Helping I*a|>a ami Plainiiia.
I’hiiiting tbn corn luid potutocf^,
JidjMiig to sciittcr tho s*‘cls,
Feodtiig tlie hens ami the cliicla’n.“,
Fivenig the ganU'ii wee'ly,
Driving tlio fowrtto the pasture,
Feeiliug the horse in the stall,
■\Ve litth' ;liililreii aix! busy,
Sure tl)ere is work for us all,
Helping papa.
Spreading the hay in the sunshine,
Faking it up when 'tis djy,
Fi-]ciiig the ap])le8 and i)ea(di‘.«,
Down in the orc.hard hard hy,
l*i-king the grapes in tlic vineyard,
(iatlierttig nuts iti the fall,
We little children are busy,
Yes, there is \vork for us all,
Helping papa.
Swei'p’ug and M-nsliing the dUliftp,
ilringing the Ai-!i>d from tho si cd,
Iront!)g, sewing and knitting,
Hetpingto uiak(‘ np the heil,
Taking good cave of the baby,
Watcliing her lest she .should fall,
We litll! -hiUir( n are busy,
O, tliere is work for ua all,
Helping niamnja.
Work makes usi-heerfu! andliappy;
Makes us both iieliv(! and stnmg,
Flay wo enjoy all tlie hettov,
When w'e have Ic.rored .so long,
Gladly wo heli;t our kind ptironts,
Quhfkiy we eoine at tlu ir call;
Chifdieii sliouhl !ov(! to ho busy,
There is innch work fur us ail,
Helping papa, atnl anunnia.
THi&r IT AsisY^raM..S£6A D.
HY J. H. VINCKNT.
“WiJo enough, wide enough—
it will bo wide enough, ehild,”
and Uncle Ilepworth rubbed hi«
eves, wiped his mouth, and sud
denly sat lip very straight in his
chair, staring ivildly around the
room.
“What do you mean?" cried
Nellie.
Tho old man loolced slraight
into Nellie’s face, and her laugh
ing eyes gradually woke him np,
ami pnt meaning and inerrimoiil
into luB face.
“Do yon know wiiat you said
just now,.Uncle V'
“I didn’t say anything.”
“O, didn’t you though, you
darling old dreamer ? You saiil
‘it will be wide enough, child.’
What did you mean? What
woulil bo wide cntmgli,? a path,
a stream, a door, a gate, a curtam,
a fringe, a seam—what did you
think would be ‘wide enough I"
Then Uncle nopworth huighed
one of his own laughs; hearty,
jolly, gloi-iou-s. What a great
music box he i.s ! He’ll hllawhole
hoiuse with melody and joy. Hlay
lie have length of days, and life
where there are nodays to measure
awav tho perfection of blessed
ness.
“It was a good dream—a
‘mighty’ good dream,” ho .said.
Uncle caught tlie word ‘might}-’
in tho South, whers ho used to
spend ills winters. I lovo to hear
laiim use it, once in a while.
“ilut wiiat was tho dream ?”
Then Undo llepworvh l.iegaii :
“In my sleep I saw a broad plain,
bounded by distant hills. The
plain was covered with green
grass. Ilovo and there I saw a
patch of wild tiowor.s. Near me,
ill the midst of tho plain, stood a
dilid, whose long, golden hair
was fioating In tho biveze. M'^itli
the little backs of lioth hands
pro.s.seu tightly against her eyes,
she wept bitterly. Thou an an
gel; or a fairy— tlioro are fairies
in dreamland, } ou know—came
near a.ud said, ‘Why do yod weep,
diild Tiio weeper ropled, ‘51y
homo- is yonder, far away j'ondor,
by the h’ills, and I. can find no
path.. Tho grass is dco,p and I
»m wear}-. Uly sad mother won
ders,. and wants, and iveeps that
I do not como. 1 am lost, lost,
lost!” and she sobbed more vio
lently.
“The fail-}' looko toward the
skv 1 wondered what she sought
Soon she caught two butterliies
and two spiders. She placed a
spider on each hutterlly’s hack,
then, waving lier Maiul toward
the west, the butterliies started.
As they sailed, the spiders spun,
and two long, silvery threads were
left behind tliom. As 1 looked,
the threads turned into solid bars
of gold, and as they approached
tho grimml, were upheld by low
blocks of marble. iSo, as far as 1
could sec, a fairy railroad stretch
ed out, and still the butterliies
dew, and the spiders spun, and
the golden rails resten on their
mai'lile pillars.
“'I'licu the goklen-haired child
ivondered, and v.-islied she iverc
on the butterdy’s back, and wept
agai)i. d'he fairy lifted her wand
toward tiio sk}', ami a fleecy cloud
rolled itself into a 'pillow shape,
and dropped down towai'd the
u-ee})ei' and the fairy, As it came
iHiar, tho cloud seemed to have
four -lYings. As it touched th.e
earth, each wing turned into a
wheel, and the body of cloud into
a chariot of pea.rl, a-ud io ! a faii-y
car rested on the road. Then
the '.-rorker of all this wonder sail',
“‘No more tears. Enter the
car ami take this wand. Every
time }’ou raise and loiyer it the
wiieels will turn. If you dp not.
grow y-eai'}', in this car of -peai'l,
on this golden road, you sliidl-
reacli your iiome.’
“The child mounted the car.
She raised the veand. 'I'ho car
moved; )mt her faith tVdlid her.
Again ami iigiiin she ,stopped and
i\ept. The patient fairy bore
with all licr feai's, answei'cd her
coinpiaints an objections.
“Tho child once cried ont, ‘I’m
afraid the car will turn over.
Again, 'Won’t those rails break ?’
Again .she said, ‘I’ln so aSi-aid this
road vfon’t reach all thowaylioine."
'I'lien again sho sail, ‘What if an
other car comes from the other
way and brea-ks mine to pieces.’
“I grow tired of all tlii.s, and
said to tlie fairy, ‘Tell tho child
to look aliead; Let liei-'seo the.
road as it strotche.s hii- away over
tlie |)iain.’ The fairy did so; but
the eliild wept tho more. ‘O I
see, she cried, ‘that the road grows
narrow as it goes, and off,yonder
the rails meet, so tiiat my car can
not go on them. O, I shali never
roacii home.’
“Then I cried out, 'It will be
wide enongii, child.’ Just then I
woke."
“But did tho child go on I” ]'
a.sked.
“Indeed, I don’t know. Yon
or somebody noke mo, and now-
An Easy Lesson in Physiolo
gy.—Suppose your age to be fifteen,
or thereabouts.
You have 200 bones and 500
muscles; your blood weighs
tsveiit}- ive pounds, your heart is
five inches in length and three
inches in diameter, it beats seven-
t}' times per minute, 4,200 times
per hour, 100,800 times per da}',
and 3(),792,000 times per year.
At each beat a little over two
ounces of blood is thrown out of
it; and each da}' it receives ami
discharges aliout seven tons of
that wnnderf-Lil fluid.
Your lungs will contain a gal
lon of air, ami you inh.alo 24,000
gallons per da}'. The aggregate
surface of tho a.ir-colIs of your
lungs smppo.sing them to be spread
out, exceeds 20,000 square inches.
The iveig-ht of your brain is
three pounds; wlien you are a
man it n-ill iveigh about tlu’oe
lay-
“I’ll
wee.pcr, fair}', sjiiders, butterliies,
marble pillars, flowery meadow,
golden rails, and chariot of peari,
are all gone.”
“I’m .so son-}-—sn sorry,” said
Nellie.
“The les.son lihgors when the
dream is dejiarted,” replied U.uclo
Ilepworth ; “don’t you know we
are ;dd placed on a g-ohled road
by our good alaster ? It is our
only way homo. Yctwoaro al
ways full of fears, always finding
some, fault, doubting when we
sho-iild bo tnisliiig, standing wiien
wo shouhl rejiiice. As the rails
in tlie dlsla-oco seem to,h»so tuoir
proper place, and come so close
to each other as to laako any ad-
vance impossible, so wo see im
aginary t-roub’ios aliead in life.
We must learn, children, tliat.tho
way will be wide enough for us,
if ivo trust iu Gol, ami go on."
Nellie whispered to me as she
went ont to tea, that evening,
‘The Bweot Briar Dell Haiiroad
put a dream, intb Uncle Ilo])-
worth’s head, and ins good heart
found a sermon iu his droa'in.’—
The Little Cormind:
ounces more.
Your nerves exceed 10,000,000
in number.
Your skin is composed of three
layers, and varies from nne-fourth
to oiiG-eiglitii of an inch of lliick-
ness, Tlie area of your skin is
about 1,700 square inches. Each
square inch contains about 2,500
siveating tubes or perspiratory
p'Ores, each of which may be lik
ened to a little drain-tile one-
fourth of an incli long, making an
aggrigato iengtii of the entire
siiirfaee ...pf your bqily of 88,540
feet, or a tiio ditcl. for draining
tlie body almost 17 miles long.
AB.eautiful IqL.L-.'i'ritA-rioN.—It
is said -of the Icelanders tiiatthey
scrupuiously observe the usage
of reading tho sacred Scripture.s
every morning, tiie whole fannly
joining iu tiie singing and prayers
When the Icelander awakes, lie
salutes no person until he lias
saluted his God. He usually has
tens to the door, adores there the
autlior|of nature and providence,
and then steps back, saying to
his family, “God grant you a good
day.” What a boauiifiil iliiustra-
tien is tins of the Christian obliga
tion on the part of households to
recognize anil ivorship God.
“Mari:
“That’s one of the things I’ve
been doing,’! he said, after the
child liad gone.
“You are giving the suffering
family bread ?’’ 1 queried.
“Ye.s.”
“Have you any more cases
like that ?”
“Yes, three or four of them.
I give them a loaf a day, enough
to feed them.”
“And you take no pay I”
“Not from them.”
“Ah I From the town ?”
“No ; hero,” said Truffles,
ing his hand or his breast,
toll you,” he added, smiling:
“One day, over a year ago, a
poor woTuan came to me and asked
for a loaf of bread, for ivhich she
could not pay—she wanted It ior
lier sufl'ering children. At frrst 1
hesitateil, but finally I gave it to
her, and as her blessings rang in
111}' cars after she liad gone, I felt
my heart grow ivavm. Times
were hard, and there was a good
deal of suffering, and I found ni}'-
self wisliiiig, by-and-by, that I
could afford to give away more
bread. At leiigtli an idea slnick
I’d stop drinking ami give
that amount away in broad, ad
ding one or two loaves on my
own account. I did it, and its-
been a blessing to -ine. My lieart
has grown bigger, and I’ve grown
bettor every wa}'. My sleep
sound and sweet, and my dreams
are pleasant. And that’s what
you sec, I suppose.”
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Al'BSOintCfli uejiBci- RcsoiiEtfion ol
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Avm-ican Georcje Lmhje, Nn 17—Dr C I-
H. (;. iljuMry G. W. Spciicer.
Dftric, a9, -riioiTias J. Pugh, Juai-pli Ciittcii,
Goii. A, 'I'lillv'.
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Iliiihe, A. H. Whistdii.
Concord .Sd, W O Lewis, Juhu W Cotton
Joseph P. Suggs.
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Earjle, 7I--.I)uneHK Gottis, Churles 0'raylor.
Litiue It Strayhoni.
Crr, 104—J P Ituiuiolpli, 'f J CuniiaU, Hieli-
Futiellerinc, :120, A S lleWe, tV M, M E
Sedheny, B \V, nfd George X* MeXeill,
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said !i lady to lier
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dress you liave worn since you
caino to iny hou.se; pray Ikjw
many do you own “Only sev
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I returned to Ashvills after an
absorice of tltree years, and found
my friend TrufHos grown fat and
jovial, with a face the very mirror
of ])eaco and self-satisfaction.
Trutiics was the village baker,
and he was not like this when 1
went away.
“Truliios,'- said I “hcv/ is this ?
You iiave improved.”
“improvod! Kow
“Why, in ovciy way. What
have you been doing ?
Just then a little girl came in
■>.vith iv tattered shawl, and btu-e-
footeii. to whom Truflies gave a
loaf of bread.
“Oh. dear Mr. the
cliild said, w.ith brimming eyes,
as she took the loaf of bread,
“mamma is getthig better, and
she savs she ow'es so mmdi to
you. She blos.ses you indeed she
does.”
iird GraugiT.
QMyiton, 107, N. M. Kuan, J. Ch Grilfitli, C.
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