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Show SAN Sr) a< THE Jack & ELE Youne told him there to keep Forks. nN Wy,w, he had warm while only crept in he slept, and that he was very sorry if he had done any harm, and that he would go on his way and never came back there, if the farmer would let him go. But the farmer, who was a cruel, hard-hearted man, said he could not go, but must stay lived. and work for him as long as he WESTERN WEEKLY. Give me the two sacks of me go.” But his master said: “No, no; I have seen gold what and let things you can do, and I will not let you go yet.” Then, the King came and got his jewel and said: “You have done this. Now do one more thing and you shall have half my So he took Jack out into the field and kingdom. - In the very top of the very told him he must keep walking up and tallest tree in the forest, a golden pigeon down, all day long, to keep the crows comes to roost every night. But the away from the corn, and if he should tree is so slender that no man in my run away, the farmer would catch him kingdom can climb to the top without again and give him to the King, who shaking the tree so that the pigeon would cut his head off for disobedience awakens and flies away.« Catch the to his master. So Jack did ashe was pigeon for me in two days or you shall told day after day for a long time, and be put to death.” at night his master would lock him up Then the farmer was glad, because. he in the cellar all night till sunrise in the thought Jack could do all things: And morning. he told Jack that if he would do what A J IN But one day the King came sicne on | the King had said, he would give him his white lL orse, and went to ride through three sacks of gold and set him free. i x ' Re K the farmer’s field. And the farmer (who But Jack was afraid and said: didn’t know the King because he was “Oh, master, you climb the tree, and I dressed: just. like .other folks, that day) will hold it firm at the bottom.” COUNT THE MERCIES, | stopped the King and told him he must So, when night came they went to the go back. Then the King was very angry, forest and found the tree as the King had Count the mercies! coun. the inercies! and told the farmer that he must go to said. And the farmer climbed to the top Number all the giftsiof love; his granary and carry every grain of of the tree, while Jack tried to hold it Keep a daily faithful’record corn out and put it into sacks, one grain firm at the bottom. Of the comforts from above. Then there was a great scampering ata time, and count them and tell the Look at all the lovely green spots King how many grains there were. And and pattering of little feet through the In life’s weary desert way; this he must do in two days, or he would forest, and in another moment hundreds Think how many cooling fountains be put to death. of mice were gnawing at the trunk of the Cheer our fainting heart each day. And then the farmer, whose granary tree with their sharp little teeth; and Count the mercies! count the mercies! was full from the floor to the roof, knew presently the tree fell with a great crash, See them strewn along our way! he couldn’t do what the King had com- and the farmer falling with it, was | manded, and began to weep and tear his killed. Count the mercies, though the trials hair. And Jack felt sorry for his cruel Then when Jack saw what had hapSeem to number more each day; master then, and said he would try to pened, he went to his master’s great Count the trials, too, as mercies, do it for him. Then the farmer told chest and took his three sacks of gold Add them to the grand array. | Jack that if he would do it as the King and set out for home again with his forTrials are God’s richest blessings, had said, he would give him two sacks tune. And he and hisfather and mother Sent to prompt our upward flight, of gold and set him free. and little brothers and sisters all lived As the eagle’s nest—all broken, So Jack went to the granary and be- together, and were happy ever after. . Makes them fly to loftier height; gan to carry the grains ott one at a time Count them mercies! count them mercies! and count them and put them in the That bring heaven within our sight. WHERE THE DAY BEGINS. sack. But when night came, his head Sooerennioeedal Let us number all our jewels, Let us estimate their worth; Let us thank the gracious Giver, | Strewing blessings o’er the earth. Let our trials o’erflow with gladness, Let us tell the wonders o’er, Till our multiplying treasures Seem a countless, boundless store, Then let praises, grateful praises, Be our language evermore. ANONYMOUS. ached and so did his legs, and he had to sit down to rest. And when he saw how little he had done, and how much remained, he knew that he could never do |} it, and began to cry. But just then he heard a funny little squeaking noise, and opening his eyes very wide, saw a mouse at his side—and then he knew it was the very same mouse he had taken out of the stream. Then the mouse capered around and ran to the g-anary and got one grain of corn and ran back and dropped it into the sack. Then he looked at Jack, as if to’ say: <> — According to the way in which this arrangement is carried out, the first land that the new day dawns upon is Haster Island, about 230 miles west of the coast of Chili, South America. 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Six Months, Three Months, ae and NI VI NININSINS >: aay four and its circulation is second to The Old Market Stables,| é Utah. only LIVERY STABLE Ne in in| aster Island and places west, the first in all places on the American Continent. [Written for the Western Weekly.] We may, therefore, realize the idea that at 7:30 0’clock any morning of our lives in Great Britain the next day is com“Don’t cry any more now, and [ll at- mencing in the world, and is to be found tend to this for you.” at this little island in the Pacific Ocean And then he ran away, and Jack for- whence, in due course, it will travel BY ALLEN. got to cry and soon fell fast asleep. round to us. But to have thus the start When he woke up in the morning, he of the world is not an unmitigated aaOnce upon a time there was a little was surprised to see all the sacks full, vantage to these islanders. boy named Jack, who lived with his|. and the number of grains marked on Suppose one of them sails east to parents 1n a great city. Jack’s parents each sack. For the mouse had gone to America, whatisthe result? He will were very poor,and there were many all the other mice in the country for find that they keep the day there under children beside Jack. who was the oldest. miles around, and told them all about it, a different date, and he will have to One bright morning Jack’s father called and they had come while Jack was asleep reckon one day in his calendar twice him aside, and giving him a shilling and by hundreds and thousands, and had it over to put himself right with their nohis blessing, told him that he could no all done before he was awake. tions. On the other hand, if an Amerilonger find food and clothing for all, and Then Jack called his master and said: can crosses from east to west this wonas he was the oldest, he must go forth “Master, it is all done. Give me the derful magic line where the day * beings, and seek his own fortune. two sacks of gold and let me go.” he will find the dates in the fresh part of So Jack took the shilling in his hand. But his master said: “No, no; now I the world are one in advance of him, and and bidding his father goodbye, set out. have seen what wonderful things you he must needs strike a day out For many days he traveled on and on. can do, I will not let you go yet.” of his calendar to keep up _ with Jooking for his fortune everywhere; but Then when the King came and saw, he the times. seeing nothing of it. until at last, tired said: This fact was curiously illustrated in and hungry (for he had spent hisshilling “You have done this, but you must do the case of Magellan, the Portugese tong before) he sat down on the bank of I losta jewelfrom my cap when captain, who sailed around the world, Presently he heard a more. a brook to rest. Find itin two from east to west, in 1520, and having funny little squeaking noise coming from I was hunting yesterday. crossed the magic line of “day’s birth” in the brook, and looking up he saw a poor days, or you will be put to death.” When the King went away, the farmer his wanderings, his calendar became, of half-drowned mouse clinging to a chip The sailors and floating down the stream, which was went to Jack and told him what the course, a day in arrear. very swift. Every once in a while the King had said, and told Jack that if he were completely ignorant of this, and chip would strike a rock ora ripple in would find the jewel he would give him finding, on landing at home, that their the stream.and then the poor little two sacks of gold and set him free. So Sunday was falling on a Monday, they mouse would be thrown into the water, Jack went into the forest and hunted for accused one another of tampering with It wasnot for some time erying and squeaking with all his might, it all day. And when night came he the reckoning. was tired and laid dwn by atree to rest, that the true and simple explanation of which was the noise Jack heard. and began to cry, for he was hungry as Jack was a kin‘d-hearted boy, and the wonderful loss of time was. discovwell as tired. Then he heard the leaves ered.—Chamber’s Journal. when he saw the poor mouse’s danger, he waded out intc the »rook, and taking rustle by his side,and looking down saw Then the mouse ran the little creature up in his hand carried the mouse again. him to the bank and set him down. The away and got all the other mice by hun| se ~ ae - mouse squeaked his thanks as best he dreds and thousands, and they all went could.and then ran off as fast as his four running about through the forest on their nimble little legs, and peering here little legs would carry him. | Then Jack went on again: and at and there. and everywhere with their Lf you want a first class Horse night he crept into a haystack, standing sharp little eyes—all hunting for the] and Buggy at the lowest “And when Jack woke King’s lost: jewel. by the road, to sleep. In the morning possible charges go to he saw'the jewel lywhen he woke up, he saw a n.an stand- up in the morning: ing over him with a great stick in his ing in his cap, which had fallen off his head while. he was asleep, and ran and: Opposite Herald Office. hand. ’ Special Attention Given to Boarders. BS “What are you doing in my hay?” took it to his master and said: iB Gy KN OWLTON, Prop. “See, master, here is the King’s jewel sked the’ man. 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