The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-03-24

anybody but pious men. that belonged to the church, in the company, and think that wss cae thing thas caused pa so unite with the church % sadaenly. ! know he was as wicked as could be a kew days besoEe he joined the church, but this se. .sealss'. ~,sh hss wesds about the h<anti. tal beyond. where all shall dwell together m peace. and sing praises. and hts de- ses'P,ien et that Colorado mountain where the silver stuck out Sd you could hang your hat On il. converted pa. Tha, mans scheme ~as to let all the church people who were in good standing, and who had plenty of m ,ncy. into the crr,> pany, and when the mine begun to rc. turn dividends hy the car load, they could Gisc largely Ia the church. and pay the debts ot all the chare hes. and pu, down carpets. and isesce the ccihng. The man sad he tclt that he had been s,cered on to that silver sn,ae b, higher power, and hls idea was to wo,k u tw the ,lof, ot the cause. He sad he liked pa. and would make h,m v,ce-pres,dcn, oi the company. Ia he but like bass, and l guess he invested i've thousand dailars in stock, and una she wanted to come in. and she put m a thousand toliarx that she had lad up ,o buy some diamond ear.,,ngs. and the man gave pa io, oi stot k io sell to other members of the church, They arc all into 1t. even the munster. lie slfcw h.s salary ahead, and all ot thc deaccns they come m, and the man went back to Colorado with ahoa, thirty thousand dollars af yood pious money. Acsterday pa got paper irom Colorado giving the whole snap away. and the p'ous man has been spending the money m Denver, and ~hooping Il up. Ia suspected something vas wrong t~o weeks ago, when he heard that the pieus man had been on toot In Chicago. and he wrote to a man in Denver who uAcd so ge, full with pa ycars ago when Inc, were both on the tusf, and pa ff,cnd sa,d the man that sold the stock was a fraud and that he didn', own no mine. and that he borrowed the samples oi orc and silver husks from pawn htnket m Denver. guess Il wiil break pa up for a while, though he Is veil enough txed with mortgages and things. Hut lt hurts hm so To he took ln ite ia,s Il all to ma. Hes s,ys Il she ha.lnt let that cNhuItci lot the silver mtne go home with het. this would mt have occaned. ana ma saNs she believes pa was in part nefship wth the man to beat her ~oui oi her thousand dollats that she MAS eoin5 io buy pan oi plous diamond raIstinEs with. -. | Is terror o,er to Inc hou1e now. 10th the hucd g,tIs put m ali the money they had. and took ste, k, and they threaten to sue pa for arson. and fts@k lea Ia vail have ta da the work. Doni you aeAet try tn gel tich qulek." sals the boy as he peeled herring and took couple i of crackers.
 Never you n,nd me. sad the grocer, man. They don't atch me on any oi their silver mines. Hut hope thu, will have some influence on you. and teach you ,o rc>pco, your pas feelings. and no, play any Jokes on him while he "a feelng SO bad over hIs being s~indled."
 "o. don't know about that. 1 think when man s m trouble. if he has !, good ii,tir boy to take his ss.ad t,am hls troubles. and gets him mad al some. th,ng else, l, rests him. Last night VT had ho, maple syrup and bis. ut iot sup
 per, and i., ha !, saucct full ln tiont al hin, Just Il s,eamu,g. l could see he ~as thinking ioo much about hlx mlniaE sto' k. and thought Il there was anything : could do to take his mind of of Il. and 1 place ii nu spmcihing else. would he ;i.inE ;, kindness tia: s..;:l,! lse s;.;.,e ciA'od. sal un the right ot ps. and when ie wssn looking 1 pulled the table ! 10th so the sattcct oi ied hot maple i syiup dropped of; in bls lap Wei. you dide to see how puck has thoughts tntned from his hnsn al troubles to hls physi' Al misiprinusa.
 here @aA about pins nt hot aYfup. and x went all over hs lap. and ,ou knus hoa hui melted maple sugar ls. and hes Il sort of ,hnga to anything i i's jumped uf, and g,ahl,e.i hold ai hla , pants legs io ISflI them away from hisseii. and he danced around and told ma to turn Inc hose on ham, and then he took A pitcher of ice water and poured |, down his pants, and he said the condemned old table was getting ss nekeiy that \ saucei wouldn't stay on il, and l told pa Il he would pu, some tar on his legs, inc same kind thA, he told me to put on my lip To make my moustaehe grow, the syrup wouldn't burn so. and then he cuffed me. and think he frl, better. 1, IS great thing io get mans mind ofi his troubles, but where man hasn't got any mind, like you. fof instance
 A this point the grocery nan picked up fire poker, and the boy went out in hurry, and hung up sign m front of the tysos ety tf amt 1A,h fnt fat 1at,s H