Decatur Democrat, Volume 35, Number 44, Decatur, Adams County, 22 January 1892 — Page 6

- She Jlcnwcurtt DKOATt'R, INJD. ' ■■ BLACKBURN, - - - rrnLtsnr.n. Here is hoping that the grip -will let up on Odogressiuen and that Congressmen will get their grip and settle down to solid work. One of tbe towns laid out in Mexico by the Baron Ilirsch colonists iscalled Mosesville. The natives will bo able to furnish the bull rushes for it. An enterprising Chicago firm talks of using cranks for book agents. Some of those now in the business are worse than an ordinary bomb , thrower. The diamond of character is revealed by the concussion of misfortune. as the splendor of the precious jewel of the mine developed by the blows of lapidary. A Chicago drummer jyas thrown off a railway train by Texas cowboys because he wore a red cravat. The man who follows the sash ion in Chicago should-keep away from-Texas. The oldest daughter of the house has such a lordly time of it running things to suit herself, that we often wonder why she ever gives it all up to marry a man who will try to boss her. Life is- a search after power; and this is an element with which the world is not satisfied —there is no chink or crevice in which it is not lodged—that no honest seeker goes unrewarded. To those who are employed and busy, time flies with great rapidity. Life is tedious only to the idle. Nothing is more monotonous than the ticking of the clock to him who has nothing to do but to listen to it. Recent occurrences in New York suggest the reflection that it might be well for the landlords there to give less attention to the selection of sonorous names for their flat buildings and more to the work of making the structure fireproof. The future of the British peerage is strengthened by the birth of twins to the house of Clancarty. Lady Clancarty was better known under the name of Belle Bilton and Lord Clancartv was not better known under any name. It takes seven pages of a current magazine for a graduate of one of the women’s colleges to tell what is ‘ ‘The Greatest Need of College Girls.” Had she come from a co-educational college she could have expressed it in two words—college boys. The small size of the postal cans especially designed for the use of t Radies Wanamaker-wiil result in much saving to the Postofflce Department. It will not take the postmistress one-half so long to read them as the old type. The trouble with most men amounting to anything, is that they spend too much time watching the trains come in. Every loafer in the country knows the time-tables by heart, and spends his idle time at the depot to see that, the trains come in all right. World’s Fair officials complain that the French newspapers refuse to publish items concerning the enterprise except as paid advertising matter. Apropose of this it is pertinent to recall the fact that there are no newspaper men in France, but only jourrialiste. . ~ Most of the astronomers are discussing the probability of the reappearance of the “Starof Bethlehem” at the end of the century. Some insist that it was a spiritual conefeption, and, of course, not subject (to telescopic observation. No wayMs'-sug-gested to determine the question at present. * The dife tidings from Samoa that aborigines of that flowery isle set upon a party of United States man-o’-war’s men and beat them sorely. A series of articles gravely comparing the relative power of the American and Samoan navies may now be expected from the facile pens of the Washington correspondents. For more than sixty years William Ewart Gladstone has been in public > life, and during that period no one man has done more to shape his country’s history. Ills statesmanship bears the stamp of the highest Christian character, a pure conscience and honest purposes governing the course of his endeavor. Truly he is the grand old man. Col. Ingersoll told the editor of the National Baptist to stop sending that paper to him, adding that he takes a bath every morning and improves on the Baptist method by using soap. If the Colonel were'thc youthful progeny of a good’ old-fashioned Baptist, the eloquent scoffer would, have that mouth of his well washed out with soap, besides a thorough cleaning out generally. A manufacturer of oars has invented a machine, for shaping and polishing the spoon-shaped blades. That'is all right as far asutgoes, but he can make a fortune bjMnventiug a machine to polish the other end of the oars and bear all the blisters and sun-burns, bait the hooks, keep the boat from tipping over and pay.the gentleman who charges 40 cents an ’ . .

hour for the craft and 50 cents a dozen for mintiowg. The will of one Schuy Skaats, a late Now Yorker of wealth, is being contested. It is of evidence that he snored in church and was the persistent manufacturer of puns. The former, we boldly declare it, is not an evidence of insanity, but, when it comes to continuous punning we respectfully abide the finding of the court. The back frame of the big United States defense ram is uow in place at the Bath Iron Works, and shows the skeleton of the great hulk in all its oddity. The philosophy of the whole thing is made clear at a glance, and any man with an idea of the comparative ease with which ashot can be deflected when striking upon an angling surface will see that the gun capable of piercing that armed deck is not made yet. The only thing thestrangelooking vessel has to fear is a torpedo, and she is no more exposed to them than are any of tile big hattlCrSliips. , The florists of Chicago are an active set. They recently declared against the practice of solici|ing trade from houses of mourning before the burial of the deceased, and now they propose to organize a flower trust. A prominent dealer says that the purpose of the trust is to keep prices down by preventing hawkers from overcharging. This subterfuge, however, will not work. The people of Chicago cannot tolerate a flower trust. In a climate so mild and equable as this, flowers should be plentiful and cheap during every month in the year. There is a lay against trusts, and it will be applied to protect the beautiful as well as the useful. Chicago’s points of excellence are as numerous as the stars. Take the matter of pick-pockets, for instance. Here is Paul de Nezienoff, Vice Admiral of the Russian Navy and auburn of the Czar. He passes down Washington street. A crowd impedes his progress, and near the corner of Clark street it presses cruelty against a woman walking near him. She utters an exclamation. The gallant Vice Admiral rushes to her side. With one arm he courteously encircles her waist; with the other he holds the crowd at heart in her eyes. She is petite. Her smile Is as dazzling as the diamonds in her ears. She has dimples. She thanks the Vice Admiral so sweetly that he can taste it They separate. An hour later he discovers that he is sans watch, sans purse, sans letter of credit, sans tickets and passports, sans everything. This is art. Leap year is ushered in with the usual arguments in favor of woman’s right to propose. “If Jeems thinks kindly of Belinda,” says one authority, “very good; he may mention the matter. But if Belinda is enamored of Jeems, her lips are sealed. Out npon any such unreasonable sex discrimination as this!” This is Violent nonsense. • The attitude of woman toward man in society now is that of a queen toward a subject. The proposal, when rightly analyzed, is not the command of a ruler but the plea of a supplient. It is the woman who has the final right of choice. A man selects from among his female acquaintances the woman or women whom he will ask; the woman selects from among her suitors the man whom she will have. She has all the power to pick and choose without the humiliation of rejection. If Belinda is enamored of Jeems, neither her lips nor her eyes are sealed. If she is an American and cannot make Jeems understand the condition of her heart without striking him with the sledge hammer of a formal offer of marriage, it would be better for her to take her sentimental wares to another market; Jeems is too stupid to lie married. Leap year is a merry joke, but any attempt to put the fancy into serious practice would place a limit upon the supremacy of the sex . Indeed? Mrs. II is a young married lady, and an Episcopalian,, says the Philadelphia Record. Her husband is not a member of any church; but, as all good husbands should, he frequently attends church with his wife. His first attempt, however, to conform to the Episcopal form of service was so mortifying that he was almost tempted to forswear church-going altogether. It was on Easter Sunday, and his wife, had to coach him properly beforehand, naturally wishing him to take part with her in the service. “Remember now, my dear,” she said; “that the rector will come forward and say ‘The Lord is risen,’ and you will respond with, ‘He is risen, indeed’—yoh will remember' that, won’t-you'?” “Well, I guess I can remember four words,” replied Mr. II , a little txStily. An hour later they were at the church. The rector came forward at the proper time, in the beginning of the service, and said, solemnly: The Lord is risen.” Promptly and distinctly came the response of Mr. II : “Is He, indeed'?” , *_ Verdi pn Social Reforms* (jig. deserves credit for candor, 116” has--iStyty written on the social Condition/if Italy, in yyhich'he depreciates the' art of which lie is an acknowledged master, as well as some other honorable professions, in comparison with the humbler calling of the farmer.. What his country wants? 4 he says? is “fewer musicians, fewer doctors, and a few more agriculturists.” „It is perfectly true, and Sig. Verdi might’ have added: What the Italian agriculturist wants is a little more money and a good deal more instruction. Globe. r

DR. TALMAGE’S SERMON. SOME IMPRESSIVE LESSONS ARE FOUND IN THE ECHO.) . The Errfioea of u Moral Example tn One Family and an Example of Moral IndtflTenoe In Another—Eternity to Echo the Doing* of Time. At the Tabernacle. Dr. Talmage's subject was “Echoes,’* and his text, Ezekiel vli, 7, "The sounding again of the mountains.” At last I have found it. The Bible has in it a recognition of all phases of the natural world from the aurora of the midnight Heavens to the phosphorescence of the tumbling sea. But the well known sound that wo call the Echo I found not nntll a few days ago. I discovered It In my text, “The sounding again of the mountains.” That is the Echo. Ezekiel of the text heard it again and again. Born among mountains, and in his journey to distant exile, ho had passed among mountains, and it was natural that all through his writings there should loom up the mountains. Among them he had heard the sound of Cataracts and of tempests in wrestle with oak and cedar, and the voices of the wild beasts, but a man ot_ so poetic a nature as Ezekiel coul3not allow another ‘sound, viz. ,"TEe Echo, to be disregarded, and so he gives us in our text “The sounding again of the mountains.” Greek mythology represented the Echo as a nymph, the daughter of Eartli and Air, following Narcissus through forests and Into grottoes and every whither, and so strange and weird and startling is the Echo I do not wonder that the superstitious have lifted it into the supernatural. You and I in boyhood or girlhood experimented with this responsiveness of sound. Standing half way between the house and barn, we shouted many a time to hear the reverberations, or out among the mountains back of our home, on some long tramp, we stopped and made exclamation with full lungs just to hear what Ezekiel calls “The soundingagain of the mountains.” ...... Tho Echo has frightened many a child and many a man. It is no tame thing after you have spoken to hear tho same words repeated by tho invisible. All the silences are tilled with voieos ready to answer. Yet it would not be so startling if they said something else, but why do those lips of the air say just what you say? Do they mean to mock or mean to please? Who are you and where are you, thou wondrous Echo? Sometimes its response is a reiteration. The shot of a gun, the clapping of the-hands, the besting of a drum, tho voice of a violin are sometimes repeated many times by the Echo. Near£oblentz—that which is said has seventeen Echos. In 1766, a writer says that near Milan, Italy, there were seventy such reflections of sound to one snap of a pistol. Play a bugle near a lake of Killardey and the tune is played back to you as distinctly as when you played it. There is a well 210 feet deep at Carlsbrooke Castle, in the Isle of Wight Drop a pin into that well and the sound of its fall comes to the top of the well distinctly. A blast of an Alpine horn comes back from the rocks of Jungfrau in surge after surge of reflected sound, until it seems as if every peak had lifted and blown an Alpine horn. But have you noticed—and this is the reason for the present discourse —that this Echo in the natural world its analogy in the moral and religions world? Have you noticed the tremendous fact that what we say and do comes back in recoiled gladness or disaster? About this rosonance I preach this sermon. First —Parental teaching and example have their Echo in the character of descendants. Exceptions? Oh, yes. So in the natural world there may be no Echo, or a distorted Echo, by reason of peculiar proximities, but the general rule is that the character of the children is the Echo of the character of parents. Tho general rule is that good parents have good children and bad parents have bad children. If the old man is a crank, his son is apt to be a crank and the grandchild a crank. The tendency is so mighty in that direction that it will get worse and worse until some hero or heroine in that line shall rise and say: "Here! By the nelpof God, T will stand this no longer. Against this hereditary tendency to queerness I protest” And he or she will set up an altar and a magnificent life that will reverse things, and there will be no more cranks among that kindred. In another family the father and mother are consecrated people. What they do is right. What they teach is right The boys may for some time be wild and the daughters worldly, but watch! Years pass on, perhaps ten years, twenty years, and you go back to the church where the father and mother used to be consistent members, You have heard nothing about the family for twenty years, arid at the door of the church you see the sexton and you ask aim, “Where is old Mr. Webster?” “Oh. he ffas been dead many years!” “Where is Mrs. Webster?” “Oh, she died fifteen years ago!” “I suppose their son Joe went to the dogs?” “Oh, no,” says the sexton, “he is up there in the elders’seat. He is one of our best and most important members. You ought to tear him pray and sing. He is not Joe any longer, he is Elder Webster.” “Well, where is the daughter, Mary? I suppose she is the same thoughtless butterfly she used to be?” “Ob, no,” says the sexton, “she is tho President of our missionary society and the directress in the orphan asylum, and when she goes down the street ail the ragamuffins take hold of her dress and cry, ‘Auntie, when are you going to bring us some more books and shoes and things?” And- when in times of revival, there Is some hard case back in a church pew that no one else can touch, she goes where he is, and in one minute she has him a-crying, and the first thing we know she is fetching the hardened man up to the front to be prayed for, and says, ‘Here is a brother who wants to find the way into tho kingdom of God.’ And If nobody seems ready to pray, she kneels down in the aisle beside him and says, *0 Lord!’ with a pathos and a cower and a triumph that seem instantly to emancipate the hardened sinner. Oh, no! you must not call her a thoughtless butterfly in our presence. You see we would not stand it.” “The fact is that, the son and daughter of that family did not promise much at the start, butthey are now an Echo, a glorious Echo, a prolonged Echo of parental teaching and example. But here is a slipshod home. The parents are a godless pair. They let their children do as they please. No example to follow. No lessons of morality or religion. Sunday no better than any other day- .. The Bible no better than any other book- The house Is a sort of inn where the older and younger > people of the household stop for awhile. The theory acteq on, though perhaps not announced, is: “The children will havn to do as I did and take their chances. Tffio is a lottery anyhow, ■and some draw prizes and some draw blanks, and we will truefto luck-” " ... Skip twenty years find come back to the neighborhood where that family used to live. You meet on the street or on the road an did Inhabitant of that neighborhood, and you say, “Can you tell me anything about the Petersons who used to live here?” “Yes,” says the old,. Inhabitant; “I remember them variy' well The father and mother have !

been dead for years.” “Well, how about the children? Wbat has become of them?" The old inhabitant replies: “They turned out badly. You know the old man was about half an in tide! and the boys were all lufldels. Tho oldest son married, but got into drinking habits, and in a few years his wife was not able to live with him any longer and ’ blsjchildren were taken by relatives, and ho died of delirium tremens on Blackwell’s Island. His other sori forged the name of his employer and tied to Canada. “Ono of the daughters of tho old folks married an Inebriate with the idea of reforming him, and you know how that alwavs ends—in tho ruin of both tho ex* periinonter and tho one experimented with. Tho other daughter disappeared mysteriously and has not been heard of. There was a young woman picked out of the East Ilivor and put in tho morgue, and some thought It her, but I cannot say.” “Is it possible?” you cry out. “Yes, it is possible,” The family is a complete wreck.” My hearers, that ts just what infcht have boon expected. All this is only tho Echo, the dismal Echo, the awful Echo, tho dreadful Echo of parental obliquity and unfaithfulness. The old folks heaped up u mountain of wrong influences, and this is only what my text calls “The sounding of the mountains.” Indeed our entire behavior in this world will have a resound. While opporttriiittesfiy in a Straight line and just touch us once and are gone never to return, tho wrongs we practice upon others fly in a circle, and tijey come back to the place from which they started. Dr. Guillotine thought It smart to introduce tho instrument of death named after him, but did not like it so well when his own head was chopped off with the guillotine. So also the Judgment Day will be an Echo of all other days. Tho universe, needs such a day, for there are so many things in the world that need to be fixed up and explained. If God had not appointed such a day all the nations would cry out, “Oh, God, give us a Judgment Day.” But we are apt to think of it and speak about it as a day away off In the future, having no special connection with this day or any other day. The fact is that we are now making up its voices; its trumpets will only sound back again to us what we now say and do. This is the moaning of all that Scripture which says that Christ will on that day address the soul, “I was naked and ye clothed me; I was sick and in prison and ye visited me.” On that day all the charities, all the self-sacrifices, all the philanthropies, all the beneficent last wills and testaments, all the Christian work of all the ares, will be piled up into mountains, and those who have served God and served the suffering human race will hear what mylext styles “The sounding of the mountain 9.” Suppose tho boss of a factory or the head of a commercial firm some day comes out among his clerks or employes, and putting his thumbs in the armholes of his vest says, with an air of swagger and jocosity: “Well, I don’t believe in the Bible or the church. The one is an imposition and the other is full of hypocrites. I declare I would not trust one of those very pious people .further than I could see him.” That is all he says, but he has said enough. The young men go back to their counters or their shuttles and say within themselves, “Well, he is a successful man and has probably studied up the whole subject and is probably right” That one lying utterance against Bibles and churches has put five young men on the wrong track, and though the influential man had spoken only in half jest the echo shall come back to him in five ruined lifetimes and five destroyed eternities. You see the Echoes are an octave lower than he anticipated. On the other hand, some rainy day, when there are hardly any customers, the Christian merchant comes out from his counting room and stands among the young men who have nothing to do, and says, “Well, boys, this Is a dull day, but it will clear off after awhile. There are a good many ups and downs in business, but there is an overruling Providence. “Years ago I made ui> my mind to trust God and He has always seen me through. I remember when I was your age, I had just come to town and the temptations of city life gathered around me? but I resisted. The fact is there were two old folks out on the old farm praying for me and I knew It, and somehow I could not do as some of the clerks did or go where some of the clerks went I tell you, boys. It ts the best always to do right, and there is nothing to keep one right like the old-fashioned religion of Jesus Christ John, where did yon go to church last Sunday? Henry, how is the Young Men’s Christian Association prospering?” About noon the rain ceases and the sun comes out and the clerks go to their places, and they say within themselves: “Well, he is a successful merchant and I guess ho knows what he is talking about, and Hie Christian religion must be a good thing. God knows I want some help in this battle with temptation and sin.” The successful merchant who uttered the kind words did not know how much good he was doing, but the Echo will come back in five lifetimes of virtue and usefulness and five Christian deathbeds and five Heavens. From all the mountains of rapture and all the mountains of glory and all the mountains of eternity, he will catch wh'ht Ezekiel In my text styles “The sounding again of the mountains.” Yea, I take a step further in this subject and say that our qwn eternity will be a reverberation of our own earthly lifetime. What we are here we will be there, only on a larger scale. Dissolution will tear down the body and embank it, but our faculties of mind and soul will go right on without the hesitancy of a moment and without any change except enlargement and intensification. There will be no more difference between a lion behind the iron bars and a lion escaped into the field, between an eagle in a cage and an eagle in the sky. Good here, good there; bad here, Dad there. Time is only} a bedwarfed eternity. Eternity is only an enlarged time. In' this life our sqiil is in dry dock. The moment we leave this life we are launched for our great voyage, and we sail on for centuries quintillion, but the ship does not change its fundamental structure after it gets out of the dry dock, it docs not pass from brig to schooner or from schooner to man-qf-war. What we are when launched from this, world we will be in the world to come. Oh, God! by Thy converting and sanctifying spirit make us right here and-now that we may be right forever! “Well,” says some one, “this idea of moral, spiritual and eternal Echo is new to me. Is there not some way of stopping this Echo?” My answer is, "God can and He only.” If it is a chgerful Echo we do not want it™-*topped; If a baleful Echo we would like .to have it stopped. The hardest thing, In this world to do is to stop an Echo. Aristotle, and Pythagoras and-Isaac Newton and La Place and our own Joseph Henry tried to, hunt down the Echo, but still the unexplored roahns’of acoustics are larger than the explored*. When our first Brooklyn Tabernacle was being constructed, we were told by Architects that It was of sqch ajshape that the human voice could not be heard in it, or, if heard, it would be jangled into Echoes. In state of worriment I went to Joseph. Henry, the President of the Smithsonian Institute at Washington, and told, him of this evil prophecy, and he replied: “I •t. •

; have probably experimented more with ‘ tho laws of sound than any other man, and I have got as far as thia Two 1 buildings may seem to be exactly alike I and yet in one the acoustics may be good , and in tho othpr bad. Go on with your ‘ church building and trust that all will 1 bo well.” And all was well, Oh, this I mighty law of sound! Oh! this subtle I Echo! There is only one being In this • universe who thoroughly understands It 1 —“ Tho souuding again of tho mountains.” 1 And if it is so hard to destroy a natural Echo, how much harder to stop a moral Echo, a spiritual Echo, an Im- . mortal Echo You know that tho ! Echoes are affected by tho surfaces, and tho shape of rocks, and the depths of ravines, and the relative position of buildings? Aud once in Heaven God will so arrange tho relative position of mansions and temples and thrones that one of the everlasting charms of Heaven will be tho rolling, bursting, ascending, decending, chanting Echooa All the songs we over sang devoutly, all the prayers we have over uttered earnestly, all tho Christian deeds wo have over done will be watting to spring upon us in Echo. In the future state, whether of rapture or ruin, we will listen for reverberations of earthly things and doinga Voltaire standing amid tbe shadows will listen, and from tho millions whose god- , lessnoss and libertinism and debauchery were a consequence of his brilliant blasphemies will come back a weeping, wailing, despairing, agonizing, millionvoiced Echo. Paul will, while, standing in tho light, listen, and from all the circles of the ransomed, and from all the mahy mansions whom he helped to people, and from all the thrones he helped to occupants, and from all the gates he helped tbrong with arrivals, and 1. from all the temples he helped fill with worshipers there will come back to him a glorious, over accumulating, transporting and triumphant Echo. Oh, what will the tyrants and oppressors of the earth do with the Echoes? Those who are responsible for the wars of the world will have come back to them all the groans, tho shrieks, the cannonades, the bursting shells, tho crackle of burning cities and tho crash of a nation’s homes—Hohenlinden aud Salamanca, Wagram and Sedan, Marathou and Thermopylae, Bunker Hill and Lexington, South Mountain and Gettysburg. Sennacherib listen! Semiramis listen! Marc Antony listen! Artaxerexes listen! DariuS listen! Julius Caesar listen! Alexander and Napoleon listen! But to the righteous will come back the blissful Echoes. Composers of Gospel Hymns and singers will listen for the return of Antioch and Brattle Street, Ariel and Dundee, Harwell and Woodstock, Mount Pisgah ■ and Coronation, Homeward Bound and Shining Shore, and all the melodies they ever started. Bishop Heber and Charles Wesley and Isaac Watts and Thomas Hastings and Bradbury and Horatius Bonar and Frances Havergal listen! But you know as well as Ido that there are some places whore the reverberations seem to meet, and standing there they rush upon you, they rain upon you, all at once they capture your ear. And at the point where all heavenly reverberations meet Christ will stand and listen for tho resound of all His sighs and groans and sacrifices and they shall-seme hack in an echo in which shall mingle the acclaim ot a redeemed world, and the "Jubtlata Deo” of a full Heaven. Echo saintly, cherubic, archangelic! Echo of thrones! Echo of pala,ces! Echo of temples! Omnipotent echo! Everlasting echo! Amen! Pinching the Pink Toes. A shoe-dealer said to a New York reporter that the majority of mothers exhibited more vanity than judgment in the selection of shoes for their young children. “One will bring her baby in here,” he continued, “and ask me to try a pair of shoes on it that will look ‘real sweet? I know what that means, but I’m always sorry for the baby, -who is usually in its first short dress and as skittish as any old maid about having its feet meddled with. I don’t say that I am going to put a shoe on it a size larger than the foot seems to be, but I do; at least I get it on as well os any one could fit a foot operated by a per-petual-motion power. Then I trust to the mother’s sense for results. If it’s her first baby she will be indignant and say that she doesn’t want the ‘treasure’ to ‘look sloppy in its shoes? They must fit exactly or she won’t take them. I insist that the child’s weight will push the foot out at least a fourth of an inch, and that the shoe is just right. If she objects again I give up and find what she wants. The foot is squeezed into a tight and the baby protests by squalling. She says the seraph is teething or colicky or hasn’t had its usual nap, and she shakes it up vigorously, while declaring the shoes are ‘just lovely’'and that its papa will be delighted. “The chances are that when she wants another pair she will leave the baby at home and bring down its shoes literally burst out at the toe. She wants several pairs to take honje for trial, and I notice that the only ones I considered unsuitable are the very pair she prefers. Children would have better looking feet if they had wiser mothers, and the fault lies in the first shoe worn. One pair too short will ruin the feet, no matter how loose subsequent ones may be.’’ “Then some women learn your philosophy ?” “Yes, but after the little people have laid a foundation for corns and bnhions. I know many children between the ages of 2 and 3 years who have both these afflictions because their mothers wanted them to look cute, as they term this phrase of foot squeezing.” “Is there no change in the shape of children’s shoes ?” “None. There can’t well be, because the sole must be sufficiently broad to stand the wear and tear. Square toes are preferred to round toes because they allow free development of the toes. The spring heel, which was introduced nearly two years ago, is worn as early as two years of age and has recently become fashionable for girls in their teens. It is nothing but a slip of leather inserted between the sole and that part of the shoe pressed by the wearer’s heel. It is seldom that a smaller than No. 8 is made with a regular heel, and that is on the commonsense plan, low and broad. These and the larger sizes have a higher top than has been usual for several years. “Tell me something,about baby shoes. How high are they numbered?” “No. 4, is the first shoe out of babyhood. No. 0 has a soft sole of white kid and pasteboard, and is the successor of the little knit wool boots that are sold for babies in long dresses. Nos. 1, 2, and 3 have what is called the turned sole, sewed, together on the wrong side and turned out. There are from four to five buttons, on the side, and a black tassel is fastened at the top in front. The latest is now to have a vamp of French kid with calf uppers; or, what is st Al better, a half-boxed round toe tipped with patent leather.” ■ Corn In the field is shocked, arid when it is made into whifiky it is shocking.

J - '■ 11 DOINGS OF CONGRESS. 1■“ 1J - 1 * 1 ■ 1 MEASURES CONSIDERED AND ACTED UPON. At th* Nation’* Capital—What I* Being Dona by tho Sonata and Homo—Old 1 Matter* DUpoaod Or and Naw One* Considered. ' The Senate and House. In tbe House on tho 11th tho following , bill* were introduced: Providing for nn International bimetallic arrangement. Appropriating 8190,000 for tho display of ' tho corn product at tho World's Full*. Requesting the President to inform tho House what negotiation* have been curried on with foreign government* relative to tho re-establlsbmont and use of silver coin us 1 legal tender money. Resolutions of the National Legislative Executive Committee of ' the Farmer*'Alliance In relation to the Gcal j platform. Ordered printed In the Record. In the Senate tho following bills were troduced: For the erection of postofflce i buildings in towns where the postofflce receipts exceed 83.000 a yoart for a public building at Mammoth Hot Springs In the Yellowstone National Park; appropriating 800,000 for a public building at Bradford. Pa. Mr. Teller Introduced a joint resolution providing for an International bimetallic agreement. Among the departmental and other communications laid before the Senate by tho Vico President, on the 12tb, wore agreements for the cession of their lauds made with tho Shoshone and Arapahoe ' of the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming, tbe Indians of the Pyramid Lake reservation, and the Kickapoo Indians of Oklahoma. Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. After a abort executive session the Senate adjourned. In tho House, Speaker Crisp being still unable to preside over :he deliberations of the House, his duties were 1 again performed by the Speaker pro tem. The first business report from any of the standing committees was presented by E. B. Taylor, of Ohio, who. from tbe Committee on Judiciary, reported a bill fixing the time for holding terms of tho Circuit and District Courts in tho Northern District of lowa, providing that hereafter terms of tho District and Circuit Courts of tho United States shall bo held at. Dubuque on third Tuesday In April and first Tuesday in December; at Fort Dodge the first Tuesday in Juno and seqond Tuesday In November; at Sioux City the third Tuesday In May and first Tuesday In October: at Cedar Rapids the first Tuesday In April and second Tuesday in September. Passed. After tho usual presentation of bills the House adjourned. In tbe House on the 13th. Mr. Holman presented a resolution opposing the granting of subsidies or bounties by Congress in money, public moneys, bonds, or by pledge of the public credit to promote special private Industries or enterprises. Considerable confusion succeeded the reading of the resolution; but. without giving time for debate, Mr. Holman demanded tho previous question on Its adoption. “Will debate be in order after the previous question Is ordered on this resolution?” inquired Mr. Henderson, of lowa. “The Speaker is of the opinion that debate would not then be inorder,” replied Speaker Pro Tem. McMillan. “And this House will cease to be a deliberative body,” added Mr. Reed, of Maine. The repetition of the charge which had so frequently been hurled against himself caused the House, Democrats and Republicans, to break Into a roar of laughter. The yeas and nays on the previous question were demanded and resulted—yeas, 154; nays, 80. When the vote was announced Mr. Holman asked unanimous consent that an hour’s debate on each side be allowed. Mr. Reed wanted two hours on a side, and to this Mr. Holman consented. Mr. Simpson, of Kansas, asked if this arrangement included two Imurs for the People’s party as well as the Republican and Democratic parties. In the Senate the time was taken up by tho introduction of bills In the House on the 14th the session was consumed In debate on the Holman resolution, which in substance declares that Congress in Its appropriations shall be strictly limited to the moneys necessary to carry on the several departments of the Government. Tbe Senate took up the calendar, the first bill on it being one to aid the State of Colorado to support the school of mines. It appropriates 25 per cent, of all moneys paid to the United States for mineral lands in Colorado for the maintenance of tho school of mines established at Golden. Mr. Teller moved to amend the bill by. making the percentage 50 Instead of 25. Agreed to and tho bill was passed. Other bills passed as follows: Authorizing the construction of a bridge across tho Mississippi River in Chamberlain, in Brule County, and Lyman County, South Dakota. Appropriating 8300.000 tor the purchase of ground and the erection thereon in tho city of Washington of a building to be used as a hall of records. Adjourned till the 18th. ■ On the 15th, the debate was continued In the House on the Holman resolution. After exciting debate the resolution was adopted without amendment. It Is known as the antl-subsldy resolution. The House then took up the reports of the Committee on Accounts assigning clerks to the various committees of the House. Alter debate tho minority substitute, providing for twenty-four clerks, was defeated—yeas, 84; nays, 164 — and the majority report, which provides for thirty - seven clerks, was agreed to. Mr. Fyan, of Missouri, who has been absent on account of sickness, was then sworn in. but his health was so feeble that ho was obliged to take tho oath of office from his seat Mr. Hatch, of Missouri, introduced a bill amending tbe Presidential succession act so as to add the office of Secretary of Agriculture after that of Secretary of the Interior. No business in the Senate. Both houses adjourned until the 18th. This and That. Russell Sage has tho reputation ol being a most abstemious man. There are eighty anti-vaccinatian leagues In England and Scotland. Hermann, the Cannes perfumer, uses twenty tons of violets every year. Francis Mlhiutv Is tho most effective opposition the Keeley institutes have. It is said that the clove importers are organizing against the new odorless whisky. A restaurant-keeper says eelery wants to He in cold water an hour before it is chewed. An alloy of 78 per cent, of gold and 22 per cent of aluminum is the most brilliant known. • England and Ireland together drank 42,000,000 gallons more beer than Germany last year. To get rid of soft corns apply cotton wool soaked in castor oil. Bind it on with a piece of soft linen. Never sit on a damp cushion, moist ground, or a marble.or stone stop, if you wish to avoid a sore throat Recent experiments show that with proper appliances ordinary gaslight can be used in taking photographs. ? The frying sound in tho telephone is caused by induction from other lines, earth currents, and static discharges. The brass top of a kerosene lamp may pe reset when It has become loose by using plaster of Paris wet with water. Divers notice that when fish are frightened each variety seeks tho shelter of tho submarine growth nearest in color to the fish. By a recent appliance to kitchen ranges tho refuse from tho kitchon is thoroughly dried, converted into charcoal, and used as fuel. TitEuSeof the electric light has been found materially to reduce the amount of illness In factories which had previously used gas or oil for llghtirig. A new treatment .for yellow fever has cured every case of this disease in Santiago de CubA The principal part of the new process' consists in placing the patientin what fiLtermoda “polar” room. The largest gasometer in the world, is now being built for asLondon company. Its diameter will b 6 30() feet, and the height 180. Its capacity will be 12,000,000 cubic feet, and weight 2,220 tons, ft will take 1,200 tons of coal to fill it with gas. ~ v s ' - ..'sty

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