Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 7 January 1893 — Page 7

*. ia U|

CONSIDER THE YEARS.

.im& "Was, Time Is, But Time Shall be No More."

ronalngy of th« Dlble Not Iinjiuarlisd— KvolutioH of the Almanao-Or. Talmafp't Sermon.

Dr. Tafmage preached at Brooklyn istSuuday. Subject: "The Chroology of the Bible, or God Among he Centuries." Text: Deuteronomy xxii, 7—"Consider the years of any -generations." He said:

At 12 o'clock last night, while so any Rood people were watching1, an Id friend passed out of our home nd/a stranger entered. The old

rierid making valedictory was 1892 ^a-v

he Stranger arriving is* 1893. The

We make a distinction between

enj^a'g'ed

ork of dividing up this portion of ternity that we eall.$me into comartments and putting events in eir right Compartments.

As God puts all the events of time the right place, fct us be careful faat.w,e do not put them in the rong pilace. The chronology of the

-.-r, r-.----, .vp.i

(,rojn

the exodus to the foundation Solomon's temple. From the oundation of Solomon's temple to he destruction of that temple. From he .destruction of the- temple to the tqfn from Babylonish captivitv. rom Babylonish captivity to tiie irtli of Christ.

et it be a star, the Bethlqhem star, he Christmas star." And from that go back and see the world was •eated 4,004 years before Christ: he deluge came 2,348 years before Christ the exodus out of Egypt occurred 1,491 years before Christ, and Solomon's Temple was destroyed 58(J years before Christ.

Chrono'.ogy enters the book of Daniel aud says that the words "time and a half" mean a year aud a half. Chronology enters at another point

year Were then only two—summer •and winter, We find that the Bible vear was 3('0 days, instead of 3U5: that the day was calculated from I o'clock in the morning to (J o'clock I at niglit.

Tho old Bible j'ear began with the 5th of March. Not until 1752 did lie first of the month-of January get [he honor in legal documents in Enland of being called the first day of

l"c

year.

It is something to thank God for at the modes are so complete for [aleulating the cycles, the centuries, decades, the years, the months, days, the hours, .the seconds, hirik of making appointments, as in e' Bible days, for tho time of the ew moon. Think of making one of :e watches of the night in Bible mes a rooster's crowing. Tho Bible ys: "Beforo the cock crow thou alt deny me ithrice.". "If the Mascometh at cockqrowing," and nat was the way the midnight-watch as indicated. The crowing of the rnvard fowl lies alwavs been -most1 nccrtain.

Compare these modes of marking ime with our modes of marking time, when 12 o'clock is 12 .o'clock, aud 6 o'clock is o'clock, and 10 o'clock is 10 o'clock, and independent of a)! weathers, and then thank God that yon live now.

If you can prove an alibi in the courts, and you can prove beyond dc.ubt that you were in soino particular place at the time you were charged with doing or saying something in tjuite another place, you gain the victory, and infidelity has to pi^ye an alibi by contending that events and circumstances in /the ible ascribed to ceittain times must a"e taken place at soine othdr'time, they took place' at all. But this k's chronology lias -never been ujsht at fault. It has been proved hat when the Hebrews went into gyptthere' were otily seventy of hem, and that when thej' came out here were 3,000,000 of them.

But, my skeptical' friend, hold^ oment. The Bible say $ the Jews re 430yeai* in Egypt, and that

explains the increase from seventy persons to 3,000,000, for it is no more, but rather less, than the ordinary increase of nations. Intido'.ity wrong and Bibloehronolory right.

Now stop and refle.-t. Why is it that this sublime subject of Bible chronology nas been so neglected, and that the most of you ha\ never given ten minutes to the consideration of it, and that this is the first sermon ever preached, on this stupendous and overwhelming theme? What almost interminable lines of military on the streets of all our American capitals, while mayors and governors and presidents with un-' covered heads, looked on But put all those graud reviews together, and they are tame comparod with the review which on this New Year's

'ou.

t',e

(betakes six steps, but they are now brilliant, now squalid, now garters sq long it makes us hold our lauded with peace, now crimson with our rea(th as we watch the movement rom Adam to Abraham. From bcaham to the exodus out of Egypt.

from the pew audi from

pulpit witness.

Id friend was garrulous with the Hear them pass in chrimo'ogical ccurrencesof many days, but the order—all the ears before the flood tranger put his fiuger over his lip all the years since the flood decades nd said nothing arid seemed charged abreast centuries abreast epochs .HU piany secrets and mysteries. 1 'id not see either the departure or he arrival, but was sound asleep, hinking that was for me the best ay to be wide avralce now. Goodye, 189*2!

abreast millenniums abreast Egyptian civilization, Babylouian populations. Assyrian dominions, armies of Persian, li-reciau, Pelopouuesian and Roman wars Byzantine empire, Saracenic host, crusaders of the first, the second, third and the last—ava-

gold

I Italy, Spain, France, Russia, Germany, Englikid and America, past and present dynasties, feudal domains, despotisms, monarchies, republics, ages on ages, ages on ages, passing today in chronological reuntil one has view, until one nas no more power

to look upon the advancing columns,

slaughter, now horrid with ghastliness, now radiant with love and joy. This chronological study affords among many practical thoughts especially two—the one encouraging to the last degree and the other startling. The encouraging thought is that the main drift, of the centuries has been toward betterment, with only here and there a stout reversal, [Grecian civilization was a vast im- millionaire, who lias juBlTgiven"the

Chronology takes pen and pencil, proveoient on Egyptian civilization, city $2,400,000 to build the "Armour nd calling astronomy and histoid to and Roman civilization a vast imlelp, says: "Let us fix one event provement on Grecian civilization, rom which to-calculate everything, and Christian -civilization is a vast

lniprovemeftt on Roman civilization, Nothing impresses me in this chronological review more than the regiments of years are better and {'-hotter regiments as the troops move I on. I thank God that you and I

Kfcre not born any sooner than we were born. How could we have endured the disaster of being born in the Eighteenth or Seventeen th or Sixteenth century? Glad am I that we are the regiment now passing the reviewing stand and that

Ahaz had a sundial, or a flight of urging the world to morts punctuality stairs with a column at the top, and and immediateness. What an unfche shadow which that column threw satisfactory the steps beneath indicated the lour, the shadow lengthening or withdrawing from step to step.

It was not until the fourteenth jentury that the almanac was born -the almanac that we toss carelessly about, not realizing that it took the accumulated ingenuity of more than 5,000 years to make one.

Chrono'ogy had to bring into its service the monuments of Egypt., nd.the cylinders of Assyria, and the

[bricks of Babylon, and the -uottcry pf Nineveh, aud the medals struck [&t Antioch for the battle of Actium.

j&nd

all tho hieroglyphics that could be deciphered, and had to go-into the ixtreriielv delicate business of asking the ages of Adam aud Seih, and inoch and Methusaleh, who, after heir 300th year, wanted to be conidered young.

and shows us that tho seasons of the our children will pass the stand in a which over $30,000,000 is invested The pay roll of1his employes is about $-1,000,000 annually. He gives awav a fortuue every year. He has made several fortunes by speculation apart from his legitimate business. He said a year ago to a writer for the

still better regiment. God did not build this world for a slaughter house or a den of infamj'.

j-swer,

4

But the other thought coming out of this subject is that Biblical chronology, and indeed all chronology, is

and indefinite thing it

latter rain," or, "Jt was at the time of the third crowing of the barnyard."

You aud I remember when ministers of the Gospel in the country, giving out a notice of an evening service, instead of saying at 6' or 7 or 8 o'clock, would say, "The services will begin at early candle light."

We talk a. great deal about the value of time, but will never fully appreciate its value uutil the last fragment of it has passed out of our posession forever. The greatest fraud a man can commit is to rob another of his time. Hear it. ye laggards, and repent! All the fingers of chronology point to punctuality as one of the graces.

Dr. Rush, tho greatest and busiest physician of his day, appreciated the value of time, and when asked how he had been able to gather so much information for his boolrs and lectures he replied: "I have been able to do it by economizing my time. I have not spent one hour in amusement in thirty years."

Napoleon appreciated the value of time when the sun was sinking upon Waterloo, and he thought that a little more time would retrieve liis fortunes, and ho pointed to the sinking sun and said, "What would I not give to be this day possessed of the power of Joshua and enabled to retard thy march for two hours!"

John Weslev appreciated the value of -time when he stood on his steps waiting for a delayed carriage to take him to an appointment, saying, "I have lost ten minutes forever." Lord Nelson appreciated the yalue of time when he said, "I owe •everything in the world .to being always a quarter of an hour beforehand." A clockmaker in one of the old English towns appreciated the value of time when he put on the front of the town clock the words, "Now or wlicn?"

That minister of the Gospel did not appreciate the Value of time who, during a season pf illnc-ss, instead of emoloying his time in useful reading aud writing, wroto a silly religious romance, which in some unknown way came into the possession of the favrous Joe Smith, who introduced the book as^. divine revebition^ which became the uundation of Mormon-

IV^o

ism, the most beastlv abomination o\ all time. But do not let us get an impression from chronology that because the years of time have been so long in procession they are to go on forever. Matter is not eternal. No, no! If you watch half a day, or whole day, or twa days, as 1 did onoe, to see a military procession, you remember the last brigade, and the last regiment, and the last company finally passed on. and as we rose to go we said to each other, "It is all over."

The final century will arrive and pass on, and then will come the final decade, and then the final year, and the final month, and the final 'dav. The last spring will swing its censor of apple blossQHis and the last winter bank -its snows. The last sunset will burn like Moscow and the last morning radiate the hills. The clocks will strike their last hour, and the watches will tick their last second. No incendiaries will be needed to- run hither and yon with torches to set the world'.on lire. Yet found in Christ, pardoned and sanctified, we.shall welcome the day with more gladness than you over welcomed a Christmas or New Year's morn.

THE PRINCE OF PORK.

Remarkable Career or Philip I). Armour, of Chicago.

New fork Pr**ss. Phil Armour, the Chicago multi-

Institute" for the free instruction of young men in the mechanical arts aud sciences, is a remarkable man in his traits, in his methods and in the success he has achieved. He has followed the wisest philanthropic example of his day in giving back to the yoftt'n of his own generation a part of his colossal fortune, as Pratt did Brooklyn, as Drexel has done in Philadelphia, and as Morgan is now doing in New York.

Mr. Armour began life a poor farmer's son in New York. He sailed for Europe recently for a brief vacation tjrom his enormous business, in

Press: "My first transaction was a love scrape. It wasn't successful, and it was the turning point in my life. It led to my expulsion from school. Forty years after that expulsion from school a man wnlked into my office in Chicago, and I recognized him atoi cias Professor Hyde, oue of my boyhood instructors. He said he had heard of my

must have been for two business men in the time of Ahaz to make an appointment, saying, "We will settle that business matter to-morrow when the shadow on the dial of Ahaz reaelics the tenth step from the top," or. "I will meet you in the street called Straight in Damascus in the success in life, aud he had come to time of the new moon," or when

m®

asked in a courtroom what time an expulsion he was the only member occurrence took place should an- ^ucu^y who had voted for my retention. I said to him: 'You have been a long while coming with your explanation.' He went out. I mea-nt what said. I have had the action of that faculty laid away in tny v6st) here (indicating his heart) ever since.

"It was during the time of the

that in the matter of that

It is known that P. D. Armour' was born on a farm in New Yorki Stato. It is known that he did what! most of the farmer's boj's do^-slave* from morning until night. It is, known that at the age of twenty,' after he had loved and lost,' aud had' been expelled from school, he put iron in his heart, joined the procession westward and became a gold seeker in California. It is known that he was taken sick and lingered in the vicinity of death away out in California, penniless and alone. Es-' caping death by a close shave, he left the fields of crold and returned eastward as far as Milwaukee, where John Plankington was then buying and killinir hogs. Plankington gave Armour employment as a clerk, and from that, time grew in favor until the firm of Plankington & Armour was established. It is known that Armour made himself indispenbable to the firm, and from then until the present moment fortune knocked at every door and window and keyhole of Mr. Armour's place of business.

This rare good fortune, which is so fondly wooed, hunted and begged for by countless thousands without avail, has reiftised to leave Mr.. Armour even for a moment for many years. "It walketh with him by day," and when he "wraps the drapery of his couch about him and lies down to pleasant dreams" it nestles in the silken folds and greets his waking moments with a golden caress. A Chicago merchant who knows him well adds this. It is Armour's will that has made him what he is. He fixes his eye on something ahead, and no matter what rises upon the right or the left, he never sees it. He goes straight ahead in pursuit of tho object ahead and overtakes it at last. He never lets up ou that for which he starts out. He is the most faithful friend in the world. No one entering his personal service ever leaves it if ho can avoid it."

The best Idea of a Sabbath day's jonrnoy Is obtained whan one trifes to run through aS inday newspaper.

SOUTHERN CHIVALRY-

Midwinter Pastime of Kentucky's Leading Citizens

A Kefjular Pitched Itattle-Fow K«-ape injury—Excitement Great nail More ISluod May l!o Sited.

Tln bloodiest fight in the history of .Miiiiotlin county took place, Tuesday, on'

1

So this mightv procession of earthly years will" terminate. Just when I have no power to prognosticate. but science confirms the Bible prophecy that the earth cannot last always. Indeed, there has been a fatality of worlds. The moon is merely the corpse of what it once was, and scientists have again and again gone up in their observatories to attend the deathbed of dying worlds and have seen them cremated. So I am certain, both from the word of God and science, that the world's chronology will sooner or later come to its last chapter.

milo from Salyersville. Thero were eight or ten of the county's best citizens enon each side, armed with repeating rillos and navy pistols, and the troublp, which had its inception in a trivial matter thvtlay before, culminated in a pitched battle* John Davis was killed by a pistoi shot, said to have. lo'en iired after h« was disabled! and disarmed. \V. E. Dos* kins, constable, was fatally wounded by a shot in the right Uip., the bail ranging upward through" tlve bowels. Montcrvilln Deskins, a Justico of tho peace has not leen found since tho fight But he left a bloody trail onthe snow through a woodland near the scone of the tragedy, and Is supposed to be fatally wounded. The gun which he is known'tc have been arinodwith was found in the woods. Shepard Cole, coroncr of the county, received some terrible blows and may die. Brick Patrick was shot through tho bowels and ii reported to- bo dying. \V. T. Patrick, a brother of ex-Sheritf J.-C. Patrick, received a rifle ball along the side of his head and was at first supposed to be dead, but he hus ralljed. Reports-are conflicting as to the origin of the difficulty. No arrests have been made and more trouble is feared.

A HAPPY NEW YEAR.

Sports at Norwich. Conn., observed watch night with a prize fight. While the mill was in progress in a third

story

^brr

room, of the Mi&utouoinah

hotel, a squad of police surrounded the hoiiso.. Then ensued a panic—a m(id, rea. soilless fight on the part of oue hundred men to escape. Without amouiont's hesitation tho whole company plunged through tho windows at tho rear of the room and amid the sounds of crashing panes of glass and splintered sashes, dove headlong throe stories to tho ground. The hall-was cleared of every man in Ubout one minute. Tho air in a moment was filled with falling bodies. Scmo fell on tho top of carriages, three or four ou tho backs ol frightened horses, others camo down turning over and over in the air, and otio heavy man struck a policeman on tho shoulder and beat him to tho ground. Most ol them escaped dangerous injury and they dived under horses' bellies aud without hats-or overcoats fled through the country. Ona man, Edward Walali, who weighs 200 pounds, dived head foremost through a window.. His hoad struck a projecting stone and his skull was crushed in from above tho t«mple to his lower jaw bono. Ue died instantly.

THE SUNNY SOUTH.

Midwlntor Amusoiuents In Alabama—Sum. inary Justice.

When tho citizens of Creenville, Ala., arose Friday they saw two dead bodies dangling from above the court honsesiepsThursday night late two strangers went to .Jailer Horgainor house and told him they had a prisoner, lie went with them to the jail, where ho was met by a mob o* a hundred ariued and masked men, who were hidden bohind a fenco wlLlt drawn pistols. They demanded the keys, which Mr. Bergainor surrendered. Tho cells of John Hipp and Charles Keliv, tho alleged miirderors of Tax Collector C. J. Armstrong, of Butlor county, woro opened, and both men wero taken out and hurrie' to tho court house yards with ropos about their necks, and they wero immediately hanged above the court house steps. Tho coroncr'S jury roturnod a verdict ol "hailed by unknown persons."

Swallows ns Carrier Iir(ls.

it seems to be quite possible that the swallow will prove a successful rival to the carrier pigeon iu its peculiar line of service. The idea of domesticating this little feathered favorite has been taken up in.France.the exigencies of war having suggested the possibility of its usefulness. A Frenchman lias been experimenting with tho birds for years. He has managed to tame them, and make them love their cage so that they return to it after a few hours' liberty.

The birds spend the winter in their home.and do not change their residence with the change of seasons. On this point their master says that, if the swallows migrate, ho thinks it must be loss ou account of che cold than for tho want of their regular food.

They live on iasects, aud when these disappear with the coming of fair weather in tho Autumn, the swallow take their leave so as not to die of hunger. With food to its liking provided, tho swallow goes abroad in January, and return again to its coto as freely us it does in July.

The.speed of these messengers can he judged from a single experiment. An uutraiued swallow haviug its nest on a farm near Roukaix, was caught and taken in a cage to Paris, where it Was set at liberty. In less than an hour ana a half he was back at tho farm.

It had passed over about two hundred and lift}- kilometres, a little more than one hundred and fifty-tivo miles, in ninety minutes. It is asserted that the trained ones will still do belter, hut how much better they can do will not be known until the art of training them has been further developed. 'Their great speed and their diminutive fcrnis are what especially recommend t^e swallows for use in war. It would not be an easy matter to shoot such carriers on tho wiug, aud thov would very likely out-fly auy trained haks.—YouWs Comvininn.

Dynamite and Powder Trust.

Tho dynamito and powder mills of Germany have just formed a trust. The agreement will bo binding to all par. ties till 1925. Any mill owner who violates it will bo liable to heavy fines in aggravated cases sis high as $31)0,• 000. All tho profits of all members of tho trust will be pooled. Sixty per cent of them will go to the dynamite manufactui-era aud the rest to the paw der-iueu.

OTHER WBW& ITEMS.

Fires of 1892 cost Muncie $4i:s,605. ThtrSouth Dakota Legislature met at Florre on the 3rd, 8 The public debt statement for Dccembcr shows a slight Increase of the debt.

An unknown! woman was found fro/on to death at Kolcomo-, Tuesday morning. A dog killing, pork stealing sind corn theiving epidemic has struck lin^llsh..

Miss Nannie Ray, of Attica, committed suicide by hanging with a truivk strap. Prof. Horsford, tho noted chemist, died suddenly from heartdisease, at Cambridge. Mass., Monday.

A combination of piano manufacturers ins been formed at Jersey City, and a trusf Is likely to bo formed.

Tho Delaware Legislature met at Dover. Tuesday. Tho Governor discussed tt*( tariff in his message-

Fin* in the Fort Wayne Electric Com pany's plant, Tuasday, caused an upproxl maWj loss of 3150,000.

Wm. A. Johnson, of Franklin, has beei appointed to succeed Judge Hackney, ol the Shelby-Johnson circuit court.

Frank Baumgartuer, of the Evansvillc Ore department, was killed bv a run-a-way while going to a fire, Monday night.

A locomotive exploded at Franccsville. Tuesday, killing W. W. McCarthy, of Indianapolis, and Harry Buck, of LaFayotte.

Tho Licensed Saloon Keepers Leagut demand the enforcement of the city ordinance taxing soloons Siro a vnar. at Madieori.

The Oregon Legislature convened at Portland, Tuesday, and the Senate wat organized by u,. Populist-Democratic fusion.

Ed. KerchofF,ot Huntington, celebrating New Year's-Day with-at* old shot gun. lost his left hand by the bursting of tin barrel.

Tho California Legislature met, Tuesday, at Sacramento. Republicans organized the Senate Democrats- organized tin House. r,

Chairman-Carter, whr. is in Washington, says that the-Democrats, aided by tb Populists, will organize the next Sciiati early in March.

The Republicans organized both branches of the North Dakota Leg'slatun at Bismarck on the 3rtl. Senat Cus will probably be re-elected..

Henry L. Mitchell, of Tampa. 1 wis inaugurated Governor of Florida on the ard. The ceremonies were followed by a barbecue In tho court house square at Tallehassee.

Calvin Frary, age-d eighty-four, probably the oldest printer in Indiana, died at Indianapolis, Tuesday morning, liavinu been connected with the business tor seventy years.

It is announced on reliable authority that Seuator Carlisle, of Kentucky, has U'Mi tendered tho treasury port folio in President-elect Cleveland's cabinet, ami that he will accept the position.

The residence of Col. Dick Toinpson. at Terre Haute, was badly damaged by lire, Monday, and his daughter, who was sick in bed, was carried out by the llremen barely in time to prevent suffocation by smoke.

Investigation lias proved that two o! the Cleveland electors in Illinois are ineligible. It is probable, however, that tlx1 entire vote of the State will be cast foi Cleveland, as Republicans manifest ndisposition to contest the right of the twi disqualified electors to vote.

By a decision in a case involving foui seats in tho Kansas Legislature, the Supreme Court leaves the Republicans oil' majority in the House, and that party wiU organize tho House, but on joint ballot the Democrats will hold the balanco of power, providing no further action is taken ii: other contested cases now befor* the court, The Legislature will convene next. week. Twenty-four contests have !»cen filed against Republicans and seven against Democrats.

Tho Nebraska Legislature met at Lincoln, Tuesday. An attempt to organiz. tho showed on a strict party vote—Republicans, 14 Populists, 1-1 Democrats, 5. Tin Senato adjourned. The House organized by electing James N. Gallin, independent. Speaker, Democrats voting with the independents. The result of the day showei a combination of Populists and Democrats, and makes the re-election of Senator Paddock doubtful.

Tho Legislature of Pennsylvania met. Tuesday. Gov. Pattisoivs message was read in both branches. Labor troubles claimed a larger share of his remarks, more especially tho affair at Moorewoocl and Homestead. The cost of tho former to the Stato was 835,350, and of the Homestead affair $430,050. The National Guard of Pennsylvania is highly commended,and also tho work, of the World's Fair commission.

The Democrats and Populists in Montana havo secured control of the House ol Representatives, practically assuring tin election of a Democratic United Sutcs Senator. On joint ballot tho Legislature will stand, thirty-six Democrats, throe Populists and thirty-two Republicans. Tho threatened split in the Legislature is therqhy avoided, and State, legislation can now be attended to. S. T. Ilauser is In the i^ad'iojf the Senatorial plum.

The New York Legislature convened at Albany, Tuesday noon, Win. Sulzer, of New York city, was elected

Speaker of

th:

House. The Governor's message was read and adjournment was had for ono week. Governor Flower showed that the Stat has financial obligations of £150,000, and a balance in the treasury of §1,701,407, and announces the expenditures by tho Station account of the Buffalo strike to have been $193,047.

Gov. McKinley, In his message to theOh'io Legislature, which met. Tuosday, shows a doficit of 509,888.32, and says that the revenues of the Stato will not justify appropriations equaling those of tho past year. He advises that appropriations be kept withiu the estimated revenues, lays especial stress upon the necessity for laws to protect street car passengers, and recommends liberal treatment of the Ohio World's Fair Commission.

For so mo tinio David Griggs, a young man living in Mooresvllks,has shown symptoms of insanity, and within tho pas few days ife became a raving maniac. Tuosday, as Jabin Thompson, one of his nearest neighbors, was passing his house, jriggs rushod out and attacked him with a largo knife, Inflicting several wounds upon his face and hoad. Griggs afterward ittaclced a young man named Hutton with a hatchet and carving knife, and only by strategy did Mr. Hutton succeed in oscaping. The sheriff was summoned by telegraph, and by the aid of half a dozsa volunteers Griggs was overpowered and removed to the county jail.

TUB LADIES.

A

To tTl budding, aspiring author* may be commended the statistic* concerning novels given in a late English publication. During tho last six years 1,600 novels have been published which havo succeeded so far that they were asked for at the libraries. About the same number were published which were not asked for and failed. These 1,GOO boolt* were written by 92iJ people, of whom 50 form a company far in advance of the rest, so far as popularity is concerned, and 70 form a company wellbehind the iirst 120 make up a band who have so far succeded as to create a small demand for their work, and the others have reaped neither pecuniary advantage n."r fame. Which, being summed up in figures, indicates that, of those who writo one's chance of being one of the 50 novelists in some 8,000 who succeed is 1-70, and his chance of remaining in obscurity and neglect is represent ed by the fraction 326-350, which is rather a discouraging certainty.

I

,,, .. GIRLS' COATS. The little girls are delightfully picturesque in the new cloaks. Look at the one in the picture. In th* original it is made of Cashmere. The wadded yoke is of the ordinary shape and the pleated folds are sewed on straight beneath it all round. It' is trimmed with fur, and ornamented

by large rosettes of ribbon, the long ends of which fall down to the bottom of the cloak. The turned-down collar is trimmed either with feathers or fur. The sleeves are puffed, either wadded or lined, gathered in at th« wrist, and trimmed with fur. Tho rosettes and ribbons are not absolutely necessary, and their omission does not injure the general effects.

A STRIKING COS1JMK.

In pleasing contrast with the mannish effects of some of this season's ntyles, is the womanly tone of the jostume shown in the illustration.

It depicts a id crepe gown, madi princess style and set off with applique ornaments of black velvet ovei tulle. The joke is of surah of th« same shade a3 the stuff,pleated as indicated. Tho sleeves also of th« surah are drnped on the shoulders in the same manner as the yoke.

A TRAVELING DlttfSS

The Rev. C. L. Dodson (Lewis Car roll), the bachelor tutor of Oxford, and known the world over as tht author of Alice in Wonderland, refuses to visit tho grown-up girla who read his book when they wer little. He is bashful^/dnd be fear* they may become senjkimental.