The Newtown bee., 1907-01-18

able in the extreme. The youngest In the gang employed and the latest com CT, he was put at riddling charcoal, cleaning out the mouth of sewer, shoveling coal from carS-hard aDo dirty work to test any young mans pa ttence. In course of time, Roo1n was given place in the factory 1tself at testing lamp burners. Here ne hao at one time to work long hours ana, one night, because he declined going home with one of the young women at the close of work, she threw burner with vicious strength, though happily missing his head, at which 1t was aimed.
 Work at length becoming slack, an other place was sought in the case de- partment of clock shop, Robins task being to glue the smaller wood cases together and nail in the backs Of larg- CT cases. He became more or less ex- pert in the latter work, so much so | that he was given stint and was able to do a days work in less than lO | hours.
 It was 20 miles across country to | Freshton, and Robin tramped the dis tance several times, going home, Sat, urday afternoon, for over Sunday and | and walking back, Monday noon. He J held the Puritan regard for the Lord < | day and never employed 1t In travel, excursions and the like, holding, in
  time is Gods own and that personal ends should give place on that day to the service of God and whatever can help and bless others. The habit of l walking which Robin learned In Dis PennGylvania survey and during the Michigan canvass, stood him in good | stead for the rest of his days and con- | tributed not little to his health and endurance.
 l His earlier desultory reading had ! 10 It Iz nd O he wished to read to furnish his mind | with strength and store for life's equipment, he felt the injury done memory in some degree, Robin map
 ped out course of reading, sandwich ing novels with history and other solid information. The excellent free pubic library in Aquaton
 furnished ready and sufficient aterial and to quicken memory he read. after his 10 hours of work, until or 10 p
 m., and the next evening wrote out
 what he recalled. Memory was so dormant at first that the amount | written was brief, but it gradually 1n- creased in length, until, after time,
 the facts recalled were so large part of the text that writing them out was dropped and all the spare time given | to storing memory by the eye-gates | alone. The excessive devotion to fiction, proved by the statistics of cir culating libraries and the sales of
 books, is not alone baleful in injurinR
 the memory. It vitiateS the mind as
 we'll, making it lop-sided and top heavy
 by an undue development of the
 feeling have their proper place and
 value, but given undue prominence
 they dwarf the more solid faculties of
 judgment, fidelity and contentment,
 building airy castles in the misty dis
 tance to the damage of a true estimate
 of moral values, sighting that plod
 ding patience which is the basis of all
 real success and making hallucinations and longings so feverish and fierce
 that the present humble benefit loses
 it's right proportion and sweetness
 Combined with the trash of the cur
 rent news periodical, especially the
 Sunday newspaper, it is driving sim
 plicity, reverence and SOlid1ty out of
 the average American mind, making
 1t f1ighty, uneasy and the prey of a
 thousand ills. Nothing is longer sa-
 cred and safe from it's scoff1ng jeer and
 the pernicious seed has sown and is sowing, even in Carnegie and Sunday
 school libraries, tares that coming
 generations will vainly try to pull up,
 to the injury of valuable wheat. No
 wonder ocu1ists are so numerous to re-
 pair the injury to sight, and that ar
 my of youthful criminals is becoming
 so numerous and so bold! Of course
 boys and girls want to start at mar
 riage at the comfort and elegance of life to which their parents have att
 tained by years of careful industry, for
 what tale ennObleS the true heroes,
 those who by patience, toll and econ 1 nishingS and income of a thrifty, en- ! joyable home? Of course the number of sudden, clandestine -a9 Nanaway marriages is on the rapid increase, for your exciting novel overleoks the EsweetS of normal cOurtSn1p and it's 7 fitting crown of parental blessing! Of course, father and mother are now the
 old man aud old woman, for the Young
 America literature is too rapid to find 9 virtue 1n reverence, or value in expert l heard from later on. Having t sown to the wind, we must not , be surprised at the blizzard 3 Robin was fortunate in a boarding t home) with a Scotch widow, Mrs t Grass. How she mothered Robin and Z the other country boys who boarded ? with herl Patient with their noise - and frolic, she had deeper interes, S in their welfare than was represented ] in their board money. Such good souls
 are the truest missionaries that city l can have, for if only the fresh young 3 country life constantly flowing into Q the cities can be preserved sane and t to the municipal sink of corruption a but will prove an addition and powel t to the city's conscience and soul, con
 stantly Tn danger in the multitudes ] mad rush for power, plenty, pelf ant a passion.
 r. Robin was likewise fortunate in hi e pastor, Rev Dr Helpmore. Happy il e the young life that finds it's pastor it o friend, whose steps are safe to follow n and whose heart is big enough tt {. father all misfortune that he can hell B. or weakness that he can encourage an(
 direct toward the strength eternal Dr Helpmore saw the doggerel tha | Robin co imposed in his spare moments | amused as ne must have been at it. M crudity; he summoned Robin and oth
 CT young men of his congregation t.
 watch by the beds of poor men dis
 covered sick in pastoral calls; he inter
 ested families in his parish in Robi
 and his like, lonely as they often wer
 on holidays. In fact, he had rar