The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1879-07-02

tln2 2uleueu idlheT, puI suppose ai
your uncles and cousins are at the tor
of the ladder, too; don't you suppose
they would help you up?"
II don't want such help, said Bob
/ would rather depend on myself
But l tell you this, Jim; if we three
were to make up our minds that we
would not be nobodies all our lives
don't you think we would find the
way to be somebedies?"
"Good or bad?" asked Jim.
"Goed! | don't mean that we
would be rascals; but that we would
be honorable and useful, and when
we died, people would miss US. and
be sorry to lose us. Don't you be.
lieve we could do it?"
"Would it be much trouble?" in
Iquired Jim.
es, it would. Plenty of trouble
and hard work, replied Bob, stoutly;
that would be the way But we
are bound TO have trouble, suppose
every body says so, and so we might
as we'll make up our minds to it; but
we also might as well get some good
out of it"
"Now isn't he wise! said Jim, wise
beyond his years!'
II don't care, SAID Belle, about be-
ing anything wonderful, or having a
famous name; but | do think it would
be worth while to have some kind of
an object"
Haven't we? asked Jim. 1 know
| have plenty of objects"
"Yes, but what do they amount to?
Belle replied. l don't think it neces-
sary to do great things; but suppose
suppose / was to make up my
mind that the Carey girls were to
have all the sewing they need this
winter, l could do it,"
II think it would be a very un-
necessary thing to do, said Jim. l
am sure they ought to do that for
themselves. They are ever so much
older than you are."
"That makes no difference, said
Belle; they need the work, and they
can sew better than most women. L
know mamma thinks SO. But they
can not 60 and ask for it, as l could.
Last week Madge Carey told me
that Mrs. Harold had sent to New
York for dressmaker, and of course
she could say nothing, but | could
have begged Mrs. Harold to try
Madge. 1 know she would like
her,"
"Madge ought to ask for herself
persisted Jim.
but II she don't can. There is
no harm in it, and mamma says that
when they are once known there will
be no trouble in their getting work.
You must remember they never ex-
pected all this poverty and trouble,
and if they do not know how to man.
age they can not be blamed. l think
| will try"
"Is there anything you would like
me to do?'
eyes, there is, said Bob. You
ought to help papa to catalogue MS
books. He said he would have to
hire some one, and know you could
help him."
ut is a great deed l want, Robert,
said Jim; burn for gloryl want to
start at once upon brilliant career"
Bob looked at his brother. 81
think, said he, slowly, that l will
make good French scholar OF my
self.:' .
"What special good will that do
your" asked Jim.
II don't know said Bob, but L
have good chance just now. L am
sure that this is what old Ben Frank
lin would have done-made the most
of the chances of to-day"
"Robert! said Jim, solemnly. You
are credit to your family. L am
afraid you will be of some account in
the worldl" and with that Jim got up
and left the room, while Bob seized
his hat and was off to the orchard,
where he saw his mother gathering
harvest apples. Christian Union.