Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1883-02-21

hi"uO pa ICpcdt thc HHSI uioOu-Cuu-
ling oath, if he ever drank another
drop, to allow anybody to pull his toe
nails out with tweezers, to have his
liver dug out and fed to dogs, his
head chopped off, and his eyes re-
moved. Then the mogul said we
would brand the candidate on the
bare back with the initial letters OF
our order, G. T., that all might read
how brand had been snatched from
the burning. You'd dide to seed pa
finch when ! pulled up his shirt, and
got ready to brand him. My chum
got piece of ice out of the water
cooler and just as he clapped it on to
pas back l burned piece of horses
hoof in the candle and held it to pas
nose, and guess pa actually thought
it was his burning skin that he SMELL
ed. lie jumped about six feet and
said Great heavins, what you dew
in and then he began to roll over a
barrel which | had arranged for him.
Pa thought he was going down cellar,
and he hung to the barrel, but he was
on top half the time. When pa and
the barrel got through fighting ! was
beside him. and | said: "Calm your
self, and be prepared for the ordeal
that is to follow Pa asked how
much of this dunn fooling there was
and he said he was sorry he joined.
He said he could let Ticker alone with
out having the skin all burned off his
back. | told pa to be brave and not
weaken, and all would be well. He
wiped the perspiration off his face on
end of his shirt, and we put belt
around his body, and hitched it to
tackle, and pulled him up so his feet
were just off the floor, and then we
talked rs though we were away off
and | told my chum to look out that
pa did not hit the gas fixtures, and
pa actually thought he was being
hauled clear to the roof | could see
he was scared by the complexion of
his hands and feet, as they clawed the
air. He actually sweat so the drops
fell on the floor. Bime-by we let him
down, and he was awfully relieved,
through his feet were not more than
two inches from the floor at any of
the time. We were just going to
slide him down a board with slivers in
to give him realizing sense of the
rough road reformed man has to
travel, and had got him astradle of
the board, when the Dutchman came
home from the dance, and he drove
us boys out and we left pa, and the
Dutchman said: 'Vot you vas doing
here NIT desc boys, you old duffer,
and we're vas your pants and pa
pulled off the handkerchief from his
eyes, and the Dutchman said if he
didn't get out in a holy minute he
would kick the stuffing out of him,
and pa got out He took his pants
and put them OH out in the alley and
then we come up to pa and told him
that was the third time the drunken
Dutchman had broke up our lodge,
but we should keep on doing good un-
til we had redeemed every drunkard
in Milwaukee, and pa said that was
right, and he would see us through, if
it cost every dollar he had. Then we
took him home, and when ma asked
if she couldn't join the lodge, too, pa
said: Now you take my advice and
don't you ever join no Good Tenn
plars. Your system could not stand
the racket. Say, ! want you to put
some cold cream Oh my back. l
think pa will be q different man now,
don't you?"
The grocery man said that if he
was that boys pa for fifteen minutes
he would be a different boy or there
would be funeral, and the boy took
a handful of soft-shelled almonds and
few layer raisins, and skipped out.
-Peck's Sun.