Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1894-10-11

had the Bible relig;ously drilled into
him from the time of consciousness till
whatever time he can manage to read
it for himself, then he is exhortcd to
carry on the exercise independently,
and a good percentage of people do;
you'd be astonished at the number Of
people who never miss reading their
Bible every day of their lives, and
perhaps more astonished still il you
were to know the amazingly small ef-
feet 1T has on the lives Of these people.
Even from an intellectual point of
view. it Is incredible to me how little
the average human being has grasped
the heritage he possesses in this book.
Il was speaking TO girl the other
day -by far the most intelligent one
know In these regions she was talk
ing to me with perfect unreStraint and
frankness about all sorts of things.
She told me she could see no beauty
whatsoever in the Bible. and that she
had never been able 10 derive an atom
Of encouragement or assurance from
anything IN 1t. If it did not bore, 1t
upset her, and made belief harder. 1t
had become mere patter To her by
vile reading and intonation, and the
remarkable turns Of thought given to
1t by many minds insulted ner reason.
Even the poetry OF the diction had
been spoiled for her and seemed, she
said. to reek OF half-tiedged curates. =
Under some conditions this expert
ment of the Warnings might prove a
success"
"Oh, but with that mother!'
"Ah, yes, that alters the whole as
pect OF affairs If you could only have
heard the passionless, analytical style
in which Warning and his wife dis
cussed the matter and specllated on
the issue, which they think will be
more typical in Gwen than in Daores,
his brute strength being, in their opin-
ion, his strong point and his theolog-
ical side hardly worth considering
They throw it in however, careless
like as, if the experiment is to be
tried, it is just as easy to try K on
two as on one"
Mercy on us" again said Mrs. Eel
loves, gathering the fre-irons vic
ciously.
'By the way, Waring amused inc in
tensely by one revelation he made, he
could hardly get it out, and | saw him
fling a pathetically deprecating glance
at his wife and give her hand a
squeeze before he began. He felt lie
had to account for the luckless Dacres
strength of legs, Of which he seems to
have a poor an opinion as the Psalm
list, he feared | might fall into the en-
ror OF casting the blame on him or his
wife, so he determined | should know
the real cause You will hardly be-
lieve me- he observed when l tell
you that my wife with her refined in
tellectuality is the outcome of long
generations of soldiers and of--ahem,
famous duellists, and ] fear our son.
Dacre, is a very clearly-defined speci-
men Of throwing back. Poor Mrs.
WaI5ng! she felt her ancestry keenly
and got as red as a rose during the
confession"
Goodness gracious me! What a
woman! what pair. What in the
name of goodness brought the two to-
gether and made them marry each
other and produce children. If ! were
Providence and had that Gu my mind,
Id never look up again"
my dear child"
John, in the present state of my
feelings, brought on by you yourself
recollect. you must forget your sacer
dotal character and only remember
my state of original sin. Why should
two beautiful. children's lives be
spoiled for the yagaries of a pair who
never had any right to bear children?
Think of Ovens sad old face full Of
trouble of all ages, think of her
with that horrible unique
sort Of internal touch about 1T; that
painting herself blue is the most child
lsh escapade l remember
Il was at Mrs. Doyles yesterday
and she was telling me a lot about
Mrs. Waring before we came. After
Dacre's birth, she said it was abso-
Iutely CHASTITY to see her with the child,
she was terrified to hold 1t, and trem-
bled like leaf whenever she abso-
Iutely had to. Poor Mrs. Doyle, she
got quite irritated and excited about
one thing; it seems sho could not
nurse her own children at all, and that
Mrs. Waring was a capital mother
from that point of view, and Mrs.
Doyle seemingly could not see at all
why an unnatural little bundle of
scientific data should score Off her, a
good wholesome creature made for
mother, in this manner"
ut was certainly too bad, and one
would never have expected 1t of Mrs.
Waring," said the rector laughing.
"Oh, and whenever Mary brought
either Of the babies to her or She
met them in the corridors or about the
Mrs. Doyle says her one re-
quest was that Mary should take the
creature away and give 1t food, i
looked faint! They were both huge,
healthy babies, hear"
Ruth" said Mr. Fellowes suddenly,
Il wish those people would keep
away from church"