Show PEW whitewashed lad saves the family reputation by dropping his only cent in the collection dox box years ago there was a groat great meeting of a certain religious denomination in chicago among ninny many important matters considered by them was the condition of their benevolent enterprises terp rises it appeared from carefully compiled statistics from missions miss lons of all hinds that tho the members of the denomination in the northern state during the preceding year had paid only 38 39 cents per capita an eloquent and humorous brother discussed the subject before a large congregation ile said that tho the fact chown by statistics reminded him of a rich but penurious man in wisconsin who was never known to contribute anything either lor for missions lons or local church expenses lie he hall had it a little boy who had just donned ills his first pair of trousers and was as proud of ills his its as a peacock Is of its tall the little fellow had noticed that many people in the church dropped amonoy OX into the contribution boxes and decided that lie ho would do so too lie ile became the lordly owner of a ent cent c on sunday his father and mother tool took him to church As usual a collection was taken but neither of his parents gave anything the boy became excited jumped off the seat and ran his hand down into one of his precious pockets got hold or of the only cent ho he had and proudly dropped it into tho the contribution box bo x As the collector coli ector passed to the next 10 heard beard the little boy say to his father well it if it been for me this pew would have been whitewashed this morning youths companion |