The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-04-14

natural judgment against him. You
''."s' hay" hit i.im nrot;v hard 10 ma Ike
him stay away SO long, ana nm SO ae-
voted. too"
Julie gave n sly little glance Mt her
big old brother and something in her
eyes that had the hint OF hunted
used over them. John, seeing
it, caught her in his arms. held her up
as ii she were Ii child and kissed her,
then sat down with her on his lap and
said:
81 think l would go and hunt him up
and slap him over if he were worth the
trouble. Int he isn't, and never was,
ana wish you would quit thinking
about him, honey, for I know you al.
ways are. I'm worth Il tcn-acre field of
such rs him and you've got me"
FOR answer To this Julie turned her
face 10 her big brothers shoulder and
he said nothing more till She lifted her
iear-tintcd checks and looked away,
trying TO hide the weakness.
Never mind, honey" John con-
tinuod, I'm going to give you carte
blanche to decorate the church for
Easter, nd-how's Your bonnet? Wen,
yon shall have the best one in the shop
and the prcttiest, Now run away, l
know you want to-"
She arose and giving John the tinicst
llis: on the car-or somewhere in that
nciEhborhood vanished in her gentle
way.
Il wish that milksop had been born
in Bcloocliistan and never left home"
John Micou remarked to himself. rs he
contemplated the bald head OF one of
the'brass andirons.
The Mucous had descended from
llugncnot stock that had originally
settled in North Carolina, and Episco-
pa!ianism had been their inherited re-
ligion. jules religion was second
nature to her Indeed it was almost
'hrst-naturc, if may bc allowed tho
term. Joseph Thompson and Julie.
Micou had been sweethearts from their
childhood and this association OF the two
had grown to hc a settled and accepted
fact in the two families who were as
close as adjoining farms and two gen
crations of intimacy could make them,
and yet the Thompsons were Metho-
dists.
There came an Easter season Just
about the time when Joe and Julie
We're at the portals Of manhood and
womanhood in which Julie, with other
maidens of the church, for two or three
days before Easter Sunday, was busily
and dcvoutly dressing, adoruing and
decorating the walls, chanccl and pull
pit of the old chapel in the village for
tho approaching festival.
little church with the girls helping
them ahouo the heavier part of their
pleasant and congenial tasks, and in
the chatter among the young folks
there arose some good-naturcd banter
ing concerning dcnOminational faiths.
One OF the other girls remarked that
there was really only one Christian
church, "thc Holy Catholic" meaning,
of course, its Protestant side, and that
such denominations as Mcthodists, Re
formers, Baptists and the like were
only societies"
The "insanc impulse" is something TO
which nearly all intelligent persons are
more or less exposed at some time in
some way. The inclination to spring
from high place to the depths below;
TO throw ones self under a rapidly pass
ing railway train; TO say harsh thing
at the wrong time, are, perhaps, some
Of the more violent phases of this i'm
pulse, and it was that kind of an in
sane impulse that led Joe Thompson on
that Saturday afternoon To say:
"Morc religion and less ceremony is
good to have in church. But that
can't be expected in the Episcopal
church, of which the best thing ever
said is that it doesn't bother with re-.