The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-05-27

OF the taWny complexion TO cart the
refuse from the barnyard. And Joab
gathered together his chattle, consisting
of two pairs of overalls, three pairsof old
shoes, jeans vest and gum coat, lump
of sponge cake and a goosebery pie,
crawled through the bedroom window
and departed while the deacon sleIt.
For many days there was a fr'wn on
the deacon's brow when Joab's name was
spoken
One night Joab's brother received let
ter, and after reading it slyly he slipped 1t
to his mother, and it read:
KELLYsvILLE, Feb. 5.
DEAR BRoTHER-I am we'll ano happy,
working in the mines, getting 500 1 month,
driving a mule to haul the coal from where the
men dig it 10 be weighed. Come ard work
with me. 1t beats barn cleaning all to nothing.
Your affectiOnate brother, JoAB.
LETTER no. .
DEAR BROTHER-I got hurt yesterday, and
thought l would let you know. The pesky
mule got mad and wouldn't bulge | tried 10
whip him and be Kicked until be almost kicked
the car to flinders and tore the harness all up.
i mad the worst time you ever heard OF. Con-
found mule anyhow Pll be able 10 90 10
work IN three or four days.
LETTER NO. 3.
DEAR BRorHER-The mule grows moe stub
born every day. He kicks and fights both.
They kept back part OF my weges last week to
repair the broken harness and the cDal car.
How are my pigs looking? Has the colt got
well from the hurt on the wire fence? Who is
Killie going with? Why don't you tell me all
about the folks at home in your letters
LETTER NO. 4.
Mach IA.
DEAR BRoTHER-The mine has shut down
for few days. | am wheeling SOAP stone 10
pay my board. They charge me S6.OOa week,
and l am awful lonesome. Everybody
plays cards and drinks beer. No
church, no nothing but coal, coal everywhere,
on hands and faces, coal in your hair and eyes,
coal on your clothes, in the houses, on the
tables and in the beds. The people look and
act as If they had nothing but coal to eat, and L
tell you | am hungry Tor some Of mothers
light biscuits aud butter.
LETTER NO. 8.
DEAR BROTHER: The miners are all on
strike, and everybody mad and fighting. Ii
takes all / eau make to pay my board.
Couldn't YOU loan me 50 till / can get some
more work. How is Old Trip and my pet
lamb? Oh, how / would like to see mother
and Ellen again. Is the deacon in a good
humoT? Write soon and don't forget TO send
the $500 Your afectionate brother,
JoAB.
And ii came to pass that the deacon fell
sick OF the grip, and the unbleached
American suddenly threw up his job and
left, and the deacon was in sore need.
And he called to Joab's brother, and said,
write and bid Joab return. and Joabs
brother wrote and Joab came and bowed
down and said. Father, / have come
back TO die" The deacon said nav,
verify, thou has come back to eat" And
there was a great slaughter of the good
things in the deacon's kitchen. And
Joab came to his brother in the evening
and said: Brother, loan me the $500 in
thy saving bank" But Joab's brother
said "Whereiore sbouldst loan thee the
money that | have saved up for three
years to buy me bicycle, and Joab said,
"My watch which my uncle had given me
was unclean and left it with the man of
Israel in the swim, and the man of Israel
was good to me in my hour of need, for
we had gone down to Jerico, where they
kept myrrh and nonsense to drink. And
our hearts were made 10 rejoice, and we
shouted fourth songs of praise till the
street was made to reverberate. and we
bathed Jerico in the redness of golden
sunset. And finally we had to 90 urged
by the high priest of the town and make
big rocks into little ones. Then did
the father OF Israel say unto me:
My son, the business doth not
become thee; verify, it is not
good for thy health, and the moral sur
roundings belong to the vicious and lowly
OF earth, and left my watch with him in
the float and departed hence, and now
pray thee loan me thy money.
JOab's sister, overhearing the converse
ton, found that her jewels had faded.
and she went to the deacon and said:
Father, my jewels have faded" and the
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that cheap trash was worthless" Eyes"
said the damsel. "but can put them in
the swim as Joab did his watch and they
will be made to shine once more"
The deacon said call Joab hither, and
Jaob came. The deacon said, "Joab, my
son, how much did the the good father of
Israel charge thee for liquidiiying thy
time-piece?"
Joab hung his head and answered
not, and so said the deacon: "The high
priest decreed that you should crack cob
bic stones tor ten days. And how is the
operation OF reducing the pebble stone
perforInedY
"Just on the same principle as the
potato bug eradicator that you sent the
man $500 for"
"Never mind the eradicator," scowled
the deacon.
You see," continued Joab, with an
eloquent wave of his hand, "the eradicator
was marked, block MOL, hammer No. ..
Place block No. l beneath the bug, strike
with hammer No. and repeat the oper-
alton and proceed as before. So it was
with the stone. You took stone No. in
your left hand and hammer No. in your
right hand, then you struck stone No. l
with hammer No. and proceed to pull
verize.
The deacon said, that will do my son.
You may CO." LITTLE QUAKER.