Iron County register., 1905-11-02

candle to that for filling 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 a 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 abb
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 1t
is coffee, and we are just as we'll off
as though we had the real thing. We
had absent treatment ham and eggs for
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
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.
81 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
revival in the winter and gets you
all het up, and you go forward and
have EN- pray for you, and you con-
fess to your sins and along in the
spring are baptized, and feel that you
are as a 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 worst ever, and then along towards
winter you attend the revival again
and get religion where you left off
and they fall over themselves to make
you feel that you are as good as any
body, and the next time you are bap
tized it seems to take, like vaccination
and you stick to the church always, anG
sit up nights to rope in other fellows
that swear and cut up. That Is what
call religion that sticks to your rib
like crackers and cheese to hungry
man.
but, say, how was it you nevel
wrote me, when you were abroad
about visiting Greece? Your cad wa
in here .t'other day and said he hat
had rheumatic ever since he was kid
naped in Athens, and had to wear tn
Greek costume of short petticoats TO
men. and sleep out on mountain-side
What about it?"
Did dad tell you that?" said tn
bad boy, as he laughed, and looked a
experience was going to split him wild
open. dad and l agreed that W
would keep that secret, but if b
has told about it, there is no use @
my keeping still. We struck Athen,
and dad felt that here was plac
where he could boss the people AROUND
cause everybody seemed to be dresse
like ballet dancers; the men wore
sort of starched petticoat, and they a
looked as though they were lovesicl
and didn't do anything but pose to b
looked at, and we couldn't blame then
for the women were the whitest an
! handsomest we had seen anywher
|, with red cheeks and great soulful eye
like Americans. Yes, sir, everybod
in Athens seemed to be in love, an
dad thought the men looked effeminat
on account of their clothes, but evei
man is an athlete and fighter fro
the word 60.
well, we went up on the hill to IL
Acropolis, an old marble ruin tn,
4 overlooks the town, and dad paced Q
0 the ground, to see how much terr
y tory 1t covered, and figured up no
much good marble there was in
that could be used for gravestone
and when some of the policemen ask,
me what the old man was doing to
them he was a rich old party fro