Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-11-18
A GOSPEL INFANT.

There was a powerful revival the other
night at Parson Bledso's Blue Light Taber-
nacle, and among those who experienced a
change of heart was Jim Webster Yester-
day he met Parson Bledso, who asked Jim ::
"ls yer gwne ter stick. James p
"Parson Bledso, eff anybody offers to gam
BILE on my sticken', yer kin make money by
taking 'em up. Use gwine ter lead new
life till de lake whar de wum is nebber
squenched is friz over wild ice thick enough to
bar train of kerrs loaded wild railroad
IRON"
"l'se glad to hear yer talk in dat strain,''
said the parson, gravely, "but kin yer pass
by a yard after dark whar dar is close hang.
in out widout histin' yer leg ober de fence ?"
Look heah, you don't spect me to become
saint in less den two days? Use a gospel
infant, what has ter be fed on light diet, but
tells yer I'm maxim rattling good time on de
road to de New Jerusalem, when yer looks at
my record foah de pass four yeahs."
"How bout chickens? ?"
"Last night after I had jined de gospel
band, l started foah home, and 1 had to pass
down de alley what leads by de backyard of
Col. Jones house. hadn't noah den got
pass his yeard when found I was carryin'
one OBJ his Spanish breed of ROSTERS, wild big
combs, in each hand. Satan must hab
showed dem fowls in my hands,"
"Jim Webster, You is gwine to bring de
church into discredit. Don't you know Col.
Jones is de only man what raises dem Spanish
breed of chickens what kin be identified by
der police?"
"Dat's just what my conscience tole me.
was filled with remorse as soon as I saw
what kind Of poultry I was totin' off: Be-
sides, dem old roosters amt wuff q cent ter
brile, so 1 jest went back and put 'em right
back whar l got EN-"
"Bress de Lor'," said Parson Bledso.
81 put 'em back and tuck two young pull
lets, what looks like any udder chickens and
was jest de right size ter brile."
"Don't add lying, Jim Webster, to yer
udder SINS"
81 can't tell a lie, parson, but eff you
bleeves isn't one of de elect, jest come home
wild me and hab some OBJ de breast and de
stuffn' for dinner. 1 kin smell dem briled
pullets now" He went.- Galveston News.
bS- A young lady who says she is young
and handsome writes: "'The man for me to
love is vastly my superior; x a man who
will compel my spirit to bend its knee to his
who will command my soul to stand still and
shine on him, as Joshua commanded the sun ;
who can trample my will 10 the DUST" etc.
She should have no difficulty in finding such
man-one who will not only command her
soul to stand still, but who will also command
its owner to get up first in the morning to
build the fire, split kindlings and carry up the
coal, and whose language will make her hair
stand on end when he comes home and finds
dinner fifteen minutes late. There are lots of
men who will bend her spirit for her, and also
make her back bend over wash-tub while
they 20 down to the saloon and discuss the
best method of saving the country from the
hands of its political enemies.
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I'M REsIGNED-It was a bad occasion.
The doctors said the man couldn't live and
weeping friends surrounded his bedside. But
he was not reconciled to depart. But he was
young and there was much to hold him to
life. He struggled hard, mentally, to accept
the situation, but he couldn't feel right about
it. At length he opened his eyes and asked
in feeble whisper if the leader of the village
band was at home If so he desired, as last
dying request, that the band be brought out
and allowed to play under his window. The
appeal was granted, and before the conclu'
ding strain was reached submissive smile
hovered about the shrunken lips Of the de-
parting one as he murmured: "Im-resigned
Nothing. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS" Then
his light went out.-Ezchange.