Christian herald., August 25, 1882, Page 12, Image 12

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knew nothing of industry or home­
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nighted as they could well be.
Jesus The Carpenter.
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Seven years have passed. What
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“ Isn’t this Joseph's son ?”—Ay, it is he;
do we now see ? What, under
Joseph the carpenter—same trade as
me— * .
Clod, has been accomplished on be­
I thought ask’d find it—I knew it was
half of thesp singularly degraded
here—
lic.i iws, tliD
gle humble Christian missionary ■
I don’t know right where as bis shed
and wife? These Modocs have, for
must ha’ stood- —
all round through his pleasure the ftiost jiart, become members of
But ofteq; as I’ve, been a-plaining my
The Floating Homes of Bang­ grounds, and wondered whether the the Society of Friends. They are a
wood,
I’ve took off my hat, just with thinking
kok.
worthy old gentleman considered well-mannered, well-dressed people.
of He
They
have nice farms; they sing
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Boats are the universal means of that he was living on land or in the
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He warn’t that set up that he couldn’t conveyance and communication, elysium, I saw magnifiicent speci­ “ blue ribbon';” they believe in their
and a boat thus becomes a necessa­
stoop down
mens of the Victoria regia who>e “teacher,” and take her advice as
And work in the country for folks in,the ry adjunct of .every persoh’s house­
■ town ;
hold. To its dextrous use, every leaves, round like a platter, were law ami Gospel, and look upon Asa
And I’ll warrant he felt a bit pride, like child is trained,-<■ ■?
over tw° Xards Lfl d‘a,n —R.f: Their Tuttle as a new edition of the
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I ve done
children are equally accustomed. rim was sharply turned up in a Apostle John.:—Ar.
At a good job begun.
Perhaps the most common form is a ledge an inch.high, and on’the raft,
Courtesy to Young Ladies.'
Tbo parson he knows that I’ll not make
thus
formed,
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were
settled,
quite
j stout sfcifr about twenty-five feet
Marion Harland, writing in the
too free,
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home-like, a family of frogs.They,
But on Sunday I feel as pleased as can long, turning up very shapely and
Congr'egalionalist, says: Familiari­
high behind, like a Venetian gond­ too, seemed to fall in with the hu­ ty of speech leads as naturally to
be,
mors of the country.— Rochester
When I wears my clean smock, and sits ola. It is broad in the beam and
freedom of touch as brooks to riveis,
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in a pew,
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two-thirds of its length- ishoused 'Democrat and. Chronicle.
or neglect of small sweet courtesies
And has thought a few.
over, leaving a little flat deck in
to overt poorishness. 1 do not ex­
Mission to the Modocs.
I think of as how not the parson hiBsen, front and a still smaller one behind.
aggerate
in asserting that the fern-
BY BEV. H.. H. UoWAIil).
As is teacher and father and shepherd Behind stands the husband and
¡nine portion of. Young America
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a
o ) ’ men,
men
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[m^ws'-aF^
that affects picnics,* singing schools .
rowing and using a boathook to the- bloody history of the war in straw rides; church sociables and -
that shed,
Where he earned his own bread*. help their way through the crowds. the “ lava beds” some yearb since—
surprise parties needs as much to
And when I goes home to my missus, The front of the boat is used for of Captain Jack and his tribe-;'pf be ticketed ‘ Hands off!’ as the val-
business, passengeis, or cargo. Tho General Canity, Dr. Thomas and
says she .
uables in art exhibition. When
“ Are ye wanting your key ?”
rear third is-given upto family and Colonel Meachem—the first two the finger of a man who is not my
For she knows my queer ways, and my- domestic furniture.
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<’ «tain and scalped ami the last left
husband or kinsman is pressed up­
love for the shed
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' For, increditable as it may seem, for dead- Luuld these treacherous,
on my shoulder to point a story or
(We’ve been forty years wed.)
we soon see that each boat is the 'Udodthirsty,-benighted. savageR^,
bo I comes riulit away bv mvaen. with., "TMTfilffdf & l’ainHyTTathef, fflAlfief"" ibi'MH ttiJlrunod, abUlllIllffWS MOUdtW attract attention ; when a forward
youth fillips my arm with his fold­
the book,
And I turns the old pages and has a good girls, and boys, who are born there, —ever be Chtistianized and civil- ed glove at an evening party with,
live there, and d+e there. In the ¡zed.
look
‘ I say !’ I may be and km offended,
For the text ns I’ve found, as he tells day time, the children and the fur-
Mrs. E. II. I little, a missionary but in a quiet, matronly way.
me as He
riitute are crowded into a space not °f the Friend persuasion, had al- When I see a thoughtless school
Were the same trade as me.
over four feet square; at night they ready for years been .a teacher girl sit hand in hand on a steam­
r
Why don’t I mark it? Ah, many say so, . can spread out over the great sur^, among the Quapaws in the north­
But I think I’d »s lief, with^our leave, face. I looked -into these homer! western corner of/he Indian Terri- boat or car with a man whom I
know to be a mere acquaintance, or
let it go ;
with
attention,
and
never
could
tory.
F
uIly
occupied
in
minister
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Jt do seem that nice when I fall on it j
the opera cloak pressed long and
enough wonder or admire how ing to these, greatly as her Chris- closely about the pretty young
sulden—
closely all weie packed, Without t'an sympathies had been going out thing, whom her escort wraps up
Unexpected, ye know !
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seeming to jostle or painfatty
tedtah-of theeaptive Modocs, she officially before leading her to her
crowd.
Also that the children bad no reason to believe that the carriage; when girls are hauled
Ultima Veritas.
lived so happily and contentedly in latter would ever be brought to her and pushed and buffeted in romp­
In the bitter waves of woe.
a space no greater than a large-
sma11 corner of the Territory to ing games, and in dances that are
Beaten and tossed about
sized Saratoga trunk ! It is proba- . teach ;-when, lo and behold ! one nothing better, as the herd might
By the sullen winds that blow
From the desolate shores of donbt,
bly a fact that there are many ten- 'lay some old cars rolled into the jostle one another, my blood heats
- Where the anchors that faith has cast I year-old children in Bangkok river [• wayside station, and then and there with more indignant fire. No true
man’ wilKneedlessly, much less wan­
Are dragging in the gale,
who have never walked over twen- were literally “ dumped I ” the cap- tonly, put a woman on the defen-
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t.y feet in a straight line, in hort~ ^ive Modocs/a couple of hundred or sive. The best that can be said of
To the things that cannot fail ;
who have never been on land. But more, among them “ Shack-nasta hi in who claps the lady guest on
I know that right is right ;
That it is not good to lie ;
i then, when they.come in proximity Jim,” “ Bogus Charlie,” “ Scar faced the back as he might her husband,
or the coxcomb who, without her
That love is better than spite,
to boats whose little inmates they ! Charlie,” “Steamboat Frank,” Cap­ permission, dares to omit the ‘ Miss’
And a neighbor than a spy ;
know, they would, boys and girls tain Jack’s sister, “ Princess Mary,” in accosting Iris girl friend, is that
I know that passion needs
from five tp.twelve, jump out of his two wives, and scores of lesser he ‘ knows no better.’ If they
The leash of a sober mind ;
guessed how often the plea is urged .
their boat-house, and dive and swim lights.
I know that generous deeds
These people were without a re­ in extenuation of their bovine gam­
Some sure reward will find,
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away to visit and gambol around
bols by charitable friends with jus-
That rulers mast obey j
‘ together, now free
tree in tne wa-„rr, kgien, practiced jwdygamy, burned ter ideas of the decencies and amen­
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That the givers Bhall increase ;
now hanging to the boat’s side or 1 tlieir dead,were full of sorceries and ities of society, the shock to self-
That Duty lights the way
sitting astride of tho scull oar. And incantations, had rings in their conCeit might be a wholesome les­
’ F jr the beautiful feet of peace ;
a friend tells me that he has seen • noses--wvl paint on their faeesj son.”— Rx,
vf tlreywj?
Family Circle.
When the stars have all gone out,
them in their visits take with them
That courage is better than fear ;
a baby, to whose shoulders mother
That faith is truer than doubt ;
has prudently attached a hollow
And fierce though the fiends may fight
gourd or other light float to insure
And long though the angels hide,
its safety.
I know that truth and right
Have the universe on their side ;
In a minor excursion up a side­
And that somewhere beyond the stars, canal, I found myself at the city
Is a Love -that is better than fate ;
■ raMidufflflft.uftf the prim» winister
!^WfirasT1re!!n^^yr^^flaE:0FWFS7s
whose name I have not no\V time
t shall see Him—and I will wait.
■ to write out in full. I ran my boat
— Washington Gladden.
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