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TUIAGES SERMN. ——" THE NEWSPAPER PRESS AN ' ALLY OF THE PULPIT. ■;Vxt: “Bell .1.1 a flying roll.Zscliariah ( tio wing m1 sheet of tha t 'xt. bal a pronh e, . written on it. The flying rail of to-day , is the newspaper. Yon can no more ignore it m calculating the forces that affect society I than you can ignore the no >nday sun or the 1 At lai tie ocean. It is high time that I preach i „ ..ermon appreciative of what the newsy?.- I press has accomplished anil is accomplish- - in-. No man living or dead has been, or is so indebted to the newspaper press as myself it has given me per] etual audience in every city, town and neighborhood of Christendom, and I publicly, in the presence at i fodaud this audience, express my thanks to editors, publishers, compositors and type ■■ett'Ts, and I give fair notice that 1 shall in ereiy po-sible way try to enlarge the tield, „ ii>-ttier by stenographic report on the Sab bath, or galley-proof on Monday, or previous dictation. I long ago said to the officers of this church. “Whoever else are crowded, do not crowd the reporters." Every intelligent an l honest representative of the press who take- his place in church amounts to ten or ■if,. ..,1 ether churches built on to this.Ninety tive per cent, of the newspapers are my friends, and do me justice and more than iu-tice, And the other five of the one hundred arc such notorious liars that nobody believes them In self-defence, and sixteen years ago, 1 employed an official stenographer ~f my own because of the appalling misrepresentations of myself anl church. But things have so miracu lously changed that it is just as appalling in the marvellous opportunity o}>ened uu I for v hi< h I r-m grateful to Hod every day. Ihe newspaper is the great educator of the cen tnrv It is book, pulpit, platform and forum all in one. There is not an interest-- r.-ligimn. scientific,commercial, agricultural, nian"facturing. mechanical—but is within its grasp. All our churches, schools, art asylums and great enterprises— reformatory, religious or secu'ar—feel the quaking of the printing press lhe first newspaper arose in Italy, while Venice was at war with Solyman in’ Dalmatia. The paper was pub lished ior the purpose of giving military and <oimnercial information to the \ cne tiau I '. Tho newspaper arose in Englandin lOBS. Tue paper was called the Mercury, and then there came the Weekly Dispatch, the Env/lish Discoverer, the Secret Owl, the* Heraehtus Hidens and so on, and so on. In Franco tin newspaper was firsu seen in I<>3l, and was published by a physician for the health and amusement of his patients lhe newspaper grew in power until Napoleon 1 wrote with his own hand articles for it, and in 1829 there were in the city of Paris KM’» journals. Th 3 newspaper press, however, has had its chief sway in this land. In 1753 there was but thirty-seven journals on ail the continent. Now there are 13,(X’0 strong newspapers rolling out copies i in the yeai by the billions and billions. I have no difficulty in accounting for the world’s advance. Four centuries ago, in Germany, attorneys in court fought with their fists as to who should have the first case, and tho judge decided for the s trongest fist and the stoutest arm, and if the judges s de cision was .disputed then he himself fought with both the attorneys. Some of the lords and the wealthiest men of that day could not read the t’tles to their own property. Why the change? Books, you say. No sir: people do not read books. It is exceptional when mdn read books. Take anv promiscuous audience in this land, or in anv land, and how many treatises on consti tutional laws have they read? how many books of science, how many books in regard to navigation, in regard to geology, inregard tn botany, in regard to any intricate subject? How much have they heard of Bayle, of Xenophon, of Herodotus, of Percival? The people ot the United States do not average readins? ont bonk a year to the individual. How, then, do I account for the < liange and tho fact that people are able to talk on ail questions of science and art. and intelligence is everywhere as the light, and iren are intelligent on all subie sis? H- wdo you account for it? Next to the Bible, the newspaper, swift-winged and everywhere present. Flying over the fence, shovt d under the door, put on the work bench, tossed into the country room, hawked through the cars. All read it. white, black, Herman, French, Italian. English. American, Swiss, well. sick. Monday morning, Saturday night, bef< re breikfast. after tea, Sunday, week day. I declare that the newspaper printing pros is to bo the mighty agent by which the gospel is to be preached, crime ex tirpated, oppression dethroned, the world raised, heaven re;oice<l. God glorified. To the dinking of the printing press, as the sheets fly out, I hoar the voice of the Lord God Almighty saying to the dead nations of the earth: “Lazarus, come forth ‘ and to the retreating surges of darkness: Let there be light!” How many of tho newspapers of city and town during the past ten years have bad mighty pleas in ! behalf ol ’.be Christian religion and have I given some of the most effective interpreta- 1 tions of God's providence among the nations! There are only two kinds of newspapers. ' The good, the very good—the bad. the very I bad. When a newspaper starts it may for a while have no espo ial reputation either for virtue or inbimy: but in a little while people decide for themselves, and ■ they say, ‘ d is good.” and it is good: and “it I is had, ’ and it is bad. The one newspaj er is | the embf (iiment of news, it is the ally of s ! virtue, it ir the foe of crime, it is the delecta tion of elevated t.*vt?. it is the mightiest agency for .aving the world. The other is a brij. and among moral forces.it is the be slimer of renut ition. it is th? foe of all that isgood.it ?- th* mightiest agent of earth for battling the cause of God and driving Lack rhr sfiauity. if it could bo driven back. The one influence isan angel of light, the other influence it a fiend of darkness,and between that archai and that furv is to l*e fought ; the battle Thar is to decide the destiny of the ; inm.au rn The Armaggedde of nations is not to be fought with swords but witl steel pens, not with bul- kt but with type, not with j cann< n 1 u! with lightning perfecting press, and tho Humrders and the Moult! i?s and the Gibraltars of that conflict are to be the edi torial and reportorial rooms of our great > newspapjr establishments. Men of the press . and men interest© I in its prosperity, upon you come down the most tremendous respon sibilities of the earth. Men in all departments ; need to Le good, and most of all, men cf the . press. OL how great the change from the time when Feter Shoeffer invented cast-metal type, and because two books were alike they were pronounced to be the work of the devil —books were printed on strins of bamboo, and the Common Council of the city of New 5 ork solemnly voted the offer of forty fx»’*nds to anv printer who would come and live, there, and the Sneaker of the House of Commons indignantly denounced the print ing press t 'cause it had dared to notice their proceedings—on to this time in which we live, when the printing press is wielding such % v art pow r for good or for evil, 'file tele graph and the printing press go down into I h' harvest field and the telegraph says to Jh“ planting press, ‘‘l’ll rake while you i bind,” and the telegraph puts its ■run teeth down at one ©nd i the harvest field and they are drawu •dear across* and then the information is. * gathered up in sheaves, and the printing I press put-’ one sheaf on the breakfast table •n the shap/' of morning news, and puts •nether sheaf on the tea tible in the shape cf news, and that man who neither ,lOr r “ a^s a newspaper is a curiosity. '/hat a vast change from the time when ardiual Woolsey publicly declared that either the printing p. ess must go down or the < hurch of God must go down. To this time wrien theyilpit and the printing press are in • ambination, and w hile a minister of religion may on the Sabbath preach only tc about 500 people, through the fol tewing week through the seen lai and religious ureas he may ore®' h tc mlUicus and millions and millions. But let me say to the m°n of that profesdon. and tho e who are in any wise all ed to it. ( would like »o know h »w many w’oids of sym pathy )O1 hA»e iec*iv**d during the last tw<Le iuuiith' for your important work. N“t te i. How many sermons m th »<‘oursi of y< ur lie e you heaid of pin tical h "i t'u n ss f »r t ie men raid worn- n engaged in .h it J a t c.i n * piofesMOll.' N< t one. H».w man v Woos o; » v um*iation ant misappr?-| h n io i ; n i h per. i iticism an I r.b >e have i you heart: Te i thousand If )O1 a\* u | typ<seit‘ t * ai.<l lot get th-* type iu ’ tho wrong font, then tir> foreman blow ‘ you u.». If you are a foremat and cannot surmount the unsurmountabli mid get the forms up at Ih' right time, t’n i you are denounced by the publisher. If - i are are a publisher an 1 you mismanage, thvi the owners cpy out; “Wh 're are my divi deads?’’ If you are an e iitor and «n yo.it column announce an unpopu'ar sentiment tarn Uu thousand pens are flung at }ou. Are you a reporter, then yen must under stand the most indistinct speaker an* I must be able to write by gaslight after midnight as well as in tho full noonday sun. Are you a proofrea ler, then comes down on you the wrath of tviM'setter and editor and owner and pub lisher if you do not properly arrange the periods aud the semicolons and the exclama tion points and the asterisks. Plenty < f abuse but no sympathy. I hare for many years s-t »od in positions where I have seen the whole process going on, and I know all about the annoyances and the maltreatments and tho sufferings, aud I propose this morn ing to declare them, praying Almighty God that a word of helpfulness mav come to many who need the help, while I hope to im press the minds of those outside the newspaper profession with certain farts that will make them more lenient and kind in your treatment of those inside of it. In tho first place, one of the great trials of , the newspaper profusion comes from th? I fact that more of the shams of the world ; pass before it than before any other profes sion. Every day through the newspaper of fice go all the weaknesses of the worhl. Th » ' vanities that want to lie puffed, the re.eng *s that want to be wreaked, the mistakes that | waut to 1 o correct© I, the men who wautto be set right who never were l ight, the meanness that wants to get its wares announced in the editorial column to save the expense of the advertising column, the crack brained phil osophers wiio go through with stories as long as their hair and as gloomy ns their fin ger nails in mourning because bereft of soap, aud all tho long procession of bores who come to stay five minutes and stay an hour. It is a wonder to me that the editors and reporters of the land have any faith left either in God, man or woman. Be fore no class of pe >ple on earth do so many of the shams and the weaknesses of the world pass. When 1 find some of them scepti cal 1 do not wonder at it. I wonder they believe in any thing. If the editor or reporter had not in his early home, or has not in his present hon e some model of earnestness of character, or unless he throws himself upon the uphold ing grace of God, he will make temporal and everlasting shipwreck. Another trial of the newspaper profession comes from inadequate compensation. Thera is grant rejoicing ever and anon in this land, because the price of newspapers has gone down, from five cents to four, from four to three, from three to two„ from two to one. There aie men who would like to have the price go down to half a cent. 1 never rejoice at such a time because it moans hardship, penury, do mestic privation, starvation. You may not see where it strikes, but it strikes. No n ?ws paper in the land can afford to be published at loss than five cents a sheet. Through the rivalries of newspaper it is necessary that prices come down, but oh, what suffering it means, what hardship, what trial. Sin?ethe days of Hazlett and Sheridan and John Mil ton and the wail of Gmb at London, liter ary toil has never been appreriate.l. Oliver Goldsmith, entertaining his friends, has to sit in the win dow. because there is only one chair. Linnams has to sell his splendid work for one ducat. De Foe, the author of 218 volumes dies penniless. The learned Johnson had such shabby clothes that he could not dine i with gentlemen, so he sat behind the screen anil dined while the gentlemen on the other side the sere ju were apnlau ling his works. Butler, after throwing tho world into fits of laught r w ith “Hudibra;” died for lack of a crust. Eo it has always been. Manual toil see.ns to have a grudge against literary toil, ami it practically says: “You come down here and shove a plane and break cobblestones and pound the shoe List, and get an honest living like the rest of us in stead of sitting there idly scribbling!” But God knows there is no harder toil on earth than literary toil. It is not a question of hard times; it is characteristic of all times. Tho world has no appreciation of the immense financial, physical, intellectual exhaustion of literary toil, an 1 so the world begrudges five cents and says: “Can’t you make it four?” an I then begrudges four and says: “Can’:: you make it three?” and begrudges th© three cents for a newspaper and says: “Can’t you make it two?” and grind an l grind and grind, and in that mill are ground up the bodies and the minds and the souls of men and women. The world dips its chalice into the blood and Fays: “Aha! the Drice of news papers has gone down.” While there are men in the newspaper profession who have made their fortunes. I tell you men and women of America that to the most it is a struggle for bread. Let me say to all such in the presence of an unappreciative world, you ha<l better when you go home at night, worn and nervous and exhausted, kneel down and commend your case to God who has promised to l>e your Cod and the God of your children after you. Another trial of the newspaper profession comes in the diseased nppotlt * abroad for un healthy intelligence. We cry out against the minders and th? scandals to which th* | newspapers give prominence. Why do so i many of the newspapers give prominence to such things? Because the public taste de mands them. Igo into a foreign city and into a meat market, an l I find that the butchers have hung up on the rnosb conspicu ous hooks, meat that is tainted, while the fresh and the savory meat is carelessly tossed asid •. What am Ito conclu’V ? 1 unmistak- able con-dude that the jejp’e of that ! citv love tainted meat. If there is so much iniquitous literature abroad in tle shape of book and newspaper, it is be cause the public taste is so corrupt it deman Is it. Now. vou are an honest citizen, you are a good citizen, you are an intelligent citizen, you are a man of family, a newspaper comes into your house, you open it; there are three columns of splendid written editorials, next to it there is a mean, contemptible divorce Which do you read the more thor oughly? Here are the splendidly written ed itorials evolving some beautiful moral senti ment, or some theory of science. You dip into it ana sav. “That is splendidly written; that is well done. that edit>rial.” Then you turn to the divo-ce case and read it all. from the long primer type at the top to the nonpareil at the bottom, and a;k your wife if she has rea l it. It is only a < ase of demand and sup >y. Newspaper men ar? not foils. They know what you want and they give it to you. If the church of <rod, I ami if honorable men of the wor!d. would de- , cline to lead the depraved books and deprave! newspapers they would not be 1 published, for the simple reason that they wou’d not) ay, for iniquity gets poorer and poorer and j oorer and cannot afford tosunport literature. It is the honest men, the bard I working men. the pure men of the world that supjxirt the literature. If a convention could be called now and ma le up of all the editors and reporters of the United States, and it were plainly put them, which kind of a papei theyshould prefer to publish, and which style of news to send firth J think they would unan imously declare: “We would rather send out elevating literature than bad literature.” I say this not in apology for a debauched newspaper, but I say it that you may lava divided responsibility between those who print and thoee-who read. Another great temptation tY th? newspa per profession comes in the allurements that surround it. Every’o cupation, trade, pro session has its especial temptations. It so with the clerical profession, with the ine<li< al profession, nith the le;al profession, with the artistic profession, *• h every trade, eve *y profession, every business. The news paper profession is no exception. You know there are great diaft? on the nervous forces, and the brain istix. d. Th? blundering po litical si>e.‘eh must Ih» male to read well ior the sake of th» pa -ty. and tha e (itor und reporter must make it read well though in the speech everv >euteuce t ata strophe to tho English language. The uewspa|x»r man must correctly ro]M»rt an in audible speech, the spe eh of a man >'hc thinks It s vu’gnr tosoeak loud, although the audenceth© night I es -re sat with hand K'- hind tho ear in vain struggling to catch a single s< ntene \ The journalist must l»e cy posed at the fire, be must uri’e in th*' fetal alleywav. ho must go into courtrooms nine-tenths of which are steu.’li ful with rum an I tobacco, he must go into hsated assemblage - and into audicuc# rooms ail unventilated and where all the pre parations are for asp’iyx a, aud added to all ther * must be hasty mast < aV.on an I inexu la r habits. L uder this awful strain of tin nervous system, how many hundreds havt gon© to strong drink for relief God only knows. They must take something to keep out the wet, and something to keep o:it the chill, and something to start the mind in the morning after the scant sleep of the night. That is what made Horace Greeley such a stout temperance man. He told me in my own house, “I have seen so many of my comrades and literary friends and news rajier associates go down under strong drink I hardly* dare Kxik at it,” and so he wont Di eaching temperance all over tho land. And let m? say to all men in that profession, God doos not want you to do anything that you cannot do without ai tificial stimulus. There is no half way ground for you between tee total ism and dissipation. 1 have so many literary friends. I ha I so many literary fricn Is wh » have been destroyed by strong drink—and some of them are n>w on the down grade—that to-day r I take the words of another and erv aloud: “Look not upon tho wino when it is red. when it m »v<‘th itself aright in th* cud, for at the last it biteth like a serpent, and it stingoth like an adder.” Another temptation of the newspaper pro fession is in the fact that no one seems to car© for their soul. Th w feel it. They arc looked upon as professional in almost all assembla ges. It is not expected tint a man reporting a sermon should b* < onvert?d to God by that sermon, or an editor discussing a religious Item of news in his editorial column should by that observation and discussion himself be laved. Oh, you say it is all professional, (f you tell me that the mm of the newspaper press are not saved in multitudes, and all saved, then 1 say it is the fault of the church God; it is became you do not expect them to come into the kingdom. And then I re niemlier how one night in this church, in the t Mirth seat from the platform, there sat a journalist. He had been sent to caricature Hie service'. He came early. He looked around and be saw that the sliane of the ouilding was not the usual shape of ehurehes, and he caricatured that. After a while the organ l egan its solemn roll and that was fun to him. and he caricatured that. After a while tho pastor appeared on the platform and he caricatured him. The i the music went on and that was still more funny. After a while the text was announced and that was irresistible. And he was writing i'ii until the servi?o was about half through, ind ho said his hand began to tremble, and be hardly knew why it trembled, and he said to himself: “don’t be a coward; d >n’t be af fected by anything in this chtir.h; you ?ame here professionally.” Ho rallied his strength and he concentred his energies and he wrote on until h ? could write no more, and he put his pencil in bis pocket, put his head down on the seat in front and began to pray, and when at the close of the service we asked all those who desired to be commended to God in prayer to arise, lie was the firstone that arose. Coming into the side room he told us the whole story, and before the even ing was past he declared himself on the Lord’s side, and ever since, though still in the newspaper profession, ever since on Sabbath afternoons he is preach ing tii? gospel of Jesus Christ in a hall hired at his own expense. And the day will come when the men of the newspaper profession will come into tho kingdom of God by scores and by hundreds and by thousands. The world will not be c inverted until they are converted. They feel the sadness th / none seems to care for their s mis. Many of them were brought up by fine ancestry, an j when they left thQparental roof, who§YU’r?;-«arte|J or disregarded.they went rlh with a father s benediction and a mother’s prayer, and oft times when they think of those good old times the tears fill the eye, and tiny go down in this great roaring metropolis home sick, and I say to any of them who may hear me to-day an l any to whom these words shall come, God is your friend. He has a heart large enough to take in all your annoy ances and all your misfortunes and all your distresses. Sometimes utterly disgusted with the world, its shams and its trials, you know not which way to turn; but this day y< u may have tho mercy, the pardon, the sympathv, the help of Almighty God if you will ask for them. Hear it. Hear it. Some veal’s ago, at tho f »ot of Canal street. New York, a body was found floating. As it was being brought to the morgue, they noth ol by the contour of tin* forehead that th * man h id great intellectual capacity. They found iu his pocket a reporter’s pad, a lead pencil and aphotogiaph of someone who long ago hfld lovi d him well. He had entare Ith ‘ news paper profession, things ha I gone wrong will him, his health had failed, he lad taken to artificial stimulants to keep up, and ha ha I gone down. down, dow.i until one summer day, hot and weary aud hungry and sick and in desrair, be filing himself from tho dock. Death, as it often does, had smo >thed out all th * wrinkles, and smootlif i off all the care from his face, ano it was as it had boon seven years before when he had left the country home never to re turn. The heartless world looked throueh the window of the morgue and suM: “It is only an outcast;” but God aid: “That is a gigantic nature that pori->he I because the world gave him no chance I say to all men in the newspaper profession, or in any wise allied to it, take God for youi’ portion not only because of the p rrnnal a l vantage religion will Im? to your own so il, but liecause we want you more mightily in terested in high Christian endeavor. This day lift your hand in oath of allegiance te religion and philantropby and patriotism. On the plains of judgment when you look off upon tho multitudes whom you hive influenced, may it bo found that many through your work were induced te start on the high pathway that leads to the renown of heiven. B t in that day to have been an editor, and with finger of tyf e influenced the world an 1 influ enced it wrong, that you had Ixen a dun geoned exile by the light of a window - u grated on scraps or Now Testament l<af picked up from the hearth, spelled out the story of Him who cam.-to takeaway the sins of the world. In eternit .* Dives is the beggar. But we will all soon be through with writing, speaking and publishing, and in all our pro fessions and occupations we will all soon be through. What then? Our life is a book. Our years are the chapters, our months are th** paragraphs, our days are the sentences, our imitation of others is the quo tation mark, our doubts are the interrogation points, our desire of display a da h. death a period, eternity the peroration. And where will we s|M3nd it? H '.ve you beard the news, the tremendous news, news mo*e thrilling than anything that has come us in th* journals forth? past six weeks? Not th? sinking of the Oregon, but the sinking of a world, not the misfortune ot a man, but the overthrow of a race. Terrific news. But have you heard the go >1 news? Glad news from the throne of God. The couriers of Heaven leaping from tic* palace gate to carry the the gloriou- n»-ws that there is pardon for all guilt and <,o*n fort for ail troub’e. Bet it up in double lea/ied columns, and direct it to the whole race. A Scot *h poet, insane on everything but religion, wrote this beautiful but strange rhythm: God hath pardoned all my sin. That’s the news, that’s the news. I feel the witness deep within. That’s the news, that’s th© news. An l since be took my sins aw ty. And taught me how to watch a i 1 f*iay, i I’m happy now from cLiy vo day, CIULDKEVS COLUMN. Uttle Fuoiprlnt*. Lit! le footprints on the snow Vanish in the sunbeam's glow. Little footprints by the way; Rain will wash them out someday. Footprints left in any place, Shall they pass uithout a trace < Marks u|x>n life's pathway all Leave behind, though great or small. I.it tie foot prints surely may lx*ad some in the upward way. Oh, beware, lest they should go Downward to the world of woe ! Jitiubo, the Playful t.utl. Dr. Goodsell gives the following in stance of tho playfulness of a tame sea gull: “My youngest daughter was play ing in her room with a hollow rubber bull. It fell from tho window-sill into lhe yard; Jumbo picked it up ami carried it to his bath-tub. Here the ball be cainc tilled, through the air-hole, with water. “My daughter went down to get it, when the bird snatched it front the tub and ran ha-hn-ing around the yard, with ! the ball in his beak, squirting the water : by pressing the ball as he went. 1 have no doubt that the first squirting of the tvater was accidental. But what of the following; When it was empty he carried the ball back to the tub and stood guard aver it for a moment; then ho took it up, this time with tho, little hole in the ball toward his throat. He began squeezing ns before. The first pressure threw the water down his throat, strangling him. “He dropped the ball, only to pick it 1 tip again, and ran round the yard squirt- | ing the water nway from him ns before; find to the dismay of my little daughter, when she insisted on having tho ball, he swallowed it, disgorging it an hour later, ns is the gull’s habit with indigestible substances. ’’ A Tiiter in (he Street i. Benares, one of the two holiest cities <n India, is believed by the Hindoos to Os under the special protection of the ter rible Siva. But once the god was so careless as to allow a tiger to steal into the city and wound a dozen of his wor shippers. One morning, the superintendent of police, a Scotchman, was not a little sur prised at being told that during the (light a wild beast had seriously wounded several natives. Guided by the inform ?r. lie went to the bottom of tho steps, where in a dark recess on the top he saw two eyes glaring in the darkness. Taking a musket from a policeman, the superintendent tired. With a roar, a huge tiger bounded out, rushed down the steps, and fell into a hole. His fore ■eg had been wounded by the Scotch man’s shot. A policeman tired, but i missed. The tiger sprang out of the hole, | siczed the inan and tore, him severely. Then the enraged beast rushed on the crowd, and wounded people on all sides. A company of policemen marched up, with loaded muskets, but as they had no percussion caps, they retreated in dis order. The tiger was master of the .situation, until the superintendent had ridden to the English camp and returned with sev eral officers anxious to hunt a tiger in the streets of the sacred city. The beast was brought to bay in an enclosed place, rind a volley laid him low. Hnw Kitty Wan Cured* Foolish little Kitty Gray would jump up to the great earthern cream bowl to steal a drink, although Bertie kept her saucer well supplied with good sweet milk. But Kitty thought it nice to be n little thief and help herself to little, sips of cream from the pantry. Several times she bad been caught mid punished for the troublesome trick, but it seemed to make no difference; she would first jump up to the shelf, then step carefully upon the edge of the bowl ami softly lap the thick, rich cream with her little naughty red tongue. One day Bertie was in the kitchen, when all at once he thought, he heard some little movement in the pantry, fie : crept softly to tho door, and there, was Kitty 'ti-nv just, stepping slyly upon the, ; edge of the cream bowl. Pretty soon she began hipping the yellow cream. Bertie stole noiselessly in, and suddenly giving Kitty a quick push in she went, head first, into the splashingcrearn. She floundered about in great fright and dis tress, scrambling and scratching, trying to get out. But, the bowl was deep and J the glazed sides so slipery, poor Kitty i might have drowned had she fallen in i accidentally. Bertie let her stay until he thought it cruel to keep her there any linger, then | ae helped her out. I’oor Kitty ran dripping away, and i hid somewhere until it was dark. It was not very kind for Bertie to do I is he did, but when he promptly told his mamma the truth about, it, she said she would forgive him if Kitty was cured of her naughty habit—and she was. 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