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Fatbkb Taafk, a Louisville priest,
has become insane from the excessive
«se of cigarettes.
Thr woman who is always threaten-
ing to give another a piece of her mind
IS one who, as a rule, has no mind to
•pare.
In olden times it was the martyrs
Who were burned at the stake. Now
tt la the steak that is burned (or the
martyrs.
Preachers never strike for higher
■tlary. They are gonerally too busy
trying to get what has already been
promised them.
THE WEEK IN
The ambition to be a millionaire is a
low one. If a man waits to bo rich be-
fore be does good he is apt to get out
Of the notion of goodness.
Mb. Arthur Cecil has brought out
in London his play called "The Man
Who Hesitates." Its companion piece
Will not be acted. "Tiio Woman Who
Hesitates" is lost.
Drinking high-priced liquor does
BOt make a gentleman of a man. Let
man be drunk and in the gutter and
it makes no difference wbother he came
there through barrel-house whisky or
sparkling champagne.
Ton attempts to employ dogs in the
•entlnel servloe have so well succeeded
that it has been decidod to extend them
to the whole army in the mountains of
Boaniaand Herzegovina, Consequent-
ly the dogs are being trained this win-
ter so as ti ba abl« to bo employed in
the great Maneuver* in the summer.
In the offics of the reoorder of deeds,
Philadelphia, is prosorved a justice's
docket over one hundred years old. One
of the entries in the volume is as fol-
lows: "Commonwenlth agt Stephen
Blunt; July 24, 1778. Charged of
drinking damnation to Goneral Wash-
ington and all his army. Defendant
held in £200."
A singular freak of nature, origi-
nally discovered in western Australia,
is likoly to remain unexplained. It
consists of nine line pearls adhering to-
gether in ho form of a Latin cross—
■even in the shaft and ono on oaoli side
of tho second pearl. A suggestion is
that a fragment of seaweed in tlin shell
of tho oyster formed tho frame on
Which tho cross was built.
There is a Chinaman in Philadel-
phia who proposes to organize a class
composed of his friends, tho Sunday
school tcachors, to loam tho Chinese
language. He professes to be able to
teach it so that ono can spoak good
Chinoso with seven months' study. He
■ays that tho pleasure of being nblo to
rsad a Chinoso book in tho original will
Nly compensate his pupils for tho
task in loarn!ng the language.
The Germans recently attempted a
"minor mobilization" experiment near
Metss. The railroad stationmastor re-
ceived at 1 o'clock an order to prepare
eoffee for 2,800 men at 4 and n dinner for
the lame number nt 6:30. At 1 o'clock
H800 men came in, had their coffee and
took the train for anothor station, and
at 6:80 the next 2,800 promptly appear-
ed, dined and wont to tho noxt station,
whero they had coffco, und both parties
returned to thoir quarters the noxt
morning. Tho attempt was highly suc-
cessful.
AcconniNO to :i scientific Journal
flame may bo produced from snow iu
the following manner: When a small
piece of potassium tho sizo of a grain
of corn is dropped into a tumblerful of
water soiuo of the oxygen of tho water
leaves tho hydrogen owing to tho in-
tense heat which tho choiuical action
producos and combines with tho metal-
lic potassium, causing a violet, bluish
flame. When tho piocc of potassium
Is plnood on the wick of a coal oil or
' alcohol lamp the flame produced by
touching tho potassium with a bit of
■How or ico or a drop of water will in-
flame it.
Not a groat way from Monte-
rey, in Mexico, Is tho famous Carthu-
sian table, ono of tho greatest natural
ouriositics on tho continent. It is a ta-
ble land, 1,400 foot high and 2,<rt00nbovo
sea lovcl. The flguro of tho tablo land
is an almost perfect crescent, running
cast and west, and on its summit is
more tlinn 80,000 acres of perfectly
level land, abounding in running
water. Tho only way to roach tho top I
is by a perilous road live feet wide and j
throe miles long. This singular moun-
tain was named for the Carthusian
monks by a former trilio of Indians
who occupied it and wore taught byJ
tho fathers. It Is now owned as a sum- ,
mer rosort by Scnor Don Patiico Mel- j
mo, a rich banker of Monterey, a j
iuoky Irishman, who in his native land I
was known as 1'lain Pat Mullens. |
64th dat.—Texas pensions—Mexi-
can survivors: • William <J. Lloh of
Lovelady, Bnrdln Burline Farmer of
Corsisana, William Rilev Smith of
Richland Springs, Nelsen W.^Owens of
Valley Springs and Rev. J. Scarbor-
ough of Snyder. Mexican widows
Lucinda Jane, wdow of W. L. Mona-
foan, Sherman, and Art e £., widow of
William Lowry of Sherman.
The Texas investigation was
eumed to-day' but aside from the iden
titication by the telegraph operator of a
disputed telegram from Judge Kirk
and the submission of sundry news
paper clippings relating to the alleged
crimes and political irregularities in
two or three Texas counties nothing
material was brought out. Hearing
will probably closo to-morrow.
In the river and harbor bill, which
was completed in committee to-day
the appropriations for Texas water
ways and harbors are as follows: Gal-
veston 9600,000, Sabine Pass 9200,000.
Aransas Pays 9100,000. The amount
appropriated by the bill is 919,432,793.
It is the largest bill of the kind ever
brought in.
65th dat.—Investigation into the
alleged outrages in*Washington Coun-
ty, Texas, was resumed to-day. Robert
J. Moore, colored, Republican, serving
his third term as a member of the State
Legislature, and J. M. H. Randall,
also a oolored Republican of Washing-
ton County, testified that they, as well
as many other Republicans, had sup-
ported tho people's ticket, headed by
Judge Kirk, at the last election. Their
statement, in a general way, was that
little, if any, interference with the elec-
tions had occurred in the county, and
that a good feeling existed there be-
tween the whites and tho blacks.
F. D. Jordan, who was counsel for
the negroes taken out of the Brenhax
jail ana lynched at time of the election,
testified that he had, against tho en-
treaties of his wife and friends, gone
back to Brenham last October, and
been assaulted there by Bob Wright, a
former witness. After that assault,
which in his opinion was certainly pre-
meditated, ho had never left his house
in daytime, because it waa not consid-
ered safe for him to do so. Notwith-
standing what tho other side had said
about his being safo in Brenham, he
said ho did not think so.
Ho read from a publication in the
Brenham Banner, the Democratio
county organ, expressing the opinion
that it would have been better to have
hanged Jordan and Hackworth rather
than the Innocent negroes, who, the
article said, were simply tools of de-
signing scoundrels, and asked how
they explained that.
J. T. Swearlngton of Texas, who
was ono of the men addressed, then
took the stand and testified to his be-
lief that Jordan was perfectly safe in
Brenham, if ho "behaved himself."
In answer to an inquiry from Senator
Spooner as to what was meant by that,
witness said that Jordan was a very
excitable man, and if ho went to Texas
and bothered men as witness under-
stood Jordan had bothered Wright, of
course ho would got in trouble. To
call a mail a liar meant light in Texas,
and it might not be safo for Jordan to
talk on tho streets thore as he had
spoken in the committeo room about
witness.
This practically closed tho investiga-
tion, it being tho general understand-
ing that no more testimony will be
taken.
Tho chief topic of political conver-
sation'is tho probablo successor of the
late Chief Justico Waite. Congress-
man P. A. Collins of Boston is men-
tioned by many. Mr. Collins Is 44
years of ago, a graduate of tho Har-
vard )«w school nod has practiced b's
profession with groat success sinco 1871.
Judgo John Scholiiold of tho Su-
f remo Bonch of Illinois, and with a
udicial experience of eight or nino
years, is also prominently named. He
was a candidato for Associate Justice
of the United States Supreme Court, to
succeed tho late Judgo Woods.
Other candidates suggested recently
arc Chief Justice Ruger of the Now
York Court of Apoals, James C. Car-
ter of Now York City and W. S.
Groesbeck of Cincinnati.
86tii day.—Texas pensions: Orig-
inal invalid, Emery F. Hornnday,
Bagwell; Franklin C. Walroud, Easton.
Relssuo: Lawson McKinncy, Clint.
Mexican survivor; Creed Taylor,
Kuoxvillo.
Eliza D., widow
IOWA RAILROAD DISASTER,
A dispatch from New Hampton, la.
aaya: .A'terrible railroad accident oc
curred about four miles west of this
town en the Milwaukee and St. Paul
Road, by which at least a dozen per-
sons lest their lives and from fifteen to
twenty injured. The train, which left
Chicago at 1}:30 yesterday morning,
and was due here at 2:18 this morning,
passing here nearly on time, and when
aboutfour miles west plunged into a
creek bridge, which was washed out
The oreek was swollen by the immense
amount of water which has been run-
irig off for the past few days, and
in addition a gorge of ice was
formed, which, previous to the
arrival of the train, carried away
portion of the bridge. There w
nothing to show that there was danger
uhcad und the train plunged into the
swollen stream while running at full
speed.
The .engine and three coaches went
into the creek and were immediately
submerged iu the torrent of water,
which overflowed the banks. A scene
of the wildest confusion ensued and
those of the train crew and passengers
who escaped death and injury were
immediately called into service to re
lievo the drowning or pinioned pas
songers. It was with great difficulty
that the passengers could be reached,
owing to the rushing waters through
tho car windows. Those who were
rescued from the smoking car, which
was almost entirely submerged were
takeu from the windows, some maimed
to such an extent that they were pow-
erless to help themselves, while others
were nearly drowned before aid could
reach them. The names of the dead
that have been learned are as follows:
Wm. Anderson, C. Zavcnsen, J. Denies,
James Seagal, Engineer of Mitchell,
Dak,. Dora Hidecker, Lotta, a girl 4
years old. The names of the wounded
are, only two being obtained, O. B. Al-
len and H. Zarr, both of Noro Springs.
One Chicago traveling man and the
conductor kept the passengers quiet
till they could help them out. The
wounded are mostly by burns from the
engine. Tho mails and the baggage
are in tho river.
Mexican widows
of Thomas W. ltamsey, Jasper; Susan
It., widow of John Green Morgan,
Brenham; Delia, widow of Ira Grigsby,
Peoria; Celia, widow of Marcus H.
Causlor, Homer; Sara, widow of Josoph
II. King, Helton.
Mr. E. G. IluekabeO of VVaxahachio,
Tex., lato editor of tho Mirror at that
place, was appointed to-day to a placo
under tho doorkeeper, upou tho recom-
mendation of Judgo Abbott. Mr.
iluckabee will succeed Walter Weaver,
who resigned a few days ago.
Senator Dawes introduced a bill to
estubllsh courts for Indians ontbo vari-
ous reservations and to extend the pro-
tection of laws of States and Territories
over all Indians. Referred.
Senator Berry addressed the Senate
on the subject of tho president's annual
message.
At the conclusion of his remarks the
Senate proceeded to tho consideration
of bills ou tho calendar. Among the
bills passed wore tho following:
To grant right of way through tho
Indian Territory to tho'Sit. Louis & San
Francisco liailroad Company.
To extend the southern and western
boundaries of tho State of Kansas.
To have copies of certain national
medals struck and delivered to certain
departments and to various States and
Territories.
The Senate then adjourned until Sat-
urday.
88th pay.—About lifty members of
the bar of tho Supremo Court assem-
bled iu tho court room at 12 o'clock
to-day to make formal expression of
their respect of tho lato chief justice.
Senator Edmunds was called to tho
chair and Clerk McKenney of the Su-
premo court wai named secretary.
Attorney General Garland read resolu-
tions of respect.
WIND AND HAIL STORM.
Faribault, Minn., was visited by the
most terrible wind and hail storm it
has ever experienced. iMany roofs
were torn off from stone buildings.
There was nothing cyclonic in its form.
It was mainly wind and hail, coming
from the southeast at the rate of sixty
miles an hour. It struck the center of
the city at 8:82, and continued in great
violence for fifteen minutes. Tho first
roof to go was that of Mrs. Hendrick's
stone building on Main street, which
was blown off to the rear. Others
uickly followed, among them being
liat of Voetz Bros.' stone building,
throe story ; Union Block, and the east
portion of the roof of the Church of the
Immaculate Conception, Roman Cath-
olic. The roof was also blown off the
depot. The scuttle from ono of the
buildings struck a man, name un-
known, on the head, inflicting seriou.s.
perhaps fatal injuries. This is the on-
ly casualty so far as is known. It is
estimated that tho total loss will bo
$100,000, and possibly more.
LEGAL RUFFIANISM.
Why
Lawyers Should be Compelled to
Treat Witnesses Decently.
A lawyer who is proficient in the art
of badgering a* witness seldom lacks
clients. He is considered "smart;" and
if by dint of insolent and exasperating
cross-questioning, he can goad a man
into such a state of excitement that he
contradicts himself and involuntarily
commits perjury, the fact is looked
"great legal triumph." Occa-
however, an abusive counsel
upon as a "great legal triumph."
sionally, however, an abusive
is confronted out of court by an en
raged witness, and receives a lesson in
civility too impressive to be easily for
gotten.
Not long ago a somewhat notorious
member of the bar in a southern city
was tremendously pounded by a witness
in a divorce ense against whom, in
summing up f r the defense, he had
insinuated nourly all the crimes
enumerated iu the decaloge. The
libelled citizen, who was a
person of irreproachable character,
met the professional traducer at the
court-house door after the conclusion
of the day's proceedings and thrashed
him without stint of pity. The flagel-
lant was arrested and held to bail
for the assault and will doubtless be
unished by tine or imprisonment, or
oth; but he was content he said, to
endure any penalty the law might in-
flict for the enjoyment of so prime a
luxury.
We have never been able to see why
a lawyer should be permitted to ad-
dress a respectable member of society
in the witness box, or even to refer to
him after he has left it, in terms as op-
probrious as if he were a burglar or a
lickpocket. It is, or should be, the
usiness of a court to protect from in-
sult persons who are summoned before
it, often to their own great inconven-
ience, to further the ends of justice;
and if such protection is not extended,
we hold it to be the natural right of
the outraged parties to chastise at the
first convenient opportunity the ma-
ligners and slanders. Let the privi-
leges of tho legal professions be re-
spected ; but why should men who play
e ruffian at the bar be exempted from
the punishment which we all delight to
see inflicted upon ruffianism in the
streets.—New York Ledger.
STORE BURGLARIZED
Tho dry goods store of Graham &
Gulledgo at Piano was burglarized by
some unknown parties, who made an
entrance through a back window.
The money drawer, which contained
about $8 in cash, a lot of shoes, hats
and underwear, tho amount of which
would be hard to cstimato was found
missing. A file and chisel, which wore
stolen from Markliam Bros.' blacksmith
shop, was found near the window that
the entrance was made through.
CLEVELAND A HERO.
Mrs. Marie Wright is the Washing-
ton correspondent of the Sunny South.
In company with her friend, Mrs. Gil-
more, wife of Lieutenant Gilmore,
United States Army, she went out,
riding Easter Sunday, and thereby
hangs a story which is making a hero
of President Cleveland in social cir-
cles. When on Woodly Lane, a road
which runs past tho President's house,
she lost control of her horse and in at-
tcmptng to gain it, was fast losing
strength. Just at this moment Presi-
dent Cleveland and Secretary Fair-
child rode along. The President saw
the trouble first and galloped to the
rescue, dismounted, and after a severe
struggle conquered the horse anil of-
fered the use of his stables to get tho
ladies home.
SHOT HIMSELF ACC'DiSNTALLY,
At Tcxarkana Dr. A. B. Deloaehshot
himself accidentally with a pistol. Ho
was sleeping with tho weapon under
his pillow and it is supposed he
knocked it off when tttrninj; in feed.
The bullet took eft'eet ill the hand and
scalp. The hitter wound though pain-
ful is not serious.
A TRAGEDY AT TEMPLE.
J. A. Vannoy and I. M. Cheatham
have been engaged in a livery stable
business at Temple. They disagreed
about some trifling matter and the
quarrel terminated in a shooting
match. While at their stables Friday
night, Vannoy became exasperated at
Cheatham, and to avoid a difficulty
Cheatham left the stables. Vannoy
procured a gun and threatened to kill
Cheatham, which threats were com-
municated to Cheatham, but friends
interfered and induced Vannoy to go
home. On yesterday morning Cheath-
am wont to the stable and soon Vannoy
was seen approaching armed with a
double-barrel shot gun. When lie had
come within about fifteen paces of the
stable he raised his gun and Cheatham
raised one also. Vannoy's gun failed
to fire, but Cheatham's fired, the load
of shot taking effect in Vannoy's neck,
body and ams. He fell and his wounds
were regarded as fatal, but ho is still
living and seemingly better, and some
hope of his recovery is entertained.
Cheatham surrendered and went before
Justico Lowry later in the day and
gave bond for his appearance.
A Chattanooga cabinetmaker hap-
pened to leave tho door of his shop
open for a few minutes, and a pugna-
cious Plymouth Rock rooster walked
in. The fowl stepped up to a $i>0 mir-
ror and began to light with his own
shadow. A clatter of breaking glass
followed and the mirror was a com-
plete wreck.
SERIOUS CUTTING AFFRAY.
At Brownsville, Texas, in the lower
part of town, Refugio Alcman, a noted
bad character, called Feliciano Garcia
out of his house and assaulted him with
a knife, cutting him across the bowels,
alter which he lied and mailt- good his
escape across tho river. Garcia, tho
man assaulted, is not of very good mind
ami is weakiy. The row is said to have
been over a woman. Alenian, the as-
sailant, is :t noted character and is the
same mail who, a few days ago, made
an assault on Slievitl' Hrito's house with
the avowed intention of murdering
that olilecr.
TEXAS INCIDENTS.
r l'ecson, the alleged murderer of Miss
Wat kins, is now proven to have been
working on the railroad at Dale, Cald-
well county, at the date of the murder.
President Cleveland says if Texas,
the present and future wool-growing
State of tiie Union, is satisfied with his
tariff recommendations he doce not see
how any one else could have grounds
to object, lie will visit Texas if possi-
ble.
The contract to finish the Santa Fe
road from Ballinger to San Angelo has
been signed and work will commence
with the usual promptitude of that com-
pany. ,
SATAN IN MODERN SOCIETY.
"PROTECTION" AND WORKING
MEN'S WAGES.
Kingston Lender.
Labor owes nothing to the Republi-
can party. Republican representa-
tives in the Legislature and in Congress
vote against propositions upon which
the seal of organized labor has been
set. Strikes and lockouts are frequent
under the policy of Republican "pro-
tection," that is falsely alleged to be
the guarantee of industrial prosperity.
Tho rewards of labor are smaller, as a
rule, in "protected" industries than iu
others. It protectionists hold labor as
dearly as they pretend, why do they
not say that they will maintain the
rate of wages at some personal sacri-
fice instead of threatening lower wages
without a suggestion of a reduction of
profits V
Mr. Osgood by of Albany, and his four
boys, foot up very well in the aggre-
gate. Ho is six feet six inches in
height, the oldest son is two inches
shorter, the next is six- feet three, the
next six feet two, and the youngest—a
lad of ten years—is six feet one inch
tall.
Here's an item from a Maine news
paper that ought to be of great interest
to book agents in that section. "There
is not a (log owned in Fairfield Center,
nor within a mile of the place."
A rich Philadelphia woman, notfed
for her wealth and excentricity,having
exhausted her linger space in display
her jewels, wears a striking ring on
tine of her thumbs. Strange as this ap-
pears it is only going back to an old
fashion. Two or three hundred years
ago it was the fashion to wear a ring
on the thumb, and the signet ring was
worn on the thumb by the nobility at a
time when the lingers were devoid of
ornaments.
The President of France has an in-
come from the government of $240,000
a year—that is to say, $1!!0,000 as sala-
ry, $00,000 for keeping up his ollicial
state ami $00,000 for traveling expeti
money is pair
Thr
bailments
i! in monthlv in-
of $20,000,
Iu Mcxico City, a few days ago, they
tried a man's courage by shutting him
up in a room with six rattlesnakes.
At the end of six hours they opened the
door and lie was standing in a window
sill, and the snakes had fought and
killed each other.
The Debauchery of Our Social Life
attacked by Dr. Dll.
Trinity Chapel was nearly flllod with
people of the highest fashion last night
at the Rev. Dr. Morgan Dix's Lenten
lecture. Most of those there were
women, many of them prominent in so-
cial life.
Dr. Dlx said that he had to talk upon
a subject which it was at once most
necessary and most unpleasant to dis-
cuss. Impurity of mind and body was
one of the most dreadful of human sins
Love was noble and lofty, and the Bible
everywhere inealculated it But th e
best thing, when corrupted, became
the worst, and of all vile and abomin-
able things the vilest and most abomin-
able was the horrid passion which took
the place of the sacred flame. To the
pure all things were pure, but to the
lustful nothing was pure. Desire was
natural and good in its place. ' Oh,
God from the whom ail holy desires
proceed." were the blossed words of
the colloct But the will of tho flesh
was substituted to the will of God.
"When Adam and Eve sinned," said
Dr. Dlx, "they were ashamed, for they
knew that they were wicked. But men
havo become hardened now, aud have
set up the lust of the flesh as a special
and worthy desire. Schools of phil-
osophy teach this frightful doctrine.
Poetry idealizes it Painters and sculp-
tors delight to picture the nude in las-
civious forms. The carnal has been
exalted with a cultus called religion.
It is a noticeablo fact that this sin, which
theology has named conupisconce, goes
baud in haud with infidelity. St. Clem-
ent of Alexandria has depicted the
shameful things of paganism in words
which I shall not repeat, but which, if
I did, would drive you from your seats
with horror. The characteristic of pa-
ganism has always been licentiousness.
The battle which Christ began is still
on—the church against the world,
against pagan philosophy and habits.
Wherever pagan philosophy is, its fol-
lowers adopt tho horrid pagan pract-
ices as much as they can, and look
wistfully back to the panorama of pa-
gan lust and corruption in the old
days.
"The devil has a double-headed pro-
paganda on foot to-day—of infidelity
and of impurity. Ho is at work every-
where. The missionaries of the cross
find the heathen naked, indolent and
liccntious. And in France wo see in
this uge a political propaganda of athe-
ism and a social and literary carnival
of indecency. There flourishes a liter-
ature which is unequalled for licentious-
ness in any time or age, and a school
of art whose motto is to display the
naked human body in every lascivious
and filthy attitude. Nowhere is there
a more easy field for this devil's pro-
paganda that in America, and the
signs of his handiwork are on every
side. Wo see tho public journals pan-
dering to an uuwholesonio appetite by
feeding the public mind with tho filthy
details of criminal and licentous deeds.
We see a popular school of fiction, tho
plots of whose books aro mostly adul-
tery, murder, soduction and suicide;
whose heroes and heroines lead im-
moral livos and make a jest of purity.
Wo see a poetry which seductively
stimulates animal pass'on; dramas
which whet a sentuol appotito and glor-
ify murder and shame; salacious aud
licentious figures used ou evory hand
as advertisements, and pcturcs im-
portod from a foreign school I am
aslinmod to say, of a shocking lascivious
character.
"And what is tho state of society in
which these things aro? The poorer
classes, living in crowded tenement
houses In which it is impossible to be
dccentl Girls nmong tho higher class-
es taught to cultivate the attractions
of their bodies and to lure men by
these—young girls with thoir lunches
of a dozen courses and half a dozen
courses of wine—shamefully attired at
tho opera and fondled by tho hands of
careless men, and holding supper par-
ties afterward, whore champagne and
the liquors flow—listoning to broad
speeches and filthy gossip and unclean
stories which mako them loso all faith
in virtue and manhood of men—when
marriod, so accustomed to flattery and
flirtation that their husband comes to
occupy a second place in thoir affec-
tions until separation or divorce fol-
lows!
"These are the commonest things to-
day. We seo men In high social places
whom no self-respecting woman
ought to admit ovor tho threshold of
her home—flirtations carried on by
people, each of whom has plighted his
or her troth, probably, to two or three
persons scandal and disgraceful stories
about households, with strange hinting
at mysterious and tumoral doings in
high places tho common gossip; mar-
ried men with the devil's look in thoir
eyes and their adulterer's deslro iu
their hearts running after young girls,
and aii biding tho men and women hold
their tongues who dare to cry out
aga nst the horrid business.
"If these are the things in sight in
the opdn day, what iu heaven's name
are the things out of sight? Think of
the sin and shame which ono night in
New York hides! In tho slums and
faubourgs, dance houses and ballrooms
the theatres, with naked women on the
stage and naked women in the boxes
—with men behind the scene, dallying
with tho actresses—men who invent
a story of business and absence for tho
ears of loving wives and daughters at
home; the adulterer stealing forth and
saying to himself, 'In tho twilight no
man shall see me?' I havo said all that
dare to say.
"The drift of tho ago is towards oven
greater liccnso and Indulgence. There
is a school gaining ground which teach-
cs that passion is natural and is to be
obeyed. Oh, how great is tho need of
Christian women! What influence
might they wield for the bet-
ter—some whom I seo before
me? Oh, women bethink you of
your duty and your power! You
know how young women are tempted,
what books they read, the gossip they
hear, the fool jests of evil-minded men
, which ire poured into there ears while
other Women atand by as chaperons—
the very life they lead, ao that one sea-
son takes the bloom from the face ana
the modest look from the eve. Ob,
will you help to do away with these-
things?"—New York Bun.
Why Girls Go Wrong.
That the daughter of a millionaire ha
eloped with a coachman ia in the daily
prints as regularly aa the aooonnta of
the sea aerpent. That the daughter of
the best family haa wedded a worthless
fellow is talked about in every village
and town, and city as universally aa the
international Sunday-school lesson.
That girls like bad boys best and that
they will forsake father and mother,
disregard the advice of their truest
friends and bring desolatiou to the
hearts of nil, rather than denounce a
dissolute fellow, are facts too patent to
require proof. What is the cause of tr'~*
In well-to-do famlies the girls are s
ed evory effort and deprived of e'
opportunity to exeroise their wl!
power, and constantly grow up wholly
unprepared to exercise their judgment
decision and action. The sentimental,
poetic, delirious period arrives. The
emotional nature, under the stimulus
of awaking faoultles, now becomes su-
preme. and the girl is wholly under its
control. If this neglect of her intellect-
ual and volitional nature is the cause,
then the remedy is readily suggested.
Let her intellect be exerolsed like that
of her brothers. Let her study math-
ematics, history, government soionce.
Try to make her sensible instead of
accomplished. Feed her mind on strong
sensible thoughts of good books, and do
not starve it on the slop of tbe fashion
magazine and sensational novels. Give
her something to do that will require
judgment, decision and stability of
purpose. Expose her to the hardships
of ohild-lifelather than shield ber from
tbem. There should be no difference
in a girl's and a boy's life until they are
ten years of age. She ought to be the
equal of her brother in out-of-door
sports. Until they are fifteen years of
age they ought to'have the same train-
ing in school. As much ought to bo
expected from ber as from him. After
that time their education should differ,
according to their different spheres of
action.
A true affection is an nnchor to char-
acter, and if a girls life were securely
anchorod at home she would not so
easily be driven out to sea. The father
rather than the mother, is or can be a
favorite with the daughter. H a father
wishes to fortify his daughter against
folly, let him retain her love ana con-
fidence. Not simply respect and esteem
but love. And to do this he must feed
the love of the child until that love
ripens into the genuine affection of a
woman. Many fathers deceivo them-
selves. They think their daugh-
ters do love them. They will
think this when they cannot
remember ever to havo had a
confidential interchange of thoughts,
aspirations and secrets, such as wo have
only with those we love and fully trust
They caunot remember when they had
a caress or anything but a formal kiss;
and yet they think thoir daughters love
them. Does your daughter reveal her
heart to you? Does she really enjoy,
being with you? Will she forsake tbe
society of others to be with you? If
your daughter has loved you from in-
fancy and found in you that true friend
that she ought to find, do you think that
she will forgot all this and go contrary
to your wishes? She will not fall in
love deliberately, and her fathor, who
has her confidence, can counteract the
leading if convinced that she has made
a mistake in her choice for life.
English and American Kitchens.
A Philadelphia lady who has just re-
turned from a long visit to London was
recently discussing certain domestio
points peculiar to England and compar-
ing tbom with relative matters here.
"We ail know," she said, "as house-
keepers the worry we have if our kitch-
ens are in tbe basement, though they
have elevators and dumb-waiters, sta-
tionary wash-tubs, hot and cold water,
are carpeted and fitted with every con-
ceivable convenience. In a London
houso the kitchens are always in the
basements—no elevators, no wash-tubs
and by no means any 'frivolities' in the
way of conveniences. But an English
kitchen is a picture, nevertheless. The
bright tins and coppers, the burnished
dish covers ranged in sizes, the well-
stored cup-boards, the many tables for
every conceivable purpose, the range of
the most pcrfect make and large size
and tho entire absconce of the dirty part
of tho kitchen work which is confined
to tho adjoining scullery, make a con-
trasting piciuro of aggravation to us,
who, while we adore all these kitchen
virtues, seldom arrive at them. Though
our kitchens in Philadelphia be large
and airy, our help, as a rule, are incap-
ablo of sustaining the diginty of an
English cook, who is a person of dlgni-
ty and respectability. Wo pay high
wages, give groat privileges and are
not ailowed to order our own dinners
and, nt any rate, are 'not expected to
re-order the remains."—Philadelphia
Press.
The Dorset and the Bustle.
The corset threatens to follow the bus-
tle into oblivion, says The Dress Re-
former. Many ladles are abondoning
it. In order to do this all such things
as waist bands of skirts must go also,
as part of the business of tho corset Is
to prevent the said bands from cutting
into the bodr. In order to despense
witli bands flocks must be mado on a
princesse foundation, so that thoir
weight is hung upon the shoulders and
not tho hips. Many ladles have already
adopted that style of dress, but nobody
would suspect them, as they drape and
trim them to look quite like the bnck-
bronking, mind-weakening prevailing
mode.
Some fnssy-mindod male has taken
the trouble to compile statistics of the
New York ladies' corsets, says The Al-
bnny Journal, with the result that he
has discovered the average dimensions
of stays around the wnist to be twenty-
thrco inches, or just four Inches small-
er than the natural waist of the aver-
ago woman is supposed to be. Upon
tnis fact he comments with great seri-
ousness. and even goes tho length oi
attributing to this compression a thou-
sand deaths per annum, - _
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