The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1879-07-16

Danu Oh nerns Is mystefy 10 me, IN
less she is growin' foolish. lie wu
always poor, Insignificant lookin
creeter; but now he is the humblies
and meakenest lookln' creeter eve
seen in human shape. And be look
as old as granfather Richerson, every
mite as old, and he is most 30. Ant
he is vain as rea hen"
just glanced around at Josiah
and then, intentively, | looked away
again.
His counteuance was perfectly aw
ful. Truly, the higher we are up the
harder it hurts US TO to fall down
Bein' lifted up on such o height o.
vanity and vain glory, and faller
down from it so sudden, it most broke
his neck, (speakin' in poetical and
igurative way. /, myself, hayir
doubts of her all along, didn't fee
nigh so worked up and curious, il
more sort OF maddened me, it kind ol
operated in that way on me.
And 80 when she began agin, to
run Josiah and me down to the very
lowest notch, called us all to naught,
made out he wuzn't hardly fit to
live, and wuz most fools, and then
saying agin:
Il wouldn't say a word about them
for the world, if | wuzn't such q
friend to 'em.'
Then | rose right up, and stood in
the open winder, and it come up in
front of me, some like pulpit, and
| s'pose my mean looked considera-
bic like a preachers, when tney get
carried away with the subject, and
almost by the side of themselves.
Alzins Ann quieted the minute she
set her eyes on me, as much or more
than any minister ever made con-
gregation quail, and says she, in
trem5liD' tones:
You know | do think everything
in the world CT you. You know /
shouldn't have said q word against
you, if | wuzn't such q warm friend
OF yours
Friend = says |, in awful exents.
Friend, Alzina Ann Richerson, you
don't know no more about the word.
than if you never see dictionary.
You don't know the true mesnin' of
that word ~ more than a African
babe knows about slidin' down hill. )
Says L: The bible gives a pretty
good idea that it means; it speaks
of man lay in down his life for his
friend. Dearer to him than mis- own
life. Do you s'pose such friendship
as that, would be mistrustiu' around,
a tryin' to rake up every little fault
they could lay hold of and talk 'em
over with everybody Do you s'pose
it would creep around under winders,
and bite, and SANDER JOSH
ah p
entirely forgot, for the moment,
that she had been tslkin' about me,
for truly, abuse heaped upon my pard-
ner seems ten times as hard to bear
up under, as if it was heaped upcu
me.
Josiah whispered to me:
That is right, Samantha Give it
10 her p and upheld by duty, and
that dear man, | went on, and says
/:
NY friend, those | love and who
love me, are sacred to me- Their
well-being and their interest are as
dear to me as my own | love 10
have others praise them, prize them
as | do; and | should just as soon
think of goin' round, tryin' to rake
and scrape suthin' to say against
myself, as against them
Agin | paused for breath, and agin
Josiah whispered:
That is right, Samantha; give it
to herr
Worshipin' that man as do, his
words was far more inspirin' and
stimulatin' 20 me than root beer
Agin ] went on, and says /:
Maybe it hain't exactly accordin'
to Scripture there is suthin' re-
spectacle in open enmity, in beginnin'
your remarks abou. anybody honest
ly, in this way.
(Now detest and despise that man
and / am goin' TO Try 10 relieve nv
mind by tslkin' about him, jist as bad
as can, and then proceed to tear
him to pieces in q straightforward,
manly way.
/ don't s'pose such course would
be upheld by the 'postIes But, as |
say, there is q element Of boldness
and courage in it, ammountin' almost
TO grandeur, when compared to this
kind of talk.
4 think everything in the world of
that man. | think be is jist as good
as be can be, and be hain't got bet
ter friend in the world than | am
And then go on, and say every
thing you can TO iDjure him. Why,
\ pirate runs up his skeleton and
when he's goin' TO rob and
pillsge.
l think, Alma Ann, if it wGs in
-FOUR place, l would make o good ef-
'ort, and try and be as noble aud
as q pirate
Alzina Ann looked Ike a white
holly that had been withered
oy an untimely frost
Bnt Sylphins looked iickled (she |
hadn't forgot her suferens. and the
'atferens Of Nathen Spooner). And
nv Josiah looked proud and tri-
lmphsnt in mean. And be told me
a confidence, a goin' home, that be
ladn'. seen NE look so good to him, |
q / did when / stood there in the
rinder, no, for upwards of thirteen |
Tears-' Saws he:
Samantha. you looked, ycu did,
Ilmoss perfectly beautiful
That man worships the ground
walk on, and do his'n-
Mean CONGREGATION.