The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1888-12-14
My darling bent her sunny head,
Her radiant face seemed half divine;
THE sweetest eyes to me-" she said
"Are those that look with love in mine. :
I'M. A. Dennfs0n.

"The sweetest eyes to me-" she said
"Are those that look with love in mine."
I'M. A. DennisOn.
A BISHOP TACKLES A COWBOY.
I found myself in the central psrt of
Wyoming, in town never before visited
by minister of any kind. Often the
bishop is the Christian pio-
neer in that country. As got out of the
stage coach, a gentleman walked up and
said, Excuse me, sir, but you look like
you might be preacher" 1 replied,
sssYes, am" He said, s.I'm right glad
to see you, but you have got to a very
hard town out here." SWELL" 1 said,
"then perhaps all the greater need I
should be here" He said, eyes sup
pose so.r He asked II 1 was going to try
to preach there. 1 told him, Yes,I 1 would
try to.
l said, ssDo you know where my friend
MIR William Robinson lives?'' Said he,
'sDo you mean Billy Robinson?" 1 said,
''Yes, you might call him that. We used
to call him William Robinson mostly,
but l suppose he is the same one.'' "Oh,
yes" he said, 'sthat's Bill.''
He said: ssBishop, would be glad to
take you out there. wish had a car
riage, but the fact is we haven't none.
for this is a new town. Do you know
how to ride bronchoy' ssWell,'' said.
eyes, l had the great advantage Of hav-
ing been educated on mule and there
fore think l could ride a broncho." He
says: 'I've two; one of them bucks very
mildly and the other bucks very badly !;
now you can have either one." swell, y
said l. ssYou give me the one that bucks
very mildly" So we got on those bron-
chos and rode out to the house of my
friend, Mr. Robinson.
just as we got on the outside Of the
town, this man said to me: Snow bishop,
want to put myself true before you be-
fore we go any further. 1 don't want
you to think am one of your religious
fellows, because I'm not; I'm a Bob In
gersoll man, bishop, through and through,
but l felt somehow sorry for you when
you got out" 1 told him 1 was very
much obliged to him. He says: swell,
| run saloon here in town, / am not one
of your religious men at all. take the
Boston Investigator-all of US boys do.
We all stand in with Bob Ingersoll. !.
ssWell," said /, ssthere are Tar worse men
than Bob Ingersoll. 1 am told Mr. In
gersoll is very cultivated gentleman
and has all the domestic virtues and Il
an exceedingly generous-hearted man
and loves his fellow-men very philan.
thrOpically. l am sure there are far
worse men than he. Now, if 1 didn't
care at all, except for the present and
didn't care how 1 lived or how died and
was utterly Indifferent to my character,
l don't know but after all should be a
Bob Ingersoll man too. The fact is, it is
a most cheerful religion, if man can
only believe it, Said he: ssThat's the
reason am a Bob Ingersoll man.
When we got to our journeys end, he
said: "You can just take this broncho
and use him and I'll go back and round
up the boys and have them to the meet
ing.' I said: 81 think they all know j
am coming mo, they DON'T said he.
"Well,' said, 81 have had some no
tices put up and have some notices in
the local papers speaking of it." 'sOh, y
said he, s'they don't pay eny attention to
that. l will go and round up the boys
and get a big crowd in the school house. .
He was going away and 1 said to him
Swat a moment, Mr. Bartlett. Can you
singgr Said he. swell, bishop, who told
you could sing?'' said, "Nobody. j
never saw you before and just thought
would ask you.r s'Well," he said
s'bishop, it just happens that you go,
right on me.r "Now," he says the
fact is, I am dandy at singing and
play the fiddle and play the organ and
l sing"
said: ssIf you willkindly take charge
of the organ, for notice there is one In
the public school building, Lwill be very
much obliged to you and am told youI
school teacher here is in the habit of hav
ing the children sing some Gospelhymns
Now if you will play the organ and take
charge of the choir, you will place mi
under great obligations" He said h,
would be very happy indeed to do it,
Bishop of Wyoming.
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