Evening star., 1896-01-11
Copyright, 1895. by Lucy S. f,

Copyright, 1895. by Lucy S. Fi,--:=:--->,
Mrs. Melissa Allgood anG 1 sat in her
Kitchen peeling apples. She dropped a
naked white apple into the pan at her left,
and paused to brush up with the back of
her hand the tiny little curls that had es-
capped from their straiGhtness and lay damp
on her forehead. Her round, happy face
was marked by no single line of care, nor
tell-tale wrinkle under the kind eyes. A
white lawn Mother Hubbard wrapper, with
small, black polka dots, envelopad her
plump figure, and over that she wore a
long, white apron. Everything about her
was spotlessly clean and freshly ironed.
The little cottage, with its three rooms ard
shed kitchen, was as clean and wholesome
its owner.
There's a heap of wickedness going on
In the world she began. More than
you'd ever believe Last September Sister
Pen Jobe stopped by to see me on her way
from holiness meeting at Sandersville,
and commenced telling about the general
holiness convention that was to be held
down at Reelfoot, in Tennessee, The middle
OF November, and how she was going, and
how the sanctified was to meet there from
Kentucky and Georgia and Texas, and all
over the country, and have regular hal
1elujah time-the biggest that ever was.
And she say she got to leave Brother Jobe
at home to take care of the children, and
didn't have nobody to go with her, and she
says, Sist Allgood. expect you'd enjoy go
ing and I'd be mighty glad to have your COM
pany. Well / reckon 1 would / says,
but don't count on me. Sister Jo5e,' says,
If the Lord don't send me some money /
won't be able to co. I says. Sister Jobe
she say the round trip was S. and she
think u would be worth a heap more to my
II tal6 har T xntt Il
commence right away to pray for some
money to go on; that i knew the Lord
could provide a way
so l set right in to praying, and look
IKE the more prayed the more I wanted
TO go Lord l says, you just must make
a way for me to go, somehow SAYS, 4
know You can do 1t, Lord, II you're a mind
to, and I'm looking for It, And the very
the bisg"st blessings that ever was, /
Ead showing I'd get tc so. Look like a
voice said, Just as plain as I'm talking
now: Gou'H get to go to conventionr and
aiter that l felt plumb easy and happy
about 1t, and just rode out on the promise
W ell next day I went up to Bundy' s
store 20 get my mail, and Tommy T. Nick
ins handed me out The Narrow Path 7
took it home and set right down to read
IL plumb through When I come to the
last page L saw a big advertisement up in
one corner all about the Ararat Cactus
Comlany of Cash Point, Texas. 1t was in
great big letters and said they was max
Ing special offer. That tine year before
they done sent a agent over 10 the Holy
Land, and he dug up cactus plant off of
Mount Ararat, and brought it back home,
and said that -actus plants was so long
hVed that there wasn't no earthly doubt
but this'n had been there ever since the
Hood; that 1900 years wasn't no time for
cactus to live. They said they done
watered and tended it till it was growing
fine, and they was now able to offer cut
tings from it to them that wanted 'em at
65 cents apiece, special price, though they