and leaves should be in gold silk. Finish the edge, laundrying and fringe as in No 1.

No. 4.-Cut linen the same size as in the other directions given, and do the drawn work before treating the design. This also could be made one of a set, using natural or conventional coloring, as in No. 3. The natural coloring in this design will be found to be especially pleasing. Two shades of delicate sage green may be used for the leaves, the darker for the larger leaves and stems, with the lighter shade for the small leaves. In working any or all of these doilies, delicate shades must be used, dark shades giving a sporty appearance. Embroider in white and gold work, the flowers white, the stems and leaves gold silk. The center thread of the drawn work should be gold silk.

Draperies, curtains, and portiere, for a window are very beautiful, made of bolting, painted in tapestry paints.

Such a pair of curtains were painted and "made up" entirely by a lady, for her own drawing-room; decorated by a conventionalized poinsetta flower and leaf. The vivid bracts of the blossom were "toned down" by the translucency of the fabric, until leaf and blossom seemed more like their own shadows, if shadows had suggestions of hues, than the truly colored leaf and bract and flower.

The bolting used in the manufacture of these draperies of which I speak, had seen service in a flouring mill, and coming to the artist's hand in widths of an eighth of a yard, or a third, at most, she conceived the idea of joining these in a manner that would add to the beauty. She formed a gold-gilt lace and insertion, as "sheer," in its way, as the bolting. Three widths of the bolting, connected by the perfectly plain woven gilt insertion an inch and a half in width, and the painted widths and portiere, edged with the equally simple but effective gilt lace, and the whole suspended from the finely wrought gilt pole and rings made a most beautiful effect, in nowise bizarre, and harmonizing well with other tasteful and rich furnishings.

There are other blossoms that, like the poinsetta, are surrounded by brilliant bracts, that you may use, should you prefer, or I would suggest, instead of the colors, tracing the pattern in gray, so delicate that these would be white, except on white.

Whatever pattern you choose for draperies, look to it that it be bold in outline. Forget-menots or sweet peas, beautiful on Christmas card or satchel, are lost in a fold of drapery in "dim distance."-Home Maker.

Bureau drawer sachets are excellent holiday gifts, because they take but little time to make, cost but little, and are refined accessories of the boudoir or bed chamber. The favorites are perfumed this year with lavender blossoms. To make a sachet of this kind, take a layer of glazed wadding and split it into two sheets, and between these strew quite thickly freshly dried lavender blossoms, that is blossoms of the present season. Lightly tack the two sheets of wadding together at the ends and sides. These sheets must be just the length

and width of the drawer in which the sachet is to lie.

For covering a bureau drawer sachet, take any soft, semi-transparent thin material preferred, whether it be millers' bolting gauze, mull, lawn, thin silk, or cheese cloth, or Japanese cotton-crepe, or some of Liberty's gold-printed sheer cottons, such as are used for ornamental purposes. Make a slip to fit the sachet, and after putting in the sheets of perfumed wadding and closing the ends, tuft it here and there with very narrow baby ribbon, tying the ribbon in tiny bows. A set which includes a sachet for each drawer of the bureau makes a charming present. Lavender, powdered orris root, dried Seneca clover, lemon verbena leaves dried, or some of the delightful sachet powders, are any of them suitable. Jockey Club sachet powder, also heliotrope and "white rose," are delightful for a drawer in which are kept gloves and laces.-Home Journal.

A most convenient thing for every woman to have on her work table or as an adjunct to her glove case is a glove mending outfit. It is easy to make, and it may be as costly or as inexpensive as the means of the maker shall allow.

You will require for the outfit, a ring, of the size and shape of the rubber ones which are given to children to cut their teeth on, a pair of tiny scissors, a "finger" to insert into the glove, when sewing rips, a braid of assorted glove silks or threads, some pretty bits of silk or ribbon to make a needle-book and a small bag to hold glove buttons, some fine white flannel or cashmere for leaves to the book, about six vards of narrow ribbon and half a yard of ribbon in the same color, about an inch and a half wide.

If you wish to make the outfit costly, you may have the ring, the "finger," and the tops of the scissors of silver. But if on the contrary, you wish to have something that is pretty and at the same time inexpensive, while just as useful, you will have the scissors of good steel, the "finger" and ring of ivory or celluloid.

Fasten the braid of silk onto the ring by doubling it on it and catching with a few stitches; on either side tie on the scissors, "finger," button bag, and needle-book, with the narrow ribbon in varying lengths. bow of the wider ribbon at the top of the ring, and the outfit is complete

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You have no idea what a convenience it is for your own personal use, and it makes the nicest little gift for Christmas and birthdays.

During the past two or three days I have been watching the progress of two which are for birthdays that come on the same day during the next month.

One is in old rose, the needle-book and button bag in lovely art silk showing old rose and white in the design, the ring and "finger" of celluloid in the same soft shading, and the ribbons in the darkest of the rose shades. The other is in blue and white. The ring and "finger" are in white, the ribbons in light blue, and the silk white ground with a blue design.

It is hard to tell which is the prettier of the two, but each suits the particular "sweet sixteen" for which it is intended.-Home Comfort.

COMRADES AND FRIENDS:

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N the midst of life's toils and sorrows we have met again upon what is called Memorial Day. Only a few of us now remain, who were comrades in the past, in camp, in field, and upon the long and dreary march. For, as we commemorate the passage of another year, we remember that, as time has swept along, since last we met in annual assembly, thousands who were our comrades have passed away, among them comrade Joseph Hammer, whose memory as an honest man, a valued friend, and an esteemed citizen, as well as your faithful comrade in the Allendale Post, will not soon be forgotten, nor, I trust, his influence be lost upon those who so well knew and so fully trusted him, who wronged no man and whose memory will long remain green with immortal days of honor. As an associate and friend of mine, in the same faith, I join you in the highest tokens of honor and esteem to the memory of this man.

Therefore it is with a feeling of sadness as well as with those of pleasure that we meet to-day. I am glad that, in the thinning of your ranks, some yet live who were engaged in the great struggle by which our heaven-born nation became more firmly established as the home of the free and no longer the land of the slave, so far, at least, as African servitude is concerned.

But it was a sad and an unnecessary tragedy, one of bloodshed and destruction that lasted through years; an unhappy conflict because it seemed as a death struggle between brothers, a grappling between those whose fathers had fought

side by side in 1812-15, and their grandfathers in 1775-82. But the unhappy conflict, upon which a world gazed with wonder and with disfavor, ended at last, and the remnants of great armies that had gone into the field during four years of war came home, leaving a half million of men asleep on the field, or in the prison pens of the South, or in the national cemeteries, those coming home following the emaciated forms that the prisons gave up, those left unslain by fever, starvation, and the bullet.

I use for my text this morning a few words found in the tenth verse of the twenty-fifth chapter of Leviticus, as follows:

"Proclaim liberty throughout all the land to all the inhabitants thereof."

And I shall speak chiefly of liberty, believing it to be the God-given right of all men, whether it be inherited by all from their fathers or not, or whether the oppressor may yet hold some in political, moral, or spiritual bondage. And when I speak of liberty I do so recognizing that she has often gained her own only by force of arms and by bloodshed, sad comment upon the race that is next to the divine, and to which the Creator said, "Proclaim liberty throughout all the land, to all the inhabitants thereof." He said it because he knows that freedom is the right of man, of all men; and only in it can men flourish, either as the race, as nations, or as individuals. It was the command of God, it still is the command of God, to all the kings and lords, to all the rich and the powerful, to proclaim liberty by every act and every deed, by

which any and all may take burdens and bondage from off their fellow men; and there are none so poor or weak that they have not obligations of this character, as well as have the great, to thus bless their fellow-men by every deed of kindness and love that shall lighten the toils of man and let him go free, to be happier, stronger, braver, and more intelligent and useful.

To me war is not a pleasant theme. The very name of war brings to you and to me the thought of hatred and violence; of untilled farms and empty shops; of town and country desolate of men, and the thought that, as beasts of prey fall upon man and drink his blood and eat his flesh, so, likewise, does man fall upon his fellow-man, having neither love nor pity in his breast; and it matters not where he thrusts him, or where his bullet strikes, in heart or throat, so that he whom he knows not is killed or disabled, and thus unfitted to oppose those for whom we fight.

In Europe to-day are said to be eight millions of armed men, all prepared for what? Not to obey the divine injunction, not to proclaim peace; no, but to obey kings and rulers, who by a nod may command them to destroy millions whom they have no reason to hate, and to lay waste the fairest fields of earth, the fairest produced under the highest liberty and by the arts of peace, such products as war knows not; to make them run red with crimson blood of man, who is the crowning piece of God's workmanship on earth; yes, to sweep him from the earth as if he had no right, no place in the heritage bestowed upon him, no part either in life, liberty, or the pursuit of happiness. And by the same powers ten millions more may, within ninety days, be set in motion for like destructive purposes. And it is all, or chiefly, to increase the dominion or add to the territory of each kingdom, or to prevent some other from success in the same line of acquirement. Thus, mainly, have been the causes of the wars that have at times devastated portions of the earth, and destroyed agriculture, commerce, arts, education, and all the fruits of peace, and the happiness of families and of nations.

On the other hand liberty is sacred, liberty is the guaranteed right of man, whether he is rich or poor, heathen or

Christian, ignorant or learned. Liberty, as declared in the immortal Declaration of Independence, is the inalienable right of every human being to be free, free to do as he pleases, so long as he does not thereby prevent the proper freedom of some one else, or interfere with the privileges and happiness belonging to others, their rights being also equal to his own as to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. In other words, liberty is the right of every person to be free, and to regard all others as likewise free and equal with himself to the common gifts of the great Creator.

And, though men have contended that the old Testament Scriptures sustain slavery, yet I gather from them the reverse, and that the subjection of one man to another as a slave was always in opposition to the will of the Almighty. In his time Christ spoke of certain things that were permitted because of the hardness of their hearts, not because these things were pleasing to the Creator or for the good of man. The Almighty is compassionate in his efforts to educate man up to his requirements of virtue in them. So also he wishes them to learn that liberty is not simply the right to do as they please, but it is the right to do right, the right to respect all others in their rights, and to be free in the sense of keeping the laws by which they may remain forever free and have all other men free with them. So polygamy was permitted and slavery was allowed until they should learn better things.

See the commandment that was not extreme but was educational, namely that in the year of jubilee all in bondage should be made free as shown by the word, "Proclaim liberty throughout all the land, to all the inhabitants thereof." This was the process of the Almighty until slavery was eliminated. If it was a slow process so has the education of the race during six thousand years been a slow one, in many respects. And we in America wonder why all Europe does not welcome the same freedom from kings and from vast standing armies such as we have freedom from; why those nations persist in increasing their immense national debts each year to keep up royalty and millions of non-producers who profit nothing, but who only eat up earth's substance while they prepare for war; who