The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1907-12-18

leaving the following day. I have
forgotten the name Of the Doctor.
The Doctors wife promised to call
me up when they returned, which
they were to do in the beginning Of
July, but if they did return, the
house must have been without in
habitant when the second call came
| heard nothing more of them and |
was sorry.
We have had beautiful fall here.
but winter is with us once more.
To-day all day it is raining like as if
it were poured out of pitchers. 1t
will snow tomorrow likely and the
day after it will possibly freeze.
That is natural enough in any civil
lied atmosphere. What seems to
me SO unnatural IN New England is,
that any of those conditions may
exist in any one week as much out
of the natural order as in it; nay the
three Of them may be found exist
ent in the same day. 1t is matter
of history that a meteorologist
started eastward from New York to
go round the world to make study
of the different climates Of the
world. When he got back the length
of Boston he stayed there for a
week and found all the climates
there. When it freezes in Boston it
is the most biting kind of cold that
ever penetrated the human frame.
My good Presbyterian friends re-
member the Persian Lamb coat they
gave me dozen years ago. Boston
cold goes whistling through that.
Though it is credited to North Da-
kota, the story of the sheep freezing
in mid air might be as possible in
Boston as further north. The man
saw sheep jumping over a fence
and while in the act of jumping it
got solidly frozen in mid air. But, "
said a listener to this story, Il
thought the law of gravitation would
have brought the sheep down. y
EYES," replied the man who had
witnessed the phenomenon, Tin or
binary circumstances that would
have been the case, but the trouble
there was that the law Of gravita-
ton also was frozen"
Two months ago | entered on my
fifth year in Brookline. The church
work Of a Presbyterian minister in
a church near a sea port like Boston
is about twice as hard as it would
be anywhere else. There is such a
stream of young people coming in
all the time from the old lands who
need help in other ways than ways
that belong properly to church life
When / came here, / laid myself out
to help those people into positions.
That has grown at such rate now
that the manse, half the time, is like
an employment bureau. 1t makes
much work, but | count it Christian
work, though it helps the church
very little and is often thankless
work. Two months ago, a young
, man from the north Of Ireland came
in to ask me if | could get a job for
, him. He knew some of our mem
bers who spoke highly of his family.
, | got him job in livery stable.
He held it week. He came back
to me again and told me that the
hours were so uncertain that he
could not stay there any longer.
got him job this time as assistant
+ janitor. He was there for four days
and returned to me with the story
that he did not get enough to eat
Once more, for the sake of the
, church members who sent him TIC
me, | got him a job in the packing
room of department store in Bos-
ton. He came back in three days
now and wanted to borrow as much
money from me as would take him
back to Ireland. He never saw q
country like this. From the time
man began to work in the morn.
ing till he stopped in the evening
: except at meal hours, he was not
|. allowed to sit down for five min.
utes. JOHN SINCLAIR.
Concluding next week.
Enough for Thousands
We have enough clothing and fur