The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1873-06-05
An Unfortunate Mistake.

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An Unfortunate Mistake.
We are panied to learn of an accl.
dent, few days ago, in the family OF
Deacon Samuel Butler. of Front street,
which we fear is calculated to serious
ly affect the reputation of that well.
known and estimable citizen. The
facts, as related to US by old Mr..
Peters, who lives In the same house
with Deacon Butler, are substantially
these: 1t would seem that Deacon
Butler is an old man, has nearly reach
ed the limit Of life. He has recently
lost his wifs by divorce, and his fami-
ly now consists only Of himself and
twin daughters, one rising forty-three,
and the other not far from that age.
They are lovely, pious girls, and old
Mr.. Peters, who Is addicted to the use
Of carnal language, says that to see
them friskiDg around the old man,
clawing his hair and telling him to
stiffen up and try to be man and
making him put on a clean shirt occa-
sionally, 10 . sight to affect even an
Insurance agent. Deacon Butler has
brought up these children with much
care and anxious thought and they
are unusually well read and educated.
They know who was the son of MINI
shi, and ali about the Hittites and the
Amalekites, and they can recite the
pedigree OF Saul Of Tarsus without
WAX; aud ~ for the Ysraelitish cere.
monies of marriages and funerals and
and similar amusements. Josephus was
mere trifler in comparison. They
know oil The scriptural conundrms,
such as who was the father of Zebedee's
children? and where was Moses when
the candle went out? but OF worldly
wickedness they have learned but lit
tie In the peaceful seclusion Of the
home in which they have been reared.
Deacon Butler is an assiduous reader,
and is devoted to Young's Night
Thoughts and Jonathan Edwards on
the viii, and other light and enter
tanning works. He takes no secular
papers. but is q subscriber to that able
and influential journal, Zioa's Herald,
and q brother deacon in the New York
Custom House occasionally sends him
New York Sun, for the missionary
intelligence aud religious miscellany 1t
contains.
1t would seem, from old Mr.. Peters
narrative, that some time between the
hours Of six o'clock on Saturday even
ing and seven o'clock Oh Sunday
morning last, . copy Of the Danbury
4Ne,cs was introduced into the house,
In what manner is not definitely
known. Old Mr.. Peters is Of the opin-
ion that it was an attempt at revenge
by the hired girl, who was discharged
few days previous for cutting up
Deacon Buffers flannel nightgown for
an opera cloak for herself, but this pre-
sumption is not supported by the facts.
1t is more probable that the newsdeal.
er sent 1t by mistake for ZiOn's Herald
which 1t very much resembles In ap-
pearance. However this was, 1t was
laid where that sheet was usually
placed. aud Deacon Butler unsuspect-
ingly took 1t up, that pleasant Sunday
morning, to prepare his mind for the
duties Of the day. 1t was bright,
balmy morning-one Of the kind that
warns ones heart with the promise
Of the advancing spring, and as the
gentle breeze swept into the room,
bringing with 1t the incense Of the
new gusno establishment in the other
block, Deacon Butler felt his soul ex-
pand within him aud he ordered his
daughter to "fiax round and shet that
winder lively" Then he opened and
folded his paper and braced himself
up for wrestle with the continuation
of lively editorial of the week before.
But when he looked in the accustomed
place, instead Of q powerful, rasping
article on "the essential principles Of
the Nicenc creed In their coordinate
application to the adaptique faculties"
he settled on this mysterious para
graph:
people who have luxuriated on
buck wheat cakes all winter are back
ing up against door-jambs and gate
posts with good deal Of activity"
Deacon Buffers jaw dropped as he
read this remarkable statement. Its
fascinated him,
but after reading it from nine to thir-
teen times, he Jailed to see its connec-
ton with the Nicene creed, and left 1t
as his eye caught the following:
IA Danbury man Gays he has read Of
beggars dying with stockings full Of
silver, but the only beggars he ever
saw had real estate in theirs"
Beacon Buffers head swan. "Ma-
riar," he said, in q broken voice, do
I dreamo Light round here spry and
wipe my specs" and while his child
was taking him by the collar and
hosting him for his disrespectful way
Of speaking, he read:
"A Danbury boy Of ten winters mot
like this one, however, stole har-
Friday evening to serenade
his girl with, and was sending thur
der and lightning through it, when
Dverhauied by his father and the own
er. He says there are places where a
poultice won't take hold worth cent"
1T was quite cool last Sunday night.
guilds left on the church porch
during service had to be warmed over
before being resumed"
The good old man gasped for breath
IS he showed the paper into the stove.
Nice stuff for religious reading that
s." he shrieked. II don't want to see
40 more Of those id Zion's Herald
.bout. And the old man tore round
he room. and showed such tendency
IN ole nv thipuS that HE dan % 70 uoro |