Till DAILY HERALD, ILAITSMOUIIT, NKBUASKA, MONDAY, JANUARY 00,1888.
A
J)(X.IIX()X OF FASHION.
DR. TALMACE'S FOURTH SERMON TO
TH2 WOMEN OF AMERICA.
IlHNiinil:irily In llio At tiro r tlio Kexen
mi liKliciilloii of ;il Moral A Mu-(iili.'M-
Wouiui. ami 'Womanly M;iu
Am AIiki l:cpn-i;mt.
15;i(uici.YX, Jan. Tli Ilcv. T. He
Witt T;ihii:ige, I). lJ., pre.uhed today in
the Jiroohly.'i TaU'niucle the fourth of
the i.c: if-s of " Sermons to I'm Women of
Ameriea, with !in;ortant Hints to Men."
The ul.jeet of the s rinoit vvjih: "Domin
ion of I'uhioii,'' jind the text wjus from
lVutiVotiouiy .ii, -j: " The vvoin.ui shall
not wejtr tl.i.t which jm Ttaim th unto a
man. iii i'h- r .sh:.II ;t man put on ji wo
man's t : for ah" that lo hi an
silomirm!io;i :nre tin; Lord thy Cod."
J)r. Ti.lm;,;- ...a'.-l:
la tiii-, the leiirt'i .s-ruion of the sori'-.s
of Ki r:non, I w '.-.W (hose who liear to
Ix-ar i.i i.iiid that I take in;. roiisidi ra
tion not o .I;, tho.-e w!iolil 1 l.eve 'oefolO
ineoii S I. .r!( .l.iy-i. but t!ie v. ider uudi
wiee ojic:i!-.i :;.n.ii';!i llii. printing pre:-s;
Jtli'l v!il.- .-oiii-- i oiir-.s hi;; y not Lie par
tici;!e:!y ;:.;.; o;.; i;.'e for one locality,
th" . :!; ! , ! i!.- '., m::iiy other loeal-i'i--.
At.-1 !-.. . J v.;:' i j a" -.(.cut that I
h i.i- r 1 1. ;.,y,- i- . I in ml. lie. Alxiit
tweiilv ..i ; ; i !,. lo pray that
Coil v. . ;: in i.r- the ppor'uuity of
I'l-i-aeli!!- ; l!!i'o: ,ii lie .-, liar news-pep.-r
i he ri-i i:';io!!.; papers hi
whie'i . .s; r.ij' .i.s h;al been published
;: ll v vc:.l (o po.h ively religion:; fam
ilies, i a -.!:.-. 1 bd f,,t- the wider iie.'il
ill which to r i. .!-l,-ii;u thoereat truths of
r.-li;;i i! aii'i -oo.l ?: r. ,r;d.:. In a r-trangu
way th' an .'.s. r ;!iuc. And the .-yudi-e:;te
hi:ig c!';ii-.; of these i:i:;ttei'3
inform, io-- th:.t i-ry week there tiro
i:oa- l:!.(i(,-,(i(M) copi.s of my di-;-ei:i:rsi-s
j ub!i hi 1 in this country, ami
si I m til i four million in ot her lands, whether
Kugli.-h soo.iMag countries or by transla
tion ::i many foreign tongues. I want,
people t, mn!i'i'.-.i:.::.l that it is all in un
sv.vr io pravi r to Cod that this opp-ortu-nily
has eouie, ami I pray for graro to
CM-otioy tin- licit!. It is i:ot. therefore,
pr .-..u.ipiuous when I give wide scope to
the.o tii our -;s and addre-s them "to
tin women of American, with important
hint.-! to men."
(Jod thought womsiiily f.tt ire of enough
imiorta:iec to have it discussed in tho
llioli'. i'atil the Apostle, hy no means
a sentiuuTilaii.-L and aceu.-.to:i;ed toilv.U
on t lie v.reat tiiemes of (iod :ind the
ri'surn ctiou, writes alioiit the arrange
ment f woman's hair and the style of
lu-r jewelry, and in my text ?loses. his
far yt t tilled with t!:e thunder of Mount
Sinai, declares !h;;t womanly :;ttire must
1h in m:.rkc;l contract with mas
culine ati'i-'-. and infraction of
that law excites the indignation of
hi;;!i heave:!. Ji:.,t in j.ronorlion a3 the
morals of a cot :n try or ;m :;.t;e are de
pri'ssed is that 1: v defied. Show me the
f:L-hioii plates of any century, from the
time of th-- delude to this, and I will tell
you the exact Mate of public morals.
Dloomerisui in this cotintry years ago
seciLfd about to break down this divine
law, hut there was enough of good in
American Mcieiy to beat back the in
deeeney. Yet ever and anon we have
imported from France, or erhaps in
vented on this fide of the sea, a style
th::t proposes as far as possible to make
' women dress like men. and thousands of
young womi n catch the mode, until some
one goes a little too far in imitation of
masculinity, ami the whole custom by the
gotxl sense of American womanhood is
obliterated.
Tho costumes of the countries are dif
ferent, and in the same country may
change, but tlwro is a divinely ordered
dissimilarity which, must be forever ob
served. Any divergence from this ij
administrative of vice and runs against
the keen thrust of the text, which says:
"The woman s'.ir.ll not wear that which
pertain, t'n unto a man, neither shall a
man put on a woman's garment: for all
that do so art ubomkuition unto the Lord
thy Cod."
Mtuiy years r.po a French authoress,
signing h.T.-i-if C-.-orge Sand, by her cor
rupt but brii:ia.:t writings depraved
homes r.n.l lil-rari.-s innuai-rabii'. and
was a Ji". ::;ry ;.rar;dn:o:her of all the
j,r.-eiit l-'rench a-.d Aeierietm authors
who have written ;i::;i;;- i-iu-.h worse
that tltey ii.iv;' n::iile Iter putrefaction
quite p:v.-ei. 1.1 ;e. That French autlioress
put on i:i:i-i-; -line att;rc. Sin? was con
his: cut. U.-r writin.fs a:.d her behavior
were perl'cetiy ticc;:r.ai:t.
T-Iy text, by i.ni !i ntion, abhors mascu
line women and womanly men. Yv'hat a
sickei;'n:. thi?ig it is to see a man copy
ing the s-pi ti ll, the wt.Ik, t lie manner of
a woman. The trouble is that they do
lic-t imitate a sen.--il.ie woman, but some
female imbecile. And they simper, and
they go with mint ing step, and lir-p, and
scream at nothing, and take on a lan
guishing look, and Lang their hair, and
are the n.t;ica:r n of hones-1 folks of both
sexes. Uli. n u.'n. be ;i man! You belong
tomiite :i j-ettrJ le tc-x. Tlie starting
figure of ti'.e htmian race was a man. Do
i;ot try to cri .s over, and so Income a
hybrid", neither one nor the other, but a
failure, half way between.
Alike repugnant are masculine women.
They copy a mt-.n't stalking gait and go
down tiie street wi.h the stride of a
walkmgieam. Thy wish they could
smoke cigarettes, and some of them do.
They talk i-iittronsly and try to sing
bass. They d not laugh, they roar.
They canr.ot t;iiile manage the broad jiro
fanity of the sex tiiey rival, but their
conversation is often a half swear; and if
they said "Oil. Lord" in earnest prayer
as often as they say it in lightness they
would W high up in sainthood. Withal
Ihere is an assumed rugosity of apparel,
and they wear a man's hat only changed
bv being in two or three places smashed
in and a dead canary clinging to the gen
eral wreck, and a man's coat tucked in
here and there according to an unaccount
able esthetics. Oh, woman, stay a
woman! You also belong to a very re
spectable rex. The second figure of the
human race was a woman, and some
times a second edition of a volume is the
first edition improved and corrected. Do
not trv to cross over. If you do you will
be a failure as a woman and only a non
descript of a man. We already have
enough intellectual and moral bankrupts
In our sex without your coming over to
make worse the deficit.
In my text, aa bj a parable or figure
of BivHjch, it ia made evident that Moses,
the inspired writer, as vehemently an our
selves, reprehended the effeminate man
and the ma&culine woman: "The woman
fhall not wear that which pertain -th
unto a man, neither shall a man put on
a woman's garment, for all that do so
are aljomi nation unto tho Lord thy Ood."
My text also sanctions fashion. In
deed, it sets a fashion! There is a great
deal of senseless cant on the subject of
fashion. A woman or man who does not
regard it is unfit for good neighlorhol.
The only question is, what is right fash
ion and what is wrong fashion? Ileforo
I stop I want to show you that fashion
has been one of the mit jxrtent of re
formers and one of the vilest of usurpers.
Sometimes it has been an angel from
heaven, ami at others it has leen the
mother of abominations. As tho world
grows better there will be as much fash
ion as now, but it will lie a righteous
fashion. In the future life white robes
always have been and always will bo in
the fashion.
There is a great outcry against this
submission to social custom, as though
any consultation of tho tastes and feel
ings of others were deplorable; but with
out it the world would have neither law,
order, civilization, nor common decency.
There has leeii a canonization of blunt
ness. There are men and women who
lionst that they can tell you all they know
and hear alout you, especially if it !e
unpleasant. Some have mistaken rough
behavior for frankness, when the two
qualities do not belong to the same,
family. You have no right with j our
eccentricities to crash in ujioii the sen
sitiveness of others. There is no virtuo
in walking with hoofs over lino carpets.
The most jagged rock is covered with
blossoming moss. The storm that comes
jarring down in thunder strews rainbow
colors upon the sky and silvery drops on
orchard and meadow.
There aro men who pride themselves
on their capacity to "stick" others. They
say: "I have brought him down; didn't
I make him squirm!" Others pride
themselves on their outlandish apparel.
They boast of being out of the fashion.
They wear a queer hat. They ride in an
odd carriage. I3y dint of perpetual ap
plication they would persuade the world
that they are perfectly indifferent to
public opinion. They are more proud of
lx-ing "out of fashion" than others aro
of lH-ing in. They are utterly and uni
versally disagreeable. Their rough cor
ners have never been worn off. They
prefer a hedgehog to a lamb.
The accomplishments of life are in no
wise productive of effeminacy or ener
vation. Good manners and a respect for
the tastes of others are indispensable.
The Good Book speaks favorably of those
who are a "peculiar" people; but that
does not sanction the behavior of queer
people. There is no excuse, under any
circumstances, for not being and acting
the lady or gentleman. Rudeness is sin.
We have no words too ardent to express
our admiration for the refinements of
society. There is no law, moral or di
vine, to forbid elegance of demeanor, or
ornaments of gold, or gems for the per
son, artistic display in the dwelling,
gracefulness of gait and bearing, polite
salutation or honest compliments; and he
who is shocked or offended by these had
better, like the old Scythians, wear tiger
skins and take one wild leap back into
midnight barbarism. As Christianity
advances there will lie better apparel,
higher styles of' architecture, more ex
quisite adornments, sweeter music,
grander pictures, more correct behavior
and more thorough ladies and gentle
men. But there is another story to be told.
Wrong fashion is to be charged with
many of the worst evils of society, and
its path has often been strewn with the
bodies of the slain. It has often set up a
false standard by which people are to be
judged. Our common sense, as well as
all tiie divine intimations on the subject,
teach us that people ought to be esteemed
according to their individual and moral
attainments. The man who has the
most nobility of soul should be first, and
he who lias the least of such qualities
should stand last. Ko crest, or shield, or
escutcheon can indicate one's moral peer
age. Titles of Duke, Lord, Esquire, Earl,
Viscount or Patrician ought not
to raise one into the first rank.
Some of the meanest men I have
ever known had at the end of their name
D. D., LL.D. and F. It. S. Truth, honor,
charity, heroism, self sacrifice should win
highest favor, but inordinate fashion
says: "Count not a woman's virtues;
count her adornments." "Look not at
the contour of the head, but see the way
she combs her hair." "Ask not what
noble deeds have been accomplished by
that man's hand; but is it white and
soft?" Ask not what good sense is in
her conversation, but "In what was she
dressed?" Ask not whether there was
hospitality and cheerfulness in the house,
but "In what style do they live?"
As a consequence, some of the most
ignorant and vicious men are at the top,
and some of the most virtuous and intel
ligent at the bottom. During the List
war we suddenly saw men hurled up into
the highest social positions. Ilad they
suddenly reformed from evil habits, or
graduated in science, or achieved some
good work for society? No, they simply
had obtained a government contract.
This accounts for the utter chagrin
which people feel at the treatment they
receive when they lose their property.
Hold up your head amid financial disas
ter like a Christian! Fifty thousand sub
tracted from a good man leaves how
much? Honor, truth, faith in God, tri
umphant hope, and a kingdom of inef
fable glory, over which he is to reign for
ever and ever.
If the owner of millions should lose a
penny out of his pocket would he sit
down on a curbstone and cry? And shall
a man possessed of everlasting fortunes
wear himself out with grief because he
has lost worldly treasures? You have
only lost that in which hundreds of
wretched misers surpass you, and you
have saved that which the Caesars and
the Pharaohs and the Alexanders could
never afford.
And yet society thinks differently, and
you see the most intimate friendships
broken up as the consequence of finan
cial embarrassments. You say to some
one: "How is your friend?" Tho man
looks bewildered and says : "I do not
know." You reply: "Why, you used
to be intimate.' "WelL" says the man,
"our friendship has been dropped. The
man has failed."
Proclamation has gone forth: 'Tel
vets must go up ami plain apparel nnU
j roino down," and the question is: ''Ib.w
I does the coat lit?" not "Who wears it:"
j The jiower that bears the tides oT excited
: population up and down our streets, and
rocks the world of oommerce. and thrills
all nations, Trans-Atlai ic and Cis-Al-lantie,
is clothes. It deciles the hist
olliees of respect; and how long the dress
shall lie totally black; and when it may
subside into spots of grief on silk, calico
or gingham. Men die in goixl circum
stances, but by reason of extravagant
j funeral expenses are well nigh insolvent
before they are buried. Many ni"n would
not die at all if they had to wait until
they could alford it.
Wrong fashion is productive of a most
ruinous strife. The expenditure of many
households is adjusted by what their
neighbors have, not by wiiat they them
selves can afford to have, and the frretit
anxiety is its to who shall have the iiwv.t
house and the most cosily equipage. The
woajons used in the warfare of social life
are not Minie ritles, and Dnl.'grcn guns,
and llotchkiss shells, but ch-iirs,
ar.d mirrors, and vases, and (lobelia-;,
and Axminsters. Many household
establishments are like racing steam
boats propelled at the utmost strain
and risk, and just coming to a terrific
explosion. "Who cares," say they, "if
we only come out ahead?"
There is no one cause bwlay of more
financial embarrassment and of more dis
honesties t ban this determination s;t all
hazards to live as well as or I-tter than
other people. There are persons who
will risk their eternity upon one pier
mirror or who will duMi out the splen
dors of heaven to get another trinket.
"My house is toosmall." "But," says
some one, "you cannot pay for a larger."
"Never mind that, my friends have a
better residence and so will I." "A dress
of that style ar.d material I must have.
I cannot alford it by a great deal; but
who cares for that? My neighbor had
one from that pattern, and I must have
one." There are scores of men in the
dungeons of the penitentiary who risked
honor, business every thing in the effort
to shine like others. Though tho heavens
fall they must lm "in the fashion."
Tho most . famous frauds of the day
have resulted from this feeling. It keeps
hundreds of men .struggling for their
commercial existence. The trouble is
that some aro caught and incarcerated if
their larceny be small. If it be great
they escape and build tlieir castles on tho
Rhine. Men get into jail not because
they steal but because they did not steal
enough.
Again: Wrong fashion makes people
unnatural and luitrue. It is a factory
from which has come forth more hollow
pretenses and unmeaning flatteries and
lrypocrisies than the Lowell mills ever
turned out shawls and garments. Fashion
is the greatest of all liars. It has made
society insincere. Yon know not what
to believe. When people ask jrou to come
you do not know whether or not they
want you to come. When they send their
regards you do not know whether it is
an expression of their heart or an ex
ternal civility. We have learned to take
ahnost everything at a discount. Word
is sent "not at home" when they are
only too lazy to dress themselves. They
say, "The furnace has just gonootit."
when in truth they have had no fire in
it all winter. They apologize for the
unusual barrenness of their table, when
they never live any better. They decry
their most luxurious entertainments to
win a shower of approval. They apolo
gize for their appearance, as though it
were unusual, when always at home
they look just so. They would make
you believe that some nice sketch on the
wall was the work of a master painter.
"It was an heirloom and once hung on
the walls of a castle, and a duke gave it
to their grandfather. " People who will
not lie about anything else will lie about
a picture. On a small income we rnu.-fc
make the world believe that we are
afiluent, and our life becomes a cheat, a
counterfeit and a sham.
Few people are really natural and un
affected. When I say this I do not niec:i
to slur cultured manners. It is right
that we should have mora admiration lor
tho sculptured marble than for the un
hewn block of the quarry. From many
circles in life fashion has driven out
vivacity and enthusiasm. A frozen dig
nity instead floats about tho room and
iceberg grinds against iceberg. You
must not laugh outright; it is vulgar.
You must smile. Y'ou must not dash
rapidly across the room, you must glide.
There is a round of bows, and grins, ar.d
flatteries, and ohs and ali.i. and sim
perings, and namby pambyism a world
of wliich is not worth one good,
round, honest peal of laughter. From
such a hollow round the tortured guest
retires at tho close of the evening, and
assures his host that he has enjoved him
self. Thus social life has been contorted and
deformed, until, in some mountain cabin,
where rustics gather to the quilting cr
the apple paring, there is more good
cheer than in all the frescoed ice houses
of the metropolis. We want in all the
higher circles of society more warmth of
heart and naturalness of behavior, and
not so many refrigerators.
Again: Wrong fashion is incompatible
with happiness. Those who depend for
their comfort upon the admiration of
others are subject to frequent disappoint
ment. Somebody will criticise their ap
pearance, or surpass them in brilliancy,
or will receive more attention. Oh. the
jealousy and detraction and heartburn
ings of those who move in this liewildered
maze! Poor butterflies! Bright wings
do not always bring happiness. "Site
that liveth in pleasure is dead while she
liveth." The revelations of high life
that come to the challenge and the
fight are only the occasional crop
pings out of disquietudes that are, un
derneath, like the stars of heaven for
multitude, but like the demons of the pit
for hate. The misery that will to-night
in the cellar cuddle up in tiie straw ij
not so utter as the princely disquietude
which stalks through splendid drawing
rooms, brooding over the slights and of
fenses of luxurious life. The bitterness
of life seems not so unfitting when drunk
out of a pewter mug. as when it pours
from the chased lips of a golden chalice.
In the sharp crack of the voluptuary's
pistol, putting an end to his earthly
misery, I hear the confirmation that in a
hollow, fastidious life there is no peace.
Again : Devotion to wrong fashion is
productive of physical disease, mental
imbecility and spiritual withering. Ap
parel insufficient to keep out the cold and
th-? rain, or so fitted upon the person
that the functions of life ;.ie re
strained; late ho-;rs filled with exciic-m.-nt
and fcisting; free drafts of
wine that :.nke one not lt-astly intoxi
cated, but only fashionably drunk; mid
luxurious ind. .lei.'-e are the in t ri ne nU
by which this unreal life pushes lis dis
ciples into valetudinarianism and the
grave. Along the walks of prosperous
lif,- death goes a-mowing and sm-h
harvests as are reaped! Materia Me.ili-a
h is b -en exhausted to find ciiraties b.f
the.-,c physiological devastations, lip -sies.
cancel's, consumptions, gout, and
nlmoM. every infirmity in all th" v aim
of pathology have l,-n the poiaetic
pe.id. To counteract the damage phar
macy has gone foiiil wiih imiii a-neril.
panacea, elixir, embrocation, salve ami
Cataplasm.
Tonight wi'h swollen feet upon cu-h-io;ied
oitonrm, and groaning with sn-he-s
innumerable, wiil be the v. fi: ry ( b: ; -mi'Mi
; living, not half ho happy as bis
groo ii or coal heaver. Wrong fa-i.io.i
is the world's undertaker, and drives
thousands of hearses to Greenwood and
Laurel liiil and Mount Auburn.
But, wor.-c th-i'i that, this folly is an
ml 'Ueetaai depletion. This en:i!e s studv
of proprieties and eti-.llletie. pat iel 'is and
Si Vie:
bedv;ir!!ng b
ue miei:.-ct. 1
never knew a woman or a man of ex
treme fashion that knew much. 1 low
iK'lia-in.rr the si tidy ..'" the cut of a coat,
or the tie of a cravat, or th" wrinkle in a
Si-'C
or the color of a ribbon!
Hi
tl icy are worried if something gets un
tied, or hum :
adjusted! With a mind eapal.!.: ol
measuring the height, and depth of great
subjects: able to unravel mysteries, to
walk through the universe, to soar up
ii:io the infinity of Col's attributes
hovering perpetually over a new i.tyle of
cloak ! I have known men reckless as to
their character ami regardless of interests
momentous and eternal, exasperated by
the shape of a vest button. What is the
matter with that woman wrought up
iub the agony of despair? Oh, her muff
is out of fashion !
Worse than ail this folly is not satis
fied until it has extirpated every moral
sentiment and blasted the soul. A ward
robe is the rock upon which many a soul
has been riven. The excitement of a
luxurious life has been the vortex that
has swallowed up more souls than the
Maelstrom of Norway ever destroyed
ships. What room for elevating themes
in a heart filled with the trivial and un
real? YvThocan wonder that in this haste
for sun gilded baubles and winged thistle "
down, men and women should tumble
into ruin? The travelers to destruction
are not all clot hoi in rags. On that rond
chariot jostles against chariot; and be
hind steeds in harness golden plated and
glittering, they go down, coach and four,
herald and postilion, racketing on the hot
pavements of hell. Clear the tracks!
Bazaars hang out their colors over the
road; and trees of tropical fruit fulness
ovcrbranch the way. No sound of woe
disturbs the air, but all is light, and song,
and wine, and gorgeousness. The world
conies out to greet tlie dazzling pro
cession with: "Hurrah! hurrah!" But
suddenly there is a halt and an outcry of
dismay, and a;r overthrow worse than
tlie Red sea tumbling upon the Egyptians.
Shadow of gravestones upon finest silk!
Yv'orniwood squeezed into impearled gob
lets! Death with one cold breath wither
ing the leaves and freezing the fountains.
In the wild tumult of the Last Day
tho mountains falling, the heavens fly
ing, the thrones uprising, the univer.-e
assembling; amid tho boom of the ir.-t
great thunder peal, and under the
crackling of a burning world what will
become of the disciple of unholy fashion?
But watch the career of one thoroughly
artiiici.il. Through inheritance, or pej -hr-ps
his own skill having obtained enough
for purposes of display, he feels hinuelf
thoroughly established. He sits aloof
from the common herd, and looks out of
Ins window upon the poor man and says:
'Put that dirty wretch off my steps im
mediately !"' On Sabbath days ho find ?
t lie church, but mourns the fact that he
nvu.it worship with r;o many of the un-le-gi'jt,
and says: '-They are perfectly
awi Yd!" "That man tha- yen put in
my pew had a coat on his back that did
not cost 0-3." He stints through lifo
unsympathetic with trouble and .says: "I
cannot be bothered." Is delighted with
some doubtful story of Parisian life, bat.
thinks that there are some very indecent
things in tlie Bible. Walks arm in arm
with the successful man of tho world, but
does not knew his o.vn brother. Loves
to be praised for ids splendid bouse, ar.d
when told that he looks younger than ten
years ago. says: 'Yv'ell, reaily; do you
think sof
But the brief strut of his life is about
over. Li stairs, he dies. No angel
wings hovering about him. No Gospel
promises kindling up the darkness; but
exquisite embroidery, elegant pictures
and a bust of Shakespeare on the mantel.
The pulses stop. The minister conies in
to read of the resurrection, that day
when the dead slvdl come up both ho
that died on the floor and he that ex
pired under princely upholstery, lie ii
carried out to burial. Only a few
mourners, but a great array of carriages.
Not one common man at tlie funeral. No
befriended orphan to weep a tear on his
grave. No child of want pressing through
the ranks of the weeping, saying: "He
is tiie last friend I have, and I mast see
him."
What r.ow? lie was a great man.
Shall not chariots of salvation come dovn
to tho other side of the Jordan and escort
him up to the palace? Shall not the
angels exclaim: "Turn out! A prince is
coming." Will the ltlis chime? Will
there be harpers with their harps and
trumpeters with their trumpets?
No! ZCo! No! There will be a shud
der, as though a calamity had happened.
Standing on heaven's battlement, a
watchman will see something shoot past
with fiery downfall and shriek: "Wan
dering star for whom is reserved the
blackness of darkness forever!"
But sadder yet is tlie closing of a wo
man's life that has been worshipful cf
worldiincbs, all the wealth of a lifetime's
opportunity wasted. What a tragedy!
A woman o;i her dying pillow, thinking
of what she might have done for God
and humanity, and yet having, done
nothing! Compare her demise with that
of a Hurriet Newell going down to peaco
Cully die in the Isle of France, reviewing
her lifetime sacrifices for the redemption
o! India; or th last hours of
Elizabeth Hervey, having ex
changed ' h r bright New England
in m. for a life at Bombay amid
stolid heathenism, that sle- might
illumine ir, i .a;, ing in h".i l et moments:
"If thit is the dark valley.it has not ;i
dark spot in it; all is light, light!" or
the exit of V.rs. Lelipov, falh.ig under
Mid don dbease at Sm ma. breathing out
her soul wil h t lie I.e-t word i : "Oh, how
happy ! ' or the ilei..ri ure of Mrs. Sarah
I), t 'onistoci., spending her life for the
sa.lv e' ion of Rurmah, giv ing up her
children that they might- come homo to
America to I k edurai, d, and saying its
she kissed them goid-by, never to see
them again: "Oh, Je.,us, I do thi; for
Th.-.'!" or the going of ten thou
sand good women, who il less
resounding spheres have lived not for
them. .. Ives, but for God and the allevia
tion of hitman suffering. That was a
brilliant recno wh. ii. in 1 !S". in theeam
paigii f..r the capture of Honda. (.Jueeu
Elizabeth of Castile, on horseback, side
by i.ide with King Ferdinand, rode out
to review the troop:;. As she in blight
armor rode along the lines of the Spanish
host, and waved her jewe led baud to the
warriors, and ever and anon uttered
words of cheer to the worn veterans
who. far away from their homes, were
risking their lives for the kingdom, it
v:is a spectacle that illumines his
tory. But more glorious will be the
scene when that consecrated Christian
woman crowned in heaven shall
review the souls that on earth she clot lied,
and fed, and inedicined, and evange
lized, and then introdueed into the ranks
,.,.. s on the white bor'-" of vi'-.
L .V , .!....' ... . ' ..... .- -.g, I...S
ijueen unto (iod forever shall ride past
the lines of those in whose salvation she
bore a part, the scene will surpass any
thing ever witnessed on earth in the life
of Joan of Arc, or I'enelojte, or Semira
mis, or Aspasia, or Mariamne, or Mar
garet of Aii iou. Ride on, Victor!
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jiutiontil interest ami iinjiortanee wiil le
strunolv ayitatod jmd tho ejection of fi
I're.-Ment will take place. rIhe j.eoplo of
Cass County who won hi like to learn of
Political, Commercial
and Social Transactions
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namo on a packago of COFFEE Is a
fuaraiitoo of oxcellcncu.
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COFFEE 13 kept in Sill flrst-clasn
stores from "tho Atlantic to the Paoifio.
COFFEE
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jHjaK.d ONE POUND PACKAGES.
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