The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1883-05-22

ter your castle scandalous. What
kind of a fate do you think awaits
you, when you die, anyway?'
swell, Pm mixed on the fate that
awaits me when / die. If should
go off sudden, with all my sins on my
head, and this burnt cork ON my face,
1 should probably be a neighbor to
you, way down below, and they
would give me a job as fireman, and
l should feel sorry for you every time
| chucked in a nuthcr chunk Of brim-
stone, and thought Of you trying to
swim, dog-fashion, in the lake Of fire,
and straining your eyes to find an
iceberg that you could crawl up on,
to cool your parchcd hind legs. III
don't die slow, SO Twill have time to
repent, and be saved, I shall be toast
ed brown. That's what the minister
says, and they wouldn't pay him two
thousand dollars a year, and give
him a vacation, to tell anything that
was not so. ! tell you, it is painful,
to think of that place that SO many
pretty fair average people here are
going to when they die. just think
of it a man that swears just once, if
he don't hedge, and take it back, will
go to the bad place. Ifa person steals
a pin, just small, no-account pin, he
is as bad as if he stole all there was in
bank, and he stands the best chance
of going to the bad place. You see,
if a fellow steals little thing like a
pin, he forgets to repent, cause it
don't seem to be worth while to make
so much fuss about; but if a fellow
robs a bank, or steals a whole lot Of
money from orphans, he knows it is a
mighty serious matter, and he gets in
his work repenting too quick, and he
is liable to go to the good place, while
you, who have only stole few pota-
toes ont of a bushel that you sold to
the orphan asylum, will forget to re-
pent, and you win sizzlc. 1 tell you,
the more ! read about being good
and going to heaven, the more l think
fcller can't be too careful ; and from
this out, you won't find 2 better boy
than am. When l como IN here
after this and take few dried peach
es or crackers and cheese, you charge
it right up to pa, and, then l won't
have it on my mind and have to
answer for it at the great judgment
day. am going to shake my chum,
cause he chews tobacco, which is
wicked, though don't see how that
can be, when the minister smokes,
but want to be on the safe side.
am going to be good or burst sus-
pcnder, and hereafter you can point
to me as boy who has seen the fol-
" of an ill-spent life, and if there Is
such thing as fifteen year old boy
who has been a terror, getting to
heaven, | am the hairpin. tell you,
when listen to the minister tell
about the angels flying around there,
and l see pictures of them prittier
than any girl in this town, with chub-
by arms with dimples in the elbows
and shoulders, and long golden hair
and think of myself here cleaning of
horses in livery stable and smelling
like an old harness, it makes me tired,
and wouldn't miss going there for
ten dollars. Say, you would make Q
healthy angel, for a back street Of the
new Jerusalem, but you would give
the whole crowd away unless you
washed up, and sent that shirt to thu
| Chinese laundry. Yes, sir, hereafter
you win find me as good as l l'know
how to be. Now l am going to wasl
up and go and help the minister
move"
As the boy went out the grocer!
man sat for several minutes thinking
Of the change that had come over tn
bad boy, and wondered what hat
brought it about, and then went t.
| the door to watch him as he wende'
his way across the street with hi
head down, as though in deep though
and the grocery man said to himself
''that boy is not as bad as some pee
pie think he is" and then he locke
| around and saw a sign-hanging up !
!. the front of the store, witten on
piece of box cover. with blue penci
"Spoiled. canned ham and tongp'
! good enough for church picnics, an
: he looked after the boy who was sliI
> ping down an alley, and said, 9Th
4 condemn little whelp. Wait till
A catch him." ii94i be o.idi aaF
: -w.u-u-uuununuuuuunn>z fi,1
Mr.. r. B. Askew, late Assistal
Postmaster at Baltimore, said son
time ago: "Having had occasion
= try DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup, unhe
: itatingly pronounce it the best rem
dy have ever used. A small bott
relieved me of a severe cold"
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!, taken in the other day and done +
2 by new trick. He laid a wag