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Editor Sunny South,
True Love.
Only a love-word spoken,
Only a lock of hair,
Only a simple token,
< )hly a llower fair.
But it speaks the heart’s devotion,
It lifts the eyes above;
It thrills the soul with gladness,
This emblem of true love.
Gem.
How Lottie Caught the Tramp.
“Are you quite sure you won’t be
afraid?” inquired Farmer Brown for
about the fiftieth time during the last
hour.
“Why no, father. Why should I with
Ponto always near, and old Aunt Lize
within a call?” replied a pretty girl
of sixteen with big blue eyes and a vast
quantity of golden hair.
“Well, i hate to leave you even for
so short a time, but I reckon the
Lord’ll take keer of you.”
“And Lottie don’t forget to feed my
chickens, and whatever you do don’t
set the house on tire,” interrupted Mrs.
Brown anxiously.
“There, there mamma, you and papa
go on. 1 am not, quite the baby you
take me for, although I am silly.”
With this she hurried the good old
couple ofi‘, telling them not to worry
about her, she would be brave.
Now while Lottie is cleaning up the
house let us explain. Farmer Brown
and his wife had received a telegram
the day before that Mrs. Lee, Mrs
Brown’s sister, was very ill and to
come at once.
The good couple were in the “Slough
of Despond.”
Here was their youngest daughter
just returned from college, and they
could not possibly take her with them
on account of the disease being con
tagious; and they hated to leave her
at home by herself. She had not been
home in over three years, and as Mrs.
Brown said, “didu’c know where
things stayed,” But amid all
protestations and arguments Dot-
tie hurried them off and was
ready by 10 o’clock to cook dinner, or at
least make a little coffee and toast, for
when Mrs. Brown realized that Lottie
would be left, she cooked up enough
food to “last an army three days,” as
Lottie said gaily.
ishe sighed and looked at her pretty
hands though, for all her resolutions
when she built the fire in the kitchen.
“Now!” she said, after all was ready,
“I will make myself ‘conime il faut
and then I will have a nice long even
ing to myself and ‘Jane Eyre.’” So
she bustled around and finally was
seated in a large arm-chair in front ol
the open fire with the beloved “Jane
Pyre” in her hand.
She was soon deep in the mysteries
of Rochester Hall when a loud rapping
ai the front door aroused within her a
painful sense of dread and fear.
Although Lottie wai young and
silly she had a quick brain, and, alter
Die final shock was over, said, “W ho s
there?” in voice with no quaver ol
fear in it. „
“Open the door and you'll find out,
thundered the voice from outside.
Lottie's heart beat fast, but she
°Pened the door and said : _
.“Lonnie, dear, is that you? Come
**ght in dear brother, and you will
have your supper. Why are you so
late? Here I’ve been waiting nearly
an hour f<v yon to come.”
While the girl was saying this she
was getting out the supper and hardly
looking at the man who she only knew
too well was a tramp.
As for the tramp, he stood grinning
from ear to ear, and at last muttered to
himself:
“Well, this is ticklish business, but
I’ll just carry it out. She thinks I am
her brother, and as I can get my sup
per and perhaps some silver this way,
I’ll not pester with the gal.” And he
buttoned his coat.up„higher so as to
hide his face almost completely.
Meantime, the girl had made some
pretty rapid calculations and by the
time the tramp began to eat she had
made her plans.
“Brother Tommie,” she said, wearily,
“when you finish eating there’s a letter
for you on your mantel in your room,
and you had better go to bed early, for
you know how far it is to Templeton.”
“Hump,” thought the tramp, “I can
go to bed and get up early and help my
self and then git.”
So he went up stairs and shut the
door. And here I must say that the
room had no windows, and Lottie took
care that the key should be on the out
side.
Scarcely had he got in bed before
Lottie softly locked the door on the out
side and—“flew.”
She ran a whole mile, not stopping
till she reached the door of the minis
ter’s house, and as an answer to the
terrified servant, she said, “A tramp
locked up in my room at home!” and
sank heavily down on the door-mat
from pure exhaustion.
The minister and several other men
went to capture the rascal, while Mrs.
Burton, the minister’s wife, consoled
Lottie, for she intended going back
and seeing what the tramp had done,
but that was impossible, for she could
never have stood to have walked back.
It is a wonder that all the praise she
got did not turn Lottie’s head. For
days after she heard of nothing except
her bravery.
The next day when Mr. Brown and
his wife came, the story had to be tjld
again, and while the father turned pale
at the danger his daughter had been
through, aud the mother fondled her
head, and said : •
“I guese she has got something in
side here besides Latin and Greek.
Why, she saved all my new chiny.”
And now that Lottie has married,
her mother dotes on telling her grand
children how “Lottie Caught the
tramp.” Yullee.
The Haunting Past.
“Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,
Tears from the depth of some divine despair
Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes,
In looking on the happy Autumn-fields,
And thinking of the days that are no more.”
The days that are no more—how they
haunt us! What tender memories and
hallowed thoughts we have of them,
and how often we long to recall them!
Yet, were it in our power to do .so,
would it be best for us ?
We cannot be “satisfied” till “We
awake in His likeness.” There is no
such thing as lasting happiness in this
life. When you \were a child, you
looked forward with all eagerness to
reaching the age of manhood or woman
hood. Hope showed you only the joys
of the future. You saw no thorns
among youth’s roses. To-day you
stand where you can look back upon
your childh ood days. How free from
care and disappointment they seem!
You forget the restlessness, the help
lessness of childhood. N ow, it is
Memory’s turn to point out only joys,
and as you look, you sigh,
“O Death in Life, the days that are no more!”
While some one who has nearly
reached the end of life’s journey, looks
at you as you stand, with the greater
part of your life yet before you, and
echoes your sigh—“The days that are
no more!” ^ . . , ,
Yes, it is well we cannot bring back
these days that are past, but lessons we
have learned from them may be of
benefit to us. We could not bear when
we were children what we can now.
We may not be able to bear now trials
that the future will bring us, but His
grace will be sufficient for us, and so
may we each day become stronger,
not only for our own sakes, but that
we may “bear one another’s burdens.”
This November day is an anniversary
that to me is sacred. It brings to me
the memory of another day, not many
years ago, and about this throng so
many other memories, that I too cry:
-O Death in Life, the days that are no more!”
I suppose that in nearly every heart
there is an unseen grave where
cherished ambitions and hopeless hopes
lie shrouded. But believing tint “all
things work together for good to them
that love God, ’ I do not doubt that my
past has been but a preparation for my
future and I can honestly thank him
for its sorrows, as well as its joj, s.
Not long ago I received a note from
a woman who tho’ poor and compara
tively ignorant, is one of God’s own.
I had been much interested in her, and
in writing to me she said ; “You and
God is all I have to look to.” Can you
imagine anything more touching?
She is the wife of a blind man, and
with eight children, no wonder she
feels the need of human sympathy and
help, but oh! I cannot tell you how J
feluto have her feel th»t next to God
she could caH on me. as His wiling in
strument. This subject of helping the
poor is one near and dear to my heart.
Have you ever been into their homes ?
Do you know their needs ? Can you
sit before a bright fire and enjoy it,
knowing that some of Christ’s “little
ones” are cold ? Can you enjoy your
handsome clothes and the dainties pre
pared for your table, when Christ’s
poor are nearly naked and starving ?
Be careful how you judge, and remem
ber, “Inasmuch as ye do it unto one of
the least of these, ye do it unto Him.”
So many men are out of employment,
and what may we expect from them
but desperate deeds, unless we show
toward them a Christ-like spirit, and
point them to Him who, even when
hungry, refused to obey Satan by com
manding that “Stones be made bread.”
We may brighten and make better so
many lives, if we but will. At least
so thinks Opal.
Alcohol.
“Draw me nearer, blessed Lord, to
thee.”
This was my prayer as I threw my
self on my knees after reading dear
Earnest Willie’s letter. One to look at
his beaming face, would think he was
one who had never known what sorrow
or trouble was. But, ah! who is it
that knows not trouble? Hascal, I
deeply sympathize with you, whatever
your trouble may be. My life, my
hope, my ambition, are blighted for
ever. N{iy, not forever, for—
“Our troubles and our trials here
Will only make us richer there,
When we arrive at home.”
Dear Cousins, pardon me for enter
ing into this merry band so sad-hearted.
But—
“Go weep a3 I have wept
O’er a loved father’s fall;
See every promised blessing swept—
Youth’s sweetness turned to gall.”
Then would you, too, seek that atmos
phere of peace and happiness which
the young heart craves so much. Surely
there never was so young a life as that
of mine cut short of its sweetness by
that indescribable demon called alco
hol.
“Tell me I hate the bowl?
Hate is a feeble word;
I loathe--abhor; my very soul
With strong disgust is stirred
Whene’r I see, or hear, or tell,
Of the dark beverage of hell.”
I have made my stay too long; but
is there one of this loving band who
will offer a prayer for sad-hearted
Madge.
Canton, Ga.
Sundry Topics.
Dear Cousins :—I’ve been to a *liow
and there was a little “kid” there they
called “All Right.” I don’t believe his
folks named him when he was a baby,
for how would they know he would be
made info a loot bail and be kicked up
ever so high, and then be turned wrong
side out and upside down and yet come
out right side up? “All Right” is the
name to fit him, and I am sure his
folks didn’t give it to him until they
saw him do all these things. The show
people had monkeys, too, tied on a
horse’s back. I asked bud what made
them squeal so, and he said they liked
the fun and that was their way of
laughing, but JacB, my friend, said
they were scared, and that was the
w >y they cried; so I don’t know which
to believe.
The women on the backs of the
camels looked seasickish, and I didn’t
like them, but my! how I would love
to be one of the chariot women.
A melancholy mind imparts a glow
ing tinge to everything around it; a
glad heart makes a sweet countenance,
and a smiling face is like the sun in
his beauty.
Whatever may be the attraction of
our intellect, person or acquirements,
we are repulsive if we be of a gloomy
disposition. Our most intimate friends
will be uneasy in our presence; and,
though some good Samaritan may be
willing to pour oil upon our wounded
spirit, the priest and the Levite will
instinctively pass by “on the other
side.” Most of our troubles are imag
inary, anyway. Never, therefore,
nurse evil apprehensions, and you will
never be melancholy, keep in good
humor with the future; it has never
done you any harm; why complain of
it. The afflicting dispositions of
providence are all arranged for your
good; and if cheerfully and piously
endured, will be pleasing and profita
ble exercises for the heart aud mind.
There is a heavenly alchemy which
transmutes anguish into rapture.
David’s heart caroled in its sadness,
and ihe wildest and sweetest notes of
bis harp were touched by the hand that
felt the. Father’s rod.
Why should a living man complain?
When stripped of everything, bow
down in humble and grateful adora
tion, and thank God that you have
still a body and a soul.
Cousins, if you didn’t read Scotch
Lassie's last letter, “Hidden Beauties,”
you missed a treat.
Remette, I have given you a big
share of my bulky heart. Your “com
pliment” encouraged me to write this
letter.
Lois Hubbard what can we say to
make you more generous with your
beautiful thoughts? We need you;
come again. Surely you and I will
meet soon, for 1 visit your town quite
often, and we have many mutual
friends.
I have been trying to decide who of
our page I love best, and have—“nearly,
but not entirely.” I love the editor,
too, and I love—well, when a final de
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again from Vivian.
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