The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-10-08

| DIS HdSJeT Oh Ctl6luOuISS, conducting
each man and woman forward with
great empressment for the introduc
ton. Every one called me Sister
Thompson, and laid a donation on
the table in passing.
81 was not aware at the time OF
their importance, but as William only
received $245 for his salary that year
we should have starved but for an
occasional donation party. In fact
they are smiling providential in
stances in the memory of every Meth.
odist itinerant
Upon this occasion they ranged
from bedquilts to hams and sides of
Bacon from jam and watermelon rind
preserves to -four, meal and chair
tides. One old lady brought a pack
age of Simmons Liver Regulator, and
Brother Billy Fleming contributed a
long twist of dog shank'-a home
cured tobacco. The older woman
spread the viands for the infare, as
the wedding dinner was called. upon
the table, and we stood about it to
eat amid shouts and laughter and an
exchange of wit as good natured as it
was horrifying to bridal ears"
The bride and bridegroom, both of
them highly educated and refined peo-
pie from the city, had the kind of ex-
periences that go with the poverty in
which they had to work. Think of
this for honeymoon experience.
might had fallen when we reached
the house, one-room log cabin.
Light and go in, said Brother
Salter. I reckon the children air all
in bed. You uns kin ondress and git
in while me and Sally bitches the
horse
I'VE lit and entered the large
room, flooded with meonshining. There
was a bed in each corner, and all &C.
cupied save ong This was evidently
the company bed We knew by its
opulent feather paunch, by the woire.
fringed counterpane and by the pillow
shams bearing soporific notices work
ed in turkey-red thread. One could
not tell the age of or how many per-
sons were already asleep in the othel
beds; but Judging from the number
and varying sizes of the shoes that
staggered and kicked up on the floor
beside them, there must have been
a hearty dozen, ranging all the way
from adolescence down to infancy.
ut is needless to add that we were
apparently asleep and the covers over
my Mortified head when the elder Sal
ters entered. Where they slept ia
still a mystery. But we were awak
ened very early the next morning by
the sound of Sister Salter's voice sing
ing, His loving kindness, oh, how
| good as she ratified the stove doors
beneath the cookshed in the yard.
: Three very young children were
I sitting half under our bed examining
: our shoes and other articles of ap
parel, and as many older heads stared
5 at us from the opposite beds. My
: anguish can be better imagined thar
5 described, and the nonchalance witt
) which William arose and assumed his
r trousers did not add to my opinion O.
} him. | afterward learned that moth
ing was more common than this pop
ulous way of entertaining guests, ant
that he had long since become hard
ened to the indelicacy of such situa
T tons
Though DR.. Harris never went bacl
to circuit riding once he had left it
r Mrs. Harris makes her hero do so, fol
the sake of pointing out some poig
nant facts in that feature of the Meth
odist ministry. Sending the rider
back to the circuit in his old age, she
says:
1t was harder on us in some WAYS
never could understand why the old
preachers who have got rheumatism
In their knees, and maybe iumbas G
besides, should be sent back to the
exposure of all weather on the cir
cults, in their points fatten in the
more comfortable charges. And am