The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1876-06-22

looking -slAss. clock and lamp. II ws
had saddsnly discovered cur own family
- could no, have be~n more assonished.
He bad lived ia the house from whence
he was moving Tor ~ least eight yesss
He ses the lamp on the fence and prop
ped the clock and looking glass against
the same
"Yoa are surprised 70 sse me At thiss
be said. With an anxious look.
We admitted - much
II little expected il st one time my
self." Aud be sighed drsarily.
Any trunbls With the landlord z
No. no"
With the houss, shsof'
"Oh, no; good landlord. and good
house. Idsn't know II I'll ever again
find as good. I've lived there eight
years last Fall. and I might have lived
there oil my life IL il wasn't for tbs
DANCED fools in the world"
You sse." he went on. shout six
months ago one Of the chaps who be-
lieved in . sudden and unexpected
judgment day-Second advent they
cali thsm-moved IN the next door
fwherc Parker used to live. He was
= pssoeful sort Of man 10 get along
with but he wss . strong Second Ad-
vent aud 40 was his wife. Well they
had'nt lived there two weeks before they
got acquainted, and began to have rev.
slations." He paused aud sighed.
But why should their peculiar re-
igious belief makes you dissatisfied
with your home Z" we ventured to in-
quire.
Why" he calculated. staring hard
at us. but you don't know anything
about it. You never lived neIt door to
second Advent. perhaps Z"
Not that we can remember"
You'd remembered II you had.
he replied. with significant. emphasis.
I'm never forget my experience. That
family got acquainted with TIE. and then
il had their revelstions. First they
borrowed . little sugar. and then -
little tea, and then . little salerstus.
and then this and then that They said
the world wss oil going to bc burned
up in two weeks. and they didn't feel
like going to the expense Of getting .
barrel Of sugar when eternity was 10
close. aud wouldn't we let them have y
small ,eacup full Z We let 'em have
il. Then two days sfterward they came
in aud said that owing TO the imsaedi-
ate approach Of the end Of all things
they didn't think il advisable 10 lay in
ton of ssleratus. and wouldn't we loan
them . cupfal Ny wife didn't be-
lieve. Of course. that the word WAS
coming - IN end. but she said tn ey
did. and chs reasoned that when they
saw there wss no Are NOR smoke on the
day in question they'd pony up the
sugar and salerstus and the hundred
and one other things. But that time
came around and the performance
didn't; % they professed to have got .
sort Of postscript with the latest pArsic-
ulsrs. and then they camc over -
rampant - ever, and more %. In fact.
every fresh disappointment appeared to
give them new zeal for victuals and
ther things. aud il got 10 that they
were over every day, and sometimes
twice q day. after one thing or au-
other"
Hut dldn't they return any OF the
articles
Certainly not. Ii the world was go
ing To end what on earth was We 60
ing to do with the articles ] couldn't
60 through fire, could |, with teacupfuls
of saleratus, sugar, tea. etc, hung to mes
That's the way they reasoned. But
they was going To- make il all right on
the other shore, was what his wife al
ways said. told my wife that if We
could only get back 10 per cent. Of the
things on this shore I'd cheerfully run
my chances for the balance when We
get over there. Besides all that, the
prospect of So nl~,, groceries waiting
me on the other shore began after
awhile Ia get very embarrassing, and
kinder hinted 10 the chap something tn
this effect, but it did no good He'd
got that notion bored right into his
skull, and all he could see was clouds
ofglory. and angels, and harps, and my
sugar. and sslerasus. and coffee. and the
like. BY George i, got To he just awful,
can tell you' Day in and day ou,
rcpairing their ascension duds or going
for my groceries. and il did seem as il
I'd 90 mad and get up a judgment day
on my own hook Why. that chap
would come on tho creates; errsnds you
ever saw He came in one day to get
my shaving brush lie said he didn't
feel justified in buying new brush
~.. al al
tion, but he would use mine. and when
VIC all eos over there" there Mr.. Cob
leigh waved his hand in gloomy in.
dicstion Of the locality he'd give me
= shaving brush inlaid with precious
stones and frisking in golden foam.
Bah The iackass But that's the
way he'd talk. He gos my Ak one day
with = lot Of the same foolishness. and
while he MAS using il the handle broke
and the blade went down the well. He
came over right away to see if | had
another AK And when told him
hadn't. and that didn't know how
Was to get along without that one, I'm
blamed If be didn't want me 10 borrow
one f,om some of the neighbors, 81 he
could flash the little job he was AZ
he said there MAS no Use os nv buying
a new Az. with the crack of dcsra star
inc us In the face There'i he no use
of a new AZ in heaven. for 'heFe'i be
no pain there. AZ ~ crying. with q lot
of ether stuff This rileSi me like shun-
der. Hut there was no use talking 10
him. WAS mad though. about the AZ;
~ mad ss could nc, and | told him IL
he didn' get me new Ak Ii hurss him
in pieces with the right arm of the law.
And what DO You suppose be said
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