Leave thy sowing, leave thy spinning! Leave the world and all its sinning. Come and pray! Greet the joyous, radiant morning, Lift your hearts up to the dawning Euster day. Altar lilies chastely glisten, See! they raise their heads and listen, Murmur nz, Peace! Listen to the songs of gladness, ‘That through sorrow and through sadness Never ovdsa, Hear that glorious anthem ringing, Que clear trebin volee is singing Wandrously: “I koow that my Redeemer liveth, The love that unto earth He giveth Cannot die!’ Oa» long sun. ray brightly beaming, Jbhrough the chancel window streaming On his lace, Saemrs to saint the singer lowly, Seems to bless all in the holy Dim-iit place, Teaco that puts nn end to sorrow, That ali heavenly hopes doth borrow, Ou Easter day; The se are guerdons, Christian, giv ing Ble tne | 1 1 : Mle-sive, love, and joy in living; Come and pray! Percival Steet, AN EASTER THIEF. BY JUDITH SPENCER, H, Dolly, I'm in pickle!” Dolly Merton looked up and laughed a at ber friend's distressed face. Dolly, euch That's just the amount you need, and then" “Oh, but, Doliy, I couldn't! Why, what are you thinking of? Explain to a milliner? Ask Mme. La Rue to give me back the money? the world! break my hoart to part with it.” “Then go to your father, Madge dear, and tell him.” Oh, but, Dolly, that's impossible, too! Yon see,” flushing a little, ‘‘he had to help me out last month, You know I broke Nellie Graham's gold repaired, 1 had no idea couldn't pay the bill, so 1 had to go to pups, and he lectured me so. He is so particular. He said I was care- lees aud extravagant, and if 1 conld not learn to manage better he wonld have to stop my ullowance altogether, and just give me fifty cents a week for and I conldn’t bear that, too humiliating.” “I wish your mother was at home,” Dolly said, thoughtlully. “So do I,” sighed Madge. she 1sn't, and I must have the money. Look here, Dolly, could get it if I could screw up my courage to tell that Katherine up and upon quires of pink, glazed paper which showed them off to the best ad- vantage, She smothered a sigh as she care. fully wrapped them iu paper, for they had been a labor of love, and she had counted so much upon her mother's { snd sisters’ pleasure in the surprise she had prepared for them. For- | tunately, uo ove was in the secret but ber friend nod herself; and if by encrificing them she could get poor, careless Madge out of this serious dif- fleulty, ought she not be willing, even glad, to do sof And especially as during the evening she would have time to embroider initials on a haend- kerchief apiece for her mother and sisters, and she could make other centrepieces al some future time, Together the girls went out and down to one of the large fancy-goods | ehops where they were both unknown. Dolly turned rosy red, as she stated her errand, and flushed still more deeply when the head woman calmly | but decidedly freused to buy. The same thing occurred again, The afternoon was waning; the girls | were in despair, Dolly had a music lesson at half-paet four, and at last | lenve Madge with the undisposed of EASTER filled my ho All that the loveliest a n avery nook some clu Perfume hyacinths his of ‘arnati "ausies Tor ti And sweat hiue « were all for $ ha mie “Xa 2 in a pickle. What is it this time?" despar:ugly in the big armchair. “This is the worst yet” sighed. : Dolly oue ghe | Inid down her and looked at her inquiringly. i **You know I'm the Treasurer of onr “Me ry Worke rs’ Circle,’ p gan “Yen" **And the money from our dues and | fines, and the sale of dolis and aprous | amounted altogether to fourteen dol- | lars and seveuty-five We've | been trying to getit up to tifteen dol- | lars, and we were going to give it for | an Easter ofiering at church to morrow | afternoon.” “Yes: “Well, it's gone!” 5s 3 Madge Le- cents, t od well?” hh one? “Yes; gone, and worse vet-—stolen! Not a soul knows yet but von and J, sud the thief, of course. Put isn't it awial, and what shall I do" “Stolen, Madge? But don't un- derstand who could have stolen it. | Where did you keep it?” “Well, I was counting it over only | day before yesterday, and 1 laid it down on my mantel—it was in the Tiffany note-paper Lox 1've always | kept it in—and then, well, to tell the truth, 1 forgot and left it out there, and to-day when I remembered and went to look for it it was gone.” ‘““But that doesn’t prove it was stolen, Madge.” “Doesn’t it? When nobody has been near my room but Katherine, the new waitress—I never liked her—and she has a sick sister, she pretends, who needs all kinds of expensive medicines “DOLLY LAID DOWN HER EMBROIDERY.” and things. © Of course she stole it, and I don’t kn hat to do. Mother is still away, andl I really don’t dare ac- cuse Katherine to her face, There's no knowing what she might do, but it’s awful to have such a thief around. And then, Dolly, to-morrow’s Easter, Pm responsible for that money, and how am I going to replace it?” “*Your allowance?” suggested Doily, “But 1 haven't fifty cents left. Yon know how money always slips through my fingers. I really meant to do better this month, but Thureday I bought the loveliest new hat for Easter. hen 1 saw Jennie Warren's I was dying with envy, bat mine 1s much ier, and it ought to be—it cost fifteen dolinrs Idon’t know what mamma will say, ut ive 4 bs Sage Woulda hiee beaut, Lali take it back again if you eaplained? maviang Oman mid t $4 5 IAN vf Poor homesiaX soul Bat ym, grief! somel I gave [r ll my rich A small jar i nn tl ore wa my own, WIY 3 Ig With 18 threaten to have ber arrested if she to-morrow morning?” “Oh, no, to, Madge; don’t think of it! It isn't a question of courage, dear, but there might be some mis- take.” “No there isn't,” Madge said, posi- tively ; “and how else am I to get the money?" “Madge, would yon mind ing mamma?" “Oh, Dolly, 1 should die of shame if anyone were to know of it but you. Even the girls must never know what a careless treasurer I am!” Dolly looked very thoughtful and anxious, Tnis seemed to her the worst scrape her happy-go-lucky friend had ever got into. Madge wes a warm- hearted girl, but careless and extrava- gant, as her father had said, and Dolly my tell speedy remedy, even worse trouble might follow. While Mrs, Townsend was away with her sick mother, con- scientious Dolly felt that in a way she must be guardian over thoughtless Madge and extrieste her from ail her troubles, At last her brow cleared. “Madge, dear.” “Yes, Dolly?” “I think I can help you out.” “Oh, yon darling! 1 knew you could!” “I have five dollars you can take, I was saving it for-—but no matter; and then there's my embroidery. If we could only sell those three centre- pieces I've just finished!” Madge knew that her friend had been working on them for the past two months, in secret, for Easter gifts for her mofher and her two married sisters, and her heart gave a quick throb of compunetion and regret as she realized the extent of Dolly’s gen- erosity. “Oh, but, Dolly, would you?" “Yes, dear, on condition that yon tell your mother all about it, and ask her advice just the minute she gels home.” | Madge promised, and Dolly brought from their hiding place the three beautiful centrepieces, which had been carefully pressed. and tacked TREASURE. wurs for Easter Da, bloom and dafWodils, him, my Loy , my be 5! ok smi ing de tie added joy, int wo ds son. "Ww IAT AWAY k forth wouid ‘am no fowers ¥¢ spare, r hath comp Bor Tt nll npeiling P here : wor sweet Easter ho won Big heart wer! Mar vy IL. B. i Branch embroideries and hasten Lack to be in time for her lesson. Meanwhile, Madge had been expe riencing a variety of emotions. At first indigoation against the new wait ress—the thiel—who bad made this disagreeable business necessary, had been uppermost in her mind. Bat gradually, as she noted Dolly's eager interest aud snxiety to help her and her distress at their lack of she began to feel a sort of envy ot her unselfish, loyal Ia queer sori ol SUOCO8K, sdmiring friend, and indignation against herself nod her owa carelessness in leaving money for which was responsible lying around where the first dishonest person conld take it un- | pereeived. If she was so to blame, surely she { ought to be wiiling to endure a hittie ‘ hamiliation. Bo, with sudden deter- i mination, she started for the fancy- goods shop, which her mother always patronized, and where she was well known. The head woman, Mrs Lee, hersell cameo forward, smiling and bowing when Madge entered. “Good afternoon, Miss Townsend, what can I show you to-day?” she stammered. ‘‘I've come to.show you something, It isn’t my work—it's a friend's—bnt she has let me take it, because—becanse—mamma is sway, and we want to raise some money be- fore a certain day, and—and-—we couldn't think of any other way.” *‘I see, yes, the embroidery is very prettily done. You want to leave it here for me to sell for you on commis: sion ?” \ Madge's face flushed still more desply. “We-—that is [-—~aeed thd money at once,” she faltered. “How much do you want?” inquired Mrs, Lee, her eyebrows lifted in sur- prise. “On, what must’she be thinking of me?’ thought Madge. *‘Nine do and seventy-five cents, murmured, faintly. And Mrs. Lee, knowing that the work would readily that it might be liay to refuse to oblige the da: of one of her besl customers. smi { | counted out the money and banded it | to Madge. With » grateful “‘thank you" Madge hurried away, stopping just for a mo- ment to tell Dolly of her success and then speeding onward to her home, f+ \= 4 CWE-THAT I8 1-~XEED THE MONEY AT ONCE? SHE PALTERED.” Her heart was lighter than it had | been all day, and yet she felt a | strange, unexplainable, underlying burden of regret and sheme. fo her joytul surprise an upward glance as she approached the honse, revealed her mother's face at the win- dow. “Oh, { eried, mother’s you and | me again you X {of me, 1 know, { less, so cowardly, but you ought to know about Katherine at once. It is { really dreadful. And Dolly Merton is the dearest, noblest, most generous | girl I know.” And then she poured | into her mother's ears the whole story | of the stolen money, and bow she had | been afraid to snecuse the thief to her face, ashamed to to her father again and tell of her carelessness and | extravagance, and how unbapoy rhe Lad been until Dolly Merton had so sweetly come forward to her relief. Mrs. Townsend looked very grave | ns she listened to this recital. When Madge had finished she said: ““The first thing to do is to buy back | Dolly's embroideries and return them | to her at once with the money she gave | you, Here is my purse, go back di reotly to Mra, Lee and pay her what | ever she way ask. The other side of | the matier we consider later on, {| Harry now, dear, or the shop will be closed before yon can get there.” Mrs. Lee smiled as Madge reap peared breathless before her, i “Mamma has just retarused,’” the | young girl said, joyfully, ‘‘and she { knows all about it and has sent me to buy the centrepieces $0 | kindly bought from me just pow.” 80 Mrs. Lee brought them out and | wrapped them up, and refused to take mamma, mamma dear!” she she threw bLerself in her arms, ‘bow 1 have wanted aonged for you! Don’t leave And I've on will be sorry and ashamed ns go +1 will i i i i back Yon its contents all untonched! And then, | she saw herself hastily placing it there, ont of might, when she was ealled downstairs suddenly, several days be. fore. And feather-brain that she was, she had afterward forgotten all about it. Her mother had gone out and it | seemed an age natil she returned and | Madge conld make a full and complete | confession, “Ob, marama, what have J done?” she cried penitently, *‘I have ac- cused au innocent person. amends can 1 ever make to poor Kath- erine! 1 have been so wicked, so selfiali, so thoughtless, so blind and silly and extravagant. I can see it all now. 1 have been learning so many lessons these past few days, snd now, this, too!" Mrs. Townsend laid her band fen- {derly upop her daughter's bowed | head. | “They are all comprised in this, my dear: ‘Charity,’ which is the same as love, ‘suffereth Jong and is kind ; en- vieth not, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil.’ ” “Ah ves, mamma, I understand,and that is Dolly's way; it must be” | Madge said, thoughtfully. *‘‘And be- | fore next Easter comes around,” she | continued, looking up steadfastly into | her mother's eyes, **1 will try to make {it my way, t00."—Frank Leslie's Pleasant Hours, tiood Friday Superstitions, attached to Good Friday. From ear- liest Creole days the giris in the French quuarter have made it a point to rise at break of day and chip the ends of their hair; the adage runs that gotion secures a beautiful snd gloss. growth. Bat it must be borne in mind that the clipping must be done before daylight. Here are some other superstitions: If yon have been unsuccessful in rais- ing a plant, put a cutting ia the ground on Good Friday morning ; the plant will thrive into grace and bean- ty. It is very unlucky to sew or cut out 8 garment on Good Friday. The whom the garment is de- signed will never live to wear it. I you have a great obtain a particular wish which is your dream by night and day, visit reven churches, praying for your wish, and it will be granted. Another way of obtaining your desire is to be church ex actly girikes 3, and ask your favor, It will be granted within the week, aly 3 person for desire to v in the in LO CIO0K aa the A Fish Boue Diet, | knowing well that by so doing she was 14 ia | paving the way for generous profits | the future. That evening | just as Dolly and was r., right after dinne had shat herself in room ntly st wo | one of the bandkerchiels, which were to take the place of her centre pieces came a tap ab the the centre-pis i from Madge telling anexg tarn enal emoro with athankinl heart, ard the that she would never forget ber friend's ‘sweet Kindness, So Madge, as Treasurer of the “Merry i Workers,” banded in fourteen dollars and seventy-five cents after the service | that Easter afternoon. | And felt very thankfal that { everything had turned out so well— for her sick grandmother was improv- ing--her mother was at bome agsin-—— and Dolly's willing sacrifice had been unnecessary after all, Bat still strangely enough, she in the pew hat which only yesterday she had thought so fine, It had seemed impossible to part with it then, though she had been ready enough to aceept Dolly's far greater sacrifice! She half i envied Dolly to-day, wearing her old felt ; her money had not been all spent upon herself! And Madge penitently resolved to please her father by learn ing to spend her allowance more wise: ly and less selfishly in the future, and to ket p a ceriain proportion of 1t for an “emergency fund” as Dolly had so often langbingly advised. But about another thing still dissatisfied and | Thongh her mother had come to her i resene and supplied the missing money, | the fact remained unaltered that the | “Merry Workers’ ” money had been i stolen, and the thief was still at large. | Mamma had said, as Dolly had done: “There may be some mistake. 1am not sure that Katherine took the | money." fhey were both very blind, for | Madge felt positive that it was so, “What else could have become of it?” she had asked herself, conclu. giveiy, again and again. But on Easter Monday morning, as she was rammaging through her un- GHEY oo pre{ty vanished ther were 3 $5 vy w . Gh S00 Morrow, door,and there ’ again; and a nole Low her al » ad money r sete re i her to 8¢ ¥ £28 . + 4D baok the es and the aKksurance she not happy, and took no pleasure she was she was i i 3 12 3 glad when Lent is ov An Aesthetic Jack Horner Pie, A pew idea will lend interest to a } at is to be daring East holidays by a New York l ] Tt table a8 A trepiece a pest of excelsior, com- pletely with smilax, maiden- hair ferns violets, Within the nest there are to be little Easter gilts, or, more properly speaking, Easter favors, for the To each these favors a ribbon of pale violet green is to be attached, and then lai across or along the table to the place of the guest for whom it is intended, | the end being male into a graceful bow, These ribbons are to be considered lancheon th given the will have COvere i aud guosia, or the guests leave the table, when the top of the nest, and a light “‘rein- ing-in’’ movement of each ribbon wil! | bring the gift secured to the other end safely to its destination. It is simply an sesthetie, idealized ME. A Gentle Eacter Reminder, did not join in his “‘ha-ha.” He read it over, but she was silent aud npappreciastive as before. Then he grew a little indignant and | exclaimed “Great Scott, Maria! Haven't you any seuss of hamor at ali?” “‘Realiy,” she replied, ‘‘ronu can’t | doesn’t understand. | long since I've seen an Easter bonnet | that I honestly don’t feel like assnm- | ington Star. One Place Where She Was Not, | shivering from a cistern, “‘that didn’t { Kansas City Journal. Se — a ——— His Back Up. When Noah blew his hors, tne humped himsel! to get and curious freak be viayed humped xi! his life, eninvl aboard, hy nu Lumbago or nme back humps a man’s back sitnply because he cannot sirslaghten himsel! of aceount of the stiffness and hit compapying the allment, Nature he ped the camul to Liles hump wim ind DUrpOms Nature will help a man to of hump right off if he uses Bt, Jacobs Of, be cause the charncter of trou that it needs just such & remedy 10 soften aud straighten out the contracted muscles, Vroom the time of Noah down 10 the present time men have had lame backs, nut on! Y sillace the intro fnction of me. Ja Il (il has the bed curs for it been known, Luambago really disables, bat 81, Jacobs OH epubiles one 1 aitend to without of time RIT Lie for a ged rid Jin the tile iK such wiirin, “ay [A055 LAA los Bo careful where you step, and those who follow vou will stumble less, Cured With local applications, as they cannot reach the sont of the isemns Catarrh isa Diood OF constitutional disease, and in order to cur it you must take internal remedies. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and acts 4 roectiv on the blood and ous surface, Hall's Catarri Cure is not a quack medicine. 11 was proscribed by one of the best physicians inthis country for years, and is a regular prescrip tion, Jtis« owed of the best tonics Known, combined wi 6, ACTING directly er fect combination of the produces such Catarrh. Send f« F.J Currey y Drugs # Pam Py Catarrh Cannot be best Blood purifier # mucoussurfaces, The § two ents f t& in curing tree on tt {tigred # what res Wil seat Hall RBooner or inter int every great make its way around the worl Wuery blllous ar costs a Carenret, candy cathartic; cure 3 we 10 w—Hy ba a i 4 41: er is eolor-Biinag iris S These uns'g ear f tha ap use © Sarsapari par.lia n tw pur Hood’s Sars Blood Pur ir nerves aparilla is the One True y 3 x for $5 Hood's Pills oa” Linnie Nervous Speakers It was at 8 prayer meeting in acoun try town. The lay lesder, seeing an evident stranger present, came to him as the mee to asked his name and residence, and se- eured his consent to say a few words. At proper he asked, “Will A, of New York, favor When ing was aboul open, the time us the again New remarks? strauger sat down, the leader spoke: “Will not Mr. A , of York. ssk God's blessing on his feeble remarks?” A story of the same sort is told of a nervous man, whose duty with a few lecture. He foundered along through various complimentary sentences, and finally flickered out feebly thus: ““And lecture to which we have so ably lis tened —————— - may, and often does, re ureter; but love speaks a lan- can understand jure all rid Bia Tue Wonderful Kava-Kava Strub. A New Botanical Discovery. —Of Special Interest to Sufferers from Diseases of the Kidneys or Blad der Rheumsetiam, ¢ic.— A Dlessiog to Humanity. A Frees Gift of Great Value to You. Our readers will be glad to know that the mew botanical discovery, Alkavis, from the wonderiul Kava Kava shrub lias proved an ass sred cure for all dis # eases caused by Uni pcid in the blood, or oy disordered action of the Kidneys or urinary orgssas. The Kava Kava Shrub, or as botanists call it, Piper Methys frum, grows on the banks cf the Ganges river, East India, far Rava-Kava Saeve and probably was (Piper Methysticem.) used for centuries by the natives before its extracrdinary properties became known to civilization through Christien missionaries’ In this respect it resembles the discovery of quinine from the peruvian bark, made known by the Indizns to the early Jesuit missionaries in South America, and by them brought to civilized man It is a wonderful discovery, with a rec ord of 1200 hospital cures in go days. It acte directly upon the blood and kid- neys, and is a true specific, just as qui. nine isin malaria. We have the strong est testimony of many ministers of the gospel, well known doctors and business men cured by Alkavis, when all other remedies had failed, In the New York Weekly Worid of Sept. 10th, the testimony of Rev. W. B. Moore, D. D., of Washingion, D. C. was given, describing hie years of sufferidg from Xidoey disease and Eheumatism, and his rapid cure br Alksvis Rev, Thomas Smith, the Methodist minister at Cobden, llinc!s, passed nearly one hundred vavel stones alter two weeks’ use of Alkavis. ev. john H Watson, of Sunset, Texas, a hinister of the gospel of thirty years’ service, was struck down at Tie post of duly by Kideey disease. After hovering between life and death for two months, and sll his doctors having failed. he took Alkavis, and was completely restored to health and strength, and is fultiling hisduticsas minister of the gospel. Mr. B.C. Wood, a prom: inent attorney of Lowell, Indiana, Rheumaiiem, RKidury and Bladder d years standing, by Alkavis. Mr. Wood describes himeslf ax being In consfant misery, often com- pelled to rise ten times during the night om gccount of weakness of the bladder. He was treated by all his home physicians without the jeast benefit and finally completely cured in a few weeks by Alkavis. The testimony is un- doubted and really wonderful Mrs James Young. of Rent, Ohio, writes that she had tried six doctors in vain, that she was about to give up in despair, when she found Alkavis sud was ge 14 cnred of kidney disense and restored o health. Many other ladies also testify to the wonderfal curative powers of Alkavis in the various disorders uliar to womanhood. So far the Church Kidney Cure Com. No. 424 Fourth, Avenue, New ‘ork, are the only importers of this new remedy, and they are 56 anxious to prove its value that for the sake of intro- duction they will send a free treatment of Alkavis by mail to every
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