Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1891 — Page 3

SERMONS IN STONES.

Bocks Typical of Christ’s Presence. Meaning: of tbe Edifices Where HU Praises Are Sung—Salvation not Mere Worldly Reform—Dr. Talmage's Sermon. 1 y- . ' - -~ . . . ' Rev. Dr.' Talmage, for the first time, preached in his new Brooklyn tabernacle Sunday. The new church will seat 5,500 people and cost $500,000. Text: Joshua, IV, 6. After making a few preliminary remarks he said: ■ Blessed be God, He did not leave our church in the wilderness! We have been wandering about for a year and a half worshipping in the Academy of Music, Brooklyn, and Academy of Music, New York. And some thought we would never reach the promised land. Some said we had •better take this route and others that. Some said we had better go back, and some said there were sons of Anak in the way that would eat us up; and before the smoke had cleared away from the sky after our tabernacle had been consumed, people stood on the very site of the place and said: “This church will never again be built.” . We came down to the bank of Jordan; we looked off upon the waters. Some of the sympathy that was expressed turned out to be snow-water melted from the top of Lebanon. Some said: “You had better not go in; you will get your feet wet. ” But we waded in, pastor and people, further and further, and in some way, the Lord only knows how, we got through; and tonight I go all around about this great house, erected by your prayers, and sympathies, and sacrifices, and cry out in the words of my text: “What mean ye by these stones?” It is an outrage to build a house like this ..so vast, and so magnificent, unless there be some tremendous reason for

floing it; and so, my friends, I purBue you to-night with the question of toy text, and I demand of these trustees and these elders, and of all who have contributed in the building of this structure, “What mean ye by these stones?” But before I get vour answer to my question you point to the memorial wall at the pide of this pulpit, and you say to me: “Explain that unusual group of memorials. What mean you by those stones?” By permission of the people of my beloved charge I recently visited the Holy Land, and having in mind by day and night fluring toy absence this rising house of prayer, I bethought myself: “What can I do to make that place significant and glorious?” On. the morning of December 3 we were at the foot of the most sacred mountain of all the earth, Mt. Calvary, there is no more doubt of the locality than of Mt. Washington or Mt. Blanc. On the bluff of this mountain, tfhich is the exact shape of the human skull, and so called in the Bible •‘the place of a skull,” there is room tor three crosses. There I saw a Itone so suggestive I rolled it down the hill, and transported it. It is at the top of this wall, a white stone, With crimson veins running through It, the white typical of purity, the jrimson suggestive of the blood that paid the price of our redemption, we place it at the top of the memorial wall, for above all in this church for all time, in sermon, and song and prayer shall be the sacrifice of Mt. Calvary. Look at it. That stone Was one of the rocks rent at the crST eifixion. That heard the cry, “It is finished. ” Was any church on earth honored with such a memorial?

Beneath it are two tables of stone which I had brought from Mt. Sinai, where the law was given. Three eamels were three weeks crossing the desert to fetch them. When at Cairo, Egypt, I proposed to the Christian Arab that he bring one gtone from Mt. Sinai, he said: “We Can easier bring two rocks than one, for we must balance them on the back of the camel,” and I did not think until the day of. their arrival how much more suggestive would be the two, because the law was written pn the two tables of stone. These stones marked with the words “Mt.Binia,” felt the earthquake that shook Ihe mountains when the law was given . The lower stone of the wall is from Mars Hill, the place where Paul Itood when he preached that famous feermon on the brotherhood of the puman race, declaring “God hath |nade of one blood ail nations.” Since Lord Elgin took the famous btatuary from the Acropolis, the hili bdjoining Mars Hill, the Greek government makes it impossible to transport to other lands any Grecian antiquities, and armed soldiery guard hot only the 'Acropolis, but Mars Hill. That stone I obtained by special permission from the Queen of Greece, a most gracious and brilliant woman, who received us as though we had been old acquaintances, and through Mr. Tricoupis, the Prime Minister of Greece, and Mr. Snowpen, our American Minister Pl&tiir*’ botentiary, oue that suggestivhblett was sawed from the pulpit of rock on which Paul preached. Now ryou understand why we have marked it “The Gospel.” Long after my lips shall utter in this church their last message these lips of stone will itell of the Law, and the Sacrifice and the GospeL This day I present them fto this church and to all who shall gaze upon therq.j £E3»us you have my « answer to the question, “What mean ftrou by these stones?” v v * But you must, not divert me from 1 the question of the text as I first put jt. I have interpreted these four memorials on my right hand, but

there are hundreds of stones in these surrounding walls and underneath us, in the foundations and rising above us in the towers. The quarries of these and transatlantic countries at the call of crowbar and chisel have contributed toward this structure. “What mean ye by these.stones?” You mean among other things that they shall be an earthly residence for Christ. Christ did not have much of a home when he was here. Who and where is that child crying? It is Jesus, born in an outhouse.. Where, is that hard breathing? It is Jesus, asleep on a rock. Who is that in the back part of the fishing smack, with a sailor’s rough overcoat thrown over him? It is Jesus, the worn-out voyager. Oh, Jesus ! is it not time thou hadst a house? We give thee this. Thou didst give it to us first, but we S’ve it back to thee. It is too good r us, but not half good enough for thee. Oh! come in and take the best seat hem Walk up and down all these aisles. Speak through these organ-pipes. Throw thine arm over us in these arches. In the flame of these brackets of fire speak to us saying: “I am the light of the world.” Oh, King! make this thine audience-chamber. Here proclaim righteousness and make treaties. We clap our hands, we uncover our heads, we lift our ensigns, we cry with multitudinous acclamation until the place rings and the'heavens listen: “Oh, King! live forever.”

Is it not time that he who was born in a stranger’s house, and buried in a stranger’s grave should have an earthly house? Come in, O Jesus! not the corpse of a buried Christ, but a radiant, and triumphant Jesus, conqueror of earth, and heaven, and hell. Blessed be His glorious name forever! Again, if any one asks the question of the text: “What mean ye by these stones?” the reply is, we mean the communion of saints, Do you know that there is not a single denomination of Christians in Brooklyn that has not contributed something toward the building of this house? And if ever, standing in this place, there shall be a man who shall try by anything he says to stir up bitterness between different denominations of Christians, may his tongue falter and his cheek blanch, and his heart stop! My friends, if there is any church on earth where there is a mingling of all denominations, it is our church. I just wish that Joha Calvin and Arminius, if they were not too busy, would come out on the battlements and see us. Sometimes in our prayermeetings I have heard brethren use the phrases of a beautiful liturgy, and we know where they came from; and in the same prayer-meetings I have heard brethren make audible ejaculation, “Amen!” “Praise ye the Lord!” and we did not have to guess twice where they came from. When a man knocks at our church door, if he comes from a sect where they will not give him a certificate, we say, “Come in by confession of faith.” While Adoniram Judson the Baptist, and John Wesley the Methodiet, and John Knox, the glorious old Scotch Presbyterian, are shaking hands in heaven all churches on earth can afford to come into close communication. “One Lord, one faith, one baptism.”, Oh, my brethren, we have had enough of Big Bethel fights—the Fourteenth New York Regiment fighting the Fifteenth Massachu setts regiment. Now let all those who are for Christ and stand on the same side go shoulder to shoulder, and this church, instead of having a sprinkling of the divine blessing, go clear under the wave in one glorious immersion in the name of the Father,, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. I saw a little child, once, in its dying hour, put one arm around its father’s neck, and the other arm around its mother’s neck, and bring "theffrCtese dOwir to its dying lips, and give a last kiss. Oh, I said, those two persons will stand very near to each other always after such an interlocking. The dying Christ puts one arm around this" denomination of Christians, and the other arm around that denomination of Christians, and He brings them down to His dying lips, while He gives them his parting kiss. .“My peace I leave with you. My peace I give unto yov.” Still further you mean by these stones the salvation of the people. We did not build this church for mere worldly reforms, or for an educational institution, or a platform on which to read essays and philosophical disquisitions; but a place for the tremendous work of soul-saving. ()h, I had rather be the means in this church of having one soul prepared for a joyful eternity, than 5,000 souls prepared for mere worldly success. All churches are in two classes, all communities in two classes all the race in two classes —believers and unbelievers. To augment the number of one and subtract from the number of the other we built this church; and toward that supreme and eternal idea we dedicate all our sermons, all our songs, all our prayers, all our Sabbath hand-shakings. We want to throw defection into the \ enemy’s ranks. We want to make them either surrender unconditionally to Christ, or else fly in rout, scattering the way with canteens, blankets and knapsacks, We want to popularize the story of Christ. We would like to tell the story of His love here until men wonld feel that they had rather die than live another hour without His sympathy and love and mercy, We want to rouse up an enthusiasm for Him greater than was felt for Nathaniel Lyon when he rode along the ranks—greater than was exhibited for Wellington when he eame back from Waterloo —greater than was expressed for Napoleon when he stepped ashore from Elbs. We really believe in this place

Christ will enact the same scenes that! were enacted byHim when He landed in the Orient; and there will be such an opening of blind eyes and unstopping of deaf ears, and casting out of unclean spirits—such silencing be- j stormed Gennesarets as shall make | this house memorable five hundred i years after you and I are dead and ' forgotten. Oh, my friends, we want! but one revival in this chuach, that j beginning now and running on to / the day when the chisel of time, that brings down even St. Paul’s and the Pyramids, shall bring this house into the dust. **- •• I Oh, that this day of dedication might be the day of emancipation of all imprisoned souls. My friends, do not make the blunder of the ship car- 1 penters in Noah’s time, who helped j to build the ark; but did not get into 1 it. God forbid that you who have been so generous in building, this church should not get under its sav-; ing influence. “Come thou and all thy house into the ark.” Do you think a man is safe out of Christ? Not one day, not one hour, not one minute, not one seeond. Three or four years ago, you remember, a railroad broke down a bridge on the way to Albany, and after the catastrophe, they were looking around the timbers of the crushed bridge and fallen train, and found the conductor. He was dying, and j had only strength to say one thing, | and that was: “Hoist the flag for the next train. ” So there come to us tonight, from the eternal world, voices of God, voices of angels, voices of departed spirits, crying: “Lift the warning. Blow the trumphet, give the alarm. Hoist the flag for the next train.” Oh! that to-night my Lord Jesus, would sweep His arm around the 6 ’eat audience, and take you all to is holy heart. You will never see so good a time forpersonal consecration as now. “What mean ye by these stones?” We mean your redemption from sin, and death, and , hell, by the power of an omnipotent gospel.” Well, the Brooklyn tabernacle is built again. That was done this morning. To-night we dedicate ourselves. In the Episcopal and Methodist churches they have a railing around the altar, and the people come( and kneel down at that railing and get the sacramental blessing. Well,: my friends, it would take more than a night to gather you in circles around this altar. Then just bow where you/ are for the blessing. Aged men, this! is the last church that you will everj j dedicate. May the God who comforted ' Jacob the patriarch, and Paul the aged] \ make this house to you the gate of!. heaven; and when, in your old days, 1 , you put on your spectacles to read , the hymn of the Scripture lesson. ' may you get preparation for that. \ land where you shall no more see" through a glass darkly. May thej 1 warm sunshine of heaven thaw the' snow off your foreheads! Men in mid-life, do you know that' this is the place where you are going to get your fatigues rested, and your sorrows appeased, and your souls saved? Do you know that at this al-j tar your sons and daughters will take upon themselves the vows of the ' Christian, and from this place you ; will carry out, some of you, your precious dead? Between the baptismal font and the commuuion table, you will have some of the tenderest j of life’s experiences. God bless you, | old, and young and middle-aged. The | money you have given to this church to-day will be, I hope, the best financial investment you have-ever made. Your worldly investments may depend upon the«whims of the money market, or the honesty of business associates; but the money you have , given to the house of the Lord shall' yield you large percentage, and declare eternal dividends long after the noon-day sun shall have gone out like a spark from a smitten anvil and f all the stars are dead.

The Twenty-Four O’Clock Movement

(From the Railway Age.) The twenty-four hour notation reform is not dead, although it hag seemed to be sleeping. The committee of the American Society ol Civil Engineers which has been long and effectively advocating the adoption of the plan of numbering the hours of the day consecutively has issued another report, in which it shows that a large majority of the railway companies of the United States and Canada, have already expressed themselves in favor of the change. The number of officers who are now on record in the affirmative is given as follows: Presidents, vice presidents and general manager’s 135; general superintendents, 77; superintendents, 114; general trafic managers, 12; engineers, 65; total, 403. ■—

The report states that the advantages of the twentv-folir-hour notation are also beginning to be recognized in various branches of civil life, as for example in hospitals, in meteorlogical tables and other directions where simplicity of system and accuracy in noting tho hours are esseutial. The Canadian Railway continues to use the system in its time tables, to the great convenience of travelers over this long transcontinental line and to the advantage of those engaged in handling, trains, and it is difficult to see anything to prevent the speedy adoption of the reform on the other great lines of the country. At the instance of the society of civil engineers a bill has been presented to Congress authorizing the use of twenty-four hour notation and making it equally valid wjth the present method of numbering the hours in two series of twelve hours each, and it is to be hoped that this reasonable legislation will be enacted.

A POLITICAL MEETING.

i The National Republican Leagqft at Cincinnati. A Slip of the Tongue or ■ Sulr by ForAker—The Resolutions and Proceedings. Th 6 Annual convention of the Republican National League was held at Cincinnati April 21 and 22 with a large attendance of delegates. The sensation of thi meeting was the speech of ex-Goyeraoj Foraker in which he intentionally or unintentionally slurred President Harrison by inferring that this was the administration of Blaine. He studiously avoided the mention of the name of Presideni Harrison, but no particular significant* was attached to this until the close of hi* address, when he declared, “James G Blaise has given us a magnificent admim Istration.” There was intense excitemenj all over the hall, but It was kept down until President Thurston had concluded his speech, In which ho followed in the wake of Foraker, and made no allusioq whatever to Harrison, but continually re-r ferred to the great services of Blaine. Th# delegates looked at each other in blank astonishment. When Mr. Thurston sat down, U. Y. Cole, a delegate from Indiana, arose. He was very much excited, but what he said was heard all over the great hall. Mr Cole is a gray-haired lawyer, residing ai Rushville, and a warm personal friend ol President Harrison. He said: “Gentlemeit—l wish to enter the protest of the Irdiana delegation against thq direct insult of Gov. Foraker to the Presi-, dent of the United States and the Implied Insult of the President of this League. We did not come here to be treated in this manner, and I demand a meeting of the delegates from Indiana to condemn the speeches of Gov.,Foraker and Mr. Thurs- >« • Tho friends of the President felt the Insult keenly. A meeting was held, and it was decided to Ignore it. The Gresham and Blaine lnen in tho delegation saw their opportunity, and they told the sup-. [/orters of Harrison that If such a resoution as they desired was passed they would offer a minority report and fight foi It on tho floor of the convention to-morrow morning. This threat seemed to have thq desired effect, for the resolution was quf. etly dropped. When questioned about hii Eeech, Foraker said: “I didn’t think ol r. Harrison at all. Some people must be mighty touchy. They have evolved an intuit from their inner consciousness. I think that a great fuss is being made over nothing.” The resolutions adopted on the 22d honor the memory of General Sherman, Admiral Porter and Senator Windom; indorse the action of Speaker Reed in compelling the members of the House of Representatives to transact public business; favor protection and reciprocity; remember the claims pf soldiers and declare the aim of the League to be the dissemination of the principles and doctrines of the Republican party as fashioned by the teachings of its Eea test leaders; unqualifiedly indorse the ministration of President Harrison; oppose any attempt to debase the currency tnd coin of the country, but insist upon inch legitimate increase of our circulating medium and such maintenance of the louble standard as will fairly satisfy the Increasing necessities of trade and commerce; favoring restrictions of pauper and triminal immigration; demand a pure ballot and Indorse the Republican press. The following officers wejeelected; Hon. J. S. Clarkson, of lowa, President. Wm. Humphrey, New York, Secretary. P. Lounsberry, Connecticut, Treasurer. Letters of regret were read from the President and many other prominent Republicans. The next meeting will probably be held -Bt-Indianapolis. -I——————- 2LZZZZZI

COLLIDED AND CRUSHED.

Frightful R.ailroad Accident on the Lake Shore. Nine Postal Clerks and Railway Employes Caged and Killed. A special from Cleveland on the 19th lays: Train No. 21, the Toledo express rest bound, on the Lake Shore railroad collided with train 14, east bound, known is the fast mail, at Kipton, 0., a small Itation some thirty miles west of Cleveland, this afternoon. Absolutely nothing but small splinters was left of the forwarej mail car, and the engines of both trains were completely demolished. Tho forceoi the collision was such that the cars reared on end as high as the little depot, and that building was shattered and crushed bj the heavy mass falling against it. N« passengers on the fast mail, which carries a parlor coach, were killed or seriousl j Injured, although tho seats were all ton) loose from the bottom ol the coach and passengers and ahairs piled in amass ai the end. The postal clerks did not escape and six of Uncle Sam’s faithful servant! were killed. The two engineers were alse killed.

A boy named Dantzig, son of a sectior boss, sitting on the depot platform, wai struck by the cars and fatally injurei The fireman of No. 21, named Staley, ri Biding at Toledo, was fatally injured anii died to-night. * i The scene at the wreck is indescribable Iron rods, splintered fragments of lumbei and debris of mail are scattered in ail directions. The engineer of No. 14 stud bravely to his post and was found with hit hand on the throttle, blackened and mangled, after the shock. His fireman jumped As near as can be ascertained there was a conflict In orders. A dispatch was first sen! that the trains should meet at Oberlin,seven miles’ ettt. and almost immediatelj afterward it was followed by another announcing Kipton as the meeting place but the latter was too late. No. 21 ha< come almost to a stardstill when the collision occured, while the other train w a running at the fate of forty miles an hour The. track was cleared some two hour: after, and the passengers on train 1: brought to this city. Not-a passengei coach-on the west-hound train left th' track. The bodies of the dead were hor ribly mangled. Limbs were tom off, anl the bodies crushed out qf almost all sem bianco to human beings. The accidcn Is the most frightful that ever happened o» that division of the Lake Shore road, an* the first serious disaster to the fast mail.

BROKE UP IN A ROW.

]The Commercial Congress Closed in Confusion. •Free Trade Resolutions Adopted and Withdrawal of Seven of the Delegates— Acrimonious Debate. Two sets of resolutions were presented to the commercial congress at Kansas City on the 17th. The majority report favora the adoption by Congress of a law authorizing free unlimited coinage of sliver and' ; the issuance of a sufficient amount of legalitender notes to be redeemable in both gold and silver, to restore the equilibrium between money and all other products; favors a tariff for revenue only, and urgea : Congress to enact laws to place the tariff jUpon a purely revenue basis at as early date as possible; declares that the inter- ■ state commerce of tbe counter should be controlled by the general government; Javors the improvement of the Mississippi river; the construction of the Hennepin ’canal and other water-ways by the government; the equalization of taxjation; a national bankruptcy law; the suppression of trusts and com-, bines; an amendment of the immigration ( laws; the restoration of railway landgrants to the public domain and the opening of the surplus lands to settlement; the reclamation of arid lands; the enactment of laws to prevent dealings in futures, and commends the Secretary of Agriculture for his efforts toward removing the restrictions onjour foreign meat trade. / The minority report favors the free, unlimited coinage of American gold and sil. ver on a ratio established by an international monetary convention which shall make siLver and gold equal purchasing powers, and favors a tariff for revenue, with incidental protection. '■ The free coinage and tariff resolutions of both the majority and minority reports were received with applause. The resolution relative to immigration was loudly applauded, and a resolution which hailed with delight the burying of all animosities between the North and South was greeted with great applause, and upon motion of Major Warner, of Missouri, was given three hearty cheers. The debate that followed was acrimonious and was participated in by many delegates. The majority report was adopted. The minority then charged the convention with being held in the interestof the Democracy, and several delegates withdrew.

WITHOUT WARNING.

Six Colored Men Shot to Death and Ten "Wounded in Teneessee, Attacked in an Isotated Tan Bark Camp by Men Who Had Been Discharged for Inoompetency and Slaughtered. It Is reported from Rockwood, seventysix miles from Chattanooga, on the Cincinnati Southern road, that twenty-five miles from that place, last Sunday, a party of native mountaineers rode Into a tan bark camp situated in the Cumberland mountains, and without warning shot and killed six negroes and wounded ten. The mountaineers, it is said, had been discharged for incompetency and took this method of revenge. Two of the wounded negroes reached Rockwood and, took the train for Chattanooga, where they live. The trainmen report them having boarded the train, but they cannot be found in the city. The party who spoke to them states that they asserted the shooting party numbered twenty or thirty, and used rifles.

OUR TREATY WITH SPAIN.

Concessions That Will Soon 'Give tTg Complete Control of the Trade with Cuba. jSpain and the United States, as drafted by [Premier Canovan Del Castillo, represent* ilng Spain, and Gen. J. W. Foster, representing the United States, is based, as Ifar as the United States Is concerned, upon the third, or reciprocity section, of thenewi American tariff law. In return for the privilege of free entry Into the United States of Antillis sugars, molasses, coffee and hides, and a reduction of the duty on tea, America will obtain exemption from duties on most of her raw and manufactured products and a reduction of the tariff on cereals and flour. The negotia- 1 tions were protracted upon the question of the entire abolition of the tariff on cereals, Iflour and oils, including petroleum and lard. The same question in regard to tobacco was also raised, but not coming within the scope of the third section of the American tariff law, was put aside.

FOREIGN.

Influenza is raging in London. Baron Fava has arrived at Rome. Portugal is on the verge of a revolution.) It is believed that Russia is nearly ready to take the offensive. England sent an envoy to the King of Gambia, West Africa, to demand that he and hiS subjects behave themselves, or he might expect a disciplinary visit from the Queen’s authorities. The envoy was seized and portions of his cheeks and thighs were cutout by the Klng’9 body-i guards, and later the pieces of flesh and the envoy were sent back with the message: “This is the King’s answer.” Gunboats are already on the way to tbe King's dominions to discipline him.

The National Flower at Last.

The little 7-year-old daughter of a leading physician in a neighboring city heard ihe question as to what flower would make the best national emblem discussed at considerable length only the other day by a party of guests at her father’s dinner table. Each guest had given au opinion and supported it with the customary argument, when suddenly tho little girl woke up. ••Papa,” she said. “I know wbat I think would be the best national emblem." ' . , ••Well, Josephine," said the father, “what is it?" She answered with an air of relief, as if glad to have the question delinitely gelt led : “'Tbs cjwsfeutr—Trswoni*

SHORT-HAND.

Ninth Lesson With a Few Oh* serrations on General Principles. A Practical Course tor Only 82.00. Send for Particulars. ———— sr peor. xlpos uoxax or set. loth, no. (Copyrighted.) JProper names are so numerous that a voeabtt* lary of them could not well be memorized; and this would be unnecessary, since tbe practical writer may readily invent sufficiently intelligible outlines for the most difficult of them, The halving principle, circles, loops, and other adjunctive signs should be employed more sparingly than when writing common words. Marks of punctuation are used only to 8 HmW ted extent in actual reporting. The semi-colon is usugLly Indicated by a space of an inch at more; the period by a cross. When notes are token at verbatim speed, little opportunity if allowed for punctuating, the only practical method being to leave spaces to correspond with the speaker’s pauses, and insert the proper marks afterwards when transcribing. Numbers are expressed in the usual manner, that is by the Arabic numerals, 1,2,3,4, etc. There is no pressing need for any different method of expressing numbers, since tho present method is as short as short-hand itself. This is shown by the fact that a column of figures can be written as fast as the numbers are called off. The reporter, when pressed, writes larger than at other times. Some persons take this as evidence that adarge hand is the most rapid. It proves just tho contrary. The really skilful stenographer when writing at high speed, is not flurried, and writes about as small a hand as usual. There can be no question but that the greatest speed will be attained ultimately, only by writing tbe characters near each other, cultivating a neat style, and writing as small a hand as practicable. A good fine-pointed, short-nibbed gold pen of mediumaizeisthebestforreportingpurpo6es.lt should be more or less elastic, depending on the writer’s lightness of touch. Good writing fluid la preferable to ink. EXPLANATION. A small hook at the beginning and on the circle side of a stem, indicates that l is to be added; for example, play, evil, lice L A hook on thd opposite side indicates r; see price, trump, Hue 2. The hooked stems are called double consonants. A circle on thor side of straight letters implies r; see spry, sober, line 3. In order to bring tbe hook on the left side (to signify r), f, v, and th are reversed; see over, thrice, etc. T,ln« 3. A circle may be written within a hook. Bee civil, distress, suffer. When the r-hook is pro fixed tom orn, tbe stem is shaded; see glimmer, trainer, lino 2. R and 1 are called initial hooks; the/and n hooks, which occur at the end of letters, are called final. Fis attached to straight stems only, and is written on the circle side, as in puff, line 4. This book is used for e also, as in above. The n-hook is put on the opposite side of straight letters, and is also attached to curves. See lines 4 and 6. A circle written on the n-hook side of a straight letter at the end of words. Implies n; for example, pines, chance, (but not density) line 6. All these hooks should be small and light. Exercise.— Black blame claim close globe pledge total gray grow break pray dray loiter pry trail cry drill keeper phrase favor Friday throw strike stray spree sample cough crave bluff grove strive grieve pain stain bean bone dine twine taken turn bench lone mine tin. abstain expense distance. Sentences. 1. Every rose has its prickles, ft Every path has its puddle. 3. Variety is the very spice of life. 4. For the upright there are no laws. 5. All cruelty springs from weakness & Wise judges are we of each other, XXV TO PLATE 9. 1 Flay able evil olvll fleeces shelf devil Majel. 2 Price breezes trump catcher glimmer trainer exaggerate distress. 3 Spry sober suffer over thrice pressure measure cigarette. 1 Puff spine above brain stiff strain cuff clown. 6 Flown thine assign ozone shine hen rp plain sustain. 6 Pines chance density lonesome extensive behavior reference sister. Translate lines 7 to 15.

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Aristocratic Carriage.

Women who wish to preserve the' slimness and contour of their figure must begin by learning to stand well,; says Dress. That is explained to mean ; the throwing forward and upward of the chest, flattening of the back, with ‘ the shoulder-blades held in th«jir proper' places, and the definite curving in the email of the back, thus throwing the whole weight of the body upon the hips. No other women hold”themselves so well as the aristocratic Englishwomen. Much of their beauty lies in their proud carriage, the delicate erectness of their figures, and the flue poise of their heads. The same aristocratio carriage is within reach of any American girl who takes the paihs to ,have it; it is only the question of a few years of external vigilance, never relaxing her watchfulness over herself; ana, sitting, or standing, always preserving her erectness and pose, the result being that at the end of that time it has become second nature to her, and she never loses it. This in a great measure preserves the figure, because it keeps the piuscles fil m and well strung, and prevents the sinking down of the flesh around the waist and hips, so common in women over SO, and which is perfectly easy to escape. Another tiling to avoid is a bad habit of going up-stairs, which - most women do, bent forward with the chest contracted, which, as well as an idoledt, sloucby manner of walking is injurious to the heart and lungs.