Smyrna times., 1892-10-05
MEETIN MATTERS ON THE
CIDERYILLE SIRKUT.
LIVING PICTURES OF LIV-
ING PEOPLE.
Letters From Silas GanderfOOt, of Mus
ketcer County, to His Brother
Out West.
TAKIN UP A COLLECTION FOR THE
BENEFIT OF THE OLD
PREACHERS.

DEER JESS II dident kno Ontil 7
got to meetin last Sunday that there
was a goin to be kullakshun tuke m
TO raze means tOard helpn preachers
TO git along when they git so old and
krlppled up with roomytiz and brun.
kittis that they kant do mutch at their
trade no more, or if had bleeve Ide
eether staid at home or gone sum
where visitin. found out tho be.
lore Bruther Javlun had dun SO very
mutch preechin that was what he was
up to. | furgit where his teckst was
but he soon made it look ez tho the
Bible was pint blank aginst lettin an
old preecher who had done the best he
knode how all his life, git into the
poor house. He showed how, that if
the Lord wudent low the iooze in old
times to muzzle their katie when thew
was trampin the grain out, it stood
to reezun that in our days members nv
the church was expected to see to II
that their preachers was treeted RIGHT
When we seen what was a comm both
Uncle Peeleg Wilkins and me looked
at wun anuther as tho we hadent
pertater left in the cellar, and I tbawt
sure Bruther Sollymun Gimps was
eether goin to shout or hav a spazam
rite there in meetin. He got as waller
In the face as the leaves Ov an old
oook' and it was long spell before
you wud hav spozed frum his looks
that he had any blud to speak ov in
him.
It's my honest nOshun that if Brutber
Glmps ever dies suddint, without bein
struck by lytnin, it will be while sum- |
body is tawkin to him about MUMMY
lur meetin matters. Heze a dredfnl !
prudent man, Bruther Gimps is. and
IS as kawshus about spendin munnv as
EN- IN handlin shot gun. Heze got
rite smart ov it, too, but heze had to
work like going to mill a foot fur evrv
cent cent ov it, and its like a burvin
Iur him to part with it too suddint
de owns nearly land anufP to make a
township, and had morgidges by the
arm full on sum ov the best propertv
n Muskeetur kOunty, but hezeso unas-
'umin that he wears yarn gallusses.
md lives in house that sum foxes
Hudent let their bosses stay in. Evrv
"unst in awhile his wife gifts her he'd
'ot on havin rag carput in the frunt
oom, but whenever she menshuns IL
le gifts so nerVus that the dog runs and
llues rum bin, and so sheze Jest had
o CIV up the idee Ov it altogether. He
leVer goze any furder away frum home
nun ne kin walk, and makes his brags
nat ne never staid anywhere in his
lie where it kost him a cent ov munrv
ur his lodgin. Heze alwas a klaimin
nat he luvs the Lord with all his hart
ut none oY his naburs haint never
nistrusted that he is in raai airnest
bout 1t. He wud like to travel and
ee the world, he SEE, and nuthin wud
1it him better thun to 90 to Inoun.
polls sum time and see um kill hogs
y macheenery, but it kosts so outra.
Is mutch to ride on the kars and he :
way from home over mite that he lest
ant afford it, and beside that, there's !
mutch to be seen to all the time
round home that he kant git awav =
way he kun fix it. Heze alwas ON y
le 60, doin sumthin that will save p
unny, and no matter how the weather q
you kin depend on 1t that heele he v
work frum day lite till dark, as en-. u
getic as a kow tryin to throw down a u
nee. Jimmy Whims sez he wont hav u
git mutch. more property before y
'ele fairly work hisself to deth irwin .
take keer ov it. b
pnkel Feeleg wilkins is also purity :,
as tender harted in mummy matters =
bruther Gimps is. Evry wunst in -
'hile sum feller kums along who ia
sharp that they kant keep him shut sb
long in states prison, aud by maxim 90
old man bleeve that heeze a eoin y,
Civ him chance to make munnv in
ter thun weeds kin grow after a m
ower' he jest ez good ez gifts both I,
nds in the poor mans pockets before w,
hnds out what ails him. Heze had an
min rods put up on his barn ontil
Olldin looks good deal like a bird an
ge' and nearly every shed on his 90
misis stacked full of wuthIess nat.
rites that kost him slathers and
thers ov mummy, and it alwas hap.
ns that when they went to raze
lnny fur meetin purpusses Unkel ol
eieg hes jest been as good as fallin hv
o the lire agin, and the conse- -.
'ences is that the minnit the -
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