Show the old settler 0 my dear san Jua ners A lady friend of mine has taken an incorrigible little boy to rear she has been living in peace and comfort and taking great satisfaction in devoting most of her time to the study of art with I 1 which she is much in love andhor and for which she has unusual aptitudes when she took this outlaw boy it disrupted her whole program leaving her with little or no time for her art and mighty little peace or comfort for any of the 24 hours of the day she is giving that wormy little boy her whole time and attention he is a continual problem in all his waking moments and when he sleeps she is anticipating his wants studying out ways of helping him and praying for wisdom to understand him and lead him into the good ways of honorable manhood why does she make this sacrifice Is there no way that she can avoid it she says she is called to it by virtue of all the standards of right to which she ihas has held from childhood she says she is called and made responsible for this boy as much as if god had spoken from heaven and told her to take him and she expects abar to answer at the great judgment bar for the way she deals with this ungrateful little boy he is the only son of her sister jane who died on the altar of motherhood for the sake of a baby girl who sleeps in the same casket with her that lady friend of mine is impressing on me som some e very important principles I 1 was just jus t going continued on page 12 the old settler continued from page 1 to say that her art work is entirely neglected now but not so that incorrigible little nephew of hers is at it with vandal fingers every ime aime he be gets a chance he has ruined it he has played havoc havo with the house in general pulled up the flowers broken the windows scarred and crippled the furniture his little head bead is just fermenting with mischief and he has no in more ore sense of gratitude than a rattlesnake but that lady friend is preaching with more force and more eloquence than her tongue could be made to speak she is putting it over to my selfish soul that there are conditions which impose on us obligations as binding as if heaven had assigned them in so many words she is convincing me that heaven will demand an accounting for things that common sense tells me it is my duty to do she has got me to the point where I 1 almost have courage to look around and see what I 1 ought to be e doing instead of following my own inclinations as I 1 am in the habit of doing ALBERT R LYMAN |