The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-10-16

to do with leading the children of Is
raei out of the plague-stricken land oi
Egypt to land flowing with milk end
| honey; lifting Joseph out of the deer
pit (of sorrow to make him chief, stew.
ard of all Egypt (all joy). The services
of Jacob in Padanaram were dwelt upoI
with a wealth of imagery. The expe
riences of Isaac and Samson were moi
touched upon. A strain of music
mostly of the soprano kind. ran through
these discourses. Miriam sang and
played Judith sang the daughters ol
judith sang by the rivers of Babylsn.
And o! if they could have sung
while in captivity" pursued Titus,
"what rapturous hosannas must have
burst from their lips as they came forth
| on the Judean plains, and felt that fol
them the night had forever passed, and
| that far above, in the violet depths OF
that oriental sky, beamed their day
star I" (Pollie had kind of "violet'
eye.) The " improvements" of the dis
courses were uniformly to the effect that
men ought never to yield to the de-
pressing influence of affective dispensa-
tions. "However fierce the storm may
rage" said Mr.. Tuttle, "be sure the
sun still shines, and you have only to
wait for the re-illumination of your own
landscape. Gradually the dark clouds
will roll away, and the thunder mutter-
ings will be heard at a distance. The
sunlight will gid first the distant noun
tain peaks, then spread down the sides,
and soon hill and dale will be flooded
with glory, and your whole world will
stand clothed with beauty as with a gar
ment."
On this particular Friday evening the
glorifcation and beauty were quite
widespread, and the meeting with Pol
lie, being of the protracted" kind, did
not close until late.
Observe, now, by what far-off work
ing and strange conjunction of circum-
stances transpire the incidents in our
daily lives. In the neigboring town of
Birmap, Barnaby Barnes had, this
spring, been elected constable. The
position of constable may not be an ex-
alted one, but to the office-l loving ami
NAL of these United State sit is signlfi-
cant as a first step. Barnaby saw Of
fees stretching away before him like a
double column of sphinxes leading up
to a Theban temple-the temple in this
case being one with a dome, where not
Isis and Osiris, but Shylock and Jeze-
bel are worshiped. Barnaby was
bound to discharge constable's duties
with a zeal and abnegBtion that should
be an example to the Washington idol
aters, and that should insure him the
next gift IN the hands of the people.
Friday afternoon lot of jewelry had
been burglariously abstracted from a
shop in Birman, and Barnaby started in
hot pursuit of the burglar. He appre-
hended him upon the outskirts of Dull
sane, and started back triumphant. He
and refreshment, especially the latter,
his man escaped him. Chagrined, he
took up the pursuit again. A pretty
race the burglar led him, but all
through by-ways and hedges, it tended
toward DuIsane. 1t was fifteen minutes
pas two, and the brightest moonlight,
when the fugitive. throat heavily muf-
fled, turned into Plum street. It was
fifteen and one-half minutes past two
when Titus, throat heavily muffled,
emerged from Pollie's gate, and mind
full of the injuriOusness of evening air,
ran home. A hand was laid upon his
shoulder, and he was suddenly brought
backward.
''Here you are again, old fellow !"
cried Barnaby.
Thoughts of inquisitorial officers,
the dungeon and the rack, flashed
across Titus mind; he demanded an ex-
planation Barnaby refused the expla-
nation. Titus thought there must be
some mistake; Barnabv thought his
prisoner had made it. Titus pro-
tested that he was an innocent man,
who had been making an evening call.
Barnaby could not see the force of
evening calls at two o'clock in the
morning.
"Here's light in DIR. Curtis office.
Speak to him; he knows me, " said Titus,
desperately.
"Ready to do anything to 'bleege,"
responded Barnaby.
DR.. Curt, calming down his nerves be-
fore retiring with some beautiful little
experiments on fungus tissues, was
startled by the apparition of Barnaby's
face pressed close and white against the
window-pane.
''Tve got a chap here as has stole
lot of watches from the joolry shop in
Birman, and he wants to know if he isn't
your pastor, Mr.. Tuttle."
"Tuttlei" snapped the doctor, Tut
ties sick abed, and won't be out these
three days"
Doctor" croaked Titus. But Titus
was hoarse and the doctor pre-Occupied,
and Barnaby took firmer grip upon the
deputy sheriff's door-bell. From an
upper window female voice inquired
what was wanted.
81 want Bates to help me put this
burglar in this lookup" responded
Barnaby.
"Bates is gone, and won't be back till
tomorrow night"
"Mrs. Bates" feebly whispered
Titus.
A heavy iron key dropped on the
grass, and with the falling key fell
Titus hopes. Then he tried threats,
entreaties, expostulations. offered Bar
naby money. Barnaby loved money,
but he loved Office and money better
and had he not witnessed the disastrous
effects of bribery in high places? He
bade Titus "put up his gold.
A man never feels so unrelenting in
the administration of justice as after
having resisted temptation himself, and
Barnaby closed the iron doors on Titus
without one compassio, ate movement.
There was narrowing lack of "res pom
siveness" about the lookup. It was
cold, damp and cobwebby. All night,
till the morning light, Rev. Titus paced
up and down his narrow cell, trying to
make as good use of the occasion by
professionally carrying ont the simile
of the man confined in jail, and man.
kind as the sin-darkened prison of the
world. When, at nine o'clock the next
morning, Barnaby brought his prison
er's breakfast, 10 by the morning light
he found not the burglar of yesterday
afternoon.
go for Deacon Clapp," whispered
Mr.. Titas, unable to speak aloud. Bar
naby brought the deacon. The deacon
carried the pastor home in his close car
riage, and the affair was hushed up
among the heavy pew-owners.
But the cod Titus had caught pro-
duced a severe attack of pneumonia and
bronchitis combined. Polite took care
of him, and he greatly endeared himself
to kis people by the meekness and pa
tience with which he bore his sickness.
When convalescent, he one day re-
marked, $50 many snares and pitfalls
are set for the unwary In this world,
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