The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1874-11-26

nk&ly TO AeaTatnem Dut can hardly
avoid the conclusion that it was in
tended that one should.
The only result of the broadside
however, was to give Jemima Jane q
radiant face as she reported the above
| choice bit of the conversation to me
I smiled a languid smile, discourag
ingly unconcerned took the letters
she had brought, said nothing, and re-
sumed my reading throwing thus a
huge wet blanket Of disappointment
over her radiancy.
My letters and other efforts at rails
ing the few hundred dollars that were
necessary to justify us in beginning
the humble building had in these six
months been successful, not without
many fears and not without many
difficulties, Unsuccessful at last, and
now we saw a lot donated, and a neat
church comfortably rooted in, though
not yet pewed.
had given great offense to the
Brig and the Senior Warden because
I had not consulted them in any OF
my plans. I was greatlyin dread
lest the wrath Of tie postal function
ary should be provoked to the extent
Of Withholding my letters, and lest
that of the Warden should induce
him to pay me- semi-oficial visit, or
stop me SOME day: on the street and
infict upon me one Of bis semi-o&ci-
al conversations.
OF the latter I had much less dread
than of the former, for upon investi-
cation it turned out that the semi-of.
fetal character of the gentleman was,
as Ware said, very ysemi-ofdcial indeed,
not trace Of evidence coming to
light, verbal or documentary, that his
position was any thing more than a
self-constituted one. The creature
had heard, it seemed, of Senior War
dens, and was under the conscientious
impression that being the oldest man
in the congregation, that fact of itself
at once fully, legally and economically
installed him as thet important Off
Ger. - :,
But of Mrs. Wilkins, I must say I
had no little dread. She was the cen
ter Of a coterie Of male and female
gossips-a kind of queen bee in the
village hive, and I would rather have
had her good will than her i'll.
/ looked in vain for the Junior
Warden; no one claimed the honor
Of filling that responsible,position. AT
last, though ht, I, if the eldestt man of
the congregation is, accordingto COM
mon - here, the Senior Warden,
the youngest must pei Uncr and. to
keep up the consistency Of the ar
rangement be. the Junior Warden.
I, therefore, looked about me men
tallv on the morning following the
one upon which I had discovered the
simple method in which wardens were
manufactured in this missionary dio.
cese, for the individual aforesaid, but
failed to discover him. Two tow
headed youths presented themselves
as candidates in my mind for my i'm
partial suffrage, but there was lack
ing in each that dignity Of deport-
ment which we thought became a
church official, and so l dismissed
them summarily from my mind.
I soon after saw the two defeated
candidates driving majestically by on
an immense load of hay and solaced
myself by the reflection that if l
had not elevated them to high official
life, they we're pretty well up in the
world after all and could look down
upon Door me from their station OF
superior eminence.
The following Sunday there was in
FAINT baptism. Seven little heather
Of various sizes, from long clothes to
knee breeches and green gaiters, and
Of various ages from six months to
"four years and thirteen months" as
the maternal progenitor of the eldest
Of the fry proudly and mathematical
ly informed me upon the occasion of
a preparatory visit I paid her to in:
struct her in the use Of 'the book
and to give her some christian coun-
sci upon the solemn duties involved
in the act. This hopeful youth Of
four years and thirteen months was
the youngest son Of John and Jemima
Force, and by an inevitable conse-
quence, the brother of Jemima Jane
my "help," who had found such dis
astrous Waterloo upon the morning
of my mastery defeat Of her am
bilious designs of prandial equality
The name of this hopeful scion Of the
Force family was given at the font
in all a mothers pride as George
Washington, and he was accordingly
so baptized.
George Washington had evidently a
few days before fallen down stairs
more rapidly than was conducive tc
his personal appearance as we'll as te
his physical comfort at the moment
or had happened to some other un
toward accident unbecomingthe name
sake of the Father ofhis Country, for he
was ornamented in the region Of the
occiput with huge bump which was
made still more ornamental by strips
Of sticking plaster in the shape of the
letter K. A scar under his left eyt
further set off his Intelligent face ant