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IMAGES SERMON ir. K ,MlFACHES A FINE SERMON ON T,n FOUNTAIN OF SALVATION. thi: ..ti,nMt a nd Obstacles on it -Peo. 1 Their Own W ay. Tkxt: ' H cannot, until nil the flocks be ,fhrn it together, ahd till the; roll the stone )'( mi' hi in w iui i i i ((j."-(Jems:s xxix., S. Slvne in M sopotanna. beautifully pas onil. A vv" ot water of great value in u.'t iv;: ion. The fields around about it j,,t wiui xnree nocKs oi sneep lying aown a.tiiiS tor tne watering. I hear their bleat- ni(r rrn flip hritrlit nir hiiH tlio lmiT-Vit-itr. ih " .. :j VOUt'-g iiK'ii una U1UUU-U3 indulging 111 . niifirt. I look off and sap nrli u- ru-i" ' i . . . ,7 r., , r ,,,-ks sneep coming. Jieanwniie, Jacob, stranger, on the interesting errand of look- a wile, conies to tne well. A beauti- u.plieruess conies io me samo wen. isee qijiroaching, followed by her fathers sheep. It was a memorable Z Jam!) married that shepherdess. ru,, h,iio account oi it is: Jacob ;ac!iel, ana nitea up nis voice It line alvi'Qtrc Vunn n --, . 1 .. . () m. w hat no rouna to cry about. iiut be- Pi (TV I Wilt V "v v. v. . v. v., v i-v v , VAW UiiC I 1 . . ... 1 rU 1. 1 . . . Ltvi'ii' 'lH tiu'iii wuv uioy posiX)ne ,e slaking i Li;e LiuiTtb ui Liitvse sneep, ana -s ..- .li.l iiit" :wwl inf : r . i.....l ItyhV ill' 1 14,11 ",'- niv uiuicij llll'liru I L-jitor tiie:n. 1 lie snepherds repiy to the ef- rt; e areaiigooit neignbors. and. as a .. .it , 'i ii i rtv wo wait until oil HlliU 1 ii'ia.wwy, " V UUVU till LllC cheep oi t lie nrij;uuiiruood come up. tJesiaes ,t this stone on tne well s mouth is some 1 ' , i i f . i. i i . .. Kluit uoa . ami seeii ul us iaKe noia or it i U ir oiiKi iiiiil tViiiti tliii ViiNi.i .i.,.l 121), 1 jilin n ii.mn . '"vii iuiitri,3 ill in tju. treiuhs are tilled, and the sheep are satis jjj V, f cannot, until all the fioeks are Lratlu'i-t' 1 togetner, ana tin tney roll the stone kroin tuo weu s uiuum; tnen we water tne Oh. th:s ;s a xinrsty worid! Mot tor the i i i : .i- : -K . c i. i i he:ul. Jiiu unstei lug uit; ieeu, tmti parcn Jmj for t lie tongue. The w orld's great want is a i-o '1. ret' resiling. satisf"hig draught. We anil'i' around and we find the cistern empty. I Long and teaiousarought has dried up the vorM's fountains, but nearly nineteen cen- Iturios ago. a Shepherd, with crook in the shajv ot a cross, and teet cut to the bleeding, Xi,oivu the desert passages of this world, -a Tli 1 "III ii'' . ni"T cii-1 1. a iicn a LiluusailU tVet deep, bubbling and bright, and opal- kvnt. and looked to the north, and the 11.. . 1 A.. i 1 ' 1 ;.nitti . am me east, ana me west, ana criea vat with a voice strong and musical that ang through the ages: "Ho, every one that th'.it tli. come ye to tne waters: 'ow a g . eat nock ot sneep to-day gather : iround th.s Gospel well. There area great nam thirsty souls. I w onder why the Hocks . i i kit all nations uo not gainer way so many Istav th rsty: and while 1 am wonderms; about t. my text breaks forth in the explanation, vivin'g : "We cannot, until all the Hocks be ;a'th''Ved together, and till they roll the stone fr.mi the wells moutli: then we water the It a henl of swine come to a well they ingrily justle each other for the preredence; it a drove oi cattle come to a wen. tnev hook ach other back from the water, but when a flivl: of sheep come, though a hundred of ;h 'in shad be disappointed, they only express it lv ad bleating; tnev come together peace fully. We want a great multitude tc 'y;ne around the Gospel well. I know there aie those who do not likt a crowd they thin!; a crowd is vul gar. It they are oppressed for room in hurch it makes them positively impatient ml belligerent We have had people pennan'tly leave our church because many other people came to it. Not so did these Oriental sheepherds. They waited until all the flocks were gathered, and the mare flocks that came the better they liked it. And so we ought to be anxious that all tlu people -hould come. Go out into the highways and ;h-3 hedges and compel t.ieni to coma in. Go to the rich and tell them they ire indigent without the Gospel of Jesus. Go to the poor and tell them the . . ii . . . ro 'i " , . . -, . anr.i'ii euicieis in cnrist. uo to the blind anAte:l them of the touch that gives eternal . '.'.on. Goto the lame and tell them ti.-. v that will make the lame man leap like a hart. Gather all the sheep off of all the mountains. None so torn ot the dozs. a -0 si k, none so worried, none so dying, i- to be omitted. Why not gather a great flock.' All Brooklyn in a flocc: all New York in a flo k ; all London in a flock; all the world in ahVk. This well of the Gospel is deep ?r. omh to put out the burning thirst of the twvhe hundred million, of the race. Do not let the Church. by a spirit of exclusive nes, keep the world out. Let down ail the bars, swing open all the rates, scatter all the invitations: Who mever will, let him come." Come, white and black. Come, red men of the forest. Come, Laplander, out of the snow. Come. Patago nian. out of the heat. Come in furs. Come panting under palm leaves. Come one. Come all. koine now. As at this well of Mesopo tamia, Jacob and Rachel were betrothed, so this morning, at this well of salvation. Christ our Shepherd will meet you coming up with your long flocks of cares and anxieties, and He will stretch out his hand in pledge of His affection, while all heaven will cry out: "Be hold the bridegroom cometh, go ye out to met h:m.r You notice that this well of Mesopotamia had a stone on it, which must be removed be fore the shep could be watered ; and I find on the well of salvation to-day impediments and j obstacles, which must be removed in order that you may obtain the rel'eshment and life of this (jrospel. In your case the impediment is pride of heart. You cannot bear to come to so democratic a fountain : you do not want tooome with so manv others. It is to vou like w hen vou are dry, coming to a town piJinp. as compared to sitting in a parlor sip ping out of a chased chalice which has just ! 'wen lifted from a silver salver. Not so I many publicans and sinners. You want to 2"r to heaven, but it must be in a ;"-ial ar, with your feet on a Turkish "T" nan and a band -of music on board the tiain. Vou do not want to be in company with rustic Jacob and Rachel, and to be h-iiikinq out of the fountain where tenthou viivi die-.j) have been drinking before you. ' 1 a will have to remove the obstacle of pride, o." never 'Aw your way to the well. You will h i . -, to come as we came, w'ling to take .th" water of eternaflife in any way, and at a''V hand, and in any kind of pitcher, crying 0ir: "Oh, Lord Jesus, lam dying of thirst. ,five me the water of eternal life, whether in trough or goblet ; give me the water of eternal life; I care not in what it comes to " Away with all vour hindrances of 4 id 'f rom the wjIPs mouth. i Here is another man who is kept back from ' i:s water of life by the stone of an obdurate ' , which lies over the mouth of the well. ) "ii have no more feeling upon this subject than if (rod had yet to do you the first kind or you had to do God the first wrong, ited oa his lap all these years, His ever t'lst ing arms sheltering you, where is your gratitude Where is your morning and even-'"-r prayer.' Where are your consecrated hv'-s.' I say to you, as Daniel said to Bel m i..ar: '"The God in whose hand thy breath 1 mid all thy way, thou has not glorified." h you treat l anybody as badly as you have ti'"ated God, you would have made five hun dri'd apologies yea, your whole life would haw heen an apology. Three times a day you have i)0en seated at God's table. Spring sum 1: autumn and winter he has appropriately -M'P'n'Hed you. Your health from Him, your '''"'! 'anion trom Him, your children from "itii. your home from him; all the bright sur '"'iii'hngs of vour life from Him. 0 man, jyhat dost thou with that hard heart? Canst 1 1011 not feel one throb of gratitude toward Jeiod that made you, and the Christ who yame to redeem vou. and the Holv Ghost who yame to redeem you, and the Holy Ghost who i'is a II tlit.t.-Q .... v i i. '.- i tj ..v.-, , cai uetat impuiL ill ling yuu? il A'ou oould sit down five minutes under the "eot a Saviour's martyrdom, and feel his 81 arm hfe-blooH uia cheek, and hands, methinks you would get anOreciatinn nf whof i-n -mm a nrnni. -1 u esus. 41 Heart of stone. tpIptO rtTt Touched by Jesus' croe subdued: -hee Uia body, mangled, rent, Covered with a gore of bloo. R ,511: wliat "a9t thou done? crucified the eternal Son Jacob with a good deal of tug and push took the stone from t.ho !Li u Pusn . . . r "ruaiuu . '""7:'" iy word, blessed of God might remove the hindrances to your getS up to the Gospel well. Yes I take it fm granted that the work is done.' and now I k Onental shepherds, I proceed to water the Come, all ye thirsty! You have an unde fined longing in your soul. You tried money making; mat did not satisfy you. You tried office under Government; that did not satisfy you. You tried pictures and sculpt ures; but works of art did not satisfy you. You are as much discontented with this life as the celebrated Frouch author whe felt that he could not any longer endure th( misfortunes of the world, and who said: "At lour o'clock this afternoon 1 shall put an end to my own existence. Meanwhile, I must toil on up to that time for the sustenance ol my family." And he wrote on his book until the clock struck four, when he folded up his manuscript and, by his own hand, concluded his earthly life. There are men in this house who are perfectly discontented. Unhappy in the past, unhappy today, to be nn happy forever, unless you come to this Gospel well. This satisfies the soul with a high, deep, all-absorbing, and eternal satist'act.on. it comes, and it offer.) the mmt unfortunate man so much of this world as is best for him, and throws all heaven into the j bargain. The wealth of Croesus, and of all the Stewarts, and of all the Barings, and all the Rothschilds, is only a poor, miserable shilling, compared with tha eternal fortunes that Christ offers you to-day. In the far East there was a king who used once a year to get on the scales, while on the other side the scales were placed goid, and silver, and gems; in deed, enough were placed there to balance the king; then, at the close of the weighing, all those treasures were thrown among the populace. But Christ to day steps on one side the scales, and on the other side are all the treasures of the universe, and He says: "All are yours all height, all depth, all length, all breadth, all eternity; all are yours." We don t appreciate the promises of the Gospel. When an aged clergyman was dying a man very eminent in the Church a young theological stud nit stood by his side, and the aged man looked up and said to him: "Can't you give me some comfort in my dying hour? "No," said the young man; 'T can't talk to you on this subject; you know all about it, and have known it so long." "We'd, said the dying man, "just recite tx me some promises."' The young man thought a moment, and he came to this promise: "The blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from all sin;" and the old man clapped his hands, and in his dying moment said: "That's just the promise I have been waiting for. "The blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from all sin.'" Oh, the warmth, the grandeur, the magnificence of the promises. Come also to this Gospel well all ye troubled. I do not suppose you have escaped. Compare your view of this life at li.teen years of age with what vour view is of it. at forty, or sixty, or seventy. What a great contrast of opinion ! Were you right then, or are you right now? Two cups placed in your hands, the otie a sweet cup the other a sour cup. A cup of joy a cup of grief. Which has been the nearest to being full, and out of which ha'"" you the more frequently par taken? ' t a different place Greenwood is from wh:;L it used to be.' Once it was to you a grand city improvement, and you went out on the pleasure excur sion, and you ran laughingly up the mound, and you criticised in a light way the epitaph. But since the day when you heard the lell toll at the gate when you went in with the pwooession, it is a sad place, and there is a flood of rushing memories that suffuse the eye and overmaster the heart. )h, you have had trouble, tumble, trouble. God only knows how much you have had. It is a wonder you have been able to live through it. It is a wonder your nervous system has not lieen shattered and your brain has not reeled. Trouble, trouble. If I could gather all the griefs, of all sorts, from this great audience, and could put them in one scroll, neither man nor angel could endure the recitation. Well, what do you want' Would you like to have your property back again' "No," you say, as a Christian man, "I was becoming arrogant, and I think that is why the Lord took it away. I don't want to have my property back. Well, would you have your departed friends back again? "No," you say, "I couldn't take the responsibility of bringing them from a tearless realm to a realm of tears. I couldn't do it." Well, then, what do you want.' A thousand voices in the audience cry out : "Comfort, give us com fort." For that reason I have rolled away the stone from the well's mouth. Come, all ye wounded of the fiock, pursued of the wolves, coma to the fountain where the Lord's sick and bereft ones have come. "Ah," says some one. "you are not old enough to understand my sorrow. You have not been in the world as long as I have, and you can't talk to me about my misfortunes in the time of old age. " Well, I may not have lived as long as you. but 1 have been a great deal among old people, and I know how they feel about their failing health, and about their departed friends, and about the loneli ness that sometimes strikes through their souls. Aftir two persons have lived together for forty or fifty years, and one of them is taken away, what desolation! I shall not forget the cry of the late Rev. DeWitt.of New York,when he stood by the open grave of his wife, and after the obsequies had ended, he looked down into the op ni place and said: 'Farewell, my honored, faithful and beloved wife. The bond that bound us is severed. Thou art in glory, and I am h re on earth. We shall meet again. Fare well: Farewell:'' To lean on a prop for fifty years, and then have it break under you! There were only two years' difference between the death of mv father and mother. After my mother's decease, my father used to go around as though looking for something; he would otten get up trom one room, wi ltllOUt any seeming reason, and go to another room ; e.nd then he would t ike his cane and Start out and some one would say: "Father, where are you going.'" and he would an swer: "I doiit know exactly where I am going." Always looking for something. Though he was a tender-hearted man, I never saw him cry but (Tnce, and that was at the burial of my mother. After sixty years living together, it was hard to part. And there are aged people to-day who are feeling just such a pang as that. I want to tell them there is perfect enchantment in the promises of this Gospel ; and I come to them and offer them my arm, or I take their arm and I bring them to this (iospel well. Sit down, father or mother, sit down. See if there is anything at the well for you. Come, David, the Psalmist, have you anything encouraging to offer them? "Yes." says the Psalmist: " 'They shall still bring forth fruit in old age, they shall be fat and flourishing, to show that the Lord is up right. He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in me.' " Come, Isaiah, have you anything to say out of your prophecies for these ag-d peo ple " Yes, says Isaiah: "'Down to old age I am with thee, and to hoary hairs will I carry thee.'" Well, if the Lord is going to carry you, you ought not to worry much about your failing eyesight and failing limbs. You get a little worried for fear some time you will come to want, do you? Your children and grandchildren sometimes speak a little sharp at you because of your ailments. The Lord will not speak sharp. Do you think you will come to want? Who do you think the Lord is? Are His granaries "empty? Will He feed the raven, and the rabbit, and the lion in the desert, and forget you Why, naturalists tell us that the porpoise will not forsake its wounded and sick mates. And do you suppose the Lord of heaven and earth has not as much I sympathy as the fish of the sea? But you ' n,f . , aaj . ! and I "i am so near worn out. am of no use to God any more." I think the Lord knows whether you are of any more use or not; if you were of no more use. He would have taken you before this. Do you think God has forgotten you because He has taken care of you seventy or eighty years? He thinks more of you to-day than He ever did, because you think more of Him. May the God of Abraham, and Isaac, ( and Jacob, and Paul, the aged, be your God for ever! But I gather all tho promises to-day in a group, and I ask the shepherds to drive their flocks of lambs and sheep up to the sparkling supply. "Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth." "Though he cause grief, yet will He have compassion." "Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivereth him out of them all." "Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. " I am determined this morning that no one shall go out of this house uncomforted. Yonder is a timid and shrinking soul who seems to hide away from the consolations I am uttei ing, as a child w ith a sore hand hides away from the physician lest he touch the wound too roughly, and the mother has to go and compel the little patient to come out and see the physician. So I come to your timid and shrinking soul to-day, and compel you to come out in the presence of the Divine Physician. He will not hurt you. He has l)een healing wounds for many years, and He will give you gentle and omnipotent ne licament. But people, when they have trouble, go anywhere rather than to God. De Quincy took opium to get rid of his troubles. Charles Lamb took to punch. Theodore Hook took to something stronger, Edwin Forrest took to theatrical dissipation. And men have run all around the earth, hoping in the quick transit to get away from their misfortunes. It has been a dead failure. There is only one well that can slake the thirst of an afflicted spirit, and that is the deep and inexhaustible well of the Gospel. But some one says, in the audience: "Not withstanding all you have said this morning, I find no -alleviation for my troubles." Well, I am not through yet. I have left the most potent consideration for the last. 1 am going to soothe you with the thought of heaven. However talkative we may be, there will come a time when the stoutest and most emphatic interroga tion will evoke from us no asnwer. As soon as we have closed our lips for the final silence, no power on earth can break that taciturnity. But where, O Chistian, will be vour spirit? In a scene of infinite gladness. Idle spring morning of heaven waving its blossoms in the bright air. Victors fresh from battle their scars. The rain of earthly sorrow struck through with the rainbow of eternal joy. In one group God and angels and the redeemed Paul and Silas, Latimer and Ridley, Isaiah and Jeremiah, Payson and John Milton, Gabriel and Mich ael the archangel. Long line of choristers reaching across the hills. Seas of joy dash ing to the white beach. Conquerors march ing from gate to gate. You among them. Oh, what a great flock of sheep God will gather around the celestial well. No stone on the well's mouth, while the Shepherd waters the sheep. There Jacob will recognize Rachel, the shepherdess. And standing on one side of the well of eternal rapture, your children; and standing on the other side of eternal rapture, your Christian ancestry, you will be bounded on all sides by a joy so keen and grand that no other world has ever been permitted to experience it. Out of that one dep well of heaven, the Shepherd will dip reunion for the liereaved, wealth for the poor, health for the sick, rest for the weary. And then all the fhvk of the Lord's sheep will lie down in the green pastures, and world without end we will praise the Lord that on this summer Sab bath morning we were permitted to study the story of Jacob and Raehel,the shepherdess, at the well in Mesopotamia. In An English Hotel. The stvle of chnrging dinners is t submit to you a printed blank upor, which what vou have ordered is written. and just before rising from the table vol are uesirea to appro. e it uy higimuut bef ore the waiter carries it to the cashiei to be charged to your account, and il staying at the hotel for a few days vol are ouiy pmi uitca u, TO n order on leaving, or, if remaining moK than a week, at the end of each week, when the huge bill of items is handed in. It is of course impossible to toll then the charges for the various meals, etc.. have all boon made correctly unless on is blest with a memory not vouchsafed to ordinary mortals, or docs as a friene of the author did who was staving then with his family, make daily record o: everything they ordered in his daih memoranda by which he discovered at error of account. "In future," said he to tho bookkeep er, "I will pay the waiter for each mea as I finish." "Quite impossible, I assure yah, sir "Why, so I observe people do it every day." "Er yes, bog your pardon, but those are transients, sir." "Well, consider me a transient anc I'll pay you as they do." "Really! Wo couldn't we ah have to have a system our enormous busi ness, doncher know." ' Enormous business! What do caL an enormous business;1" said the nofl irate American. "Why, immense dinner trade; why. we often have to dine two hundred anc fifty persons a day hvar!" and the young man leaned back as if half expecting the American would reel under his an nouncement. "How many?" said the latter. "Two hundred and fifty a day." "Now. look here, young man, don '1 ever tell that to any other American; il you do he will laugh at you in your fact for calling it a big business. Why, I am from a second-rate city where at one ol our regular hotels from five to six bun dred are dined daily, while three or foui clubs of thirty to forty members each ar having dinners in different parts of tht house at the same time." "Really most extwardinary." "Extraordinary! No, sir; I have sal down in a dinning-room in Saratoga Springs where over a thousand was din ed at once with not half the trouble oi getting served that there is in this coun try." Terre Haute's Madstonc. The Indianapolis Journal says: "Terre Haute's madstone, with its eighty years' record of hundreds of ap plications, has twice more been used within the past week. Mr. Jas. Walker, of Irving's Station, on the Indianapolis and St. Louis, in Illinois, brought his little girl here yesterday. She had been bitten by a dog that showed every sign of being rabid. The stone would not adhere, and as its record shows that no death ever resulted when the stone failed to adhere, the father went away satisfied. "A few days ago Miss Hoover, of Newman, 111., was brought here terribly lacerated by the bites of a dog that had died with rabies, and had bitten other dogs that also died, as supposed, from the same disease. The stone immedi ately adhered to one of the wounds, and could not be removed for fourteen hours, when it dropped off. During the time the stone took on a dark color. It was cleansed in sweet milk, and again ap plied, adhering to the flesh for ten hours, after which it failed to adhere on several applications. Miss Hoover re turned to her home, and word is received that she is steadily improving." JLADIES DEPARTMENT. IMr. Clevelnntt Dses Dnmb Hells. Itjias been remarked that Mrs. Cleve land possesses exceptionally strong wrists and is consequently able to endure the prolonged handshaking of public recep tions without over-fatigue. Her strength of muscle is attributed to her persistent use of dumb-bells. She is said to be a gymnast and owes much of her grace ful carriage to the thorough command of her body given by calisthenic exer cises. Washington Letter. He Gras' ert th Situation. The story is going the rounds that a young lady visited a West End jeweler and told him that her father was going to buy her a pair of dimond earrings, and thai she would like to look at some. The jeweler, knowing her father by reputation, spread out a number of costly jems before her. She looked them over critically, and, having select ed the mast handsome pair, asked if she might take them home and examine them more at h isure. The permission was promptly accorded, and the next day the joung lady brought back the earrings, and said that she was not quite satisfied with them, and she thought that after all it might be some time be fore her father would indulge her taste for diamonds. "That's a great pity," replied the jeweler; "I was at the reception last night, and I thought them very becoming to you." London aro. Fig- The Origin or Cinderella. Not one sweet girl in 50.000 knows the origin of her babyhood friend, Cin derella. Somebody tells us that Cin derella's real name was Khodope, and she was a beautiful Egyptian maiden, who lived 670 years before the common era and during the reign of Psammeticus, one of the twelve Kings of Egypt. One day Khodope ventured to go in bathing in a clear stream near her home, and meanwhile left her shoes, which must have been unusually small, lying on the b.uik. An eagle passing above chanced to catch sight of the little sandals, and, mistaking them for a toothsome tidbit, pounced down and carried one off in his beak. The bird then unwittingly played the part of fairy godmother; for flying directly over Memphis, where King Psammeticus was dispensing justice, it et tuc shoe fall right into the King's i , . i i 1,- I !iP- Its toauty, d daintiness immediately attracted the royal eye, and j the King, determined upon knowing the j wcarerof socunnin- a shoe, sent through all his kingdom in search of the foot that would tit it. The messenger finally discovered Khodope, fitted on the shoe, and carried her in triumph to Memphis, where she became the Queen of King Psammeticus. Women in Hnl'aiid. In Holland man is lord of all he sur veys and woman is a secondary consider ation. No Dutch gentleman when walk ing on the sidewalk will move out of his wav for a ladv; the woman turns out in to the road invariably, and the danger and muddiness of the street make no difference. The male biped keeps the pave always. The ladies of Holland un escorted must not pass a club, and yet the frequenters of clubs in the daytime are principally raw youths of an exceed ingly non-hirsute appearance, and it looks idiotic to see ladies go out of their way, two, or even three, squares to avoid being gazed at by the club hab itues. In Utrecht the ultra-aristocratic city of Holland, where every other house covers a nobleman's family, these prim restrictions are carried to an even greater extent. The lovely boulevards are a pride of the city, and it is the fashion, j when ladies take a promenade, to drop into a confectioner's to eat "taatjes" or drink chocolate in the small, cosey shops. When a bevy of Holland's fair ones, in tent upon sweetmeats, unluckily find the room occupied by one or more of the masculine persuasion, a retreat is made for the street door, which looks unlady like and undignified. To expect that gentlemen would pay those delicate lit tle attentions to the fair sex, such as turning the leaves of music, handing a chair, etc., would be erroneous. The Argonaut. Bound to Have t lie Jewels. As I am writing of women, says a Par is correspondent, ,let me record what one of the sex once did to become the owner of a diamond necklace. At the sale of the crown jewels, the valuable gems worn bv the Princess X., one of the leaders in the Russian colony here was the subject of general remark. To some friend wTho complimented her on the magnificence of her "parure," the "grande dame'' replied. "It cost me ten months' imprison ment." And this was the explanation. The Princess limits her expenditure for jew elry to 300,000 francs per annum. One day a jeweler presented himself at her residence and offered to sell her this su perb necklace. "How much?" "Two hundred and fifty thousand francs." "A great deal and more than I now have." The wily tradesman was about leaving when the lady recalled him." "Could you keep it for me for feu months?" The owner of the necklace asked noth ing better, and the bargain was con cluded. The Princess immediately retired to a convent and for ten months was "dead to the world." In consequence she spent nothing for dress and employed her savings in the purchase of the covet ed jewels. A Cleaner's Dodge. The tricks of trade are many and manifold, but I think I have dropped ir on the newest dodge, says Clara Belle ir a New York letter. The dyers, scourers, and cleaners always display a window full of curtains, feathers, and gloves, be hind which rise on tall, spectral, head less figures the lovely tea gowns and th sweet seaside robes of spotless white thai the proprietors of the shop have reno vated. It is a great inducement to buj cream cashmere, or ivory silks, wher vou see how well they look after beinc cleaned at Screwzendriver's. My friend Jennie has her clothes sent from Paris, and in her last batch of gowns was lovely house dress of some soft material, cascaded with cream white lace, anc beribboned with ivory satin ends. Alas, for this pretty gown ! It was ever sc much too short, and it had a ridiculous little back in it about big enough foi the back of your hand. "I wonder whether I couldn't exchangt that dreadful misfit at one of the place.' I patronize?" mused Jennie. Up spoke the chambermaid, who had heard the conversation: "My sister ii working for Mr. Naphtha, and I think it's very likely he'd buy that gown ofl you to put it in his window, to show how splendid he cleans things. Thej made three fine white wrappers for tht show window last month, but none of 'em was as pretty as yours. That would look beautiful in the window. Folks would never think it had been cleaned, but for being in old Naphtha's window, where, of course, they know there's nothing but cleaned garments." "But some of the things have been cleaned, haven't they, that I see there?" asked Jennie. "Well, a few pairs of gloves ; but the curtains, and blankets, and the white dresses are mostly brand new." Fashion Notes. Turquoises have come into fashion again. Dutch patterns are utilized as models for pretty summer costumes. Beaded ornaments, matching lace of any color, is now obtainable. Colored grasses, oats and barley are used as trimmings for summer hats. The success of bonnet hats or bon nets without strings cannot be doubted. A fancy has arisen for white under skirts with overdress and waist of black material. Plaited plastron ornaments, upon waists for slender figures, are warmly ap preciated. The excessive use of perfumes, so long considered vulgar, has once more become fashionable. Brooches and lockets are again being worn, superseding the bar lace pins so long in favor. Coarse braids are more stylish than any of finer weave for dressy hats, either iu black or iu color. Basques, having either a gathered or plaited fullness in the front, are particu larly admired this summer. White for full dress wedding toilets continues paramount, and for a bride what more simple or lovelier? There is quite a rage for dull jet just now. It is considered much more sty lish than the glistening variety. Not only are metallic beads fashiona ble, but metallic threads that do not tarnish have been introduced into passe menteries. False hair, wdiile not exactly out of date, or perhaps never will be, is by no means so prominently displayed as in former seasons. Flowered fabrics of many kinds are worn this season, and are stylish and ef fective on large persons, but have t i patchy effect on little women. The new-ribbed jerseys take the place of the plain ones, and wear much better. They are in all shades, and are trimmed with passementerie in white or color. Bead trimming and net, matching all the leading colors in dress goods, are easily obtained, but they will not sup plant lace as a decoration for dress goods. The hair may be worn high or low, as the fancy dictates, as both modes arc counted quite in keeping with the styles which the artists in hair look upon with favor. The combination of stripes with fig ures is somewhat of a novelty this yeai in washable fabrics, and it does not mat ter how many colors there may be in the costume. White Valenciennes net is still worE and is perhaps more stylish than any thing else in piece net except it be point d'esprit which leads the fashion foi white costumes. House-Keepers GREETING. ) v (- I am Offering all Kinds of Household Furniture AT BID ROCK PRICES. Chamber Suits of Ten Pieces at from $18 00 to $100,00. I also keep a choice selection of piece Furniture, such as lureaus, Bed S.eads, Fafes and Buffets, Lounges, Mirrors, Paintings, Chromos, Oleographs, Book t helves, Hat Lacks, Brackets, Picture Frames, Photo Frames, Toilet Sets. Tables, Marble Top Tables, Eoquet Tables, Wash ir tan els, Hanging Lamps, Stand 1 amps, Wood and Bottom Fine Chairs, Wood and Lottom Oak Chairs, Perforated Bottom Oak Chairs, Cane Bottom Stool Chairs, Cane I ottom Bockers, Ladies' and Gentlemen's Feed I.attan Rockers. and Also a Large Assortment of Clocks, guaranteed good TIME KEEPERS, Baby Carriages of the Most Improved and Stylish Make. I also am Agent for the LIGHT RUNNING, NOISELESS DOMESTIC SEWING MACHINE, Best in the World, which I sell for Cash or on the Instalment Plan EASY TERMS. Every Machine Warranted. Butwhy dwell on the subjectwhen proof is so easy. CALL JISI SEE. I respectfully solicit the Patronage of the Citizens of Hyde, Beaufort and Martin Counties, -) : : :o : : :(- Respectfully, Ji. BURGESS Main Street, Washington, N. G.
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