Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 November 1889 — Page 6

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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. "WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1889.

DB. TALMAGE IS ITALY.

A SERMON EN ROUTE TO PALESTINE. Paul'! Mediterranean Voyage Furnishes the Text nrl Subject God' Saving Foww Realised Darios thn Mild Storais Upon the Great Ocean. The Eov. T. De Witt Talmas, D. D., preacbxVl in the Italian port of Brindisi laat Sunday. His subject was A Mediterranean Voyage," and he took for his text Acts xxvii, 44: "And so it came to pass that they escaped all 8afa to lan J." Dr. Talmagesaid: Having visited your historical city, w hich ire desire to see because it was the terminus ot the most famous road of theacros, the Roman Appian way, and for its mighty fortress, overshadowing a city which even Hannibal's ho6ts could not thunder down, we must to-morrow morning leave your harbor, and after touching at Athens and Corinth voyage about the Mediterranean to Alexandria, Egypt. I have been reading this morning in the new testament of a Mediterranean voyage in an Alexandrian ship. It was this very month of November. The vessel was lying in a port not very fa from here. On board that vessel vrere two distinguished passengers one, Josephns, the historian, as we have strong reasons to believe; the other, a convict, one Paul by name, who was going to prison for upsetting things, or, as they termed it, "turning the world upside down." This convict had gained the confidence of the captain. Indeed, I think that Faul knew almost as much about the seas as did the captain. He had been shipwrecked three times already; he had dwelt much of his lif" amidst capstans, and yardarms, and cables, and storms, and he'knew what he was talking about. Seeing the equinoctial storm wi coming, and perhaps noticing something anfeaworthy in the vessel, he advised the captain to stay in the harbor. But I hear the captain and first mate talking together. They say: "We can not aflbrd to take the advice of thislandsman, and he a minister. He mav be able to preach very well, but I don't beiieve he knows a raar'inespike from a lurf-tackle. Ail aboard! Cast off! Shift the helm for headway! "Who fears the Mediterranean?" They had gone only a little way out when a whirlwind, called Zuroclydon, made the torn sail its turban, thook the most as you would brandish a epear, and tossed" the hulk into the heavens. Overboard with the cargo! It is all washed with saltwater and worthless now, and there are no marine insurance companies. All hands ahoy and out with the anchors! Great consternation comes on crew and ?assenger. The st-a monsters snort in the oam, and the billows clan their hands in rite of destruction. In a lull of the storm 1 hear a chain clank. It is the chain of the great apostle as he walks the deck, or holds fast to the rigging amid.-t the lurching of the f hip the spray dripping from his long beara as he cries out to the crew: "Xow, I exhort you to be of good cheer, for there shall be no loas of any man's lite enong you, but of the ship. For there stood by me this night tho an?el of God, whose f am, and whom I serve, saving: Fear not, I'aul; thou must be brought before Caesar; and, lo, God hath given thee all them that sail with thee." Fourteen days have pawed, and there is no abatement of the storm. It is midnight. Standing on the lookout, tho man peer into the darkness, and. by a flash of lightning, sees the long, white lino of breakers, and knows they must be coming near to gome country, and fears that in n few moments the veWel will be shivered on the rock. The shin Hies like chair in the tornado. They drop the poundingline, and by the light of th lantern they see it is twenty fathoms. Speeding along a little further they drop the line again, and by the light of the lantern they see it is filteen fathoms. Two huti'lred and seventy-six souls within a few feet of awful shipwreck! The managers of the vessel, pretending they want to look over the öde of the hin and undergird it, get into the email boat", expecting in it to escape, but Faul sees through the sham, and teil thtm that if they go off in the boat it will be death to them. The vessel strikes! The planks f-pring! The timbers crack! The vessel parts in the thundering surge! Oh, what wild struggling for life! Here they leap from plank to p'.ank. Here they go under as if they would never rise; but, catching hold oi a timber, come floating and panting on it to the beach. Herestrongswimraers spread their arms through the wav s until their chins piow the sand, and they rise up and wring their wet locks on the beach. When he roll of the ship is called UTft people answ.-r to their nanus. "And so," say ray text, "it came to pass that they escape! all suie to land." I learn from this subject: 1. That tho.e who get ns into trouble will not stay to help us out. These shipmen got i'aul out of the fair havens into the storm; but as soon as the tempest dropped upon them they wanted to go oT in the sma'il hoat, caring nothing for what became ot Paul and the paengors. Ah, me 1 hnman nature, is the eauie in all aws. They who get us into trouble never stop to help us out. They who tempt that young man into a life of dissipation will be the first, to laugh at his imbec ility, and to drop him out of decent society. "Gamblers always make fun of the losses of puablers. They who tempt you into the contest with fist, saying: "I will back you," will be the first to run. Look ovr all the predicaments of your lifo and count the names of thoe who have got you mto thcfce predicaments, and tell in.',? the name of one who evr r helped you out. They wtre glad enough to get you out of fair havens, but when, with damaged rigging, yon tried to get into harbor, did thev hold for you a plank or throw you a rope1 Not one. Satan has got thousands of men Into trouble, but be never sot one out He led them into theft, bnt he would not hide the goods or bail out the defendant. The spider showti the way over thi; poH.-amer bridge into the cobweb, but it never bhowg the way out of the cobweb over the gossamer bridge. 1 think that there were plenty of fast young men to help the prodigal to spend his money ; but when ho ha4 wasted his substance in riotous living they let him go to the swine pastures, while they took themselves to some other newcomer. They who took I'aul out of fair havens will be of no help to him when heigets into the breakers of Meiita. I remark ftgnin, hb a lesson learned from the text, that it is dangerous to refuse the counsel of competent advisers. I'aul told them not to go out with that ubip. They thought he knew nothing about it. They said: "He is only a niirji-uV r 1' They went, and the ship was destroyed. There are a great many people who now pay of ministers: '''They know nothing about the world. Ther can not talk to us!" Ah, my friends, it is not necessary to have tho Asiatic cholera before you can rive it medical treatment in others. It is not necessary to have your arm broken before you can "krow how to tp inter a fracture. And we who stan-I in the pulpit, and in the ofike of a Christian teacher, know that there are certain styles of belief and certain kinds of -behavior that will lead to destruction ss certainly as I'aul knew that if that ship went out of fair havens It would go to destruction. "Eeioice, O young cum, in

thy youth ; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth; but know thou that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment." We may not know much, but we know that. Young jeople refuse the advice of parents. They say: "Father is oversu.picious and mother is getting old." Hut those tarents have been on the eea of life. They now where the storms sleep, and during their voyage have seen a -thousand- battered hulks marking the place where beauty burned, and intellect foundered and morality sank. They are old sailors, having answered many a signal of distress, and endured great stress of weather, and Kone scudding under bare poles; and tho old folks know what they are talking about Look at that man in his cheek the glow of infernal fires. Ills eye Hashes not as once with thought, but with low passion. His brain is a sewer through which impurity floats, ami hi heart the trough in which lust wa1 lows and drinks. Men shudder" as the leper passes and parents cry: "Wolf! wolf!" "et heonce. said the Ixrd's praver at his mother's knee and aeainst that iniquitous brow once pressed a pure mother's lip. But he refused her counsel. Ho went where euroclydons have their lair. lie foundered on the 8t-a, while all hell echoed at tho roar of the wreck: Lost Pacifies! Lost Pacifies! Another lesson from the subject is that Christians are always safe. There did not seem to be much chance for Paul cetting out of that shipwreck, did there ? They had not, in those days, rockets with which to throw ropes over foundering vessels. Their lifeboats were of but little worth. And yet, notwithstanding all the aanger, my text says that Paul escaped safe to land. Anil so it will always be with God's children. They may le plunged into darkness and trouble, but by the throne of the eternal God, I assert it, 'they shall all escape safe to land." Sometimes there comes a storm of commercial disaster. The cables break. The masts fall. The cargoes are scattered oyer the sea. Oh! what struggling and leaping on kegs, and hogsheads, and corn-bins, and store-f helves! And yet, though they may have it so very hard in commercial circles, the good, trusting in God, all como safe to land. Wreckers go out on the ocean's beach and find the shattered hulks of vessels, and on the streets of our great cities there is many a wreck. Mainsail slit with banker's pens. Hulks abeüin's ends on insurance counters. Vat credits sinking, having suddenly sprunz aleak. Yet all of them who are God's children shall at last, through His goodness and mercy, escape safe to land. The Scandinavian warriors used to drink wine out of the skulls of the enemies they had slain. Even so God will help us out of the conquered ills and disasters of lifo to drink sweetness and strength for our souls. You have, my friends, had illustrations in your own lif- of how God delivers His people. I have had illustrations in my own life of the same truth. I was onco in what on your Mediterranean you call a euroclydon, but what on the Atlantic wecall a cyclone, but th same storm. The steamer Greece of the National line swung out into the l iver Mersey at Liverpool, buiind for New York. We had on lwd 700, crew and passengers. We came tosether M rangers Ita-ians, Irishmen, Englishmen, Swedes, Norwegians, Americans. Two flags floated from the masts British and American ensigns. Wo had a nw vessel, or one so thoroughly remodeled that thevoage had around it all the uncertainties of a trial trip. Toe great steamer feit its way cautiously out into the sea. The pilot was dischargr-d; and, committing ourselves to the care of Him who holdeth the winds in His fist, we we re fairly started on our vovage of o,XX) miles. It was rough nearly all the way the fca with strong butfeting disputing our path. Rut one night at 11 o'clock, after tho lights had been put out a cyclone a win 1 just made totearships to pieces caught us in its clutches. It came down so suddenly that we had not time to take in the sails or fasten the hatches. You may know that the bottom of th ? Atlantic ii strewn with the ghastly work of cyclones. Oh! they are cruel wind. They have hot breath, as though they came up from infernal furnrr. Their merriment is the cry of aUrighted passengers. Thdr piny is the foundering of steamers. And when a ship goes down they laugh until both continents hear them". They go in circles, or, as 1 describe them with my hand, rolling on, rolling on, with finger of terror writing on the white fheet of the wave this sentence doom: "Let all that come within this circle perish. Brigantine go down, c ippers go down, steamers go down." And the vessel, hearing the terrible voice, crouches in the surf, and, as the waters gurcle through the hatches and port-holes, it lowers away thousands of feet down, farther and farther, until at lat it strikes the bottom and all is peace, for they have landed. Helmsman dead at the wheel, engineer dead amidst the extinguished furnaces, passengers dead in tho gangway, captain dead in the cabin. Buried in the great cemeterv of d--ad steamers, beside the City of Boston, the Iexington, the President, the Cambrh waiting for the archangel's trumpet to split up the di-i ks and wrench open the cabin doors aud unfasten the hatches. . I thought that I had seen storms on the sea before, but nil of them together might have come nnder one wing of that cyclone. We were only WO or tKjO miles from home and in high expectation of soon seeing our friends, for there was no one on board so oor as not to have a friend. But it seemed as if we were to be disappointed. The most of us expected then and there to die. There were none who made light of the peril save two. One was an Englishman, and he was drunk, and the other was au American and ho was a fool ! Oh ! What a time it was! A night to make ono's hair turn white. We came out of the berths, and stood in the gangway, and looked into the feteernge, and eat in the cabin. While seated there wo heard overhead something like minute guns. It was the bursting of the ai!s. We held on with loth hands to keep our places. Tho?.? who attempted to cross the floor came back bruised and gashed. Cup and glassi s were dashed to fragments; pieces of table, getting: loone, ewung across the saloon. It seemed as if the hnr ricane took that gt;nt ship of thousands of tons und etoo'l it on eud aud said : "t-hall I sink it or let it go thin once?" And then it came down with such force that the billows trampled over it, each mounted of a fury. We felt that everything depended on the propelling screw. If that stoppl for an instant we knew the vessel would fall o.T into the trough of the ea and sink, and so we prayed that the screw, which three times since leaving Liverpool had already stopped, might not stop now. Oh! how anxiously we listened for the regular thnrnp of the machinery, upon which our lives seemed to depend. After awhilo pome one ;iid: "The screw is storptel" No; its sound had only been overpowered by the uproar of the tempest, and we breathed asi r again win n we heard the regular pulsations of the overtasked machinery goinx thump, thump, thump. At 3 o'clock in the morning the water covered the ship from prow to stern, and the skylights pave way ! Tho deluge rushed in, and we fell that one or two more waves like that must Hwamp us forever. As tho water rolled back and forward in tho cabins and dashed against the wails it sprang half-way up to the ceiling. Bushing through the skylights, as it came in with such terrific roar, there went up from the cabin a shriek of horror, which pray God I may never hear again. 1 Luve

dreamed the whole scene over again, but God has mercifully kept me trom hearing that one cry. Into it seemed to le compressed the agony of expected shipwreck. It seemed to say:" "1 shall never get home again! My children shall be orphaned, and my wife shall be widowed! I am launching HOW into tternity! In two minutes I shall meet my God !" There were about 550 .passengers in the steerage, and as the water rushed in and touched, the furnaces, and began violently to hiss, the poor creatures in the steerago imagined that the boilers were giving way. Those passengers writhed in the water and in the mud, some praying, some crying, all terrified. They made a rush for the deck. An officer stood on deck and beat them back with blow alter biow. , It was necessary. They could not have stood an instant on the deck. Oh, how they begged to ;ret out of the hold of the ship! ne, woman with a child in her arms, rushed up and caught held of one of the officers and cried: "Do let me out! I will help you! Do let mo out! I cannot die here ! ' iSbine cot down and prayed to the Virgin Mary, saying: "O, blessed mother, keep us! Have mercy on us!" Some stood with white lips and fixed gaze, silent in their terror. Some wrungtheir hands and cried out: "0 GM! what shall I do? What shall I do?" The time came when the crew could no longer stay on the deck, and the cry of the officers was: "Delow! all hands "below!" Our brave and sympathetic CapL Andrews whose praise I shall not cease to speak while I live had been swept by the hurricane from the bridge, and had escaped very narrowly with his life. The cyclone seemed to stand on the deck, waving its wing, crying: "This ship is mine! 1 have ce.pt ured it! Ha! ha! I will command it! If God will permit, I will sink it here and now! By a thousand shipwrecks, I swear th doom of this vessel! ' There was a lull in tho storm, but only that it might gain additional fury. Crash! went the life-boat on one side. Crash! went the life boat on the other tide. Tho great booms got loose, and, as with the heft of a thunderbolt pounded the deck and beat the mast the jib-boom, studding-sail boom, and square-sail boom, with their 6trong arms, beating time to the awful march and music of the hurricane. Meanwhile the ccean became phosphorescent The whole scene looked like tire. The water dripping from the rigging, there were ropes of fire; and there were masts of fire, and there was a deck on fire. A ship of fire, sailing on a sea of tire, through a night of fire. May I never see anything like it again! Evervbody prayed. A lad of twelve years of age got down and prayed for his mother. ''If I should give up,' he said, "I do not know what would becoms of mother." There wi re men who, I think, had not prayed for thirty years, who then got down on their knees. When a man who has neglcrteMl God all his lifo feels that he has come to his last time it makes a very busy night. All of our sins and shortcomings pass through our minds. My own life seemed utterly unsatisfactory. I could onlv say : "Here, Lord, take mo as I am. I cannot mend matters now. Lord Jesus, tliou ii 1 -t dio for the chief of sinnr-rs. Tl.it'- m ! It seems, Ird, as if my work is done, and poorlv done, and upon thy infinite mercy cast myself, and in this hour of shipwreck aud darkness comuiit myself and her whom I hold bv the hand to theei, 0 Lord Jesiis! praying thst itmaybea short struggle in the water, a'vj that at the same instant we may both arrive in glory!" Oh! I tell you a man pr.iys straight to the mark when he has a cyclone above him, an ocean iK-neath him, and an eternity so close to him that he can feel its breath on his cheek. The night was long. At last we saw the dawn looking through the port-holes. As in the olden time, in tho fourth watch of the night, Jesus came walking on the pea, from wave clilTto wave diu"; and when Ho nuts His foot upon a billow, though it may be tofssed up with might it goes down, lie cried to the winds, Hush! Thev knew Iiis voice. The waves knew Iiis foot. They died away. And in the shining track of His feet I read these letters on scrolls of foam and fire: "The earth shall be filled with the knowledge of God as the waters cover the sea." The ocean calmed. The path of the steamer became more and more mild; until, on the last morning out, the sun threw around about u a glory sueli as I never witnessed before. God made a pavement of mosaic, reaching from horizon to horizon, for all tho splendors of earth and heaven to walk upon a pavement bright enough for the foot of a seraph bright enough for the wheels cf an archangel's chariot. As a parent embraces a child, and kisses away itgrief, so over that sea, that had been writhing in agony in the tempest, the morning threw its'arms of beauty and of benediction, and the lips of earth and heaven met. As I came on deck it was very early and we were nearing the shore I saw a few sails against the sky. They seemed like the spirits of the night wa'king the billows. I leaned over the tal'rad of the vessel and sai l : "Thv way, O (Jod, is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters." It grew lighter. The clouds were hung in purple clusters along the sky ; and, as if those purple clusters wero preseI into red wine and poured out upon the sea, every wave turned into criuison. Yonder, fire cleft stood opposite to fire cleft; and here a cloud, rent and tinged with light, seemed like a palace i ith flames bursting from th windows. The whole scene lighted up until it seemed as if the angels of God wer ascending antl descending upon stairs of fire, and the wave-crests, changed into jasper, and crystal, and amethyst as they were liung toward the beach, made me think of the crowns of heaven cast before the throne of the great Jehovah. I leaned over the taflroil again and said, with more emotion than before: "Thy way, 0 God, is In the sea, and thy path in the great waters!" So, I thought, will be tho going ofT of the storm and night of the Christian's life. The darkness will fold its tents and away I The golden f. et of the rising morn wilfcome skipping upon tho mountain, and all the wrathful billows of the world's woe break into the splendor of eternai joy. And so wo come into the harbor. The cyclone behind us. Our friends before us, God, w ho is always pood, all around ns. And if the roll of tho crew and the passengers had been called TOO souls would have answered to their names. "And so it came to pass that we all escaped safe to land." And may God grant that when all our Sabbaths on earth are ended we may find that through the rich mercy of our" Lord Jesus Christ wo all have weathered the gale 1 "Into tha harbor nf hevn now we glide, Horn At 1 7. x t : Poftly vi drift on the bright lilTtr tide, II )in at I ht! fHorjr to ?ot I All onr dancrr mm o'er, Waniand Monro on the (flonlicl shore Olory to God! we will nhout evermore. JI.iiiip at lu-t! Home at last!"

A Phenomenal I'laee. fN. V. WVelclr. Mr. Gotham "Live i Dugoutville, Kansai? Urn in it rrnicli of a town?" WeMru Man "Wall, it iu't much for aizo yet ; but it's phenomenal place, all the same." "Phenomenal. eh" "Yfcirree. Dugoutville is the only town west of the Old'. what aia't made a claim fer the worlü' fair." CeuxorMilp. Puclc.J Mr. G. OTea (to fait on)-"What if that book you hv on the tal.le, Henry?" Henry "LUwthorDe' 'rlet Letter,' sir." Mr. O. OTeataternly) "Howthorne! I presume that you are cot arrar that tiiat ruin wai a ucuiocrat. are you?"

STYLES IX NIGHT-DRESSES.

DAINTY SILK AND LACE CREATIONS. Mr. F. W. Vandrbilt'i Tteantifa Xigbt. gown Jlrs. Tarsn Stevens Devot on to Black CiKlrraliunt Xtirple and fine Linen of the Marqulta Laiua, Three hundred dollars seems a preposterous price to pay for one petticoat and underskirt, and when you think of anyone's buying a dozen such "trifles" at once, you must own it's enough to make tho average woman gasp with envy and amazement and the average man quake with an awe that will penetrate even tho fibers of his pocketbook. And yet this is what Mrs. Langtry has done, eays the New York Worhl. Felix has just made for her twelve suits of silk undergarments, costing 1,500 francs a suit. They are two" separate pieces, and are of exquisite shades of rose, lemon, blue, lilac, scarlet, mauve, pale green, as well as black, white and cream color. There is the little afLur that is neither a chemise nor an undervest, but which goes on first. Over this is worn the corset, and then comes a garment which is the French conception of the divided skirt A yoke is fitted smoothly over the hips, and to this is sewed the divided skirt, each half of which measures four yards in width and is made in almost infinitesimal accordion plaits. Over thi, also sewed to the lower edze of the yoke, falls another t-kirt of tiny accordion plaits, and this is ten yards vards wide. Lach of the? skirts is edged with tho finest of real lace, yards upon yarels of it b-ing used, and each suit contains 100 yards of silk. The material is exquisite in texture, and yet is at once very light and verv firm. The Baroness T.lanc, who wouldn't let the queen of Öheba herself outdo her in finery if she could find out just what her majesty had worn, has similar sets of this silk underwear, all trimmed with the most costlv lace. She has also a night dress to match each suit in color, and some of these have SI 00 worth of lace upon them. Felix of Paris, who has made this finery, is a dressmaker, who many consider quite the equal cf Worth, but he isn't above making peticoats, etc., for anybody who can pav his prices and he makes nearly everything in this line that Mrs. Ingtry wears. The woman of society, whot can not abide to be surpassed nowadays in reckless lavi.-hness by any one, has determined to distance all competitors in tha cost ami bizarre splendor of thoe unseen garments that, though lost to eight, aro so dear to every woman. Hence the most fashionable'thing about ft fashionable woman is her underclothing. They are the true test of the degree of her to'n. For one thing, styles in underclothes are a sort of freemasonry business. They are not given to the public through ordinary tashion channels; the pictures of nightgowns and chemises in women's fashion magazines are quite without interest to the four hundred. Neither can the seh-ctions of these exclusive dames be seen in the smartest and swellest of shops. It is consi i .r (1 the proper thing that there should be nn au individuality about underwear. It is tho field for the expression of pe rsonal anil poetic fancy, yet individuality must not run into eccentricity even here' There are set fashions, definite tendeneies, which must bo heeded, and which fashionable women must learn from one another. Tho great distinctive tendency of the times is to silk. The ty pical fashionable woman is silk-rbed from the skin out; even though the last pnrment. the one for the public eye, be of Irish frieze or alleged hoi.espnn. The Chinese and India silks that have ben imported in such variety in the late years are responsible for this laying aside öf the fine muslins and linens our mothers crloried in and put their eyes out embroidering. These nlks wash perfectly, and they have provoked Occidental manufacturers to such competion that now a great deal of surah silk is made that is also washable. These goods gaveloveiv woman a chance to do something delightfully novel by abandoning all the traditions of all tim and making her underclothes of silk. At lir.-t only a few were in the secret, and it was regarded as deüciously expensive'. But soon experience lvgan to prove that silk outfits were not necessarily expensive, and their popularity increased to such a degree that they no longer confe rred distinction. ,Jt i's, in fact, still increasing. The shops now have suits of underclothes in white Chine-su silk that arc comparatively inexpensive. Clearlv, the fashionable woman must be up and doing or slu will be overtaken by her imitators, ami that is the fate she can ne ver endure. Lut no one is more energetic than the fashionable woman about her fashions. Whito Chinese silk no longer concerns her. She looks upon white undercothing as antiquated; her's is all the co ors of the rainbow not all the colors at once, but successively. She wears everything to match as scrupulously as if it were all for public exhibition. In fact some thinirs that used to be eon sidered as restricted to the deepest privacy are now indeed. made in a elegree public nightgowns, for instance. Nightgowns may be worn through the early hours when feminine friends are Wna received iu boudoirs. Certainly it would be a shame if somelody did not get to see them. A lady aoMtvdntanco calling lately on Mrs. Fred-rick W. Vanderbilt alxut noon was received by her iu a pink concoction that can only be justly dcscriln-d as a dream. It was f pale'pink surah, pink with a delicate lilac tint or like a lilac with the first blush upon it It was laid in the tiniest hand-madu tucks in the back, running from thm throat to tho shoulder blades. The front was composed of two straight widths of the surah, hemmed atx)ut the neck and edged with an exquisitely fino laco alxut a finger deep sewed on plain. Through the hem were run tiny pink ribbons, which drew the gown 'either loosely or closely about tho pretty wearer's pretty throat and which thus gathered up the lace and imparted the necessary fulness to the beautiful flowing garment. Tho sleeves were made up of lots of tinv perpendicular tucks from armhole to climW, below which they fell in a looso flounce edged with lacoi kith within and without If a lady could not have rosecolored elreatrs in a garment like that there is no hope of happiness for her, is there? Mrs. Vanderbilt is articularly fond of these delicate rose and lavender and roselavender tints, and a large proportion of her beautiful euiM are in these colors. . A "suit" ef underclothes these elays dws not mean just what it used to in pieces any more than in materials and color. The chemise, for instance, is passe; its day w pretty well over. We owe its abolition to the woman fair and fat. She concluded there was no sense, in. mnking .herself less fair and more fat with such a foolish garment. She has carried the day. Even the thinnest roman d'Cfl -not care about being made fat around i-he waistband that is where tho bulk of a chemise principally appears. Mrs. Faren Stevens's clothes illustrate a number of the very latest fads. She iaone those who have gone in for blackness, blackness unmitigated, beneath tha bril-

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j wuai t.iu uuiv lm2 aoetjuaieiy ueaignatod as black silk "tights, though they are simply the ordinary silk underwear of such people as can a.Tufd it Then black stockings, a black undervest, all cf the same tightness; then a black corset tliat is all, except a pe tticoat that is placed beneath the gown. Mrs. Frank Leslie has for several years dres.cd in precisely the same style. Except a petticoat, I said; but the petticoat is as important and as revolutionized by the roll of time as anything ele. White petticoat?, except with "thi.i circscs, are distinctly countrified. Let mj describe a typical fashionable petticoat. It is worn by that handsome and elistinguibhed young woman, Miss Elita I'roctor Otis, who, having won a reputation as a charming girl and the finest amateur actress 'in America, now aims at immortality aa editress of the New York Sn'Airihjij llciifv. This particular petticoat was cf fine soft black bengalene. It was fitted wrinkb less about the hips bv means of a yoke, and from this hung the skirt, laid in innumer able little tucks running down to within a foot of tiie bottom. Here they Cared into a rufDe, which was bordered with a heavy all-wool eilk lace. Miss Otis has long been considered one of the best dressed women in town, and no little of her reputation has been won by the.se petticoats. They are important factors in the hanging and How of the elress. She has a round dozen of these pretty silk pettiemts two oi pure white, two of black and the others ot shades to harmonize with her various gowns. The Marquise Lanza, the only daughter of Dr. William A. Hammond, robes her handsome ligur3 literally in "purple and fine linen." One of her "nightdresses is of rich royal purple, a color vastly becoming to her radiant blondedness. It is embroidered with bunches of purple and yellow pansies and has frills of finest Valenciennes lace. One of her silk petticoats is of vivid geranium-mi, with two pinked flounces gathered at the foot. Another is a beautiful changeable silk of green, bronze and red. Still another is a rich dark scarlet, with black lace rufiie.s at the bottom, both inside and out. All her underwear has her monogram and crest handsomely wrought upon it. We can all have a monogram, even if we cm't raise a crest. Of course, yru know that the modish monogram is now elonein letters about five inche-s long and less than two wide. Shrt, fat letters are now scorned by fashionable folks, and if you have a crest it must surmount the hand wrought letters. The monogram or crest is the only embroidery seen on these garments. Lace is the thing. There Is simply no end to the lace, and no end to tho expense of it. It is not uncommon to see sixty dollars' worth of lace on a single modish nightgown. And right le re comes in a curious turn of inconsistency. The imitation and machine made laces are entirely countenanced on out.-ido garments; some of the moft fashionable dressmakers prefer them; but on underwear the rules rigidly prescribe the real tiling not the real thing or nothing, but tho red thing whether you can or not. Inintr Fa -lion Fnrin. ITavana snd rhandron are the favorite colors for the cloth costumes. The oM-fnshioned ring of three turquoises ia agaiu coming into favor. Four Fmall diamonds encirclinfr a ardoine form a scarf-pin of pronounced beaity. Suit mußs are not so fashionable as those of fur. which continue to Increan in sue. White onyx cu Mini: stuil Jed with various precions gems are still decidedly popular. A weird watch-charm i a perfectly formed skeleton of gold with morable emerald eyes. Ostrich feat her are more than ever the fadiion for wider millinery, the naturalcolored one being bent liked. Feather trimmicps ared-fo worn on mantle and costumes. Cloth jaclvcti offcimple hape, In ecru or gn-en shades, are made very drewy by being striped with black Antrakan fur applied in lengthwise hands from the collar to the eud of thn coat. Lace cape with a hood for wearing over the hair have a long earf in frnt, which hangs to the foot of the evening cloak. Other medicis scarf have a fine wire to e'ap them about the neck, requiring no oiber fHstenincr. New oriental lace have inhered eoVs with open ring patterns and are crimped, fluted, or accordion-plaited, to be worn around the neck and beeves in wide frills. Very ellective imitations of rouud point laces are used iu the sam- way. Mous.'eline de soie fichns es large as shoulder rapes in the back aud falling In alow point io front are in add in colors or white, with a van dyke collar of point d? Geues lace to he worn ia the house, and make a simple gown more dremy. Znave or Figaro jaekets entirelv of gilt truid, or of giit and steel mixed, are Imported by the most fashionable modistes to use on hoe-e dre.es and tea-gowns of cloth or of phi-h, an 1 many such jackets have a Suis gird ; accompanying them. . M"tis?eline tie sole rallies with scalloped edgeB, worn double around the neck and f tiling in a soft ja')Ot to the waist, are made separate to use w ith various bodices. Another arrangement has a hitfh flaring collar with a frilled puft of the silk muslin inside it and a jahot below. The newest belt buckles of silver or gold are curved inward to follow the figure, and are eight inches long. The material oi the bodice is drawn down from the shoulders and side seams to meet in the buckle under the hust, a beeominß fashion, and especially suitable for soft fabrics of silk, crere, and net. A Stem Ohl I'urltao. Dexter (M?. Getul Col. John Goddard wnsa kinznmons; Penobscot lumbermen in hit day. An incident thut occurred at home indicates his unyielding nature and obstinate pride. One day a little son of his, while playing in the yard, climbed into a wacon. 'J'irinir of this amusement the child endeavored to au'ain reach the groundbut did not dare to clamber down. The mother, hearing cries for help, rushed out to the rescue at the same time that Goddard came around the corner of the nable. "Hold on there!'' he cried to his wife. Then turning to the sobbing child he shouted: "What's the matter, youngster?" e'nn't eet down." Trawl down!" "Can't." "Climb down, Hell you!" 'laresn't climb down." Uoddard reached for the horsewhip, vouchia5ngonlythe.se word to the appeal of bis wife: "If that young man ha any of John Ooddnrd blood in him he'll get down out of that himself." The child, nerved to deperation by several cuts from the whip, frantically attempted to (cramb's down from his perch, and, catching his foot In the wheel, fell to the earth with a broke n lee. But Ootid ard didn't flinch. ATlblam'a Crown, fJeweiera' KeTiew. Emperor William has a much smaller head than his father aud urandsirc. and the imperial crown, therefore does not fit hiiu. A new one was ordered several months aero, and it was sent to Iierlin on Monday the 14th. This new emblem of sovereignty weighs Ices than three pound, although made of innsMve gold; therefore the head beneath will not be o uneasy ai'ler till. It is ornamented with 100 diamonds, the lad which surmounts it cousisting of a im pie polished capphire. The empress is also to have a new crown as well as her lord and master. There M ill be lefis gold ahout it and more stonea, l.fUO diamonds of dillerent sizes mixed with a few pearls. II lninh!p. fX. V. Wetkly. Little Pov "Did you ever see my lie brother John? lie's a distant relative of mine." Visitor A distant relative?" Little Poy "Yes, indeed. IIo lives ia San Francisco." Keeping: a l)o. Puclt.J "Do you keep a dog, Dan vers?" inquired hia friend. "No," said Danvers sadly, as he paid a boy 25 cents for bringing tbe dog back; "tte Jersey farmers keo hiui for me."

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For sali by PSARSOX & HE SOLD LIQUOR TO MINORS, And TV as Ifttvily 1 iued Thea Harrison (UTA Rim Fat Ofilee. La Grande (Ore.) Journal. Word was receired in this city Tuesday afternoon that A. C. McClelland of island City had been appointed receiver of the land office, to take the place made vacant by the death of J. T. Outhonne, and the news was confirmed this morning. Jlr. McClelland bas been a resident of the valley for several years, and, until very recently, conducted a saloon at the place from whence he hails. During his business career he passed throuirh many of the experiences that not overly-careful boore dealers have to contend with, one of which was to be arraigned before the prand jury and heavily fined for sellin:; liquor to minors. Hut taken all around he 11 a pood republican, and it is to be hoped ha be of as much houor to the place ns his deceased predecessor. Mr. McClelland undoubtedly understood that ho was to have the position, even though death did not remove the incuinlent, for 6ome time epo he negotiated for a residence here and leased the same tor a period of two years. It is now building. How his appointment will suit a certain element of the republican party is hard to determine. It was known he had the inside track, aud accordingly a protest was sent In signed by many republicans, the purport of wliich was that if he received the appointment they would never vote the republican ticket airnin. Even the chaj lain of Trisident Harrison's regiment wrote a scathing protest azurnst the appointment, but Mr. McClelland has the oflico, just the same, and it now remains to be seen whether the senate, when it convenes, will confirm. President Harrison undoubtedly would not have made the appointment he did unless he considered tbe centb'tnau the best man in the republican ranks. The republican kettle is boiling turiously just at the present time over the matter. It Was Iii irandfnther'a Fualt. IN. V. Herald. In speaking on the question of heredity the other day the Itev. Dr. Charles F. Deems, the well-known pastor of the church of the stranger, tolil a goo'l story illustrative of the point that had halnts, as well as cood are sometimes transmitted from generation to generation. Anions the attendants at his church was a bright, brainy oung man in whom he took murh interest. His only fault was that he would co o.f on periodical sprees. When ono of these times came he would keep up his drinking until he became decidedly shabby. Dr. Deems was passing through Washington square on his way to his church one day recently when he met the young man in question decidedly the worse lor wear. He saw aud reeoenized the doctor, and going up to him linked arms and said confidentially: "Doctor, you think (hie) I'm drunk!" "I'm afraid yon are." "Tain't me thut's drunk (hie) doctor; it's my poor old grandfather," was the reply, and he started otf for auother drink. Had I'cen Duck Shooting. N. V. Werkly.l Mrs. Blinks "See here. Mr. It., I thought you gaid you had been duck shooting." Mr. Hbnks "Yes, m dear, been duck (hie) shootine." "Uut these ducks you brought home are tame ducks." "Y-e-s m' dear, I tamed 'em after I (hie) shot 'em." Knew Ills Man. Time. J Dignified Tarty (to New Haven bootblack) "Gm you tell me, tir, if I shall he able to make connections in order to reach New York by 3 p.m. I have bo6iueba of great importance in the metropolis." Bootblack ''Nop, but yer all ri;ht pard; dey dou't begin de pnme till liulf pat t'ree." II üuidnea. Merchant TraTeler. "Do yon ever think of the futnre?" said a sedate looking man to a chance acquaintance on the train. "I should say ao; that'a ciy business." "What?" "Dealing in futures." Vnefulwt Attrnci Ion. IKea'nfjr Enterprise. Cigsley "Going to get married, I hear. Soppose you got a wealthy girl?" Freddie "No." "1 hen w hat in thunder is the attraction?" "She's an orphan." The Ruling Dr ft of Thought. Puck Firnt Politician "Is there. reaUy a futnre tater Second Politician "A future state? AYhy, there are four of them; haven't you read the election news?" II r Trat. Epoch. Wife (at front JooTr-"WWi there?" Voice "I am Joho your husband." "Wife "I don't believe you. It doesn't sound like John's voice. Clow your breath through tha ker-hole."

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Digestion Dlsorßsred Liver. WETZEL, Indianapolis Ind. THAT MONTANA PROCLAMATION. Tb Prt Thut "Prince" Rusll Piaye-i In That Extraordinary lrf i.rtuanc. Wa'hlneton SpecUL President Harrison could, if he would, gWt an account of how and why he issued the Mon tana proclamation on Friday lat that would b very interesting and, perhaps, present the matter in a luht more credits'de to him than are . 1. . .v . . 1 1 . 1 inn rrpurin hihi are USMrnf noni rne notei lobbies. The bearer of the certifx ation of tho election in Montan was "Prince" Iltisfell, the president's son. lie Teuche l Wasl.inztou early on Friday, and the proclamation was sigued at 10:40 a, in., soon after his couiinj. According t Mr. Heine's story, the draft of the proclamation was made on Thursday, and by hini eiven to the president, who promised to give it his consideration, and if he found it to be correct in form he would approve it next day. When Mr. Hlaine relate ! his atory it was to an inquirer, who was led to believe that tha state department wns in possesion of tha return from Montana upon which to base the proclamation. As a matter of fsct, it Is asrted that "Bus" Harrison brou;ht the certified return. There it plenty of reason for believing that younjr Harrison telegraphed or ma le an advance of hia coming that the Situation In Montana aao distressing that it was important to have the democratic judses at once aboiiahed and the newly-elccted republicans installed. Western republicans are indignant because the president did tnt ieveral weeKs ago remove, the democrat and put republicans in their places. They arc not nt nil sure that his hesi. tation has not been fatal to the hopes of the republicans who aspire to be seuators. Tm Great I r th-of-Forf Ii Hiidct. rG!a.gnw H'rald. The Forth bridge is new addition to thj wonders of the wcrld. It is the ereatest cantilever bridee in the worl l, and the forerunner of all modern o.intilevcr itruoliir.i ti hn th longest span of any bridge on the cbbe; it it the most pouderoti, and probably it is afe to say the strongest. In its whole aspect it ja unprecedented, and to the lay inind at all events it ia astounding. It so:us skyward until all neighboring ratund bights nre dwarfed, and it stretches out its lone arms till one imagines their ends will never come. It has been calculated thut the chief struts of the bridge woud stand a thrust of m re than 43. 00U tons before showing sirus of eivinir way. A pull of i.(V) tuhs wo'iid be required to tear asund-r the top ties of the cantilevers, while the greatest pull from pasting traina will be le than 2,(0( tons. Mr. Haker considers that half a dozen ironclads could be hung from the cantilever en ia. If the muchboasted Eißel tower were laid cn iiside, it woul l be pretty much equivalent to one half of one of the spans of the Forth bridge. The coat of this great railruad bridge will be about J 10,000,000. The I.ng e nt It. f'hriti;jn Union. If one holds that roods imported from ether countries, to be bought by Atin rican laborers, inhires American lebor, then he cannot logically indorse reciprocity nny more than he can indorse free tniif. in(rti larly enouch, rtfrchants and manufacturer who are advocating a customs union with Canada and Mexico and perhaps the whole South American cr.tir't. are in the main the very men who tnst atren ously aud bitterly op nose free trade with Great Ilritaia. Yet the only Jii.'e retire hetween freetrade -it!l (irent Hritnin and free trade with the rest of America, is that the former would send us the articles the farmers buy and the manufacturers gell, while the latter wotil J send nt those which the farmers cell nO'l the manufaeturs buy. To a loeied protectionist reciprocity with the pauper labor of .''paniah Am er ica is as hateful as reciproeity wilh England. Hie Invi ab'. Couricr-Juurral. J The reduction of the ar tarirTto a peace footinc, and the revision and reform of the revenue system by the light of the principle that the government hns no constitutional rijjht of trxatioii except for public purposes, are a inevitable ns tiie paiu of time, ami the democratic party is the sole architect, harIngthe will and the wit to reconstruct oureconoiuic edifice while the people sti'i occupv th premises, uhou; hurt to tiny iutcrtat, pullio or private. frea-jr Cut. fAb:iry P.irV Journal. Mamma ''Now, remember, Bertram, you mustn't run too bird, or you'll perspire and spoil your Faunticroy sas-h, or mamma will have to whin you." 15ertie "No, dearest," Mamma "Above all things, remember, n der 0,0 circumstance take your hat on, because your Fauntleroy curls are sewed ia tha brim." Goto For One ("Poo. "If there ii one bit of slang which I dislike above all others, it U that phrase, 'Where did you get that hat?' " "Well, so would I, Hrown, if I wora bat lika the una Ton have on cow."