FOR THE YOUNG FOLK.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 182, 11 December 1886, Page 2

FOR THE YOUNG FOLK.

DREAMING. I dreamed as I slept last night And because the wild wind blew ; And because the plash of the angry rain Fell heavily on the *indosr pane. I heard in my dream the Bob of the main, On the seaboard that I knew. I dreamed as I slept last night, And because the oaks outside Swayed and groaned to the rushing blaßt. I heard the crash of ihe stricken maat, And the wailing Bhriek as the gale swept past. And cordage and Bail replied. I dreamed as I slept last night. And because my heart "was there, I saw where the Btaru Bhono large and bright, And the heather budded upon the height, With the cross above it standing white ; My dream was very fair. I dreamed as I slept last night. And bacauße or its charm for me, The inland voiceß had power to teH Or the eights and Bounds I love so well, And they wrapt my fancy in the spell, Wove only by the sea.

MAKE YOUR PARENTS HAPPY. Children, m ake your parents happy ; Make them ->ing instead of sigh, For the mournful hour of parting Muet bo very, very nigh. Children, make your parents happy; Many griefs they have to bear ; And they weary 'ueath thoir burdens. Can you not these burdena share? Children, make your parents happy ; Prompt obedience cheers the heart, While a wilful disobedience Pierces like a poisoned dart. Children, make your parents happy ; On their brow the linos of care Deepen daily ; don't you see that? While your own are Bmooth and fair. Children, make your parents happy ; For. beneath ttoc coffin Jid, A,\l too soon, their faCrS ijitltitlika Shall tor evermore be hid. Q

THE CHOPPED BIBLE. A few years ago a Bible distributor, while passing through a village in Western Massachusetts, was told of a family in whose home there was not even the cheapest; copy of the Scriptures, so intense was the hoetility of the husband to Christianity. The distributor started at once to visit the family, and found the wife hanging out the week's washing. In the course of a pleasant conversation he offered her a neatly-bound Liblo. With a smile which said " Thank you," s-he held out her hand, but instantly withdrew it. She hesitated to accept the gift, knowing that her husband would bo displeased if she took it. A. few pleasant woids followed, in which the visitor spoke of man's need of divine direction and of the divine adaptation of the Bible to that need, and the \t oiuan resolved to take the gift. Just then the husband came from behind the house with an ax on his shoulder. Seeing the Bible in his wife's hand, he looked threateningly at her, and then said to the distributor : " What do you want, sir, of my wife ?" The frank words of the Christian man^ spoken in a manly way, so softened his irritation that he lepikd to him with civility ; but, stepping up to his wife, he took the Bible from her hand, paying : " We've almost had everything in common and will have this, too." Placing the Bible on the chopping block he chopped i r in two parts with one blew of tho axe. Giving one part to his wife and putting the other in his pocket, he walked away. Several days after this division of the Bible he was in the forest choppingwood. At noon he seated himself on a log and began to eat his dinner. The dissevered Bible suggested itself. He took it from hi 3 pocket and his eyes fell on the last page. He heean reading, and coon was deeply interested in the story of the piodigal son, but his part ended with the eon's exclamation : "I will arise and go to my Father," At night he said to his wife with affected carelessness 11 Le f me have your part of the Bible. I've been reading about a boy who ran away from home, and after having a hard time Jecided to go back. There my part of the book ends, and I want to know if he got back and how the old man received him." The wife's heart beat violently, but she mastered her joy. and quietly handed her husband her part without a word. He read the story through, and then ro-read it, He read on far into the night, but not a word did he say to his wile. During the loisure moments of Iho next day his wife saw him reading the now joined parts, and at night he said abruptly, "Wife, I think that is the best book I ever read." Pay after day he read it. His wife noticed his few woids which indicated that he was becoming attached to it. One day ho eaid ; " Wife, I'm goiner to try to live by that book. I guess it's the best sort of guide for a man "

THE FLY AS A PURIFIER. Of what upq is this troublesome customer? The fly does his part in the great and important work of purification, seeing with his ten thousand eyes things that would pass unnoticed by us, eagerly devouring his appropriate food. This he finds in tho smallest atoms of animal and vegetable matter, too email to bo noticed by the tidy housekeepers, which otherwise would be permitted to putrify, contami* nating the air. We may imagine that he circles about in the air with no definite object in view, but if we will carefully watch him we shall be convinced that he has an object, collecting his food, atoms of impure or decaying matter which otherwise would enter our lungs adding to the impurity of our blood. This filth is collected on his wings and head, for as we see him light ho scrapes his wings and his head with his legs and feet, passing tke gathered morsels from foot to loot, the front pair passing his dinner to his mouth. The fly also teaches us the value of sunlight, not only to cheer but to purify the air, for he has too good sense to live in a dark room. When the parlour is darkened he eeeks a decent place for his release.