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SEED-TIME AND HARVEST. 
to manhood; and honor, affection and 
reason came to the rescue. The child had 
preached a sermon no orator could deliver; 
and innocence and ignorance had accom¬ 
plished what learning and logic had aimed 
i in vain. Those words went home.— Of¬ 
ficial Organ.. 
“Gwme to tlfe Pos* Office.” 
One of the oddest sights in the South is to 
see the negroes hang about the post offices. 
They are the first ones to call in the morn¬ 
ing and the last ones to leave at night, and 
it is by no means rare to have them inquire 
for mail ten or fifteen times a day. I was 
in the office at Marietta, Georgia, when an 
aged darky limped in and inquired: 
"Ain dar fo’ or five letters heah fur June- 
broke Duke?’’ 
"No, sir,” replied the postmaster, after 
taking a look. 
‘•Well, den I’ll take 000.” 
"There are no letters for you.” 
"Isn't dar a newspaper.” 
"No.” 
"Hasn't I got miffin' 'tall ?” 
"Not a thing.” 
"Dat’scurus—very curiis,” muttered the 
man, as he walked out. 
[ followed after and when I asked liim if 
he expected an important letter that day 
he replied: 
"Sartin I does. Dat’s why I'ze walked 
fo* miles dis mawning.” 
"Where was the letter coming from?” 
"I dunno.” 
"Did you expect news or money in the 
letter,” 
"’Deed I did, sail. I ’spected dat letter 
might hab $20 into it.” 
"Who from?” 
He then told me that lie could neither 
read nor write, had no friend to write to 
him, had never mailed a letter nor received 
one in his life, and yet he had inquired for 
mail at least five hundred times a year for 
the past ten years. In fact, it wasn’t an 
hour after I left him before he circled 
round to the office again and said: 
"I reckon I must hab some mail by dis 
time.” 
"No—nothing for you.” 
"Wall, if dat han’t curus—wery curusf 
Reckon I'd better wait fur dat 1 o’clock 
train .”—Detroit Free Press. 
Castor Oil for Shoe ^Leather. 
There is one simple article, says the Lon¬ 
don Field , which will t ender any decently 
made boot thoroughly impervious. It is 
nothing more not. less than cold-drawn 
castor oil, "pure and simple.” It is best 
applied before a moderate lire. The boots- 
to be dressed should be quite clean and dry, 
and special care should be given to the 
welt and the tongues and their stitching to 
the upper leathers. I generally begin by 
pouring the oil from the bottle all round 
the welt, so that the angle between the sole- 
and upper leather is quite rilled with oil, 
and then proceed all over the boot, in¬ 
cluding the edges of the soles, rubbing it 
with the hand. When one is done, have 
a turn at the other, ahd so alternately till 
you have got in a table-spoonful and a half 
to each boot. The tongues, being thinner 
leather, should be quite saturated. Sub¬ 
sequent dressings will not require so much 
oil. I have never found anything to touch 
this as a waterproof dressing; the gelatinous 
oil seems to effectually stop every pore in 
the leather. There is another advantage 
for those who are natty in such matters;, 
the boots will s xm take a good (common 
blacking) polish—so much so, that a man 
may if he likes, waterproof his ordinary 
walking boots for bad weather without 
spoiling their appearance. With a common 
walking boot of ordinary thickness, apply 
the oil over the sole. Shooting, I wear 
boots so treated, over thick woolen socks, 
from eight to twelve hours a day, or more, 
without feeling the slightest inconvenience 
in any way; but they have the chilly feel 
inseparable from all boots that are oiled- 
in that way. 
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