Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1902-04-17
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
BY !, MAcLAREN coBBAN.

LHree WoekB, nut 4 uhu i1ttto haHt' ,Ns
rumination and no time ut ell for visits
to Tipmerley Hall until Whitsuntide
was past. WhltsuntIde IL the great
festival In the Lancashire calendar.
Then mills and pits are idle for a
week, and the work people have spell
OF serious enjoyment, and wearing Of
new summer clothing, for which money
has been saved from Christmastide or
earlier. Some 90 on jaunts 70 the sea-
side for the week or for day or two;
but the recreations and designations Of
the multitude are those connected with
lhe Sunday schools, which are gigantic
and popular institutions; the time and
attention (oiten TO lit.le purpose) that
clergymen are expected to give to them
can hardly be conceived by those who
hold cures In the south. One day there
is n grand procession round the parish
OF scholars and their friends arrayed
In their new fnery, accompanied by
Haunting banners ard a blatant brass
band, and headed by their clergyman.
The procession halts at fixed points,
forms into mass and sings hymns, led
by the brass band. while the banners
take up positions TO display their hide.
GUS devices and pictures. For another
day q short excursion in wagons, with
tea or milk and buns, and games are
arranged for the benefit especially OF
the younger scholars; and for q third
day a long railway excursion for the
others. All these arrangements l had
10 undertake (some OF them much
against the grain. confess; for pre-
fer 10 90 through the parish as through
life, unaccompanied by instruments OF
brass)--to undertake alone, along with
all the duties more properly parochial
and clerical; for the rector was still toe
III 10 attend TO anything.
For three weeks or 10, therefore,
had no time 10 rumintae upon extrane'
oua matters, and no time 10 spend al
Timperley Hall. But then made ar
acquaintance that considerably infu'
enced the later events OF my story--Mr
Freeman, the minister of quaint lit
tie Dissenting Chapel In the village
We encountered first on the day Of the
procession In the Lacroix lane. HI
was marching along from the opposite
direction 10 us at the head OF his mod
est and silent troop; the lane was mar
row he halted, took off his hat, anC
smiled (while could do no less in re
turn, and he and his people (some o
them with reluctance. have no donbt
stood aside to let our noisier and NOR
imposing procession pass. That wa
our introduction. When the Whitsun
tidA matters were all disposed Of, h,
called on me one evening TO ask me i
be chairman at lecture he was abou
to deliver in the little public hall OF tn
village on some point OF the land ques
tion. was somewhat taken aback b.
his request, and suppose | showe'
that was.
"You arc surprised. I daresay, Mr.
Unwin," said he, with q little con
strained laugh (he was bright, genia
little man, with a big, red beard). :"
will explain why ask you2-because
I understand, you, like myself, COM
from the south, where pure streams
aud clear skies, and healthy trees ma
be seen, but especially because be
lieve you are the only man in til
neighborhood who holds somethig lik
the same opinions as do; my friend
Mr.. Birley, has told me of the talks h
has had with you about the way ou
Lancashire friends treat nature"
"Your friend, Mr.. Birley," l OF
claimed.
eyes," said he, with comical twiI
kle in his eye, "Mr. Birley and l met
not on theological, but on simpl
human common ground, and he is tn
friend Of everyone who knows his goo
heart"
| began to like my visitor. agree
to act as his chairman, and We the
settled down to talk.
) On the evening OF the lecture / toe
my place on the platform in consit
erable Autter of nervousness. Thel
was large attendance of work foil
with fair sprinkling of well-to.do pc
pie from the neighborhood, brought Il
: gether, suppose, as much by curiosit
: to see two parsons Of conflicting Greco
: together as by interest in the subie
> of the lecture. observed on baS
!. seat Mra. Steinhardt and Frank, Mi
Lacroix and our friend, Mr.. Birle,
I Steinhardt himself was not there. 9
. rising l was astonished to find myse
! greeted with rounds of applause, al
] on explaining in few words how
: came to be where | was, was cheere
with such hearty vociferation, that
) concluded l had become, without know
ing 1t, popular parsonage. Iacceptt
: the explanation Mr.. Freeman gave n
: afterward;-"It was brave and risl
9 thing to do, you know, to appear wit
me; and these Lancashire folk abov
all things admire bit of pluck again,
!. Odds"
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