He that is faithful in that which is least, is faithful also in. much.— Luke 16; 10. 



IVIYSELF AND MY NEIGHBORS. 



Give, find it shall bp ffivpn unto yon; srood meas- 

 ure. pres«pd down, and shaken togreiher. andrnnninff 

 ()ver,shHll men erivo into your hf)Soin. For with the 

 same measure that ye mfie wiihal it shall be meas- 

 ured to you again.— Luke 6 :38. 



%&fY LITTLE FRIEXDS, I want to tell 

 BIB, y^^^ ^ stovy I heard the other day, 

 about neiti:hl)ors, A good many years 

 ago.wlien they did not have railroads as they 

 do now, there used to be what we called 

 •• taverns ■■ scattered through the country. 

 They call them hotels now, but the country 

 taverns then were rather dil'ferent trom a ho- 

 tel. As the landlord had many times but a 

 small amount ot custom, he used to be a sort 

 of farnipr, and a good many times the coun- 

 try tavei'ii was nothing biit'a great big farm- 

 liouse by the side of the road, without a town 

 by it at all. Well, once there was an old 

 Yankee farmer who kept a tavern by the 

 roadside, I suppose you have heard that 

 Yankees are a very iiKjuisitive people. They 

 always want to know what their neighbors 

 are doing; and if a stranger comes along 

 they are always curious to know who he is, 

 where he is going, where he came from, 

 what kind of Inisiness he follows, and all 

 that. Well, this Yankee tavern-keeper was 

 no exception to the general rule, and so he 

 used to ask everybody who stopped with him 

 over night such questions as I have men- 

 tioned above. 



One evenmg a wagon full of people mov- 

 ing came along to stop with liim over night. 



After they got the horses unhitched, " mine 

 host" began as usual : 



'' Well, neiglibor, may I ask where you 

 came from, aiid where you are going V " 



" Why, J came from the town of , in 



the State of Penns>lvania, I am going out 

 west somewhere to itind a new home." 



After a little time our friend returns to the 

 charge. 



" Xow, friend, if >'ou will excuse the liber- 

 ty I take, I sliould like awful well to know 

 vvhy >ou are moving away from the town of 

 — —^\ tliat is, if you don't mind about tell- 

 ing me about it." 



" Don't mind telling at all ; for the real 

 truth of it is, we had such a pesky mean set 

 of neighbors therein that it was im- 

 possible for a decent man to get along with 

 them and live. I am going to try to lind a 

 place \\ here one can live and get along with- 

 out being pestered to death l5y such mean, 

 low-lived people." 



Now, this tavern-keeper, besides l)eing a 

 Yankee, was also something of a philoso- 

 pher; and after eyeing the traveler for a 

 minute he advised him as follows : 



''My friend, you won't find any lu'tter 

 neighbors out west tlian you had wliere you 

 came from. The world is all pretty much 

 alike, and you had better make up your mind 

 to put up with just about such people as you 

 have left." 



Now, by some (lueer sort of coincidence 

 there happened another family along in a few 

 days more, and of course our friend put them 

 through the same line of (piestions; and. 



