Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1882 — The Artless Prattle of a Babe. [ARTICLE]

The Artless Prattle of a Babe.

One of those unnaturally bright children who are always getting people into difficulties was £t a prayer meeting the other evening with his mother, when he asked aloud: “Ma, say ma-who was Dinah Moore?” “Hu-u-sh,” whimpered his mother cautiously, “it’s a hymn.” “No, it ain’t, ma,” continued the hopeful, “it’s a woman’s name; say who’s going home to Dinah Moore?” “Willie,” said his mother in a ghastly voice, “you,re disturbing the meeting. It means going to heaven to die no more.” “Dine no more! O, ma, don’t they eat anything there?” His mother explained as well as she could, and Willie sat still for half a minute, bis bright eyes roving about the church. Then he asked in a shrill whisper: “Ma, is God out of town?” “No-o-o, no-no,” answered the distracted woman, faintly. -Then what’s Mr. Kelly running this meeting for, ma?” continued the sweet child. The choir sung him down, but as the meeting closed with a moment of B{lent prayer, his gentle voice was distinctly heard. - -♦ ♦ Mason Boynton, a Louisiana planter, not liking the way in which one old ”egro woman was working, went out into his field to whip her. She defended herself with her hoe, and he went back to the house and got bis brother to come and help Kim whip the old woman. Then the woman’s husband, Sam Simms, came to her defense, and Boynton stabbed him in the breast with a knife. Then Boynton mounted his horse, rode to town, and made affidavit against Simms for an assault with intent to kill.