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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Gazette, 1893-10-12, Page 4deliveries naeh like of gIass tees. 'Kish and I in 169.3. ed, with 1334. crop in iat wan - cord was rates, B. schools 1,316,000 the in - founded 00 sugar 3,200 devoted t would chemist, , has de• bre those fides, in ,and file years in 13,000 in which, two and tea back ►rles II., trade in s should to signed srtifyi g trough a pension '.ticate. aper an- neoln to continu- a Dutch :t. 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Dish Pans. Felt Hats, just to hand. Straw Fiats for 500 heads. Lacy Frillings. Ties and Collars. Top Shirts. Dress Shirts. Scissors: Knives and Forks. Spools. Teapots. Canned Goals.. Plow Lines. Bed Cords. Marbles. Wire Clotheslines. Baby Carriages. Croquet. Spices. WE KEEP EV'ERYTUIMG, AHD SELL iiiIEAP. La11 ki MM '-% Mgt was onenv them -srelterin days in Tuly, when the leaves.all shrivel -up, an' he posies hang their heads, air' the, earth dirly quakes. I had been harvester' the sty afore, an' that Sunday niorni f I got :p tired ,an' cross, .As soon as I come in pith two pails, most rennin' over with niik, even afore I got em' sot on the table, Prisciily (that's my wife) she begun. "Kin •neetin' t> -day. Philander?" I had expected"as much and it. made me mad. " Go to rneetin' !" says I ; "you act as of that was every blamed thing there was to do. Nothin' on earth looks sillier'n to see a pack uv wimnnen always a gaddin' off to rneetin' ! Ef you hev got. your Bible an' rockiii'chair- an' palm -leaf fan,- that's all you'll need for such a biazin' day as this," says I. " But the Bible says.—" Priseitly begun. "That we air to go to rneetin' on such a'day as this ? I'd like -to know where you find that," says I. Priscilly didn't know just where -to -find it, but she said she was sure it was there, an' she was certain that ef I wanted to go to town I'd go for all . uv the hot day. " Mebbe 1'cl-go-to town ef I had to," I said, "but there ain't no religion. in goin' to meetin' onsucha meltiu'day as this. You an' Belindy 'pear to think that all there is to religion is goin' to meetin' and picnics -an' sech like." But just then the door opened an' in come Belindy lookin' as purty as a pictur with her white dress all covered over with pink posies, like her ma's morniti' glories that was climbin' up the side porch, She. come Iaignt up to me, an' looked up with the Tinian ese eyea you ever seen, -an' said -I'd lave to go to rneetin' 'cause she'd got to sing a duet with Professor Thompson. Weil, do et,ef you want to," I tried to say cross, but a look in her face made me laugh in spite uv myself, an' then she know - td that it was settled that we was go?n' to mectin'. I brung the team up to the -door on time, en' the wimmen folks' got in; an' we drove away, but just afore we got there Priscilly asked me ef I had my pocketbook with rue. - Of course I hed it, but it made ;me riled again to be asked, so 1 spoke out snap- pish lil:e. " Likely hev 1 what's wantin' .,ow ?•' Then she told me it was foreign mis- sion day an' we ortergive something. Th s riled me more'n ever, for I had no notion uv Nevin' her tell we. what I orter do, nor' no notion uv doin' what•I didn'twant to. I be lodged to that Iarge class uv individuals—. you can. find plenty uv them in any Church— ; hat hurch-;hat are awful took up with-homemissions when the collection for foreign missions is bein' took, an' when the home mission col- lections is took they are too poor to give. To tell the truth, I didn't believe in. missions uv no kind. I'.d never said it right out ill plain words, but -it was so. I told Priscilly, then an' there that I had got 'pesky sick we so much beegin', an' that ef we didn't hold on a Mato what we hed, we'd -soon bey to start s beggar out a beggin' for us. This only . tickled- Belindy for. she laughed an' said : "Why, pa 13eldin' there haint a farmer in these parts that•is makin' as much money as you air. Of course we'll give. We.would'n miss it for. nothin'," said. she. " I -kep' hat dollar you give me to buy gloves with, an' I'm goin' to give' that; , an' -sea, I've darned my old- ones," a.nd'she held zip her little hands afore me, but the "job. was done so slick I couldn't see a stitch, " You can just give all your clothes away ef yea want to, and durn'em too, but I haint goin' to give"a dumbed cent-; so you .can just shut up," says I. Just then we driv up to the steps, so we didn't say-nomore: When I. got the team took care uv Priscilly was waitin' for me, an' we went in together an' sot down in our' seat. - I belonged to the church the same as Priscilly an' Belindy did, but I had one faille' ((I see it now, but I didn't then). I Was tight-fisted, not so much with tether things as with the givin'. Leonid always pay my honest debts, 'twant no trouble 'bout that, though it did go awful bard ag'in the grain to give a cent, away. But I got .cared in the curiousest way you ever heated uv, an' that's what I started out to tell. 'I had no: more than sot down when I looked "up an' seen two preachers in the pul- pit a gazin' down at us as ef they would like to know how much money we had got in our pockets, so it 'peared to ire. " Two beggars," I says to myself, " It's a pity Elder Boswel can't tend to us'thout send- in' fur any body else. Any way I won't give a cent, not a dumbed cent. 1 guess I'd like to go round in a starched white shirt an' broad -cloth suit, a eatin' fried chiekens an' all such fixin's an' just beg a little for the heathen, 'stead uv sweatin' the life out uv me in the harvest field, it would be a -sight moreto my likin'." It 'peared as ef everything come to me that mornin ; I felt so abused an cross yet nobody had done nothin' to me. I was so uncomfortable it was hard to set, still- Belindy's singin' calmed me down a trifle, fur she hada voice like -an angel's an' it just fitted in with Pro- fessor Thompson's an' that made me mad agin', cause he'd been to our house a sigh uv late, an' I seen purty plain what was a-com- in'. " I es," I said, " I thought likely they'd sing 'From Greenland's ley Moun- tains' -they always -do. I wish we could get a whiff uv that cool air to -day. So the strange beggar is goin' to_ preach, is he. Well, I won't look at him, any way." Belindy sat in the choir not fur from the pulpit, an' I turned toward her.- 'Peered as ef • she'd never looked so purty _ afore ; there was a bunch uv pink roses a-trem blip' on her hat, just the color of the spots on her cheeks. I seen she was-watchin' the preacher tn' was all tuk up with what be was a-sayin'. Well, I peered purty much all till he come to the famine,. though most env the time I was gazin' out uv: the winder back utv Belindy, out on Widow Welkin's 'medder. - 'Twant long till her Jersey cow come wanderin' by, and -stopped -just where I -could look her:all_over. She was as per-, feet;: a critter as I ever laid eyes on. Well, somehow T got to nappin', it was so awful het, an' I got -to dreamin' 'bout the cow 'stead uv the heathen. I just got it all ;settled. how I'd trade her my'two 'Jersey heifers,':when-the queerest thing happened. Jus as I got my plans- :all laid 1 was so tickled_; I throwed - up both hands, as'i'm likely when I'm tickled, an' said "I'll do "- i But the preacher was askin' "Ain't theresomebody who will Start with twenty _doitgee='' The first words- I eerd as -1 opened•mv:eyes"was ElderBoawell a-sayin': i°Thaiik the'.—.Lord,—Brother Beldin' 'ti give nu twenty dollars." - .‘ Them was=the very first words 1 heered, -.never in all my bol n days wehe.up so gnick 1 tried: to_ speak, but, now -the sums was eomin'. irrso fast I couldn't. 1 looked round to see ef anyone had seen that 1 as .asleep: • But they all 'peared to be so . uk up with givin' that they did, —'semi to notice me, only Belindy, I seen her eyes a- twinkliu', but I couldn't make out whether she knowed or whether she s as only glad like. "I'll never give twenty dollars, do. os't," I said, "butt wouldn't makes fuss now; 1'11 see the elder as the meetin' is out, an' tell him—that I -was only ebasin' flies or—or somethin'." But meetin' won't out till one an another kep' a-grabbin' my hand an' a-tellin' me how I'd -give 'ere jest the start that was needed,an' how they'd never done so well afore, fur they bad got most ninety dollars. • 1he .elder hecrowded right down where I was an' his voice all choked up as he said, "Thank the Lord, Brother Beldin', I knowed it would come." Fur tot; life uv me I couldn't tell him I was only dreamin'. I'd rather have mortgaged my farm to pay it, but I felt meaner'n any sheep thief, •- I got the wimmin folk in, an' we started fur home about as quick as it ever was done.. I hadn't had such a fuss made over me since I marriea Priscilly, over twenty-five years afore, an' I said to myself a-goin' home that the -worst, kind uv fassee that kin be made are the undeservin' fusses, they're the hard- est .to bear up under. 1 expected that the wimmin folk would begin about it the min- ute we got started, but nary a ward did they say ; but you orter seem 'em a flyin' round to get up a gooddinner for me. I ate au uncommon lot, an' then it was so hot, "went au' laid down on the sofy in thesittin'- room, an' afore I knowed it I was nappin' agin. Well, uv all the nightmares I ever heered uv, I think mine was the worst. I never drempt sech a pack a things afore or since. It fairly made my hair stand up straight, it. was so awful. I drempt the hull _sermon over agin an' a sight more 1 Peered as ef things hed got changed, an now we was the heathens, Priscilly, Belindy an' me. An' we hed got started off on a long tramp on foot with stones in our shoes in the daytime an' spikes to sleeponat night ; and we done all -uv our prayin' to a big foolfaced idol cut out of stone. Well it 'peared as ef we hed gone till_ Priscilly an' me hed give out an' took sick ; but Belindy she helped us along, jest like I know she would if 'twee so, but one day ma, she was dyin' wheii a, big heathen come an' carried Belindy off. - My land ! ef heaven is eny sweetern 'twas to wake up an' find that, only a •dream, it must be a blessed place. I couldn't move fur a spell an I was jest covered with 'meat. Jest across the hall, in the parlor, 1 could see Belindy and Professor Thomp- son ; they was singin' The– Mornin -Light is Breakin'. "—" Yes, the light is a- breakin'," I said, "an' it's • high time it broke. I'm glad it's come even if I hed to go to sleep to see it. • I'm awful thankful I hain't a heathen." I sot up after a spell, an' with my head in my hands I looked down into my little dried-up• heart, an' I hope never- to git another sech a sight. " No, sir," I said at last, "I'll make that an' even hundred as sure as my name is Bel - din'." It is jest like gettin' a splinter out uv your hand, you hev to pinch sometimes till it hurts afore it will come out ; so it was with my money. I felt better after I got up and walked- 'round, an' then went Into the parlor an listened to the young folks a singin .. Well, we Went to meetin' that night agin', I didn't think so much about the hot wea- ther now, fur I had othermore iniportanter things on -mind. I told the elder how I liked to have things even an' square, an' give him enough to make a hundred dollars an'=I almost felt as ef I'd like to give an- other hundred if no one knowed how I happened to give that twenty; but jes as I come up to the house from puttin' the team out,ma an' Belindy sot on the porch a-talkin' an' I heered ma ask: Did you notice, Belindy, how queer pa acted this mornin' when he thrower' up his hands ?" At this Belindy, she broke out laughin', an' laughed as if she'd die. I crould hev shook her. "Ma," she said, ." pa was asleep an' didn't mean no twenty dollars. You orter seen his face when he seen what he'd done, an' then she teeheed again. Well, ef I was asleep then I hain't now, you little bludget," I aid laughin' like. Then I owned all up, an'they laughed ag'in an' Belindy nearly killed me by .huggin' an' callin' me pet names. Ma didn't say so, much, but I: could see she was awful happy fur days. The years hev come an' they hev gone, menny uv them, since then ; when I got my pocketbook open I begun to grow a little in spiritual things, an' now ma at5 ,me takes comfort a-readin' 'bout the heathen, fur we'vegot an interest thur, an' a payin' one, too. Belindy was carried off long ago, but - it was only the Professor who took her to a nice, little home uv their own. It had to come, but I didn't make as much fuss about it as I thought I would, fur somehow 'pears as if I'd got to lookin' at most everything different, since I hev found out there air other folks in this world to make happy as well as Philander . Belding. An' I'll tell you, now, what I'm lottin' on most uv eny- thing, when I git up thur, an' I'm goin' soon, I want some one to come to meet me that kin tell me that I helped 'em git tliur, then I don't care what little corner I'm put in„.I shall be contented an' happy.—[Stand- ard. CJNO. BRETI1OUF , - FIRE AHO STOCK Insurance Agent VrtZRf7MIt TUR. 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The average life of an omnibus is twenty years, and of an omnibus horse five years, which is one year longer than is managed by the tramway -horse, owing to the great strain upon the latter in starting the tram after the stops made in taking up or setting down passengers. It is•estimated that each London Omnibus earns nn the average about, one shilling .per day from advertisements. In a square inch of the human scalp the hairs number about one thousand, and the whole number on an adult scalp is about one hundred and twenty thousand. Two thousand varieties of apples are raised in the United States. Cancer is most common. in Brussels -420 deaths: per 10,000.. E A.R- �'OUS MOVING TO ? We are going to Co., Michigan, near Sault Ste Marie. WHY DO YOU GO THERE ? Well, we have five boys, kve have sold the farm for $5, boo. We can buy 640 acres between Pick- fordand the Railway station at Rudyard, nd have a good firm or each of the boys and have money left. What can a renter do there? 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