Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-11-15

a candle to that for filing up the
waste places and making a hungry
man feel at peace with all the world"
Gee, but cheese stops that tired feel
ing in fellow like taking chloroform
for a toothache," said the boy, as he
put himself outside the lunch the old
man had provided. There is no alb
sent treatment about cheese. like the
Christian Scientists teach. 1t is the
| real stuff. We have been boarding for
couple of weeks with a woman who
practices Christian Science, and l am
as hollow as woodpecker's nest That
| boarding house keeper gives us boiled
water and tells us to imagine that it
! is coffee, and we are just as well Off
as though we had the real thing. We
! had absent treatment ham AMI eggs Tor
breakfast, and there was no ham and
| no eggs, and the woman just talked
| ham and eggs until we thought we
were filled clear up to the muzzle. but
| when we got out of her presence we
were too weak to walk. But dad got
even with the Christian Science board
| ing house keeper this morning when
| he paid the board bill. He handed her
a blank piece of paper, and told her
to imagine it was a check for $40; but
she is going to sue dad for obtaining
board under false pretenSes, and /
guess we will be in litigation the rest
of our lives. Say, give me another
! cheese sandwich, and cut the cheese
| thicker, and the bad boy reached for
another cracker.
Il don't believe much in these new
| styles of religion" said the cid man,
as he wiped the cheese knife on a cof-
fee sack. Give me the old praying
and shouting kind of religion, that has
a revival in the winter and gets you
have EN- pray for you and you con-
TESS to your sins and along in the
spring are baptized, and feel that you
are as brand plucked from the burn
ing. and then, when summer comes.
and the picnic season opens, you back
slide and the people of the church cut
you dead, and point to you as one of
the worstever, and then along towards
winter you attend the revival again.
and get religion where you left eff.
and they fall over themselves to make
you feel that you are as good as any,
body, and the next time you are bap-
tlzed 1t seems to take, like vaccination.
and you stick to the church always, and
sit up nights to rope in other fellows
that swear and cut up. That is what |
call religion that sticks to your ribs
| nd oh 80
| man.
But, say, how was it you never
wrote me, when you were abroad,
about visiting Greece? Your dad was
in here tother day and said he had
had rheumatic ever since he was kid
mapped in Athens, and had to wear the
Greek costume of short petticoats for
men. and sleep out on mountain-side.
What about it?''
Did dad tell you that?" said the
bad boy. as he laughed, and looked as
though the recollection of the Greek
experience was going to split him wide
open. Dad and Eagreed that we
would keep that a secret, but il he
has told about it, there is no use of
my keeping still. We struck Athens,
and dad felt that here was a place
where he could boss the people around,
cause everybody seemed to be dressed
like ballet dancers; the men wore a
sort of starched petticoat, and they all
looked as though they were lovesick,
and didn't do anything but pose to be
looked at and we couldn't blame them,
for the women were the whitest and
aandsomest we had seen anywhere,