Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1891-10-09
4 STRANGE CASE

Ptoas Psrsss Who Swears Whes
Asie<p.
The Reverend NJ. Bean, Of Park.
vile, Ind 10 ia trouble, ~ We learn
from an Indianapolis paper. He does
not race horses like the Reverend J..
w. As"ey, OF Michigan. He dives
not own fast horses ~ does the Rev.
erend r. &. St,rts. u Iowa. He has
not b~en obliged to leave . haIf.6n-
ished sermon aud 20 out and .'turn
both barrels loose" into . Aock Of
.ou.g mer - tho Reverend J. H.
Ford. OF South Carolina, wss Obliged
to 10. The Reverend NJ. B.sn'.
difficulty 10 som. thing entirely diff
f-r-.t from any of these. !, may b.
worse; it may not be 20 bad; time
perhsps may tell. The Reverend
John Bean, Of Parkville, Ind, sweArs
rs Uso os0CPs
We have not in these columns .
single w"id TO say in favor Of swear.
ing. Aside from iss immortality, it 10
= senseless aud vulgar psAct.c-. NJ
man should swear, though gs~se and
good ,neu have su,n-times done 20.
Geurge Washington, on Que occasion,
swos~. One day when the Reverend
Nj. Ts.msdxe WAS travelling in tue
ti"ly Land his camel stepped to
scratch his divers,6~d bsck on tie
l'mb 1t p.'mtre- aud scratched the
reverend ge,tl~nsn ID aud into
nest 1T large Arat,an hornets, gong
IN aud leaving hun ct, III. iimh IL th-
s'ei-ty OF the exci'ed Insects: M.
r.lmadge did not sw-sr-w- do not
nred to say th,s-but when RESCUED
he told hts friends that h- saw how
= weaker man might hav~ sworn il y
loud voice. Blu, VIZ ~. der tro,n the
suhj-ct. Tho Reverend Mr.. B-.n
s~-.rs not 1t al when awake. HI.
does not even say "My gracious"
when he attempts to play the red ON
the black in cr' qnet AMI Il rolls down
aud humps against the seil"w. He
would not have sworn had he been
cast away bv the csm~l-thst is, il he
had been awake. Had h.. h.en 9, iny-
i.g map, We k~ow nut how 10 would
have taken il. Fo. it Is certainly \
fact that when ASLEEP the reverend
nentle,nans language is plan. II
pr->e"ts All interesting qnest,"n to
= he, fists VIII, n man. utterly opposed
10 certain words vi IN Nv AXE, slould
USE them wh+n asleep. The habit is
said TO have begun ahou, = year ago
On the fist occasion he wa prom ,.tly
awakened hy Mrs. Bean and asked to
n count for his unnatural language.
He was s-tlceM Ut first, hut in.lI.
admitted that he hat hat hsd dream.
U" b. ing further pressed b. his witt,
he WAS made to explain that he had
dreamed that the family WAS about TO
have \ SIX months sis,, from . certain
uerson. He admitted reluctantly after
many ~nts.xt,-s aud some thr. ats
that the certain person Was Mrs
l,ea"'s mother. HIS attempts 70
smnoth il over AND make Mrs. Bean
understand that he would he glad Il.
are her mother was a failure. The
elder lady hein1 Informed Of the cir
cuns,snce by letter. arrived t~o DAY .
later with two trunks, one vali-e, ,kr-.
shaw straps, FIVE bundles and cat m
y basket. She spoke to her eon-ln
law earnestly shou, his nocturnal
remarks aud their probable cause.
That night about o'clock while
sound asleep h- again made USE Of
language violently profA"e. Since
that the eo"d man has sworn IN his
sleep almost rightly. Mrs. Beams
mother still remains a visitor in his
family, and it was onlv shout a mnn,h
ago ,ha, he told her. b~inv gu. STONED
on the subject, that he hoped she
would continue to remain, ard, in
decd, l"ok upon his house u. her home
That night he hal the worst attack II
sw- ar,ng that he las ever had. liz
could not rene mb. in the morning
that he had dreamed about awning
Take It x!l in all. il seems to US thu,
the Reverend Mr.. Beams case is on.
Of thu most :. markahle reported for a
long time, ard is certainly uo.thv If
Investigations. We ran see no way t.
account for the m. lt-rv with tn. pr. 4.
ens light but We cannot believe TIA,
any moral weight what. yer ehonld hr
attached to it Indeed. the Northern
Indiana Conference seems 10 take the
same view of the matter. as u its
r-cen, meeting it discussed the case
and voted that it could see no good
reason for censuring tho Reverend