Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1883-08-04
SATURDAY, AUGUST A, 1883.


Stammering or suffering is II oi ,he
man can be afflicted with. a man NAV
be troubled with almost any other
malady and may be cured or helped bu,
n man w,,o shutters, though he may at
times be free from the habit, he neve
has confidence in his talking utensils.
They may run all right for a time, but
Just AZ he expects the most from his
vocal organs, aad ans TO do his best,
they 90 back on him, and he founders
around, and can't express his thoughts
to save himself. a sufferer il usually
the best notured man IN the void. 1t
seems rs thotgh nature picked out the
iolliest fellow as a watch case 10 put
poor vocal works into so there won't be
any kicking. There is a fellow in this
want to. but who can talk right along
when there is nothing particular to be
said. lf he gets excited or interested
and wants to crate, he gets stucl; and
has time to walk around the block be-
fore ne can GET Things 10 working again
He was out in Iowa recently, and ut n
hotel where he was stopping, the travel
ing men were getting up a party one
SUNDAY to 20 up to a town q few miles
distant, where a camp meeting was in
progress, and where there were TO be u
numhnr nf %converts bap.ized. and ,hev
invited our friend, the sufferer to 20
along.
Not m-m.much,' said be, as he work
ed ut %untangling a fish line, while a boy
brough in a tomato can full Of angle
worms. IF know m-rn-mr W hear,
l don't 90 to k-k-k-camp meeting where
they b-b-baptize. at-t-tended IA baptiz-
ing scrape once, and my k Clothes have
not got d-d-dry yet"
What was the matter" said a drum
mer for a Chicago grocery house. Didn',
fall in the water, did you ?"
"N-no," spid the sufferer, us he stuffed
q wad of paper down on top of the angle
worms 10 keep them froC, crawling ont.
l didn't f-fall in, but ! col in all the
SESAME. | was sna-sna-spatchcd in.
If you won't tell any one, ! will tell you
about it,"
The boys swore they woold never give
it away, and the sufferer went on.
"Weli, about twenty years ago was
editing a p-p-paper, in .Wis-k-k-consin,
and there was a revival at the town all
winter, and in the spring hey adyer-
tised TO b b-baptize all the converts.
Everybody went, and I w-w-went 10 the
xxx creek to see them s-s-soak. They
had q presiding elder, q stranger TO me,
TO G-d-d-do The baptizing, and when
thes had dipped a f-f-iew, | noticed that
the elder acted sOrter tired when he
pushed the last woman ashore, and [
th-ti,-thought he wanted to come out of
h-h-hand to help him up the b-b-bank.
DO YOU know, he thought / was a k.can-
didate for baptism, and he took hold of
my hand and was p-p-puliing me in, and
when | said, elder, don't pp-p - and
before l could said any m-m-more he
said, Have no f-f-fear nv young
k-christian friend and he was pushing
me in. ! wasn't as strong as ] am now,
and he had a grip like a prize fighter,
and before | knew what he was about
he was saying, i ~b-b-Daptize thee in the
name of the Father, Son and the Holy
G,g-ghost,' and was as weak as a k-k.cat.
l tried to get away from him, and tried
to explain that ] w-w-wasn't the teller
and til. I'll had never been converted. |
but the naturally pious look of my face |
b-b-betrayed me, and l suffered SO that
/ couldn't get in a word in time, and he
put me under. As l went down l could |
see the crowd on the b-b-bank laughing,
because they all knew / was BIB bad.
and that 1t was u mistake of the strange
preacher. came up strangling, and the
hrst thing said was, Elder, you have
made the d d,darndest mistake of your
lie and went out on the bank and
shock myself. You may talk about
ni~'rn-ministers not joking, but by gra
cions, I shall a-a-always think that pre-.