The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1896-06-23

and "a beam in our own"
AS to that" began the deacon-but
just here the road parted, and the two
went their different ways.
The deacon's thoughts having been
led into q personal channel by Uncle
Peters last remark, ran on somewhat
In this wise:
"'Cordin' to Brother Jehks the is
> some p%ertikelar sin that besets every
anyt " my walk or conversation
that -Aodftsaumspect.,I Here a DIM
0oq@ Hueuf% Pharisee in the
40 pensInd @ind. 81 amt by
PosseIdxeE and don't purtend
~ Atribit to all the causes,
- o!to'o%0er the wilder and the
80 and don't never suffer sin
my n&ighbor without -febuke.
What's ~unbeknown can't be cured eff
I've got 'em, the Lord'll hev to make
'em known"
Dinner was smoking on the table
when the deacon reached home. After
divine bounty, he surveyed the table
with q look of disapproval.
MARY Ann" he sharply ordered,
"you go down sullar and fetch up some
pickles. How anybody kin git baked
beans, and leave off the pickles, beats
all.n
"But, father" his wife timidly Won't
ured, "you said last Sunday pickles
o your tooth ache, so l got cider
applesass to-day"
"'Spos'n+ did say 80, that's no reason
table that cider applesass amt billed
down half enough. Here, Ezry, you
take this ERE coffeepot and set it back
onto the Goals l wish it could be kept
in mind, that coffee orter be hot" with
q masterful look at his wife.
BY way Of creating q diversion,
'Siah S%tearns, the hired man, remark
ed, to Mrs. Holden:
Thought we had fust-rate singin'
today
Before she could reply, the deacon
took up the word.
"Singin'! Wall, eff screechin' is good
singin', [ should Say we had-but faint
nOwise befttin' the sa%nctooary, as a
part O. worship. What .Phineas Cat
chell Is sot up there in the gallery for
Is more than I can tell hain't no voice
for .s'agIn', and what he has needs
lin as bad as Amos's old bass VOL"
Mother" asked Mary Ann, "did
you notice Jim Pettengills got home =?
How glad his folk must be !"
Especially his mother-I'm glad
for her." said Mrs. Holden. "They
say Jim's done we'll out there in Lowry"
Eff he has, he's the fust Pettengill
as aver did do WE'LL" pronounced the
deacon. "The sins O. the fathers is
visited upon the childurn, and ev !,
senss the-ald colonel's cviilr doin's the
Pottengills has alters come out at the
leetle end o. the horn"
BY this time nobody cared to encoun
ter the cross-current of contradiction
any further, go the meal was finished
in silence.
"Plough tho south medder to-day,
'Siah," directed the deacon Monday
morning, land try your hand at u
straight furrer for once"
Now II there was Que thing upon
which 'Siah prid.d himself it was his
: skill in p%loughing. He know he had
a neighborhood reputation for that.
"Some folks can't see when things
air straight" he said half to himself
as he went out.
The same morning Brother Pike,
preparing to go out on his round of
church collecting, said to his wife:
tive q d ion to begin this time
over on Dennett's hill, and take this
neighborhood last. The fact is Broth
er Holden's tirst-rate to pay but he
has q way of talking that puts me all
out o. sOrts-nobody, nor nothin', seems
to be just right, according to his view,
and 1 always get clear down to the
talk"
So it was late in the afternoon when
Brother Pixies "hullo" brought the
deacon to the roadside. Leaning on
his hoe handle beside the stone wall,
he remarked interrogatively:
III expect you've had a purity tough
time ORTIZ Folks In general amt
over anxious to pay up the Lords
dues"
"Well, Pm glad to say 1 haven't
found them backward to-day. Just
look there now" pointing to a labo-
riously scrawled line which proved on
Peters, Ave dollars" "Some self
denial it's taken to get that FIVE dol
lars, and some faith, too, as to how she
can get along without it,"
"Selfdenials o good thing of it's
@practised where it's most needed, and
es TO faith, we're command to add to
1t, yirtoo. Et Wilder Peters'd just
bride that opruly tongre o. hern, 1T
would help the cause more'n twice
five dollars. Here's my dues, Jest fl fly,
of I've counted right. How much did
you pit ter-day?"
Above two hundred"
Orter bin three; tell we what
Brother Pike, you're too easy you'd
orter drive 'em right up to the mark,
and have all the tithes fetched In. It's
a means o. grace for o man TO be told
his ~failin's, and there Is them that
says q leetle more snap In collectinS
would bring the iggers up q good deal
higher.
AS ,Siah drove up to the bars just
then Brother Pike very willingly de,
parted.
WALTZ said 'Siab, looking back
ceer the level stretch OF stcaight brown
burrows. Wing freE2 the