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. " . : , - . : r F&ge Eight. TH CAXJCAEIAil (Tfcunular, February 20. 1913. The Home Come t wmiiHiWili I . .. -r - - - - i- ' - i JIMMY COOPER'S WOODCHUCK. every ciiristtax a soul-wix- ST.ll. WHEN I PAtti OS. When I shall fill my Utile niche no more, ! And others pau mjr old accustomed spot. Will those who knew me truly, pavss bfore The empty apace, and sigh that I am not? When I hall drift beyond my alater ah I pa. And my poor baric shall land my voyage through. Would I could hear the words from loving Up. "We'll miss the Utile craft, 'twas brave and true." When I shall leave life's sweet and bitter school. And fare me forth byond its narrow pale. Will any say. who stay within Its rule. "She bravely tried her task, she cannot fall?" When I shall lay aside life's web, and sleep. Will any aar. "She tolled well and fair?'' Or Will they find my broken threads and wsep O'er the poor weaver's unrequited care? When I have vanished from the little band or ihnu wUh whom I've worked and laughed and played, win nnv bv my earthly pillow stand And say. "We loved her would that she had stayed r Iaura Burnett Lawson. PKAYING- FOIl A TYPEWRITER. By Mary Alice Hoover. "Mrs. Leslie writes that one of the neediest needs o their mission sta tiQji.is a typewriter," observed Mlra, laying down the letter she had been reading. "I should think so!" Inez's tone members were admitted to the circle. Enthusiasm ran high, and after some discussion, the whole seven wauea upon Juliana to tell her what they hoped to do. Juliana was in her room packing her things ready to leave for a brief stay with her family before starting on her long journey over sea. 'You dear girls!" she exclaimed. her face alight with wonder and joy. "That Is what I, too, have been ask ing of God that He would give me a typewriter. It makes me feel so strong and sure to know you are praying, too." Juliana's words deepened the pur pose of the typewriter band. In the midst of term-end examinations and busy preparations for Christmas treats for ragged classes and destl-; tute families, they still found time to meet and pray and report the results of their various plans. A dozen ways of raising the price of a typewriter were discussed and sev eral of them tried, but, oddly enough nothing was met on every hand but discouragement and failure. Inez and Ora even went so far as to visit two leading typewriter establishments, seeking the donation o a machine to missionary work; but, being ama teurs In asking, they were shown held a shade of Indignation. just gcant attention, and came home dis imaglne their doing all that corre- Consolate. sportflence In long hand!" She shut "We've tried everything," declared the "Life of Paul" she had been IneZf at tne ia8t little gathering be- studying, with a bang. fore they scattered for the holidays, "And Juliana is a stenographer," uniees some of you can think of thoughtfully countlnued Mira. something to do at home during va- "Yes, and with no typewriter to catlon. I've got to stay here In the takevwlth her to India, and no pros- city and WOrk to help pay my next pect of having one, either. It's mad- term's board, and I won't have time dening!" t to do anything more.' But Mira remained unruffled. We "We'll all keep on praying," said must send a typewriter with Juli- Mlra, confidently. "I still believe ana," she asserted. that, if we persist, the typewriter will "Send a typewriter with Juliana! come." How. I should like to know? The "Well, let me know as soon as it wfcoJLe schoolful of us couldn't spare happens, for I confess my faith Is sixty dollars." dwindling," answered Inez, trying "I know," Mira assented. "Almost not to look as utterly blue as she every one is earning her way, or part felt. otlt. and it's just holiday time, too, "We will," chorused the others, but" encouragingly. "We'll telegraph." '0h, don't mention Christmas," "Keep your faith bright." "Good g&aned Inez. "I'm crushed to earth bye, dear, don't work too hard." lfeause I can't send any gifts home "Good-bye!" "Good-bye!" this year just long letters with lots Several days passed before Inez nf lnvA in them. But." she added, received any communication from stoutly, "if I had anything to give, the absent band. Then came a post I'd rather contribute It toward the card message from Mlra, brief, yet typewriter. I never realized before significant: . a !.1iAAirkA f r I HOW missionaries are uduuH-ayu 4 riQnT. TOT. pipaRA Kand mft the lack of common necessities. It's " infnrmatlnn vou La, X, uiivv m w m. - -- sr Jimmy Cooper's father own the (Epworth Herald.) Sour mill on the stone road, and. -rfce Howard W. Pop iitJ Jimmy Alien lives la that Uny brown thtt T(Ty christian can b a toll house near the mill. He and Jimmy winner, if he will, and gives thU Cooper are great ineuos. striking Illustration: j One day Jimmy Cooper Invited Jim- jf Jon fay lbal you don't have p my Allen to help him catch a wood- port unit!-. Juit stop and count thera chuck. . for a tingle day, and you will fee sur- "lt's a easy as anything If yoa pr;s. to how many people you know how," explained Jimmy Cooper, ccm jn contact with to whoa yoa tossing a clump of grass into the mill might say a word pond. "The mill man told me. lie friend of mine wu giving a says most woodchucks ba?e a front. Bible reading when a lady came up door and a back door." j to her. and said: "Mrs. Walker. 1 "O. I know that much," Interrupt- don't believe some things you said to ed Jimmy Allen, and he, too, threw day. You said every Christian could a clump of grass Into the mill pond, win souls to Christ If he would. Look His clump of grass went father than. t me. for Instance. I am a mother Jimmy Cooper's and made bigger clr-j with several small children. I have rlta In the water. I to do my own work. I couldn't bo "Well, let's hear you tell what you1 here today, only my mother has coma know," Jimmy Cooper suggested, from the country, and is taking car snatching his hat from the grass as of the children. So you see btere Is he spoke, and making a dive at a but- one person who can't lead souls to terfly. The butterfly escaped. Christ." "You stop up one end of the bur-; "I may be rather stupid." Mrs row so the woodchuck won't get out.": Walker answered, "but I can't see It continued Jimmy Allen, "and pour in yet. Will you allow me to ask you a water at the other end until the few questions?" woodchuck is drowned." Then he "Yes." made a dive at the butterfly with his "Does the milkman ever come to nid atraw hat. and caueht It. our house?" That's the way to capture a wood- for Him. AoJ that very day nine people came to ay bona to whom I bad aa opportunity of giving gotpl messages, aad to-day sva out of the nine are Carlstiara. I bUv what you said Is true, that every Christian can. tf be will, les4 sotae soal to Jfus Christ. HOW MAIUJAHET CHEEKED VP. Margaret Drtce was looking oat of chuck If you want it fo ra pet!" ex claimed Jimmy Cooper, watching the quickly released butterfly float through June sunshine. "Catch a woodchuck with your hat?" Inquired Jimmy Allen. "No. I mean catch him alive. My father's mill man says that two boys "Comes every morning." "Is he a Christian?" "Well. I never thought of it" "Does the grocer ever come to your house?" "Yes, he comes every day gener ally twice a day." "Is he a converted maa?" "Really, I don't know I never the window to catch the first glltap of her sister when she should eome home from echo!. It was so lon!y. with Gertie at school, mamma down town, aad aarse taklag her nap. Mar garet had come downstairs to the li brary to sit la the big arm -chair aad look out on the broad, snowy street. "I woader If there are other little girls who are too tittle to go to school, aad don't have anythr&g to do?" thoucht Marraret aloud, for that was her usual way of thlaklag. "Yes. iadeed. there are a great many little girls "O Miss White Is that you? To so glad to see you. Mother lsa't at home, but you will stay with me. woa't you. for I havea't a person to talk to." "Yes, dear; but 1 can't stay very long. I have just been to see a fam ily of children, ssch as you were speaking of." "Do tell me about them." said Mar garet. settling herself for a story. "There's Isn't much to tell," began Mis White. -Five little ch&lrva. all too assail to go to school, are UTi aloe. all day b:ao ihtif natW has to work la a Vic factory. Thy have only one Uy thing, which t a doll sad oat of a clothes eta aai i tors old rag." -Why. Mis White. I hav s.t lots of flajtttaga. aad there's oaly of cae." -Ye." aawre4 MU White, aad then there was slleoc tor a few tata- tttes, when Margaret said: "Do 70s sappo last they woald like aay ef ray tfclagsf" Miss White assured her that Uey would be delighted with thesa. Tha the plaaalag began, tad U was at last delded that Margaret shoald get the playthings tosetber oa the loaely afteraooas. aad oa Christmas tfey would give them to the other lHl children. 'It seems fanny. " Margaret a heard to remark some tloe later, "that la helplag other people to pass the time It go easier for yoa." Presbyterian. Is It not true that a taaa's hert can really be oaly la the heart of his work, aad that the most coaaoiea tlous falthfulaee la details will al ways beloag to the maa. aot who serve the details, but who serves the idea of the work he has to do? PhllllM Brooks. t . , t asked him." can do it u one ooy noias a uasa-et (( . i v. v. i,..,. Does the 1 1 g u L over me iiuui uvui w. mo uu- butcher ever come Then the other boy goes to the your house?" to row. back door of the burrow and builds a fire In It. Pretty soon the smoke gets so bad, Mr. Woodchuck thinks his kitchen stove must be smoking. But, If he goes back through the long hall and through his bed-room to see what is the maUer, he thinks his house Ispn fire, and straight he goes to the front door, ker-bang into the basket! It is just as easy! All you have to do Is, shut down the basket tight, and there is your pet woodchuck!" "That is easy," agreed Jimmy Al len. "Let's try it. I want to catch him in the basket." - . "Is he a Christian?" By that time her face began to color up, and she answered in a rough way: "I don't know anything about it." And away she went, leaving Mrs. Walker alone. Two years after that a lady came up to Mrs. Walker In another city. and said: "Mrs. Walker, do you re member me?" "No." "Well. I have seen you." And then she went on to recall this inci dent, and she said: "Went home pretty well disgusted with you and I with mvself. too. if I confess the "S'pose you dare?" questioned Jim-, truth and j iay awake that night. ray Cooper. Sometimes wooacnucKs thinking the matter over, and asking bite. a ah 9 mo- and vet here are we, a bunch of us, unable to do a thing!" Mira smiled a prophetic smile. "We are getting ready to help later," she Baid. "And even now we can pray for the work. Don't you believe, Inez, that if we prayed for a type writer we'd get it?" inoi's faoft softened. "You re a Hvinir rfthuke to me. Mlra." she ex- o - can find on Juliana's field. My home League has asked me to speak to them Sunday evening on Missions, and of course I shall tell them about Juliana. Pray for me! . Mlra." Inez had found a place to do house work not far from the school, and she spent her hours off that evening, claimed, affectionately. "I'm always searchlng in its library. At a late looking at my own insufficiency, while hour she posted a letter, full of mls you are the personification of the Bi0nary incidents and facts, text: 'Our sufficiency Is from God. j WOnder what Mlra Intends to I'm afraid my prayers aren't very as them to do," she wondered sleep effective, 4ear but I'm ready to join as sne went home to bed. "They them with yours." could hardly do it all just one Ep- It was a wholly natural and whole- WOrth League and Mlra isn't any some thing that these two young wo- great speaker, if she is the dearest men, seniors in the Bible and Social giri jn the world. I wonder what the Service Training School, should form Lord does think of our asking Him, a compact of prayer, for faith in out and out, for a definite thing, any orayer was the oxygen element that way." And she waited, with alter- vitalized the school atmosphere. Sim- natlng hopes and fears, till a report ply they knelt and made known their fr0m Mira should come request to the everlasting Giver of "if Mlra malls me a letter to-day I all. A member of their class, beauti- oneht to eet It to-morrow," sae was ful Juliana Weeks, was going to In- thinking on Monday over her tubs, dla to meet an emergency call from wnen she was Interrupted by a blue- the missionary ranks. The summons coated messenger boy with a yellow was so urgent, the need so vital, that envelope in his hand. she had decided not to wait to gradu- "She telegraphed! They did say ate with the others, but was to sail in they'd telegraph!" she exclaimed, just three weeks. The girls, her as- wiping her hands excitedly and tear rvrla.tes for many months, were burn- inz 0Den the dispatch. This is what ing with the desire to help in some sne read: way the work to which she was or- ... erv faring her splendid young life. They had been reading the letter from Mrs. Leslie, a missionary on the field, that had hastened Juliana's decision, "Sixty dollars raised by Wes ton League. Story later. Hal lelujah! Mlra." "Dare! who's afraid?" replied Jim my Allen. "Let's get to work, be cause we ought to build a pen to keep him in." "And make him a warm little win ter house of stones and sod," added Jimmy Cooper. "My father's man says the reason woodchucks get so fat in the summer is because they go to sleep in the autumn and don't wake up until spring. I want my pet wood chuck to be as comfortable as he would be at home." While the boys built the peD, with help and advice from the miller's hired man, they talked of Jimmy's woodchuck. "It will be such fun to watch him comb lis face!" exclaimed Jimmy Cooper "Comb his face!" repeated Jimmy Allen, in tones of astonishment "Yes, sir, that is what 'Johnson's Natural History says. He will sit on his hind legs like a squirred and lick and smooth his fur like a cat. He will clean and comb his face with his Haws, too! It seems as if I can't wait!" When all was ready, the miller's man left his work to watch the boys catch the woodchuck When jimmy Cooper at one end of the burrow was about to light his match, he called to Jimmy Allen at the other end: "Basket bas-ket watch out!" Scr scratch went the match on a brick, and crackle crackle the fire began to burn. Jimmy Allen wasn't afraid as he clung to the basket against the hill side, but he kept wriggling his bare toes and sending loose stones bum-pety-bang, bumpety-bang, into the river below. "Watch out! watch out!" warned Jimmy Cooper at last. "He thinks ( his house is on fire by this time: pret ty smoky in there!" The next minute something went Dang bump! against the basket, and Jimmy Allen was rolling down hill. If his blouse hadn't caught on some bushes, he might have rolled into the water. "Where is the woodchuck?" he myself whether It really was true that God wanted me to talk to those people who were coming to my house every day. I didn't see how I could do it, but I came to this conclusion, that if the Lord wanted me to do It, He would show me the way; so I made up my mind to begin with the milkman. I went down the next morning, and waited for him, and I had a nice little speech all ready Soon he came in and poured out his milk, and out he went, before I could begin my speech. I couldn t find either end of it before he was out of the door, so I dropped the speech, and ran after him and called his name, hie came DacK. " 'Want another quart?' and he began to pull out his quart measure, " No, sir, but I would like to ask you a question; I would like to ask you whether you are a Christian.' He looked at me a full moment, and then he said: 'Madam, why didn't you ask me that question last winter? Last winter we were having special meetings in our church, and I was interested and wanted to become a Christian, but I was too proud to tell them down at the church; so I kept talking to you about those who had been converted, I kept telling you about other people hoping you would turn the conversation and say some thing to me about becoming a Chris tian. Now, madam, you have lost your opportunity, for I don't care a snap for the whole business;' and he nicked ho his can and went out. You can imagine how I felt. I just lay down on my face on that cold floor. and if ever I confessed my sins to God I did that morning. I promised Him I would try to live henceforth combine the advantages of eoll renovator, forage and cash crop. It pays to icrtiiirc thrm correct!. 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THE CAUCASIAN RALEIGH n. a whon sh had sent awav the boy. a ; communication full of the mission-Lo11fh m the r was no answer. Inez noiiori a h scrambled to his feet arles' successes, their needs and their Jaid her head a moment on tne kitch- and tried to pretend he didn't care heavy burdens, especially that of a eQ uble and cried Just DeCause if he had skinned his knee. large and necessary corresponaence. God didnt drop tne typewriter from "Where is he?" repeated Jimmy Now, Juliana, in addition to many the gkieg &t onC6j T thought He hadn't Cooper. "I'm sure I don't know! I other graces, was a thorough busi- beard sne sobbed, penitently. "But laughed so hard I didn't see what ness girl, with the magic-of system here Re haa brougnt everything became of the woodchuck!" In her brain and speed in her finger- about naturally, through an ordinary "There he is!" called the miller's tips. All that was lacking to make girl and an ordinary Epworth League man, pointing to a higher spot on the a perfect secretary for the station that w&g ugt waiting to be connected river bank. "Look, boys, look, he's was the typewriting machine. "Lord, with julianas need. If the Lord a-winkin' at you, I do believe!" gtve Juliana a typewriter! We would wm Qnly forgive me, I'll never doubt sure enough, there sat the wood give it if we could, but we have no Rig promlses again." chuck on his hind legs, gazing down resources, and so. we come to Thee!" nci then she went so energetically upon the little boys. Possibly he pleaded Mira, and added, reverently, tQ wQrk at ber wasniag and sang an took them for the fire department, in closing: "All 'things whatsoever accompaniment with such spirit, that! Anyway, he made a few cheerful re- ye pray and ask for, believe mat ye nermistresa upstairs stopped to listen receive them, and ye shall have and tQ wonder wfcat it was that made them." her maid-of-all work so happy. Se- "Now," planned Inez, as tney rose lected from their knees, 'why not asK in a m V, crr-a and tflllr AVfirV- itSW Ol WO Ulucl - I . . . . A Vnon tttVi n thing over? Perhaps together we can it is not enougu tu u, th nk of something to do to help an- are dear to us. We must show that swer our own prayers. You go to we do so. Many of us, through ig- - JL 1' ad norance. thoughtlessness, or want of LTMrrV"ines7 and X Ora lament, wounc . tnose wwe r. tt i I iove uesi, " Mira agreed, and five additional' Lord Avebury. marks, cleaned his coat, and combed his face, just as the miller's man said he did! . 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