Trial and Triumph

stir your stumps to-day; I am going to have company this evening

coming,

s and Mrs.

pe she will come; she is just as sweet as a peac

who preached last Sunday an

ette opened her eyes wit

ill come, h

you know

e he told us, and I went and asked aunt 'Liza how people got religion. She had been to camp-meeting a

d she te

h and prayed and then they would get up and shout and sa

ou went to your aunt 'Liza. And w

garden and prayed and I

eligion. I guess I

y your actions. When you get old

iza is older than I am

got her head too full of dre

he emotions of that young spirit, she let the opportunity slip for rightly impressing that young soul. She depended too much on the church and too little on the training of the home. For while the church can teach and the school instruct, the home is the place to train innocent

is coming,

ite Mrs. Larkins; it would

ulders, a scowl came ove

she won'

that you made mouths at her yesterday, and that when Mr. Ross was whipping his horse you said you knew some one whom you wished was getting that beating, a

d, "I did make mouths at her house as I c

ad better mind how you

hing to do in the yard and ceased to prolong the dialogue. If the truth must be confessed, Annette was not a

sotting influence of beer and even stronger drinks, a fearful amount of gossiping, news-carrying and tattling went on, which often resulted in quarrels and contentions, which, while it never resulted in blood, sadly lowered the tone of social life. It was the arena of wordy strife in which angry tongues were the only weapons of warfare, and poor little Annette was fast learning their modes of battle. But there was one thing against which grandmother Harcourt set her face like flint, and that was sending children to saloons for beer, and once she flamed out with righteous indignation when one of her neighbors, in her absence, sent A

ent Annette to a beer saloon again, and in course of time she became a good te

asked her grandmother and the conversations she sometimes repeated Mrs. Harcourt feared that she was learning things which should only be taught by faithful mothers in hours of sacred and tender confidence, and she determined, even if it gave offence to her neighbors, that she would choose among her own friends, companions for her granddaughter and not leave all her social future to chance. In this she was heartily aided by Mrs. Lasette, who made it a point to hold in that neighborhood, mothers' meetings and try to teach mothers, who in the dark days of slavery had no bolts nor bars strong enough to keep out the invader from scattering their children like leaves in wintry weather, how to build up light and happy homes under the new dispensation of freedom. To her it was a labor of love and she found her reward in the peace and love which flowed into the soul and the improved condition of society. In lowly homes where she visited, her presence was a benediction and an inspiration. Women careless in their household and slatternly in their dress grew more careful in the keeping of their homes and the arrangement of their attire. Women of the better class of their