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2 DR. TALHAGE'S SERHOIi. THE EMINENT DIVINE'S . DISCOURSE. SUNDAY Tlie Choice of a Wife From a BmUt Bible Scene is Drawn a Practical and .' Inspiring Luon For All Classes of . People Tbe Calling; For Special Work. r Text: "Now Moses kept th flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, tho priest of Midinn." Exodus ill., 1. ' In the southeastern part of Arabia a man is sitting by a well. - It is the arid country and water is scarce, so that a well is of jrreat yalue, and flocks and herds are driven vast distances to have their thirst slacked. Jethro, a Hidianite sheik and priest, was so fortunate as to hare seven daughters, and they are practical Rirls, and yonder they come, driving the sheep and cattle and camels of their father to the watering. They lower the buckets and then pull them up, the water plashing on the stones and chilling their feet, and the troughs are filled. Who is that man out there, sitting unconcerned and looking on? Why does he not come and help the women In this hard work of drawing water? But no sooner have the dry lips and pant ing nostrils of the flocks begun to cool a little In the brimming trough of the well than some rough Bedouin shepherds break in upon the scene, and with clubs and shouts drive back the animals that were drinking and affright these girls until they fly in retreat, and the flocks or these ill mannered shepherds are driven to -the troughs, taking the places of the other flocks. - ; Now that man sitting by the well begins to color up, and his eye flashes with indig nation, and all the gallantry of his nature is aroused. It is Hoses who naturally had a quick temper, anyhow, as he , demon strated on one occasion when he saw an Egyptian oppressing an Israelite and gave the Egyptian a sudden clip and buried him in the sand, and as he showed afterward .when he broke all the Ten Commandments at once by shattering the two granite slabs on which the law was written. But the in justice of this treatment of the seven girls sets him on fire with wrath, and he takes this shepherd by the throat, and pushes Tback another shepherd till he falls over the trough, and aims a stunning blow between ,'the eyes of another, as he cries, "Begone, you villains!" and he hoots and roars at ithe sheep and cattle and camels of these invaders and drives them back; and hav ing cleared the place of the desperadoes, 'he told the seven girls of. this Midianite sheik to gather their flocks together and 'bring them again to the watering. The fact that it took the seven daughters .to drive the flocks to the well implies that " they were immense flocks, and that her father was a man of wealth. What was the use of Zipporah's Demeaning herself .with work when she might have reclined on the hillside near her father's tent, and .plucked buttercups, and dreamed out ro mances, and sighed idly to the winds, and !wept over imaginary songs to the brooks. iNo, she knew that work was honorable, and that every girl ought to have some thing to do, and so she starts with the bleating and lowing and bellowing and neighing droves to the well for the watering. . Around every home there are flocks and droves of cares and anxieties, and every 'daughter of the family, though there be seven, ought to be doing her part to take care of the flocks. In many households, not only is Zipnorah, but all her sisters, without practical and useful employments. Many of them are waiting for fortunate and prosperous matrimonial alliance, but some lounger like themselves will come along, and after counting the large num ber of father Jet hro's sheep and camels will make proposal that will be accepted; and neither of them having done anything more practical than to chew chocolate caramel?, the two nothings will start on the road of life together, every step mow and more a failure. That daughter of the Midianitish sheik will never find her Moses. Girls of America! imitate Zippo rah. Do something practical. Do something help ful. Do something well. Many have fathers with great flocks of absorbing duties, and such a father needs help in home, or office, or field. Go out and help him with the flocks. The reason that so many men now condemn themselves to nn affianced and solitary life is because they cannot support the modern young womau, who rises at 10.30 in the morning and re tires after midnight, one of the trashiest of novels in her hands most of the time be tween the late rising and the late retiring a thousand of them .not worth one Zip porah. There is a question that every father and mother ought to ask the daughter at break fast or tea table, and that all the daugh ters of the wealthy sheik ought to ask each other: "What would you do if the family fortune should fail, if sickness should 5 rostrate the breadwinner, if the flocks of ethro should be destroyed by a sudden ex cursion of wolves and bears and hyenas from the mountain? What would you do for a living? Could you support yourself? Can you take care of an invalid mother or brother or sister as well as yourself?" Yea, bring it down to what any day might come to a prosperous family.- "Can you cook a dinner if the servants should make a striko . lor higher wages and leaTe that morning?" There needs to be peaceful, yet radical revolution among most of the prosperous hemes of America, by which the elegant do-nothings may be transformed into prac tical do-sometbings. Let useless women go to work and gather the flocks. Come, - Zipporah, let xae introduce you to Moses. Bee In this call of Moses that God has a great memory. Four hundred years before He had promised the deliverance of the op pressed Israelites of Egypt. The clock of time has struck the hour, and now Moses is called to the work of rescue. Four hun dred years is a very long time, but you see God can remember a promise four hundred J ears as well as you can remember four undred minutes. No one realizes how great he 13 for good or for evil. There are branchings out and rebounds, and reverberations, and elab orations of influence that can not be esti mated. The fifty or one hundred years of our earthly stay is only a small part of our sphere. The flap of the win? of the de stroving angel that smote the Egyptian oppressors, the wash of the Red Sea over the heads of the drowned. Egyptians, were all fulfillments of promises four centuries old. And things occur in your life and in mine that we can not account for. They may be the echoes of what was promised in the sixteenth or seventeenth century. L Ob, the prolongation of the divine memory! Jiotice, also that Moses was eignry years of age when he got this call to become the Israelitish deliverer. Forty years he had lived in palaces as a prince, another forty years ne nad Uvea in tne wuaerness oi Arabia. Nevertheless, ' he undertook the work, and if we want to know whether ne succeeded, ask the abandoned brick-kilns of Egyptian taskmasters, and the splint ered chariot wheels strewn on the beach of the Bed Sea, and the timbrels which Miriam clapped for 'the Israelites passed over and the Egyptians gone under. - Still f orther, watch, this spectacle of genuine courage." No wonder when Moses -. scattered the rude shepherds he won Zip-:" porah's heart. -What .mattered it to Moses whether the cattle of the seven daughters of JethrO were driveivfrom. the troughs by the rude herdsmen? ttense of justice fired his courage; and the world wants more of the spirit that will dare almost anything to see others righted. All the-tlme-at wells of comfort, at wells of joy, at wells ol re ligion, and at wells of literature there are outrages practiced, the wrong herds get ting the first water. Those who have the revious right come in last, if they come n at all. Thank God, we have here and there a strong man to set things right! I am so glad that when God has an especial work tc do, He has some one ready to ac complish it. Still another. Bee in this call of Moses that it God has any especial work loryoti to do He will help you. There were Egypt and Arabia and the Palestine with their crowded population, but the man the Lord wanted was at the soathern point of the triangle of Arabia, and He picks him right out, the shepherd who kept the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest and sheik. So God will not find it hard to take you out from the sixteen hundred millions f the human race if He wants you for anyj thing especial. -! t - y- ' O what a fascinating and inspiring char acter this Mosest How tame all other stories compared with the biography of AXose&l i ' " 1 Wants to Secure Suffrage. The first annual convention of the Mississippi "Woman Suffrage Associa tion was held in Greenville, March 29 and 30. According to the constitution, the object of this association, is de clared to be to advance the industrial, educational and legal rights of women, and to secure suffrage to them by ap propriate State and National legisla tion. - - ' New Occupations. In entering on new occupations for their sex -women have not taken any work aw av from men. New kinds of work have come on the scene faster in some cases than the workers were ready. The majority of women enter ing the industrial world become either typewriters, telegraphers, trained nurses or teachers of physical cul ture, occupations that have almost without exception come into existence within the past fifty years. WRITES WITH HIS FINGER MA5L. Jeraey City Man Who Believes Every One Should Be His Own Pen. ; It makes no difference to Walter Low ery, of Jersey City, that steel pens rust and gold pens break, that stubs blot and fine pens scratch. For Mr. Lower? proceeds on the principle that every XVERT MAN HIS OWN PE3T. man should be his own pen, so to-speak. He allows the nail of J his right forefin ger to grow to a prodigious length. Then he trims It to a fine point and writes away, cheerfully dipping it into the ink well. Egypt follows the lead of China, Jap an, India, Russia, Finland, and, In deed, most other countries in ordering fifteen American locomotives, -which will speedily be turned out, and which In no long time will fly screaming along the Egyptian State railway, waking Memnonlan echoes along the slumber pus Nile loud enough to rouse; its mum mied Pharaohs and awaken anew the bellowing of Osiris, suspended with out date somf thousands of years ago. The American can now travel all over the world with the patriotic conscious ness that he Is being drawn by the iron horses of his own native land. London Bicycling Costume. For bicycling there are a number of different designs in gown?; but one of the smartest is a blue homespun, the skirt made in the regulation pattern, reaching to the ankles and in the bell shape. The waist is a basque of medium length, made with revers of dark blue edged with white cloth on which is a braiding of blue. There is a close waistcoat of . white cloth or white pique fastened with tiny but tons,, and a small tarn-down .. linen collar, , with " black - neck-tie. : ' The sleeves are . of medium size, finished at the waist with a turned-down, cufl :bf dark blue edged with white braided in blue to match the revers. Harper s Bazar. v --" Little Chance for Error in Taste. As time goes on fashions become more decided and as the eyes grow accustomed to the new styles, their faults and errors in taste are detected and all thaj, is bad is carefully elimi nated. A perfect blending of colors and individual suitability of style are the rocks upon which most women come to grief, but the styles are so pretty and so varied this season that it is possible for the woman of taste and judgment to look well without a prodigious. outlay of money. Most of the new materials are expansive but many old and inexpensive fabrics are being made up into very smart frocks, and thin goods, such as muslins, lawns and dimities, are absurdly cheap. ( b ol to 5 I ie Business Women at WlTe I li It has frequently been said tW J h m - m wis a. men in Dusiness employments do & maxe as aesiraDie wives as their b terswho nave lived only d,. 1? 1 J. . 5U i)ves, dti a recen ODserver takes wholly ainerent view of the case. B UU1U9 lulttb bus CUCCb UI IQ6 woman ;J i . . M Dusiness is not so much to the ad?w tage oi tne woman herself as to tin Dusiness man. oucn a woman vl more respect- lor mm, more rezar more, sympathy, sue is alto?Pifc, .... - - . .. . 0 v, less likely voluntarily to impose npo him or lnvoluntar" toT harass m worry him. ; She has been there a' knows how lt'is-herself . and tVi9 J sonai experience ana Knowledge mail ' her more lenient and considerate. 1 Every woman wage earner worth' of the name learns first, last and ai the time that success is only attainec by close attention and single minded ness. The woman who realizes the must also realize that the same ml holds good of the business man. h a present capacity of daughter anc sister or in a future capacity as wif she is. certain to show such a kee: consideration, for the business men bers of the household as is undreame: of in tha philosophy of the other kint of woman. There is no danger of her husband! bing besought to just stop on his vt down town and attend some special seductive "special, sale" or to leava his office an hour or so earlier in ori.x that he may: , bring her-bome a lot of 'samples.''. She has , had practical ' and personal proof that it is through this sort of thing that business inters ests are made to suffer, and &lf doesn't propose to let this knowledg: play her false. A woman's appreciM tion of business and business ways and means thus insures domestic con! fort. If conditions warrant it, h benefits the business man even more than it benefits the business worni; herself. Trenton N. J.) Americacj Fashion's Fancies. Cut-glass lily vases. Denim floor covering. Silk-striped mantle draperies. String tie3 of plaid natte silk. Steamer capes made of Scotch rugSi . Solid silver buttons set with jewel Net dotted with chenille for govnf Ladies' heavy, white, two-clar gloves. I double picture frames . A first-class price doesn't alwavs in. licate a first-class botch An Inventor and Benefactor. Miss Jennie Wertheimer, a young woman of Cincinnati,. Ohio, can now retire from business with a small for tune at her disposal. Three years ago , she conceived a scheme for making commercial paper which would prevent amounts being raised on checks, or names being forged, and she succeeded so well that her paper is already well known. From the top of -the note to the blank for the name of the payee this paper has the usual thickness, but be low the name it gradually grows thin ner, until it is as transparent as tissue paper, j j If the amount written- in -has been raised, or if chemicals have been used,; or any changes made in the original draft,! this may be discovered immediately by holding the paper up to the light, l j i Miss; Wertheimer placed the matter in J the hands of an attorney in Cincin nati, who procured for her an offer from a jNew York firm to sell her en tire patent to them for $25,000 cash and attorneys fees, and she agreed to their rropuial. N ew York TrilvnTiA Arabe and renaissance lace. towels with large for link? Small leather. Point blouses. rWv Vifl rftrdr.ftses. belts, chflte- laines, etc. Fine damask polka dots. Heavy upholstery satin cushions. "White mull corded and with print designs. - ' Large scarf neckties of Scotch pi3 natte silk. Parasols with lace insertion sets as a border. . Tiny chiffon capes" having thro bows to the knees. New satin-finished silk fabrics black and colors. ' , Bagdad portieres in every possiW. array of colors. Gold golf pins for the cravat, U belt or stick pin, etc Narrow neckties having a tiny cordion bow in front. . Belts having large turanoi3 mem' lions rimmed in steel.
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