The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-05-24

baby" she said, Il will take him home
and keep him until mother is up.'
They never could have guessed what
this cost her-the visions of rest de-
stroyed, treasures handled and broken,
and other disasters. They only Won
dered at the woman 5 daring.
well, you have got cheek" said
King David soItc voce.
The idear' thought the tall boy;
''they'd better get baby of their own" :"
The father laughed. This little fell
low," he said softly, looking at the
tow-head and snub-nose-exact copy of
his own--with fond feeling of owner
ship, hasn't slept night out of my
arms for a year-couldn spare him.
Then let me have Tottie," urged
Miss Dempster meekly.
Deed no." said King David per-
emptorily; '.me and him is chums."
There was no help for it. The visitor
left, taking her donation with her. She
could not hive insulted them in any
such fashion. 1t made her probation
all the harder that she was conscious of
a great deal of goodness succeed on to
cover up weak places in her moral roof
ing. She often wanted to tear down the
whole fabric and let in the light of day.
'.There!' she said, pitching the bundle
into the dark closet and slamming the
door. Il brought back my rags of
cowardice. If that family had nineteen
children instead of nine, could not
have offered them"
care they not in need?" asked Mrs.
Upham, in a cold, incisiye voice. She
hated to see energy wasted. If it were
churning now, or washing, it would be
different.
NO" said Miss Dempster, giving the
little hard door-handle knob of hair at
the back of her head an orthodox twist;
''they'r re not in need of anything we have,
Patience. think l shall 90 there my
self to beg, yet"
did you see the new babyP" asked
Faith.
Yes" answered her aunt, dubious
ly; new babies not being in her line,
she had not been curious about that
one. "But couldn't tell what it looked
like"
'.Oh, 1 can," said Faith; lit has blue
eyes, and it is pink and white, with
little bits of hands and feet, and a
strawberry mark on its nose. David
told me.
That night when Faith had gone to
bed like a little figure proper and trim,
Ruth Dempster laid down her everlasting
work and said to her sister:
Il think | made a mistake to-day.
Instead of asking for one of the Still
son children l ought to have volunteered
to lend them Faith. / know now what
is meant by the passage, He setteth the
solitary in families | remember story
of a minister who when man asked
him for help, saying that he had an
other mouth to feed, answered: God
never sends a mouth without bread to
put in it.
SO 'Ah, yes,' said the man, but He
sends all the mouths to our family and
all the bread to yours don't think God
ever makes mistakes but why didn't he
send that baby herep''
Mrs. Upham was mending an old gar
ment-literally putting new wine into
old bottles-because it is a virtue to
save; she folded a patch cornerwise and
said, as she thrust needle through it
vindictively:
I'm mighty glad he didn't
''The baby has a better right to be
glad" sighed Spinster Ruth, as she
thought of the downy thing with a
whole family of mothers to love it. 81
think we shall all find out some day the
true value of life. OF such is the King
dom of Heaven. -