The Washington herald., 1907-05-19

dams stormy banks l stand, and Amos
couldn't git out o. the way quick enough.
well, that's what made me and old
Uncle Sam Simpson laugh so last Sun
day. / don't reckon there's anything
funny in it to folks that never seen It;
but when old people git together and call
up old times. they can see Jest how
folks looked and acted, and it's Ike livin'
1t all over again"
Il don't believe you can see 1t any plain
er than I do, Aunt Jane" | nastened 70
assure her 1T is all as clear to me as
anv picture ever saw. 1t was In March,
you say. and the wind was COOL but the
sun was warm: and If you sat In shell
tered place you might almost think It was
the last of April.
That's so. child. l remember me and
Abram set under the bank on rock
that kind o. cut OFF the north wind, and
it was real pleasant
Then there must have been a purple
haze on the hills. and while the trees
we're still bare. there was look about
them as if the coming leaves We're casting
their shadows before. There were heaps
Of brown leaves from last years autumn
In the fence corners and as you and Uncle
Arbam walked home, you looked under
them 20 see II the viOlets were coming
up. and found some tiny wood ferns"
Aunt Jane dropped her knitting and
leaned back in the high, old-fashioned
chair.
why. child" she said in an awe
struck tone. ARE you q tOrtune@elleT?'
Not NJ all, Aunt Jane l said, laugh
ing AT the dear old lady's CONSERVATION.
Il am only Il good guesser; and l want
ed Won to know that / not only see the
things that you see and tell me, but some
OF the things that you see and don't tell
me. Did Marthy ever get young Amos
baptized?' l asked.
la. yes" laughed Aunt Jane. They
finished up the baptizin two weeks after
that II was a nice, pleasant day. and
young Amos went under the water all
right; but mighty little good IL did him
after all. For as soon rs he come Of age,
he married Matpdy Harris lMatildy was
a Methodist. and he got % goin 10
church with his wife. and that was the
last Of his Babtist raisin'.'
Then we both were silent for a while,
and l watched the gathering thunder
clouds in the west. A low rumble of
thunder broke the stiffness Of the August
afternoon Aunt Jane looked up appre-
hensiyely.
There's goin to be a storm betwixt
now and sund0wn," she said. but
reckon them young turkeys'I be safe un-
der their mothers wings by that time.
Don't you think "a wife ought 20 join
her husbands church, Aunt Jane2'
asked with idle irrelevance 10 her re-
mark
Sometimes she ought and sometimes
she oughtn't" replied Aunt Jane Oracu-
larly. There amt any rule about IT,
Everybodvs got 90 be their own judge
about such matters II I'd "a ben I'm
Marthys place, I wouldn't "a Jinad
Amos church. and if Id been in Amos
place ] wouldn't - jined Marthy
church So there IL is
But didn't you join Uncle Ahram
church?' / asked. in q laudable en-
deav0r 90 get az the root Of the matter
Yes. I did" said Aunt Jane, s,gutiy,
but that's a mighty different thing or
course. I went with Abram, and II I hal
IL 20 do over again. I'd DO IT, You see
the way Of Il was this. my folks was
Campbtllites. or Christians they'd rUtlel
be called It's curious how they don
like 90 De called Campbe..lt5s Meth0d.st-
don't mind beiG' called Wesleyans, and
Preshytoriaus don't cit mad II you call
'em Calviuists. and ] reckon Alexander
Campbell was jest as good a man as Wes-
ley and "a sight hattar'u Calvin. but you
can't make a Camp1cliIte madder than
to call him a CamphCllIte. However. az
I was e8yin'. Alexander Campbell himself
habtzeI my father and mother uut her.
.r. D..
% think that my church was the Chris
tiau Church. sure enough. But when m1
and Abram married. neither one 0f us
was tlinkin much about churches.
used 90 tell Narthy that if mau'd come
talkiu' church To- me. wien ne ought e.
been coUrtin' me. I'd a. told him t0 ru
on and marry a hymn-001k or I'll cate
Chism I believe iD religion jest as much
as anybody. bur a man that can't f0rgit
his religion while hes courtiu' "a woman
Amt worth havi1'. That's my opinion But
as I was s3yin'. me and Abram had the
church question % settle after we was
married. and I don't believe either one OF
Us thought about it ul Sunday m0ru.n
come. J re0llact % jest Ike 30 was yes
tordaT. We was married iE June. and
You know how things always look aU0I,
then. I've thought many a day. when
I've been ont in the CvardeU Worklu with
my vegetables and getEcrin my honey.
suCkles and rosas. that If folks could jest
live on and never cir old and It'd stay
June forever. that this WOrldd De hegv-
en- enough fDr anybody. And that's the
way it was that Sunday moruiu'. 7 rieoI-
lect 7 had ON my secondary dress. Tho
Urettlosr sort of chHnEcahie silk. kind
% dove color and pink. and 7 bad "a leg
horn bonnet on with pink roses inside
the brim. and black lace mitts on my
hands. I stood mp before the glass
jest before I went out 90 the gate wher,
Ahram was. waitiu' for me. and I looked