The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1872-11-23

OOt any rOpe-nO rope IN tnc
church p
"We don't run this church with |
Lells, snd there amt no bell ropes,
and there amt no shop as keeps
any around here =
"Well, see here" says !. "lts
q matter Of five minuits, or ten at
most, with me-
I've got clothes-line. l dries
the clothes sometime in the loft up
there. but it amt new, line, nor it
ain't very long !
s.That will do, 'says 1. Now
come up, and be quick about it,
with the clothes Line" She was
gone minute, and presently |
could hear something a-moying in
side of tue little dome, and soon
she was at the window.
"Now,' says l, stretch out your
cord, and just where the middle ie,
pass it three times round the up
right at the head OF the staircase
make q good double knot at the
loose ends, just as you would ON q
double thread when you are sew
ing, and throw the ends to me- !.
How the poor old woman flustered,
and wiped her face with her apron,
i and how that old c,othes-line, for
| could see it plain, was all tang
led and twisted! Presently all was
ready, and taking good aim at me.
1t wouldn't rescn me by nearly
three feet. 1 managed to get my
knife blade some few incEes higher
up, but even this exertion and the
strain l had given on the rope
streatched out the fibres. 1t was
Jump l had 10 make, and it want
ed nerve, aad thank God had it.
and got good hold. with one hand
of the clothes-line. In q second
was up ten feet and above the Gu,
in the rope, and now l was oil
right. That old lady she was
worse off than l was when ] was
by her side-she kissed me fi-st
and then went off into q conniption
After it was all over l hauled il
my rope. You have heard tell o
the man who was in the niue, al
was lowered down by rope, ant
then left hanging until his strength
gave out, and at last he let GO
thinking he was to be smashe,
! TO atoms. when they did pick hir
up he had fallen six inches, bu
vas in dead faint. Well, Sir, m
, case wasn't like his. I hauled u
the old rope, and the old lady, .sh
took hold ofsone part aud l of th
other, and when che jerked it. sh,
, snapped the last bit of the strand
like darning-Cottoa; that was all
WAS hanging to. I'm quite caref'
: ever since that time. Business |
now over for the season. Wage
is by the job, and when do wor
it's $40 l make day. Wife don
like it, and is always wanting m
r to quit il: and she never fixes u
I my kettle now with my dinner !
it that she don't look ike as If sh
y was putting me up something
eat for the very last time. But
l like the work Sir, and just as iik'
ly as not there is many steeple
q shall swing from in New Yor
" doing bit of repair on it, befo
Il my time comes.
q \
7 LANGUAGE AND THOUGHT.
a The former is the written ,
!. spoken sxponen; of the latter, a n
. is adopted fsiici;ously to do this
i, proportion to the ability with viii
K ling guisiic correctness and pow
I are welded 10y either writer
a speaker. The thought may
Ie high and noble, yet, in mann
@ rendered less SO by feeble, coar
fl or inappropriate utteraAce in spes
10 ing, or by vulgarity in style. Y
q. are not of those who assert til
IL "style makes the man," far from
t. Thought and option concur
m forming the staple of truly gre
l. orator or writer. True expressi
a was drapery to the human form /,
er vine. and none will deny tn
le whether prince or peasant. form
.. grander in brocade than it is
IN rags. Now attire is 90 poteLt
he its effect, more particularly on I
"a light-minded and frivolity -lovil
ne part of mankind, that they Ii
IL discriminating judgment (or WI
ID little they possess Of that equali,
ee when contemplating tie glitter a
he elegance of drese. This infatr
ton so influences them that th
>. often pronounce . very comm
= looking female. beautifed. wh
n bedizened with stage decoratio
a and thus it happens frequent