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The Exeter Advocate, 1896-12-17, Page 7ONE HUNDRED YEARS REV. DR. TALMAGE PREACHES ON "THE DYING CENTURY." have founded --the blind seeing with their finger., the deaf hearing by the mo- tion of your lips, the born imbecile by skillful object lesson lifted to tolerable intelligence: Thanks to this century for the improved conditions of most nations. The reason that Napoleon made such a successful sweep across Europe at the be- ginning of the century was that most of the thrones of Europe were occupied either by imbeciles or profligates. But most of the thrones of Europe are to -day` occupied by kings and queens competent, France a republic, Switzerland a repub- lic, and about fifty free constitutions, T am told, in Europe. Twenty million serfs of Russia manumitted. On this western continent I can call the roll of many republics— Mexico, Guatemala, San Salvador, Costa Rica, Paraguay, Uruguay, Houduras, New Granada, Venezuela, Peru,Ecuador, Bolivia, Chili, Argentine Republic, Brazil. The money power, so much denounces and often justly criticised, has covered this continent with universities and free libraries and asylums of mercy. The newspaper press, which at the beginning ef the century was an ink roller, by hand moved over one sheet of paper at a time, has become the miraculous manu- facturer of four or five or six hundred thousand sheets for one daily newspaper issue. Within your memory, 0 dying century, has been the genesis of nearly all the great institutions evangelistic. At London tavern, March 7,1803. British and foreign Bible society was born. In 1816 American Bible society was born. In 1824 Asnerioan Sunday School union was born. In 1810 American hoard of commissioners for foreign missions, which has put its saving hand on every nation of the round earth was born at a haystack in Massachusetts. The Na- tional Temperance sboiety, the Woman's Temperance society, and all the other temperance movements were born in this century. Africa, bidden to other centur- ies, by exploration in this century has been put at the feet of civilization to be occupied by commerce and Christianity. The Chinese wall, once an impassable barrier, now is a useless pile of stone and brick. Our American nation at the opening of this century only a slice of land along the Atlantic coast, now the whole continent in possession of our schools and churches and missionary sta- tions. Sermons and religious intelligence which in other times, if noticed at all by the newspaper pros., wore allowed only a paragraph of three or four lines, now find the columns of the secular press in all the cities thrown wide open, and every week for 26 year., without the omission of a single week, I have been permitted to preach one entire gospel sermon through the newspaper. press. I thank God for this great opportunity. Glorious old oentury! You shall not be entombed until we have. face to face, ex- tolled you. You were rooked in a rough cradle, and the inheritance yon received was for the most part poverty and strug- gle and hardship, and poorly covered leaves of heroes and heroines of whom the world had not been worthy, and atheism and military despotism, and the wreck of the French revolution. Yes, dear old century, you had an aw- ful start, and you have done more than well, considering your parentage and your early environment. It is a wonder you did not turn out to be the vagabond century of all time. You had a bad mother and a bad grandmother. Some of the preceding centuries were not fit to live in—their morals were so bad, their fashions were so outrageous, their ignor- ance was so dense, their inhumanity so terrific. Oh, dying nineteenth century, before you go we take this opnorunity of telling you that you are the best and the mightiest of all the centuries of the Christian era except the first, which gave us the Christ, and you rival that century in the fact that you more than all the other centuries put together are giving the Christ to all the world. One hundred and twelve thousand dollars at one meeting a few days ago contributed for the world's evangelization. Look at what you'have cone, 0 thou abused and depreciated century! All the Pacific isles, barred and bolted against the gos- pel when you began to reign, now all open, and some of them more Christian- ized than America. No more, as once written over the church doors in Cape Colony, "Dogs and Hottentots not ad- mitted." The late Mr. Darwin contribut- ing $25 to the Southern Missionary soci- ety. Cannibalism driven off the face of the earth. The gates of all nations wide open for the gospel entrance when the church shall give up its intellectual dandy- ism, and quit fooling with higher critic- ism, and plunge into the work, as at a life saving station the crew pull out with the lifeboat to take the sailors off a ship going to pieces in the Skorries. I thank you, old and dying century. But my text suggests that there are some things that this century ought to do befa.re he leaves us. "Thus saith the Lord, set thine house in order, for thou shalt die and not live." We ought not to let this century go before two or three things are set in order. For one thing this quarrel between labor and capital. The nineteenth century inherited it from the eighteenth century, but do not let this nineteenth century bequeath it to the twentieth "What we want," says labor. "to set us right is snore strikes and more vigorous work with torch and dynamite." "What we want," says capi- tal, 'is a tighter grip on the working classes and• compulsion to take what wages we chose to pay, without reference to their needs." Both wrong as sin. Both defiant. Until the day of judgment no settlement of the quarrel it you leave it to British, Russian or American politics. The religion of Jesus Christ ought to come in within the nekt four years and take the hand of capital and employe and say: "You have tried everything else and failed. Now try the gospel of kind- ness." No more oppression and no more strikes. The gospel of Jesus Christ will sweeten this acerbity, or it will go on to the end of time, and the fires that, burn the world up will crackle in the ears of wrathful prosperity and indignant toil while their hands aro still clutching at each other's throats. Before this century sighs its last breath I would that swar- thy labor and easy opulence Would come up and let the Carpenter of Nazareth join their hands in pledge of everlasting kindness and . peace. When men and women are dying they are apt to divide among their children mementos, and one is given a watch, and another a vase, and another a picture, and another a robe. Let this veteran century hefore it dies hand over to the human race, with an impressiveness that shall last forever, that old family keepsake, the golden keepsake which nearly nineteen hundred years ago was handed down from the black rock of the mount of beatitudes, "Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, .do ye even so to them, for this 1e the law and the prophets." Another thing that needs to be set in order before the .veteran century > quits us The Marvels of the Nineteenth Century, The: Money Power--!rbor and Capital -- The Great Deliverer of Nations ---Vision of St. John. Washington, D. d., Dec. 8. --Consider- ing the time and place of its delivery, this sermon of Dr. Talmage is of absorb- ing and startling interest. It is not only national but tuba national in its signifi- cance. His subject was "The Dying Cen- tury," and the text II Kings xx, 1, "Thus saith the Lord, Set thine house in order, for thou shalt die and not live," No alarm bell do I ring in the utter- ance of this text, for in the healthy glow of your countenances 1 find cause only for cheerful prophecy, blot I shall apply the text as spoken in the ear of Heze- kiah, down with a bad carbuncle, to the nineteuueh century, now eiosine. It will take only lour more long breaths, each year a breath, and the century will ex- pire. My theme is "The Dying Cen- tury." I discuss it at an hour when our national legislature is about to assemble, some of the members now hero present and others soon to arrive from the north, south, east and west. All the pub - lie conveyances coming this way will bring important additions of public men, so ttat when on Deo. 7, at high noon, the gavels of senate and house of repre- tsntatves shall lift and fall the destinies of this nation,'and through it the des. Unite; of all nations struggling to be free, will be put on solemn and tremen- dous trial. Amid such intensifying cir- cumstances 1 stand by the venerable cen- tury and address it in the words of my text, "Thus saith the Lord, Set thine house in order, for thou shalt die and not live " Eternity in too big a subject for as to understand. Some one has said it is a great clock that says "Tick" in one oen- tury and "Tack" in another. But we can better understand old time, who has many children—and t'ley are the centur- ies—and many grandchildren—and they are the years. With the dying nineteenth century we shall this morning have a plain talk, telling him some of the things he ought to adjust before he quits this sphere and passes out to join the eternities. We generally wait until people are dead before we say much in praise of them. Funeral eulugium is generally very pnthetio and eloquent with things that ought to have heen said years before. We put on cold tombstones what • we ought to have put in the warm ears of the living. We curse Charles Sumner while he is living and cudgel him into spinal meningitis and waituntil, in the rooms where I have been living the last year, he puts his hand on his heart and cries, "Oh!" and is gone, and then we snake long procession is his honor, Dr. Sunderland, chaplain of the American senate, accompanying; stopping long enough to allow the dead senator to lie in state in Independence hall, Philadel- phia, and halting at Boston state house, where not long before dantnatory resolu- tions had been passed in regard to him, and then more on, amid the tolling bells and the boom of minute guns, until we bury him at Mount Auburn and cover Mtn with flowers five feet deep. What a pity he could not have been awake at his ewe funeral to hear the gratitude of the aatihnI 11"hat a pity, that one green leaf could not have been taken from each one ef the mortuary garlands and put upon hie tattle while he was yet alive at the Arlington! What a pity that out of the great choirs who chanted at his obse- quies one little girl dressed . in white might not have sung to his living ear a complimentary solo! The postmortem ex- pression contradicted the ante-mortem. The nation could not have spoken the truth both time's about Charles Sumner. Was it before or after his decease is lied? No such injustice shall be inflicted upon this venerable nineteenth century. Before he goes we recite in his hearing some of the good things he has accom- plished. What an addition to the world's intelligence he has made! Look at the old schoolhouse, with the snow sifting through the roof and the filthy tin cup hanging over the water pail in the cor- ner, and the little victims on the long benches without backs, and the illiterate eehoolmaster with his hickory gad, and then look at our modern palaces of free schools under men and women cultured and refined to the highest excellence, so that whereas in our childhood we bad to be whipped to go to school, children now ay when they cannot go. Thank you, venerable century, while at the same time we thank God! What an addition to the world's inventions—within our oentury the oottoon gin, the agricultural machines for planting, reaping and threshing; the telegraph; the phono- graph, capable of preserving a human voice from generation to generation; the typewriter, that rescues the world from worse and worse penmanship, and steno• graphy, oapturing from the lips of the swiftest speaker more than 200 words a minute! Never was I so amazed at the facilities of our time as when a few days ago I telegraphed from Washington to Idew York a long and elaborate manu- script, and a few minutes after, to show Us accuracy, it was rend to me through the long distance telephone, and it was exact down to the last semicolon and comma. What hath God wrought! Oh, I am so glad I was not born sooner. For the tal- low candle the electric light. For the writhings or the surgeon's table God given anaesthetics, and the whole physi- cal organism explored by sharpestinstru• nhent, and giving not so much pain as the taking of 'a splinter from under a 'child's finger nail. For the lumbering stems coach the limited express train. And there is the spectroscope of Fraun- hofer, by which, our modern scientist feels the pulse of other worlds throbbing with light. Tenner's arrest by inocula- tion of one of the world's worst plagues. Dr. Keeley's emancipation for inebriety. Intimation that the virus of maddened canine and cancer and consumption are yet to be .. balked by magnificent medical treatment. The eyesight of the doctor Mharpened till he can look through thick esh and find the hiding place of the bullet. What advancement in geology. For the catechism of the mountains; chemistry, or the catechism of the ele- ments; astronomy, or the catechism of the stars; electrology, or the catechism of the lightnings. What advancement in tousle. At the beginning of this century, confining itself,so far as the great masses of the people were concerned, to a few airs drawn out on accordion or messe- ered on church bass viol, now enchant- ingly dropping from thousands of fingers in Handel's "Concerto in B Flat," or ' uilmant's "Sonata In D Minor." ,flanks to you, 0 century, before you M, for the asylums of mercy that los it a mere thorough and all embracing plan for the world's gardenizatinn. We have been trying to save the world from the top, and it cannot be done that way. It, has got to be saved from the bottom. The church ought to be only a Weet Point to drill soldiers for outside battle. What if a military academy should keep its students from age to age in the mess- room and the barttaoks? No, no! They are wanted, at Montezuma and Chapultepec and South Mountain and Missionary Ridge, and the church is no plane for a Christian to stay very long. He is wanted at the front. lie is needed in the desperate charge of taking the parapets. , The last great battle for God is not to be fought on the campus of a college or the lawn of a church. It is to be fought at Missionary Ridge. Before this century quits us let us establish the habit of giv- ing the forenoon of the Sabbath to the churches and the afternoon and the even- ing of the Sabbath to gospel work in the halls and theaters and streets and fields and slums, and wilderness of sic and sorrow. Why do Christians who have stuffed themselves with "the strong meat of the word" and all gospel viands on Sabbath forenoons want to come up to a second service and stuff themselves again? These old gormandizers at the gospel feast need to get into outdoor work with the outdoor gospel that was preached on the banks of Jordan, and on the fishing smacks of Lake Galilee, and in the bleak air of Assyrian mountains. 1 am told that throughout all our American cities the second Sabbath service lu the major• ity of churches is sparsely, yea, disgrace- fully attended, and is the distress of the consecrated and eloquent pastors who bring their learning and piety before the pews ghastly for their inoccupancy. Let the Christian souls,bountifully fed in the morning, go forth in the afternoon and evening to feed the multitudes of outsiders starving for the bread of which if a man eat he shall never again hun- ger, Among those clear down the gos- pel would make mora rapid conquest titan among those who know so much and have- so much that God cannot teach or help them In those lower depths" are splendid fellows in the rough, like the shneblack that a reporter saw near New York city hall. He asked a bey to bine': his boots. The boy Caine up to his work provokingly slow and it ed just begun when a large boy shoved him aside and began the work,and the reporter reproved him as being a bully, and the boy re- plied: "Oh, that's all right. I am going to do it for '1w, You see he's been sick in the hospital more'n a mouth, so us boys turn in and give 'im a lift." "Do all the bays help him?" asked the re- porter. "Yes, sir. When they ain't got no job themselves and Tim gets one they turn in and help 'ins, for he ain't strong yet, you see." "How much percentage does he give you?" said the reporter. The boy replied: "I don't keep none of it. I ain't no such sneak as that. All the boys give up what they git on his job. 1'd like to catch any feller sneaking on a sick b ly, I would." The reporter gaye him a 25 cent piece and said, "You keep 10 cents for yourself and give the rest to Tim." "Can't do it, sir, It's his custom- er. Here, filo." Suoh big souls as that strew all the lower depths of the cities, and, get them converted to God, this a eof the be the last full century worlds sin and but little work of evangelization would be left for the next century. Tell us, 0 nineteenth century, before you go in a score of sentences some of the things you have heard and seen. The veteran turns upon us and Bays: "I saw Thomas Jefferson riding in unattended from Monticello, only a few steps from where you stand, dismount from his horse and hitch the bridle to a post and on yonder hill take the oath of the presi- dential office. I saw yonder capitol ablaze with war's incendiarism. I saw the puff of the first steam engine in America. I heard the thunders of Waterloo, of Sevas- topol and 'Sedan and Gettysburg. I was present at all the coronations of the kings and queens and emperors and em- presses now in the world's palaces. I have seen two billows roll across this contin• ent and from ocean to ocean—a billow of blond in 1864. I have see four genera- tions of the human race march across this world and disappear. I saw their cradles rooked and their graves dug. I have heard the wedding bells and the death knells of near a hundred years. I have clapped my hands for millions of joys and wrung them in millions of agonies. I have seen more moral and spiritual victories than all of my prede- cessors put together. For all you who hear or road this valedictory I have kindled all the domestic firesides by which you ever sat and roused all the halloos and roun- delays and merriment. you have ever heard and unrolled all the pictured sun- sets and starry banners of the midnight heavens that you have ever gazed at. But ere I go take this admonition and benediction of a dying oentury. The long- est life, like mine, must close. Oppor- tunities gone never come back, as I could prove from nigh a hundred years of observation. The eternity that will soon take me will soon take you. The wicked live not out half their days, as I have seen in 10,000 instances. NEW SLEEVES, One Seam Dress Sleeve--b[ouequetaire Sleeve With Ttiediroom ruffs. A graceful mousquetaire eifeot is shown ixs conjunction wit.. b:,.: taabhionable mush. room i,afl in this sleeve, for which changeable taffeta was selected. The sleeve has only an -inside seam and is sus- tained by a ooat•shap.t,i lining. Gath,rs. along the edges of the seam eaure 'pretty cross wrinkles in the Peeve, and the skil- ful manner In whish the puff is disposed causes it to droop .in a way that suggests the natural mushroom growth, its fulness Laing regulated by ga.a.ers at its nl per and lower edges. All dross goods of both silken and wool - len texture aro appropriate for the mode and velvet would be effective in the puff. One Sean, Dress Sleeve. This style of sleeve has many admirers: it is of fashionable but not extravagant size and is pictured made of plate dress goods. It has only one seam, which comes at the inside of the arm, and is arranged over a coat -shaped lining, The adjust- ment on the forearm is comfortably close and the fulness at the upper edge is drawn in gathers that produce a short puff effect above the elbow. The shapeliness of the arm dominates the choice of style these accessories being of ninny shapes and made of all the fashionable dress goods and trimmed or finished plainly. frequently in sleeves, STRIKING NEW HATS. Fldwer Mats All the Vogue for Dress Osi, casion el. To have a hat that is entirely unlike anyother but ever worn seems to be, the nim of the dames and damsels of ultra fashion. And the newest millinery creations bear this out. The mother of pearl hat is winning the most. laurels. it is the only hilt of its kind in New York. It is a Marie An. toinette hat in shape, anti both the •crown and brim are covered with mother of pearl, The inner side of ;she brim s faced with black velvet, edged with mother of pearl. Black ostrich tips are its only trimming. Five small ones are used. Hate of grebe; combined with velvet,' are another novelty of the boor. The soft grebe feather, are arranged in a toque shape, with the crown of velvet, or mere- ly a velvet loop at the side. Grebe and violet velle: make a most effective com- bination. There are also entire toques of grebe, but they are apt to be unbecom• ing unless relieved by a touch of vivid color. This season, for the first time, flower bats are to be all the vogue throughout the winter. But they are to be worn only for theatre and dress occasions. The flowers used are exquisite silk anti velvet reviled blossoms. Asters are a favorite flower in winter millinery, and the pink, the white, the yellow and the purple ones are oil used. Hats of geraniums are also in favor. One quite large hat seen recently was made entirely of pink geraniums and green leaves. The geraniums were tied in little clusters and then banked to- gether to form the crown. The brim was edged with a vine of leaves. In striking contrast to the flower hats are those made entirely of fur. They are much more chic th. ,h one would think, and not nearly sn heavy as they look. A Sleeves to be Smaller. The circumference of the smartest skirts is reduced by more than half of what it was in the spring, while a skirt with godets all round is, to modish opinion, almost as old-fashioned as over- skirt and paniers, At the lower portion the new skirts still have a decided flare, but at the hips they fit with skin snugness, too snugly in fact for; any but symmetrically pro- portioned figures. A new skirt that threatens to become popular has been designed by en English tailor of world renown. 7 his exactly reverses the late d a gored of thingshaving in h vi front and circular back. The apron is out ex- tremely narrow, so that at the top the seams with those of the two side gores, are at the front of the hips. The circular tack is stiffened only a gaarterof a yard deep at the bott•hm and tells in six heavy inturning kilt' plaits, pressed down to lie fiat from belt to hem. A novel effect, where the gown ma- terial is of cloth, is to have the seams of the apron and side gores heavily stitched and lapping over. With this a deep hem will be simulated with five or more rows of the stitching. A corsage Anglais, a long -waisted English -looking bodice, with a narrow waistcoat and small basgnes, is the proper upper caper for this skirt, but many of the bodices have the short, loose sauque and wide girdle effects of the French designers. Sleeves are growing steadily longer and closer at the forearm portico, with only a slight drapery or small puff at the top to give breadth to the shoulders. The sleeve of the moment clings to the arm like a glove, but it is a glove that admits of much tucking, puffing, shir- ring hinring and wrinkling as far as the sleeve proper is concerned. The long wrist is pointed or bell•shaped, and comes as low its the knuckles, and where time sleeve is much decorated a smart idea is to have the drapery at the top sewed only in the armholes so as to show as much as pos- sible. For thin, ungainly arms, these new sleeves, showing all sorts of cross wise trimming effects, are just the thing, but more shapely members will, more often than not, be hurt by them. For a heavy arm the under sleeve should be plain or trimmed lengthwise, and the drapery at the top voluminous enough to increase the look of slightness. With the very dressy gowns, even those in heavy textiles, where the close under sleeve is much decorated, it is made of a thinner material than the gown stuff. Thus a velvet bodice with a waistcoat and cravat of yellow lace will have the close sleeves also of the lace, divided in tiny puffs with rows of narrow velvet. For theater and reception bodices, a more airy textile even than lace is ad- missible for the snug sleeve. Those for even midwinter wear, dressmakers state, will often be of a ball -like delicacy, silk muslin, chiffon and gauzes of all sorts •combining with heavy silks and velvets. Trimmed skirts are seen in numbers, and in the way of wraps for winter use, cloaks and jackets of all sorts threaten to depose the snore convenient short cape. For first winter wear, however, the shops are showing dressy collets in many varieties of design and material, that, with their high throat ruche and floating ribbons, smarten up a plain gown delightfully. The jackets are in the colored coatings and are either very loose or close fitting, very short or quite long, The French models on the shogne order come only a little below the waist and are usually double-breasted at the front and plaited into a yoke at the back. Sleeves of these are very small gigots, as tight as comfort will allow at the lower portion and box -plaited into the armhole. Among the new gown materials there are certain mottled and plain wools for street use which are very effective. These have a camel's hair softness and often the same hairy surface, rich copper browns and somber reds predominating over other colors. "Tinder color" is a new shade of brown that has a hint of snuff in its redness, With all of the wool street stuffs black or colored velvet will he used as trim- ming as well as black mohair braids of all description. If you heat your knife slightly you can out hot bread as smoothly as cold. The only influence for making the world happy is tin influence that I, the nineteenth century, inherited from the first century of the Christian era—the Christ of ail the centuries. Be not de- ceived by the fact that I have lived so long,, for a century is a large wheel that turns 100 smaller wheels, which are the years, and each one of those years turns 3n5 smaller wheels, which are the days, and each of the 865 days turns 24 smaller wheels, which are the hours, and each one of those 24 hours turns 60 smaller wheels, whioh are the minutes, and these 60 minutes turn still smaller wheels, which are the seconds. And all of this vast machinery is in perpetual motion and pushes us on and on toward the great eternity whose doors will, at 12 o'clock of the winter night between the year 1900 and the year 1901 open before me, the dying century. I quote from the throe inscriptions over the three doors of the cathedral of Milan. Over one door, amid a wreath of sculptured roses, I read, "All that which please us is for a mo- ment." Over another door, around a sculptured cross, I read, "All that which troubles us is but for a moment " But over the central door I read, "That only is important which is eternal." 0 eter- nity, eternity, eternity! My hearers, as the nineteenth century was born while the face of this nation was yet wet with tears because of the fatal horseback ride that Washington took out here at Mount Vernon through a December snowstorm,,I wish the next century might be horn at ii time when the face of this nation shall be wet with the tears of theliteral arrival of the Great Deliverer of Nations, of Whom St. John wrote, with apocalyptic pea, "And I saw, and behold a white horse!' And he that sat on 'him had a bow, and a crown was given unto him, and he went forth conquering and to conquer." THE GREAT BUSTARD. Rams Been 'Extinct in etngliend for Hoes Than Fift:r Tears. The great bustard formerly haunted ail the level counties of England, and was particularly common on Salisbury plain, From the reign of Henry VIII: repeated treasures, were passed in order to protect. it; and it is expressly included under the bead of game in the Stet ute of the first year of the reign of William IV., which codified and reformed the laws relating to game. The close season for bustard shpoting• was and I. from the first of March to the first of September. But the. native bustard is now extinct in Eng- land. The last was killed at Swaffham, in Norfolk; in 1838. Any that have been shot since have been merely easpal visit- ors, probably coining from the plains of Saxony. The causes of the disappearance of the bustard are, firstly, the sport they afforded, for they were hunted with grey- hounds es well as shot; secondly, the in- crease in the amount of cnlitivated land. This largest of European birds, weighing as much as thirty pounds, 'could no longer find any sufficient support on the olCsely cropped plains of England. fur toque, which has been much admired, was entirely of sable heads and sable tails. The tails were selected with great care, 1 that they formed a flu and were so col ed Lh t turban. At the left side two heads were fastened, and the ends of three tails stood erect, resembling a bushy aigrette. Toques of gray mention are sold to match mouIllon capes, but they are combined effectively with loops and ends of velvet. Wenteles Ways. "Have you registered?" one citizen was overheard inquiring of another. "Registered what?" "Registered to vote." "No, I have not." "But aren't you going to?" "No, I am not." "Don't you intend to vote?" "What can I vote for?" "School officers, and so on," said gentle ohirper. "I think it is a privilege that we wom- en have something to say in such matters." "I don't. I don't call any sop a privil- ege. If my husand inverted Bluebeard'e plan and gave me one little room in the house and kept me out of all the others, I shouldn't cackle very loud about my privileges. I shouldn't let a man know I wanted to vote. I merely reserve the right of censorship over him while he votes, It infuriates me to see women rushing to the polls to deposit ballots on school matters, as if they hadn't brains enough to comprehend anything apart from the rearing of children. Am I go- ing to eat anybody else's apple core? Do I want to chew his gum while he rests his jaws? Let him get down on all fours and prostrate himself before ale. When I vote Mr. Man will bring me an unre• striated ballot on a salver and say with his best bow, 'Madame, will you do us the favor to go the polls with us?" "0, my dear, he'll never do it." "Then let him keep his ballot to Mm - self." "But there aro more issues than per- sonal feeling at stake. Of course those who are interested in public affairs would like to be treated handsomely—" "If there is one thing the American woman has learned, it is to make men treat her handsomely. Our men are the best trained in the world—the loveliest, the most adorable—really the most self- sacritioing. But in order to keep them so we must stay off what they in their stu- pidity consider their own ground. Let them claim it; we own them. ' be you think I am going to come down in the esteem of these fellows we have taken so much pains to subdue by trying to run a little side show to their big circus elec- tion? Decidedly no, madame, They are welcome to their ballot. But I shall be sorry for them after we get through with them if they don't vote to suit us." The common person, having this talk forced on his ears, meditated about the perverseness of women and their inabil- ity to appreciate that opening wedge called a concession. Though, of course, we have the best trained women in the world—the love - Best, the most adorable --really the most self-sacrificing. Very Gay New Scarlet Bats. The latest thing in millinery is the all red hat. To be strictly correct, it must be flaming scarlet in color. . ft is trimmed in various ways—with birds, a ruehet of ribbon or wings, or all three together. But whatever its trim- ming, it must be red, and a red, if pos- sible, that;;exaotly matches the color of the felt. That it is conspicuous goes without saying. The red hat is made both small and large—In the close -fitting turban shape and in the big dashing hat. But let the woman who can afford but two winter hats beware of this latest millinery novelty. The red hat, unless it is one of many hats, would soon become the bane of a woman's life, for before long she would be known as the woman with the red hat. But there are other millinery novelties besides this conspicuous scarlet creation. There are felt hats this season, with odd shaped w hits cloth crowns, elaborately braided Theee crowns are merely a flat piece of cloth, arranged in fanciful shapes. One bat which was particularly stylish was in dark brown felt, and perfectly flat in shape. In the center of the hat, where the felt crown ought to have been. white cloth braided in brown, was taste- fully arranged. At the left side it was caught no a trifle and held there by a group of cock's feathers in cream color and brown. The black and white hat made in this fashion is also most effective. Sometimes an aigrette takes the place of the cock's feathers, nr a small bird is used. The black and white hats are specially in favor this season. Many of the smaller hats are braided affairs, white satin stripes and black chenille being woven together. A most effective large black velvet hat is trimmed entirely with black and white ostrich feathers. En - hireling the crown are very small white tips—eight of them are used—arranged close together. Beside this, the hat is trimmed with five large black tips, nodding picturesquely at one another. the How to Pitt on Gloves. Most of us have seen women with gloves on awry, sticking askew and fin- gers crooked. This is because they do not put their gloves on properly. Here is some advice: First shake a bit of pow- der in the glove, because it will aid you In getting the glove on and off in case the hand perspires. Then place your elbow firmly on the table or counter, the hand upright, thumb at right angles with the palm. Draty the body of the glove over the fingers and arrange each digit In the glove finger intended for it. See that the fingers are not twisted and that the outer seam of the glove is at the edge of the palm and not pulled around on ithe back of the band. Care- fully coax on the fingers snaking sure that the fingers are fitted, and smooth the back stitching into place. Then the thumb may be inserted; the back seams again pulled straight and the wrist buttoned. If the back seams are awry or the finger seams are twisted, pull off the glove immediately and fit it correctly before pulliug nn the thumb and button- holing. 13y keeping the hand upright and the fingers rigid and working oare- fully, much time and tear are avoided, and a well -fitting glove is worth the trouble of a first careful putting on. The seam at the tip of alio thumb should be in line with the middle of the thumb nail, Always „fasten the second button Sttei. The Tendency of Alcohol. At the recent Intercolonial Medical Congress at Dunedin, New Zealand, a paper on "Alcohol" was read by Dr. Chapple, of Wellington. Time author proved the falseness of the popular belief that alcohol increased the body beat, that it added strength and endurance to the muscles, that it controlled hemor- rhage, that it was a disinfectant and protected from infection. He summarted his conclusions as follows: "1. Alcohol is a poisonous drug, whose special action in the body is a brain cellparalysant, destroying those cells in the inverse order of their development. 2. Alcohol dis- turbs the circulation leading to the Ioss of body temperature, and an accumula- tion of waste products in the blood, accompanied by great depression and muscular weakness. 8. Alcohol tends to produce in all, proporitonate to the quantity taken, cirrhotic diseases of all the tissues and organs of the body. 4. Alcohol tends to produce an irresistible craving for itself. 5. Alcohol predisposes to all infections and many organic dis- easee. 5. Alcohol diminishes the chances of recovery in those attacked with any disease other than those resulting from its use. 7, Alcohol increases the sick rate and shortens life. 8. Alcohol. disposes to consumption and all tubercular eliseases. 9. Alcohol Increases lunacy and crime. 10. Alcohol is absolutely unnecessary to health. 11. Alcohol promotes hemorrhage, and does not check it. 12. Alcohol adds no muscular strength to the body—at most it encourages the expenditure of its force in the shortest possible time. If those were the true facts about alcohol taken as a beverage in health they wore, as medical nhen, individually and ,colleo- tively, in duty and in honor hound to make theth known to public over whose health they pretend to preside." ---Chris- tian Statesman. • These Were Old Warriors. Enrico Daudet() was elected Doge of Venice in 1193, being then 82 years old; and shortly afterwards defeated• the Pisans in two naval battles, In 1202 and 1203 he subdued Trieste, Zara and Con- stantinople. In 1204, at the age of 94, ho again, at* the head of the Venetians and the French Crusaders, attacked and stormed Constantinople, himself leading the van, and planting the Venetian flag on the ramparts. On the establishment of the Latin empire ' of Constantinople, which immediately followed, he was offered the crown, but declined it. Be died in the following year (1205). He is said by some historians to have been blind, but it seems probable that he was only partially so, Count ' Von Moltke was over 70 when he undertook com wand of the 'Prussian armies in the Franco-German war. t le Gives. Jesus gives not because we can repay, Him, but because we are utterly poor and weak and helpless, Hence, we read as the first of the beatitudes, "Blessed are the poor in spirit; for theirs is the kingdom of God." Their poverty is their crown; it gives them power; it enthrone.` them as princes in the realm of grace.