Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1883-05-10

iaininS sue Mlnlster with plug hat
that looked as though it had been
struck by a piledriver, sand some peos
pie were hauling our buggy into the
gutter, and some men were trying to
take the old PAGER ont of the windows
of the street car, and then l guess l
tainted away agin. o, it was worse
than a telescoping train loaded with
cattle.i, r. sse.
sssWell, l swan," said the grocery
man, as he put some eggs in afunnel-
shaped brown paper fora servant
girl; "what did the minister say when
he come. to" ,-as.
"say? What could he say? He
just yelled 'Who!' and kept saving
with his hands, as though he was
driving. l heard that the policeman
was going to pull him for fast driving,
till he found that it was an accident,
They told me, when they carried me
home in hack, that it was wonder
that everybody was not called, and
when I got home pa was going to
sass me, until the hearse driver told
him it was the minister to blame
want to find out if they got the
minister's umbrella back. The last
see of it the umbrella was running
up his trousers leg, and the point
came out by the small of his back.
But lam all right, only my shoulder
spralned, and my legs bruised and
my eye black. / will be all right,
and shall go to work tomorrow,
| cause the livery man says was the
only one in the crowd that had any
sense. l understand the minister is
going to take vacation on account
of his liver and nervous prostration.
| would if 1 was him. / never saw a
man that had nervous prostrahon any
more than he did when they fished
him out of the barbed-wire fence,
after we struck the street car. But
that settles the minister business with
me. 1 don't drive for mo more
preachers. What / want is quiet
party that wants to go on, walk, -
and the boy got up and hoped on
one foot toward his crutches, filing
his pistol-pocket with figs as he hob
bled along. e
"Well, SIR" said the grocery man,
as he took a chew of tobacco out of a
pail, and offered some to the boy,
knowing that was the only thing in
the store the boy would not take,
"Do you know 1 think some of these
ministers have about as little sense
on worldly matters as anybody? Now
the idea of that man jerking on an
old PAGER. 1t don't make any differ.
ence if the PAGER was 100 years old
he would pace if he was jerked on. -
''You bet,'' said the boy, as he put
This crutches under his arms and started
for the door. ga minister may be
sound on the atonement, but he DOM
want to saw on an old PAGER. He
may have the subject of infant bap
tism down finer than cambria needle
but if he has ever been to college, hs
ought to have learned enough not tt
! say 'ye-up' to an old PAGER that has
ybeen the boss of the road in his time
A minister may be endowed with sub
lime power to draw sinners to repent
ance, and make them feel like getting
lup and dusting for the beautiful be
yond, and cause them, by his elo
quence, to see angels bright and fai
in their dreams, and the chariots o
}, fire flying through the pearly gate
and down the golden streets of tn
New Jerusalem, but he wants to turl
out for street car all the same whel
, he is driving 2 30 PAGER. The mex
time. L drive a minister toIa funeral
he will walk and the boy hobble'
out and hung out sign in front o
{ the grocery, "Smoked dog fish a
halibut prices, good enough for com
pany." 80 :