r - - f
v
- 8f -v
fc j. 4 Jt m fc, ; A Hi. trMMMWMliw4 M.
ifMrtw'm t HNMt'!r'
I--
AU.y Jfc--yi
CAPITAL CITY COURIIfiK, SATURUAY, OKCEMI3ER 26, 1S01
3
wwrjrav,-' r ,M
;
'
-t.
v
K
tt
Kf ', ' '
'!
j, r- '
L& '
K' -
WT
r .
if ,f ' "
i' .
flS-'.-'.
W , . I
RKMG10N IN BUSINESS.
t)R. TAUMAOE 0ELIEVE3 IN TRADE
AND IN HONEST TRADERS.
JFroliirrn, MmiiiraclnrxM anil Trmltri
MulMnlljr lleprnilrnt mi Kuril Othar'a
lltinnly A flirting (' of Ilia branch
I'rlnrn Inuietlnl.
I)itooKi.VN, Doc ). Any person seeking
thosccretof Dr. Talinago's marvelous pop
ularity wllli llm million of sermon hear
n nml sermon rentier may find n clnvr to
It In tin- sermon he preached lit thn Tnlier
narlo this utoi iiImk H I"" not Mux to iln
with abstruse doctrines, but l v i u t-ir
tIuw of what limy Is) liTiiicil nilleil Chris
tianity. Ill text was Proverbs III, fl, "In
all thy vi)n acknowledge hliunmt hoidmll
direct thy paihs.'i
"A promise good enough for iniiiiy klniU
of life, hut not for my kind of life," nays
omo business limn; "the litw of supply
unit demand controls tho business world'
Hut I lime, reason to wty Unit It In a prom
Ue to nil persons In any kind of honest
business
Thero U no war lielni'uii religion and
business, lietween ledgers and lllhlex, be
tween churches ami counting houses. On
tho contrary, -cllglou accelerates business,
tharpons men's wits, sweetens acerbity of
disposition, lllllps the blood of phlegmnt
Jen and I brown more velocity Into tho
wheels of bii.d work. It gives better bal
ancing to the Judgment, mora strength to
tho will, moru muscle to Industry nnd
thrown Into enthusiasm a moru consecrated
tiro. Yon cannot In all tho round of the
world show mo a man whoso honcat. busl
no linn been despoiled by religion.
Tho IndliHtrbil classes aru divided Into
thrco groups producers, manufacturers,
traders. Producers, such us fiinuurs ami
Bilncrs, Manufacturers, hiicIi m those
who turn corn Into food, anil wool and llax
Into apparel. Trader, hiicIi an make prollt
eutof the transfer and oxehungenf all that
which Ih produced and manufactured. A
business man may belong to any nuu or all
of thesoclasses, nod not one Is Independent
of any other,
When the prince Imperial of Franco fell
on tho Zulu hultlcllcltl because, the strap
fastening thu stirrup to the middle broke
m huclung to It, hist comrades all escaping,
but ho falling under tho laures of the
lavages, a ureal many people blamed tho
empress for allowing her son to go forth
Into that buttlolluld.nud others blamed the
English government for accepting the
Mcrlllcu, and other blamed thu Zulus for
their barbarism, Thu ono most to hlamo
wiut tho harness maker who fashioned that
trap of tho stirrup out of shoddy and lui
perfect material, iih it was found to have
been afterward. If thu Ht rap had held, tho
prince Imperial would probably liavo licen
live today. Hut thu strap broke. No
prluco Independent of a harness maker.
High, low, wise, Ignorant, you In onu
occupation, I In another, all bound to
gather. So that thero miint Ih onu contin
uous lino of sympathy with each other's
work. Hut whatever your vocation, If you
bVQ multiplicity of enKiiKcincntx, If Into
your Ufa thero coma lotses ami annoyances
nd perturbations an well as percentaKes
ud dlvlilcndN, If )on arc purHUetl from
Monday mornliiK until Sattinlay niuht,
and from January to January by Inexor
able obligation anil duty, then you are a
biuineM man or you aru a business wom
an, and my subject Is appropriate to your
CAM.
lltQII KNCOMIUM ON IIUStNKSS MKN.
Wo aro under tho Impression that the
moll and tug of business life aro a prison
Into which a man la thrust, or that It Is an
unequal strife where unarmed a man goes
forth to couteutl. 1 shall show you that
business life wan intended of God for grand
and glorious education ami discipline, and
If I Ahull be helped to say what I want to
aay, I shall rub some of thu wrinkles of
caro out of your brow and unstrap homo of
the bunions from jour buck. I am not
talking to an abstraction. Though never
having been in business rife, 1 know all
about business men.
Iu my first parish nt Hellovllle, New Jer
sey, ten miles from New York, a largo por
tion of my audience wan uiiido upof New
York merchants. Then 1 went to Syra
cuse, a place of lutcuso commercial activi
ty, und then I went to Philadelphia ami
lived long among tho merchants of that
city, than whom there are no better men
on earth, and for moru than twenty-two
yearn 1 have stood In this presence, Sab
bath by Sabbath, preaching to audiences,
the majority of whom aro business men
awl business women. It Is not an abstrac
tion to which I speak, hut a reality with
which I am wull actiuilntetl.
In tho llrht place, I leiunrk that business
lire was Intended its a school of energy,
3...I iIi.m ..u ,. ,.urt.ilii i...t...t .tf ....... .....
God gives us a curtain amount of raw ma
torlitl out of which wu are to hew our char
actor. Our faculties are to bu reset,
rounded ami sharpened up. Our young
folks huvlug graduated from school or col
lage, ueed a higher .education, that which
the rasping and collision of everyday llfo
alone can elU-cl. Koergy Is wrought out
only iu it lire. After it man has boon In
business activity ten, twenty, thirty yw.rs,
his energy la not to be measured by weights
p: plummets or ladders. There Is no
height It cannot scale, ami there Is no
depth It cannot fathom, and there Is no
obstacle It cuiiuot thrash.
, Now, my brother, why did God put you
la that school of energy? Was It merely
that you might bo a ynrdstlck to measure
cloth or it steelyard to weigh Dour? Was
It merely that you might bo better quail
led to chatter nml higgle? No. God placet!
you Iu that school of energy that you
might bo developed for Christian work. If
the undeveloped talents In tho Christian
churches of today were brought out and
thoroughly harnessed, I bcliovo thu wholu
world' would Imi converted to God in n
abort time. There are so many deep
streams that nre turning no mill wheels
and that are harnessed to no factory bands.
Now, God demands tho bust lamb out of
every flock. Ho demands thu richest she.if
of every harvest. Ho demands the best
Hie ii of every generation. A cause in which
Newton ami Locke and Mansfield tolled
you aud I can alTonl to toil In.
WORK roil 001) A8 WULL AS FOU 8ELK.
Ob, for fewer Idlers Iu the cnuso of
Christ and for more Christian workers
aieo who ahull taku the same energy that
from Monday morning to Saturday night
they put forth for the achievement of a
livelihood or tho gathering o a fortune,
and ou Sabbath days put It forth to the ad
vantage of Christ's kingdom and the
'bringing of meu to the I ml. Dr. Duff, In
South Wales, saw a man who Imd Inherit
d a great fortune, The man said to him:
"I had to le very busy for mauy years of
y life getting my livelihood. After awhile
this fortune came to me, and there baa
beta no necessity that I toll since. There
MBM- time. when 1 said to myself, 'Shall
I sow retire from business, or shall I goon
and serve the Lord Iu my worldly occupa
ttear' " He said: "I resolved on the latter,
tad I have bees aaore Industrious 1b oobb-
meitlal circles Innn I rter was before, anil
lucti t bat hmir I have never kept a farthlnu
for in) self, I have thought It to Itungrrat
Imtno If couldn't toil as bard for th
Lord as I Imd tolled for mjself, and all tho
products of my factories and my commer
cial establishments to the last farthing
hino gouu for tho building of Christian In
dilutions nml supporting tho church of
(bid." Oh, If thn same energy put forth
for tho world could be put forth for Godl
Oil, If a thousand men In these great cities
who have achieved a fortune could see It
their duty to do nil business for Christ mid
the alleviation of thn wot Id's suffering.
Again, I remark, that business llfu Is a
school of patience. In your everyday life
how many things to annoy nml lo ills
Hiileil llargalus will rub. Commercial
men will sometimes fall to meet their en
gugemeiits. Cash book and money drawer
will sometimes quarrel, Goods ordered
for a special emergency will como too Into
or lm damaged In tlio tiausportatiou. Pco
plo Intending no harm will go shopping
without any Intention of purchase, over
turning great stocks of goods ami Insisting
that you break thn ilorou, More bail debts
on thu ledger. Moru counterfeit hills In
thu drawer. Mnro debts to pay for other
people. More mrantie-ises on tho part of
partners In business. Aiiuoynnco after
annoyance, vexation after vexation nnd
loss after loss.
All that process will cither break you
down or brighten you up, It Is a school of
patience. You have known mon under
tho process to Ih-coiiio petulant nnd chol
eric ami angry and pugnacious nml cross
nnd sour nml queer, nnd they tost their
customers, nnd their unmo beenmo a de
testation Other men havo Imoii bright
ened up under tho process. They were
toughened by the exposure. They were
like rocks, all thu moru valuahlo for boltig
blasted. At Mrs 1 1 bey bad to choke down
their wrath, at llrst they bad to bite their
lip, alllrsl they thought of some stinging
retort they would like to make, but they
conquered their Impatience. They havo
kind words now for sarcastic flings. They
hau gentle belnulor now for unmannerly
customers, They are patient now with tin-
foi lunate debtors,
'I hey luivu Christian j
tltleii ruvorxes. Where
tlcncur lly hearing a
reflections now for slid
did I hey get that iiatl
minister preach concerning It on Sabbath?
Oh, no. They got It just where you will
get It If you uvcr gut It at all selling
hats, discounting notes, turning banlstern,
plowing corn, tinning roofs, pleading
muses. Oh, that amid thn turmoil ami
.... j ...... ...-.,-.. ...i... ... .. t.j.i..j inn
ii ii v lut v ii lui ti nuiinrni litttfir ninii ilmi 1 1 r.
ton migiit near tnovolcoor lioil saying:.
"In patience possess your soul. Let pn i
lleneu havo her perfect work."
IIIIHINIIM A BCIIOOI. or LIPK.
I remark again that business llfu Is a
school of useful knowledge. Merchants tit) '
not read many books and do not study
lux Icons,
I hey do not divu Into profounds '
of learning, and jet nearly all through
their occupations comolo understand quos
tlous of llimncu ami polities ami geogra
pby ami Jurisprudence ami ethics. Husl
ness Is a severe schoolmistress. If pupils
will not learn, shu strikes them over the
head anil thu heart with severe lossos. You
put. $.1,000 Into an enterprise. It Is all gone.
You say, "That Is a dead loss." Oh, no.
You are paying thn schooling. That was
only tuition, very largo tuition I told you
It was a severe schoolmistress-hut It was
worth It. You learned things under that
process you would not Imui learned In an)
othur way.
Traders In grain come to know some
thing about foreign harvests; traders In
fruit como to know something about the
prospects of tropical production; manufac
turers of American goods como to under
stand tho tarllT on Imported articles; pub
lishers of books must comu to understand
thu new law of copyright; owners of ships '
must comu to know winds and shoals mid '
navigation; ami every bale of cotton, and
every r.ilsln cask, and every ten box, and
uery cluster of bananas Is so much litera
ture for a business man. Now, my brother,
what are you going to do with tho Intelli
gence? Do you silpposu God put you In
this school of Information merely that you
might be sharper iu a tratle, that you
might Imi moru successful as it worldling?
Oh, no; it was that you might take that
useful Information and usu It for Jesus
Christ.
Can It bu that you have lieen dealing
with foreign lands und never had thu mis
sionary spirit, wishing tho salvation of
foreign lxjoplor Can it bo that you have
Itocomu acquainted with nil tho outrages
Inflicted Iu business llfo, and that you havo
never tried to bring to bear that Gospel I
which Is to extirpate all evil nml correct I
all wrongs nml Illumine all darkness and
lift up nil wretchedness and save men for
this world ami thu world to comof Can It
Ik) that understanding all tho Intricacies
of business you know noUilug ulioiit thoso
things which will last long after all bills
j of exchange and consignments and Invoices
I I ...... -..II.- ..I. ..II 1 I. .1 1
iiml rent rolls shall have crumpled up and
Ik-oii consumed in thu llres of thu last great
day? Cut It bu that it man will bu wise for
llmu and it fool for eternity?
A SCHOOL KOII INTEUIItTY.
I remark, also, that business llfo is a
school for Integrity. No man knows what
ho will do when lie Is tempted. There are
thousands of men who have kept their Ljt
legrlty merely Ik-caiim) they never luivu
been tested, A man was elected treasurer
of thu statu of Malnu somu yenrs ago. Ik
was distinguished for his honesty, useful
ness and uprightness, but before ono )e.u
hail passed ho had taken of thu public
funds for his own private use, and was
hurled out of olllco In disgrace Distin
guished for virtuu before. Distinguished
for crime after. You can call over tho
names of men Just like that, In whose hon
esty you had complcto confidence, but
placed In certain crises of temptation they
went overboard.
Never so many temptations toscoundrel
Ism as now. Not it law on tho statute book
nut nas somu duck ttoor through which it
miscreant can escape. Aht how many de
ceptions In thu fabric, of goods; so much
plundering In commercial llfu, t hnt If a man
talk about ll"lng a llfo 'of complete, com
mercial accuracy there are thoso who its
crilw It to gretnuess ami lack of tact. More
ueetlof honesty now than ever before tried
honesty, complete honesty, more than In
thoso times when business was a plain af
fair, and woolens were woolens and silks
were silks and mon were men.
How many men do you suppose there uro
In commercial llfo who could say truth
fully, "In all the sales I hnvo ever made 1
havo never overstated tho value of goods;
Iu all the sales I have ever made I have
never covered up an imperfection in tho
fabric; of all tho thousands of dollars 1
have ever made I hnvo not taken one dis
honest farthlug?" There are men, how
ever, who can say it hundreds who can
say It, thousands who can say it. They
are more honest than when they sold their
first tierce of rice, or their first firkin of
butter, because their honesty and Integ
rity have been tested, trietl And carried out
triumphant. Out they remember a time
when they could have robbed a partner, or
have absconded with the funds of a bank,
or sprung a snap Judgment, or made a
false assignment, or borrowed tlllmitablj
without any ctfmt at payment, or got a
Iran Into a sharp comer nml Merced hint.
Dill they never topk one step on that
pathway of hell fire. They enn say their
jirajers without bearing tho chink of dis
honest dollars, They can read their Hlble
without thinking of thn time when, with
n Ha on their soul, In thu custom house
they kissed the Hook. Thny cnu think of
death anil thu Judgment thai comes nftcr
It without any flinching that day when
all charlatans and clients nml jockeys nnd
frauds shall ha doubly dnniticd, It does
not make their knees knock together nml
It does not make their teeth chatter to
read "as thn partridge sltteth on eggs and
hatcbctli them not, so tin Hint gutteth
riches, and not by right, shall leave them
In thu midst of his ilasantl at his end
shall bun fool,"
Oh, what ii school of Integrity business
llfu Isl If you have ever been templed to
let your Integrity cringe beforo presant nd
vantage; If you hnvo over wakened iid In
somu embarrassment and sahli "Now I'll I
step n little asltlu from the right path and '
no onu will know It, mid I'll como all light
again It Is only once." Oh, that only
once has ruined tens of thousands of men
for this life and blasted their souls for
eternity. It Is u tremendous school, busl
ness life a school of Integrity. A mer
chant In Liverpool got a flvo pound Hank
of Kngland note, anil holding It up toward
thu light ho saw somu Interlineations In
what seemed red Ink,
Ho finally deciphered tho letters, nml
found out that the writing had been lnr.do
by n slave Iu Algiers, saying In substance,
"Whoever gets this banknote will nleasu
to Inform my brother, John Dean, living
near Carlisle, that I am a slavo of tho bey
of Algiers." Thu merchant sent word,
employed government, olllcers and found
who this man was spoken of Iu this bank
hill, After awhile thu man was rescued,
who for eleven j ears had la-en a slave of
thu bey of Algleis. He was Immediately i
emancipated, but was so worn out by
hardship and exposure ho noon after tiled.
Oh, If some of thu hank bills that come I
through jour hands could tell all thu ,
scenes thrniiuh which thnv huvn iuimvpiI.
It would bo it tragedy eclipsing any drainn
of Shakespeare, mightier than King Lear
or MiipImjIIi.
i hi: tkmitations ok UUDIN'USS mks.
As I go on In this subject, I am Impressed
with tho Importance of our having more
sympathy with business men. Is It not a
sliaiuo thatwu Inuur pulpits do not oftener
preach about their struggles, their trials
t I I . . . &
ami iiieiriempiaiionsr .Men wno toll wit n
and tliolrtoinptntlonsf
t, hand mti not. apt to be vury syiupn
thetlti wltli those who toll with tho britlu,
llm farmers who ruisu thu corn, and the
oatH, ami thu whuat. sometlmesaru tempted
to tniiiK mat grain merchants luivu uu
,.,wy time, ami get their tirollts without
ulvlmr anv eniili-iih.iit. Iiii l ai-u
tntlu weiu so opposed to inerchandiso that
they declared commerce to bo the curse of
thu nations, and thuy advised that cities
Iw built at least leu miles fiom thu sea
coast. Hut you ami 1 know that there mono
more Industrious or high minded meu
than thoso who move In tho world of traf
lie. Somu of them carry burdens heavier
than boils of brick, ami lire exposed to
sharper things than thu east, wind, and
climb mountains higher than thu Alps or
Himalayas, and If they aru faithful Christ
will nt Inst M.ty tot hem: "Well done, good
and faithful servant; thou hast I wen faith
ful over a few things, I will uiaku thee
ruler over many things Kntcr thou Into
thn Joy of thy Iionl."
Wo talk about thu martyrs of thu Pled
mont valley, ami tho martyrs among the
Scotch highlands, and thu martyrs at Ox
ford. There nre just as certainly martyrs
of Wall street and State street, martyrs of
Fulton street and llroatlway, martyrs of
Atlautla street ami Chestnut street, going
through hotter Hies, or having their docks
under sharper axes. Then It behooves us
to banish all fretfuliiess from our lives If
this subject Iks line. Wo look buck to thu
tlmu when wu were at school, ami wu re
member thu roil, and wu remember thu
hard tasks, and wu complained grievously,
hut. now wu sou it was for thu best. Husl
ness llfu Is a school, ami thn tasks are
hard, and thu chastisements sometimes are
vury grievous, hut do not complain. Thu
hotter thu ilru thu better thu rellnlng.
There are men lief ore the throne of God
this day lu triumph who on earth were
cheated out of everything but their colllu.
They were sued, I hey were Imprisoned for
debt, they were throttled bj constables
with a wholu pack of writs, they wore sold
out by thushurlirs, thuy had no compromise
with their creditors, they had to iiiako as
signments. Their dying hours were an
no) od by thu sharp ringing of tho door
bell by some Impetuous creditor who
thought It was outrageous ami impudent
that a man should tlaru to die lieforo ho
paid thu last, three shillings anil sixpence.
I had it friend who had many mlsfor
tunes. Kverythiug went against him. He
had gootl business quality und wits of the
best morals, hut lie was onu of thoso men
such as j mi have sometimes won, for whom
ever) thing seems to go wrong. Ills llfo
became to him it plague. When I heard
he was dead I said, "Good; gtriil of the
slieriirs!" Who are thoso Justroim souls
before the throne? When the question It
nskrd, "Wlio lire they?" thu unguis stand
lug on thu ten of glass respond, "These are
thuy who c.tuiu out of great business troti
hlu ami had their robes washed and made
white iu the blood of tho Limb."
IIKMAItKAIILK AN.SWLIt TO l'HAYEIt.
A man arosu iu Fulton street prayer
meeting anil said: "1 wish publicly to no
knowledge thu goodness of God. I wits lu
business trouble. I bad money to pny,
and I had no means to pity It, nnd I was In
utter despnlr of nil human help, and I laid
this matter before tho Lord, nml this mom
ing I went down among some old luslues
friends I had not seen In many j ears just
to uiako n call and ono said to mo: 'why,
I am so glad to co you; walk In. Wo hnve
somu money on our lmoks duo you it gootl
w Idle, but wu didn't know w here you were,
ami therefore not having your address we
could not send It. We are very glad you
hnvocoimV " And tho man standing In
Fulton street prayer mealing wild, "The
amount they paltl mo was six times whin
lowed." You say It only happened ho.
You are an Inlltlel. God answered thai
man's prayer. Ob, )ou want buulues
grace. '
Commercial ethics, business honors, Iaw
of trnde, nre all very good lu their placi,
but there arc times when jou want some
thing more than this worltl will give you
You want Got). For tho lack of him som
that you hnve known hnvo consented t
forge, und to maltreat their friends, nml t
curse ineir enemiei, nnu tholr names hav
been bulletined among scoundrels, an
they have been ground to powder, whih
other meu you havo known havo gou
through tho very samo stress of clrcm
stances triumphant. There are meu h
today who fought the battlu and gai
tho vlotory. People come out of i
man's store, nml they say, "Well, tf tl,
ever was a Christian trader, that Is on
Integrity kept the books ami waited
the customers. Light from the etri,
world flashed through the show window
liovn to God nnd lore to man presided In
tlmtstoroboiis').
Somu day people going through tho street
notice that thu shutters of tho window nro
not down. Tho bar of that store door hits
not been removed, People say, "Whnt Is
thu matter?" You go up a llttlo closer,
nml yoji sea written ou thu enrd of that
window, "Closed on nccouutof tho death
of ono of thu film." That day nil through
tho circles of bushiest thero Is tntk nbotit
how n good man has gone. Hoards of
trade pass resolutions of sympathy, nntl
churches of Christ pray, "Help, Iortl, for
thu godly man ceascth."
Ho has made his last bargain, ho has suf
fered his last loss, ho has ached with thu
last fatigue, His children will get tho re
sult of his Industry, or, If through misfor
tune there bu no dollars left, they will hnvo
mi estate of prayer ami Christian example
which will 1st everlasting. Henvenly re
wards lor earthly discipline There "tho
wicked ceasu from troubling nml thu wenry
aru at rest."
Tli Wlf of lllsnmrck.
Thn iiillueucoof thu Princess Hlsmarck
over her husband has been strong, endur
ing and elevating, nml hits never for a mo
ment wavered, it Is no doubt true, ns thu
prlncu so often says, that what ho is sho
lias made him. Alwa)s shu has enjoyed
his entire confidence nnd knows his diplo
matic Intentions and plans from concep
tion to fruition, tho trust which ho plnces
In her discretion nntl devotion being Im
plicit. Hy her mnrrlngu with Prlnco Hlsmarck
shu has hail thrco children, nil of whom
nro llt'lug, Herbert, William nnd Marie,
now thu Countess of Itautzau, who lives
with her parents nnd thrco llttlo sons nt
Frlcilrichsriih.
Tho family goes but llttlo into society,
preferring rather toeiitertaln their friends
iu their home. Tho princess Is it flno mu
sician, her tasic for classical music being
strollgl) developed, Ami out) of tho pretti
est sights at thu cast lu Is the evening pic
ture of Hlsmaiek, sitting lu his armchair,
poking meditatively at tho lire, while his
wife plays lleethoven'H sonatas to him and
the family nml guests sit. about listening
nml enjoying.
She is of n quick, lively disposition, with
gootl taste, deter wit nml Intelligence of
mure than ordinary quality. Shu is it most
prudent ami ecouoiui"iil housekeeper, fa
moils in times past for thu delicious little
(Illinois which she could concoct with thu
smallest of outlays.
Her religious character Is strong to the
degieu of bigotry Having inherited a
strain of Kvaiigellcal piety her parents
were stanch .Moravians she has a feeling
of such Intense hatred for thu French,
whom she legniils as it nation of heretics,
(hat shu was most hitter In her denuncia
tion of them and strongly urgent in her
advice to her husband to cxtci inlnato
them, her solu reason for all this being a
fanatical real for thu well being of the
Kvaiigellcal religion. Ladles' Home Jour
nal. Hints for Hollies.
Dollies mailu to match tho lunch cloth
would be vury pretty. A narrow hem ami
two narrow bands of tlrawiiwork, with
feather stitching done In pointed lines,
will make the appropriate edge, ami thu
space within may bu occupied by an Initial
or left plain.
A set of dollies containing allusions to
thu mouths, both lu text ami flowers, will
Is.- it charming remembrance for an artistic
friend when thu gift season comes, as comu
It will long before wu are ready for It, If
wu long ago began our preparations. Thu
little linen dollies with hemstitched etigu
can bu bought so cheaply that it Is not
worth while to make them. Draw upon
each one of thu set a flower or (lowers ap
propiiatu to a certain mouth ami writo n
motto to ho worked In outline stitch with
black silk. A pretty sentiment for one
"September wates her goltlenrotl." On
onu sidu of thu dolly is n beautifully
worked spray of goltlenrotl dnno with yel
low silk in French knots, On another ono
the Mowers nre roses thu motto, "Sweetest
roses welcome Junu."
Some other sentiments which may lie
accompanied by suggestive flowers are:
"Thu violet hides from March's rough
eaiess." "Our vine wreathed king, Oc
tober." "Popples bloom in thu Held lu fair
July." "Hips ami haws in bleak Novem
ber." "boploinber'H child, tho meadow
hell." "The stately fox glove, August's
low." "The satin holly of December."
"Thu gracious pluo not oven Jauunry's
blast can strip." "The lichen soft iu Feb
riini)'s wintry smllo." "Fruition's prom
ise comes lu May." "November's frost
la)s bare thu nuts." "Anemone, sweet
April's hnly." In working tho quotations
emphasis is given to thu tiamuof tho month
by working It In a color, whilu tho re
maliiderof thulelteiing Is done with black,
i Harper's lla.ar.
, Oluver llrl Surprise.
A certain yomiK woman who, her family
wis, sits tip nlKlits to think up clever
things, thought up n specially clever ono a
month hi. Tim family knew us soon ns
hhe caiiioilowii lu thu morning from her
air of supreme self satisfaction that she
hail an hlea uorUnu somewhere hack lu
her liraln. Uut for n week or more she kept
her own counsel; then, ono morning, when
they came in to hreakfast, they knew. For
ut each placu was a small plntu of hot hut
tared toast, ami ou every slice appeared the
mououram of somu ono memher of the
family, in cieuuv jellow against a golden
brown li.iikginiiiiil.
And heu everyhody had wondered
enough to satisfy tliu vanity oven of this
exacting young woman, Hhe wius Induced
to go down into thu kitchen mid display
thucontrlvancu hy which she had brought
It all alxuit. It was mndu like an ordinary
toaster, only that the center was composed
of a monogram, which was held In the
framu hy a single wire attached to each
side. When the bre.ul was put iu nml held
over tho Ilru thu metal of tho monogram
kept its outline from browning, nml when
thu rest of thu surface was crlspund brown
thu letter duvico wax just touched with
creamy yellow, Thu rack was madu of
ordinary wlro, and thu letters wuru of tin.
There was a toaster for each member of
thu family, so that thu self esteem of all
might bu equally ministered to, ami thu
toasters were capable of holding but ono
slice nt a tlmu,
"Thu beauty of this toaster," explained
tho clever young woman, "is tiiat thuy
could bo piade iu silver and used for din
ner favors."
Hut her father shook his head ruefully
and wild, "I don't see thu beauty of Unit,"
New York Sun,
On Kuijr Tcrui.
Mrs. Wlnterhloom I fared ho nicely
Chrittmas. Harold, open the piano your
papa gave mo for Mrs. Van Twlller to
look at.
Mw, Van Twlller (enthiulastlcatly)
What a beauty! If you will pardon my
aylng o, mob an expensive present too.
Harold Pa taya It's only eight dollars a
fcjonth. Life.
HOLIDAY GOODS.
ROCKERS,
PARLO.R TABLES
and STANDS,
HALL TREES and CHAIRS,
Dining Room Tables and Chairs,
Side Boards, Chiffoniers, etc.
IN HARDWARE DEPARTMENT:
Pocket and Tabic Cutlery, Shears and Scissors, Rogers'
Plated Knives, Forks and Spoons. Fancy Tea and Coffee
Fots. Twenty different styles of Table Carvers. Skates and
Sleds, all and see us.
RUDGE &
HIS TO 112
"tuft-- n jttLW Hi MfcZMM. , fej fe'
- IW'fflBlffwillHB it si
G. A. RAYMER &CO.
COAL
CANON,
ROCK SPRINGS,
PERFECTION,
DUQUOIN,
JACKSON,
HICKORY BLOCK,
BEST GRADE
Telephone 390.
The Old Reliable Carpet House.
SPECIAL HOLIDAY BARGAINS.
Large Line
of
PUR RUGS
,3us: , 'MnSiJUai'
deceived ,v ,- tAztr
R'eee
A. M. DAVIS & SON.
Phone 219. 1 1 12 O Street.
"You My the ticket
"We do the rest."
J. FRANCIS,
General Passenger Agent,
OMAHA.
"-
MORRIS,
IS ST
Nebraska's Leading Hotel.
THE MHRRAY
Cor. mil and Harney Hts,,
STRICTLY FIRST-CLASS
All Modern Improvements nml
Conveniences.
B. 8ILL0WAY, Pro-rletor.
IRA HIQBY, Principal OU
IOWA,
COLOR Apa
newcaSTCb.
OF HARD COAL.
Office 1 134 O Strttt,
Wilton and
Smyrna Rugs
at
Reduced Prices.
A. C. ZIEMER,
City Passenger Agent,
LINCOLN.
fMzS$fo A Choice Line
? YiWfeft Moquette,
,
;. '. t
' !'
$.' -
