Year: 1877

out design. simply because the op.


portunity brought it about.


This same bewitching widow got


me into a fearful scrape, or rather,


she nearly did it. After a while she
assumed a sort Of ownership of my
self and my conscience, and affected
to get very jealous of young lady
of the congregation who lived little
way out of town, and occasionally y
| passed the night with my family.
The latter was very pretty, very
arch in her ways. and a general IA
vorite with US all. The widow had
reason to be Jealous. in q measure.
for it happened that one day on en-
tering my study the young lady sat
there reading, and on entering put
on my hat, and looked roguishly.
l demanded the forfeit--being privi-
legged as a clergyman to be auda-
cious-and took it. As my lips met
hers the kisses were returned with
interest. The widow found it out
somehow. and charged me with per
| fidy to her affection. OF course /
had plenty of denials at her service !;
1 declared, with vehemence, that my
lips had never touched the lady's
checks. She might have believed
me had she not met us riding out to
the young lady's house a few days
afterward, when 4 was taking toll of
her lips on the road. I pleaded
guilty. but recommended myself to
the mercy of the court. Like an
other Adam, pleaded temptation.
Now for another instance.


A lady came to our little city and
carried all hearts by storm. Her
conquests availed her nothing unless
she could carry a minister's scalp at
her waist also. Well, it bangles
there. She carried off ring from
my finger. and, woman-like, exhibit
ed the trophy to half q dozen ,inti-
mate friends. The senior warden,
worthy police magistrate, heard of it
the next morning, and came TO see
me the same night. 1t was not much
to make denial, and yet no great
harm had been done. He only
thought that his pastor had been
making a TOOL of himself, and the
pastor thought Sc 100.


] have told these facts to illustrate
the evil manner in which the clergy
man is permitted to be made the
idol of q reighborhood, and the fet-
ish of its womankind. To tell it
subjects me to some evil suspicious,
which l care nothing about-and to-
suspicion of self-conceit, which |
am anxious to avoid Remember,
however, that tell you this simply
as an illustration remember
that my successes in love were due
to my clerical garb, and not TO me.
The veriest scrub in a surplice re-
ceives much tae same alteration from
his flock. The homliest man, and
the least interesting that l ever knew
in the ministry, was some years ago
the rector of u young ladies' semi
nary in Colorado, and he distinguish
ell himself and disgraced his cloth
by clipping with the prettiest of his
teachers. Had he not been a cler-
gyman, it is not at all likely she
would have looked at him.


The position of the shepherd of
the flock has its penalties as well as
its pains. At one place there was
furiously homely maiden lady of
nearly twice my years who was
strongly suspected Of insanity, and
who made violent love TO me. Eve
I,0- I
epistle from this lady, on one sub.
ject or another. Sometimes she sent
poetry which she wished corrected.
Days that she did not write she came
to the house. She laid in. wait at
the church door after all services.
As a nuisance she was a complete
success. One day she said why
do you always have your wife or sis
ter in the room when I call2" With
fearful audacity replied: "NIiss
Lucy, if you are il loye with me,
wish you would tell me so and spare
me long interviews in the future
Without one word she bounced apt
OF the room. Apparently tie cure
was effected. In two days she re
turned. She was thorn in my side
while / stayed there, and a very ug-
ly one, too.


After / left the ministry, bishops
passed me by with digniied nod,
and the c er9y lost all their cordiali-
ty. AS for The ladies', they never
forgave my abandonment Of the SUR
piice for the common garments of
mankind. One dear friend at whose
house 1 often stayed never gave me
another invitation there, and scarce
ly seems to remember mo hen We
meet. Yet l remember going to her
house, when I went to lecture there,
in her husbands absence, and being
royalty entertained. After I had res
tired, there came a knock at the
door, and MY hostess entered, lamp
in hand, tucked me snugly IN, poured
goblet Of mulled wine down my
throat, and pressed warm kiss on
my lips as she babe me good night.
/ felt that the comforts of this world
were inteuded for the saints of the
Lord, and that was one Of them,
only one sho mas been a clergyman
knows how terribly he falls into wo-
mans estimation when he leaves the
ministry for some other profession.


--Ss a,s----a-


CnILLs AND FEyERs.-A cores
pondent says: Common tarpentine
is the best. especially for children.
/ sliaa Il aa myself and children Ge.s
the third day caiils, (the worst Of ali
and it cured them Instantly. For
children, give from fie to eight
dyops three times o day, 10 q littla
water; FOR grown pcople, from eight
to twelve drops three times day.
for a few days. It is better TO take
d dose of purgative pills the nighs