Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1908-05-14
REUNlTE ED BY
A r E Y " Al.
b. MRS. EVA HORTON
(Copyright.)

"Goin' to meetin' to-night?"
!" 'Fraid / can't tonight"
What's to hender?'
''1've been every blest night for two
weeks, and Jason and the boys are all
out at the elbows. I've got to stay
home long enough to get EN- mended
up"
my stockin bags full, but I tell
'em can't stay home from them
meetin's!"
Aunt Hubby, called so more from
her placid, matronly manner than her
age, was scraping a plate of breakfast
refuse to her chickens. They snatched
it from one another with the greed of
a modern monopoly and gulped it
down with soft, quick clucks OF salts
faction. She flicked of the last bit of
friend hominy and went to the fence
to get within range of her neighbor,
Mrs. Dill
That lady had come out to empty
her dish-water around the grapevines.
She rolled her bare arms up in her
Bingham apron and went over to the
low picket fence, where she and Aunt
Hubby had many fence council.
you see, I can kill two birds with
one stone," she said. II can take care
OF Rosina's baby and do my mending
at the same time. He sleeps all the
evening-I've KEEP him two or three
times. He's a splendid baby, and to
think his grandpa's never seen him!"
Il know it," calculated the other;
II tell 'em it's shame! He a church
member and never speakin' to his only
girl for six years because she married
the son of a man he had a grudge
against! I tell 'em I do know what
he's made OF"
well, l don't care" said Mrs. Dill
"Rosina's done as we'll as any girl in
this place, If her father has turned
her of. See what nice little home
they've got. Course it had a little
mortgage, but Wills payin' it off right
along. He works early and late, an
he's straight as a string, Will Carr
is"
II tell 'em Rantz Emmett must be
as stubborn as mule to hold
grudge so many years."
stubborn! It's no name for it.
Think of a man drivin' his only boy
away to sea an never readin' one of
the letters he sends! Ross want a
bad boy either; just little wild an
hasty I alwus think it depends on
yourself whether you rouse the angel
or the devil in your boy"
Poor Susan! She don't say much,
but that broke her heart. An how
she ever stood It when he turned Ro-
sina of, I tell EN- don't know!'
YES" assented Mrs. Dill. "Susan's
an awful quiet woman, but she's firm.
She's come to Rosina's and done for
her, like any mother, but I 'spect
Rantz has been ugly to her for it
fact, know he has. But Aunt Hubby"
she lowered her voice to a solemn
whisper these meetin's are goin' to
fetch Rantz Emmett! He's got to
give in to the Lord. Susan Emmett's
been prayin' the heart out Of her, an
the Lord amt a-goin' to turn a deaf
earl"
She wiped off stray tear with the
corner of her apron. The other shook
her head doubtfully
II do know" she said. Ellis face
looks so white an set in the meetin's,
l tell 'em it most scares me to look
at it."
Mrs. Dill gave triumphant nod.
ROsina and her husband were lit
tie late at the meeting that night.
One of Mrs. Dill's boys had come in
on the train from an adjoining village,
and she had waited to get him we'll
started on his supper before going
over
II amt got time for more'n a bite;
I don't want to miss that song serv-
ice,' he said, as he sat down to a
hasty meal "A stranger got of here
one of them reporters again, down
from the city, s'pose. There was a
long piece in yesterdays Times about
our revival, so somebody told me on
the train"
Reporter, eh?" said his mother,
starting o: to her evenings mission.
well, 1 hope there'll be- an extry
good meetin' to report" Somehow she
was full of joyful expectancy, as she
hurried over to Rosina's, her arms
filled with mending and her mind and
heart with thoughts and prayers for
her neighbors and friends.
Being late, the Cars slipped quietly
into the first pew in which there hap
pened to be two vacant seats, we'll
toward the door. Opposite they saw
the reporter of whom Mrs. Dill had
told them.
The church was full of people. The
fame of the Tumsawogue revival had
spread through the surrounding coun-
try, and people living within driving
distance came from all directions.
The whole community was drinking
in that air Of God which made their
vices nauseate them.
A Portuguese sea captain rose to
give his testimony Then at 4 signal.
from the leader they all sang 81 Need