The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-01-21

oxen and never fed them nubbins of
corn, and those oxen. were ugly and
cross, and there was no love in their
hearts for the master. Oh, it pays to be
kind. When you know that dumb beast
can be made to love you through kind
ness, don't you think it is safe to try it
on human being? Well, one day that
Yankee went away and left me to drive
the oxen, and / had to put the yokes on.
l was afraid of the big fellows, but l
was onto the corn business. I went into
the shed, and I didn't see the bins full
of nubbins of corn; I just saw a lot of
big ears Of corn hanging on the wall; so
1 got 'em down and filled my pockets full
of 'em, and when handed one out to an
OK he reached out his cherry tongue and
he just took lit and smiled all over his
face. I didn't have any trouble after
that; I got the yokes on, and they fol-
lowed me around looking for more corn.
l loved them and they loved me, all Tor
little kindness.
on 'em. and the Yankee man came out
of the shed and he says, Say, do you
know where that seed corn is that was
hangin' up? Well, looked at the oxen
and they looked at me, but the oxen new
er said woodland I didn't. 1 tell You
those two oxen were my first friends IN
America, and I never will forget them.
on me. On those Yankees, they are full
of mischief. Maybe there are some Yam
KEGS here tonight, and If you are Yam
kee I can tell you, you are fond of your
fun; If you had a poor Irishman on your
farm, now I'll just bet you, you would
have some sport, wouldn't you? Well,
that Yankee man, bless his heart, he got
me to milk cow. He put me at a COW
that had a reputation all over the coun-
try for kickin', and he gave me one
legged stool, and I didn't. know how 1
was going to manage that piece of fur
niture. The Yankee man. he was over
in the other side of the corral, and he
was watching me out of the tail of his
eye, and he was milkin' away like this
(Mr.s Murphy here gave a ludicrous in1i-
tation of an expert milkman at work.. 1
said, 'Bossy, so, so, BoSsy; hauled up
my stool cautiouslys and got up to the
COW, and then I started in Next thing
I didn't know anything. That little COW
lifted up her foot and set it down very
swiftly somewhere about my chest, and
sent me flying through the air about
twenty feet. 1t took me some little time
to come to myself bless your heart, and
II was kind of dazed, but that Yankee
man was laughing; oh, he was enjoying.
that joke. Say, the pail hasn't been
found yet. / don't know where it is!
81 tell you when l saw rhat Yankee
man laughing I prayed for him. Yes, I
did, but hope the good Lord didn't an
syer the prayer 1 said in respect to him!
Say, did you notice that last on the in
vitation card that Christ has given out?
1t says, And I will give you rest'-rest,
isn't that nice word when you are
tired? Just ask a poor soldier who has
tramped, tramped, tramped, oh, long,
andshe can hardly keep up with his reg
iment, and they come into camp and the
poor fellow drops down-ask him If rest
isn't sweet thing. He will tell you,
God bless and pity him! Ask the poor,
brave weary, little mothers that toll in
the nighttime. and sacrifice, that their
little ones might be clothed and fed; they
can tell you, too. I have often seen my
little mother at her spinning wheel
spinning and spinning when I'd wake up
lin the night. I would say, Mother.
aren't you tired, and, bless her dear
heart, she'd say, No, not a bit Never
complaining and always working, her
burden was love, and that made it easy.
tell you, religion is rest, that's what it
is and it's religion that Christ means"
Mr.. Murphy related a number of little
anecdotes. humorous and pathetic, and
drew from each a pretty moral. He told
of his own conversion, and his first
night in prayer meeting; how he knelt
with the rest, and, in praying by turns,
the prayers kept coming closer and clos
er to him. He said he was frightened,
and kept saying to himself, ITS coming
closer, it's coming closer, oh Lord. It's