The Exeter Advocate, 1897-11-11, Page 3- BENEATH THE CITIES
DR. TALIVIAGE ON THE MENACE OF
THE CRIMINAL CLASSES.
The Dynamite That Threatens Society—A
Plea for Better Prisons and the Reclam-
ation of the Vicious—The Menace of the
idle...The Uprooting()lasses.
[Copyright 18,97, by American Press ASSOCIDe
ti011.1
Washington, Nov. 7.—In this sermon
Dr. Talmage in a etartlbag way speaks
of the dangers threatening our great
towns and oities and shows how the
slumbering tires may be put out. Nis
text is Psalm lxxx, 13, "The boar out
of the wood cloth waste it, and the wild
beast of the field doth devour it."
By this homely but expressive figure
David sets forth the bad influences which
in olden time broke in upon God's heri-
tage, as with swine's foot tramping and
as with swine's snout uprooting the
vineyards of prosperity. What was true
then is true now. There have been
enough trees of righteousness planted to
overshadow the whole earth had it not
been for the asmen who hewed them
down. The temple of truth would long
ago bave been oompleted had it not been
for the iconoclasts who defaited the walls
and battered clown the pillars. The
whole earth would nave been an Beetle'
of ripened °lusters had it not been that
"the boar has wasted it and the wild
beasts of the field devoured it.
I propose to point out to you those
whona I consider to be tbe destructive
classes of society. First, the public orhe-
Ina's. You ought not to be surprised that
these people make up a large proportion
of many communities. In 1800 of the
49,000 people who were incarcerated in
the prisons of the country 3%000 were
• of foreign birth. Many of thena were the
very deeperadoes of society, oozing into
the slums of our cities, waiting for an
opportunity to riot and steal and de-
bauch, joining the large gang of Ameri-
Cell thugs and outthreats, Trier° are in
our cities people whose entire business
In life is to commit °Mute. That is as
much their business as jurisprudence or
metliciue or merohandise is your husi-
ness. To is they'bring all their energies
of body, mind and soul, and they look
upon the interregnums which they spend
in prison as so moh unfortunate loss of
time, jut as you look upon an attack of
influenza or rheumatism which fastens
you in the house for few days. It is
their lifetime business to pick pooltets,
and blow up safes, and shoplift, and pey
the panel game, and they have as utueh
pride of skill in their business as you
have in yours when you upset the argu-
ment of an opposing counsel, or cure a
gunshot fracture which other surgeons
have given up, or foresee a turn In the
market so you buy goods just before
they go up 20 per cent. It is their busi-
ness to emir& (Time, and I de nob sup-
pose than once in a year the thought of
the immorality strikes them. Added to
these professional ariininals, American
and foreign, there le a large claim of men
who are more or less industrious in
crime. Drunkeuness is responsible for
much of the theft, since , it confuses a
inart's idea of property, and he gets laie
tf bands ou things that do not belong to
bine Rum is responsible far much of the
assault and battery, inspiring men to
sudden bravery, which they mast demon-
strate, thougb it be on the face of the
next gentleman.
Reclaim the Criminal.
You help to pay the board of every
criminal, from the sneak thief who
snatches a spool of cotton up to some
man wlio enacts a "Black Friday."
More than that, it touches your heart in
the moral depression of the community.
You might as well think to stand in a
closely confined room where there are 50
people and yet not breathe the vitiated
air as to tand in a community where
there are so many of the depraved with-
out somewhat being contaminated.
What is the fire that burns your store
down compared with the conflagration
wleh consumes your morals? What is
the theft of the gold and silver from your
money safe compared with the theft of
your children's virtue? Wo are all ready
to arraign criminals. We shout at the
top of our voice, "Stop thief!" and when
the police get on the tract: we come out
batless and in our slippers and assist in
the arrest. We come round the bawling
ruffian and hustle hint off to justice,
and when he gets in prison what do we
do for him? With great gusto we put
on the handcuffs and the hopples, but
what preparation are we making for the
day when the handcuffs and hopples
come off? Society seems to say to these
criminals, "Villain, go in there and rot!"
when it ought to say "You are an
offender against the law, but we mean
to give you an opportunity to repent; we
mean to help YOU. Here are Bibles and
tracts and Christian influences. Christ
died for you. Look and live." Vast im-
provements have been made by intro-
ducing industry into the prison, but we
want something more than hammers
and shoe lasts to reclaim these people.
Aye, we want more than sermons on the
Sabbath day. Society must impress these
men with the fact that it does not enjey
their suffering and that it is attempting
to reform and elevate them. The major-
ity of criminals suppose that society
has a grudge against them, and they in
turn have a grudge against society.
Why So Many Go Back.
They are harder in heart and more
infuriate when they come out of jail
than when they went in. Many of the
people who go to prison go again and
again and again. Some years ago, of
1,500 prisoners who during the year had
,been In Sing aing 400 bad been there
before. In a home of Correction in the
country, where during a certain roach of
time there had been 5,000 people, more
than 3,000 had been there before. So, in
one case the prison and in the other
case the house of correction left them
just as bad as theywere before. The
secretary of one of the benevolent socie-,
ties of. New York saw a lad 15 years of
• age who had spent three years of his. life
In Flaw), and he said to the lad, "What
• have they done for you to make you
better?" "Well' replied the lad, "the
first time I was brought up before the
judge he said, 'You ought to be ashamed
of yourself.' And then I committed a
crime again, and I was brought up be-
fore the same judge, and. he said, 'You
ought to be hanged!' " . That is all they
•,had done for him in the way of reforma-
tion and salvation. "Oh," you say,
"these people are incorrigible." I sup-
poee there are hundreds of persons this
day lying in the prison bunks who would
leap up at the protpect of reformation if
society would ohly allow them • a way
Into decepey and respectability,; "Oh,"
you say, "I have no patience with then
1
rouges I ask you in reply, How much
better would you have been under the
sante circumstances? Suppose your mo-
ther had been a blaspbemer and your
father a sot and you had started life
with a body stuffed with evil proolivie
tics, and you had spent much of your
time In a cellar amid obscenities' and
cursing, and if at 10 years of age you
had been compelled to go out and steal,
battered and banged at night if you
oame in withoet any spoils' and suppose
your early manhood andwomanhood
bad been covered with rags and filth
and decent society bad turned its baok
upon you au a left you to consort with
vagabonds and wharf rats, how tench
better would you have been? I beve no
sympathy with that exeeutive clemency
which would let crime run loose er
which would sit hi the gallery of a
eourtroom weeping because some bard
bearted svretee is brought to justice, but
I do say that the sufety and life of the
moment*. (lemma more potential in-
fluences in behalf of these offenders.
tie Pure Air, No Sunlight.
I stepped into one of the prisons of one
of our great °Mos and the air was like
that of the 13Iaok Kole of Calcutta. As
the air swept through the wieket it al-
most knocked me down, No sunlight.
Young men wha had committed their
first crime orotvded in among old offend-
ers. I saw there one woman, with a
Mild almost blind, who had been arrest-
ed for the crime at poverty, who was
waiting until the slow law could take
her to the almshouse, where she right-
fully belonged, but she was thrust in
there with her child, amid the most
abandoned wreathes of the town. Many
of the offenders in that prison sleeping
on the floor, with nothing but a vermin
covered blanket over them. Those people
crowded and wan, and wasted, and half
suffocated, and iuferiated, I said to the
men, "How do you stand it here?"
"God knows," said one man. "We have
to ahead it." Oh, they will pay you
when they get out! Where they burned
down one house, they will burn three.
They will strike deeper the assassin's
knife. They are this minute plotting
worse burglaries. Many of the jails are
the best place 1 know of to manufacture
footpads, vagabonds and cutthroats.
YeIe college Is not so well oaloulated to
make scientists, nor Princeton so well
caloulated to meke theologians, as the
Amerietin jail is calculated to make
criminals. All that these men do not
knew of erime after they have been in
that style of dungeon for some time,
satanio macbination eannot tomb them.
Every hour these jails stand they chal-
lenge the Lord Almighty to snaite the
cities. X call upon the people to rise in
their wrath and deman(1 a reformation.
I call upon the judges of our courts to
eznose the infamy. I demand, in behalf
of Gioia incareeratel prisoners, fresh air
and clear sun/fettle and, in the name of
him who had not where to lay bis bead,
a couch to rest on at night. In the in-
sufferable stench mad sickening surround-
ings of some of the prisons, there is
nothing but disease for the body, idiocy
for the !tabu" and death far the soul.
Stifled alt and darkness and vermin
never turned a thief into an honest man,
We want men like Jelin Howard and
Sir William Blitekstone and women like
Elizabeth Fry, to do for the prisons of
the United States what those people did
an other days for the prisons of England.
thank God for what Isatto T Hopper
anti Dr Wines and Mr Harris and. scores
of others have done in the way of prison
reform, but we want something more
radleal before upon our cities will come
the blessing of him who said, "I was in
prison and ye came unto me,"
Had fine, in 'htees of Power.
In tide class of uprooting end devour -
hut population are untrustworthy ofdo-
hile. "Woe onto thee, 0 land, when thy
king is a Mild and tny princes drink in
the morning!" It is a great calanilly to
a city when bad %men get into public
authomty. Why was it that in New York
there was snob unparalleled crime be-
tween 1886 and 1871? It was because
the judges of police in that city for the
mast part were as corrupt as the vaga-
bonds that came before them for trial.
These were the days of high carnival for
election frauds, assassination anti forgery.
We had the "whisky ring," and the
"Tammany ring," and the "Erie ring?"
There was one man during those years
that got $128,000 in one year for serving
the public. In a few years it was esti-
mated thet there ware $50,000,000 of
publio treasure squandered. In those
times the criminal had only to wink to
the judge or his lawyer would wink for
him, and the question was decided for
tbe defendant. Of the 8,000 people ar-
rested in that city in one year only 3,000
were punished. These little matters
were "fixed up," while the interests of
society were "fixed down," You know
as well as I that a criminal who escapes
only opens the door of other oriminalties.
It is no compliment to publio authority
when we have in all the cities of the
country, walking abroad, men and wo-
men notorious for criminality,unwhipped
of justice. They are pointed out to you
let the street day by day. There you find
what are called the "fences," the men
who stand between the thief and the
honest man, sheltering the thief, and at
great price handing over the goods to the
owner to whom they belong. There you
will find those who are vatted the
"skinners." the men who hover around
Wall street and State street and Third
street with great sleight of hand in
bonds and stocks. There you will find
the funeral thieves, tha people etho go
and sit down and mourn with families
and pick their pockets. And there you
find the "confidence men," who borrow
money of you because they have a dead
child in the house and want to bury it,
when they never had a house nor a
family,or they want to go to Engler:dead
get a large property there, andthey want
you to pay their way, and they will send
the money baok by the very next mail,
There are the "harbor thieves," the
"shoplifters," the ''ploicpookets," famous
all over the cities. Hundreds of them
with their •faces in the "rogues' gal-
lery," yet doing nothing for the last five
or ten years but defraud society and
escape justice. When these People go
unarrested and unpunished, it is putting
a high premium upon • vice and saying
to the young criminals of this country,
"What a safe thing it is to be a great
criminal" Let the law swoop upon them.
Let it be known in this country that
crime will have no quarter; that the de-
tectives are after it; that the, police (nub
is being brandished; that the iron door
of the prison is being opened; that the
judge is ready to call the case. Too great
leniency to orinainals is too great severity
50 SOOiety. •
• The Menace of the Idle.
Among the uprooting and devouring
classes in our midst are the idle. Of
°purse I do not refer to the people who
ere getting old or to the sick or to these
who cannot get work, but I tell you to
look out for those athletio men and wo-
men who will not work. When the
Frenith mblerateo was asked why he kept
busy when he had se large a property,
he said, "1 keep on engraving so I may
not hang myself." . I do not care who
she man is, be cannot afford to be idle.
itis from the idle classes that the orim•
inal olasses are made up. Character, like
water, gets putrid if it stands still
too long. Who can wonder that in
this world, where there is so much
to do and all the hoste of earth
and heaven and hell are plunging into
the conflict anti angels are flying and
God Is at work and the universe is a -
quake with, the marahing and con tater
marching, tiod lets his indignation fall
upon a man who chooses idleness? I
have watched these do-nothings •who
spend their time stroking their beard and
retouching their toilet and criticising
industrious people and pass their uays
and nights in barrooms and elu amuses,
lounging and snacking and chewing and
card Dlayiug. They are not only useless,
but they are dangerous. How hard it is
for them to while away the hours.
Alas, for them! If they do not know
how to while away an' hour, what will
they do when they have all eternity on
their hands? These men forewhile smoke
the best cigars and wear the best broad-
cloth and move in the highest spheres,
but I hnve noticed that very soon they
come down to the prison, the alinshonse
or stop at the gallows.
The police stations of two of our cities
furnish annually 900,000 lodgings, For
the most part, these 200,000 lodgings are
furnished to ablebodied men awl women
—people as able to work as you and I
are. When they are received no longer at
one pollee statin, because they are "re-
peaters," they go to some other station,
and so they keep moving arouud. They
get their footl at Muse doors, stealing
whet they cent ley their hands on in the
front basement yvbile the servant is
spreading the bread in tho back base-
ment. They will not work, Time and
aghin, in the country districts, they
have wanted hundreds and thousaads of
laborers. These men will not go. They
do not want to work. I Moe tried them.
I have set them to sawiug wood in my
cellar, to see whether they Wanted to
wale I offered, to pay them well for it
I lutve lewd the saw going for about
three minutes, and then I went down,
and la the wood, hut no saw!
Two minion Loafer,.
They are the pest of society, and they
stand in the way of the Lord's poor,
who ought to be helped, and will be
helped,. While there are thoueantis of in-
dustrious men who cannot get nay work,
these men who do not went any work
come and n ake that thee. Sleeping at
night at public: expense in the station
house; during the day, getting their
food at your doorstep. Imprisonment
does not scare them. Tbey would like it.
131ackwell's Island or aloyamensing pri-
son would be a comfortable home for
them. They would have no objection to
the abushouee, for they like thin soup,
if they cannot get mock turtle,
like for that class of people tho scant
bill of fare that Paul wrote out for the
Thessalonian loafers, "If any work not,
neither should he eat." I3y what law Of
God or man is it mght that you and I
should toil day in and day out until our
hands are blistered and our arms ache
and our brain gate numb, 'and then bo
called upon to support what in the
United States are about 2,000,000 loafers!
They are a very dangerous class. Let the
public authorities keep their eyes on
then
.81;
A.1iong the uprooting classes 1 place
the oppressed poor, Poverty to a certaie
extont is chastening. But after that,
when it drives a man to the wall and he
hears his obildren cry in vain for bread,
it sonaetianes makes him desperate. I
think that there are tnousands of honest
imp lacerated into vagabondism. There
are men °rushed under burdens for
which they are not half paid. While there
is no mouse for criminality, even in op-
pression' I state it as a simple fact that
much ofthe scoundrelism of the com-
munity is consequent upon ill treatment.
There are many men and women battered
and bruised and stung until the hour of
despair has come, and they stand with
the ferocity of a wild beast which, pur-
sued until it can tun no lonaer, turns
round, foaming and bleeding, to fight
the hounds.
There is a vast underground city life
that is appaling and shameful. It wal-
lows and steams with putrefaction. You
go down the stairs, which are wet and
decayed with filth,and at the bottom you
find the poor victims on the floor cold,
sick, three-fourths dead, slinking into a
still darker corner under the gleam of
the lantern of the police. There has not
been a breath of fresh air in that room
for five years literally. There they are—
men, women, children; blacks, whites;
Mary Magdalene without .tier repeatance
and Lazarus without bis God. These are
the "dives" into which tbe pickpockets
and the thieves go, as well as a great
many who would like a different life,
but cannot get it. These places are the
sores of the city which bleed perpetual
corruption. They are the underlying
voloeno that threatens us with a Caracas
earthquake. It rolls and roars and sur-
ges and heaves and rocks and blasphemes
and dies. And there are only two out
Jets for it—the police court and the
potter's field. In.other words, they must
either go to prison or to hell. Oh, you
never saw it, you say! You never will
see it until on the day when these stag-
gering wretches shall oome tip in the
light of the judgment throne and while
all hearts are being eevealed God will
ask you what you did to help them.
The Honest Poor.
. There is another layer of poverty and
destitution—not so squalid, but almost
as helpless. You hear their incessant
wailing for bread and clothes and fire.
Their eyes are sunken. Their cheekbones
stand out. Their bands are damp with
slow consumption. Their flesh is puffed
up with dropsies. Their breath is like
that; of a charnel house. They hear the
roar of the wheels of fashion overheecl
and the gay laughter of men and maid-
ens and wonder why God gave to others
so much and to them so little; some of
them thrust into an infidelity like that
of the poor German girl who, when told
in the raidst ' of her wretchedness that
God was good, she Said: "No; no good
God. Just look at me. No good God."
' In these American cities, whose cry of
want I ipterpret, there are hundreds and
thousands of ,honest poor who are de-
pendent upon individual, city and state
charities. If all their voices could come
up at •Onee, it would be a groan that
would shake the foundations Df the city
and bring all earth and heaven to the
rescue. But, for the most pert, it suffers
unexpressed. It sits in silence, gnashing
its teeth and sucking the, blood of its,
own arteries, waiting for the judgment
lay, Oh, I should not wonder if on •that
day it would be futaul out that some of
us had some things that belonged to
them; scene extra garment which might
have made them comfortable on cold
days; some bread thrust into the ash
barrel that might have appeased their
hunger for a little while; some wasted
oandle or gas jet that might have
kindled up their darkness; some fresco
on the ceiling tbat would have given
them a roof, some jewel which, brought
to that orphan girl in time, might 'lave
kept her from being crowded off the
precipices of an unclean life; some New
Testament that would have told of bins
who "came to seek and to save that
which was lost!" Oh, this wave of va-
granoy and hunger and nakedness that
dashes against our front doorstep. I won-
der if you hear it and see it as much as
I hear it and see it! I have been almost
frenzied with the perpetual cry for help
front all °lasses and from all netions,
knooking, knoching, ringing, ringing.
If the roofs of all the houses of destitu-
tion could be lifted so we could look
down into them just as God looks, whose
nerves would be strong enough to stand
it? And yet there they are.
The Highest Seats.
The sewing women, some of them in
hunger and cold, working night after
night, until sometimes the blood. spurts
from nostril and lip—how well their
grief VMS voiced by that despairing wo-
man who stood by her invalid husband
and invalid Mild and said to the oity
missionary: "I am downhearted. Every-
thing's against us, and then there are
other things." "What other things?"
said the city rnissionary. "Ob," she re-
plied, "my sin." "'Neat do you mean by
that?" "Well," she said, "I never hear
or see anything good. It's work from
iSiondaY morning to Saturday night, and
Shen when Sunday comes I can't go out,
and I walk the floor, and It makes 280
tremble to think that.I have got to meet
God. Oh, sir it's so hard for us. We
have to work so, and than we have so
much trouble, and then we are getting
along so poorly, and see this wee little
Wog growing weaker and weaker, and
then to think we are getting no nearer
to God, but floating away from him—
oh, sir, I do wish I was ready to die!"
I should not wonder if they had a
good deal better time than we in the fu-
ture to melte up for the fact that they
had such a bad time here. It would be
just lite .Tesus to say: "Come up and
take the highest seats. You suffered with
me oh earth. Now be glorified with me
In heaven." 0 thou weeping One of
Bethany! 0 thou dying One of tbe cross!
Have mercy on the starving, freezing,
homeless poor of those great cities!
A Holler Baptism,
I want you to know who are the up-
rooting classes of society. I want you to
be more discriminating in your chari-
ties. I want your hearts open with gen-
erosity and your hands open with char-
ity. I want yo8 to be made the sworn
friends of all city evangelization, and
all newsboys' lodging houses, and all
children's aid societies. Aye, I want you
• to send the Dorcas society all the oast
off clothing, that under the skillful
manipulation of the wives and mothers
and sisters and daughters these garments
may be fitted on the cold, bare feet, and
on tee shivering limbs of the destitute.
I should not wonder if that hat that
you give should 001110 back a jeweled
coronet, or that garment that you this
week hand out from your wardrobe
should mysteriously be whitened and
somebow wrought into the Saviour's
own robe, so in the last day he would
run his hand over it and say, "I was
naked and ye clothed me." Tbat would
be putting your garments to glorious
usese'
Bsides all this, I want you to appro.
elate in the contrast how very kindly
God has dealt with you in your comfort-
able homes, at your well filled tables ad
at the warm registers, and ne have you
look at the round faces of your children
and then at the review of God's goodness
to you go to your room and look the door
and kneel down and say: "0 Lord, I have
been an ingrate! Make me thy child. 0
Lord, there are so many hungry and un-
clad and unsheltered to -day, I thank thee
that all nay lite thou bast taken such
good care of me! 0 Lord, there are so
many sick and crippled children to -day,
I thank thee amine are well, some of
them on earth, some of them in heaven!
Thy goodness, 0 Lord, breaks me down!
Take rne once and forever. Sprinkled as
I was many years ago at the altar, while
ray mother held nte, now I consecrate
my soul to thee in a holier baptism of
repenting tears.
"For sinners, Lord, thou cant'st to bleed,
And I'm a sinner vile indeed,
Lord, I believe thy grace is free.
Oh, magnify that grace in me!"
Trolley Car Harems.
One of the questions that agitated
Cairo last winter was, "How can the
street railway company be compelled to
curtain more effectually the trolley car
harems?" • A large part of the city, and
by no means the European section ex-
clusively, is served by a rapid transit
system. The oars do not differ materially
from the open cars employed on Cana-
dian lines, but. the rear seat is reserved
for women instead of smokers, and its
use is indicated by curtains that might
be drawn, but in practice are not drawn,
at the sides. There is no curtain in front
to divide the harem from the other
seats, and on an important route, like
that, for example, from the Ezbeklyeh
through the Boulevard Mehemet Ali to
Old Cairo. the ceaseless Matter of its
black cloaked, black veiled occupants,
regardless of the silk robed men in front,
and the bed night capped hangers on at
the sides, gives a hysteria suggestion of
a picnic attended by masked mourners.
Many of the solid Moslems of Cairo
are disquieted by the publicity of the
street oar harems, and their feelings are
understood and to scene extent shared by
a few of the A.nalo-Egpytians of the
second and third generations. The short
line of the Constantinople underground
railway is more mindful of Moslem cus-
toms. The harem divisions of its cars are
fully curtained. But these divisions are
too small to hold the women who flock
from the Galata-Pera sections during
shopping hours to the bazaars of Stam-
boul, and there is usually an overflow in
the main part of the car. No seats are
provided, and the privacy of the Turkish
woman homeward bound at sunset after
a war of wits with the stately diplomats
of the oriental bargain counters, is oorn-
parable to that of the standing throng in
a rush trip on a Brooklyn bridge oar.--
Cosopmolitan Magazine.
Private Access.
Wbat a blessing no man can hinder
our private access to God. Every roan
can build a chapel in his breaet, himself
the priest his heart the sacrifice and the
earth he treads on the altar.---Jereiny
Taylor.
HOW TO CARE FOR CLOTHING.
The Art of Keeping Ciothing Fresh and
haoely.
When a lady takes a heavy dress off,
she should shake the skirt lightly, pass a
brutal through its silk ruffles and remove
every particle of dust from both niater-
ial and triminings. It is then slipped
over a wire rack Go prevent lirapn, 6-> in
ho a big violet sachet is suspeucled
in, isle and the hole enveloped in a lung,
loose, white cotton bag twat draws up
,t .1 11 striags and keops it clean orisp
hno poifo,necl for future use. As jto the
weiet al frocks, have roomy pasteboard
boxes for every one of them, lined with
cotton batting that has been liberally
sprinkled tvtili sachet powder and incased
in pink or blue ninslin. A slip pasted
on the end shows which bodice is in the
box and consequently there is never the
least =fusion.
After bruseing a waist lay it at full
length, pull out its bows, pass the lace
through the fingers and smooth every
inch et ribbon. •Next stuff the sleeves
and shoulders with tissue paper, crushed
lightly, to hold the garinent in good
shape. Unless you have tried this scheme
you Wive no idea how it preserves the
fine lines and freshness of basque or jac-
ket. Another important rule is never to
put a bodice away with a tarnished neck
ruche or stained sbields, One is always
less hurried when disrobing than dress-
ing, and it is impossible to infuse cloth-
ing ecitla that, delicious subtle fragrance
every woman covets unless she is fastidi-
ously dainty in these details. .After every
two or three wearings wash the shields
in warm water, clouded with ammonia,
(127 them in the sun, and they will last
for years.
Never take off a pair of boots without
immediately hieing or buttoning them
on their trees arel rubbing them thor-
ougbly with a soft flannel cloth. Treated
thus shoes will wear six months longer
than ordinarily and are alwaps shapely
and brightly polished. Use oast off even -
Ing gloves to protect the toes of patent
leathers. By cutting off the fingers and
slipping the suede up over the foot of
the shoes they are protected from sud-
den changes of temperature and dust,
both of wleich cause them to crack bad-
ly. French women preserve the forms of
their slippers by binding a strip of
whelebone to fit in heels and toes and
Spring in the center: nn easy, inexpen-
sive contrieance, and when used the
slipper never loses its narrowness of out-
line.
Bonnets and hats should rest upon
upright wooden pegs, with fiat flaring
tops teat hold them firmly and are not
so apt to allow crushing as when they
are kept ill boxes Immediately one is
taken off dust with a soft velvet brush,
smarten the trimmings between the
fingers, straighten and roll the strings
In smooth, tiget wads, so when un-
pinned again they are fresh and free of
wrinkles. With paste and scissors make
huge tissue paper caps to sit over hats
that are big enough net to touch them
end yet exclude flying dust.
What Ton Dollars a Week Will Do,
In the Ladies' Home Journal Mrs S
T Rorer shows that a family of two with
one servant oan live well on an expendi-
ture of eight dollars a week for food in
Philadelphia and the East, six dollars
in the te'outh and ten dollars in New
England. These figures. she says, cover
milk, flour, meat and marketing, as
well as groceries, and are based upon the
presumption that the woman of the
family is a practical housekeeper. "Last
summer
,
" Mrs Rorer writes, "I was
superintending very closely and carefully
any own nousehold, which numbered at
the time eight persons, and without the
slightest diffioulty I arranged an exceed-
ingly attraotive table with an expendi-
ture of only ten dollars per week, and
this covered everything used on the
table, three meals a day. To do this I
purchased beef by the loin, taking out
the fillet, using it as a roast one day for
dinner; made stook from the bones and
rough pieces, quite enough to last for
half the week. The back was taken off
and cut into steaks, and the tough lean
end divided, one portion being used for
Hamburg steaks and the other for a
brown stew with vegetables. From this
one loin, which cost 0110 dollar and
seventy-five cents, I had sufficient stook
fax three days, and meat for four din-
ners, freshly cooked for each meal, mak-
ing an average cost of forty-four cents
a meal." asl.'R
Morer also states that a family
of six, with two servants, "can live quite
well with an expenditure for the table
of fourteen milers a week. 'Where people
have sufficient means to live as the world
calls well, but which, from a hygienic
standpoint, is really bad, five-huntired
dollars a year is a very liberal allowance.
On this, in winter, you may have an
occasional dish of terrapin, providing
you use the 'fresh water;' poultry, at
least twice a week, an entree now and
then, oysters and the nacre dainty varie-
ties of fish. The dinner may be served in
three or four courses. Breakfast may
consist of a fruit, e cereal, eggs or chop,
muffins and *coffee; luncheon a little
entree, some well -cooked vegetables, and,
perhaps,a water muffin toasted,or a little
fruit With a light cake; the dinner, a
soup, a meat with two vegetables, a
salad with wafers and cheese, a light
dessert and coffee. Now and than you
may pnt in a little entree following the
soup."
Charity
His Reason.
Ex-SentaOr Gibson, of Maryland, as
•
behooves a man of hes state, has a taste
in the m
atter of terrapin which is second
in correctness to nobody's. He invited
Senator Lindsay, of '<mucky, to supper
once upon a time and terrapin held the
place of honor On the EMIL
"Senator," said the host, "let me give
you a little of this terra/One'
"No," said Senator Lindsay in a tone
like the roll of distant thunder.
"Better have some," persisted the
bearyland man "it's very fine."
"No," ruitilled Senator Lindsay.
"Don't you like terrapin?" asked ,the
Senator from Maryland, and his tone of
awe was as if he had asked, "Don't you
breathe oxygen?''
"No," rolled the thunder again, "I
don't like terrapin."
"Don't like terrapinl" repeated Sena-
tor Gibson feebly. 'Don't like terrapin!
Why" --in the voice of one who reasons
with a madman—"why don't you like
terrapin?"
"Because, sir," thundered Senator
Lindsay, "I come from a State where
they raise something else. That's why,
sir; that's why.'—New York Commer-
ciaL
teaches us to have the best
opinion of persons and to put the best
constrtiction on words and actions that
they will bear.
1 WIDOW'S STIIGGLE.
HARD WORK BROUGHT ON A
SEYERE ILLNESS.
Nervous Prostration, Dizziness and Ea-
trcome Weakness—Dr. Pink
f; pins Came to Her Rescue After Hospital
Treatment Failed.
From the Fort 'Venni= Journal.
In the, town of Fort William lives a
brave widow, who for years has by dint
of constant labor kept the wolf from the
door and ber little family together.
From morning fill night she toiled to
provide oomforts for her loved ones un-
til nature at last protested against suM
a constant drain on her strength, and so
she began to lose health. Soon the filen-
der frame became unable to bear lee
daily load of toil, and the poor mother
was at last forced to give up the tmequal
contest, and become a burden where she
had once been the obief support. Nervous
prostration, heart disease, consumption,
and other names were given to her mal-
ady by local physicians, but months
Passed, during which, she suffered -untold
agony, without finding any relief from
her sufferings. Palpitation of the beart,
dizzitiess, extreme pain in the chest, loss
of appetite and nervousness were some
of the symntorns of the disease, gather-
ings that caused exormiating pain
formed, at the knee joints and other parts
of the body, and at last she became per-
fectly helpless and unable to wane or
even sit up. At this stage she was ad-
vised to enter the hospital, that she
might have the benefit of skilled nurses
as led/ as best medical treatment; but
after spending some time there without
obtaining any relief the poor wcanan
gave up all nape of recovery and asked
to he taken home. So emaciated and
weak had she become that her 'Mende
were shooked at her appearance, and so
utterly bepoless was her condition that
it was like mookery to speak hopefully
of her ultimate recovery. What then was
the astonishment of all who had known
her dreadful condition to hear that she
had at last found a remedy whose magi-
cal power at once demonstrated the fact
that where there is life there is hope.
The name of this remedy that worked
such a wonderful change in suoh a short
time was Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, and
after taking five boxes she was able to
walk about and visit her friends. Her
strength gradually but surely returned
and in a few months from the time she
began using the medioine she was able
to resume her work. The subjeot of this
article, Mrs. Jane Marceille, is well
known, and her . youthful and bealtby
appearance to -day causes people to ex-
olaim—wonders will never cease. She
attributee her restoration to laer fatally,
solely to the virtues to be found in Dr.
Williams' Pink Pills,and her experience,
she hopes, rcay put some other sufferer
on the right road to health.
This great remedy enriches and puri-
fies the blood, strengthens the nerves,
and in this way goee.to the root of dis-
ease, driving it from the system, and,
curing when other remedies fail.
Every box of the genuine Dr. Williams'
Pink Pills has the trade mark on the
wrapper around the box, and tbe pur-
chaser can protect himself from imposi-
tion by refusing all others. Sold by al'
dealers at 50 cents a box or six boxes for
$2.50.
The chemical name for epsom salts
is sulphate of magnesia.
STATE OP OHIO, CITY OP TOLEDO,Iss.
LUCAS COUNTY.
FRANK J. CHENEY makes oath t he is the
senior partner of the firm of P. J. CHENEY & 00.,
doingbusiness in the City of Toledo. County
and State aforesaid. and flat said firm will pay
the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each
and every case of Catarrh that cannot be eland
by the use of Elpfa.'s avrAnnn CURE.
FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in my
presence, this 6th day of December, A.D. 1666.
{SEAL A. W. GLEASON,
Notary Public,
Hairs Catarrh Cute is taken internally and acts
directly on the blood and 18120008 surfaces at
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