Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1892-12-26

! is considered cODS1uoIDul bliIlc LOI pstPCl,
and fifteen is the limit of patience, unless
it air lecture with tickets paid for and
people anxious for the worth of their
money. when circumstances alters cases.
This noble work, eff you was to begin to
read it at the donation party at about
O'Clock would take you until that evenln
next week, allowin time fur meals. 1t
would be profitable fur them to hear 1t
there amt no do1bts But do you think
the mass of the population of Soapstone IS
capable of riveting their attention on any
thing fur that there length of timer"
Jeremiah's words was uttered with
soIemnitude that proved they were true.
/ looked at him speechless minute, and
says 1:
s.Iand sakes alive! [ see it all! My
mental powers has got ahead of my COM
mon sense. What be to do?"
SEE he:
Before I speak you'll hev thought it
put, Jane Eliza Reduce it to fax. Read
them to the donation party, and publish
the rest ont in the shape of a book here
after''
"Pardner of my life!' seq l. "A woman
that has no husband to ask advise of is a
poor, forlorn critter. ! will expungh the
ideas and confine myself to the fax, and
read them to the meetin.'
But Jeremiah saved me the toll of this
ruther mental Iaho, by gettin a copybook
End expunghing tie facts into shat in his
best handwritin X nile | washed up some
fannels and on New Years eve [ took my
production in a neat, compact form to the
party.
1t takes a lot of time for folks to get to-
gether and say their how ID 'vc-do's and get
their hats off, and the appropriate time
didn't come for me to reed until it was
half past 9; then l riz up. | was glad
Rosy Wood was there, and | glad
many folks were out; but | was kinder
sorry to see a stranger-d niddlin aged
man, pretty bald trop-apparently some
one visitin our dominic; but it couldn't be
helped, and every body WAS loolin at me,
and was obliged to start.
'tBretheren and siStern,' seq |, 81 hev
somethin here | wish to read to you. 1t
is statement of the facts of the case be-
twixt Tobias Starch and Miss Rosy Wood.
You may say inwardly, Why rake 'em up
after twenty years of silence" Bretheren
and sistern, it was others that ral<ed 'em
up and gave 'em a wrong coioring. | stand
here for to state the truth on my solemn
Bible oath. with wafer and a stamp at
the bottom. and the names of witnesses at
tached. Some On 'em is dead and buried,
but wrote 'em down all the same. 1t is
tryin to stand here as | do, but the
martyrs Led for the truth, and Pm ready
to suffer for it!'
Here the strange gentleman with the
bald heal said: Good! Good! Rightr'
and gave me courage. and | began to read:
My friends, - SEE |, New Years day,
we all know, is a day here for fun and
frolicks and trick playin. They do say
that Soap, tone was fust settled by folks
from Sweden and that they had them
habits ana customs and handed 'em down
to their ancestors. Perhaps it is so. Any
way we do it, and we did it more twenty
years ago, when those of us that born
all younger than what we be this New
Years eve. At that there time Miss Rosy
Wood a lady we all know we'll, was jest
seventeen, and full of fun as an egg is of
meat, and being her ma had departed this
life, and she didn't get with her stepma,
who is now in glory, she boarded to my
house for a spell.
AT that time there a young man
that studying for the ministry
a-boardin with me. Most of you remember
him. His name was Tobias Starch. He
was jest twenty, but sitter than a poker.
Laugh was not in him, nor he ever
seen to smile, and he had been told by his
ma that girls always set their caps for
young ministers, and that he must beware.
Therefore he was always bewarin plain to
behold, and the one he bewared of most
was Rosy Wood. She girl that
laughed considerable, and she had way
of touchin folks the arm when she
spoke with her nice little hand, and all
this scared Tobias Starch and made him
think she wanted for to marry him when
she wouldn't hev done it eff he'd groveled
onto his Bonded knees before her. How
ever, Tobias went around tellin the other
students how hard it was for him to get
rid of her attentions and they came and
told her, and her spirit kinder riz, and she
vowed and declared that come New Years
eve she would play him such a trick as
would stop his braggin about bein made
love to by the gals for good and all. Kin
you blame her?"
at served him right, ma'amr' says the
strange gentleman in a loud voice, and
everybody else said, $50 it doosi''
Sich is the power of popular opinion.
Rosy Wood said this,'' / read on, land
what is more, she meant it, and when New
Years eve came she was ready. Mr. Starch
always shut himself into his room to study
after tea, and he never heard the little
knocks on the door and the little giggles
when we opened it, About twenty friends
arrove. and DIS they came they sot down on
chairs placed as for meetin and kept
mum as mice. Lights all ready to light,
but none lit. Pretty soon the hull
twenty we'd asked was present, apd then
Rosy Wood came in, whispered, All keep
quiet and knocked on Tobias Starch's
door.
WELL says Tobias from inside.
Tobias says Rosy from outside the
door, are you very busy?'
Yes said Tobias.
"'Too busy TO come and spark a little?'
said Rosy Just a little. I'll have a lamp
in the front parlor and just YOU and me.