Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-06-17

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Sol Smith Russell, who was in Chi
cage recently, told the following
story concerning his little child to
Eugene Field:
"My little daughter Alice" said Mr..
Russell. & seems to have inherited
from her mothers side of the family
certain playful mischievousness
that frequently gets her into trouble.
She is full of sportiveness quite in
contrast to my lutte boy, who is as
serious as a deacon or Judge.
''It was only the other day that she
was apprehended in some bit of mis-
chievous fun. After reproving her
soIemnly, her mother said: Alice,
you must go up into your little room
all by Yourself and ask God to forgive
you.' Little Alice did not fancy go
ing up alone, but finally she went,
and there she stayed a little while.
Presently she made her appearance
again, and my wife regretted to OBJ
serve that the child was not in as
chastened a mood as she had hoped to
see.
Alice said my wife, did you ask
God to forgive you? Yes, mamma
answered little Alice Il told God all
about how naughty I'd been, and |
asked him to forgive me. And, oh,
mamma, pretty soon God said to me:
Great Scott, Alice RUSSELL says he,
there's a lot of other little girls a
heap naughtier than you are!"
The following story is told in the
EpaVortb Era of Rev. H. S. Thrall, one
of the pioneers of Methodism in
Texas: ain company with number
of itinerants who were on their way
to Conference, DR.. Thrall topped to
spend the night with an old farmer.
It was the custom then to settle the
bill at night, SO that they might rise
about three O'Clock in the morning
and ride good way before breakfast,
and lie by in the heat of the day. DR..
Thrall, acting as spokesman of the
party, said to the old farmer after
supper: we are company of Meth
odist preachers going to conference.
If you will get the family together,
we will have prayers with YOU At
ter prayers one by one settled his bill.
DR.. Thrall's turn came, and he asked
for his bill. The old farmer replied:
well, pa'son, 1 charged the rest
twenty five cents; but, being as you
prayed for us SO good, won't charge
you but twenty cents
"The growth of few tiny rootlets,"
observed the teacher of the botany
class, "has been known to lift q heavy
rock from its place, and the root of a
tree growing out under a stone side
walk will sometimes push it up and
break it. Other cases Of a like nature
showing the strong uplifting power
of vegetable growth have occurred, I
doubt not, within your own observa-
ton. Is it not so?'' "Yes'm," said
the boy with the faded hair, tI've
heard my paw say his last years corn
crop lifted mortgage off his farm"
'No," said the weary housewife to
the minister on his sick call, "there
amt no use talkin' of rest everlastin'
for the likes o. me. Pears tibet other
folks git luck like that, but I don't,
I've been stumpin' rou nd on my feet
ever since I was born, and tain't like
" to let me up. FL was put in the
ground on a Monday, don't you forgit
the resurrection would come along o.
Tuesday and hustle me out. l know
what to look fort How's your Me-
hitable's jam turned out this fall?"
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