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    _Volume 13, Number 26._  Copyright, 1886, by D. LOTHROP & CO.
                    _May 1, 1886._

THE <DW29>.


[Illustration: HOWARD'S HENS.]


"DILIGENT IN BUSINESS."

IF there ever was a boy who needed to turn over a new leaf and write
at the top as a motto, "Diligent in business," that boy was Howard
Grinnell.

If his mother asked him to do anything, he always replied, "I will in
a minute." He said this so often that I wonder he was not called "in a
minute" by everybody. It would have been a very appropriate name.

Howard had the charge of the hens, at least that was the way they put
it, but I think that Mrs. Grinnell was the one upon whom the burden
rested. Every morning after breakfast she found it necessary to ask,

"Howard, have you fed the hens?"

"Not yet, but I am going to."

"Well, go right away, or you will forget it."

"No, I will not forget, I am going in a minute; I just want to look at
the weather report."

Half an hour later Howard appears from the direction of the east meadow
with his hands full of meadow lilies which he presents to his mother,
saying:

"The very first! Put them in the antique vase, please. And set it under
the mantle, will you, mamma?"

"Thank you, dear, they are beautiful! I will arrange them at once."
Then as she turned away, "The hens?"

"O, I forgot! I'll go now."

"Seems to me," said Mr. Grinnell one morning, "that you have carried
that on your shoulders about long enough. Howard should attend to his
business without prompting. It did very well at first, but the time has
come when he must be held responsible for the prompt discharge of the
duty, else take away the privilege. Howard!"

"Sir?" responded the boy, turning back on his way to the barn.

"After this you are not to be reminded of your work, and if the hens
are not cared for before breakfast, I will do it myself, and you will
not have any benefit from the eggs, either in money or as food; it will
be some little extra trouble for your mother, but you will be provided
with food prepared without eggs unless you are faithful to your trust."

"Yes, sir." And Howard went on his way. I do not think he made any
resolutions; he thought it would be easy enough to attend to the duty
as required, and gave himself up to the examination of a weed which had
sprung up in the yard and which was a new one to him. The next morning
he remembered the hens, but the second morning though remembering
he thought of something he wished to hunt up in the cyclopaedia, and
stopped in the library until the breakfast bell rang.

For breakfast there was ham and eggs, and corn muffins. Howard was a
little surprised when his father passed him a plate with only a potato
on it. He was about to remonstrate, when he caught the significant look
on his mother's face, and remembered the compact. He wisely made the
best of it and decided that he would try a bowl of bread and milk.

After breakfast Mr. Grinnell fed the hens, and at night he brought in
the eggs, saying to his wife:

"I would like some boiled eggs for supper; as Bridget is away, we can
get along very well with bread and butter and eggs. Didn't I see you
making a sponge cake this morning?"

"Yes." Then they both laughed, but Mr. Grinnell sobered immediately and
said:

"It is rather hard on the boy when he is so fond of eggs, but it is
quite time he had a lesson. His dilatory habits will be a hindrance to
his success as long as he lives unless he is cured."

Now, privately, I do not believe that Mr. or Mrs. Grinnell enjoyed
their supper of boiled eggs and sponge cake. I know the mother would
much rather have eaten dry bread and given the boy her supper, but she
and her husband chatted over the meal as if everything were quite as
usual. Howard ate his bread and butter, missing the canned fruit which
Mrs. Grinnell remarked she thought they could do without as they had
the extra indulgence of boiled eggs. Now I do not suppose any of you
boys are surprised to hear that Howard, after asking to be excused
some time before his father and mother were through with their supper,
banged the door slightly as he left the room.

However, the next morning the hens received attention at the proper
time. And so far as that one duty was concerned he did not need
another lesson, but he was not yet made over into the prompt boy which
his father desired him to be. That woodbox! O, boys! Do you shrug your
shoulders and say, "I don't blame him?" The woodbox is a dread to boys,
I well know. Howard Grinnell did not particularly dislike the work of
filling the box, but he was never quite ready to do it. He was always
putting it off until he had finished reading the morning paper, or
been the rounds of the garden and meadows to see if there were any new
flowers out or any new birds' nests, and at length the school bell
would ring and he would go off to school having forgotten that there
was such a thing in the wide world as a woodbox. One morning Mrs.
Grinnell said, "Howard, Bridget will need a box full of wood to-day;
she has a large ironing."

"Yes, ma'am," said Howard dreamily from the depths of an arm-chair
where he had established himself with a new orchid and a botany. Mrs.
Grinnell was busy, and gave the matter no farther attention until two
hours later Bridget announced that the wood was out.

"Dear me!" said Mrs. Grinnell, "that boy went off without filling the
box, after all!" After a moment's thought she said: "Well, Bridget,
Howard cannot expect his clothes to be ironed with cold irons. You may
hang all his things upon the bars without ironing, and he will have to
wear them so. Perhaps you and I can get wood enough for the rest."

Bridget thought it a good joke to play upon Master Howard, and her
good nature returned in view of the sport she would have at the boy's
expense.

You may imagine that Howard did not enjoy wearing his rough-dried
garments, but he was forced to do so. And as he was a somewhat
fastidious boy, it was quite a trial to go to school in that plight.

It was by such lessons as this that Mr. and Mrs. Grinnell sought to
cure Howard of his fault; and one day when Mrs. Grinnell was looking
over same mottoes, she discovered one handsomely illuminated which
struck her as being just the one for her son's room. It was this:

"Diligent in business, serving the Lord!"

                                           FAYE HUNTINGTON.


HOW IT BECAME POSSIBLE.

"THAT is impossible!" and Mrs. Frazee turned away to hide the tears
that were ready to fall. The doctor had just said, "I must tell you
plainly, she has no chance for life here; she can never get through the
spring months in this stifled air. If you take her into the country at
once I have not the slightest doubt of complete recovery; she is sure
to rally with fresh air and country living. She ought to go at once."

And to this Mrs. Frazee had made answer, "It is impossible!" and indeed
it did seem impossible. Where was the money to come from for a journey?

Annie Frazee had been ill all winter; first it was the measles, then
later the whooping-cough. How that cough did hang on! Day after day the
child seemed to grow weaker, though they kept hoping for improvement.
They were too poor to have constant medical attendance, but a
kind-hearted physician who had been consulted when the cough had proved
too obstinate to yield to the mother's nursing, had fallen into the
habit of dropping in for a moment whenever he was in the neighborhood.
It was one of those bright mornings of early spring. Doctor Emmons had
been called to prescribe for Mrs. Murphy's baby. Mrs. Murphy lived away
up at the top of the tall tenement house of which the Frazees occupied
two rooms on the second floor. The doctor stopped for a few moments
on his way down, and his quick professional eye noted immediately the
change in Annie since his last call, and he made the plain statement
which so distressed the poor mother.

"If it could be," she said over and over when Doctor Emmons had gone on
his busy way, "but it is impossible!"

Suddenly as she was going sadly about taking up the work she must do,
and repeating the sorrowful sentence, "It is impossible!" she seemed
to hear a voice saying, "The things which are impossible with men, are
possible with God."

The voice seemed far away, and though Mrs. Frazee was startled she soon
realized that it was a memory of words she had read long ago, and as
she reflected she knew that they were the words of Christ himself.

[Illustration: ANNIE'S WINDOW.]

Away back in her girlhood Mrs. Frazee had professed to be a follower
of Jesus. The good seed sown in her heart in the Sunday