Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1885-06-11

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A VACATION.
W Rev. Mr.. Elderberry EN-
ployed His Season of Rest.
Reverend Jonas Elderberry had
pneached in F1intville twenty years. and
had never Bad vacation. Sickness and
I'D I'D him to use few Sun
pm and then. and after much de-
not entirely free from acri-
tbs church had decided on each
sDf these occasions not to deduct any
thing from his salary, a concession
which was thought very generous, as
be received seven hundred a year, and
the parsonage rent free. Still these
brief resrites from labor were not vaca-
tions- Though quiet man, Mr.. Elder
berry was not without ambitions and
dreams. He sometimes wrote short
articles and poetry, which appeared in
magazines and newspapers under the
we'll Of 81. E." and were pronounced
by the editors .'imaginative So it
was not strange that he often fancied
himself and his little wife. Matilda,
going ON real vacation, and looking
upon the mountains and the sea. But
these dreams we're like others he had of
owning reliable gold watch instead of
the ridiculous silver turnip that licked
away like town-clock in his pocket.
or of owning home of which he could
speak proudly as my house." In his
Hober moments and most of his life
WAS very sober, indeed-he never ex-
pected to have any of these dreams
realized.
The children that had come to the
parsonage had all died in infancy. and
perhaps that was the rcasoA that there
was almost always some one stopping
there. All the cousins came, even to
the fourth and fifth degrees. and cousins
reduced to their lowest terms, so to
speak; and this abundant hospitality
cost something, in spite of the fact
Athat Mrs. Elderberry was the maid
M all work; and so, Notwithstanding the
@ffyen hundred a year, and an occasional
Ne dollars from some editor, Mr.. Elder
beny's only bank stock was few hun
d-eds in what was called. expressively,
shack salarv.n
Flntvillc, though an old place, yass
. little iqore than one long street. Issd
with white houses, well hid.sh from
road by honsy-locqstsl.a Popiars.
'schoo! .ndry coats asosrieS but in
respects was jul ~ rsrr vas the
q time Mr.. ElderN has i.ered it.
a people were consA and the
'pehodox were the mostNn. Eative in
. Ie place; SO they quietly 1s--ored the
lart little pine box called '.The
syhurch, y which had sprung up on one
de of them. and the squat brick build
ing around the corner called the Halle
lujah Chapel, and resisted innovations.
Rev. Julius Surplicc, rector of THE
Church, took vacation in July; but as
be was an unmarried man, it was sup
noGed he spent the time with his parents.
or the Chapel. its ministers came
serS went too often to need a vacation:
3 a0e in Flintviile, as Mr.. Elderberry
his sermons, it was known that he
LOT them; but any male member of
ldox, IF asked his opinion of such
Abr. would have said: at must be
|easy vaough to sit in the house. and
wriic things out of your head, if you
I'm been to college," As for the
fea. while they considered sermon
n In
44yos considered it something of the
insure of woman's work, not definite
business. but an occupation to be taken
up at odd moments, as knitting. or
patchwork, when nothing more impor-
tant was going on.
Mature can not endure everlasting droop-
and Mr.. Elderberry had twice asked for
. vacation without success, when Mr..
Whitaker, of Chicago, after doing
very sharp in corn, sent his
wife to Flintville to visit her father.
Deacon Billings. 81 never heard of
ministers preaching through August
6lt exclaimed, lifting her bejeweled
h1&1e Ard DE next Sunday the long
I vacasion was granted. although
- f0gg opposed it, saying, if he
kfr6d man to hoe corn, he did not ex-
Pect him to skip every other row.
s Where shall we go. Matilda?" said
herberry the next morning.
6e5c1 2 sxcleimed Mrs. Elderberry,
z 6usly. ssEtssy0ur vacation. Jonas.
lon't see howl can leave. There's
Eens, and the house, and the mis-
"a 8 comS any dnv,,
80 desrr said Mr.. Elderberry.