RELIGION OF WORKS.
DM. TAUMAQE DESCRIBES IT IN
HIS SUNDAY SERMON.
Practical Reliatiosi the Kind that la
Wartk Somethi.-ne Bactiter of
all Mechanism aad All Toil-Faith
Without Worka la Dead.
The Waahiaarton Preacher.
This subject of Dr. Taluiajje cots
through th conventionalities aad spares
aolhing of that make believe religion
which is all talk and no practice. The
teit chosen was Jaines ii., "Faith
without worlu U dead." I have often
spoken to you about faith, bat thi morn
ing I apeak to you about works, for "faith
without worka is dead." 1 think you will
agree with me in the statement that the
great r autof thi world ia more practical
raligioa. We waut practical religion to
go into all uetvhandise. It will supervise
the labeling of goods. It will not allow
a man to say mat a thing was made in
ana factory when it ss made in another.
It will not allow the ru.'ehaut to say.
"That watch was niauufact d.-d in Cie
mera," when it was manufactured in
Massachusetts. It will not allow the
merchant to a.V that wine came from
Madeira when it came from California.
Practical religion will walk along by tiie
store shelve and tear off all the lags
that make misrepresentation. It will not
allow the merchant to say, "That is pure
eoffee," when dandelion root and chhury
and other ingredient go into it. It wilt
unt allow him to say, "That ;s pure
sugar," when tin-re are in it sand and
ground glass.
When practical religion gets it full
wing in the world, it will go down tiie
street, and it will come to that shoe store
and rip off the fictitious sole of many a
fine looking pair of shoe and show that
St is pasteboard sandwiched between the
sound leather. And this practical relig
ion will go right into a grocery store, and
a will pull out the plug of all the adulter
ated sirups, and it will dump into the asa
barrel in front of the store the cassia
bark that is sold for cinnamon, and the
hrickdusf that ia sold for cayenne palter,
and it will shake out the prussian blue
from the tea leaves, and it will sift from
the flour plaster of pari and bone dust
aad soapstone, and it will by chemical
analysis separate the oue quart of water
from the few honest dropa of cow's milk,
and it will throw out the lite animalcules
from the browu sugar.
The Aite of Adulteration.
There has been so much adulteration of
articles of food that it is an amaaemeut to
be that there is a healthy man or woman
in America. Heaven, only know what
they put into spices, and into the. sug
ars', aud into the butter, and into the
apothecary drug. Hut chemical analysis
mtd th microscope have been wonderful
revelation. The board l health in Mas
sachusetts analyzed a great amount of
what -v-ts called pure coffee and found in
it i,or ,ue particle of coffee-. In England
there is a law thai forbids the putting
1 alum in bread. The public authori
ties examined fifty-one packages of bread
and found them all guilty. The honest
Bhvsiciau. writing a prescription, doe
aot know but tlutt it may bring death in
stead, of health to his patieut, because
there may be one of tiie drugs weakened
fcy a cheaper article, and another drug
aiay be in full force, and so the prescrip
tion may have just the opposite effect
Intended. Oil of wormwood, warranted
yure, from Boston was found to have 41
per cent, of rosin and alcohol and chloro
form. Siammouy is one of the most
fa'.iiiti.'e medical drugs. It is very rare,
very precious. It is the sap or the gum
af a tree- or a bush in Syria. The root ol
the tree is exposed, an incision is made
fnto the root and then shells are placed at
this incision to catch rhe sup or the gum
an it exudes. It is very precious, this
acatnmony. But the peasant mixes if
with a cheaper material. Tlo-n it comes
to- AlepjKi, mil! the merchant there mixes
it with a cheaper material: then it comes
an to the wholesale druggist in Ixuidon or
New York, and he mixes it with a cheaper
material; then it come to the retail drng
gist. and he mixes it with a cheaper ma
teria!, and by the time the poor sick man
gets it into his bottle it is ashes and
chalk and sand, and some of what has
been a lied pure gcHinmouy after analysis,
feus been found to be no seaminony at ail.
A f caly Jo!.
Xnw, practical religion will yet rectify
all this. It will go to those hypocritical
professors of religion who got a "corner"
in corn and wheat in Chicago and New
York, sending prices np and up until they
re found beyond the reach of the poor,
keeping these breadstuff s in their own
bund, or controlling them until the
prices going tip and up and up, they were,
after awhile, ready to sell, and they sold
out. - making themselves millionaires in
one or two yearn, trying to fix the matter
up with the Ird by building a church or
a university or a hospital, deluding tliem
aelves with the idea that the Lord would
be so pleased with the gift he would for
get the swindle. Now, as such a man
aiay not have any liturgy in which to say
ais prayers. I will compose for him one
which lie practically in making: "Cu.
jLord, we. In pelting a 'corner' in bread
stuffs, swindled the people of the I'liited
States out of O.Oi xi.Ckx I and made suf
fering all up and down the land, and we
would like to compromise this matter
with thee. Thou knnwest it was a
scaly job, hut, then, it was smart. Now,
acre we compromise it. Take I per cent,
f the profils, and with that 1 per cent.
jou can build an asylum for these poor,
miserable riigiimiifiins of the street, and
, I will take a yacht and go to Europe.
Forever and ever. Amen."
Ah, my friends, if a man luilli gotten
ais estate wrongfully and he build a lin
af hospitals and universities from here
t Alaska, he cannot atone for it. After
awhile this man who has been getting a
"corner-1 in wheat dies, and then satau
gets a "corner" in him. He goes into a
great, long Black Friday. There is a
"break" in tins market. According to
Wnlj street parlance, he w iped others onl,
and now he is himself wiped out. No col
later! on which to make a spiritual loan.
Eternal defalcation.
Reform In W ork.
But this practical religion will not only
rectify all merchandise: it will also rectify
Jl mechanism and all toil. A time will
tame when a man will work as faithfully
hy the Job as bo doe by the day. Ton
any when thin; Is slightly done. "Oh.
ffcat ai done by the job." Tort can tell
tr'tSw wrf.ta or alowui'ss with, which
lafftfSH drive whether he Is hirer) by
tp feaw or by the excursion. If he is
hired by the hour, fee Irivf very slowly,
an as to make as many boors as poamble
It h is hired by the aieumoa, he whips
up the borae so as t get around and get
another customer. An styles af work
hsc?a to be inspected sklsw inspected,
boras Inspected, nchinT in-pened,
boas to watch the jonrneymaa, capitalist
coming down unexpectedly to watch the
boss, couductor of a city car soundiug the
punch bell to prove his honesty as a pas
senger hands to him a ciipiied nickel.
All things must be watched and inspected
Imperfections in the wood covered with
pntfy, garments warranted to last until
you put them on the third time, shoddy
to all kinds of clothing, chromos, pinch
beck, diamonds for $1.50, bookbinding
that holds on nntil you read the third
chapter, spavined horses, by skillful dose
of jockeys, for several days made to look
spry; agon tires poorly put ou. horses
poorly shod, plastering that cracks with
out provocation and falls off, plumbing
that needs to be pbinihcd, imperfect car
wheel that halts the whole train with a
hot box. Si little practical religion in
the niechaauistn of the world! I Ml you.
my friends, the law of man will never
rectify these things; it will be the ad
prevailing influence of the practical re
ligion of Je-oi Christ that will make the
chance for the better.
AIS Will Feel It.
Yes, this practical religion will also go
into agriculture, which is proverbially
honest, but meds to be rectified, and it
will keep the farto'. from sending to Die
city market veal ttiMt is too young to kill,
and hen the farmer farms on -hares it
will keep the man who dox the work
from milking his half three-fourths, and
it will keep I he farmer from building his
sist and rail fence on his neighbor's
premises, and it will make him shelter
his cattle in the winter storm, and it will
keep the old elder from working on Sun
day afternoon in the new ground where
nobody sees him. And this practical re
ligion will hover over the house, and over
the baru, and over the field, and over the
orchard.
Ve, this practical reI;g-on of which I
speak will come into the learned profes
sions. The lawyer will feel his responsi
bility in defending innocence and ar
raigning evil and expounding the law. and j
it will keep him from charging for briefs
he never wrote, and for pleas he never
made, and for percentages he never
earned, and from robbing widow anl
orphan because they are defenseless.
Yes. this practical religion will 'otue into
the physician's life, and he will feel his
responsibility as the conservator of the
public health, a profession honored by
the fact that Christ himself was a phy
sician. And it will make him honest,
and when be does not understand a oe
he w ill say so. not trying to cover up lack
of diagnosis with ponderous technicali
ties or send the patient to a reckless drug
store because the aMit!iecary happens to
pay a percentage on the prescriptions
sent. And this practical religion will
come to the schoolteacher, making her
feel her responsibility in preparing our
youth for usefulness and for happiness
and for honor, and will keep her from giv
ing a sly box to a dull head, chastising
him for what he cannot help and send
ing discouragement all through the afier
years of a lifetime. This practical re
ligion will also come to the newspaper
men, and it will help them in the gather
ing of the news, and it will help them in
setting forth the best interests of society,
and it will keep them from putting the
sins of the world in larger type than its
virtues, and its mistakes than its achieve
ments, and it will keep them from mis
representing interviews with public men
and from starting suspicions that, never
can be allayed and will make them stanch
friends of the oppressed instead of the
oppressor.
White Lies.
Yes, this religion, this practical rejig
iou, will come and put its hand on what
is called good society, elevated society,
successful society, so that people will
have their expenditures within their in
come, and they will exchange the hypo
critical "not at home" for the honest ex
planation "too tired" or "too busy to see
yon" and will keep innocent reception
from becoming intoxicated eonrivality.
Yea, there is great opportunity for mis
sionary work in what are called the sue
ccssfn! class-s of society. In some of the
cities it is no rare thing now to see a
fashiouabje woman intoxicate.) in the
sireet or the rail car or the restaurant.
The numte r of fine Indies who drink too
milch is increasing. 1'erhaps yon may
find her at the reception in most exalted
company, but she has made too many
visits to the wilieroom, and now her eye
is glassy, and after awhile bcr cheek is
ntuiatnraily flushed, and then she falls
into fits of excruciating laughter almut
nothing, and then she offers sickening
flatteries, telling some homely man how
well he looks, and then she is helped in
to the carriage, and by the time the car
riage gets to her home it take the hus
band and the coachman to get her tip the
stairs. The report is she was taken sud
denly ill at a germau. Ah, no." She took
too mm b champagne and mixed liquors
aud got drunk. That was all.
Yea, this practical religion will have to
come in and fix np the marriage relation
in America. There are members of
churches who have too ninny wives aud
too many husbands. Society needs to b''
expurgated and washed and fumigated
and Christianized. We want this prac
tical religion not only ! take hold of
what are called the lower classeSj but 'o
take hold of what are called the higher
classes. The trouble is that people hare
an idea they can do all their religion on
Sunday with hymnbook and prayer book
and litnrgy, and some of them sit in
church rolling tip their eyes as though
they were ready for translation when
their Habbnth is boumlpd on all sides by
an inconsistent life, and while you are
expecting to come out from tinder their
arms the wings of an angel there come
out from their fortbead the horns of a
beast.
New Work for the Old Goape!.
There has got to be a new departure ia
religion. I do not sny a new religion.
Oh, no; lint the old religion brought to
J new appliances. In our timp we have
had the daguerreotype anil me am tiro
type and the photograph, but it. Is the
same old sun, and these arts are only
new appliances of the old sunlight. So
this glorious gospel is Just what we want
.'o photograph the image of Ood on one
soul and daguerreotype It on another soul.
Not a new gospel, but the old gospel put
to new work. In oar time we have had
the telegraphic invention, and the tele
phonic invention, and the electric inen
tion, but they are all children of old elec
tricity, an element that the philosophers
have a long while known much about.
So this electric gospel needs to flaab Its
light on the eyes and ears and sonls of
to become a telephonic medium fes
make the deaf hear, a tektgraphic medi
an to dart tsvitatioa aad warning to all
nations, an electric light to illamioe lb
eastern aad western heearspassrea. Not a
near gospel, but the old goepei doing a
new work.
Now you say. That is a very beautiful
theory, but is it possible to take one's
reiigioa into all the avocations and busj-
nesM- ( life?" Y, aad I will give you
fcome se.'iuieflR. Medical doctors who
took their rebgion ipta everyday fife:
Ir. John Abercrombie of Aberdeen, the
greatest Scottish physician of his flay,
his book on "Disease M the Brain and
Spinal Cord," no more wonderful tbaa
his tssik on "The Philosophy of the
Moral Ki-eliugs." and often kneeling ar
the bedside of his patients to commend
them to iUtd in prayer: Dr. John Brown
of Kdinburgh, immortal as an author,
dying under the benediction of the sick
of Kdioburg. mi self remembering him
as he sat in bis study in Kdinbttrgh talk
ing to me about Christ and hi hope of
heaven, and si-ore of Christian family
physicians in Washington just as g.od
as they w ere, ,
Lawyers who carried their rehgwui int
their profession: Lord Cairns, the
iue.n's adviser for nmoy years, the high
est legal authority in tireat Hritain J,rd
Cairns every summer in his vacation
preaching, as an evangelist among the
fioor of his country; John Mclean, judge
of the Supreme Court of the I'nile
Stat'-s and president of the American
Sunday School I'tiion. feeling more satis
faction in the latter office than in the
former, and scores of Christian lawyers
ss eminent in the church of iod as they
are eminent at the liar
Ke'i;-lon Merchant.
Merchants who took their religion into
everyday life: Arthur Tappan, derided
in his day because lie established that
system by which we come to find out the
commercial standing of business men,
starting that entire system, derided for
it then, himself, ss I knew him well, in
moral character A I. Monday morning'
inviting to a room in tin top of bis store
bntne the clerks of his establislitm n",
asking them about their worldly interest
and their spirilual interests, then giving
out hymn, lending 'i prayer, giving them
a few words of goiai sdvbe, asking them
what church they attended on the Sab
bath, what the text was. whether they
bad any especial f roubles of their own.
Arthur Tappan. I never heard his eulogy
pronounced. I pronounce It now. And
other merchants just a good. William
K. Dodge, in the iron business; Moses II.
(Jrinnell, in the shipping business; I'eter
Cooper, in the glue business. Scores of
men just as good as they were.
f anners who take their religion into
their occupation: Why. this miuute their
horses and wagons stand around all the
meeting houses in America. They began
this day by a prayer to Kod. and when
they gi t home at noon, afier they have
put their horses up, will offer a prayer to
iod at the table, seeking a blessing, and
next summer there will be in their fields
not one dishonest head of rye. not one
dishonest ear of corn, not one dishonest
apple. Worshiping God to-day away up
among the Berkshire hills, or away down
amid the lag.sms of Florida, or away out
amid the mines of Colorado, or along the
bank of the Potomac and the Itaritan,
where I knew them better Iwcause I went
to sj -hool with thein.
Mechanics who took their religion into
their occupations: James liriinllcy, the
famous millwright: Nathaniel Itowdilch,
the famous slim chundler t'liln tt..rrit
the famous blacksmith, and hundreds aud I
thousands of strong arms which have
made the hammer, and the saw, and the
adze, and the drill, and the ax sound in
the grand march of our national indus-trii-s.
(Jive your heart to fiod. and then fill
your life with good works. Consecrate
to him your store, your shop, your flank
ing house, your factory and your home.
They say no one will hear it. Ond will
hear it. Thai is enough.
Short tc rm on a.
Judgment. The time of Cod
timil
judgments: and the dispensing of re
wards mid pctiallh n liM. not yet n; rh c,
The Lord Jesus Christ does not formal
ly and finally judge the quick ami the
(lead until the Iut great njed.e at iie
end of the world. We arc not now
Cbrough with life, nor k. God through
with tw. To Judge men at present i to
prejudice them. Judgment in not the
matter which Uul has now In hand.
Kev. Henry Swentzd, Kplscojinllun,
Brooklyn, X. y.
i
Pure itj Heart Many who declare :
that their hand are clean and their,
heart pure tell an untruth. Their,
hand would be repulsive if we could
see them an IJch) sees them. Many j
thing in wx-lety mid hinduex nre con- ;
donod. There ! a greut ibul of uhiun, '
which, according to iiu unwritten law.
Is looked upon by the world a right
and fair. There i. however, a ntnml-,
ard of lioncty,and nil should live up to
ft. We can not have cleun hands if we '
have Impure heart. Kev. J. F. Mae-j
lareti, Presbyterian, San Jose, Cal. '
The Bible and Progress. No real
progri of the nice ever started from
infidelity, or was ever helped to sue.
fit by men who put fhemwclveK loose
from the hi-storic itifluetin- of Chri
tlanity. All remedial, preventive and
redemptive philanthropy ha ajway
lieen rooted in the Word of fkd, and
the men who have wrought the most
for their fellows have ever boon guided
and empowered by the forces emfxulied
aud made radiant in the historic events
and noble live of the church of God in
all time, for all real progress will al
ways lie baxed on tly principle of the
Bible. Kev, T, Iieelxr, Proflhyterlan,
Norrhitown, Pa.
Divine Arthlteclure.-A gentleman
who wn walking nenr an umompleied
building one day snw o Btoneentfer
chiseling patiently at a block of utono
In front of him. The gentleman weut
up to him. "Still chlaolingr he re
marked, pleasantly. "Yes, gtill chisel
ing." replied the workman, Rolnif on
with hi work. "In what part of the
building doe thi-etone belong?" asked
the gentleman. "I don't know," replied
the atones'iirter. "I haven't seen the
plan." And then fc went on chiseling,
chiseling, chiseling. And that I whet
we should do. W have not seen the
great plana of the Master Architect
hove, but eacfc of u baa bla work to
do, and we abould chlael away nntil It
ia done.-Rev. B. tj. Hadne. Kplaew
pallan. New York.
A KENTUCKY RABBIT-HUNT.
All Aorta of Coataaaea aad of Horace
Uaed.
The men are dressed as they please,
the ladies as they please. English blood
g-t expression, sa ixnual, In lujepcn
dence absolute. There la a sturdy di-
regard of all conMideratiotis of form.
' o... i..f,ir,m, c. ot to n cn
Koine men wear leggings, some
boot; a few have brown (ibootiug
cuaiji. Mostt of tbem ride with the heel
low and the toe turned according to
temperament. The Southern woman's
hng riding nkirt bus happily betri laid
guide. The young Dianaa wear the
tusual habit; only the bat is a derby, a
cap, sometimes a Iseaver with a white
veil, or a tam-o'sbanter that ban
slipped down behind and left a frank
itare head of hhining hair. They bold
the rein ia cither hand, and riot a
crop is to lie sern. There are plenty of
riding-whiiss. however, and gsiinetimea
one runs up the back of soinp girl's
right nrui; for thai 1m the old-fanhlonwl
pissitiou for the whip when rlellug In
form, on a trip like tbl. however, ev
erybody ride to please his fancy, and
rides anywhere but off his Imrw.
The men ure sturdy country youths,
who in a few jeurs will make good
tyiM'H of flie iM-cf-euting yimns Knglisti
stjuireKiilibtinied fellow with big
f rallies, o-n face. f-arl(K eyes, and
a manner that in eay, cordial, kindly,
independent. The girls are midway
tsetween the typi-s of brunette and
bloude, witb a leaning towards the lat
ter type. The "Jtlreiue brunette is. as.
j rare ns Is tiie tniloveiy iioihh-. sinui
Oliver Wendell Holmes differentiate
frorn her dazzling clster with lock that
have caught the light of the nun. Ku
dinnt with fresbiietw these girls, nre,
and with gxd health and strength;
round of figure, clear of eye and skin,
spirited, fc"ft of voice, and flow of
speech.
There is one man on a sorrel mule.
He in the host buck at the big: farm
house, mid he has given up every
horse be bus to guests. One of the
girls has a broad white girth running
till the way around both hurt"" and
Kiddle. Her habit Is the tnoat stylish
In the field, she Ihih lived a year in
Washington, pcrh.-ips. tind han hud
finishing touch nt a fashionable acnuol
In New York. Near her ts a young fel
low on a ld.uk thoroughbred a grad
uate, perhaps:, of Yale or Princeton.
Thev rarely put on nirw. couples like
' these, when they come lui'k home, but
(drop quietly Into their old place with
1 friends and kindred. From respect to
I local prejudice, which has :: hearty
contempt for anything ihut is not. ear
i ried for actual use, she has left hei
ridii.g-crop at home. He has let bis
crinkled Mack hair grow rather long.
J mid has covered It with n black slouch
hat.
Contact with the outer world bus
made a difference, however, and It Is
enough to create a strong bond of nym
pnthy Is'twecn these two. ami to cntise
trouble between ( otmtry-bred Phyllis,
plump, dark-eyed, bare-headed, who
rides a fumy tlutt Is t rained to the hunt,
n iminv of the horses are, and young
farmer Corydoil. who is nenr her on
an Irongray. hidi-ed, iniwImT in tirew
fr.4 among those four. At a brisk walk
the line move across the field, the
captain at each end yelling to the men
only the men. for no woman is ever
anywhere but where she ought to be In
a Southern hunting-field- to keep It
et might.
"Billy," Hiioin the captain, wilh the
mighty voice. "I fine you ten dollar,"
The slouch-hat and Hie white girth are
lagging iM'hlnd. It In a lover' quarrel,
mid the girl look a little flushed, while
Phyllis watches willing. "P.tit you
can compromise with me," add the
enpt.-iiii. and a Jolly laugh runs down
the line. ow comes a "rebel yell."
Somewhere along the line a horse leaps
forward. Other horw jump, too; ev
erylKidy yells, and everylxidyV eye I
on" a Utile Umch of cotton that Is ixdcg
whisked with fistotilwhing peed
through the brown weed. There is a
mussing of horses lose behind It; the
white girth flnjdie. in the midst of the
melee, jind the tdoucli hut l just lw
hind. The bunch of cotton turn sud
denly, and doubie back be; ween the
horwes' feet. There i a great crash,
and much turning, twisting and mw
ing of bit. ' Then the crowd da she the
other way. with Corydon and Phyllis: in
the hud. The fun ha liegun. "After
B'rer HabWt in the Pdue-Oniss," by
John Fox. Jr., In the Century.
Chinese Trust One Another.
I have said that a Chinaman trusis
hi friend to an extent that we would
consider almost Imbecile. Among
them money I loaned without Inter
est and without written acknowledg
ment or witnesses. If a man 1 "short"
and appeal to hi cousin or hi friend
to help him. that friend will divide up
without specifying a time for It re
payment. If the man Is bk or poor,
the creditor, in all probability, will
never mention the matter again, and
will cerfainly not ask for It return
while the debtor refrain from gam
bling or opium smoking, and honest
ly doe hi best, I have known men
to be for a time without employment,
and while they were trying to obtain
It If they conformed to the strict mor
al code of Chinese law, they were help
ed by the various cousin with gift of
money sufficient to support them until
work waa obtained; and not only to
aupport themselves, "t:t their familie
also. And then, as "turn about I fair
play," fhey were expected to be equal
ly geua;otii wilh aotne one else. Cen
tury. l for the Orange.
In view of the proepecta of the ftituns
development In orange production In
til country, attention ha been drawn
to the supplementary uses to which the
products of the orange tree can be put.
In their natural Mate the orange flow,
era aerve to flavor drink, candle, etc,
When dnvtJlleil they yield the mticb-ea-teemed
orange flower water, and an
eawenttad oil called neroll. When treat
ed wlrh augur, the flowens form a dell
clou candy, whk-h fcaakl to Is? not only
eicepiiocally pUtable, but more
wholeHome than many other produc
tion of the confectioner' a art. The
flower are aelcsted with care, weigh
ed and Immersed in cold water for
twenty-four hour, after which they
are dipped in cold water, rew ashed,
and finally trpread out on a linen cloth
or ftbeet to dry. When quite dry they
are laid out in low. wide dishc, each
Bower separate from Ita fellow, aud
then sprinkled with double their weight
of sugar, admtnhrtered at interval over
a penod of eight daya. They a re men n
whlle moved and kept In the ahade. At
the expiration of that time they are
once more placed in the aun, . whose
ray dry tbem completely. The orange
flower water la made of equal pro)sr
tion in weight of bhswoma and water,
which yield on an average about otie
flflb of a pound weight of water and
flower and aqua nanfa, with aleout
.(107 per tvnt of eential oil. At pres
ent the bettt manufactirie of orange
flower water are to 1 found In France,
where a pirit called petit grain i pro
duced by the distillation of the leave.
- Pittnl.urg Iipatoh.
Frederick Moucrleff liaa written a
hltorli-al romance called "The Pro-voHt-Marahal."
Andrew Lang's long - heralded
"Pickle, the Spy," dealing with a ro
mance of King Chnrle. the Stuart pre
tender. I on the point of appearance.
The Macuiillan fJompsiny i issuing
an edition of Irving' "Alhambra." il
lustrated wth numerous lithograph by
Joseph Pennell. which have drawn otti
a note of praise from Whistler.
Jules) Verne 1 cheerily turning out
hi Hcveuty-Hixtb novel. To novel a
year nre hi ambition, and he hit real
ized it regularly wince l.VS. He i a
hard critic of hi own work, and re
write his utorie at least half a dozen
f linen.
The relations between Alfred de Mus
sel and George .Sand are the tuibject
of unlimited iilMCiuwion In the French
pre. Paul Marleton I tn-atlug the
subject In an exhaustive volume. ssn
to appear tinder the title "t'ne Hiatoire
d'Anunir."
Hall Caine calls hi new utory 'The
Christian," which I In line with hi
regular title. Kvery Issik that he lias
written i "the1 something: "The
HeetiiHter." "The Bondman," "The
Scapegoat," "The Manxman," ami now
"The Christian."
The London Chronicle ha printed
several page of IntervMtlng llltudrated
matter from the pen of N'annen. de
tw ribing hi arctic experience. That
paper 1 authority for the 1aie(nent
that Dr. Nuiikch will ni-elve nearly
SliVifiO for the whole right of his
arctic Isiok. There will Ik- Norwegian,
French, and (Jennan edition, tMwidc
the KngllKhnnd American.
It is now definitely stated Hint the
executor of William Morri will close
the Kelmscoil Pre a noon a the
work already In hand are compb'ted.
The last liook to ! Istoied fnitn the
famous ires will !e "The Sunder! ng
FltKxl," a abort tale, which Morrl fin
ished a few week Iiefore h! death.
Aymer Vallunce, a well-known di-
ciile of Morris, ha In preparation a
work ou hi master, which will be an
elnlmnito survey of hi work tin "an
iuduwtrial and decorative artist, pre
server (an dlKilngnished from 'retorer't
of ancient monument, and genera!
worker In the aesthetic movement o
the day."
Must. Waft I'pon the rieranl.
Considerable interest h;i lieon arous
ed in F.ugland by the new that the
Legislature of New Zealand ha just
passed a law creating a statutory half
holiday for domestic servant. Ascot-ding
to the meimnre the employer is
obliged to turn every nervant out of the
house between H p. in. and Id p. 111. on
one day each week. The half holiday
Is compulsory, not only in the ene that
the employer I bound to grant. If, but
In the sense that the servant ks Isrilind In
take it, find if any servant S found at
work during the statutory half holiday
the
liiifortuiiatc employer 1 liable to a
line of $", Should the ervnnt ret urn
for meal during the half holiday- and
th! 1 one of the llloHt benutif til pro
Vision of the Hew law-the master or
mlnircs will have to minister to the
watitji of the domestic, 1'nder the lr
cittiiMtniiccs 1 only uatnrnl that every
hired gill In New Zeiiland will intike It
a jKilnt of coming home to tea ou her
half holiday, the privilege of ls-itig
wailed upon by one' employer being a
right which no "lady help' would will.
Ingly forego.
Ilriilesinnids In Alpaca.
White alpaca gowns, the material of
exquisite liticiiess and pliability, but
nt 11 alpaca, were woru by the brlile.
maid at a recent wedding. The frocka
were Koftened with fichu of while
chiffon, and the toilet completed by
black tulle picture hat that had while
satin crown and were trimmed with
ostrich feather. Another group of ah
paca-elnd bridesmaid had their chif
fon fichu caught down with violet,
and wore large violet trimmed picture
hit of white chiffon. They carried
till white stick, trimmed with riblxin
a hd violet.
-Why do yon laugh at his stala
jokeaT" "If I did not laugh, he would
think I did not understand the jokes,
and would try to ' explain them."
Truth.
THE USE Of BUR.
They Carr. lh "f ' Awm
from ibe l'ara Mes.
After a rll afield. In the fall, one a
apt to wonder, as he works away at rhe
burr that cover hb clot In. hat save.
they can ts-sibly I. Hum are a
great nulsan-e in men aud animal; bflt
tiie plant they grow on find tbem very
ecrvieeable, for Ihey are simple frnrta
covered with epiue or prickb-s: and
thia i only aiiotler w;i pl:ni hare to
distribute their .seed. That it te a
whewe tb.H work well any one ma
ee who hi a hunting (log. and keep
It in hi ward, la the epriug tine cro-m
of Spanish ii.-edlea and ch burrs cwne
up a if by magic, where there were
none lfor.. They have grown frem
the burr the dog bnmght home In hi
coat the autumn before. Around wool
en mllht In New Ktigland plant from
the Went epring ii in a inysleriouo
way. and nearly always these have bnrr
fruit. They have grown iroin rue
burr taken from the fli-c-e .f shoep,
in cleaning. nl throwa out a wae.
fsotue troiitdceouie weeds have been
linr.slu-ed In this mauner, On the prai.
ric there are many plant with thi
kind of fruit. In former day, when
greut herd of buffalo rosm.-d the
phi iu, their hair caught tiji these burrs,
which tbii wiole long ride. like the
tramp tny are. r.ven now. in bio
buffalo wallow plant are found that
do not grow else here In the country:,
round.
Some bun, like Spanish needle,
have only three or four slender Kpjne,
or awns, n they are called. t tiie
summit of the fruit. If we look at
tbem through a magnifying gin, we
find them tearing sharp, downward
pointing barlw, like that of a fish hook.
The Kami lur. an III weed that grow
on sea la-aWie and untidy river banks,
has burr covered with such plne.
The boy who hu slopped on and Kpnrs
wilh hi lire feef know thi to hia
wirrow. The rlny burl go in eueny,
but every attempt to draw them tu
inuki them tear Into the flesh.
Often the pincw or britlt are hnxik
ed Instead of being burl (I. The riot
burr, or cockle burr, that grow ahnn
dantly In wnste groimd. and the ns-i-inony
of our wood, are examph. Hnr
ibk hn .uch hisikcd prickle on it"
fruH. olid they sthk o fat together
that children make of them neat little
Kieket. handle and all. The tkk
trefoll ha jottitiNl ol, covered thick
ly with atrii.it 1 hiKikiil hair that wn
hardly Is' wi n wl'hotif a magDlfytn
gla. Those are the mall. flat, brown
burr that cover the clothing after a
walk through the wood In Kepternl-r.
They are most annoying burrs, worwe
than dot-burr. they nre m mnll and
ttlek so fust. ' Ibiw Planu Siir-ad."
Si, Nichola.
Needles.
The noodle is one of the liMsl nnciiHit
iiistrumi-ni of which we have any rec
oil!. The tit-Kt account that hintory
give of the manufacture of needle 1
that they were made at Nurembtirg In
XT.Vi; mid. while the dale of their rrttit
manufacture in Knghind I in doubt.
It I hh'mI to have commenced in that
country almut l."):i or IM.". and H i
awerted that the ftrt wn pract)c-d fry
a Siumish negro or native of India, who
died without dwcloning the crt4 af
hi procis. I Miring tiie reign of Qrieen
Klixabeth thi Industry' w.i rt-vtved.
aiwl ha lss-n contluinl ever lice.
Christopher Crecnlng and a Mr. TViwer
isxtablislu d iieinlle fuctorle at long
Crrnidon, nejir U-dditch. In England, In
l'lVi, and these weri' im followed by
itlier London needle maker. Red
ditih i Kill! the center of F.nsBnh
Iiei-dle iiiHimfaclure. The eye of 1ie
earllcs-t iietilb were quare. Many
utiHUci-esstful attempt were made to
bring out the Ko-calb-d "drill-eyed" ee
ilb Is'fore they were linully Introduce,!
in ls2ii, Two year later ibe burnish
ing machine in which the eye of nee-
(lll-S re polished WllH Completed. la
thi iiinchitie the nei-lk are strung on
a Meel wire which i ausel to rerolva
j rapidly, and thereby lm(firt n boantl
l fill finish to the eye.
1 .. 7 : r:
i iisriiuiiHiiie i ,irn llnsking.
For several winter the Nntional 8o-
i-lefy of New L'ngliind Women has been
rt
K
reviving one old custom from the tarn
of steady hiibits, and It I under tht,
auspice oi i ne uiemtii;rH of this nr.
gutiizatlon that the "corn buskin:'
will take place. Iit winter an ohi-
fasliiomil "ijulltitig beo1 whs given hv
j the society af the Hotel Majestic, and
the great micees of that (iffalr led '.let
metnliiTR tb hit uiKiii the bn if imi
tating the "husking" of their grand
father and grandmother time, oil
of the plan for this unique entertain
ment have not yet been completed, but
enough I known to wnrnint tini iate
nient thiif the Waldorf "husking bee"
will exhibit, a curious BilmUiure or
the backwoods mid the highest retlne
lueula of soclefy, New Vork Loiter.
A ltaro Uoilar.
There are two iorle regarding the
rarily of the silver dollar of 1HH4, the
moat generally accept ! tudng the one
which (Ht ouul for the scarcity by ay
Ing tlwit they were crit to Africa to pay
the Koldicr engagi-il In war between
thi country and Tripoli. There were
( only 111.570 of tbem coined. Another
version of the torj which account
for their rarlly I that a vecl bound
to China with almost the entire mintage
of that year waa bad, The" former
Mory npienrsto be the most likely ex
planation. Pruyn How did the FnT Woman and
Living Kkeleton come to marry T
Phreiiuea-W'ell, jou ee, bo said u,nt
he Just doted on Junoes-ue women,
and she declared that her affinity must
tie spirit uelle. Pock,
We are all eyiiiaFlylitTf putftiuf
our largest glfta In the place where
tiiey will attract most attention,