The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1890-09-11

fapfrs cases ~ US from tue settSn1 '~"S'
Miss Mary can take thsm on Back Tom
aud bring them to our Ion.
| viii You promises. retcried Mary. 70 be
lavish with the oil Of your sympathy aud
the wiue OF your helpY
move, she replied, that the girls 80
lect their own line oi work for the present
aud that We promise to help them, ~hieh
xas carried by oil rising,
Mary told her mother the meeting had
leh her 10 . BLEAK House" mood spd
she was going into the library 10 read
She usually resd aloud when by hersei
aai the room was s,on allied with the Jei
liy boys aud the Wards in Chsnoey'
Miss Thompson through the pinhole
.hs, the cosst was clear. and she said to
Mandy: I'm goin' over TO see What the
esshsrin' Was. aud carry home that nut.
meg borrowed. I've bsen saving u aein
l wanted good excuse.
She found Mrs. Norton communicative.
and soon moved her interrogation points
to Mary, asking il she could see her. Mrs.
| Norton sent her to the library, and she
announced herself there by saying; !
thought heard folks talking. Did yob
have company 10 here?
| No one but Dickens. replied Mary, and
he comes SO often he isn't visitor.
Any relation to the dead nov wnletf
Yes, the very Charles Dickens himself
Miss Thompson stared over be glasses
full minute before saying; SO yonve
lined the Temperance olks s'pose its
very good way to pass time, but WIN
Breyton and Pat Flynn and the rest drink
Just as bard as they did afore.
Perhaps so, answered Mary, with one
OF Lizzie's far away looks, but we are go
ing to feed the little Breytons and Flynns
sweet grapes, so that their grand cbildren'r
,esth will not be set on edge,
Miss Tbompson's iuterrogative remarks
we're apt to b, disconnected. and the neAl
subject was book kmsrks, asking Mary
where she got such spretty one Mary
handed her the little Bible from which It
hung, saying: It's the diamond cross
Aunt Lizzie gave me pinned on white
ribbon. | like to wear it where can see
it,
Do you think. Mary, that devotion and
| IL ,r ;y vary vplIY
Ob, yer, she replied. can Always
| pray better with something beautiful In
sight.
The next day, she told in at least hall
dozen families that Mary Norton had
.com municAtions" from Dickens. that she
said her prayers 10 that diamond cross
and that she thought Mary was getting .
little Aishsy like Lizzie.
The next week there we're great many
Informal meetings in Aunt Lizzs's room
the girls fitting in and out like bees max
| log honey. Mrs. Norton thought they
must have some literary entertainment
upon the tapis.
At the next temperance meeting, when
Mrs. Grey finally recollected to ask the
girls il they had any one to report. Mary,
as chairman Of this branch replied We
have been travelling from Jerusalem TO Jsr
icho, and have bought you several cases -
on paper.
Mrs. Warren twnkled, and said: lfyou
have been 10 Flynns, you deserve our oil
Of sym mpathy instead OF Pat.
Msry's report read like this l bring
you prominent church member, whom
found on branch road near Jerusalem,
wounded through intoxication. he Was so
irritable that hardly dared speak to him
His brain 10 muddy. his stomach iniamed
by bis e1cesses, and be is SO moody that
his iriende fear insanity. He has been for
years in this dyspeptic condition brough ht
un by indulgiug in the vice OF intemperate
eating.
The next paper, read by Tiny Williams
who wore short dresses yet, was kind OF
sequel to Mary's.
will tell you about this mans boy who
was eypeled from school for drinking.
He was brought up Oh pepper anu spice
AMI AL tla.'s nice, aud had the nightmare
tremens very often. so Liz ftomac missed
his mothers table, and was very lonesome
At the boarding hcuse, until somebody in
troduced VINE to It, Which wa u
hearted aud lively liSe pepper and spiet'
s,d they we're fast friends right away.
This was the next case: ! beard babel
OF voices, and turning down . slipshod
street, met man rushing into the jericho
highway With his hat j,mmed down aud
his fingers 10 his ears. Why do yon 90
There? moiioned. His only reply was
Rstbarius. Every body ives talking sons
loud and exciledly others whispering con :
fideptially. hesrd the most astounding
things about my neighbors, ard saw 40
ambitious looking woman stab smother sly
" 10 the back, aud every one was too busy
taking 10 notice that the sheath the dag
ger was drawn from was . lie. ! turred
10 my Hygine for effects OF ssimulsn's'
read causes dishonesty OF speech, blngfs
the moral feelings. impsirs brain power
etc, and then knew they bad been dfi1s
J ing the sparkling wine Of gossip and
Won .isrei il the boys so used to that wine
! voplI not easily learn to like the poor
whisksy OF regular scandal from those
] Who freqaen, the Jericho road, aud get IL
. the habit OF going there sith them.
I Jennie Mi,chell then took the hoo'.say'
ing: | have brought you no type fsket
from the Jericho nei2hborbood. My cast
. live one. You sll know Jim Nordhof
] and ,ha, be IL q bard working man, Whei
0 be goes home at night, hnnsry ~ pear