The Newtown bee., 1896-11-06

put we've got to call man by some name or other, even if it ain't the one that grew on him If he's honest and npighborly here, we don't care what crimes he's committed in the last place and we aiL't going to throw it up to him if we chance to find out later that he robbed bank or something worse. We take men as we tiud 'em hcrc,' said Jim, with a perfect fu+ilade of paths.
 The man smiled.
 "Look here,' continued Jim, "I don't b'lieve you'll do for this town
 Why don't you swear? Faint natural \ our talk ain't trimmed up enough tc ,ujC this climate. The boys won't stand any uppi5hness. Neither will l."
 'Nou haven't heard much of my talk yet, replied the stranger, pleasantly
 "Howcvcr, it happens that don't swear, so you're right enough about
 that. But 1 don't think you or the boys will object to my untrimmed language
 & hen you see the results. It saves 8
 lot of time and strength, and so earns uore money, for one thiDg-not tC
 swear. For another, unframed Ian- guage is long sight more forcibIe. ,Brcvty's the soul Df witt" did you never hear that?"
 "Don't b'lieve it." retortcd Jim.
 Try it. Get one of your friends to ask u, both to do something. He asks me. agree, and say: I wiIl.' He asks you and you use sixteen words, half of them oaths, to say the same thing. You'll find that your friend will believe me, a stranger, quicker than he will you"
 "WelI, I'm dashed!" exclaimed Jim Some, astoundcd at the daring of a miserable, unknown newcomer even suggesting doubt in connection with Djm, the lord of the town and it's frays, iu5 revels and it's crimes.
 Nevertheless, he led the bold stranger t. the boss of the mill, and hung about 'qith a sort of personal interestlwhile the boss talked over wages and work, which the man accepted without much discus >.on. A dim idea of stepping in to the defense of the stranger, in case the boss should be unfair, or should quarrel with him for his lack of picturesque profan- ity, had formed itself in Jim's brain, along with a kernal of respect and re- gard, quite unconsciously to himself. A man who could talk such "hOrse sense,' as Jim put it, about loss of tiTe and wages through profanity, and to i'm, the arbiter of No Hopes doings and fashions, had evoked a new and rather greeable sensation in the breast of dare devll Jim Stone.
 No Hope was town which exectly uited the taste of it's inhabitants. It was new, not more then ten years old, so that no one could make himself obnox ious there by bragging of the vast re- spectability of his 'family" founded on immemOrial residence. In fact, respec- ability, in the ordinary, conventional sense of the word, was not highly prized by the citizens of No Hope, and they had deliberately changed the original name of their town-New Hope-as a warning to missionaries and other meddling persons, who assumed to criticise their o avs.
 They had not, in the early days, ob. ected to ''exhorters," to camp-meeting -evivalistS-not as a rule, tho there had been exceptions-proyided the interval visitations was long enough to 1 lllow them to recover their breath from | he last attack and earn enough money 0 buy the whisky requisite to sustain | heir spiritual emotions. They had eally enjoyed being told how very wick d they were, and that they were going | y express train straight to a very hot 1 1lace-particularly if the revival preach 1T happened to come along when amuse- ents had paIled on them and occupa- ion for their leisure hours had grown They were proud to know hat their town bore the reputation of | ,eiDg the ''toughesto place in all the ,ery far from tender numbering region of | he Northwest. By merit to that bad | which Milton applies to Satan, they would have delighted to ap- ,ly to themselves, had they ever heard l If the remark or of Milton. The reViva- ists had taken good care that they | hould be made familiar with the name if Satan, at least. Indeed, the only l race of influence which these exhorters eemed to have left behind them was an lndue familiarity on the part of every 1 nan and boy and of too many among he women, also-with the names of God | nd the Devil. That remained, but the had been warned off for years asst.
 But, after all, they swore automatic lily, as they drank off their glasses of