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THE GARBS OF SIN. DR. TALMAGE'S DISCOURSE AT WIN F.ELD, KANSAS. L How Sla Masquerades in Different Dis guises-The Cloaks Under Which Crime Is Committed. Dr. Talmage in his sermon at Win field, Kansas. took for his text, John 15;22: "But now they have no eloak for their sin.* Sin is always disguised. Decked, and glossed, and perfumed, and masked, it gains admittance in places from which it would otherwise be re pelled. As silently as when it glided to Christ at the top of the temple. it now addresses men. Could people look upon sin as it always is-an ex halation from the pit, the putrefaction of infinite capacities, the ghastly, loathsome, God-smitten monster that uprooted Eden and killed Christ, and would push the entire race into dark ness and pain-the infernal charm would be hgpken. Before our first parents trangressed, sin appeared to them the sweetness of fruit and the becoming as gods. To Absalom it was the pleasure of sitting upon a throne. To men now. sinis laughter, and permission to luxurious gratifica tion. Jesus Christ in my text sug gests a fact which everybody ought to know, and that is that sin, to hide its deformity and shame, is accus tomed to wearing a cloak; and the Saviour also sent forth the truth that God can -see straight through all such wrappings and thicknesses. I want now to speak of several kinds of cloaks with which men expect to cover up their iniquities, for the fash ion in regard to these garments is constantly changing, and every day beholds some new style of wearing them, and, if you will tarry a little while, I wili show you five or six of the patterns of cloaks. First, I remark that there are those, who being honored with official pow er, expect to make that a successful cloak for their sin. There is a sacredness in office. God Himself is king, and all who hold authority in the world serve under Him. That community has committed a mon strous wrong who has elevated to this dignity persons unqualified either by their ignorance or their immorality. Nations who elevate to posts of au thority those not qualified to fill them will feel the reaction. Solomon expressed this thought when he said: "Woe unto thee. 0 land, when thy king is a child and thy princes drink in the morning." While positions of trust may be disgraced by the char acter of those who fill them, I believe God would have us respectful to the offices, though we may have no ad miration for their occupants. Yet this dignity, which office confers, can be no apology for transgression. Nebuchadnezzar, and Ahab, and Herod, in the day of judgment, must stand on the level with the herdsmen that kept ther flocks, and the fisher men of Galilee. Pope, and king, and president, and governor, must give an account' to God, and be judged by the same law as that which judges the beggar and the slave. Sin is all the more obnoxious when it is impe rial and lordly. You cannot make pride, or injustice, or cruelty sacred by giving it a throne. Belhazzars decanters could not keep the myste rious finger from writing on the wall. Ahab's sin literally hurled him from -tE troie.to the dogs. The imperial vestments of wicked Jehoram could >not keep Jehu's arrow from strikin through his heart. Jezebel's c ocould notsa 'thrown over ricade of tr justicein I ~g - - save them? Kiig ofknswsnot above him. All victors shalbow before Him who on the horse goeth forth conquering and to conquer. Again. Elegance of manners can not successfully hide iniquity from the eye of God. That model, gentle manly apostle, Paul, writes to us:' "Be courteous." That man can never be a respectable worlding nor a consistent Christian who lacks good manners. He is shut out from re fed circles, and he certainly ought to 'be hindered from entering the church. We cannot overlook that in a man which we could hardly excuse ia bear. One of the first effects of kgrace of God upon an individual ~to mak 'i a gentlea. Gruff aw ardness, implacability, lanisness, are fruits of tne devil; while gentleness and meekness are fruits of the spirit. But while these ecellences of manner are soinport tant, they cannot hide any deformity .ofmoral character. How often is it :that we find attractiveness of person, suavity of mariners, gracefulness of conversation, gallantry of behavior thrown like wreaths upon moral death. The flowers that grow upon the scoria of Vesuvius do not make it any less of a volcano. The sepul ehres in Christ's time did not exhaust all the whitewash. Some of the big getscoundrels have been the most -'scnting. If there are any depend ing on outward gracefulness and at tractiveness .of demeanor with any 'hope that because of that God will forgive the sin of their soul, let me assure them that the divine justice cannot be satisfied with smiles and elegant gesticulation. Christ looks deeper than the skin, and such a ragged cloak as the one in which you -are trying to cover yourself will be no hiding inthe day of His -o God will not inthe judgm' gracefully you walked, nor how po litely you bowed, nor now sweetly you smiled, nor how impressively you gestured. The deeds done in the body will be the test, and not the rules of Lord Chesterfield. Again, let me say that the mere profession of religion is but a poor wrapping of a naked soul. The im portance of making a public profes sioni of religion if the heart be renew ed cannot be exaggerated. Christ positively and with the earnestness of the night before his crucifixion commanded it. But it is the result of Christian character, not the cause of it. Our church certificate is apoor title to heaven. We may have the name and not reality. There are those who seem to throw themselves back with complacency upon their uublic confessions of Christ although they give no signs of renewal. If Satan can induce a man to build on such arotten foundation as that, he has accomplished his object. We cannot imagine the abhcrrence with which God looks upon such a pro .That would be the feelings herd if he saw a wolf in the quiet he might seem to lie, or a gen eral if among his troops he saV' one wearing the appointed uuiifoim who nevertheless really belonged to the host? Thus must the heavenly shep herd look upon those who, though they are not His sheep. have climb ed up some other way. and thu- must the Lord of hosts look upon those' who pretend to be soldiers of the cross while they are iS arllel n Imes. Furthermore: Outward morality will be no covering for the hidden ini quity of the spirit. The gospel of Christ makes no assault upon good works. They are as beautiful in God's eye as in ours. Punctuality, truthfulneess, almsgiviug, affection and many other excellences of life that might be mentioneil will always be admired of God and man, Lut we take the position that good works cannot be the ground of our salva tion. What we do right cannot pay for what we do wrong. Admit that you have all those traits of character which give merely worldly respecta bility and influence, you must at the same time acknowledge that during the course of your life you have done many things you ought not to have done. How are these difficult mat ters to be settled? Ah, my friends. we must have an atonement. No Christ, no salvation. The great Re deemer comes in and says, "I will pay your indebtedness." So that which was dark enough before, is bright enough now. The stripes that we deserve are fallen upon Christ. On His scourged andbleeding should ers He carries us up over the moun tain of our sins and the hills of our iniquities. Christ's good works ac - cepted are sufficient for us, but they who reject them, depending upon their own, must perish. Traits of character that may make us influen tial on earth willnot necessarily open to us the gate of heaven. The plank that will be strong enough for a house floor would not do for a ship's hulk. Mere mortality might be enough here, but cannot take you through death's storm into heaven's harbor. Christ has announced for all ages, "I am the way, the truth, and the life; him that cometh unto me I will in no wise cast out." But pitiable in the day 6f accounts will be the con dition of that man, though he may have given all all his estate to benev olent purposes and passed his life in the visiting of the distressed and done much to excite the admiration of the good and the great, if he have no in timate relation to Jesus Christ. There is a pride and a depravity in his soul that he has never discovered. A brilliant outside will be no apology for a depraved inside. It is no theory of mine, but an announcement of God, who cannot lie. "By the deeds of the law shall no flesh living be justified." Again: Exalted social position will be no cloak for sin. Men look through the wicked doors of prisons, and see ing the incarcerated wretches ex claim; "Oh, how much vice there is in the world." And they pass through the degraded streets of a city, and looking into the doors of hovels and the dens of corruption they call them God-forsaken abodes. But you might walk along the avenues through which the opulent roll in their flour shmng pomp -and into mansions ele antly adorned, and find that even in the admired walks of life Satan works mischief and death. The first emptation Satan wrought in a gar :en, and he understands yet most thoroughly how to insinuate himself into any door of~-'and splendor. M uently judge of sin by the which it is committed, but in satin is to God as loath e as iniquity in rags, and in the yof judgment the sins of Madison ne and Elm street will all be ein one herd. Men cannot es at last for being respectably .You know Dives was clothed apurple and fine linen and fared sumptuously every day, but his tine lothes and good dinnera did not save him. He might on earth have drunk something as rich as champagne and ognac, but at last he asked for one drp of water. You cannot trade off your attractive abodes here for a house of many mansions on high, ad your elegant shade groves here will not warrant you a seat under the tree of life. Furthermore: Mere soundness of relgous belief will not hide our in quities. There are menwhoseheads are aa sound as Jonathan Edwards r John Wesley, whose hearts are as otten as Tom Paine's or Charles uiteau's. It is important that we be theoretical Christians. It is utter folly in this day for a man to have no preference for any one form of faith, when it is so easy to become conver sant with the faith of the different sects. An intoxicated man staggered ito my house one night begging for odging. He made great pretensions o religion. I asked where he went o church. He said: "Nowhere; I belong to liberal Christianity." But there are those who never become hristians because their obstinacy revents them from ever taking a fair iew of what religion is. They are ike a brute beast in the fact that their greatest strength lies in their horns. They are combatants, nd all they are ever willing to do for their souls is to enter an ecclesiasti cal fight. I have met men who would talk all day on the ninth chapter of Romans, who were thoroughly help Less before the fourteenth chapter of John. But there are those who, hayv ing escaped from this condition, are now depending entirely upon their soundness of religious theory. The octrines of man's depravity and Christ's atonement and God's sov ereignty are theoretically received by them. But, alas!' there they stop. t is only the shell of Christianity ontaining no evangelical life. They stand looking over into heaven and dmire its beauty and its song,and so pleased with the looks from the out side that they cannot be induced to nter. They could make a better argument for the truth than ten thousand Christians who have in their hearts received it. If syllogisms nd dilemmas and sound propositions nd logical deductions could save their souls, they would be among the best of Christians. They could cor rectly define repentance and faith nd the Atonement, while they have never felt one sorrow for sin nor ex rcised a moment's confidence in the great s':w'rifice. They are almost im novable in their position. We can not present anything about the relig ion of Christ that do not know. The Saviour described the fate of such a ne in His par-able: "And that ser vant which knew his Lord's will, and prepared not himself, neith'r hid ac ording to His will, shall be beaten with many stripes." Theories in re igion have a beauty of their own, but if they result in no warmth of Chris tian life it is the beauty of hor'n-' blende and feldspar- Do not call The river o life nv-ver freezes over. haug on the eave of heaven. Souimaness of intellectual belief is a beautiful cloak, well woven and well cut. but in the hour whan Gesi shall demandi our soul. it ill 1ot of itsevlf b0e sujllikint to hide our iniqulities. My fricnds, can it be that 1 have iwen uki!id. and torn from you somc hopce upon Which yo'u were rest411'ingor t.l triil y! Verly. I would be un' ind if, laving takn away youra cloak, I did not offer you sonething better. This is a cold world, and you want somethig to wrap around your spirit. Christ offers you a robe today. He wove himself and He will nov with His own hand prepare it just t, fit your soul. The righteousness He offers is like the coat He used to wear about Judea. without seam from top to bottom. There is a day o- doom. Coward would I be if I did not dare tell you this. It shall be a day of unutterable diappointnent to those wh-o have trusted in their official diguity. in their elegant manners, in their outward morality. in their sounduiess of intellectual belief. But I see a soul stwln.g before God who once was irZoughly defiled. Yet look at him and you cannot find a singletransgression anywhere about him. How is this, you ask. Was he not once a sabbath breaker, a bc phemer. a robber. a perjurer, a thief, a murdererf Yes, but Christ hath cleansed him. Christ hath lift4d him up. Christ hath rent off hi4 rags. Christ hath clothed him in a spot less robe of righteousnese. That is the reason why you cannot see his formor degradation. This glorious hope in Christ's name is proffered to day. *Wandering and wayward soul, is not this salvation worth coining for. ,worth striving for? Do you wonder that so many with bitter weeping have besought it, <ud with a very en thusiasm of sorrow cried for divine compassion? Do you wonder at the earnestness of those who stand in pulpits beseeching men to be recon ciled to Godl Say. do you wonder at the importunity of the Holy Ghost who now striveth with thy soul: In many of the palaces of Euiope the wa aremosaic. Fragments of shells and glass are arraiged by artists and aggregated into a pictorial splendor. What! made out of broken shell and broken glass: Oi, yes: God grant that by the transforming power of His Spirit, we may all be made a part of the eternalpalaces. ourbroken and fragmentary natures polished and shaped and lifted up to make a part of the everlasting splendors of the heavenly temple! For sinners. Lord, thou c.n'st to bled. And I'm a siner vile iudeed. Lord, I believe Thy grace is free; On, magnity Thy grace in me, Blown up by Powder aid Dynamite. Henry Schaffer, colored, was ser iously and probably fatally injured yesterdayafternoon by an explosion of powder and dynamite. Schaffer, Dan Allen and another colored man were working at a well not far from .cCarter's Mill, in the eastern part of the city. Dan Allen and one ne gro were preparing to make a blast in the bottom of the well. Schaffer was at the top of ,he well, in charge of nearly a half a keg of powder and four or live charges of dynamite, fuse etc. He built a lire close to these combustibles in order to have some coals to light off the fuse in the well. His carelessness may cost him his life. In some way the can of pow der was exploded, causing the dyna mite cartridges to explode. Schaffer was thrown ten or fifteen feet in the air and when picked up 'it was thought that he was dead. Dr. W. E. Wright was called, and attended the injured man. The right side of Schafter's body from the shoulders to the feet was terribly burned, and a piece of fuse had been driven into the flesh. It is a mystery how he escaped instant death.-Greenville News. __ The Power of' Rasheesh A Cairo (Egypt) correspondent of the Pittsburg Leader thus describes his first experience as a hasheesh eater: Seeing my companion conveying a piece of this sugar eagerly to his mouth, I was encouraged to do likewise. It was an aromlatie, somewhat bitter-tast ing pastile, dissolving quickly like soft peppermint on the tongue, and leaving likewise a slight burning sensation, which, however, passed away after a few puffs from a cig'arettee. Suddenly the smoking cigarette fell out of lips. I felt myself impelled to talk-to reveal myself to my neighbor -tell him that I was no longer a com mon, groveling human being, who had to wander throuoh life on this hard earth with wretcledly slow legs, but that I could fly-soar like the eagle through ethereal space. "So, you see, this is the way I do it,," I remember ejaculating. The ineffable exhilarating sensations thrilled my inmost self. I felt myself liberated of all earthly trammels, un burdened of all carnal weight-free to range infinity's vast tidlds. Some strange, quickening p)ower pulsated through my every vein. My whole bekig seemed etherized. Enircled with the fragrance of Para dise, I was borne aloft on buoyant pin ions through immeasurable sp~ace. On and on I was wafted unto an elysium of bliss and loveliness. There was neither beinning nor end to miyaerial flight. Al was bIoundless as eternity. I inclined my head backward and imbibed in torrents the balmy. regen erating air and the glorious. roseate light which was shed around me. All these momentary sensations I remnem ber imparting to my English friend at the time. I telt that I wished him to share my ethereal enjoyment. I wished to take him along on this soar ing ascension into celestial solitude. But my spiritual trance was now nearing its end. Consciousness was gradually returning to n:e. I exper ienced a peculiar rusing sensation in my cars. My nmouth feit very dry and parched. Before my eyes rose big dark blotches. The beautiful, rosy glow is fading away, and in place of it rises a greyish fog, through which I dimly see some of the people in the room. Slightly-startled, I come quite to, and find myself leaning far back ward in an arm-chair. The evening glow at the windowv has not quite disappeared yet. I look at my watch and am astounded-the gigantic air voyage has lasted only twelve nmin One of Franklin's Stories. In the third year of the revolution the British government proposed to make peace and grant the colonies the privilege they had demflanded on the condition that they should pay the ex penses of the war. Franklin replied that the _proposal reminded him of somethine'that hapnened when lie lived in London. .K arenenmnan, who was a little out' of his he~wi, heated a poker redI-hot and then dash'ad~nto the street, exclaiming to the !!rst man he met: ''Me stick dhis into you six incs. '"No yon don't." was the~ re p-. "Well. dlen me stick it in 'e inches" ''No, sir:" was the more phatic reply. --Well den, sare, will of course pay me for lacatin ~ oe. - s'. rrf..... Pan-m,,mr House-C.eaning. Take one room at a 'im1e and hani the work doie qniet' iv the $1 (1ars in which there ie iooer whn r irrml'ff nor thf- iiF:1l Bt--*''* a arovidig there h.- an atl . Ail city hoiuses are not upplmente-d I w, thein upon roo)m or c loset u-.ed for gn eral storage of trunks and incidenti. Spare not the- purifyi 1lemets. L't ev'rv corner be laid bar t not the oalsomine or chloride. There are times when ;rown Sox) andi 1 5omi ernh binz-brusli re better thlan srmns. anI this occasion is one of them. Then, after the cleansing process is quite complete, see that no unpurzed odds and ends find lod(rment; overhaul re positories for rags. paper and matches. Half a dozen wall pockets or reti cules. maide of cretonne. drawn wvith colored tapes, will simplify the buisi ness of caring for the fragments. Each receptacle should be labeled, every bit of string and vestige of old soft linen should be garnered; sickness brings needs, an( this trying season has taught housewives the efileacy of sav in- every scrap of materia!. !Laving completed the garret or store room. the offal from apartmcnts imay find lodgment in their proper reposi tories. Take each floor in its order after the closets are overhauled and arranced; a room at a time, say one nac;l veek-, so that the regular hiousehold routine be not interfered with. If the carpets are worn anid dinged, rip the center breadths. and turn the outer edge toward the center; and re fresh with a border en suite. Then wipe with a cloth, wrung out of alum water; and frequently sweep after a sprinkling of tea leaves. A fresh covering of cretonne vill re fresh dingy chairs, and all classes of curtain draperies are so. cheap that even when economy is necessary one need not (1o without hangings at doors or windows. They soften hard out lines and tone the glare of light,. and should harmonize with the reneral character of the furnishin.- 11 oman's Illustrated World. California Crops. Ex-Judge French, one of the leading lawyers of the Pacific slope, while in New York was intervicwed by a Star reporter. Said the Judg-e: I'There is a very large amount of humbug in regard to the orange-growers and orangc cul ture of Califorti While that golden fruit attains a beauiy and development there equal to anything in the world, vet what with the cost of the land and of its cultivation by the owners, as well as the ignorance or inexperience which prevails as to its culture, the or ange business thus far has never more than paid expenses. Any easternman who crosses the continent in the hope of making a fortune in a few years from a great orange plantation will be surely and sorely disappointed. Other fruits do pay, and pay well. Grapes, whether fresh or as raisins, or in wine or brandy, are proving a very good in vestment. California pears, apricots, and plums arealso remunerative. The best returns to the horticulturist thus far, however, have come from the kitchen gardens where fine vegetables are grown. Hundreds of small farm ers have been successful in this field. The demand never ceases and seldom falls to less than the supply. A man with the taste for tilling the soil canal ways succeed in California. and espec ially in southern California, if he con fines his efforts to fruit-raising and track farming. No one can realize the way vegetables grow there until he has been there. With no cold weather, a clear sky, and warm sun 350 days every year, and an unlimited supply of water for irrigational purposes, plants of ell kinds grow almost perceptibly." Bitter Sweet--.A Romanco. "So you engaged yourself to me when it was your firm intention all along to marry that old brute; old enough to be your grandfather. How could you be so false, so cruel? I never wvill believe in woman again!"1 And Lucullus Biggars stood up in all his manly beauty of six feet two and looked down wrathifully into the two beseeching blue eyes so wistfully gaz ing at his handsome face. *I-I couldn't help it." answered the woman who had embittered his life forever-so lie thought-by eruelly easting him aside for one whose only attraction was his hoarded, sordid gold. "And besides it was largely your own fault." "My fault!" ho exclaimed, wildly, striding up and down the little parlor, and even forg~ettingr himself so far as to stick both0 hands under his coat tailt, like a stage father; "o'reat heav ens, woman, when have T failed to gratify your slightest whim? When have I forgotten to bring you chewing gum? When have I ever omitted to take you to any attraction that has been worth the seeing? When-"- but here his emotions overpowered him, and for the moment he was spech less. "Still, ,gay, it was largely your ~ult," said she, in the sweetest tones. 'Long noo, before you ever told me ou loveca me, you said thait you could ave no respect for a woman who would allow herself to be kissed by a man to wvhomn she was not engaged. And I did so wvant to kiss you, ar.t Won't you forgive 11e?" Of course he did. And at about 2 a. im. carly in the en uingl morning, a voung man i ight" have been seen meditatively waiking homeward, his face the sceLne of varied and conflicting emotions. '"I gues she was right," lie soiiloquized. "A~nd perhaps the old duIer wo't last very long, after all, and F$200,000 in cold cash, I think, is worth wa iting for."' And the black night unwrapped him in its gleamiless dooum.-Tfsere Hiaute Ezrrcss. How to Frighten a Colored Man. "If there is anything~ that theO Vir ginia darky is afraid of it is small-pox. ello-fver takes a back seat when the other disease is a subject of con sideration by him. "When I~ was connected with the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad my of fice was in Richmond. Va., where the ~oplatio is about 50 per cent colored. omofteyoung datrk ies, or bloods, s the Rlichimond peoplpe call them, have a bad habit of loafing on the street corners and passing remarks for the benefit of the white people vwho pass by. ''One night I went to the theater Withl a party of railroad men. One of them was a trainman who was recover ng from the etffects. of aln accident in which lie hadI been burned about the face and hands, in consequence- of w~hiich they were bandaged in white cloths. Onthe way back to the hotel, after the performance,. we passed a crner on which were congregated a gang of tough young darkies. We couldsee them as they arranged themselves in a half circle around the lampl-post p~re paring to give us a reception. As we pproached one of the boys took the injured man's arm and marched up ead1 of the rest. He stepped in front. f the ?'roup, and. before thcy could. say ailytaing, asked te 10 here !te sma-pox hosi,~ w.. - 'e!!, the d- on th;e dark?es was nstant. Theyu tho..:.;h. the; man with the bandae faC I'ce :md blamds was :.s were wvan derng abou t looking for da ~spital to dumnp him in. They SCat *d and rau like scated sheep."-D,. Led, in Cii. :cgo Trib oc.. RE WALLOPED T.E HORSE. BDt Not UnPI After the Brute Had 'Mide a Full Meal. A edate old horse. yet cheedal withsi,, amil emypossessed of a k w,;:b- iishilo phie spirit,mcandered Up WasdhingtoU street in the tender city of T!rooklyn yesterday and halted at the azutc angle vhcr, it runs into Ful tol street, says the . Y. Herald. lie was attachod to the business end oi a dump cart, this horse. Seated on the driver'. throne of said dump cart was a man of such benignant counten ance that vou would have sworn him first brother to the horse on the evi dence of vision. He, too, was eheerful and philosophic, and the very spirit of sedateness sat upon him. He was not a Man to joke or to be joked with. Life wore to him a serious aspect. Any one could see that at a glance. It would be rash to say that the man drove the horse. He didn't. The bond between them was far closer than represented by cord or leather-and they were boti in the aged harness. The lines lay on the horse's back, and the latter took his way sedately, as a horse .who knows he is doing contract work for the city might be expected to do. If compunctions of conscience 3mote his equine breast no signs there of appeared in hia benign and tranquil cre. His master-or I should say, per hapxz, his friend-did not urge him. At the junction heretofore mentioned in these memoirs the pair paused and looked about them. They paused long. It was so much easier to pause than work. The saucy wind eaught up vast clouds of dust-the dust that they were paid to cart away-and tossed it in the faces of the passing throng,making the mood to pray, and the bad to swear. ut this ruffled not the philosophy of man or beast. The voice of the boss waS not heard, for the boss was in a neighboring ginnery tuning up, and it was so much easier to rest than work -the wear and tear were so infinitely less. At length the Italian gentleman who peddles fruit at this busy confluence of human life broke in on the dual revery "Please minda standa moment for me?" he asked. "Hoy?" "Minda fruit a moment while I go awa?" "Why, to be sure Oi wull, my dage fri'nd. Take yure time. 0i'll kape me oles on yure domgistibles." The Italian went off to transact hii errand. Pretty soon the horse reached tran quilly over, picked up a banana with his teeth, and munched it down witb satisfaction beaming from his eye. His master looked at him admiringly, and then looked the other way. Reprooi was far removed from his face. The horse took another and then a third. There was neither haste nox trepidation in his action. He appeared to secure the full flavor of each banana, skin and all, before he began upon another. In this wav a dozen were comforta bly disposed of, and the oat cavity in the horse's interior was much reduced in size, when suddenly an electriE shock seemed to seize the owner. He whirled about and began lathering the brute with an appearance of the mosi fiendish cruelty, cursin' him the while as a thafe of the wurruld, an omadhaun, and I don't know what other titles. The horse started on a run up the street-not a very wild pace, by the way--and the owner climbed into th dump cart from behind and made tremendous show of a tussle w-ith him It did not last. A moment later the: were golno' down Myrtle avenue at pious wel -, and if there was not twinkle in four beaate but eheerfu eyes then may I never see twinkli again. As for the -poor Italian, he go back in time to save his stand, an< surely that is enough to make an: Italian grateful. What do they want anyway-the earth? After Diraner Ceremonies. Ladies and gentlemen withdraw frorn the table together, or as is often the case, the gentlemen arise, and the ladies retire leaving the gentleman tc smoke. Guests are expected to leave by or before eleven o'clock. Even in dinners given to gentlemei alone, sometimes the wife of the host, or failing a wife, some dignified matron, issae tthe head or center of the table-a great advance upon the cus toms of former days. In my house those who wish to use the weed after dining, withdraw to the smoking-room in the topmost story, and in all the dinners, re-centions and other enter tainments in ivhich Mrs. Childs and . have ireceived large companies, eon ventionalities and courtesies of life have beeni strictly observed," said Mr. Childs. This was in answer to a news paper paragraph which appeared that day to the effect that a good deal of comment had been made upon the fact that Ex-Governor Cornell at a Iate large public reception served nothing but ice-water and mineral water to his guests. It appears that Mr. Cornell, though a delightful entertainer, has been compelled to forego the use of wine by the hilariousness of the few who could not restrain their appetites. -George WV. Childe, in Good House kxeping. Southern Phosphates. The discovery of phosphate depositi in Florida is a matter of great import. anee to southern farmers who use large and increasing quantities of this fer tilizer. Combined with cotton men. It makes an admirable fertilizer for both corn and cotton. It is easily trans ported and economically applied. It is now making the light sandy lands of south Alabama yield large and paying crots. It has revolutionized farming ad ~over the south. Thus far South Carolina has furnished the bulk of the phosphates. producing last year 600, 000l tons. The Florida article is said to be superior to that of South Caro lina, anu as the increased supply miusi lead to lower cost it will lead to a more rapid developmenut of agriculture in the southern states than has ever beet known. A Stern Reality. "You will notice," said the manager of the company, as he stepped in frons o the curtain, "that the pr'ogramme says that seven years are supp~osed to, elpse between the second and third. acts. in this case there wiill beC no sup~ position about it. The Sheriff of this county has just taken possession of the stage, and 1 think that it wil' be about seven ye'ars before we can get the mat er settledl. 'Thec aience' is now dig mised.--Dral'ds .1i/wpzzix. A Rcasonale Suggestion.. Representative Allen of Mississippi was reqtuested the other day by one of corstituents-it was a colored 'friend and brother"-to give him a recoin medation in writing by means of which lie hoped to secure a situation as watchman or something equally im portant. Mr. Alien complied with readiniess. as hie new the man to be ca pable and trustworthy. Ini f ct, the "certifiente of charLiacter" was so excep hioual comht!!menltary' and set forth :amb aetions in such glowing term thl :urningf to Mr. Alien, he -i I i:,. Mas Allen, can't you ih :u eme Hin:o do you'self on dat I tO "l 2.Pm iiibn on. the p~art of Mr. All:: ' ephin to the colored "friend ad brother' that just now- heyossessed AN ODD KIND OF TELESCOPE. How to See What Is Going On In the I Water. No doubt a good many of our boys and Lirls are ignorant of the fact, says the N. Y. World, that they can, with very little trouble and at almost no ex pense, construct an instrument with which they can plainly see what is go. ing on under the water over which they sail their boats. The very idea of such a thing is attractive. and we propose te tell you how it can be done. The water telescope may be made of wood or of tin, whichever you prefer, and we will describe both. The tin is better, because it is lighter and moze easily handled. Its manufacture is very simple. Get a tinsmith to make for you a funnel-shaped tin horn about three feet long. It should be eight or ter inches in diameter at the bottom, and broad enough -.t the top for both eye.s to look into. Into the bottom put a piece of glass, cut to fit. anti make it perfectlT water-tight. Leave the top open. The inside should be painted black to prevent the reflection of the light upon the surfaco of the tin. i Around the outside of the bottom solder on several sinkers to offset the buoy .ancy of the air in the water-tight horn and make it easier to submerge. If it is not convenient to get a round piece of glass, have the large end made square and use square glass. That's all there is of it, and when you sink the instru ment down into the water and put your eves to the snali end, you will be per fictly astonished at the plainness with which you will see all kinds of fish and water animals swimming around in a state of nature. A wooden water telescope is made of a long, square, wooden box, say ten inches square at the large and four or five inches square at the other. Make all the seams water-tight by means of putty and paint Put a piece of glas. in the large end and leave the small end open to look into, as you do with the tin instrument. A great many of you wo on boating and picnic partics,and you can imagie bow much such a contrivance would add to your amusement and pleasure, to say nothing of the instruction derived from studying the inhaUitants of the water at home. Using the principle of a water tele scope, a well-known naturalist had a boat made with a glass in the bcttom. through which le could see every moveliment of thousands of fish as they swam along through the clear iater. Fishermen in Norway use the water telescope at their work with the best results, sometimes discovering a new kind of fish that night otherwise have escaped their notice. A "DEAD MULE" IN TOWN. AA Irish Squaw Man Gets a Little- the Best of Bushyhead. Bushyhead, one of the members ol the Cherokee Commission, is still in Washington, and many a one passes the Indian chief without knowing he is an Indian. He is tall, brown of skin, but has the features of the Cau casian race; and it is said lie is not more than one-eighth Indian. He married some years ago a niece of Senator Butler, of South Carolina, who had gone out to Tahlequah as a teacher. A good story is told of him when he was Governor of the Cherokee Nation. The Cherokees are the most civilized of all the Indian tribes, and one of their laws is in favor of prohibi tion. The law of the United States is that no one shall give or sell firewater to an Indian, but the Cherokee legisla tors go further and prohibit the bring ino of it into the Territory. Yn Tahlequah, when Bushyhead was Governor, there was an' Irish black smith named Mike Delaney. Now, Mike had been received int the tribe because he had married a squaw, and, stranoe as it may seem, was more of an Inlian than any native. He used to orate by the hour over his forge at the wrongs of the red men, and one of his favorite perorations was: "We have been pairsecuted by the white man, dhriven from our homes in Georgia over the mountains an' val. leys, an' our noble inheritance stholen awayfrom us." Mike frequently delivered himself of this, and the more fire-water he had in him the more flannel-mouthed and 'un Indian was his brogue. He and Bushy head were great friends, and one day when the Governor was at the court house presiding over the meeting of the Legislature, the squaw-mian ap. peared and beckoned imperiously. "Come here," he whispered, "Oi've something to tell you. There's a dead mule in town." A "dead mule" is Western slang for a keg of whisky. "Give me a dollar," continued Mike, "an' TIll buy a bottle an' keep it in the shop until yez can be afturr comin' tc dhrink it." The Governor gave the money, ar' half an hour lat'er, deputizing some . to take his place, he made his way the forge. From afar off he heard tlh inspiring strains of the "Irish Washer woman," and as he drew near he recog nized the oft-repeated refrain, "Och hone, Widow Machree, och hone, Widow Machree." the melody stoutly maintained by an anvil chorus. Rush ing in, he was confronted by the hilari ous blacksmith, whom he at once asked for his share of the "dead mule." 'Be aisv, Guvner," cried the Irish Indian, '-there's only two heels left, an 1l1 dhrink that, as the law's agin, giv. *in' an Indian whisky." And he swallowed the rest, the Gov ernor of the Cherokee Nation not dar ing to prevent him.--Washington Cor. N. Y.Tribune. Railroad Up the Jungfrau. French engineers are planning for an attack upon that hitherto virgin peak *of the Alps the Jungfrau. They propose to continue the present line o'f rairosxd from Interlaken to Lauter brunnen as far as Stockelberg, at the foot of the Jungfrau, and thence to mount up by a succession of slanting cable roads, forming a zig-zg t height of some 12,000 feet. landi'ng nearly at the summit of the mountain. where there will be a hotel for the ex cursionists who are expected to make the trip by thousands daily. There will have to be five steps to the great staicase, and a separate railroad for each step, making tire changes of cars necessary to reach the summit. A Down East Superstition. Evidence of soniebody's firm belief in the 01(1 superstition about boring a bole in a thrifty tree, placing therein a ock of one's hair andl pering of the nails and then carefully plugging the hole, in the hope that as soon as the deposit became solid wood all fear of *future headache and other ills would be dispelled from the mind of him whose lock of hair was contr-ibuted to the tree, came to light in the qutaint town f Wells recently. While sawing shin gles from a tree that recently stood ear thme Boston and Maine station in that town, William Maxwell caime aeoss just such an exhibition of human deposit. The nails and dark brwn hair were firmir embedded in the solid wood, being separated only *whena the machinery converted the wood into shingles. The hair andI nails could be traeced in four of the shingles cut from that particular part~ of the tree. It is hoped that the brino ing to light of these emblems in so rule a manner has not broken the charm. Ltwiston~ Journal. ATTAR OF ROSES. Htow It is rrepared and How AmerleaS rfoses Waste Their Sweetness. "Here v'arc, gents! Hero y'are!" velled the street fakir. --Here y'are, gents! The real genuine otter of roses, right fresh froni the otter. the only living animal beside the musk-ox that gives Up perfume for the hankychif! Here v'are! Otter of roses, fresh from the otter! Five cents a bottle!" A young man in the crowd became seizedi with an idea, says the N.Y. Sun. He went to the nearest drug store. "How much is attar of roses a bot il?" lie asked of the druggist. '-It'll cost you $100 an ounce," said the drug man. -'The genuine India attar of roses is worth $100 an ounce." "Got anv?" asked the visitor. .Not to-day," said the druggist. -We're are just out." - What makes it cost so much?" "Well, one reason is." replied the druggist, -it takes 50,000 roses to make a single ounce of attar. If you can buy 50,000 roses for less than $100, then maybe you can knock the price of attar down. Attar of roses, young man, an't milked out of cows. It is made in India, althougu, if they only know it, they could make it just as well in California. The same rose rows there from which the attar is 5istilled in India. I have seen huge hedge-rows near Samona.in California, so dense with these roses that the odor from them, on a warm sultry day, caused a feeling of peculiar faintness and oppression to the passer-by. This is the effect of the attar, which is dis tilled by the heat and moist air, and is held suspended, as it were, in the at mosphere. "There is money in that cause of faintness and indolence, but in this country not only the sweetness, but the great value of the flower, is wasted on the desert air. In northern India .he roses are regularly cultivated. They are planted in rows in the fields, and require no particular care. When they begin to bloom they are plucked from the bushes before miaday. The work is done by women and children, who seem to regard it more as a pleas ure than a uursuit of labor. The rose leaves are distilled in twice their weight of water, which is then drawn off into open. vessels. These are allowed to stand over night. being covered ur with cloths to protect tieir contents from dirt and insects. In the morn ing the surface of t. water will b covered with a thin oily film. This i4 the rare attar of roses. It is skimmed off with a firae feather and dropped in. to vials. 'Ihis process is continued daily until the roses cease to bloom. ] don't see why any essence or oil tha requires the distilling of .50,000 rose! to till an ounce bottle hasi.0' ri ht t have a good rice set up', you think so." HERBERT WARD, THE EXPLORER Incidents of His Travels ID the Cong, Country. Experience in Borneo. Herbert Ward, the explorer, says th, N. Y. Herald, is but 26 years of age small and compactly built-what on, might call a pocket edition of Hercules His eyes are blue and expressive, hi manner modest and retiring, and it i only when his face lights up in th discussion of some interesting topi that one may see the reserve force an character that have carried him throug) all his trials. Mr. Ward is an English man of wealthy parents. He had natural fondness for adventure, and as his parents refused their consent, Ii ran away to sea. New ~Zealand was~ the first poin reached and soon after he went t. Australia. In Borneo he met Hatton the famous Byrnese explorer, and . was not long before the twvo were il the country of the head-hunting Draks Surrounded by a high stocka'de h could see and hear the I3yaks prowlini about and often lie had narrow es capes from poisoned arrows that wer conistantly being shot into the stock~ ade. At Bangala, where Stanley had hi most serious fight with the natives i his memorable journey across the Darl Continent, Ward was finally put i: charge of the station which had jus been established there. The Bangala are a large and powerful tribe, and in addition to being highly savage an< ferocious, are cannibals. They do not however, eat people of their own tribc but depend for this sort of luxury upo: such captives as they can secure, oi failing in this, they purchase slave from friendly tribes. This important tribe was governet at this time by a powerful savage,Mat Bwiki by name. At the commence ment of his command of this statio Ward was forced to undergo the "bloo brotherhood ceremony" in conjuctio: with the thief. This ceremony, sai Mr. Ward, is common throughou Africa. An incission is made in th arm of each of the two participators i it. When the blood flows the wound are sprinkled with potash, salt, and, powder made from a species of bran Then the two incised arms are rubbe together so that the flowing bloo may intermingle. This (lone, the tw bejome blood brothers and both swea to assist each other in times of need At the end of his three years of servic Mr. Ward started for the coast. 0: reaching Stanley Pool he heard abou the Emin Pasha relief expedition an' that Stanley was coming. This settles it for him. He would go with Stanley A short time aftorward he met Stanle; and volunteered his services, whic. were accepted, he being appointed to command over one of the divisions c he expedition. Albert Edward's Rudeness. A strange story of the rudeness of member of the roy~il family of Englan< comes to The Man About Town direc from a lady correspondent at Edir burgh. A~ fair was in progress ther and Mrs. Langtry was selling coffee .a one of the booths. Enter the Prince o Wales, who asked for a cup of the de icious Mocha. Mrs. Langtry serve< it in delicate Worcester. aiid just a she handed it to himu threw a daint' kss into the cup. 'How much?" the future monarch o all he stirvevs queried. '"It was 10) shillings," answered th~ lily of the Jersey Isles. "until I thirev a kiss into it. Now it is 20 shillings.' S"Vhat will von charge mec for clean cup?" retorted the Prince, verj ungahllantly, as lie returned the coffe< untasted. If the story is true it indicates thal t~e Pzince: of Wales is getting to bi le.s and less of a gentleman as he edoej nearer the throne.-St. Louis Rp "He Evened Up." Co]. Musby relates the followin amusing incient which occurred in cavalry fight In the Shenandoah valle in 1864: In the midst of a sharp cavalry en gagement with Sheridan's men In1 charge near Berryville there came rid ing into our lines like a whirlwind Yankee soldier on a black horse. A score of men tried to stop horse and rider, but the old black's blood was up, andl he went on clean through omi lines before lie was under control. The riler was se~nt to Libby prison, and we musteredL the blacek charger into the confederate service. A few days later we charged somne of Custer's men, and that old hor.-e was ridden into the en gagmenct by one of our soldiers. The black evened up thing., too, for hie carried his rider into the federam lines, Partners. "You have got a lie hand." he said to hor. As Ahe lingered over her cmcdS. 'Perhaps." she replied with :,soft little purr. Wiehumming a1 strain o)f 31!1liard'sa. "Y'-u could pLV it alone. I suppose?" h said As he looked in her ra!it eyes- d "Perhaps " she repecd. 4s)in;r her head. without any wherefors or whys. ''You're awfully aggravati --. i: dear." ..Ye, that's one of WOI:L!S We can take without beitnr u-<x.,la'd queeN Or getting societysit "Will you take this, deur. and go it alone?" lie said, as hie offered a cari. 'But . "',he rplied, with a pique in het lone. -Wheno I make them all with a pard?" "Thcg you havc a good haii? Oh, yes I see.' He sdid. as he held aloft The disengaged one in her piquant glee. Which was ringless, white. and soft. "If you won't take a card, may be you'll tak< this." And the air was still Millard's: And the ring on the ilinger fair of the M ,, Changed tie ame in a r rice "N card_." Earl Marble in the i olorL,'o.Grllfl"' JUST LIKE WOMEN. Row Two Innocents Struggle Over a Sim. ple Telegraph Message. One was perhaps twenty-five, the other a little younger. They were pretty and stylishly dressed. A car riage stood at the fourteenth street en trance of Willard's Hotel, awaiting their pleasure. It could only be sup posed that they w'ere in very distress ful financial straits. They sat at a tabla in the reception room of Willard's, devising, concoct ing and instituting a telegraph mes sage to send to some friend. The elder one did the writing and scratching and rewriting; which used up six or seven Western Union bfanks. The younger one leaned cl5sely over the scrivener tear up blanks. "We will be there to-morrow." That was what they wanted to say. That was what they did say in the very first writing'. "But," said the younger, "if we say we are coming home we shall both have to sign it." "Carrie and I will be there to-mor row." That was the result of much men tal effort spent in composing and much physical exertion spent in eras-. ing. "I guess that will do." said the younger, aad two seemed to breathe with that freedom which tells of great responsibilities unshouldered. "Hold on," said the elder, at the door. "What?" asked the other. "Carrie and I will be there to-mor row." One, two, three, four, five, six, seven-only seven words." "Well!" '-Why we have to pay-as much for seven words as we do for ten." Here was more difficulty. It would never do pay for ten words and send only seven. That would be a reckless and wicked waste. They proposed I many ways to lengthen it, but each time they talked of a new message on their fingers they found they had either too few or two many words. "Pshaw!" said the younger one S"why didn't I think of it before? 0 have it." "Have you? Have you?" Why, of course!" Leave it just as it is ana add -Yours, very truly." If the young'lady had had an inspir-: ation she could not have looked I prouder of it; and as for the older one, she simply looked on the sweet face before her as that of a wonderful be ing. "Carrie and I will be there to-mor row. Yours, very truly," was the mes tsage that went through some operator's hands yesterday afternoon Higher than Railroad Orders. t"No, we don't bounce the tramps 1who ride on the bumpers of our freight train," said a freight conductor who Shas a run to the West. "I presume Sthat we carry an average of a dozen -each trip, but if they remain between Sthe ears we pretend not to see them." -"But it is against orders," was urged. "Oh, yes, hut there is a higher power than general orders, even for railroad Smen. Five or six years ago I used to Sbe hard on the railroad tramp. I'd Ihave the train looked over at every stop, and if we caught a chap he got Shandled pretty lively. Nowadays I throw out a hint to the brakemen to shut both eyes, and, if the tramp don't presume too much on my geod nature, no one will disturb him.'' ~ What happened to change your mind?" S"Oh. a little incident of no interest. 1to the publie, but a g'reat deal to me. I was married in December three years ago. On the third night I got an order - to run out with an extra. There was a cold rain, which froze as it fell, and one of my crew got hurt at our very first stop. This left us short-handed. and as we could not supply his place I had to act for him. We wrere back in the mountains,running strong to make time, when the engineer whistled brakes f or a grade. I climbed out of the os, boose with the brakesmen, and had set two brakes and was after the third, when a lurch of the ears threw me down, and I fell between two of them. I had just one glim pse of the red cheeked bride a-: home, just one swift thought of her in widow's weeds and her heart breaking, when a hand Srabbed me. I was going down head t rst, but the strong clutch turned me over and my feet struck the bumpers. ' I'd have gone then, only some one put my hands on the ladder, flung his arms 'around me from behind to hold me - there, and said: SYou are all right, old man. Your nerve will come back pretty soon."' -"And it was a tramp, eh?" "It was, and he held me there until the train reached its stop, and then helped me down, for the sudden fright had taken all my strength and nerve away. But for hlim I should have-'been ground up under the wheels. This is -the reason I keep a soft spot in my heart for the genus tramp, and why, when I sometimes walk the length of every train and find every bumper oc cupied, I look skyward and pretend not to see as mulch as an old fur cap." Against Taking Ofr ilats. Vienna dispatches to London News. A movement is on foot in Austria and Hungary just now to do away with the form of salutation customary among men-that of taking off the hat. Al Gratz a committee has been formed which passed a resolution and called upon the civil and military governors, Baron Kuebec and Count Wurmbrand, as also on the mayor of the city, beg oing' them to sanction the resolution accepting the military salute from nferiors. The three gentlemen gladly gave their consent. The wish hlas also beea expressedl that tihe dangerous cus tom of uncovering' the head for a length of time at 0funerals should be dne away with. It is pointed out that the military salute must neces-' srh- imply at least as much respect as lifting tihe hat, since a common sol dier thus salutes the highest comlmand Ier in tihe armt. In the middle ages the hat or cap'was not dofl'ed. Edmnd Gosse has begun a biography of his father. Philip Goase, the fmu uaturalist qU~r~'~' l ~~ Oune 'o an nlOne~ sIrm duno. nol