The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1872-08-30

man ever see. His second viii
was the WIdder Billings--she tha
was Becky Martin; her dam wa'
Deacon Dunlap's first wife. Hel
oldest child Maria, married q mis-
sionary and died in grace-et up by
savages. They ct him, too, pool
fellow-biled him. 1t wasn't the
custom, so they say, but they ex-
planned to friends OF his'n that went
down there to bring away his things,
that they'd tried missionaries every
other way and never could get any
good out of 'em-and so it annoyed
all his relations to find that man's
life was fooled away just out Of q
aern'd experiment, 30 to speak. But
mind you, there amt any thing ever
really lost; every thing that people
can't understand and don't see the
reason of does good, il you only hold
on and give it a fair shake; PrOvi-
dence don't fire no blank cartridges,
boys. That there missionary's sub
stance, unbeknowns to himself, actu'ly
converted every last one of them
heathens that took chance at the
barbecue. Nothing ever fetched
them but that. Don't tell me it was
an accident that he was billed. There
~s-x .o Ss,ch thing - an accident.
i"When My Uncle Lem was leaning /
up agin scafolding once, sick or
drunk, or suthin', an Irishman with
q hod full OF bricks fell on him out
Of the third story and broke the old
mans back in two places. People
said it was an accident. Much acci-
lent there was about that. He didn't
know what he was there for, but he
was there for q good object. II he
hadn't been there the Irishman would
,ave been killed. Nobody can ever
make me believe anything different
rom that. Uncle LENS dog was ,
here. Why didn't the Irishman fall ,
IN the dog2 Becuz the dog would ,
/ seen him coming and stood from
lnder. That's the reason the dog ,
weren't applnted. A dog can't be
depended on to carry out q special !
providence. Mark my words, it was
put-up thing. Accidents don't
appen, boys. Uncle LENS dog
wish you could a seen that dog.
10 was regular shepherd-or rather !
e was part bull and part shepherd
plendid animal belonged to Par. !
on Hagar before Uncle Lem got him.
larson Hagar belonged to the West.
m Reserve Hagars prime family ,,
is mother was Watson one of his
lsters married Wheeler; They 9
ettled IN Morgan county, and he got
ipped by the machinery I'm a carpet :
actory and went through in less II
nan quarter OF minute. His widder I
ought the piece Of carpet that had 4
is remains wOve in, and people came 8
hundred miles to tend the funeral. q
here was fourteen yards in the piece. =
he wouldn't let them roll them up,
ut planted him just so full length.
he church vas middling small d
here they preached the funeral, and r
hey had to let one end of the coffin d
lick out of the window. They didn't t,
ury him-they planted one end and Il
It him stand up, same as a mOnu o
tent. And they nailed sign on it, p
nd put-put on-put on it-sacred q
the m-e-m Or-y-of fourteen I"
-a-r-d-s-of three ply--car--pet- Il
obtaining all that was-m-o-r-t-a.l-- O
f-of-W-i-l-l-i am W-h-e-' o
Jim Blaine had been growing Il
drowsy and drowsier-his
cad nodded, once, twice, three times Il
dropped peacefully upon his breast, q
nd he fell TRANQUILITY asleep. The q
'ars were running down the boys il
1eek-they were suffocating with b
laughter-and had been q
ON start, though l had never motto a
| it. l perceived that was ''sold." 81
learned then that Jim Blaine's pc q
lliarity was that whenever he reach y
a certain state of intoxication no C
lman power could keep him from c
,tting out, with impressive JUNCTION, b
} tell about wonderful adventure |
hich he had once had with his b
old ram-and the men, +
on of the ram in the first sentence Il
as as far as any man had ever heard Il
inn get concerning it. He always b
aundered off interminably, from v
ne thing to another, till his whiskey d
OIL the better OF him and he fell n
sleep. What the thing was that q
appened to him and his grandfather's p
ID ram is dark mystery to this day, a
m nobody has ever vet found il out. q