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In a dark and dismal alley, where the sunshine never came, Dwelt a little lad named Tommy, sick ly, delicate and lame. He had never yet been healthy but had lain since he was born. Dragging out his weak ex stence, well nigh helpleses and forlorn. He was six, was little Tommy, ’twas just five years ago Since his drunken mother dropped him and the babe was crippled so He had never kn6wn the comfort of a mother's tender- care, But her cruel blows and curses made his pain still worse to bear. There he lay within the cellar, from the morning till the night, * Starved, neglected, cursed, ill-treat-, ed, naught to make his dull life bright; Not a single friend to love him, not a living thing to love — For he knew not of a Savioi or a heav en above. ’Twas a quiet summer evening, and the ;■ alley, too, was still; | Tommy's heart was sink.ng, and he felt so lonely till i Plotting up the alley, wafted inward from the street, | Came the sound of -ome one singing, sounding oh, so clear and sweet, j Eagerly did Tommy listen as the singing nearer came, Oh, that he could see the singer! How he wished he wasn’t lame. Then he called and shouted loudly, till the singer heard the sound, And < ns 1 :’ r ' •••• " t ued, soon the little cripple found. ’Twos .1 maiden, r ugh and rugged, hair unkempt and naked feet, Ail her g. rmenls torn and ragged, hei - r front neat. “So yer called me?” said the maid en, “Wonder what yer wants of me, Most folks cull me ‘Singing Jessie’, Wot may your name chance to be?” “My name's Tommy; I’m a or pole; and I want to hear you sing, For it makes me feel so happy sing the same thing, anything.” Jess e laughed and answered smiling: “I can’t stay here very long, But I’ll sing a hymn to please you, v.ot I calls the ‘Glory Song’.” Then she sang to him of heaven, pear ly g..tes and streets of gold, Where the happy angel children are not starved or nipped with cold, i.ut where happiness and gladness never can decrease or end, And where kind and loving Jesus is their sovereign and their friend. Oh, how Tommy’s eyes did glisten as he drank in every word As it fell from ‘Singing Jessie’ —was it true, what he had heard ? And so anxiously he asked her, “Is there really such a place?” And a te-:r began to trickle down his pallid little face. “Tommy, you’re a heathen; why it’s up beyond the sky, And if yer will love the Savior, yer shall go there when yer die.” “Then,” said Tommy, “tell me Jessie, how can I the Savior love, When I’m down in this ’ere cellar, and He’s up in heaven above?” So the little ragged maiden, who had heard at Sunday School, All about the way to heaven and the Christian’s Golden Rule, ELEPHANT REPEATS ACT AFTER 14 YEARS A decree issued by the late Emper or Francis Joseph 11 years ago, re cently was vacated and the act which caused the issuance of the decree im mediately repeated by the one punish ed for it. The victim of the aped emperor’s wrath was “Maid/,” the female elephant, born at Schoenbrun Zoological Garden, in Vienna, June 17, 1906. . When about live years old “Maidy was being admired one day by a party which included a lady-in waiting at the royal court. Filling her trunk from the great concrete tank which had been provided for her, “Maidy” blew the water straight into the face of the lady-in waiting. When the emperor heard of the mis behavior he ordered the elephant’s tank covered and condemned “Maidy” to go without a hath for the remain der of her life. It happened that the 19th anni versary of the elephant's birth last month was a warm day, and those now in charge of alfairs in Austria figuring that no danger could come decree, restored “Maidv’s” bathing tan. The big beast plainly showed her delight with her first plunge in 14 years. That plunge apparently itecalled her last previous one and “Maidy,’’ I I I 1)11. J. C. MANN Dr. J. C. Mann, the well known Eyc-sitfht Specialist, will be at his office in the >uildiiu: with Dr. j I Barbee and Dr. Flowers, in Zebu- | | lon. N. every second Tuesday ! I in each month. Classes fitted that ! are correct. Headaches relieved I when caused by eye strain. ( hil dren and yountt people's eyes I given expert attention. His next visit here will be SEPTEMBER BTH I 1 “Tommy’s Prayer” Taught the little cripple, Tommy, how to love and how to pray; She sang a “Song of Jesus,” kissed his cheek and went away. Tommy lay within the cellar, which had grown so dark and cold. Thinking all about the children in the streets of shining gold; And he heeded not the darkness of that drear and chilly room, For the joy in Tommy’s bosom could disperse the deepest gloom. “Oh, if I could only see it,” thought the cripph as he lay; “Jessie said that Jesus listens, and I think I’ll try to pray.” So hee put his hands together, and he closed his little eyes, | And in accents weak, yet earnest, senl this message to the skies: “Gentle Jesus, please forgive me, as I didn’t know afore, That you cared for little cripples who is weak and very poor, And I never heard of heaven, till that Jessie came today, j And she told me all about it, so I wants to try and pray. You can see me, can't yer Jesus? Jes i sie told me that you could, And I somehow must believe it, for it • seems so prime and good: * And she t id me if I love you, I should see you when I die, In the bright and happy heaven that is up beyond the sky. i .i d, I'm only just a cripple, and I’m no use here below, 1 r i heard my mother whisper, she’d be glad if I could go. And I’m cold and hungry some-.mes, and T feel so lonely, too, r take me. ge.itle Jesus, ur to heaven, along o’ you? “Oh. I'd be so good and patient, and I’d never cry or fret, And your kindness to me Jesus, I would surely not forget; 1 would love you all I know of and would never make a noise. Can’t vou find me just a corner, where I'll watch the other boys? “Oh, I third: you’ll do it, Jesus, some thing seems to tell me so, For 1 feel so glad and happy and I do so want to go. How 1 long to see yer, Jesus, and the children all so bright; Come and fetch me, won’t yer Jesus? come and fetch me home tonight. Tommy ceased his suplication; he had told his soul’s desire, And he waited for the answer til! his head began t«* t re; Then he turne d toward his corner and lay huddled in a heap, Closed his little eyes so gently, and was quickly fast asleep. In the morning when the mother came to wake her crippled boy, She discovered that his features wore a look of sweetest joy. And she shook him some what rough ly, but the crippled face was cold; He had gone to join the children, in the streets of shining gold. Tommy’s prayer had soon been an swered, and the angel, Death, had come, To remove him from his cellar to his bright and heavenly home, Where sweet comfort, joy and glad ness never decrease or end, And where Jesus reigns eternal, his sovereign and his friend. VIOLA MINGA Wakefield, N. C., Route 1. | perhaps thinking it part of the pro gram as before, immediately filled 1 her trunk with water and then emp- I tied it into the faces of the park inspector and half a dozen of h.s 1 friends who had assembled to watch her get reacquainted with the tank. This time, however, the offense was overlooked. BORROWING BY WIRE A loan of $3,000,000 cash from Dallas (Tex.) banking institutions was recently negotiated entirely by telephone. The loan was secured by the Texas Farm Bureau Cotton Asso -1 ciation and it required only five min utes to put it through. Order Your Winter Before Prices Go t T p A Miners’ Strike is Threatened. If it is I Carried Out Prices Wiil Go Up. Order j Now For Fall Delivery. | \n. Ji. FINCH & CO,’ THE ZEBULON RECORD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 14,1925 SALISBURY YOUTH WINS SI,OOO PRIZE. | T. E. Conrad, Jr., of Salisbury, son' of Engineer T. E. Conrad of the Ashe ville Division of the Southern, has re ceived from Alexander Williams, sec retary of the American Chemical So- ( ciety, a check for one thousand dol- ■ lars as first prize in an essay contest which included all colleges in the United States. When young Conrad w-rote the essay this spring he was a freshman in Rutherford College. The subject was “An Outstanding Contribution of Chemistry to Human [ Welfare,” and he wrote the essay in' three hours while on class not having j previously known what the subject j would be. Last year Mr. Conrad won. first prize for North Carolina in a similar contest among high school students. Mr. Conrad recently married and has gone to work for an insurane company, but heartened by the re ception of the prize h’e has decided to return to school in the fall and prose cute his studies in chemistry. The money for this and five other prizes on similar subjects was donated by Mr. and Mrs. Francis P. Garvan of New York. MEN WHO ROASTED BOY HELD. UNDER HEAVY BOND Marvin and Mann Thornton, whe live in the southeastern part of John ston county, were given a preliminary aring last week before Recorder Fzra Parker at Smith field and bound over to the Superior court on the ■ ohrge rs assaulting Hubert Gainey' vi;li intent to kill. Their bonds were fixed at $2,000 each, which they pro vided. The two Thorntons were c’n irged by Gainey, 10 years old, who lives n the same community, with holding him over a burning stump cn the night of March 26th last, until he was liter ally cooked. The victim of the al leged assilult is maimed for life and is net yet considered out of danger. He spent two months in the Dunn Community Hospital undergoing treatment and has suffered greatly from his burns. The only testimony offered by the State at the prelimi nary hearing was that of the prose cuting witness and the defense didn’i put on any evidence. Watch the Fac tory' to You SALE! 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