Barriers Burned Away

go. The suggestion of his bar-room acquaintance was a light upon his way. And with one of Dennis's age and temperament, even a small hope is pot

though it was-the sympathy and companionship of another human being; for if he had been cast away on a d

who leaves out physical causes in accounting for mental and moral states, will usually come wide of the mark. But while giving the influences above referred to their due force, so far from ignoring, we would acknowledge with emphasis, the chief cause of man's ability to receive and appreciat

lp and comfort through life, and a sudden burst of sunshine upon his dark way at the present hour. He was to be shown how he

e words of our Lord-"Launch out into the

all the night and have taken nothing: nevert

nclosed a great mu

rst disciples catch fish, why should He not help me find a good place?" Then unbelief

low, selfish purposes. My ends are the best and purest, for I am seeking my own honest living and the support of my mother

usting in my own strength? and this too when my ignorance of business, the dull season of the year, a

y prosperity was promised or given. After an hour he closed the Bible with a long breath of wonder, and said to himself "Why, God seems to care as much for the well-being an

t, Dennis Fleet: God is on your side in the struggle for an honest suc

een revealed that rested and strengthened him more than t

king the fire, stopping often to blow his cold fingers, and wasting enough good breath to have kindled a furnace. His rubicund vis

; "vat you oop dis early for? Don'

ennis; "and shall want a bigger one tha

; "den I go and tell de cook t

ow different this snow will look by night," thought he; "how soiled and black! Perhaps very many come to this city in the morning of life like this snow, pure and unstained; but after being here aw

coming day of rest, he turned and said to the factotum of the bar-room, "How muc

shil

fast before I eat it, if y

entlemans," said the G

t will clean off your sidewalk for

o do him fo

zwei sh

ns," said the man, still star

came from Germany to this country and was

e thankful than if you had given me the money for nothing." "Little fear of dot," said the man, with another grin. "Vel, you are der queerest Yankee in Chicago, you are; I dink you are 'bout haf Sherman. I tells you vat

"and if I can make a few more l

r market and see if dere's enough for m

ustily, and then called his task-mast

n for reason to find fault, he said: "I say nothin' agin him. I hop

nslaught on the buckwheat cakes, and rolled up hi

gave him a nod, and said

" said the German, in a tone

. Then, counting his gains, he found that he had paid for his shovel, secured breakfast and dinner, and had a balance on hand of two dollars and fifty cents, and he had nearly half a d

ggest to me this way of turning an honest penny. I wish Bill was as good a friend to himself as he is to others. I fear that he will go to the dogs. Bless me! the gnawings of hunger are bad enough, but what m

aw that something was wrong. The landlord me

ost of the night, and therefore he was down late in the morning. When he appeared his assistant told him of the bargain he had made with Dennis as a good joke. But old Hans hadn't any faculty for jokes. Dollars and cents and his big meer

haf no money? You should gleared him off, instead of

" said Jacob, for

any circumlocution: "I makes my livin' by keepin' dis house. I can no make my livin' unless efrypodies bays me.

everything I have had

question. Haf yo

l in advance up t

a quarter, if you

dinner to-day for clea

uch; you did i

But a bargain is a bargain, the world

f I be der loser. Yahcob Bunk ish n

s, "von dollar sheventy-

w let me have my dinne

is saw that the moment it was gone his purchased courtesy would change, and he trembled at his narrow escape from bei

il, give der shentleman

d a huge mug of coffee. When Dennis had finished these and crowned his repast with a big dumpling, Jacob came to him with a face as long and serious as his harvest

, laughing-for he could laugh to-day at little