Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-01-24

town meeting collected IN the open OF
The amphitheater.
Now, brethren" says chamberlain
% Us, 'ef you want % hear exhortin as
runs without slOppiH, step up and listen
70 the Apostle Of the GenJiies. Pre-
haps, and here Jake wiuked pe-cepti'
oily, you'll be teched, ana want 90 Jlue,
and prehaps you won't. FL you're do
cyle you'll be teChed; et you're bulls Of
BaShau you won't be techet-
Chow did you happen 20 be converted
yourself, Jake?' Brent asked. You've
never told NE"
why, you see, was naturally Of 8
religious mater, and I've tried EN- all,
but ! never fell foul Of religion that
had real proved miracles Til ! seed a
man, born dumb, what was cured by
the Prophet Joseph looking down his
throat and telling his palate 70 speak up;
and 10 did speak up. did that there
palate, and went on talkin most OncOm-
mon. It's oubekUOwu tongues % talks,
supthin Ike gibber.dge, but Joseph said
that was how the tongues sounded iI
the apostles time 20 them as hadn't got
the interruption Of tongues. 1 struck
nv flag 20 that there mirac6. I'd seen
'em gettin up the sham kind, when !
was % the Italian convent, and / know
ed the fourth proof article. may talk
rough about this business, but Brother
Brent knows Pm honest about lt.
JAKE led Us forward and stationed Us
in posts Of honor before the crowd OF
auditors.
Presently Sizzum appeared. He had
taken time 10 tone down the pioneer
and develop the deacon In his style, and
A very SLEEK parsonage he had made OF
himself He was clean shaved; clean
shaving Is q fayorite cOXcOmOry Of the
5eacou class. His long black hair,
growing rank from a muddy skin, was
5leekly put behind bis ears. A large
white blossom " crayat expanded under
his nude, beefy chin, and he wore a
black dress coat. creased with its recent
packing. Except that his pantaloOns
were thrus, into his boots be was 10
correct RO-to-meetin' costume Chad'
band Of the plains.
He took his stand and began 70 full
mine over the assemblage. His manner
WAS coarse aud Overoearing, With inter
walls OF oily responsiveness. de was
big. powerful man, without one AVON OF
deIicscv In him-a fellow who never
could take q flower or gentle heart
into his hand without crushing 10 by a
brutsI instinct. A creature with such
An amorphous beak Of nose, with such
a heavy fgped mouth and such wild
erness OF Jaw, could never perceive the
fine SAVIOR OF any delicate thing. Coarse
fovs were the only Joys for such body;
g "a. TH|gI an I'd = q H
and domination the only emotions crude
enough for such a soul.
His voice was as repulsive as his mien
and manner. That badly modelled nose
had an important Office in his oratOry.
Through il he hailed his auditors 70
open their hearts, as canal bOatman
halls the locks with a canal horn OF bas-
soon calibsr. But sometimes, when he
wished 10 be seductive, bis sentences
took the channel of his mouth and his
great lips rolled the words over like fat
morSaIs. Pah, how the recollection Of
tbe fellow disgusts mel And yet be had
an upwholesome fascination which COM
peued Us TO listen. could
easily understand how he
might overbear feeble minds,
and wheedled those that loved tiattery,
He had some education. Travel bad
pOlished his base metal so that 10 shone
well enough TO deceive the vulgar or the
credulous. He did not often allow him
self the broad COarSeneSs Of his brother
preachers In the church
Bodily food had been prepared by the
women while the men listened % Siz-
zurn's grace before meat. A fragrance
OF baking bread had peryaded the air.
A thousand slices Of fat pork sizzled in
TWO hundred frying pans, and water
boiIed for TWO hundred coffee or tea
pots. Saints cannot solely live on ser
mons
Brent and I walked about 70 survey
thu camp. We stopped wherever we
foupd the emigrants sociable, and
cbatted with them. They were all
eager 20 know how much length OF a
Journey remained. .
Were comm % believe, some OF US, "
said an old crone, with wrinkle for
every grumble Of her life, that we're
10 be forty year in the wilderness, like
tbe old Izzerullites. ] wouldn't have
come, Samwell, IL I'd known what you
was bringin me 70"
"There's many OF Us wouldn't have
come. mother" rejoined SamweI, a
rowed man Of anxious look, "if we'd
known as much as we do now"
Samwell glanced sadly AZ his dirty,
traveI-worn children, at work at mud
MES and dust vol au vents. His dowdy
wife broke off the colloquy by announc-
inc in a tone that she must have learned
from a rattlesnake, that the loaf was
naked, the bacon was fried aud supper
shouldn't wait for anybOdy's talking.
All the emigrants were English.
Lancashire their accent and dialect an
oonncpd. and Lancashire they told us
Vas their home in the old stepmother
country.
Stepmother, indeed, to those her chill
5renl No wonder that they found life al
home intolerable! They were the poor
,st class Of townspeOple from the great
manufacturing tOwns-Denny trades
oeD indoor craftsmen, factory opera
,ivas-a puny, withered set OF beings
hardly men, II man means strength
Lar5Iv women, n woman means beauty
Tbeir faces told OF long years passed II
~ fouI air Of close shops, or work
ICONS or steamy, oily, 1occulent mills
Am work and no play had been theil
history. "a H.,
awe have not seen" said Brent ,on'
hearty John Bull or 6u1om Betsy bui
A the whole caravan. 49,.
"Thsy look as II husks and Stops "a