Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1875-05-05

wood aud make FIRE 10 the settin'
room. Mind you don't get any G
that bemlock stuff 10 snap owe
everything, for don't want hole
burnt in that rug sfore the fire
place. Gracious knows / was Ion,
enough braidin' il TO have il burn
mp" who's comm. marin 2 ques
toned Sammy as be started for Il,
woOd-shed.
"Wby, Deacon Gooding has ap-
pointed a meetin' 20 see about
helpin' the poor, and the folks are
goin' to meet here. Now start
along, for il takes a dreadful while
TO heat up that setiin' room"
"Seems 70 me they've taken a
very sudden interest in the poor,
remarked Sammy when be had re-
turned from the woodshed, and was
trying TO make a fire Of some very
wet chips.
"Wall, you see Deacon Gooding
set i agoin," answered his mother,
"and they say he's worth thirty
thousand dollars, 20 people tend
20 wha; he says, II be haint got no
brains to spare"
Samuel spent half ar hour try
ing TO make the chips blaze, and
wondering why people who had
money were Of so much more ac-
count than everybody else, and
then be went for some dry kindliDg,
and came 10 the very wise conclu-
sion that he didn't know everything. I
Bat at last the sitting-room was
nicely warmed, the chairs were all .
Set back against the wall, the even
ing lamps were lighted, and widow
Martin and Sammy, each in Sun
day best, waited for the expected .
company to assemble. They did .
not have long to wait, for in less .
than an hour the sitting room
was full. The tall and the short,
the old and the young, the married
and the single, turned out, and
widow Martin whispered rather
spitefnlly TO Sammy:
81 wonder which they think the
most on, the apples and the cider
they alters git here, or helping the
poor ?"
AS Mr.. Stanwood, the minis
ter, was absent, Of course Deacon
Gooding took it upon himself to
speak first.
"Now do say somethin' thatil
be a credit to We, Deacon, and :,
don't forget that passage / found
n Billy's ShakspeariaQ reader this ,
nornin'," said his wife. in a low ,
one, as he was going to rise.
"My dear friends" hogan the :
Deacon, and then stopped short. :
'ut, after several loud ahems. lie
rent on, "that is, my--ah-dear :,
Gentlemen aud ladies, / am very =
luch delighted to-ah-meet you ;,
n this most joyful occasion, and /
ope we may all have a-a-good
me. ] think we may as well-ah J.
make our L Ter, that is, Pastor :,
nd some OF Observation-Disclosures !
iembers Of orr church, a present
well as the poor people. OF g,
purse we ought to help the POOR
ritters-ah-that i.-the desti- -,
lite, for we may all need a helping :,
and sometime, for there's a des- >,
ny that shapes our ends"
"a divinity, Deacon," came in u
cry loud whisper from the corner -
coupled by Mrs. Gooding. :,
Excuse NE, my friends. There's =,
divinity that shapes our ends" ~
"Wbo said there wasn't " called ;,
ut Sammy, who bad grown tired
the Deacon's speech. The young q,
,probate was cuffed and sent out :,
the room, and the Deacon sat .,
OWN, forgetful Of the unfinished r
notation, muttering--
"Wall, ] swanDy, If that amt the in
rciest boy ia town." h,
After order was restored, Dea- y;
IN Sanford was requested to make a,
me remarks. The Deacon was a be
Try nervous man at all times, and q,
seemed impossible for him to say
lything before SO many people, b,
1T he finally arose, and, with III
embling voice, he said: &c
"My dear people, Bro. Gooding ct
Is said enough and more too, and tn
just consider part Of his speech B.
ine." "
"For massy sake why didn't you
y somethin' that was somethin'?" 70