The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1873-04-17

fer nobody, unless we was all present
SO there could be no advantage tax
en-. This being done, they all tool
one sniff, one wich wood sustain en-
for an hour, and went to the Iekter
levin me with Bascom.
Eight and nine passed, but not one
nv EN- come to his old familiar place
Bascom wuz Uneasy. / took suthir
hot with him twice or three times,
and talked NV the weather and things
but they came not. Finally, at 81
they entered, lookin grave and sol.
| emn.
"Deekin, McPelter, Issaker, will
you take suthin ?' said I, displayin q
dollar note wich the Deekin he'd Civ
me for the purpose.
"No !" sed the Deekin, 81 am not
shoor about drinkin. hev listened
to apowerful discourse about it to-
night, and l hev mostly made up my
mind to try and quit, et l kim"
"Quit!" sed Bascom, in amaze.
ment; "are you crazy? ?"
81 too hev made up my mind to
quit" sed Issacher, and McPelter
echoed him. "Good night, Bascom," !"
and we all went out together to Nc
Pelters, where we made the jug con-
sumptive.
Bascom was thoroughly alarmed.
The next mite he put up a sign in his
vinder: "Likers is free here till fur.
ther notis," wich I stood and read to
the people, who but for me never
wood knowed it.
That mite the lectrer lectered, but il
was not to US. Bascom worked ez
he never worked before. The Dee.
kin went down first, Issaker next,
McPelter next, and finally l sue.
cumbed. BY this time, the Deekin
wuz sober, then Issaker, then Nc
Pelter, then me, and so on, till we
wuz all thoroly exhausted at about
one, when we quit.
The same scene was enacted the
next mite and the next, and for a
week. Bascom wuz nearly rooined,
but wuz restored by the announce
ment that the next mite wood be the
last. Then that wretched lectrer's
life wuz made miserable. He wuz
at Pollock's home, and from early
morn to dewey eve he wuz besieged
by sich another host NV inebriates ez
he never before saw in all his days,
with entreaties to 60 on.
"Go on" sed the Deekin, ego on.
How kin you reconcile it with your
duty to leave the Corners, and me in
danger of goin down to drunkard's
grave? l amt reformed yet-go on"
And McPelter, Pennibacker, Issa-
ker, and hundred more, who he'd
he'd all they wanted for a week, and
wanted it to continue, begged him
with tears in their eyes to 60 on in
his good work.
But it wuz no avail-he left, and
Bascom pulled down his sign and
likker he'd to be paid for agin at the
Corners.
The next day l met Joe Bigler.
"Hed good time, haven't you?"
sed he.
Excellent" sed I, "wood it Good
hev continued"
"Parson," said this aggravatin Joe,
81 did this for three reasons. First
i sposed that week NV unlimited
supplies wood kill the entire assort-
ment of you. Second-I supposed
that in a week you wood break up
Bascom, and third, we wanted to or
ganize the niggers into temprance
society to keep them from becoming
sich loathsome objecks as 700 are,
and didn't want to be interrupted in
the work. We hev only succeeded
in the last item. Bascom hez more
money than we sposed he he'd, and
your bowels kin endure more than /
sposed they Good. / hev been lem
lent with whisky-I hev sed that
whisky hez yoosss. l told Pollock
last week that ez whisky wuz the on
ly thing that Good kill Nasbys and
Pogrsms and sish, that it wuz not a
bad thing to hev. But now that l
find it won't do it-that its only good
men that kills. shell fite it as an un.
mittigated euss without any redeem
in teechers. / am its enemy from
this time out"
And he went away latin vocifer-
ously.
Life isn't ez roseate now ez it wuz
doorin that week. But thank Heav-
in the recolleckshen NV that week
never kin be takin away from me. 1t
was Heavinly. That it may be re.
peated, l am, at the segestion Nv
Deekin Pogram and Issaker Gavitt,
in correspondence with all the tenn
prance lecturers in the country. We
want temperance lecterers at the Cor.
ners. The Temperance Banner must
be upheld at the Corners.
PETROLEUM v. Massey.