The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-12-15
Finding . Collar Button.

A Georgia man lost gold collar button
two years ago, and recently the button was
found In the stomach Of slaughtered cow.
An exchange wonders how In the world the
COW goa under the bureau TO get the collar
buttsn. That Is q question. There Is some
thing singular about the fall OF collar but
ton, or stud. Let stud drop on the door In
plain sight, and 1t disappears under bureau
or bed at once, Is though endowed with
life, and II ID the most singular thing In the
world that man, however brave and noble
ordinarily, will get mad and say things that
were better unsaid. We have heard Of =
minister who left the ministry and went TO
keeping books for brewer, all on account OF
q shirtstud. He was getting ready for church
one Sunday morning, and was standing In
front Of mirror,n his undershirt and pants,
his suspenders hanging down on his hips,
and his white shirt In bis hands, engaged In
putting the collar stu. In It's customary hole.
In such moment as We think not his fingers
became oil thumbs, and the collar button
fell prone on the floor. Not too prone, but
lust prone enough. The plous man saw II
glisten asit fell, and be stopped TO pick 1t up
when Il disappeared. He dropped the shirt
end began to look for II, aud as he paved
ever different kinds of everyday clothes on
he 1oor, and could find 1t, he asked his wife
wby in the name OF the twelve Apostles she
aidat ustchit. She said IL was all she
could do to watch her own jewelry. Then
hs ssked her to help find IL, as he had got 10
nj 70 church pretty soon or there would be
Q scarcity of sermons that day. She told him
20 get stair rod and poke around under the
bursau, and sire went on hooking up her
esrsst In the most tsntalizing manner. The
plous man got down on his stomach and felt
under the bureau, knocking the skin of his
arm by the operation. He got out lot Of
marbles, some hair pins, Q hair brush, and
piece Of hoop skirt Of the vintage u 1851,
ku. could not fud the collar button. There
vas not another button Of the kind In the
hsuse, and not shirt he could wear with
cut the lost stud, and as the minister heard
ths last bell ring for church. aud thought Of
the congregation waiting for him to give cut
The hymn, and saw bis wife, who had got a.
most ready for church, eli down OH the door
70 pull on her stockings, while he was no
aearer dressed than when be got his ears
crashed, he was pretty mad, that Is, mad for
4 minister. Like man he laid II oil 10 his
wife, and asked why she did not fly around
and help him. She said man ought to be
able TO corral his own shirt stud, and sug-
gested that hereafter he tie string to the
collar button, when she pulled of one little
.. shoe that she had put on, because there was
something In II, and ss she turned the shoe
bottom side up, the gold stud fell out, and
she help him az IL In the shirt, and he got
into his clothes pretty quick and very mad.
He nearly tired his wife walking to church,
scoiding her oil the way for not looking In
her shoe st FIRST for the stud, and when he
arrived IL the church door he was dripping
with penpirstion. He had forgotten his
handkerchief, and borrowed his wifes,
wiped the penpirstlon OF, and walked down
the aisle - meek and plous - though he had
Just come from missionary meeting, and he
preached beautiful sermon on "Faith," and
then resigned bis psstorate ard locked for
chance 10 get work at some other business,
II 10 singular thst little thing like the lose
Of collar button should change the whole
course or mans life; but one Of the minis.
ter's old congregation, who saw him In st
Louis few months ago at the brewery, sayi
he thinks tho elder has struck his gait n last
But We wander from the subject.