The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-02-18
DEACON SAVEALI.'S SPEECH.

MY FRIENDS I'VE air here to-
night to see if the deestrict will vote
to build new skOol-hOuse or not.
We air here at no small expense OF
time, trouble and kerryseen. l
didn't expect to say nothin' when l
KUN in here, but I've been a-think
in as I've been a,settin' that l ought
to raise my voice agin the whole pur-
ceedin', it Is such an extravagant
waste of public money taxed out OF
private indervidooals. shall vote
agin it, and do all l can to kill it.
The trouble is, folks want too much
in these days, and them folks what
have little or nothin' 'cept young
ones are always ready to vote to
spend other folks money to edicate
'em. There wasn't much money
spent to edicate me, and I'vc been a
deekin in our iheenin' for nigh forty
year. I've worn che same coat aud
the same trousers, to say nothin' of
waist-coat and boots, every Sabbath
day durin' full half that long period.
Amt | pattern for the deestrict in
matters Of ekonomy? What would
have bekum of me and Betsey Ann
if l hadn't "a done 50?
l don't purtend to he judge of
wimmen's goods and fiXin's, but I've
ohsarved that she don't spend much
of my money on dresses and bunnits.
She knows my sentiments too well
on them pints, and don't waste her
time a-gaddin' round to see the FASH
uns and such. She's stay-at home
woman and ;vOrkin' woman, she is,
and, if / do say it, she's pattern Just
as much as l am. Why. it e'en
almost tux our breth away one SUM-
day mornin' when we seed our min
ister's wife a-kummin' inter the
meetin'-hOuse with a new bunnit on,
all kuvered up with fine flowers
and fethers. Sunbody sed twas an
Easter, or Il Wester, I've forgot
which, for we don't keep them Pagin
days like the 'PiscopAls and Romans.
We know better. We rej'ice in the
lite while we walk Oh IN darkness !;
but as l was a-Sayin', me and Brtsey
Ann was dredfuIiy distrest over it.
And when we got hum. seq she 10
me, SEE she; "What AN example to
our young folks! You oughter to
20 right over there, Jeremiah, and
labor with ,ein about il u
The next mornin' | went over to
the parsonage, and kerried sum
specked apples that we wuz gnin' to
throw away; for | alwuz takes sum.
thin with me when | goes to see the
minister's family-it's Il Sakrpd doo-
ty. l tackled Mr.. Nicodenus ab0u;
it. He said that the bunnit wuz A
present from sumbody who wuz here
last summer. | suppose it wuz sum
Of them city folks who wus a-d0in'
nothin', and spendin' their money
at the tavern-"Sumnerin'," l he.
LEY they call it. Anyhow 1 felt an
inward call to labor with the minis.
ter spell longer, and to tell him in
plain words that he mustn't allow
any of his family to indulge in ex
travagance, whether it costs him
anything or net. We pay him four
hundred dollars year, when we can
raise it--that's what he wuz called
on-and I've often laid awake nights
thinkin' that he must be layin' up
money, and it's wrong for ministers
tn do that: the Scripters is all agin
it,.
He has wife, seven children. and
an old uncle on his hands, to be sure,
but then we only charge him City
dollars a year for the use of the par
sonage, ami there amt many folks
that gets their rent as cheap as that.
We use it to pay the insurance and
keep the house in repair. Pertatoes
and brown bread are cheap; that's
our livin' mainly, and what's good
enuf for US is good enuf for anybody.
And then, agin, / don't see why the
minister should be obleeged to en-
tertain the whole tribe of Gadites,
and half the tribe of Manassar, and
spend our money in feedin' 'em.
Why. it's wus than flock of
Egyptian locusts to see the folks that
go a't'ainpin' in and out of our par.
sonnge In the course of year. We
don't hey any kumpany. We did
hev man and u woman lite down
on us onst, but they didn't stay long.
She sed that her mother was third
cousin To my Wits great-aunt, but
we never seed 'em afore they came
a-drivin' into our door-yar1, l was
a'splittin' kindlings, and Betsey Ann
she was a-sittln' milk pans out to dry
in the sun, when we heerd sumbCdy
cry out: "Why, how do you do,
Cousin Jeremiah? How do you do,