The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1901-04-24
an We want to Jedge MIN.
He Numbered that.

IN We want to Jedge him.
He Numbered that
~ here'd We git the right Jim
SCOTS clean. He kin look all o. We in
the faces an count on his fingers Where
yer liars an wus'n that Tom Num-
ford, where's that 500 ye owe me an
ye promised to pay itevery year for 20
years !? Jim B1oxum. Zed Mallett,
George Birch
Captain jim never finished his
speech, for Uncle Tom and the others
named rose and cried out:
sap'n Jim. We amt in the church,
an ye amt any rights here. We be
the trustees of this church. an we say
that Ed Mallett's expelled Hear it ~
Captain Jim did not answer. for the
door burst open just then. and Eds
wife, her beautiful hair falling about
her, passed up the aisle and turned
upon the people with blazing eyes, and
they stared at her wonderingly. Then
she poured out her anger upon them.
You're towards. she said, includ-
ing all of them in sweeping gesture,
AN you would judge my man.
Her voice broke.
I'm only a woman, an I'm fool
like a Il Of US women This mans my
husband. an he's a liar just as you say.
He's sinned. but he sinned against me,
not YOU. It don't make no difference
who am. I'm not one Of you. You
wouldn't hare me because couldn't
be so tarnel ugly as you are. Why
did marry him? loved him, an l
had to have somebody to love. He told
me When be eourted me that he was a
life saver was saved from ship,
an don't know a word of who l am
or where came from. believed him,
an thought he was good an noble.
II knoWed he'd lied like a fool be-
fore I'd been here week But he's
only q fool, an he can't help it any
more than you can help being the mar
row minded. hard hearted people that
you are. Yet who judges you? Not
us. but the God that'll judge my man
too. Leave tito him.
She raised her hand to heaven and
paused a moment breathless. In the
Interval Captain Jim slapped his leg
and sWore, Then the woman spoke
again.
Have / asked you to punish him for
me?' she asked. do want it?
Haven't suffered a-lookin into the
face of a liar every time saw my
husband S eyes? Haven't !? One day
you said | was a sinner. an you
r,,o,,j,l,,,+ fool, al ~, a sS Tho nnyt dov
you knoWed he'd lied, an you wouldn't
look at him. wonder if God mighty
will want to look. at you when the
Judgment comes! II there's any judg-
in to be done, leave it to him."
Amen, shouted woman in a far
corner, and the trustees, who had stood
trembling for sheer helplessness, were
dumfounded.
Amen shouted another woman,
and the trustees sat down. Some one
started a hymn, and Uncle Tom stamp
ed out and over the hills to his home.
While tn, music swelled Ed sat ST
lently weeping. 1t ended. and by q
COMMON impulse all Of them, even
Captain Jim. fell upon their knees, and
prayers from dozen mouths went UP
1 in unison for Ed. the liar, and then fol
4 the poor weak sinners who had pre-.
suned TO judge when they had been
/ hidden by him to whom they prayed tc
'.judg &c not.
Thus ended the trial of Ed. He never
/ was expelled.
What penance he did for his sins
| other than standing the ordeal of his
!, 7 trial matters not. but from that day OF
| he has worked as other men, and more
] he has made restitution to his bene
factor. So much for the generous
i heart and devious ways Of Captain
II in. - - New York Sun.