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< New York City.?Military coats Jppear to have taken the world of fashion by 6torm and are exceedingly mic. This one, designed by May Manto? is MISSES' MILITARr COAT. peculiarly well adapted to girl ;h figures and includes the deep cape that is a marked characteristic, wit. wide sleeves gathered into flaring cu s. As illustrated the material is milit ry blue cheviot stitched with Oortic< li silk, piped with velvet and trimm d with ttap brass buttons of the armjj Vary Ilng shades of blue are, howevrf, equally correct and all colors are seln. while smooth faced cloths as well Is rough are used. The original is mide with a velvet standing collar. bJ one of the material can be substitufd or the roll - over collar can be usel if preferred. r' The coat consists of the f~vits. back, side backs and under-arro Both fronts and back are laid Jf outward turning tucks which are.iltched flat for their entire length, t pe of the . back lapping over onto th ' side backs and concealing the spams- The cape Is cut in two portions ar| is shaped to fit smoothly over the sb* ilders with extensions that lap over )elow that point.. The full slocves ~ e gathered A Late Design 1 I to form puffs above the wrists and are Jield by the wide cuffs. The closing fc made in double breasted style. The quantity of material required I for the medium size is two and tbreeeighth yards forty-four inches wide, or two and one-eightli yards fifty-two inches wide. Exqulftite Toilets. Two really exquisite toilettes shown recently are worth hearing about, but they were so lovely that it is difficult to do justice to their beauty in sober black and white. The first was in the costliest satin in the palest shade of lime-leaf green, enriched with gigantic sprays of foliage shimmering with crystal beads, lined with silver and embroidered in silver and pale green chenille. The seams were all outlined with the crystal and silver beads, and the back breadth was made of white lace. The bodice was in pale green chiffon veiled with white lace, and the deeolletage edged with the passementerie foliage had a fairy bow of green In fho contra ThP slppvn WflQ I^UiUVU 111 IUV WUVAV* ?. ?-w principally made of two glittering : -oulder straps, with a fall of delicate lace beneath. The second toilet was in waffer-blue satin, almost covered with an embroidery of little Japanese lilies, rendered in silver and irridescent "looking-glass" sequins. The flowers were raised, after the fashion of the pretty chifTon flowers which we used to admire in the season, only these were made in chenille and beads and sequins, so that the effect was infinitely prettier. The skirt was cut in panels over white lace, and the back was also in lace. A Noticeable Feature. The prevalence of kid, gun metal. fonnr mttnnC Ckf ull HH ?V1U, oil * Ci suu inu\.| jmtvv ?EJ kinds is a noticeable feature in the wj^Lfasbioos of to-day. Braids too, of j ! TylHfJSCS quiet order, with a faiut suggestion of gold or silver therein, lend them \ selves admirably to the trimming ol handsome cloth gowns, and there is a strong endeavor to reintroduce gold braid and cords. Gold ribbon, so popular a few years ago, is seen on some very pretty Lats. Gold tassels, also for hat trimming, are extremely Mjart, and there is even a revival of the gold rose, which was so favored I in millinery a few seasons since. Theatre Coats. White taffeta theatre coats will be introduced this season, some of them having flotant bands of cloth hemmed with ermine and deep cape hoods lined with the same, and an extravagance is a wine-colored cloak of velours mousseline. drawn aud shirred, the hood outlined with massed roses shading up to the deepest bacchanalian pucple. A Charming Idea. There is no need to wear heavy fur toques this season. The milliners have thought out a charming idea. The <>rn\vn is fmnnnSPfl of chiffon velours, while for the brim one of the new fur plushes is used. This comes less expensive than fur. and looks exceedingly well. The only trimming necessary is one shaded feather. Still Popular. Feather stoles for afternoon and evening wear are still popular, and are j accompanied by huge "granny" muffs composed entirely of feathers to match. The newest black feather boas are lined with white marabout. Newest Watteau Hat?. Watteau hats in drawn wine-colored velvet, with massed crowns of shaded roses, represent novelties of interest in the world of dress. ItViAaoR* Wa.int. Young girls always look well in waists that include broad collars- giving a sailor effect. This May Manton >y May Manton. | one is peculiarly desirable and includes besides that feature, tucks which givi tapering lines at the back and a bo? pleated effect at the centre front. Ai illustrated it is made of white corduroj J with a collar of silk and trimming o! applique, but can be reproduced in al ( most any of the season'^ waist or dresi materials with equal success, and thi collar can be either of the same oi contrasting material. The waist consists of the fitted lin ing, which closes at the centre front the smooth back and the full fronti which are arranged over it. the closing of the waist being made invisibly be reath the edge of the box pleac. Ttu wide collar is cut with stole ends and arranged over the waist. The neci can be finished either with the stock as illustrated, or with the collar alone The sleeves are the favorite one? of the season that are snug above the elbowi and form full puffs at the wrists. The quantity of materia] required for the medium size is three and fiveeighth yards twenty-one. three and one fourth yards twenty-seven, or two and MISSES' WAIST. j one-eighth yards forly-four inches wide, with five-eighth yards ."or collar, and two and one-quarter yards of j applique to trim as illustrated. A SERMON FOE SUNDAY AN ELOQUENT DISCOURSE BY DR CHARLES H- PARKHURST. Subject of the Distinguished New York Clergyman's Sermon, " What Think Ye of Christ ? "?Why So Many People Get Tired of Being Christians. New York City.?Dr. Charles H. Parkn f ' sJ P A ** (kAiiOKO uuiot^ |;amui ui vuv ata auiouu k?v|u?&v a * wdbytenan Church, preached Sunday morning on "What Think Ye of Christ?" from the words found in Mark viii:29: "Whcm say ye that I am?" Dr. Parkhurst said among other things: Christ means to you something; what is it? Christ Himself asks this of His disciples. It is the first Christian catechism. Brief, but nevertheless it is catechism, and is God's warrant for our asking doctrinal questions, and His warrant, too, for our being prepared to frame some tort of an answer to them. Christ's inquiry here means that He expects His disciples to have convictions? convictions in regard to Himself at any rate?'and definite enough for them to be able to state them. Such convictions may be more correct, may be less so, but an imperfect opinion is better than none, and no opinion ends in being perfect that did not begin by being imperfect, and 60und conviction is blunder convicted and converted. Everything human begins in a mistake. Error is the loamy soil out of which truth J VI rru vegetates ana lhossoijis. xuc jiisvuiy vi philosophy, science and theology illustrates this principle with a distinct cogency that is unanswerable. So that we need not be too much afraid of being in error provided only we cling to our error with a tenacity that is not simply tenacious, but that is also honest and intelligent. What think ye of Christ? His appeal here is to man considered as an animal who thinks, who has ideas, ideas of his own, takes impressions from what is shown him, told to him. acted out before him, and imEressions tnat so groove themselves into is substance as to take defined-shape and shape that is fairly permanent. Ju6t as objects make an image of themselves in the eye, bo facts, events, truths, make an iru'age of themselves in the mind?that is, they do if the mind is an alert mind, sensitive, responsive. A man can, of course, look without seeing anything; so he can hrar without learning anything; live in the presence of great realities ana come away from them without carrying upon his soul any of thteir imprint. An ox can look toward the west at 6 o'clock in the afternoon without observing any sunset; there is a good deal of the bovine still in most of us that call ourselves human, and that ie why we behold so little of what is really visible and why we garner so little of the fruit that falls into our laps. A duck can go through the water and still come out dry. A boy can go through college without any of the college going through him. Judas walked three years with Jesus and finished by being a devil. What think ye of Christ? He wants to find out from His diBciples, then, what impressionW Himself He has left with them, what stamp He has put upon them. What they think of Him will be only another name for the record of Himself that His teachings and demeanor have left printed rtv-isvv* Kair infollirronooa T urn frvinnr tn Ul?VIH6V?VVOl ?J -'-r? ? have you realize that their opinion of Him that He was trying to get hold of was tomething definite.y traceable fo the working influence upon them of His own presence and activity. He is not interested to know what they imagine Him to be, nor what they logically imer He may be, nor what some one has told them that He is. He has been for some time demonstrating Himself to them by word, act and spirit, and if they are not altogether like the duck in the water or the ox before the sunset, as presumably they are not, this demonstration of Himself to them has in some way told upon them, it has lodged j something within them, and He wants them to give a name to-it. Their opinion of Him was something that He had Himself been the means of making to grow up in them without their consciously having any part in the matter themselves. It was not something they had borrowed from somewhere nor something that they had personally striven to acquire. Opinion, then, if it is anything more than mere quotation, copy 01 what some one else has thought, is one of the things that grows. The influence that starts the conviction will, if it continues to operate, go on adding to that conviction's strength and intensity. As illustrative of this compare the feebleness and timorottsness of the convictions of the disciples when they began to believe in .Tesus with what those convictions were when at the end of their course they laid down their lives in martyrdom. That is the natural course of things. It is natural for a flower to continue to rtow if it stands in the same sunshine ana rain as that which first made it begin to grow. If a flower comes up out ' of the ground, grows for a day and then suddenly stops growing and remains as it is, you know something is the mattereither there is a worm at the root or the air too cold or the soil too dry. It is not natural for it not to go on improving upon itself, adding to itself. It is a sorry condition,, then, that a man ia in, that a Christian believer is in. when he says that he has the same opinion of Christ that he had a year ago. It tells a ead story of the way the year has been : :iL T* tu.,4. passing Willi UUJI. XI tiic viuc lua^n ing itself around your trellis clothes itself in no more leaves and puts forth no more blossoms-this summer than it did last summer, the season must have been an infelicitous one for plant life or there is something serious tne matter with the vine. I have in this been speaking broadly of conviction in general, hut of course the reference specifically intended is to religious conviction, and more specifically still to the conviction contemplated when the. question was asked, "Wnat think ye oi Christ?" We doubtless all of us have some conviction respecting Him; that is, we all of us possess among our other com: odities and belongings?either out on the table or tucked away in some drawer or closet or stored in the garret among other disused furniture or obsolete bric-a-bracsomething which we called (and properly call) a belief in Christ, an opinion about Him, a conviction concerning Him. We are willing to assume, too, that it may be a verv valid conviction, sound, yea, thoroughly in the terms of Scripture. Yes, but granting all that, is there any, of to-day's 6ap in it or is it an antiquity? It means a (rreat deai to say of a man's Christian conviction that it is a living conviction, that it is going on to-day maintaining a continuous life, freshlv ministered f ft on/] rl d 11 oimnl i'ft/1 V*it /lrt*V1 tvt v t?nv* uciiijr oui'yiRu ujr cvinui umv.uu from the game divine source that first initiated it. A dead conviction we have to lug around?a conviction that i6 alive takes us around. It means a continuous Bense of the reality of that to which our conviction fastens. It brings everything down to date and sets it out in "front of us. Memory does not have to be appealed to to recall it, nor books, manuscripts, catechisms rummaged through in order to authenticate it. It is an imbedded impulse th.it keeps pushing and that goes on pushing with an ever accelerated pace and a widening energy while we stand near enough to Him whom we Delieve in to have His Dresence made ever more immediate to us, His reality more real to us. It is for that reason that some believers can believe very nicely and yet behave very badly. There is not the slightest incompatibility between being orthodox and being villainous, only in order that that may be possible the orthodoxy in question must be a dead orthodoxy, last year's leaf though etill glued to this year's tree. When Christ taugiit ua to pray "Give us this day our daily bread" He probably meant us to understand that in the spiritual life^as well as in the .stomach continuous health means consecutive supply. There is no incompatibility between your parlor being brilliantly luminous at noon and black with Egyptian darkness at midnight. Light is not laid on in fast colors; neither is the light of God, and the heavenly radiance that was upon us in 1902 is no guarantee against devilish blackness being upon us in 1903. Even Christ's power over us is valid only for the time that it is over us, so that the liveliest kind of orthodoxy, provided it is merely a mummified residuum from an extinct experience, is no Irin/) nf nn omharrncQmPnh tn thp Vd*V liveliest kind of depravity. It is all right to believe in the doctrine ef perseverance of the saints that persevere, but that doctrine, applied in cold literalism, has done as much as any one thing perhaps to prevent their persevering. If the money a man has iu lus packet to day i6 thought by him to be sufficient to'pay all his debts, defray all his expenses and secure all desired comforts and luxuries for an indefi* nite time to come he will feel no incentive to going out and earning a couple of dollars to-morrow, and so his confidence in tb? absolute arid everlasting sufficiency of hto present Docket containing may easily iff sue in his turning pauper" Those illustrations only serve to indicate what J meal by saving that a man may be as orthodox as Calvin and as wicked as he knows how. The principle we have been discussing also explains why it is that so many people who show a good deal of Christian zest at the start so soon get tired of being Christians. To have earnest views of Christ and to be intensely interested in them and controlled by them cannot, unfortunately, be taken as a certain sign of the continuance of that interest. The falling off, the cooling down of Christian enthusiasm is com4' mon experience. Even the disciples, at Jesus' temporary withdrawal from them at crucifixion, threw up the whole matter, resumed their old life and w*nt back to their fishing. Interest is not self-sustaining. Enthusiasm, like a burning candle, consumes itself in its own heat. The sun, so astronomers tell us, would burn itself out and our systems fall back into original darkness jyere not special provision made for keeping up the sun's temperature. At the same time there are lines of effort and employment where interest, on the contrary, never does seem to flag, where heat is not only maintained, but with a mercury that is rather steadily on the rise. Setting aside the familiar and rather shop worn instance of the money getter, who, the more he gets, the mtenser. as a rule, becomes his ambition to get, that is only one of the many purcuits where the like enhancement of interest, mounting up in many cases to the height of a steadily growing passion, is seen to evince itself. Examples of this are, 1 should say, especially frequent among scholars devoted to the scientific investigation of nature and nature's beauties and marvels. But in the instances of such advancing and steadily intensifying interest the particular fact I woulu beg you to notice is that what keeps the investigator's heart glowing with a warmer and warmer fervor is not the array of facts that have been brought distinctly within the range of his knowledge, that he has been able definitely to tabulate, and of which in some time past he has issued a complete and finished catalogue. It is the constant stepping forward oa to new ground that I L-oana hie fKniirrKfo olorf onrl Kia aglow. Whatever it be, the old is always tiresome, only the new is interesting. To the naturalist the world retains its fascination, although an old world, because of the deeper entrance he day by day gains into that world and the ever fresh disclosures of newly discovered wonderfulness and beauty that she thereby makes over to him. In the same way there are certain books that we read and re-read. In a wav they are old books, but it is not their oldness that fascinates us but a certain everlasting newness that lay beyond the reacn of our previous perusals, as eyes that look quietly and intensely into the night-sky see stars that are sunk too deep in the firmament to be caught by a first and easy glance. And that suggests the old holy book, the Bible, which is always new ana WHICH LUC I'UUiL'ii ui way a iuvca, uctaiioc there is that in it always which our last reading was only on the edge of discovering. If the church 6hould ever come to the end of the Bible it would throw it away. Some people have thrown it away already; some who seem to themselves to be Christians have thrown it away; it seems to them they have come to the end of it. To them there is nothing new in it any more, so, of course, by the principle we are illustrating they can do nothing but throw it away. The ox knows enough to feel when it is dark, but never sees a sunset. All of this leads up easily to an explanation of the fact stated a moment ago that so many who have begun to be Christians get tired of being Christians after a while; it has ceased to offer them anything new to which interest can attach and by which therefore enjoyment can be kept alive. They reached a little conviction as to the real import of Christ, entered into a certain amount. of relation with Him. had a degre of experience tff Him, learned a little of what He could do to strengthen in weakness, brighten in darkness, comfort in sorrow and disappointment, and then everything stopped. Instead of "going on to know the Lord," drawing c'oser and closer to Him, and pressing torward into the deeper and deeper meanings involved in His Spirit, presence and companionship, they drew up all that part of the matter, ruminated only upon such little prospect as had opened to them, till they became weary of it, drank the old cup of consolation till its waters became 6ta!e, munched the drying crumbs of light, strength and comfort till they were moldy, strained themselves to keep warm by a fire that had gone out, and ended, of course, by concluding that whatever might be the theoretical value of personal religion it was nothing if not uninteresting, and people will not, if they can help it, permanently commit themselves to a course of drudgery, even if that drudgery be baptized by fio honorable a name as Christianity. Closing tms morning ivnn me prayer that we may uii of us feel ourselves moved by a reverent and holy ambition to break free from the burden and entanglement of all the petty and now withered experiences 'garnered long ago, entering into ever new prospects, into larger discernments, into an ever wider world of knowledge, comfort and anticipation. To this end may we have with us in our closets and in our sanctuary gatherings the abounding Spirit of God the Father and of His Son Jesus Christ, to whom with the Blessed Spirit be given our obedience, adoration and love forever and ever. Amen. He Prayed With Young Men. "I remember an old man who was a nursing father to all the young men in the parish where he lived," 6aia Mr. Spurgeon in one of' his sermons. "This one thing he used to do, there was scarcely a lad whom he would not know and speak to, and there was a time with most of the lads when he specially sought to see them decided. Suppose one of them was going away to London, he would be sure to nsk him to have a cup of tea with him. 'You are going away, John,' he would say. 'I should not like you to go without spending an evening with me. If it was a fine sunshiny evening, he would say: 'You know I have often talked to you about the things of God, and I am afraid that as yet there has been no impression produced. You are going to London, and will meet with many temptations, and I fear you may fall into them, but I should like to pray with you onte before you go. Let us walk down the field together.' There was a tree, an old oak tree, in a solitary place, where he would say: 'To help you to recollect my words better, we will pray under this tree.' The young and the old knelt together, and the old man poured out his soul before God; and when he had wrestled with God, and talked with his young friend, he would say: 'Now, when I am dead and gone, you will perhaps come back to the place where you livtd when a youth; let that tree be a witness between God and your soul that here I wrestled with you; and if you forget God, and do not give your heart to Christ, letthat Lree stand to accuse your conscience till it vields to the entreaties of divine love.' _ A Duty to Be Plensant. We are ap" to think that our being i ? .._s.?... of. liapfjy UX unuap^j 10 ouuicuiiiig buub ?*fects only ourselves. On the contrary, neither condition is ever absolutely confined to the person who experiences it, and, unfortunately, the "black edge" of one's u ;happy moods laps over on the lives of others. The girl who cornea down to breakfast "feeling blue" is apt to impart a tinge of the same melancholy to every one else before the meal ia over, and the man or woman who is absorbed in the contemplation of h.s or her own troubles, real or fancied, is doing something to add to the gloom of a worm that is more lacking in sunshine than it need be. No matter what one's private fedlng may be, one can always make an effort to be pleasant for the sake of other people's happiness. While the opportunity of doing some great and noble thing may not often occur, the simple but beautiful opportunity of being pleasant is always present. Others First. in additioa to the desire to live day ] by day aright, we wish to add some pledge, can it not be that; self shajl sink into significance, and thaj the good, the happiness, the welfare of others, thai] come first? r The Worltri Coal Area. : Of an estimated coal area of about 4.050,000 square miles In tbe world, A (Wl/Wl rnnora ' ^V. 11 i Li tl if? 11 CUIICU VIJIU 7,VW.VUV I miles, the United States has about 8SO.OOO square miles; Great Britain. | 11.000 miles: Germany, 1770 miles; , "'ranee, 1208G miles, and Belgium, 510 square miles. Area is not, however, a true measure of value. The anthracite fields of Pennsylvania include an area of only 408 miles, but these are undoubtedly of more value than any coal area of like extent anywhere in the world. The O^ean New?n?per. For good or for evil, for better or for worse, the newspaper published on board ship, in some form or other, is a fait accompli. Maritime journalism is still in too immature a state to decide whether it is to be a blessing or a curse, an inestimable convenience to voyagers or a confounded nuisance. While, like its terrene prototype, it will probably develop both good and bad characteristics and possess both ad vantages, wnat is quite certain is turn it will greatly modify the present conditions of the passenger's life at sea. The sense of absolute freedom from the ordinary cares and responsibilities of existence, which the restful isolation of a sea voy/ge conferred, was for most people the principal charm of ocean travel. While a vo^ge lasted, at all events, it was easy to "put smiling by" all mundane troubles; they might await our landing, but could not break in from the outside world. For the present we could devote ourselves with enthusiasm to Inhaling the stimulating, health-giving ocean breeze, to satisfying an unusually vigorous appetite with the sumptuous fare provided to-day on all first-class ships and to enjoying in cosy nook on deck, in music saloon and smoking room, that genial intercourse that life at sea always promotes, ? From Cook's Traveler's Ga German Slilpplngln the East. The recent report made by the North German Lloyd on its lines to Eastern Asia give an interesting insight into the possible workings of subsidies. During the first years-the losses were very heavy, but, beginning with 189G, there was a profit which rose in 1899 to $500,000. Then came the Chinese troubles, and the government began to get its value out of the subsidies. The result was that the loss in 1900 was $0750; in 1901, $122,000, and in 1902, $300,000. These losses are uniformly attributed to the heavy services which have to be rendered by the steamship company to the state in return for subsidies. Among tlie conditions imposed are fixed routes and calling at particular points, great speed, the carriage of mails, and the prohibition of an agricultural cargo for the return journey. Radiographing Criminals. Rontgen rays will soon be made use of by the Parisian police for the identification of criminals. Some 10,000 photographic plates of cases of fractured bones, abnormal formations, etc., have already been collected, chiefly from the hospitals. Of course, all these do not represent portions of the internal anatomy of criminal persons, but the Paris police go on the principle that people who hare not yet broken the law yet may do so some day. These 1 nlfltpg Arp. accordinclv. beins classified after thv method invented by M. Bertillon for'identification by finger marks 1 and measurements of the body. It is proposed that in future all convicted perspns shall be radiographed as they are now "anthropometrized."?London Daily Telegraph. The total income of all American farmers last year was about $5,500,000,600. Over 1500 British vessels plying in Eastern waters are manned by Chinese. N. Y.?1 Mrs Wiixslow'sSoothin?Syrup for ohildrei Uetbinp, 9often the gums, reduces inflammatlon.aliays pain,cure? windcolic. 25c. a bottle No artist has ever seen a painting from his hand on the walls of the Louvre, Paris. Perfrct'y simple and simply perfect is dyeing with Putnam Fadeless Dyes. The strongest man in the United States Senate is Senator Kearns, of Idaho. Piso's Cnre cannot be too highly spoken of as a cough cure.?J. W. O'Bbiejj, 822 Third " Tor. ? 1 QAfl Avenue, in., iuumcupvus, miuu., van, ?, *.wv. All piano playing in Fort Scott, Kansas, must cease at 9 o'crock p. m. Hair Falk\ "I tried Ayer's Hair Vigor to stop my hair from falling. Onehalf a bottle cured me." J. C. 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