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4 - - So nUH eSJptt lA1 lie, ana looked &C
eordtngiy, at every opportunity. He Ger
talnly fed the children we'll, and himselfvoo
he knew that every thing depended on Iii,
strength being kept up. His sister sat Oh
his knee to be fed till she could feed herself
lie was sorry to give it up but be said she
must learn to behave 50 helsmoothed heI
hair and washed her face before dinner. aud
showed her how 10 fold her hands while he
said grace. lie took as much pains to train
her to good manners at table as if he had
been q goyerness teaching little lady -
Willie she remained baby, he slept Ia The
middle at, fhs bad, befween the tive. thai
she mlghthave room and not be disturbed
and when she ceased to be a baby, he ST.
lently mad6neW arrangements. lie denied
himself hat, which he much wanted ia or.
der 70 buy aecoasiderablc quantity of coarse
dark calico, which, With his own hands be
made INTO cHrtaitls and siung up across a
part Of the room-tEus shutting OF about n
thlrde it. Here he contriyed 10 make up
little bed, for his sister and~he was net
satisfied until she bad a basin and lug, and
2 ple,J Of soap Of her own Here nobody
but himself was to intrude upon her with.
out leave and indeed, ho made her under.
stand that Ao came only 70 take care Of her
~ was not only that Willy was not to see
her addressed A>neighbor or TIVE now and
then lifted the latch without knocking
One Of these, one dry, heard something from
behind the curtain which made her call Ser
husband silently So listen and -the7 always
afterwards treated Josl as ii Le<Rere man
and one 70 whom they looked up to. lie
was Fteagaing the child her little prayer =
Thc edFaest, sweet, deyoat tones OF tie boy.
and ,tAo iEnooeut, cheerful inItatioa ty tie
il1N*one, were beautiful to hear, the lis
tvlGrs sad
Though 50 we'll taken care Of. she was nor
% be pampcred. There would have been ne
kindness in that. Very early, indeed, she
was taught in merry sqrt Of way, to put
things IN their places, and to sweep the
ioor,< and waslfup tie craaSery, Showas
a handy little thing, well trained and doc;Ec.
One reward that Joel had for his manage
ment was that she was early fit to 90 to
chapel This was agreat point ;.as be- wish
Sd 70 sendNilly regularly, could not 60 Till
ne could take the little girl with him. She
was never known to be restless; and Joel
was quite proud Of her
Wiley was not neglected fer the little
girls sake. In those days children went
earlier to the factory aud worked longer
than they do now and BY the time the Sis
ter was five years CID, Wiley beeamo.a fac
tory boy and bis pay put the little girl to
school, When She, at seven, went to tie
-------I4- a.
all, from the day of his mothers death
The time must have been go6d-werk con.
slant and wages steaay--or be could not
have done it, Now, when all three were
earning, he put his sister to a sewing school
FIR two evenings In the week, aud Saturday
afternoons lie and Wiley attended "a O.
yeniag school, as they found they couad@af.
ford it. He always escorted the little girl
wherever she had 10 go : into the factory
and home again 10 pthe school door aud
home "a g4in--a&d to the Sunday school yet
hs was himself remarkably pnnctual at work
anghat worship. lie was aafhumble, earnest,
d5eiIe pupil, himself, at the Sunday school
.z-quite unconscious that be was more I'D.
yaneed than any other boys ii the sublime
scitnte and practice Of duty lie felt that
every Body was very kind to him bat be
was unawarothat others felt it an honor TO
be kiad to him
linger ont these years. when he wss a ine
growing lad5-fn state Of high content. |
lif9Ar, Hing to proceed. But the end
must come; il is seontoid. He was sixteen
i think, when he was asked to become
teacher in the Sunday school, while/aot
wholly ccasing 10 becomF a scholar He
tried, and made a capital teacher, and he
won the hearts Of the children, while trying
to open their minds. By this be became
more widely known than before.
One day in the next year tremendous
elatter aud crash was heard in the factory
where Joel worked A dead silence sue.
ccelcd, aud then several called out that il
was ouly an iron bar that bad fallen down.
This was true but the iron. bar had fallen
on Joels head, and he was taken up dead.
Such funeral as his il rarely seen
There ia. something that strikes on all
hearts III thePFpcctacle Of soldiers funeral
The dkalm, the marched comrades, and the
beltand cap laid on tho coffin. But there
was sem etlihg more solemn aud more moy.
ing than ala such obseryances in the funeral
OF this young soldier, who bad 50 brayely
filed his place in the conflict of life. There
was the thread Of comrades here, for the
longest street was filed from end TO end
Tor relics, there were his brother and sister,
and for solemn dirge, the uncomfortable
gruaus Of the heart stricken multitude.
RIDE on THE BACK os A, HEENA A.
Dir. Sparman tells curious story Of a
hvena which was told him at the Cape o.
Good Hope One night the soldiers had :
feast near the Cape when one Of them wiz
was trumpeter drank so much that b
couldn't stand up Ills companions. no
wanting him in the room, carried him out 0
doors and laid him down beside the house
to ct cool and sober, The trumpeter laic
there AID went to sleep, when hyena camt
along and thinking him dead, began 10 car
( ~ Lin away, so as to make a meal of hin
undisturbed It was some time before tn
man awoke 50 as to know the danger Of hi
situation. When he did SO he found him
/ self on tie back of hyena. which was max
/ M off towards tile mountain with him q
fast As possible Being horror-straek a
finding himself in the power Of the ferociou
beast. his fear brought him to bis senses
and seizing his trumpet which hung areua
4 his neck, BE sounded an alarm. Tue beast
thinking he had only dead man, was
much frightened at the sound Of the trun
pet as the man was at his situatlonE IL s.
| dropping his prey, they seampered eva
from each other as fast As possible. II
not prebsble that any other man but Il
trumpeter would have escaped 50 easily.
-tSobody likes 10 be melody but e
arrhosv i nleased to think himself SOM