The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-03-07
SKETCHES FROM cIRcLEvILLF
BY RE N II A I.
RIPPLEs, WAVES, BREAKERS.

Only tiny Ripple"
How different your mother is from Aunt
Julie" said Wilson. 81 love to have her
look at me, and when she speaks it always
makes me Differentiated with myself. feel
as though was somebody"
eyes I don't think there ever was bet
ter one," replied Warren Davis.
"Well, Iguess Aunt Julie is go0d enough.
You know our teacher says Cleanliness is
next to godliness;' read it to the class last
Sunday; and Aunt Julie won't let fellow
whistle for fear he might raise dust. She's
dreadful clean, and it's next to goodness, SO
I guess she is pretty near good, anyhow But
are you going to Dale's tomorrow p
ssI think I will. Mother says, All work
and no play makes Jack dull boy and I've
been working pretty hard husking corn. be-
sides SO much else that is to be done"
"Well. wish Aunt Julie would think so.
She always says, if she finds me reading
book, I'm wasting my precious time That
a farmer boy should never read anything but
the Bible, almanac, and catechlsm. It's
wasting precious time, when | might be at
work Fairning something, as she says She
hates books"
"Weu mother is better christian than
she is. and shall listen to her advice. Pm
now reading history. Mother says I may be
a practical farmer, but although must hoe
and plough, plant and SOW, still must not
forget I too have mind to cultivate. Our
intellects however bright, will become choked
and parched without plenty of culture and
fertilizing materials"
eff Aunt Julie was to hear that what would
she say Why, she will always remember
that ort to be shellin' corn we are dread
full behind if she sees me take book In
hand. But I heard father say that your
mother was not going to have any cider made
this fall, except for vinegar. She was not
going to allow you to drink sweet clder.
Aunt Julie said it was just like some more
of her queer notions But it isn't true, is it ?"
eyes, indeed. Mother says she is con-
WINGED that in order to avoid drunkenness
there must be no starting point, no tamPerlng
with vice. If drink sweet cider will love
sour cider; then, perhaps, something stronger,
and like pebble thrown in the water, 1t
will start ripple that will widen and deepen. "
"Pshaw! that's too strict. Why we, that
is, Annie and 1, think it's fine sport to drink
sweet cider right out of the barrel with
straws. Do you suppose because we do that
sis and will grow up to be drunkards!'
"Well, cannot say that you will, and l
cannot say you will not. You know every
thing has beginning, however small 1t may
be. Mother was reading something the
other evening, and | afterwards copied IT,
Here it is" and he drew out pocket diary,
on opening which he drew out a sheet OF
paper, carefully folded, from which he read !:
''For there is nothing in the earth so small
that it may not produce great things.
And no swerving from a right line that
may not lead eternaly astray.
A landmark tree was once seed; ana the
dust in the balance maketh difference;
And the cairn is heaped high by each one
finging pebble:
The dangerous bar in the harbor's mouth is
only grains of sand
And the shoal that has wrecked navy Is
the work of colony of worms:
Yea, and despicable gnat may madden
the mighty elephant;
And the living rock is worn by the diligent
flow of the brook.
Little art thou, o man, and in tribes thou
contendest with thine equals.
For atoms must crowd upon atoms ere
crime groweth to be giant"
"Well, I never looked at it in that light
But I don't know, l like cider and, like
Deacon Simpkins, I won't give 1t up, l
guess. Aunt Julie says it's only some OF
them ar high-fying temperance folks as
thinks folks as is sober and decent Is JUST
sarvin' Satan if they make wine; and the
next thing they will forbid the maxim of billed
apple sarse,' and Aunt Julie could not keep
house without her billed apple sarsc,' you
know" and Wilson Ware laughed hearty,
ringing, care-free laugh, that would have
done your heart good to have heard it. The
tone of voice, language and manner he had
used in initiating Aunt Julie was SO true and
like, and followed by that lrrepressible
laugh it proved electrical, and warren, gen.
orally SO thoughtful and respectful, forgot