 1 I>. D. A Prayer for Honesty. 0 Lord Jesus Christ, Pattern and < Ttiieher of all mutual love ami human brotherhood, so till thy Church with the j pure spirit of thy grace that it may i show to men the pattern of thy thought in common life. In all social relations . let pride and covetousness be cast out | rind .selfishness restrained. .May our i judges decide in righteousness, our logislutors deliberate in th.v lVar, cur rulers execute the laws without respect of persons. Quicken the conscience of our citizens, that they may think and choose aright. In nil business ntHy honesty prevail. In all social meetings may the spirit of brotherhood control the thoughts of men. So purify our national life that more and more thy love may shine through it for the help of the worid, a::d the problems of our dwelling together be solved by the guidance of thy (}oo?l Spirit. And to Thee bp praise for all progress and pure attainment, ever more! Air.cn. Help Us to Trust Thco. , Light of the World, whoso glory shines m the face of Jesus Christ, grow in our darkness to the splendor of the perfect day! Thou dvvellest in mystery of light, and we reach up toward Thee in full assurance of Thy presence and Thy will to make us pure. Disperse our '"ears. Transforms our ambitions. Teach us to leave the paths of shsi'low for the ways Df truth. Help lis t;> trust Thee wholly and to take each step Thy wisdom shows Hi quiet confidence and joyful hope, assured of Thee whatever else may fail. May the revelation of Thyself through us ;,'i*ow ever clearer as we walk with Thee. I.e1- it shine in common things and quiet hours, from Thee to us: from in*. '?y Thee, to those who need and see Thee not, that we may show Thy glory and l?e made partakers of the joy of f'hrist. Amen!?Closet and Altar. "Penil Thy l?le?*?rt Spirit." Thou living (Jod. who art tht Eternal Love, who hast taught us that all our doings without love are nothing worth: send thy Messed Spirit and from thine own fulness of life pour into cur hearts rli-it tnnct if! ft i?f ri Lwo which is humble, meek, kiii'l. and lonjr- | suffering, the very bond of petce and j of ill! pcrfecfrtess. This we ask in the name of tin* Savior. Jesus Christ, the I j Son of thy love, who is forever glorified with thee. 0 Father, ami the Iloly Spirit?one IJod of all grace. Amen. Do what your hands find to do. hut do not reach out and take what does not belong to you and which was never in- i tended for you.?Anon. Man is n->t sufficient for his own hup. ' fitness: he is not happy except the pre? vmee of <?oil lie with hint ?N'ewniau ' LlVI.NC ON FIFTEEN CENTS A DAY Prpxli.Aiit Ilitrucr. of CliirAEro Unirer?ltT. to Try the Experiment. I The possibility of living on $300 .1 year is to be tried by President Harper, of the ' University of Chicago. He will seek to ' provide for his family table at an expense ' of lifteen cents a day for each member, out will not begin until after the celebration of his silver wedding at Concord, Ohio. ^ ( Those who arc familiar with the comf.j;*:al>le appearance and ample proportions of President and Mrs. Harper are skeptical as to the possibility of their living under these conditions, even for one week. THE SABBATH SCHOOL. NTERNATIONAL iESSON COMMENTS FOR SEPTEMBER 2. Subject: The Seventy Sent Forth, Lnk6 *./ 1-11; 17-20?Golden Text: Luke x.f 2?Memory Verne*, 8-6 ? Commentary on the Day'* iLesion. 1. "The Ivord appointed." This ' ap? (lointment was temporary and not permanent like the appointment of the twelve apostles. "Seventy others." (R. V.) The twelve apostles had been commissioned and sent out about a year before this. As the number of the apostles had reference to the number of the tribes of Israel, so the seventy disciples sent out call to mind the number Of thf? plHpra whn wnm nVir,o/?r> to assist Moses in governing the people. "And sent them." The chief purpose of this sending was not to train these messengers for a later independent mission, but it was a new attempt to influence to decision at least a part of the people, and by word and deed to prepare the coming of the kingdom of God in the midst of them. "Two and two." The same manner in which He sent out the apostles. This was done. 1. To teach them the necessity of concord among the ministers of righteousness. 2. That in the mouth of two witnesses every thing might. be established. 3. That they might comfort and support each other in their difficult labor. Before His face." They were to visit those cities and places that He intended soon to visit. It was an important mission. Christ was about to make one final effort to reach the common people. As John the Baptist had, at the first, heralded the coming of Christ, so now two heralds appeared to announce His advent at the close of His ministry. 2. "Therefore said He unto them." The instructions fiven them were distinct from and yet similar to the instructions given the twelve apostles. The twelve had greater authority to work miracles, and they were to receive persecutions which are not mentioned with reference to the sev enty. ihe Harvest truly is great. The harvest is plenteous, the grain is ripe and spoiling and must bo garnered immediately or it will be lost. There was need for such a mission, as the district in Pcrea had been little Visited by Jesus. There were multitudes who had not yet heard of the coming of "the kingdom of God." V. 9. "The laborers are few." True workers have always been hard to find. This is the greatest calling in the world, and yet there are so few who are ready to make the small, temporary self-denial that is necessary in order to see success in Christian work. "Pray ye therefore." They mu9t set out with prayer, and have a deep concern for precious souls. "Send forth. True laborers must receive their commission from God. "Laborers." Real workers. If souls i* ^11 aic uivu^uv iv uuu wuuj iv vtiii bunv wi" nest, persevering effort on lhe part of His people. 3. "As lambs among wolves." This was a strange way to encourage seventy men just starting out to preach, but they had faith and knew that when Christ sent them they were safe even among their enemies. 4. "Carry neither purse," etc. Trust God for your support. "Salute no man." Eastern salutations are elaborate and ceremonious. This would take a great deal of time, and their mission was urgent. 1. They had their particular places assigned them, and they must deliver their message without needless ceremonies. 2. They must bo as men of business. 5. "Peace be to this house." Peace among the Hebrews had a very extensive meaning; it comprehended all blessings, spiritual an8 temporal. To wish peace to a family, in the name and by the authority of Christ, was in effect a promise of -al! the good implied in the wish. This was Davinc in advance. 6. "If the eon of peace." Any truly pious man who is worthy of such a blessing. The disciples were to communicate their message of peace to all whether worthy or not, and if it falls on inattentive ears or stubborn hearts, yet it shall not be fruitless, since the duty performed shall bring peace to themselves?"it shall turn to you again." 7. "In the same house remain." Their stay was to be short. They were not to choose the best places and neglect the poor, and were not to spend time going from house to house in search of better accommodations. "Is worthy of his hire." The one who really labors is worthy of being supported, but drones need not expect the workers to feed them very long. 8. "As are set before you." Probably Christ here refers to the traditions of the elders about their meat. They were ex- [ tremely critical, and a dish of meat could hardly be set before them but there was ! some scruple concerning it. Christ would ; not have them regard those things, but eat what was set before them. ' 9. "Heal the sick." Their mission was twofold. 1. They were to gain the atten: tion of the people by healing their bodies. "Say unto them." 2. The important part of their work was to preach the gospel of the kingdom. 10. "Receive you not." Do not rcceive you kindly and accept your message. "Into \ the streets." 'The most public place. Let ' every one see the result of rejecting the truths concerning the kingdom of God. 11. "We do wipe off against you." The \ Jews considered themselves defiled with the dust of heathen countries, and the action here enjoined signified that these Jews were hoiy no longer; it was. in reali tv, placing tncm on a level witn me neacn- i en. "Be ye sure." The message was j again to be reoeated, if, perchance, some j might hear at the last moment. 17. "With joy." They had succeeded. I "Devils arc subject." Their commission !i did not reach this far: they were merely j commanded to heal the siclc, but, gaining ' confidence as they went forth, they had j commanded the devils, and they h.;d obeyed. "Through Thy name." Here was the secret of their power and success. 18. "I beheld Satan?fall." In this brief ; speech He sums up the whole great conflict with and defeat of the power of evil.He refers to the original njll of Satan, which had been proceeding ever since, step by step, and should continue until all things were put under the feet of Jesus. The fall was both very sudden and very nmwwnt. Thus should be the fall of the currupt Jewish state, and of idolatry in the Gentile world. 19. "I give unto you power." Authority. (R. V.) And this forb'ids our taking the words in a literal sense. It is possible that by serpents our Lord means the scribes .and Pharisees, whom He calls serpents. Matt. 23:33. By treading on such would signify a complete victory over them. 20. "Names are written." Do not rejoiee in anything which you may be able to accomplish, for this might lead to selfseeking and pride, but rejoice rather that vou are heirs of God. WORE NO COAT FOR YEARS, Hermit Die* Leaving SGOOO Hidden in a Clo?et. John Glenn, who died a few weeks ago nt Urban, Ohio, was the last of a family af considerable wealth and eccentricity. L<'or twenty-five years he was a hermit in his house, during which time lie never wore <i I'uat. iiv uctaiiic t?"gry ao ins father Tor giving his brother James a better coat than nim. and said he would never wear a coat while his father lived. He kept his word. While workmen were repairing the old empty homestead they found a closet which had been closed many years. On a shelf was found $6000 in small currency xnd biiU, which John had concealed there. .ONG FROWNS ?>N SHIRT WAISTS. S'o Man Can Ride in Navy Department Elevator# Willi Hta Coat Oft. Secretary Long has officially frowned in the male shirt jvaist. idea which has laken something of* hold in Washington. \ few days ago u natty Navy Department sleri; of the male sex, properly and neatly Utired in all respects save for the absence of his coat, stepped into one of-the Navy Department elevators and said: "Third floor, please." Tint the car did not move. *n<l the conductor politely but firmly told 'he young man that it was the Secretary's ijrders that no one should be allowed to ride in the elevators with his coat off. 7s'?w York Cily'?< Ice Supply, New York City consume* 200.000 ton* of ice it year, of which 4.'U tv: s i: natural jcJ.. j UH Bill f * ,'' * /?' THE GREAT DESTROYED SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. TOO\ vor Drink*"?"A Nation or Al* talnem lincouilng One of Drunknrdu," I* TVIiat the Muses Leitch Saj About the Fate or Ceylon, BY MBS M. A. KIDDIE. The words "pool for drinks" are frequent!} seen on the signs of liquor saloont.) He saw it on the sign As we were passing by, A gaudy place of low resort? My little boy and I. . Vv-m' * "I know," he said with glee, "What that means, dear mamma; I saw just such a pretty plaoe When I walked with papa.' "It was a tiny pond Down where the vallev sinks, Where little birds go when they're dry, A cunning 'pool' for drinks. "And they did love it so, The water clear and bright, And shook the cool drops from their wingo; * u was a pretty sight.' "And this must be the same; . Can't we go in. mamma, / And see the pool and happy birds >0 As I did with papa?" j I could not well explain /***" To this, my five-year-old, / But promised him. as time went on, / The story should be told. Oh! may I find in him The gold without allay, And from such sad temptations may God keep my only boy. A Terrible Indictment. The Misses ftLdry and Margaret W. r rwi;. ? ?i.~ mvivwii iu ucvcju j- cmo iu vcjiuu. jua&v this frightful indictment against the British Government. They say: "We founA the liquor traffic, authorized and license^ by the British Government, a great fce to Christian work in North Ceylon. /The Government certainly does not dream of the bitterness, of the sor- row and despair with which many of the nativ^ look upon this absolutely ruinous traffic, thrust upon them against their Iwi^Ues for the sake of a revenue. In Indifc and Ceylon the liquor traffic is purely a Government monopoly. The right to sell liquor in a district is sold at public auction to the highest bidder. When some oive has bought the right and promised ta j|i/Ve the Government a large sum of money f<j>r the same he does not wish to be a loser by the transaction, so he opens as irlany liouor shops as possible in the district. These are located in the towns and villages near the tea and cinchona estates, in the mining districts and the roadsides along which there is most travel, and by means of these multiplied places :yf temptation a nation of abstainers is fast toecoming a nation of drunkards. The ~c i.i.~ tt:_ j.._ *<r _i j ? Gtcugiuua ui tut; jtliiiuun, iyiuaammcuanti atid Buddhists forbid the use of strong mink. and formerly the people of India a?d Ceylon were for the most part total abstainers. Spirits wfere high priced and hard to get, and drunkenness was uncommon because there was little temptation to (drink. But in any country, if the facilities for obtaining strong arink are ino'/iased, the consumption is increased; if the facilities for btaining strong drink lire diminished, 4 ? consumption is diminished. In India and Ceylon the facilitiea | for obtaining st'ong drink have been abnormally increased. The British GovernYnent, for the .^jke of a revenue, has made Strong d^ink u> be cheap and plentiful. In Ceylon nine times as much is spent for sarong drink as is expended by tue Goverpment for education. In the whole of Tn^ia the excise revenue has increased in thirteen years seventy-five per cent! It has' been said by a great English states i* iL. xr .r n -i--4 - iiidf" ?i n?c xiuuse ui Vyuninions Lnat wae combined evils of war and pestilence and famine are not so great as those evils wli^ch flow from strong drink', and it has beefi estimated that eighty-four per cent, of the crime is caused either directly or indirectly by strong drink. If thi3 be so, ha,s not poor India crime enough of its own, sorrow and poverty enough of ita own, without having this, the curse ot Gi^pat Britain, imported into India and fodfiered there against the wishes of the people for the sake of revenue!" Another of (England's great statesmen has said. 4Q *'omen, I refuse to consider a questiori of revenue alongside a question of mortals/ and he has said again: 'Give me solnjr and industrious people, and I will shoiv you where to get a revenue.' " What Christian Britain has done for Oylon and India, Christian America ia inl a fair way of doing for Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines. Is it any wonoler that thoughtful people are asking, >Hm Christianity become effete? A Guilty Conscience. In an Ohig town a saloon-keeper was ieeen by a friend walkivg back and forth before his saloon, as if in deep thought. The friend asked him what was the matter. He answered: "Oh, nothing." I The next day the friend saw him walk?nc the same tvav. and acain askr>H him vrliat was the matter. 4"Have the crusaders been after you?" !?"No; but I have received a postal, signed t'y three ladies. The husband of the first is one of my customers, and is rapidly bec-oming a drunkard. / "A sop of the second is one of mv customers, and is just starting in a drunkard's course. "The husband of the third was one of <ny customers, and died a drunkard. It /!uts close, and I can't stand it." > "Woe unto him that givetli his neighbor dVink, that putteth thy bottle to him and ir^akest him drunken also."?(Ilab. ii, 15.) I ?? I Wliltkv Not an Antidote. yA physician connected with the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, was bitten 1 4-U? .fUr uy a\ uiaiuuuu-uav.^ iiuiienMaiw tuv; day while exhibiting his pets before a medical sopicty. The only remedy applied wm instantly squeezing and sucking the wouna, and nc?? ill effects followed. Whisky is not recommended as an antidote by the doctor who was\bitten. He says more people die from an excessive dose of the antidote than fromSwialje poison.?St. Louis Globe Democrat. V Lead* l*& In"anlty. While tne more blusterous form of intemperance in England "And America leads to private brutality andvpublic disorder, the system peculiar to the European continent of small drain drinking; before meals in the shape of tonics and apfjjetizers leads1 to insanity. The same disastrous state & things is said to prevail in industrial P gium and in parts of Gfermany,* Ho^md and Denmark. The Crnnacle In Brlof. S.in Francisco has 3032 linens-vi snlo This gives one saloon for every 100 inhabitants, men, women and children! , The London Times not long since saiid: "England, with 500 years of license, is the worst liquor-cursed nation in the world." \ The London (England) Times says "England, with i300 years of license, is the / worst liquor'cursed nation in the world." ' The Woman's Christian Temperance \ Union is fully committed to the project or . establishing homes for inebriates m India. Railroad companies in Ohio arc forbid- > den under penalty of $200 to employ locomotive engineers who are addicted to drinking. There was an increase of 1S3 in the com- ^ mitments to jail for drunkenness in the Province of Ontario during 1S0D. The increase amounted to over 1/iO nee cent. Canadians arc manifestly not beer- \ drinkers. They consumed ia?t year but 3.9!) jzullons per head, as r;?m pared with a consumption of 12.00 in the l.'nitcd States. . Those men who destroy a healthful eon- 4 stitution of body by iiue'npcn'.nee and an irregular life d<> as manifestly kill them- \ se! ves as tho.-e uli-.i ban* or poison or drown themselves. A suci-t'svful system of i?rolt>it ion prevails in the Fiji Islands. The rum manufactured at the sugar factories Ins to be sent elsewhere, as any one uivinz intoxicat inp liquor to a native is (ined $250, and ini- , prisoned for three months. This penalty , is doubled for each repeated 'r,"?e '