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"IF r W8RE FAIR" ' {"Then she looked into her mirror"! i Vwfa ?w^ i^)4t feet; I the color rich and sweet and faded at a frown; : curie of buruiefatt brows; ' eyes aglow with nxtilea, limbs, and pretty girlish V If I were fair, Loiee would riot torn aside; life's paths, so murbw, would be broad and wide, if I were fair! If i were fair. Perhaps Iflce^iher maidens I aright hold A true Mfcrt's store cf tried and tested grid. love waits on Beauty, though sweet Loire alone, It seems to m?, for aught 'might well atone. But Beauty's charm is strong, and Love obeys The mystic witchery of her shy ways. . If I were fair, my years would seem so few; Life would unfold sweet pictures to my II 1 were fair! If I were fair Perhaps the baby, with a scream of Joy, To dasp tfy neck would tfcjrow away its toy And bideit* dimples in my kliain? hair, Bewflder& by'tha mazj of glory there! Bnt aow-4ob, shadow of a young giri's face, Uncoloredjips that Pain's cold fingers trace. You will n?>$tblame the child whose wee haadn clo^, ^ Sot on the bitted bud, bat on the rose So rich and fair. If I were fair, Ob, just a 1 tt la fair, with some soft touch Aboutlay face to glorify it much ! If so one shunned ray presence or my kiss My heart would almost break beneath its b&ft. 'Tis said each pilgrim shall attain his goal And perfect light shall flood each blinded 'J.y, BOUi , I When day's flush merges into sonset's ban And night is here. And than beyond the I shall be fair? in London Spectator. w JiM JENKINS, BIS STORY. ^ sostca feom urt hr ths mouktaiss Or gfiSTDCKT. gj He moon wro ihin in1 away off up yan der in the bine i ront yard ur Hearea ea ?oft an' yeller ez a ripe costard pie; the apple wuz pink._a?iywhite on tb? tre^e, flUIin5 the air ? ^rith the ? *mell uv *ngelj ; me and Ma&ijay -wua , settin* out on tbe porch stepsV the old , folk* wax gdae to bod, an' I reckon Y&~ been hokhn' on taker baa*, fer up'sMs-iiv f evert mhratea, tickled 'most to death 'cause she didn't snatch it away. "Malviny!" says I, party nigh in a whisper* 1 L ^r? Jim?" says sheAhitchin' up an /Vinch or two. J 4 * 'Ain't ther some fellers yon kinder like a little better's some other, feller* I" ? ? " "Ko, Jim,'* says she, an' I sorter felt : my gizzard drap about two feet an' a half. "Ifcngr c^ef'says I. **Ye^ Jim," lays she, "one." That hoped me a good deak^jgpiatf the way she add it. J > "Maiymr," sarajprfU!? a,, new holt ' v' onto h$r ban\^^rrd throw a rocs, about ?ow^^Bd I hit the feller you ui:e fj&S**. ?*' we at . f/.cttft a arts ajzzaid>T~mine a^'iir "Why couldn't I, Malviny?" says I, fehin: 'round fer a hint. 4t 'Catise, Jim/' say s she, an' her haa' ? gire a twitch. - V 'Cause what?" says I. "Jis' "cause," says she, an' she jerked her han' outer mine an' slid ovar totals the niliof . w ? ' "Do you reckon I could hit him with ft dub?" says I, pickin' up a bit. : 1 reckon," says she. ; '?Could y*u, Mai?icy?" says I. v "Yea, \ fpoid," saysshe, kinder quici . ? aa' naxvoa^an" then a heap softer, "but 'Nfhy ^ofckJn't you?" says I, aggin* her on. wouldn't hit a dog with a club," < says she. a^Tata^no dog," says I? breakin' out ? ia &e wrong place. j " #5 "Who ?:d you wuzz?" says she. wighly pTOvokin'. r ' >? - "You did," says I. > fcV. ?| didn't," says she. uWeN, jo^come mighty nigh it/ ?ajs L fil waza't talkia' about you, at all," ' ^"Who wuzyou talkia' about, then," sqj? I, gittfe' ugly myself. "That foe me to know, an' you to And r o*t?jftj? she, ez sassy az a gal with una beans. / Iaeea I wux gitUn' on ticklish ground, aa' I begun backia* off. * "What's the use ov us quarrelin', - H I; "I aia't -quarrelm'," says she. "Bat I wuz trjia' to," says I, meetin' bar more'n half way, an' she sorter let hie han' aiip over to'rds mine, that wuz reachin' 'round in the shad&ers. ' - 1 was feeim party shore now, an' jcttin' a clinch onto her ban', I say3: "Hahriny," says I, "I think aheap ut * 08 tbJfckiQX away, ,... *ay? afce. loag ?" says I. .. -? 5^ ?J? 5^ \ T*hfBi s on what?" says L \*j^&l&kaowr': says she, sorter "Toa women air tbe beafcen'est crit ***?? I* diappi*' her banL.7 warn* says flay upytoo. > t w keer,M says ah* ez ^P*%ra^a-rtubbora ca^f. /'I am ^r'aat & t be no more'n I am. ; . "How do I knoirl" ?&js I, coW at her on her own tracks, an' a K dab aT a cloud came acroet the face my the moos an' the wind blowed the ameil 1 u? tb* apple blcai(ona? Mother way. I waza't makia' no headway at all, j an* I sat thar without sayin' a word tell that cloud weai h/r an' the moon showed bright agin. Malviny wasn't sajin' a f ?" w*d nuther. \ "Malriay !" Wys I, atier a bit, but I she woaMa't aajwer. "JttlTiay," asya Ij: beggin'; *?I'U [ taka that back. ; Tl ey a?n*t no nicer gai j taaa you in the w; ola country. ' Sam said last night, " says die, coSder'a shade in Feb'ury. "Saia whof sajs'I, civokxa' up. 4i5am Higley," i says she, smirkia'. . "You didn't think it was Sam White, did you?*' * 44 W s* he here last night, toqr says I, "*a&*r ?owa my hopes was most dsa^a' the ground. "Ho, he said she, rrorok w^baa *%it ha waa the night t oeaJdat stsa} tt ao^ iongar, an' I i; 1M1? ?ase. " . stompin' round like a ana wtffadt ft* toothache. ?'When joa git tired, lir. Jp&ss," says she, poster's chip* , "you may set dawn." -j: '? When $.git tired," nji % madder'n awethe*^ "I'll go home.'* * "Whet ferf' says the* "Fearer," seys I. ? .. "That's a powerful long time, ain'tit, Jim?" leys, she, sofenin* eonae. " Tain't no longer'n yjxi're keepin' me in misery," mji I, settin' down ?g*?* 7 "How'm I keepin' yoa in misery?" says *ber. ez innercent ez e turtle dore. "You know, well enough," says L "I ctonft," seys she. "Ye*, youtlo, too/' says I, flghtia' her off, fer I seen she wuz comin* 'toucd. j . . "WeU^ you aggervated me to it," says she, kiader excusia' herself. "I didn't mean to," says J, feeiin' some better. "Didn't you?" says she. "No, I didn't',' say I. "Shore, Jim?" says she. "Shore'n shooting Main ay," says I, ; an' with that she edged over some an' pat her hand in mine eg'in. She didn't sey nothing an' I didn't say notnin', an' we didn't do nothin', oniy jis' sot thar, holdin' hen's, ez ef that wax ail t&er war fa the world to d% anyhow, while themoon was shinin' soft and the apple blossoms was smellin' sweet er'n, sweeter, every minute. "Hairy," says I, in comin* beck to the startin' p'int alter while, <4s'pa ?n' a man waz to kiss yotff" "S'pasin' what?" says she, loolrin* Agoe. *&'po9in' a man waaLtd kiss yon?" .says I. * . i "What man!" says she, curious, like women is. ? "He!" says I, bolder'n a hfBfon "You?* says she, jumpin*, bat sot gettin' loose. "Yes, me*" says I holdin' oa tight. ^'Well, s'posin*," says she,eee?'l had "Then wh&fi. says I, all the fine pallia' her or er afcqileclos'ter tame, an' she comin', ex if it *ta onbekno^sat to her what X waz doia'.V i ! "How do I know, hmf" says she chirpin' like a bird. " \ "Would you keer very \oack, Mal riny?"seya I, chaugin' hanxWeorter slippin' t'other one 'round her wratSe^ her not tryin' to git away, author. "How keer?" eays she. "Keer efrl did?" says L "S'posia' I keered efyou didn't, Jlmf" . says she, turmn' her (head away an' _chuckin' her chin tight\ down agin her "purty white neck. \ - "Oh, Malriny," myf % with all the souU ever hope to git salvation Jer In wo words, an' t frabbe^ her to me wit^ both han's, an' she lifted her face teliHie moon shun right dewn on it an' put & gold crown on her hair, an' the stars laughed in her eyee, an* the sweet uy:/ the pink aJ^ white apple blooms Mowed 'round her* en' I bent down an' tetched my lipe to her'a, an* I felt ez cf I had kiased the jasper gates uv Para Ae an' wax wadin' knee deep in gior/ through the meddets uv the Promised Land. ' * " Malriny T' says I, atter my feeHn's had settled some. "Tee, Jim," seys she, neetUn' her an' me witS both arms 'round fisw^holdin' on's ef she might git away ef lthdn't. ' "S'posin'M'd hint somOthin* about fctin* married?" says^L "^Tho gittin' married\" says she. "Me." says L \ "Who to?" says she putVjn' off. "You,";says I, ketchin' a new bold of her. j "Don't dothat agin, Jim," ?Ji ahe, sncokin' up cloe'ter en* ketchia* bar breath. - ?. .. i "Do what?" says I. "Skeer me," feysshe, kinder shivery like. 0 , I , "What skeered you, MaMny?" says I, fairly hankerin* to haul the daylights outen anything that ud skeer the gal, an' wan tin' the wurst way to ask her to hare nae, but a feared to do it. "Too did, "says she. "How?"* says I. "Axin sdeh fool questions," says she. "Ain't you aerer- goia' to gft .mar ried!" says I, swaiieria' hard. Don't look ez ef I wuz, doss It?" says ?be, laughin'. ? "How; do I know!" says L "Tou ought to knowT*?ys she, pei teria' me like everything. "flow?" says I. * ^ "Guess,'* says she, laughin' that sweet, low, little, gurglin1 laugh uv hern agIia. \ . ; "I can't," says L She looked up at me outen the corwpr ut her eyes, cuter'n a kitten, an' thfe summer evenin' breeze spread a smell ut apple bloasoms all oyer then porch steps, an* a honey suckle fell off the rine an' hit me in the faee. { "Malviny,", ays I, all of s sodden lettia* go my holts an* aland a* up straight ez a bean pole, "af the planafe, biggest, doggone fool in Hick'ry County wuz to aafcyou to be his wife, what 'up you say IT \\ ^ - i ] She wss settin' down, bat when 1 stopped talkin*, she got up an' comia' over to me, she put^oth her haa'sfeato my shoulder*, ao*,tookin' ro^n straight in the eyes ez ef I wuz the Jedgment Days, she says: "Jeems Jiakini," says she, ez dow es tn'lassss in Jinuary, "l*d say 'res, sir,' aa' make a sensible man outen aim*" clMalTioy," says I, resumin' my fast I holU, "you're, done it right acw.f That wuz forty year ago, aa* I reckon Malviay must hare made a mistake, fer somehow -*ioos> sia*t older'a it wuz, ner tnc scars no Otzamer, an' the \ apple blossoms sir jist as sweet as they wuz that dimmer night, aa' lUlTiay aa* me aa* J tee seems to be raoria* along with oui arm* around each other, an* 3 I'm ji^big enough fool to waater die when/Malvina aa* June does, aa' go Vera over yander. ? Will J. Lamp Prath to Frairie Bogs. 7o destroy prairie dog# infesting the field?, the following method is recom mended by a Kansas man who ban bad trouble with the little brutes. He aejap. yl bare just come from the pasture where I have been troubled for years with a cty of forty acres of prairie u*ogs, A few days ago I procured a remedy tor the scour^e-atRfTfeel like proclaiming it from the housetops if necessary and here it is: Carbon bisulphide, ad ministered thus : Take balls of cotton baiticg? or cotton rags will do?enough ro have one for each bole; put them in a basket with jour jug or bottle of carton ; take one ball, pour on a little of Hm 1 luid ? a tea?poonfui or so? roll H down t&e bole and with a spade stop the hole, ate Mr. and Mrs. Dog will sleep theii evir.akmg sleep. Oat of over 800 hora, 'not one Iwlio tett the tale/ N<Jr, this is a sure remedy- jnd rer y ccJv\y applied, and worth a bunch if put i| practice."? fit. Lome Republic. 8*? ? "How did rou and Tom HHIdw happen io^get married, BUncieV' Blanche ? "We were both siogie, you kiowt" "Yasf "UTeU, we married to set eren. "?Smith * Qay'e Monthly. : V - ' I: yk } -eh^r.* ' I?* i ->? -- - :i? v. ?: ':r^ I . THE PASS AN? G1RDEX. COLIC XV H0RSS8. Horse colic is readily cored in Eng land, aid Frederick Street, by applying a bone cloth: or woolen rug wrong oat of boiling water to the belly and aides and coffer with a horse-blanket to retain the heat, renewing as required; or a large bran poultice hot as can be borne retains the heat better. In this country we generally give some special colic core or a good dose ot pevn-killer.? Western Agriculturist. " ^ BAJBSWOOD BLOSSOMS FOJt SONET. The linden, or common basswqpd, is not only a handsome tree, bat its blos soms make excellent bee pasturage. It is planted in some parts of Europe for this purpose chiefly, though the wood is^ also valuable for soose^urposes. Honey from besswood blossomf is' to many tastes better than that from white clover, and if more ^ it were marketed there would soon be a great demand for it. Some times a buyer secures a box of hoaay of extra good flavor, but he does not know how to duplicate it. Nine times out of te* this extra good honey is from bass wood blossoms, which are now in their fullest bloom. ? American Cultivator. * C038TBUCTI05 OF AH ICKBOUSS. The wary to make an icehouse is to think about it in the summer and have the preparations ma^e before the winter. The requisites are a dry foundation; doable walls filled in between wilh&y sawdust, or other loose stuff that will make a good non-conductor of the heafc and thus retain the cold; a tight and jyeB-ventilated roof overjit, end the ex* (loston of water or air fax n evpry part of it. Good ventilation oHr the top covering, however, is indispensable, as tikis Keeps til^ covering dry, and dryness is an absolute necessity. A refrigerator is made In v this #ay and on the same pnncipl?. A box of any suitable shape is made with double sides and -b6t torn and cover. The space is filled with powdered charcoal, and the inside is well pain ted or lined with sheet sine or tin. The box afoui$ stand twice as high as it is wide esck way, and is di vided into two parts' by a metallic ^ivis iott. The ice rests on this, and this part should have a pipe to carry off the water as the ice melts. This lower ^tamber Is provided with shelves on. wttteb^he articles to be kept cool are placodv^nd a door foe access is fitted to the front. The icebo* on top is covered >y a lid or falling dooc.? .N^w York Times. j rfacBM Xaoy people make a great mistake whe a building bootee, by plating the perches in aft i concei Table directioae. The placing of the perchea in all direc tions, however, Is not the mistake. When the roosts are placed thus, the object gen erally la tot utilize apace, and la fol lowing up this object some perches are placed near the floor, while others may just barely afford the fowls apace enough to rooat between j?e perch and the roof of the houseT^This ia where the mis take cornea in. Have you ever watched your fowls while tfcey are preparing to roost? II j yea have, you could not fail to see that all of them were anxious to get on the top perch. After the fowls have selected the place upon which they would settle lor the sight, the observing poultry raiser could not but notice howthey are packed on the highest perch, while the lowest perch does not have a single one on it. The intermediate, that is, those between the highest and lowest perches, would have fowla on- them which could - not possibly secure room on the upper most one. . ? This it a fault which should be reme died. The number of birds to * house is limited, to prevent overcrowding; jet it is overcrowding in its wont form to, have a roost packed with fowls. We all - know the evH effect* of overcrowding, 1 a&d the clearer we steer from it the bet ter. The only way preventing this crowding on tbn perches is to have the perches all on the same level. The fowls will then have no choice, and will accept the change. Even though the ; perches do take upgiore room than when arranged in a haphazard way, it should not bother the owner of the fowls. American Fanner. XHFLUX2TCR OF FOOD UP05 BCITIl As to the influence of different foods upon butter there are many conflicting opinions. To throw some light on this subject five cows were fed at the Maine Station three different rations during as many periods. The grain ration of the first period consisted of a mixture of cottonseed meal, cocnmeal and wheat bran; during the second <briod of peas and barley, and daring the third period of linseeds meal, cornmeal and wheat bran. > The amount of milk was diminished somewhat in passing from t&e-first to the second period, and increased slightly after changing to the third period. The eompoeition'of the milk varied but little, even less during the three * periods than is often observed when the ration is not changed. The relation in quantity in fats to the other solids varied somewhat, but appar ently without reference to the fox!. While only limited conclusions can be drawn from this experiment, it appears that quite radical changes cin, \qT made in the kind of grain ration til j without affecting the quality of tue Snilk. It wafrsihown that the tendency of butter to melt daring hot weather mvp be in fluenced by the kind of food, and also the degree of hardness may be affected. A mixture of cottonseed meal or lin seed meal witi^cornmealnnd waeat bran, especially the cottonseed mixture, pro duced butter less easily meltei and of a more solid appearance than did the peas and barley. \ Upon tbe whole, from a review of the experiment as found stated in the Innual Statl-m Report, it does not scm to nave drawn out any results whic'a should change the more common opinion that the individual character of the animal is . the moat prominent factor in determin ing the quality of butter.? New York World. ^ ? "T T . " i TA XX AXD aARDKN KOIM. ? >,;? -? +r ' v '^1 t f;, 1 .-.I-*' 'Jf. ? *- ? *? -tf ' j. Prepare potting soil for autuma use. Thin your fruit if you want fine large specimens. Keep the toil around the shrubs free front weeds. ^ .Herbs ought to becut before they are > in full bloom. Sow a patch, of rye etriy in a conven ient place for a poultry paiture. Oa the farm poultry costs but little tor feed if it can hare a good raa^e. Sren in summer it ia best to hare reg ular hours for feeding the poultry. 4 There is a good reason for everything, and success or failure ia sheep are not exceptions. Fowk that are fed and csre i for n eel no special forcing or feeding for health and growth. Unless care is ta^m-Jhere is aiwm more or less rU^fittheiufc^eys getting beyond eoa ttol. " ( ? ** * world of prepress, an 1 the sbe*p industry is in closest \touch with human industries. The amount of wool a sheep will grow depends upon tbe breed 1 and hsalthy uniform food supply. , j . If pastures are ?ery^jft, it would be well to mow them for nay, and Let the sheep bsve dry, healthy pastures. ; A neglectedand poorly j fed, flock of, poultry will breed lice fitter and morJ surely than almost anything else. Bteel wire fences solve the dog ques tion, and corrugated iron roofing solves the shelter problem. This Is the iron No profitable, economic, progressive farming is.iound in the world that ha? not theepl applied to the : situation in some form or other. ? " , ? T : ? | . Chicken gapes can be prevented by keeping the young chicks outof the wet grass until about three; weeks old. A cuxe is somewhat uncertain. If you tee your young clucks gaping or shaking their heads, examine the top of ihe beads and neck for lice. You will donjpess find what you look for. I Choose a sandy soil as a location for the poultry house and yards. It will keep dryer, and accumulate less surface filth. Damp cisy soil is an inducement toxfa p. Professor Fletcher, Dominion Ento mologist, says that June or Kentucky blue grass does not make a good head until the third or fourth year from sow in g. . ' If you have chicks of a new breed, watch them as the? develop; they may be better or they may be inferior to the old breeds with which you are ac quainted. Do tbfe birds wallow- uo^srHhe yard fence and escape? Try-nailing on t^i net with six inches it left on the ground at right angles t? the fence, and inside the enclosure. A good feeding floor for the hogs win more than repay its cost in a single sea son by the saving ot grain. Toieed good corn on muddy groand is a practice that is about out of fashion. * | The farmer who wages warfare?upon birds often destroys his best -fiends. They do more to keep down our Insect enemies than all the insecticides and spraying devices yet invented. Meat scraps should be fed to tbe lay ing hens in some ,-torm at least twice a. week; if helps "considerably toward fill ing the egg basket, and is a preventive to feather pulling and other vices. -The successful manufarttfrer always knows the ccfet of product^ any article that he puts upon the market. When ha cannot produce for less than selling price he changes his methods or stops. There is not much difference between the cost of the food needed to pro duces pound of butter ansi that required for a pound of beef. Then if the beef cattle must be housed and cared for the j same fs the dairy cattle, there is, of course, the best profit in butter produc tion. ! _ Professor Roberts, of Cornell Univers ity, said in speaking of growing fodder corn; *(Twenty tons of manure is too much for an acre of land; Five' tons is enough. I would just as soon think of putting Jve bushels of oats into a horse's manger at one time, as twenty tons on an sere." C( r ; Are yojf- sure that you are tunning the farm ' for all it is worth?" Could not a few more .Calves be raised or pigs be kept, or a few sheep oe added, or the poultry yard be better filled with more and better stock? Are there not waste places now growing weeds that could be made to grow profitable crops? Think it over and see how much idle land and spare time you have. ^ WISE WORDS. A woman unemployed is busy in mis t chief. / A woman conoeals what she doe* not know. He that hath a wife is always sure of strife. A. woman who looks much in the glass j spins little. * "vlfever a looking-glass told a /woman she was ugly. - Where women and geese are there is no lack of noise. Take a wife's first advice, but not her second thought. We never tire of the friendships we form with books. * We judge men by our own standards; judge our nearest and dearest often wrong. ^But for some trouble and sorrow, we ?bqafti never know half the good there is . about us. . The ghjden beams of truth and the silken cords of love, twisted together, will draw men on with a sweet tiolenc^ whether they\will or not. -? ^ How easy is the thought, in certain mood?, of the loveliest, most unselfish devotion. Howard is the doing of the thought in the face of t thousand un lovely difficulties. \ ? 1 ? I <? T ' ? Three Kinds of Llghtnln?. * According to Arago, the celebrated French physicist, there are three kinds of lightning, which he names lightning of the first, second and third classes. Lightning of the first class is known as *| fork lightning. That of the Second class m sheet lightning, which has no definite form, but seems to be a great mass of light. It has not the intensity of lightning of the first class. When it occurs behind a cloud, it lights up its outline only. Occasionally it illuminates the entire body of clouds, and appears to come forth from the very heart of it. Sheet lightoing is very much more fre quent than forked lightning. Lightning of the third kind is called ball light ning. Ball lightning las& lor several seconds, and, in this respect, differs widely from lightning of the 8nt and second classes, which are, in^he strictest sense, momentary. ? Detroit'Free\]Pre?. The Peach Slow roresutn. The peachblow porcelain % of . Chinese manufacture, and isaboni three* hundred years old. It is not, as is some times supposed, the designation of a particular shade or color, but a rare and peculiar gVaze, whic\not merely covets surface of the vessdt, but penetrates tire texture of the article, to that same bo broken, the internal is identical-* with that of the The method "by which this re reached ik unknown, and much has beezvfexpende&la vain to dis The ware k, in a sense, those* result of a happy accident, of it are rare \n China to-day, it ip prised as highly *as anywhere else. I Most of that of ; which there is .knowledge was taken from China by the lfe^ch in the days when they monopolsze^he trade with that coun try, and fromSHolland has made its way oyer Europe, it The specimens in this country hare almost all of them come either from Ho^and direct, or by way of France, Whither pieces of it were early carried by the Dutch, aronsing un usual interest among the French potters. ? Boston Tianscript. . . r: "/ vtU (trim m*d 90 to**# father.* a -Wtaxt, 18. . * \, U ! There is nothing like ?nsrgyoutofamaa. b?? a??? aswasea ** * i a^Kifca'^ Ort flf this youag man of ?hs text. 8torm most awful ay ever h?*rd on earth to the cry for bread. A traveler tell* m that in Aria MH t hero are trees which bear fruit looking very ? Sf? lb? *??* 1**? of <w tiae. It fa called the oarab. Once in ftwhile tbe people reduced to (^stitution woald -aat these ca rab*, but generally the ; cara&t the beans spok^of &refa the tax* ware drown only ^ 8,!^?_aad?tai^ crunchei theta with creaaavidity. But this young man of ray mid not get even them without gteal -wr. !5o one day amid the swine j be begins to soliloquise. Ha says, . are iwckrthes foe a rich man's son te wear^this is no kind of busmen for a Jew to be engaged in? feeding swine; HI go home; 111 go noma; I wil) arise and go to my : father. T> I know there are a great many try to throw a fascination, t nnw haloaboutdn; bat notnfchslsnding aH um I-rd ?"? G?org? Sand bare said in regi*d to it, it is a mean, low, contemptible bnsinew, and putting food and fodder into ?the troughs of a herd of iniquities that root andwaflow in the soul ofman is very pood businmfor mm and women intended to be apnsand daughters of th* Lord AlmightyT And wfaen this young man raaelved to go home itjwas a vary wise thihg for him to dev. 4md the only qoestton is whether we will fol low bim . Satan promises large wages if we will serve bim, but he clothes i his victims with rags and he pinches than with hungar, and when they start out to do; better ha setil after them ill the bloodhounds of hell. , Satan oomse to us to-day, ijand he promiaaa 1 all luxuries, all emoluments if we. will only serve him* . liar, down- with thee "to the pit! ?'The wages of dn is death," ph, the young man of the text was wise when he ?? ? - 1 the resolution, "I will ariaaand go ? ? Vtf me of Queen Mary of England a persecutor>came to a Christian woman who bad hidden in her house, for the Lord's sake, one of Christ s servant!, and tha psaaecutoc said, "Where is that heratfe!" The Chris tian woman said, "Sou opto that jrank and you will see the heretic.4'! The persecutor opened the trunk, and ort the top of the linen of the' trn nk he haw a glass. Ha said, 'There is no heretic here." "'AhP she said, "yon look in tfceglass and yon will seethe heretic!?; As- 1 take up the mirror of Godfs word to^ay, I would that instead of seeing the prodigal of the text we might tee our selves? our want, our wandering, our sin, our tart condition-^eo. that we might be as wise as this young man mas and say, "I will arise and go to my father." i The resolution of this text was formed in disgust at his present circu mstanoee. If this young man had been by his employer set to culturing flowers, or training vines oyer *h arbor, or keeping account of the porlNnar ket. car overseeing other laborers he would not have thought of going home. | If ha had bad his pocketsfull ot money, if he had bean able to say V "I have a thousand dollars now. of my own, whatts the use of my going back to my father's house? Do ybu think I am ^gqmg back .to oapologise to the old man? : Why, he would put me on the limits; he would notlprte going on around the old place such conduct as I have been engaged In. 1 won't go home. There is ao reason why I should go home. I have plenty of money: plenty of pleasant surroundings. Why should I go homer Ah lit was his pauperism; it was his beggary. He bad to go home. s_ Some man comes and say* to me: j&o you talk about the ruined state < man soul f Why don't. you spea progress of the Nineteenth centu of something more exhilarating J this reason ?a man never w until he realises he is in a state. Suppose I -"should o _. your home and youare in good robust health, and I should be#h to talk about medidines, and about how much better this medicine is than that, and some .other medicine thai^l some other medicine, and talk about this physician and that bhysician. After awhile you would get tire# and you would saylL "I don't want to bear about medicines. Why do you talk to me of physicians f I never have a doctor." Suppose 1 come into your house and find you severely sick, and I know the medio nas that will cure you. and I kno? the physician who is skilful enough to ^ meet your case. Tou say: "Bring on all that medicine; bring on that physician. Iam terribly sick and 1 want help. If 1 came to you and you feel youare ail right in boly and all right in mind and all right in boui v<fa have need of nothing; but supposing 1 hawf persuaded -su that the leprosy of sin is upon: yon, the ?orst of ail sickness, oh, then you say, "Bring me that balm of the. Gospel; bring, raethat divine piedicament bring me Jesus Btt says soma one in the audience, "Ho# do you prove that we are in a. | ruined con dition by ?nf ' Well, I can prove it in two ways, and. you may have your chpic-a. I prove it either by the statements 01 men or ny tne state^erft of God. Which shall it be? You aUearV'Lat us have the statement of God." vWtj^ He says in one place, "The heart is aSSeitful above ail things and desperately wicked.* He says in another place, "What is man that* he should be clean? and be which is born of a woman, that he should be righte ous?" He says in another plaoe, "There ij none that doetb good: no, not one." He says in another plaoe, "As by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all man, for that all have sinned." , "Well," you say, "I am willing to acknowledge that, but why should I take the particular rescue that yoa propose?" This is the reason, "Except a man be born again he cannot sea the kingdotn of God." wTnisisther?*san, "There is one name givea under heaven among men whereby they may be saved." Tben there are a thousand voices here ready to say. "Well, I am ready to accept this help of the Gosp+1; I would like to have this divine cure; how shall I go to work?' L?t me say that a mere whim, an uniefined locging amounts to nothing. You must have a stout, tremendous resolu tion like this 5 oung man of th? text when he said. "I will arise and go to my father." "Oh!" says some man. "now do ? know my father wants me? How do I know, it I go back, I would be received?" "Oh!" says some man, "you don't know where I have be?n; you don't know bow. far I have wan dered, you wouldn't talk that way to me if you knew all the iniquities I have commit te ! What is that flutter among the angels of God? It is news, it is news! -Christ has found the lost. Nor anga'.a can their joy cw&ln, \ V But kll died with new fin; j The sinner lost to found, they fling, **=< And strike the eoandinjj lyre. I remark still farther that this resolution of the text was founded in a feeling of homesickness. I do not know how loog this young man, how many months, how many vears, he had been away from his father's house; but there is something about the reading of my text that makes me thhik he was homesick. Som-3 of you know what that feeling is . Far away from home some times surrounded by ev6r?thi?g bright an I pleasant? plenty of friends? you have said, "I would ?ive the world to b:i home to night." Well, this young man was home* sick for his father's bouse. I hare no jdoa>t when he thought of h'.s father's house hi "Now perh-ips fath;r may not. b^ living:. ! We read nothing in this story ^this par able founded on every day Jtct^vra real nothing about the mother /i#. says nothing abohtgping home to her. v-I think she was aeadi I think she j had idied of , a broken heart at his wanderings, or perhaps he had gone into dissipation from the fact he oouM not remember a loving and sympathetic mother. A maa never gets over having lost his mother | Nothing said about her here, but he is homesick for his father's house, lie thought he would just like to go and walk around the old nlace. He thought he : ! would josUike to go and see if things were as they used, to oe. Many.aman^'$fter hiving bsan off for a kmg while, has gone home and knocked at) the ioo.1 and a. stranger ha*?om2. It is the but a stranger coma* to the St (N?? f?H? I* atners anu sisters au gonj. 1 ng man of the taxt said to him self, i^PpKaps Father may be dead." Still he starts to find out . He is homesick. Are there any here to-day homesick for God, homesick tor heaven? I will tell you of two prodigals, the one that got back and the other that did not get back. In Richmond t hare is a fdty prosper ous find beautifn! home in raanr i-Bvuvta. a. young man wanoerfa dfc^-oai sou noma. He wandered very far into tea. Thary beard of him often, but hs was idways on the ;wrong track. He would not go home. At ttie door of chat beautiful borne one night there was a great outer J. The young man of the house ran down undopaoid the door to see what was the matter, it was mid night. The rest of the family were adeep. .Thartt veara tKa vifa ?n-1 obiUraa t\f tfcii ?moot, thin* of W>m?9lKW up and dews Is _ bad besn iter* ,..r.r-, wfc>hadka0kktn abdto tte aldsr bmter: "Hsr%* ~Mb? Btf What is the mart* totb Mi wayf The Hi?U: M who am _ ? j? ? take a* to bef* flfott d? my Mk?." "Ko, 1 252! thSeie ;K a WMte. Have you leenany wife wd ehfldrenf Art thay _ KM 4 est tart sight is thi * brute, John, do you thick Inip for smTdo 70s thJpik 1 __ _ iovur tfeks lift of Ha mid, ^Jobn, there is iust ooe this* that wi? stop this." The prodigal ran hisfthger across his throat and said: "That will stop K and PU stop ft before night Oh, my bSain^X oan stand it no loocer !" That prod* ig*l never got home. Bull will tad too Of a prodigal ithat did get homew In tlub eountry tiro young men started from their, father's boom and went downte Portsmouth. The father oould not pursue his children* far some reason* ha oosfal not leave home, and ao he wrote a lettsf down Mr. Griffin, laying! "Mr. Griffin, I wish wouldgoandiaemy two sens. They arrived in Portnnouth, and they are 1 to tike ship and going away from I wish yotf would persrisde them ba ck." Mr. Griffin wist and ha tried to persuade them back. He persuaded one; to ge. He west with very easy pcrsoasion,' because he was wy homesick already. The other young man said: *1 will not go. I hare had enough of home. PU nerer go home>w VWdJ,*' said Mr. Griffin, "then if you won't go home 111 get ,ble powtiouoh a reepeotawe yon won't,'* said the prodigal; "no. you wptft IaiSgoingas a oommon sailor; thai twill plague myTather most, and ?hat will do most to tantalise and worry Mm will plfese.me best" > Tears passed on pod Mr. Griffin was seated in nis study 00* day when a message came to him laying there was a younj man in irons on a shipat the dock? a young man condemned todeath-^rho wished to sss this clergyman. -''mr. GrUHt went down to the dock and went on shUrTioerd. The young man said to him, "Tad dont know ma, do youf "X<C 'be said, VI don't know you." "Why, dont you, remember that young man you tried to persuade to go home ^afd ha wouldn't gor* "Oh, yes," mid Mraariffin; "ardyou that man?" "Yes, I am that man, 4 ?aid the other, "i would like to have you prayfdrme. I have committed murdir and I mod die, hut I don't want to go oot of this world: until tome one prays tor me. Ton are my father's friend and I would like to 1 * me. hare you pravfor Mr. Griffle went from Judicial authority to Judicial authority to get that yooag n man's pardon. He slept not night nor day. He went frdm inflaentiol peripos to influ ential person* unolin soma way ha got that young manV pardon: ; Ha came down on the dock, add ai he arrired on the dook with the pardon the fatter came. He had heard that his son under a disguised name bad been committing crime and was going to be pot to death. 80 Mr. Griffin and the father went on ship's deck, and at the rery moment Mr.; Griffin offered the pardon to the yonng man- the old father threw his armsatoundlthe son's neck and the son saidi "Father, I hare done rery wrong and I am ?ety sorry. I wistPl had never broken yonr heart. I am very sorry ??" "Oh," said toe father, "don't mention ft. It don't make any difference now. It is all over. I forgive you. my eon," and be kissed him and he timed him and he kUsecMiim. To-day T'offer yon the pardon of the Gos pel? full pardon, free pardon. I do not care what your crkue has been. Though you my yon have committal a crime against God, against your onji soul, against your fellow man, against your family, against the day of. julgment against the crom of Christy whatever your crime has been, has % pardon, fall pardon, and the vary no ment you tak^bat pardon your heavenly Father throwSmi* arms about you and sayii "My son, 1 forgive you. It ia,all right. You areas m&Jh in My favor now as if you had never sinned." Oh, ther^ is^joy earth and J'y in beaveut toe F athers embrace? oa take THE LABOE WO^LI). Amebicak street railroads employ 71,003 \ men. W obexkt ere not allowed to work on Mi# streets fax Now Bedford unlaw they hart beencnaturalis?d. The United Statei manufactures 65,000 bats every day, while England manufac tures about 40^000. The shoe salesmen of Baltimore hare been organixai, and have affiliated with the American federation of Labor. Orqx$iz<bs for each State of the Union have been appointed by the Carriage and Wajonojakenr International Union. Tot strlkt in the Elrnira (N. Y.) iron and steel rolling mill bai bean declared off, after having been In fores two years and two^ months. A Vols Is being: taken by the local brew er y workman's unions throughout the ooun* try whether or not to join the Knights of Labor in a boly. Ons of the busiest men in New York Is President Samuel Gompars, of toe American Federation of Labor. HU mail averages over a hundred lettar* a day. SupEavisiwa Aucoitcot Esterbbookb, of Washington, say* that the new Eight Hour Law will cast tha Gjvernmsnt *\ 000,00) more a year on its building con tracts alone. . The boss coq^ers and manufactures of staves and other coo-pars' supplies of Illinois, Indiana and Michigan have oombined to fight against the manufacture of barrels by convict labor. The Philadelphia, Reading and New Eng land has reiuced the pay of section, men to $1.25 a day. They formal received IL50. The company has also discharged about one half the men in the Hartford oar shops. The annual mating of tha New Jersey State Federationof Trades has taken placs "4a the Assembly Chamber of the State House at Trenton. Sixteen local unions were represent* 1 from Peterson, Newark, Jersey City, Camden and Trenton. Or the 11,00), 00) women In Italy nearly & 000 000 are employed in industrial lab*, and over 3,00), 000 in agriculture. They are in th9 majority in the cotton, linen and jute industries, and in the silk trade thare are 117,000 women employed and bat 17,700 men. Comparativelt more children are em* ployed in Rhode Island thin in any other State of the Union . The population is 3M, (XP and not less than 5173 children, betwesn ten' and fifteen years, are working in mills an 1 factories. Their wages are from sev enty- lour cant j to $6 par week. r PROMINENT PEOPLE. ? / Gladstone's first book, was published . fifty -four years ago. Louis Kossuth, the Hungarian patriot, is just eighty -six years old. v. President HARRtsoN* and David Swing, the great Chicago preacher, were classmates at Miami University. It is said that the Sulfeae, of Johore, who: is to visit this country, observe* the tenets of Mohammedanism so strictly that his only beverage is pinaapple juice. Mb. Clxvelabd writes all his letters be tween 10 o'clock at night an 1 2 o'clock in tb* morning. This habit the ex-President con tracted at the White Hou*?. General Lxw Wallace |s sail to have been the first man to conduct, a oourtehip by telegraph. Xhis was in 1852, and the mes sages were to his future wife. The Queen of Greeca is President of a sis terhood devoted to the reformation of crim inal and visits personally the condemned prisoners in Athenian prisons. -Miss Ella M. HLxowlxs. whom the Peo ple's Party of Montana ba< nominated for Attorney-General of the State, is a success ful practicing lawyer in Helena. Mrs. Guild, an Americ in sculptra^ has recently completed a bust of Mr. Gladstone, *? which is very highly commended by the critics as a portrait and a work of art. Joh* G. Wbittieb writes in a bold, dash i ing, bat irregniar and uneven, style, as dif ferent as you can Inaa^ioa foom the piara. precise, uuassu ning Quaker that he is. I* Europe tbs two mo?t conspicuous pub lic personages to-day are Gladstone ani B.s marck, both of whom have passed far b> j yond the mark of threMp?re years ani ten. WiLLiaat H. Rice wM from Massichu setts to Texas in 1 S55.^e has given ?b? city of Houston $200,000 in cash, $-49,03) m securities, and WOOacrasof good Texas farm land to foun i a college. I Squire Massie Bzaslet, of Aberdeen, Ohio has male that town famouj as tha American Gretna G*een. For many years he has been marrying all comers nntil now bis record is batwe?n 500) and (WO 0 couples. The adjournment of Congress completed a tbirSy years' servlcainthe House for lir. j OSeiU, of Pennsylvania. Mr. Holman. of ? In liana, comas naxt in length of renrennta *3don, as ne has been for twenty-eight years a Gongrenman. < , 1 ***'. . ik . _ (Vi - tbt m 6M ODii u t^f?n n - , is one of the rarest cases on record, odarimftar cue being toown to zumoi as hating bm eaoooatered to ! this country. In that instaaoeihe too tfc wu extracted from ? bows'# froof. w colt her* it well developed tad to fljfr j health end! stood the operetta* weli.^. 8t. Louie Republic. ; j ; imu >?* auT~ . vv\ , ORXTO Bxcnuiov HA C.,H. * iKtOIHWWMT % AXO QCBBtC, THUKIDAT, iWt V , 1 The grSat excar*k>n route [amilton* Dayton R. I weir annual excursions - bee, from Cincinnati md * - " * ? KtV. * S5.^t2?nyl_ atreal end I return, "He .. . 9. *TIL ? _ - -r - oasty low, bwmj fUt.90 twp dianapolis toMc j will be _i date of citoap excursion ever run orhiatorlc Quebec from t ets, Bleeping -ear bertha, ate. any A D. aaent , Gen. PaeMgttimaTicketAgX Worn JtarA's srnpttaa to to? 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