The Exeter Times, 1894-8-16, Page 3THE EXETER,
THE TRAGEDY OF DRESS.
TALwhan nuo AimuT DRESS "
AT THE ANTIPODES.
Beauty or the Apparel or the Dandlworks
or sted—itee Inevarti and Secret whinge
or the neert Should be in Coulson.
eitee Therewith if the Example is Fel-
lowed; "
Bnooketo, August 5.,—Itev. Dr, Tal-
mage, whe is now in Melbourne, Australia,
on hie round-the.world tour, haa chosen as
the sulsjeot of his sermon for to -day,
'through the pioss ; "The Tragedy of Dress,'
the text eeleated being, I Pet. 3 ; 3, 4,
"When adorning let it not be that out-
ward &dinging of plaiting the hair, and
the wearing of gold, or of putting ou of
apparel ; but let it be the hidden man of
the heart."
That we should all be clad is proved by
the opening of the first wardrobe in Para•
dise, with its apparel of :lade green. That
we should all, as far as our means allow us,
beautifully and gracefully appareled, is
proved by the fact that God never made
wave but He gilded it with golden sun-
beams, or a tree but He garlanded it with
bloescans, or a sky but He studded it with
•eters, or allowed even the smoke of a fur-
nace to ascend but he columned and tur-
reted and domed and scrolled it into out-
liues of indescribable gracefulness. When
I see the apple orchards of the spring, and
• the pageantry of the autumnal &meats, I
come to the conclusion that if nature ever
deo join the church, while she may be a
Quaker in the silence of her woiship, she
never will be.a Quaker in the style of her
dress. Why the notches of a fern leaf, or
• the stamen ot a water lily? Why, when.
the day departs, does it lee the folding-
• doors of heaven stay open so long, when it
might go in so quickly ? One summer
morning I saw an army of a million spare,
each one adorned with a diamond of the
first water—I mean the grass with the dew
on it. When the prodigal mine home his
father not only put a coat on his back, but
jewelry on his hand. Christ wore a beard:
Paul, the bachelor apostle, not afflicted
with any senelmentality, admired the ar-
rangement of a wonian's hair when he said
in his epistle, "if a woman has long hair,
• it is a glory unto her." There will be a
fashion in heaven as on .earth, but it will
be a different kind of fashion. It will de-
cide the color of the dress; and the popu.
lotion of that country, by a bettutiful lew,
will wear white. I say these things as a
backsground to my 'sermon, to show you
that -1 have no prim, precise, prudish or
• cast-irons:theories on the subjeot of human
•
apparel. But the goddess of fashion has
Now let the silk curtain drop on the stage.
Bet up her throne in this world, and at the The farce is ended and the lights are out.
• sound of the timbrels we are all expected Will you forgive me if I say in tersest
tn _fall down and worship. The Old and shape possible that some of the men have
• to forge and to perjure and swindle to pay
• ej,ash" for their wives dresses? I will say
New Tesearnent of her- Bible areeth
ionee0tes 1 Her altars smoke with the whether you forgive me or not!
sad,Wea of the bodies, ininds and souls of Again, inordinate fashion is the foe of
tend!: eltsand viothns. In her temple four all Christian alma -giving. Men and women
people stand in the organ bit, and from put so muoh in personal display that they
them comes down a cold drizzle of music, teeften have nothing for God and the cause
freezing on the ears of her worshippers. •of suffering humanity. A Christian man
This goddess of fashion has become a rival creaking his italais Royal glove across the
of the Lord of heaven and earth, and it is back by shutting up his hand to hide the
high time that we unlimbered our batteries •one cent he pats* into the poor -box! A
against this idolatry. When I come to Christian woman,at the story of the Hotten-
count the victims of fashion, I find as tots, crying copious tears into a twenty.five
many masculine as feminine. • Men make dollar handkerchief, and then giving a two -
cent piece to the collection,thrusting it down
under the bills so people will not know
but it 'was a ten -dollar gold piece! One
hundred dollars for incense to fashion;
two cents for God. God gives us ninety
cents out of every dollar. The other ten
politiMana may • theoeize until the expira.
won of their terms of offiee se to the beim
Wet of lusproving our morietary eoeditior
in tide country ; it will be of no use, an
things, will be oo better Mitit we leern t
put on our heads, and lseckst end feet, and
bande no more than we Ian pay for.
There are clerk's in stores and hanks On
limited salaries who, in the vain attempt
to keep the wardrobe of their family as
showy as other folk' s watdrobes, are dying
of mulls, and diamonds, and shawls and
high hats, and they have nothing left ex.
cept what they give to oigars and wine
suppers" and they die before their time and
they will expect uis ministers to preach
about' them as though they were the vic-
tims of early piety, and lifter a high-class
funeral, with silver handles at the slide of
the coffin, of extraordinary brightness, it
will be found out that the undertaker is
cheated out of his legitimate expenses?
Do not eend to me to preach the funeral
sermon of a man who dies like that, I will
blurt out the whole truth, and tell that he
was strangled to death by his wifets rib-
bons. Our countries are dressed to death.
You are not surprised to find that the put-
ting up of one public building in New Y-ork
cost millions of dollars more than it Might
to have cost, when you find that the man
who gave out the contracts paid more than
live thoueand dollars for his daughter's
wedding dress. Cashmeres of a thougand
dollars each are not rare on Broadway,
It is estimated that there are ten thameand
women in these two cities who have ex-
pended on their personal array four thous.
and dollars a year.
What are men to do in order to keep up
Both home wardrobes? Steal—that is the
only respectable thing they can do! During
the last fifteen years there have been in.
numerable fine businesses shipwrecked on
the wardrobe. The temptation conies in
this way: A man thinks more of his family
than of all the world outside, and if they
spend the evening in describing to him the
superior wardrobe of the family across the
street, that they cannot bear the sight of,
the,man is thrown on hie gallantry and on
his pride of family, and, without translating
his feelings into plain language, he goes
into extortion and issuing of false stook,
and skillful penmanshipinwriting somebody
else's name at the bottom of a prornissory
note; and they all go down together—the
husband to the prison, the wife to the
sewing machine, the children to be ta'ken
care of by those who were called poor rela-
tions, 01 for some new Shakespeare to rise
and write the tragedyof human clothes.
Act the first of the tragedy. .—A plain but
beautiful home. Enter, the newly -married
pair. Enter, simplicity of manner and be.
laavoin Enter, as much happiness as is ever
found m one home.
Act the second.--Disoontene with the
humble home. Enter, envy. Enter jealousy.
Enter, desire of display.
Act the third. --Enlargement of expenses.
Enter all the queenly dressmakers. .Enter,
the French milliners.
Act the fourth..—The tip•top of society.
Enter, princes and princesses of high life,
Enter, magnificent plate and epuipage.
Enter, everything 'splendid.
Act the fifth, and lase—Winding up of
the scene.. Enter, the assignee. Enter the
sheriff. Enter, -the creditors. Enter hum-
iliation. Enter the wrath of God. Enter
the contempt of society. Enter death.
an easy tirade against woman, as though
• she were the chief worshipper at this idol-
• atrous shrine, and no doubt some men in
the more conspicuous part of the pew have
already cast glances at the more retir-
e ed part of the pew, their look a prophecy
• of a generous distribution. My sermon cents by command of His Bible belong to
shall be as appropriate for one end of the Him. Is not God liberal according to
• pew as tor the other. •this tithing system laid down in the Old
• Men are as much the idolaters of fashion Testament—is not God liberal in giving us
as women, but they sacrihce on a different ninety cents out of a dollar, when He takes
• part of the altar. With men the fashion but ten? We do not like that We want
goes to cigars, and cluo-rooms, and yacht- to have ninety-nine cents for ourselves and
ing parties and wine suppers. In the one for God.
United States the men chew up and smoke - Now, I would a great deal rather steal
one hundred millions of dollars' worth oL ten cents from you than from God. I think
tobacco every year. This is their fashion. one reason why a greet many people do not
• In London, not long ago, a man died who get along in worldly accumulation faster is
started in life with seven hundred and fift3t Because they de not observe this divine
thousand dollars, but he ate it all up in rule. God says, "Well, if that man is not
gluttonies, sending his a.gehts to all parts satisfied with ninety cents of a dollar, then
• of the earth for some rare delicacy of the I will take the whole dollar, and I will
palate, eornetitnes•one plate of food costing give it to tlie man or woman who is honest
him three or four hundred. dollars. He Ate with mei' The greatest obstacle to charity
up his whole fortune, and had only one in the Christian churoh to -day is the fact
guinea left'with that he bought a wood- that men expend so much money on their
cook, and had it dressedin the very best table, and women so much on their dress,
style, ate it, gave two hours for digestion, they have got nothing left for the work ot
then walked out on Westminster bridge God and the woiadts betterment.
and threw himself into the Thames, and Attain, inordinate fashion is distraction to
died, doing on a large scale what you and
I have ?thea seen done on a srnall scale.
But men do not abstain from millinery amd
elaboration of skirt through any superiority
of humility. It is only because such appen.
dages would be a blockade to business,
What would sashes and ttains three and a -
half yards long do ha a stock market.? And
• yet men are the disciples of fashion just as
• wo4en. Some of them wear boots at:light
they can hardly walk in the paths of -right-
eousness. And there are meu who buy ex-
pensive suits of clothes, and never pay for
themand who go through the streets in
great'stripes of color like animated checker
boards. I say these things because I want
to show you that I am impartial in my dis-
course, and that both sexes,in the language
of the Surrogate's office, shall "share and
share ' As God may help Me, I shall
shosv you what are the destroying and
deethful influences of inordinate fashionea.cocks, the awful question of the soul's
public worship. You know very well
there are a good many people who come to
church just as they go to the races, to see
who will come out first. What a flutter it
makes in church when some woman with
extraordinary display of fashion comes in.
"What a love of a bonnet 1" says some one.
"What a portent fright!" says fiete hundred.
For the merciless entice in the world are
fashion critics.— Men end wotnen with souls
to be saved passing the hour in wondering
where that man got his cravat, or what
store that woman patronizes. In many of
those churches the preliminary exorcise
are taken up with the discussion of ward-
robes. It is pitiable. Is it not wonderful
that the Lord does not strike the meeting
hours with lightnin'g ? What distraction
of public wership ! Dying men and women
whose bodiee are soon to be turned into
dust yet before three worlds strutting like
The first baleful influence I notice is in
fraud, illimitable and ghastly. Do you
know that Arnold of the Revolution
proposed to sell his oountry in order to
get money to suppore his wife's wardrobe?
• I cleoIare here before God and this people
that the effort to keep up expensive estab-
lishments in this eoentry is sending snore
business men to temporal perditien than all
• other eseises combined. What ,was it that
sent Gilman to the penitentiary, and Phila,-
delphie. Morton to the watering of dock's,
and the Web:mural:ice preaideuts to perjured
statements about their assets and has com-
pletely upset our American finances? What
was it thet overthrew the United States
Seeretaity at Wathinetoft, the Mush of
vrhose fall shook the continent? 13ut why
should I go to then terneus defaulting's to
• show what men will do in order to keep up
great home style and expeOsive wardrobe,
When you and I kneve license of men are
pee to their wile' Owl, aid are lashed from
dantiary to December in the attemot Our
eee
estiny submerged by the question of navy
blue velvet and long fantrain skirt, long
enough to dr leg up the church aisle, the
husband's store, °nice, 'shop, factory, for-
tune, and the admiration of half the people
in the building. Men and women come
late to church to show their c'othes.
People sitting down be a pew or taking up
a hymn book, all absorbed at the same time
in personal array, to shig:
Rise, my soul, and stretch tby wings,
Thy better portion trace •,
'Ilse from transitory things,
Toward 14tetven, thy native plaeet
I adopt the Episcopalian peayer ahd say:
" Good Lord deliver us 1"
Insatiate fashion also belittles the intel-
lect. Oer minds are enlarged or they
dwindle just in proportion to the importahoe
of the subject on which we constantly
dwell. Can you imagine anything more
dwerflng to the human intellect than the
atudy.of fashion? I see then so tint stri3et
who, Judging from their eIaboration i. tidal
1
eeteeteteteeetes
insist have taken two Imre to mange their
alMstrel. After a feweyeere of that kind of
absorption, whieli one of 11/104llitster'e Mag.
nifyiug glasetos will be powerful eneegh to,
make the mat's character visible '? They
all land in idioey. I have sem men at the
:summer watering -places, through fashion
the mere wreck of what they once were,
Sallow of cheek. Mew° of limb. Heiken
of chest, Showing no animation save in
rushing across a room to pick op it lady's
fan. Simpering along the corridors, the
same compliments they 'simpered twenty
years ago, A New York lawyer at
united States Hotel, Spgatoge, within
our hearing, rushed egress the room to
trey to it 'sensible woman, ,,y.pn are
as sweet as peaches." The fook e. fashion
are Myriad. Fashion nob only destroys the
body, but it makes idiotio the intellect,
Yet, my friends, I have given you only
the milder phase of this evil. It shuts a
great multitude out of heaven. The first
peal of thunder thee shook Sinai declared:
4"Xhou shalt have no other God before
Me," and you will have to choose between
the goddess of fashion and the Christian
God. There are a great man Y seats in
heaven, and they are all easy seats, but
not one seat for the devotee of Whim.
Efeaven is for meek and quiet sph•ite,
Heaven is for those whe think more of
their souls thaes of their bodies. Heaven
is for those who have more joy in Christian
charity tha:a in dry goods religion, Why,
if you with your xdoltary of fashion should
somehow get into heaven, you would • be
for putting a French roof on the "house
of many mansions." Give up this idolatry
of fashion'or give up heaven. What
would you do standing beside the Counteas
of Huntington, whose joy it was to build
chapels for the poor, or with that Christian
woman of Boston, who fed fifteen hundred
children of the street at Faneuil Hall on
New Year's Day, giving oat as a sort of
doxology at the end of the meeting a pair
of shoes to each one of them; or those
Dorcases of modern society who have con-
secrated their needles to the Lord, and
who will gat eternal reward for evey stitch
they take. Oh, men and women give up
the idoltary of fashion The rivalries and
the competitions of such a life are a stup-
endous vvretchednese, You will always
ind someone with brighter array and with
more palatial residence and with laven-
der kid gloves that male a tig'hter fit.
And if you buy this thing and wear it, you
will wish you had bought something else
and worn it, And the frets of such a life
will bring the orow's feet to . your temples
before they are due, and when you come to
die you will have a miserable time.
The most ghastly death -beds on earth,
the one where a man dies of . delirium tre-
mens, and the other where a woman dies
after having sacrificed all her fadulties of
body, mind and soul in the worship of
fashion. My friends, We must appear in
judgment to answer for what we have
worn on our bodies as well as for what re-
pentances we have exercised with our souls.
On that day I see coming in, Beau Brum-
mel of the last century, without kis cloak;
like which all England got a, cloak; and
without his cane like which all England,
got a cane; without his snuff-box like which
all England got a snuff-box—he, the fop of
the ages, particular about everything but
his morals; and Aaron Burr, without the
letters that down to old age he showed in
pride, to prove his early winked gallantries;
and Absalom without his hair; and Mar-
"chioness Pompadour without her titles;
and Mrs. Arnold, the belle of Wall street,
when that was the centre of fashion, with-
out her fripperies of vesture.
And in great haggardness they shall go
away into eternal expatriation; • while
among the queens of heavenly society will
be found Vashti, who wore the modest
veil before the palatial bacchanalians; and
Hannah, who annually made a little coat
for Samuel at the temple; and Grandmother
Lois, the ancestress of Timothy, who
imitated her virtue; and Mary, who gave
Jesus Christ to the world;, and many of
you, the wives and mothers and. sisters
and daughters of the present Christian
church, who through great tribulation are
entering into the kingdom of God, Christ
announced who would make up the royal
family of heaven when he said, "Whoso•
ever doeth the will of God, thesame is My
brother, My sister, My mother."
MORE TROUBLE IN SOUTH CHINA.
An ti-roreign. Agitators Succeed en stir
ring hp Serious Disturbances.
Advices from Hong Kong say that it
appears that the recent murderous attack
upon two female missionaries • at Henan
wae but the prelude of far more herious
disturbances] throughout south China. 111.
fe.eling engendered over the treatment, of
plague patients in Hong Kong has been
taken advantage of by anti -foreign agate,
tors to incite the ignorant and. illiterate
classes of Chinese against all Europeans.
Unless strong measures are adopted by
foreign Ministers at Pekin it is not unlikely
that many lives will be lost and the pro-
gress of foreign trade with China seriously
interfered with.
A correspondent of the Chinese Mail
writes from Tung -Jinn that on Wednesday,
June 20, the American Presbyterises Church
at Sheklung was demolished by a mob, and
a person, whether a foreigner or a native is
not yet ascertained,was killed. The Ronaan
Catholic Church there was well guarded by
Chinese authorities, who bad two disturb.
ors arrested and sent to the magistrate for
trial. The church of Tung•Kun City is now
also in danger.
From Macao come reports of dangerous
anti -foreign agitation. Three Chinese were
arrested for selling poisoned armlet&
powder. This they were charged with
throwing into the well in front of the Senate
House. An analysis, however, showed the •
powder to be harmless. A few days later
placards Were posted in Chinese declaring
thee the French missionaries were conspir-
ing with a Portuguese editor to poison the
peopli3. Serious riots are expected.
Ye SyMpathetie Friend.
George---" Jack, old boy, rm so glad I
ran across you. Never needed your friend-
ship more, " Pm in love with the belle of
the season, and I promised her a sail to -day,
but I hada run of bad luok last uight, and
haven't a cent left."
Jack—," Too bad."
" Yes, I don't care for myself, you
know; but its such a pity that a charming
creature like that should be disappointed.
You have a littleononey to spare, haven't
youV'
"Oh, plenty. getke yourself easy, niy
dear boy. She shate t be disappointed.
I'll titke her myself."
"There are 00 Mee on me," said the
fresh young man, with idiotic gayety.
" No," said the sedate girl, with an air
of deep thoughtfaleess. I suppose there
are 'mine thipgs even flies can't stead."
ITUNTING A LEGACY.
The 17th of jone, 188—, was an impor.
taut day for Henriette Bardonnel, milliner
at Rouen,
She Was 'seated at about 10 in the morn-
ing in frout of her window, which faced on
the Ruedes °berrettas, boy 'shaping and
trimming a euperb bonnet, when Mme•
Dufresne, her employer, opened the door
euddenly, and ilontishing a paper burst in-
to the room.
"Henriette 1 Henrietta 1 Haven't yeti
read it? Don't you know?" shouted she,,
out of breath. "Look, Beet"
And she thrust the paper—Le,Vetit
Rouennaie—under her eyes, pointing out a
notice on the fourth page as follows;
Mme. Heuriette Enibiene Bardonnel,
daughter of Pierre Auguste Berdonnel, late
piano tuner, Rue de GrrandPont, at Rouen,
is requested to send her address to Mr.
Thiebault, lawyer, 53 Place du Vieux,
Marche, Havre property.
"You must write the lawyer at °nee, my
dear—at once,"
"Yes, I am gong to, of course, Mine.
Dufresnes, right off," said Henrietta.
The following evening, in reply to her
letter, Mlle. learclonnel received word from
M. Thiebault acking her to come at once to
his office. •
To pay ourrent expenses a check for 6,0
frames was inclosed. Decidedly things
were leoking.well, and Mme. Dufrenses re-
marked npennit
"You were born with a silver spoon in
your mouth, my dear. I have always said
so.. And Mt Leonce.—he, too, is very hap.
py, is he not? Is he going with you to
Havre? •
M. Leonce, or Leonel:: Lecarpentier, was
the son of a linen draper on the Quai aux.
Meules, a promising young bachelor of 28,
blond and hearty, but as gentle and timid
as a lainb.
Employed in hie father's shop, for papa
Lecarpentier did not believe any more than
was necessary in throwing his money into
the gutter, Leonce could only indulge
rarely lila passion -for the pretty liege mil-
liner." A bracelet or a gown on her birth-
day or at New Year% a few picnics on
Sundays during the summer and a few
parties occasionally, and that was all. ••
Restrained, however, by paternal and
business exigencies, Leonce had to let Hen.
riette take the journey alone trona Rouen
to Havre.
The lawyer's office was in the second
storey of an old, dilapidated structure at
the end of a courtyard.
M. Thiebault, a thin little man, with bent
figure, sharp eyes under his large copper.
rimmed spectacles and a black velvet cap
on hie head, motioned 'to the young
girl to take a seat on his left opposite Op
window. , ,
"Mlle. Bardonnel, I suppose ?"
"Yes, sir."
"You have taken care to bring your cer.
tificate of birth, as I suggested?"
"Here it is, Md."
'The lawyer unfolded the paper and care-
fully read the statement,.
"Pierre Auguste Bardonnel-- so far so
good. Correct! • Your father left France
about 1866, did he not, miss ?"
"Yes, sir. I was then 5 years old.
We were going to meet him in New York.
My mother had often told me the story.
He wrote us three or four times, as nearly
as I can remember. But we never receiv-
ed anyfur ther notice from him—never. My
mother has been dead six years, and I
have no living relation except it cousin at
Elbeuf.
"Your &tate miss, dibd on Jap,22, 1879,
n South Amend.. leaving a fortune valued
at 120,000 piastrle, or 600,000 francs, of
which you are the scle heir. To enter in-
to the possession of the whole of this for-
tune it will be necessary for yet to go there
In person in order that, you may see my
colleague, M. Guastella, who is the execu-
tor."
"Go way down there? .But monsieur,
geg,_ e
"We shall advance.the necessary amount.
Have no fear on chat score."
"And when mnst I start?"
"Let us see—the Eurydice—theMeuse—
Friday,Saturd ay. Ah, here it is—the lberie,
for Buenos Ayres. You will sail next
Monday. That's rather soon. You have
just time to get back to Rouen and make
yail.
our preparations. shall expect you them
m
madeoiselle, on Monday next without
f
• * * * * *
Twenty-five days after Henrietta Bar -
donne!, fortified with M. Thiebault's in-
structions and suggestions, and with the
address° IM. Guastella, Anibal Guastella
abogado 1.82 Bolivar street, in her pocket,
landed al Buenos Ayres, and repaired,with
her trunk, to the hotel so favorably named
De Is. Bonne Soupe. •
'Within an hour after Henriette's arrival
and before she had finished her dinner all
herneighbors at the tableas well as the pro-
prietor and three servants, who spoke
French, where already informed of the
motive and the object of her journey.
One of her neighbors, the one on the
tight, was an elegant and seductive Span-
ish gentleinan of 30 years, who murdered
French • dreadfully. He answered to the
name of Mandel Alvarez and lived at
Montevideo, where he was in the cattle
butilakea
eli
s. gallant hidalgo, he offered to aid
Etenriette in her search, if she needed him
—in short, he was at the service of made-
moiselle.
The &Retying morning early Henriette,
with an interpreter, went to Bolivar street'
to the addrees of the advocate Guastella.
No Guastelta was at the number men-
tioned, not even an abogado in the build-
ing. Nor wee he ia any of the nbighboring
buildings.
No. s.
A 125 was a bush:len agent named
Carlos Figueras, They sought him, but el
Senor Figueras knew no advocate Guastella.
ite was sure, even, that there was nobody
of that name in the 'whole city.
"There is a oommiasion merchant
tells, 30 San Martino street. You might
go and See him."
Quickly they departed for this Guastella.
He assueed them he 'thew nothing of what
they asked him; had never been written to
by M. Thielea.ult at Havre, of whose exis-•
ence he was ignorant.
In What anxiety, in what a terrible dil.
emtna, poor Henrietta tound hetself.
For two days, eecerted by her intetpret.
or, she sooured the whole town, 'visited all
th'o abegados, 'tonere, notaries, emirtiers,
business agents. But no Anibal Guattella,
po Bardoemel porperty—nothing.
M. Mese*" Atvarez undertook to intro'
duce he to the Feench consul.
"1 regret exceedingly, madeinehtelle,"
replied this funotionary to Henriette "to
dispell micas an a.greesble illusion, Out if
there had been here an euolairned Freneb
property I should have hem the first to
know it, and there is none. You lreve been
made the victim of a hoax."
Henriette, when she retoroed to the
isotel, followed the consul's advioe by ex.
ploring her memory to find some one who
had a personal interest, in expatriating her
and in getting rid of her.
And elle found some one without treat
difficulty. It was Leonce's father, the old
scamp of a papa Lecarpentier. Not al
doubt of it.
Ce her account Leonce had let Elio severe
good matches, a Mlle. Coutois of Lisieux
among others. Now they were scheming
to make him marry Mlle. Henpequin,
daughter of a merehane of the Rue St.
Sever. •
• "For how many sous did he buy the
complicity of that Havre lawyer. But wait,
juet wait, old wretch ! There are judges in
Frame. They give damages there. He
laughs best; who laughs last."
And boiling with indignation and rage
Henriette weht back to the coesulate, and
though without funds asked to be sent back
home. '
They promised a favorable reply to her
request, but she must wait a fortnight. No
beet would leave for France before the end
of that
ebiienn°I
Onng as she was walking on the
arm of M. Maned Alvarez and telling him
of her mortification's that wealthy and se.
ductive Spanish gentleman, mnrmured ten-
derly:
" Enriquetta,, mignon, suppose, instead
of returning to Europe, you should stay
here with me."• •
Five years later, one morning in May,
Mme. Mancrei Alvarez, nee Bardonnel, step-
ped from a train at the Rouen station and
directed her way toward the Rue des
Charettes.
She did not wish to go through France
when she was travelling with her husband
without seeing again her native city.
et me. Dufreshes kept tient-mete to dinner
and brought out for her the very best.
"Oh, deary, I always told you that you
were born lucky. Don't you rentember
"And the Leearpentiers and my little
Leonce.? What has become of them ?"
" What has become of them ? Oh, my
dear Henrietta, the good God has given
them their punishment.
"The linen business ran out. It is two
years ago since the firm of Lecarpentier &
Son failed and gave unbusiness.
"]?our months after you went away Le -
once married Mme. Felicite Hennequm,
whose father kept a large shop."
"1 know, and didn't the marriage turn
out well?"
• "You. can't really say that it did. M.
and Mme. Leonce left Rouen when the
• failure came. They are probably living
wretchedly somewhere, in Paris perhaps.
As for papa Lecarpentier, his troubles have
affected him so that he is in his second
childhood. He is begging. Ildhen you go,
you have wily to turn up the street till
you get in front of the theatre, and there
you will see him."
Arrived at the end of the street, Henri-
ette saw seated on a little stool an old bab.
bler who handled feebly a wheezy old acoor-
d•ilnbon't you remember me, papa Lecar.
pentier ?"
The poor wretch interrupted the tearful
strains of his instrument and fixed on the
young woman a stony, fixed stare.
"You played me a villainous trick, in
your day, with your story of the property
in America. But that's all over now.
Come, old scamp, here's something for you,
And she let fall into the beggar's cap all
the gold she had in her purse.
A CUSTOMS DEFINITION
Regarding tbe Market Value or Goods
Pnrchaked ill Bond.
A despatch from Ottawa says :—A mis-
conception appears to have arisen with re-
spect to the order recently promulgated by
the Board of Customs respecting the mar-
ket value of goods purchased in bond. The
text of the circular is as follows: Inasmuch
as section 58 of the Customs Ant provides
that ad valorem duties shall be cullected
upon the fair market value ef the goods as
sold for home consumption in the principal
markets of the country whence, and at the
time when the same were exported directly
to Canada, it is clear that the price actually
paid for goods purchased in bond in any
foreign market is not the value for duty in
Canada, nor the fair market value within
the meaning of the Customs, Act; but to
the price paid for the goods in bond there
must be added the customs or internal
revenue duty leviable in the country where
the goods are purchased in bond, and which
is collected in all oases by the fereign Gov-
ernment concerned before the goods are
allowed to go into home consumption in
such foreign country. Further, in the ease
of any goods to which stGovernment bounty
may attach, when the same are exp: rted,
and which may have been purchased in
bond, the amount of such bouhty should
also be included in the value for duty at
Canadian customs. Suoh principle must be
strictly nestled, by you to all cases in which
goods may have been purchased in bond,
and in respect of which entries may be
tendered at year port.
This. is not a new decision, and is not
designed to hamper trade. The practice
has been in vogue since 1883. In order to
secure uniformity in the collection of duty
at the various ports it has been deemed
advisable to issue this (Amulet'.
Process of Prodtieing Artificial Silk.
The process of producing " artrhoiel
silk, "invented by Dr. Lehner, was shown
to a party of soientists, at Bradford, Eng.,
a.st week. Waste cotton, wool, jute or
other saitable material is reduced to an
emulsien by means of a mixture of nitric:
and sulphuric acids'when it is formed Bite
threads by foreingit through glass tubes
of small bore, and is .passed over a series
of rollers and wound in the ordinary way
on bobbins. Before the artificial silk is
used in manufaotures or is told it is
denitrated to destroy the explosive pro-
perties and is also rendered uninilainnaable,
Whith will render it suitable foe many
purposes,etpcoially as111s said to resemble
real silk very clogely. According to sortie
wilters the silkworm has had " notice to
leave.
4. Swedish copper mine hoe beeetwork ed
Without interruption for 800 years.
"Joheson, you aro drinking too hard,
Your nose is as red es 8 beet." "But that
tomes froni a tveeleti iishiejt trip." " That
merely oonfinires Whitt X stele .st ;its be'
THE SUNDAY SO110011
INTERNATIONAL LESSON, AUGHST
• 19, UN&
nrst Disciples or Jesus. —Joint 1
Time.—A. D. 27, February, Shortly
after the teraptetion, Tibenue Caesar,
Emperor of Rome ; Pontius Pilate, Geyer-
noaroiLn
J:dceiverleIacroti Antipas, 0/Verner ef
Gli
Inace.—Betbabara, or Bethany, wet of
the Jordan. (Not the Bethany near Jeru-
'saloon) The place was probably at a ford
of the Jordan, near Jericho, where a road
crossed the river.
The Place in the Ifistory.—We begin
now a part of the story of the life of our
Lord which John alone records. It ineludes
the first year of his ministry. The remain.
ing lessons of the present quarter belong in
this first year which Jesus 'spent in Judea.
See " Hermony" on foregoing page.
Between the Lessons.—After the forty
days of the temptetion ',Tem returned to
Bethany (see "Plaese"), where John was
Still baptizing. On the day of his return
a deputation of priests and fan:lees came
from Jerusalem to John, With the question,
"Who art thou?" John declared to them
the true nature of his mission and testified
of Jesus, who was then standing unknown
among the crowd, as the Coming One, of
whom he was the forerunner, John 1 :19-
28. The next day John, seeing Jesus among
his hearers, recognized him and pointed
him out as the Lamb of God which taketh
away the sin of the world. John 1 : 29-34,
The events of our present lesson occurred
the next day.
Hints for study.—John alone records the
incidents of this lesson. Read the whole
section, vs. 19-49. •
nEnrs IN LE,,1AND,TO THE X..ESSON.
35. The next day.—After John's testi-
mony (vs. 29-34) and two days after the
visits of the priests and the Levites from
jerusalem.—Two of his disciples. One of
these was Andrew (v. 4), the other was
doubtless John himself, although no name
is given. Tha account is that of an eye-
witness. If it had been some one else, John
would not have omitted his name, but he
always omits his own name in his Gospel.
36. Behold the Lamb of God.—John saw
in Jesus the Damb of Isaiah 53, or the pas-
cal lamb (see T. 29). John's word. was
really the asking of his disciples to leave
him and go after Jesus.
37.—Heard hira speak.—And were so
impressed by his words about Jesus that
they went after him. This was the begin-
ning of the Christian church. It started
with w
ht ;mo.
s
them following.—He saw into
their hearts at the sande glance. What
seek ye.?—That is, in rue. He does not ask
"Whom seek ye?" It was evident that
they sought him. Rabbi—An honorable
title given to teachers among the Jews.
Where dwellestethou? Showing their de-
sire to be with him and to be taught by
39. Come and see.—"Come and ye shall
see." He wanted them to learn for them-
selves. The way to know about Christ is
to come to Him mid learn by experience.
Abode with Him that day.—That was a
day never to be forgottet by these dis-
ciples, as it turned the whole current of
their lives. Tenth hour—Probably about
ten o'olook in the morning, although there
is some difference of opinion about John's
mode of marking time.
• 40. Andrew.—Andrew was soon almost
lost sight of among the disciples. Peter is
the prominent one,
but we must never for-
get that there would not ba,ve been a Peter
but fer Andrew. A humble Chriseian may
bring another to Christ who will over-
shadow the first altogether. But God will
never forget the lowly and obscure one
Who brought his greater brother or friend.
For Andrew and other names see "Bible
Dictionary."
41. He first findeth. —" He findeth first."
The meaning is that both Andrew and John
in their eagerness run eaoh to tell his own.
brother, and that Andrew finds his brother
before John finds his. But doubtless John
found James.
42. He brought him to jostle. Andrew
is knownspeciallyfor bringingothers toJesus.
He brought also tbe lad with the loaves
(John 0:8), and certain Greeks (John 12:
22). This is about all that is known of
Andrew, but it makes a beautiful record.
Thou art Simon.—That was his name at the:
time. Son of Jona.—"Son of John." Thou
shalt be called Cephase—An Aramaic word,
of the language commonly used ie Palestine
at that time. By interpretation a stone.—
"Peter." The name Peter means a stone,
or a mass or piece of rock detached from
the great living rock. The word contained.
a nrophecy of what Simon would become.
It took him a long while to grow into a true
Peter, but at last he reached that character
through the Grace of Christ (See Matt.
16: 18.)
43. Would go forth.—" Was minded to
go." He findeth Philip.—John the Baptist
pointed ont Jesus to Andrew and john.
Simon and James were brought each by his
brother. But no one told Philip of Jesus
or brought him. Jesus himself sought and
found him. Follow me. —Philip was the
first to be asked to follow Jesus.
44. Bethsaidtte—See "Bible Dictionary."
4b. NathismaeLe—Probably the sante as
Bartholomew, afterward one of the twelve
apostles. Moses in the law.—In Deut 18:
15, and in all the types and promises to
Adam, Abraham, Jacob, etc. The prophets.
—Such as Ise. 6: 7 ;53 : 9 ; Jen 5: 6 ; Dan.
0: 24.27; Zech. 13. Mae& Son of Joseph.
—Tho words are Philip's, and expressed
ptheeopre.mmen belief or s.iroposition of the
46. Can there any good thing.—Nazareth
was a place of proverbially bad character.
It was despised even by Galileans. It was
also small and insignificant. Come and see.
—The only way to meet such a false
judgment mud to remove prelitdiee was to
see tor him3elf.
47. An Israelite indeed.—A true, prayer.
ful servant of God. No gaile.—A truly
sincere man, simple-hcerted and faithful.
48. I saw thets.—Nathanael may have
been preying under the tree when Jesus saw
him, He sees us always.
49, Rabbi . . the Son of God . the
King of Israel.—eThe Messiali, to whom
both these titles were given among the J ewe,
and in the prephecies ooneerning him.
Hard Tilries Brilliancy.
l3ride (disconsolately)—“Half my wed.
ding, ptesents are cheap plated things."
'Mother—"blevor mind, ray dear ; no one
will suspeot it. I have hired We deteetives
to make themselves eonspletious Watching
them."
gNOLAND'S
An line ease en EVerrrilin-
But Two.
The first quarter of the filiettirdel
shows an increase on every Dein of the
revenee but two, and tlicese two are bet et
small importance, says the Lostsien pailty
New's. The leriecellarunais Revetaue is lee*
by 447,945, and the land tex ISIS by £25,-
000. Ou eight other heads there ie it total
gain on the mune quarter of laist year et
£1,04,569. The net increase en the quarter
s 4871,624. Part of tide increase is, of
course, dtte to new taxation. The new beer
and 'spirit duties heve been in Hotual opera
tion since the resoluteness Were passed on
April 16: This account': for a portion of the
increase, both in meter:is and excise but
not for the whole, The 4263,000 more
customs thitiespaid and the 4300,000 addi-
tion to the excise are, apart from the in-
creased duties,encoureging signs of improve,
merit in the condition of the country. The
flame may be said of the £100,000 increase
in stamps, for the new estate duty is oat
yet levied. The gain on the income tax ex-
actly represents what the additional penny
would yield if the whole 42,160,000 had been
collected at 8d, But this ie not the caee.
These 42,000,000 represent either that lase
year's erreare were somewhat larger, VirDiCh
was probably not the case, or more likely
that the total. income on which the tax is
paid has inoreased. In the postal and tele-
graph services the gain isnot large; 430,000
in one and 425,090 in another, represent.
however', a good deal more than the normal
increase, and showthat there is a quiet and
steady growth of business, These two
sources of revenue, moreover'unlike cus.
toms and excise, compare with it quarter
in which Post Office and telegraphs were
almost alone in showing improvement,
when oustonas and excise and stamps were
all moving downward. In the June, Sep-
tember, and December quarters of last year
there was conatant falling off. That down-
ward movement has been entirely stopped,
and the upward tendency wanch 'showed
itself in the last quarter of the 'financial
year has continued during the three menthe
now gone,
CHEAPEST OF METALS.
Aluminium WM Surely Take This Item..
in Time—The Slow Reduction `Which
Hag Taken Place in DA Price.
What metal is four times lighter in
weight than silver, but very nearly as
brilliant, possessing indeed so little weight
that ie will almost float on the water, so
abundant that it is found in common clay,
so sonorous that when a bar of it is struck
it rings like a bell, so malleableand ductile
that it may be rolled into the thinnest
sheets or drawn to fine wire, and so tena-
cious that when beaten in the cold it
becomes nearly as hard and strong as iron?
It conducts heat and electricity as well as
silver, but unlike silver is slow to tarnish
or corrode and neither nitric or muriatic
acid will affect it
Aluminum or aluminium is the name of
this wonderful new metal, that haa long
been known to exist and possess all the
valuable properties mentioned; but of which
no one can make1.188 of owing to the expense
of extracting it from the clay.
A German, Woehler, long ago as 1827,
used to produce alumblium from clay in
the form of powder by a chemical process
• and 28 years later a Frenchman learned how
to procure it in larger quantities ; but the
cost of extracting it was $90 a pound, much
too expensive to be of any use to any one.
Recently, however, by the means of elec.
trioity, it has been discovered that alumin-
ium can be readily and inexpensively taken
from clay and. now he this country and in.
Europe all manner of tuseful and erne. -
mental objects are being made of it. Pots,
pans, scarf -pins, picture -frames, thimbles,
tea -services, dishes and even yacht keels
are manufactured of the wonderful alu-
minium, that, for its light weight and the
fact that it does not tarnish proves in many
instances vastly more useful than steel, tin
or silver.
Because it is so abundant it will become
in time the cheapest of metals. Even now.
one can buy for 10 cents a pretty aluminium
thimble that does not tarnish and will last
as long as any one needs. An aluminium
kettle, big enough to boil a ham in, can be
lifted. on and off the stove as lightly as a tin
pan. An aluminium tea-pot never needs
polishing.
CHINA AND JAPAN.
--
Degradation °ETA Bung Chang May Cause
Revolt in the Chinese Army—The Em.
ueror Promises the Soldiers Double
Pay,
A Shenghai special says n—Despatehess
have been received, confirming the report
that the Emperor has divested Viceroy Lt
Hung Chang of the order of the Yellow
Riding Coat, which 18 the highest order in
China, allowing the wearer privileges next
to those of royalty.
The Emperor has freely expressed his
anger at the Viceroybs having allowed
Japan to get ahead of China in preparing
for wer. The act ot the Emperor in dives-
ting the Viceroy of this order does not
necessarily imply his deposition from office.
HIS REHOVAL wirx,LEAD TO A. CRISIS.
The action of the Emperor in divesting
Viceroy Li Hung Chang of the order of the
Yellow jacket has fallen like a thunderbolt
here, as it is feared the incident will lead
to his complete overthrow. He is regarded
here as the only leader capable of coping
with Japan ha the ioevitable long war. A
crisis is regarded as imminent.
The Emperor has beet influenced in his
action by members of his family hostile to
the Vieseroy's pro -European policy. It is
expected that Sir Robert Hart, the British
representative, will assert his authority
and "support Li Hung Chang,
nouutt TAY PROWITSED THE SOLDID118.
The soldiers beheaded et Tien -Tait& for
desertion pleaded in extenuation of their
offend° hunger and exhasistion. Before
they were eiteouted they wet(' stripped of
their uniforms and their pig -tails were cut
oft The example has terrified the army.
An ediot has gouts forth and the artily will
receive double pay henceforth during tho
war -with Japan, and a large bonus has beees
offered to officets tompetent to eserigate
the Chinese naval vessels asid trasispor to.
Chappleee"Thero goes theetwentri Ibab
invented smokeless powdah." Weerfo
Beauey---"I should, feel More interested in
hint if Ise had invedeted smokeless+ Mose
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