New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-27

an great brown pones of cornbread, fresh
from the oven of the little step stove There
was always pie. Uncle Zeke liked cobbler pie
baked in deep pan, so about the only chance
for variation in the kind of fruit-apple,
blackberry, huckleberry or peach, with dip"
made of milk and honey.
While we ate Aunt Liddy patiently waved
a leafy branch as ''fly brush" The kitchen
and dining room had been screened once.
81 kept areadin' about this hyear fly screen
in the catalogues an hit seemed like the flies
agoin' to plague me purity near to death
tibet summer Fin'ly / seq to Jake, ST, i
want you to git Arch McCoy'-he's got
store up the road a piece an does the most
of our writin' for us-I want you to git him
to order me some of that screen wire Seemed
like | couldn't hardly wait fer hit to come an
the very day hit got hyear, Zeke helped me to
nail hit onto the winders. Well believe hit
or not hit 'peared like / couldn't git no ali
with the winders kivered up thetaway.
lowed druther have the flies than be asmoth
erin all the time. Thet's been three year ago
an Zeke hain't got done funnyin' with me
about tibet yit; seems like he amt never agoin
to fergit it,"
The pages that showed scented soaps and
told about the marvellous cleansing properties
of certain brands of washing powder never
failed to get some comment from Aunt Llddy.
In big barrel in the smokehouse she boarded
all the grease turned strong from age, the
meat rinds and scraps of fat, against the day
of another soap making.
This hyear fine store soap may be all right
fer bathin' little 'uns and washin' yer face.
ID r ILL, Ia a
soap when | go to the wash place with dirty
clothes. Hit tells about how all you hat to do
is jest sprinkle them powders in the water,
but / hain't no faith in it fer they amt moth
in like buildin' fire under the kettle an
bilin' EN-
The mountain preacher uses the mail order
catalogue to keep pace with the vanlties and
perfidies OF the world This birds-eye view
of "Sodcm and Gonlorrah' serves as sort OF
index for the warnings his flock needs.
Brother Joel Adkins worked as hard on his
farm during the week as any man IN MS con-
gregation Yet he found time to nenaorlze
chapter after chapter of Scripture and ne
never hesitated to quote it to the errlhg'
whether he was murderer or bacAslldef.
This devout old man believed that if man
were called to preach, the Lord would tell him
what to say and to study in theological
seminary was to acknowledge lack OF faltn
in divine inspiration. He relied ON his own
Interpretation Of the Bible as it night be re
vealed to him. He would mount to the plat
form and after reading his text, close his
eyes and launch into his sermon IN That
sonorous chant peculiar to mountain preachers.
Isaiah's censure Of the women of Jerusalem
for their earrings and bracelets and mlnclng
steps and changeabe suits of apparel formed
the text Of one of Brother Adkinss sermons
of doom.
Brethren an sisters, Isaiah wuz a great
prophet. The Bible says he WIZ seer. He
could tell the folks whut their .wickedness wuz
a-bringing 'em to, Nobody elst had the power
to see cz fer in the future he could and thet's
why they called him seer.
Now, al he said about them women in
Jerusalem is with US hyear in this world to
day Awaken with niincin' steps, the Scrip
ture says, Hain't tibet jest whut them il