The Woman’s Missionary Union of the Central South Conference was organized April 13th, at Knoxville, Tenn.; Secretary, Miss Anna M. Cahill, of Nashville.

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OUR YOUNG FOLKS.

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HOW THE PENNIES GREW.

Not the pennies that lay hidden away in the bank, nor the pennies that were spent for candy.  O no; but the honest, hard-working pennies that had a work to do and the heart to do it.

These work-a-day pennies fell into the hands of a mission band called “Willing Workers.”  It was in the summer-time when they began to stir about and see what they could do for missions, and when winter came along there was a pleasant little festival, and the pennies came together, and brought just as many with them as they possibly could.

For these were “talent” pennies, and they had been invested for the Lord.  One of the very pleasant features of the festival was the reading of little papers, telling how the pennies grew.  And we are going to let the children see some of these very papers.  For all this is exactly true, and took place in a pleasant village in the State of New York.

About ten dollars grew out of a little more than twenty pennies.  We have not room to publish all the little papers, telling how the pennies grew into dollars, though all are of great interest.  In some cases the original penny was invested, and then turned over and over.  This is an instance: 

“With the original cent I bought some darning-cotton and darned stockings, some for a cent a stocking, but most of them for a cent a hole.  I then bought thread and crocheted some lace which I sold for 25 cents.  I hemmed two aprons for 5 cents apiece, and some towels for one cent apiece.  Afterward, I bought another card of darning-cotton.  After paying for the thread and cotton, I have left the sum of one dollar.—­ PHEBE.”

“Rosie,” who brought in $1.66, says nothing about her penny, but tells how she earned money, as:  “Hitching up horse for grandpa, 10 cents; topping carrots, 12 cents; keeping the fowls off the wheat, 25 cents; sweeping, 17 cents,” etc., all showing honest, hard work.  But the penny started it all, perhaps.

Here is “Nellie’s,” with an idea in it: 

“With my penny I bought a pen and holder, and sold it for 10 cents.  I dug a pailful of potatoes for 3 cents, and mended a hole in grandpa’s sock for one cent.  I then bought a little chicken for 5 cents, and let it grow into a big chicken, and sold it for 36 cents, making a total of 50 cents.”

Well done for Nellie!

Only one more of these charming little papers can we give in full, though we should love to have our little readers see every one of them.