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in my employ. Now that you are big and
strong and old enough to fight the battles of
this lie by yourself, think it is but right
that you should go out and become indie
pendent. But before you leave me would
like to make you each a present by which
you might remember me during the rest Of
your days. Speak up and do not be afraid,
whatever you ask of me 1 will give YOU
The Two young men stood before the
dwarHs throne for some time without saying
anything at all. They wanted so many
things and they did not know what they
wanted most. At last one of them boldly
said:
We'll, Master, have often heard that
gold is about as good a thing as a man can
have IN this world, and if you will give me
q bag of gold that will last ME for the rest of
nv days, guess 1 shall be satisfied"
For moment the brow Of the dwarf was
darkened with displeasure, but after awhile
he said:
Gall right, young man, you shall have
whatever YOU want so here you are!" Then
he put his hand under his throne and from
beneath the seat he pulled forth large bag
filed with shining, glittering golden ducats
which ne handed to the money-ioving youth
with these words: "Take it and use it
freely; it will never get empty!'
The young man was delighted. He shoul-
dereG his treasure, bowed to the King,
thanked him and walked away.
Now, my young friend, !" the dwarf then
addressed the other servant "what can 1
give you? Do you also want bag of
gold ?''
"No, sin" replied he 81 do not care
much for money, although do not despise
it. II you can give me something, that will
be of benefit to the whole world, as well as
to myself should be very grateful in
deed
"Hm," answered the dwarf 'but money
would be benefit to you and to the whole
world besides, if you gave everybody some
of your wealth."
Il DO not think so, said the young man,
u believe that money sometimes does people
more harm than goodr'
The King of the dwarfs nodded his head
approvingly and smiled at this answer
Money, my dear fellow" he replied, lis
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our land 1 think it is necessary that he
should be caugkt. For that reason will
hereby promise that whosoever finds the real
thief shall marry my only daughter, and 1
will make him first lord Of this realm"
This annouDcement created the greatest
excitement among the young courtiers in the
place, and everybody made up his mind to
60 out and hunt for the thief. But the wise
young apprentice of the famous wizard
quietly went up to the King and said:
will you take me to the treasury where
the money was stolen from2"
The King at once complied with the
Young mans request When he went into
the vault the wise youth looked around for
a moment, and then he turned around to the
King and remarked "Your Majesty, there
are too many mice here. Look at these
holes in the ground, and look at the ducats
lying on the floor think il you tesr up
the boards you will find your treasure"
And so it was. All the money was re-
covered under the floor, but the King, who
recognized the wisdom of the young man.
kept his promise nevertheless, and the wise
young man married the Princess.
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Pastors should be Indu.trIou.,

One Of our exchanges insists that no minister
in good health need ever spend day out Of his
regular work, and argues the matter in the fol-
lowing fashion: 1T is true that he may not be
installed as pastor, but while he waits for regu-
lar settlement he can make field Hundreds
of school houses in the rural sections are open
to him. Let him preach in them. II he lives
in the city let him preach the gospel at the
street corners. There Is no more blessed work
and none which is more Christlike in spirit
Let him give himself no concern about his sup
port, If he cannot at once enter upon perma-
nent work where it is guaranteed He will be
taken care of. The most careless and indiffer-
ent Christian would like to help a man who
showed such earnestness. II questions Of sup
port must enter into consideration, let hlm
remember that he is much more likely to be
called from such blessed activities than from
inglorious ease,
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THE CAR STOVE is GOING.
Lending Railroad Companies Inaugurate q
Much.Needed Reform.

Lending Railroad Companies Inaugurate a
Much.Needed Reform.
Philadelphia Times.I
The Pennsylvania, Philadelphia and
Reading and Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
ways, of our own State, are discarding the
stoves as fast as steam apparatus can be in
troduced into their cars. The New York
Central used steam last winter under the
compulsion of the law of that State and
every other road in the State is expected to
be rid of the stoves by November 1. The
Boston and Albany Company, Of Massa-
chusetts, heats by steam all the cars over
which it has control. The trains of the Old
Colony road, the Western division of the
Boston and Maine road, the Fitchburg and
the New England roads will be heated by
steam during the coming winter. The New
York, New Haven and Hartford is the only
New England road Of any importance that
has refused to discard the stove, and suit
has been brought against the company by
the Attorney General of New York to
compel it to obey the State law on this sub
ject.
The travelling public to be congratulated
on the rapid progress of this much-needed
feform in the heating of railway cars. The
dangers of railway travel will certainly be
very much lessened by the exit of the stove.
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A CHEAP PARIS TRIP:
A French Country Boys inexpensive Visit TO
the Paris Exposition.

AFrench Country Boys inexpensive Visit 10
the Paris Exposition.
A story is going the rounds of boy en-
ployed at a theater in Lyons, France, who
took it into his head to see the Paris Exhibi-
tion. He had plenty of energy, but very
little money. He set cut on foot from Lyons
on the 10Th of July, at 10 o'clock in the
morning, and took the route of Arnay-le
Due, Saulieu, etc. Nine days atrerward at
2:30 P. M, he arrived at Paris. He had II
shillings in his pocket on leaving home,
but be had to economize his funds, and by
sleeping in barns and living on bread, milk
and lard, he managed to reduce his expenses
to about three shillings. He spent month
and ten days at Paris; three days in the
week he gave up to work, and the fourth to
seeing the exhibition and the town. On the
26th of August, at s in the morning, he set
out on his return journey. He got over 30
kilometres day, and arrived home on the
4th of September He spent on his return
journey about 3s. 3d., and had left 5s. Cd.
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WRITTEN FOR TINE p1spArcH.1

INOBAS, the dwarf
King had two ser
wants. They were both
: young fellows and
their master had taken
them into his castle
when they were still
quite little boys. One
day. the two had been
living with him now
for many years, Mino-
bas called them before
his throne.
"My dear lads" he
SAID to them, you
have both been very
faithful and diligent
while you have been
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-20
THEY'RE TIRED OF PoLYGAMY,
Yet the Mormon Saints Fear to Go Back ON
the Doctrine.

tne Ooctrines
The truth is. says a Salt Lake City cor
respondent OF the New York Commercial
Advertiser, that the Mormons are as anxious
to be rid Of polygamy as we are to destroy
it. They acknowledge that it is not in con-
sonance with the spirit Of the times, pre-
cisely as the Presbyterians admitted at
their late convention that the doctrines of
"elect infants and eternal damnation"
were repugnant to it. But the reason they
assigned for retaining them in their iron-clad
creed was that one stone knocked out Of
their building would weaken the whole
structure.
So the obnoxious dogmas remain in print
and are no longer advocated from the
pulpit. That is precisely the case with
polygamy in the Mormon church. The
leaders dare not ''go back" on the "reyela-
tion,' lest all revelations should be
dauhted.
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| tact with the workers. The workers however,
| are few. and the funds are limited. while the
ns,d ef seyy Wssss Hsv d = ~. so1s3Sz f5
| enthusiastic wife, look forward to Toynbeo
Hall working. In the course Of time, real
change In the monotonous and depressing CON
ditions Of East End life.
sermoneffss for sunday Reading.
THERE is wide difference between dollars
and sense.
GIRLS, nowadays. are being schooled in many
ologies-eyen theology. All right But here
are two sciences which every woman should
learn. and early: Cook-ology and stitch-ology.
IF can put touch OF rosy sunset into the
life Of any man or woman, shall feel that !
have worked with God-George Macdonald.
THE elect are whosoever will. and the nom
elect are whoSoever won'E-Beecher.
SAVE rs from those who know exactly what
their constitutions viii bear and-sin up TO it,
Biots and BIenfshes
THERE are many Christians who like, abous
once In Il months to have a good revival In
their hearts. They think thar, like the year,
they can make up for freezing and showing ali
winter by a period of intense heat in the sum-
mer. The remedy for such Is not to chill the
revivals, but to shorten the intervals between
them. and tn endeavor Co make their life equa-
torial or tropical all the year round--L1s
Thoughts.
rather than real. With various outward condi-
tions they pass through the same essential ex-
perienees, and the scales which seem to hang
uneven at the surface and to be tipped this
way and that BY the currents of worldly fortune,
are very nearly balanced in the depths OF the
nner hfe.-ChGpfn-
FLATTERY is false coin which only derives
its currency from our vanity.-Roche1a 1aucouId
SOME bad people would be less dangerous II
they were not so good--Rochefducuu
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FoR rheumatism and neuralgia use Sal
Fation Oil, the greatest cure on earth for
pain. Price % cents.
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A WbItechnpeI pri.slou.

Toynbee Hall has now been . center Of light
and leading in Whitechapel and East London
generally for five years. During that period,
the just issued annual report tells us, there
have been "a residents from the universities
who have sought to make up by personal con-
tact with the people Tor "the desertion by the
educated classes of their posts as leaders OF
public opinion" Fifteen were In residence at
the beginning Of last winter. They Joined
clubs in the district, became managers Of
schools, almoners of relief, members of even
ing class committees children's holiday funds.
cooperative societies, and host Of other In
stitutions The facilities thus given for per-
sonal intercourse with the poor attracted many
workers from the West End. BY their interest
agencies for the relief Of distress and other
purposes were consolidated and supplemented
where necessary; movements for the cultiya-
tion Of tastes during hours Of leisure, and for
the promotion of thrift, sanitation and temper
ance we're originated. A comprehensive edu-
cational work has been carried on. Last win
ter there were 576 dnd 602 in attendance at the
University extension classes during the two
terms, as compared with AGA and 502 the pre-
yious winter. Four nights week the streets
were patrolled. with the result thet nocturnal
disturbances have been greatly lessened. Great
healthy esprit de corps by means Of social
gatherings and entertainments. where happy
parties hare brought into the pleasantest con
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-20
a Need for Masnerlc preacher..

All over the country, churches without
pastors (signifcantly called vacant churches),
shave their drag-nets out with the purpose and
with the hope of drawing in preacher. who.
In his own turn shall draw. The power of
drawing is certainly valuable gift Those
who possess 1t do not march in regiments. The
men, who, having drawn, can hold are yet
more rare Accordingly, since there are not
enough of these magnetic parsons to go round,
we commend another plan, which might be
adopted by every church, and which might
answer even better than doubIe-actiou
clerical crowd-drawer in filling the pews and
keeping them full. This plan Is outlined in the
following words by one OF our most prominent
pastors:
.sThe best way to keep church full is for
every member to attend regularly every service.
That will help; then let every member bring as
many people as possible with him. Draw them
In. There is great deal Of nonsensical talk
nowadays about getting ministers that will
draw. A man came up TO my study the other
day from one of the churches that is vacant.
and he said: fwish you could recommend US .
minister for our church, said i can recon-
mend dozenr He seemed rather bluffed at
that; thought that was large number, and
said: Won't you suggest namer And went
on suggesting one name after another. sug-
gested one man and he said: understand
that man has not very strong voicer l sug-
Is not very good readerr And another man.
We'll. understand that man has very stiff
and formal delivery Finally he said: We'll,
what we want in our church is minister that
will draw oh. no, my Christian friend. what
haven't got 1t. Twenty congregations have
passed through your church in the last 20
years, and they have passed through because
you have not had church that will hold the
people after they got into ii. The minister
cannot hold. Success depends not half SO much
upon the minister as upon you, the church,"
We have said something like this before in
these columns. True, when the congregation
has learned the text we viii change the sermon.
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A VALUABLE INDUSTRY.

The industry reached its highest some
ten years ago, at which time it was so
eagerly pursued that the river was nearly
depopulated of mussels, not enough being
left for breeding purposes to keep up the
supply. A less thorough warfare has re-
Gently been made in. consequence, and it is
hoped that the supply may rapidly increase
again. Not more than couple of dozen
pearls of any consequence have been taken
as yet this season, but among those have
been some handsome ones, one of delicate
rose tint being especially noteworthy.
A single sale of about $500 90 worth of
fine specimens was made BY local dealer
last year, the purchasers being the Messrs.
Tiffany, of New York. The collection is
now in their exhibit at the Paris Exposi-
ton.
1t is easier to ask questions than to an
swer them. A drive of 70 miles due west
from Waynesville brings us to the banks of
the sister stream. the Great Miami, where,
too. pearls have been found for many years,
but never in like quantity or value. Why
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-12-26
hopefulnes

"Come along, SAM" said one of the young
men who dismounted from the back seat of
the high stage, 81 need you yet"
There was cry in which recognition,
welcome and forgiveness were all blended
from the figure in the doorway, and an answer
from the taller of the travellers, who still car
ried one arm in sling. And moment later
William Merritt led this one into his house.
"Mother," he said, "our boy has come
back"
In the ecstatic Joy of meeting his mother,
Albert had forgotten Sam McCorkle, and
when he looked for him that individual had
disappeared. AS he afterward explained, he
"didnt feel like he was any use when folks
was all a-cryin' and a-weepln' and fallin' On
each others necks, SO he just sloped."
But Albert did not look for Sam very long.
He had much to tell of his new life in the
West, where he had been fairly successful, and
his father and mother and brothers and sisters
had quite as much to tell him.
The next day there was such a Christmas
gathering at William Merritt's house as had
never been there before. Such roast turkey
with cranberry sauce, and such juicy mlnce
pies, and such mealey potatoes, and such tne
white home made bread, and such good things
to eat generally as they who sat down at the
dinner table partook of have never been ex-
celled. All the Blakes were there, and SO
were all the members of that class of eight,
where photographs were the first weapon
Helen had employed in storming William
Merritt's flinty old heart.
And Sam McCorkle, too, the drunken shoe
makers son, full of far western dash and his
IL A 10 ha r.
was "Mr. McCorkle," an honored gnest, and
no one received greater respect than ne. But
he did not rise to the height OF his glory tlll
evening, for at the dinner table Albert would
not suffer his own praises to be sung IN too
high key. Eut when Albert, seeming to
have something particular to say to Helen,
whose great, brown eyes sparkled unwonted-
ly and whose cheeks persisted in blushlng
furiously, led her away with him into quiet
corner and left the field to Sam, that indlvid-
ual chanted his hero's deeds to his hearts
content and everybody else's delight, though
he did not let slip the opportunities to tell of
some things he himself accomplished in the
West.
The close of this veracious history may be
clipped from The Teekeewah Bugle of March
IS, 1867
"Mr. Samuel McCorkle, the gentlemanly
and enterprising agent for Flash & Hittem's
Justly celebrated lightning rods, has returned
from Indiana healthy and happy. His friend
and our former townsman, Mr.. Albert Merritt,
has concluded to remain East, where he will
settle down upon his fathers extensive farms.
A little bird has whispered that the blind god
had something to do with Mr.. Merritt's de-
cission to forego a share in the golden future
sure to come to Tekeewah. Those who are
curious in this matter are directed to the no.
tice in the marriage column on another page
headed "Merritt Blake"
HENRY DAWSON.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-12-26
No. 4.

the act was that anybody to whom he told
lie would beat him savagely if he did not lie
cleverly enough to escape detection. AS to
the Sabbath, the first knowledge he had of the
difference between one day and another came
from his noticing that once in while these
people who had whole clothes on and who
spoke gently came into the neighborhood and
opened the little mission room and tried 10
get the children to go into it.
George was among those who were coaxed
in with much difficulty, but after going once
he went regularly. The room was clean and
pleasant and as the autumn DAYS came on
there was stove put in and fire made it
warm That was novelty to him-being al
lowed to sit undisturbed in a warm room
The story the good teacher obtained from
him after winning his confidence was appal-
ling by its very absence of detail; but it was
only one of many Ike stories, and she could
do very little to alleviate the misery that was
all around her.
George lived with a woman whom he had
been taught to call Aunt Sally. Whether
she was his aunt, who his mother or father
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was, whether they were alive, or whether, in
deed, he had ever had mother or father,
were matters concerning which he absolutely
knew nothing, even by hearsay. Aunt Sally
was negatively good to him, it appeared. She
did not beat him, excepting when she was
drunk, which was, however, much of the
time. She let him sleep in her room, and
when she had food she CAV chin some When
she was drinking heavily she did not bother
about eating, and George had learned, as
young as he was, to keep away from her, and
get his food for himself. How or when he
got it, only Gods ravens could have told.
Such cases are not as common in New York
as they were twenty-five or thirty years ago,
but they are found now and again, even in
these days. Who Aunt Sally was, or why
she took any interest whatever in him, he
knew nothing about. She was fact, and her
interest, faint though it was, was fact, and
he had not come to the age of reasoning about
facts. He only recognized them.
One day-and it chanced to be Christmas
eve-a lady and gentleman appeared in the
little room as visitors. They had read of the
mission work, the gentleman explained, and
had come from their home in nearby city to
see it and to give what little help was in their
power. There was a story back of it, but this
story was not told till afterward Their name
was not Harrison, SO may call them that.
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And so when Helen next paid the Merritt
homestead visit she found the fortress of the
old mans heart ready to yield. She had the
day before received copy of The Teekeewah
Bugle, in which she found the following par
agraph half way down a crudely written &C
count of fire in that enterprising town:
"We should utterly fail in our duty to our
readers if we omitted to take more than pass
ing note of the heroic conduct of one of our
young townsmen, prominent and efficient
member of Avalanche Engine company No.
1. OF course we refer to Mr.. Albert Merritt,
than whom a braver man never drew breath.
No sooner had it become known that child
was in the burning building than, at the risk
of his own life, Mr. Merritt rushed into the
smoke and flames, dashed up the stairs almost
at a bound, and cropping about in the sitting
heat found the infant, fought his way through
the fire to the window, for by this time the
stairway was burning, and jumped to the
ground with his prescious burden safe in his
arms. He was greeted with such cheer as
only Tekeewah throats can give. We regret
to be obliged to add that Mr.. Merritt suffered
a painful, though not necessarily dangerous,
injury in the breaking of an arm, which was
struck by falling timber. He was also
rather severely burned. 1t is hoped, however,
that he will soon be himself again"
This paper Helen brought with her but
carefully hidden. She had determined, if
need be, to show it to the stern father, but she
proposed to hold it for the last resort. But
her manner (for, though ordinarily calm, she
was now much excited) betrayed her, and as
soon as William Merritt looked into her face
he knew that she knew something of Albert;
and her unwonted agltation,a as he gazed fixed
ly at her, convinced him that something was
amss with his son. Mrs. Merritt was about
to speak when her husband interrupted her
in strained, quivering tones:
"Helen Blake" he said, sis Albert dead ?
Tell me the TRUTH t-a--
There was world of paternal love in the
old mans voice now. But for a moment
Helen said nothing, for she felt that were she
to speak she would instantly and completely
lose her self control. So with deprecatory
gesture and white face she walked to the
window to compose herself, while the father
and mother waited in suspense. After lit
ties she turned again to them, and, with re-
assuring look toward Mrs. Blake, who sat