Year: 1874

your father p


.1Yes, SIR


do you ever go ont to play %


NO, sir-I don't have the time"


Can you read p


just little. sir, mother teaches me
how, sometimes"


We'll, Maud. give this to your father
and put this little away and give it
to your mother to get seme shoes. Tell
her an old man sent it to her


But YOU are not an old man, sir"


THAT is so-but an old man, away
down South, left this money here to do
good with, and he is the one who sends
it-Eot me"


The little girl ran away down the
stairs. fast as she could. and we came in
to our work, All the day long that face
and that history has haunted Us. A man
who is blind A poor wreck of humani-
ty, once handsome, proud, envied. Years
ago we knew him as good workman
But he was not careful Of himself. Al
ways popular at routes and parties-al-
ways dressy and Of ready wit. he was
favorite- When we knew him years ago,
he was good fellow with the boys. He
was 4 favorite with the girls, because he
was such charming young fellow-so
| sprightly when he had been drinking a
little We counted upon better things
for him. When he was married, the
young people said kate-had made a
great catch. In few years We heard
that he had gone deeply into dissipation
that he had lost his regard for honor,
and was not true to his wife To-day we
saw him, with the proof Of what he had
been, what he was. Fearful is the price
he las paid for the qualification Of his
fevered appetites- The man has gone.
! The wreck Is going. A poor little child
with heart all STEPPED IN sorrow is lead
/ ing her father to the potter's field God
only knows the load she carries. The
bruises on her heart are deeper than
those on her arms.


I Tonight as we write. we have been
distinguishing What record Of
life to take to another world /? Of what
use viii such heneyeombed wreck be
IN the beautiful garden Over There.
Where viii he suffer for breaking doNr
the life of that poor little girl whose
mother Is also bowed in slavery if not
IN desnair


How good it was of Christ to prom
ise a home IN His arms and love to little
children That poor little pinched chiIC
all marked and bruised IS better chris


tian than many who sit to sleep as silk
rustic and fans move the air IN riei
churches, for she IS bearing her loae


bravely because she thinks it her duty.
We wish all the boys IN the land coult


see this blind man-could see what dis


sipation has done for father and child
1t has cost him his eyes-it Is eostinI
his child her life They go up an
down the streets here, but IN the Code


Garden, while he Eanders along tn


shore, waiting to gather strength an
make up the years lost to all that make


man fit for the Eternal, she who IS nor
little slave, viii be at rest IN happi


Ct home, and held ID the love and car


she knows not Of this dark and storm
Saturday Night
7 A CURIOUS BIRDS NEsT-There Is


bird IN New Guinea called the megapc


dius, which in the size Of It's eggs an
: it's manner of Matching them, must


considered extraordinary. 1t Is not lar


er than one of our ordinary fowls, b1
I It's eggs are three inches long by tn


and half in diameter. It does not a
{ tempt to sit on them. A colony of birt
. lay their eggs together IN large mounG


IN the hottest part Of the year, fro


September to March, and leave them
{ be hatched by the sun The mound


made cf sand, loose earth. and sticl
4 and leaves, which latter, by their deea,
U increase the heat The mounds are wol


derfully large, being ten feet high al
e about sixty feet in circumference at ii


base The young birds come out at
I hole IN the top The mother birds va
: On the trees around till their chicks a
L hatehed, and then each leads Of her on
le brood How each knows It's own is
{ mystery The eggs are much relishp
e by the natives, but MT at all by Eur
u peans- A native Of Cape York veutur,


one day into nest for eggs. and viii
: he was exploring the hidden riches


the large mound. the upper part fell
!" and he was smothersd- He was aftf
u ward found, IN the very act Of diggil


buried alive in birds nest.


ID


Is If not the wIsest. It appears to /
:" that the happiest people IN the vor