Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-04-04


are battling agains. the powers of evil
and advertising themselves good deal
more than they are morality and re-
ligion, what is their record as they
journey through said unfriendly wOrldY
In the extreme left wing of this de-
tachment, in front of the hotel, there is
n woman wearing a gray shawl and
pair Of red yarn mittens. She is car
rying a little child in her arms and a
small satchel by means of a strap over
her shoulder. Perhaps | ought to say
| that each one carries his own baggage.
But | would ike to know the future of
that little child if | embarrassing
| about over the country, fighting n
straw Satan with a miscellaneous brass
band, with no home to remember,
nothing but the clash of arms and the
BRAY of the trumpet, together with that
| of the gentleman who does the speak
ing for the party. But will change
the subject.
had very trying experience last
week. 1t was painful, but not fatal.
| had been travelling all the night be-
fore, and fatigue and brain flag were
together fighting for my very existence.
got room when | arrived and re-
tired TO seek much needed rest. had
| Just retired, in fact, having carefully
| locked the door and left the key in the
| lock, that the curious could not look
in through the key hole and see me as
l lay there asleep and mako $1,000
painting of me.
just then there was a slight rattle at
the door, such as you hear when
chambermaid attacks it with pass
| key and comes in the room TO sweep
| holes in the carpet and fill your lungs
full of debris. l smiled TO myself, for
my own key was in the door, and l
said softly as l bathed my blushing
features in the pillow, aha! aha! ye
cannot enter now" But she contin-
ued TO rattle away with her key, and /
soon saw, with horror, that my own
was beginning TO lose its grip, and fin
| ally it fell To the floor with loud re-
port, having been pushed out Of the
lock from the other side.
can hardly describe the horror of
my situation. | thought Of handing
my handkerchiefs and perfumery over
the trausom to her, and begging her,
II she had mother or any other rela-
tives in whom she had any confidence
whatever to go away. l thought OF
going to the door and telling her that
we had better GO through life as near
| ~ as possible by separate routes, and
that needed rest really more than /
did society, but | did not dare get out
of bed for fear the door would open,
and | was wise, for il did now burst
open as | had feared, and a tall girl in
the prime of life, with flashing eye and
distended noStril, came into the room.
With wild shrek, | covered my head
with the bed clothes shuddering till
my teeth, which were in tumbler of
water near by, chartered together.
go away, you hateful thing" I
said, land never, never come back
! again any more"
But | want to change them sheets, !"
she said.
go away" 1 said, again. even
your voice is hateful in my sight.
Take my beautiful Seth Thomas silver
watch, if you will, but, Oh! go away,
and heaven will reward you even bet
ter than that"
She then SUNK from the room, but
it was long time before | could go 70
sleep. Even then my dreams were
troubled and my mind filled with APP
prehension. | thought | was being
| pursued by n red-eyed unicorn with a
navy-blue stomach and Chinese Ian
tern tied to his tail. i tried to shake
him eff, but could not. He led me
down into the Internal regions, and in
sisted on showing me the iron bridge
and the high school, and spoke Of the
great progress of the place, and said
that they were likely TO get a new and
competing road in there this summer;
and he showed me the library and
walked me ont to the fair grounds and
down on the lake shore, SO that lcould
take sulphur bath, and spoke of the
deSira bility of the climate for people
! with bronchial affections, and wanted
me TO speak of il in my letters to the
press, and said he would pay me well
for it,
just then | heard knock on my
door. l was so glad to have anybody
knock, instead CT picking the lock,
that asked, Who's there?" A rich,
manly voice replied, Me-.
Twas glad TO hear the welcome voice
of one of my own sex, and so | undid
the door for the gentleman with great
alacritv. Just as / was bounding
lightly back toward my couch with n
merry laugh, the party strolled in to
the middle Of the room bearing small
but rare collection of clammy, mucil-
aginous towels She was heavy set
chambermaid with terror cotter hair
and bass voice.
do not complain. I do not muir
muir. l do not repine. But say that
q hambermaid ought not to do that
way. A chambermaid who has a bass
voice ought to seek out some other
calling. She may put guests slip
pers so far under the bed that he can
not get them without CO ling out the
Weep over his letters from his wife or
drown her sorrows in his bay rum, but
she ought not TO take a bass voice into
q hotel and expect to escape criticism.
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