The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-06-07
DISSATISFIED.


NEIGHBORS AND RELIGION.
Inconvenience Of Living Next Door to Second
From the Danbury News ~
Mr.. Cobleigh moved on the first of
May. We were going through North
street when we met him with the in
sigma upon him, viz, a looking-glass,
clock, and lamp. If 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 at least eight years.
He sat the lamp on the fence, and
propped the clock and looking-glass
against the same.
"You are surprised to see mi" at
this :" he said, with an anxious look.
We admitted as much.
81 little expected it at one time my
SELF and he sighed drearily.
"Any trouble with the landlord
''No, no.
with the house then?''
ooh no, good landlord and good
house. I dom know if I'll ever again
find as 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. ''You
see," he went on, ''about six months
ago one Of those chaps who believe in
a series of sudden and unexpected
judgement days-Second Advent they
call 'em-moved in next door (where
Parker used to live. He was a peace
full sort of a man enough to get along
with, but he was a strong Second Adj
vent, and 50 is his wife, Well, they
hadn't lived there two weeks before
they got acquainted, and began to
have revelations" He paused and
sighed.
:'But why should their peculiar re-
ligious belief make you dissatisfied
with your home?'' we ventured to in
quire.
why's" he calculated, staring hard
at us, ''But then you don't know any
thing about it. You never lived next
door to Second Advent perhaps!:'
Not that we can remember
"You'd remember it it you had,"
he replied, with significant emphasis.
''I'u never forget my experience.
That family got acquainted with us,
and then it had it's revelations. First
they borrowed 4 little sugar, and then
a little tea, and then a little saleratus,
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 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, and
wouldn't we just loan them a 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 as rampant
as 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
day. after one thing or another
but didn't they return any of the
articles p il. ,.,~-. =. ~..,.
%oS ~ II
going to end what on earth was we
agoing to do with the articles? I
couldn't go through the fire, could I,
with teacupfuls of saleratus, sugar,
tea, &C., hung to me-! That's the way
they reasoned. But they was going to
makel 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.of 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 l would go mad and
get up a judgment day on my own
hook. Why, that chap would come on