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other Mrs. Alonzo. (Married men, who
know how difficult it is to give a plaus
ible answer to all of wife’s questions
at times will appreciate Alonzo’s posi
tion). Well, anyhow the yellow hen
quit—threw up the job, deserted her
family and went to roosting on the
same old roost again. Alonzo w r ent to
her and explained that that was not
the way for good, virtuous lady-like
mothers to act and persuaded her to
go back to her family, which she did
for a day or two, but in such a half
hearted neglectful way that Alonzo
took it upon himself to give her a mild
chastizing, just for the children’s sake,
but you know that a woman “convinc
ed against her will is of the same opin
ion still,” and in the end she basely
deserted her fluffy family and left them
to make their own way in this cold,
cold world. And what did Alonzo do?
In the first place he went to Mrs. Yel
low Hen and gave her another sound
thrashing and I encouraged him in it.
It was justice, and she deserved it.
Then he went to that poor motherless
brood and took them all under his
wing. He hunted and scratched for
them, provided for and protected them
and when they wanted warmth and
shelter he would squat down and cover
them all under his ample breast and
wings and woe to any pestering young
rooster or any curious old fool of a
hen that came bothering around him
while he was doing the wet-nurse act,
and he stuck to his self-appointed task
like a major. Night after night for
days and weeks he hovered those
chickens until they became so large
that those who could not find room
under him perched upon his back, and
every night before I went to bed I
would go out and call on Alonzo and
pet and praise him, and I always found
him talking in his fine base voice to
his satisfied and contented family.
Ah, Alonzo, Alonzo, small child that
I was, you taught me a lesson in self
denial and bravery that I remember
to this day! And although I have nev
er had a chance to take sole charge
of a family of thirteen children of
doubtful parentage, still I would have
your noble example to guide me should
it ever happen.
THE TRUE STORY OF TAY.
Tay was a fatherless girl, who lived
with her mother and unmarried broth
er. Her sisters were all married but
one, and this one was living a long
way off. Tay felt herself in a man
ner dependent upon her brother, so,
when a good man, but a widower and
as old again as herself, proposed mar
riage to her, she accepted him and be
came his wife and the stepmother of
his children, who were nearly as old
as she.
She was a kind and faithful wife
and stepmother and she made her
husband happy until he died, leaving
her young and possessed of some
money. Up to this time, Tay had
shown herself a sensible, prudent wo
man, but a year after she was wid
owed, she made a bad break. She had
been led (through her married sisters)
into corresponding with a widower
living at some distance away. He had
two children, and there was no pros
pect for her to better herself by a
marriage with him. He wrote, urging
her to come to him and be married.
Her obvious duty, it seems to me, was
to stay with her mother and take care
of the old lady, her stepmother being
provided for, but no, she would go to
this man, whom she had never seen.
She went and was married to him.
She found plenty of hard work in his
home, and soon her health failed, and
she died only a year after her mar
riage. Had she remained with her
mother, and performed the duty that
was most obvious and near at hand,
she would, I believe, be living and
prosperous now.
Such mistakes often occur where
persons do not ask divine guidance,
but follow their own, often unwise, in
clinations.
GEORGE W. WHEELER.
Hattiesburg, Miss.
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POPPIES.
Oh, take me to the poppy-field!
Tho’ they with morning dews are
wet,
Their perfume o’er my senses steal
I fain would have, and all forget.
Their red blooms in the zephyrs play,
And beckon me with nodding heads;
For ’mong their silver leaves they say
The dreamy form of Morpheus
treads.
Grief’s blight has marred my whole
life’s trend;
Thro’ pain of loss my senses reel,
If you, indeed, would be my friend,
Oh, take me to the poppy-field!
There where the popples nod and
bloom
In silver sheen and crimson dress’d,
Take me, and let their rich perfume
Soothe me to deep, unbroken rest.
—S. BURTON LUCAS.
Mobile, Ala.
*
Whether Shakespeare was felicitous
in his family relations has been the
subject of much discussion, and a most
interesting article written for The
Youth’s Companion by Dr. W. J. Rolfe,
the eminent Shakespearian scholar, he
declares that there is no positive evi
dence whatever on the negative side,
nor any circumstantial evidence to
justify the theory that Shakespeare’s
married life was not on the whole a
happy one. Especially interesting and
original is Doctor Rolfe’s explanation
of the meaning of that item in Shakes
peare’s will bequeathing to his wife,
Ann Hathaway, his “second-best bed.”
Washington, D. C. After January 1,
express companies, railroad companies
and other common carriers will be
very careful about accepting liquor
for shipment into prohibition states
and local option counties where liquor
is under the ban, said an official of
the department of justice.
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The Golden Age for December 2, 1909.
In the act to codify, revise and
amend the penal laws of the United
States, which* become effective Jan
uary 1, there is a provision which im
poses a fine of not more than $5,000
on any officer, agent or employee of
any railroad, express company or other
common carrier who knowingly “de
livers to any person other than the
person to whom the liquor has been
consigned, unless upon the written
order in each instance of the bona fide
consignee, in states where prohibition
prevails.”
No More C. O. D. Orders.
In addition to the fine, the offender
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fine of not more than $5,000 if the
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other common carrier “or any other
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seller of any liquor,”
*
A PRAYER.
Dear Saviour, give this soul of mine
More and more Faith in Thee;
So round my earthly path shall shine
The glory of a Light divine
In Heavenly brilliancy.
Dear Saviour, give this life of mine
More and more Hope in Thee;
So shall I nevermore repine
But to Thy Hand my way resign
In sweet security.
Dear Saviour, give this heart of mine
More and more Love to Thee;
And on that gentle breast of thine
Let me, also beloved, recline
And rest eternally.
—TOM F. McBEATH.
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