Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-02-19

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night had become cross and snappish.
Mamma called all to her, and talked
very gravely. They were quiet for q
while after it. In half an hour, Ned
brought a small box and showed his
mother. He had cut little hole in
the top, just large enough to let q cent
through and under it were the words
"cross-box."
"Look, mamma" he said; "suppos-
ing, whenever any Of Us speaks cross,
we make ourselves pay q cent for a
fine? Susie and Johnny and Pet are
so cross, it would be a good thing.
Well try who can keep out of the box
longest"
Mamma laughed and said it might
be very good plan, if they all agreed
to it; but if they did agree they must
do as they promised.
"Ill agree, said Susie: I'm not 60
ing to be cross any more"
And l." said Johnny.
"And t. said Pet.
"What shall we do with the money!"
asked Susie.
well buy magic lantern, replied
Ned.
"No, we'll buy whole lot of candy, "
said Johnny.
"No," added Susie well send it for
a bed in the Children's Hospital"
"Ill tell you" said Ned, angrily, If
you don't do as I want to, I'll pitch
the box out Of the window"
"Where's your penny, Ned?' asked
mamma.
Ned looked very foolish, but brought
the first penny, and dropped 1t into
the box.
Mamma thought the box really did
some good. The children learned to
watch against getting ANGRY, and
little lips would be shut tight to keep
the ugly words from coming through.
When school began they were SO busy
that the box was forgotten. Weeks
later mamma was putting So closet in
order one Saturday.
"Hero's tho cross box" she said.
"I'm going to see how much money
there is" cried Ned. Seventeen
cents. That's enough to buy lemons
and nuts, and play peanut stand.
Let's do it."
"Oh!" said Susie, "there goes poor
little lame Jimmy I think it would
be nice to give it to him."
Il say" whimpered Pet.
Il won't" whined Johnny.
ST" No one knows what Ned
was going to say, in very Grabbed
voice, for just then he clapped one
hand on his mouth, and with the other
held up warning finger.
look out" he half whispered, COR
there'u be more cents in the cross box
for Jimmy. "-Oa11' Little Folks.
Pumping Tor Life.
There isn't much use in this world
for lazy boy, but a lazy man is 81
great deal worse and harder to cure.
The following description Of the way
that queer people, the Hollanders, treat
lazy man may make some men glad
they don't live in Holland, but it's a
punishment that the man who once
receives it will be apt to remember as
long as he lives. The writer says:
During o morning walk a merchant
who was detained by business i'll Am
sterdam came to q group of men who
were sta ding round we'll, into which
a strongly built man had Just been let
down. A pipe, whose mouth was at
the top of the we'll, had been opened,
and stream of water from it was
flowing down into the well and begin
ming gradually to fill it. The fellow
had quite enough to do, if he did not
want to be drowned, to keep the water
out by means Of pump which was at
the bottom of the we'll The mer-
chant, pityirg the man, asked for
an explanation Of what seemed a
heartless, cruel joke. Sir" replied
an old man standing near, that man
is healthy and strong; [ have myself
offered him work twenty times, never
theless he always allows la ziness to
get the better of him, and will make
any excuse to beg his bread from door
TO door; he might easily earn it him
self by work if he liked. We are now
trying to make him feel that he can
work. If he uses the strength which
is in his arms he will be saved, If he
let them hang idle he wi l be drowned.
But look" continued the old Dutch
man, as he went to the edge OF the
well, "the fellow finds out that he has
good muscles; in an hour we shall let
him out with better resolutions fol the
future" Such was the case aud the
cure was effectual.
Would 1t pump like that in every
town soon clean out the tramps?
About Railroads.
The Rurdl Nelr- Yorker has pre-