Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1916-03-01

ing any account of my strange visit,
but about midnight 1 awoke myself
and the whole family by my sobs.
They gathered around my bed, and I
must tell. What said do not know,
but the old man interrupted me with:
"Oh tamm Jim. You stay here NIT
us. My old woman und me, we has
blenty. We dakes care of you. No
pody never said nodding bad about
you. Everybody likes you, caus you
is pleasant NIT everybody
AS he talked he drew his sleeve
across his eyes, while his wife and
daughter comforted me. I would board
there and finish my school, then 20 to
Butler and take the seminary, or
place in the common school.
I saw no one as I passed my late
home next morning. In school the
first exercise was bible, reading verse
about with the pupils. The XIV (25)
chapter Of Matthew came in order,
and while reading it's account of the
final Judgment, saw as by a revela-
ton why this trouble had been sent
to me, and a great flood of light seem
ed thrown across my path before me.
Christ's little ones we're sick and
in prison, and had not visited them!
Old Martha, standing before her
judges, rose up to upbraid me! 1 was
to have followed the Lamb, and had
been making butter to add to an estate
larger now than the owner could use.
No wonder she thought I stole the
money. I, who had failed to rebuke
man-stealing, might steal anything.
That Westinghouse which I had been
helping to build by entertaining it's
builders and aiding them about SUBJ
scriptions, it and they were part of
a great man-thieving machine. I had
been false to every principle of JUS
tice; had been decorating parlors
when should have been tearing down
prisons! I, helping Black Gagites
build church!
"When thou a thief didst see
Thou join'st with him in SIM
Thinking, reaching out for the path
to that bastile which must attack,
went on with my school duties until
I had not been at home. I was worn
with intense strain, and at the word
home, burst into a passion of tears.
I told the pupils to take their books,
and leave, there would be no more
school, and could hear them go
around on tip-toe and whisper. Twice
a pair of little arms were thrown
around me, and the sound of the re-
treating footsteps died away when my
husband laid his hand all trembling
on my head. I threw it off and beg
ged him to go away, his presence
would kill me. He would not go, and
I went out into the woods. He fol-
lowed, and said he had never charg-
ed me with an evil thought. much less
an action, was the most loving of hus-
bands and the most injured in that
had thought he had found fault with
me. He might have spoken a hasty
word, but was it right to lay it up
against him? still begged him to
leave-that l should die if he did not.
He went, and l crossed the fields to
the house of Thomas Dickson, think
ing that from it could get to the city
by the river road and fly anywhere.
Mrs. Dickson made me go to bed,
as was able to go no where else, and
here my husbands brother-inrlaw
found me. He had come as peace
maker, and could not think what it all
meant; some angry words of James
about his mother, who would now go
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| joined him with entreaties. If my
husband had injured me, he was very,
very sorry, was quite overwhelmed
with grief for the pain he had cost
me. Then. they brought down the lev
er of scripture and conscience: IF
thy brother offend thee seventy times
seven" and yielded.
My husband came and went home
with him that vening, expecting that
my mother.in-law was installed in her
new home on the hill; but she met
and kissed me at the door, and I did
not care. Nothing could add to the
shudder of going into the house, and
she seemed so grieved and frightened
that my heart was touched, and was
sorry for her that we had ever met.