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/ REV DR. TALMAGE. (■( BBOOXUN DIY'Nrs 8CKDAT 8EBX T*xt: "Who makoth tho cloud* Bis Chariot*—P**lmoiv., & Brute*,are *pD*tructed so a* to look down. Tbos) esrtlily crcatun* that har« wings when they ris* from the earth still look flown, and the eagle searches (or mice in (he E ase ui»d the raven (or carcasses in the Held. an alone is nia le to look up. To induce him to look up Hod makes the sky a picture gallery, a DussoUor(, a Louvre, a Luxem bourg. a Vatican that eclipses all that Ger man, or French, or Italian art ever accom plished. But God has (ailed so far to attract litre attention o( most Of us by the scenery o( the sky, We go into raptures flover owers in the soil, hut have little or no appreciation of the “morning glories'’ th it bloom on the wall of the sky at sunrise or the dahlias in the clouds at sunset. We are in ecstasies over a gobelin ta| estry or a bridal veil of rare'fahric, or a snowbank of exquisite curve, but see not at all, or see without emotion, the bridal veil or mist that covers the (ace of the Catskills, or the swaying upholstery around the couch of the dying day, or the suownanksof vapor piled up in the heavens. Uy text bids us lift our chin three or four Inchee and open tiro two telescop s which under the forehead are put on swivel easily turned upward, and sec that the clouds are not merely uninteresting signs of wet or dry weather, but that they are embroidered canopies of shade, that they are the con servatories of the sky, that they are thrones pf pomp, that they are crystalline bars that they are paintings in water color, tuat they are the angels of the mist, that they are great cathedrals of light with broad aisles (or angelic feet to walk through and bow at altars of aml«r and alabaster, that they are tbs mothers of the dew, that they are ladders for ascending and descending glories, Cotopaxis of belching flame, riiagaros of color, that they are the masterpieces of the Lord God Al mighty. The Couds are a favorite Bib’e siqiile and the sacred writers have made much use of them. After the deluge God hung on a cloud in concentric bands the colors of the spectrum, saying: “I do set my bow in the clouds.' 1 As a mountain is some times entirely hidden hr vapoi-s. so, says God, "1 have out a* * thick cloud thy trai«w lrt *‘ ons '” .David measured the fliviue goodness and found it so high he arostrophized;“Thy faithfulness reaches unto the clouds. ’ As sometimes there are thou- fands of fleeces of vapor scurrying across the heavens, so, *«ys Isaiah, will be the converts in the millertum, “as clouds and as doves.” As in the wet season no sooner floes the sky clear than there come* another obscuration, so, says Bolomon, one ache ot ailment of old folks has no more than gons than another pain comes “as clouds retorn in the rain.” A column of Illumined cloud led the Israelites across the wildernei In the book of Job, Elihu, watch ing the Jouds. could not understand why they did v>t fall or why they did not all roll together,he laws of evaporation and eon- densatiolthen not being understoed, and be pries on# ‘Dost thou know the balancing of the c'oip'i" When I mad my text it sug gests tone that the clouds are the Creator’s eonipap and their whirling masses are the wneels,®d the tongue of the cloud is the pole olj-he celestial vehicle, and the winds •re t> hanwssel steeds, and God is the RoyrfDccupant and driver “who maketh the cJidslIis chariot” To vderstand the psalmist's meaning in the tA you must know that the chariot of old'* sometiiws a sculptured brilliancy maAmt of ivory, sometimes of solid silver, •ntfolled on two wheels which were failed to the axle by stout p ns. and the awl defeat of Oennmaus by Pelops was ca»l by the fact I hat a traitorous charioteer b*nserted a lin b pin of wax instead of a lb pin of iron. All of the six hundred diets of I harnoh lost their linoh pins in tlBed Sea, for the Bible says: “The Lord t off tboir wheels” Look at the long A of Solomon's fourteen hundred chario s, I the thirty thousand chariots of tha jistines. If you have ever visited the 'dings where a king or qu-en keeps the .ehes of state, aa I have, you know that and queens have g eat varieties of nout. The keeper tolls you: “This is the to carriage, and used only oa great asions." “Tin's is the coronation •i iaga, and in it the king rode the day he took the throne.” “In this the ■een went to open Parliament.” "This is e coach in which the Czar and the Sultan do on the occasion of their visit." All stly and tesselated and enriched and em- azoned are they, an 1 when the driver takes i0 reins of the ten white horses in his hands, id amid mounted troops and bands in full •roe sounding the national air, the splendor arts and rolls on under arclies entwine! ith banners, and ainul the huzza of hun- •eds of Ihou' an Is of spec! ators the scene is emorable. But my text puts all such oc- isions into insignificance, as it represent! o King of the Universe coining to the door his palace, and the gilded vapors of the 'avens rolling up to His feet, and He stop- ng in and taking the reins of the galloping in Is in His hand starts in triumphal ride ider Iho arch'-s of sapphire, and over the mospherfc highways of opal and chrysolite, le clouds His chariot My hearers, do not think that God helit- -s llimsdf when he takes such conveyance, o you know that the clouds are among the o-t wondrous a id majestic thincs in the hole universe? Do you know that they are ring lakes and rivers and oceans? God aved His hand over thorn and said: “Come v higher!” and they obeyed the mandate, pa* cloud instead of being, as it seems, a nail gathering ot vapor a f»w yards wide id high is really seven or eight niiles aerosv, id Is a mountain, from its base to its top, ,<>00 feet, 18,010 foot, 30,000 feet, and cut rough with ravines 50 K) feet deep. No, ivid did not make a fragi'e or unworthy oresentation of Gal in the text when ho oke of the clouds as His chaript. But as [ ggested in the case of an earthly king He s His morning cloud chariot and evening iud chariot—the cloud chariot in which jR rode down to Binai to o|>en the law. and « cloud chariot in which lie rode down to her to honor the gospel, and the cloud iriot in which He will come to judgment. Vben He rides out in His morning chariot 4'„lh s season, about six o’clo -k, he puts gol- A coronets on the dome of cities, and sil- •.! the rivers, and out of the dew makes a :nond ring for the finger of every grass le, and bids good cheer to invalids who in .night said: "Would God it were morn- • ” From this morning cloud chariot He wlribates light, light for the earth and light irtho heavens, light for the land an 1 light the sea. great bars of it, groat wreathes great columns of it. a world full of it. Him in worship as every morning He es out in His chariot of morning cloud, i cry with David: ly voice shalt Thou hear in the morning: e morning will I direct mv prayer unto i and look up ” I rejo ee in these Scrip- s ejaculations: “Joy eomethin the morn- V "My soul waiteth for Tb ie more than that watch for the morning, H I take . wing of the morning,’ “The eyelids of morning.” "The morning cometh, Who e that looketh forth as the morning: going forth Is prepared as the morn- •‘As the morning spread on the mount- “That thou shouldst visit him every king ” What a mighty thing the King trs from His chariot when He throws us r He has Ids evening cloud chariot 10 out of the saffron and the gold and jnp'eanl the orano and tbevermilion liishot flame of the suns "t That is th, iwherc the splendors that have marched bh the day, having ended the P»^es- fhrow down tho torches and set the Ins on Or*. That is the only hour of the then the atmosphere is clear enough .e* the wall of the heavenly city with ,'ve manner of precious stoD^ from n of 'asper to middle strata M and cn up to the co- of amethyst At that hour wilb- hy of F.Iisha’s supernatural *^0" | horses of fire and chariots of Ace an l a of fire and ships of fire and cttlea of ias of fire, and it aeoms as if thelast [ration had begun and there is a world AVhcii God makes these clouds His let us all kneel. Another ds> I»»t sve we done with it? Another day id this is its corgeotu catafahiu* the time for what David called tbs [ sacrifice," or Daniel can®d t ; oblation." Oh! Oh I what a Chariot lint of evening cloud! Hava you r th* taffrail on th* oo*m» th * don ly vehic'• mil ove- ^vements of • '«|m su n cer wheels drip<v'u «i*.hth* magnilto Have you iroui the top of ilea | or the Tor.liUras or th* Berkshire i the dnv p.ilowed for the night, and 10 aspiration of praiw and homau*? kt a rich God wi her* that Hscan Srel^ie^, P&rjX'l G ^ rU "^ 0 ’! “Adoratlon^f Magi" and whol* gallerim of Mvionnas and for only an hour, and then »*ay, and th* next evening put on the same n7«h* 0 ? et,, j n !L exoel, •D that the Kanhaels and the Titans and the Rembrandu and theCorregiosand the I.eonardoda Vincis ever executed, and then draw a curtain of mist oyer them never again to be exhibited I How rich God must be to bar* a new chariot of c.ouds every evening! But the Bible toll* us that our King also has a Mack chariot. “Clouds and darkness. •* we are told, “are round about him.” That chariot is cloven out of night, and that night is troubla W hen He rides forth in that black chariot pestilence an l earthquake ami ramine and hurricane and woe attend Him. 1 hen let the earth tremble. Then let na- aims pray. Again and aga n He his ridden .orth in that char:ot of black clouds, a< ros? England, Fran -e, Italy. Russia, and Am “rica, tnd over all nations. That which men took for the sound of cannonading at Sebastopol, «t Sedan, at Gettysburg, at Tel el-Kebir, at Bunker Hill, were only the rumblings of the •lack chariot of the Almighty. Ave. it is me chariot of stormc’ou 1 armed w th thun- lerbolts and neither man norangel nor devil ■or e »rth nor hell nor heaven can resist Him. dn those lioulewards of blue this chariot lever turns out for anything. Aye, no one lise drives there. Under one wheel o' fiat chariot Babylon was crush 'd and Baal- wk feT dead snl the Roman Rmpire was 1 and Atlant a, a who'e continent mat once connected Europe with America, tank clear out of sight so that the longest inohor of ocean steamer cannot touch the top if its highest mountains. Tho throne of tne Jrpsars was less than a pebble under the •ight wheel of this chariot, and the Austrian lespotisru less than a snowflake under the left wheel. And over destroyed worlds on worlds .bat chariot has rolled without a jar or iolt. This black chat lot of war clon'd rolled up o the northwest of Europain 1S1J and four lundred thousand men marched to take Mos- ■ow, but that chariot of clouds rolled ba-k, ind only twenty five thousand outof the four mndr si thousand troops lived to return. No pvatsnow storm I'ke that had ever before or ms ever since visited Russia. Aye, the chariot if the Lord is irresistible. There is mly one thing that can halt or turn any of His chariots, and that is prayer. Again and igain it has stopp'd it, wheeled ir around, ind the chariot of black clouds under that nnetifled human breath has blossomed into wch brightnes! and color that men and mgels had to veil their faces from its bright- less. Mark you. the ancient chariot which David uses a* a symbol in my text ha-1 only :wo wheels.and that was that they might turn piickly, two wheels taking lass than hal. the time to turn that four wheels would I have taken. And our lyord's chariot has only two wheels, and that means instant re- versal, and instant help, and instant deliver ance. \T bile (he combined forces of the u liverse in battle array could not stop his black chariot a second or diverge it an inch, tiie driver of that chariot says: "Call upon Mo iu the day of trouble and I will de liver thee," “While they are yet speaking I will hear.” Two-wheeled chariot, one wheel justice and the oth-r wheel mercy. Aye, they are swift wheels. A cloud, whether it belongs to the cirrhu*, the clouds that float the highest; or belongs to tho stratus, the central ranges; or to the cumulus, the lowest ranges, seems to move slowly along the sky if it moves at all. But many clouds go at a speed that would make a vestibule limited lightning express train seem lethargic, so swift is the chariot of our God; yea, swifter than the storm, swifter than the light Yet a child ten years old has been known to reach up, and with the hand of prayer t ike the courser of that chariot by the’ bit and slow it up, or stop it, or turn it aside, or turn it back. The boy Samuel stoppel it Elijah stopped it Hezekiah stopped it _ Daniel stopped it Joshua Hy sister stopiiel it We have in our Nab- nath-schoo’s children who again and again ind again have stopped it Notice that these old time chariots, which ny text uses for symbol, h id what we would :all a high dash bom! at the front but were ipen behind. And tho king would stand at .re dash-board and drive with his own hands. Ami I am glad that He, whoso chariot the :'onds are, drives Himself. Redoes not let latur.al law drive, for natural law is deaf. He loes not let fate drive, for fate is merciless. But our Father King drives Himself, iud He puts His loving hand ou the reins of -he flying coursers, and He has a loving ear jpen to the cry of all who want to catch His ittomtion. Oh, lain so glad that my Father irives and never drives too fast, and never irivestio slow, and never drives off the jrveipica, and that He eoutiols.by a bit that sever breaks, the wildest and most raging .•ircumstances. I heard of a ship captain who put out with his vessel with a large • umber of pass mgers from Buffalo on l^ike Erie, very early in the season and while ihere was much ice. When they were we I •>ut the captain saw to his horror that the ice was closing in on him from all sides, and he law no way out from destruction and death. He ealieil into the cabin the passengers and til the crew that could bo spared from th-ir posts, and told (hem that the sh p must be lost Unless God interposed, and although he was not a Christian m in he said: “Let us pray,” md they all knelt asking God to come for their deliverance. They went back to the dec!;, and th a man at the wheel shouted; “All right, cap'n. it’s blowing nor' by nor’ west cow.” \Vh le the prayer was going on in the i-abin the wind changed and blow the ice out of the wav. 1 he mate asked "‘Shall I put on more mil, cap’n?” "No!” responded the captain. “Don't touch her. Soin. one else is managing this ship.” Oh, men and women,shut in on all sides by icy troubles and misfortunes, in earnest prayer put all your affairs in the hands of Bod. You will come nut all right. Some one • se is managing the ship! It did not merely happen so that when Leyden was beselgel, and the Duke of Alva felt sure of his tri umph, suddenly the wind turned, and the swollen waters compelled him to stop the siege, and tie city was 8av ® 1- God that night drove along the coast of the Netherlands in a blame chariot of storm clou !. It did not merely happen so that Luther rose from the place whjre he was sitting just in t-me to keep from being crushe 1 by a stone that the instant after fell on the very spot. Had he not escaped where would have been the Reformation! It did not merely happen so that Columbus was saved Irom drowning by an oar that was floating on the waters. Other wise, who would have unveiled America. It did not merely happen so that when George Washington was in Brooklyn a great fog settled down overall the place where this church stands, and over all this end of Long Island, and that under that fog he and his army escaped from the clutches of Generals Howe and (Hinton. Iu a chariot of mist and cloud the God of American Independence rode along here. On that pillow of consolation I put down my head to s een at nlsrht On that solid foundation 1 build w hen 1 see this nation in political paroxysm every four years not because they care two cents aliout whether*^ is high tariff, or low tariff or no tariff at all. but only whether the Demo crat* or the Republican.! h “ v ® the salaried offices. Tea. when Lu- ro(«an nations are holding their breath, wondering whether Russia or Germany will launch a war that will incarnadine a con- tment, I fall back on the faith that my Father drives. Yes, I cast tins as an am hor. ...n niant this as a column of strength, and from all of them, and tha muslo was a mlag- img of carol and chant and triumphal march: “This is My b*lov*d Hon, In whom I am well pleased." Transfiguration chariotl “Ob, ’ say hundred* of you, “I with I could pave seen thoto ebarioto—the black one that brought the Lord to Jebel-Muuat th* giving of the law, and the white one that brought Him down to Tabor." Never mind, you will see something grander than that, and It will be a mightier mingling of th) sombre and the radiant, and the pomp of it will t)e such that the chariots in which Trajan, and Diocletian, and Zenobia, and Caesar, and Alexander, and all tbs conquerors of all the ogee rod* will be unworthy of mention; and what stirs ms the most is that when he comes in that chariot of cloud aud goes back, He will ask you and me to ride with Him both way* How do I know that the judgment chariot will be mads out of clouds! Revelation L, 7: "Beho d He cometh with clouds.” Oh, He will not then ride through the heavens alone as He does now. He is going to tiring along with Him escort of ton full regimeuts. Inspiration says; “Behold the Lord cometh with ten thousand of his saints.” But these figures simply mean that there w ill be a great throng. And as we shall probably through the atonement of Christ uo in heaven before that, 1 hope that we can come down in that es cort of chariot* Christ in the centre chariot, but chariots before Him to clear the way, and chariots behind Him, and chariots on either side of Him. Perhaps the proph ets and patriarchs |of the old dispensation way ride ahead each one charioted—Abraham and Moses and Ezekiel and Dayid and Joshua, who foretold bis first coming. On either side of the central chariot apostles and martyrs who in the same or approximate centuries suffer! I for Him—Paul, iStenhen, ani Igna tius, and Polycarp, and Justin Mirtyr, and multituues who went up in chariot of Are now coming in chariot of cloud, whiie in the rear of the central chariot shall be the multi tudes of latter days and of our own time who have tried to serve the Lord, ourselves 1 hope among them. “Behold the ix>rd cometh with tenthousind of His saints.” Yes, although all unworthy of such companionship w* want to come with Him on that day to se* the last of this old world which was our resi dence. Coming through the skies myriads of chariots rolling on and rolling down. By tliat time bow changed this world will be. Its deserts all flowers, its rocks all mossed and lichened, its poor bouses all palaces, its sorrows ail joys, its sms all virtues, and in the same pasture field lion and calf, mid on the same perch hawk and dove. Now the chariots of cloud strike the earth, filling all the valleys, and covering all the mount ain sides, and halting in all the cemeteries and graveyards and over the waters deep where the dead sleep iu coral sarcophagus. A loud blast of the resurrection trumpet is given and the bodies of the dead rise and join the spirits from which they have long been separated. Then Christ, our King, rising in the center chariot ot cloud, with his scan el hauls waves the signal, and the chariots wheel and come into hne tor glorious nsojiit. Drive on I Drive upl Chariots of cloud ahead of tho King, chariots of cloud on either side of the King, chariots of cloud following the King. Up ward sad npust starry hosts, and through immensities, and across infinitudes, higher, higher, higher, unto the gates, the shining gate:. Lift up your heads, ye Everlasting Bates, for Him who maketh the clou ts HU chariot, aud who through condescending an 1 upl fting grace invites us to mount and ride with Him! and plant this as a column lift this as a telescope, and build tms as a fortress, and propose without any perturba- t ion to launch upon an unknown futuretrium- phant inthefact that mv Father drive* He drives very near 1 know th ^ m * ny f the clouds tliat you see * n mdeS off the bases of some of them live miles above the earth. High on the bigh««* of the Andes travelers have seen ** r higher than where tbey_ " er *» Gar Lusnc, after he had risen m balloon twenty-three thousand feet, stm saw clouds above him. ... „ But there are clouds that touch Hie earth and discharge their rain, and, though the clouds out of which God s chariot is mad# may sometime! i» far away, otten they are c ;oi by, and ttiey touch our shoulders, and they touch our homes, and they touch us all over 1 have read of two rides that the Lord took in two different r hari< ’^ of clouds, and of another that H* will taka One day, in a chariot of . ’ouds that were a mingling of log and smoke and fire. God drove down to the top ot a terrible crag fifteen hmdral h*» high, now called Jebei .Vlusi. then called Moant ttuiai, aud lie stoppel out of Ilis chariot among the split shelvuigs of rock. The moiinU l • shook as with an ague, were ten volleys of thunder each emphasizing a tremendous ihou shalt, or TCou shall not.” Then the Ixinl resumed chariot of cloud and drove up of heavea. They were ABOUT COLLARS. VHEIR PECULIARITIES HISTORY. AND Ruflto, Bib* and Bands—An Arti cle of Autre That Has Seen Many Remarkable t Changes. There are few articlee of male attire whose history can be more closely traced and whose form has chanced more often and more radically than the collar. Un like the trousers or tunic whose genealogy runs back to the earliest days, the collat Is a garment of comparatively modern inventioL. It is not even as old as ths shirt, of which it may be considered a ■ortof attachment, that latter portion of • man’s wardrobe having been tong in use before it was thought necessary to tack a collar to it. Neither the Roman nor hiscotempora- riea wore collars, although it was tho fashion with some of the nations, notably the Gauls, to wear necklace) or torques of gold and other then precious metals. In those earlier and hardier days it was laces and bullion that it coat a fortune. It was worn, not only by women and children, but by men and boys, and tho ruff spread all o er Europe—from Hol land to Italy and from London to Mo- { rocco. With the Stuartacame another fashion —a peculiarly feminine-like attire was invented. The loose breeches were trimmed with lace, the shirt was ru l cd ai d laced and the hair was worn in lovely ringlets hanging down to the shoulder. It was impossible to wear the Log Cabin Logie. Brawn and Brain! The powerful engine, with its wonderfu F ir.<peiling power, coupled to the long trail ull freighted with the richest fabrics o the intellectual looms of the centuries—whal ot,stacles can stay the progress of this might} force, when one* under full steam along life's highway? The American with brawm and brain does not see the necessity for title* of nobility, do • not care for elevation by deacent, be ca* reach out and pluck the stars. But with brawn or brain impaired, a man is badly handicapped in the mad race for sue- rurtie with the hair like this, although it ces» which is the marked characteristic of was tried for a short time, and so the the present aga falling collar was introduced. Once in troduced it began to grow as extrav- Hia the bills uirk and portentous ^ <• nritit at the itivtiK of the law. out one day He took another ride, aud this t toMoint Tabor, the clms^ttfwhwbH* chariot was mad*.were bright c>oud*, ciouda, illumined cloud* and umhw ratoMU SELECT SIFTINGS. AtiTsthesia was discovered in 1814. Babylon contained 141 square miles. 1 ome contained 5,000,000 inhabi tants. New Haven manufactures most fish hooks. The assagai is a weapon or instrument >f v.a fare among the Kallirs. Catechisms are said to have been com piled in the eighth or ninth century. The firstndvertisingsgency in America was established by Orlando Bourne, in 183* 1 . It's well known that there are abso .utcly no genuine chamois skins in the narket. Along in the first decade of this cen- iury the New York Bowery was a coun try road. There is some talk of rebuilding the Colosseum at Rome and turning it into t roller skating-rink. One day’s newspaper and magazine m l in the New Ycrk Postoffice was 1J4 Ions, 267,580 pounds. It took Jonah a day to get into the middle of Nineveh, which occupied more space than London. Commodore Vanderbilt madehis great fortune of if 120,000,000 after he had reached the age of sixty-five. A visitor to Duxbury has discovered ‘.hat Miles Stand sh never forgave John Alden for marrying Miss Priscilla. William Thomas, of Blotcher, Ind., owns a silk bandana handkerchief that has been in his family more than a hun dred years. A Dayton, Ohio, blacksmith has made s horseshoe from nails gathered from every State in the Union, and presented it to the President. Pall-Mall is an ancient game in which an iron ball was struck with a mallet through a ring or arch of iron. It gives the name to a London street. The Oregon Alpine Club will anchor a copper box to the very apex of Mount Hood. It is to be a depository of rec ord to all making the ascent. Alexander Anderson, M. D., the first American engraver on wood, was born in New York, April 21, li.5, and died in Jersey City, N. J., January is, 1871). For eighteen cents in Wales an Amer ican traveler was served with a plentiful luncheon of cold meats, thin bread and butter, some gooseberry tarts and ginger It is claimed that the Isabella and Catawba grapes both originated in North Carolina, and were cultivated there for years before they became known to fame. . ... It is announced that the body of Max well, the English chloroformer, is to be buried at sea by his family, thus leaving no spot on earth to remind them of the fate of their wayward boy. Morton is a local name, from the parish of Morton in Nithsdale, Durafne- shire, Scotland. Mor, in the Gaelic, signifies big, and ton is from dun, a hill; Morton,the big or great hill. Mother Hubbard, it has been decided, had a saintly origin. She is identified with St. Hubert, the patron of dogs and the chase, who is represented in a long robe, a veritable Mother Hubbard gown. While workmen were sawing timbei at Fredericksburg, Ohio, they found » lock of red hair deeply embedded in s large tree. The hair had been there fot many years, as it was covered by fifty- ■ one growths of the tree. I The only Indian in Dakota to whorr ! naturalization papers have been issued it the Rev. Luke P. Walker, a graduate o» ! the Indian ) chool of Carlisle, Penn. i j* n full-blooded redskin, but has com ' pletely severed bis tribal relations. 1 The expression, “a wild goose chase,' arose from the peculiar action of wild geese. When one takes the leul th« others follow blindly, no matter wha' the obstruction or danger of tho pair may be. It is easy to see how the ex | pression is applicable to some people? actions. The Toung Man With the Sash. First Old Party ton ho!el P*“*»)*— 1 “What has that young man got that big fa«h around his waist fort” i Second Old Party.-'Dunno, unles* he has got a pane in hu atoonecn. — i Uotton BuiUttn. r 1 mtST APPEARANCE OP THE COLLAR, the custom to go with as much of the body exposed as was compatible with comfort and decency. Arms, legs, neck and head were allowed to come freely into contact with the open air, this, it was relieved, being necessary in order to bring about the necessary endurance, freedom of action and gracefulness of pcee neces sary to perfect manhood. The centuries went on, but no col'nr appeared. The portraits of Justimin and Theodosius show that the tunic was still cut straight across on a level with the shoulders. Changes of costume were effected in the ninth century and again in the twelfth, but it was not until the THE EARL OF OXFORD’S COLLAR, fourteenth century was about to be en tered upon that the collar was first seen in Europe. Even then it was not what might strictly be called a collar in the true haberdashery meaning of the word. The doublet had gradually grown high in the neck, gowns were introduced ai the correct thing for tho man of th# world; chance as one wearing such a gaimcnt; hoods were adopted and th* neck was bundled up as much as it had been exposed. Tho reason for this change of costume is not very deeply buried. There was a passable deal of fighiing done in those days, and men were very much buckled up and closed in about the head aud neck and shoulders, for the old exposure idea had been completely reversed. When the a * all "IN THE DATS OF RUFFS.” short interim of peace srrived and the helmet and coat of mail were laid aside, both tho knight and his man must have found the change to a low- cut doublet or tunic a very try ing one. There Is little doubt that throat and chest diseases were the result, and so came in the cus tom of covering up the neck, and from the custom by necessity it became the fashion by choice. But, as has been sa d, this neck-covering was not only a collar, it was rather the mu i ng up the neck in the folds of the cloak or gown or hooded hat. In the fifteenth century another change in the fashion occurred, and from drap ing one’s self until there was very little diMerence in the appearance between a lusty and a lean man, the swells of the The physical system is a i or niacb' DISAPPEARANCE OP THE COLLAR, ngantly as the ruffle had done, until it was as big as a rape and made of the most expensive lace that the ingenuity and patience of women could produce. The stern and bloody Protector then appeared on the scene, and as the Cav- fliers were known by their lovelocks and the extravagance of their attire, so tho Roundheads were known by their cropped polls and simplicity in dress. The lug lace collars of the Ua\ aliers were espe cially marked down for destruction, and a pl ain piece of turned down linen, called a band, was adopted by the Puritans. Such bunds were worn by tho pilgrims of the May-flower, and are still to be rec ognized in the collars of the Eton school boys. When the second and last Charles came in with the Restoration the deep lace collar came back, although ooly mcosuiably so, and it was comparatively a reasonable article. The collar of this time might be c alled a compromise be tween the plain linen of the subdued 1 uritan and the highly ornamental lace of the rollicking Cavalier. Gradually the collar became limper and limper, until toward the end of the aeventeenth century it disappeared, and a wisp of lawn, linen or lace took its place. Indeed, there was no way in which a collar could be worn, for the lovelocks of the Cavaliers had bloomed mto tho enormous wigs of the period— Is a most intricate piece or machinery. It ought to be kept well regulate!, so that it will work harmoniously in all its parts, then it is capable of an immense amout ot work. It is said that a w atch, if expected to keep perfect time, mint be wound daily. It will not keep good time unless it "runs regular.” More men break down because they don’t “run regular” than for any other reas m. It is claimed by physicians that few men are killed by harl work. It is to the ir- regnlaritiee of modern social lire that the high death rate is due. Men burn their candle at both ends, then wonder why it burns out so quickly. The main thing in keeping the human raa 'bine in good working ord t is to keep the regulator all right. “The bloo 1 is the life,” and sound heilth is assured so long as the blood flows through the veins a limpid stream of purity. Regulate tho regulator with Warner’s Log Cabin sarsaparilla, the old-fashioned blood purifier, prepared niter the ixwt formula in use by our ancestors in good old Log Cabin days, and with the vig. t of brawn and brain winch must ensue, in your life’s lexicon you will find no such word as fail. Letter from the Ex«8berlffef Cha*ta««*a (‘•■nty, New York. Mayville, N. Y., Dec. 2 1885. I am glad to say, from a long | ereonal ex perience with Allcock's Porous Plasters, that I am able to < ndorse all the go k) things that have ever been sai l about them, and s ’pplement these by saying that I frankly lielieve their value cannot be estimated. Their breadth of usefulnese is unlimited, and for prompt and sure relief to almost every ache and pain i bat flesh if heir to. no other remedy, in my opinion, citbc external or in ternal, equals them in certainty and rapidity. I have u«ed them at one lime for rheumatism, another for backache, again for bronchitir, always with the same remili-—a fpeedv cure. L>. T. Harmnoton. REAPPEARANCE OF THE COLLAR; THOMAS campbell’s neckwear. wigs that rose a foot above the head, and that came down on either side the head to the waist. This was really the first cravat on record, and when tied in a loose knot and allowed to hang loosely it was quite a graceful ornament. Gradually, as the wigwa- reduced,the cravat was enlarged, and from being passed but once around the neck it be came the fashion, under the gracious sanction of the house of Hanover, to swathe the neck with folds of linen, to edge the ends with lace and then tie them in enormous bows. All this time, it must be remembered, it was a collarless age again. Little by little, however, the collar crept up and began to assert itself until about the time when Tom Moore and Thomas Campbell were in their power (circum. DOo), it burst triumph antly from its bands and rose in a circle of white about the whole lower part ot a man’s fai e. The Byronic school of affected sentimentalists took some of the stillness out of the “choker,” as it was cot inaptly called; but the fashion had come to stay, and stay it has with a perti nacity that bids fair to carry it through the century. The necktie was now rele gated to second place, and though the dandies prided themselves ou the mar- 2 tub exaggerated band; JOHN knox’s COLLAR. time almost went back to first principles and thowed everything they could. Their tunres were cut so short, both be low and aloft, that they were a good deal after the style of a Cardigan acket. Their hose, which scarcely joined their doublets, were of every color of the rain bow, and altogether the highflier of the fifteenth century must have looked a good like a trapeze performer in a circus. Francis the First of France, however, while a showy man, had not muchof a neck to boast of, and according lyhe frowned down the male decolletes and wore a high collar with a little lace ruffle inside it to take off the stiffness. Bluff King Hat saw this little lace ruffle when he met the French monarch ou the F ield of the Cloth of Gold, aud though the English King had no more neck than a frog, he decided to follow the same fashion. Gradually the ruffle grew into the ruff, and when Elizabeth came to the throne with her neck as long and thio as her father’s waa short an4 stout, aha mada tha raff tha principal point of attire. It grew in width and thickness; it wat starched and stiffened with wires; if spread out so beyond the rtaarer’t tr.outl that he or she had to bo fed by a long- armed attendant with a long-handled ipoon, sad it wm made of noh rich THE COLLAR OF TO-DAT. velously neat way in which they could d spnse of yards of linen and silk, the bandy stock slowly but surely took its place. It was not so heavily starched at first as it was afterward, nor did it pro- 1 ject so sharply forward as it was alter- ward made to, but with these and sun dry other minor modifications the big Btaud-up collar has remained the same for at least eighty-eight years. It is still worn in this and other countries by con servative old gentlemen. While this is the staple collar for many old men, a number of changes have been made in the collars for younger people. Tliere is n»t, in fact, any such thing as a settled fashion of collar, and it changes from year to year.— £an Francisco C/tronicl*. 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