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TALM AGE'S SER3I0X. THE PREACHER DISCOURSES ON HEAVENUY MANNA. Karthly Nourishment -Not Needed ia MaU-a of Hpiritunl F.ial tat iou M niiic Forma a Large Part of the Heraphic Menu lato tbe Kingdom. Fed on Angela Food. Among the thousands ho greeted Rev. lr. Taltnage in the New Y'irk Academy of Muir Sumiaj afternoon were a larc uuiuber of stranger from distant imns ' the L'oion. At the close of the services the prea.-her. on tearing the platform, i found himself confronted br enough ieo- ! i.le to fill si. ..rdmarv sized church, a 1 1 intent on shaking hands with him. Ibe subject of discourse iut the afternoon M "A Seraphic Diet," the text selected being Psalms ixxvii., i2, "Man did eat angels' food." Somewhat risk would be the undertak- iug to tell just what was the manna that j fell to the Israelites in the wilderness, of ! w hat it was made and who made it. The j manna was called atigel' ftxtd, but why J no called'' Was it because it came from j the place where angela lire, or becaun augels couiiouiided it, or because angel did eat it. or because it was giod enough for angels? On what crystal planer w it carried to the door of heaven and then thrown out? How did it taste? We are told there was something in it like honey, but if the saccharine tame in it had been too trong many would not hare liked It. and so it may hare had a commingling of flavorsthis delicacy of the skies. It must hare been nutritious, for a nation lived on it fur forty year-;. It must hare been healthful, for it ia mi inspiring!?- ap plauded. It must hare been abundant, l,e cauae it dismissed the necessity of a sut ler for a great army. Each person had a ration Of ..three quarts a day allow ed to him, and so lo.OUO.tHiO pounds were nec essary every week. Those were the time uf which my text apeaks, when "man did eat angels' food," If the good I,ord, who has helped me o often, will help me now. I will first tell you what is angela' food and then how we may get some of it for ourselves. In our mortal state we must have for mastication and digestion and assimilation the pro ducts of the earth. Corporeity a well as mentality and spirituality characterizes us. The slyle of diet has much to do with our well being. Light and frothy food taken exclusively result in weak mus cles and semi-invalidism. The taking of too much annual food produces sensuality. Vegetarians are cranks. Reasonable se lection of the farinaceous and the solid or dinarily produces physical stamina. " Above Earthly Food. But we have all occasionally been in an ecstatic state where we forgot the neces sity of earthly food. We w ere fed by joys, by anticipations, by discoveries, by companion:- 'dps that dwindled the dining hour into ins gtiincaiice and made the pleasures of the uble stupid and uninviting. There hare been cases where from seemingly in v. iblc MiJi'irk the human body has been maintained, as in the remarkable case of our invalid and Christian neighbor, Mol lie Fancher, known throughout the medi cal and Christian world for that she was seven weeks without earthly food, fed and sustained on heavenly visions. Our be loved Dr. Irenueiis I'rime, editor and theo logian, recorded the wonders concerning this girl. Professor West, the great sci entist, marveled over it, and Willard Par ker, of world-wide fame in surgery, threw Hp his hands in amazement at it. There are times in all our live when the soul asserts itself and says to the body: "Hush! Stand back! Stand down!" I am a! a banquet where do chalices gleam, and no viands smoke, and no culi nary implements clatter. I am feeding on that which uo human hand has mixed and no earthly oven linked. I am eating "an gels' food." If you have never been in such an exalted state, 1 commiserate your leaden temperament, and I dismiss you from this service as incompetent to under stand the thrilling and glorious sugges tiveness of my text wheu it says, "Man did eat angels' food." A Feast of Soul. Now. what do the s.ipernaturals live on? They experience none of the demands of corporeity and ha ve no hindrance or en vironment in the shape of bone and mus cle and flesh, and hence that which may aeieciate our paiate or invigorate our poor, dying frames would be of no use to them. But they have a food of their own. My text says so. There may be other courses of food in the heavenly menu that J am not aw are of, but I know of five or six styles of food always on celestial table when cherubim and sera phim and archangel gather for heavenly repast the myBtery of redemption, celes tialized music, the heavenly picturesque. sublime colloquy, eternal enterprise, saintly association, divine companionship, celebrative jubilance. There is one sub ject that excite the curiosity and inquiai- tiveness of all those angels. St. I'eter say, "Which thing the angels desire to look into that is, why did Christ ex change a palace for a barn? Why did he drop a scepter from his right hand to take a spear into his left side? Why quit the anthem of the worshiping heaven to hear the crooning of a weary mother" voice? W as a straw better than a gar land? "Could it not have been done in some other way?" says angel the first. "Wai the human race worth such a sac rificer says angel the second. "How could heaven get along without him for thirty-three years;' says angel the third. "Through that assassination may sinful man rise into eternal companionship!" say angel the fourth. And then they all bend toward each other and talk about it and guess about it and try to fathom it aud prophesy concerning it. But the subject is too big, and they on'y nibble at it. They only break off a piece of it. They only taste it. They just dip Into it. And then one angel trie, "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain! And another says, "Un searchable." And another aays, "Part finding out!" And another say, "Alle luia!" And then they all fill their cup of gold with the "new win of the king dom. . Heavenly Wine. Unlike tbe beaker of earth, which poi on, these glow with immortal health, the wine pre cd from the grape of the heav enly Kschol, and they all drink to the memory of manger and cross, aha tiered epulcher and Ollvetic aacensioa. Oh, that rests, laeplrlag. ra f the world', ranees! That siakes an gels' food. The takisf f that food trw i of astral awstaatoasttsirft he ttfUfc, gtraf twJMr Mi Ii the wftsM their k i ii it " aiiMiion iutereotivtellatiufi. Solu uf the crumb of that angels' food fall all aruuud oar wilderness cauip to-day, and we feel like crying with J'aul, "Oh, tbe depth of the riches, both of the wis dom ami know ledge of God!" or witb ex piring Stephen, "I-ord Jesus, receive my (int ."" or utb niaay an enraptured aoul: "None but Christ! N'oue but Christ!" I'sss around this angels' food. Carry it through all these aisle. Climb with it through all these galleries! Take it among all the hovels a well aa Hinting ail the pai-ai-ea of the great town! Give all nation a taste of this angel' food. Now ill the emerald palace of heaven let the cupbearers and servant of the king remove thi cours from tbe banquet and bring on another course of angels' food, which in celestial music. You and I n' " al "" con-en or oratorio a hr.le aaaembiage to whoui th mu.ic waa ,""r ''"" "" l"r ""' in at the lipa of the mouth was so delight ful to their taste as that which they took in at the lip of the ear. I have seen and you have seen people actually intox icated with sweet sounds. Oratorios which are always too protracted for those of us who have not had our faculties cul tivated in that direction were never long enough for them, as at 11 o'clock at night the leader of the orchestra gave the three taps of his baton to again start the music they were as fresh and alert as when i three hours before and at is o'clock tbe cur tain V. :'s lirst lifted. ( Music to them is food lor body, Tood tor mind and food for soul. From what I read in my Kittle I think celestiilized mu sic will make up a large part of angels' food. Why do I say "celestialixed mu sic?" Because, though music may have been born in heaven, it had not all it charms until it came to earth and took a baptism of tears. Since then it has had a pathos and a tenderness that it could not otherwise have possessed. It had to pass under the shadow and over stormy sea and weep at sepulchers and to be hum med as lullaby over the cradle of aick children before it could mount to its pres ent altitudes of heavenly power. No or gan on earth would be complete without the stop "tremolo" and the stop "vox humana." And no niusic of heaven would be complete without the "tremolo" of earthly sorrow comforted and the "vox humana" of earthly sympathies glorified. lust take np the New Testament and find it a notebook of celeKtialiised music. A Por of Music. It say Jesus sang a hyniu before be went to tbe Mount of Olives, and if he could sing on earth with Bethlehem hu miliation close behind him, and sworn enemies close on loth side of him, and the torments of Golgotha juBt before him, do you not suppose he ings in heaven? Paul and Silas sang in midnight dungeon. and do you not suppose that now they sing on the delectable summits? What do the harp and trumpets and choir of Revelation suggest if not music? What would the millions of good singers and players upon instruments wno iook part a earthly worship do in heaven without music' Why. the mansions ring wun it. The great halls of eternity echo witb it The worship of unnumbered boats is in- wrap"H w ith it, It will I tbe only art of ear'h that will have enough elasticity and strength to leap the grave and take posfM -.m of heaven. Sculpture will bait this sii'e of the grave because it chiefly conic t.iorates the forms of those win in heaven will be reconstructed, and what would ne. want of the sculptured imita tion wh n we stand in the presence of the resurrected original? Painting will halt this s V" of the grave because the colors of er.r'1! would be too tame for heari n. and v'h;it ue to have pictured on cannis the S'-eue which shall be described, to us by til se who were the participants? One of the diaciplea will tell us about the "last supper" better than Titian, with mighty touch, set it up in art gallery. The plainest saint by tongue will descrih the last judgment better than Michael An gelo, with his pencil, put it upon the ceil ing of the Vatican. Architecture will halt this aide the grave, for what use would there be for architect's compass and design in that city which is already built and garnished until nothing can be add ed; all the Tuileries and Windsor castles aud St.. Clouds of the earth piled up not equaling its humblest residences; all the St. Pauls and St. Peters and St. Izaaks and St. Sophias of the earth built into one athedral not equaling the heavenly tem ple, but Music will pass right on, right up and right in, and millions in heaven will acknowledge that, under God, she was the chief cause of their salvation. Oh, I would like to be present when all the great Christian singers and the great Christian players of ail the ages shall congregate in heaven! Of course they must. 1 l:e nil the rest of us. he clennsed and ransomed U) the blood of the nlaiu Lamb. Alas, that some of the great ar tists of sweet sound shoojd have been as distinguished for profligacy as for the way they warbled or sang or fingered the keyboard or trod the organ pedal. Some who have been distinguished bassos and sopranos and prima donnas on earth I fear will never sing the song of Moses and the Lamb or put the Hp to the trumpet with sounds of victory before the throne. But many of the masters who charmed us on earth will more mightily charm us in heaven. Great music hall of eternity! May you and I be there some day to ac claim when the "Halleluiah Chorus" it wakened. As on earth there have been harmonies made np of other harmonk-s, a strain of music from that overture, and a bar from this snd a bar from that, but oe great tune or theme, Into which all the others were poured as rivers Into a sea, so it may be given to the mightiest soul in the heavenly world to gather something from all tbe sacred songs we have sung on earth or which have been sung In all the ages, and roll them on in eternal symphony, but the one great theme and the one overmastering tone that shall carry all before it and uplift all heaven from central throne to farthest gate of pearl and to the highest capstone of ame thyst will be, "L'nto him who loved us and washed ns from our sins in his own blood and made us kings and priests unto God and the Lamb, to him be glory!' That will be manna enough for all heaven to feed on. That will be a banquet for immortals. That will be angels' food. Mighty Katerpriee. Now in the emerald palace of heaven let the cupbearers and servants of the King remove this course from the ban sjnet and bring on another course of an te)' food, which to laying ont of might enterprise. Tbe Bible lets as know poet tlvely that the angels have oar world's Cain oa their heart They afford the raaid traaett fna world to world. Mia leteriM laMta, eortlag epirita, defend last satatt. gmin aphrtto yea, ther ail wain taetr taowght , Weaie and that imptie.1 not only the creation of our world, but of other worlds. Shall they pmn only for our little plauet and ie unconcerned for a planet Wl timer larger? No. They have all the galaxies under their observation; mighty scheme of helpfulness to be laid out and execut ed; shipwrecked worlds to be towed in; planetary fires to be put out; demoniac hosts riding up to be hurled back aud dow n. These angels of light unhorse an ApoIIyon il t oe stroke of battleax celes tial. Ther calk these matters all over. They bend toward each other in sublini est colloquy. They have cabinet meeting of w inged immortal. They assemble the mightiest of tbem in holy consultation. They plan out stellar, lunar, solar, con stellated achievement. They vie with each other a to who shall do the grand est thing for the eternals. They comKae doxologiea for the temple of the sun. They preside over coronation. If in the great organ of the universe one key gets out of tune, they plan for iU retuning. No un dertaking is so difficult, no post of duty is so distant, no mission is so stupendous but at God's command they are gladly ob- ined. When they sit together in heav en's places, Gabriel and Michael, the arch angel, and the angel that pointed Hagar to the fountain in the desert, and the an gel that swung open the prison door of delivered Peter, and the angels who are to be the reapers at tbe end of the world, and the angel that stood by Paul to en courage him on the foundering cornship of Alexandria, and the two angels that sentineled the tomb of Christ, and the four angels that St. John saw in Apoca lypse at the four corners of the earth, and the twelve angels that guard the twelve winging pearls, and the 2U,()0 charioted angels that the psalmist described, and more radiant than all of them put to gether, and mightier than all, and lovelier than all, "the Angel of the Covenant," the cadpnee of hi voice tbe best music that ever entranced mortal or immortal ears, his smile another noon risen on mid- noon, his presence enough to make a heav en if there were no other attraction I say. when they meet together in the coun cil chambers close to the throne, ah, that will 1 regalement infinite! That will be repast supernal. That will be angela' food. And one of my exciting anticipations of heaven is the prospect of seeing and talk ing with some of them- Why not? What did they come out for ou tbe balcony on that Christmas night and sing fur our world if they did not want to be put in communication with u? 1 know the ser enade was in Greek, but they knew that their words would be translated in all lan guages. If they thought themselvu; too good to have anything to do with us, would they have dropped Christmas carols upon the shepherds, a bad as any of us have ever been? Aye, If they sang for mortals, will they not sing for us when we become immortal? "There is joy in the presence of the an gels of God over one sinner that repent- eth." Why are they so happily agitated? Because they know what a tremendous thing it is to turn clear around from the wrong and take the right road. It is be cause they know the difference between swinea' trough with nothing but husks and a king's banquet with angels' food. It is because they know the infinite, the everlasting difference between down and up. Time of Festivity. Their festivity is catching. If wo hear the bells of a city ring, we say, "What is thut for?" If we bear rolling out from an auditorum the sound of a full orches tra, we say, "What is happening here?' And when the angels of God take on jubi lance over a case of earthly repentance your friends in heaven will say, "What new thing has happened? Why full diap ason? Why the chime from the oldest towers of eternity?" The fact Is, my hearers, there are people in heaven who would like to hear from you. Your chil dren there are wondering when father and mother will come into the kingdom, and witb more glee than they ever danced in the hallway at your coming home at even tide they will dance the floor of the heav enly mansion at the tidings of father and mother saved. Besides that, the old folks want to hear from you. They are stand ing at the head of the celestial stair waiting for the news that their prayers have been answered, and that yon are coming on to take from their lips a kiss better than that which now they throw at you. Calling you by your first name, as they always did, they are talking about you and saying, "There is our son," or, "There is our daughter down in that world of struggling, battling, suffering, sinning, weeping. Why can they not see that Christ is the only one who can help and comfort and saver That is what they are saying about yon. and, if you will this hour in one prayer of surrender that will not take more than a second to make decide this, then swifter than telegraphic dispatch the news would reach them, and angels of God who never fell would join your glorified kindred in celebration, and the caterers of heaven would do their best, and saints and se raphs side by side would take angels' food. Glory be to God for such a possibility! Oh, that this moment there might be a rush for hesven! The Spirit and the Bride say. Come, Rejoicing saints re-echo, Come. Who faints, who thirsts, who will, may come. Thy Saviour bids thee come. Young Falcons at School. The young of falcons and hawks are well trained by their parents. From the time they are strong enough to pull at and break up the quarries brought to them, It Is one long course of instruc tion. The old birds know perfectly well what the young ones will have to do, and they get them fit for doing It as soon aa they can. They compel them to take longer flights day afwr day, and teach them how to stoop that is, strike at their quarry. One or the other will shoot up witb a portion of feather, or it may be fur, fol lowed by the young hopefuls. Then tbe morsel Is dropped from the dutch -down they dash for It, and tbe one that makes the quickest stoop secures the prize before it reaches the ground. When the old birds think the young can fend for themselves, off they go. This Is not a case of choice, bat ne cessity, for they are simply cuffed and buffeted off. So well to this knewn to tbe country that It la a common thing to hear a lad say: "Them 'are hawks haa drat their young una off." Blacfc- Tbera was aay heart truly great and aot ala VELVET SKIRT IS OUT. NO LONGER WORN BY FASHION ABLE WOMEN. It's Hopeleixly Oat of lnte ui Fur Coat with High 81ee ve-NoveI Trim aiiag Ia Now Kaaential One Pleat from Throat to Toe. Fashion's Foibles. York correspondence: Ou the woman who own a vel vet skirt there Is need of prompt and decisive ac tion. Her only h ii la to sacri fice It to the tsola ors and get a waist or sleeves out of it, If possi ble, because a vel vet skirt Just now la a hopelessly unfashionable aa a fur coat with high sleeves. On the other hand, it Is safe to put a good share of the Intended outlay for a gown Into handsome brocade velvet sleeves, and they should reach only to the elbow. Brilliant velvets enter into many of the most handsome spring dresses and often times they are found In odd companionship, though the effect la not at all unpleasant at the first glance, as Is the case with so many new fashions. In one beautiful spring gown brilliant grass green velvet Is combined with white satin covered with ivory guipure. The velvet bodice fits perfect ly except for the necessary front box pleat, the latter being slit from the throat down and parting slightly to ihow an under pleat of white satin cov ered with rich Ivory rulpure. Tbe KOVKL TRIM M 1 Sli A X KSSKXTtAI.. ileeve puffs are correspondingly silt, the atln beneath (tugging out a little ami the edges of the guipure being ap pllijued to tbe eilgct of the velvet. The velvet !u the bnck of the bodice Is cut away to a point which comes just be low the shoulders. Below, the bodice In of the white natin, tbe guipure In this case also being appllqued over the edge of the velvet In the Initial picture there Is shown another use of velvet that Is commenda ble according to coming standards. Leather-colored cloth gives the skirt, which Is trimmed about the bottom w ith silk cords In bands and festoons, A vest of this cloth appears In the jacket bodice fastening at the side and Hhowing a green velvet plastron. The lixise front have revers and collar of the cloth anil several showy buttons. Many soring street gowns are to be made with elbow puff sleeves, aud whether the wearer catches her death of cold or not the long sleeve will be the only covering for the forearm. Light glove will be worn, or In other words, party gloves may be used in the day time with the street dress. The bills for cleansing will make women long to go back to the economical three-button affair and may eventually bring about a return to that style. Sleeves to the elbow will, however, be correct, but fastidious wearers of them will strive to have their dresses novel In other respect. A areas that should satisfy a woman of this sort Is the sub ject of the second illustration, and is sketched In a silver-gray poplin de lalne combined with white cloth and garnish- oB n,AT ran toe to throat. d with dark-gray soutache braiding. The aklrt la entirely of the gray poplin and la fancifully braided at the top as Indicated. A full shirred yoke of white doth aitcnda on the bodice to tbe tralat- farming a sort of veat for tbe hralded oaraatat, which la finished at Ik ta with caUoaav Lang braidad f taw 6r-grar. Mao aagoa arm ta white Kw sleeves, and tho collar Is msde to match. Many a kind of trimming may be made tu do service In place of thi galloon, but the whe maiden will de mand something of a novel nature. This idea of a boxpieat down tbe front of you la Introduced Into some of the handsomest diesnes shown. Many times, as in the case of the npxt cos tume that the artist contributes, th pleat appears on the entire length of the aklrt. From the latter the skirt stands away in faultless godets, the only trimming being rich ornaments of steel passementerie at either side of the center pleat, which are repeated ou the bodice. Tbe back of the latter Is made from bias material and the AO AtS TUB PI. EATS EXTEND THE BODICE. collar and Itelt are of black satin, the former showing rosette trimming. The full balloon sleeves are plain. Such skirts are of themselves so handsome that It Is entirely safe to leave them untrimmed when desired. Indeed, It must be plain to the veriest novice that the godet Is capable of sustaining but little ornamentation, being a thing of undeniable beauty when unadorned. So generally are women agreed ns to the merits of this fashionable skirt that it Is being taken up by old aud young. Though It is as yet too early to state that children cry for It, misses revel In it, and tlaolr mothers adopt it ttilte as freely. A model for an elder ly woman Is naxt shown, the skirt's pleats l!ng rather small, and the front enlarged. Its ornamentation Is a long end of the black satin belt fin ished at top and bottom with asser tive bows. Tha fitted bodice has a plain vest, which laps over and fastens underneath the left side, which, to gether with the right, Is pleated to match the skirt The sleeves have huge double puffs. As drawn for this col umn, this gown was in prune-.itlored cashmere lined with alpaca, but ti host of stuffs would srrvo us well. 1'opllii would Ik! good and crepon better. A pair of outdoor dresses nre put Into the last Illustration, tbe left-hand one wearing a dnss of beige cloth trimmed with steel passementerie and beige glace silk. The skirt Is box pleated on either side of a plain front, and the back is arranged !n three TOO WKI.L OOWKED FOH THE STUEKT. organ-pipe folda. Tbe bodice fastens at the side and Is entirely fitted, a band of steel galloon Imitating a yoke and forming the head for two draped ends in front, which are apparently the con tinuation of the pleats In tbe aklrt A plain belt Is ornamented In front with four fancy buttons, and the very wide puffed sleeves are of beige glnce silk. There Is to b more material than ever in the sleeves of the spring gowns, but it will be more draped and con fined to the arm In graceful curves, so that It will not seem greater. The In flated outline filled In with crinoline and haircloth Is attacked by all man ner of dainty devices for draping. Luxurious collars are made entirely of ostrich feathers set both ways. The shorter ones stand upright about the neck, the tips ctirllng softly from the face; the longer ones set down, tbe tips swirling prettily about the shoul ders. The Hue of Joining Is hidden by a roll of silk rlblion, which forms a bow and ends at the chin. Nothing could tie more regal. More feathers can be applied In that way than on a fan or picture bat The tailor-made Easter woman will wear a swirling skirt of broadcloth that hits no placket hole. The entire back lets down In a panel, fastening at either edge with a row of from four to seven buttons. In front, at either edge, corresponding fastenings button over pockets. These fastenings are useful in tbe back, but In front they Alt! OCUM ntlal, for It la unlikely that aay woman could keep her hands out of so alluring a pair of pockets unleaa they were buttoned up, and tb much heralded coming woman should not arrlva with har haada la liar pock eta. That would be dreadful! . . Oeprrtaat, iam 4 ON A DAKOTA FARM. tn That Country Cold snd Wind Are He Sorted Bleiag. Then the long, cold winters; thanks for these, writes Budd Beeve In the St Paul Globe. Six months in the year the Creator of the universe stau-ls guard over the homes to keep the tramps away. He don't carry a shot gun or club. He put the thermometer 40 degrees below xero. and the virtuous inhabitant of North Dakota gin-s to sleep guarded by nature, feeling Mife and happy In divine bands. The state of the atmosphere 1b a complete protec tion against tramps. It Is true, a little more wood is required as a tax to pay for tbe presence of a divine policeman w ho never sleeps on his beat The tax Is cheap enough. It Is worth all It costs, aud more. too. Over half the year we are free from toads, bugs, snakes, flies, and all Insects, human aud otherwise. Long, cold winters make this country a success as a pleasure re sort Some tieople object to the exces sive amount of wind in circulation here. That Is because they have not analyzed and looked Into the future value of wind. Tbe horse, the ox, electricity, steam and water are all harnessed aud made to serve man as servants, but wlud is going to lie the king of powers. It Is coming forw ard as a voluntary and uni versal servant. AH that Is backing Is machinery for It to work on. It Is going to be almost Inexpensive. Windmills are put up now for $125 that grind fif teen bushels of feed per hour, pump all the water that can be used on a farm, run a wood saw, do the churning, run a washing-machine and clotlies wriug er and turn an Ice-cream freezer. It will not be long before every farmer will have a machine in his bouse to generate electricity attached to his windmill. He will cook and light his house by electricity generated by his friend, tbe wind. Instead of Retting up cold mornings to build a fire the North Dakota farmer will press a button at the head of his bed and turn on the elec tricity generated by the wind while he has been soundly sleeping snd dream ing of future greatness through the night it will not be long till firewood and sulphur matches will be a thing of the past on the Western farm. There Is not a fairyland ever dreamed of that will compare with North Dakota when our machinery Is In place the more the bllzxard rages and bowls, the fiercer the wind, the faster the mill will ran and tbe warmer and lighter It will lie Inside the North Dakota farmer will Just alt and smile between the contend ing elements the outslds and the In side. He will stand on the Inside and smile, radiant with comfort to see the roaring elements harnessed up work ing for him and making him happy. He will light his barn and warm his hen-roost by electricity. The kerosene lantern must go with other things be longing to the dark sges. How to Have Good ftooks. All of us want our literature "to be" clean, helpful and elevating, writes Ed ward W. Bok In the Indies' Home Jour nal. But all of us evidently do not Just the same. If we did, we would have what we wanted and nothing else. Nasty books are printed simply because there are nasty peoplo who want them. Suggestive papers are Issued, and suc cessfully so, because there are people who read them. Those of us who are fond of good books are indignant be cause am -h books as "Esther Waters," "The Heavenly Twins," "The Green Carnation," "The Yellow Aster" are successful. But why are they success ful? Because we buy them, and when t say "we" I mean "we." I do not mean tbe other man or the other woman up on whoso shoulders we are always ready to transfer the blame. I have very quietly made a study of tbs sources from which a great deal of this cry of bad or ephemeral literature cornea, and I find that It comes, In quite respectable proportions, from the very people who boy these books and help them to succeaa. Now, one thing la absolutely true: Just so long aa we continue buying thee books. Just so long will we have them. When we top buying, depend upon It the auth ors will stop writing tbem and the pub lisher will stop issuing them. But If we buy "Heavenly Twins" why, ther will be more "Heavenly Twin," and a year hence we will have "Infernal Trlpleta." Thia whole question Is sim ply on of demand and supply; so long aa tbe demand continues so will the upply. ' Paiaoe Trolley Can. In Boston something entirely new haa been Introduced on the street railroads In the shae of palace trolley cars. This marks tbe height of luxury and conven ience In street car construction. These cars, however, do not make and regu lar trips, and must be especially char tered for the occasion. They were designated for the use of theater par ties or large parties going to other places of entertainment Tbe cars are twenty feet long by seven feet wide, and the motors are twenty-five horse pownr each. The Interior Is fitted up very luxuriously, the wood work pol ished mahogany, and the upholstering of peacock blue brocaded plush. Each car contains twenty comforable chairs of elegant design, with wire hat hold ers beneath them, The rest of the In terior, such as the brass finishings, the frescoing, and th electrical apparatus Is all In keeping with the elegance of the other furnishings, . No man has a right to complain of being sick If he feels no worse than ha does when bis undershirt sJeevss ara pulled up. , ( Aa a rule the nan who i diaafpaaff,aad who ata bailrred hy tbatr waasJysa ta Is?) haa aaada away, win, fat i