The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-01-17

Stammering or suffering rs one OF
the most unpleasant things at times
that q man can be afflicted with. A
man may be troubled with almost any
other malady and be cured or helped,
but q man who shutters, though no may
at times be free from the habit,
never has confidence in his talking
utensils. They may run all right for a
time, but just as he expects the most
from his vocal organs, and wants to do
his best, they go back on him. and he
founders around, and can't express his
thoughts to save himself. A sufferer
is usually the best-natured man in the
world. 1t seems as though nature
picked out the jolliest fellow rs watch
case TO put poor vocal works into, 80
there won't be any kicking There is
gentleman living in this State who
shutters just when he don't want to,
but who can talk right along all right
when there is nothing particular to be
said. If he gets excited or interested
and wants to crate, he gets stuck and
has time to walk around the block be-
fore he can get things to working again.
He was out m Iowa recently, and at a
hotel where he was stopping, the trav-
cling men were getting up party one
Sunday to go to town a few miles dis
tant, where n camp-meeting was In
progress, and where there were to be
number of converts baptized. and
they invited our friend, the sufferer,
to go along.
mot m-m-much," said he, as he
worked at untangling fish line, while
boy brought in tomato can full of
angle-worms, "If / know Mummy own
heart, 1 don't go to no k-k-k-camp-
meeting where they b-b-b-baptize. L
at-t-t-tended baptizing scrape once,
and my k-k-k-clothes have not got
d-d-d-dry yet"
"What was the matter?' said drum
mer for Chicago grocery-house.
Didn't fall in tho water did you?"
"N-n-n.o," said the sufferer, as he
stuffed wad of paper down on top of
the angle-worms to keep them from
crawling out, II didn't f-f-f-fall in. but
/ got in all the s-s-s-s-same. was
sna-sna- snatched in. If you won't toll
any one, will t-t-t-tell you about it."
The boys swore they would never
give it away; and the sufferer went on.
well, about twenty years ago was
editing ap-p-p-paper In Wis-k-k-consin,
and there was revival Of the town all
winter, and in the spring they adver-
tised to b-b-b-baptiZe all of the k-k-k
converts. Everybody went, and L WV
w-went down to the k-k-k-creek to see
them s-s-s-soak. They had a presiding
elder, stranger to me. to d-d-d-do the
baptiZing, and when they had dipped a
f-f-f-few, noticed the elder looked SIS
s-sort of tired when he pushed the hast
woman ashore, and 1 th-th-thought he
wanted to come out of the w-w-water,
so L reached out my h-h hand to help
him up the b-b-bank. Do you know,
he thought was k-k-k-candidate for
baptism, and he took hold of my hand
and was p-p-pulling me in, when.I said,
elder, don't p-p-p-' and before L
could say any m-m-more he said, Have
no f-f-sear, my young k-k-cnristian
friend, and he put his arm around me
and was pulling me right in. l wasn't
as st-st-strong as am now, aud he had
q g-g-grip like prize fighter, and be-
fore l knew what he was about he was
saying, Il b-b-baptize thee in the name
VI bue Il dIIcI, DON. dutt I1Oly u-R-
ghost, and L was as weak as k-k-cat.
tried to get away from him, and tried
to explain that / ww-wasn't the Teller,
and that had n-n-never been convert
ed, but the naturally pious look on my
face betrayed me, and l suffered so L
couldn't get in word in time, and he
put me under. AS L went down / could
see the crowd on the b-bbank laugh
ing, because they all knew L was BIB
bad, and that it was mistake of the
strange preacher. / came up stran-
Cling, and the first thing L said was,
Elder, you have made the d-d-darndest
mistake of your life, and went out on
the bank and shook myself You may
talk about m-m-ministers not joking,
but by gracious, shall a-a-always think
that Presiding Elder knew was no
k-k-christian. 1t was picnic for the
crowd, and they laugh at me to this
day. No, gentlemen, k-k-can't go to
the camp-meeting, for ] shouldn't feel
s-s-safe there" and the suffering man
took his fish-pole and angle-worms and
went down toward the pond, while the
travelling men went to the camp-meet-
ing.-Peck's sam.