The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1877-09-25

her leg every chivalrous Carolinian in
the county would have Joined in the
search for 1t. Unfortunately, her loss
was an irrevokable one. Having unin-
tentionally inserted her leg under the
wheel of heavily loaded wagon, she
found that the once shapely limb was SO
completely ruined that she consented to
have 1t cut Off and thrown away. Its
place was in time supplied with a cork
leg,and Miss Wilson sorrowfully resigned
herself to limping through loveless
life to solitary grave.
There never has been any active de-
mand for women with wooden legs. A
man with a wooden leg suffers certain
amount of inconvenience, but he loses
nothing in character or popularity,
whereas, wooden-legged woman is,
whether justly or uDjustly, under So
cial ban. In fact, for woman to lose
leg is ordinarily to lose all hope of mar
riage. A man who is about to marry
cannot be blamed for preferring whole
wife to one partially made of cork-es-
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than the latter. A superficial thinker
might, perhaps, fancy that husband
whose wife had but one original leg
would save fifty per cent. in the price of
striped stockings and kid shoes; but a
little reflection will show that cork leg
requires just as much clothing as the
usual style of leg, and hence is not an
economical contrivance. OF course it is
mean and selfish in man to permit the
presence or absence of mere trifle of
leg to affect his feelings toward an esti-
mable woman; but human nature is
weak, and he would be bold man who
could calmly look forward to marrying
a woman who might some morning in
terrupt him while shaving by asking,
James, would you mind handing me
my leg? think you'll find it behind
the rocking chair"
1t is alleged by Miss Wilson's neigh
hard and cynical This was, perhaps, to
have been expected. She saw herself
ignored by all marrying men, while
girls with half her beauty, and whose
sole superiority consisted in larger
number of legs, captured husbands with
out any difficulty. Gradually she be-
came embittered against her bipedal fel-
low creatures, and the local Baptist min
lister was probably right when he char
acterized her as hard-hearted, worldly
woman. One day, however, Miss Will
son attended camp-meeting, and was
softened by the eloquence of the preach
er and the shouts of the worshipers and
soon after Pineville was surprised and
pleased by the announcement that on
next Sunday Sister Wilson would be
baptized.
Now the public performance of the
rite of baptism by Rev. Mr. Waters, of
the Pineville Eleventh-Day Baptist
church always drew large audience.
That powerful and agile preacher was
admitted to be without rival as rapid
and effective baptizer. On one occasion
when Presbyterian minister preaching
against baptism by immersion showed
that ST. John the Baptist had once bap-
tized multitude of persons at the rate
of two men and half per minute, and
that hence he could not have immersed
them, Mr.. Waters publicly baptized
twenty-five persons in eight minutes
thus beating st. Johns best time by
two full minutes, and completely over
throwing the Presbyterian argument.
With all his unequaled rapidity of exc
cution, he never was careless or incon-
siderate. There was rival Baptist
minister in the next county who would
sometimes become carried away by his
emotions, and would sing an entire
verse of long metre hymn while hold
ing convert under water; and, al
though stalwart teamster who was
thus treated once fell from grace, and
upsetting his minister in the water, held
him under until he was nearly drowned,
the reverend enthusiast was not cured
of his careless habit. When, therefore,
Miss Wilson consented to be baptized by
the Pineville minister, she knew that
she would be treated in considerate and
skillful manner; and the public knew
that the spectacle would be well worth
witnessing.
1t is very easy to say, now that the
affair is over, that Miss Wilson ought to
have left her cork leg at home. In that
case she would have been compelled
either to limp to the water on crutches
or to be carried thither by self-sacrificing
deacons. Moreover, her appearance in