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Home My WebLink AboutThe Clinton News-Record, 1899-11-09, Page 30 -44 - AsfiES ASIIES EiT:nigraa...044)0....QP,mi:011.11TE, toie. p9. ot eternal • 4 . Lord'a grooms and I bring arou out to the Kingar istables, and yous to be quick, and moent, and away. In Rev.' Dr Talmage Speaks ,of the "48. 14111a •Y" bUt "Used In • God; you live„ you pursued and al- most overtaken vete put on more World's Pleasures, Those Who tiave I3een Suece.sful in- the World. -A Group of Sinful Pleasurists..Infidelity and Truth. ...The Dr, Points the Way to Salvation Before It Is -Too Late, tweed: lateraal sainsition is the pride a your volocity. ply 1 Fl I leet tile black horse overall the w ite horse, and the battle-axe ;shiver the belmet and crash cloWn thtough the insuffie Mane mail. In this tremendous °tag - may of your irdmortal spirit beware kelt yom prefer ashes to bread! ETIQUETTE OF MOURNING. • A despatch front Waislaington, saes; ' with us wien we -are born, Though it may, and ,perhaps' does, —Rev. Dr. lalmage preachea from the ;lie? e °greets,. with. ue .euntitl sound somewhat incongruous to; use following text:—"He feedeth aishee." t etietejer teeetillenreilea;n tk.1)0!):18:trilt:, the word etiquette la connection with —Isaiah. xliv. 20, This is descriptive o ' the idolatry and worldlinause of people in Isaiah's time, and of a. awe' prevalent atyle of diet in our timea The world spreatls a great feast, anti invitee the race to sit tt. , The platters; are heaped_ up, The garlands weathe the Wall. • The guests sit down amid outburets ofehila ;trines. They take the fruit, and it turns into ashos• They lift the tan- kards, and teen -contents prove to be ashes. They touch garlaeds, and they seater into fishes.. I 'do not know any tetesage Of Scripture wheat 6 so thrillingly sets forth the unsatis- factory nature of this world fer. eye, and tongue, ;Ind lips and heart, ea this vete, passage, deseriptive of the vetary of the world, whee it. says: aHe feedeth .on ashes." 1 snati not to -might take. the estimate by those whose liae has been a failure, A man may despise the world simply because be cannot win it. Having fail- ed, in his contempt of it he may de- cry that which he would like to have had as his hetie, I shall theretore to- night take only the testimony of those who. have been Magnificently 'success - fel; and,' in the first pap°, I shall ask the .kings of the earth to stand up and give testimony, lolling of the long story of sleepless .nights, :and poisoned cup, and threatened invasion, and dreaded rebellion. Ask the Georges, ask the Henrys, aek the Marys, ask theaLouisess ask the Cath- erines, whether they found the throne a sate seat and. thescrown a 'pleasant covering. Attic the -French guillotine in Madame Tuissard's Meseura about. the queenly necks 'it has •dissevered. Ask The tower of London, * Aek . the Tuillytes and He.nry VIII, and Car- dinal Wuoisey to 'get upsout •er . the dustesand tell what they • think of worldly hulloes. • Ghastly with the lirst and the second death, they riseup with eyeless sookets and. grinning skeletons, and stagger. forth, enable at first to speak at all, hut forward • • hoarsely wnisperinaa eAsheal teshe.s1" I call up, also a group otaconertetatial adepts to give testimony. Here iegain Leese who have been only ninderatCly successfully inay nut be witness.- .1.1xey must all be millionairee. White granu thing it must be to oWn .h . control a bank, possess . ate the houses on one streets to eave east in- vesentents tumbling in. upozi eou • day alter eay, • whether. ' • you; • work or nue_ No; no. Conte . up.from et. , Mark's Graveyard, • and. • front ureenwoutt, ape :rem aiwant anti front Laurel Hill, and toll us now what. you think .of banks, •and .inints,. and factories, and counting -rooms: atla Palams,. and Presidential ban- quiets. They dinggec fcirth end lean against. the cola slab of the Loam, usowing with toolitleas ' gurus,. ann gesticulattng w u J1 • flesh fess hands, and ehtverzug witli the .of eep- nlehrel damenests, weee they cry out; " Ashes 1 asnes 1" • muet call up, now, also; a group ot sieful pleuetnests and here ega.n not. take i he teaittiona, , of these W110 had the more ordinary gratifications of lite. :their pleasureit are pyeami- dal. They bloozned paredisiacally. If they drank wine, it triusi the best thee was everepressed from the. vine- ya,r4ds of Hockheitueil• If they liatened LC/ music, it must be coetleest opera, with renownea Prima -don -Me el they sinned, they chased polished unclean- nesses end graceful despair,. and glit- tering damnation. Stand up, Alcibi- ades and Aarpn Burr, and Lord Byron, end Queen Elizabeth—what thing you now of midnight. revel, tend sinful: car- nival, and damask curtained abomina, tion Answer 1 .The color goe,s out of the cheek, the dregs serpent twisted in the bottom of the wine cuP, the bright lights quenched in blackness of der/mess, they jingle together the broken glasses, and rend the faded bilks, and shut the (Mona, the desert- ed banqueting -hall, wbile they cry: " Ashes I ashes I" There ere a great many in this day who try to feed their soul on infidelity mixed with truth. It is a loaf of bread ;stirred up with strychnine and Paris green. They say there is a God,. but they be:gin immediately to manipulate Him. according lo their own notions. They say the Bible hea good thinge in it, but it is not Inspired, They say Christ woe ,a good man, belt Ile is hat inspired, and their religion is made up of ten deigrees of huma,nitarianisra end ten degrees of transcendentalism, and ten degrees of egotism with one degree of Gospel truth, endhoe a poor, miserable cod they make their immor- tal soul chew, while the meadowa of God's word, are green :end hixuriant with well -watered pastures. Did you ever see a, happy infidel? Did you ever meet a placid sceptic ? Did you ever find a contented atheist ? Not, 6ne. From the days of Gibbon and Voltaire down, not one. They quarrel about God. They quarral with them- selves. They take all the divine teach- ings and gather thein together ahd under them they put the Geed of' their own wit knd acorn, and (sarcasm, and then they dance in the light of tbat blaxe, and they scratch amid the rub - bah' for semetbas with which to help thent in the deya of trouble, end some- thing to comfort them lo the; days Of death, finding for their distraught and destroyed souls, ashes—ashes. Vol- taire, declared: " This -globe eeerna to me more like, a cello:don of careerism the 11 of mete "I wish had never been born." Hume Rays: "I am like a man who hes run on 'rooter and ;quicksands, and yet I contemplate putting out on the see ift the same leaky and weather-beaten craft," Cheaterfield says: " f linveeinten the merles and r have noticed the clumely pulley's end the dirty tore by which ell the acene isrmanaged, and I have seen and amele the tallow can- dies whieb throw the illumination on the stage, and am tired and sick." Get up, then, Franca Newport, and Hutne and Voltaire, and Tont Paine, and all the infidels who have Passed out of this world into the eternal world --getl hoW end tell what you think off all :your pandiloquent derisioft at our holy religion. 'Whet do you think now of all your aaretiam tat holy things? They tenni, ehrieking Mt froth the loat world to the graveyards; Where their twilit% 'Were' entombed, and point down to the white duet of their Wasolution, and ery: "Mae aahes 0, what a poor diet for an immor- tal gout. The feet La the SMUT is hun- gry. What is abet Unrest that some - antes ooMee ectoss you? Why, a it that. aurrdurided 1.4 friends and even the luxuries of life, ,you wish! you were somewhere dee, or had aomething you have ant $rat gained I" The world cans it ambitidn. The plikeicians eall it neer mistiest, Your. friends tali thef fid grind 'gets. / earl it hunger--Heep, • ing,„ unappeasable hunger, It Marts g, ing and planiang, to get sermethipg we rennet get. • Wealth says: . it ts not En 1,1,10." SSideuati sYlii aft is hot. in inle. Wort ly applause says: 'It is not in nits." Sinful indulgence' ease: "It le not ie me." Where then is it? On the banks of what etreant ? Skum- berizig in weed grotto? Marching in what contest ?. Expiring on witat pillow ? . Tell me? for Oa winged and immortal spirit, se theee nothing but ashee? When Jenny Lind wee in this country, she wrote tn. an autogrepb album, au answer to' that question: "In vain I seek Mk rest, In all created good; • a It leave§ me still unblest, And makee me cry for (led, And sure ,ae rest I oannet be, ' lentil my soul finds fest in Thee." 0, here,is bread•Insteed of ashes I In communien with God, end everlasting trust of Hem, is complete satisfac- tion. Solcanon described it 'when- he compared it to cedar houses and golden chairs, and bounding reindeer, enaday breaks, and imperial cowl; ,to eatfran, to mamma, to white teeth, and aands heavy with gold rings and towers of ivory and ornamental' fig- ures; but Latest cells it; bread I 0 &misled yet istimortal soma, why not come end get it, ? Until me sins are perdoned, there is no rest.' We know not et what moment the. hounds: may bay at US. We axe in a castle and koew net what hour it may be besieg- ed; but when the soothing voie,e of Christ comes across' our perturbaticin, it is hushed forevet. A merchant in Antwerp maned, .0harles V. a vast,. sum of money, !Aka -1g for it a.' bend., One day this Autwerp merchant in- vietd Charier V. to dine With hale and while they were seatea lye' thritable, in the presence of the guests, the mera chant ha:d a fire built on a platter in the centre et the table. Then he took the bond which the' King had given him for the vast sem of money, end held it in the blaze until it was consumed, end the Kieg oongeatelated himsele itaul all the gueits congratu- lated the King. There was gone at last the final evidence of his indebted - nese. ' Mortgaged to God; we .owe. a. debt we can nevee pey ; but.:God ine vites u,s to the Gospet feaat, and . hi the fires Of cierefixion agony: He .puta the last record•of our Indebtedness in the' flatate, and it is oonsamed• fora ever, Ile sweat: eGo free! Go freer 0, to *Lye all.the sins of ear past life forgiven, and te. have. all possible sea ouriey for the .futere-4s not, • tbut enoug‘h to mate a man happy ? What makes that old thtistian ee Placid ? The most of his .family in Greenwood or in 'the Village cemetry.. Hie health anderotendede His cough Will not lett him 'sleep at •ntghts.: Sande the day he came to town end. hi was a clerk, until this the dey of his old age, it has been. a hard fight for hread. • Yet how happy he looks. Why? It is bee cause he feels that theamme God who wetthea hanewhen be lay ip his ninth- er's arras is watahing hinein the time of old age; and ante sGoci; he has coot, :milted. ell his :dea0; estpecting after awhile to see them again. - )11, haS no anxiety whether he go this summer or next suirrener—wiletner he be. carried out through the snowbanks or through the 'daisies. Fifty, ' years• ago, he learned that all this world could give w,as Ashes, and he reaehed up arid took tee fruits of eterual life. . You see his face is very white, new.' ' The aed ourrents of life seem to have diipart, 'ad frotit it.; bit( Under that.eittrethe. whiteness Of the old mania Lave is the flash of the day -break. There ias only one word ineill otir language that can describe his feelings, and the,t is the word thee slipped off the angers harp above Beehlehetopeace I ' And so there are hundreds of mule here to- night who heve felt this Almighty eomfoit. Their reputation' was pur- sued.; their' headth' was. ehatteeed ; • their Moto Was elmost ie not quite brokea up; their _fortune went away feolm them. Why do they not sit down and glee it ep? .Air, they have no disposition to do theta , They are sayieg while I speak: "It is my Fath- er thet mixed this ;bitter ou,p, and I will cheerfully drink it. Everything will be explained after a while. I shall not alivays be under the harrOw. Thisre is sometaing that makes me think I un: almost home. . God will yet wipe away all tears from my eyes."' So say these bereft parents. So smy theae motherless children. So say a great, many in tbie house to- night. Now, inn I dot eight in this.presence and( in them circumstances, In trying to perstra,dri thia entire .audience to .giv.el up ashes; ahd take bread; to give up the unsatisfactory things of this world, aed take the glorious thiegs of Go& and eternity? . Why, my friends, if yole keep this world as long as it lasts, you would have, after a while, to give it up. There avill be a greet fire breaking Out from the sides of Lae bills ; there will be falling flame and ascending flame, and in it the earth will be whelmed. Fires burning fetter within, Mit ; fires burning from .above, down ; this earth will be a fur - wee, and then it will be a living teal, end then it will be an expiring e,mber, and the thiok clouds of staoke will lessee and amen until there will be only a faint vepor curling up item the ruins, and then the very last spark of the eatth will go oat. And I see two angels meeting' eacb other ever th6 gray pile; and as one flits past it, he eries,"Ashes I" and the. °theta as he sweefse down the immensityt will respond, "Ashee I" while all the intin- lte space will echo and re-enho, aAnhes I Aalies! Ashes!" God fotbid Uttar your and, I abould choose such a theme partion. . Now, my fear to -night, is, not that you will are' see the superiority of Carrist te this worle, bat My. fear is that, through some dreadful. infatua- Lion you will relegate to the future that' which God, and angels, and charches militunt and inunaphant de- tails that you ought to do mow. My btother, I, do zot say that you. wi'll go out of th' World. by the stroke of it OLD tiorse's hoo , or that you will fall ahrough a ha ohwey, or that a pank nany slip, ;trona an insecere scaffolding and deal, yon life out, or that a ;bolt may fall on y u from an Auguat 'Witte - &reform } t at do say that, in the, avast toe3ority of GOISSFI, yeur departure trout this world will be wonderfully quick; end' I want eou to atart on the right toad before that crisis. has pluoged. . h opaerittra, Itt it tail. of temper, slew a Moor. Then the Spaniard (My - ere over a high well and met; a gar- dener, and told him the whole storY l and the gardener said: "I will make .. a pleage•of confidence with yOU. hat this peach anal that will be a pledge that I will be poor protector to the Ilona' Ritt, 0, the sorrow arid sittra pills& of the gardener when he found Dull that it was his own son that ;had ' been elmill l Alien he came to the Spieler& and mid ta hint; "'You were cruet, you: ought to die, you Mew my emit und yet: I took a pledge with you hndtt must keep my promisee' end so he took the Spaniard to the stables arra brought ottt the *O'Mara borne. The Bonnier& sprang Upon la alid put • many milea between hiM and the Beene of the crime, and perfect escape was effeeted. We. have, by our sins, ottain tho Son of God, Is there any possibil- ity of our rescue f 0', yes. •God the „, Father, eve to us: "You had no had- . nese, by your sin, to slay my son, Jesus; . • you, ought to die, but I have proMised Iyou deliverknee. r here Made you tilt monrning, there is really none other that does as well; for there are, and always have been, certain forms and cusitruns In the matter which Most people like to follow, not only out of love and respect for those who have passed before them into tte Silent Land, but also towards the friends and relatives -who survive tbent. A few may, now and again, rall at eld cus- toms, but none, we are sure, would do so if they esmembered that love, re- spect; aympathy, kindness, and con- sideration •fcir the feeliugs of others are the sources from which these and so many other old uaages have arisen. For a widow, the regulation period as presicalbed by custom is two yeers. During the -first year and nine months crape is worn, and for the last thiee, • ao 'wit out. crape. •e years, it was the custom for a widow to wears 'half -mourning ,for two months, but this is nowt seldom done, black without. crape having almost taken the place of half inournIng, both with Widows and others. jet trim- mings are not worn with crape by wislowa, but. are worn by them with back without crape. Lawn cuffs and collars are also worn. The length .of time that a widow withdraWs from so; iety varies accords ing to individual feeling, but the pre- scribed custom Is that she should neither accept nor issue invitations during the first year of widowhood, and should only visit her near friends and relatives. For parents end chil- dren, the regulation period to, wear mourning is one year.— during . the first six months black with crape, and for the last six„ blaok withoUt eraireee- For grandparents, the •longeet perioe prescribed by custom is nine mohths, but many petsons now shottexi the time to six months, which is also tb,e time during which mourning is woro by families for a •brother or sistereOf these six Months, black with crape: is worn for three, and black without crape for the remainder of the time. For aunts and uncles, nephews, and nieces, the lotgest regue laticin period is three months,. and the shortest is six'weeks, and during eith- eaathe helot or shorter :period black onlye-that ie, without crape—is worn. For cousins, the longest period is elk weeks, and the ishortest one month. The periods of mourning are just the same for one's hueband's 'relatives as for blond relations,' and tor a daughter or son -in -jaw it is the snead es for a son or daughter. For complimeetary meurning the length Of time varies from one to three weeks. Parents and ehildren do not- enter into society fer Mr. Templeton's Choice. the first two months of molizzing. nor do they attend balls and dances; while wearing orape; bat the •seclusion•for a brother or sister from general meets; is only from one month tn. six weeks, frit gratidpirents from .three weeks to a monthe and for uncle& and aunts Claim a fettnight io three weeks. • ' AN AUTOGRAPH COOKBOOK. - Combining daintiness with utility.: bearieg cm, eyery page (he tracery of , .loved and. loving lingoes, more ac- tseetable, tnexpensive. offering to the bride or experienced housewife- is sea. • aom devised. • • Take from 50 to• 1.0t) sheets of linen paper of any sixe fancied-1.1mi cf °amnion note paper is cow/lenient,. The eovers, which should 'be one-half uush larger, may be of water color pep er, yuacta fiber, birch bark, lerither or- namented with scoreh work, or foe the greatest durability. and service, w.hitt, oll eletb.' Make two perfOrations on ate baek of beth paper and.covers. and tie with narreiv ribbon. 11 one is ekillful vvith the bruele a carving kpife and fork, rollingspin, or .• a quaint old-fashiained fireplace vvitn kettle ;steaming an tile trene will be appropriate cover designs ; or ."Auto- gralsis Cook -Book" in gilt 'lettering ma/ suffice; with the motto "Tried and true" in snail letters at the lower corner. By way of preface the follewing well known lines from "Lucille" may be et, tectively used: laar. Theophilue Tompleten leaned back very comfortably in hie orimeon leather, brass nail -studded libtarya chair, rested bis elbows on the areas, brought the tinger-tips together, arid loelte4 very benign and important. " h h W 11, ain a rich man—what some people would 601 a•very rash man; and the beauty of it is, I made my fortune myself. When I started out for myself, a lad of ten—that's fifty yeans ago, or more —I had all nty worldly goods in a red handkerchief, alung on a ;nick over nty ;Moulders. To•day•--I say it with- out boasting—there's not a finer line of steentships afloat than the 'Clytes,' and I own iein aat—every bleased bak- er's dozen.of"emer - Fred Warrington listened respectful- ly—a bandaome young fellow, with a wide-ewake, frank look hi bis blue eyes, and generally manly bearing about; hitn, that recommended him wherever he went, very espeoially. to ladies. "And yet, with all yoer vvealth, your beautiful home, your kindly, affection- ate nateire, you have used all your life* in aocuraulating riches. You have never inarried—nevers hea reel, true home," he observed. "'rhat's the rankest lend of nonsense me boy. I never mareed because I never yet paw the woman wanted. But it's a good thing for a y.oung fellow to settle down.e•I belteie that, if I didn't practice' it. aopis you'll marry early, Fred." • , A little twinkling look- wris in War- rington's handsome face. "I agree with you there, sir, to a T. I think tshall marry early." , Mr. Templeton .bereciwed a satisfied look on him. • "All right, ray . deer boy I Marry early, and marry tit pleuerime, and Pll remember you hapd.somely. I'll give you a country house to li.ye in in SUM- nier time and the town iesidenoe for winter. 'I'll give. you .ten thouerind a 'year inOOMS,' and Your .wife shall heve the handsomest diamond's Streetsi can colteet." . 'Any one. in the world .Would have ; thoughterred 'Warrington wa.e trans - d to the seventh heaven of 7:0-7:4 ture at, the bewildering prospect held otit to nim; but he merely looekd a lit- tle graver as he. bewed courteously. . "I know you are just as good and generates as it is poseible 'for Mae to be, Uncle Phil,. bul—" • • it Fred heeitated ha hie speech, and a thoughtful frown gathered en . has forehead. • . , • Mr. Templeton 'rooked the surprise lie felt. ' a 'But 1 Where can the 'hut' be to such an offer as that? ;You've only. to merry to *please Me. By Jupiter... Feederick 1 it isn't Possible. yoiere al- ready in love?" . • _ " Already ; and engaged to the sweet., est and dearest little clar—" • same, with an old bachelor's charac- teristic. ehrinking from pretty young j girls, he declined the invitation until Mrs. Saxony ehould be present." —"It's too bad ---too bull" he Bald, as : they wept through the beautiful little ' park, into wbieh carriages were net ' he reeognieed afterward as a'ate, Aar. admitted; and impelled by ail Impulse Templeton paused raidway down the I path, and turned to look tarok at Mrs. , Saxony'a house. ' "By joie I There oho Is at the win- dow—Miss Lovett I Isn't abe a beauty? Isn't she sweet enough to turn any fellow topsy-turvy f,00k, Fred — ' there's the wife T've paired out for Ytaitlf" Can your mtenteteacher beat And Mr, Templeton seized ble unoe, fending nephew by the sleeve, and. gesticulated emphatically toward the ipen window, where a girt sat, beauti, inde,ed—marvelously beautiful, feir Ind asinty—with dark, lustrous. lair, braided on a proud little head, . and straigbt, heavy dark brews, that made the purity of her complexion still more dazzling. A rosebud of a mouth, a round, handsomely-chaled chin, a white dress, with creamy lace and a pink rose at ber throat, made a picture fair enough to indeed have Inroad any man's ;lenses "topsy- turvy." She (lid not raise ber eyes from her book, and she was u,noonseious of their espionage, or of Fred Warrington's transfixed gaze. "So you're struck, eh? So 'you'll give the eld man ,credit for having good taste, will pm? You wouldn't mind having her for your wife, after all, I suppesel" Fred drew a long breath, then quack- ly linked his arm in Mr, Templeton's, and drew that gentleman away, "She is the eweetest, most beautiful I ever saw, I'll:marry her to -morrow, if she'll ,have me," he said. Aed how the old gentleman laugh- . ed I "Music-teaoher not wi thstanding, eh f" he said. „ . • And then Fred laughed,' and Mr. Templeton generously decided not' to be toe aareastio on the ppor boy. ...Almost at the same moment a tall, lovely .girl., several years older than the fairy in white by the window in Mrs. Saxony's drawieg-room, entered and went up: to her. "Absorbed le your book still, Res- ale? It is time for ray lesson, isn't,, it I" And Roasts Fleming -laid down her I book, and for' an hour Am end -Miss Beatrix Lovett devoted thexciselves: to the music lesson, to be interrupted by a gentleman who had bribed the foot- man to permit hitn to entek the music - room unannounced, and to whom B,os- aie flew, with a little ahriek of de- e-aight. "Fred—oh, Fred! How did you • • know I was in Brighton I I only came yesterday to assist Miss Lovett with her music. This is Miss Lovett, Fred—Mr. Warrington, 'Miss Lovett." And before he had finished his very deligthtful oall, Mr. -Warrington re-' leted to the ladies the mistake his undo had made 'A.ne am sure•Miss Lovett will not blame ine if inaist that I shall marry you, little Rossi% and the soon- .er the better, before. Uncle Phil dia- covers his mistake." • And the next week there was a quiet wedding while Mr. Templeton was tak- ing his snooze in his chair, with his handkerchief over his face, dreaming of the days when bead:taut Miss Lovett hwomouled.. reign royally in his nephew's At eight o'clock the same night he wits electrified by the receipt of a note from Fred: . ' "I have been and gone and done it, Uncle Phil," it said: al pronused you I would marry the ledy you selected for me,•and L shall present her to you in an hour. There's nothing • like striking wheh the iron's hot, isehere?" And punctually to time Fred appear- ed, his bride on his arm—lovely as the. morning, blushing like a rose, her blue eyes shining like Stars, her sweet, red mouth quivering as she looked wistful- ly up into Mr. Templeton's face when 'Fred presented her. "We've quite stolen a march upon you; but this is my wife, Uncle Theo- philus—Mrs. Fred Warrington, fait an'd'I'maairieb7onished, auti dumbfounded, and delighted, in), dear. However did you do it, Fred?" But before Fred could make the ex- - planation be deemed incumbent, a ser- vant 1mm:turned ledy, who came , sweeping in in garments of deep pur- - ple velvet—a girl with starry eyes and hair as golden SS sunshine. ' . "Miss Beatrice Lovett I" said the servant. . And then—well, the scene iS indes, eribablee but with two lovely. women beseeching hint to forgive, and the pansy -purple eyes making him feel the queerest around hts heart he ever - had felt, am:nohow—he never knew how — Theophilus Templeton simmered quietly down, and accepted the situa- tion with the best grace at his com- maud until aix months afterward, when he triumphantly ennounced his nephew that the luckiest day of - his life had been when he mistook Res- ets) for Miss Lovett. • . "For since you wouldn't have her for your wife, you shall have her for your aunt, and help yourself if you can!" But, as no one was at all anxious ;to help it, Mr, Templeton married Ins beautiful young wife, and it is a queation who of the quartet is the hap- piest: - ear. 'Templeton remorselessly cut ; sbort the Ipeertike enthusiaern. ; "Oh, of coarsee-of course! But who - is she What is her name fa ' ''Slie is Miss Bessie Fleincng, and sbe is a music -teacher, and her, eyes are—e Mr. Templeton looked sternly aortas the libtary-table.. "I den% care•whether they are black or green, you, can't Marry her. I've pioked oat a wife for yen, • and the quicker you ten get clear of your music -teacher the better." Jared colored—then the look of wild- eyed defiance Uncle Phil was acquaint- . ed with, 'came into his eyes, making . them deisp and darkly blue, • . "I beg. your pardon, sir," he said quietly, 'but a. aellow prefers to pick 0,ut hie own wife. 1 heve chosen Miss h le,ming." ' "The deuce you have!. Well, then, let's hear what you have to say when I tell you the lady .1 have in my eye fol. my future niece us the most beauti- ful, cultured, refined girl who evei flashed into society. She's rich, too, and just the very daisy for you. A musio-teacher, iadeed, when Beatrice Lovett is to be had for the askingle "Which dOesn't raise her in my estimation," Fred sawed, serene- ly. "What!" Mr. Templeton said stern- ly. "Fred, yoU're a—a—fool I" And then Fred laughed, Wheth had a most exasperating effect upon the old gentleman. "I my you shall marry ner, and I - want you, to put on your hat and go - with me at once, and be introduced to her! She's staying at Dirs. Satonyes. Come along, air." Fred .rose promptly. "Certainly; I'll go and be presented to her, an,d daresay there will be no reason why I shall not admire her im- mensely. But es for felling 111 with Miss Lovett—" Ho laughed and shrugged his broad shoulders, then put on his hat, and• went out with Mr. Templeton to meet - the charming young lady intended for hut destiny. It was a beautiful little villa, not far from Mr. Templeton's stately man- sion a little beck from the Parade, and' it made a very pretty picture, with its white aace draperies floating in the stiff sea breeze, end the spree, from the foantains blowing in a rain- bow shower, and the gay, striped awnings fluttering their scalloped borders in the July sunshine. The liveried footman bowed his best. and regretted to be obliged to inform the gentlemen that Airs. Saxony Was not in. ef. Swift look of dismay on Mr. Templeton's face perhaps tote:lied that functionary's tender heart, for he hastened to assure them that "Miss Lovett was in the drawing-toom— would they walk in?" But that Mr. Templeton declined do- ing, as he was not personally acquaint- ed with Miss Lovett ; at least, not suf- ficiently acquainted with her to pre- sent himself. He had known her when ahe was a girl of ten, and bad alvvays been her father's most cherished frieed, and had been In correspondence with Mr. Lovett when that gentleman died Sto suddenly; in India; but ail the "We may live without poetry, music and art ; We may live without conscience, end live without heart ; We may live without friends; we may live without b3oka; But civilized man cannot live without oodics." Divide the pages. into seetions, label- ing the fancy lettering "Soups," "Bread," "Cake," etc, teaming a gen- erous portion to be 'headed "Miscel- laneous." The book id now ready for contri- butietis from frierids, And each will be glade to write in it over her own signature some favorite eecipe, LAKE, SUPERIOR AND RAINFALL, Lake Superior appears to exercise a greater effect upon the annual amount of pereipitition of rain and anow near ita shores than other a the Great Lakes. The average ptecipita.tion in a year is about eight inches greater on the aoathern than on the northern s:de of Lake Supertor. Lakes Erie and On- tario also show more precipitation on their southerii than on their northern shore -at but the difference is only three inches annualle, In the case of Lakes Huron and Michigan, it is the eaatern ahores as compared with the western which get the largest precip- grea lately., but the difference is not THE CITY 01' CAPE TOWN THE OREAT COLONIAL CAPITAL OF SOUTH ,AFR1CA. views 01 a 11.10 haw In the wortit's - Seel tiltere Alt the conireignits Meet •...pirtureg or nao 4.14$ and it* tare- Forilettittie or ease Present 1,1111 rutpre. Cape' Town has outgrown its Awe. Wind you get a oity of 100,000 inhabie tants, the commercial and politieat Metropolia and capital of a vast couna try, it ceases te be auburban. It is me, tropolitan4 ••• • It may be said of Cape TOWn that it is not only metropolitan, but pomace politan. 'There are a few Aeiatic cities which may surpass It In the' var- iety of national and racial types to he met in their streets, but they are teVr and there' are none wberta these . are brought so clearly out or set he such sharp and atriking contrast, Tees was not se true . a quarter of a century ago,- when Cape Town had leas than 50,000 people. Since the ruish to the South African gold and diamond fields this condition hes grown more marked, Cape Town haa become one of the gay capitals ot the world. A more, of years ago it was rather a arose Place. with not a few of the evi- denees of civilization and culture, 'but With small inducement to the tourist to linger, after seeing the castle and the government house and the • fine park, with its stately oaks of many centuries' growth, between the govern-: meat home and the botanic gardens. Al! thia looked like a corner of Eue lope dropped (been near the end ot the African continent,: but if one ob- jected. to traveling se. far te .find him- self in Europe still, there Was little to console hire for the •disappointment. • . To be aure, there were theMalays, a picturesque addition tO the English and .Duton population, And the Ma- le,ya had aarought into the religinus life of the place was even more picturesque then themselves., ' •THE TOURIST. OF .THE DAY, if. he was luoky enough to be in .the neighborhood of the Mohammedan mosque, could see wfiat Any teethe equally lucky can see- now. After the noonday clangor 'of what., the• true Mosiem• calls the e'infeilel bells" of Cape Town, the Muezzio would' appear at the top of 'the mosque, •• -Through the brilliant sueshine of thee inter- tropical ctinie the hundreds oeeyes'of the. faithful would :be strained up to - Ward him. Down on the docks, where the Malay longshoreatert watched for the uplifted hands, , and -.the Lasear sailore; aboard ship or nn shore leave, east their eyes aloft wttli niore of yen- . eration than they. ever • ponteinpiate a topgallant sail, there came so much of a: hush hi Lae roar ef wateeside traffics that; as the..mesque. stood 'on the first of the two, great :terraces on which' Cape Town is built, the faithful could at limes Ilene the chant calling them to prayers. And as the traveler was liable to meet the Melees Merywhere —in the open booths of the groinmercial part .61 the town, Mesas paterers .and itinerants of all sortriin the residenoe. streets, higher' up and further back, there was comfortable sense of se- curity in the thought that, without. getting'. far enough from Europe to run any risk, one was enabled to • see the sheethen al his devertions. Casie• Town Was then, and is more now, one of those spots en the map . where, "Through the ,shadow lhe.glohe sweep into •the younger day," As one of these spots, o( which there are not many, °ape Town has an inter- est peculiarly its own. As the capital of the Bricish,Colony, which fronts the Wattle. BOSE frontier, 'and the port .te- ward which many British troop ships ere now moving, Cape. Town has be- come , • A GREAT NEWS CENTER.. We read of n Premier who outlines the 'government policy in. the Parlia- ment aleCeee .Town. and is interrorgate ed by the .opposition just as the Prem- ier at London ia. The other day. we read of the landing of British troopir at Cala Town on their way to the front, and the wild cheering of the thousands who lined the streets through which they marched, end many wondered what sort of city It is so far (below the tropics, and so near that Cape of Storms, the dread Jae 'which was much of the inspiration of Celan:thus' ' voy- age .to discover a shorter and less perilous route to India: That..he dis- (revered a new world, and not a new road to an old one, accounts for the• beginning of Calte Town. The Portu- guese never made any settleinent there, though they always put into Table Bay, the Cape Town harbor, to prepare for the dangerous trip around the Cape of Good Hope. Wheri the Dutch began to double the -cape, in go- ing to and returning from their East Indian possessions, they established a aupply depot there, but finding that the country leek. of the town was fer- tile and may of comeliest, they began the rearing of tt new Dutch colony, with the port onl Table BO as its en - impel; and .chief town. Such was The beginning olCape ToWn. When the place fell jnto the hands of the English In the 'first , years of this century, was a miserable village at the foot of the first slope on Table Mountain, which, 'rising at Table Bay., where it attains an extlin- once about 1000 feet above the sea level, continues to rise as it recedes to- ward the smith, until, in the promon- tory Which is called; the Cape oY Good Hope, it reachea a height of 3582 feet, The town 'Ls distant front. the cape ftbout fifty miles. It fronts Table Bay to the northeast, and for perhaps half a mile back from the water the ground rises but slightly. ' Then begins the elevation of . 1 mountain range is watered in. winter by the rains whieli the N6rthwest Atlantic winds bring with them. The eaatern aleeee are watered by the summer winds blowing oft the Indian 0001411. Thee° are winda which ehould 000l CAPS T0Wn. and Whi014 Would C001 it it they brought over the mountains ouch cooling raine tut they have allow- ered uPon their eastern slope. It is South African inds however both of i the remarkable. peculiarity of these those which blow from the southeast and the northwest. that they only fer- tilize that country lying on the side of the mountains nearest the ma out of which they come.. The northweat Atiantie winds, which make the Cape , Y . ye Mountain tops their wealth of waters, and the tropic whole which come hot over the Indien Ocean leave their deluges of warm water on tae eastern elopes of those mountains, and, freed frpm the only element yrhitth bad tem. pared their fierce heat, go shrieking down the opposite mountain side oetaa the ,Atlantio, taking Cape Town in their course, already welted and dry from weary rainless months. It is well, then, that. there are the thick walled houses with the flat roofs. The Government House is one of these, and as it is there; the official records of temperature "in the shade" is taken, It ia easy to understand a restore qf 70 degree's while outside the tempera- ture is Much higher, But though for, perblaps. a quarter of the year Cape Towe bes siesta weather, the siesta is unknown in Cape Town. It is bard to find a busier :aoe inl al the Britiah colonies. Thr(; i 1...:v reets ea ing down tp tbe clocks an a lp are al ays thronged, Thete a BUSTLF AND ACTIVITY. every where, There waa more business - at the city front before the completion of the Suez Cerial than there haa been einoe. The rise of Cape rown, in fact, began 'after England's acquisition of India. and the development of her trade there. Then Cape Town wee a port of entry for every vesserbound to or from Iedia, and this was true not only pf Engliah ships but of those of other. nations bound for points in Asia. It was during these years of maritime prosperity the splendid breakwater in the harbor was built, and the fine docks and ship constructed. Since the Suez Canal was opened to navigation there has been a great falling off in the number of port • entries at Cape Town.but the. heater reinaina and must always remain, an important one in the world's commerce. The de- velopment of the South ,Afrioan coun- try and the sale- and exchange of its produce" afford the basis of en ever growing trade. "The English had a monopoly of this trade for many years, but now there are many Antericens in business at Cape Town and not a few Dutch. The Jews are numerous enough to have erected a magnifieent synagogue, and there is hardly .a faith without ita temple. Even the Chinese, withie the last. few years,- have put up a little joss• house near the. water frout. - The Roman Catholics have a splendid cathedral, •the seat of a Bis- hop, -and among the other denomina- tions represented in the church archi- tecture of the place are the Episcepti- liana, Lutherans, Wesleyans, Congre- gationalists, Dutch Reformed and Free Church, the Wet „an off-sboot of the Dutch Reformed. These church stat- istics are.confirmatory of the commer- cial statistics.'aecording to the ace misted truth that religion arid com- merce flourish most together. , THE Pang oft CAPE TOWN T t . ORIGIN OP FASHIONS. Not a few famous faahions ewe their origin to the endeavor to conceal de- formity of some leader of moiety: Patchea were inaented in England in the reign of Edwiied VI. by a foreign lady, who covered a wen on her nook. Fell bottomed wigs were invented by a, barber to conceal an unnatural pro- - tuberance on •the shoulder of a Dau- phin. Charlea VII. of Prance intro- duced long wets io hide his ill -Weide legs. Shoes with very long points, ful- ly two feet in length, were invented by Henry Plantagenet, Duke of An- . 3ou, to conceal Mega exere,seenee on one of his feet. When Franca I. of France, avas obliged to wear his hair short, owing to a wound in his head, short hair became the fashion of the edurt. INSIGNIFICANT WOUNDS. 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' ELANDS& g * • PurtiP.,e haltRieeitrfall Uri 101110UNI9i0 ' easeaae, ; - 0.(#.`" , • sars7maese, a Wee; .-asNa."#, GEN, Jouaerr efr Ortlpepait OF telt mps LAA61# ...woo 6116147'0 BOtR5pr r SATURDAY • # :"2! 0640111;p r":171".,,tps., 0101110161014,4 fi4fliker44"Y1114 LADYSMITH .4, v va ;11,1 ir SIRGtORGE WHIM -.4on.B*115A FORE At laaY Willi [RIM IMO There are games - and games. Theta' wislitichhe eritTpheingplagyaeradewaintbd rPtchrege dee°4: pro at a table. Of mime, there In no doubt which sort the youngsters pre- fer; but some allowance MUst Wee. atonally be made for the (lignite Fled tendency to get breathlees on, the part ofitheostout elders. Some games need special. appliances, ,otherts require noo 1 .4 • ag • How, When and. Where is a good guinea not too noisy, In which all cam . take part, One a theNelayers leaves the room to guess, all the. otbersare- main to decide on a word to be guise - ed. A word must be selected with aeveral meanings. "Bow" is a good word;• -the same sound stands for a beau, a tow. to shoot with, a bow ef ribbon. Only substantivea are Permits ted, a.nd no proper names, The guests - et returns to the room, and goes three tame rou,nd. the cireig..of players, ask- ing : 1, "How do, you like it 9" 2, ."When do you like it?" 3; "Where 'do you like ' " Of courae, the play- ers give him moat o dtradictory re- plies, aa people like been! in a eery • different place from a bowl and arrowa; they \like him also of a far different quality. The player whose too signi- ficant reply leads to the word being guessed,. hatt to became' guesser in turn. Word games are really intereeting. but some °ere beyond the younger - children. For some of the games Only pencil and paper are required; for otheas a collection of alphabetical leer' tem, eaoh oe a square oy pasteboard, must be made or bought; they can be got from all large toy merchants. For . word games, as a rule, the player's di- , ; . possesses more then fifty vessels, with a tonnage of more than. 500 tons, All the railroads yet built in South Africa run to Cape. Town as a terminal:point, and IL ia the opening years of the new century, which are to bring a period of great development to that. arid, will lead to Cape Towo„ as all' roads in ancient dela led to nome. It is hardly to be doubted that the early Yeara of that century will see the construetion of the Cape to Cairo rail- road, now being promoted on Euro- pean bourses. In the thenptime this South African export trade, of which Cape Town is 010 port, is growing and held out the strongest assurance of the eity's future. Cape Town has nearly doubted in populationnince ihe discovery of tee diamond mines • et Kimberley ;tad the great gold fields in the Rend. Immediately after the gold discoveries it was believed that Cape Town, was to be the Frisco of the South African gold Beide. The era of rearoade has made new Friscos impos- sible, and the extenaion of en old line to Johannesburg, on the edge of the gold fields, disappointeel the high ex. pectationa of the Cape Town boomers. But the certainty of the great future development of South Africa, a fact made patent to many of the successful prospectors, and to some of the largest investore in tee South African mines, led to Leavy investments in the real estate market at Cape Town. Among the beat of the asgiets left by the dead plunger, Berney Barnette were the titles to realty in Cape Town, on some of which (smite modern buildinga had beea erected. . The last few years have brought some transformations to the city. This is particularly true of buildings in the bedtime 'section. In fotmer years the store buildings, and in fact every style of building in the heert of the eity,had the look of aimilar structures in tin English provincial town; solid eta many of them with mine pretensions to elegance, but all of them wearing THE COLONIAL LOOK of being able to know and keep their proper stations, as enjoined in the parody of the English church Marty. Now there are buildings in Cape Town rivaling trozrie of those in London's more modern streets and throwing in the shade everything to be seen in any of. London's old-faiihioried places. If once the visitor to Cape Town thought himself in Europe, it will nob be long, as things are now going until he will think himself in the.U.S. Hundrede of French families settled near the Cape soon after the revocation, and the large majority of them near Cape Town, where; they went into arboriettle ttire and wine growing. intermarriage With the Dutoh families hats hot extin- guished the French names There is a gayety in the burgher (society .of Cape Town whioh one impressed with exaggerated stories of Duteb solemn - its, carn never understand until the story of the French refugees is told. There la a fine intellectual life in Cape Town. The wealthy Boer famia liea from up -country send their eons and aaughterai to the Cape Town col- leges and uhivereities, oa late years, in Increasing numbers; but what is equally Important, or perhaps more important aa to the future history of South Africa and Cape Town, the trona of some of the native chafe of the upolotintry are sent there for a fin- ished edutottion, They show you, at Cape ToWle. 'a • THE OLD CASTLE on one of the heighta, with walls, tur- tea and bastions,' after tbe most ap- proved mediaeval fashion, and tell you that Cetewayo, the Zulu King, pined CUI event some of ther Zulu youth have to his death there. Same that mount - graduated front Cape Town tleatitu- times of learning. Beaides the castle, thetis 401 the Gov.. tiers. Standing Meek of the 'Botanic Gardens, already referred to, is the =MUM and library, perhaps the fin- est te be found in any colonial city In the world. 'The Supreme Court site in the goiferninent huilding,, with the judieial dignify of courts in England, goWnts and all. The avenue whitab in Irunning front GoVethMent Hourie to the museunt, padded thts gates of the fine park, With the spleindid oaks, of oroment Route, where the Colonial Parliament sits when ins 'session, Cape Town has about one-fifth df the mem- which the Cape Town folk are eo proud, la the Cape Town promenade. Of a fine afternoon the promenadera Make a brave dingle, of wealth, beauty and fashion, This Is much More notable since the era of gold and monde. . , 114,06141/...41141aolii4..• ' GERMAN ARM, GLOVES. TA13LE AIOUITAIN but the height of 1000 feet, reached within the limits of Cape Town, le reached gradually by ewe slopes upon the aides of which the town, or rather city, is built. The streets oa Cape Town are laid out at right angles. Many of them are well paved, and nearly all of them which are given up to the uses of residences of the weal). thy and middle chases have a decided- ly Europeare" appearanee. What strike:4 the traveler as the most mark- ed difference In architecture of the buildinga is' the number of private houses in Cape Town which have thick, hem>, walls and fat roofs. This is de- cidedly the Eastern fashion, and smacks nothing of Europe, but the number of auch houses in CaPe Awn - occupied by Europeans is not a sur- render of Europe to the Orient, but to the climate. Climate may not modify tbe European type to any apprediable extent, hut it, forma the European to some concessions for his 'own comfort, and one of theae is Abe thiek Walled and flat -roofed house in Cape Town. There are gardena on Some of the roots, and some of the houses surround central courte, such ali you. sometaxies tam in Mexico or countries farther iaouth. These houries In Cape Town are modern compromises with, what is perhaps the most remarkable climate in the world. Cape Town is nearly on the tame parallel of south latitude, as Vetoer - aka and Santiago, in Chill. People who rave of the elimate of these South Atnerlean cities, and of the equable temperature of that cone, can not find much fault with the variations of tem- perature at Cape Town. The 'aria - tion from the extreme cold season to that of extreme heat is but 18 degrees,. the meroury only rising from 58 IN wrxran TO Id IN HUMMEL The west slop* of the. South African vide in„two parts. In the Three Letter Game eaoh side givee the other a wordt to guess. Three letters taken out of the selected word are given to the guessers, and. care must be taken to give such a combin- ation as few words contain. , "Garen - tuna" isea good word—niu being given to the guessers. Now very tew Eng- . ,, lish words, no proper names nor Latin sitientific words being permitted, have the .letters niu succession. If the . guessers find another wcird, however, they count as if they had .guessed the real word—that is, the sueceseful side counts as many marks as there are letters in the guesaed word. Then • the opposite side, if Ewe of their. word, eau give tile same combination again. Guessers can purchase a letter t6 helm, thetn, the opposite side counting -bile -for every letter hought, Hytaltelled words are permitted—like mouse -trap, oil -can, in fact lettere on the verge of hyphens make, .as a;rule, the bese se- quences of tbreriletters. Word Making and Word Takingee- quires pasteboard letters. Each play- er cemmences with three, and spreads tbem before him, face upwards. If his letters make a word be must quick- ly pronounce it, or the opposite side will do it; and take his • word for ,him. Then eitch player in turn drawa a let- ter end lays it by 'his others. The add-: ed letter generally makes another Word. For instance, he who had "cart," if he draws an t can make "craft" of it. Plurals" do not 'count. - If 'an a is drawn it cannot be allowed. to tern craft into crafts, though it can turn cab into scab. etc. Great ea - quickness is required, for he Who ia • slow will be aura to lose his newly - Made word to a sharper adversary. •Demb Crambo is a game widob never fails to give enjoyment. The payers divide into two partiee. Halt remain in the room to choose a word, the oth- er half go oat of the TOMOS. 'Say that the word chosen is "rain." One of the ehoasers opens the door and calls to guessers. 'It rhymes with 'pain.'" Then the gue,ssers outside arrange a pantomime. They come in and act a sart of speechless comedy, beating one of their number for "cane." That be. ing wrong, tbeir•pantomime is hissed and they have to retire to think out another, When they act the right word they are clapped, arid the other.... side goes out to become actors instead ot ,audience in their teen. This game gives great scope to the native in- genuity of °the players. The Thimbleaa-This is .quiet game; alt the persons who join in it, except Dee, are sent out ofi the room, and dur- ing their absence thimble is phteed in some pesition where it is visible without being peominent. The search- ' era. then come in altogether and pro- . (teed to look for the thimble. When a player spies it. he must say nothing, and give no sign, but quietly sit down; those who fail to see lb after a good search pay a fotfeit. Any small ar- ticle can be used if a thimble lir not . forthcoming. . Proverbs.—One player leaves the room to het as gaesser, white the oth- ers rentain. to choose a proverb and divide the words between them. The guesser returns and asks each player in Aura some trivial' question, In his or her answers the player mu.seisintro- duce the weed of the proverb -entrust- ed to him or her. Some words are very diffieult to introduce, owing to the antiquated style of many proverbs. Another Ivey • to play proverbs te to shoat them out simultaneously, but the choic,e of proverbs is restricted by. requiring as many players as there are woe*, , ' • Ge army officers are ordered by lin dal decree to Wear teddies* dogskin low dining the mateenteers. WOMEN IN MEDICINE. Twenty-five years ago there were 500 lady doctors in practice in the States; to -day there are 4,500—one in " 15,000 of the population. Among these are a few distinguished homoeopath- ists, physicians., and surgeons, profes- aors in medical schools, oculists,. and electroatherapeutists, 'the -great ma- • jority being ordinary doctors. The first lady doctor in the world was an American woman, Misa Elizabeth Blackwell, who was enrolled as a phy- sician in the Medical Register of Jana- ary 1,1849. One of America's most not- ed lady doctors, Marie 1E, Zakrzewska, was a native of Beilin, but she had to ieftve the German capital in anuses quence of ,the strong prejudice aroics- ed against ber, That waa many years ago, and the lady doctor is now tol- erated even on the continent, Even the Par Nast has its lady doctors, the best known among them being a Chinese lady, Dr..Itu King Eng, first physi- elan tO the household of Li Hung Chang, ,;Dr. Eng is a Christian, and cornea of a wealthy family, She took her degree in the United States, and is now in charge of an hospital at Foo Choate As to the earnings of the lady doctor, they vary, of cowrie, very largely. There aro women who count their incothe in thousands, and (see lady practising in tbe West End of -London earns 4920,000 a year, Miss An- nie Bomberger of Philadelphia, has a Practice worth $6,00 ft tear, and ;the is one Of many who earn AS ranch. tromotnEas !WORM MOST, The Hollanders are perhaps of all the northern People those who smoke ther most, the humidity of their clim- ate making it almost a necessity, while the moderate cost of tobacco with them. rendere it accessible to all. To tritow how deeply rooted is the habit, it is enough to say that the , boatmen of Holland ineeeurts distances by smoking, .taf PANS. It a no unusual thing for a. vet40e1 plying between Japan and Lotolon to earry 1,000,00(1 fens as a &nal* item Of 1ta 'tarifa. t '4410