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SPOILED SERMONS. Little Child Who Unexpectedly Be came a Member of His Father's Congregation. Rev. Alex. W. Pealer in Atlanta Journal. Did you ever try to think about two things at the same time? I have. and it is a difficult thing to do. I tried once to preach a sermon and yell at a trifling dog that was killing: a chicken, but I found out that I couldn't do both at the same time. however much I wante4 to. It was in Cartersville. I had been very much annoyed by a strange dog which had slaughtered seven young Pekin ducks for me and I don't know how many chickens. I had been looking for him for several weeks:, trying to give him a dose of bird shot, but I had never been able to locate him. One Sunday morning in the balmy month of May, when the ground honeysuckles around the church building was in bloom, when the hum of bees and the fragrance of flowers were on the breeze. I was preaching to a crowded house. The windows were all open and I had es tablished that connection between the pulpit and the pew that is so delight ful to every preacher when something happened that came near breaking the connection of my sermon. In the midst of an impassioned appeal I heard the cry of a distressed chicken; looking out of the window I saw a coach dog had a chicken-a frying size chicken, one good and ripe jammed down in the honeysuckle vines. I could see that the poor little chicken was being murdered in cold blood before my eyes. I wanted to save his life, but how to do it I couldn't see. I knew if I yelled out my sermon would be spoiled and yet:1 it was one of the hardest things I ever had to do, to keep from stopping in the midst of my sermon and ask Deacon Cobb, who sat near the win-, dow, to go out and slaughter that chicken killing dog. Rev. M. L. Wood, the Baptist pas-!1 tor, at Staunton, Va., with whom I stopped in Nas-hville, told me a sim ilar experience. He and his wife were attending church one bright; Sunday morning; he was in the pulpit and his wife was in the choir. loft be hind him. They had left their little four-year-old boy home .,with thep nurse, attired in a home dress coveied by a blue gingham apron, and minus!. his shoes. He had been playing'l around the yard until both apron,t feet, face and hands, were covered with the dirt in which he had been ' digging. About midway his sermon I Mr. Wood saw the little fellow enter the front door of the building and 1 stand for a moment surveying the scene. He thought of his wife and'ofi some way of stopping the boy, but he< could not turn lose the sermon he1 was preaching. After completing his survey the little fellow coolly pro-i ceeded down the aisle. . One of the: deacons taking in the situation caught hold of the boy as he passed, but he jerked away from him and walked down in front of the pulpit where he I stood for a moment looking up into his father's face. The thoughtless ones of the congregation began to< giggle and even the more thoughtful ones were forced to smile. Everyone was thinking more about the boy than the sermon his father was1 preaching. The child passed from in front of1 his father, climbed the steps leading? up to the pulpit, walked over to a vase of flowers and began to .examinei them. Then, for the first time, the moth er, saw him and her embarrassment, was very great when she realized that* she couldn't reach him without mak ing a scene. Having examined the flowers the little fellow, taken with1 the sofa on the pulpit climbed upon1 it and sat there dangling his dirty little legs in front of the congrega tion. He grew tired of this in a little1 while and catching sight of a little girl with whom he was acquainted V beckoned to her, asking her to come up to him and she started, but her mother stopped her. The mental agony of the father, who was a very bashful man. can better be imagined than described. The child remained on the sofa but a few moments. Seeing the con tribution baskets on the iront s.eat and the money in them. he left his seat. elimbed down from the pulpit without gtoing to the steps. too0k po session of the mo'neyv and begani ipron pocgkets wih the biggest pieces tnd running his hand in glee through he rest of it. commenting in his :hildish way as he amused himself. rhe whole congregation by this time vas completely upset. and seeing hat his boy had practically murder :d his sermon, on which he had spent iearly a week and over which he had )rayed fervently. the father cut it ;hort. concluded the service and got he boy out of a bluilding as soon as >ossible. 'AVE AWAY UNBORN BABY. ,hild Taken Away From Its Mother an Hour After Its Birth. The New York World prints the ollowing story: March 29. 1904. ro whom it may concern: This is to certify that 1, Flora Iorkell. nee MacDonald. of my own ree will. do hereby promise and tgree to surrender and relinquish for ver all claims whatsoever to the :hild now to be born to me. and it is ny wish that said child, when born o me, shall be given for adoption to ome Roman Catholic person or per ons who will give my said child >roper care, protection and educa ion. Flora Morkell. Six weeks before the blue eyes oi iny Frank Morkell blinked in a trange world it was surrendered by ts mother. One hour and a half Lfter its birth the infant was taken rom her and carried in a carriage o the New York Foundling asylum, Lt Sixiy-eighth street and Lexington Lvenue. The baby was born on Monday norning last in an apartment house Lt No. 148 West One Hundred and rwenty-sixth street. where It nother, Mrs. Flora Morkell. is now iving. Several times since the child went )ut of her life. maternal instinct >rompted the mother to inquire foi he welfare of the infant which she nay never again see and whose lu :tire joys or sorrows she may nevei cnow. Robert Morkell was a soldier in the Z>anish-.Amercar) war, and acquit :ed himself with credit in Cuba. He vent to the Philppines later and -eturned to this country a year ago. He disappeared last December and oon afterwards. Mrs. Morkell avers he received word that he was dead illed in Cuba. Her father is now )n the island employed by one of :he railroads. Several months ago Mrs. Morkell noved into the One Hundred and rwenty-sixth street house, where she ias been supported by J. H. Mac Donald, her father's brother, who ives at No. 2 West One Hundred and Eighteenth street. Mr. MacDonald s caring for a younger sister in a :onvent, and a younger brother and :he latter's wife and baby. Realizing that her baby would make t impracticable for her to become ;elf supporting, and feeling that her mcle had already been over kind to ter, Mrs. Morkell early in March de :ided to give up her babe. It was fter more than a month's delibera :ion that she decided to take the step. he is no more than twenty-five years yd, very pretty and accomplished. he has been married five years. Reconciled to the surrender of the :hild, she signed the article of sur -ender prepared by her uncle. The babe is an unusually handsome oy, weighing eleven pounds. As oon as the mother could be made :omfortable arrangements were nade for the sad preparation. A cab vas summoned and into it the nurse tnd Mr. MacDonald hurried, the ormer carrying the cooing little me, swathed in blankets. The parting scene was pathetic. he mother appreciating the fact that y the terms of her agreement she ould never again be privileged to :laim the little fair-faced 'child as ier own. The absoltute ,urrender given in the :ase of Baby Morkell and the pathet c circumstances surrounding it. deep y impressed the good sisters of the onvent, and that is why the tiny ~tranger is being so tenderly cares or in his new home. How Some Women Earn Money. In Paris many women with deli :ate tastes arc engaged as profession :1! dinuer tasters. The business is a ~roing one. it is 5o xar cCfntned( t the representatives of the fair sex. n.lx- dri-.e from house to* house shortly before the-dinner hour. taste the food which is preparing for din ner. suggest improvements and de scribe new methods for preparing the same food. Two finely-built young womein were employed last season by a Par isian dressmaker to wear clothing designed at her establishment. Be sides the elaborate wardrobes which this brought to the young women. the expenses of both were paid at the most fashionable hotels. This proved to be an excellent advertise ment for the shop. In New York is a woman who clips and bathes dogs for a living. She has the pets of many of the wealthiest citizens. Women of sunny temperaments in New York go from house to house. bearing a cherry smile. and. it is their business for a financial return. to give of their good humor to those whom they visit. Sometimes they play chess or cards with lonely widows. At other times they listen to the woes of the convalescent and lighten the burdens by ch-- ful sym pathy and advice. "Long ;ive the "cheer-up!" A Daniel Come to Judgment. Police Commissioner McAdoo ~re calls a remark of the late Supreme Court Justice Joseph F. Barnard That is relevant to the controversy about Sunday base ball. Barnard was one of the judges actively involved in the leading case on the subject, in which the court held that Sunday base ball is a crime only when it interrupts the religious liberty of the community, whatever that may mean. In those days Barnard resided in Poughkeepsie. and soon after the 4e cision a delegation of the local clergy waited upon him at his home to pro test against certain features of the decision. l.e received them in a room having an outlook over a'fine piece of open ground. " We put it to you, Judge," said the spokesman, as he concluded the speech of protest, "we put it to you as a personal matter. Imagine your peaceful Sunday afternoon turned into a Bedlam by the uproar of a base ball contest a hundred feet away i-just outside that window. Would you tolerate it?" "That would depend," replied the old judge, stroking his chin reflec tively. "Upon what, sir; upon what?" "Upon whether the home team was winning or not."-Ne) York Mail. What We Are Coming To. 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