RALEIGH CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE.
Thursday, July 23, 1908.
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The Sign That Ned Hung Out.
A little Lie, one summer day,
.Met a Bad Habit on the way.
"Come right along," it cried with
joy,
"We'll make our home with this
small boy
Who lives upon the corner here.
He'll give us welcome, never fear!"
Hut Neddy Green was not the kind
Of boy the Lie had hoped to find;
He had a sign hat he hung out
When such intruders were about,
A good big sign, with letters clear,
Proclaiming: "No Admittance here!"
"Pshaw!" said the Lie. "That's just
a game.
We can get in here all the same."
So both of them began to knock,
They pushed the door, they tried the
lock,
Hut, no! the sign was really true,
For Neddy meant it through and
through.
"Well," said the Habit with a sigh,
"We can't get in here, you nor I.
If signs like this should come in
style,
We'd starve in just a little while!"
And off they slunk with footsteps
slow
Oh, how Ned laughed to see them go!
Wm. Rittenhouse, in S. S. Visitor.
Gray bird Chivalry.
My attention was attracted one
day to the actions of two graybirds
on the lawn before me. They were
feasting on a crumb of bread. The
male bird would pick off small pieces
and drop hem into the upturned
mouth of the female bird. After
eahc tiny morsel was swallowed, they
would chirp and hop about a little,
then the feeding would be resumed.
The male bird did not eat of the
crumbs, nor did the female bird
pick up any for herself. The male
bird was delighted with the pleasure
afforded him in catering to his mate,
and she gracefully showed her ap
preciation of his kindness.
T had never seen a more beautiful
illustration of self-sacrifice, love and
devotion; nor had I ever seen gener
osity accepted "for love's sweet
sake" in a more becoming manner.
I was charmed by the beautiful
love-lesson being acted by the happy
little birds, and said to myself:
"How pretty! How much like hu
man beings."
This reflect ion was hardly impress
ed upon my mind when a third gray
bird swooped down from a near-by
telegraph wire picked up the crumb
of bread and carried it away; thus
selfishly depriving two creatures of
its own species of their source of
happiness.
My sympathies went out to the in
nocent little sufferers, and again T
soliloquized: "Yes, indeed! how
true. Alas! too true. So much like
human beings." Outing Magazine.
We Ain't (Jot Xo Uihle at Our House.
The Rev. W. W. Hiadshaw, mis
sionary of the American Sunday
School Union, had the following ex
perience in the mountains of Ken
tucky: One day a boy asked me to ride
with him. He told me he was haul
ing the mail to the next village, and
that he was paid $12 a month for
his work. "How do you spend your
money?" 1 asked. "Well, T help sup
port my mother and sister, and the
balance I am saving to buy me a
rifle." "A rifle!" I exclaimed. "What
do you want with, it?" "The day I
get it I am going to kill old man
Velvington. If he should die, I will
shoot his oldest son, and if lie jumps
the country, I will kill the next."
"What in the world do you mean, my
boy?" I asked in amazement. He re
plied: "Just what I tell you. Old
Yelvington killed my father, and the
day of the funeral I swore I would
fix him. I have nearly enough money
to get the rifle, and when I do,
something is going to drop yonder;
you know what the laws of revenge
is."
I was well-nigh speechless with as
tonishment. "My young friend," said
1, kindly, "don't you know, if you
kill that man you will have to fly
from home, go to prison, or be hang
ed? Do you know what an awful
thing murder is? What does God's
Word say about it?" He answered:
We ain't go no Bible at our house."
I talked earnestly and tenderly
with him, bringing out the Gospel
rule of forgiveness. He was deeply
moved, and tears were in his eyes.
Before we parted he promised to give
up his dreadful plans. I took a Bible
from my bag, wrote his name in it.
and gave it to him. Some month.?
after, it was the means of his con
version, also "that of his mother and
sister. It pays to teach the children
God's Word.
That little Bible saved an old
man's life, it saved our State a mur
der trial, a boy from becoming a
criminal, and it all cost twenty-five
cents. One good book, one kind word,
often saves a child from the down
ward career. Selected.
that is best and purest. Such was
Christ. He stood in the world the
Light of the world, to which all
sparks of light gradually gathered.
He stood in the presence of impurity,
and men became pure. Selected.
Midnight Oii Means Suicide, Says Dr.
Edward Everett Hale.
"People talk about the midnight
oil as if it had some virtue attached
to it," writes Dr. Hale in Woman's
Home Companion for August. "In
truth, four times out of five, mid
night oil means over-work or it
means that you have neglected some
duty which should have been attend
ed to before the sun went down.
"Unless each night recovers the
ground lost in the exertion of the day
before, you are committing suicide
by inches; and you have no right to
commit suicide at all."
Power of Purity.
It is a marvelous thing to see how
a pure and innocent heart purifies all
that it approaches. The most feroci
ous natures are soothed and tamed
by innocence. And so with human
beings; there is a delicacy so pure
that vicious men in its presence be
come almost pure; all of purity that
is in them is brought out; like at
taches itself to like. The pure heart
becomes a center of attraction around
which similar atoms gather and from
which dissimilar ones are repelled. A
corrupt heart elicits in an hour all
that is bad in us; a spiritual one
brings out and draws to itself all
Amusing.
Bill Nye, the humorist, once had a
cow to sell and advertised her as
follows: "Owing to my ill health, I
will sell at my residence, in town
ship nineteen, range eighteen ac
cording to the Government's survey,
one plush raspberry cow, aged eight
years. She is of undoubted courage,
and gives milk frequently. To a man
who does not fear death in any form
she would be a great boon. She is
very much attached to her present
home with a stay-chain, but she will
be sold to any one who will agree
to treat her right. She is one-fourth
Shorthorn and three-quarters hyena.
I will also throw in a double-barreled
shotgun, which goes with her. In
May she usually goes away for a
week or two and returns with a tall
red calf with wobbly legs. Her name
is Rose. I would rather sell to a
non-resident." Judge's Library.
I wonder why it is we are not all
kinder than we are? How much the
world needs it! How easily it is
done! How infallibly it is remem
bered! How superabundantly it
pays itself back! For there is no
debtor in the world so honorably, so
superbly honorable, as love. "Love
never faileth." Professor Drum-mond.
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On the proper sealing of your jellies and preserves depends
their "keeping. " Metal and glass caps too often leak; tying
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The only way to regenerate the
world is to do the duty which lies
nearest to us, and not to hunt after
grand far-fetched ones for ourselves.
Canon Kingsley.
HEADACHE.
Frequent, or periodical headaches, weaken
the brain, and very often extinguish the light
of reason. Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pills will euro
headache quickly, by soothing the irritated
nerves of the brain. They also prevent pain if
taken when first symptoms of headache annear
25 doses, 25c Never sold in bulk.
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Seashore Excursion to Norfolk by
Seaboard July 15th and 16th.
The Seaboord will operate their next Sa
shore, popular excursion to Portsmouth-Norfolk
and Virinia Seashore Resorts leaving
Raleigh and Durham at 9:30 a. m. Tuesday Julv
14th making connection with trains from Ox
ford and Louisburg and taking on passengers
at all points to Weldon arriving Portsmouth at
3:30 p. m. allowing a day and a half and two
nights in Norfolk. Returning to leave Ports
month at 9:00 a. m. on Thursday July 16rh.
Round trip rate from Raleigh and Durham $3.00:
Louisburg $3.00; Oxford $2.50; Henderson $2.50;
Weldon $2.00.
See your Aeent or address the undersigned
for further information,
C. H. GATTIS. T. P. A.
Tucker Bldg., Raleigh, N. C.
Norfolk & Southern Ry
Fitzgerald. Wolcottand Kerr. Receivers.
WEEK-END RATES.
The Norfolk & Southern Railway announces
the following attractive Week-End low fares
during the season of 1908 to Norfolk, Va., and
return:
FUOM FA KB
Raleigh, via. N. & S. Ry, $5.00
Wendell, " 5.h
Zebulon, " 5.00
Wilson, " 5.00
Farmville, " 5.00
Greenville, " 5.00
Grimesland, " 5.00
Goldsboro, " 6.70
Kinston, " direct or via Goldsboro
and A. G. L 6,70
New Hern, via N. & S. Ry direct or via.
Goldsboro and A. C. L 6.70
Vanc'boro, via. N. & S. Ry, 5.90
Chocowinity, " 5.00
Washington, " 5.00
Pinetown, " . 4 50
Plymouth, " 4.10
Mackey's Ferry," 4.10
Fares for children 5 years of age and under 13
half of the above fares.
Tickets good for morning trains only, Satur
day, June c, and every Saturday thereafter to
and including Saturday, September 5, 1908, lim
ited three days, including date of sale.
Electric service from Norfolk to Virginia
Beach and Cape Henry, Va., round trip 25 cents.
Trains leave City Hall Avenue, opposite Mon
ticello Hotel every half hour.
R. E. L. BUNCH. Traffic Manager.
H. C. HUDGINS, Gen. Pass. Agt.
P. W. TATUM, Div. Pass. Agent.
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