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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1893-6-15, Page 3PRESS AND PULPIT. 001. MoMetre, of the Philadelphia 4 4 'TIMM," On Sentationalisin. IN TOU011 WITI/ TOE PEOPLE. Emu: are two great en vital forces in our en- lightened eivilizetion of the preeent Ones. They are the life and power of the peens and power ot the pulpit. Therm ere the two sources, great founteins which ponr on their boundlees etreame and nourish every benerionte movement of our free people. That 'aim etreams are alwaya pure is not to be expected. 13ab we should understand in coaeidering the great impel- Ikug motive of our matt:Wass progress tient nothing yet amebae' is perfeetion—that no human agency is perfect, thet no human power le perfected, and toolay I do no injustice to one of . the two great fountaine of our advanced civilizetion whee I eay thet the pulpit and the press stand side by side not only in the grandeur of their eehievereents, but side by side else In their infirmities. Ib is not the sensational newspaper thet gives life aud power to polities. The oommon impression is that it Is the sensational newspaper that the people read and which influences their considerate judgment. It is not so. Journalism has no more sensetioualiern in it to -day than has the pulpit, and to man would declere to an intelligent audience thee the sensational preacher shapes the destinies of religion or that religion is affected by him. On the contrary he is a hindrance to substantial religious advancemenb, just as the ileum- tional newspaper is a hindrantoe to the legit- imate advancement of the press. (Ap- plause.) SLiOnTOODIINGS OF sENSATIONALISM. The sensational newspaper mast have a sensation every day or it ceases to have enbscribers or readers. It must create something. It must invent. Ib must magnify ' • it must embellish ; it must color the truthwhen it has it so that the truth ceases to be the truth. And in the editorial chair, as in the pulpit only boo common to- day, you will find that those two great forces are hindered, cribbed and confined by those who misrepresent their true pur- pose and znieunderstand their high pre- rogative. The political life and power of the country to -day is shaped in its destiny by the newspaper press. This is a broad, a bold declaration, but it is none the lose the truth that in this free land where the newspaper goes into every home, where it is the great educator of men, women and children, that its relation to political life and power is that of the master, abso- lute master, not beoeuse it is a newspaper ; newspapers cannot make wrong right; newspapers eau nob destroy good men or geed causes. They cannot make the coun- try aeceett bad men or bad causes. There may be tides of popular passion which sen- sational, irresponsible newspapers give their assistance, which do great wrong to popular government and wrong to the press. But those are not the representatives of the journalism of this enlightened civilization any more than are the men who dishonor the pulpit, and bring shame upon whatever cause they espouse. (Applause.) ns7 TOUCH mum TH311 MIMES. The press of this country is the moat potent of all causes in shaping political life and power, solely beceufe it its in the closest touch and sympathy wieh the people of the country. Remember thab in this we are peculiar. In all other governments of the world newspapers do nob reach the masses, but teach as governmental power inattucts them to teach. They command rather than permed° or convince, but this land, where every citizen is sovereign, every man himself a sovereign, one of the millions who make and unmake laws one of the millions who make and unmake presidents, one of the millions who make and unmake cabinets and senates, and houses and oom- moners, it is to these that American jour- nalism addresses itself; and it is because of its constant touch and sympathy with the people, who are the sovereigns of the land that makes the journalism of America, the raster element in shaping the destiny of its political life and power. I enean in shaping political conviction, not in teaching from partisan standpoints but teadhing and fitting men for the higher and nobler duties of citizenship, are the„aim .of the pulpit, the element that teaches) and holdothe destiny of religious life and power. But I claim for journalism that in which I have the highest pride, that it has done more to couserve and liberalize the pulpit in the interest of religion itself than any other cause or all other causes combined. The press of this country is potent in shaping the political life end power of the lend be- comes it represents the liberal progress of the age, the liberal progress of this en - 'lightened age, andeit repreeents the spirit -that from the dark days when religion was shamed by bigotry and violence and per- meciftion, represents the spirit that has broken that), and tke spirit obeli drove the .knife out and the fagot from the very altar ,of religion itself. RIOVEn,ElfOn FOR RELIGION. Because it thus represents the liberal -enlightened progress of the age it does not teach less reverence for holy things. There mover was a day in the history of civilize - tion when religion la reverenced as it is to- rday. There never was a time in the history tof mankind when men were as noble or women as pure as to -day. There never was ,time when men, even those who bow not at the altar and make no profession of Christianity, had so much reverence for religion as the very foundation of social order and public safety, and it is from this .standpoint that the prom of the land has ,been liberelizing, not only in its own imme- Alain sphere, but liberalizing government, niberalizing the pulpit, liberalizing every- thing, every movement made for the eleva- tion of mankind, and it is the prein of America thab hoe done mote to seed back .upon the old world the refulgetice of our liberty, of our freedom, of that liberty that is founded in law, until ‘every netion of the earth 'has felt it, yiel d e a to it,aecl confessed the liberal progress of tilde enlightened page in the great Republic of the new world. This single fact tette the whole story of the relation of journalism to the political life o.itcl power of the Republic. A mart can he no editor who its not In touch, in dote touch, and sympathy with the people. Ib is because he is so that he can touch them, and in touching he can follow them, and in touching and°liming thorn he makeit them follow in the eight). The editor who is a straeger to mankind, a eitranger to inspubies, to the effeete ot synw imam is utterly powerlene and his emit - perm soon ceziseo to bilVe anexiettoice. is fete very first loeseit thab the youttg journaliat nreet learn. The very fotearletiou of his efluoselou fillet he must been the 'Mo- le, keen who they ere, what they eke, what) 1-410Y feel and how they feel, and what they need and what they will. The inan who fails tix that fella In bis mission; fails In his profeseion ; fells utterly in journalism, mercoan'ts OWL5JGI Ol mire Abrithani Lincoln ruled tide land against a diverse attend, a diverse Senate, and a diverse House; a stranger to nolibics, no s skill in whet WPM ealbed polttical atrateeYs entirely a Pltranger to all these constant friotions of public men and jealousiee and emnbination% to overthrow him, yet he was at all times minter over all, and why? Like all men who achieve greatness for mankind he Accepted the proverb thee) the proper study of menkind is man; like all who have achieved greatness for the lowly, and who have made mankind better and left a beacon light} to shine forever in his- tory as achievements for the elevation of menkind, he came close from the mother earth. He grew up amongsb the people, Filtered their trials, their norrowe and their aspiratione, grew up with them, constantly in touch and sympathy with them, and when called to the Presidency he was of the people, choeen by the people, high over all the men, great in etationship and polities, because he understood the people of the land. Ile we,s mightier than the mightiest of thab dem and, being so' stands higher in fame thap all the greatnames written in the bloody drama of the re- generation of this Republic. And so of the editor. MISSION OP sOunNAratiar. The newspaper is to -clay the one great overpowering, over -shadowing element of force in the political life and power of the laud, and it is so solely bemuse it is in con- stant touch and sympathy with the people who rule the land. That is the mission of journalism. That is why ib is to -day oznuipotent ; nob omnipotent because it could be so if wrong, bile omnipotent be- cause its greats study is followed religiously and scrupulously by the men who follow that profession, and when the great journals of this country speak for their party or against) their party they speak because they consider the judgment of rnankind impels it. THE LAUGHING PLANT. Paragrephers Might Acclimate It andGive a Seed With Each Joke. This plant, says Palgrave in his work on Central and Eastern Arabia, is a native of that country, and its seeds produce on any- one eating them effects analogous to those of laughing gas. The &were are produced in clusters, and are yellow in color; the seed pods contain two or three black seeds of the shape and size of French beam. Their flavor is slighbly like that) of opium, and taste sweat, while their odor produces a sickening sensation. The seeds are pul- verised and taken in small doses. Anyone taking them begins to laugh loudly and boisterously, and then sings, dancers and cuts all kinds of fantastic) capers, the effect continuing for about an hour. When the excitement) ceases the exhausted individual falls into a deep sleep, on awakening frona which he is utterly unconscious of any such demonstrations having been made under the influence of the see& of the laughing plank—London Tit -Bite. Hospitality in Morocco. There is no accommodation for Christian travelers in Fez and they can only obtain shelter by perniission of the Government. No inhabitant dares to lease them a house without) a special permit from the Govern- ment. A garden is only to be obtained as a rare favor, and in any case the tenants of house or garden have to be turned out to make room for the stranger. Anything more humiliating and more ridiculous than this system of "hospitality" cannot be imagined, but the Moorish Government make no secret of the motives which impel them to treat Christians in this brutal manner. "We do not want any more of you in Fez; we hate the sight of you any- how, and we are always in mortal terror of something happening to yon for which we shall have to apologize or pay, or both. Please stay in Tangier, the Infidel City, which you have invaded and occupied. You can wear your hat and trousers there with impunity, and your shamelees women can go about the streets with bare faces. There you can live in hotels as you do in Europe, and dance your ridiculous dances and drink your fiery drinks. You can even buy our land and live on ie. There we tolerate you (on compulsion); here we cannot stand you at any price. Keep off 1"—N. Y. Herald. How To Ile a Graceful Dancer. If I were asked to teach a class of young ladies how to dance gracefully, says Amelia Glover, the first thing that I should tell them to do would be to become graceful. I &mild say': "Young ladies, we will first learn the body -balances." Then I should lean forward as far as pos- tale, standing only on one foob, and should invite my young ladies to do the same. One trial would convince them that Ib is nob an easy thing to do. Bub we would persevere until we could all balance nicely on either foot. Thus the first step in graceful dancing would be taken. After that, by easy stages, we would take up the arm movements and practice them until all were able to swe.y our arms grace- fully, swing the body and turn the head, so that there will be real poetry in every motion. In practising exaggerate all the mot -eons. Teen we would begin "dancing steps," and would take up the waltz and the other conventional dances But in the beginning we should train as if we were to become athletes or acrobats, without the thought of mere ballroom dew- ing. Her Depressions. "Well, how do you like going to achool, Wendelline to inquired her mother. "Tho hatellecbual diacipline pleases me very much, mamma," replied the dear little Boston girl, who had just returned home after her first day at school, "but the methods are somewhat crude, and the teacher impression me as one who has not wholly succeeded 414 yet in the sbruggle te overcome the disadvenhages necteseaelly re - milting from defective early education." Got an Answer. The English mageeine, " Woman," pro- pounds an a quembion for competitive fulmars, " Would you rather marry a man whom you etttirely love, but whcae love for you you Are not sure of, or a men who entirely lovoe you, bub who lovo you do not thoroughly reciprocate.) ?" And the editor of the VVomen's Tribune " aeswere it, Yankee fashion, by propounding another "Would you rather lie or steal!" go etory is the same to tie after the lerie of tithe I Or, rather, we who read it ere to lenge' the eame interproterte—Grorge Eeiot, Texas is large enough to giro all the pope- latiori of the world standing tooth, and it le kaki that if all the people a thi, Unitd States Wore crowded into Ketteae, California atd gebeiteka, them States .wealti tot he Mete thiekly Nettled then Englend is new You aity *Smith leade e, deal life?" .44 Yeti be'Sa bull on tire Stook blinhatege mid a bear at innee." t THE " BAltelrifill OF Fietlee' The Prince DePerialle Mem:Let oi' it to at British War correepondent. I knew the Prince Well. On the firet two emu:done I maw him, it was through a binocular from a etmeidereble distance. On Atigiest 2nd, 1870, the day on which the boy of fourteen, in the words of his father, " reeeived hie bameiona of fire," I was watching from the drat -ground /Above Beeline -10k, in company with the last remaining Prilesien ter/eters, the oncoming ewarin-aeteek of Betaiileht Eisen:Wenn, firing ae tney hurried aeroi38the pleb). The tirailleurs bed passed a little knoll which rose in the plain abeab midway between the Spiel:wren hill and where 1 stood, and presently it wen crowned by two horsemen rollowed by a great eteff. The glees told me thet wibiloat a doubt the sonioe of the foremosb 'nommen wee the Emperor Napoleon, and that tee younger, shorter and aligeter—mere boy he looked—was the Prince Imperial, whom we knew to be with his father itt the field. A fortnight later, In the eerly morning of the leth, tho day be- fore Mars -ht -Tour, when the German army was still only east and south of Metz, I accompanied a German horao-batterywhich„ galloping rep to within 500 paces of the chateau of Longueville, around which was a Preach camp of some size, opened fire on chateau and camp. After a few ehelle had been fired, greet) confusion was observed about the chateau and in the camp, and I distinctly discerned tile Emperor and his son emerge from the building, mountand gallop away, followed by suite and escort). Yeara later, in Zululand, when the day's work was done for both of no, and the twi- light) was falling on the rolling veldt, the Prince was wone °cot/atonally to goaelp witb me about those early days of the great war which we had witnessed from opposite sidles, and he told me his experiences on the morning spoken of. A crash awoke hini with a start, and he was sitting up in bed bewildered, when his fattier entered with the exclama- tion "Up, Louie, up, and dross ! The German shells are crathing through the roofs." As tlie Prince looked out of the window while he hurriedly dressed, he saw a shell fall and burst in a group of officers mated in the garden at breakfast), and when the smoke lifted threw of them lay dead. That the story of hie nerves having been shattered by the bullet -fire at Searbruck Wan untrue seems proved by an epiaode he related to me of that same morning an hour later. On the steep asscene of the choussee up to Centel the imperial party vras wedged in the hearb of a complete block of troops, waggons and guns; a long delay seemed inevitable. But the lad had noticed a wayside ga,be whence a track led up through the vineyard. He followed it to the creel), and marked its trend' then riding baok, he called aloud, " Thiaway, papa 1" The Prince's side-track turned a block, and presently the party were in tb.e new quarters In the auberge of Gravelotte. Archibald Forbes in the Tune Century. Girls In Sleeptng Cars. Thewise girl knows that noehing is quite so desirable for wear in the sleeping cur mao& wrapper of derk-colored flannel. It may be abated as a positive fact that women who try to make themselves look coquettish in a sleeping car, and wear elaborate negligee or lace -trimmed wrappero, ehow extremely bed taste. Experience has taught that a wrap- per of soft flannel in stripers of black and blue made in the simplest fashion, moat use& When she is ready to go to bed, and the porterarranges her berth,for her,she goes to the toilet room, taking with her her shawl -strapped package. She removes her shoes and stockings, puts on the knitted slippers that she has taken out of her bag, removes any garments which she pleases, and assuming her wrap- per, which has been folded in her ahawl stre:p, repairs to her berth. After fasten- ing the buttons of her curtains, she disposes of her clothing as best she oan, folding each article smoothly and carefully, and placing her money, watch and tickets in her wrap- per packet. And then she should try to rest—the porter will call her in good sea- son and her ticket will not be asked for daring the night. In her ahawl strap, which shows as its outer wrapping a shawl or travelling rug, she may have her own pillow if she desires it; but this is not a necessity, as the cars are supplied with linen that is usually fresh and clean. Lenexa morning the wise girl will put on her stockings and shoes in bed, leaving the teeing or buttoning of them until later. Then she will assume her other garments and repair be the toilets room, where she should as expedibiously as possible make herself neat, trim and fresh, that her friends who are to mace her may nob find her dusty or travel -stained. This she should do gnickly, that) she may not be classed among those who are the dread of all considerate women on parlor cars --the women who take and hold posses - :don of the toilet room as if it %vere a fore -- Ladies' Home Journal. The Average Patient: How are you finding business, doctor ?" was asked of a physloian. "Capital," he replied. "I have all I can attend oo." "I didn't understand that there was much illnees about." "No, there isn't. But we physicians do nob depend upon sickness for our income. Oh, no; most of our money is made from people who have nothing rho matter with them." Why Penne Have Corns. "Seldane do you see Europeans bothered with corns, espeoielly Englishmen," add a leen/tad ohiropocliat of Chicago. "Nearly every American has them. The former never wear their boom ell day.. They have walking boots to the office. Once there they pub on a thin house boot. When they go home, tbit firet thing they do le to pat on their dippers. The result is that the feet are islwaya cool, the pressure never conatant, and no muscle tried beyond ite power. Ear etherveise the Amerieen. He goes to work in the morning and is hurrying and scurry- ing isa ithe same boots until night. Then he hurries home to dinner, hurries through dinner, and gill weaving the same boons goes to his lodge or oleo where mud a -ottani.; at midnight'his fest haying been cramped op foutteenhours out oh the twenty-four in the one pale of boob. 'rho result is carom end bunions." wrens Mier standpoint. Elyebout--They say poor Mee Gimpy mese INOViire lieerd to speek an tree Rime word libInktt isnybody in her life. G aisitimeetneneer mo 1\Vhat pieltiless nobody ho inteet hey° berea ! Write it on your herb bhat every day is the best day In the year. No man bee learned anything righb until he know)) that every day is dooms -day. To -dem is u king in clieguiee. To -day alwaye looks) mean to the thoughtleree in the fece of 4 uoiforte experienoe thee sill good and greut 4Md. happy actions are Made ttp precisely of these bleek to -days. Lob as nee he to deceived ; let us tiernesk the 'king tee lie peet4es, Mande (poetio) April ebeWors 1 ring May ii.ovetee, Meg (preeticial) Aprit ahowere aren't in to with tiee yoting /nee who18 now eelling ett 1000, NO FIRES IN THIS ROUSE. Renting, Cooking and Lighting All Done Oatisfaotorily by Xeans of Electrieity, (New York Herald.) N that most wonder- ful of the sciences, electricity, something new is being found everyday, and though the art is gotten more staid etre is not Be prolific with surpridng „ features it sttli leads IA all of the other uaeful ado in inventionand program. Reports are many of various new buildings which have sbeiking electricel fit- tings introduced in them, or occasionally we heae of some febulouely rich person, living far mew, who Imo his abode fitted with every electrioal device knowu to :science. /hut New Yorkers need not go far to find what might be truly terxned an electric) house, and where all the new appliances of eleotrioley are practically demonstrated. This particular dwelling is ehe home of Mr. George Foster Peabody, of Brooklyn, who wished to make a thorough beet of what electricity can do in the hourtehold. And the subtle fluid has performed its allotted task so well that it has entirely eubetituted all of the old forma of lighthig, heating, cooking and all the motive power required In the residence. To heat a house by electricity nowadays requires no more labor than to equip a habitabion with electeic lights. All that is nem:Jamey is to tap the regular eleetrio mains and wire the house in the risme form as for light, the on/y differ- ence being that the terminals lead to heaters instead of incandescent or arc In the oase of this lircoklyn dwelling a separate circuit was used for the heating, cooking and lighting, so as to determine the mamma of current toted for each service. Starting from the switchboard, to which all branches lead, and passing into the cellar, the ordinary hot-air furnace is found there, but its occupation as a coal consumer and heater is gone, for from the furnace coldoeir box leads one large main pipe in which is also placed an electric, heater, then from thin main branches starts, in each of which is also placed an electric heater, the idea being to heat the cold air in the main pipe to a certain degree, and then superheat it in the separate moo. COAL DIsPENSZI) Wim. In valid weather the main heater sufficee, but in colder times all the auxiliary heaters are required. A coned/me circulation of air is kopt in the pipes by an electric fan placed in the cold air box thus insuring a steady supply of fresh dr. Even with a winter as vigorous as the last one not a shovelful of coal has been used in the house during the entire season. Though nearly all the heating is done through the old furnace pipes, thus entail- ing no extra expense for running wires, other heating acceesoriea are used in some of the rooms. This only needs a peculiar form of electric radiator and the wires leading thereto. Of all the modes of producing arti- ficial warmth none, of course, can compere with electric hea te which el imitiates all bother from aches, dust, gases and many other nuisances which accompany all other heat producing agents. It is the mildest, most wholesome and meat enjoyable of all heate, and when it le no longer required, by simply turning a switch all expellee is seopped. Bap it is in the kitchen where electricity Will probably be most appreciated by the housewife. In this electric house every morsel of food that requires cooking is cooked by electricity. The kitchen range is still there, bat instead of the old time roasting fire an electric broiler, oven and water heaters are placed upon the stove, none of which differ particularly in shape or form from ordinary kitchen utensils, with the exception of the small heater placed 18 eseth one. WATER. HEATED. Electricity's services are required to heat every drop of water used in the home. This necessitated no great change, nothing more them the Insertion of heaters in the old boilers and removing the range pipes. Another feature of domestic appliances where electricity is aptly employed is ironing, but from the insulated wire which is attached to an electric fietiron no one would know lb by outward appearances from the common type, though here again e little electric) heater is stowed avrey. Thie form of flatiron lightens the burdens of the laundress and saves both time and steps in avoiding the need of reheating irons. The heat in the &times is always et an even temperature, with a consequent. improvement in the worn. The electric home) is, of course, lighted through with electricity in the most artisti manner, and no other form of artificial light is allowed to penetrate the chosen ground's. Whenever any motive power is required, as in running sewing machines or ventilating fans, etc., the electric) motor is called into action and does ita work noiselessly and most efficiently. IMPROVEMENTS TO BE MADE. As every year brings forward numeroue applications of electricity, what may Nana quite wonderful in the ruses the science ito put to in this Brooklyn redolence will 18 consmonplaoe in a few years. But wbat ham been most concisely demonstrated is how an ordinary dwelling, fithid with pres- ent methods of heating and cooking cam be readily and molly changed to the service of sneetneity. As to tlie item of ;web compared with iusel, it Is a Beene too soon to make a just comperison, es an aconrs.te account for dweiling purposeS has not as yet been made. As in electric lighting, the charge is made by the ampere hour; and though lade may matte electric heating costly for household Ilene, its superiority iit fro great that it is doubtful if the wealthy would Neap be think of the greater expellee It is Upon the electric heaters that dependence must be placed in future to reduce the prime. They are not perfected as yet and ere still quite wisetefue Some Americen inventor will probehly eeme day bring forth a beater which is economical, and thus put elecbrie heating within the reach of alt. It is doubtful if so pi:Acta:al s tesb of electric heabing has beeit made eleevehere, for thorigh thie method of heating Ilse been often exhibited at fairs earl its taility detionotreted, the 33rooklyn house hi the only one, probably, in which it het been eubjeeted to e semi 'u 'b prectioel taste rfe tareDre tbe Iltecoxd. You are dyina," mid 'the pre/cher to the eneient office -holder. "Home you any request to nista° ?" Yea," gasped the suinerer. " Write out my resignetion I" "Johnteet what ia e kites?" emend the ternher. Ith a Wog wheel yell can't deeoribe with yer tongue, hut nee' cite oeprees it with yet bipe eekl 4-ohnnyo The Etepreee of leutsla is tali to be A v)aiort of unteseteheid gorgeorroneee. She im its of the few motetestot of Europe who Mali make it practice of weeeitig a ere Vint en meal; eccitaittee. MON,STIPIP LOBSTER. Diver's Eight 'With a eine Crustacean at Sea, Bottom. "Qne afternoon while my two Mere- mained above repairing their divine apperatue I went down alone," says an old diver. "We were now removing the boles lreM the after compartment by the break In the stern. The method of raising the goods was to lower down heave, hooks which could be faetened into the bales rafter they were pushed. outside. Some of these Wee or cases would Raab and Eome would reit liglitsly on the bottom. I had selected a loge case which I was about to move when happening to turn my eyes X saw mitside a huge creature moving toward tbe vessel. I had never seen anything like it before. Its body seemed to be several feet high and aboub eight feet long, and it had on etch side an enormous arm. " There seemed to be an unlimited num- ber of lege attached to the hideous bead. Its color wag a dull brown, mottled over with clerk spots. Two round shining black eyes were in ito forehead, said two ;nipple hornh each resembling an ensormous whip, likewise mune out of his head. All this I noticed in one glance. A numb: terror seized, me, and involuntarily I moved for the outlet from the ship. Bat, as if knowing whet 1 iatonded, this brute, lookiree straight at tee with, ite frightfnl, motionless eyes, walked or rather crawled directly toward me. I hurried in the hope of being able to resin the hanging hook, now nay only means of signalling the skiff, but I bad hardly pot my toot upon a gray rock outside when two writhing horns of the detestable monster wore twining about me and again untwin- bag. Then he would touch rae with these and sweep them up and down as if feeling what kind of prey I was. "In my hand I held a crowbar, which I , used to loosen the cargo. In my belt I curried a heavy sheath -knife. These were my only weapons. Suddenly and without Wareing the monster threw out one of its arras and seized me below the shoulder. I felt as JI my bones were being crashed. The more I resisted the, more terrible was the pain. I still had the crowbar in my right hand, but it was of no use to me. So I let ib drop. The ammeter's arm terminated in a claw, which opened and shut convulsively. This horrible mouth -shaped thing bad two rows of shining white teeth, as seen often on the inside of the two fingers of a lob- ster's claw. Several of these were piercing my arm almost to the bone. Some distance above the mouth -like hand I observed a joint, and then I drew my knife. But, alas ! The heavy shell so overlapped the fleshy time thet I could note iinure my captor. "For the first time 1 eaw those terrifying eyes move and tarn upon me. The whip- like arms again begun to move and ourI about my body. His head was now only about a foot distant from my body, and drawing my knife once more I phinged it into the eye near me' turning the blade round aud round. Isaw that I had de- stroyed the eye, for an inky fluid issued out of the sookeb, darkening the water about hie head. Thia ehecked the aggressive movements; of the animal, but it did not seem to Imre it. I waited until its head torned„ so I supposed, that he might be able to its his prey with his other eye. "Tills was whet I wanted, and with a swift thrust I sent my knife into his other oyes down to the MIL The creature reeled and the pip on my arm slightly relaxed, brit though totally blind my captor did not releape me. "The agony of my arm soon grew tin- beerahle. Tb.ers the light went out of my eyes and I remembered nothing more. "When I recovered my senses I was in tshe skiff and learned how the divers rearmed at my long 'silence below, had come dowu. neer saw my plIghte and after a time eneceoded in Revering my arm from the body of the fish which they both declared wan the awful deep sea lobster." Mummer suggestions. De nob make too many visits, a,nd where you go be sure that your visit is a conven- ient ons. Do not entertain too gener- °wily ; summer should be a tiroe of rest, difficult to rest with a house full of Before going for a mid -clay sail rub your face, neck and hand with simple cream, end powder gently with cornstarch. Wipe the powder off, arid on returning wash the complexion wet' in warm water and with castile soap. Camphor -ice and buttermilk both give relief feint sunburn. Place a lenge dish of water in a room where the beet its very oppressive. Change (twee or twice seed the temperature will be perceptibly to wered. Sponge your babies with cold water at betiteieyour children weber to drink during tile hot weather. They need this to make up for the lose from perspiration. In washing summer frocks, if the colors rare put half a cupful of salt in the last diming. water. For insomnia in summer -time take a cold bath et bed -time. Preee towels, folded at; usual, through Your elothee-wringer and save your laun- dress. Have mercyon your cook ba yourarrange. ment of mesas for hot days. Bathe deity. Have your house -gowns made with open necti.s and elhow sleeves. Save year eteps. Allow d, uble the amount of three in catching beets and trains that you do in wiEtdeet°y. mu meets Pio wly. Drink nelk To week eummer silks remove all grease or ei her tpole with seep and water before proceeding. Maks a, ereation of a teespoon- hal of intervene end a little soap in a 'nit of water, mid in thie dip the silk again and agent until the dire me reinoved. Do not linuag out, but press between the ban& Reese in writer from which the chill is germ, arid hang in a shady place until partly dry, when lay between two clothe, and prom with a hot iron. —Ada Chester Bond in the June Ladies' Home Journal, eermon to Measure. Dr, X— le an eloquent) preacher, but he belonge to the old-fashioned school, and findle difficult to adapt himself to the modern faehion of short discourses. It ia a Weeding joke in his family that after writ- ing It sermon he bait out it up into a retries of discourees. On one occasion he received it. note from a woll-known alerted brother, melting if he would deliver a sermon upon some eepecial °Muth feetival. The doctor implied that Ito bad just completed a sermon upon the golden calf which neemed to him appropriate. The answer of the committee, CS Sent by telegram from the brother clergyman, who knew Dr, X ----intimately, and was aoguMnted at once with his peculit aeities and with his ability to take a joke, read e,E1 fellows " Golden ealf just what le wanted. A forequaetee le ell that will be nonded."— Detroit Irrer: Press. "Von Wither made an unfortunate re- merk at Sumter's wedding." " What did bit a,31 Congratulated him on the tneesere he had won, and every oho but Van Irnowe Simmer married her' for her money. • ' TIIE letelIGIITIK MAN. a. Chicago Editor Discusses the Work of the Yeomen's Collates. For two week), seen the Chicago Reraide we have had women, lovely women, descant. ing more or less et her own sweet vein on the rights, privileges and liberty of her eine She has proclaimed her emancipation and no bmger owes duty to the tyrant) man, In this no one hue said her nay; no one sought to hush her tongue. The world simply looked on, and if anything was said it was " GOtt. 'mead." Mat has been gained for humanity, or for woman no one can say, but we will all be glad if some decided advance, has been made. But isn't it strange thabwomen ms - formers, while seeking to convince the an - called sterner sex—they are no such thing— should so utterly fell In making proaelyteaof their o wn sex? There was a dress reform meett. Ing or two during the week in which much Was argued for a return if not to primitives ' at leaat to natural, modes of drew. That form was to ba left free and untrammeled by the clothing, which waa to be made be coniorm to the lima of the body. Many pretty arguments were made and much estheticism was indulged in, but no ono, has yet perceived the converts thab wore mede. When the lady arose and inquired whether the knee skirt dress would become a woman of sixty, en awful oilmen fell upon the audience. But the question presented) the matter in a nutshell. The becoming 1 There's the point. Woman arrays herself for a purpose. If we return to nature it Is the mole animal that bedecks himself mut puts on the fine feathers and the gaudy array, but in our artificial lives ie is ther female that puts on the beautiful garments. And ao she studies the becoming that it may attract the opposite sex. In this respect what is her final fudge ment ? We may see it in limy moment in the canons of faehion. In vain we point to the Venus de Medici. The Iarge waist cued sloping shoulders of that work of art appear to have no charm for the modern woman. Site wants her weld small and her shoulders broad, 9,,id dress declares it. Art and. enatomy have no part with fashion, and woman wishes to make believe that her form is as her dross shapes it. With such ideas, what may be hoped for in the way of dreaa reform as these ladiea would teach lb It is an idle waste of time for women to endeavor to impress their own sex with the futility of modern fashion. They will only have their labor for their pains. Would they learn haw to accomplish their purpose and establieh a dillerenb mode of divan among women ? Go and subsidize Worth. That arbificer of fashions is the man to be secured on the side of dress reform. How te Cerry a Cat. Cats should never be " 'expressed " from, one place to another, as they are easily brightened. when confronted by strategy persons. They will, as a rule, be better contented if they are allowed to see where they are going. I have had very little dff.- ficuley in travelling with cats. One success- fal tnethod tried consisted in placing pussy in a basket with holes sufficient for ventila- tion. When comfortably settled in the cars she was taken from the basket to her owner's lap and elle made no attempt to eecape. Another oat was taken from her basekt and placed in a cloth travelling bag with a soft drawing string, her head being left out and the bag being tied loosely around her neck to prevent her escape.. Being carried in the arms of her ow.ner an& spoken to occaaionally, she remained quiet and evinced , an irsterest in all that was transpiring. Cats are sensitive to a sooth- ing tone of volee and to a gentle touch. -- Ladies' Home Journal. A. Home Shampoo. A dermatologist of high standing sayta tbat the proper way to shampoo the head Is to use some pure soap made into a "good lather on the head , " with plenty of warm water, and rubbed into the scalp with the fingers or with rether a stiff brush that has long bristles. Wizen the scalp is very sen- sitive, borax and water, or the yolks of three eggs beaten in a pint of lime water, are recommended instead of soap seed water. Afser rubbing the head thoroughly in every direction and washing out the beer with. plenty of warm water, or with douches of warm water, alternating with coid, drying the hair with a bah towel, a small quantity of vaseline or sweet almoecl oil should het rubbed into the weep. The oil thus applied is used in the piece of the oil that has been removed by washing, and to prevent the hair from in corn'ng brittle. Pernape Yon Have Bunions Bunions are serious and herd to treat. About the only thing to do is to wear sown - less stockings, and /hoes -with kid or fine calf uppers Avoid heating the feet and change the she freptently. Any meet oil will heal the sorenees of a joint, and sometimes =elating it with iodine will brmg relief. When a bunion gets trouble- some the best plen is to buy a stick of sal- phate of copper, pare away the dead skin and cauterize the spot. The operation is a trifle painful, but it is only momentary, while the senee of relief that is sure to follow in bko the "peace that paseeth underste,ndirg." Electrical Lawn !dowers suggested. In some of the Glasgow ship -yards ate electrically -driven rotary planer is now used for smoothing the decks of ships—an, operation which wbea perfortned by hand is exceedingly laborious. The machine looks like a lawn mo e'er and is handled in much the same way. This suggests that the invention of All deal led lawn mower would not only met a long -felt want of the suburban rreident, but would at the same time assist in improving the had curve of the local enctweelighting atatiou. —The 'engineering Magazine. Went It ink Otte Better. Eothusia,stio artist—Do you know I painted a picture of a lion so natural that it had to be placed behind bars? Enthusiastic author—That's nothing. I wrote a novel so full of burning passion thee it had to be printed on artbestns pages for fear of consuming them. 3,1. Corneille Ustianovitch, a young Austrian painter, was recently commissioned to make a painting of 4 Biblical subject for a church ab Itatnia, in Galicia. He made at large painting representirig several sinnere) in hell, and, betng ah Aurstro-Gelician an& naturally oppoacci to the Poles, he amused hiniaMf by portraying the leading Polish statesmen ars the principal sinners. The result be that the etateemen have broughban action againet him for defamation of char - meter, and the chencos are that his painting evill:be destroyed. It has for /some t,inao boon a meet quer/time Among our U. S. cousins whether or nob; "the United States," an a nominatiee, dee nisi:Add a pinta Or a singular verb—whether one should fey "the 'United States are" or "the 'United States is," Judge Field, of. the U. S. Supreme Court, decidee in favor' of "the United States are," and catee Cho U. S. constitution in which a plural verb ig always ueed *einem the name of the reptiblie le the nominative. Thee one etetulel rep. poke should settle the mattet ; but it hasn't* Who Aga still goes on.