DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON: Joy! Joy! Joy! “firing hither the fatted enlf and kil it." Fake 15:23, Jox! 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 trea- ties, the proclamation of peace, the Christmas, the marriage. However much on other days of the year our table may have stinted supply, on Thanksgiving Day there must Le some- thing bounteous. And all the comfort- able homes of Christendom have at some time celebrated joyful events by banquet and festivity. Something bas happened in the old homestead greater than anything that has ever happened before. A FAVORITE SON, whom the world supposed would be- come a vagabone and outlaw forever, has got tired of sight-seeing and has re- turned to his father’s house. The world said he never would come back. The old man always said his son would come, He had been looking for him day after day and year after year. He knew he would come back. Now, hav- ing returned to his father’s house, the failier proclaims celebration, There is a calf in the paddock that : kept up and fed to utmost as been casion of joy that might come along. All there never will be a grander day on the old homestead than this day. Let the butchers do their work, and the housvkeepers bring in to the smok- ing meat. The musicians will take their places, and the gay groups will move up and down the tloor. All the friends and neighbors are gathered In, and extra supply 1s sent out to the table of the servants. The father presides at the table, and says grace, and thanks God that his long-absent boy is home again. Oh how they missed him! HOW GLAD THEY ARE to have him back! One brother, in- deed, stands pouting at the back door and says: nothing; this bad boy should have been chastened instead of greeted; veal is too good for him!” Dut the father says: is good enough,?’ There sits the young man, glad at the hearty reception, but a shadow of sorrow flitting across his brow at the remembrance of the trou- ble be had seen. All ready now. the covers lift, Music. He was dead, and he again! He was lost, and he is found! By such bold imagery does the Bible set forth the merry- making when a eoul comes home to God. I. First of all, there is THE NEW CONVERT'S JOY. 1t is no tame thing to become a Chris- tian, The most tremendous moment in a man’s life is when he surrenders himself to God. The grandest time on abe father’ nestead is when the boy comes back. wong the great throng who in the patlors of this church pro- fessed Christ one night, was a young man, who next mgorning rang my doors bell and said: **Sir, I cannot contain myself with the joy I feel; I came here this morning to express it. I have found more joy in five minutes in serv- ing God thau ia all the prodigality, and I came to say 80."’ iy iS Alive ung for N3 physical liberty, and the officers of the law after him, and you the judge had pardoned him, and how great was the glee of that rescued man; pared with the running for one’s ever- lasting him, but Christ coming in to pardon and bless and rescue and save. You member John Bunyan in bis great story tells how Lhe pilgrim put his fingers in his ea:®, and ran, crying, *'Life, life | <eernal life!” A poor car-driver in this city sore years ago, after baving had a struggle to support lus family, sudden- ly was inicrined that A LARGE INHERITANCE wae Lis, and there was joy amounting to bewilderment; but that is a small thing compared with the experience of one when be bas put in his hands the title-deed to the joys, the raptures, the splendors of Heaven, and he can truly say: ‘‘Its mansions are miue, its tem- pies are mine, its songs are mine, its God is mine!” Ob, it Is no tame 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 to something bright. It is more apt to be compared fo a banquet (han anything else, It is compared in the Bible to the water, bright, flashing, water; to the morning, roseate, fire-worked, mountain-trans- figured morning. 1 wish 1 could to- day take all the Bibie expressions about pardon and peace aud life and comfort and hope and Heaven, and twist them into one garland, and put it on the brow of the humblest child of God in this assemblage, and cry: “Wear it, wear it now, wear it forever, son of God, daughter of the Lord God Al- mighty 1” Oh, the joy of the new con- vert! Ob, the gladness of the Chris- tian service! You have seen, sometimes, a man in a religious assembly get upand give his experience, Well, PAUL GAVE MIS EXPERIENCE, Ee aiose in the presence of the two Churches, the Church on earth and the Church in Heaven, and he said: “Now this Is my experience: ‘sorrowful, yet always rejoicing—poor, yet making any rich--having nothing, yet posses. ting all things.’ If the people in this house this morning knew the j of the Christian Religion, they would ull pass over into the kingdom of God the next moment. When Daniel Sande- man was dying of cholera, his attend. ant said: “Have you much pain?” “Oh,” he replied, ‘since I found the Lord I have never had any pain except - sin,” Then they said to him: “Would you like to send a message to your friends?’ ‘‘Yes, I would; tell them that only last night the love of Jesus . rushing into my soul like the sur- of the sea, and I had to ory out: " op Lor, J io SnowgH: stop, Lord, oy the joys of this relig- Aust pass over from those tate iovs li il t in in which you are mdulging—joys of this world—into the. raptures of the Gospel. “ THE WORLD CANNOT SATISFY YOU; you have found that out--Alexander longing for other worlds to conquer, and yet drowned in his own bottle; Byron whipped by disquietudes around the world: V#taire cursing his own soul, while all the streets of aris were applauding him: Henry Il, consuming with hatred against poor Thomas a Becket—all illustrations of the fact that this world cannot make a man happy, The very man who poisoned the pommel! of the saddle on which Queen Elizabeth rode, shouted in the street: ‘‘God save the Queen!” One moment the world applauds, and the next moment the world anathematizes, Oh, come over into this greater joy, this sublime solace, this magnificent beatitude! The night after the lL tleof Shiloh, and thers were thousands of wounded on the field, and the ambu- lances had not come, one Christian sol- dier lying there under the starlight be- gan to sing: “There 18 a Jand of pure delight,” and when he eame to the next there were scores of voices uniting: “Where saints immortal reign.” The song was caught up, all through the fields, among the wounded, until it | was said there were at least ten thou- | sand wounded men reuniting their voices as they came to the verse: “There everlasting spring abides, And never-withering flowers; Death like a narrow stream divides That neavenly land from ours.” Oh, it is a great religion to live by, and it is a great religion to die by. There is only one heart-throb between { you and that religion this morsing. Just look into the face of your pardon- time and for eternity, and He is yours, and heaven is yours, and all is yours, Some of you, like the young man of the text, have gone far astray. 1 know not the history, but youn know it, you know it! When a young man went forth into life, the legend says his guar- dian angel went forth with him, and getting him into a field, the guardian angel sve! ‘i around where the young mau wi, It was A CIRCLE OF VIRTUE and honor, and he must not step be- yond that circle. Armed foes came | down, but were obliged to halt at the | circle—they could not pass, But one | day a temptress with diamonded hand, { stretched forth and crossed that circle | with the hand, and the templed soul | took it, and by that one feli grip was | brought beyond the circle, aud died. Some of you have stepped beyond that { circle, Would you not like, this day, { by the grace of God, to step back? This, I say to you, is your hour of sal- {| vation, There was in the close hours of | Queen Anne what Is called the clock | Fiat down on the pillow in 14 ie i scene, | her head or move her hand. She was | ters of state should gather In angr | contest, and, worried and worn out by i of the nurse, in the power, the strange | power which delirium sometimes gives { one, she arose and stood in front of the clock, and stood there watching the t clock when the nurse returned, The nurse said: “Do you see anyihing pe- | culiar about that clock?” She made | no answer, but soon died. There is A CLOCK SCENE IX EVERY HISTORY, | 1f 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 dest ny this morning, you would | see and hear something you have not seen or heard before; and every tick of he minute, and every stroke of the hour, and every swing of the pendulum would say: “*Now, now, now, now" Oh, come home to your Father's housel Come home, O prodigal, from the wil- | derness! Come home, come home! II, But I notice that when the pro- i digal came, there was the father's joy. | He did not greet him with any formal { “How do you do?” He did not come | out and say: ‘‘You are unfit to enter; | go out and wash 1n the trough by the { well, and then you can come in; we | have had enough trouble with you,” | Ah no! When the proprietor of that estate proclaimed festival, it was an outburst of a father’s love and a father's joy. GOD 18 YOUR FATHER, I have not much Sympaihy with that description of God I sometimes hear, as though He were a Turkish Sultan, hard and unsympathetic, and listening pot to the cry of Elis subjects, A man told me he saw in one of the Eastern lands a king riding along, and two men were in altercation, and one charged the other with having eaten his rice; and the king said: “Then slay the man, and by post-mortem examination find whether he has eaten the rice,” And he was slain, Ahl the cruelty of a scene like that, Our God isnota Sultan, not a Czar, not a despot, but a Father--kind, loving, forgiving, and He makes all heaven ring again whea a prodigal comes back. *I have no pleasure,” He says, “in the death of him that dieth,” If a man does not get to heaven it 18 because he will not go there, No dif- ference the color, no difference the history, no difference the antecedents, no difference the surroundings, no dif- ference the sin, When the white horses of Christ’s victory are brought out to celebrate the eternal triumph you may ride one of them, and as God is greater than all, His joy is greater; and when ba soul comes back there is in His heart the surging of an infinite ocean of glad. ness, and to express that gladness it takes all the rivers of pleasure, and all the thrones of pomp, and all the ages of eternity, It is a joy deeper than all depth, and higher than all height, and wider than all width, and vaster than all immensity, It overtops it under. girds, it outweight, all the united splendor and joy of the universe. ho can tell what God's joy ls? You re- member, 3 THE STORY OF A KING who, on some great da scattered silver and people, and sent valuable pres his courtiers; but methinks soul comes back, God is so glad express His joy he flings out new worlds into space, and kindles up new suns, and rolls among the white-robed an- thems of the redeemed a greater halle- lujah, while with a voice that rever- berates among the mountains of frank- incense and is echoed back from the everlasting gates, He cries: “This, my son, was dead, and he is alive again.” At the opening of the Exposition in New Orleans 1 saw a Mexwan flutist, and he played the solo, and then after- ward 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 the orchestra was greater than all the combined joy of the universe when compared with the resounding heart of Almighty God. For ten years a father went three times a day to the depot, HIS BON WENT OFF in aggravating circumstances, but the father sald: “He will come back.’”” The strain was too much, and his mind parted, and three times a day the father went, In the early morning he watched- the train, its arrival, the stepping out of the passengers, and thenthe departure of the train. At noon he was there again watching the advance of the train, watching the departure. At ! night, there again;watching the coming, watching the going—{for ten years, He was sure his son would come back, God has been watching and waiting for some of you, my brothers, ten years, twenty years, thirty years, forty years, perhaps fifty years—waiting, walling, watching, watching; and if this morn- ing the prodigal should come home, what a scene of gladness and festivity, and how the great Father's heart would rejoice at your coming home! You will come, some of you, will you You vill, you willl 111. I notice, also, that when a prodi- i gal comes home there is THE JOY OF THE MINISTERS of religion, Oh, it is a grand thing to preach this gospell 1 know there Las been a great deal said about the trials and the hardships of the Christian ministry. 1 wish somebody would write a good, rousing book about the joys of the Christian ministry, Since 1 entered the profession I seen more of the goodness of God than I will be able to celebrate in all eternity, 1 know some boast about their equili- brium, and they do not rise into en- thusiasm, and they do not break down with emotion; but I confess to you plainly that when I see a man coming to God, and giving up his sin, 1 feel body, mind, and soul a When I see a man who is bound hand and foot in evil habit emancipated, 1 not? nov? have 1 iil | own emancipation. When to-day in our communion service such throngs of and old stand at these altars, and the presence of heaven and | earth and hell attest their allegiance to | Jesus Christ, 1 feel a joy something | akin to that which the apostle describes | when he says: ““Whetner in the body I { youbg 114 iii | cannot tell, or out of the body I cannot i tell: God konoweth." Oh, have got ministers a right to re- when a prodigal comes home? | They blew the trumpet, and ought they i the gathering of the | host? They pointed at the full supply, {and ought they to rejoice when souls pant as the hart for the water- | brooks? They came forth saying, *“*All things are now ready;’’ ought they not | to rejoice when the prodigal sits down at the banquet? WILY M TERS LIVE LONG, Life-insurance men will all tell that ministers of religion as a class live longer than any other, | joice i not to be glad of 1363 HO% rs INIS There is more system than In any and their toil is more exhausting, I have seen ministers Kept on miserable §tipends by parsimonious congregations, who wonder at the dullness of sermons, when the men of God were complexed almost to death by questions of liveli- food to keep any fire in their tempera ment, No fuel, no fire! 1 have some- times seen the inside of the life of many of the American clergymen -never aoe cepling their hospitality, because they cannot afford it; but 1 have seen them struggle on with salaries of five and six hundred dollars a year—the average less than that—their struggle well de- picted by THE WESTERN MISSIONARY, who says in a letter: “Thank you for you last remittance; until it came we had not any meat in our housa for one year, and all last winter, although Iv was a severe winter, our children wore of God | find in different parts of the land, struggling against annoyances and exasperations innumerable; some of them week after week entertaining noyance, and yet without complaint, and cheerful of soul, How do you ac- count for the fact that these life-insur- ance men tell us that ministers as a class live longer than any others? It is because of the joy of their work, the joy of the haryest-field, the joy of greet- ing prodigals home to thelr Father's house. Oh, we are in sympathy with all in- nocent hilarities, We can enjoy a hearty song, and we can be merry with the merriest; but those of us who have toiled in the service are ready to testify that all these joys are lame compared with the satisfaction of seeing men en- ter the kingdom of God. The great eras of every minister are the outpour- sigs of the Holy Ghost, and I thank God I have seen eighteen of them. Thank God! thank God! 1V. I notice, also, when the prodigal comes back, all earnest. CHRISTIANS REJOICE. If you stood on Montauk Point and there was a hurricane at sea, and it was blowing toward the shore, and a vessel crashed into the rocks, and you gaw people get ashore in the hfeboats and the very last man got on the rocks in safety, you could mot control your joy. And itis a glad time when the Church of God sees men who are tossed on the ocean of their sins plant their fon ih a —— home, just Ww. Ne ristiane | those pray. 1 is not stereotyped supplication we have heard over and over again for twenty years, but a putting of the case in the hands of God with an importunate pleading, No long prayers, Men never pray at great length unless they have nothing to say, and their hearts are hard and cold, All the prayers in the Bible that were answered were short prayers: “God be merciful to me a sioner.” “Lord, that I may receive my sight.” “Lord, ssye me or I perish,” The longest prayer, Solomon's prayer at the dedication of the Temple, less than eight minutes in length, according to the ordinary rate of enunciation. And just hear them pray, now that the prodl- gals are coming home! Just see them shake hands! No putting forth of the four tips of the fingers in a formal way, but a hearty grasp, where the muscles of the heart seem to clench the fingers of one hand around the other hand, And then see those Christian faces, how illumined they are! And see that old man get up, and with the same voice that he sang fifty years ago in the old country meeting-house, say, “Now, Lord, lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace, for mine eyes have seen Thy salvation,” There was A MAX OF KEITH wlio was hurled into prison in time of persecution, and one day he got off his shackles, and he came and stood by the prison door, and when the jailer was opening the door, with one stroke he struck down the man who had mcarcer- ated him. Passing along the streets of London, he wondered where his family SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON. Busnay FEpnuAny 24, 1589, The Great Teacher and the Twelve, LESSON TEXT. Mark 6: 1.13 Memory verses, 10-12) LESSON PLAN. Toric OF THE QUARTER: Muyhty Worker, Jesus the GOLDEN TEXT FOR THE QUARTER: Belweve me that I am in the Father, and the Futher in me: or else believe me for the very works’ sake.—John 14 : 11. Toric: The Necessity of LESSON Fuith, ah 1. Unbelief Iinstrated, va. 1.6 Lamon 4 4% Faith Encouraged, va. 1-1i. a. Faith Exercised, va 12, 1%, GOLDEN TEXT : And they went oul, and preached that men should repent Mark 6 : 12. Dairy Home BEADINGS: M.—Mark 6 :1-13. The necessi of faith, T.-Matt, illustrated, W.—Matt, 9 : 55-28: 10 : 1-15. borers sent ou T.—Matt, 1 Work. ty Unb lief La- ) Lab Aaborers at I',.—1 Cor. 3 : 1-15. Laborers to- gether with God, Acts 10 : 1-20. An open door 8 Heb. 11:17-40. Victors through faith. ; - BA enn LESSON ANALYSIS was, He did not dare to ask lest he ex- | cite suspicion, but passing along a little | way from the prison, he saw a K tankard, a cup that belonged family from generation to ith vig aration eration he saw it in a window, | hoping that some day he would get | came and lived as near as they could to {the prison-house, and they set Keith tankark in the window, he would see it; and he came along an | saw it, and knocked at door, an { went in, and the i i | were all together again, Ob, { would start for the kingdom of God i day, 1 thini of you would | nearly all your friends and nearly { your families around the holy tan} lof the holy « fathers, | mothers, brothers, sisle that { sacred tankard i the love of Jesus Christ our { it will be great communi hoping the it yo some i it MRInUnIon rs, around WHC Lord, n day tankard, One on earth, one in heaven, Y. Once more 1 remark that, when | the prodigal gets back, the INHABITANTS OF HEAVEN KER! TIVAL. I um very certain of it. i I. UNBELIEF ILLUSTRATED, i I. Authority Questioned : | Whe w do % 1 aven? | 11. Alienation Allowed : They offended in hin He shall be... .for a stone ( ¢ of offence { { Matt, out wen “4: ing (Bom. 9:3 { IIL. Benefits Hindered: He could tl i here do no might He did not n ) Dedanse no idea how many cities are ! together, and how many laud { all the neighborhoods ot the earth | articulated, and fli ii LHEWS | But more rapidly go the {earth to heaven; and when a prodigal returns, it is announced the throne of God- ! morning should before enter the Kingdom, | “T'nat’s my mother,” *“That’s my son,” “That's my daughter,” “That's my friend,” **That’s the one I used to pray | for,” *T1 i would “Hosannal'’ and another so say, “Hallelujah!” “Plogsed with the news, the saints t In songs thelr tongues employ, Beyond the skyos the tidings go, And heaven is nlled with joy “Nor angels cap their joy contain, But kindle with new fire The sinner Jost ia fc And trike the sous At Cicero ind, they sing, ing iyre.” the banquet the orator: of Lucullus, at the Macedonian hil- Grecian banquet sat Socrates the p the returned prodigals, more than con- querors, The table is so wide iis leaves | reach across seas and across lands, Itg | guests are the redeemed of earth and { the glorified of heaven. The ring of | God's forgiveness on every hand, the | from every shoulder. The ten thousand sacraments, lel lof heaven, rise, and, with gleaming | chalice, drink to the return of a thou- sand prodigals., Sing! sing! sing! | “Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to | receive blessing and riches and honor endl!” animal —— Heat Versus Food, “Why do you keep It so blazing hot?" inquired a patron of the proprietor re- cently as he entered a restaurant. *“‘De- cause it is cold outside,” replied the proprietor. After the patron had left | the premises the restaurant proprietor | confidingly made the following confes- sion to a newspaper man: “You see, I've been in this business for a quarter of a century, ny experience has taught me that ucder ordinary eircum- stances men devour more food at a single meal in piercing cola weather than when the outside temperature is moderate. When I first embarked in the eating house business I was green enough to economize in wood for heat- ing the premises, imagining I was there. by saving money, but I soon discovered my mistake, as the patrons of my res- taurant devoured such inordinate quantities of food in winter that bank- Juyaey stared me in the face. It was here 1 learned a lesson from a cook, and through which I have since acquired a snug fortune, My ck ate barely enough to sustain life in a Fanary bird and I inquired the cause of his lack appetite, He replied that it was due to his being constantly employed about a hot fire, and remarked that if I would keep my restaurant red hot in winter my boarders would not consume one. half the amount of food, I tried the experiment, and soon found that where- as 1 had heretofore saved while the premises were kept red hot,” Pale shades of tiue are second in tavor to the allsprevailing greens, ' {1) His hon = 3s v1 11% * a His lowly calling; marvellad 1} Their unbelief; { ~Man's unbeli Its ORALIENesS, 11. FAITH EXNt {| 1. Sent of the Lord: | He began to 1 them forth { and two i These twelve fruits; OURAGED. SETI by two ™ h (Matt, Jesus ¥ 3 #1 ROACH WIP { He sent them f king- $ Hn Gana | They... . went word (Acts 8B : 4). { IL Tanght of the Lord: He charged them... i unto them (8-10), 1 he sald And 1 (Matt. 5:2). He Regan to teach them many things (Mark ©: 04). many thin pA I have yet (John 16 : 12). The words which thou gavest me I have given unto them (John 17 : 8). IL Emboldened of the Lord: gs to say unto you fast (11). | 1t shall be more tolerable for Sodom. i «+... than for that city (Matt, 10 : 15). | Lo, 1 am with you alway (Matt. 28 : 20), Shake of the dust....for a testimony azainst them (Luke 9 : 5), They shook off the dust ot their feet against them (Actsl3 : 51). “1. “He gave them authority.” (1) The Lord's supremacy; (2) The disciples’ endowment.— (1) The giver; (2) The gift; (3) The recipi- ents; (4) The results, 2. “Take nothing for their journey. (1) A feeble band; (2) A hostile world; (3) An empty hand; (4) An effective mission, 8. “shake off the dust.” {1) The act performed; (2) The fact expressed. 11. FAITH EXERCISED, I. Going: They went out (12). They went forth, and preached every- where {Mark 16 : 20). They departed, and went throughout the villages (Luke 9 : 6), They... travelled as far a Phoenicia, and Cyprus, and Antioch (Acts 11 : 19). How shall they preach, except they be sent? (Rom, 10 : 15). IL Preaching: They. ...preached that men should repent (12). John the Baptist, preaching, . ... Repent yo (Matt. 3 : 1, 2). They....went, preaching the gospel (Luke 9 : 6). How shall they hear without a preacher? (Rom, 10 : 14). Preach the word (2 Tim. 4 : 2). 111. Healing: They... .anointed with cil many that , and healed them a Luke 9 : 8), Christ of N . walk (Acts 8: 6). God wrought miracles by the hands of Paul 19: 11). The of ho faith shall save him that “ Gan 3119), “They went out, and preached,’ J1) Missionaries; (2) Preachers. — (1) Obedient to the Lord; (2) Help- ful to the world. 2, “They cast out many devils.” (1) Demoniacal, possessions; (2) Apos tolic exorcism. “Healed them.” (1) Suffering humanity: (2) Healing Christianity —(1} Healing needed; (2) Healing granted. LESSON BIBLE READING, | THE APOSTLES AND THEIR WORK. Their names (Matt, 10 : 2-4 ; Mark : 16-19; Acts 1 : 26; Rom. 1 : 1}. From lowly positions (Matt, 4: 15- AA voy Acts 4 : 13}. | Eyewitnesses of Christ's career (Luke I 1:2:Acts1:21,22:1C0r.9:1:1 John 1 : 1). | Ordained of Christ (Mark John 15 : 16). :13, 14; {Ma 16:15; Acts 9: 1 Received miraculous power 1: Mark 16 : 20; Acts 2 : 43). | Suffered persecutions (Matt, 10 : 16.1 Luke 21 : 16; John 15 : 20:16 : 3 18 + 1-3: 2 Tim. 4 : 6) tt. 28 : MJ 16 19: Acts | a————————— LESSON SURROUNDINGS, The lost I | that occurred { of Jairus, of ruler | three accour ir . a ihe bably owing rnowieage £9 | recorde i the raising uo other events have intervened rejection at Nazarell present less begins, The place of the firs vs, 1-6) was Nazaret i half (vs Cralilee, i ed the en { The { been shortly the lengt poslies is {0 BOL § is v of the vO fi Fi latter fsa % . # . 6-13}, the neighboring parts of The apostles probably travers tire district, the former half after the h: of the y time of h of the preachin 3 t of the year o D. 20, ; durn ouths of February and March, Parallel Matt, 13 : t 1-6. . 5 4 » 10 11 3 obaluy passages: :1; Luke © : fulfilled, the 8 have to look to s the season just about to be inaugurat The fashionable men are showing an alarming tendency towards discarding conventional costumes and adopting styles that are picturesque, to say the least. We had a forecast of the unusual splendor during the past mer, when *‘gilded youths” saunt- ered about t hotel porches, their pristine flannel suils relieved with broad Roman sashes, or wide metal | belts and now it is prophesied that the ' midwinter will herald styles yet more Some of the most courage- nnovators credence to the $1111 sum He summer gOrgeous, give E Gus as the French say; that our representa- tive sociely men, a few of them, will actually wear the Oriental sash, minus the waistcoat, this winter for full dress, Now these samo sashes are wide, of superb quality and exquisite colorings. nds, such as pink or rusts There are pale grou biue, with conlrasiing {lee ning | ntally, and there are also | deep groun garnet, sione, mar ne bi or royal purple, run Wil pale- wed bars, Yes they are effective; so effective, in faci, that {he warning is to be repea'ed; the belle of to-day ! needs to be wary or the beau will eclipse her splendor. Well, from all prospects the belle intends to be extraordinarily | wary, for charming in the extreme are { the costumes in course of completion { for the various midday and midnight | entertainments that will soon make the | winter days speed by like so many | fleecy clouds, haat First Experience in a Sleeping Car. un- Col Going down the great Jackson route | from Gienada, Miss, a regular home- spun native of the State entered the | sleeping car and paid for a berth, He had never been inside of a car of the ‘kind and everything astonished him, | When the porter came to make up the | beds I saw that the native was greatly | perplexed, but as be made no direct ap- | peal it wasu’t my duly to post him. He | was the first one to make preparations | for bed. He glanced anxiously around, | pulled off one boot and then took a rest for five minutes. When the other | boot came off he had solved the prob- lem.. Pushing his boots under the berth be started for the rear platform and nothing was heard from him for about ten minutes. Then he put his head into the door and called out: “All you uns in thar, look out, for I'm coming!” And come he did, He had disrobed while standing on the platform, made a bundle of coat, vest and pants, and as he shot into bed after a run up the aisle he gurgled out: “Old Mississipi may be a little slow, but she allus gits thar just the same!” —— I —— What Culture Does. Another gem from the school exams ination papers—this time from the Boston high school, and from the papers of a young lady who had graduated from the mar school: Question—Is there an antidote for hydroeyanic acid? Answer— Yes, The antidote for hy drocyanic acid is the tongue of alarge utiously inhaled.
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