Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-05
BY HALLE ERMINIE
Copyright by Bobbs- Merrill Co

| c0lOreu ones IN glngnamS ana COT
ton-prints in the rear-the habit
station "Ohr shrieked Miss Cabell
and I'll be Mrs. Merryweather Ma
son and teach the infants class
There isn't any infant class SAID
Hickey. How could there be wher
there aren't any infants? The lessor
| is over and I've just rung the bel
for silence. Children, this is Mis-
sionary Sunday, and I'm glad to see
so many happy faces here today
Cozy." she said relenting, you car
be the organist if you want to-
II won't" said Cozys sullenly. III
l can't be tablecloth I won't be dish
rag"
IAN right, you needn't" retorted
Hickey freezingly. "Sit up, Greene.
People don't lie on their backs in
| Sunday school.
Greene yawned dismally, and right
ed herself with injured slowness.
"Ah diffuses ter 'cep' 20 insult.
| Hickey Snydah," she said. 'Ah' d
ruthah lose nah 'ligion dan NAH lazi-
ness. En- All 'spises you spissaple
dissisitionW
Let us all rise" continued Hickey.
unmoved. land sing Kingdom Com
| ing and she struck up Justify, beat
| ing time on the stump with a stick;
From all the dark places of earth's
heather races,
Q, see how the thick shadows feel"
and the rows of children Joined in
with JUNCTION, the colored contingent
ont strong on the chorus
DE yerf shall be full OBJ de wunduh-
full story
As watahs dat covah de seal"
The clear voices in the quiet air
startled the f1uttering birds and sent
a squirrel to the tip-top of an oak,
from which he looked down. flirting
his brush. They reused a man, too,
who had lain in a sodden sleep un
der a bush at a little distance. HI
was ragged and soiled and his heavy
brutal face. covered with a dark
stubble of some days growth. had an
ugly scar slanting from cheek to
hair. Without getting up he rolled
set his eyes, blinking from their
slumber. on the children.
I'VE will now take up the collec-
ton, said Hickey. Nou can do it,
June. Use a fiat piece of bark. Re-
member that what we give today is
for the poor heather in-in Alabama"
That's no heather place objected
Cozy with spirit. MY cousin lives
in Alabama"
well, then" acquiesced Hickey.
anywhere you like but reckon your
cousin wouldn't be above ai-ing the
money. For the poor hea On who
have never heard of God. or Virginia,
or anything. Think of them and give
cheerfully."
The bark-slab made it's rounds, re-
ceiving leaves acorns and an oc-
casional pin. Midway. however. there
arose a shrill shrek from the bearer
and the collection was scattered
broadcast "Rosebund Meredith"
said hickey witheringlv, at would
serve you right for putting that toad
in the plate if your hand would get
all over warts! I'm sure | hope II
Will" She rescued the fallen piece of
bark and announced: The collection
this afternoon has amounted to a
hundred dollars and seven cents
And now. children. we will skip the
catechism and l will tell you a story"
Her auditors hunched themselves
nearer, a double row of attentive
white and black faces, as Hickey with
a preliminary bass cough began in a
drawing tone whose mimicry called
forth giggles of ecstacy.
There were once two little sisters.
who went to Sunday school and loved
their fletcher ve-e-ery much. They
we're always good and attentive-not
like that little niger over there! The
one with his thumb in his mouth
One was little Mary and the other
was little Susy They had a mighty
rich uncle, who lived in Richmond.
and once he came to see them and
gave them each a dollar. And they
were ve-e-ery glad. 1t wasn't a mean
old paper dollar all dirt and creases;
nor a battered Whitley silver dollar;
but it was a bright round gold dollar,
right out of the mint Little Mary
and little Susy could hardly sleep that
night for thinking of what they could
buy with those gold dollars.
early next morning they went
downtown. hand-in- hand, to the
store, and little Susy bought a bag
of striped candy, and a timber Jack.
and a gold ring. and wax doll with
a silk dress on that could open and
shut its eyes"
Huh" said the captious Cozy.
You can't buy a wax doll for dol
lar Ny littlest, littlest one cost three,
and she didn't have a stitch to her
back!'
"shut up" said Hickey briefly.
Dolls were cheaper then" She
looked at the row of little negroes,
goggle-eyed at the vision of such lar
CESS What do you think little Mary
did with her gold dollar? She loved
dolls and candy. too, but she had
heard about the poo-oo-r heather.
There was a tear in her eye, but she
took the dollar home, and next day
when she went to Sunday school, she
dropped it in the missionary box.
Little children, what do you reckon
became of that dollar? 1t bought
big satchelful of tracts for mission
airy. He had been a poor man with
six children and a wife with bone
felon on her right hand-not a child
old enough to wash dishes and all of
them young enough to fall in the fire
so he had to go and be a missionary,
He was going to Alabam-to a canni-
bal island, and, he took the tracts and
sailed away in ship that landed him
on the shore. And when the heather
cannibals saw him they were Ve-e-ery
glad, for there hadn't been any. ship
wrecked sailors for a long time, and
they were ve-e-ery hungry. So they
tied up the missionary and gathered
a lot of wood to make fire and cook
him.
But 1t had rained and rained and
rained for so long that the wood was
all wet, and it wouldn't burn, and
they all cried because they were so
hungry. And then they happened
to find the satchelful of tracts, and
the tracts were ve-e-ry dry. They
took them and stuck them under the
wet wood, and the tracts burned and
the wood caught fire and they cooked
the missionary and ate him.
Nov, little children, which do you
think did the most good with her dol
lar-little Susy or little Mary?"
The front row staggered, and
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