Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 January 1887 — Page 12

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JODBNAL, SUNDAY, JANUARY 9, 1887 TWELVE PAGES.

READING FOR THE DAY. Sunday-Sclmol L.ftsuu for Jan. 1C, 1887. Cain and Abeu Gen. iv, 3-10. Golden Text Am I my brother's keeper? Gen. iv, I). Adam and Eve were driven out of Eden, and the way back was made impassable. Children were Lorn to them, but they were born nnder the curse of the fall, and there were e trance and .strong manifestations of evil tendency. We know that Seta was born not long after the death of Abel, and this fact fixes the age of Cain and Abel as cotnewhere near 125, and this was considered youth in that period of the world. It has beon computed by actual reckoning that at the time of the death of Cain there would have been over a half million of descendants from Adam and Eve within the 125 years of their leaving Eden. 3Iarriage3 were not only contracted at a very early age, but the marriage of brothers and sisters must have been common then, as we know it was in Eirypt many fenerations further on. We are told that they tooK up separate lines of labor, Cain doing the work of a farmer and Abel that of a shepherd, and in this way they helped each other. There are evidences in the fact that they both brought sacrifices to God; that they were trained to a belief in God, and His tiaims and authorities. We can easily see that the time spent in Eden, though but a few days, yet gave op-

portunity for Adam and Lve to gain many to the nature of God, and not fundamental conceptions of reclear ideas as a few of the lii?ion. GENERAL APPLICATIONS. 1. The relieion of duty in contrast to the religion of faith. Cain's was a formal offering, presented in accordance with custom, and as a duty. Abel's was an offering of faith and lore; his choicest and oest of the first fruits was eiven to God. How many of our sacrifices and religious service are done from a sense of duty rather than love. 2. God holds us responsible for our actions and the evil caused, and does not accept as au excuse that we did not foresee the great possible evils. We are responsible for our ungovernable tempers, as we ought to have curbed them long ago. 3. God holds ns responsible for our brother's keeping. Tho ills and sufferings of many grow out of the avai ice and bard-heartedness of the few who are rich. Employers have much to do with the ead condition of those who labor for them, and God will hold them to an account. There is a judgment-day approaching, and it may come far sooner than we think. HEART TRUTHS. 1. Without the shedding, of blood there is no remission of sin. Atonement is the first word in the expression of human need. The altar stands nearest to Eden. Sacrifice opens the door of hope naught else, now, or ever. 2. Unrighteous anger is willful murder. The heart is the secret of life. Out of it come all things eood or evil. It is a veritable Pandora's box unless it be a treasure house for God. ''Keep thy heart" all else will be rieht, 3. "Be sure your sin will find you out." None can escape God's detections. The very earth turned "State's evidence" against Cain. The universe is a whispering eallery to proclaim crime. The end is death. There i3 no escape from penalty nve at the Cross. Hither hie, and find refuge! Religious Notes, Franklin: If men are so wicked with religion, what would they be without iff In the human breast Two'master passions cannot co-exist. Campbell. . The record of Mr. Spargeon's Tabernacle shows that he has received into his church from the world 10,80'J members. Evangolical churchmen in London are erieved at the introduction rf Roman Catholic emblems tnto St. Paul's Cathedral and Westminster Abbey. Railway carriages fitted up as churches are, on Sundays and saints' days, to bor attached to trains in Russia, in order to give the officials an opportunity of attending service. Edwards: Whatever our place allotted to us by Providence, that for us is the post of honor and duty. God estimates us, not by the position we are in, but by the way in which we fill it. As some rare perfume in a vaso of clay, Pervades it with a fragrance not its own, So. when Thou dwellest in a mortal soul, All heaven's own sweotnea3 soems around it thrown. Mrs. 11. B. stowe. After a residence of many years in India, Rev. Dr. J. M. Thoburn finds tho winters of this country very trying to his health, and he is cow under medical treatment at Clifton Springs, N. Y. A man in Ontario can repeat perfectly ICG chapters of the Bible, fifty-eijrht psalms, and every collect, epi3tle and gospel in the ecclesiastical year, according to the English Church Prayer-book. . Emerson: Every man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he do not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun. Now Orleans Southwestern Christian Advocate: Brethren, please do not speak of your assessment The Methadist Episcopal Church does not assess its members; it apportions to each his share of work. "Apportionment," not "assessment," is the word to use. jHrs. r. J. van Aistyne, Detter Known as Fanny J. Crosby, author of "Safe in the Arms of Jesus," and other poems of like religious feeline, is residing in New York city in comparative poverty, it is said. She is a Methodist, and be came blind when 6ix years of age. All God's angels come to us disguised. Sorrow and sickness, poverty and death. One after other lift their frowning masks; And we behold the seraph's face beneath. All radiant with the glory and the calm Of having looked upon the face of God. LowelL So oft the doing of God's will Our foolish wills undoeth! And ?et what idle dream breaks ill Which raorninerlifht imbdnethl And who would murmur or misdoubt When God's great sunrise finds hiiu ouJ JHrs. Browning. As a result of the missionary work of "the American Sunday-school Union dnnne the past Year 1.C18 new Sunday-schools have been established where but few religious privile-cs of any kind had before existed, ana over six thousand scholars , have been gathered into these schools. A pastor in a State adjoining this, preacMsS from the text, "Beware of Covetousness," said: "Last Sunday night the collection in this house amounted to $1.80, and the dollar was thrown in by a Baptist brother from Richmond, Va., who happened to be hr, and did not know any better. The other 600 of you dropped in the 80 cent?." The relieious monthly, "The Southern Evangelist," published in Atlanta during the past year, has been sold by Mr. W. A. Hemphill to Rev. Sam W. Small. Mr. Small has transferred the Evangelist to Nashville, Tenn. He has changed, it to a weekly, and the fmt issue under the now management is remarkable bright and readable. , Ruskin: I have been more and more convinced, the more I think of it, that, in general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes. All the other passions do occasional good; but, whenever pride puts in its word, verythinsr goes wrong; and what it might really be. desirable to do, quietly and innocently, it is mortally dangerous to do proudly. Tf thon wculdst walk in light. Make other spirits bright. Who, seekiusj for himself alone, ever entered he avenf Iu blflsising we are blest; In labor find our rest; If we ben'j not to tho world's work, heart, and hand, s-ty and brain. fi We have lived our life in vain. Carolino Seymour. In Encador there is a church.it is said, for rrir 150 inhabitants, and 10 per cent of the population are priests, monks, or nuns. The trists control the eovernment in all its Dranches, and 272 days of the year are observed q fA9t or fast da vs. One-fourth of all the nrooerty belongs to the church. Seventy-five per cent, of tho people cau neither read nor write. . ." Kotnft bad bova clued the leaves of . the old nroaeher's Bible tocether. The next Sunday he read, on the bottom of one page: "When Noah vm 120 vears old he took unto himself a wife, who was" then turning the page "140 cubits inr 40 cnbita wide, built of gopher wood ana

covered with pitch inside and out." The old man was puzzled, verified it by a seeond reading, and then said: "My friends, this is the -first time I ever met this in the Bible, but I accept it ae evidence of the assertion that we are fearfully and wonderfully made." A Young Men's Hebrew Association, for social, moral and physical improvement on the plan of the Y. M. C. A., has been started in Brooklyn, N. Y., by the encouragement of five hundred of the most prominent Hebrews of the city. One of the rabbis in his address at the opening said: "Young Hebrews are living for everything but the church; they must understand that there is something bes. les money making." President Harrison taught for several years in a humble Sabbath-school on the banks of the Ohio. The Sabbath before he left home for Washington to assume the duties of chief magistrate of the nation, he met his Bible-class as usual; and his last counsel on the subject to his gardener at Washington, when advised to keep a dog to protect his fruit, was, "Rather set a Sabbath-school teacher to take care of the boys." The great evangelistic movement in Philadelphia will commence with the close of the week of prayer, on the second Monday in January. But before that time every preparation has been made for interesting the people in this general religious revival. On Dec 1 ' those who hav been appointed by the committees will commence house-to-house visitation and personally invite all to attend the services. The denomiRations that have united in this movement are Baptist, Christian Disciples, Coneregational, Lutheran, Mennonite, Methodist Episcopal, Reformed Church in America (Dutch Reformed), Reformed Church of the United States (German Reformed), Reformed Episcopal, Reformed Presbyterian and United Presbyterian. The Rev. Dr. R. F. Sample, of Minneapolis, Minn., has accepted the call extended to him by the Twenty-third.street Presbyterian Church, and is expected to enter upon the pastoral duties of his new charge in about two weeks. Dr. Sample has been pastor of the leading Presbyterian church in Minneapolis for twenty years. 116 went there when the citv had a population of only 15,000; now it has 150,000. The church has grown up under his charge, and the members were unwilling that he should leave them, but his health was unequal to the vigorous climate of Minnesota. Dr. Sample succeeds in his new church the Rev. Dr. Erskine N. White, who has been its pastor for twelve years. Dr. White has accepted the appointment as secretary in the Presbyterian Board of Church extensions. He conducted the service yesterdav, and will continue to act as pastor until Dr. Sample's arrival.

A Yokefellow. Brooklyn Eaglo. "Are you at all interested iu religious workf asked the new pastor. "Indeed, I ara." replied the stranger, at the other end of the street-car; "I have a mortgage for $8,000 on the Y. M. C. A. building, the Presbyterian pastor owes me three months' rent, I've just sold two town lots to the Catholics, I'm trying to collar the Methodist vote for my son, who is running for the Legislature, and last week I picked up a Baptist deacon on a horse trade, and I hope to fall from grace if he didn't skin me out of a Morgan colt worth 200 for an old ghost that he'd doctored up to look more like a four-year-old than a dime look3 like a ten-cent piece. Say. you're the new Baptist minister, ain't you? Have you found a house to suit you yetP CAPTUKED A PRIZE. A Clerk Elopes with and Marries a Young Lady Worth a Cool Million. Chicaaro Special. x The upper ten of Chicago's society is much perturbed over tho elopement of Mr. Joseph Cunningham and Miss Althea Stone. The groom is twenty years of age and the bride sixteen. The latter is the daughter of Mrs. II. O. Stone, the proprietor of millions. Cunningham is a callow clerk in his father's insurance office. However, it should be stated that Professor Swing has been paying attention to the mother of the girl for three years, and has proposed to her a number of times. In each case his attentions were not favorably received. Every paper in Chicago suppressed the social sensation on Monday, but to-day the affair proved to be more serious than was expected. The pair were married in Milwaukee, and although they are not of age, the marriage is considered legal in that city. Judge Knickerbocker and a posse surrounded the house of the elder Cunningham to-night and endeavored to break in, but Cunningham told the incensed jurist that if he didn't leave his premises he would break his neck. Miss Stona is worth $1,000,000 in her own name. Although jToung. she has appeared in the social circles frequented by the Pullmans, Fields and the Leiters. Telegrams from the young people were received this evening, and the reports say that they are well. When Mrs. Stone heard of her daughter's escapada she fell into a swoon, and is in a serious condition. Gymnastic Apparatus. A "professor of physical culture" makes these remarks in the Philadelphia Times concerning the usual apparatus found in gymnasiums: I think it ought to be split up into kindling wood. Young fellows get into a gymnasium and see an athlete on the bars. Tney try to do what he does, and the chances are they fall and break bones or strain beyond repair some cord or muscle which they have not been accustomed to use. All exercises that bring the weight of the body on the arms stretched above the head are bad. The position is unnatural and strains the cords of the breast Horizontal bars and the rings are not health-giving devices. A man wasn't made to hang head downward. If he were he would have a prehensile tail. He can get all the exercise he needs with his head higher than his feet, and his blood flowing in its natural course. I don't approve of foot-racing either, because it puts too much strain upon the heart and blood vessels. Moderate running, however, is all well enough when one is accustomed to it. Some people think walking affords ai the exercise one needs, but that is not so. It exercii?? only the legs at the expense of the body. It i ood, but it is not enough. Carried to an extreme It is positively bad. If you ever develop one 6et of muscles and neglect the rest, the neglected muscles and organs deteriorate as fast aa the others develop, m Equalizing Home Work. Arkansaw Traveller. "I have about come to the conclusion that no man is good enough for even a passably good . . . . . i ii woman," said the proprietor oi ino ooa range all-sorts store, as he glanced at a lank fellow who had Just made a disastrous raid on a box of matches. "Jiverv man has an easier time tna; m 13 TTIIP. - "I've thought of that a thousand times," re plied old man Gatewood, known through the neighborhood a3 Lazy Sam. "I know that I have an easier time than my wife, but Im bringing the thing down mighty nigh equal now. I don't believe in allowing a woman to mighty nigh kill herself at work, let me tell you. and for -some time I have been shaping my points so that she won t have such a hard time. "Equalizing it, ehl" "That's exactly what I'm fioin', gentlemen. Last year my po' wife had to cnop all the wood, and fetch all the water." "And you have relieved her of that, ehr "Well, partly; she only has to chop the wood now. My boy has got to be big enough to tote tho water. I tell you what's a fact,' a man ought to think of these things." Tailor-Made Girls. Philadelphia Times. "There goes a tailor-made girl," said a Chest-rut-street ladies' tailor to the stroller in the afternoon as they stood at the front of the store looking out at the men and women passing up and down Chestnut street. The young woman had a fine figure covered with a white cloth jacket that fitted very tight. "Tailor-made girls don't mind the cold weather," continued the tailor. "or at least they don't appear to. Now that coat cost aa much as a rich warm wrap and there's hardlv anv warmth in it, but a woman with a fine figure. , or at least nine cut of every ten, would rather wear one of those tight-fitting jackets and freeze than wear a wrap that would hide ber figure. The women who wear circulars and big cloaks are mostly poor figures. Just watch the girls who wear tailor-made coats and jackets and you'll observe that they have forms to be proud of. and that they're envied by the women who wear wraps. r Will Meet Later. Chicago Trlbnne. - "Ouida" and "Clara Belle" have never each other. But they will meet in tho world. There'll be no trouble about that. met next

OUR YOUNG FOLKS' COLUMN. Little Probabilities. When he frowus his mother eries: "Cloud 3 to-day and gloomy skies." When his tears fall soft and fast, "Summer showers that will not last." When he romps in noisy play, "Boisterous winds and high to-day." When he's sweet, and still, and grave, 'Pair and clear a warmer wave.1' Wnen he cries with might and main, "Storms and cyclones, wind and rain." When he's bright, and blithe, and gay, "Sunshine, breeze a perfect day." Ah. you look so grave and wise, "Little Probabilities." Sin'-e you make for us our day, Listen, baby, when we pray Hive ns only pleasant weather; Banish frowns and tears together. Youth's Companion. Juvenile Games. "What shall we play first?'' Oh, some funny game that will brighten our wits a little and put us into shape for more hilarious fun. The game is "Farm-yard," and you must all sit in a nice row while auntie goes about and gives you each a name. One will be the cow, another the sheen, another the house dog. the little duck, the old hen, and so on through a long list of all the living things that inhabit a farm-yard. . Then the best story-teller in the crowd begins a delightful yarn about 'Once upon a time an old beggar came up to a farm-yard and found the house-dog sitting in the yard." Then the person who happens to be the "house-dog" for the time being must bark. The story must be woven so as to make mention of all the animals named, and at each mention of its name the rooster must crow, the sheep bleat, and each one make the noise peculiar to his kind. If you forget your part and bark like the dog when you should bray like the donkey, or do any other wrong thing, you must pay a forfeit, which must afterward be redeemed. But "Farm-yard' beconips tiresome after a while, and you can then play "Mistletoe Blind man's Buff," wMkh is a very nice game, especially if there are lots of pretty cousins present. You must all stand in a circle, and get courted out in some of the old rhvmos like this: As T went up the apple-tree All the apples fell on me; Bake a pudding, bake a pie; Did you ever tell a lie? One, two, three spells out goes she. Or, if you don't like the rather naughty word in that veree, you may use this for counting out: .j. Ana, mana, dickory dock, The mouse ran up the eight-day clock; Hare, ware, from, whack; Allico, ballilco. we, wo, why. crack! One, two, tbvee, out goes she. This isn't quite so personal, but just as eood. The last person left in the circle is "It," and must have her eyes bound with a pretty new handkerchief, and led underneath the piece of mistletoe bough suspended from the central chandelier, and after some one turns her about three times and sing3 out: Can you pick up needles? Can you pick up pins? Ah, no! Then the fun begins. She puts out her hands and tries to hunt somo one. Every time she gets under the mistletoe bough the youth nearest is entitled to kiss her, and he may kiss any other girl in the room whom he catches under the ' mistletoe. If she tells who it is who is so audacious, then the bandage is removed, and the kisser becomes the blind man. Of course the girls wouldn't kiss the boys, so it is arranged that when the boy catches the girl, if he can tell who she is, he may kiss her;

if not, he must again try hi3 chances. It takes quite a long time to tire of "Mistletoe Blindman," but the girls dou't care to have too much of it, and so they cry "enough. Uh, yon want some quiet game, now; youre all out of breath and tired. Well, sit down and try your intelligence at playing "Hodgepodge Romance.'' lhe person at one end begins a thrilling romance, anything he chooses, and after he reaches a thrilling climax he may stop, and the next person must take up the story ana go on. This is great fun, if evervone is not too bashful to try, and if some one can take it down and read it over afterward, it is all the greater fun. Then if you are still tired, and want another quiet game, play "Christmas Poetry." Precocious Bertie. Detroit Free Tress. Little Bertie Miller, three yeats old, has long had a deep yearing to know what was inside tho head of bis sister s big doll. So, the other day, he found a tack-hammer, and. by aid of that simple instrument, satisfied his curiosity. "Oh, Bertie," cried his mother, as the smash of china brought her to the scene of the experiment, "how could you do it! How could you do it, BertieP "Easy," replied Bertie, with a bland and self satisfied smile. Like most children, Bertie is full of policy, and whenever he has reason to think that he is about to be scolded or punished he practices his most winning wnes to divert tne attention or secure the favor of his mother. Not long ago the latter reproved him for pinching his kitten, and said: "Now I'm going to pinch you, so you ean see how it ieels. "Oh, mamma," cried Bertie, smoothing her cheeks affectionately, "what pitty f'ekles you have! lour tecKies aintoacK lite most peo ple's is." But he got pinched all the same. On another occasion, while the farnilv doctor was making a visit in the house, Bertie stood at the window gazing fixedly at his horse, a very lean and sorry-loomng animal. "What are you thinking of, Bertie?' asked the doctor. "I t'ink your horse have such fat bones," he replied. "uey so iat aey just 'tick, out.7' A Study in Shoes, Boston Kecord. It is to be feared, on the whole, that the tinfeeling people wno say that Artie was spoiled and had no bringing up, may not be ar wrong. N&vertheless lie had t"Srb a nttes. Fof reasons of his own, he called them respectively "Vevvy" and "Pitty Baby." Pitty Baby was a weak coaxer, but Vevvy was a great disciplinarian fmd a firm believer in th ar-l'.non of the slipper. One morning in particular the Clipper Scnata E .. -.. At! . was going on in ner room, witn a wua accom paniment of juvenile remonstrance very trying to the hearts of Pitty Baby and Bridget outside the door with tears in their eyes and fingers in their ears. Presently when justice was satisfied, the dear little culprit ras released, howling like a dervish, and, banging -open the door, he burst upon the two outside. "Och, darHn'," said Bridget, "whatever in this worrld -did she do to you, sirrP "She whipped me, roared Artie, "with Pitty Baby's red shoe, ana it hurts worse than any shoe in this house." He Smiled. From a ITo:pital Report. Little I'rankie was two and one-half years old. His father died in March. Within a week an elder brother died. In July the mother was sick, and as there was another baby to be cared for, Frankie was sent to the ward. He had bad scarlet fever when six months old, and never afterward had been well. He had always been very patient, but had had a sad, pathetic look, which was pitiful to behold. His friends said that he never had been' seen to smiie. Alter ne nau oeen in tne ward some little time there came a ring at the telephone, and the message "Frankie has smiled," from hi3 nurse. That meant a good deal for Frankie. It meant comfort and rest from pain. This little fellow occupied a bed supported in the Dame of a cnud-angei wnose earin-iue was terminated by the same dread disease. At the time of writing Frankie also had passed away. Yet the comfort of his last days was without doubt greatly in creased by the soft, clean bed aud the constant care thus furnished to him. - Pnssy Wink Not a Seal Christian Cat. t'eston Commonwealth. ' "Mamma," said little Louise, "tumbuddy's killed one of my pretty pigeons. Do you think Pussy Wink would be so cruell Would she do such a naughty thing?, "No, dear," replied the mother. "I cannot believe she would. Perhaps you didn't count them correctly. "Esa 1 did

mamma. There was five yesterday, ana now

there's only four. Tumbuddr must have done it, and I think it's real too bad." The mother pacified her little one for the time, but the ioifwing morning Louise ran to her with tremuous hps, crying bitterly: "Mamma, l did see Pussy Wink with her month full of fedders, an now I hain't got but only free 'ittle pigeons, via you think she would Peso naugntyi uuy, a fort she was a real Christian cat." A Point Which Kitty Has Learned. Norwich (Conn.) Bulletin. A resident of William street has a cat that will follow him when he goes out with his gun ike a setter dog. This cat is an observing creat ure, and when she discovered that every time the head of the house went out with a gun she was feasted with a sparrow, she took to follow ing him. Shekeeps behind him, and when he snoots stops at his heels. When the oira ians she runs and retrieves like a dog. Most cats will run upon hearing fire-arms discharged. Louie. Boston Record. Louie belongs to that numerous class of fouryear olds who are always "saying things." Her auntie recently came from the West for a onei visit, and at the first meal, which happened to oe supper, stewed oysters were served. The bi valves were large and fine, and auntie, express ing her appreciation said warmly: "These oysters are certainly verv nice." "Well, who said thev wasn't!" Louie demanded, always used to the best. THE WHITNEY MAGNIFICENCE. Manner In Which the Naval Secretary Enter tains in This Era of Jefl'ersonian Simplicity. Washington Special. When Secretary Whitney took the Frelinghuysen house, on I street, with its hospitaoie traditions, there were knowing smiles upon many faces, the owners of which faces thought the comparison between tne entertainments of the two families would stand out in ooia reuei. And so it has stood out. Workmen made a com plete transformation of the house before the new essees went into it last year, jusi auouu vuw time. It is strange that a national reputation for large hospitality should be made in one year. On the east 6ide of the house it races soutn a two-story brick addition was built, affording a arge butlers pantry connectea witn me dining-room. In the rear a beautiful ball-room was erected, sixty feet deep by twenty feet high. The room was constructed upon a model alter the style of similar rooms attached to t rench palaces, and the decorations harmonize with it. The ceiling is a rounded cone. The frieze is of yellow papier-mache, ornamented with dancing figures entwined m ilowers. lhe waus, iroui the frieze to the dado, are hung with a rich red, silken fabric. The dado is lincrusta Walton, in cream color and gold. At one side of the room is a recess for the use of musicians, and the front is massed with foliage plants. Seats run all around the room, covered with red silk. At the further end of the room a magnificent fireplace and mantel of wood finely carved and finished in gold. It is thirteen feet wide and sixteen feet deep, and on each side are wooden seats. About the fireplace is tiling of Sienna marble, and the hearth is laid with Sienna and Grothe marble. The skylight m the roof, with arrangements for ventilation at the sides, is the only means or lighting the room during the day. At night the lighting is furnished from the'sides of the room. and the effect is striking, the rich gold ceiling and the red walls blending and showing a wealth of coloring under the gaslight The floor is laid in oak, in herring-bone design, and is practically covered with rugs, easily taken up when the floor is wanted for dancing upon. lhe ball-room in all its details is a fine example of the Louis XVI style of decoration. There are a few fine paintings upon the walls, among them the famous Sower. The furniture is dainty and delicate. There is a silken divan in the center of the room, and wicksr sofas and chairs have silken upholstery. Numerous small tables have baskets of flowers or curious lamps unon them. The entrance to the ball-room is through a recess from the par lors, and the walls and ceilings are hung with rich green drapery. The ball room is the livir: room of the family. Here all receptions are held, the Frelinghuysen parlors serving but as a vestibule for the Whitney splendor. Thedin-ing-room was enlarged by a recess window looking out into the garden in the rear. The woodwork is ebonized, and the walls are covered with paper in a reddish tone. These beau tiful rooms are alwnyB thronged whenever the house is thrown open. There are several hundred people there on every Wednesdav, bad as the weather has been this month, at Mrs. Whitney's informal recep tion3. Mrs. Whitnev has the rare geniality of manner and salutation that makes each person feel that his presence was greatly desired, and immediately puts one in a good humor with him self. Mrs. Whitney is an accomplished linguist, speaking most of the tongues of Europe fluently She is much sought by the diplomatic corps, the distinguished members of which are always to be met at her house. Mrs. Whitnev is a brill iant conversationalist, and is thoronghly, well read in biography, history, the philosophies and science. Her sweetly sympathetic voice, too, makes conversation with her a much-coveted privilege. Mrs. Whitney's mother was the only daughter of Nathan Perry, probably the wealthiest man in northern Ohio. He possessed great areas of real estate in Cleveland. So that, wniisB sne was nursea in luxury, mere was always thrown about the daily life that feeling of taking care of the expenditures that is now one of the lost arts among modern men of money. The power of possession and the desire to trans mit great fortunes to the next generation is not the ruling passion with men of the present The precarious hold a man has upon a fortune, the possibility that he may wake up some morning to find it has flown from him, has superinduced the philosophy held by many of enjoying each day whatever of delectation can be had out of its twenty-four hours. Secretary and Mrs, Whitney may breakfast upon 6imple oatmeal, but they sup with their friends upon the choicest viands. Last winter Mrs. Whitney's entertain ments were sumptuous Deyoujj anything ever known in Washington. Dinners, balls, recep tions ana musicaies followed each other in daz zling proximity. Small wonder the worjld at the capital grew dizzy in contemplation and m participation, for no one that left a calling card at this bountiful palace but was invited to ome festivity One eek last year there were four night events at ; the house beside,? the Wednesday afternoon reception, when everybody went who was anybody and cared to see and be seen. And the Iktgir the party the happier was Mrs. Whitney. It vrs ht is tha autumn whi;n Mrs. Whitney returned from Lenox to tha City. The fashion able families had retuT,bfed,and were living "in - i iV Lji m n . i . . . seclusion in tneir nonies. iney aia nos khow from each other who was back and who was not From the reports of her delicate condition that preceded her, no one expected Mrs. Whitney to do anything socially. But in the very first week of her return she gave a luncheon to Mrs. Cleveland, invited a score of ladies to meet her, fol lowed that by another luncheon the next week. was at home to friends on Wednesdays for a series of elaborate dinners, and, like magic, the sleeping capital wa3 upon its feet, dancing to the merry music of an early season that would have continued gay had not tne death of the ex-President caused a halt In personal apoearanee Mrs. Whitney is all that one might imagine so generous a woman to be. Favored by nature with an exquisite figure, shoulders, arms and bust of Btatuesque perfection, Mrs. Whitney is further blessed with a radiant face, fuil of subtle, sympathetic power, that attracts and holds attention. The beauti ful head is poised upon a perfect neck, the great eyes are blue, the mouth sweet and sensitive, and the lines of cheek and chin a perfect curve of beauty. The prematurely gray hair is abundant, and is worn in the prevailing high coiffure. Her well-rounded and lissome figure seems made for the beautiful fabrics she wears. Mrs. Whit ney s dress is always artistic a&d becomingly suited ror the occasion. ' Last winter she never wore anything off the half-mourning, a beauti ful velvet bodice of lavender, with tulle skirts. worn at the British minister's ball, being the oniy tones on oi oiacK ana wnite taac sne wore when standing in the receiving line at the "White House with the President,' Mrs. Whitney wore an evening dress of black silk and tulle that was very becoming, and a superb robe of white embossed velvet, garnished with ostrich feathers. Indeed, whatever Mrs. Whitney wears latest seems the most suited to her, so true is her taste in matters or dress. No better appetizer nor better regulator of the digestive organs than Axgostttba Bitters. They are indorsed aa such by all the leading phy sicians.

HINTS FOR THE HOUSEHOLD. The attention of aoglomaniacs is called to the

fact that Victoria never eats any bat stale bread. A table-cover of gs?vy-blue satin sheeting has a flight of swallows embroidered across it . The birds are worked in the natural colors and rorm an effective decoration. Excellent Tooth-powder Suds of castile soap and spirits of camphor, of each an equal quantity; thickened with equal quantities of pulverized chalk and charcoal to a thick paste; apply with the finger or brush. It has been shown by actual experiment that the water which streams down the inside of a window of a closed sleeping-room is so impreg nated with the noxious exhalations of the sleep ers that one drop is sufficient to poison a rabbit To pickle pigs' feet scald and scrape them un til perfectly clean and white, then boil in salted water until very tender, or, as the old rule says, until they may be pierced with a straw. Then pack them in a jar and pour hot spiced vinegr.r over them. To make orange jelly cover one box of gela tine with one pint of cold water and let it soak one hour; then add one pint of boiling water and one pound of sugar. Stir until the sugar is dissolved, then add one pint of orange juice. strain and turn into molds to harden. This should stand at least twelve hours. Cut the crumb of a French roll into lengths as thick as your finger and any shape you may desire. Soak them iu some milk to which vou have addod an egg, a little sugar and some nut meg and cinnamon; when well soaked fry a nice brown, and serve with a sauce made of butter, sugar and wine. These are called Spanish frit ters. New York Mail: A turkey stuffed with mush rooms was one of the "features' of a recent din ner party in town, and at the same feast the icecream came in the form of boxes, the covers of which, lifted off, disclosed crystallized fruits within. The dinner was given bv a representa tive of the class that "never does anything by halves." This fig pudding is liked by many persons: Six ouuees of suet 'minced as fine as flour, six ounces brown sugar, three-quarters of a pound of gratod bread, half a pound of minced figs, one teacupful of milk and some grated nutmeg. Mix all well together; add one egg well beaten, and boil in a mold for four hours. Serve with a sweet sauce. For an economical pudding take thin slices of stale bread, butter them on both Bides, cover the bottom of a pudding dish with them and spread jam of any kind over them; then add another layer, and so on until the dish is full. Have a thin layer of buttered bread on the top. Serve hot. with cream or a custard made of a pint of milk, one cup of sugar and two eggs. For biliousness the editor of the Boston Med ical and Surgical Journal savs a plain diet of bread, milk, oatmeal, vegetables and fruit, with lean meat and fresh fish, is best Exercise in the open air. The victim of an acute attack will be righted by (1) abstinence, (2) porridge and milk, (3) toast, a little meat, and fish, and ripe fruit, thus coming to solid food gradually. To make a good but not expensive plum pud ding chop half a pound of raisins, half a pound of sultanas, two ounces of candied peel and half a pound of apples; mix with half a pound of beef suet, one pound of bread-crumbs, a quarter of a pound of flour, half a pound of sugar, a little spice and a pinch of salt; put sufficient new milk to make the mixture rather stiff; butter a basin, put in the pudding and boil for six hours. This quantity will make a large pud ding. , A good molasses cake is made by this recipe: One cup of sugar and one cup of butter beaten to a cream; add three quarters of a cup of molasses, two eggs beaten light, one cup of mi'k with one teaspoonf ul of soda dissolved in it, four cups of flour sifted with two teaspoonfuls of cream tartar. Mix all thoroughly together and add one cupful of currants washed, dried and dredged with flour, one cupful of raisins also dredged with flour, two teaspoonfuls of ground cinnamon and one o ground cloves. Bake in two pans. To make mutton-curry, put a breast of muttou in a stew-pan; put on it two quarts of water and simmer it slowly for an hour and a half; cut in slices a large onion, and brown it nicely in a frying-pan with a little butter; add to jt a heaping teaspoonful of curry-powder and a little salt; take tne meat from tne broth and stir in the curry; put the meat back into it and simmer slowly for an hour longer; then lav it on a hot dish and pour the gravy over it; add a very little browned flour to the gravy at the last if it is not thick enough. A bag for soiled collars and cuffs may be made out of fancy Turkish towels, to be had anywhere lor twenty-live cents apiece. 'I hose with blue. pink or yellow grounds, and a brocaded pattern of raised wnite upon them, are especially prettv, The bags are made by doubling the towel, and seaming the edges to within four inches of the top, not including the fringe. These flaps are then turned over so as to make a sort of little lambrequin, and aline of stitching put about a third of an inch from the top, thus forming a hem in which to put the draw-strings. Next run number three ribbon through the hem, so that it will draw from both sides, and finish the bag by a large bow of ribbon upon the front, just below the fringe. Pink and blue ribbons mixed are pretty upon either blue or pink bags, This oyster pie is delicious: Take,one hundred oysters out of their liquor, one at a time, so ae to free them from any portions of the shell that might adhere to them. Drain them; pour off half tho liquor into a stew-pan, salt it to your taste, stir in one gill of cream, one ounce and a half of butter rolled in grated cracker, and a lit tle cayenne pepper; boil two eggs hard, chop them up and mix them with as many bread crumbs as will cover the top of your pie; season the bread and egg with cayenne pepper and salt. make a rich paste, line the sides of your piedish, put iu the oysters, pour the hot liquor over them, strew the bread crumbs on the top, cover tne whole with a lid of pasta, cut an opening in the center of the top crust and ornament it with flowers or leaves made of the paste, bake it and serve it hot As soon as the crust is done take the pie out of the oven. Wht a T?ri1e Explained to Her Husband Sap fpuicisco Report. - v. . . . ,4: l miaes ao suca queer things cowadays. l quite remember when, in the extreme South, the bride was as eager to look lovely at all tim63 to her husband as she had been to her sweetheart' But here, if the bride is following a course that is to add to her beauty, as verv taauy are nowaaays, she aots toot allow an interruption because she is doing such an ordinary thing as getting married. Think of a brid-i sufficiently self-pos-set&ed to say to her bridegroom of a few hours: "Well, my dear boy, my complexion, which looks so nice, would be very wretched if I did not cover it every night with a mixture that has an egg beaten jn it; over this, to keep it from soiling the pillow and to keep the air out, I tie a quilted mask with openings for my eyes, nose and mouth, and I can't think of stopping it now. You would have to know it a little later on, and you might as well get used to it in the beginning." She told this her very self, and added that men were so queer, because he made a great row about it and chose to sleep . a a lounge. A Distressing Situation. Boston "Record. A isostonian visiting Washington recentlv wens to me v.apnoi, ana tninmng it would ha . . iV . t b i .. comfortable in the gallery appropriated to ladies accompanied by gentlemen, appeared at the en trance and was stopped bv the door-keener. "No gentlemen are admitted here except with laaies. lhe old gentleman (for he was a Bostonian of mature age, as well as blue blood) was equal to tne emergency. "But my wife is in here." "Very well; go in."' On entrance he discovered, to his dismay, that tne oniy person present was a well-dressed col ored woman. On comin out the door-keeper civilly inquired: 'Dirt vrm fin T-n,-, rJfal" The Papers Had the Facts. Philadelphia Press. Secretary Lamar has at last discovered that there was considerable truth in the reports that he was about to marry. The able Secretary is a little behind time in getting the news, although is is a ciear case oi weiier iate man never.

The season has come when the calendar's tricks Sadly lessen men's chances for heaven. By remarks that they make aa thsy write 8(J When they should have put down '87. Merchant Traveler.

THE HEW YORK STORE

IESTABLISHED 1353. mi A NT Q AT T7 LD1Y1LU1111 U11JUD For tho past four years we have liad a special sale in January of all remnants and odd3 and ends from all our departments. Our sale for this year will begin on Monday, at which time we shall place all remm. nants and odds and ends on our center counters ana tho counter opposite. We have .given double the space for this sale that we have had before. 7 as it will afford us room for a betteY display and accommodate our customers much better. Jfotwithstandinsr our increased amount of space, it will be impossible to place all of our remnants and odds and ends on sale in one day, therefore we shall add to them day by day as wre get the room. Customers will see the neces sity of calling at our store every day during the remnant sale, in order to secure the bargains. We cannot enumerate the dif ferent articles, as it would take more space than we can have, but we will say that you will find some of most evervthins "frntn nur onvavnl flonnvtmmifa We would make sp ocial mention that we shall place all Toys left over from Christmas, among our odds and ends, and ll Sill ' . T 7 ine prices win ue just one-nay the former prices. We have about two hundred Books left, and thev will all be marked specially low, and they will le bargains such as will close them out quick. Y rn will rttirl eAinft onnnmllir J- vj u. urn niivi cuiliv J V, VlLv 1 1 J desirable bargains among our remnant Table Linen. We have placed about a dozen or more of Embroidered Table Covers and Scarfs among our odds and ends. You will find the lot broken up in sizes and hardly twro alike, but we want to close them out, and hence they go in among the odds and ends. There are a dozen or two of "Rpd Snrnnds in wliifr and colors that are soiled from being placed in the windows. We mention these few articles, as they are always wanted in every family, but you will see hundreds of other articles when you come m. We place these out to sell, and vc name exceedingly low prices to closo them out. P LOYES! GLOVES! We want to say a few words about those Silk Taffeta Fleeced Gloves that we have been selling at 2o cents. We have had a large sale of them, but we purchased two hundred and seven dozen, and there are some left yet. They are iu four anc six-button lengths, and elegant fitting. The price remains the same 25 cents. rJbL 1 1 IS, A---CL Q17TT; - A. K-J Jl J. J. f & CO.

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