The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1874-02-26
IPToN. Iowa. FEBRUARY ae. 1s74..ss

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scanned him ! moment, and said
"A preacher, I reckon, sir!"
sfes, sir, I'm ) Methodist preacher
tand l heard that your wife was ,
member Of the Methodist church ant
that You were very friendly, SO
came round this way to see il yos
wouldn't open your doors for preach
ing. have one q two vacant day.
on my round, and thought may be
might ~ wen take Hissawachee
Bottom into the circuit, IL ! didni
find anything to prevent.
By this time the Colonel and his
guest had reached the door, and the
former only said, sWell, sir, let's sc
in and see what the old woman says
I don't agree with you Methodist.
| shout everything, but 1 do think
that you are doing good, and 70
don't allow anybody to say anything
against circuit-ridcrs without taking
it up." nss
Mrs. Wheeler, digni6ed woman
with a placidly religious face-a
countenance in which scruplcs arc
balanced by evenness of tcmpera-
ment, was 1t tho moment engaged in
dipping yarn into q blue dye that
stood in . great iron kettle by the
FIRE, She made haste to wash and
dry her hands that she might have .
s.good old-fashiond Methodist shake
hands" with Brother Magruder, athe
first Methodist preacher she had seen
since she left Pittsburg," a
Colonel Wheeler readily asscnted
that Mr. Magruder should preach in
his house. Methodists had Just the
same rights in free country that
other people had. He reckoned the
Hissawachee settlement didn't be-
long to one man, and he had fit
against the king of England in his
time, and was jist as ready to fight
aeinst the king Of Hissawschee Bot
tom. The Colonel almost relaxed
his stubborn lips into = smile when
he said this. Besides, he proceeded,
his wife was Methodist, and she
had q right to be il she chose. He
was friendly to religion hilnself,
though he wasn't professor. II his
wife didn't want to wear rings or
artifcials, it was money in his pocket,
and nobody had r;gh. 10 object.
Culpnel Wheeler plu,ned himself be-
foe the new preacher upon his gen
erai friendliness toward religion, anil
really thought il might be set down
to his csedit in that account in which
he imagined some angelic book-keep-
er entered all his transactions. He
felt in his own mind smiddlin' GER
TAIN rs he would have told you,
that "betwixt the prayin' for, he got
from sach wife as his, and his own
gineral friendliness 70 the preachers
and the Methods meetings, he would
be saved at the last, so,5aeho,c or
mother" 1t was not in the man to
reflect that his sgincral friendliness'
for the preacher had its origin in q
general spitefulness toward Captain
Lunislen.
Colonel Whceler's son was des-
patched through the settlement 10
inferm everybody that there would
be preAching in hiS house that even
ing. The news was told at the
Forks, where there was always a
crowd Of loafers; and each individual
loafer, in riding home that afternoon,
called y ''HelIo!' at every house he
passed. and when the salutation from
within was answered, remarked that
he Thought liker'n not they had'n
heern tell of the preachers comm TO
Colonel Wheeler's." And then the
eager listener, generally the woman
of the house, would cry out, ''Laws-
a-massy! You don't say! A Metho-
dis? One of the shoutin' kind that
knocks folks down he breaches!
What viii the Captain do? They do
say he does hate the Methods worse
nor oopperhcad snakes, now. Some
old quarrel liker'n not. Well, I'm
agoin' jist to see how redikl'us them
Methods does do.o
The news was sent to Brady's
school, which had stuck up" for the
winter, and from this center also soon
spread throughout the neighborhood.
1t reached Lumsden's very early in
the forenoon.
"Well!" said Lumsdan excitedly,
but still with his little Growing
chuckle, $50 Wheeler's took the
Methodists in. Wen have to see
about that. A man that brings such
people to the settlement ought to be
lynched. But I'll match the Metho-
dists. Where's Pattys Patty! O,
Patty. Bob, run and find Miss Pat
ty."
And the little negro ran out, call
ing "Miss Patty! O! Miss Patty.
Whah is yef"
He looked into the smoke house,
and then ran down toward the barn,
shouting "Aliss Patty! @! Miss Pat
ty"
Where was Patty?