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VALENTINE VERSES. Luve Victory. HE. . Tell me. dainty lady mine. Will j on bo my Valentine Long I've worstvped M yoarsartaa, Every thing I have U talne." SHE. Truly, sir, I caa net say. How meoh U your lacoaie, prayf m. Income, dainty lady mine? What of that? For yoa I pine right and day: ay heart l thine Pray, thea. be ay Valeutiae." HE. Hearts and pining- touch me not. How much aioncy have yon golf HE. "Hall a million, lady talne." 611 a. Of come Til be your Valentine." Bomerville Journal. JUNE'S VALENTINE. How It Won a Lover and Caught a Thlefc fWritten for This Paper.l E can not fail to take it as an an swer to bis quostion of last areok." And fair Ilelcn Montjoy Rave another look at tbo photograph in bur bund. There is a singular fascination in one's own p'ctured feat ures which it is hard to account for. Hel en was by no means negligent of her locking -glass, and knew every line of the fair face, every e .e-. ' .esse 1 rViij 2 -2,""-J?i: crinkle and wave of the sunny huir re flected there, still there was a new charm in it as shown by tho burnisheJ surface -of the photograph carJ, and she imagined fcer lover's pleased sarprlso when ho hould open the cavcloj c which he would receive on 8L Valentine' Dav and find her face, arch and smiling, looking up at liim. She bad had only the one taken. She was a little exclusive, and prcferreJ that lier face should not be shown promiscu ously, and it was a proof which spoke for itseir of her affection for Harvey Ingra ham, when abe was willing to entrust him With the shadow of herself. lie knew of this peculiarity of hers, and would, she was sure, read tho act as ho intended ho should. There was an other aspirant to her hand and affections, Harrii Miller, a mail-clerk on tbo II. & Y. road at one of tho stations of which Harvey Ingraham w.is telegraph operator, but to his chagrin Helen had resolutely refused to listen to bis suit, and be was angry and jealous of young Ingraham in proportion. Harris Miller was of good reputation. edn cation and family.still thero wn some .i'Og in his' face which gavo warning of aeme thing wrong in his character; a downcast, furtive pair of eyes, making it difficult to catch tboso wary organs in a straightfor ward, honest look. Helen, with her quick woman's instinct, ad taken a disliko to him for which she could hardly account, but. with a rare onse of honor, aho had kept her unfavor able opinion to hcrbclf, not wishing to hurra the young man in any way. and had not spoken of her disliko even to Harvey Ingraham, who looked upon young Miller as a rival, though how dangerous ho could iot determine from Helen's manner. She wrote but the two conventional words, "Your Valentino," upon the back Of tho photograph, but under the circum stances they convoyed all tho answer to bis question that be could ask for. On the vory morning on which Helen fircpared her Valentino for mailing, Har vey Ingraham sat before his desk, a smile upon his handsome features, as he also fireparcd his mail for St Valentino's Day. Au elegant affair in tatin and fllagreo With silver cupids pointing to an im fiossioncd lovo verse luy sido by side with comic monstrosity. "Juno will danco with wrath when she cts that," ho soliloquized, as ho looked :it the ugly creation of fancy. Juno was his sister, and the two were la the habit of i)uying jokes upon each other, June's last effort in that direction having been so successful that her brother had no com punctions of consc:cnce in choosing tbo worst looking parody on fcmalos that he could find, even touching on bcr gait, her one tender spot for sensitivo feeling, for Juno was decidedly wobbly in bcr walk and as decidedly a verso to being re aainded of it He directed his envelopes, laying them face downward as ho did so, and as an other matter called for his attention he aiirped tho valentines hastily ia and scaled them, never dreaming that ho'ceuld possibly make a mistake. Helen waited impatiently for the postman on St. Valentine's morning and eagerly ttroko the seal of tho envelope directed in the hand she knew so well. She changod color ai stio took out tho contents, and bcr eyes fairly blazed with anger as she gave a comprehensive look at "tho hideous comic horror which it containod, for Harvey in his haste had changod tho envelopes, and while June was in raptures over "dear aavar was aloxk. Harvey's" unexpected display of brotherly affectlee, peer Helea was correspondingly chappy ever what she sapposed to be aa opea.iaault, or, at the best possible coa elntcttoa, a most lamentable lack of good Caste. She tew to her owa room sad burst iate a pasalea ef aagry tears. 'Totalaktaatbe of all others saoald fasultaaewita each a thing as that!" she Crist. "Oh, how I repeat sending him say pictare; bathe shall aot gloat over the kaawledgetaatlUre him for lea," she reJoiaea, with a shuddering sigh, aad ris Isur hastily aha teak a package or letters (rem a private drawer ia her desk aad aaahiag them iate a package with bis gifts, he eaclsaed a freezing cold aole, aad tastily desceaaiag the stairs started for the express oce. ! have asked him to aura every thlag purta'aiag ta me. aad. of coarse, that ia ctadea the photegraph," she said to herself he weateat, "aad it he is any geatte aaaa will cesaply with ay request" mae did eet step ooaslder herewa la the matter, or hew harrea life waa iala u-heceme'.eher with Harvey left eat iC eat bar iadigaatiea occapied alt her ZLZL a Ae walked Uke aa iaseitee handed aua u. aa with I wttm WSBm KQ M in m if HrHS imp. ..aawaat saber way. Baa waa aot aauilly damsastrattva, bat glamtareasae receajaBjea xaa iraia aaaaaa over aaamtaasaasaas - i "--- mm a lara satv the mj ti sm sMaiae aa taMsaaa aa? mar. 1 wrapper aad oeheld the fateful package of bis letters, together with the few simple gifts which he had ventured to sead her, he grew pale at death w.th emotion. He had received no valentine from her, but knowing ber Broad and reserved spirit he had not been surprised, bat this unex pected rebuff was something fcr which be was totally unprepared, and he sank into a chair exclaiming: "Ob, Helen. Helea, what have I done te deserve sueh treat meat, and from your He read ber chilling note, but It save no explanation of the mystery, and the lines of years of suffering had been added to the handsome face before be tossei a package of her letters into the glowing fire, as she had requested him to, together with bis own, and miserably strove to go on with bis work. The express came thundaring ia the next morning, and Harvey stepped out upon the platform as a relief to bis rest lessness, and pacei up and down before the train. Ho had passed a sleepless night, and looked haggard, pale and old. The mail sacks had been excbangeJ, tbe passengers bad gone into an eating-house near by for breakfast, when Harris Miller called out: "Hello, Ingraham. what have you been doing to yourself I You look as if your great grandmother was dead and you bad just seen her ghost." Harvey started in unpleasant surprise. He bad forgotten that this was Harris Mil ler's run, and the sight of his face, never agreeable to him, but now doubly hateful with its triumphant expression was so un pleasantly ugcstivo of Helen that bis misery came over him like a Hood. "I suppose I have your sympathy ia Buch a case." he retorted, dryly. "Of course," replied the other, jovially, "though what you have to be glum about is more than I know," he added, hypocrit ica.ly. "And you won't know from my telling you," was Uarvey'a mental comment. The fellow's manner grated terribly on his overwrought nerves. "St. Valentino diJn't go back on you, did be!" and Miller put on a look of innocent inquiry. 'What's that to you I" Harvey was growing angry, and his tone was far from plcisant. 4 Oh, nothing," returned the ether, with assumed carelessness, "only the jolly old Haint utod me so well that 1 waa hoping you had been as fortunate also," and tie drew a photograph from bis inside pocket as he spoke, and removing tho tissue pa per in which it was wrapped held out the picturei faco of Helen Montjoy before Harvey's startled eyes. Tbo action was so sudden that he bad no time to collect his thoughts and bear the bitter blow composedly, and he was white as death as bo said in a voice which trembled in spito of him: "Thank you for your good wishes, and of course you ex pect me to congratulate you." He did not look up to see the look of mal ice and the triumphant hatred which was pictured on Miller's face, he only saw the sweet, haughty face of Helen, tho girl ho loved so devotedly, in the hands of ono whom at that moment ho hated as cordial ly as ho was hated in return. "Well, it amount to that, don't it, old boy I" replied Miller, as ho turnel tho card and showed the tortured lover tho words "Your Valentine," upon tho back traced in the unmistakable handwriting he know so well. He turned away sick and faint as the bell rang, and the passengers came hurry ing back to the train, and the office seemed spinning around as ho entered the door again. Ho staggered to a choir and mercifully forgot bis pain for a few blissful moments of unconsciousness, 'Guess ye fuinted, mister," siid tho office boy, who, with un instinct seemingly common to the human race, had seized a water pitcher and emptied its contents down the young man's neck and into his cars as ho lay on tho floor. "Granville's beu a callin' fur tho last five minutes." Harvey woarily arosn and took the mes sage in a listle-s, mechanical way, very unlike his u-u.il brisk, business-like man ner. He felt dazed and stunned by the thought thut Helen had so openly and de cidedly shown her preference for his de spised rival, tho sight of tho picture in Miller's possession having all tho signifi cance that Helen hud iutcuded it should when received by himself, but tne thought never occurred to hi in that there could be any mistake, and his trouble socnicd greater than ho could bear. His llrst thought was to write Helen an upbraiding letter, telling hor what ho bad sccu, but his lovo for her conquered tho impulse. "She has tho perfect right to choose whom she will, but, oh! Helen, Helen, you neod not have throwu mo away so scornlully, without tho most ordinary words of friendship." His sore heart would havo been com forted could bo havo seen Helen at that moment as sho sat in her room idly twisting June's obnoxious valentine around her whito fingers; the b.t of paper which was to have been a vexation of spirit to teasing Jane Ingraham. Tears stood in her largo eyes as sho looked into the Ire, aad she already re pented tbe haste with which she had re sented its receipt, aud sho cherished a scorct hope that he might yet wr.to and re ouest an explanation. Even now her love whispered the posibility of a mistake, but her pride would not allow her to tako the first stop to ascertain tbe truth, and so tho matter seemed likely to rest where it was, Harvey's love being stronger than his re sentment, and Helen's pride keeping guard over hor love. Harvey had an intimato friend, a de tective in Finkerton's employ, and as ho was sendlag a message in cipher to his chief ho said to him in a confidential aside: "There is a systematic robbing of the mall going on between Omaha aad Chi cago, and we have not as yet been able to get any definite clew to tbe thief, but it will go bard with him when he is caught. He must be an old bird, not easily caught with chaff, fcr we have sent out decoys which would havo spotted him at once if he bad meddled with then, but these have been untouched." By a curious conjunction ot ideas the memory of Helen's photograph flashed ever Harvey. With the sneeringly tri umphant expression of HarrlsMiller's face as he had taken it from his pocket, and. for the first time since that miserable morning, he had a doubt, a happy, hopeful doubt, as to his lawiul possession or it. The dslootive alios d ik " You, look s' renely happy over the intelligence. Have you aay clew to the mystery I" "So, no," replied Harvey, vexed with his tell-tale face, "oaly aa impreasioa, and if it proves to ha aay thlag mora taaa that I will tell you." Much as he disliked Harris Miller, he weald aot do aim the la justice of aa accmsatioa without proof- The eveaiag mail Drought him aa aax ioas letter from June, saylag that his mother was sick aad wished him te come heme, aad, after procuring suhatitala, he started homeward, am aCalr with Helea etakiag iate lasigatfleaaee com pared with his preseat anxiety, far the mother was a frail little woman, aad her free.aoetWaeses were ttmee at sore trial to her children. Happily aha waa aauca hotter before Harvey reached home, aad the visit was a source of ateaaura iaataad of pale, as he feared it weald bs. "Jaae Iagraaam. whore did yea cat thief he asked, ia aa agitated votea. Htfawearaaddrawa up aa easy chair before the Ira. aad had settled down for aaaaa WwVamaaaaK CflkKL BBS WmKwwW VVBav OVaaaBK vara psrtfeUe off drawiaga, aadthe ebjaot which had ceased hie axetamatioa waa a riehly-BoaUaed valeatlaa, the which had aa aaaxaactedly Why. yea seat It to WHRasaVfJa vaHHtHwaB sflTHfHPHW - aa - -- -- Helen, his haughty, dignified Helea, re ceiving that scarecrow in colors aad be lieving that he had sent it to her. All tho occurrences of the past were ex plained, and he could aot blame her for taking it as an insu It "If you will klodly explaia what you are flashing and paling about," said June, In a piqued voice; "perhaps that valentiae was not meant for me after alL" She waa quick at reaching conclusions. "So tell the truth, June, it was aot, aad tbe mistake has caused me the keenest agony of my whole life, and bo told the story. June could be a most sympathetic sister in any real sorrow, and ber heart went out to him as be told bow he had suffered. I always told you that unholy pasaloa you have fcr teasing me would bring you to grief somo day, and I was a true prophet," s"l June, as she wiped her eyes. It was yet too sore a subject for Hsrvey to smile over, but he replied: "I never will again. June, I can promise you,5 ' with 111 I ffl "PEItUArs THAT VALKXTI.VE WAS SOT MBAKT rou ME." such evident sinconty that she really be lieved him. "Of course yon will visit Helen and have the matter explained," said June. " Would it not be better to write first I" Ho actually dreaded to meet her aftr such a ridiculous mistake without a pre vious explanation. Had ho known how sore Helen's heart was, bow sho longed for a sight of hi f ice, he would not have been so timid. She had long since repented her baste, seeing in her cooler moments how unlike ly it was that he had destgned the foolish valentine for her, htill, pride withheld her from taking a step toward lean ingthe truth. Harris Miller, confident that he had made a permanent estrangement between them, had urged his suit anew, only to be scorn fully repulsed, for girls of Helen's stamp do not shift their affections easily. She was sitting by her desk oneovening. ber hoad bjwed upon hor bands, as she was thinking misorably bow little life held for bcr in comparison with tho bopea a few months since. "Oh I Harvay," sho cried, and ber fine eyes were full of unutterable longing, 'If you only knew how gladly I would undo tho past" A ring nt the door-bell aroused her and a few momjnts later a servant called ber to the parlor. Sho arose with a wonry sigh as she went down the stairs. "1 am in no mood to chatter nothings with society friends to night," sho reflected sadly as sho opened the door. A familiar form stood under the chan delier, a pair of pleading blue eyes looked cagerlv into hers, and sho knew from his look that tho mistake, whatever it was, had been righted, and she met him half way as he udvunced. "Hi'lcn. my Helen," he said, and his voice had never sounded so sweet, so manly to her before. Tho horrors of tho unhappy past were all forgotten as for a few happy momenta they were claspe I in u close embrace, aud thou Harvey said, roguishly : "For my part of the explanation, dearest. I will say that my sister June is anxious to exchaugo val entines with you. for she fears you do not proiHirly appreciate tho one I selected for her. not with the best of taste, I'll admit I think you will like the ono I supposed I hud sent you tho best," and bo drew the valentine which June had enjoyed so much from his breast pocket She look it with trembling hands, look ing at it througt a mist of happy tears. "How much unhappincss 1 might baV4 saved had I stopped to consider," she said, regretfully. "Did vou receive my pict urei" "Your picture!" It was Harvey's turn to be surprised. "Is it possiblo you sent me your picture!" "Very passible, Harvey," she replied, archly. "A cabinet photograph taken ex pressly for you and in answer to your postal. I thought tho most acceptable valentine I could send you would bo my self." A grave look shadowed Harvey's happy face. '-Then you did not send Harris Miller your photograph I" "Harris Miller! What could have put such a strange idea into your head, dear!" She blushoJ as the caressing word, never before used except in the privacy of her own room, escaped her lipa. "He showed it to me. cluiming that It came from you as a valentine." Sho looked up at him in pained sur prise. "And you believed him!" "How could I do otherwise. It waa only tho morning after 1 had receivcJ your package, and I bad ao other clow to your reasons, and knew your exclusive Ideas in regard to your picture. Oh! Helea, if you knew what I have suffereJ." She was looking at him seriously. "Har vey, how doyou suppose Harris Miller came by that picturei It waa securely wrapped and scaled and I know there i but tbo one copy, fo.- I brought home the negative, and the artist positively assured me he printed no duplicates, and Harrison is a man of his word." I fear." aad Harvey shook his head. that be came by it far from honestly." The conviction bad been growing upon him that Harris Miller was tbe man whom the detectives were looking for, aad that he would be la duty bound to tell what he knew. " He knows my handwriting even batter than you dcVHelaa rejolaed, "forweence attended wrltiug-eeheel together, aad he was always laughing at my queer J's aad H's, and he could pick out my valeatlaa to you from all others. Te taiak that ha had the audacity te ask me agaia te marry him after dolag sack uaderhaad work." " I em afraid. Helea, that he baa evea worse work taaa that," replied vey. gravely, aad ha related his laterview with his detective frieed. "aei if be Is provee te be Ue thief be will have ample time te meditate aa hismiadaaaa, far will be ae mercy shewa him." Harvey, caa aot we get eat ef his pnseeseiear said lag earnestly la bar lever's thought of my paatacraah la the aaaaa af aaah a man is perfect torture." - Stace I hare the erigtaaX. I caa aaTard tube gaaaroaa." sold Harvey, tisslsgly; ietthepoarfeUowhavaiCalaaeHieaUaf yea ha caa ever daiav erieualy, dear. I fear we caa aot witaeat tbe pa!a ot a par seaal laterview. ead area taaa his mallei aaUsfactiaa la aaaeyiag yea would aim u keep it Puiasialea malae af the law ia hie aaaa It waa aa aa adroit mail saladmade 1 be web id aaver haaappnueff aa aim bald TvVfMWa WBaaVW HI taaaaaaa eaaBaaktaaaaWmal Haft amaattSmV i aalawfat ska. evea far am arts aa garb la ths f aalaai seen eaa amftXesja PRODIGAL'S RETURN. Dr. Tabnaga on the Joys of Conversion. Joy of tbo w Caasert-lillasral Kaperi once The Lord a Lovtag rtbr Whs Jole at the Ketara era Way ward So a. Ia a recent jubilee sermon at Brooklyn Rev. T. De Witt Tntmsge took his te'xt from Luke xv. 1: "Bring hither the fatted calf and kill it" He said: Joy ! Joy ! Joy ! We banquet to-day over this accession of a multitude of souls. In all ages of the world it has been customary to celebrate joyful events by festivity the signing of treaties, ths proclamation of peace, tbe Christmas, the marriage. How ever much on othf r days of tbe year our table may have stinted supply, on Thanks giviagday there must be something boun teous. And all the comfortable homes of Christendom have at some time celebrated joyful event by banquet and festivity. Something has happened in the old homestead greater than any thing that has evrr happened before. A favorite son wh im tbe world supposed would Leconi a vagabond and outlaw forever bas got tired of sight-seeing and has returned to his father's house. The world said he nrver would com hack. Tlrj old man always said his son would come. He bad been looking for h.m day after day and year after year. He kuew he vv ould come back. Now. having returned to his father's houie, the father proclaims celebiution. There is a calf in the pa Mock that has been kept up uud fed to utmost capacity so aa to bo ready for oui own m on of joy that might come along. Ah! there never will be a grander day on the old home stead than this day. Let the batchers do their work anil the hou-.i-keopi.rs bring ontothe table theMUokiug ni-at. The mu sician m ill take their plncr, and the gay groups will move up and dowu tl- floor. All the friends and neighbors nrw gath ered in. and extra supply is sent out to the taMe of the servants. The father pre s des at the table, and says grac-i, and thanks God that his loug-atispiit hoy is home aguin. O! how they missed him; how glad they are to have hiaa hack. One brother indeed stands pouting at the back door and nays: "This is a great ado aliim nothing: this had boy should have been chastened instead of greeted; veal is too good for him!" But tbe father says: "Nothing is too good; nothing is good enough." There sits tuejoung man, glad at the hearty reception, but a shadow of sorrow flitting across his brow at the remembrance of tne trouble he has seen. All ready now. Let the covers lift Music. He was dead and be it alive again! He was !ost and he is fonml ! lly such bold imagery does the Bible set forth the merrymaking when a soul roaes homo to God. First First of all thero is tho new con vert's joy It is no tame thing to liecosse a Christian. The most tremendous mo ment in a man's life is when he surrenders himself to God. The grandest time on the father's homestead ia when the boy coiues back. Among the great throng who in tbe parlors of thin church professed Christ one night was a young man who next morning rang my door hell and said: "Sir, I can not contain myself with the joy I feel; I came here this morningto ex press it. I have found mora joy in five minutes in nerving (tod than m all the years of my prodigality and 1 came to say so." You have seen, perhaps, a ram running for his physical liberty ami the otlicnrs of the law after him and you saw him escape or afterward you heard the Governor had pinioned him and how great was the glee of that rescued mini; but ills a very tame thing that, compared with the run ning for one's everlasting life the terrors of the law after him, hut Christ coining in to pardon nnd bless and recun and save. You remember John Hunyaii in his great story tells now the Pilgrim put his fingers in his ears, nnd ran, erviug: "Life, life, eternal life!" A poor car-driver in this city somo years ago. after hnving had a struggle to support his family, suddenly was informed that a large inheritance was his. nnd there was joy amounting to be wilderment; but that is a small thing compared with the experience of one who has put in his h m Is the title-deed to the joys, the raptures the splendors of Heaven, nnd he can truly say: "lis man sions are mine, its temples nre mine, its songs are mine, its God is mine!" O, it is no tnmo thing to become a Christian. It is a merry-making. It is the killing of the fatted calf. It is jubilee. You know the Bible never compares it to a funeral, but always compares it with something brisht It is more apt to be compared to a banquet than nny thing else. It is compared in tho Bible to the water, bright flashing water; to the morning, roseate, fire-worked, mountain transfigured morning. I wish 1 could to-day take all the Bible expressions about pardon and pac and life and comfort and bores and Heaven, and twist them into one garland and put it on the brow of the humblest child of of God in this assemblage, and cry: Wear it, wear it now. wear it forever, son of God, daughter of the I-ord God Al mighty." O, ihe joy of the new convert! O, the gladness of the Christian service. You have seen sometimes a man in a re ligious assembly get up and give his ex perience. Well", Paul cave hi experience. He arose in the presence of two church, the church on earth and the church in Heaven, and he said: "Now this is ray ex perience: 'Sorrowful, yet always rejoic ing: poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, yet possessing all things.'" If the people in this house this morning knew the joys of the Christian religion, they would all pass over into the kingdom of God the next moment. When Daniel Saademan was dying of cholera bis at tendant said: "Have you much pain" 'O." be replied, "since I found the Lord I have never had aay pain except la." Then they said to him: "Would you like to send a messageto your friends" ' Yes, I would: tell them that only last night the love of Jesus came rushing into my soul like tbe surges of the sea, aad I had to cry out: "Stop, Lord, it is enough; stop. Lord, enough I'" O, the joys ef ibis Christian religion! Jest pass over f rem these tame joys la which yoa are Indulging joys of this world Into the raptures of the OospeL The world caa aot satisfy yoa; yoa have foaad that oat Alexander loagiag for other worlds to conquer aad yet drowned ia his own bottle, Byroa whipped by dis quietudes arenas! the world, Voltaire eure iag bis owa sea! while all the streets of Paris were applaudlag hiss. Heary IL eoasamieg with hatred egalaet poor Thomas a Backet ell lllastratloas of the fact that this world caa aot snake aaaaa happy. Tee very aaaa who poisoaed tbe pommil of the saddle oa which Qaeaa Elisabeth rede sheeted ia tbe street. -Oed save the Qessa!" Oae wswrat tbe world applaada aad the aext mom eat the world O, eoane over late this Joy. this suhllBBB solace, this i soldier lyiag there a-dyiag starlight began no stag; ' is a lead )toaeaeatlk lefvsjseoaaaitiaeT: The alght after the battle of SaUea. aad eld aad tbe aaabalaaese bad as eesae. 1 aHHhBsksaa CHHbbMbb maBBBBBBaVaaaX aVfaaVL. Taosasgwaseaagbt ape taraamhnho veasaaaaabey aaaaa no the tares: "there osassmsaeg sartag seams, aaawaaaoa ah? md ma aamC1 O, it ia a great retigioa to live by. aad it is a great religion to die by. There is only one heart throb between you and that re ligioa this morning. Just look into the face of your pardoning God, and surren der yourself for time and eternity, and He is yours, and Heaven is yours, and all is yours. Some of you. Uke the youag asaa of the text have gone far astray. 1 know not tbe history, but yoa know It you know it When n young man went forth Into life, the legend says, his guardian angel went forth with him, and getting him Into a field tbe guardian angl swept a circle clear around where tbe young mae stood. It was a circle of virtue and bouor, and he must not step bejrond that circle. Armed foes came down, but were obliged to halt at the circle thev could not pass. But one day a temptress with diamonded hand stretched forth aad crossod that circle with the hand and the tempted soul took it, and by that one fell grip was brought beyond the circle and died. Soma of you have stepped beyond that circle. Would you not Uke this day by the grace of God to step back This, I say to you. ia your hour of salvation. There was in tbe closing hours of Queen Anne a hat is called the clock scene. Flat down on the pillow in helpless sickness she could not move ber bead or move her hamL Sho was waiting for tbe hour when the Ministers of State should gather in angry contest and worrlrd and worn out by thecomiug hour, and In momrntary absence of the nurse, in the power, the strange Hwer which delirium some taiic gives one, she arose and stuod In front of the c!n.k. and stood thero watching the clock when the nure returned. The nure said: "Io you eo any thing prcuLar atiout that clock" She ma le no answer, but soon died. There is a clock sovne in every bistorr. If some of you would rise from the bed of lethargy and come out from your delirium of sin and look on the clock of your destiny this morning, you would see and hear something job hive not een or heard b-fore, and erery tick of the minute and eTery stroke of the hour, and every swing of the pendulum will say: "Now, now, now now!" O. come home to your Father's hou. Come lu me, O. prodigal, from tho wilderness. Come home, come home ! Second But I notice that when the prodigal came there was the father's joy He did not greet him with any formal "How do you do!" lie did not come out and say: "You are unfit to enter; go out and wash in the trough by tbe well and then you can come in; w have had enough trouble with you." Ah! no. When the proprietor of that estate proclaimed festival it was an outburst ot a father's love and a father's joy. God is your Father. I have not much sympathy with that description of God I sometimes hear. as though He were a Turkish Sultan, hard and unsympathetic and listening not tu the cry of His subjects. A man told me he saw In one of tbe Eastern lands a King riding along aud two men were In alterca tion aad oae charged the other with hav ing eaten his rice, and the King said 'Then slay the man arid by post mortem examination find whether ho has eaten the rice." Anil be was slain. Ah! the cruelty of a scene like that Our God is not a Sultan, not a Ccar, not a despot, but a Father kind, luving. for giving, and He nukes all Heaven ring again when a prodigal comes Iwck. "1 nave no peaure," He says, "in the death of hua that dicth." If a man does not gel to Heaven, it is because be will not go there No difference the color, no differ ence the history, no difference the ante cedents, no difference the surroundings. no difference the sin. When the white horses of Christ's victory are brought out to celebrate the triumph, you may ride one nf them, nnd as God Is greater than all. Its joy is greater, and when a soul com-s luck there Is In Ills heart the surging f an tiitlmte c'an of gladness, and to expies that gladness It takes all tbe rivers f pleisurr, and all the thrones of Kmp and all the ages of eternity. It a n Joy il-eer than all il-ptli, and higher than all height and wider than all width, and vaster than all Immensity. It over tops. It uuderglrds. it outweighs all the united splendor and Joy of the universe. Who can tell what God's joy is? You rememlier rending the story of a King, who on some great day of festisity scattt red silver aud gold erno.ig the peo ple, and sent valuable presents to his courtiers; but methlnks when asoulcornes back. Got is so glad that to express His Joy He flings out new worlds Into space, and kindles up new- suns, and rolls among tbe white rolied anthems of the redremed a greater halle'ujah. while with a voice that reverberates among the tsountalns of frankincense and is echoed back from the everlasting gates. He cries: This, ruy son. was dead, and he Is alive again." At tbe oje-nlng of the Kxpositinn In New Orleans, I saw a Mexican flutist and he plaedthe so.o, and then afterward the eight or ten bands of music, accompanied by the great organ, came In; but the sound of that one flute as compared with all th orchestra was greater than all theeiin bined joy of the universe when compared with the resounding beait of Almighty God. For ten years a father went three time a day to the depot His son went off In exasperating circumstances.but the father said. "He will come back." The strain was too much, and his mind parted, and thre times a day the father went In the early morning he watched the train, its arrival, the stepping out of the paissager. and then the departure of the train. At noon he was there again watching the ad vance of the train, watching the departure. At night there again; watching the com ing, watching the going for ten years. He was sure his son would come lack. God has been watching aad waiting for some of you. Hiv brothers, ten years, taenty years, thirty years, forty years, perhaps fifty years waiting, waiting, watt hint watching; and If this morning the prodi gal should come home what a scene of gladness aad festivity, and how the great Father's heart would rejoice at y oar com ing hoeaa. You will coasa. some of yoe. will you aot; You will, yoa will. Third I notico also that when a prodi gal comes hoeve there ie the joy of the ministers of religion. O. It Is a creed thlag to preach this Gospel. I know there has been a great deal said aboat tbe trials aad the hardships of tho Christian minis try. I wish somebody would writes good, rousing book aboat the joys of tee Chris ties ministry. Since I entered the pro fees ioa I Have seea more of the goodease ef God taaa I wilt be able te celebrate la all eteralty. I knew some beast ebewt their ssseUibriasa, aad they de aot rise late eathaaiasm, aad they de aot break dowa with easetiea; bat I coatees e yoa ptaialy that when I see a maa ooesieg to God aad glvlag ap his sla I feel la body, tmad aad eel a traaspart Whoa I sea a maa who te bound band aad feet ia evil habit osneecieeted, I rejeios ever it ae though it were my esra ernes daatiee, Wkss to-day ia oar tammenlsa service throngs ef yoaag aad tM stand at altars aad ia tbssesaeafe ef Heavea artb aad boll attest shew alsegiaaee to Jesas Christ I feet a jy aasawchhag akka te that which mho ap setts isiantn whoa be says: 'Whether ha tee body t caa aot tell, or eat af the body I caa aot tell: God kaestota.' O. have aet m a'otsrs a right to rej sise a prodigal eaaase basse They New emeot. ead eagbttbey aet be glad of abe gotaadag of tbe beet? They te the f all saeejy. aad eaabt ahoy aot te asaaasBaauammaaa aaaf aBBBtasraasaaB aaaa a. aaBsHaHal tfVtHt lawaBkmea nsore exhaustiar. I have seea miaUi kept on miserable slipeads ty rsarslmea loes congregations who wondered at the dullness of the sermons, when the mea of God were perplexed svmost to death by questions of livelihood, and had not enough nutritious food te keep aay are in tbelr tetnperement. No fuel, n fire. I have sometime ssn the lns.de of the life of maay of the American clergy ansa never accepting taslr hospitality, because they can not afford It; but I have seen them struggle on s tth salaries) of M and $6U a year the average leas taaa that their struggle well depicted by the Western missionary who saj s in a letter: "Thank you fcr your last remittance; na il I it came we had not any meat In our house for one year, and all last w later, although it was a severe winter our chil dren wore their summer clothes " And these men of God I find la different parts of the land, struggling against annovancea and exasperations innumerable, some of them week after week entertaining agents who have maps to sett and submaUiig tbemsels s to all styles of innoi anew, and yet wlthtut complaint end cheerful of aouL lionr iK tuu account for the fact thai these life insurance men tell us thai mlnistt-rt a a c'.as live longer than any Others It Is Urcaute of the Jov of their work, the joy of the harvest tlsld. the joy of greeting pnliga!s home to their Falhrr' hou.e. We are in sympathy with all lnnKst hilarities. Wo can enjoy a heartv song and we can be aierrv with the merriest; but tboe of us sbo base tine.l in the r v ce are reads' to trsttf r that all these Jnvs are tetne tvtmpared w.tl tho ,atifcUiai of sremg men rntr ti KiujiW m of lol. The grest eias of eserv m uisUr are-tie outp ur ngs ot th lLi lih.nt. and 1 think Go 1 I hitse seen eighteen of thctti. "ihank God. thank Cxi' Fourth 1 linlice also when the prtMUat ciime back aU earnet lt.ntlan rej.woe, if sou stoxl tin y.:Uuk I'mut and there was a huir C-nr at , and It wasb.u litg toward the shole, arid a sessrl crashed in to the rvck and sou saw etip eget horr ill the life I -Out. mid the vers asl man got on the rocks in afeiv, you cou d not con trol your joy And t a g'a 1 t me when the church of God sre men w ho are t t on theoevtn of tbe-r s ns plant their fret on the rock Christ Jesus. O, when prodigal come home just hear those Christians sin,;. Just hsar those Christians pray. It Is not a steiet) pd supplication we hate heard oer and user again for twenty year, but a Hitting of the cae in the hands of God with an im portunate pleading. N lung prayer. Men never pray at great length unless they have nothing to say and their hearts are hard and coliL Atl the prajers In th Bible tlfat were answered were short pray, ers: MmhI 1-e mrrciful to me a sinner" "iAird. that I may receive my sight" "Ijord. sate run ur I ensh " The longest prayer, Solomon's prayer at the iUd ' tln of the teiupel, was lest than eight minutes In length, accord. ug to tbe ordi nary rate of enunciation. And Just hear them pray now that the prtxilgals ar coming home. Just see Ibrin shake hands. No putting forth nf the four tips of the fingers in a formal way. but a hrartt grasp, whrre the mus cles i.f the henrt seem to el nch the fingers of one hand around the other hand. And then see those Christian fares, bow Illu minated they me. And sew that old man get up aud with the tame voire that he sang flftv years ago in the old rtxintry meeting house, say "Now. Iird, Uttest Thou lliv servant depart In jaoe, fur mine eyes have seen Thy sal vat on " There was a man of Keith who wt hurled Into prim i in time of persecution, and ono dnv he gut off his tjnrk'e. arid he Cams and stood bv the pt is n dmir, and when the Jut rr was opening th dir, with one stroke he struck iliiwri the limn tshohml incarcerated him. Passing ston; the street ho wondered where his fam ly was. He did not dsre to ak lest he excite suspicion, I tit, t,insltig along n little way from the prttou tin nw n Kith tankard, a Cup that hsil Iw'onged fi the fnuillr fl-m geiirrittOU to genrrntlon he saw It In a winduir. Ills fanutt. hoping that some da lie would get cer. oame nnd lived as ner a tliy could to the prison Imusii, mi 1 tlisy set thst Kc.th tankard In the wmdoif. hoping he would see it. and he raiue along and saw It and kuKkeil ut the doir and wont In, and the long absent family were to gether nnln (I if sou would start fie tbe King Join of Ujil to-day I think mini of you would find nearly all )uur friend and nearl) ,111 your families around the holy tankard of the Inly communion fathers, rnolhrrt, brothers, sitter, around that sacred tankard which conimni'"tes the love of Jesus s lirtt trtir IxiriL O It will le a grrat communion dav when jnvr whole farrul) sit around the sarred tank aril one on arth. on in Heaven. Fifth- One more t remark thai when the prod gal get bsck the mhatritantt of Heaven kep festit at I ant very certain of it. If you have nvrr en a telegraphic chart, yiu have no idea how many cltl are connct'd U gather nnd how msnr land. Nenf'r a i the night'rb"'ets of the earth e m articulated, and nss files from el'y to otv and from continent to continent Rut more rapidly g lb tlI Ing frcm earth to Heaven, and when a prod gal returns It Is annosineed h-rfore the tbron of 0ol. And If tt-.e soul thi morning h'uld enter the kingdom there sscnid ! soru one in the he'y k ngdtm to say 'Thai', my ftfcer." "That's mr mother." 'That's ray soa." "That's my daughter.' "That's my fritd." "That's th one I nsed to pray tm " That't the on for whom I wpt so many tears." ktid on s.I wxJd say. "Hiwanna"' and another scoi woald say. "Hallelujah"' "iw! 1U la news lb sslstt tVs la snrt irT ttrg rapiaj V-ota hm Ht the tfcllsj". r. Aad Jfestrea is fJIW : jrrr "NoesJwMs ra Ur4t yrf ftia. Hot klbt l4 ll tre TBe .inner Jel (s fevM. tey x A rJ strtie t& t vtui ly-e " At the banquet ut IrqlHs sat Cleere, the orator; at tfce Ma'-ed'fan ftI sat Philip, the confraeTov. at tfc Greriasj be rjet at fVrate. tbe phitfphT; Ust at our father' tatla sit oil taa reerwl prodlg!. tartt than tej'artvrs. Tfca table 1 so wid its leave ick sfT' eas end err (ws laade. if ge-t ae toe rMeeasee of earth aa t the gltsVi cT Heaven. Th rlag cf God' fcrgi vae e eery hand, the rob of a ftevkosir's rigai sostSMt m&ttrrp from "; syesjid' The wine taat zlow la the cap I frt the bowls of !," ecTSfweat- IsC aJI fast r. dsemsl of earth aad all abe g'switsxl f Heavea rise aae with gtaaatiag aa-sa Utah to the rewra ef i.aas pfAifU. Mag! stag! sing'. -Wovtssy ks the lamb tset we alula te rss-sji af lag aad rtebesj aad hearsr aad glory 4 paver, wiarti sritaswt ead." Frtra a catbirai cioae cots- to us live story of a dlscuaeJoa cotwe-ra-lag a crUJa gcatleaaaa who was Woaaesd with a aosss of ltardcnphlaa elxe aaai color. "II asast tw a b.vy rfriskcr.- eeld oae vieric "Xet at alir aaisi aather: "I kxrw hi taUter aasi bis graarfavtaar. aa4 taey hast kite wjeuJsfer'u:Aaleklaslo;sase.' a,s was lb ry. "trvU'Stl a caa ot rSaseoea bjrrfsi'ita." -M. Jsmee fa XTtfce, Ke-sr Tesriwrr I raoae a be kept very s&aaiy Ja Taaf" tm. aa ral aU eteaagtr. A fimyasrwybiafar a War ear" M -T FAfrM AHO lH4Wles The lart mlllc draw from the tow at a ntllklnir. I rlcaor ia butter than the first. 'i4snaur -A few Iron . -f frJsmT ru.ty Iron kept in th drinking -,.. make a good tonic for tho fowl, In tho management of l"n with all cdhcr pureultt. attcadtn.: u details has dtwie -uch to aeaurvj'- - fopcrUm- prove that cow wh!ch havo a due allowaace of au gve .. ik .. ik.si arlilcb are nut u Jll-" -. -5V IWt 0 MP eacltcwool in Use hen house. If y.n want cnu-aeo ,or dinner U.s9ornw taka them tilet.y off the roost tsnlght- Frighfenlog rs hen out of aer wile Is aa bad d.v glng a cstw. Nut Pudding: Oae cupful of sugar, one-half of a cupful of butter, two cup fills of flour, one-half of cupful of cold water, thress ers. one an4 one- half tcrvspooafilU of haklng wwuer. one-hnlf of a -upful of whole wa!n I meats aJdea the Ust thin. lUk and rat with sauce Hood HoitseWieplriff -Stoned rrgt tul In thick allCas sU hard-Udlesl egi:- Hvse hi a stew jwvn with one cup of Uef. seal, mutton, chicken or roast l-rk trmvy. imi le, cup of svitHt milk, butter Ue of Ctf. one onion, chopped very fine. tlt and pepper to toaMltl I red go lnt stow one tablespot.nful flimr, Mew ten tulnuUts. thon pour over U slttts of ,iUim1 and buttered ttvt - KngUsh lun-akes: One pint of milk, two egu. one tnllepo.nful of ,uk.ar. one cupful of flour, one lejs epoonfut of baktn? powder, one cup.'! of cream, a Uttlo -alt. molt Httlo hot ter In frjtng-pan, jKur half a eupful f Uttter In It. put on hot tiro and hro n tin both side, butter each t'ake. and sprinkle wllh psiwderesl sugar, and roll up like Jctly roll and serve - Nearly all failure with jNclies are due to the work of tho borer, which uHrate In the oollnr f the tn near the ground, and this should not b mistaken for the dlcs known as th" llow The trsMis tnut I esatnlnwd for the tnjrer. a It can not asotdml by an rejnesly escept ! kill It when It llrst begin to work on the tr. though occasionally It l detnyl lain In the season by Inserting wire In tho tnirr tundr - Creamed Ojalera For this etCs'l Innt dlh take jual proportion of 0ter and ereatn, aa) ,t pint of each a small bit of onion cut flnn. a hnl of tnasv. a tablcspoonful of flour, and .tll and topjwr to tat Nald thr onion Ktid tnaee In th cream, and Uie osUr In thIr own liquor until the) curl Ml the flour with a Uttlo csild milk and tlr It Into tho cream whii It ldls then skim out the onion and me from the ereuitt, drain the oiter from their llii.ir. oilil them to tho pnpnrril cream, and they are reedy to l ssirted. RYE FON HORSES. II Is 'iear el Blalv feels Ttaw a VlOtlyn.a I vsil a r)hel, , In answer to an Impilry V whether 11 U Uittr to sell tjrnw'ffw ittnls nnd bu) oala nl !' cent than r have the rye. grtird for hor'. V Kj Ijner). of the New York KiperImn!oi htatlon. .") "ll apHar that .ni"r Icaii wluUjr re 1 a little rluher lnd grltblo sllllvmx and illgeetihltitj owing, no dostbt. to H containing no wulur, The iHgeatlbillty never Itavlhg liwti dtilriiilnd under Atnerlean conditions caii only ! takon with eonldrabl nllowanee and thn only re!nl!oly Ht I eheajr nt ik C"tts jir bushel than ont nt 11 itnt. lyn lut, a miKh heavier grain and containing nearly om-fimrth !- hull thttn oate houtit )n ground and mixed vsltli nnarly It own weight of otit hay, molstend enough to hold the rye mal. iUtr w It might form a heavy, tdlgetl. nuts In Hie stomach and produe oolle. If tho hores arts at nil eotttlpatd on this mixture a little bran or oatmeal will ufDevt U keep the Isossela Inagtxel healthy rondltbn. leit this will hardly te neoary If the hor uri at worW or erri regularly Tl ajnount of feed depend o Rliwh UJrOtt Ihe con stitution, ag" and ork of th hors that the frJer rnnt !- gmldesj largely by hl on Judgment, olervfng, ho ever, to feej Iwju( as tunny pjsvl of the ground rye he voubt of ola. ayt not o many nurt by rxrly half tV should legin wjth atoot m '.-rinds f rit hay atvl lre7reas and diminish ae Crllg to tlie apfxirent nel of esch snirns!. giving all tkat wre:ld ? rsirni up eleisn. Ix- grain wjbj b re.jMire.1 with olover hay. and abHit rf-foirVh more shmihl bj ade! If straw iwtli tuUt part of Jh niXutL." SHCCe 9 On SURETY. Twe aasi ara suss-sa wnnnr StsevBs mi. T)er Ijt bstwn many tjpw aal down la tbv bulaee sis ray rj- hm taaoy rbarg frwn hp v mthlftg etsw. a4 baea again. n4 easy trvraaasvl hv has tsana laaghbsrad for tbdr svu ael taiVs alofte In tlaas9 of deifs ssa toot r, tU- wa who have srrssstrftUy tosi V hes-p thro-jgk thtek as4 taU, Imfsrwv- Ug tbasr S'arste wall rtir were -- tag wot or kllllsg tiesra. bare Out vA vram out ahaavl every Uoaa. swwi have krpt op th- enssdkio A tK)s farra beUst Usava aay oUssrr class tA Imfimmrm mmnmg am. No aaaa T-i-raletsrf viU t- (tuaJU-s will atWmt ut tm. trrrren tbU assssvrtkM, If I 4sirsa W beiag bsvk lalo rmtllln. a rs-4re's or ors-w farsa I W!4 tUk It a? )--s a heavily ae It tnU basse miVk 4eep. aevS.taC. ef wre. UfceA U aaa ad as4e4 to ibea. Tswrw arw alarwe la wbVb swVeasa ar a-wte ov aUawcsas. It m UfHgsrf evWel oa!4 sjaetvew lbe la gar. oVa ae esawsg eeaail fralia. 4r aU bw tare Useea apw aie awly assail t&nT-?Z&u. aay avyfw tie dairy sbhi vetsla t4tra twsvs UV him eeersiJaJgS Wcxll7. saw .esessw et-avrly rkl tr smrsag waef ai aakstats, a4 ai. taesssx Uey i sj i H , tma letbe to aaf rarJaa aj-sa a ,ssBrars avw aaessa eeaiassy are Wiel awss VisTaswtani T,r iMlmilits ambsvsry T i II if i l IhaU fmry aawy.Tl ch , Ik A ipeufl MJumm,' JAwe. ..?---V. baad-aw.--.- s t 'w3 aaasaaaaaal