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YOL. YIII,
HELP YOUR FALLEN BROTHER.
When you’ve Jived your final day, and
you tome to pass away.
From this earthly sphere of trouble, pain
and toil.
"When your labors are all done, ami your
span of life -is run. y
And your body has been laid beneath
the soil:
"When your Spirit takes it s (light through
the realms of endless light.
To the mansion that's prepare^ beyond
the skies.
A "on will know the joy that waits just be¬
If you’ve yond helped the pearly fallen gate ■S, brother
a to arise.
As you journey on through life in this s?I
iish world of strife.
Look around and see what, labor you can
do;
There are those with crushing loads strug¬
Who gling up longing the rocky for roads, hand
from are a helping
When you. with such
you meet, a friend sym¬
And pathy and aid the extend.
satisfies, you’ll know peace and joy that
And you’ll hear the glad “well done,”
when your race on earth is run.
If you’ve helped a fallen brother to arise.
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BY CHARLOTTE SEDGWICK.
ELL. if you aren't a-—!”
The ready vocabu¬
lary of the average col¬
lege .“man” failed litas,
and he sank back limply on the ham
mock cushions as. a small figure iu a
wllito frock came running up
veranda steps and disappeared
‘-tstRAhc. hatl door.
MlBj'iiiJ senior to show cu
■WW^Tmiss with my sweet
I t Msorely fear that sin- has <been
lilt)' the lake again! I will e’en go and
And a moment later he'whs
pounding on her door, just at the top
of the stairs.
"Betsey!” he called. She haled to bo
called Betsey, and he knew it. “Oh,
1 say, Betsey!”
"Run away, Bobby, there’s a good
boy!” came a voice from within. "Pm
busy!”
“But, Betty” began he.
“But, Bobby!” mocked site.
“You—ah—seem to lie wet,” he sug¬
gested.
Betty dropped a shoe.
“I just came up to inquire if that’s
the latest thing in bathing suits,'’ he
said, changing liis tack. "1 know that
water is good for ducks, inn l didn't
suppose it Improved russet shoes.”
Betty dropped another shoe.
"Bob” was not used to being snubbed
this bit of fifteen-year-old girlhood.
meditated a minute, and tacked
again.
"Come, Betty, den:,” he wheedled,
‘'toll your own brother all about it!
And say, Betty, I guess there’s a box
of caramels in my room, and it’ you
will - -What did you say! lie grinned
wb-kedly as lie heard her steps tin
p: caching the door.
"For a grave and rev.-.-nd .-enior, I
.mist, say you show an astonishing
amount of—of l’rivolly curiosity,” site
observed.
“Frivolly’s good!” said lie, admir¬
ingly. “Continue, Miss Jennings.”
“Caramels first!” said Miss Jennings.
"Suspicious child! I’ll give them to
you after supper. Tell me how you—”
"Now, get them now!” she insisted.
Robert got them.
"Why, it was nothing at all.” she
began, opening the door a crack to re¬
ceive them. “I went down to the land¬
ing to mail a letter, you know—have a
caramel, Bobby?—and there was not a
soul in the postoffice or in the ware¬
house. for it was just between boats.
I sat down on a box in the warehouse
and waited for the postoffice girl to
back, so that I could buy some
stamps. While I sat there, that
French nurse—she’s with those lovely
people at the hotel, you know—came
through the warehouse with the dear
little boy and went out on the wharf.
A few minutes later she gave an aw
ful scream. I ran out on the dock and
her pointing frantically at the
water, crying, ‘Vite! Vite! O mon
'Dieu!’ She had let that baby fall off
the edge of the wharf, somehow.
The water is frightfully deep there,
and the only person in sight was a
man in a boat, and lie was too far
eway. There was no time to lose, so
you see I just had to-•”
“Fall in after him? Exactly. I see.
Good for you! Who pulled you out?”
“Oh, the man iu the boat got there
‘To thine own self be true,and it will follow, as night the day, thou cans’t not then be false to any man.”
LINCOLNTON, GA . THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 6, 1900.
There is labor here call for all who’ll respond
Work to duty’s for ■ loving bands am!
hearts earnest, do:
to
Seed, plentiful that on life’s will, yield. fruitful field, harvest;
But. the laborers indeed are very few.
Would you hope and cheer impart to some
weary, sinsiek heart ?
Would bor” vou know what "love's sweet la¬
Watch the signifies? that gleam with joy
from misery’s eyes alloy,
When you've helped a fallen brother
arise.
Do not loiter on the way, but make haste
lay friend, to-day. when all
For the night will come labor
must, cease.
Work while yet the day is here;
c ahead and persevere;
Aid the souls in bondage waiting for
lease.
When the vou’ve joined the heavenly band
shining silver strand.
You will find awaiting you the
And prize. of life y.A'fi with the
a crown wear
ransomed over there.
—E. If you’ve Brininstool, helped a fallen Rochester brother Herald. to arise.
A. in
in time for that. Ho lifted the child
into the boat and towed me into slipL
low water. It was almost impossible
for me to swim in all my skirts, of
course, A lot of people were on the
dock by that time, and I ran home as
fast as I could. Now will you go and
let me get off these wet things?”
Robert started down sta irs. Then he
called:
Sit J • i
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Betty was a patient worm, but
sometimes turned. Robert was
half way down the stairs wheu a
aimed duck skirt; struck him
on the head, and unrolling,
him in its dripping folds, while ;
jeering voice called:
“Say, Bobby, did you get wet, too?"
The six-o’clock boat brought Mr
Jennings from bis day iu the town a.
the end of the lake, twelve miles away
and while the three had supper on tl, -
broad veranda. Bob gave bis father .
dramatic account of the restate.
"It was thrilling!” he said. “A
drama in oue act. Scene, the wharf
with fair Kenka in background
French maid walking up and down,
holding the heir of millions by the
hand—the papa must have a few mill¬
ions, or he couldn’t afford a silly
French nurse. The child ('scapes anti
falls into forty fathoms of lake: nurst
howls crescendo; enter Betty, centre
enter pupa, left centre; enter mamma
right centre; enter the hotel, till points
of compass
“They didn’t at all!” Betty inter
i rupted. “Your imagination needs ;
! curb, Robert! Don't pay any attentioi
to him. father, I’ll tell you all about i
j after supper.”
And when Hannah bail nk it tin
tea-things away L.-ity perched on Ha
i arm of her father’s chair and told ititt
the story of the afternoon.
“Well, Bettikin.” said he. “it paid t<
know how to swim, aside from thi
mere pleasure of it, didn’t it?” and hi
stroked the curly head tenderly.
Then Betty crept into the Aammocl
beside the big brother, who was he
hero and her tormentor-in-ebief, ant
silence fell on the little group as the;
watched the sunset light glow ove:
lake and hill and vineyard, and thei
fade softly, while katydids and crick
ets sang the day to sleep. As the dusl
deepened lights began to flash 011
from the hotels and cottages on tin
farther shore, and flaring torclie:
marked the merry camp over on “Tht
Bluff,” which at this point thrusts itt
steep sides into Kenka, dividing it intt
two branches.
Now and then a sailboat glided by
looking ghostlike in the dusk, or a row
boat, betrayed by laugh and song; on
steam launch, with breathless puff am
fretful whistle. .Sounds of a*two-stei
came faintly from the hotel, and tht
moon came up a cross the lake, shoot¬
ing shimmering beams over the
but uo one spoke.
The young man was seeing
of the future, stretching- beyond
student life which would end
another year. How he would work
help his father retrieve the losses
the last few years! He must Iook
for little Betty, too; and his arm
ened around her.
As for Betty, she was
neither with dreams nor with visions.
When Holt was home her happy hearl
knew no past, uo future, only a glad,
satisfying present.
“Here eotues some one!’' exclaimed
Boh, suddenly, as a boat grated on the
beach. “I tell you, Betty, it must be
papa and mamma coming to thank
you. 'I'he scene will la * touching}
They’ll fall on your neck, \>ud kiss you
‘and weep, and maybs/-- Why, Betty,
where are you going? II;-, e, hold on!”
And he made :< grab to tier skirts as
she sprang up and dashed into the
house.
“So shy!” murmured h >. “Reminds,
me of me when I was young.” And
he followed her.
The stranger, for Bob’s,guess was
correct., hud by this tinw. ''.tossed the
broad slope of the lawn, and Mr. Jen¬
nings advanced to meet* ten,as he
came himself up the Mr. steps. lie bj^pdneedt ,-Ofed
as a Eliot, and to
see Miss Jennings.
“Be seated, please,” said ’
eordi.-Ty, “and I will find L - l***"'-
Was here a minute ago.” A if, vr
find the runaway, while > fl-Trot
seated himself by one of tl par*
lor windows.
- Luckless Betty! In her p.i’i. ’ -' bad
taken refuge in the p:irio'%, ' -Hing
tlie open window, through i the
Words of a lively disci* trow
reached the veranda.
"No, 1 don’t want to go (.» girl
ish voice was saying. !]* t! O
Bob, I don’t want to be th.-Ak for—
for knowing how to swim! if It idle-'
ulous!”
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If you want Good Shoes Cheap, do not fail to see him. Call at
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•‘But you'll have to see him, you
know, Bettikin!” argued another voice,
“It would be rude not to. And it
won’t be so bad. Y'ott won’t have to
say much. I’ll stand behind and
prompt you, and—here’s father!”
At this point Betty evidently sub¬
mitted gracefully to superior force,
for she went calmly to the veranda,
where she responded to her father’s
words of introduction like the true lit¬
tle gentlewoman she was, putting out
a shy hand to greet the dreaded strau-;
ger. If there was an amused twinkle
in his eyes, she didn't see it.
The introductions over, slie waited
for him to say something of the after¬
noon, and with the inconsiitency of
Vornunkind, she was a little disap-
[pointed because he didn’t say it. In¬
stead, he drew forward a chair for her
and placed his own beside it. Then he;
sat down and began to talk as any,
chance caller might. The conversa*
lion turned naturally on the attractions
of Keiika.
“It is a wonderfully beautiful lake,”
Mr. Eliot remarked. “YVe are ‘doing’
|the New York lakes, a party of us,
and this is the prettiest we have found
yet. In fact, I think I never saw a
more beautiful sheet of water, except
Lake Geneva, It ought to be more
popular, I should think.”
“It would be If it were better know*,”
Said Bob. “but we like it better as.it
is. The people who do come are old
Ketika lovers, and come year
year. I think the lake must possess
some magic property, like the fountain
of Tivoli, for those who come once al¬
ways come back.”
“Then I hope the spell may work in
my ease, for I want to try the
here next summer. Is that your cat-,
boat moored out: here? I came near!
playing pirate and capturing her this#
morning; she’s a little beauty, and the’
breeze was just right.”
“You might have had her as well as
not. The Sigma is a nice boat—a regu¬
lar bird. Site's safe, too, and that’s a
consideration, for this lake Is treacher¬
ous; the breeze has a way of dropping
over the hills most unexpectedly.
Won't you come out \yitli me in the
morning?”
“Thank you; we leave on the early
boat, so I fear we must forego that
pleasure till I come again. Do you
tide?” he suddenly asked Betty, as he
noticed a wheel leading against the
rail.
“No!” she replied, “or. that is. a lit¬
tle. That isn't my wheel. One of the
girls left it the other day when it
rained, and she had to drive home.
I’m going to have one next year, if—”
She paused. Surely, it would be ill
bred to tell a stranger that her father
could not afford the wheel this sum¬
mer. because the grapes all froze last
fall, and Bob's college expenses swal¬
lowed up many little luxuries.
“The roads here are line, I’ve no¬
ticed.” he said, not seeming to observe
her hesitation. “But I must go or Mrs:
Eliot will have searching parties out
for me. She wanted to come with me.
but she is not strong, and she had such
a shock this afternoon that she-------”
He arose and stood looking down at
Betty, who got up quickly, tbiuking,
with a return of shyness, that it wafl
coming now.
“Miss Betty,” he said, taking her
hands, “you must let me tell you how
grateful we tire to you for—for know*
ing how to swim. Forgive me, but I
overheard what you said in the house,
bear child, good-by! God bless you!”
and bending down he kissed her fore¬
head.
Before Betty could think what V
say he was half way to his boat, es¬
corted by her father and Bob.
One bright morning two weeks latef
Betty was swaying back and forth in
the hammock, eating harvest apples,
and wondering why Bob didn’t come
to take her out in the Sigma. Sudden¬
ly he appeared from the direction of
the landing, and dropped down beside
her, with “Move along a little, can’t
you, and give us an apple? Thanks—
nice girl!” and he gazed a her with
mischievous eyes.
1 “Robert John, you know something!”
She cried.
‘ “Yes’m, I hope so,” he said, meekly.
‘When my papa sent me to Cornell,
he—”
NO. 14.
‘‘Stop teasing, and tell me why you'
look so mysterious.” she interrupted, j
“Guess: 1 ’ said he, beginning on 1)H
third apple.
“A letter? Give it to me.”
“Nay, nary letter! Try again.”'
“Caramels?”
“Greedy little girl! No, not earn*
taels; something much better. What’ll
you give me to tell?” *
But her quick eyes had seen a boat
pulling in, and now two men were lift¬
ing from it what looked like a large,
flat box, or crate. ’
“Not oue tiling!” she cried, jumping
up and sending the few remaining apt
pies rolling over the floor. “Here it
comes! O Bob, I shall--”
“Spin, I imagine,” said Bob. “Bring
is up here, will you, please?"—this last,
to the men who were crossing the
lawn.
When the three men had hastily
knocked the crate off. and a girl's
wheel appeared, shining in new beauty
Betty was radiant. . -A
“O Bob! Bob!” she Cried. “T#‘T
really for me? Did father buy it?”
"Yes. it's for you,” said Bob. “I
don’t ride this kind. And father didn’t
buy it—look here, you crazy child!”
And he turned a card which was tied
to the handle-bar, so that she could
read: “For Miss Betty Jennings, with
the love of Howard Knight Eliot, Jr.”
“Howard Junior must be the rescued
infant.” remarked Bob. “I tell you,
(hough, Betty, you’re in luck! It’s the
best wheel made. "I’m proud to be
your brother, M is* Jennings. Come to
my arms!”
Wheu he had-freed himself from hot*
ecstatic hug, he held her off at arm’s
length and sdtS, with mock solemnity:
“Filizabetb/look me in the eye and
don't fib. id you—steady, now!—did
you push.him in?”—Youth's Cornpan
A Piano Without Iron.
An American has made a piano en*
.irely without iron, except a small
piece at the bottom to fasten the long¬
er strings upon Instead of an iron
frame for the sounding board, he has
used the principle of the arch, in the
wooden structure, and can string the
piano something like its prototype, the
iddle, with no deadening metal to in¬
terfere with its fibrant quality. IIow,
much would it improve a fiddle to give
ir an Iron keel? Put a- flat-iron on a
square piano sounc -board and see how
it: flattens out the vibrant, quality.
Now, if a flat-iron blights vibration,
does not It stand to reason that the
big inertia of an iron frame, while fur¬
nishing rigid strength, costs something
iu the way of vibrant quality? Mr.
Statb.-im thinks so. and has gone "-.to
the ether extreme in his experiment. 1
The present piano is satisfactory with
itc. woodeu strength. Will it endure?
Time can only show. If it does, he has
’ ade a great discovery and deserves
its results.—Philadelphia Record.
A IJeluge of JDracron Flies.
Antwerp, Belgium, has been invaded
by such swarms of dragon flies that
the people in the streets' anil public
parks, and especially the soldiers fn
their barracks, have been nearly
driven crazy, and the dock laborers
and other workmen In the port have
been unable to continue their work-'
Swimming on a Trolley.
Children can learn to swim with*
nut danger of drowning by a new ap¬
paratus. comprising a wire stretched
.m poles across a pond, with trolley
wheels running on the wire, from
which are suspended coiled springs
and cords to float the learner on the
surface of the water.
A salutary rule on the subject of con¬
tributory negligence is laid down by
the Supreme Judicial Court of Massa¬
chusetts in the case of a plaintiff who
“entered a building where he had never
been before, without knocking or ring¬
ing a beli. He found himself in dark¬
ness and instead of waiting where he
was and endeavoring to attract the at¬
tention of the family, or retreating, he
chose to try to find his way. and while
so doing fell down the cellar stairs.”
Mr. Justice Lathrop distinguishes the
case from that of a policeman who was
injured iu the night time by falling
down an unguarded elevator well on
premises which the officer had entered
in the discharge of his duty; and also
from that -if a letter carrier who was
similarly hurt in a building which he
was compelled to visit in order to de¬
liver letters. The voluntary visitor,
however, assumed the risk of pushing
on through the darkness without in¬
jury and was clearly chargeable t?ltlv
contributory negligence. v*