HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1895-10-11, Page 9STRANGE BATTLE.
OR. TALMAGE ON GIDEON'S ARMY
AND GOD'S WAY.
Rite tawfuiness of eitristmet Stratagem-e-
t/004ms Lumber in the Iteeentains °fleet-
sufont---Gidowes ',Depleted Army and the
Xesson of fls wonderful Victory.
Now York, Sept, 29.—In his sermon for
.to -day, Rev. Dr. Talmage discusses a
subject which is of speoial interest to Sun-
day sobool teathers and scholars at the
present time, being Gideon's battle with
the lllitlianites near Mount Gilboa. The
text chosen was Judges via 20, 21: "And
the three companies blow the trumpets,
and break tbe pitchers, and held the
lamps in their left hands and the trum-
pets in their right hands to blow withal.
And they Stood every man iu bis place
round about the camp, and all the host
ran and oried and fled."
That is the strangest battle ever fought.
God had told Gideon to go down and
thrash the Midianites, but his army is
too large, for the glory must be given to
God and not to man. And so proclama-
tion is made that all those of tae troops
who are cowardly ad want to go home
may go, and 22,000 of them scampered
awan, leaving oely 10,000 men. But God
says the army is too large yet, and so he
orders these 10,000 remaining to march
down through a stream and commands
Gideon to notice in what manner those
men drink of the water as they pass
through it. If they get down on all fours
and drink, then they are to be pronounc-
ed lazy and incompetent for the camp-
aign, but if, in passing through the
streana, they scoop up the water in the
palm of their hand and drink and pass
on, they are tote the men selected for the
battle,
• Well, the 10,000 men marched down into
the stream,. and, the most of them come
down on all fours and plunge their
enoutbs. like a horse or an ex, into the
-water and drink, but there are 300 men
who, instead of stooping, just dip the
Dalin of their betas in the water and
bring it to their lips, "lapping it as a
dog lappeth." Those 800 brisk, rapid
.enthusiastic men are obosen for the
oampaign. They are each to take a trum-
pet in the right hand and a pitcher in
-the left hand and a lamp inside the
pitcher, and then at a given signal they
are to blow the trumpets and throw
down the pitchers and hold up the lamps.
So it was done.
It is night, I see a great best of Mid -
Unites sound asleep in the valley of Jez-
reel, Gideon comes up with his 300 pick -
.ed men, and when everything is ready
-the signal is given, and they blowthe
trumpets, and. they throw down the
pitchers and hold up the lamps, and the
great host of Micilanites, waking out of
a sound sleep,take-the crash of the crock-
oly and the glare of the lamps for the
-coming on of an overwhelming army foe,
and they run and out themselves to
pieces and horribly perish.
The lessons of this subject are very
.spitited and impressive. This seemingly
valueless lump of quartz has the pure
gold in it. The smallest dewdrop on the
meadow at night has a star sleeping in
-its bosom, and the most insignificant
'passage of Scripture has in it a shining
-truth. God's mint coins no small
,ehan go.
I learn, in tho first place, from this
subject, the lawfulness of Christian
-stratagem.
You know very well that the greatest
-victories ever gained by Washington or
Napoleon were gained through the fact
that they came when and in a way they
-were not expected—sometimes falling
back to draw out the foe, sometimes
breaking out from ambush, sometimes
orossing a river on unheard of rafts; all
the time keeping the opposing forces in
-wonderment as to what would be done
next.
You all know what strategy is in mili-
tary affairs. Now I think it is high time
we had this art sanctified and spiritual-
ized. In the church when we are about
to make a Christain assault, we send
-word to the opposing force'when we ex-
pect to come, how many troops we have
and how many rounds of shot, and
-whether we will come with artillery, in-
fantry or cavalry, and, of course, we are
defeated. There are thousands of men who
might be surprised into the kingdom of
God. We need more tact and ingenuity
in Christian work. It is in spiritual
affairs as in military, that success de -
penes in attacking that part of the army
,castle which is not armed and intrenched.
For instance, here is a man all armed
.on the doctrine of election, all his troops
,of argument and prejudice are at that
particular gate. You may batter away
at that side of the castle for 50 years,
and you will not take it, but just wheel
your troops to the side gate of the heart's
affections, and in five minutes you cap-
ture him. I never knew a man to be
saved through e brilliant argument. You
eannot hook men into the kingdoin of
•God by the horns of a dilemma. There
Is no grace in syllogisms. Here is a man
armed on the subject of perseverance of
the saints. He does not believe in it.
Attack hint at that point, and he will
persevere to the very last in not believing
It. Here is a man armed on the stebjeot
of baptism. He believes in sprinkling or
immersion. All your discussion of ecclesi-
astical hydropathy will not change him.
I rep:ten-lbw when I was a boy that with
-other boys I went into the river on a
simmer day to bathe, and we used to
dash water on each other, but never got
any result exeept that our eyes wore
blinded, and all this splashing of water
betweenBaptists and Pedobaptists never
results in anything but the blurring of
the spiritual eyesight.. In other words,
you ,can never capture a man's soul at
the poinfof which he is especially en-
• trenched, But there is in every mai s
heart a bolt that can be easily shoved.
A little child our years old may touch
that bolt, end it vvill spying back, and
the door wh.i swing open, and Christ will
.come in.
I think that the finest of all the fine
arts is the art of tieing good, and yet thie
art is the least cultured. We have in the
kingdom of God to -day enough troops to
.conquerthe whole earth for Christ if we
.only had skilful manoeuvering. I repuld
rather have the 800 lamps and pitchers
•of Christian stratagem than 100,000 drawn
,words of literary and ecclesiastical com-
bat.
I learn from this subject, also, that a
small part of the army of Goa vvill have
-to do all the hard fighting. Gideon's
army was originally composed of 82,000
reen, but they wont off WW1 there wete
only 10,000 left, Mid that was substraoted
from until there were only 800. It is the
same in all ages of the Christian church;
at few men have to do the hard fighting.
Take a mentheeship of 1,000, and yeti
genetally lind that 50 people do the work.
Take a membership of•500, and you
,sceeeralty find that 10 people clo the work.
There are scores of °lamellate where two
or three people do the Work,
We Mourn that there Is so much toeless
lumber in the mountains of Tsebenoll.
think, of the 10, 000, 000 illeMborship a the
Christian chunk) to -day, if 5,000 000 of
the names were off the books the ohuroh
would be stronger. on know that the
more eowards and drones there are in any
•army the weaker' it is'. I would ,eatlier
have the 300 picked men of Gideon than
the 82,000 unsitted boat How many
Christians there are standing in the Way
of all progress! I think it is the duty of
the chime) of God to ride over them, and
the quicker it does it the quicker it does
its duty,
Do not worry, 0 Christian, if you have
to do more than your share of the vvorke
You had better thank God that he has
called you to be one of the pioked men
rather than to belong to tee host of strag-
glers. Would not you rather ba one of the
300 that fight than the 99,00) that run? I
suppose those oowardly Gideonites who
went off oongratulated themselves. They
said: ''We got rid of all that fighting did
we not? How lucky we have been. That
battle costs us nothing at all." lent they
got none 01 1310 spoils of the victory. After
the battle the 1300 men went Clown and
took the wealth of the Midianites, aud out
of the 011pS and platters of their enemies
thy feasted. And the time will come, my
dear brethren, when the hosts of darkness
will be routed and Christ will say to his
troops: "Well done, my brave men. Go
up and take the spoils. Be more than con-
querors foreveet" And in that day all de -t
serters will be shot.
Again, I learn from this subject that
God's way is different from man's, but is
always the best way. If we had the plan-
ning of that battle, we would have taken
, those 39,000 men that originally belonged
to the army, a,nd wo would have drilled
them and marched them up and down by
the day and week and month. and we
would have had , them equipped with
swords or spears, acoording to the way of
arming in those times, and then we would
have marched them down in solid column
upon the foe. But that is not the way.
God.depletes the army, and takes awe' all
the weapons, and gives them a lamp. and
O pitcher, and a trumpet, and tells them
to go down and drive out the Midianites.
I suppose some wiseacres were there who
said: "That is not military tactics. The
idea of 300 men, unarmed, conquering
SUOb a great host of Midianites 1"
It was the best way. What sword, spear
or cannon ever accomplished such a vic-
tory as the lamp, pitcher and trumpet?
God's way is different from man's way,
but it 13 always best! Take, for instance,
the composition of the Bible. If we had
had the writing of the Bible, we would
have said: "Let one man write it. If you
have 20 or 30 men to write a poem, or
make a statute, or write a history, or
make an argument, there will be flaws
and contradictions " But God says "Let
not one man do it, but 40 men shall do
it." And they did, differing enough to
show there had been no collusion between
them, but not contradicting each other on
any important point, while they all wrote
from 'their own standpoint and tempera-
ment. So that the matter of fact man has
nis Moses; the romantic nathre his Eze-
kiel; the epigrammatic his Solomon; the
warrior his Joshua; the sailor.his .Tonah ;
the loving his John, the logioian his Paul.
Instead of this Bible, which now I can
lift in my hand --instead of the Bible the
child can tarry to Sunday school, instead
of the little Bible the sailor oan put in his
jacket when he goes to sea—if it had been
left for men to write, it would have been
O thousand volumes, judging from the
amount of ecclesiastical controversy which
hee, arisen. God's way is different from
man's, but Itis best, infinitely best.
So Itis in regard to the Christian life.
If we had had the planning of a Christian's
life, we would have said: "Let him have
80 years of sunshide, a fine house to live
In. Let his surroundings all -be agreeable.
Let him have sound health. Let no ohill
shiver through his limbs,no pain ache his
brow or trouble shadow his soul." I enjoy
the prosperity of others so much I would
let every man have as much money as he
wants and roses for his children's cheeks
and fountains of gladness in their large
round eyes, But that is not God's way.
It seems as if man must be out and hit
and pounded just in ,proportion as be is
usefuL His child falls from a third story
window and has his life dashed out. His
most confident investment tumblehim
Into bankruptcy. His friends, on whom he
depended, aid the natural foece of gravita-
tion in taking him down. His life is a
Bull Run defeat. Instead of 32,o00 ad-
vantages,he has only 1,000. Aye, only 300
—aye, none at all. How man good people
there are at their wits' end about their
livelihood, about their reputation. But
they will find out it is the best way often
after awhile. God will show them that he
depletes their advantages just for the same
reason he depleted the army of Gideon—
tbat they may be induoed to throw them-
selves on his mercy.
A grapevine says in the early spring:
"How glad I am to get through the win-
ter! I shall have no more trouble now!
Summer weather will come, and the gar-
den will be very beautiful!" But the gar-
dener comes and outs the vine here and
there with his knife. The twigs begin to
fall, and the grapevine cries out: "Mur-
der! What are yon cutting me for?"
"Ale" says the gardener, "I don't mean
to kill you. If I did not do that, you
would he the laughng stook' of all • the
other vines before the season is over."
Months go on, and one day the gardener
, comes under the trellis, where great clus-
ters of grapes hang, and the grapevine
says: "Thank you sin You could not
have done anything so kind as to have -cut
me with that knife." "Whom the Lord
loves he chastenoth." No pruning, no
grapes; no grinding mill, no flour; no
battle, no victory; no cross, no crown!
So God's way, in the redemption of the
world, is different from ours. If we had
our way, we would have bad Jesus stand
In the door of heaven and beckon the na-
tions up to light, or we would have had
angels flying around the eatth proclaiming
the unsearchable riches of Christ. Why is
it that the cause goes on so Slowly? Why
is it that the chains stay on when God
could knock them off? Why do thrones of
(impetigm stand when God could easily
demolish them? It is his way in order
that all generations may co-operate, and
that all 1110T1 may know they cannot do
the work themselites. Just in proportion
as these pyramids of sin go tip in heigbt
Will they come down in ghastliness a
ruin. 0 thou father of all leigulty I If
thou moist hear my voice above the crack-
ling of the flames, drive on they projects,
dispatch thy emissaries, build thy temples
and forge thy chains, but, know that thy
fall from heaven was not greater than thy
final overthrow shall be when thou shalt
bo driven disarmed into thy fiery den,and
foe every lie thou hast framed Upon earth
thou shalt have an additional hell of fury
pouted into thine anguith by tile venge-
ance of our God, Ana all hoevon shall shout
at the overthrow as Prom the raesomod,
earth the song breaks through the skies:
"I-Ialleluath I for the Lord God Oniuipo-
tent reigneth, Hallett -deli 1 for the king,
, . .
dons of this world halt°become the king -
dome of enr Lord Josue Ohrlet
God's way in the oteneeei11en.91 the
Bible, God's way in the Christian's' life,
God's way in the redemption of the world,
God's wee in everything—ilifferentfreln
man's way, but the best,
I leern front this ouleteot that' the overthroW �f God's enemies will 'be sudden
and terrific. There is the !Wetly Of th0.
alleitinites down in the volley of :JO:Ma
I suppose their might men ere„ereaming
of victory. Mouut Gilboa neyee eteod
sentin 31 for So laigeet host. • The Spears
and the shields of the Midianitottgleam in
the moonlight and glance on ,the eyes of
the Israelites'who hover like a battle' of
eagles,ready to sweep from the OWL Sleep
on,0 army of tbe Midlanites I With the
night to hide tbekeind the mountain to
guard them aindIettonettems to defend
them, name slumberipgeecepee dream of
disaster! Puttee to the,Peppairmand the
spearmen , e„e ,
Crash go thb • pithbeia t:1101af flare ehe
lamps! TO, the Oil ! Fly ' . flaY
Troop running., against ft 'teepee theueands
trampling upon thousands , :Hark. to the:
scream and groan of the routed 4)0 with
with
the Lord God Almighty aftertlienr! How
sudden the onset, how will the einistern.a,
tion, how utter the defeat! 1do not fear
so much what is against me if God is not.
You want a better sword or carbine than
• I have ever seen to go out and fight
against the Lord Omnipotent • Give me
God for my ally, and. you may have all the
battlements and battalions.
I saw the defrauder in his splendid
house. It seemed as if he had conquered
God as he stood amid the blaze of chande-
liers and pier mirrors. In the diamonds
of the wardrobe I saw the tears a the
widows whom he had robbed, and in, the
snow satin the pallor of the white cheek •
ed orphans of whom be had wronged. The
blood of the oppressed .glowed in the deep
crimson of the imported chair. The
MUSIC trembled with the sorrow of unth-
gutted toil. But the wave of mirth dash-
ed higher on reefs of coral and pearl. The
days and the nights went merrily . No
siok child dared moll that silver door bell.
No beggar dared sit on that marble step.
No voioe of prayer floated amid that tap-
estry. No shadow of a judgment dee
darkened that fresco No tear ot human
sympathy dropped upon that upholstery.
POmp strutted the hall, and dissipation
filled her cup, and all seemed safe Os the
Midianites in the valley of Jezreel But
God mine. Calamity smote the money
• market. The partridge left its (text un-
hatthed. Crash went all the poreclain
pitchers! Ruin, rout, dismay and woe in
the valley of Jezreel !
Alas for those who fight against God!
Only two sides. Man immortal, which
side are you on? Woman immortal, which
side are you on? Do you belong to the
300 that are going to win the day or to the
great host of Midianites asleep in the val-
ley, only to be roused up in consternation
and ruin. Suddenlyathe golden bowl of'
life will be broken and the trumpet blown
that will startle our soul into eternity.
The day of the Lord. cometh as FM thief in
the night, and as the God arnted Israel-
ites upon the sleeping foe. Ha! Oanst
thou pluck up courage for the day when
the trumpet which hath never been blown
shall speak the roll call of the eead, and
the earth, dashing against a lost meteor,
have its mountains scattered to the stars
and oceans emptied in the air Oh. then.
what will become of you What will be-
come of me?
If those Midianites bad only given up
their sw ords the day before the disaster,
all would have been well, and if you will
now surrender the sins with which you
have been fighting against God, you will
be safe Oh. make peace with Inin now,
through Jesus Christ the Lord! With' the
clutch of a drowning man seize the cross.
011, surrender! Surrender! Christ, with
his hand on his pierced side asks you to.
The Word "Ladv."
It IS amusing to recall the admirable
circumlocutory efforts made in ray pres-
ence by a society woman to save herself
from the necessity of uttering this hated
word. The piteous gasp with which she
at last let it fall from her lips suggested
how the Bad Sister in the nursery tale
must have appeared when • about to open
her mouth, knowing that a toad would in-
stantly issue therefrom. There was,as it
happened, no other term eiractly to express
the speaker's meaning; the point under
discussion being one, not of ewe for which
plain and unadorned 'woman' would have
served, nor of birth merely, to be suffi-
ciently designated by "gentlewoman,"
but rather of that mysterious combination
of character, temperament, education and
experience into one beautiful whole, which
sex,nor birth, nor position,nor any single
advantage, outward or inward, can assure,
and for which, "up to date," no word has
been found so expressive as "lady."
Moreover, the speaker herself was notably
one of that sort whioh Dante delicately de-
scribes as "those who are gentle, and are
not women merely." Yet would she not,
except under protest, employ the sole dis-
tinctive name of suoh gentle women.
And this, forsooth, because the name
bas been misapplied! Frankly, I ask it,
is this a good reason?. Frankly. I do not
think that it is. Does it derogate in the
least from one's ladyhomithat these who
have no claim whatever to such estate
choose to adopt the title? I have heard a
specious argument to the effect that it is
better the word, as distinguishing, a class,
should go the way of all titles in this
democratic land. But, unfortunately for
such an argument, this name has been
dropped solely by those who still insist
upon retaining a certain shove of aristoc-
racy. They have apparently dropped it,
not to facilitate the levelling process, but
rather to keep up distinctions; if the
masses were to see fit to relinquish it, I
should look to see it reinsteted in glory
among the glasses, on the same principle
that governs the fluctuations of the crease
In the logs of trousers,
There is no doubt that it has been an
ill-used word—ill-used, by those, too, who
should best keow its real signillcation. I
do not wince, I only smile, when a girl be-
hind a counter directs me to "that other
saleslady," or when Mary Cook tells me
there is a "lady in the kitchen" to see
me. But when an educated WOMan says,
speaking of her husband, perhaps, "Gen-
tlemen like their coffee hotter than
ladies," or, "Gentlemen are more easily
put out than ladies," ellen 1 do not smile,
but wince.
do not seriously fear the utter disap-
pearaiice of the thing this noble word
Attila for. Surely there will always be
true ladies, whether they oall themselves
so or not. But in a decade when the name
is being intentionally bestied out Into the
cold by the vory set of women whieh we
should most expect to And cherishing
every least thing belonging to the idea of
lady, and when the membere of another
fast-growing set are, it may be uninten-
tionally, so conductieg theinselves as to
make men apprehensive lest theedee itself
should be losing oredit among the femin-
ine half of creation, it seems well to sound
o note of weenie* In regard to it, to urge
O plea for ite retention and for maintain -
i g it in good acetate.
HAWS AS ORNAMENTAL PLANTS.
Ouz native hawthorns, or, red haws, AS
they are commonly called in many places
in the west, have not, as a rule; been ex-
tensively planted for Oraveneutal pur-
poses, It is true that the .genus is ap-
preciated more in some places than iu
others. Several speeles are very common
In the mestere nettle Hefty iu aftly the
bottoms ere fairly white with the flowers
of the common red haw (Cratoegus mon
lis), a much 'branched tree 20 ara,30 feet
Male It produces large, slender, potioled
leaves. Tbe young shoots are pubescent.
The , large, white flowers are 0110 inOly
tepees. The fruit is bright scarlet, with
a IIglit bloom,ripenieg lo Septemter. 11
is oue of the handsomest of the ,North
American species, espeeially desirable be-
cause of its attractive flowers. and the
abundant shade the taw affords. la is
one of the best of the native species for
its fruit Large quantities of the sweet,
edible fruit are collected every year,
chiefly for making apple butter. It is
quite a variable epodes as regards tbe
size of its fruit, varying from three-
quarters to an inch aud a quarter broad.
Three trees of this species were set out
on the college grounds nearly 25 years
ago. They are admired by all who see
them. The flat-topped haw (Cratoegus
punctata) is another very desirable
species. It grows from 15 to 20 feet high,
produces horizontal branches, and its
leaves are much snuffler than in the oom-
mon red haw. It bears numerous white
flowers, which COMe out 14 days later
than the other species. Its spreading
branches make the trees very desirable as
an ornamental plant. The round fruit is
dull red or yellow, sprinkled with num-
erous small dots. The fruit is imore per-
sistent than that of the common red haw,
and is scarcely edible. Tbe most widely
cultivated of all our species is the Cock-
spur thorn (Cratoegus crus-galli). It pro-
duces horizontal branches and slender
thorns, sometimes four inches long, shin-
ing, thick, dark green leaves, and flowers
later than the above species. The globu-
lar'fruit is dull red and one-third of an
inch broad. Birds do not devour the
fruit as they do that of the other suedes,
and it remains with its color till spring.
It has been used as a hedge plant. I
believe our common red baw has great
possibilities, if horticulturists would turn
their attention to its improvement
Where there is plenty of room in a lawn
none of our native trees are more desir-
able than the species given here.
Prolonging the Early lApple Season.
There arc) at least three things to be ob-
served in trying to erelong the ordinary
season of apples, if we would be success-
ful. First, careful handling in picking;
second' picking at the proper time, and
tf
third, storing in a cool place. J. J.
Thomas says that "Mankind consists of
Iwo grand divisions, the careless and the
careful. Each individual may be assign-
ed his place under these two great heads
by observing how he picks or gathers
fruit." Much of the difficulty in keeping
apples arises from careless handling of
the fruit wbile it is being picked.. This
is especially true of early fall apples as
they are generMly picked before the tem-
perature of the air is sufficiently lowered
to arrest decay, which begins immediate-
ly when the apple is bruised.
My observation leads me to believe
'that farmers do not exercise the sante
caution in handling fall apples that they
do in the case of winter varieties. Many
seem to have an Idea that they will not
keep long anyway, and so they are
thrown into the wagon and hustled off to
town as soon as possible. I have seen
the Famous° or Snow brought into
roarket this fall in such a damaged con-
dition that it was impossible to keep them
but a Sew days, wnen they should keep
until the holidays, even in our warm
climate. On the other haod I have seen
the Golden Sweet, a eummer variety, on
exhibition in Novemeer. These were
kept in an ordinary cellar, but they had
not been bruised by careless handling.
The best keeping apples we have will re-
main in good condition but a short tirno
atter •thoy have been bruised. Then the
degree of maturity at the time of picking
will Wive much to do with keeping qual-
ities. An apple should be mature but not
ripe when it is picked, if it is to keep for
any considerable time. The process of
ripening is only the first stage of decay,
and if this is allowed to continue before
pick leg until -the apple is ripe, that is,
until it becomes inellota, this breaking
clown process has proceeded so far that it
is very difficult to arrest. As soon, there-
fore, as the stem will separate readily
form its union with the branch, the apple
is sufficiently- mature to keep well.
In this case of early apples. however,
there is another element which enters,
into the problem, viz. flavor. Fall apples
picked very early do not, as a rule, pos-
sess that richnese of flavor whir% is
developed during the last days of ripen-
ing, eo that for home use, Where the best
Is none teo good, this becomes a very ion -
portant 'element, and one that can be
preserved only by keeping the fruit in
a cool plats where the temperature does
not teach nauell above fifty degrees. This
brings up the question of cold storage
for the farmer end fruit grower which
mey be continued in a future attiolo.
When onions got ripe their tops Urea,
clown, and they should, be pulled and
earefinly dried and peered away, or wet
woether may cause them to matzo a second
growth at, rot, either of weieb vsoulcl
Orion thorn.
OUR Nov SKIRT.
tete eNehante Is the Utast Pattern -a -Wide
anti Veering at the Root,
•'Skirts continue wale Mid flaring at the
feet, Mid may have as many flutes felling
in bilkers arontad the ,figure as the wearer
cares to displayor has strength to carry.
Meet taller -goevns, e,specially those of heavy
elotleobetintle to heOf conservative width,
whiell acear yawls is now aoltegaviedged to
bo. Our pew pattern --the' "Nahaut"—
measures five ,end three quarter yards at
the feet, and fits as elosely AS a princess
gown et the weist, except that there are
Iwo narrow box-pettite in the back. Tbere
are but flve breadth, --frent,side gores, and
two back ono—'so till are very wide, and
the pattern is best adapted to doubie-fold
fabrics, In cutting, the middle of the front
and the back breedths should be laid on a
fold of the goods ; and the side breadths can
be out fitraight on the front edges, or the
Sante as the front and. back breadths u.nless
the front corners would require piecing
out with small triangular gores. , This
should always be avoided unless the piec-
ing can be done in a stripe, whioh conceals
'it perfectly. In making up striped and
figured fabrics the skilful modiste coo-
trives to make the stripes and linei of fig-
ures meet wherever tvvo gored seams come
together. The heavy mohairs require no
lining but percent:to or taffeta. A silk
balayeuse is seen on tome gowns, but it
adds so much to the weight of wide skirts
that it Is oftener omitted.
THE ,AUTUMN WaIDOING,
Whitt Should De Worn-2•T9mo Particula.
Duties of Each.
• At, a church wedding more forniality
and ceremoniousness are demanded than
at a hoine wedding. The latter may be as
simpli3 as the taste of the bride dictates,
but there muse be a certain degree of
splendor about the former The organist
must play and there must be ushers e
seat the guests, even when bridesmaids are
omitted.
. *
After the guests are seated the minister
advances to the chancel.rail and with the
bridegroom and his best man waits tor
the coming of the bridal procession, Tne
ushers advance two by two separating as
they reach the altar and standing at the
right and left of the minister. If there are
bridesmaids, they fellow in the ,same
order, standing in front of the ushers. If
there is a maid of honer she comes next,
walking alone. She .stands at the minis-
ter's right in front of the bridesniaids and
opposite the best man. The bride and her
father follow. He stands behind her until
he gives her away and then be joins his wife
in the feent pew quietly. After the cere-
mony is perfozmed the bride and bride-
groom lead the procession in reverse order
from that in whioh it entered the church.
-The duty of the maid of honor is to take
the bride's bouquet and to hold it during
the ceremony. The best man's duties are
mere onerous. At a morning wedding
be holds the bridegroom's hat during the
ceremony, hands him the wedding ring at
the proper moment, follows the clergyman
to the vestry at the conclusion of the cere-
mony to give him his fee, hurries to the
bridal carriage to give the bridegroom his
hat and then rushes to the bride's house
to assist the ushers in presenting the
guests at the reception.
• * *
At the reception the bride and bride-
groom are assisted in receiving by the
brides' patents and by the bridesmaids and
maid of honor.
• * *
At an evening wedding the bridegroom,
best man and ushers wear the regulation
evening suit, with white gloves. At a
morning wedding they wear Prince Albert
coats, striped trousers, white silk four-in-
hands and pearl or pale tan gloves. The
bride, unless she is a widow, wears the
regulation white frock and veil. A widow
wears a pale colored gown, but not a white
one. High neck and long sleeves are abso-
lutely essential to wedding dresses. The
bride's left-hand glove is cut, to allow the
ring th be slipped on, or she may go bare
handed to the altar if she prefers.
* *
All wedding presents should be marked
with the bride's maiden initials, and
should be sent to her, even though the
sender does not know her, but only the
bridegroom. All the expenses of the wed-
ding, except the clergyman's fee, are borne
by the family of the bride.
Comfortable and Decotaing.
Heliotrope crepon is the fabric of this
easy and graceful house -gown, and the
trimming is a refreshingly simple change
from the elaborate shoulder -frills of the
past seasons. It consists only of beads of
lace insertion bordered by frayedruches et
hellotrepe silk,and a girdle of bite* velvet
ribbon. The front of the sairt and waist
are cat in one, a fitted lining holding the
fulness in plaoe ; the back is plain across
the shoulders and has a little fulness at
the waist, when) the skirt is joined to it in
box -plaits Which form three godet Rates.
The skirts of suoh gowns aro generally un-
lined, and are finished at the foot with a
simple hem. Tho pettorn is the "Hese-
Wore."
• OUT OF REAL LIFE,
A Story of a Wealthy Nall Owner *Ad Its
Doubl' Roieteel
Here is a true little story out of real life
WIWI has a moral. There Wee 00000 largo
mill itt a 8111Ali eity where oloth wag'
Mede, It WAS owned in part by a neer-
(taut WIIQ iived in Neve York an(1 sold the
cloth. Ho was the brains of the mill. He
went to his (Alice when he get ready, and
°tone away when he ohose. He ate ael
drank freely, had. heroes and pictures, a
town house, a country house, all the usual
luxuries of a well-to-do New Yorker. He
did not toil Superlatively bard, and lois
spinning was done for him at1iisi1l, At
the mill affairs were personally conducted
by an overeeer, a worthy nian, who knew
about spinuing and TOM got up early in
the morning and staid up all day and
mad the mill go, }le got a good salary,
and saved numee, telltale he put Into other
mills, of which also the New Yore inan
was the brains.
Suddenly one day the luxurious MIMI
Now York died. Elis heimo, and the
other owners of the factory determined te
sell ieand inasmuch ae the overseer eeem-
ed to know more about the mill and its
arrangement s than any one else they rais-
ed his salary and appointed him Brains of
the business ad interim. But it is one
thing to be overseer of a mill and quite
another to be the BraiIIS of a business.
The overseer was honest and faithful.
After he had worked as Brains and over-
seer both for a couple of years (bad years
for that business, by the way,) it was nec-
essary to appoint an assignee. He was ap-
pointed. Presently the mill was shut
down, and after a while it was sold for
nearly enough to pay the debts of the eon -
cern. The overseer acting as Brains aid.-
ed by bad times had entirely wiped. out
the value of thal mill, and of the other
mills in which he had invested his sav-
ings. Soon after the final settlement he
took to his bed and died.
Labor is strongly disposed to feel that
the Brains ba a business is overpaid, and
is not entitled to the large emoluments he
receives. Labor feels that Brains lives off
the sweat of other men's brows, and
Labor doesn't think it fair. Brains lived
off labor in this case, and lived very
well; but when Brains died and Honest
Industry took his job, the mill presently
stopped; Labor was thrown out of work
for two years, and rimiest Industry was
ruined. The case is not an exceptional one.
Brains may be a pig, but he is indispens-
able, and being so, he is worth his price.
In a Sandstorm.
• "No writer ofeuisd exaggerate," said Mr.
Deuell, of the .Union Pacific Railroad, "the
811110011 wbech visited Western lioness and
Eastern eolorado last week. • -The storm.
began Thursday night and continued all
day Friday and a part of Saturday. Clouds
of sand were driven through the air by a,
high wind, obscuring all objects and ren-
dering existence almost • impossible for
man and beast. A strange phenomenon.
connected with the storm was that, while
the wind was blowing at the rate of front
forty to sixty miles an hour north and
west of Denver, yet in that city not enough
air was stirring to cause a flag to flutter.
People in Denver would not believe that
tha worst sand and snow storm experienced
in years was raging all about them. The
weather was not cold and the storm was
not attended by any electrical display. It
was simply an incessant, blinding, suffo-
cating Whirlwind of sand and snow.
"The paint and varnish on cars caught
out in the storm were worn from the wood-
work and the cue windows were scratched,
and groand as if by an emery wheel. One
of our engines which braved the storm for
several honrs looked as if it bad been re-
surrected after being buried for years. The
paint and varnish were gone and it was
covered with sand and slush from thepilot
to the tender. .A. man venturing into a,
whirlwind of sena invariably returned in
O few minutes with his face bleeding from
hundreds of outs.
"The men employed to clear the railroad
outs of the drifts of sand and snow were
unable to work more than half an hour
without' being relieved. I certainly never
before saw anything like that sandstorm
and no one oould conceive its terrors with-
out having been actually in it.
"At Cheyenne Wells, Col., a station on.
the "Union Pacific, thirteen oars of sand.
were taken from the depot platform. Cuts
were filled with immense drifts, which
averaged about two-thirds sand and one-
third snow. • The bodies of two sheep
herders who were overcome by the stori
have been found and others are reported.
missing. The loss of range cattle was
great.''
There are cases of consumption so far
advanced that Bickle's Anti -Consump-
tive Syrup will not cure, but none so bad.
that it will not give relief. For coughs,
colds and. all affections of the throat,
lungs and chest, it is a specific which has
never been known to tail, It promotes a
free and. easy expectoration, thereby re-
moving the phlegm, and gives the diseas-
ed parts a chance to heal.
When Baby was sica, we gave her CaStoriP.
When sne was a Child, She cried for Castello..
When she became Miss she (dung to Castoria.
When she had Children, she give them Castoria.
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