THE VALENTINE DEMOCRAT
I. M. RICE , Publisher.
YALENT1NE , NEBRASKA
Whew ! CE1H , Brazil ana Argentine
have combined against Europe.
Recent floods in the semi-arid regions
have not swept away the irrigation
fund.
Some men achieve vacations. Others
have leaves of absence thrust upon
them.
Vanity is the effort to make other
people believe you amount to some
thing , and egotism is believing it your
self.
Patrons of the Roman amphitheater
never knew what they missed by liv
ing before the automobile was in
vented.
"Is poverty an obstacle or an oppor
tunity ? " asks a contributor to one of
the current magazines. Poverty is usu
ally a necessity.
A New York man lost his voice re
cently when he had his tooth pulled.
He will doubtless be wanting to take
his wife around to that dentist now.
Next to having a 5-cent cigar named
after you the surest road to fame
these days is to announce that you
want to make up Booker Washington's
bed.
bed.A
A man named Hainm and another
named Bacon are rivals for the affec
tions of a Miss Frye at Odessa , Mo.
There will doubtless be some egg-
throwing , no matter who wins.
Dr. Hillis thinks that a man with an
income of $50,000 a year is necessarily
going to the devil. The doctor ought to
have his salary cut by his good-natured
congregation so as to keep him in the
right path.
It is pretty hard to work up much
sympathy for the American girl who
thinks she has married a titled foreign
er , and then finds that he is a first-
class waiter or has an honorable record
as a coachman.
Mrs. Langtry says that one of the
rules of her perpetual youth is this :
"Never bother with anything which
other persons can be hired to do. " This
is the Invaluable rule that the Weary
Walker applies to labor.
A steamer for the use of the missions
to seamen was recently launched in
England. The wife of the Bishop of
Durham broke upon the bows of the
vessel a bottle containing pure oil , and
named it the Good Hope.
' Mrs. Eddy says : "I am rated as
standing eighth in a list of twenty-two
of the foremost living authors. " Yet
she has not written a single historical
romance. She is always reasonably
sure , however , of advance royalties.
A man who has recovered his sight
after many years of blindness says
that with his sight returned also his
desire to smoke , which he had lost
during his blindness. In other words ,
a man wants to watch his own smoke.
Down in Texas the other day a man
named Whele married a Miss Barrow ,
and the editor of the local paper had
no more sense of the fitness of things
than to print his account of the wed
ding under the head of "Whele-Bar-
row. "
Dr. Helen Bradford Thompson de
clares that she has found men to be
more emotional than women. The con
clusions are based on experiments cov
ering twenty-five men and an equal
number of women , a proportion to the
whole of mankind which makes
further inquiry unnecessary.
Cod liver oil has lately been quoted
"t a price nearly three times as high
as it commanded a year ago. The ex
planation of the advance is that prac
tically the entire supply of the oil used
for medicinal purposes comes from the
Norway fisheries , and the cod have
been destroyed or driven from their
feeding grounds by predatory seals.
Let us not judge the seals too harsh
ly ; perhaps they needed a nutritive
stimulant. And anyway , they have
given the American cod a fine chance
to prove that he is good for something
besides fish balls.
Dr. D.epew says in answer to the
charge of Rev. Dr. Hillte that "the
pampered sons of the rich are rotten
before they ore ripe" that "the greatest
danger comes to country boys who go
to the city to make their fortune. " It
is these unfortunates who ore to be
pitied more than the millionaires' sons.
The hall bedroom is not an agreeable
home and the saloon and poolroom be
come their places of resort , their clubs.
"The conditions are all against them , "
as they are all In favor of the boys in
wealthy homes. The point seems well
taken. The country boy In town has
need of a fortitude and a firmness of
purpose to overcome the loneliness and
the idleness that make any acq\aint-
ance a friend in need and to resist
the temptations into -which chance ac
quaintanceship leads. He is far more
apt to go wrong than a lad reared in
surroundings ofwealth. .
The development of the trolley sys-
.pin in New England , -where it has
made the greatest progress , is begin-
ning'to attract wide attention , especial
ly as it promises to become a danger-
cus competitor with the steam railroad
sj'siem. Already rails of the same
weight are used on the electric as on
the steam roads and well nigh equal
speed is made in rural districts , -while
greater speed Is made inside city lim
its. The cars are being made nearly as
barge If not so heavy as those on steam
roads , and In nearly all country places
malls and light freight are carried as
well as passengers. Trolley lines are
connecting country towns which could
only be reached by wagons , and by
bringing them into communication
with railroad stations are developing
their business. Nearly every State in
New England can now be crossed ,
north and south and east and west , by
electric cars and in some cases cities
as far apart as Portland , Boston , Prov
idence , Hartford and New York have
been connected by "the broomstick
train. " One of the latest developments
of the S3stem is the use for the first
time by a steam and a trolley road of
the same track. The New York Cen
tral is to use a stretch of track neai
Oxford , Mass. , about five miles from
Worcester , for delivery of coal to a
section it cannot now reach esaily.
This track was laid and is used by the
Worcester and Southbridge Street
Railway. The fact that a locomotive
and freight care can run upon rails
originally laid for trolley cars Is open
ing up a wide field of speculative pos
sibilities among railroad people. The
Boston Advertiser says that "the New
Haven road has already done some
thing in the way of 'third rail' connec
tions with steam road track , and of
course everj-body understands that the
time will come when steam and trolley ;
roads will be run as parts of one sys-i
tern , the street railways acting as feed-1
ers to the main line of steam track. "
Nostalgia that is what the doctors
call it. In ordinary phrase it is known
as homesickness. : It is a real disease.
Strong men die of it in the Philippine
Islands. To all ordinary diagnosis
they are well. No organic trouble
is apparent. The patient is literally
sick for home , ajid unless he is sent
home he grows worse and often dies.
Officers of the army , private soldiers ,
civilians , old , middle-aged and young-
all these are subject to the illness. It
is no boy's malady. It is an American
disease. The Englishman is not trou
bled with it. He goes to India and
lives there for years. It Is not a matter
of climate , for the climate of India is
as enervating as that of our achipel-
ago. There is no nostalgia , or scarcely
any , in India. AYhy is this ? Well , for
one thing the nerves of the American
are not as well covered as those of the
Englishman. The American soldier
will stand more strain of fighting than
any other soldier in the world. In bat
tle his nerves are taut as fiddle strings.
But he is peculiarly susceptible to pulls ,
on his emotional nature. His affections-
are acute. He lacks the stolidity of
the Englishman. And then , the Ameri
can , though he is descended from wan
derers and conquerors and emigrants , ,
is not a good cosmopolite. He is es
sentially a home body. He will travel-
but he will return home. He flourishes
only in his own soil and latitude. He
seldom expatriates himself. The Amer
ican in the Philippines is like a fish out'
of water. Edward Everett in his "Man
AA'lthout a Country" shows us how
hardly an American can give up Amer
ica. There Is so much to get homesick
for !
After all that is claimed for heredity
and environment is granted , it is still
generally admitted that a man pretty
largely makes himself morally. And
it can be as truly said that he also
makes himself physically. Scientists
and philosophers are coming to the
conclusion that no man has a good
right to be an invalid. Most illness is
self-inflicted. Could we all cease to be
slaves to appetites and passions and
were we to give half the care to the
needs of our minds and bodies that we
give to money-making and money-
spending , most of the ignorance , im
morality and Invalidisin would disap S'
pear from the world altogether. A :
few years ago Harry Bennett Wein-
burgh , of Hartford , Conn. , was a bed
ridden cripple , well advanced toward
hopeless invalldism , brought on by
overfeeding and other thoughtless in
dulgences. He was induced by an en
thusiastic Y. M. C. A. gymnast to un
dertake a fight for his life and health ,
employing only the resources that lay
within his own mind and body. In a a
few days he could move his Joints ir
without aid ; in four months he could irb irr
walk ; in a year his health was almost b
perfect He faithfully continued this k
care of himself and In two years after :
he had begun It he entered a New- f
York contest for a prize offered to the c
most perfectly developed man in h
America , and won it la two years hf
he had , by his own intelligent care of
himself , transformed a hopeless , bed
ridden cripple into a physically perfect
man. There were no drugs and no
doctor. He learned to eat properly , u
to breathe properly , to bathe properly.
to exercise naturally and correctly In la
short , to study and live up to and In
IE
accordance with the few and simple IEai
rules that nature herself has estabai
lished. That is what
one nran has tc
done. It is no more than all men is
could do In greater or less degree , if
they would. Few think it worth while.
We carelessly shatter our health by cc
over-eating , over-drinking , overworking
ing , loss of sleep , and a thousand and
one daily injuries and neglects , and
then make ourselves and all about us
M
miserable for the rest of our broken
lives , whining and complaining against 01hi
fate. hih
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Device. 01
"She's interested In things. " AAai
"Is she so unattractive ? " ai
When we go out to dinner -we like to si [
eat and run. te
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Feedine Fodder.
There are almost as many ways of
feeding fodder to advantage as there
ire feeders. One very convenient meth
od of making a feeding rack for fodder
has been sent us by a subscriber that
Is constructed around the fence in such
4. way thtit the cattle can reach
Ihrough between soue strong poles to
Obtain the fodder. The remainder of
rhe rack is made of common one-inch
lumber. A rack of this kind will pre
sent waste , is easily filled from the
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outside of the fence and the stock can-
hot get in or break the rack if it Is
properly constructed. A more elaborate
hick is shown in this illustration ,
Which consists of an ordinary hay rack
around which has been constructed a
puard made of strong poles. The f od
der is put in the inside rack where the
etock can reach it and the outside rack
prevents waste by catching the pieces
of fodder that are pulled out by the
0E
Block. A great many like this rack
Very -well. Another contributor sends
us a very good rack as shown in the
accompanying illustration. This cor
respondent has fenced in his fodder
yard with an ordinary fence on two
sides. The other side is made of two
2x6 pieces aud a common board at the
.
bottom. The cattle reach through between
r
tween the cleats and eat the fodder
from the ground as it Is thrown .with
in , their reach. This place is kept pro-
vlded with fodder all the time. The
vt of all these racks will depend on
the : amount of stock to be provided for.
Iowa Homestead.
Apple-Tree Borers.
There are several borers of the apple
tree the flat-headed , which bores un-
3cr the bark and sometimes in the
wood ; the round-headed , which bores
Into the tree , remaining in the larval
state three years , and the twig borer ,
which enters just above the bud. Dig
DUt the borers with a sharp knife or
probe into the bores for them with a
sharp-pointed wire. Scrub the trees
ind apply early in .Tune and July
whale oil soap ( or soapsuds ) , with a
little carbolic acid added. Burn all
twigs attacked. The soapsuds keeps
the moths off. The digging out of the
round-headed and flat-headed
- - borers
must be done effectively. The borers
ire about an inch long. A sharp wire
Idlls them in the tubes made by them.
New England Farmer.
Cover for Sap Bucket.
During rainy and stormy weather in
sugar season there is always a great
leal of trouble from rain in the san.
Some farmers have
covers for their buck
ets which dispense
with any devices
which may be suggest
ed. Among the many
ways suggested the
following proves to be
very profitable. Take
piece of board or shingle about 14
aches long and one-fourth inch thick ;
ound one end out to fit the roundness
if the tree. This may be done with a
: nife or small saw. Then fasten a
oed stiff wire at the end rounded outer
or < the tree with small staples or
leate. ! Bend the wire so that it will
told tight to the tree. This will af-
ord adequate shelter. Epltomlst.
Silage for Dairy Cows.
Answering a correspondent , Hoard's
) airyman says the amount of silage
equlred by forty cows will depend
ipon the amount fed per day and the
lumber of days it Is to be fed. In this
itltude ( Wisconsin ) the careful dairy-
aan estimates for feeding 200 days
t least and at the rate of not less than
n average of thirty pounds per day
0 each animal. More and more also
he beginning to provide some extra
or use during the summer drought
nd does not consider four tons per
ow any too much for a year's supply.
Teaching : to Back.
GE. . F. wants some one to tell him
ow to teach a colt to back in harness.
ly way is to stop a load of any kind
n a side hill. Don't drive up a long
111 , Just a few steps up , and let him
old it ( with a horse you can depend
n to back or go ahead when told ) .
Vhen he looks tired , ask him to back
nd at the same time give him a short ,
uick jerk with the reins , always while
tting in the wagon. Then loosen the
eins whether he steps back or not
After sitting a few seconds give an
other jerk. Always loosen the reins
and give him lots of time to think
whether it is not best to let the load
go back and not hold it. If you suc
ceed in getting him to take a few steps
back , then go a little farther up the hill
and give him lots of time to hold the
load , then try as before. If you get
him to back , don't ask him to back un
less 3rou know the other horse can back
the wagon alone. W. H. Riker in
Stockman and Farmer.
The Clover Crop.
A year ago pessimists were predict"
ing the disappearance of clover as ?
profitable crop. A previous dry sum
mer followed by a hard winter had
practically killed old seedings and also
those of 1901. Farmers , after spend
ing a mint of money in clover seed
that failed to result in a stand , had
come to regard the great legume as
permanently enrolled on the "has
been" list. But this spring another
tale is being told. King Clover is him
self again. All over the land he is do
ing well. Hundreds of thousands of
acres of clover hay will be cut this
year where last season there was none.
The area in clover in 1902 was unusu
ally large. Much of the crop was
ruined by a wet harvest season , but
the catch of clover was all that could
be desired. This summer there will
a large decrease in oat acreage , but a
vast increase in clover. Thus even the
disadvantages of a water-logged season
have their offset. This year's crop of
clover will have a feeding value not
easily estimated , and its effect in re
storing fertility will have a percepti
ble influence. It is a significant fact
that alfalfa sown last year in the corn
belt invariably made a gcocl catch ;
more proof positive that conditions un
der which clover will do well are ad
mirably suited to its relative , alfalfa.
Live Stock World.
Ventilation in Snmmer.
It is very important that good ven
tilation is provided for the fowls dur
ing the hot months , months when the
nights are oppressively close. Fowls
will crowd together , no matter where
they roost , and unless they bo given
pure , fresh air disease of some kind
will likely make its appearance. A
house , inexpensive and comfortable ,
may be arranged so that the sides and
ends are entirely open. It matters but
little how open the house is during the-
hot months. What the fowls need most
is a dry place , with plenty of fresh ,
pure air. An open shed does nicely
for the summer mont'ns , but , of course ,
the fowls must be made comfortable
before the chill winds of autumn be
gin to arrive.
One thing , though , that we should
guard against is the common practice
of allowing the fowls to roost in the
tree tops. There is nothing more dan
gerous. They injure themselves by
flying out , and often cannot be broken
to go to the house until after they have
contracted colds from the fall winds
and rains. Keep them in the house ,
but arrange it so that they will have
plenty of fresh air , yet not be subject
to the many dangers of a roost on the
fence or tree top. Home and Farm.
Farm Notes.
A prominent English poultry breeder :
will make a large display of Old English -
lish game fowls and Dorkings in the
poultry exhibit at the World's Fair.
Ten acres of small fruits will often
make a man more truly prosperous
than ten times as much land In wheat
or corn. He may not be worth as
much in actual capital invested , but
he will be getting a larger net income ,
and doing it with less severe toil. Thu
small farm well tilled , whether U bo
In fruits , dairy , vegetables , etc. , is al
most always the most satisfactory.
The principal capital needed to start
such a farm is a level head and knowl
edge of the business.
Mildew is one of the greatest obsta
cles in the way of gooseberry growing
in most parts of the country. A grow
er of experience has found that salt
hay spread over the whole surface of
the ground to the depth of three inches
is a preventive. Common coarse hay
or bog grass , soaked in brine , would
possibly answer Just as well. On ac
count of the manner in which the salt
absorbs water from the atmosphere ,
the mulching , and consequently the
vines , are kept at an even temperature.
In an experiment made to determine
the absorptive powers of milk there
was Inclosed In Jars a portion of milk ,
and In different Jars , but not in conn-ac
tion , different substances , giving off
flavors. At the end of eight hours a
portion of the milk was drawn from
near the bottom of each Jar , by means
of a plppette , so as not to disturb any
part of the milk. In every one of
fifteen trials the milk had absorbed
the flavor to such an extent that it
had penetrated the very lowest stra
tum.
tum.When
When the grass is allowed to produce
seed it exhausts the soil more than
when a crop of hay Is cut before the
seeds are permitted to appear. When
seed heads form then the plant has
fulfilled its mission and has stored in
the seeds a larger proportion of the
mineral elements than remains in the
stalks of the plants , in many cases ,
as the green plants , when cut down
early , consist largely of water. A grain
crop and a crop of seed from grass
deprive the soil of a proportion of all
the fertilizing substances existing
'
therein.
A minister who was called In to com
fort the wife of an old Scotch caddie
assured her that while John was very
weak he was evidently ready for a
better world. Unexpectedly , however ,
John rallied , and said to his wife :
"Jenny , my woman , I'll maybe be
spared to ye yet. " "Na , nn , John ! "
was the reply ; "ye're prepared , and
I'm resigned ! Dee nee ! "
When a shot was fired in the wings
of the Tivoll Opera House during the
third act cf "Carmen" on Zelie de Lus-
san's opening night , a disappointed
spectator , who considered Tennery's
Don Jose about "the limit" remarked ,
with a sigh of relief , "Thank God. "
Those about him. who shared his feel
ings , snickered sympathetically. But
their s-miles were turned to peals of
laughter when Don Joe presently
bobbed up serenely , and the talkative
wag exclaimed tragically , "Ye gods ,
her aim was bad. She missed him ! "
J. T. Trowbridge , in the course of
his remln sconces in the Atlantic
Monthly , tells this story of Oliver Wen
dell Holmes and Longfellow : One
afternoon , in the years of which I am
writing , I chanced to call upon Mr.
Longfellow just after he had received
a visit from Dr. Holmes. "What a
delightful man lie is ! " said he ; "but he
has left me , as he generally does , with
a headache. " AY hen I inquired the
cause , he replied : "The movement of
his mind is so much more rapid than
mine that I often find it difficult to
follow him , and if I keep up the strain
for a length of time a headache is the
penalty. "
It is related that one morning Guy
de Maupassant lay in bed reading a
comic paper in his modest atelier in
the Latin Quarter. After a little time ,
De Maupassant , to his horror , heard
familiar and ponderous footsteps at
the bottom of the wooden stairs he
was four Uights up. It was a severe
creditor , who had threatened him with
all soils of punishments if he did not
settle his debt In an instant , De
Maupassan- out of bed and seized
a sheet of paper , on which he wrote :
' "M. de Maupassant , having died on the
! lGth , all having claims against him
must apply to M. M. Blanc , " at some
[ false address. He expected money
[ that day and intended to put matters
.straight in the afternoon. He stuck
his notice outside the door , locked him
self in again , " and was back between
the blankets. Fortunately the. old
gentleman ascended slowly , like a hip-
.popotaruus. When he reached the
landing , there was a sound of mutter
ing. Then down he went again. De
Maupassant breathed freely. In a lit
tle while up tripped Marie , a pretty
maid , who was in the habit of flirting
with the writer. After a few words ,
she departed. Soon De Maupassant
recognized her steps again , and pres
ently there was another rap on the
door. When he opened It , there stood
his old creditor , panting like a steam
engine. He had come up in his stocking -
ing feet. The old man had kept his
eyes open.
CHARACTER IN SMOKING.
iclcaa of Woninn Who Has Been an
Observer.
According to a man's manner of
smoking you shall know him is the
'opinion of a keen observer of habits
and characteristics.
Let him gnaw at the end of his cigar
and roll it between his lips and you
may depend he is cynical , likely to j
look always on the wrong side of huI I
j
man nature , and not to trust any one 11 I
completely. j
The man who smokes with his cigar , ;
tilted upward has the traits that make
for , success , is brisk , aggressive , and
likely to triumph over interference
with his wishes.
The smoker who guards his cigar
jealously and will smoke it almost up
to the point of charring his mustache
or burning his nose is a tactician ,
scheming , self-seeking , and with an
jntense desire for power.
The cigar tilted toward the chin de
notes the day dreamer , -the person who
may have Ideas and ambitions but seldom -
dom the practicality to carry them
out 7
The cigar held steadily and horizon
tally Indicates a callous , calculating
nature , strong traits , but poor princi
ples , the sort of man who could be
t
brutal with indifference should occat
sion arise.
Men who let their cigar go out and
then try * to relight it , also those who ,
after smoking for a while , let the ci
gar go out and then throw it away ,
are likely to be Irrational and without
the capacity to put their powers to "
use.
g
Men of quick , vivacious temper hard-
T
ly touch the tip of their cigar with
their teeth and after taking two or
three whiffs will remove it and hold j
it in their hand In absent-minded fashT
Ion. They are men who change their j
opinions and ambitions often and require -
y
quire the spur of novelty or necessity o
to make them exert their best powers. &
The man who , after lighting his ci
gar , holds It not only between his
teeth and lips , but with two , three , or
four fingers of his left hand , is fastidi
ous and possessed of much personal
pride. Such a person will often re
move his cigar and examine the light
ed end to see if it Is burning evenly
and steadily. Such actions indicate
carefulness , sagacity , and a character
worthy of confidence and esteem.
The smoker who sards forth smoke to
j from both corner of the mouti In
two different puffs la ewchety and
hard to get along with , though he may ;
have good mental faculties.
j The spendthrift , sometimes the nd1-
venturer. Is declared by the act of bitIng -
[ Ing off the end of a cigar. Lack of
"
"judgment dislike to pay debts , and
not overniceness of habits are declared
by this practice.
The pipe smoker who grips his pipe-
so firmly between his teeth that marks
are left on the mouthpiece is mettle
some , of quick , nervous temper , and
likes to be tenacious of his opinions *
one way or another.
Many smokers , no matter how many
cigar cases they have , carry their ci
gars In the upper left-hand waistcoat
pocket. This habit indicates a love of
self-Indulgence and disinclination to
make the slightest exertion other thar *
absolutely necessary.
These observations. It should he re
membered , are those of a woman who
has been observing men who smoke. .
Chicago Inter Ocean.
BRAIN-EATING OCTOPUS.
Hideous Creature * that Kill Men ami :
Devour Their Urnins.
A Belgian officer just returned from *
the Kongo Free State reports that i
the caverns of the Uelle River there-
Iwells a species of octopus that pre
sents a grave danger to all who navi
gate a river in small boats. The-
strange beasts are called "megwe" by
the natives and are numerous in the
neighborhood of the station of the
Amadis , owing to the number of rock *
and caves in that region. They at
tack the native canoes , capsizing them ,
easily with their tentacles , and , ac
cording to their state of hunger , seiz
ing one or two men. The octopus drags-
ills human prey to his cavern , and
there , without inflicting the sliglitesC-
external wound , feeds on his victim's-
brains by inserting the points of hi ?
tentacles in his nostrils. He generally
keeps his prey fifteen hours and then-
lets the body float out on the river.
"I was an eyewitness of a disaster of
this kind , " says the Belgian , accord
ing to the New York Tribune. "A ca-
n-.e was capsized in the river and one
of the three occupants disappeared.
When the survivors swam ashore they
told us that an octopus had turned
their boat over and carried off their
companion. The next morning about
0 o'clock the body was found floating ,
and no trace of any wound could be
found , while the only abnormal ap
pearance was the swollen state of the
nostrils. On examination It was found
that the brain had been extracted. The ?
natives of the Uellc all dread the 'meg
we , ' while those of the Itimbri know
nothing of its existence. "
The Boy of Fifteen.
We may as well admit that at 15 a
boy is a trial of the nerves to various
people who love him. His self-impor
tance , his crudity , his air of knowing-
whatever there is to be known , his im
perious willfulness , the passion of his-
desire for sport , the apathy of his ef
fort to study , are each and all suffir
ciently provocative of reprobation. But
through this seething , boiling mess of
contradictions one may discern hope
fully a glimpse of the strength and
sweetness that are to follow , says a
writer In Good Housekeeping. The
boy's individuality Is struggling to ther
front. Climbing by the stepping stones-
of his own mistakes , he will arrive at
a safer , broader plane of vantage by
and by. The lad needs time. Educa
tion , with its shaping processes , wili
transform him imperceptibly. Social
opportunities will rub off his angles
and soften his asperities. Next to what
a boy's own sisters can do for him are-
the amenities which come from com
panionship tc tI I with the sisters of his-
chums. One of the very best things-
that can happen to a boy in the first
dawning of his manhood , the transi-
torial years which bridge over the period -
riod from 15 to 21 , is that he shall be-
a i welcome guest In families where
there are girls of the same age with
himself. Indeed , the comradeship off"
girls Is so precious and so valuable to
boys that he Is a short-sighted parent
who puts the slightest stumbling block *
In its way.
Unmitigated Severity.
Parson Wilklns was the gentlest min
ister the church of Cranford Center-
had ever known. It was apparently
as difficult for him to lose his tem
per as for many of his parish to keep-
theirs. One day one of the deacons
went to him -with a complaint about
the boy who had been apprenticed to
the deacon to learn the carpenter's
trade.
"He's BO lazy and ungrateful , added
to everything else , " said the deacon at
the end of a long list of grievances ,
"that I've lost my patience , and I'm
afraid to talk to him for fear I shall
display anger. Now I want you to speak
to him severely , parson very severe
ly. "
"I will , deacon , " said the minister , . .
"I will certainly speak to him with
great severity. " A few days after
ward he received a call from the ap
prentice.
"Now , my boy , " said the minister ,
laying , a calm hand on the graceless
youngster's shoulder , "I have heard
from the good deacon of the things ,
you have been doing and your neglect'
of your proper work , and I wish toj-
say that I think you have been doing }
very poorly ; that if you persist In this } ,
course of action I shall be forced , ' \
here the minister assumed the ah ofi-
one administering a rebuke almost too
stern to be endured "to lower my } '
opinion of you ; to lower It considerably - '
ably , my boy. "
The success of some people Is unac-i
countable , considering that they neverj
had a baccalaureate sermon preached *
them.
