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Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 426, 16 June 1904, Page 7

DOES YOUR CHIMNEY SMOKE. A kind-hearted, old minister in the North was walking dowß.the Tillage when he came abVoss one of his parishioners seated at the side of the road, eating some bread and cheese. John.'she ?said, ' what are you doing: here P'„„ J ;■ ,-' '■' - : '*» 'l'm navin'my'supper outside, sir, as our chimney's smoking to-night,' was the answer.'-,■;■?. =,> ■-..-..-y x>- .■/■' ? <« ' •'* % Via fchatßOr X must go; and 'nee about it,' and, crossing the road, the old gentleman quietly opened the cottage door, but was amazed to receive a crack over the iiead with la brush, r while a shrill voice criect out, «Take that, you old reprobate.' £;Q sickly retreating, he returned to the man, who still sat on the roadside, and poking.,, very, sorrowful said, 'John,, our cnimheysmbije's sometimes!' '"' ' ■"""" ' True cordiality and sympathy unite all the.„other.qualities and are certain to ieoure the popularity so dear to everyone. 3 If you have no greit- trouble on your mind you have no right to render other people miserable by yonr long face, and dolorous tones. If you do you will generally be avoided. At (Mend schoolboys are now being taught to swim without undressing. •'There are abQut 125009 square miles of coalfields in the United -Kingdom* It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks■ of life that the meaning and shape of .the great whole of life dawns upon you. It is. while you are resisting little temptations that you are growing stronger. Give the helping praise when yoa see thai it is deserved. -The thought that 'no one knows and so one cares' blights many • a bud of promise.