Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 August 1889 — Page 6

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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. WEDNESDAY. .AUGUST' 28. 18S9.

THE BROOKLYN PREACHER.

Cn. TALMAGE'S SERMON IN SEATTLE. Mloiatar Should Ftnl New Texts Instead ot Thrashing Over Old Straw Christ Spread Forth Bis Band to 6t the Orownlsc. The Eev. T. Pewitt Talmage preached at Seattle, Washington territory, last Sunday. His text was Isaiah, xxv, 11: "He shall spread forth His hands in the midst of them, aa he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swini." The preacher Said: At this season of the year multitudes of people wade into the ponds and lakes and rivers and sea?. At first putting out cautiously from the shore, but having learned the right stroke of arm and foot they let the wate ra roll over them, and in wiid g!ee dive or ' float or swim. So the Äxt will be very suggestive: "lie shall spread forth His hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hards to swim." ' The fisherman peeks out unfrequented nook?. You stand all day on the bank of a river in the broiling sun, and fling out your line and catch nothing, while the expert angler breaks through the jungle and goes by the shadow of the solitary rock and in a place where no fisherman has been for ten years, throws out his line, and comes home at nisrht, his face shining and his basket full. I do not know why we ministers of the gospel need all be fishing in the same stream and preaching from the fame text that other people preach from. I cannot understand the policy of the ministers who, in Blackfriars, London, England, every week lor thirty years preached from the epistle to the Hebrews. It is an exhilaration to me w hen I come across a theme which I feel no one else has treated and mv text is one of that kind. There ere paths in God's word that are well b?.uen by Christian feet. Wten men want to q"oto scripture they quoia the old passages that every one has beard. When they' want a chapter read they read a chapter that all the other people have been reading, so that the church to-day is isnorant of three-fourths rd the bible. You go into the Louvre at Paris. You confine yourself to one corridor of that opulent gallery of paintings. As vou com; out vonr friend savs to you : ' K-l vou ?ee that Kembrandt?" "No." "Did vou soe that Rutins?" "No." "Did vou pee that Titian?" "No." "Did you see that Raphael?'' "No." "Well," Mrs our friend, "then you didn't see the Louvre." "Sow, my friends, I think we are too much apt to confine ourselves to one of the great corridors of this scripture truth, and so much so that there is not one person out of a million who has ever noticed tho all-suggestive and powerful picture in the words of my text. ids text represents ood as a strong shimmer stnmg ou to push down iniquity and save the souls of men. "He ba!i spread forth His hands in the midst sf them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim." The figure is bold and many-sided. Most of vou know how to swim. Some of you learned it in the city school, where this art is taught; eome oi you in boyhood in the river near your father's hous, some of you since you. came tc manhood or womanhood while summering on the beach of the sea. You step down in the wave, you throw yoar head back, you bring your elbows to the chest, you put the paims of your hands downward and the eoh s of your feet outward, and you push through the r.ater as though you had been born aquatic. It is a grand thing to know how to swim, not only for yourself but because- vou will after awhile perhaps bave to help other?. I do not know anything more stirring or sublime than to see some man liko Norman McKenzie leaping from the ship Madras into the sea to save Charles Turner, who had dropped from the royal yard while trying to loosen the sail, bringins him back to the deck amid the huzzas of the passengers and crew. If a man has not sathusiasra enouzh to cheer in such circumstances he deserves himself to drop into the sea and have no one to help him. The itoyal humane society of England was established in 1774, its object to applaud and reward those who should pluck up life from the deep. Any one who has performed such a deed of daring has ail the particulars of that bravery recorded in a public record, and on his breast a medal done in blue, aud gold, and bronze ; anchor, and monogram, and inscription, 'telling to future generations the bravery of the man or woman who paved some one from drowning. But, my friends, if it is steh a worthy thing to save a body from tie deep, I ask you if it is not a worthier tiling to save an immortal soul. And you sHall see thicJ hour the Son of God step fcrth for this r.chievement. "He shall spread forth His hand in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth rorth his hands to swim." . In order to understand the full force of this figure you need to realize, first of all, that our race is in a sinking condition. You sometimes hear people talking of what they consider the most beautiful words in our language. One man says it is "home," another man says it is the word "mother," another siys it i3 the word "J usus," l 'it I wiil tell you the bitterest word in all our language, the word most ansrrv and baleful, the wort', saturated with the most trouble, the word that accounts for all the loatosomeness and the par.gand the outrage md the harrowing; itr i that wcrd is 4vin." You spell it with three letters, and yt thosa three letters dcscTica the c.rcumterenre and pierce the d;ameter of everythii s bad in the universe. Sin! it is "a sibilant word. You cannot pronounce it without giving it the s:?s or the li;;;iie or the hiss ot the serpent. ,.Sin! And then if yon add three letters to that word it describes every one of us by nature sinner. We have outraged the law of God, not occasional! v, or now and then., but perpetually. The bible de rlares it. Hark! It thunders two clar.3: "The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked. "The soul that sianeth, it shall die." What the bible savs our own conscience affirms. After Judge Morran bad sentenced Ladv Jane Grey to death, his conscience troubled him eo much for the deed that he became insane, and all thrcagh bis insanity he kept payir.z: "Take her awav from me! Ladv Jane Grev." It was the voice of bis conscience. And no man ever does anvthinjr wrong, however treat or email, but bis conscience brings that matter before him and at every step of his misbehavior it says: "Wrong, wrong." Sin isa leprosy, tin is a paralysis, ein is a consumption, sin . is pollution, ein is death. Give it a fair chance and it will swamp you, body, mind and soul, forever. In this world it only giveaaiaint intimation ot its virulence You &ee a patient in the first tage of typhoid fever. The cheek 13 eomewbat flushed, the hands somewhat hot, preceded by a slight chill. "Why," you eay, '.'typhoid fever does not eeem to be much ot a disease." Eat wait until tbe patient has been six eeks under it and all his energies have teen wrung out and he is toi weak to lift his little finger and his intellect is gonethen you tee the fall havoc of the disease. gin in this world is an ailment which ij only in its very first stages, but let it

get under full way and it is an all-consuming typhoid. Oh, if we could eee our unpardoned sins aa God sees them our teeth would chatter and our knees knock together and our respiration would be choked and our heart would break. If your sins are unforgiven they are bearing down on you and you are sinking sinking away from happiness, linking away from God, sinking away from everything that is good and blessed. Then what do we want? A swimmer A strong swimmer! A swift swimmer ! And, blessed be God, in my text we have Him announced. "Ho shall spread forth His hands in the midst of theru as he that swimmith epreadeth forth his hands to swim." You have noticed that when a swimmer goes out to rescue any one he puts oil' his heavy apparel. He must not have any such "impediment about him if he is going to do this creat deed. And when Christ stepped forth to save us He shook off the sandals of heaven and His feet were free; and then Ho stepped down into the wave of our transgressions, and it came up over His wounded feet, and it came above the spear stab in His side nye, it dashed to the lacerated temple, the hisrh-water mark of His anguish. Then, rising above the flood, "lie stretched forth His hand in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to

I swim. If you have ever watched a swimmer you notice that his whole bodv is brought into play. Tbe arms are flexed, the hands drive the water back, the knees are active, the head is thrown back to escape strangulation, the whole body is in propulsion. urn when Christ sprang into the deep to save us He threw His entire nature into it all His Godhead, His omniscience. His goodness, His love, His omnipotence head, heart, eves, hands, feet. We were far out on the sea and so deep down in the waves and so far out from the shore that nothing short of an entire God could save us. Christ Ie;pt out lor our rescue, savins:: "Lo! I come to do thy will," and all the surees of human and satanic hate beat against Him, and those who watched Him from the gates ot heaven feared He Mould go down under the wave and instead of saving others would himself perish, but putting His breast to the foam, and shaking the eurf from His locks. He came on and on, until He is now within the reach of every one here. Eye omniscient, heart infinite. arm omnipotent. Mijrhty to save, even unto tbe utmost. Oh, it was not halt a God that trampled down bellowin; Gennesaret- It w;is not a quarter of a God that mastered the demons of Gadara. It was not two-th'rds of a God that lilted up Lazarus into the arms of his overjoyed eisters. It was not a fragment of a God who offered pardon and peace to all the race. o. Ihismightv swimmer tnrew His crandeur. His glory. His might. His wisdom, Iiis omnipotence and His eternity in'o this one act. It took both hands of God to save us both feet. How do I prove it? On the cross were not both hands nailed? On toe cross were not ooth feet nailed? His entire nature involved in our redemption! If vou have lived much bv the water you notice also that it any one is going out to the rescue of the drowning he must be independent, self-reliant, able to go aloue. There mav be a tine when he must spring out to save one and he cannot get a lifeboat, and he goes out and has not. strength enough to bear himseif up and bear another up, he will sink, and instead of dragging one corpse out of the torrent vou will have two to drag out. When Christ sprang out into the sea to deliver us He had no life-buov. His father did not help Him. Alone in the wine-prese. A'one in the pane. Alone in the darka -.1' a lies. Alone in tue mountain. Aione in the sea. Oh, if He saves us He shall have all the credit, for "there was none to help." o oar. No winj. No ladder. hen Nathaniel Lyon fell in the battle charge in front of his troops he had a whole army to cheer him. When Marshal Ney sprang into the contest and plunged in the spurs till the horse's flanks spurted blood all 1 ranee applauded him. üut Jesus alone! "Of the people there was none to help." "All forsook him and fled." O it was not a flotilla that sailed down and 6aved us. It was not a cluster of gondolas that came over the wave. It was one person independent and alone, "spreading out His hands among us as a swimmer ppreadeth forth his hands to 6wim." Behold then to-day the epectacle of a drowning soul and Christ the swimmer. I believe it was in 1S4S, when there were six English soldiers of the Fifth fusileers who were hanging to the bottom ot a capsized boat a boat that had been upset by a squall three miles from shore. It was in the night, but one man swam migbtillv for the beach, guided by the dark mountains that lifted their tops through the niht. He came to the beach. He found a shore man that consented to go with him and save the other men, and thev put out. It was some time before thev could find the place where the men were, but after a while they heard their crv: "Help! Help!" and thev bore down to them, and they saved them and brought them to shore. Ü, that this moment our crv might be lifted long, loud and shrill, tili Christ the swimmer shall come and take us lest we drop a thousand fathoms down. That is a thrilling time when some one swamped in the surf is brought ashore and leing resuscitated. How the people watch for the mo-.nent when he begins to breathe again, and when at last he takes one lud innaiati n ana opens his eyes upon the bvstandersa shout ot jov rings up and down the beach. There is joy because a life has been saved. O ye who have been swamped in the Feas of trouble and sin! we gather around vou. Would that this might be the hour when you be gin to live. The Lord Jesus Christ steps down, lie gets on His knees, He puts his lip to your up, and would breathe pardon and life and heaven into vour immortal soul. God grant that this hour there mav bo thousands of souls resuscitated. I stand on the deck of the old gospel ship amid a crowd of passengers, all of them hoping that the last man overboard may be saved. .Mav the living Christ this hour put out for your safety, "spreadiug forth jus lianas in the miast ot vou, as a ewimmer spreadeth forth his hands to swim A Vestibül Train For Heaven. The Living Chnrrh. There are some people who seem to think thev have a through ticket on vestibule train for heaven. Having paid their pew rent, taken a seat in the church for a pleasing Sunday service, feeling no obligation to do anything to move the church onward spiritually, they consider themselves at hterty to find lault with the minister and the choir, just as the critical complaining passenger, who, having paid for his ticket and secured his berth, looks upon the. train, oflicers and all, as bound to be simply subservient to his individual fancy and pleasure. Ia it not time that those who are divinely commended to work out their own salvation with fear and trembling got rid of this passenger notion of getting to heaven? SaDCtlGot CiDitnon Seaac. (Tbe Interior. How to get the unconverted within hearing distance of the gospel is a problem in both citv and country districts in this land. If all the Christians from the United States who are traveling in Franco this year would observe carefully tbe methods need in the McAll missions', and, on their return, would explain the details in our churches, a practical way of solving tbe problem might be reached. We believe that there are not more than ICO or 129 misiions of this establishment in

all France; about one-third of them in Paris and two-thirds in the provinces; and yet they secured a total attendance of nearly 1,200,000 persons at the gospel preaching service alone in the past twelve

months. It will not take long, at this rate, for all the poor people in France to have the gesoel preached unto them. It does not cost much to equip and maintain a McAll mission not much money we mean. Eut it requires a large amount of faith and couragesince the most unpromising spots are generally chosen in which to Kegln work. Where great need of Christian influences is found, there lie eat opportunities. Kelipioon Thought And Note. There are still over ten million square miles of unoccupied district in various heathen lands, where missionaries thus lar have never entered. The destruction of the temple, while a na tional calamity to the Jewish nation, became under God's providence a universal blessiug to humanity. J lie Ihlrexc Standard. In liv the number of unitarian churches was 24f. For this Tear the numner reported is Xsl. This gives au annual gain of four lor the last tbiriy-eix years, the average gain being bomewbat larger for the last twenty-five years than for the time froia ISO.'i to 153-4. JJostuii JlenM. The salvation army petition, in favor of Sun day closing of saloons, containing 4'W,.5X) signatures, was conveyed through Ixiidon to the hoose of commons in a waifon, accompanied by two band?. It was in the form of a huge roll, weighing four hundied weight. Jathviil-e Vh,ri,tian Advocate, The gospel is spreading rapidly in Japan. In Tokio it is estimated that the new converts fierns: 500 a month. Thirty-one thousand dollars were recently raised by some Japanese gentlemen for the enlargement of the American college in Tokio, in order that it might be made a Christian university." Let ministers never forsret that it is by the preaching of the gospel that sinners are turned to the Lord. Faithfully and earnestly preached, the gospel will reach the hearts and consciences of many who hear it. The preparation and delivery of feermons should proceed in this faith and bore. The Standard L'hritfian. In the seventy-three yeirs of its existence the American bible society has issued 51,270,013 volumes of the holy scriptures in more than eighty languages or dialects, and it has on hand, for ale or gratuitous distribution, 579 separate publication of the scriptures, of which 102 are ditlerent editions of the English bible. There are 123 Chinese ichools and missions In this countrv. The average attendance is about 1,000. This dos not include the missions on the Pacific coast, in connection with which there are 217 Christians. Iu New York and Brooklyn there are thirty-five schools with an average attendance of 700, of whom eisty-four ara Christians. The A". Y. Chine The "Congregational Year Book" gives the following summaries: Number of churches, 4,509; number of new churches, 254; gain in number, lt5; number of members, 47-60; added on confession, 23.0! 1; added by letter, 10,042; added total. 45,('.'W; increase, Sunday-school members, 5.0,072; pain, 28,0M; beneveleut contributions of churches, .',2QT,5J3; gain, $110,07S. It is stated that notwithstanding the recent decision of Solicitor Hepburn adverse to the importation of five fo-fign professors engaged for the university at Washington, the profes sors will come to this country and assume their duties. Atty.-Gen. Miller, whe was appealed to after the rendition of Mr. Hepburn's opinion, declined to take up a hypothetical case, snd said he would notcivean op'nion until the Juestion arose by the arrival of the educators. 'treraan't Journal (L'aiho ic.) Ingersnirn Oration nt a ChlM'GrT. My friends, I know how vain it is to giM A grief with words, and yet I wish to tafc From ever j frrare it fear. Here in tbls world. Where life end death are equal k n; all should Ee l.raT enough to meet what all the dead haTe met. The future has been filled with fear, Stained and polluted by the heartless pat. From the wondrous tree of lif, the bnds Ai)'1 Mvrms fall with ripcne1 'mit, Acd in the com mon bed of earth old mti And babes ilp side by side. Why staouU wc fear that whi-b will come t all That is? Vv'e can not tll; e do cot Vno Which is the greater bfcing, lile or death. We can not say death is not good We know not whether the grae re tbe en 1 Of this life or the door of another, or Whether the. n;ght hers is not somewhere e) A dawn. Nor can e tell which is Tbe more bleesed, the chil I who dies within lis mother's aritj before its lios hare learnl To form a word, or ba who journeys all The length of life's uneven nad in pa'n. And takes the last slow teps with staff and crutch. Each cradle si-its us "Whence?" And every eo fin "Whither?" The poor barbarian la tears abor His dead can answer aa Intelligently and a satisfactorily The robed prie?t of mot authentic croed. The tearful ignorance of the one is just Condoling as the other's learned and T'nmeanin? words. No human Handing whr Tbe horizon of a life has touched a grave Kaa any right to prophesy a future filled With pain and tears. It may be death give all There is of worth t life. If those who press And strain against our hearts could never di, Perhaps toon love would wi:hr from the earth; May be a co niuion fate does tread from out The paths between our hearts tha we?ds Of wlfishncss, and I should rather live And love where death U klc; than hav F.terual life where love is not. Another life is naught, uuW we. know And love azain the onea who love us here. Tliey who stand with hreakin; hearts around This little grave need have no fear. The larger and The nobler faith la all that is, and Is to be, Tells us that death, e'en at his worst. Is only perfect rest. We know that through The common wants of life, the n??ds And duties that eah have, their grief . Will le?s-n day by day, until at lsst These gTaves will be to them a plae Of rf st and peac, almost of Joy. There ia for tbe.m this consolation : The dead do not suffer. And If they live Again their lives will surely bfl as good As ours. AVe have no fear ; we are All children of the soli-same mother and The se!f-5me fate awaits us all. We, too, have our religion, and it is this: "Help for the liviDg and hope for tbe dead." Jack?OX Bern A Hangman Tried For Ilia Life. Pall Mall Gaz;tte. rlin has just had a most extraordinary sensational trial curious, indeei almost without parallel ainontf the records of crime. The hanijman has been accused of assassination and tried for his life. Of course it was a question of jealousy. The Berlin executioner does not lead a very moral life. He is a nmrried man with a family, and he deserted both, and the poor wife fcoon had a rival. Kut he also deserted the rival in her turn. The dry statistics of the law courts read like the argument in some ineenious play. The abandoned mistress longed to recover her supremacy. One would not have thought a hangman capnble of so much attraction. She tried every means to rain her object, and at last in despair had recourse to the executioner' assistant and rijzhthand man, whom she knew, and whose iutluetice over him was great. There were interviews between the two hangmen, but matters did not advance. There was an ancrry interview nt a restuarant, in the course of which the chief kicked his aid-decamp in the stomnch. The injury was more se.ious than it seined, and a month afterward the poor fro-between died. All sorts of evidence was triven at the trial, and the jury were merciful in their verdict. But the criminal classes of Berlin were preatly disappointed. It would have been interestinc, they seemed to have thought, if the new hangman had to try his 'prentice hand on his predecessor. No d T Harry. Epoch. Mra. Sharp (after first act) "Where are you jroin?. Hubby?" . Mr. Sharp MEr out to ee a man, yoa know." Mn. Sharp "AH riaht" Mr. Sharp (after second act as Mrs. Sharp rises to ft out) "Where are you ßoinjr, dear!" Mrs. Sharp "Er out to aee a man, yoa know." Mr. Sharp "Wait till you sret home end look under the bed, as usual." A Physical Demonstration. Omaha World-Ilerald Inquirer "TIow does your protracted meet' iuf prosper, pastor?" Parson "Oh, very well. There's a creat wftkeaiag at the end of every aermoa."

THE FANCIES OF FASIII0X.

SOME PEEPS AT PRETTY THINGS. Eastern Drtismakrri Will Book " More Orders For Straight Skirts Early Fall Style Fashiou Small Talk Latest Fads And Suggestion. Rumors are afloat that dressmakers afe revoltins ajainst straight skirts, one authority protesting that they reduce all costumes to the level of that of a chambermaid on duty and assert they will bring about a change next winter. .Surely there must be eome happy medium between the over draped skirts with which wo have been burdened and the severe extreme at which we are now arriving. It cannot be denied that plain skirts are not universally becoming, anv more than it can beallirmed that all women are equally well made and graceful. And while they are about it there is room for reform in other details as well as skirts. Sleeves, for instance, are many of them actually grotesque, especially those in which the material is tied to the arm in bvoor three great pufl's. Then asain the prevalent fashion of turned-hack lace or plaiting about the neck entails an exposure of that feature which is a trial to necks in general which have passed their first youth. Cannot some genius create something which will suit all tastes and thus be equally appropriate for all figures and all ages? During the latter part of summer and the autffmn, sa's a Paris correspondent in Harper's Bazar, black lace will form a prominent feature of toilets. It is used on all fabrics and all colors, particularly on light colors, and on figured as well as plain fabric?. Black lace flounces are used on flowered silks with an ecru, old rose, or light green ground. . Tbe flounce is frequently headed by a puff of the lace through which a ribbon is drawn of one of the colors prominent in the flowers. On the bodice the lace assumes the shape of bretels, a cape, or perhaps a short jacket. This may not be pretty, but it is fashionable. Lace flounces are used in many other ways besides. A pretty fashion consists in covering a silk skirt which is to be plaited with two or three lace flounces set on flat ; the ßilk and lace are then accordion-plaited together. This ia done with plain and figured silks, but more especially with striped silks, which plait effectively. The bodice of such a skirt may be entirely of lace or only trimmed with lace; the tloe silk sleeves are veiled with full-plaited sleeves of lace. Dotted Dets, dotted m 6ilk, velvet or chenille, are similarly combined with silk. Lace appliques must not be forgotten. These are used on wraps and dre?6es both. Palm-shaped or other lace designs are applied on tbe material, which is soraetirut.s cutaway underneath and the lace lined with another color. Black lace insertions are also much used, with the material cut away from underneath. A charming early autumn dress which I have jut seen making is of mouse-gray crepe de chine. The skirt opens at one side over an underskirt of black velvet; it is trimmed everywhere with gold lace, which on the open side edees the gray and rests on the velvet. The bodice is shirred and opens on a black velvet yoke covered with gold embroidery. The full crepe da chine sleeve ends at the elbow, merging in a tight lower sleeve of black velvet, ornamented with a deep cuff ot" gold lace. The entire dress is rich and harmonious, yet quite simple in its ef fect. The preference is for all soft, clinging stufiX and crepe de chine is in hih favor. Indeed, 6hirred bodices, full sleeves and softly flowing skirts could not be made of stiff, harth materials. Autumn toilets, it is said, contain the germs of wiuter fashions. If that is the case, some of the indications are significant. None of the skirts are entirely straight On the iront, at tne sides or at tne hacK some where there are gentle curves or fluctuations of the folds; it is raised here, or draped a tnno there, but never quite straight. Some of the bodices are fairlv fascinating. One is high and full, confined below bv a corselet of velvet or silk; an other has the top forming a voke in large plaits, on which is appliqued the edge of a lace bodice hebl bv a deep folded cirdle; another has a vest with a deep belt and a short, loose lacket above, as, indeed, jacket corsages show the greatest variety; black lace bodices are made with two long tabs on the front or a single one falling at the back. ever lias there been greater variety or freedom 01 imagination. The first autumn toilets wid be of licht camel's-hair, soft, sufficiently warm, but ot comparatively light colors, with a preference for the iiede and felt gray shades Accordion-plaited skirts will be used to Borne extent, with a jacket which ha3 a tight-fitting back and fronts which open on a well-fitting vest that ia crossed bv a pird'e of faille or moire of the same tint, the jacket fronts, beinc lined with the same silk. Liabt-cclored but warm wool ens will be worn all through the autumn. and until the stormy days of early winter impose darker tints. As to winter colors. twice a year regularly the statement is made that the coming season will see a return to the bright, decided colors of good old times in place 01 the neutral and com posne tints now in vogue, jusi as regu larly twice a year the statement is belied by subsequent events. It is 6afe to predict that next season the blues will Etill be old-blues tinged with crav, the greens mossv, the pinka pale and tinged with cream or yellow. and old rose will not be renounced. There is not likely to be any sudden change in this respect next winter. Some mar velous silks are announced, and to judge by tne specimens exhibited by the manufacturers of Lyons at the exposition these promises will bo more than fulfilled Beautmil brocades are among them, in which flowers appear to be scattered by the handful at random on silks which ara siui wim rienness. incse, ot course, must always be exceptional, even in the grand salons In which they will be worn 1 he wraps in preparation for the first cool days of autumn arc capes, chiefl 3 of light cloth or coarse woolens, usually with veivei in comoinauon. a mouse-gray ciotn cape lias a collar and tabs of black velvet Mantelets with short tabs have a yoke and girdle of velvet, or a velvet point in the back and pome equivalent for it in front. Just as in the case of autumn dresses, light tints will be much used for wraps also, to distinguish them from darker winter garments. A cream wool wrap with dark green velvet will be extremely elegant in about two months. The same general rule lor wrappings that has been observed for some years past will still hold good. Long cloaks are worn for morniDgs and ßhort wraps for calling, except when a long cloak is worn for extra protection or over a redir.gote costume, and is removed before enteringthedrawin?-room. Toques will constitute the principal head-wear for autumn, particularly tulle toques of all colors Soma . are of the round turban shape, consistently adorned with a crescent on the front. Others are arranged -. . 1 . ,-i ti - wim .Mercury wings or iiko a Hungarian cap. An aigrette, a butterfly, a wing is J sufficient tricaming for this email piece of

head-gear, which it is difficult to take seriously as a hat, although it fills the place of one. STYLES FOR YOUNG LADIES.

They Are ia Ecstasies Over the Chic of the Josephine Gown. A classic and graceful gown for a debutante is made from shot surah in olive green and gold. The surah is gathered in iront of the neck and confined at the waist in blouse style by a golden baud. A wide drapery is attached to the left shoulder and d'raped across the front of the skirt, forming a point at the hem on the right side, whence it is carried upward behind and attached to the left shoulder again at the back of the bodice. The underskirt is full and plain. This gown may be made with or without sleeves, but if with sleeves thev must carry out the Greek idea of the drapery, full and straight, and then with three cuts across the arms, which shall be drawn together in the center of each piece, showing the arm between as in ancient Grecian gowns. Guipure and Madeira embroideries bor der summer dresses made of cotton crape. tmbroidered crepe de chine sashes are worn with midsummer toilets and are shown in extremely rich designs. Amonc; the Jenness Miiler gowns m which the greatest interest has centered none have been more admired than the style shown as the Josephine gown. 1 oun2 ladies have cone into ecstasy over its gracefulness and chic and many have adopted the style without a single change for a school dress. A lovelv model is made from old rose cashmere without trimming of anv kind, excepting a plain row of switching forming a hem to the drapery and a facing to the gown form foundation. Thepeneral idea of the gown is one of absolute freedom for everv part. The petticoat is plain and gathered into a band. The overdress is shirred on the shoulders, brought down to the waist and shirred around, reaching well up under the arme, rrom this the draperv falls over the skirt to the foot, caught up and secured to the hip on left side. The sleeves are fulled in the armhole, lulled again at the elbows, forming a small puff, then 6hirred. matching the waist, and finished with a close-fitting cuff effect to the waist. Fashion Small Talk, Quotations from Shakspeare in raised letters appear upon eome of the newest bacxle brace lets. Long-waisted bodices and straight full skirts, simply caught up with a clap, chatelaine, or silk cord at the left side, will predominate in elesant dress toilets this fall. The handsome Louis Quatorze vest of embroidered crepe de chine, cut to fall low nnd broad below the waist, is a feature of stylish redincote gowns for afternoon receptions. With low shoes of black or bronze kid, silk stockings are worn in dark shades of brown, blue or green, finely ßtreaked with brieht red, yellow or white; black stockiugs, striped ia colors, are also fashionable. Plastrons covered with rich passementeries in gold and cashmere colors are set into bodices that are variously declrated with tiny folds of eilk net and wider ones of silk, or with velvet revers as a finish. This gives the stiil popular etlect of aa inner and outer waistcoat. For very yonncr ladies are fichus composed of extra ribbons. These are joined diagonally at the middle of the back, crossed in front with a few plaits to conform them to the figure, and knotted at the waist bebind. This is a etyle revived from one popular the latter part of tbe last century. Some of the neglige cordages on the new empire t.iilor-nn ie jrowns represent a shirt waist of corded silk, and below this is a pointed girdle trimmed wiih fine Hues of cold braid. There are rows of the braid also down the fronts of the loose waist, which is fastened with small gold buttons. The Spanish pelerine is now considered the hiaht of 6tyle, and is worn with dressy toilets of every description. It consists of a shoulder cape of real Spanish and Chantilly lace in a combined pattern, with scarf ends that fasten with a jeweled clasp at the belt, and fall to the foot of the dress skirt. Sunshades are marvels of elegance, very large, covered with striped Pekin, place silk ia soft shades of colors or with embroidered gauze trimmed with flowers and ribbons. The han dles are ot undyed wood olive wood of a shining yellow streaked with b!ack or acacia wood of a pretty luht grey veined liie marble. Pireetoire redinpotes of cream-white pilot cloth of camel's hair, with cricket caps to match, are imported for coachia? and seaside uses. Some of these elegantly made garments are wholly unadorned, while others have the 6kirts and hoods lined with old rose, reseda or terra-cotta.silk, with a bit of color on the top to correspond. Now the whalebones of the mounting are concealed under silk ribbons merely sewn on each end and forming a star which stretches out when the sunshade opens. Now there are rosettes of ribbon placed inside, in the center of the sunshade, and upon the fastening, or ribbons put on in zigzags round the edge of the sunshade under a lace flounce. The beautiful soft sheer clairette is much Ufed in stylish gowns for autumn wear. Pictureque bodices and sleeves will be adopted for these dresse. A lovely toilet of cream-white clairette is made in empire fashion, with garnitures of white and gold silk bands in applique. The sleeves are pulled, and caught down at intervals with bands of passementerie. The bodice has a white lace vest with the white and gold trimming set at each side. The caprice for borrowing details from masculine attire grows still more evident, and ia tailor-made walking suits and tennis and yachting cotturues there is really very little except the skirt to distinguish them from men's dress. Soft felt hats in black, white, and gray are worn; caps with cloth or leather visors; atiö" neckties with scarf-pins; sailor knots and collars, vets and cutaway jackets, link buttons, shirt waists with studs, and so on. These little aflectations appear most charniiugly with sweet sixteen. Plain corsages are made very dressy by a "shawl-point" draperv of net or lace. Beaded tulle is also used. There are pointed cuirass bodices, or, if preferred, half-blouses or plastrons, which surround the collar front and back, forming a point at the back and extending to the waist in front, but only on one side. From under the arms on the other side strands of ribbon are brought, which are carried to the hfp on the left side, and drawn through a handsome buckle, and then tied or looped. This forms a pretty finish to the coisage, adding greatly to its styiish eflect. The Tastest R.nilway Time. I Railways of England. The question, "IIow fast can a locomotive run?" has been a good deal discussed recently in the engineering papers. The conclusion appears to be that there is no authentic record of any speed above eighty miles an hour. That speed was obtained many years ago by a Bristol and Exeter tank engine with nine-foot driving wheels a long extinct species down a steep bank. But it has, apparently, never been beaten. It is, indeed, not a little strange how sharply the line appears to have been ' drawn at eighty miles an hour. Tiecords of seventy-five miles an hour are as plenty as blackberries. Records of eighty are exceedingly Tare. Records of any greater speed have a way of crumbling beneath the lightest touch. ' Olv the Fly n. Chance. Detroit Free Tress-J "Good many flies in here," he said to a shoemaker on Champlain-st. es he sat down to have a lift rut on the heel of his shoe. "Yes." "Never tried to drive e'm out, did you?" "No." "Don't want to keep 'em on the outside, I suppose?" "No." "Wouldn't put up a screen door, then, if snyone should give you one?" "No." "You must be tbe house-fly's friend." frendt, I vhas sooch a man dot I like eferpodftoget along all right. If you pitch on some flies he vhas mad j if you gif him a shance maype he goes py himself und does vhell und vhas your frendt." A Honeymoon On r Merry. Go-Itonnd. Atlanta Constitution. ' A Titnsville paper tells 01 a novel wedding tour. The young roan, who could not leave town, purchased fife dollars' worth of tickets for the merry-go-round, and they proceeded to ride to their hearts' content. AVuald 'ot It" Convinced. Doston Herald.) Mother "Ella, you cannot marry him. He has no money." la "Why, mother, I saw Lira tire $5 to a beearl" 'Trobably an a complice."

A GLANCE AT SARATOGA.

'BAB" THINKS IT A VULGAR PLACE. Where Cold Makes Homely Girl Pretty and Badly Bred 'Women FashionableDiamonds A Saratoga Ball Mrs. Hicks-Lord Romance Reality. Saratooa Springs, Aug. 25. Special. Of all places in the world Saratoga is the most absolutely vulgar. You can call it nothing else. The ßtamp of the gold coin makes ordinary girls pretty, badly bred women fashionable and men win wouldn't be ppoken to outside of a barroom in. New York given the entree. At a ball the woman whose diamonds are biggest is quoted as distinguished and the girl whose frock is the most bizarre ia described as the belle. I should never be surprised at any oi'ense against good taste committed here, for it's just a question of how much money, bow many diamonds and how many frocks. A complimentary writer called it the "Monaco of America," and I think if the powers that be in the smallest kingdom in the world should hear of this insult to their principality they would come and raze Saratoga to the ground. Monaco, enframed in flowers, made joyful by the soft sea air, has about its gambling a halo of romance. Saratoga, glaring hot and dusty, has about it no romance whatever, and its gambling is of the sort that means au eager grasp for the almighty dollar, while its coat of arms ought to be three balls. The women? Well, the many are loud and badly dressed. The few are quiet in manner, elegant in gown and equipage. The water? The less said about the water the better, for no matter how much can be quoted in favor of its alter et'.ect, there is nothing that gives one so entirely a taste of one's hereafter as does the compound of match stems and licorice water that is pronounced bo healthy. The balls are balls in the most pronounced eense of the word thev do not suggest that on a quiet corner of tbe card there could be written "dancing," "cotillion at 11 o'clock," but they just sug gest balls balls where tbe dancing is fu rious and the gentlemen who wear cortume riyveur find it costume de rigor, aa most of them prouonnce it. After each dance they wipe the perspiration oif their faces and feel that they have earned whatever there is to eat or drink. . The girls are attired in gowns that outrival Joseph's coat of many colors, and you cannot but be amazed at the number of diamond necklaces that abound. True, it wouldn't do to examine them closely if you are a judge of stones, and such a thing as their not matching in size and color doesn't seem to be considered, but they must be big big before everything else, and worn as often as possible. Solitaire earrings, a broach of diamonds, and a pair of diamond bracelets form a quiet get-up in jewelry in the morning. And when you 100k at the women who sooHend against all the laws of good taste, you wonder if they are like their diamonds otf color. Among the ladies of the old rezime, the gentle women who remember the time when gallantry was the vogue and courtesy was counled of more value than costumes, is Mrs. Hicks-Lord. "Whereever she goes she would by her dignified manner and tine presence attract attention, but here she seems all the whiter because of the decided contrast afforded. I was amused at something a man had said to ice which shows that after all men are good judges of women's clothes. aid he, "Mrs. Iord could never be anything else but a lady. How do I know? Because I have been near enough to her to see that her velvets and silks are of- the richest quality, her lace, even if it only be a little bit, is of the finest, and that whatever jewelry she wears is perfect in shape and color; and really I don't believe she ever wears all she possesses." I laughed at his judgment and agreed with him, for I knew it was true. And then I told him a little about this gentlewoman, whose life had been such a romance and whose kindnesses are so many and so well considered. Generous to her church, she is also generous to many of her friends who, having no richep, suffer the woes of genteel poverty, and more than this 6he is curiously enough, for a fashionable woman, au fait regarding the joys aud woes of all the people of her house When the holiday time comes she looks after the workers in her household, and at the great dinner-table set in the servants' dining-room everybody's wife and child is present, and ihere is not a little voice asking for a drumstick that does not get it. She doesn't forget the guards at her gate, and the weary nights when her house is watched are amply compensated for. Now, that's what I call doing good with your money, and when the old butler stands up and drinks "To the health of Mrs. Lord and God bless her !" at the Thanksgiving linner, it seems to me she must feel after all how good it is to have wealth and how good it is to spend it. The old timers tell of romances counected with Saratoga and then sigh that it is not as it used to be. They regret the days when the southern gentry used to come on for the waters and sigh over the fact that anybody can get there nowadays. It is an exaggerated weighing machine you drop your nickel in the slot a gold-washed nickel and then it is announced exactly what your weight is from the coiden standpoint by the gossips roundabout The days of romance have gone by, and those of reality are here. About the last of the stories is that of Cammack and the lovely girl whom he married. He met her here, and her sweetness of face, of voice and of manner, charmed even the man who found his greatest delight in making money, and he determined that the beauteous maid should be his bride. Evidently she had no ideal as far as a husband was concerned, or else even all the money would not have made her find happiness in a man old enough to be her father and certainly not handsome. She is not here this summer, and it would seem just as well, for the much-praised beauty has gone the delicate skin has grown flushed and the slender figure is more than round; it is fatl And the moral of it is, that when you have lived your romance in one place while you are young and lovely to look upon, never come back. An older romance that has the charm of fiction about it, is told of Mrs. Willie K. Vanderbilt. She was here after her father had lost bis money, with some friends, when the announcement that the rich son of William Vanderbilt would arrive that evening was made. Of gowns 6he had but few most of them had been worn, and 6he did think that she could make an impression on any man if only the bad a frock to wear. (W of her friends volunteered to lend her a yellow silk. With great delight it was accepted, but the beauty's eyes filled with tears and her quivered with disappointment wr discovered that on one side and far down on theskir stain. But was southern .girl ? the tima came put on she . shawl that by sorr among her thing? Spanish fashion, and on one si'

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An admirer had sent hr a bunch of yellow roses, and with these and her black fan her costume was complete. She came, she saw and she conquered. The wicked friend never forgave her her success in hiding the defects of the gown ortha lovely picture she presented when she stood before Mr. Vanderbilt, and the look-ers-on could read the admiration in hi eyes. I don't know whether this story i true or not ; it was told trie an-i vouche-i for, and I like to think that, Cinderellalike, the maid of the nineteenth century can, if she will, find her prince. I've got to say something about makeup it is the ru:e rather than the exception here, the exception being the woman who does it well. You can ue whatever kind of rouge yru prefer, but do, dear -V.'fc. Vc'f x'.fv. put it on propcri3r, and don't buy a dead-white powder lor a skin that inclines to be vellow. If vou do vou

j will simply present the appearanc of j having been whitewashed a pae blue. I That sounds like a bull, but it is uU.'ior j the white shows and the blue srerus to peek out from under it. Did you ever notice a wolnan with a good color on her face? She doesn't flush just under th eyes in a round spot the jilow extends far over on each side of Ler cheek, the lobes of her ears crow a little pink and so does the tip of her chin, br nostrils, and the lower part of her forehead. Eemember this when you sit down to put your rouge on apply it carefully either with the softest cf li.K-rt cloths au old handkerchief is bect or a sponge, as you use cither dry or liquid rouge. Use yctr powder with equal deftness, remembering that you don't wart to look pink in one spot and dead white in another, but that you want to make your t'.vo colors blend until a ver. table fiesb tint is achieved. The value of liquid rouge n that it can be touched and will not com 01T a good rubhin? with soap and water being required to remove it; at the same time, unless you are an adept in the art oi make-up, stick to the dry rouge, for toe much on can be quickly wiped ell with a handkerchief, while once tVe liquid rogue is on, it is difficult to g?t it o'l quickly and needs to be shsded with hard powder. As for your eyes, you had bettei let them alone. The painted eyes I bav seen here have made me shudder and think of Jezebel, and oddly enouch, it :s usually very young girls who make sccb atrocious pictures of 'themselves. Pictures done by hand and after the style of tha impression is's. It seems all right to them in their looking-giasses, but it's anything but all right out in the sunsnme. It a woman mukes up her mind that she is gointr to make up her face she will show wisdom it 6he goes to somebody who really understands it and then learns exactly what she should do. Once commenced she can't stop, and so she might as well conclude that to do it w ell is w is dom, while to do it ill is announcing to th world at large not only her iinperiecticni of skin but her lack of brains. I want to say something else, because I have been moved to it by what I have seen here about the Jews. And this is it: I do think, without any exception, they are the best people in the world for looking after their own, and if the men of other races were cnt -ha'tf r.s careful tbera would not be women ar.d children with, no one to provide for them, or poor relations who did not know where to turn. Then, too. as in contrast to Gentile children at the watering-places, the Jewis'a ones are a thousand times more pclite, obey what is said to them by their parents, and" show a consideration for each other, even in their play, that is very desirable. I heard one say to her little sister, "Da you think it's polite to be cross because you lost at croquet and make all the rest of us feel unhappy when we have only been playing a fair game?" The vanquished one brightened up at this anJ apologized to all the other little girls and a new game was started. I never heard a Jewish child speak S7 impudent word, or reiuse to obey it& mother, and for the young girls it must b said that no dance is too joyous, no frolic too gay for mamma not to be with theua in it. I like this. I believe children who honor their fathers and mothers will hava long days and happy ones, and I believ in giving honor where honor is due. Bab. A FIGHTING DONKEY. Tie Accepts Battle rrom a Stallion aal Kill HU Antucontst, X. Y. Worl I. A remarkable and fatal fight between 1 a stallion and a donkey occured on Philip Hendricks farm near Deckertown, ia Sussex county. New Jersey. Both animals were powerful and had been enemies for weeks. The donkey was very dark and 6trong and was called the "Knights of Malta." The stallion was a valcabh horse and was being trained for the racecourse. The stallion and donkey were leit in adjoining fields. The stallion soon saw. the opportunity afTorded for a fight an d tore down the field to a broken pi;ce of fence. The donkey happened to be directly on the other side and clo.e to tha fence. The stallion jumped straight on his back, landing with his fore fet across the donkey's back and his bind i-'etcn the ground toward the fence. TLe f.allicn fastened his teeth in his enemy's neric and at the same time struck the d.key's side with his f re feet with a goM d-.ai of force. Hendricks' man Maguire zz 1 a fnrm hand watched the fight, which looked b:d for the donkey. Th rmtpv inclierl its bea 1 and at thf same time elevated its heels. The tallico was thrown to the ground nr.d q :i. k a ? flash the donkey turned a a fusilade with its heels on us -ro.-trt" t enemy. It kicked hard ad 'uih i.ch nin? rapidity. The hard ou ir donkey were driven ag fnd rz'.. inln tha tt'il inn hnd V " i ! " M M crwin tin-win" frcflv. The horse kert u constant whining and the donkey tiravea loud end long. In live minutes tne tide of battle turned completely. A few more of those terific kicks end the stallion was rendered helpless. The farm hands began to fear the stallion would be killed," so they took rails from the fence and began beating the donkey. The infuriated animal then started for them, when th nearly dead horse made anellort to rise. The donkey saw it, and before the men could intercept him, he rushed upon hi fallen foe and, turning, gave the stallion one tremendous kick, breaking his jaw, and then followed it with another kick in the stomach, tearing the flesh open and exposing the intestines. The stallion gav a piteous moan and then a eisp and roliea over dead. The donkey will survive. The Reletnne H'll of ewporU Boston IlrX 1 s Nep -rt lUr.J smile on her lips ar.a her tp enaMes tier to rP,,r when drivin aa wir onera. With American girl somewhat the elerj

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