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Vol. II. 



APR., 1883. 



No. 1. 



MYSELF AND MY NEIOHBORS. 



Yc arc of more value than many sparrows.— Luke 

 12:7. 



MiSTOTHER month has just passed, little 

 J^^ friends, and I have more neighbors 

 ■^ — ^ than I had a month ago. One new 

 one sits right here by my side. I am nsing 

 a type-writer no longer, but simply talking 

 to her while she makes funny crooked 

 marks as T talk. It is rather new to me 

 yet. and I find it a little hard to talk to you 

 without my old type-writer ; but it is so 

 much easier that I am beginning to enjoy it 

 very much. 



Now. while we are talking about talk- 

 ing and writing, it occurs to me that we have 

 one neighbor down in the tin-shop who can't 

 speak a word of English. He came to me a 

 few days ago with a friend of his, who could 

 talk for him, and wanted work. I asked 

 him how he could work when we couldn't 

 talk to him. He said he guessed he could 

 do it all right, if we would let him try. I 

 told I would try to find something for him to 

 do before long. It was but a few days be- 

 fore "Ned," who is the "boss tinneri" you 

 know, told me they wanted somebody to 

 make little honey-pails, because you are or- 

 dering them faster than the hands we have 

 there could make them. I thanked God for 

 that, because I remembered at once our Ger- 

 man brother, and thought we could give him 

 work. I soon learned, however, that he used 



tobacco, and you know we don't hire any- 

 body here who uses it. I sent word to him 

 that if he could give up tobacco I could give 

 him work. He said he would, and he has 

 been busy at his tins for a number of daysj 

 past. Nobody can talk Avith him except Ja- 

 cob and one other boy ; and as Jacob goes to 

 school, he seems to be truly a stranger in a 

 strange land. When I go along through the 

 room, all I can do is to put my hand on his 

 shoulder, and say "Good-morning," and he 

 says " Good-morning " back again; but that 

 is all the talk we have. His friend asked 

 him how he liked it here, and he said pretty 

 well, only he got pretty lonesome, with no- 

 body to talk to. Are you not sorry for him, 

 children V He just works away all day, and 

 is probably having hard work to break off 

 the habit so common in his country — tobac- 

 co-using. And there he sits all day Jong, 

 with scarcely a word from anybody. Now, 

 little friends, do you know how many times 

 it is in our power to make life pleasant to 

 those who are lonely or discouraged? The 

 dear Savior has told us that kind oflices such 

 as those are accepted by him as though done 

 unto himself. 



Our whole building is now very full of 

 boys and girls. We are so much crowded 

 that we are almost constantly getting into 

 each other's way. And yet a kind Christian 

 spirit seems to be with all. Quite a number 

 among the new comers are breaking off 

 from the use of tobacco. I know, too, they 



