Richland beacon., 1877-08-25
Bntterwick'S Weakness.

scrip,ioh to tie missionary society.
The following conversation took place:
Your husband is Presbyterian,
believe, Mrs. Butrerwick :" said the
deacon.
NO" replied Mrs b. "IIe belongs
to everything else on earth but the
church. That's what say To bin,
that willie be is joining So much he'd .
better ioiu something decent, that'lI 40
him some good. Eat he says he mas
no time. Ike belongs to about forty
six secret societies Of various kinds.
Hes the az fullest man for smch things
YOU ever saw. and all lifetime running
after them. Monday night he goes
round to tie Free Ma;ons, Tuesday
night he associates with the odd Eel
lows, "Wednesday night is his Red
Man night, Thursday night i, his
temperance lodge, Friday he go,e
fooling along with the knights OF
Pvthias. and all day Saturday he is
visiting the sick and the widows and
orphans Of dead memberS. 1t there
were SIXTY days in "A week ! believe
Bu,terwick would have some lodge 10
attend To every night"
MIR. Grimes, that man actually
knows ninrtv-fcur grips ami over tW"
hundred pass-w orda. And he's awful
mysterious about them. The other
dav saw him swinging his arms about
kinder queer NJ breakfast, aud present
Is be stops and says: "1hunt@r, J
foryo, where was! Mary Jane, You
saw that? 1t Was a grand haillng
sign. Swear You'll never reveal. y
And, YOU know, bell wake up nights
and ask me if heard him talking IN
bis sleep, and if say yes. hell look
scared to death. and get out hi. pistol
and say he'll blow my brains out if 1
ever repeat one Of those passwords,
And he is all the time practiclns on
me, bu: he won't even tell me what
any of them are. although he knows
I'm Just diving with curiosity. He
saw, be knows more secrets than any
other man in the whole state, and ne
saws if he was to tell one Of them.
those Knights ana Patriotic sons and
the rest of them, would put hin into
vault and seal him up alive, or tear
. him to pieces with red-hot p.nchers.
Saws they'd brnise him into tcerniiy
. quicker'n wink. Worries me nearly
to death. S'posc be was 10 become
temporarily insane and gush. but,
what Il become Of me and the children
Hes 30 careless, too. / see him
giving the grand hailing sign to the
, slo2man Yesterday, and the slopman
, asked Bridget if Mr. Butterwick had
, the st. Ni,us dance bad; and | kuuw
when he tried one Of those grips on
, the man that came to tune the piano,
the man said if he squeezed his hand
f tina, hard again he'd give Mr.. Butter
! wick bloody nose"
. And, as foF professions. Well, i;
seems TO NE that W hen Bntterwick
:. amt at lodge, he's marching in a
:, procession. Always some funeral OF
:, celebration or something, and he turns
. out and goes skipping around the
:. streets, dressed in cooked hat and 8
!, sword and locking fierce enough tC
:. frigh,en anybody cut Of their wits
And he told me that sometimes be
q, gets all these grips mixed, and bel
? give IA Mason an Ohi Fellows grip
- and tell me not to he surprised if he i
=. kidnapped and made way with before
;, morning. And he'll kiss his children
= sood-by, and making Lis ias; little ar
:, rangemcnts SOS evCrythingll b,
=. straight when he's gone; and then ih
p children and nell cry, and be Loo
}. solemn, and 90 to bed to rest befor
be meet, his doom. But nothing eve
came Of it. They never touched him
6 you ought just to see the letter
that come here directed to him. +. Bu'
tcrwirk, and then whole alphabet c
IL letters strung after his name. He's
- right worshipful grand master and
-, sir knight, and an eminent past gran
sachen, and "A chief magnificent =,
=. vereud Druid priest, and whole IL
~ more such things as that, enough t
- take your breath away; and with
all he's no more stuck up than 70
" are. just as humble as lamb An
. he SAYS he can reel out more stu
-. that they say at ceremonies than
=, fill a small library; and he has abor
~ sixty shccPskin aprons, and all kind
~, of pictures Oh them, that he wca!
- when be- is on duty.
80 he has no time to attend churc
~. and 10 money for hca,hcns. He spcl
~ bis last dollar Saturday paying up b
. last dues to the Knights of Pythla
90, and he says If he cant settle up vii
w the Druds by Thursday they'll Ct
!. him of and chuck him out | don
v know what happens to man WHIT
y the Druids shut down on him, ID
But;erw;ck hints that it Is not NUT
"' better than Sudden death. Fcrhal
u, you're Druid: No? Well. "
''' call and see Blltcrwick, and he'll t.