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From a iky as still as sleep,
A sudden dkzzliag wonder,
A darkness deep as night,
And then a bunt of thunder.
Then, born in the overarch,
A whirling, swirling power,
A downward swoop a lull
A hush and then a shower.
Then onward, swift as light,
With roar and shriek it dashes,
And earth and flesh and life
In sickening mass it crashes.
Again a calm like death,
A oreary waste remaining
A glimpse of sodden earth
Through furious raining.
William Reed Dunroy.
A BIBLE STORY.
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THINK WHAT IT MEANS
Hartly cama djwn to breakfast, clean
shaven and with a clean paper collar.
Ha was solemn looking enough at any
time but a clean share and a clean co!
1 ir gave him a double aspect ot stern
Puritanism. But t'ae over-twinkling in
his eye and the ever-twitching about the
corners of his mouth betrayed him to be
akeenobs.Tvcr.
"Good morning:, Maudy,' ho sad in
a hollow voico to bis wife. "Gooi morn
ing Will Clara Sirie -goo J morning,"
to the children. Then not another word
until he had finished his cikee, bad
finished bis muffins and coffee, hsd
finished folding his napkin and p?a:ed
it undar h:s 'glass, as he bad done for
years and year.
- "Maudy," he said mrst solemnly as he
pushed back his chair and half rose,
'Maudy do you know which pirt of the
Bible the book of if ez9kiah is in ?''
"Why, certainly, it's in tho Old Testi-.-ment."
"1 think you aro mistaken, Maudy."
He bad moved over to the door leading
to the outer hall.
"But I just know it's in lha Old Testa
ment. I've r.'ad out ot it there lots of
times."
"Perhaps it would be tfc'.l to look it up
and ni3ko certain," and be had dis
appeared into the hall and was already
out the front door.
At the gats bo m9t Deacon Rob?r!eon,
a little dried facoJ man with a qu ck,
nervous walk and a bharp, snappy way
of talking. The deacoa prided himself
on hi3 prayers at the meeting and bis
koowledge of the Bible.
"Good morning, Deacon, nice morn
ing" Hartly said as they walked down
town.
. " Y e3, nice, very n'ce'
Hartly spoke of many things and final --
ly of the prayer meeting the night be
fore. By the way, Deacon? be .said in a
.-b'ow, drawling tone, "I ni9ant to ask you
a question laBt night, but you got away
t)60on. I want you to tell me in which
part of the Biblj you find the book of
Hezekiah. I'm not quit j certain.'
"Old Testament, certainly."
"Am you quite sure? .
"Could I be mistaken, sir, I who know
the Book from beginning to end like the
alpliab3t? No, my dear 6ir, no!''
"But you might, you know." Hartly
was just leaving the Deacon's store
where th latter turned in
"No, eir. I know. I know. Tho Old
Testament. Itvas reading out of it only
last Sunday."
"Better look it up for certain. Deacon.
You'll feel better about it." Hartly
moved oU down the street.
He st3ppsd into toe office of the lo;aI
newapapar a weekly conducted, by
Ravcrend Horace Walker. Walker had
b;en a little too pronounced ia his views
and had gone into the newspaper busi
ness as affording him more leo way to
tarn them loose, lie was a hard stu
dent; a man well wrsed on every subj ct
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He perhaps had a better understanding chuckle that escaped Hartly as he went
of the Bible than anyone in tho little out through the door that aroused
t iwn, but lor a moment ho was taken off Walker's suepicioup. Ho pulled down
his guard by the innocent question of tho Bible (every well-equipped news-
Hartly. piper office finds the Bible asindispensa-
"Wby, Sir. Hartly, I would say it was ble as the dic!ionary and last directory)
Yeats aftjrxarJs the story came into
the mind of tbo "devir again when hs
was hard pressed for copy, and hj wrote
it down.
This is tho story.
Harry G. Shkdd.
in the Old Testament."
"Quite sure!"
"Yes, quita sun.'
"Well, you'ic tho third that's. said sd,"
answered Hartly backing off toward tho
door.'It must be eo, but yet I don't be
lieve it is. You might look it up some
time and let me know."
The o Jitor was a hhrewd man natural
ly and life about the- office had made
him shrewder. There was something
about Hartly 's eye and h"s mouth as ho
and rapidly ran through tha table of
contents.
He found Nehemiah and Jeramiah
and Obadiah and Zephaniab and Zec
hariah but no book of Hezekiah. Then
he shut th book with a bang and went
out to find Hartly.
When th? odilor returned he told the
story to the 'foreman," tha "tratnp
pritit," who nad fallen into the office
that day and the "devil,'" who worked
the hand press after school hours.
He Take dress, servants and child
ren out of tho cenversation of your sex
what would you havu left?
She (cont intcdly) Our friends.
Hewitt I don't fo why vou inuro
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1 needs to leire it to.
Jewett I'll have friends cnaugh if I
b.veSlO.OCO coming.
Johnnio and Willie What is it that
makes you chorus eirls to fascinatia?
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