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TEH PBCGH1EB3ITOI PABE2EB : HAY 16. 1899 4 Little Folks. GOD HELP THE BOY. God help the boy who never sees The butterflies, the birds, the bees, Nor hears the musio of the breeza When Eaphys soft are blowing Who cannot in sweet comfort lie Where clover blooms are thick and high And hear the gentle murmers nigh Of brooklets sof Jy flowing. G id help the boy who does not know Where all the woodland berries grow, Who never Bees the forests glow When leaves are red and yellow. Whose childish feet can never stray, Fjr such a helpless boy, I say. When nature does her claims display, God help the little fellow. Nixon Waterman. A BOY'S RELIGION. Not Grandmotherly, But Boyish. It was the late Henry Drummond who onca said to a great company of boys: "Boys, if you are going to be Christians, bo Christians as boys and not as your grandmothers. A grand mother has to be a Christian as a grandmother, and that i3 the right and beautiul thing for her; but it you can not read your B:Dle by the hour as your grandmother can, don't think that you are necessarily a bad boy. When you are your grandmothers's age, you will have have your grand mother's religion." Now, there ia a great deal in the above for a boy to take to heart; for some boys have the idea that they will be expected to put aside most of their propensities, if they take upon them eelvc3 the duties of Christian boys. This is a mistake. No one expects, no one wants them to give up their natural rights and feelings of boyhood. They are not to bo in the least grand motherly or grandfatherly, but they are to be happy in the way in whi:h God intended that all youth should be happy. Oe of the truest hearted Christian boys I know is also the merriest. No one would think of calling him "grind motherly." Ha reads his Bible, too, and goes regularly to church, to Sun day school, and to prayer meeting. Ho is at the eame time such a good ball player that he is aiways chosen fire t when the boys are choosing sides for a game. And no boy of his age can ex eel him at football or at tennis. And they always ay of him: "Harry plays fair ; he does ! ' Ha is the life of the social gatherings he attends, and his reputation for absolute truthfulness is such that the teacher of the school he attends told me not long ego, that on one occasion, when the boys on the playground were hotly discussing a certain matter and there had been charges of falsehood made and still more hotly refuted, one of the boys said: "Let Harry M tell the straight of the story. He knows all about it, and he'il tell the exact truth." It is a fine thing for a boy to have a reputation like that in the coco munity in which he lives. At another time the pupils in H rry's room had met to select some ono cf their number to present a certain re qieat to the principal of the school, and H ;rry was immediately chosen, "because he is so sort of gentlemanly," as one of tne boj s said. This was a tribute to the unfailing power and in fljsnco of real courtesy, and true cour tesy is a marked trait of Christian character. Hirry i3 a Christion boy in a boyish way, which is q'jite as charmiDg and impressing as the grandmotherly way of being a Christian. All Christianity is ba;ed on right thinking and right living, without regard to ege. Ech decade cf life has its own particular j iys in the Cariatian life. They are all G:d given, and none are sweeter thaa th9 joys of trua Christian bey .hood. Rj!ormed Church Messenger. CIGARETTES Suppose a boy has a lot of cigarettes and emokes a few of them every day. Is there any injury in this? I can tell you, for I have had such boys for pa tients. Bach smoking, even in so called moderation (is if there was any such thing as moderation in stimu lants for the young!) will do three things for him: 1. It will tun his pulso up to one hundred or more per minute. 2. It will reduce his weight below the healthy standard. 3 It will reduce his strength and general vitality, as will appear in his pale complexion and his diminished appetite. Cigarette smoking is one cf the worst habits physically that a boy can form. It injures the heart and diges tion, and it tends to check the growth It gives a lad false and silly notions, and does not bring him into good cam pany. Harper's Youag Peopie. Teacher. "Tommy, how dare you waste your drawing paper covering it with ridiculous picturea?" Tommy. "I didn't need the paper to draw on, caus3 I was drawing on my imagination." Ex uhristian Life Column, THE WORD SBB REMEL3BERED. "You remember the sermon you heard, my dear! ' The little one blushed and dropped her eyes, Then lifted them bravely with a look of cneer Eyes that were blue as the summer ekies. "I'm afraid I forgot what the minis ter said, He said so much to grown up men, And the pulpit was 'way up over my head; But I told mamma that he said Amen.' "And Amen,1 you know, meana "Lst it be,' Whatever our Lord may please to do, And that is sermon enough for me. If I mind and feel so, the whole week through." I took the little one's word to heart, I wish I could carry it all day long, The "Amen" spirit, which hides the art To meet each cross with a happy song. Philadelphia Call. INCESSANT WORRY. Paul Tyner, in one of his essays, says: "People everywhere are waking up to these facts: Worry ia wrong! Worry is unnecessary ! Worry must go!" So mote it be! The sooner this unnecessary, wrongful demon of fret fulness is given his "walking papers," the better for the world. Worry cer tainly has no place in the life of a be liever a worryiDg Christian, is indeed, a solecism. Helen Hunt Jackson wrote thus of the sin of fretting: "There is one sin which, it seems to me, is everywhere and by everybody underestimated, and quite too much overlooked in valuation of character. It i3 the ein of fretting. It is common as air, as epeech so common that, unless it rises above its usual mono tone, we do not e 7en observe it. Watch any ordinary coming together of peo pie, and see how many minutes it will bs before somebody frets that is. makes a more or less complaining state ment of something or other, which probably every one in the room or in the car or on the street corner, it may be, knew before, and probably nobody can help. Why eay anything about it! It is cold, it is hot, it is dry, some bedy has broken an appointment, ill cooked a meal; stupidity or bad faith somewhere has resulted in discomfort. There are plenty of things to fret about. It is simply astonishing how much annoyanca may be found in the course of every day's living, even of the simplest, if one keeps a sharp eye on that eide of things." This is cer tainly true ; and it is no less certain that a cheerful disposition may be cul tivated in the same way that the voice may be trained in harmony or the mind in various learning. If to hopeovermu is an error, Tis one that the wise have preferred ; For how often fcava Hearts been in ter ror O er evils that nver occurred ! Itisunwiaj to orood over our past eins. We should try to forget thrm. To recall them certainly does not de velop goodness. Ic rather ha trie op posite efljct. Tne thought cf them dampens our ardor, makes us timid and distrustful of ourselves Wnta we have repented of evil, and ask our Father to forgive ns. we should dis miss the thought of it, shut it out, let it have no place in our minds. Lit the dead past bury its dead. We must bo busy with that which is new and livhig. By pure thoughts, noble purposes, good works, we muss cowd evil out of our lives. God will he.pus to forget the wrong we once did, if we live with Him. We must work with him to prcduce that blessed oblivion to the past both by refusing absolutely to harbor the thought of old sins and by filling our lives wish all that pleat ea Him. Blessed is the man who culti vates the f orareittin of nvil.Ex. What singular factors in the prog ress of science are the twin methods of this advanced age, postmortem dis section, and the higher Bvolic! criti cism. Tne one seeking by t j mutila tion and examination of the dead body to understand and cure physical ills; the other seeking by mutilation and dissection of the naked text of the Bible to understand its spirit and im part to mankind the inspiration of its heavenly fire. Can mutilation and dis section detect or win back the vanished soul! Is the higher Bioucil criticism any more potent to roveal tho spirit of the Bible or transfuse ic into the hu man heartf-Ex: There is scare ily a crime which man commito, cr a sin of which he is guiity wbich does noc originate in selfiibnees. It is a vice that is never satisfied. It naa the utmost tenacity of life, and never uis a natural death. It exisie under a thouaacd different forms, and u every state of society. It is sappiDg the life blood of Christianity, and can be destroyed ODly by tne consumicg fire of the Holy Gsost. He. C H. Smith. TUB PROPOSED CONSTITU TIONAL AMENDMENT. Believing that no more important measure has been before the people of North Carolina for a score of years, we give in full herewith the proposed Con stitutional amendment, which we ex pect to keep standing until the election in August of next year. It is not nec essary for us to say that it should be carefully considered and that the voter should not allow prejudice to inflience him in deciding whether or not he will suDDort it. The amendment reads as follows: That article VI of the Constitution of North Carolina be, and the same is hereby repealed, and in lieu thereof shall be substituted the following ar ticle of said Constitution: ARTICLE VI. Soction 1 E 7ery male person born in the United States and every male person who has been naturalized, 21 years of age and possessing tho qualifi cations set out in this article, shall be entitled to vote at a.uy election by the people in the State, except as herein otherwise provided. Section 2. He shall have resided in the S;ate of North Carolina for two years, in the county six months, and in the precinct, ward or other district in which he offers to vote, four months next preceding the elcc:ion: Provided, That removal from one precinct, ward or other election district, to another in the same county, shall not operate to deprive any person of the right to vote in the precinct, ward or other election district, from which he has removed until four months after such removal. No person who has been convict 3d or who has confessed his guilt in open court upon indictment, of any crime, the punishment of which now is or may hereafter be, imprisonment in the State prison, shall be permitted to vole unless the said person shall be first re stored to citizenship in the manner prescribed by law. 8ection 3. E?ery person off ring to vote shall be at the time a legally regis tered voter as herein prescribed and in the manner hereafter provided by law, and the General Assembly of North Carolina shall enact general registra tion laws to carry into effect the pro visions of this article. S3Ction 4. Any person presenting himself for registration or voting shall be able to read and write any part of the Constitution in the English lan guage, aod shall have paid by the first day of March the poll tax for the pre vious calendar year, as prescribed by law, and shall exhibit the receipt there for when he efferr vote. Poll taxes shall be a lien only on assessed prop erty, and no process shall issue to en force the collecti m of the same except against assessed property. Sictiou 5. No male person, who was on January 1, 18S7, or at any time prior thereto, entitled to vote under the laws of any 8tate in the U lited Spates wherein he then resided, and no lineal descendant of any such person, ehall be denied the right to register and vote at any election in this S;ate by reason of his failure to possess the educational qualification prescribed in section 4 of this Article: Provided, Ha shall have registered in accordance with the terms of this Article prior to December 1. 1903. The General Assembly shall provide for a permanet record of all persons who register under this tec lijnon or before November 1, 1908, and all eu:h person? shall be entitled to register and vote at all elections by the people in this State unless disqualified under section 2 of this article: Pro vided such persons shall have paid their poll tax as required by law." Section 6. All elections by the people shall be by ballot, and all elections by the General Assemble shall be viva voce. Soction 7 E rery voter in North Caro Una, except as in this Article diequali fied, shall be elgible to office, but be fore entering upon the duties of the office he shall take and subscribe the following oath; "I, , do sol emnly swear or affirm, that I will sup port and maintain the Constitution and laws of the Uaited States and the Con stitution and laws of Njrth Carolina, not inconsistent therewith, and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of my office as . So help me G,d." 8ection 8 The following classes of persons ehall b? disqualified for efface: First, all persons who deny the being of Almighty God. Sicond, all persons who shall have been convicted, or con fessed their guilt on indictment pend ing, and whether sentenced or not. or under judgment su-pended, of any treason or felony, or any other crime for which the punishment may be im prisonment in the penitentiary, since becoming a citizen of the United Scates, of corruption and malpractice in office, unless such person shall have been re stored to citizsnship in a manner pre scribed by law. Section 9 That all of the provisions of the Constitution relating to suffrage registration and elections, as contained in this act, amending the Constitu tion, shall go into effect on the first 'day of July, 1902. if a majority of the quali fied voters of the S sate so declare at the next general election. Section 10. Tnis amendment shall be submitted at the next general election to the qualified voters of the State, in the same manner and under the same rules and regulations as is provided in the law regulating general elections in this State, and in force May lit, 1899 ; and at said election those persons desiring to vote for such amend meet shall cast a written or printed ballot with the words "For Suffrage Amend ment" thereon : and those with a con trary opinion shall cast a written or printed ballot with the words "Against Suffrage Amendment" thereon. Section 11. The said election shall be held and the votes returned, compared, counted and canvassed, and the result announced, under the same rules and regulations as are in force for return ing, comparing, counting and canvass ing the votes for members of the Gen eral Assembly, May 1st, 1899, and if a majority of the votes cast are in favor of the said amendment, it shall be the riutv of the Governor of the State to certify said amendment under tho seal of the State to the Secretary of State, who shall enroll the said amendment so certified among the permanent re cords of his office. Section 12 This ect shall be in force from and after it? ratification. 4,QBQ Pounds is the guaranteed capacity of this wagon. It is equipped with ELECTRIC STEEL WHEELS nlth stumer ova! spokes, broad tires, etc. uriasantrie steel nounas trout and rear.It's low down and eay toload. 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