Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 December 1895 — Page 16

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1895.

VOICE OF THE TULPIT

Sl'GtiRSTlVU Discotnsn COXCETISI.G VIMTATIOXS FROM GOD. Iler. C. 31. Addison, Rector of Chrltt Church, FItclibnrar, Man., Saya They Are ot Alvray Calaiultlea. And there came a great fear on all; and they Rlorlfled God. eayinjj that a great prophet Is risen up amonff us, and that Gxt hath vi3ited Ilia people. Luke vilf 16. When sorrow and trouble come to us, ouht we to say of each that It ia a visitation from God? That is the common phrase for such things; they aro "visitations." In the verso I have choaen we find this same word: and In tfye story In which It occurs we have a chance to see whether Christ would havo us agree with the popular Idea or not. The story tells of th bringing" to life esrain of the son of the widow of Nain. Just outside the gate of the city, between the walla and the cemetery. Jesus was met by a funeral train. A poor mother a widow who had been left with an only son, had been "visited by God," as her neighbors raid. The son had been taken away from her; she was utterly alone. It was one of the saddest of funerals, and clearly "a visitation;" any pious neighbor could see that. What will Christ, the son of God, say about It? ..Will He go to the widowed mother, and say: ' "This is a visitation from God; lie has punished you severely. You must bear the punishment without questioning, because it Is God's will?" No! "When the Lord Baw her. He had compaselon on her, and said unto her: Weep not. And He came nigh and touched the bier, and the bearers stood etill. And He said: Young roan, I fay unto thee, Arise; And he ith-at was dead sat up and began to speak." Then It was that a strange fear, a holy awe, fell on the crowd of imourners, and they glorified God and said that God had visited His people. Here was a. strange reversal of their thought. That death which they had been saying was God's visitation and God's will, was found to bo opposite to his will, and the vislta'tlon by the miracle of Christ was found to be in the raising from the dead, instead cf in the killing. It was not God's will thac tha mother should lose her eon, and so, when he visited her In Christ, He gave him back to her again. It la true that, in the Old Testament, a visitation from God was always a calamity; God Interfered to punish. But in the New Testament the word "visitation" is never used, except to denote the love and goodness of God. His coming to save is his only visitation. Those opening words of the hymn, "BenediCTtus," In St. Luke, express the whole teaching of the gospels and epistles: "God hath visited and redeemed his people." lie visits to-redeem. And so-Christ comes to the widow of Nain and says, aa clearly as acts can speak: This death of a young man, a boy In the flower of his youth, is all wrong, it Is a terrible evil; let me show you how God would visit you; let mo show you what God thinks of death and sorrow and pain. This Is what he says by touching tho coffin; by turning the mother's grief to joy. It Is Just the opposite of what they hud thought Evil had visited them before; now God has visited them. Therefore L say that, to try 'to comfort the mourner with the statement that God sends trouble, is to offer a medicine that Is reany a poison; is to givo an explanation, et any rate, that does not explain. It Is a false humility that will claim every ill as e deserved punishment; it Is a foolish sophistry to make believe that evj is a good thing for us, and It is a stultifleatlon of our tounan nature to say we rfre Ignorant, and do not know a thing Is evil when we see it. Good may come out of it afterward, but that will depend entirely upon how we use It. No. Let us believe that' God Is good. If he is, thl3 superficial mystery is solved by being done away with altogether. Let us bo sure that, when God visits his people. It Is to save, not to destroy; it is to give health and peace and joy, not pain and fcorry and tears. Cut somebody will say, Are you not saving God's goodness at the expense of His power? If He is so good as not to send evil, why, being all powerful, does He permit it to come? Why does He not wipe It out altogether? A man throws himself over a precipice, and la dashed to pieces, an ocean steamer dashes on the rocks In a storm and her passengers are drowned, an epidemic breaks out and destroys thousands of Innocent people. Are not all these in accordance with what we call the laws of nature? Did not gravitation kill the man, 'drowning the passengers, the disease the children? I say no. The laws of God that Is, the way God works in nature, are perfect and beneficial; we only suffer whei wc disobey these. The drunkard says: "This burning disease, this excruciating agony. Is God's of disobeying GoJ's The mother rcnas fcer daughter to a dan:e, Ughtly did, on a cold night, and when she dies of penumonla wonders how God could so visit her. But the truth is, the mother killed the child, and not God. If the cholera comes here next surrmer It will not come because God sends It, but because our boards of health sen 1- it an invitation and every grealy landlord and careless tenant make li hospitably welcome. If the dam above Johnstown breaks It is because tho engineer made a mistake or the contractor casatsd in hi? materials. I think nothing Is plain ?r than the fact that when .we break God'3 laws anywhere we suffer, and that, if ve suffer, wo ought not to lay tho blame oi God, whose will, expressed so clearly by natural law-, is most evidently that by keeping those laws men should not suffer. In a certain true sense, whatever befalls us is according" to law. God made the law, and to break it is to suffer. But God doed not come down and deliberately Inflict the punishment. The broken law avenges itself; just as when a man recklessly entangles himself In a moving belt in a shop, and gets torn limb from limb. There Is no direct Intervention of God. no visitation from him to punish the man; the engino relentlessly moves on, and the man is killed. We not only cannot blame God for the accldent-we cannot really say that God did it; the law that a man canrot be ground about a shaft with impunity Is a gooJ one; if a man Is killed, it is his doing, and not God's. I think these things are true. I think it will be a help to our knowledge of God and to our love for Him to consider that if ifsl'ftm-in la .a V .J V - a. .vm mu Lai 3 li iay be his fault and it may be the fault tae management of tho railroad cominy. but that it can't in justice be called visitation from God. And When no Vi i -a -vt' W44.iiifi xjil, mc uttine on viou we may go on to put it where it does belong, and so help the world to be saved from the consequences of recklessness and cupidity. Cut there is cno more point to be considered. Here we are; here are evil and eufferlng right in our midst, and we must believe that God is here, too, right in our midst. Lay the blame where we will, we know that death and disaster will come for many o year. If God does rot will it; if Ha pities us under it; if He is omnipotent ai able to stop it, why does He leave us to euffer? , ,The ftlng of death is sin," !. e., the cause of all the suffering of the world, from Adam to us. lies in the sin of all the world, from Adam's sin to yours anl mine. And Ocd 13 msre the author of sia than He U of arrnn,1 r. f i f t f n -.ma .u. wi n -

suffering. He made us with free wills, capable of doing right and not suffering, but capable, also alas, how well we ought to know it capable, also, of doing wrong and suffering. It 13 here, Ingrained In our lives both are here. We are .uarly overwhelmed. We cry out to God; but God cannot take back that which he has given us our freedom to choose. F.-eely we sinned, freely we mut come back to him. Here he is to help; He has sent His Son, that we may know-how Intimately He i3 related to us; Immanuel God with us and in us. He has visited us; He U our Sivlor, for H pities uj. and wants us, and will have us. When we see this, it is not so hard. Sin and sorrow aro here, close to us; but Gol is nearer. God Is fighting on our side against these' two, the one cause and the other effect. And the strange, the divine thing about It all Is that, while he cannot-or he would stultify Himself-make all right by a word. Ho is turning sin's weapons against sin, making the very captain of our salvation perfect through suffering; using 'that very thing we dread and He hates as "tho means by which we overcome sin and come to him. The way of the cros3. my dear friends, is God's way of salvation not the way He would choose, but the way our sins have made Him choose until, as we look at our Savior, Christ, we see how inevitable it is. Christ, hanging on the cross, because our sins have brought Him there, and crying to us. as tho captain breaks through the enemies lines to conquer a way for us. ; There is no way but thls-the way of the cross; take it up and follow me, and wring a victory out of. defeat. Beat sin with its own weapons; become perfect like me, through suffering. But believe that God and I shrink from It, even more than you doeven as the child's pain hurts the mother, standing over it, more than it hurts the child. Bear your suffering patiently, then; not because God sends it, but because He sympathizes with you In your hatred of it, and means, by His love, that, If ' you" use it rightly, you may climb to Him by 1L The miracle of the widow's eon applies to all our sorrows. If you will hold fast to God you who sorrow, you who, . perhaps, like the widow, have lost some one whom you loved much bear your sorrow proudly, becauso some day, wtfen the " kingdom, of heaven comes upon earth, you will see this same Jesus coming to you and laying his hand upon the coffin where your sorrow lies buried still, and will say to you: God did not do this, and he has saved your son alive for you young man, I say unto thee, arise; and so shall all our losses be made good, all our pains healed, even all our dead be raised, because God must conquer. Oh, how hard we ought to work with ?hlm against our sin and the sin of the. world, that the glorious victory may come soon! (Copyright. 1K3, by the Newspaper Sermon Association.) ...

A COUNTRY GIRL'S EXPERIENCE. She Longed for City Life, but Was Speedily Cared. Washington Post. ' If you really want to know what happened to tall Miss Barlow, of Maryland, after she had absorbed her first drink of f rapped absinthe, read this story to the very end. . In the first place tall Miss Barlow has not been in Washington long. In truth, she gained her very first glimpse of the Capitol, the Senators and the Congressmen during the early eventide of Wednesday. She was oorn and grew up on the "Eastern Shore" or Maryland, and any of the leading young men in Cambridge. Md., will verify the assertion that she is pretty. Her eyes are an honest shade of blue, and in her fluffy hair are" a dozen tints of the bronze-red that artists like to paint. She is tall. As tall as the Trilby you read about; her figure is without a fault. And best of all, she owns a complexion all pink and ivory white that looks for all the world like the colored lithographs hanging in the windows of tho shops. Tuesday afternoon she read the final chapters of the most exciting story ever printed in a weekly story paper, and half an hour later she went to her mother. "Ma, this town pf Cambridge is too slow for me," she said, "I am going up to Washington and clerk in a store. Maybe I'll end up by marrying a Senator or a member of the Cabinet." Miss Barlow's worthy mamma said she wouldn't give her consent, but, womanlike, she changed her mind and said yes. Then she packed. up 31 iss Barlow's belongings and kissed the young lady Just as the latter was boarding- the fussy little steamboat that connects Cambridge with the world In general. It is proper to state that there were 2 in new bills nestling In the inside pocket of Miss Barlow's black Newmarket when she turned1 her back on her home in classic Cambridge. It is also proper to state that the adorable maiden showed excellent judgment in only remaining in Baltimore forty-seven minutes. When the train brought her Into this law-fearing town cf Washington the clocks were announcing the' final hour of Wednesday morning. She walked out of the Baltimore & Ohio station and when the odious hackmen began to pester her she acted. Figuratively speaking, she turned them down. About the first thing that caught her eve was the dome of the Nation's Capitol, and all unconscious of the fact that she had neglected to leave any instructions about her baggage, she hurried up the hill. Men turned to look at her. Women glanced at her perfect complexion and sighed. When she entered the big white building a becoming flush of excitement stained her oval cheeks. The smells from Tom Murrey's restaurant perfumed the atmosphere, which, by the way. was eloquent with the chatter of the hungry seekers after place and nower. Slowly she made her wav through the tangle of corridors. She walked up and down those corridors until her new No. 4 shoes befan to pinch her toes. Then she met a man. He was a big man with a black coat and a blacker mustache. A real diamond sleamed In bis white shlrtfront. and the aroma of brandy was in his breath. He looked like a man who knew it all and tall Miss .Barlow thought he must surely be a Senator or a Sunreme Court Judcre. He smiled at her and Fhe blushed. Then he spoke to her and she answered him. In five minutes he knew all about her alms and hopes and she knew that he Intended to. find her a boarding house. They walked out of the. Capitol arm in arm. Miss Barlow was thanking her lucky stars that dear "Mister Smith" had Ftooped to notice her. The man was laughing. Thy walked down the hill and up the broad avenue. He said clever things to her In a clever way and she told him that he was "awful smart." Half way up the avenue he danced at hfs big golden watch and said it was time to eat. She followed him into the private dining room of a swll restaurant. Sh jaw that the carpet on the floor was real Brussels and that the round tables were shrouded In the whitest of linen. They sat down at one of the tables anl he scribbled something on a card and handed it to nil affable waiter, who promptly disappeared. "We need a bracer," he said. "What is that?" she asked. "Frozen ahslnthe." he answered. Presently the aforesaid waitr brought In two thin rlasses and a queer looking bott' filled with a sreen llo'Ud. The man put cracked ice Into Miss Barlow's glass and then poured a quantity of the green liquid on ton of the Ice. "Drink." he said, handing her tne Vrlnss Mutely she swallowed the liquid exhllarat'on. It was cold as ire and fast! ltv- the pepnermint she used to buy In Cambridge's leading caniv shop. Five times the man fleiied her gla&s and five times she-drank. Then there came a queer buzzin- in her head and little specks of multi-colored lights dance! before her eves. She forgot her plans and the yellow omelette the waiter served. She forgot all sve that the rran in the black coat was smiling at her. More absinthe was served ani then everything became a blur. She tried to taJk but the words cam out of her dainty mouth In an incoherent jumble. The man kid her on the lips and rhe besnn to cry. He tried to kiss her nga'n anl she struck him in the face and threatenei to call the police. He left ber. enl she went out into the ooen air and walked an! walked. She founJ a boarding hou. and yest-rJiv morning she discovered that the man wlh the ilaek coat had stolen her mother's wedding" rir.g. Miss Barlow's hat was rh!ng, but sh went down to the "Police Court ani toJd District Pro'ecutor Muilowny. all about it. Aftr she had finished her story she simply said: "if yo'i fin! mv ring send it to Cambridge. I am going to start for homo on the first train." A Social Line. Boston Transcript. In Topeka to eat salted almonds is to proclaim yourself of the socially superior class. The "salted almond set" I made up of the most exclusive and is BupoosM to be inspired by a deiiant disregard of triumphant democracy. The plain people of Toueka eat peanuts and Llde their time.

ART OF ADVERTISING

AX EXPERT O.V THE VALUE QP INDIVIDUALITY AXD IDENTITY. Couiplcnonaneii Dora Not Depend Upon Size It la Desirable to Maintain n Degree of Uniformity. If you were the only man advertising you would have a very easy time of It. You could put your advertisement In type discernible. only by a microscope or you could put it in type so big that three letters would bill a page. People would read It all the same. It might be In the patois of the Bowery or It might be in the highest style of Johnsonian English arhlch required a glossary for interpretation; it would be real. But, most unfortunately, you are not the only man advertising; everybody is advertising this is the age of advertising. People saw the advantage of advertising centuries ago. They were not slow to find out that If they wanted people to know what they were doing they must tell them. If you want your advertising to be seen, therefore, It must be Individual it must be different from the advertising of others, for If you run along In the worn groove comparatively few people will give you any heed. m A very gooi rule to follow in putting out your advertising is to see what other people are doing. in the same medium or In the same line and do something different. For instance. If you are expecting to put out some advertising In your local paper look the paper over carefully and see t most of the advertisements in It are very much alike. If they are, cut yours according to a different pattern. If they run to big type try some small type yourself long primer or small pica, or even brevier. If tho. other advertising is pretty densely black, give your own plenty of white space. If nobody else is using borders go in for borders. If the other advertising is all straight up and down try some of the oblique style yourself, with your head lines in the upper left-hand corner and your firm name in the lower right-hand corner. If no one else is using illustrations by all means illustrate your advertisements. That will give you a marked individuality; and If others are advertising In broad generalities bo specific, very specific. The consplcuousness of an advertisement does not depend upon its size. If you have a large department store with five hundred bargain to adverlse, you will need a page to do It; but if you have Just one thing to advertisesuppose it is a cough medicine don't take a page. You can do much better with the same outlay by advertising on a half or a quarter page, for if you have a whole page people will skip that page entirely. If you have a quarter page and the rest Is reading matter, they will read all around your ad and necessarily absorb quite a little of it simply from proximity. DRAWING THE LINE. But while Individuality in advertising is a very desirable thing, there must, of course, be some bounds placed upon one's individuality. For instance, we all admire Individuality in dress, but if a man were to walk down Broadway in a pink overcoat and a pair of vermilion trousers, he would be very likely to call down upon himself quite a good deal of unfavorable comment; and in advertising it Is- the same way. While it is most desirable to be original and Individual, It is certainly not desirable to affect eccentricities in bad taste. Don't, for instance, attempt a weird and blxarre style of English, thinking that people will imagine it clever. Here is an illustration taken from a recent copy of a. weekly trades Journal, of what I mean by "bizarre English": ' "You can have no doubt of the doubtless quality of our undoubtable boots, shoes and rubbers, without doubt always promptly delivered. Shoes of doubt make doubtful profit customers," etc. "Doubtless quality of our undoubtable boots!" It is advertising of this kind dhat fills a man with sorrow that he did not live back in the days of Shem, Ham and Japhet, before advertising was. Don't affect such an individual style of setting that it will be difficult to read-as one styl6 that I have occasionally noticed that is particularly unreadable, and which, unless a man is very hard pressed for something to occupy his time, ho will never stop to decipher. That is the perpendicular style, having a sentence run down a column with only one word on a line, instead of running across from side to side. In striving after individuality don't give your competitors any advantages. Don't avoid good things because they have them. Make your advertising different from your neighbor's, but be sure that the difference is always in your favor. In a word, while it is most desirable to be as Individual as possible, never let your Individuality run to the extreme of bad taste. It is better to be commonplace and In good taste than to be original and offend. IMPORTANCE OF IDENTITY. Having secured an individuality, the next step is to establish your identity. Have something about your advertising that will enable the regular reader of the paper to recognize It on the fly, so that even if he doesn't read a word of it he will say, "Ah, there is Tompkins's ad. Great advertiser, Tompkins. Must be doins a big business, lil have to get in there some day and see his place." Let your advertisement always have certain marks of sameness, a certain similarity of manner, though you keep the matter constantly on the change. Sameness and change these two must go hand in hand in effective continuous advertising. You keep tho same store year after year and the same firm name, but your goods are changing every twenty-four hours, and your counters present new bargains or ought to every time your customers come in. You are very careful to preserve the identity of name and location, and you are equally careful to have your offerings continually new and fresh. Carry out the same idea in your advertising. Change the matter dally, and yet keep your advertisements so much the same that anybody who has ever seen one of your advertisements will always recognize them. It is not difficult to accomplish this advertising Identity. Keep the same place In tho paper. Select your position carefully and then keep it. Adhere to the same general arrangement of composition. You can preserve your identity if you choose by means of a distinctive border or an everpresent trademark which, however, should not take up too much space. Adhering to about the same space each day except on special occasions when you may well enlarge your borders is also a good way of making people familiar with your announcements. Putting your headlines always in tho same type and the text of your advertisement in some other unvarying typeparticularly if you use type not found in other advertisements will give your announcements a recognizable individuality. FAIR OF EFFECTIVE SAMPLES. Two large New York houses, one a big department store, the other a very considerable clothing house, whose advertisements are written by the two Highest-salaried experts in New York, change their reading matter seven times a week, and keep their form the general setting of their advertisementinvariably the same. The clothing house has an ad about four Inches long and rarely exceeding this length bjr more than an inch. An inch ana a half or two inches of this gpace is occupied by an outline cut. Then come about ten lines, fifty or sixty words In small pica; never a head

line of any sort, tho cut taking its place. The signature is in small pica caps, and the three addresses of its three New York stores are put in the lower left-hand corner In agate type. It Is a small advertisement, and yet it Is very effective advertising, for no matter how rapidly you are running through the paper you are bound to see this little ad. and after seeing it once or twice you can Identify it in all places and at the greatest distance. The other alvertlsement of the big department store Is necessarily considerably more pretentious, and, while every word of it, except the name and address, is changed every day, its general appearance is invariably the same. A head line In good sized type, twenty-two points or so, going across two columns; unlerneath about eight lines of italics in eleven point or twelve point type, also going across two columns, giving a pleasant little dally chat, ani then a plunge into two single columns running half way down the page of description and prices, set in brevier. The two single columns widen at the bottom Into a double column space for the firm name In script. The advertising of these two houses i3 considered by many people the best in New York. In each case Its most conspicuous feature i.i its individuality and Identity. A good many advertisers are always trying to conceal their identity. They are constantly springing new shapes and set-ups. Their advertising wears a perennial disguise. If your advertising is of such character that you have reason to think that people will avoid It if they know what it is. of course your best plan is to conceal its character as carefully as possible, or, better still, get something .to advertise that won't need concealing. But If you are advertising something that people want make it as easy as possible for them to find your ad. There is an accumulative effect in advertising which is very apt to be lost if you appear before the public in all sorts of shapes and guises, but which becomes of great value to the persistent advertiser who has so well preserved his identity that each day's announcement is but another link In the chain that binds the public to" him. Individuality and identity on advertising, the individuality so agreeable that the public will always look for you and the identity so marked that it can never fail to find you, constitute two elements in advertising that are bound to carry it a great distance toward success. JOHN P. LYONS. THE STAGE OPHELIAS.

First Woman to Take the Port One Ophelia Really Crny, With "Hamlet" scheduled to be given before American players for a revival this season. It is interesting to read the amusing and tho entertaining anecdotes of the play given In that new volume of Shakspearian history and gossip, "Shakspeare's Heroines on the Stage." One of the stories of romance is as follows: "There was a pretty picture at the little theater In Lincoln's Inn Fields on the cold December night of 16C1, when charming Mistress Saunderson, as Ophelia, expressed her love in earnest to the ambitious young Hamlet of the night, the eloquent Detterton. She was beautiful and she was pure; he was handsome and he was upright. We may be sure their mutual adoration was not forgotten in the talk of the it between the acts, as the orange girls ran hither and thither to receive with a smile the tappings under tho chin while their wares were bought, and as the fine ladies in the boxes welcomed the amorous glances of ardent swains around them. "Miss Saunderson, through Davenant, had received the traditions of Ophelia's Impersonation by the boy actresses before tho revolution, but never, before hc?r day, had a woman essayed the role. The absurdity of masculine ..actresses, even if a common an d accepted sight, must sometimes have caused a gay laugh when odd situations were created. Imagine, if possible, merry Charles II keeping a sober face when, after he had become Impatient over the delay in beginning 'Hamlet, and had sent the Earl of Rochester behind the scenes , to ascertain the reason, he was solemnly Informed that the 'Queen was not quite shaved " 'Oddsnshl" cried the King, appreciating the point; 'I beg her Majesty's pardon. We'll wait till her barber has done with her.' "As the first Hamlet after the restoration really loved his Ophelia, so the second great Hamlet, Barton Both, appeared with an Ophelia whose winning behavior made him a slave of love, ani whose wise conduct broke him from the slavery of Bacchus. A beautiful woman was Mrs. Booth, according to the discriminating verdict of the younger Cibber; lovely In countenance, delicate In form, and, moreover, pleasing as an actress. In early life she had been a dancer, and a good dancer. "Will play-goers ever see so tragic and pathetic a scene as an Ophelia actually mad, chanting her pathetic song and uttering her sad words with all the realism of genuine Insanity? It was a weird sight and one that chilled the blood of the spectators as they gazed in silence upon the uncanny scene. They all recognized the actress and realized the situation. Poor Susan Mountfort, the former bright actress cf Lincoln's Inn Fields, in. her Insanity had escaped .from her custodian, and, with the recollections of her former career teeming through her distracted brain, had made straight for the play-house. There, with all the cunning of an insane person, the woman had hidden for a time behind the wings, while her former asociates carried on the play of 'Hamlet.' But just at the moment the Ophelia of the evening was to enter for the mad scene Susan Mountfort, seizing her by the arm to push her back from the entrance, sprang forward in her place, and with wild eyes and wavering motion rushed upon the stage uttering the words: "They bore him barefaced to the. bier; Hey no nonny, nonny hey nonny.' "For a moment the spectators were amazed. As they began to realize the situation a murmur ran through the house, and then came the strained silence of wonderment and perplexity. Magnificent was the acting. In 'her sane days Susan Mountford had been a good Ophelia and now she threw into the part such intensity of action and such terrible mental effort as to render the character overwhelmingly vivid. But it was a mercy when friends gently led her away from the footlights. Her vitality was entirely exhausted by the effort, ani her death was hastened. "This was th9 pad story of one Ophelia. To describe all the Ophelias of the stage would oe unnecessary, even if possible, since the role has never been regarded by any actress as her ultimate goal. It has either served as an Intermediary to fame In the support of eminent Hamlets, or it has been awarded to actresses who were found wanting and quietly fell Into obscurity." LIVING IX XEW YORK. To De Comfortable nn Income of Over 93,000 n YeaP ia Needed. The Critic Lounger. The literary hack who poured his confessions into the broad columns of the Forum, some time ago, answers his critics in the current number. The thing that seem3 to offend him more than any other criticism of his statements is that his critics regard SiXK) a year as a fairly decent income for a man. That anyone should think him capable of living on $5,000 a year hurts his feelings: "On such an income a man cannot live in a house in a pleasant quarter of "the town: he cannot supply his family with more than the necessities (sic) of life; he and his wife and children must forego all the pleasures which cot anything to obtain." That is, If ho lives in New York. Here I quite, agree with Mr. Hack. New York is no place for a man with a family who has a gentleman's tastes and needs, and only 53,000 a year. He can live that I do not deny. Not in a house, certainly, or. if In a house, not within comfortable distance of any place that he would like to frequent. It may be that up in Harlem he could find a house for a rent that he could afford. I know people whon pay $1,500 a year for houses that are in neighborhoods which I should not caro to live in. and they stay there because the rent is low. For a house for which you would pay SLOv") a yr In London you woulfi ray $3,000 here. There Is nothing for the $o,000-a-year hack to do but live in an apartment, and for the rent he can afford ho cannor.t get a very food b'ne. I have seen apartments in New York for $1,200 a year that were unspeakably bad. Dark rooms, little air and no sunshine. On the other hand. I have seen better ones for less money, but there are very few of these, and even they, were not designed for hacks with families': I knows of literary workers hacks, if you like whose incomes

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MEN'S FURNISHINGS XCW LIXES OP TECK SCARFS, 23c to Jf 1 XEW DH JOIXVILLE TIES, 3So and 50c XEW FOL'R-IX-IIAXDS, -00 and 50o SEW WIXDSOH TIES, 10c to 23c SALE OF MEX'S NIGHT SHIRTS Good Muslin Night Shirts, neatly embroidered, full sizes 39c llrtter Grades, .Ilk-, 75c, Ktc, $1 Doraet Night Shirts, 73c and ;l 3IEXS WHITE SHIRTS Fancy bosom, White Laundered Shirts, at 4Dc Pique bosom. Laundered White Evening Dress Shirts 73c SPECIAL, VALUES IX UMI1RELL.AS New lines for Christmas presents. Prices, 75c, to ijUl XEW STYLES IX MACKINTOSHES Newest styles in Misses' Double ' Texture Mackintoshes $2.25 New line of Ladies Mackintoshes, $3, $3.50 and $6.

An Elegant line of Xnias Dress Patterns At exceedingly low prices, all put up in neat packages, and make most desirable and useful presents.

10-yard pattern lengths, very best new style Prints E9c 10-yard patterns, Figured Black Crepons at only $1.00 10-yard Patterns Fleeced Back Merino Wrapper Goods TDc 10-yard Patterns Vicuna Cloth, French Flannel styles, at 9Sc 8-yard Patterns, yard wide, French Cambrics, at 90c 10-yard Polka Sorrenta Dress Patterns, very handsome..... $1.50 8-yard Patterns, double width Dress Cheviots, only 43c

A Great Christmas Shoe Stock

An excellent line of Slippers In all prades. Some special values offered in Shoes. $2 LADIES CLOTll-TOP SHOES, $1.28 We can give you either Cloth Tops or all Dongola Leather in this Shoe, button or

linens Make Nice Christmas Presents

We offer you some special bargains In Table Linen Sets. REGULAR $3 SET AT2.1fl 8-4 Fringed Tablecloth and 1 dozen 'Nap-' kins' to match; great value at $2.19. $3.f0 Table Linen Sets at only $2.43. li Table Linen Sets at only $2.78. jpS.riO HEMSTITCHED SETS, JM.OS 1Q-4 Tablecloth and 1 dozen Hemstitched Napkins to match; very handsome. touch the $5,000-a-year mark, but they can barely make ends meet, and such luxuries as theaters and the opera are out of the question. The poorest people in New York are not the acknowledged paupers, but the gentlefolk who are obliged to live on from $3,000 to $3,000 a year. . Those whosa incomes are less are better off In a way, for they simply give up tho struggle. They Had Xo Schooling. New York Independent. Of tho four boy train wreckers only one had received the usual public fchool education, a boy whom his parents In this city could not control. The other three live in Rome, N. Y.. and while all are bright boys, all have been truants from school, and only one has gone as far as the sixth grade. Professor Munro, the superintendent of schools for Rome, says: "It is my opinion that had the present compulsory education law been in force ten years ago this preat crime would never have been committed; and I sincerely hope that active measures will speedily be taken to extend the provisions of the law so that all youth3 over eight and under e'.ghteen, who are not lawfully employed, will be required to attend school regularly. I believe that this and nine-tenths of such crimes are the direct result cf Idleness and loanng-." The home training of all the boys was tad or neglectful, and the State did not compel them to underso the scholastic training which it provide?. In Rome the new compulsory education law is now strictly enforced, and there are no truants. The Drltlsh Middle Class. London Realm. If anybodys who knows little of the Inner lives of the great and deserving British middle class would like partly to realize the dreadful, arpalling stupidity of these good creatures, let him read the letters which they write to their chosen journal. Evidently the correspondents are of all kinds. You may take off your hat before the haughty yet dlgnined simplicity of "The Young Ladles, of ISO Regent Street," who send 5 shillings; you may smile at the graceful eae of "Dad. Mum. Bert. Stan, and Lil." who contribute four-and-eixpence, and you will hold up the finger of gentle warning to tha "Rowdy-Dowdy Girls" of Nottingham. Thse and such like All column after column of small type with their letters, and you will search in vain through column after column for one humorous turn of expression, one witty phrase, one idea above tho intellectual level of a bone In one of their own omnibuses. Good, worthy, charitable, stupid p?onie. I salute you, but as for knowing you DIeu m'en garde. If you want a cup of good Cocoa or Chocolate you should use Huyler. All crocers.

us all. Ever one has been delayed by the rains, and most a crush the last days. We are prepared to serve you well.

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HOLIDAY STOCKS o o Are still very complete. Prices are at rock bottom. GREAT STOCK OF DOLLS, Be to f 1.10 DRESSED DOLLS, 4t)c to 1 A II C 11LOCKS. 25c unci 6O0 TOILET CASES, 75c to $11 FAXCY LARGE PLISII ALBUMS, 40o to CELLULOID COVER ALBUMS, OSo to HORXS, So to S5e WORK BOXES, 25o to SOo DRI 31S. 25c to $1 MARBLEOID SHAVIXG SETS, 75o MARIILEOID SMOKIXG SETS, f 1 METALOPIIOXES, 1f and 3So 25c PERFUME VASES, 10c IOO FAXCY DRESSED DOLLS, 30c Jointed Body Dolls, that sold for 59c to 85c, choice now 33c 8-yard Double-width Worsted Dress Pattern, striped effect, for 9cJ Changeable Novelties for $1.00 8-yard Patterns, black and all colors. In All-Wool Henriettas... $1.45 8-yard Patterns All-Wool Black French Serpes $1.50 8-yard Patterns, fancy styles, la Dress Cloths, for $1.50 7-yard patterns, fine All-wool Diagonal Black Novelties $2.40 7-yard lengrths of fine Novelties, black and fancies, $2.75 to $3. lace, stylish toes, and worth $2 a pair. Monday and Tuesday, $1.28. LADIES FREXCII DOXGOLA SHOES, 2.4S Button and Lace, hand , turned, made In the very newest stylo toes. Will match any $4 Shoe shown with this $2.48 line. MISSES DOXGOLA SFRIXG HEEL SHOES, 73c Just 100 pairs in this lot. Patent tips, and worth- considerably more than 73c. 3IEX'S FIXE CALF SHOES, $ 2.4S Goodyear welt, razor toe; & fine, stylish Shoe. BOYS B CALF SHOES, 91 Button and lace, neat looking and good wearing. 3IEXS RLSSIA CALF SLIPPERS. $1.23 Tan and wine color, hand turned; great valuo at $1.25. MEX'S VELVET SLIPPERS. 42o Regular 0c Embroidered Velvet Slippers at 42c. . VELVET EMBROIDERED SLIPPERS, Jtc Patent Leather back; eame grade most stores ask $1 for. CHEXILLE E3IUROIDERED SLIPPERS, 70c A solid comfort Slipper, best velvet, embroidered In Chenille. 91.25 AUSTRIAN LIXEX TABLECLOTHS, 80c Larger sizes, same goods, 8x12, at $1.19. 8x14. same quality, worth $1.75, at $1.SS. 23c LIXEX DAMASK TOWELS, lUc Elegant line of Towels, two rows openwork and knotted fringe, at only 19c. , See the fine open-work Towels, Wc. FAXCY TURKISH TIDIES, Oo 23c TURKISH TIDIES AT lCc oooooooooeooooeooooooooooooo o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o e o o o o o o o

New Year's Day

Will soon be here. Gentlemen who desire to be comme il faut on the yearly calling day and on all other social occasions should have

A Full Dress Suit

Such as we are now making" at lower prices than ever before known. Now is the time to place your order.

KAHN. TAILORING CO., 22 and 24 East Washington Street.

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I IIOWDAV SALE OP j Dolls, Toys, Children's Furniture, Etc. SIDEBOARDS, DESKS AND ROCKERS, STOVES AND HOUSEHOLD GOODS. HAUE1SEN & HAKTMANN, 163 to 169 EvWash. St., Sorraon

for a (Tistinasresent sas To Father, Brother or Sweetheart, Give a Box of Hoosier Poet or Capital City Cigars.

o Our Handkerchief Stock A preat lin? of HaritUerf Lit f la all giait. COLORED iioiui:n lc, 2c, Uc, 3c. Men Ilrmstttriieil, 1 ast Color, lior'ri r mm ba IlaiuUf nlilef, 5-,l0c,to:4i TAih' Fine Vviilte fwiss r.nibroUcrnl llanUerctite 10", I2M lit", Kc to b Jr. Ladles' Fine Linen Lacc-Bordercd Handkerchiefs, c. 4.-.C. COo. Ladles Silk Embroidered Handkerchiefs, 10c to LOc. Mens' Silk Hemstitched Handkerchiefs, colored borders and initials, all at 2Sc Heavy Worsted aiufiiers, 23c. All-Silk Mufflers, black, cream or colors, 50c, C8c. 75c to $L Visit the Jewelry Dept. You'll And some excellent gift suggestions there. Prices very reasonable. Children's Go'.d-Fllled Rings, 10c. Children's regular c Rings now 2Sc Ladies' Band Rings, warranted & years, at 25c. . Ladies Solid Gold Rings, with set?, $L Ladles' Long Watch Chains, COc Ladies' and Gentlemen's Watch, Chalns warranted 6 years, only 89c Gentlemen's Watch Chains, warranted 19 years, at $1.50. Indies' Screw or Drop Earrings, 10c New Styles Link Cuff Buttons, 25c New Styles Stick Pins. So and 10c Gentlemen's regular &0c Scarf Pins, 19c. Great values in Rolled Gold Breastrix:?-, 15c ana 20c. Fancy Silk AVe'b Garters, Satla Row &n Fancy Buckle, Wc. Ladles, Fine Solid Leather Parse, ZQ Elegant Style Purses, 25c KID GLOVES Ladles Foster Hook or 4-Eutton KidGlove, all colors, all sizes, Sc. Beautiful line, of New Shadings In Tint Foster Hook Kid Gloves, 75c. Ladies' Fine Kid Gloves, every pair war ranted, E-hook or 4 large pearl buttons, every new shade la this lot; great value at 23 dozens of Genuine French Kid Gloves, black only, Foster hook or pearl buttons, every pair warranted, all sizes, $L19. Ladles' Pure Silk Mittens, Sc to $L25. Misses' Pure Silk Mittens, 25c. Infants' Pure Silk Mittens, 25c. Great line of Men's Dress Kid Gloves. 50c to $1.W. 1 A Few Special Cloak Items 3 MISSES' ULSTERS at f 1.1M Ages 12 and 14 only; good: that mid from $3.50 to J5. Monday and Tuesday, t a k your choice at ii.ro. CHILDREX'S CLOAKS, OHe Aces 4 and i only; about 20 garments left. lTicea were J2..0 to $3.&0; now, I'Sc LADIES' 3 HEAVER CAPES SOW $3.30. Great Values In Ladies' Jackets Boucle Cloth, four-button, colors LlacJc, ravy, grays; prices. JS.'jS to 57.DO. SPECIAL VALLES IX Ice Wool Shawls, 50c to H.50L Fascinators, IS-; to 7Cc. Knit Skirts. 45c to T2.o). Skirt Patterns, CSc to tiZO. Jffie Stiar Sim. OOOOOOO 000 ooocoocooooo ooooo o o o a o o o o o o o o o a o o o o o o o o o o o o o o a o o o o o

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