Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1859-09-10

the meetin' house. The meetin
house yard was full of folks ]aughin
and starin' as if they hadn't an,
respectabili+y in 'em. I got out 0
the chaise and made my wa,
through the crowd, and when the,
wouldn't make room ! elbowec
them right snartly. Pm despri>
thin of flesh, and when ! hit 'en
they gave back as eff they'd beer
struck with a dagger.
Paid twenty cents to 90 into
the church. The tables inside did
look beautiful. Nora she explained
the tixins to me. There was grat
boxes that contained hurdred
things worth one cent, and one
worth ten, and you paid five cents
a grab, and if you grabbed right,
you would get twice your moneys
worth. And there was ring cake.
Twas divided into fifteen slices
You paid a dollar a slice, and one
slice contained a ring worth fifty
cents. So he that got the right
slice, got ring. And there were
guess cakes, and ever 50 many SIGH
kind of things, too numerous to
mention.
well, they dressed me up to
rel resent the Witch Of Endor. I
never was very handsome, and
they rugged me up at sich a rate
that I must have looked awful. |
stood behind the curtain and people
paid a nine-pence to come in and
see. me. Some went off mad
children generally scared. Some
went off ]aughin' as if they'd split
| evidently produced a powerful
impression on all that saw me-
People at last came to see me faster
than they conld be accommodated.
| could hear 'em talking around
the tables about the Witch of En-
doris pig, and the turkeys, and
cake and | began to feel at length,
dreadfully as though | was making
a fool Of myself. I stood there
desprit|y, and had jnst~made up
face to cry over my unfortunate
condition, when, all Of a sudden,
down came the curtain, and there
| stood right atore 'em They sot
up such a hurrahin' as [ never
heard before nor since. | elbowed
my way through 'cn like wild fire,
and made for the getting out place,
and struck for home.
'Wcll, | went home with all my
Witch Of End,r rigg n on. When
my husband came to the door to
let me in, he was SO frightened that
he set the dog on me. The dog
came towards me, growled, and run
as il he would break his neck, and |
| haven't seen him from that day
to this. | at last convinced my
husband that I was his beloved
wife. Whom l explained it all to
him, the way he growled was a
caution.
|Well, they raised three hundred
at that abominablo fair. With it
they bought an ornamental chande-
lier and silk pulpit cushion, and
hired carpenters to II AXE ginger
bread work all over the meetin'
house,
sIm just Of Mrs. Deacon Wares
opinion about church fairs, / an---
that they are just the wickedest
swindles that orthodoxy ever ,o]er-
ated. She says they are killen' to
religion and I think so too. She
says that the older church members
;hink l was desprit]y put upon at
;he fair, and I declare I don be-
ieve but what I was.'
TRIUMPH OVER Evn.-We are
'ewarded for every triumph we
make over temptation. I will sup
pose there are many who struggled
against the vanity Of vain pleasure;
many who have put down evil
thoughts with strong will many
Who, after a long, and it may be an
uncertain conflict with the seduc-
ions Of the world, have at length
riunDhed. l will put it to them,
when they have combatted
md so prevailed against the evil,
md their hearts have softened and
Melted within them, whether they
ave not felt within t.1eir bosom a
graphic influence. No sooner shall