Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-06-08

"Only Queen T. she looked over the WatefS-
Fair was her Kingdom and mighty was she;
daughters; -,
"Were I an Empress how happy I'd be!'
Still the old frsilty they all Of them trip in!
Give her an Eden she signs for pippin;
Give her an Empire, she pines for name
NEIGHBORS AND RELIGION.
Inconvenience of Living Next Dosr to Second
Advents.
From the Danbury News.
Mr.. Cobleigh moved on the first of
May. Viewer going through North
street when we met him with the i'll
sigma upon him, viz, i loOking-glass
clock, and lamp. II we had suddenly
discovered our own family moving we
couldn't have been more astOnished.
He had lived in the house whence he
was moving for ut least eight years.
lie sat the lamp on the fence, and
proppetl the clock and looking'glass
against the same.
'You are surprised to see me at
this !" he said, with an anxious look.
We admitted rs much.
II little expected it at one time my
self" and he sighed drearily.
"Any trouble with the landlord!''
'NO, no.
with the house Them
"Oh no, good landlord and good
house. don't know il I'll ever again
find rs good. I've lived there eight
years last fall, and might have lived
there all my life if it wasn't for the
DANCED fools in the world
We looked our sympathy. ''Iou
see,'' he went OIL, ''sbOut six months
ago one of those chaps who believe in
. series of sadden and unexpected
judgement days-SecOnd Advent they
call 'em-mOved in next door (where
Parker used to live. lie was q peace.
full sort of q man enough to get along
with, but he was strong Second Adj
vent. and so is his wife, Well, they
hadn't lived there two weeks before
they got acquainted, and began to
have revelations" lie paused and
sighed.
but why should their peculiar re.
ligiOus belief make you dissatisfied
with your home! = we ventured to in.
quire.
..Why Z" he calculated, staring hard
at us, ''But then you don't know any
thing about it. You never lived next
door to a Second Advent perhaps =
Not that we can remember.
YOU'D remember it if You had,
he replied, with significant emphasis.
I'll never forget my experience.
That family got acquainted with us,
and then it had its revelations. First
they borroweda little sugar, and then
Il little tea. and then little s;.leratus,
and then this and then that. They
said the world was all going to be
burned up in two weeks, and they
didn't feel like going to the expense
Of getting barrel Of sugar when
eternity WAS so close, and wouldn't we
let them have Il small teacupful! We
let 'em have it. Then two days after
they came in and said that owing to
the immediate approach of the end of
all things they didn't think it advis.
able to lay in ton of saleratus, md
wouldn't we just loan them Il cupful
My wife didn't believe of course, that
the world was coming to an end,
but she thought the poor critters did,
and she reasoned that when they saw
there was no fire nor smoke on the
day in question they'd pony up with
sugar and saleratus, and the hundred
and one other things. But they wasn't
that kind of Advents. When the time
came round and the performance
didn't. they profesSed to have got a
sort OF postscript with later particulars,
and then they came over rs rampant
rs ever, and more so. In fact, every
fresh disappointment seemed to give
them a new zeal for victuals and 9th.
er things, and it got so that they were
over every day, and sometimes twice a
day, after one thing or another"
But didn't they return any of the
articles p
'.Certainly not. If the world was
going to end what on earth was we
agOing to do with the articles!
couldn't go through the fire, could l,
with teacupfuls of saleratus, sugar,
tea, &C., hung to me !! That's the way
they reasoned. But they was going ia
make it all right on the other side
of the river, was what his wife always
said. told my wife that if we could
only get back ten per cent.0f the things
on this shore I'd certainly run my
chances for the balance when we get
over there. Besides all that, the pros.
pect of so much groceries awaiting me
on the other shore began after awhile
to get very embarrassing, and kinder
limited to the chap something to this
effect, but it did no good. He'd got
that notion bored right into his skull,
and all that he could see was clouds of
glory, and angels, and harps, and my
sugar, and saleratus, and coffee, and
the like. By George! it got to be just
awful, can tell you! Day in and day
out that fellow, or some of his folks,
was repairing their ascention buds or
going for my groceries, and it did
seem as though I would go mad and
get up 4 judgment day on my own
hook. Why, that chap would come on
the greatest errands you ever saw
Tie came one day to get my shaving
brush. He said he didn't feel justified
in buying new brush right on the
eve of general resurrection, but he
would use mine, and when we all get
over there here Mr.. Cobleigh waved
Alo Assnu III SlOOuy 4uulCdC1Ou Ol Cu0
locality shed give me shaving
brush inlaid with precious stones, and
frisking in golden foam. Bah! The
jackass! But that's the way he d talk.
He got my axe one day with lot of
the same fOOlisllness. and while he was
using it the handle broke, and the
balde went down the we'll. --.. .--
He came over right away to see if
had another axe. And when told him
hadn't, and that didn t know how
! was to get along without one, I'm
blamed if he didn't want me to bOr-
row one from some of the neighbors,
so he could finish the little job he was
at. He said there was no use of my
buying q new axe, with the crack of
doom staring us in the face. There'd
be no use of q new axe in heaven, for
there'd he no pain there, an no crying,
with a lot of other stuff. This riled
me like thunder. But there was no
use talking to him., 1, was madl
though, about the axe, as mad rs I
could be, and told him if he didn' t
get me new axe I'd bust him in
ionoo rvpSkks r., 81.