TALMAGE'S SERMON. “WOMAN'S WORK" LAST SUN DAY'S SUBJECT. “'Lver jr IVlio YVomnn ftullilctli Il«r House*' Hook uf Vroieili*, llmptrr XIV*. Verse 1 Advice to the Young 4*lrU of Today. Woman, a more adjunct to man, an Appendix to the masculine volume, an appendage, a sort of after thought, something thrown in to make thing* even that In the heresy en tertained and implied by some men. This is evident to them, because Adam was first created, and then Eve. They don't lead the whole story, or they would find that the porpoise and the hear and the hawk were created before Adam, so that this argument, drawn from priority of creation, might prove that the sheep and the ddg were great er than man. No Woman was un In dependent creation, and was intended, if she chose, to live alone, to work alone, act alone, think alone, and tight her battles alone. The Bible says it Is not good for man to he alone, hut never says It is not good for woman to be alone; and the simple fact is that many women who are harnessed for life in the marriage religion would lie a thousandfold better off if they were ailone. Who are these men who, year after year, hang around hotel* and engine houses and theater doors, and come In and out to bother busy clerks and mer chants and mechanics, doing nothing, where there Is plenty to do? They are mm supported by their wives and mol hers. If the statistics of any of our citi»s could bn taken on this subject, you would find that a vast multitude •• win; ‘ .. ... but. masculines. A great legion of men amount to nothing, and a woman by marriage, manacled to one of these nonentities, needs condolence. A wo man standing outside the marriage re lation Is several hundred thousand times better off than a woman badly married. Many a bride, Instead of a wreath of orange blossoms might more properly wear a bunch of nettles and nightshade, and, Instead of the Wed ding March, a more appropriate tune would be the Dead March In Saul, and, Instead of a banquet of confectionery and Ices, there might be more appro priately spread a table covered with apples of 9odom. Many an attractive woman, of good sound sense In other things, has mar ried one of these men to reform him. What was the result? I-lke when a dove, noticing that a vulture was ra pacious and cruel, set about to reform It, and said, "I have a mild disposition, and I like peace, and was brought up In the quiet of a dove-cote, and I will bring the vulture to the same liking by marrying him,” so, one day, after the vulture declared he would give up his carniverous habits and cease long ing for blood of flock and herd, at an altar of rock covered with moss and lichen, the twain were married, a bald headed eagle officiating, the vulture y saying. “With all my dominion of earth and sky, 1 thee endow, and prom ise to love and cherish till death do us part.” Cut one day the dove In her fright, saw the vulture busy at a car cass and cried, "Stop that! did you not promise me that you would quit your carniverous and filthy habits if I mar ried you?” "Yes,” said the vulture, “but If you don’t like my way, you can leave.” and with one angry stroke of the beak, and another fierce clutch of the claw, the vulture left the dove eyeless and wingless and lifeless. And a (lock of robins flying past, cried to each other and said, “See there! that comes frem a dove marrying a vulture to reform him.” Many a woman who lias had the hand of a young Inebriate offered, but declined it, or who was asked to chain her life to a man selfish, or of bad temper, and refused the shackles, will bless God throughout all eternity that she escaped that earthly pandemo nium. Besides all this, In our country about one million men were sacrificed In our Civil war, and that decreed n million women to celibacy. Uesldes that, since the war. several armies of meu I as large as the Federal and Confeder ate armies put together, have fallen under malt liquors and distilled spirits, so full of poisoned Ingredients that the , work was done more rapidly, and the victims fell while yet young. And If fifty thousand meu are destroyed every year by strong drink before marriage, that makes In the thirty-three years since the war one million six hundred and fifty thousand men slain, and de erees one million six hundred and Itfty thousand women to celibacy. Take, then, the fact that so many women are unhappy In their marr.age. and the fsi t that the slaughter of two million lt«» hundred and lift)' thousand meu. by war and rum comhlnad, decides Ikat at least that aumiier of women shall he ui.aAanred fur life, my text t-omee ‘a with a cheer and puteses and appro pr »*<•«. « that you may aever have •c a la It before when It aaya. “Kvery wise w owa* butldelh her house that la. |*t woman be her own architect, lay -Hit her own plana, be her aw a su pers i> «r. achieve her sea destiny. la ssdnwiM thus# wumea who hat *c item the haul# sloae | run gratmate you an your happy escape H»Jo -e foresee that you will wet hase • to n«> is »'e the fault# of I he other tel when you have faults enough of you* wait Thing of the bereavement* you at ttd of the Mans ml oaseaimiUled temper which you will met have t« run. of tba -area you will gevar have to I « > < r ami >t the opp>-ftuai>» ef out •hie aeetulaesa fvsuw which mas Hal Ufa would have partially debarred yew, nt that pee as* free to a» u4 Mgs as tmm ah« has the rwepoaniMttttae 4 g h sargaig saw ran >m hh> Uwd ho not given you a hard lot. as compared with your sisters. When young women «hall make up their mluds at the start that masculine companionship is not a necessity in order to happiness, and that there is a strong probability that they will have to light the battle of life alone, they will be getting the timber ready for their own fortune, and their saw and axe and plane sharp ened for its construction, since "Every wise woman buildeth her house." As no boy ought to be brought up without learning some business at which he could earn a livelihood, so no girl ought to be brought up with out learning the science of self-sup port. The difficulty is that many a family goes sailing on the high tides of success, and the husband and father depends on bis own health and acu men for the welfare of his household, but one day he gets his feet wet, and In three days pneumonia has closed his life, and the daughters are tufned out on a cold world to earn bread, anil there is nothing practical that they can do. The fripnds come in and hold consultation. "Give music lessons," says an outsider. Yes, that is a useful calling, and if you have great genius! for It, go on In that direction. Bit there ure enough music teachers now starving to death In ail our towns and cities, to occupy all the piano stools and sofas and chairs anil front-door steps of tlie city. Besides that, the daughter lias been playing only for amusement, and is only at the foot of the ladder, to the top of which a great multitude of masters on piano and harp aud iluto and organ have climbed. “Put the bereft daughters as sales women In stores,” Bays another advi ser. But there they nuiBt competo with salesmen of long experience, or with men who have served an appreu tlceahln In rrirnmerce anil who began ns shop boys at ten years of age. Some kind-hearted dry goods man, having known the father, now gone, says, "We are not In need of any more help JUBt now, but send your daughters to my store, and 1 will do as well by them as possible.” Very soon the question comes up, why do not the female em ployes of that establishment get as much wages as the mule employes? For the simple reason, In many cases, tho females were suddenly flung by misfortune behind that counter, while the males have from the day they left tho public school been learning tbc business. How Is this evil to be cured? Start clear back In the homestead and teach your daughters that life is an earnest thing, and that there is a possibility, If not a strong probability, that they will have to fight the battle of life alone. Let every father and mother say to their daughters, "Now, what would you do for a livelihood If what I now own were swept away by finan cial disaster, or old age, or death should end my career?" "Well, I could paint on pottery and do such decorative work.” Yes, that is beautiful, and If you have genius for It go on In that direction. But there are enough busy at that now to make a line of hardware as long as yon Penn sylvania avenue. "Well, I could make recitations In public and earn my living as a drama tist; I could render King Lear or Mac beth till your hair would rise on end, or give you Sheridan’s Hide or Dick en's Pickwick." Yes, that is a beauti ful art, but ever and anon, as now, there Is an epidemic of dramatization that makes hundreds of households nervous with the cries and shrieks and groans of young tragediennes dying in tho fifth act, and the trouble is that while your friends would like to hear ycu, and really think that you could surpass Ristori and Charlotte Cush man and Fanny Kemble cf the past, to say nothing of the present, you could not, In the way of living, in ten years earn ten cents. My advice to all girls and all unmar ried women, whether in aflluent homes or in homes where most stringent ! economies are grinding, is to learn to ■lu some kind of work ih.it the world must have while the world stands. I rm glad to see a marvelous change for the Letter, and that women have found out thut there are hundreds of practi cal things that a woman can do for a living If she begins soon enough, and that men have been compelled to ad mit It. Yon and 1 can remember when the majority of occupations were thought Inappropriate for women; but our Civil war entire, and (he hosts of men went forth from North uiul South; and to conduct the business of our cit ies during the patriotic ubsence, wo men were demanded by the tens of thousands to take the vacant places; and multitudes of women, who bad been hitherto supported by father# and brothers and sons, were compelled from that time to lake care of them selves From that time a mighty change took place favorable to female employment. e • e Now, men of Amertat. be fair, and give the women a chance Are you afraid that they will do some of your • orh, and hence harm your prosperi «*••* Heme sober that there are a»ur*« of thousands of men .Meg wunssi work I *•• mu he afraid' 1)4 know. ' the end front the taginning, and k* knows how many people thta world ! *•» feed and shelter, and when It get* I *m» full he will end the world, and If need he, start another th4 will halt the Inventive loslly. which by producing a machine that will dw the i work of ten «« twenty e# a hundred men and women wilt Wave that aum [ tat at people without eofk I hup* : that they* wilt M be invested another : sewing machine, at teeydag maehtne. of ewra thresher or an* nee machine, hut the neat tve hundred years We went me Hi de wooden hands and Iron hands and steel kved* and etsutvt* j hands so bat listed foe men and women } she would other site go the sort I and get the pay and earn the Hvell j hood. But God will arrange all. and all wo ■ have to do Is to do our best and trust ' him for the rest. Got me rheer all ! women fighting the battle of life alone, with the fact of thousands of women | who have won the day. Mary Gyon, founder of Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, fought the battle alone; Adelaide Newton, the tract distributor, alone; Fidelia Fisk, the consecrated missionary, alone; Dorothea Dix, the angel of the Insane asylums, alone; Caroline Hersehel, the Indispensable reinforcement of her brother, alone; Maria Takrzewska, the heroine of the Berlin hospital, alone; Helen Chal mers, patron of the sewing schools for the poor of Edinburgh, alone. And thousands and tens of thousands of women, of whose bravery and self-sac rifice and glory of character the world has made no record, but whose deeds are In the heavenly archives of mar tyrs who fought the battle alone, and, (hough unrecognized for the short thirty or fifty or eighty years of their earthly existence, shall through the quliuilllon ages of the higher world be pointed out with the admiring cry, “Theso are they who came out of great tribulation and had their robes washed and made white In the blood of the Gamb.” Get me also say, for the encourage ment of all women fighting the battle of life alone, that their conflict will soon end. There Is one word written over the fares of many of them, and that word is Despair. My sister, you need appeal to Christ, who comforted (he sisters of Bethany In their domes tic trouble, and who In his last hours forgot all the pangs of Ills own hands and feet and heart, as he looked into the face of maternal anguish, and called a friend's attention to It, In sub stance saying, "John, 1 can not take care of her any longer. I)o for her as I would have done. If I had lived. Be IllJIU 111/ UIVUM'l . it) uhu* < pressure of unrewarded and unappreci ated work, your hair 1h whitening and the wrinkles come, rejoice that you are nearing the hour of escape from your very last fatigue, and may your departure be as pleasant as that of Isabella Graham, who closed her life with a smile and the word "Peace," The daughter of a regiment in any army Is all surrounded by bayonets of defense, and. In the battle, whoever falls, she Is kept safe. And you are the daughter of the regiment com manded by the Lord of Hosts. After all. you arc not fighting the battle of life alone. All heaven Is on your side. You will be wise to appropriate to yourself the words of sacred rhythm: "One who has known In storms to sail I have on board; Above the roaring of the gale I hear my Lord. "He holds me; when the billows smlt# I shall not fall. If short, 'tts sharp; If long, ’tls light; He tempers all.” OWNS A RARE COIN. One of I lie Throe 1804 Holler* Poieeee ed liy e It. Jo»eph, Mo., Men. From the Kansas City Journal: L. E. Altwein of St. Joseph, Mo., Is now the happy possessor of an “1804” di ver dollar. The value of this rare coin, only three of which are known to be In existence, is 11,000. Mr. Altwein secured it from an Illinois man, with whom he has been negotiating for a long time. It will be a valuable ad dition to his collection, which is con sidered one of the best in the United States. The history which attaches to the dollars coined in 1804 is peculiarly interesting. Out of the 7,000 which came out of the United States mint all but a few disappeared in a lump. In the year 1798 the United States went to war with Algiers. The dif ferences were finally settled by „ the United States agreeing to pay $800,000 for the liberation of American sea men who had been Imprisoned, and $23,000 for the promise of Algiers to leave merchantmen alone. In 1801 war broke out between Tripoli un.l il,.. I'nltml Qlntna In 1Sl14 lliid 1:wf war being then still In progress, the I'nlseil States frigate Philadelphia waa seized off the roast of Tripoli. On board this vessel was a sum of money aggregating 133.000. destined for Al giers, In payment of a portion of 'he war Indemnity. The night ufter iho Philadelphia was seized Commodores Prcbble and Morris sailed into the harbor, with sixty men on Imard their vessels, and recaptured the frlga'.e. The $33,000, which Included nearly all of the T.ooo I KOI dollars, had, however, been taken fioni the vessel. The sum was never recovered and the sliver Is probably still lying In some marbled Moorish castle. carefully guarded among the heirlooms of some sem>« civilized oriental potentate. IKMlcn iw r>nl». The facetiousness of calling 1‘eraia the Land of the l.lou and the dun bn come* apparent as soon as one enters the country. P»r»ta contains, may be low lt*»as while jackasses a amber not ; lea* then lo.www.aww. Within the boun daries of the shah s dominion aura are liumpe every time and the universal music is th* donh»y e mellifluous bray Almost every I’e. dsn owns a donkey and many of them whole droves The ps puUlloe of Pwrsts to sell meted al ta.www.eww souls Current opinion •• , Teheran pluses ins donkey population at shout the same number M*< honing j mi h donhev a n. *n% ad e*r at two feet, twelve In*Ken «e*h, the ewrnt up pendsgss of the t’lik s wmstunl luttom eoutd If told end tu v.d, run- A I sow miles (fbehesge. t speaker at a Msveuttom of ttotttoh 1 t'hrtsttone sold that the • bur*hew need mors fstth mors funds nnd mors ftos | Mud storm «an -’hssg* us others ash | e*t» bring -ut whst is in we. BIG ICE CRUSHERS. AMERICAN IDEAS IN USE IN THE CZAR’S REALMS. A Hellenic of ('onquent In the Northern l*»rt of —Winter Commerce Will He the He*ult St. Petersburg to the He», A scheme of conquest Is about to jo P'>t in practice in northern Russia, which may not only accomplish great things for that country, but which may give a very valuable hint to Arc tic explorers, it is a matter of com mon knowledge that all the seaports of northern Russia, on the lialtlc sea, are closed to commerce during severil months of the year, on account of the Intensity of the winter cold In that region, completely covering the sea with thick Icefields for several miles from the land toward the open waters. The Russian government has devoted much time and money to tests and ex periments designed to relieve or remedy this deplorable condition of things, but up till lately only dismal failures had been reported, except In a few cases where conditions were more favorable, says Detroit Free Press, Admiral Makaroff, of the Russian navy, has now come forward with a plan, simple, but ingenious, for break ing up the packs in midwinter, by means of large ships specially designed and called Ice-breakers. Small boats or this type already exist und do good work In some ports, notably that of Hango, at the southwestern extremity of Finland, where the Ice-breakers first came Into prominence, nearly twenty years ago. The Ice-breaker of Hango is a sturdily built Iron steam er, with very powerful engines, and a strong steel ram, with which the "breaker" charges Into the Ice, crack ing and splitting It In every direction. The Icepack Is soon broken up and it Is quickly removed by the action of the tides. The work of the breaker, how ever, is constant, as the surface rap idly becomes frozen over again, and Indeed, during the severe winters of 1881, 1886, 1889 and 1893, the ice-break er’s efforts were unavailing. The results to Hango are astonish ing, for while In summer It Is only a small village, nowadays a fashion able watering place, completely over shadowed commercially by Helsingfors and other large ports, yet In winter, being the only northern port on the Baltic open to ships, It does an enor mous murltine business, thanks to the "ice-breaker," Contrast this picture with that of St. Petersburg In midwin ter, and what do we find? The capi tal of Russia Is separated from the A MAM MOUTH RUSSIAN ICE UREAKKR. open sen by nearly 370 mile* of lee tit-ids; Its granaries are full of wheat, lha exportation of which la delayed for several months, and Us commercial Im portance Is absolutely nit during a period depending on the severity of the season. Nor ts this city au isolated case, for every other northern port of Hussta Is similarly crippled, and sum-’ are still worse uff. Having studied the question deeply l fur many years and speaking nut a* a | visionary theorist, but as a practical sailor who understands what he I* talking about. Admiral Makaroff de clare* that, with an t«« breaker -d huge dimensions and M.ood horse power, It would he easily possible to tueak up In midwinter the tmmeuee n* packs stretching from the Arctic ureas ip the mirth puis, of .««ree, such a powerful ship t* far beyond the ItmUe which have vet been reached in m*«tw» engine building hut the ah-de kernel ef the prop t lieu In the device ut making twu ship* ut equal else and emfc knit of total required hucse-puw ee. ene tu he armed aa sn bee-tweak r and also htted nltb n se**mi arrant* j meat whereby the other can bn us- t to •spend Ms energy in pushing the •>«' against the lea. Admiral Makar*#, huaaver. has *» preswat aw laieatiwa of demrwywg the rumaaea as watt aa the tea eurrustad lag lha Vtttma Thata of ait saptarara,, but desires simply to accomplish two things: First, to open up the ice fields separating St. Petersburg from the sea, and secondly, to establish a regular sea route between the capital and the mouth of the river Yenesci In Siberia. To effect these purposes, two ice-breakers are to be built according to his directions, of 10,000 horsc-powr each and 6,000 tons draft, to act as he lays down, one pushing the other, and It Is proposed that these boats shall work from spring to autumn, when not needed at the capital, on the sea route to Yenesel. A trial trip of two Ice breakers of smaller dimensions, designed accord- j ing to the admiral's plan, recently suc ceeded, amid the applause and enthus iasm of assembled thousands, In forc ing their way at a rate of ten knots through the Ice pack covering the gulf of Finland. The Ice-breakers will have a special form of construction, so that they will he able to fully withstand the shock of contact with the ice in front and the strain which will result when the steamer In the rear comes in contact with the one In front. Heavy steel beams extending longitudinally through the vessels will take care of the constant shocks arid strains and prevent any loosening of plates, the displacement of which would cause dangerous leaks. Except for heavier construction, the new steamers will lie built much the same as those al ready In use In Finland. Americana In til a Nm. One notable and commendable feat ure about the torpedo fleet, now In this harbor is the fact that the crews are made up of Americans. There Is scarcely a foreign countenance to be Been, and good, expressive "United States" Is the language of the fleet. The men are big, strong, healthy young fellows, with ruddy cheeks anil clear eyes. They are the kind of men that a good Judge would pick to dan gerous work In defense of their coun try, and there Is no doubt that these men—the "men behind the guns,” upon whom depends the honor and effective ness of the craft—would be found equal to the occasion should an emer gency arise. It Is to he hoped that It will not he long before Assistant Sec retary Roosevelt will have the news of the greater ships of the navy "Amer icanized” up to the standard of the torpedo fleet. Near* Against dread. Windsor bridge across the Thames has Just been freed from Its 2-penny toll through the greed of the corpora tion. This had an undoubted right to collect tolls from prescription, as they had been taken since the reign of Hen ry VI. It asked parliament in 1731, and again In 111#, for p iwer to charge additional tolls, and obtained it for a limited number of years. The prtvl lege expired about ten years ago, but the corporation continued to collect the money till a litigious tlrltaln refuted to pay. thus bringing the matter to the attention uf the courts. *•«!•* «t in* " »»ia. The writer uf nn article tn a recent issue of the Marine Itmts. hsu has laid before hi* renders n carefully thought out estimate of the lighting values of the various geels expressed M terms ei units After dealing with the heel* id Kngtsnd. Trance, Kussis. tiermnny. It sly, the Tailed gt*te* and Japan, the .unduetun is arrived at that there Pi only one sea power of the Arm rwtta. namely, Kngland tUprvsss I tn Met. the author uf the art hie estimate* ths Kngitnh hi I ml. ths Tree, h at ten the Nusstnn at the American at l*V and the Japan*** at If* So|i«H*e4 a hahnsh A bncgixr hsohe into lha huusn af John Hughe* In Meitcvlile. M J .owned • pwtnkwei s*«ah and wntm *d up *om* te***b»m which *•** r«*4y ter heeahlaat Than ha patted M»a Hugh** imte gut in Hte fxrh and went nnay \ TREASURE-SEEKING IN PARIS, tlnmau Folly llaa drought About Tula KrverUb Minor. Some Parisians are artually kept from wandering by conviction that there is hidden treasure behind the walls or beneath the flooring or in the chimney nook or under the roof, says Chambers’ Journal. Your are told that during the numberless sieges to which Paris has been subjected and the In ternal revolutions It has undergone there exists not a cellar or a garret but has become the receptacle of some part of the Immense riches accumu lated in religious houses and old fam ilies. There Is, perhaps, nothing Irra tional In the supposition that In the good old times when convents were made, the depositories, not only of the secrets of the aristocracy, but of the family jewels likewise, Instances must have occurred wherein these deposits were burled and remained undiscov ered, together with the treasure of 'he confraternity. But human folly has of late years exalted this rational possi bility Into dazzling certainty. Every means Is now resorted to, and more gold and precious time expended than the most valuable treasure could re pay, In order to seize the secret which still resists discovery. ’’While you of the matter-of-fact, plodding Anglo Saxon race are tolling and broiling In Australia and California searching for gold, we goldseekers of Paris And II hern beneath our feet In the old quar ters of the city round Notre Dame and the Hotel de Vllle, where gold Is teem ing In greater plenty than amid the rocky boulders of California or be neath the soil of Ballarat,’’ said Du cassc, the great treasure seeker. As If to mock this feverish and never-ceas ing chase, not one of the great tradi tional treasures of which four are be lieved to exist has been yet brought, to light, although now and then some token Is vouchsafed of their real ex istence. From time to time, for In stance, the tradition of the famous treasure hurled by Napoleon's order on his hurried departure from the Tuller les before Waterloo Is Justified by the turning up In ull purls of the palace garden of gold pieces and silver crowns. The boles of the elm trees down the middle alley of the garden were all marked with hieroglyphic signs, which, ceasing at certain points, began again again on the lime trees of the Terrace of the Feuilans. But the elm trees where these signs began and the lime tree on which they have ended have been uprooted and the soil all about them turned over without avail. Then, during the laying out of the Bois de Boulogne, great Interest was excited by the fencing of a portion of the wood close to the Pre C'atelan and the ransacking of this small spot / for a month, under Ihe superintendence of u government officer, while crowds waited anxiously outside Ihe line to see one of the forty workmen strike upon the golden deposit confidently be lieved lo have been burled there by Kottcke, Duke of Otranto. The hoard Is actually calculated as part of the family wealth. % rnnsliw. A bride and bridegroom who went to New York the other dny on a wedding trip from Northampton. Mass . became separated and could not And each oth er After a day or two uf vain •earm tag they found their way home separ ately A bride and bridegroom ebooM always take hold of wwk other's hand* when viewing the sights uf New York. M i■ hsalef futon. pteeuso t*«w MsnsIM. New* cornea from the Klondike that l aw men have stampeded trotn Hew son and are now trying to Mae thad# way thrcMtgh the mountain* to Ilea fysuW) a %u*rte« uf them wWi pees tufa UseaeW Uso the toewstswt Solas the asaeag* weight af the brain wf the fhtnamaa to fitaM than that f any other rwew am the gtwha aaawga tha grata*.