The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-08

prayer meeting for the last twenty-five
years.
Deacon Dolby could have urged ex-
tenuating circumstances. It is not every
day that a man rolls off a roof and
brings up in a barrel of water, and When
such things do occur the victim has GER
tain rights in the case. He put IN d
plea however The volume of statistics
in his hand informed him that the tur-
nip crop of 1900 beat that of the year
previous by 4,S21 acres, and he was
satisfied to let it go at that Mrs Dolby
waited expectantly for sixty seconds
Hiram jackson called here thesother
day. He was looking awful solemn and
he said he had cone to ask me If you had
gone to the bad. had to coax for half AN
hour before he told me thas ~hen F Stsr
cider vinegar last month YOU met a man
with a dancing. hear. Your horse got
out and lambasted the man till he could
hardly crawl and then throwed his bear
over the fence into the bushes. Yes, SAM
uel you had a fight-a regular tight-and
you whooped and hollered till they heard
that the neighbors are asking if you are
lost man and that I sit here shivering in
my shoes2 You can't excuse 1t, and you
needn't try to. It's too awful Tor any OK
The deacon didn't propose to offer any
excuses. The facts in the case were about
as Mrs. Dolby stated them, and a grim
smile came to his face as he remembered
the look of surprise bestowed upon MIN
by that bear as the beast went sailing over
the fence. And as the agricultural statis-
tics before him stated that the farmers OF
the Buckeye state had fed 20O0lG1e pump.
l1ins to their stock during the winter OF
5000 he accepted the statement without
question and read on.
Mrs. Dolby shed a tear or two over the
general situation and then remarked;
when I went over to Mrs Haroers to
borrow some tea the other day, she looked
at me so mournfully that / couldn't help
but ask her if her sister Sarah was dead
| it wasn't her sister Sarah Samuel. but
she burst right out crying and said 1t was
all on account of you: One daY three or
pen l remember how you grabbed your
| hat and started down the road and was
gone an hour or so. but don't know
what happened while you were running
the hog up and down. You was CHASING
him around the corner when ne turned
back and bolted between your feet and
| stood at her gate and saw and heard III;
You lay there minute; dazed like and
then YOU sat up and looked around and
and-tallzed And such awful talk. I'm
no friend OF the hog. Samuel, but l must
| moor animal was as shameful as II was
/ undeserved. You sputtered and Stamnereu
and waved your arms about, ana %nel
you got up you tried to pick up Whoie
/ rod of fence ct once to nit that hog with
Samuel can cheese things be? And II they
to pack up nv things and leave you?
Deacon Dolby didn't know and there,
fore thought it best not to commit himself
The statistics too. gave the nl1robsr q
hogs in the state of Ohio at 12S 35o.2sS an6
he wondered if his por1er had DeeI
counted among them.
And what happened only yestfer Tls,.
orn ar 9rrf9 Slowed aaer tear down RI
rose; You went, out to rail board oar q
the henhouse. ana after few minutes
looked out and YOU were holding YOU
thumb and dancing. around didn't heal
YOU saving a word. but no man ever Jump
| IN and down and kicks things over uEles'
/ he's saying awful things to himself. 70.
had hit your thumb with the hammer, ans
no doubt the pain was hard to bear bu
, YOU should have remembered shat for aye
90 wears you have been held up in TN
community as a living example of moral
ity. Samuel. ] want to know what yol
said as YOU danced around cant sa'
that I viii forgive you. but perhaps 1a'
ird excuses for you.
The deacon heard but he didn't answer
, As matter of fact he couldn't have re
peate1 the conversation he had had VII
himself and been sure of doing both side
justice. He therefore ignored the appea
and Interested hir'self in the beet and car
rot statistics Of 1900. and for ten minute
, there was silence. Then he looked up 1