The Newtown bee., 1896-11-20

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 quake's over, an y'ain't got no call to b
 Skeert no more! Wake up, Mammyn' 1 Slowly Aunt Cisly rose to a sitting position, and slowly, very slowly, wa
 made to believe that an earthquake. ant not the trumpet of doom, had visited thu spot. Once convinced, however, she rose to her feet and approached UDcl Saul, who still lay face downward anC motionless among the grass and weeds
 ''Is ye daid, ole man?" she asked meekly and affecti0nately.
 Then, as no answer came, she turned the recumbent form over hastily. No: Uncle Saul was not dead. His eyes opened feebly, and his jaws moved as if he was trying to speak.
 "Git some water, Album. Quick!' said Aunt Cisly. "De po' creetur's ton que done cluv ter de roof ob his mouf An no wonder! No wonder! No won ] der!'' she went on, chafng the stiff old hands gently, while great tears rolled down her cheeks.
 "It cerVny wuz a mighty close shabe. ole man, for you an me bof! I clean furgot ma 'Iigion dat time, sho 'nough an now l 'bleeged ter begin all ober l agin'! But de Lord, he good He jess tuck in his han, shuck us lille bit. ter show what he kin do wen he git good an ready! But he gwine gin us anudder chanco-dat he am-praise be ter his name"
 And with tears and ej4culations Aunt Cisjy continued her efforts until the old man, tho frightened almost cut of his wits, and physically helpless recovered bis powers of speech sufficiently to nut ter, remorsefulIy:
 ''De money, Cisly, I dole tuck it. honey. sha 'uough; an I done hide ir. someu bar; but ole man." said Aunt Cisly. sootbiDgly. "Don' worry yer mine bout money now, Faint no time fur bodderin' wid dem kin O things ! We-all got ter be think;n' bout gittin' sabed, An re ck'n Brer Sutbee be long dis way presently to pray wid us. 1 hyar him 'zortin obor wander at Sis Beauchump's."
 But Uncle Saul was not to be diverted from the subject that was troubling his mind.
 II done hide dat money somewhar, :" he kept repeating, distressfulIy; but ef twas ma las word for Jeigmint, I disremembers whar twas at" Sudden Iy, however, his face frightened, and he tried to raise his head. "De big chimbiy, Clisly! Dat it! It done come to me now, plain an clar! I hid it in de big chimbly. De Lord be praise fur lif'n de burden of'm my soul."
 Then, as if the relief were too great for his weakened mild to bear, it be- gan wandering ofagain in devious ways.
 Abraham Lincoln's mind wandered, too, but only as far as 'Che big chim- ney," whither his feet swiftly followed. There it lay at last, a shapeleSs mass, after proudly resisting the storms of a quarter of a century. And as the boy gazed awe-stricken upon the new proof of the earthquakes power, something glittering amid the brick and plaster caught his eye.
 Wiih one leap Abraham Lincoln had reached the spot, and in an instant had dragged the shining object from it's place and was racing hrmeward.
 Aunt Cisly, still half.daz2d and wholly awe-stticken by the events of the night, was sitting at her post by Uncle Sauls side, when a tin cracker-box was thrust into her lap, with an exultant:
 "Here's it, Nanny, sure 'nough! Twas in the big chimbly jess whar Unc' Saul said,"
 A gleam of natural human joy lit up Aunt Ci5ly's countenance, quickly ban, ished, however.
 "Tuck an putt it away under de bald, Album :" she said, soIemuly; '"tain't no time for ter |. be thinkin' bout airthly riches, chile! but look out ye putt it way under whar nobody gwine see it!"
 Uncle Saul's nervous system never fully recovered from the shock of that night. He remained for the rest of his life helpless cripple; but more con- plete and lasting spiritual revolution was never witnessed, and his subsequent sue cess as an exhorted of sinners wa title short of the miraculous.
 His presence he was reverent ly tIun- died in a wheeled chair (the joint con- tribution of his brethren and sisters of Mount Zion Church), was sufficient to to fill the mourner's bench to over flowing.
 To the end of his days Uncle Saul. and, indeed, many of his spiritual brethren, believed that the terrible upheaval which caused such widespread loss and suffer- ing was devised by Providence expressly as 8 means of grace to himself; Eand proud in this belief, he lived to a patri archal age, departing at last in an odor of great sanctity.
 His funeral was the most largely at- tended that had ever been witnessed in those parts, one of the leading features being the first professional appearance of the newly ordained pastor of Mount Zion Church-and "stepson of the corpse" the Reverend Abraham Lincoln Snickers.
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