Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 35, Number 26, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 August 1889 — Page 6

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THE 1XD1ASA STATE SENTINEL WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1889.

THE TABERNACLE PULPIT.

DR.TALMAGE PREACHES IN MONTANA. Indorsing St. Lake The Divine Trgs the Same Degree of CoumonBcnie In Religions Matters That Is Shown In Business. The Kev. T. DeTVitt Talmage preached at Livingston, Montana, last Sunday, taking for his subject: "Outwitted by tho "World." He took for bis text t. Luke xvi, S: "The children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light," and delivered the following discourse: That is another way of saying that Christians are not so skillful in the manipulation of spiritual affairs as worldings axe skillful in the management of temporalities. I see all around me people who are alert, earnest, concentrated, and skillful in monetary matters who intho affairs of the bouI are laggards, inane, inert. The great want of this world is more common-sense in matters of religion. If one-half of the ekitl and forcefulness employed in financial aßairs were employed in disseminating the truths of Christ and trying to make the world better, within ten years the last juggernaut would fall, the last throne of oppression upset, the last iniquity tumble, and the anthem that "was chanted over Bethlehem on Christmas night would be echoed and re-echoed from 11 nations and kindred and people: "Glory to (iod in the highest and on earth peace, good will to men." - Some years ao, on a train going toward the southwest, as the porter of the eleep-irig-car was making up the berths at tho evening tide, I saw a man kneel down to pray. Worldly peopie in the car looked ce, "as much a3 toeay: "What does this mean ?'' I suppose the most of the people in the car thought that man was either insane or that he was a fanatic ; but he disturbed no one when he knelt and he distnrbed no one when he arose. In after conversation with-him I found out that he was a member of a church in my own city; that he was a sea-faring man, and that he was oa bis way to New Orleans to take command of a vessel. I thought then, as I think now, that ten such men men with such courage for God as that man had would bring the whole city to Christ; 1,000 such men would bring this whole land to God ; 10,000 such men in a short time would bring the whole earth into the kingdom of Jesus. That he was puccessful in worldly affairs I found out. That he was skillful in spiritual affairs you are well persuaded. If tuen had the courage, the pluck, the alertness, the acumen, Ihe industrj-, the common-sense in matters of the soul that they have in earthly matters this would be a very different kind of world to live in. In the first place we want more common-sense in the building and conduct of rhnrches. The idea oridaptivencss is always paramount in any other kind of structure. If Dankers meet together and"1 they resolve upon putting up a bank, the bank is especially adapted to banking purposes; if a manufacturiu company puts up a building, it is to be adapted to manufacturing purposes; but adaptiveness is not always the question in the rearing of churches. In many of our churches we want more light, more room, more ventilation, more comiort. Vast sums of money are expended on ecclesiastical structures, and men 6it down in them, and if you ask a man how he likes the church he says: "I like it very well, but I can't hear." As though & shawl factory were good for everything but making shawls. The voice of the preacher dashes against the pillars. 3Ien sit down under the shadows of tho gothic arches and shiver, and feel they must be getting religion, or something else, they feel so uncomfortable. Oh, my friends, we want more common Fense in the rearing of churches. There is no excuse for lack of light when the heavens are full of it; no excuse for lack rf fresh air when the world swims in it. It ought to be an expression not only of our spiritual happiness, but of our physical comfort, when we say: "How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord God of hosts ! A day in thy courts is better than a thousand." Again I remark, we want more common-sense in the obtaining of religious hope. All men understand that in order to succeed in worldly directions they must concentrate. They think on that one subject until their niind takes fire with the velocity of their own thoughts. All their acumen, all their strategy, all their wisdom, all their common-sense they put in that one direction, and they succeed. But how seldom it is true in the matter of peeking after God. While no man expects to accomplish anything for this world without concentration and enthusiasm, how many there are expecting after awhile to get into the kingdom of God without the use of any euch means. A miller in California manv years ago held up a sparkle of gold until it bewitched nations. Tens of thousands of people left their homes. They took their blankets and their pick-axes and their pistols and went to the wilds of California. Cities sprang up suddenly on the Pacific coast Merchants put aside their elegant apparel and put on the miner's garb. All the land was lull of the talk about gold. Gold in the eyes, gold in the ear?, gold in the wake of ships, gold in the streets gold, gold, gold. Word comes to us that the mountain of God's love is full of bright treasure ; that men have been digging there, and have brought up gold, and amethyst, and carbuncle, and jasper, and sardonyx, and chrysoprasus, and a!I tho precious stones out of which the walls of heaven wero builded. Word comes of a roan who, digging in that mine for one hour, has brought up treasures worth more than all the stars that keep vigil over our sick and dying world. Is it a bogus company that is formed? Is it undeveloped territory? Ob, no, the story is true. There are thousands of people in this audience who would be willing to rise and testify that they had discovered that gold and have it in their possession. Notwithstanding all this, what is the circumstance? One would suppose that the announcement would send the people in srreat excitement up and down our streets, that at midnight men would knock at your door, asking how they might get those treasures. Instead of that many of us put our hands behind onr backs and walk up and down in front of the mine of eternal riches and pay: "Well, if I am to be saved I will bo paved; and if I am to be damned I will be damned, and there is nothing to do about it." Why, my brother, do you not do that way fa business matters? Why do you not to-morrow go to your store and sit down and fold your arms and say: "If theee goods are to be sold thev will bo pold and if they are not to be sold they will not be sola; there is nothing for me to do about it." No, you dispatch your agent, you print your advertisement, you adorn your show-windows, you push those goods, you use the instrumentality. Ob. that men were as wise in the matter of the soul as they are wise in the matter of dollars and cents! This doctrine of

reject Him. In all the army of banners there is not one conscript. "Men are not to be dragooned into heaven. Among all the tens of thousands cf the Lord's soldiery there is not one man but will tell you: "I chose Christ; I wanted Him; I desired to be in Iiis service; I am not a conscript I am a volunteer." Oh, that men had the 6ame common-sense in the matters of religion that they have in the matters of the world the same concentration, the same push, the same enthusiasm! In the one case a secular enthusiasm, in the other a consecrated enthusiasm. Again I remark: "Wo want more common-sense in the building up and enlarging of our Christian character. There are men here who have for forty years been running the Christian race, and they have not run a quarter of a mile ! No business man would be willing to have his investments unaccumulative. If you invest a dollar you expect that dollar to come home bringing another dollar on its back. What would you think of a man who should invest 10,000 in a monetary institution, then go off for live years, make no inquiry in regard to the invest-, ment, then come back, step up to the cashier of the institution and say : "Have you kept those $10,000 safely that I lodged with you?" but asking no question about interest or about dividend. Whvy 'ou say, "That is not common-sense." Neither is "it, but that is the way we act in matters of the soul. We make a far more important investment than $10,000. We invest our soul. Is it accumulative? Are we growing in grace? Are we getting better? Are we getting worse? God declares many dividends, but we do not collect then", we do not ask about them, we do not want them. Oh. that in this matter of accumulation we were as wise in the matters of the soul a3 we are in the matters of the world! How little common-sense in the reading of the scriptures ! We get any other book and we open it and say: "Now, what does this book mean to teach me? It is a book on astronomy; it will teach me astronomy. It is a book on political economy; it will teach me political economy." Taking up the bible, do we ask ourselves what it means to teach? It means to do just one thing: Get the world converted and get us all to heaven. That is what it proposes to do. Hut instead of that we go into the bible as botanists to pick flowers, or we go as pugilists to get something to fight other Christians with, or we eo as logicians trying to sharpen our mental faculties for a better argument, and we do not like this about the bible, and we do not like that, and we do not like the other thing. What would you think of a man lost on the mountains? Night has como down ; he cannot lind his way home and he sees a light in a mountain cabin; he goes to it, he knocks at the door; the mountaineer comes out and finds the traveler and bays: "Well, here I have a lantern ; you can take it and it will guide you on the way home." And suppose that man should" say: "I don't like that lantern, 1 don't like the handle of it; there are ten or fifteen things about it I don't like; if you can't give me a better lantern than that I won't have any." Now, God says this bible is to be a lamp to our feet and a lantern to our path, to guide us through the midnight of this world to the gates of the celestial city. "We take hold of it in 6harp criticism and deprecate this and deprecate that. Oh, how much wiser we would be if by its holy light we found our way to our everlasting home ! Then, we do not read the bible as we read other books. We read it, perhaps, four or five minutes just before we retire at night. We are weary and sleepy, so somnolent we hardly know which end of the book is up. We drop our eyes, perhaps, on the story of Samson and the foxes or upon some genealogical table, important in its place, but stirring no more religious emotion than the announcement that somebody begat somebody else and he begat somebody else, instead of opening the book and saying: "Now, I must read for my immortal life. My eternal destiny is involved in this book." We want no bible to prove that we are sinners. Any man who is not willing to acknowledge himpelf an imperfect and sinful being is simptv a fool and not to be argued with. We all feel t'i it sin has disorganized our entire nature. That is one fact. Another fac i that Christ came to reconstruct, to restore, to revise, to correct, to redeem. That is a second fact. The third fact is that the only time we are sure Christ will pardon us is the present. Now, what is the common-sense thing for us to do in view of these three facts? You will all agree with me, to quit sin, take Christ, and take Hitn now. Suppose some business man in whose skill you had perfect confidence should tell you that tomorrow (Monday) morning between 11 and 12 o'clock you could by a certain financial transaction make $5,000, but that Tuesday, perhaps, you might make it, but there would not be any positiveness about it, and Wednesday there would not be so much, and Thursday less, Fridavless, and so on less and less when would you attend to the matter ? Why, your commonsense would dictate: ""Immediately I will attend to that matter between 11 and 12 o'clock to-morrow (Monday) morninsr, for then I can surely accomplish it, but Tuesday I may not, and Wednesday there is less prospect. I will attend to it tomorrow." Now let us bring our commonsense into this matter of religion. Here are the hopes of the gospel. We may get them now. To-morrow we may get them and we may not. Next day we may and we mnv not. The prospect less and less and less and less. The on y sure time now now. I would not talk to vou in this way if I did not know that Christ was able to save all the people, and save thousands as easily as save one. 1 would not go into a hospital and tear off the bandages from the wounds if I had no balm to apply. I would not have the face to tell a man he is a sinner unless I had at the same time the authority of saying he might be saved. Suppose in Venice there is a Raphael, a faded picture, great in its time, bearing boui marks of its greatness. History describes that picture. It is nearly faded awav. You say: "Oh, what a pity that so wonderful a picture by Raphael should be nearly dofaced!" After awhile a man comes up, very unskillful in art, and he proposes to retouch it. You say: "Stand off! I would rather have it just as it is; you will only make it worse." After awhile there comes an artist who was tho equal of Raphael. He says: "I will retouch that picture and bring out all its original power." You have full confidence in his ability. He touches it here and there. Feature after feature comes forth, and when he is done with the picture it is complete in all its original power. Now, God impressed His image on our race, but that image has been defaced for hundreds and for thousands of years, getting fainter and fainter. Her? comes up a divine Raphael. He sayp; "I can restore that picture." He ha all power in heaven and on earth. He in the equal of the one who made the picture, the image of tho one who drew the imago of God in our poul. He touches this sin and it is crone.

that transgression and it disappears, and all the defacement vanishes, and "where u atoTinde.i grace dotu much more xun i." Will you have the defacement Y will you have the restoration? I am ell persuaded that if I could, by a touch neaveniy pathos, in two minutes, put fore you what has been done to save ur soul there would bo an emotional 1e overwhelming. "Mamma," said a tie child to her mother when- she was ing put to bed at night, "mamma, what

akes your hand so scarred and twisted

and unlike other people's hands?" "Well," said the mother, "my child, when you were younger than you are now, years ago, one night after I had put you to bed 1 heard a cry, a shriek upstairs. I came up and found the bed was on fire, and you were on fire, and I took hold of you and I tore off the burning garments, and while I was tearing them off and tryinz to get you away I burned my hand, and it has been burned and scarred ever 6ince, and hardly looks any more like a hand; but I got that, my child, in trying to save vou." Oman! O woman 1 I wish to-dav I could show you the burned hand of Christ burned in plucking you out of the fire, burned in snatching you a ay from the flame. Aye, also the burned foot, and the burned brow, and the burned heart burned for you. Hy His stripes ye are healed. General ltrligtous Notes. We want no proscriptive organizations in this republic. But clannishness begets clannishness. That weapon cuts going aud coming. Iietter throw it away unless you wish to be wounded. Christian Adcorutf, Saxliville. The united brethren have the greatest nnmber of converts in Africa. 4,000; Bishop Taylor's missions, which include Liberia, 2,7l; the united presbyterians, 1.850; the Presbyterians, S75; the American board, the same. The growth of the C. E. S. has been phenomenal. Only a few years old, it numbers to-day 7.671 societies,, with a membership of 470.UOU. These societies are found in twenty-two different denominations. The Church, of To-Day. The Southern Pacific railway company has discontinued Sunday picnic trains and closed the bars at eating-houes along its lines. The officials of this road also provide for their employes a hot temperance lunch at the low price of 16 cents a day. Of the 85Ü delegates at the World's Sundayschool convention in London, over one-half were from America. Massachusetts had fortyone delegates, Illinois thirty-three and Ohio twenty-six. Stirring reports were made from France, Sweden, Holland, India, Australia, Africa, China, and many other countries. Upon the banners of the church let us emblazon, as in letters of light, our motto. The world for Christ in our own generation; and let us take up the work anew, with a firm purpose, by God's help, to overtake erery living soul with the message of the gospel before this generation shall pass away I Spirit of Jlistiont ( Episcopal.) The population of Samoa consists of 3-5, 000 ?eople, ot whom 26,000 are nominal Christians, here are about two hundred Christian schools, with over 8,000 scholars. The Samoans are considered the finest race among the Polynesian islands. They are graceful, pleasing, of good physique, and have a soft and musical language. They have been converted to Christianity, and are very raoral and honest. The F&Ie of intoxicating? liquors is absolutely forbidden. Missionary Link. AT THE SUMMER RESORTS.

Men .re scarce at all the resorts. The mammoth Saratoga trunk has gone out of style. The tide of travel has set in toward the mountains. Bar Harbor's floral boat parade will take place Aug. 12. The tremendous exodus to Kurope has hurt the cummer hotel business. The fdd at Schooley's Mountain is to take a horseback ride before breakfast. A sword fish that weighed 500 pounds was captured last week offStonington. Twenty-six thousand people hired bathing suits at Atlantic City in one day recently. The crowds at Coney Island this season are small as compared with the crowds of former years. A Chicago cyndicate is said to be purchasing land at Sturgeon Bay for summer resort purposes. The Hollywood road, a fashionable driveway at Long Branch, is made of pulverized blue stone. Remarked Mrs Prude: "The bathing dresses are so short now they almost take one's breath away." Old settlers on Block island say they never knew bluetish to be so plentiful as they are this year. There is not one summer hotel in forty that has had to turn people away this summer for lack of room. Visitors have registered at Chautauqua Lake this year from every state in the Union, and from twelve or more foreign couu tries-. West Baden and Lake llaxinkuckee are crowded, principally with Indiana people, and of these, a large number are from Indianapolis. Down at Atlantic City they call the young women w ho put on bathing suits only to promenade in them, "exhibition" or "beach" bathers. Millions of Portuguese men-of-war illuminate the sea around Block Island at night time with their glow-worm-like light. It is a very pretty sight. An important 6ta?et coach English, you know makes three trips a week between the Sagamore and Ft. William Henry hotels. Lake George. There wil be an out-of-door presentation of the garden scene from "Faust" on the grounds of the charming Wissahlckon Inn, near Philadelphia, Aug. 22. Last year's dude has bloomed into this year's "girly boy," an individual who wears corsets, a bright colored sash and effeminate articles of adornment on neck, wrists and feet. The "blazer" dance is popular at some of the hotels where heretofore full dress only has been countenanced at the hops and balls. The blazer is cooler and more picturesque than the claw-hammer. The tenth annual meeting of the American canoe association will be held on Stone island in the St. Lawrence river from Aug. 10 to 23. It is expected that over a thousand amateur canoeists will attend. A syndicate, composed largely of stockholders in the Chesapeake fe Ohio railroad, has purchased the Virginia warm springs, and will expend a large sum of money in their development. The springs possess medicinal qualities of a high order. One dashing belle has created a sensation by appearing on the piazza of a fashionable hotel wearing a yellow belt fastened around her waist with a diamond buckle. The belt and buckle would probably not have excited comment were it not for the fact that the article in question was a garter. The finest salt water bathing in America is said to be at Garfield beach, seventeen miles from Salt Lake City. There is a large catering establishment and several bath houses erected there, and the place is expected some day to become a popular resort Lava beds and alkali plains form in great part the turrounding country. The signal service officer stationed on Pike's Peak, in a region of perpetual snow, varies the monotony of life by every once in a while taking his spy-glass and pointing it in the direction of Colorado Springs, twenty miles away, where he can see the resorters sitting around on the hotel piaazas sipuing iced drinks and fanning themselves to keep cook Dangerous Labor. I Judge. Lobbett 'Trctty bad gash you've cot, McGuire." Mc Juire (pleasantly) "Pfwhkh one?" Bobbett Why, on your cheek, Been fighting?" McGuire "Divil a fight. I'm afhter bein shaved be a deef an' dumb barber, an' th' poor felly had f do bis talkin' wid th' Laud that held th' razure." Not the Itlght Kln4 of Dew. Keogh "What is the matter, Murray; you look awful." Murray "Oh, X am not feeling welL" Keogh "Yon should get np early, chappie, and catch the morning dew." Murray "That's a chestnut I got up one morning early, my washwoman saw me, aud got what was due from me." fioori Sinkers. Kpoch.l husband "Nora, what are these?" Wife-"Dnmplings." Husband "Dumplings, dumplings, eh? Well, just pat them on a plate for me, and keep them till to-morrow morning. I'm going bass fishlDg and I'll ose them for sinkers." flana-ed In Reality. Epoch. J Tenderfoot "What did the boys do about that horse-stealing rase?" Arizona Jo "Hung tb thief, stranger." Tenderfoot "In ethgy, I suppose?' Arizona Joe "Nw 1 In that patch o' woods over yaader."

BOW JOHNNIE WAS CURED.

HE NEVER KNEW WHERE HIS HAT WAS Ills Motlier and Sisters " Pat l'p a Job" on II I in Other Stories For the Young" Folks Jualot Sa yln es and Knotty Problems. "Mamma! namma!" cried Johnnie, "do you know where my cap is? I can't find it anywhere, and papa wants me to go to the postoffice for him right away." Mamtna was busy sewing, and she laid down her work to look for the missing cap. As Johnnie said, it was nowhere to be 6een. "Where did you put it when you came from school not half an hour ago?" "On the hat-rack, I know, and now it isn't anywhere. Oh, dear how provoking!" After fifteen minutes diligent search, shared by all the members of the family, the cap was found tucked away in the owner's coat pocket, and Johnnie ran off to do his father's errand, while the others returned to their interrupted work and tried to make ur for lost time. "Johnnie i growing more careless every day," said his mother. "I don't know what to do with hira. It isn't always possible to make him look for his own things, and I'm afraid nothing else will cure him." "Suppose we try setting him a frightful example," suggested his older sisten "Perhaps that would do," replied her mother, as the details of a plan presented themselves. The next afternoon Johnnie rushed in from school crying, "Mamma, Mr. Harris says the ice is strong enough to bear us, aud we are all going skating, but I've just torn my coat. Can you please mend it right away?" "Yes, if I can find my thimble. See if it is in the basket." "Why, I don't see where it can be," said Mrs. Blake, feeling in her pocket and not finding it. "Look all around the room." Johnnie, in too much haste to think how very strange it was for his orderly mother to mislay anything, hunted diligently, but no thimble came to light. "Go ask Jennie for hers." Jennie's also was missing. "I think you will have to stay at home; you certainly cannot wear that coat as it is." Sore as the disappointment was, Johnnie was obliged to submit. For a week the very spirit of disorder eeemed to rule the house. Every article was left where it was last used, until the once tidy room looked fairly cheerless with the accumulating litter. There was one exception. While Johnnie was constantly called upon to look for Jennie's gloves, or mamma s scissors, or papa's umbrella, his own cap was more frequently on the rack, his skates on their book, his slate and books strapped together. Finally after an unusually trying experience, he exclaimed one day, "I never saw such a house as this is getting to be. I seem to be the only oue that ever puts things where they belong." The 6hout of laughter that went up at this extraordinary statement somewhat abashed the speaker, but he sturdily maintained his point; whereupon the others promised if he would continue to set such a good example they would certainly follow it. That week taught Johnnie a lesson he never forgot. Quaint Sayings. Teacher Vit seems you are never able to answer any-of rav questions. How is this, my little boy?"" Little Johnnie "If I knew the things you asked, ma'am, dad wouldn't tro to the trouble of sending me here." " "What is an echo?" asked tho teacher of an infant class. "It's what -ou hear when you shout," replied the youngest. "I? it caused by a hill or a hollow ?" again asked the teacher. "Both," was the replv. "How so?" "The hill throws back the holler." Mrs. Nibbs "I'm shocked, Willie Jones, to hear vou upe such awful language, positively shocked. I think it's high time your mother took you in hand." Willie "Yes'm, she has. She told me this morning I must stop '60ciating with your little boy, 'cause he was makin' me as bad as hisself." Freddie G., aged five, contracted the habit of eating his food very rapidly. Refteated scoldings failed to correct the labit. Finally his mother one day angrily said: "Freddie, what makes you eat so fast?" With a mouthful of food and without stopping for an instant in his masticatory operations, the youngster mumbled: Tausa I want to see what's turning next." How dear to my heart is the school I attended, and bow I remember, so distant and dim, that boy Billy and the pin that I bended, and carefully put on the bench under him. And how I recall the surprise of the master, when Bill gave a yell and sprang up from the pin so high that his bullet head smashed up the plaster above, and the scholars set ud a din. Tbat active boy Billy; tbat high-leaping Billy; that loud shouting Billy, who sat on a pin. The Baby's Lament. "I'm such a funny little thing Thnt rtTyb lr Uuzhs at m, I can't do much but bite a ring, And cry with pstn and laneh with glee, But Don the 1pm it's rann, I think, Thes visitors will opt r top. When Rsicg ou mv cheeks of pink. Remarking: 'My! how like his pop!' " "Why, popy-op has whiskers red, AnHeaM si big as dollars; He ba omcliuir upon hi had, And wears biit linen collar: Hp' wrinkles on his forehead high, He feed nn mutton chop; It'a most ahturd to ay that I Am just like popjy-wop" A wail ot determination "I won't fc ÜV bito neither, now, I'll he like I'nrle Jim, Jim'a not o pretty, I'll allow, But I'll crow up like him ; I'll do It jiiDt to pite my ma, Ihm-hno! it iu t (air To car-boo-hoo: I'm Just like pa Ahahn hoo-hool ah-yalr:" Harper's Yonng Teoplo.. What and Which. Lewiston Journal. "What are the four great lakes between Canada and the Gulf ot Mexico?" asked a Lewiston mother of her youngest and only, whoso geography fhe was conning. "Water," said the boy. The mother pondered a moment and then looked into tho geography again and found herself in error. f?ho ßhould have asked, "Which are the the four great lakes, etc." This question repeated, the boy answered correctly. It's a smart seven-year-old who knows tho difference between what and which. c The Krldenrn of Things Seen. Boston Budget. A Boston child, being taken for the first time to the beach, became very much interested in the crowds of bathers disporting in the water. Finally, as numbers of the bathers began to return to the bathhouses, the child's sympathies became immediately aroused, and turning to her mother ehe said sorrowfully: "They must bo very poor folk, mamma," they've got bo little clothes on." Food Fpr Contentment. '" (Boston Dtidgrt. Like all great cities the mass of the people of Eoeton can not afford the luxury of a lengthened sojourn in the country, and with many of the little ones a day m

Franklin park and an occasional hour on the Common or Public garden is the eum total of their rustic pleasure. One little miss who had probably read of country scenes and experiences, voiced her own preference for the city in the following quaint way: "I guess we have a better time here, lookin in the nice store winders and playin' on the Common, than lein' scared by enakes, chased by cows and gettin' lost in the woods." Unpleasantly Sagg'stive. Boston Journal. An eight-vear-old boy, whose superabundant animal spirits require an occasional check, was looking at some proofs of photographs of his mother which had just been sent home. There were two views, and the youngster was very decided in his preference for one over the other. "Who do you prefer that?" asked his mother. "Because," said he, "in the other one j-ou look as if you meant it." Two Immediate Answers. Harper's Bazar. Kev. Mr. Trimrose "!o you know where you will go if you do these naughty things?" Little Johnnie "Yes, sir go to bed." Boston Times. That was a very frank little miss who, when the minister, in calling upon her family, asked her what 6he went to Sunday-school for, instantly replied : "To see the little boys." KNOTTY PROBLEMS.

Our readers ire invited to farnisa original enigma, charades, ridile rebaes, and other "Knotty Problem?," addressing all communications relativ to this department to E. R. Cha lbourn. Lewiston, Me. No. 2839 Charade. The boy in the nprw-r picture evidently wishes in flrtt. The dojr will eet a ttfmd if he catohes a bare. Master Frank, at work in the snow, exhibit irfto-. V. T. V. No. 2840 How Many Transformations? Once, as I wandered tip and down The quaint streets of a foreign torn, I ftaw a curious looking fellow Sheltered benemtb a hu;e umbrella: And, while I wondered "at the throng Tbat followed in bis path lion?. He to the eager crowd dismayed The STtuho'.suf a juggler's trade. First, poising Liga a weapon bright, Lo! lucious fruit appears in sight ; He cnts the rind or outer part. And leaves an organ for its heart. Next with his lance he mows ths graia Aud plants, nor lets oue spire remain. Aeaiu he holds his pointed dart, Acain cuta ofl' the outer part ; I'revo! me see, a vegetable Evolved with ea from Parwin's faW Atid now he wields his wondrous dart To illustrate his magic art. And turns it o'er, asoft before, To analyze it yet once more. Acsin he holds the wand upripht, Then drops a ivomi out of sight, And turns the remnant o'er to s-iy, "The dry leares fall on autumn day Marks dates and chanze, and it meiMirfs The frugal Frenchtnans dear?t treasures." 'Wondrous macicians!" here I cried, "Retain your woapon, true and tried, Hea ilrss, curtailed 'tis equal still, For turned, it deals a blow at will." Acain he poises in his hand His simple lauee, a macic wsnd, We! c eft in twaio, fragment lost, I'pon the billows it is tos.nd. F.nough! No more I may reveal. If I my secret would conceal, Aud et within this wand I hide The waters of the ocean wide'." Trajzi. 'o. 2841 Double Letter Enigina. "Blessed" is the man "Free" from prinujCt fetters; "B'et ' are all who can bny they are not "debtors." Nightmare of the soul. Nothing .', is print; Strive, then, to be, irAVe And I'll end my rhyme. Bitter Sweet. No. 2843 Card Puzzle. A pack of twenty-seven cards ws distributed, ona card at a time, into three packs of nine cards each. These three packs were taken up and distributed again in three new parks, the first of the former packs being distributed first, the second Dext, and the third last. Th s process was then again repealed. The ace of spades happened to be in the first rack the first time, in the seoorid pack the second time and in the third pack the last time. What position did this card occupy in the original pack? J. IL Fezardie. No. 2843 NumerleaL The youngsters gather In the ham. And all the corn there heaped in piles; Whilj telling each a merry yarn. With cheeks all wreathed in pleasant smiles. 4, 1,2, 3 of indent times Ianced jollily on 6, 7. .", Or sang some ditty of old Grimes, W ho may chance have been alive. Bucolic songs are pleasing ones. And rural ways move hearts to g'ee. Ahead of purzlers' watt and puns, Or modern sports and melody. AsriRO. No. 2844 Anagram. By "nntioix I nnm'f they are Mormons, Marrying many and many a wife, And against the laws of heaven Tbey lead an unlawful life. Pat Riot. No. 2845 Diamond. 1. A letter 2. An inclosed seat in a church. 3. The solid secretions of aoophytes. 4. Dysentery. 5. Derived from diflf-rent sources (Supp.) 6. A kind of pie. 7. A plant of the genus iuirhin's. p. Handsome trees. 9. Oozes. 10. A Ppant-h champion. 11. A letter. R. O. Chester. No. 2846 Dissection. In history sek a famous Greek Divide In three his name, The head, the heart, and nether part, Will read each way the same. The latter two combined by you, Will name a mystic stoue, Thnt forth the gravest measures gave When bol's beams on it shone. The first will make a turbaned sheik At titles, I'm a fright. And often think a should rank Between a Dry and Knioh. (William Wilson. The Prize List. For best lots of there original puzzles, a specified: 1, anv kind of puzles, fifteen dollars: 2, illustrated puzzie. a large Atlas of the World; 3, "forms" of any kind, five dollars; 4, transpositions or anagrams, two dollars; S, charades, two dollars; 6, numerlcals, two dollars; 7, letter enigmas, two dollars; 8, deep). tailons, two dollars; 9, curtailments, two dollars; 10, diamonds, two dollars; 11, squares, two dollars; 12, stars, one dollar; 13, double or triple acrostics, one dollar; I I, half-squares, one dollar; 15, rhom. holds, one dollar. In addition, ten fine books will be awarded aa special prizes. Answers. 232 A period. 2 Kike, elk. 2M He carried: 1, the strawberries to the stepplug atone; 2, the eg7s to the landing place; 3, the strawberries to the landing place; 4, the tomatoes to the stepping stone; 5, the strawberries to the wngon; 6, the eggs to the stepping stone; 7, the strawberries to the stepping stone; 8, the potatoes to the landing place; 9, the strawberries to the landing place; 10, the eirgs to the wagon ; 11, the strawberries to the wagon ; U. the tomatoes to the landing place; IS, the strawberries to the stepping tone; 14, the eges to the lauding; 13, the strawberries to the landing place. 'jiWWolf. fowl. flow. 2W-He-at. 2S37 NotcH A I. r r A T H r o W H k a m T A p i a H N K ft O I K C V R V. t 4 I N L I k v K 2&C5 Characteristic.

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SHE DALLIES AWHILE AT NEWPORT. The Attor Set and the Vanderbilta Hellet of the Season At the Casino Italia A u grust Belmont at at Host Newport Life, Etc. Newport, K. I., Aug. 5. Special. Going from Narragansett is like going from a wild cake walk to a dignified dinner party. At the one there are all sorts of jollity and a continual desiro to gain by a specially good pace the much desired cake, while at the other there are eerved in regular eolerun courses the delights of the day just as they are offered at a perfect dinner. Newport certainly can lay claim to being one of the loveliest places in the world. to having on exhibition the greatebt number of beautifully dressed women and well appointed turnouts. But, after all, between you and me, Newport is only a collection of "us," the cremt de la crane of each city moving around in its usual circle ofgayety. There have been breaks, the cream has turned sour and scandals have arisen therefrom, but eomehow it's always glossed over and the pour cream is whipped up and made into an entree. The Astors and the Astor set control the City by the Sea, and it's only of late years that the Vanderbilts have been admitted to the charmed circle; and even now I think it is the dignity of Mrs. Cornelius and the Eweetnees of Mrs. Fred, rather than the 6tyle of Mrs. "Willie K., that is most admired. The beauties are out in full force. Mips Sallie TIargou, Miss Amy Bend, Miss Mabel Wright and Miss Duer are counted the leaders among them. Mi.-s Hargous is certainly a very pretty girl; with dark hair and eyes and a "br ght, piquant face, well dressed, and with plenty of money, it is not remarkable that the should be popular; the fact that ehe is going to have a ball in a week adds to this popularity, for everv woman is hoping to get an invitation. Miss Bend looks like a Watteau figure; Miss Duer, like one of Greuze's pictures, and Miss Wright looks like Miss Wright. I have not been able to discover why Miss Wright is called a beauty: 6he has lovely golden hair, end much the figure of an hour glass; but she is as awkward as an umbrella, and is a3 expressionless as a weak cup of tea. Here's the truth as to how one of the beauties obtains her much-praised figure; At a tailor shop the other day there was picked up a bodice which was gazed at with surprise. It was padded, not only in front, but at the back, on the hips and about the arms in fact, the arms were absolutely made and when its weight is felt and its warmth is realized, one cannot wonder that the epecial beauty has always euch a delightful flush. Fit it to the right one if you can. She poses for being extremely modest, and so her evening gowns are made high to permit the covering of cotton, and the long gloves are wrinkled 6o that the 6lender arms are well concealed. The Casino balls really afford an opportunity to display wonderfully handsome gowns, for the women here are clever enough to know that a crush means death to tulle and destruction to silk, so that care is taken that the room is not overcrowded, and in "dancing in the barn" every maiden fair and matron gay has an opportunity to show that special frock which Worth or Felix dreamed out for her. There is a right "and a wrong way to do this pretty dance. And Newport, of course, claims to know just the proper caper. At most of the watering piaces the happy pair dance forward with one arm around each other, and after four steps, they whirl around in waltz fashion but this isn't as pretty as the way it's done here. The gay coquette, with one hand on her hip, raises her gown with the other and dances her four steps around her cavalier, who quickly seizes her and gives her the necessary turn that will land her a little further on in the room. This is much more picturesque shows off the gown to better advantage; but the girl who is dancing mu6t not only know just how, but have the courage of her convictions, as far as showing her slippers is concerned. "Dancing in the barn" is a frolic which sometimes, after supper, degenerates into a wild lark, some of the dancers throwing up their pretty feet with an abandon that suggests the ease with which the French girl at the Bullier could kick a man's hat off. Newport has its dinners ; it eats, drinks and is merry, and then the next morning it reads Browning. Curiously enough, the Browning craze, as far as this gladsome place is concerned, does not come from Boston, but from New York. Sarah Cowell brought it, and as 6he is the only woman I know who can recite without elocuting, it is a pleasure to hear her. She can make one weep over "Pippa Passes," and can make less like Greek eome of the other Browning poems. Browning and Russian tea and dainty luncheons fill up the morning. In the afternoon comes the drive, and after that the episode of the day one is asked to dinner. At the best houses abominations in plush and ribbon are not seen on the dinner table, for millinery and ßoup are out of place. Neither are wonderful favors given, because they are counted vulgar, as they really are, for one might just as well carry home one's host's check for a certain amount of the hostess diamonds as walk away with expensive fans or bonbon boxes. Instead, the menus are daintly etched, and there is a fine orchid or wme other rare flower just bf side your place. The huge block of ice with fern leaves, lilies or roses frozen in it that is so oiten the center-pieces at dinner parties in London obtains here, for the Newport hopt is nothing if not English. The finest dinner parties, from the standpoint of the true gourmet, are given by August Belmont, Col. Bonaparte, Ogden "Goelet, Mrs. Kernochan and, of course, the Vanderbilts. With August Belmont a fino dinner is a matter of knowledge with many others it is a matter of money. Mr. Belmont never makes mistakes a something that is possible where the fine spread means only an order to a caterer to furnish his best, no matter what it may cost The young people prefer the party that has an object teide eating that is, they choose the proverb dinners, the flower ones or the rainbow ones. The first offers to each on her menu a proverb that is supposed to be applicable; sometimes they are with a vengeance. A young widow doesn't care to read as a preface to her oysters that "If a widow were a codfish Bhe would grow fat;" nor does the daughter of a man who has been fighting for his 6bare of an estate, which it is believed he got dishonestly, wish impressed on her mind that "honesty is the best policy." A beau of a good many seasons is unpleasantly made aware of the fact that "old fools are the worst," while a blonde siren, trying her best to gain the affections of an old millionaire, is warned that "You can't catch old birds with chaff." Yet all this happened the other evening when the younger son of a family mixed the babies as represented by proverbs up in the most confusing way. A flower dinner is a bit more poetical As my lady lays aside her wraps a maid hands her a bouquet, and downstairs the maa whose boutonniere matches this

takes her to dinner, dances the cotilion with her after, and in fact is her cavalier for the entire evening. The rainbow dinner means the getting of a cluster of ribbons of a peculiar shade of mauve; this you pin to the riht shoulder of your gown, and the man whose rosette matches your streamers is to be your devoted slave for the evening. Now this sounds very easy, but did you ever Fend a man to get a piece of mauve ribbon ? Adepts in tints 6ay there are HO different shades, end matching the pretty ribbons gives opportunity for many a pretty compliment to be paid, and a good bit of othT kind of matching takes takes place beside that of the rainbow hue. I don't know whether blackbirds are supposed to be specially stylish, but hern the girl who h.in't a hat on which an audacious blackbird is perched counts her wardrobe incomplete. Mother Goose a long time ago baked four and twenty blackbirds in "a pie that was before a king; but the smart girl doesn't want quite that many perched on her box turban. It may be white or black it is smoothly faced with velvet, worn well over her bang, ao4 just in the middle on top are a selrct group of blackbirds, with wings and tail all pointing heavenward, and in such remarkable position .!'at no self-respecting blackbird who Vss a.IiY'-sw"uld acknowledge them as kindred. The plume of the ostrich may be more elegant, but the damp air takes it out of curl. The blackbird begins with no curl, and so he bras nothing to lose. The girls? Well, unlike those over at Narragansett, their intentions are serious they mean niarry, and they can distinguish as well as mamma between a desirable and one who is not. They do not propose, even for the cachet he may give them, to have an old beau, who will keep the marrying men away from them, banging about, nor will they permit school boys to be in attendance that is, unless the school boys should be millionaires' sons and then it is wonderful with what amiability their rudenesses are borne. Attention without intention is permitted at the Pier, but at Newport mamma means that her daughter shall be established. To point a moral and adorn a tale there is ßhown to the blushing buds a handsome woman who drives in solitary state every day; she was a beauty when Louis Napoleon was emperor of France she laughed at the rich men who proposed to her, and she was referred to as the wonderful American beauty at the opening of the Suez canaL She is still a handsome woman, she has seen the men who proposed to her marry less beautiful women, become fathers and grandfathers, and she is alone. They called her "Baby" thirtyfive years ago and the name clings to her still, and when it is spoken seems almost a term of derision. Do I think she ought to have married? Certainly. 1 azree in a way with the match-making mammas. Marriage, even as a failure, is more to be desired than single blessedness as a success. It is always a negative success the being single. Its woes, its worries, its troubles, its griefs are intensified because they are borne alone; and I can tell you there's a great deal of truth in a remark made by a young matron that che had rather have Jack drunk to cry out her woes to than have to take them out on a maid with a hair-brush. Jack, drunk, may not be a thing of beauty or of grace, but he's your own. Jack, cross, may be hard to persuade into amiability, but when you're cross he undertakes the same task. Jack, happy, makes sunshine for you, and nine times out of ten, Jack being drunk, Jack being cross, or Jack being happy, depends on you. You 6ee, I am a little bit inclined to take the man's side. I know so many women. I am a violent opponent of suffrage fond of novels and chocolate cocoanut have a likini? for soda water and an ear

nest affection for babies, and am an ardent advocate of marriage, eood, bad or indifferent. And I think the making of it, good, bad or indifferent, is largely in the hand that wears the wedding ring. The marriage question at Newport is of so much importance that I stand on the lawn and sav, "The nen of our country manage the laws, design the stamps and govern the treasury, but let the women govern the men through sickness and through health until death do them part." Do you wonder that among the mamma? there "is a popularity accorded to the opinions of Bab? English Proverb. Rboboth Snndar Herald ! Jlear twice before you speak once, lie dances well to whom fortune pipe, lie doubles his Kilts who gives in time. He fights with his own shadow. He piveth twice that giveth id a thrice. He has a bee in his bonnet. He has botuht his noble for 9 pence. He has had a bite upon his bridle. He is a wise man who speaks little. He is proper who hath proper conditions. He knows not a B from a bull's foot. He knows not a hawk from a handsaw. He lacks most that longs most. Help the lame dog over the stile. He Hveth long and liveth well. He'll find some hole to creep out at He loses nothing for the taking. He loses bis thanks who promises and delaveth. He loses nothing that keeps God for his friend. He loves roast beef well tbat licks the jpit. He may be contented who needs neither borrow nor flatter. He must needs run whom the deril drives. lie must ftoop low that hath a low door. He plays welfthat wins. He's a Jack in ofijoe. He's gone npon a eleeveless errand. lie that always complains is never pitied. He that bows in the dust fill his eye. He that falls in an evil cause falls in the devil's fryine-pan. He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing. He that has no shame has do conscien. He that hath no silver ia hi purte inodd have silver on his tongue. He that bath a rood harvest may be content with some thistles. - He that is angry is M ora at ease. lie that is warm inir 1 are fo. lie that lendeth lo-fes double (loses both his money and his friend) Ue'tbat licks honey from thorns pays too dear for it- j He thnt lies down wiih dogs must expect to rise with fleas. He that lives not well one rear sorrows for it seven. He thatliveth wickedly can hardly die honestly. He that reckons without his host must reckon again. He that runs fast must not run long. He that runs in the night stumbles. He tbat plants cot corn plants thistles. No Social liar. "Madam, I will thank you for a piece of your justly celebrated pic," ssid the tramp, with a low courtesy. "You will get no pie here," replied the woman. "Is there any good reason why I cannot gt pie here?" "There K" "Name it." "We have no P'e." "Very well. That's frank and honet. But it would have pained me to hear you say there was any social bar to my partaking of pie at Jour hands," and he iuovcd on to the next ouse. A Clever Ruse. ' lEpoch. Mrs. Harpy "How did you manage to acquire such a fortune from that little pamphlet. How to Make Dynamiter" Mr. Sharpy "I used to offer the book, then pull out a foot section of two-inch pas pipe, loaded with paper and a piece ot rope in one end for a fuse, and tell them that was bow a bomb looked when finished. Everybody thought it was genuine and subscribed to get rid of tat" Short Talk. Party on Crutches "Flf s.' sor, an' wo;;H ya help a poor wan-legeed lady?" Party with Grip ''No!" Psrty on Crutcliei "Ye fasy devil, j needn't be so dorn short about it."