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VOICES OF YOUTH
A DREAM.
When mother dawn puts out the
stars
And bids the day begin,
She leans across her window bars
And calls the wee dreams in.
!
The dreams that visit little folks
Come trooping at her call,
This morning ere a child awoke,
I saw them, one and all.
(You see, to-day I woke so soon
The one thing to be done
Was just to take a fast balloon
And breakfast with the sun.)
The good dreams, all came running
fast,
The merry dreams the same,
But sulking low, the very last,
A little bad dream came.
And all the good dreams, bye and bye,
I saw from my balloon,
Went sailing on the blue, blue sky
Upon a crescent moon.
But one —don’t whisper it aloud —
That little bad dream stood
Its face against a big black cloud,
To stay ‘til it was good.
THEODOSIA GARRISON.
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' A LITTLE HERO.
Master Charles B. E. Almond, whose
picture we give to our young readers
today, is the only son of Dr. and Mrs.
C. B. Almond of Winder, Ga.
He was eleven years old on the ninth
of December, but if you could not see
his childlike face and fragile form you
would judge from the brightness and
wisdom of his words that he was many
years older.
This splendid boy is now in Atlanta
at 107 Ivy street, under treatment of
a physician ,having been suffering for
several months from an acute nervous
and stomach trouble from which he is
slowly recovering.
Confined to his rolling chair the
greater part of the time that chair has
become a veritable throne of power for
Charles because its occupant is pa
tient, beautifully patient, in his afflic
tion, and his faith in God and his love
for humanity shine in his face and
glow in his words.
Charles joined the Baptist church in
Winder last summer, although he had
given his heart to Christ and had been
wishing to join for some time before
that. While very fond of reading and
able to discuss many well known books
with his visitors, his favorite book
is the Bible ,which he reads a great
deal and from which he derives great
comfort in hours that would otherwise
be lonely.
From this chair on the veranda up
stairs he watches the passing street
cars, lives with the singing birds
around him and the beautiful skies
above him and composes little snatch
es of verse —and sometimes a little
prayer like this:
“Upon thee I call, unto thee I cling!
O Lord Jesus, be with me in every
thing!”
Charles Is a great believer In keep
ing the Sabbath day and stands tenac
iously for the right whatever may op
pose. When asked what he intends
to do in life he answers with a smile
of faith and love: “Just whatever God
wants me to do and be.” Charles is
devoted to his father and mother, but
being in such constant touch with his
“little mother” in her ministrations to
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him every day and hour, he naturally
thinks of her as the pet, the pride, the
sweetheart and the inspiration of his
life. I commend to my boys and girls
of The Golden Age circle all these
beautiful things in the life of Charles
Almond.
Look at him on his chair, boys and
girls, and catch inspiration from his
face, his faith and his life that will
help you determine, as Charles did, to
give your hearts early to the Savior
and in whatever lot you may be cast,
be brave, useful, Christian boys and
girls. “BROTHER WILLIE.”
With ®ur Correspondents
THE VALUE OF A LAUGH.
Dear Girls and Boys: Did you ever
laugh at the wrong time? I know you
have, for it is a failing with young
folks and old ones, too, sometimes. I
have had to bite my tongue and press
my handkerchief to my mouth —
sometimes in church when funny
things occurred. Once Isat behind a
young lady, dressed very handsomely,
and, evidently vain of her stylish
■—lit
appearance. She wore a hat decorat
ed with a large pink poppy; presently
in flew a dirt-dauber carrying a little
lump of clay, and after flying about
a while, looking for a suitable place
to build his house, he alighted in the
pink poppy on the belle’s hat and
depositing his clay lump there, went
back for another. You know what a
shrill, fine, singing noise they make
when building their dirt houses? The
young lady heard it and kept looking
around for the insect that made it,
and all the time there he was, perched
on her fine hat, building a house in
her pink poppy. I got to giggling over
it —I and the girls who sat next to
me—and we disgraced ourselves so
mamma said, and she read me a lec
ture about it after church, but I could
not have kept from giggling if I had
known an old fashioned switching
would be the penalty. Sometimes a
laugh helps one wonderfully—just
blows away the blues. Once I was
away from home attending school, I
was already home-sick, when I had to
change my boarding place and take
up my abode with a family who were
strangers to me. One evening when
I felt as if there must be an explosion
soon, I was seated with the family
around a cheerful fire; the children
of the family had a little guest for the
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night and they were frolicking as only
children can; they were not content
to stay on the floor but began turning
somersaults from one bed to another
that stood a few feet apart. It was
only childish play, but watching them
turn with a flying leap from one bed
to the other soon relieved my feelings
in a spasmodic fit of laughter instead
of the storm that was brewing. After
that I was one of the children and was
home-sick no more.
NIGHTINGALE.
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THE OLD ROCK FORT.
I live in upper Oconee county near
the Grand mountains. There are
here two ancient land marks; one is
a rock house which was built as
a fort for the protection of the settlers
from the Indians. It is in good con
dition yet and shows the marks of
bullets and arrows on its walls.
There are port holes in the slick rock
walls through which the settlers shot
at their savage foes. Doubtless many
dramatic incidents took place in and
around that old fort, now nearly over
grown with wild vines.
The other old building is of later
date, it was built in 1805. The doors
are made of two thicknesses of heart
oak plank, each an inch thick, with
not more than an inch of space be
tween nails, bolts etc. The houses
are situated on a hill near what is
called Staten’s Mountain and the rock
building is known as the old Station
House. I think some photograph views
of it ought to be made. I am greatly
interested in ancient buildings and
ruins. How much I would like to see
the old adobe mission houses in Cali
fornia and New Mexico, and better
still would I like to have a view of
the older ruined temples of the noble
and cultured Indians that inhabited
what is now Central America and
Mexico, long before the Spaniards con
quered those countries.
I dearly love ghost stories and I
wish the girls and boys would tell us
some of their funny or weird experi
ences in that line. All old houses
that have been long untenanted and
given over to bats and owls look as
though they were haunted. Good bye
to all. JENNIE WEIRS.
Walhalla, S. C., Route No. 2.
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MARRYING A VASE.
From far away Cathay comes the
romantic story of the devotion of a
fair celestial to the memory of her
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affianced, whom death suddenly claim
ed on the verge of the wedding,
which was to have been solemnized
with all the splendor with which
Chinese custom invests marriage
among the nobility. The bereaved girl
deprived by cruel fate of her heart’s
choice, decided to live in perpetual
widowhood, and to assure fidelity to
the memory of her affianced, she
went through the ceremony of mar
riage to the Red Vase, her relatives,
and those of her betrothed applaud
ing her sacrifice and celebrating the
event with three days of festivities
that would have marked the origi
nally intended ceremony. The vase
is of great value and antiquity and
none like it in delicacy or ornamen
tation has ever been permitted to
leave the flowery kingdom. It is about
five feet high and made of a porce
lain of a deep peach-bloom tint, inlaid
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