The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1886-05-21
The Lima Kiln CInh.

was readin in de paper yesterday" said
brotner Gardner as the meeting opened after
the usual style, Il was a-readn' a lament be-
kase &c ole fashun'd man am woman had died
on an would be seen no mo- ON airth foreber.
lie glad on it De ole-fashun'd man scraped
off de measure when he sold wheat; he be-
heved dat any sort of food an any sort of bed
was good huff fur his chill'en; he took de
biggest piece of pie at de table; he att mo-
like hog dan a human ben; il he had SYM
pathy 1t was tor his catte instead of his
family De o,e-fashun'd man was a reglar
attendant at prayer meetin', but he worked
his hired help twenty hours out of twenty
four just the same. He'd drive five miles to
church on Sunday to show his religun, but
doorln' de odder six days of de week he was
bad man tn trade hosses wild. 1t took his
wife six months to git up de courage to ak
him fur new kaliker dress, am mos of his
chilren growed up an went away from
home widout a reckoleckshun of dozen
kind words q
"De ole-fashund man had two recipes fur
his fellow-bein's De fust was hard work;
de mex was boneset tea. He had but two
ideahs in regard to boys. De fust was lots O.
work an a leetle schoolin'; de next was lots
o lickins an no holidays He had but two
ideahs in regard to bizness De fust was git
all ye kin; de nex' was keep all ye git He
argued dat a liar could neber enter the
kingdom of heaben, but would go out an
lick sick OK to death widout any fear about
his hereafter. He prayed loudly that the
Lawd would increase his crops, but he kept
his hired hands down to de lowest possible
hgger. He made a great show of submmit-
tin to de will of Providence, but if 500
pounds of hay got wet in a rain storm some
OF de chilren come in for lickin' befo' night.
"De ole-fashun'd man an woman hev de-
parted, an de world hasn't lost a. cent by it.
1t was good depart Wicked as some folk'
claim de world to be, feel dat I kin walk
into de average crowd an pick out mo
charity, humanity, religun, sympathy, an
morality dan could be found in ten-acre
lot of ole-fashund men Let us now pur-
ceed to bizness. s.-Detroit Free Press.
A Touch of Superstition.
A curious story was recently told me
respecting the queen regent of Spain,
which goes to prove that even that intelli-
gent lady is not free from the touch of
superstition to which it seems that all
feminine minds, even of the strongest, are
liable. On the day that the offer of King
Alfonso's hand to the Archduchess Chris
young lady, she had, by some mischance,
on rising put on garters of different col
ors AS the great good fortune of her life
had come to her on that day, she never
henceforward would consent to wear a
pair of garters to match. One might be
pale blue and the other rose color, or one
was white and the other scarlet, etc.
Thus it became habit with the keeper of
the royal wardrobe to order at a time sew
eral pairs of these silken articles, always
of different tints
But one day. while King Alfonso was
very i'll, it was discovered by the lady in
waiting on the queen that by some mis-
chance there remained ON hand only three
or four pairs, and they were all of one
color-pale blue, if l remember rightly. In
the hurry of Donna Christmas toilet, for
she was in haste to return to her husbands
bedside, this change in the small detail of
her attire passed unnoticed. That day the
king died. and when the young widow,
woe worn and heartbroken, was about to
retire to rest, she suddenly became aware
of the lapse from the small superstition
of her happy years. ut was an omen!"
she exclaimed and she wept bitterly
Lucy Hooper in New York World