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A Story With A Moral

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Parent Issue
Day
6
Month
August
Year
1880
Copyright
Public Domain
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"I know a Christian woman, so puro, so consistent tliat to heaven sin; mil be so near tlio tln-one that I cannot fin te 1 1 a iíliinpso of lier, añil yot tliat w(iiKiii'iii)wittinly by her fcraditioBS niailc voitl tile eoniniaiuliiicnls of bod. One day í'rom tho bi-east of her duad iiaughterslre lifted a little chili, a baby boy, íatlierless aml motlierless. And in that the commandment o f God fiaine to her. 'Take this child and nurse liiu) for me.' Tlie cluld M-ew. tíhe t'ed hitn ; slie clothed bim ; slie loved liini ; she sent him to Sunday school and to tlic day school. VVhat thoügh her hands gvevr soinctiines tired, and her eyes ached at nightsewing on his Hule gHrmentgr w'T.. Kn i„f hor hov I liona ot' her bone, llesli of her üusli ! AU! but sim forgot that she was seventy years o. cl and he was only seven. She forgot that he with his youtuful resllessncss wanted something bcside the primor aud the Bible. And when lie grcw older and brbaght home his litl.e unes, she didn't believe in checkers ; 10 didn't believo in cliess ; sho didu't elieve in cards. And wh.it was the esiill? lie stiid tome when I tulked ohim: 'Miv Öowliug, I must have niusement. lt' I #-ing tese tlnns ome thoy are iut in the iho.' An.i wlion he found hecould not hayethestj things at home, he did jn.it vvhat your sou "is doin-, thou-h you inay not now it. lic went whoro he cüiiKt avo theni. And we long it was the kl story. Siiiiday íbrjíoiten ; hurch ibrgotten. And the vury wouau who would davegivea her üeart's lood tor hiiu forgotteu. An,l wijen no carne to me totceiing on hor statt, ïer heud bont, au I Uie gmy looK Hilin ■■ on her temples, throüüiug 1U on-uw, and Baid, ■ VVtiaD sliall 1 do lor my boy?' llOW 1 longet to teil her oi bei mistake; bul it was too late'" . - - - bnUdïiig 2.7OO.O& barrels ot non taukaïe tho oost of wlaeh wiü Oo near $1,000,000. , mm i M - R ick In wbich pctrified Icaves and grassns appear Jias been found near Austin, Nev. One of tlic Vesuvian gtrtdoB hopcd, fi-om tlie aspect of the mouutain, bat a urand eruption would soon over whelm the w.vr railway up tlio sides of the niountain, aml threw himself from au upper window on fliidiug liiinscH' dinappainted in liis expeotationa of a 0Ht.asLrophe, 11e was killed on the spot. Notvvithstandinii tlie liouceui' tney have received frora the director óf the YfeSUVian railway, the guides iu icncral wish nothiug more lieartily tliau that a streain of lava may desceud and deatroy the wholo aüaii-.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Argus