Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 23 September 1898 — Page 7
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[Copyright, 1897, by the Author.]
On one occasion the minister of St. Margaret's offered JBilliam the use of a pew in his church, but Billiam said, "Sunday is my day for out patients, or 1 should be giact." or mm am was a gentleman and always answered even a dissenting clergyman politely. "You should think of your immortal soul," said the minister. "Who kuoweth," said Billiam, "the spirit of the beast that goeth downward into the earth?"
And Billiam could never find out why the minister went away so suddenly or why he shook his head ever afterward when they met in the street. It never crossed his mind that Mr. Gregson of St.
and a dangerous subverter of the system of religion as by law established. Yet so it was.
In due time Billiam's nest of garrets became known as the "lame dogs' home" and grew famous throughout the entiro city—that is, the southern city of high, lands, steep streets, winding stairs and odorous closes, with their Arab population of boys and dogs. "You let that long, lanky chap' alone," cried one brawnv burglar to an-1 other, "or I'll smash your dirty face like a rotten turnip! Now, mind me! Don't- you know the dog missionary?"
Every policeman befriended Billiam, and the greater number of the policeman's ordinary clients. He could often be seen walking along tho Pleasance or past the breweries in the L.«Tgh Calton, attended by a dozen dogs, which had followed Billiam far from their wonted haunts on the chance of a word from him and which departed obediently if unwillingly when he bade them return to their own places in peace.
Year by year Billiam studied and practiced, never a penny the richer, but more and more loving and beloved. His garret, however, grew somewhat better furnished. Through the mediation of his soldier brother, his father became so far reconciled to him that he increased his allowance, but Bilffiim lived in no greater comfort than before. He bought a cheap bedstead, it is true, and for a month or two dwelt in luxury, sleeping upon a real mattress with a clean sheet and folding his overcoat for a pillowBut even...that came to an end.
The circumstances were these: Billiam had been down at Ormithwaite seeing his father, and his brother (of the One Hundred and Tenth hussars) insisted upon returning to Edinburgh with hini. "You'll have to rough it, mind you,"i said Billiam, warning him
So at their journey's end Billiam opened the door of the garret and invited his brother to step in. A curious damp smell met them on the threshold. "That's ail right, "said Billiam reassuringly. "I washed out the whole blooming shop with chlorate of lime the night before I came away. It's healthy no end, if it docs stink a bit." "Maybe," said his brother the captain, ''but it certainly does smell like stables."
V\ ell, I'll have the fire lighted, and we'll have seme supper before the people begin to come," said Billiam calmly. uu' 11 be picking these old lags for lint and laying out the bandages."
The captain and Billiam dined upou a rasher of bacon and eggs which Billiam fried in the pan, along with sliced potatoes and butter. The hussar, being exceedingly hungry, thought he had never tasted anything more delicious. "They don't do anything like this at the club. It is such a jolly flavor, too quite unique,' ho said with enthusiasm. "Seems as if it were seasoned with anchovy or some French sauce— quite Parisian, fact." "\es, B'lliam answered simply, "that is the led herring I had in the pan last week. With us coming iu so quick, I hadn't timo to clean him out properly."
The outer room was filling up all this time, and tho yelping, whistling and mewing grew louder than even the cawing of the rooks in tho old trees above Ormithwaite. "Tarantara! Tarantara!" cried tho hussar checrfnil y. Turn out for kennel parade." And for two hours ho
I'm a soldier," said his brother the night. But you can go, and I'll call stoutly, "and I guess your hole can't! round for you in the morning on my bo worse than some places I've put uu way to college." in." "All right," said Billiam. "Mind, I've warned you. Don't grumble when you get there."
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kept 'busy enough with his lint and bandages. "But where does the money come in?" he said when it was all finished. He was smoking a cigarette, and Billiam was polishing up his instruments. "Do it for nothing. Don't they even pay for all that vaseline and plaster: You are a blamed young fool, Billiam, and will die in the workhouse."
Then the captain yawned a little. "It's too late for the theater," he said, "even if you knew where one was, which I don't believe. I'm deuced tired. Let us go to bed."
Billiam looked about him doubt fully and then suddenly threw up his hands with a gesture of despair. "I forgot, old chap on my life and honor, I quite forgot. I lent my bed to Peter Wilkins, the water color man. He had pawned his to pay his rent, but he thought ho could get it out again before I came back." "You bet lio couldn't," said the hussar, twirling his handsome mustache. "I've seen that kind'of man. There are several in my regiment." "Let's go and look Peter up anyway," said Billiam. "Perhaps we can get the bed after all."
So tho hussar accompanied Billiam through the dimly lighted street, under gloomy archways, past great black chasms yawning between lofty houses, till they arrived at the dwelling of Wilkins, "the.water color man," as Billiam
said. It was a room upon the ground floor with a sunken area in front. "It does not look promising," said Billiam. "The beast isn't lighted up. I guess old Wilkins is either drunk or has gone to the country.'' "Perhaps he has pawned your bed, too," said the hussar bitterly.
Billiam was hurt at the suggestion. "Wilkins is a gentleman," he said, "and it was only last week he sent his Skye terrier forme to doctor up and have all right for him when ho came back. Peter isn't the chap to sell my bed and then bilk."
They tried Wilkins' door in vain and rang the bell repeatedly without producing the least effect. Apparently others had done the same, for at the first tug the bell pull slid out about six inches in a silent, uncanny, unattached manner. "That's no use," said Billiam. "Let's oliinb up on the railings
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Ah,'* he cried as soon as he had
whenco he could look into the room of Wilkins, "there is my bed standing against the wall, and the mattress beside it. You see, good old Wilkins is all right. It is a first rate bed. Better take a look at it, for it is all you will seo of it this niglit." "Come doon cot o' that," commanded a stern voice. What for are ye loitering wi' intent there for? I'll bae to tak' ye up."
A portly policeman was standing behind them with much suspicion on his face. Billiam turned himself about quietly. "John," he said, "I wish you could get me my bed. I lent it to Peter Wilkins, and his door is locked." "Guid save us!" cried the policeman, "it's the dog missionary. Is that your bed?" he added, climbing up beside Billiam and looking critically at the object The rays of a gas lamp upon the pavement shone upon it so that it glowed with a kind of radiance not its own. "It looks a guid bed oneucli," the policeman said as he climbed down. "Can you not get it for us, John?" repeated Billiam. "Dod, sir, I canna do that withoot hoose breakin, and I've been 30 years in the force," answered John, "but there's nae doot that the bed's a guid bed."
And with that he walked heavily away. The hussar etood on the pavement with his legs very wide and whistled fitfully. "Well," he said, "what do you propose to do about it, Billiam? Say, let's both go to a hotel and get supper. Then we cnu stop the night there."
Billiam looked at him with a kind of sad reproach in his eyes. "You forget," he answered, "that tho new collie's bandages must be changcd, and the little Yorkshire will need looking .to twice or thrice durin
'Get out, you oi, roung idiot! On my word, I've heard of all sorts of lunatics, but I'm hanged if I ever heard or anybody before gone dotty on beastly stray dogs.'' "And there's the bull with the bad tear on his 'jaw. I must see that the stitches are keeping and give him some, water,' cominut Billiam meditatively. "Of all the fools!" cried the captain.
Well, ooiiio on. Billiam. I'll be your keeper tonight and see that you get a neat thing in strait jackets right away."'
And the hussar strode on with the air of a man who determines to see a desperate venture through to the bitter end.
They came in time to tho corner of Montgomery street and again mounted up the crazy stairs. The fire had died down, and when Captain Ormithwaite went to the coal box it was empty.
Hello, Billiam," he said, "how do you propose to keep us warm all night? Has somebody taken out your coals on loan as well as your bed?"
Billiam threw up his hands again with the same pathetic little gesture despair. "I don't know what you'll think nf me, Herbert," he said, "but when 1 went away I gave all I had to the seamstress next door." "Well, "said the captain, "go and see if she can give you any back. But at tho suggestion Billiam's pale cheek flushed. "I can't quite do that," he said, "but I think I can get some. You wait a minute, and I 11 run dowu and see."
Tin li Billiam proceeded to array himself in an old ulster, remarkably wide and baggy about the skirts. He opened it and showed tho hussar how ingeniously ho had sewed two largo pockets of strong canvas to each side. "I bring home the coals in these, l.e said, "isn't it- a prime idea?" "Vv here do you buy them?" asked the captain. "I don't usually buy them, answered Billiam simply. "I pick them." "Pick them and steal them," said Captain Ormithwaite. "You young beggar, what would tho governor say if he knew?"
Billiam looked up a little wearily as if the subject had suddenly grown too large for discussion. "I shan't be very long, he said, and went on buttoning the ulster about his slim young body. "In for pi uny, in for pound, ".said the soldier. "I'll come and help you to steal coals if I'm cashiered for it."
Billiam pointed to an old overcoat hung upon a nail behind the.
which door. "That's got pockets for coals and things too. If you really want to come along,'' ho said not very hopefully, but I think you had better look to the collie till I come back. "I'm in for it," said the hussar. "It's my night out. Come on," he cried, pulling at the coat, which threatened to turn out too small across the shoulders for him. "What a rum smell it has, though," he added, lifting up rmn r»f Innolci l—w c«Lic«, oilliitU£ It. "Oh," said Billiam, "that's only the dogs. Sometimes I wrap the worst cases UD in it. But it's, all rii-'ht, old chary"
he added hastily, "1 always aisiuiect it carefully." They went down the dimly lighted, greasy stairs without meeting a soul. When they arrived at tho foot, Billiam turned sharp to the left, and the hussar found himself iu a darkish wide lane, in which were no gas lamps. At the end of the lane was a great coal station, full of wagons and stacks of coal, black and shining, dimly seen between two tall gateposts. The latest dolivery wagons of the day were just leaving tho yard ou the way to the city coal stores, there to be ready for the morning demand. They rumbled out in a long procession, manned by men as rough and grim and black as the coal they worked among.
The coal carters kept up a
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terchange of compliments with one another, varying this by an occasional lump of coal. Great wedges and nutB of it were also being jolted continually oft the carts as they jostled and lurched through the dark and deeply rutted lane. "Come on," said Billiam. "We'll soon get enough."
And ho ran off among the grinding wheels, nipping up every piece of coal which lay on the road and pushing it into his ulster pockets with trained alacrity. His brother endeavored to imitate him, but ho was unaccustomed and clumsy and got but few pieces, and those small. It was interesting work, however, for tho wagons surged and roared like a maelstrom between the high walls and the tall howsos. The hussar found that it needed much quickness to seize tho prey and bag it, evading meanwhilo tho succeeding carts, which came on at a pace which was almost a brisk trot.
Presently a huge coal carter, standing up on his wagon, caught sight of tho captain lifting a piece of coal from the side of !h'\ I-Je sent a ready missile after him, which took effect just between his shoulder blades. "Uetooto' that, ye skulker, ye!" he shouted.
Captain Ormithwaite of tho One Hundred and Tenth hussars sprang toward his assailant to take him by the throat, but the watchful Billiam had his brother promptly by the arm. "Mind what you are about," ho said. "See stand in there, and we'll soon get enough to last us three or four days.''
Tho brothers took shelter in a cellar doorway, both of them grimed to the eyes. Billiam produced a hideous mask out of his side pocket and put it on. Theu ho slid off the doorstep and took up his position on a litt-lo mound of hard trodden earth and engine ash. "IIo, ha!" he cried. "Ye are a set o' dirty, lazy Gilmerton cairters!"
Every coachman on the wagons leaped up at the word as if he had been stung, and tho rain of coal cobs which fell about Billiam was astonishing and deadly, but by long practice ho evaded every one of them, letting some slip past hini and catching the straight ones as cleverly as ever he. had done the ball when he kept wicket on the green playing fields.
Presently tho captain found Billiam, now a very swollen and bulky Billiam, oi!cc more beside him. "You go and fill up at the back of the lr.ouud where I was guying 'em, "he said. "There's quite half a ton there."
And very obediently tho hussar went, with a grim delight in his heart to think of tho fit his C. O. would have if ho could only have seen him. Presently he had filled up, and, leaving the roar of the coal avenue, for the quiet, of the house, Billiam and his brother slunk laboriously up stairs to their garret. "Lord, shall I ever be clean again?" groaned tho captain, looking at his hands. "To think what you have led an officer of tho queen into, you blessed young gallows bird, BilliamV' "Empty tho coals here," commanded Billiam, and his brother poured out his hoard into a large compartment built beside tho window. How Billiam could havo carried so great a load was a puzzle, but certainly there could not have been less than a hundredweight of coal in his canvas pockets alone. He hastened to fill a pot with water, and in a little while ho had a shallow bath full of warm water. This ho set out in the corner behind screen made of a gray sheet which hung upon a cord. "Go in there," he said, "and get yourself clean, you horrible sybarite. I 11 go round the wards. Dogs don't object. to a little grin".o.''
When he came bafk to take his turn at the bath, a liv.-h pot full of water was ready, and the room was bright
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"Lord, skull I ever be clean again?"
and warm. Tho hussar had attended to tho fire and had swept the floor. The brothers were in tho inner room in which Billiam usually camped. There was a sofa in it now, and an easy chair of wickerwork. "I II toss you for tho sofa, young un," said tho captain. "Right," Kaid Billiam promptly. "Tails."
"Heads it is," cried the fiussar with some relief. "Glad of that, "quoth cheerful Billiam. "I profer the floor anyway. You can make quite a decent thing out of rugs and overcoats. And, besides, sleeping on tho floor makes you so jolly glad to got up in tho morning."
So they turned iu and slept the sleep of the just. Billiam was up by daylight and had a cheerful firo burning when his brother awoke. He brought him a cup of tea and told him to roll over again. But the captain was now wide awake and eager for talk. "Why do you keop on at this kind of thing," he said, "and why don't you buy your coals like an ordinary being?" "Well," said Billiam, "this is the sort of thing I take to, you see. It's interesting all the time. I suck in oceans of learning all day till I'm tight, and then I practicc it all tho evening. And as for coals—well, sometimes I do buy them. But 150 a year doesn't spread far in rent, classes and victuals, not to speak of dressings and lint, aud picking Up coals in tho lano down tncre is just about as excitiug as soldiering, I guess. "Seo here," said the captain, "I thiulc I could get over tho governor to double your allowance. I've been pretty light on him lately, and ho thinks me a good little man. If 1 do, will you leave off pigging up here and live decent?"
Billiam seized his hand. "YTou are a good chap sure," ho. said. "Try it on tho dad, Herb. I could got proper cushions for tho beasts then, an operating tablo, and perhaps I might even afford to hire a yard.''
The captain leaped from his sofa and began to pace up and dowu in his py jamas. 'Of all the fools God ever made, Billiam, you are tho most confounded! Why in creation didn't you settle dowu and be a proper parson if you wanted to do all this kind of thing? It makes me sick.''
Billiam looked at hini awhile as if for onco ho would try to explain, but the hopelessness of the task made him turn away sadly. Nobody ever would understand. He must just go on and on till they put him in a lunatio asylum. ''"See here," ho said, "better put on your clothes, Herbert. You'll be sure to catch cold, prancing about there in your night things, and you don't look pretty," he added, looking at him critically. "But why wouldn't yon be a parson, Billiam? That boats me dead. You'ro just the sort of soft chap for a parson." "Stuffl1, said Billiam. "Who ever heard of a parson just for splicing up dogs and cats and things? There's enough of tho other kind to go round surely. And there's only one of Billiam for this sort of parsouing. "Well, Billiam," said Captain Ormithwaite a little later, "I am off up to town. This is all very well for a night, but a little more of it would kill mo. I declare I shall smell doggy and cliloraty for a month. Here's some sinews for you, Billiam. It's all I can spare. "Thank you," said Billiam, pocketing tho notes without demur. "I may be the prodigal chap in the parable, but I'm blowcd if you are tho old kind of older brother, the fellow who would not go in." "Thai's all right, "said the captain. "Let us hear that you keep ribald. 1 guess you'll slip into heaven ahead of some of the parsons yet, Billiam." "It'll bo when Peter's not looking then," said Billiam, shaking his
Till-: END.
BRAVi BOY'S WORDS.
A special from Madt-on, lnd., to the Indianapolis .'Journal, says: "Michael 10. Garinjr, private in Company F, Unc Hundred and Fifty-nintIi Indian:.! infantry, writes to his motlcr in this city as follows: 'Don'i believe for a minute the newspaper accounts of Camp Meade and of our condit ion, for 11,-,-.y are utterly unto undid. 1 do no! s, how uny per 111 with any humane feeling or prinnole. ould write such editorial* as the Xcw ork .Journal contains and cause so much suffering and worry by the soldiers' friend-: ai.d faifiiiies. Cam Meade is as pleasant place as one wouhi wish for a camp, and although the number in the division hospital increases a great deal daily it. is iit't.aus,every person who has the .slighie^ symptoms of fever is sent there UM-ie. diately, and they generally return after a day or 1 wo.'
Yountr (inrber. comes of .Mod AmC'ri'. can stock, aud it is apparent, from tlnj way he writes tiiar lie has the proper conception of what constitutes true patriotism and of what, is expected to constitute a true soldier.
What connection there is between the conduct, of the warand principles of free trade and its variations one can hard'y understand, but. it is a fact that all newspapers committed to everything lint protection of home industries are violently opposed to and hysterically critical of General Alger's management of the war department. Harper's Weekly, for instance, is furiously wrought up over the sufferings of soldiers. In a recent issue it had, in pk-. tures and comment, a very pronounced yellow streak. But it permitted a regular contributor to say: "Tho mind of man is too prone anyway to take kindly to complaints about food. With real 'hardships enough to stimulate their natural tendencies toward faultfinding, our heroes are now egged ou to extra strenuous efforts iu that direction by the hourly assurances of all the sensational papers in the country that they are starved, neglected and miscellaneously mismanaged. It most annnnr in the camps just now us if a soldier's whole duty was to distrust authority, reject his food, bewail his fate and demand to be sent home."
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"but if -they do nick mo at the gate, why, I guess there'll always be plenty for a fellow like me to turn his hand to in the other place." (This is not, however, tho end of Billiam. For there was a seamstress across tho landing who seriously interfered with his plans.)
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THE SUNDAY SCHOOL:
LESSON X! 11, THIRD QUARTER, INTERNATIONAL SERIES, SEPT. 25.
A Compr-hciiHive Review of the Quarter'* Lchhous—ollrn Text, l'». lzxxiv, 11 Commentary by tlie Rev. 1. St.,
Stearns.
LESSON I.—The Kingdom IJividod (I Kings xii, 10--5). Golden Text., I'rov. xv, I, "A soft, answer turnoth tnvay wrath, but grievous words stir up anger." Ho-, ctuisc Solomon turned away his heart from. the Lord and worshipod tho gods tthich his wives worshiped, allowiv his wivos: to come botwoen, hini and l.'.s God (chapter xl, 4, U), therefore tho Lord divided tho. kingdom, rending away ten tribes and leaving to his son only tho tribe of Judnh (chapter xi, 3ti), with which seoms to have been identified the triboof lionjmnin. Tho divided kingdom was tho outward ot thodivided heart..
II.— Klijahtho l'rophct (1 Kings.-
xvii, 1-1C.. Golden Text, I Kings vli, l'i, "And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did tho cruse of oil fail, uncording1 to tho word of tho Lord." In contrast to .Solomon and his divided heart bore is a man with a whole heart for God, ready to stand before kings or to hide himself by C'herith, or in the widow's house at Zarephath, a living witt. 'ss to the living and true (.Kid, obedient to Him and depending wholly upon Him.
111. lOlijah on Carmel(I KlngH
xviii, ao-USi). Golden Text, I Kings xviii, Hit, "And when all tho people saw it, the. fell on their faces, and they said, Tho Lord, he isthuGod the Lord, ho is the God." Tho desire of Elijah was that all mijjht know that the Lord God ot' Abraham was tho God of Israel and that, hu was llis servant (verse Ilti). So the desiro of David was that the Lord of hosts might ho magnified (I Sam. xvii, la).
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1V.- KU.jail's Flight, and En
couragement (I Kings xix, 1-1H). Gulden Text, Ps. xxxvii, 7, "Host in the Lord and wait patiently for Him." Seeit only tin* Lord, Elijah waa strong and fearless, but when ho saw .Jezebel and her anger ho was weak indeed and fled for his 1 ifo. Truly tho fear of man or woman bringeth a snare, but looking up steadfastly into hoaven (Acts vli, 66) takes away ail foar. Wo must not think that we are ossontinL to God, lost Ho appoint out suouuseoe (chapter xix, 10).
LKSSON V.—Xaboth's Vineyard (I Kings xxi, -1-10). Golden Text, Ex. xx, 17, "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house." Hero is a man the very opposite of Elijah and the God of Elijah—as man who lived only fur himself and to obtain what lav desired no matter who suffered, lie Is In tho line of Gain and related to antichrist, of whom wo read that ho shall do according to liis will and exalt and magniiy bine self above every god, anil sitting in tho temple of God will show himself that ho is God (Dan. xi, ilti li Thess. ii, J). Tho. Christian magnifies Christ.
LKSSKN VI. Elijah's Spirit on Ellsluii (II Kings ii, f.-lo). Gulden Text, Luko xi, IjJ, How much mure shall your llcavenly r'ather give the Holy Spirit to tlietn that iisk Hint.
I-'or salvation wo do not need
to cling to Christ. When once we havn roceived llim, He clings to us and will never let us go. lint for power for service and'for intimate fellowship with llim wo much cleave to llim as Elisha did nj Elijah, never taking our eyes off Him, »ce.ing no man save .Icsus only.
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VI I. The ShunaniiteY Hon (II
Kitsgs iv, U5-:J7 Golden Te:a, Pj.' "Cast thv burden upon tho Lord, and lie shall sustain thee." The boy restored, to his mother from the dead would he much more to her than if she had never lost him. God, wlui gave her this son, would bo more to her also. She now new the joy not only of the gift of a so:i, Imt, of., the restoration oi a son from the dead. that we may know the Son, God'and tho power'uf His resurrection! (I iii, id.) l.KSsoN VIII.—Xaaiaali Healed Kings v, 1 I i). (loiilen Text, ,IciII, "ileal nli', Lord, and I shall ho: healed save me und I shall Ihj... saved." All the greatness anil honor at«ii might of Xaaiuan was marred by the iac thai ho was a leper. All the gruatne*.vitf'. ciit Ui is, marred by sin, and there is who a iv it a a Messiah, the Son of G,,d, our l.on! Jusus Christ. A:, a lit It! child w:i,, I he tic ins of directing .\'aa:nan t.i the' healer, so may every boy anil gill who knows Christ direct. others Ho IIi 111.
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I I N a a Kings xiii, I L-".",). Golden Te.vt. cxvi, I... "Precious in the sight of the Lord id the death of His saints." Though Elisha had a double portion of tho Spirit-, yet lie w.is permitted to die. while Elijah was iken wkhot.t living. Either way it is a g.iin. They do nst from their labor*, aud taeir works do .'follow them.. The bow and. arrow incidc: suggests that Ii •.."'•itiuiw in the scrvice 'of God eonio from u- athir than from Gud. Tho coming to liie of the dead man makes us think of tho power oi His re.-uriection who died for us.
LI'.smi: XL—Sinful Indulgence (Amos, vi, hj. Gulden Text, lsa. xxviii, 7, "They aiso have ei red through wi tie and through strong dri.il: ale out of the v.ay. East and -elf indulgence are mr be: oming in child of God, for "even Christ pleased not Himself." It: is our pri\Siege to have quietness and peaco and rest:, lji.it theso
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