Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 7, Number 47, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 19 May 1877 — Page 7

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PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE, I

THREE FISHER MAIDENS.

Three maidens Went smiling out into the world. Out into the world of a ball-room floor: Each thought if her hair was most gracefully curled.

And their mothers stood watching them out from the door For men must work that women may keep

The length of their revels lest ver they weep. And their fond mamma be scowling.

Three fathers sat up blank,

by their ledgers so

And thev conned their acoounts with their heads low down And theyadded their bills and th*lr checks on the bank,

And thev read the dread roll of the day's wreck in town But men must work, Jest the women should weep-

Though lonely nis lotand troublesdeep, The pattern papa's not growling.

Three bankrupts were posted in merciless print In the morning Gazette, es t) panic went down And their daughters went duly from frenzy to faint,

For the tragedy filled the elite of the town. For men may work, yet the womau will weep,

And the sooner they're married, the Hoont-r to sleep, A ill d.f, the mamma and her scowling

THE

Circuit Rider.

A LOVE STORY OF EARLY LIFE IN THE WEST.

BY EDWARD EGGLESTON.

Auther of The Hoosier Schoolmaster," End of the World" Mystery of Met ropolisvillc,1' etc.

[The Circuit Rider was commenced In The Saturday Evening Mail Vol. 7, No. 43

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CHAPTER XII.

MR. BRADY PKOPHESIKS.

'The Methodists had actually made *break in the settlement. Dancing bad •not availed to keep them out. It was no longer a question of getting 'shet' of

Wheeler aud his Methodist wife, thus extirpating the contagion. There would -beatclass' formed, a leader appointed, a regular preaching place established, Jliss&wacbee would become part of that ....great wheel called a circuit there would be revivals and conversions the peace of the settlement would be destroyed .For now one might never again dance at a 'hoe-down,' drink whisky at a shuck .Jn', or race 'bosses'on Sunday, without a lecture from somebody. It might be your own wife, too. Once let the Methodists in, and there was no knowin.' liUinsden, for his part, saw'more seri©us consequence*. By bis opposition, be bad unfortunately spoken for the enoaity of the Methodists in advance.

The preacher bad openly defied him. Kike would join the class, and the Methodists would naturally resist bis ascendancy. No concession on bis part short ofabsolute surrender would avail. lie resolved therefore that the Methodists should find out 'who they were fighting.' /irady was pleased. Gossips are always 'delighted to have something happen opt of the usual oourse. It gives them a theme, something to exercise their wits upon. Let us not be too bard upon gossip. It is one form or communicative, Intellectual activity. Brady, under different conditions, might have been a journalist, writing relishful leaders en'topics of the time.' For what is journalism bot elevated and organized ^gossip? The greatest benefactor of an •out-of-the-way neighborhood is the man •or woman with a talent for good-natured gossip. Such an one averts absolute mental stagnation, diffuses intelligence, and keeps alive a healthful public opinion on local questions.

Brady warned to taste some of Mrs. Goodwin's *ry-al hoe-cake.' That was the reason he assigned for his visit on the evening after the meeting. He was always hungry for hoe cake when anything bad baapened about which he wanted to talk. But ou this evening Job Goodwin get the lead in conversaat first. 'Mr. Brady,'said be, 'what's going to happen to us all? These Methodls' sets people craisy with the Jerks, I've beam tell. Iley? I hear dreadful things about'etn. Ob dear, it seems like as if everything oome upon folks at once. Hey? Tha fever's spreadin' at Chilicotae, they tell me. And then, If we should git into a war with England, you know, and the Indians should come and ekelp us, they'd be precious few left, botwixt them that went crazy aud them that gotakelped. Precious tew, I tell you. lie)?'

Here Mr. Goodwin knoekel the ashes out of his pipe and laid it away, and fmncbod the lire meditatively, endeavoring to discover in his imagination solno new and darker pigment for his picture or the future. But failing to •think of anything more lugubrious than Method itktts Irdians, and lever, he set vthetong* in tha corner, heaved a sigh of liiscouragemect, and looked at Brady inquiringly. 'Ve'rololke the hootin' owl, Mtstber GoodwiD it's the black std* ye're afther lookln'*t all the toimo. W Moirto»? He Hint been tn school yet- since ibis quarter took »p •Mortou? He got to stay out, expect. Mv rheumatic tnlgbty bad, and I

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owerful weak. I don think craps 11 good next year, and I expect well have a banl row to hoe, particular ir we -all have the fever, and the Methodls keep up thflr excitement and driving .people cnuy with jerks, and war breaks out with England, and the Indians come on u*. But here's Mori now,' 'Ha! Moirton, and ve wasn'tat matin' last noicht? Ye heeid fwat a toime we had. Mmt very bod got struck barmlev, exclpt mess I and a few other hardened sinners. Ye beerd about Kcike? I reckon tho Captain's good and glad he's got the blissin% iu a warrantee on tbe

Captain's skull, maybe. Fwat would ye d« for acronv now, Moirton, if Koike come to be a pray cber?' •Heaintsueh a fool. I guest,' said Morton, with whom Kike's 'getting religion' was an unpleasant topic. 'It'll aU wear off with Kike soon enough.' •Dont be too shore, Moirton. Things wear off with you sometoimes. Ye swear ye'll niver swear no more, and ye're williu' to bet that yell niver bet sgin, .and ye're always a talkin' about a brave loife, but the fleeh la ferniast ye. When

Koike's bad, he's bad all over, llckin* won't take It out of him I've throld it meal

If. Now he** got good, the devil 11 have as bard a toime makin' him bad as I had makin' him good. I'm rolgbt

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glad it's the devil now, and net his school masther, aa has got to throy to handle tbe lad. Got ivery lisson to-day, and didn't break a single rule of the school! What do you say to that. Moirton? The divil's got his hinds full thalr. Hey, Moirton?' •Yes, but he'll never be a preacher, He wants to get rich just to spite the Captain.' 'But tbe spoite's clean gone with tbe rist, Moirton. And he'll be a praycher yit. Didn't he give me a talkin' to this mornln', at breakfast? Tbinkoftheim pudent little sooundrel a venturin' tell his ould mastber that he ought repint of bis sins! He talked to bis mother, too. till she oroid. He'll make her belaveshe is a great sinner whin she aint wicked a bit, excipt in her gram mar, which couldn't bt worse. I've talked to ber about that mesilf. Now, Moirton, I'll tell ye thesymptoms of praycher among tbe Mitbodists. Those that take it aisy, and don't bother body, you needn't be afeard of. But those that git It I aJ, and are trouble some, and middlesoine, and aggravating ten to one '11 turn out praychers. The lai that '11 tackle his masther and his mother at breakfast the verp morntn afther he's got the blissin, while he's yit a babe, so to spake, and prayebe to 'em single-handed, two to one, is a takin' the short cut acrost tbe faild to be a praycher of the worst sort one of the kind that's as thorny as a honey-locust.' 'Well, why can't they be peaceable and let other people alone? That med dling isjust what I don't like,' growled Morton. 'Bedad, Moirton, that's jist fwat Ahab and Jizebel thought about ould Elijyl We don't any of us loike to have our wickedness or laziness middled with 'Twar middlin', sure, that the Pbarisays objicted to and if the blissed Jaysus hadn't been so throublesome, be wouldn't niver a beencrucifiod.' 'Why, Brady, you'll be a Methodist yourself,' said Mr. Job Goodwin. y| •Niver a bit of it, Mr. GoodwitfT I'm rale lazy. This lookin' at* the state of me moind's insoides, and this cbasin afther me sins up hill and down dale all the toime, would niver agray with me frail constitootiori. This bavin' me spiritooal pulse examined iverv wake in class matin', and this wat'ehin' and prayin', aren't lor sich oidlers as me I'm too j:oncl natured to trate mesilf that way, sure. Didn't you iver notice that the'highest vartoos ain't possible to a rale goodnater'd man?'

Here tars. Goodwin looked at tbe cake on tbe boe in front of the fire, and found it well browned. Supper wa» ready, and the conversation drifted to Morton's prospective arrangement with Captain Lumsden to cultivate his hill farm on tbe 'sheers.' Morton's father shook his bead ominously. Didn't believe tbe Captain was in 'arnest. Ef he was, Mort mout .git the fever in the winter, or die, or be laid up. 'Twouldn't do to depend on no sech promises, bo way

But, notwithstanding his father's croaking, Morton did bold to tbe Cap tain's piomise and to tbe hope of Patty. To tbe Captain's plans for mobbing Wheeler be offered a strong resistance. But he was ready enough to engage in making sport of the despised religionists, and even organized a party to interrupt Magruder with tin boras when he should preach again. But all this time Morton was uneasy in himeelf. What had become of his dreams of being a hero? Here was Kike beari»g all manner of persecution with patience, devoting himself to tbe welfare of others, while all bis own purposes of noble and knightly living were hopelessly funk in morass of adverse circumstances. One of Morton's temperament must either grow better or worse, and, chafing under these embarassments, be played and drank more freely than ever.

CHAPTER XIII. TWO TO ONK.

Magrader had been so pleased with his success in organizing a class in the Hissawacbee settlement that he resolved to favor theoa with a Sunday sermon on his next round. He was accustomed to preach twice every week day and three times on every Sunday, after the laborious manner of the eircuit-rider of bis time. And since be expected to leave Hissawacbee as soon as meeting should be over, for bis next appointment, he determined to reach the settlement before breakfast that he inigbt have time to confirm tbe brethren and set things in order.

When the Sunday set apart for tbe second sermon drew near, Morton, with the enthusiastic approval of Captain Lumsden, made ready his tin horns to uterrupt the preacher with a serenade. But Lumsden had other plans of whkh Morton had no knowledge.

John Wesley's rule was, that a preacher should ris« at four o'clock and spend the hour until five in reading, meditation and prayer. Five o'clock found Magruder in tbe saddle on his way to lltssawachee, reflecting upon tbe sermon be Intendod to preach. When be bad ridden more than an hour, keeping himself company by a lusty singing of hymns, he came suddenly out upon tbe brow of a hill overlooking tbe Hissawawacbee valley. Tbe gray dawn was streaking tbe clouds, the preacher checked bis horse and looked forth on the valley ju^t disclosing its salient features in the twilight, as a General looks over a battle-field before tbe engagement begins. Then he dismounted, aud, kneeling upon tbe leaves, prayed with apostolic fervor for victory over 'the hosts of sin and the devil.'* When at last he got into the saddle again tbe winter sun was sending its first horiaontal beams into bis eyes, and all the eastern sky was ablaze. Magruder bad the bablt of turning the whole universe to spiritual account, and now, as he descended the bill, he made the woods ring with John Wesley's hymn, which might have been composed in the presence of such a scene: -o

sun of

righteousness, ari«e

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With healing in.tny wing "aln

To deceased, my falntlnc soul, Life and salvation bring.

"These clouds of pride and sin dispel, 1 By thy all-piercing beam Lighten my eyes with fhith my heart

With bely hope* inflame." By the time he bad finished the second stanza, tbe bridle path that he was following brought him into a dense forest oI beech and maple, and he saw walking toward him two stoat men, none otber than o«r old acquaintances, Bill McConkey and Jake Sniger. 'Looky yer,' said BUI, catching the preacher's hone by the teidle 'yen git down!' 'What for?' said Magruder. (We're goin* to lick you tell you promise to go back and never stick yimr head Into tbe Hissawacbee Bottom agin.' 'But I wont promise.' 'Then we'll put a finish merit to ye.' 'You am two to one. Will you give me time to draw my ooat?'

Wal, yea, I low we wiU.' Tbe preacher dismounted with qoiet deliberation, tied hit bridle to a beech limb, offering a mental prayer to the God of Samson, and then lam his ooat serosa the saddle. •My friends,' be said, «I dont want to nhip you. laid vise yon now to let me alone. As an American citUen, I have

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aright to go where I please. My Wher was a revolutionary soldier, and I mean to fight for my rights.' •Shet up your jaw!' said Jake, swear-, ing, and approaching the preacher from one side, while Bill came up on tbe other. Magruder was one of those short, stocky men who have no end of muscular force and endurance. In his unregeneratedays be had been oelebrated for his victories in several rude encounters. Never seeking a fight even then, he bad. nevertheless, when any ambitions champion came from afar for tbe purpose of testing bis strength, felt him self bound to 'give him what be came after.' He had now greatly the advantage of the two bullies in hisknowledge of the art of boxing.

Before Jfdce had fairly finished his

advantage of this to strike Magruder heavily on tbe cheek. Jake, having felt the awfnl weight of Magrnder's fist, was a little slow in coming to time, and tbe preacher had time to give Bill a most polemical blow on tbe nose then turning suddenly, he rushed like a mad bull upon Seiger, and dealt him one tremendous blow that fractured two of his ribs and felled him to the earth. But Bill struck Magruder behind, knocked him over, and threw himself upon bim after the fashion of tbe Western free fight. Nothing saved Magruder but his 1 mense strength. He rose right up with Bill upon bim, and then, by a deft use of his legs, tripped his antagonist and burled him to the ground. He did not dare take advantage of bis fell, however, for Jake bad regained his feet and was coming up on him cautiously. But when Sniger saw Magruder rushing at him again, he made a speedy retreat into tbe bushes, leaving Magruder to fight it out with Bill, who despite bis sorry-looking nose, was again ready. But he now 'fought shy,' and kept retreating slowly backward and calling cut, 'Come up on him behind, Jake! Come up behind!' But tbe demoralized Jake baa somehow got a superstitious notion that tbe preacher bristled with fists before and oehind, having as many arms as a Hindoo deity. Bill kept backing until be tripped and fell over a bit of brush, and then picked himself up and made off, mntterin: 'I ain't a goin' to try to handle him alone! He must have tbe very devil in him!'

About nine o'clock on that same Sunday morning, the Irish school -mas ter, who was now boarding at Goodwin's and who had just made an early visit to the Forks for news, accosted Morton with: 'An' did ye bear the nooze, Moir--ton? Bill Conkey and Jake Sniger bev bad a bit ofSunday morning ricreation. Thev tbroid to thrash tbe praycher as bo was a-comin' through North's Holler, this tnornin' but they didn't make no allowance for tbe Oirisb blood Magru der's got in him. He larruped 'em both singlo-handed, and Jack's ribs are cracked, and ye'd lawf to see Bill's nose! Captain must 'a' bad some proivate intberest in that muss hey, Moirton?'

Iffe thunderin' mean!' said Morton 'two men on one, and bim a preacher and all I've got to say is, I wish he'd killed 'em both.'

And yer foter father-in-law into the bargain? Hey, Moirton? But fwat did I tell ye about Koike? The praycher's jaw is lamed by a lick Bill gave bim, and Koike's to exhort in his place. I tould ye be bad tbe botberin' spent of prophecy in him.'

Tho manliness in a character like Morten's must react, if depressed too far and he now notified these who were to help him interrupt tbe meeting that if any disturbance were made, be should take it on himself to punish tbe ofiender. He would not fight alongside Bill McConkey and Jake .Sniger, and be felt li te seeking a quarrel with Lumsden, for tbe sake of justifying himself to himself.

CH AFTER XYI.

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KIKrfSSBRMON.

During the time that had intervened between Kike's conversion and Magruder's second visit to tbe settlement, Kike had developed a very considerable gift for earnest speech in tbe class meetings. In that day every influence in Methodist association contributed to make a preacher of a man of force. The reveretce with which a self-denying preacher was regarded by tbe people was a great compensation for tbe poverand toil that pertained to tbe office, be a preacher was to be canonized during one's lifetime. The moment a young man showed seal and fluency he is pitched on by all the brethren and sisters as one whose dnty it was to preach the Gospel he was asked whether he did not feel that he had a divine oall he was set upon watching tbe movements within him to see whether or not be ought to be among the sons of the prophets. Oftentimes a man was made to feel, in spite of his own better judgment, that be was a veritable Jonah, slinking from duty, an imminent peril of a whale in the shape of some providential disaster. Kike, indeed, needed none of these urging* to impel him toward tbe ministry. He was a man of the prophetic temperament—one of those men whose beliefs take hold of them more strongly than tbe objects of sense, Tbe future life, as Methodists, with a! awful torments, became stantial of realities to him. He was in constant astonishment that people could believe these things theoretically and ignore them in practice. If men were going headlong to perdition, and could te saved and brought into a paradise of eternal bliss by prescbing, then what nobler work oeold there be than that of saving them? And, let a man take what view he may of a future life, Kike's opinion was the right one—no work can be eoexoellent as that of helping men to better living.

uw oujecw oi sense, preached by the early all its joys and all its eeame the most sub-

Kike bad been poring over some works of Methodist biography which he had borrowed, and the sublimated life of Fletcher was tbe only one that fulfilled bis ideal. Methodism preached consecration to its disciples. Kike bed already learned from Mie. Wheeler, who wss the olaes leader at Hissawacbee settlement, and from Methodist literature, that he must 'keepfall on the altar.' He must be ready to do, to suffer orto perish, for the Master. The sternest sayings of Christ about forsaking father and mother, and bating one's own life and kindred, be beard often repeated In exhortations. Most people are not harmed by a literal understanding of hyperbolioal expressions. loudness and sslfisbnees are great antidotes to fsnattdsna.and often pass current for common sense. Klks had no such buffers taught to accept tbe words of the Gospel with tbe dry literalnesH of statutory enactment*, he was too honest to evade their foroe, too earneet to slacken his obedience. He was already prepared to accept any burden and endure any trial that might be given as a test of di-sciple-ship. All his natural ambition, vehemence, and persistence, found exetoelss in Ids religious lite, and tbe simple hearted brethren, not knowing that the one sort of inaensity WM bat the counterpart of the other, pointed to tbe transformation as a 'beaotitol con verion,' a standing miracle. So it was, in

deed, and, like all moral miracles, it was worked In the direction oflndividuality, not In opposition to it.

It was a grievous disappointment to the little band of Methodists tbst Brother Magrnder's face was so swollen, after bis encounter, as te prevent his preaching. Tbey had counted much upon the success of this day's work, and now tbe devil seemed about to anatobtbe victory. Mrs. Wheeler entbusissticslly recommended Kik* as a substitute, and Msgruder sent for him in hsste. Kike was gratified to hear that tho preacher wanted to see bim personally. His sallow face flushed with pleasure as he stood, a slender stripling, before the messenger of God. 'Brother Lumsden,' said Mr. Magruder,'are you ready to do and to suffer tor Christ?' 'I trust I am,' said Kike, wondering what the preacher oould mean. 'You see how the devil has planned to defeat the Lord's work to day. My lip is swelled, and my jaw so stiff that I can hardly speak. Are you ready to do tbe duty tbe Lord sbsll put upon you?' lake trembled from bead to foot. Hs had often fancied himself preaching his first sermon in a strange neighbor! |l

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and he had even picked out his text but to stand up suddenly before his schoolmates, before his mother, before Bradj, and. worse than all, before Morton, was terriblo. And yet, bad he not that very morning made a solemn vow that he would not shrink from death itselt! 'Do you tbink I am fit to preach?' he asked, evasively. 'None of us are fit but here will be two or three hundred people hungry for the bread of life. The Master has fed you he offers you the bread to distribute among your friends and neighbors. Now, will you let the fear of man make you deny tbe blessed Lord who has taken you outof a horrib pit and set your feet upon the Rock of Ages?'.

Kike trembled a moment, and then said: 'I will do whatever you say, if you will pray for me.' 'I'll do that, my brother. And now take your bible, and go into the woods and pray. The Lord will show you the way, if you put your whole trust in him,'

The preacher's allusion to tbe bread of life gave Kike his subject, and he soon gathered a few thoughts which he wrote down on a fly-leaf of the Bible, in tbe shape of a skeleton. But it occurred to him that he had not one word to say on the subject of the bread of life beyond the sentences of his skeleton. The more this became evident to him, the greater was his agony of fear. He knelt on tbe brown leaves by a prostrate log he made a 'new consecration' of himself he tried to fee! willing to fail, so far as his own feelings were involved he reminded tbe Lord of bis promises to be with them he bad uent and then there came into his memory a text of Scripture: 'For it shaiil be given you in that same Lour whst ye shall speak.' Taking it, after tbe manner of the early Methodist mysticism, that the text had been superncturally 'suggested' to him, he becams calm and finding, from the height of tbe sun, that it was about the hour for meeting, he returned to the house of Colonei Wheeler, and was appalled at tbe sight that met his eyes. All the settlement, and many from other settlements, had come, liie house, tbe yard, tbe fences, were full of people. Kike was seized with a tremor. He did not feel able to run tbe gauntlet of such a throng. He made a detour, and crept in at the back door like a criminal. For stage-fright —this fear of human presence—Is not a thing to be1 overcome by tbe will. Susceptible natures are always liable to it, and neither moral nor physical courage can avert it.

A chair bad been placed in the front door of the log house, for Kike, that he might preacb to the congregation indoors and tbe much larger one outdoors. Mr. Magruder, much battered up, sat on a wooden bench just outside. Kike crept into the empty chair in the doorway with the feeling of one who intrudes where he doee not belong. The brethren were singing, as a congregational voluntary, to the solemn tune of 'Kentucky,' the hymn which begins: "A charge to keep 1 have,

A -v*r-r1y1asg soul tosave AuU-nt it lor the sky." Magruder saw Kike's fright, and, leaning over to him^. said: 'If you get confused, tell your own experience.' The early preacher's refuge was bis own experience. It was a sure key to the sympathies of the audience.

Kike got through the opening exercises very well. He could pray, for in praying be shut biseyes and uttered the cry of his trembling soul for help. He bad been beating aoont among two or

three texts, either of whicn would do for a bead piece to the remarks he intended to make but now one fixed iteelf in his mind as ho stood appalled by bis situation in the presence or such a throng. He rose and read, witn a tremulous voice:

There is a lad here wh'ch hath five barley leaves and two small fishes but what are they among at* many?"

Tbe text arvested tbe attention of all. Magruder, though unable to speak without pain, could not refrain from saying aloud, after tbe free old Methodist fashion: 'The Lord multiply the loaves! Bless snd break to tbe multitude!' 'Amen!' respond-d an old brother from another settlement, 'and tbe Lord help the lad!' But Kike felt that tbe advantage which tbe text had given bim would be of abort duration. Tbe novelty of bis position bewildered bim. His face flushed his thoughts became confuted be turned his back on the audience out of doors, and talked rapidly to the few friends in the house: the old brethren leaned their beads upon their hands and began to pray. Whatever spiritual help their prayers may have brought him, thAr lugubrious groaning, and their doleful, audible prayers of 'Lord help!' depressed Kike immeasurably, and kept the precipice on wbicb he •tood constantly present to him. He tried in succession each division that be hsd sketched on tbe fly-leaf of the Bible, and found little to say on any of tbem. At lsst, he could not see the audience distinctly for confusion—there was a dim vision of heads swimming before bim. Ho stopped still, and Msgruder, expecting him to sit down, rssolved to Vxbort' if tbe pain should kill bim. Tbe Philistines meanwhile were laughing at Kike's evident discomfiture.

But Kike had no notion of sitting down. The laughter awakened his combativeness, aud bis combativeness restored his self-control. Persistent people begin their success where others end In failure. He was through with the sermon, and it hsd oocuplea just six minutes. The lad's scanty provisions had not been multiplied. But he felt relieved. Tbe sermon over, there was no longer necessity for trying to speak against time, nor for observing tbe outward manner of snrescber. 'Now,' he said, doggedly, 'you have all sera that I cannot preach worth a cent. When David went out to light, he bad tbe good sense not to put on Saul's armor. I waa fool enough to try to wear Brother Magrnder's. Now, I'm done with that. Tbe text and sermon are gone. But I'm not ashamed of Jesus Christ, And before I sit down, I

am going to tell yoa all wbat be has done for a poor lost sinner like me.' Kike told tbe story with sincere directness. His recital ot his own sins wss a rebuke to others, with a trembling voice and a simple earnestness absolutely electrical, he told of his revengefulness, and of tbe effect of Msgruder's preaching on him. And now tnat the flood gstes of emotion were opened, si I trepidstion departed, and there came instead the fine glow ef martial courage. He could have faced tbe universe. From bis own life the transition to the lives of those around him was easy. He bit right and left. Tbe excitable crowd swayed with consternation as. in a rapid and vehement utterance, be denounced their sins with the particularity of one who had been familiar with them all his life. Magruder forgot to reepond he only leaned back and lookod in bewilderment, with open eyes and mouth, st the fiery boy whose eontagious excitement was fast setting the whole audience ablaze. Slowly the people pressed forward off the fences. All at once th'ere was aloud bellowing cry from someone who had fallen psostrate outside the fence, and who began to cry aloud as if the portals of an endless perdition were yawning in his face. Magruder pressed through the crowd to find thst the fallen man was his antagonist of the morning —Bill McConkey! Bill had concealed his bruised nose behind a tree, but had been drawn forth by tbe fascination of Kike's earnestness, and bad finally fallen under the effect of bis own terror. This outburst of agony from McConkey was fuel to tbe flames, and tbe exciter ment now spread to all parts of the audience. Kike went from man to man, and exhorted and rebuked each one in particular. Brady, not wishing to hear a public commentary on his own life, waddled away when he saw Kike com ing his mother wept bitterly under bis exhortation and Morton sat stock still on tbe fence listening, half in anguish

and half in anger, to Kike's public red-

tal of his ains,

At last Kike approached his uncle for Captain Lumsden bad come on purpose to enjoy Morton's proposed interruption. He listened a minute to Kike's exhortation, and the contrary emotions of alarm at the thought of God's judgment and anger at Kike's impuaence contended within him until he started for his horse and was seized with that nervous affection which originated in these religious excitements and disappeared with them.* He jerked violent

ly—his

jerking only adding to his ex

citement, which in turn increased the severity of his contortions. This nervous affection was doubtless a natural physical result of violent escitement, but tbe people or* that day imagined that it was produced by some supernatural agency, some attributing it to God, others to tne devil, and yet others to some subtle charm voluntarily exercised by the preachers. Lumsden .went home jerking all the way, and cursing the Methodists more bitterly than ever.

It bore, however, a curious resemblance to the "dancing disease" which pievailea 1 Italy in the Middle Ages. [TO BE OONTrNUER.]

RIDDLES.

Do you know why a ploughed fieldTs like feathered game Because it is partridges.

Who is the only blusterer from whom a brave mau will take a blow The wind.

What fish is most valued by a loving wife? Herring. Wby is an honorable man like a grand piano Because it is high toned.

Why are persons who. are abrupt in speech not so sharp as they should be? Bocanse they are blunt.

Wby are windows like fruit? Because they are put up in summer and down in winter.

Why is a sermon delivered on board a ship like a necklace? Because it's a deck-oration.

Wby is smoke like a novel Because it goes out iu volumes. Why is the cook at the Palace like a man sitting on the top of St. Pauta Both are in a high cool-and-airy (culinary) situation.

When is there no belly to the sails of a ship? When they are all a-back. What port is sought by every living creatuare? Sup-p rt.

Wby is a vain young man like a conArmed drunkard Because neither of them is satisfied with a moderate use of the glass.

When is a tired man like a thief? Wben he needs a-resting. On what grounds may confectioners be deemed very mercenary lovers? Because tbey sell their kisses.

What is the difference between a church organist and the influenza? One stops tbe nose, and the otner knows the stops.

Why is a bad bill like a bad swimmer? Because it can't contend with tbe current.

What quadrupeds are admitted to balls, operas ana dinner parties? Wbite kids.

If an empty purse could speak, what love speech would it make? You will find no chance in me.

Wby 1s tho polka like bitter beer Because there are so many hops in it. Whatcurious animals with wings form part of a very manly exerclae? Bats.

Why is a lamplighter like a cowardly soldier Because he fires and then runs

W^y is a man in a rage like a hardbaked pie Because ho is crusty. What town in New Hampshire is a grest grainlield Rye.

Wby is snuff like the letter 8? Beeause it is the beginning of sneezing. Why is a stupid bey like a town in Scotland? Becausebeisaduncr(Dunse).

When is the westher most Slke a crockshop Wben it is muggy. When have married people passed through tho Alphabet of love? Wben tbev reach tbe ba-be.

What is that wbicb works when it plays and plays when it works? A fountain.

What is an appropriate tree to plant at a distance from ones bouse A fir tree. Why is a newspaper like an apothecary shop? Because it contains extracts.

When is a man least likely to pursue a straight course? When he forsakes tbe path of duty to follow tbe bent of his own fency.

Wbat part of tbe earth is most favored by women The utter-most. Why is the air of Germany bad tor consumptives? Because it Is too-tonic.

Wbat is tbe most musical county in Scotland Tbe county of Fife. Wby is a windy orator like a whale? Because he often rises to spout.

Wben is a man out of date? When he's a weak-back. Why is Berlin tbe meet dissipated city in Europe? Because it is always on the Spree.

A German in this city lost his wife, and tbe next week married again, ana his new wife asked him to take her out riding. He felt Indignant that she should have no more respect than that for his deceased wife, and said, "You dink 1 ride out mid anoder vomap so soon after tbe death of mine frou ?'r

Dr. King's New DiscoYery. The World's Great Congh Medicine. Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption will cure a cough in one half tne time necessary to cure it with any other medicines, and it doee it not by drying it up, but by removing tbe causes, subduing tbe Irritation snd healing the affected parts. For all cases of hoarseness, suppression or loss of voice, any severe cbronic or lingering oough, bronchitis, or affection of the throat and lungs, it will be found to far surpsss all medicines that have ever before been offered to the public. It hss wrought a complete change in the cough medicines. Is entiiely different from all others. Is perfectly harmless to tbe smallest child. Trial bottles free. Regular sixes $1.00. For sale by GROVES &

LOWRY and GUCJCK A BKRRY. (2)

FRANK HEINIG,

Manufacturer of

Crackers, Bread, Cakes v:

AND AKDY.

narA11 goods bought of me delivered free of charge anywhere In the city.

I CRACKERS. Boston Butter, Milk, Pinclc, Butter, Oatmeal, Soda, Uraliam, Pearl Oyster, Victoria Soda

BISCUIT.

Cream, rL. Lemon, Cracknel, Wine, ««Ginger, FrostedCream Ginger,

Centennial augar Crackers.

Glng6?t Lemon, t,

Reel fop, Sugar, Scotch,

"SWAPS. Scotch, Spice, Rllienuts,

CAKES. Lemon, .s Tea, ttal8in, Ginger^ Herriet, Ginger Bread

LARGE CAKES ""%3$£h°n BREAD. V'

Square Loaf, English, French, ,3. Long Home-made, Rye, Cream, Twist, Pumpernlke Centennial Graham Rolls, Rusks, Coffee Cake. 128 IafayetteStreet, 130

BALLthe

TERRE HAUTE, IND.

STILL IN MOTION. BALL

is selling the best COOK STOVES In the Market.

ALL st-lls tbo FAVORITE Cook Steve

S for wood and coal.

ALL sells the PRAIRIE CITY Cook Stove. St ALL sells the BELLE Cook Stove.

has the largest stock of Stoves in city.

gALL sells Stoves cheaper than any house

sells Stov In tho city.

TALL warraats every Stove he sells to give satisfaction,

BALL

sells the cheapest and best Toilet Ware.

I a a to in a re in the city.

BALL

keeps a general variety of House umishing Goods.

BALLflrst-closs

i, ., I

keeps everything usually kept In a house of this kind.

BALLis

prepared to do Jobbing, Guttering and Spouting on good terms.

gALL Is a practical workman,

ALL personally superintends the Manufacturing Department.

BALLhouse

warrants all work done at this

BALLCopper

pays the highest cash price for old and .crass.

BALLand

pays the highest price for old Cast Wrought iron.

"p^ALL is near corner of Tlijnl st., No. 303 Main, TEKKE HAUTE.

ALL can be found at Sign of The Tin Ball,

BALLhopes

is thankful for patt favors, and by strict personal attention burliness, the

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_E3 J£L -i -L-l if

WILL KEEP ROLLING.

Picture Frames

Made to ordor at the lowest prices.

Melto and Premium Cliromo hxs Framing a Specialty.

street. Allen A Koch's, 26 south 4th street, to call on you with moulding samples will be promp ly attended to.

Frame* Made for tbe Trade.

J. F. PROBST, (Late with R. Gagg.) SOS f». 4th street.

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GRAINING, GLAZING, AC.,

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WH00PING0QUGH.

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Dr. Det* ohon's

Whooplnc Cough Specific cures th

Whooping Cough Specific cures this disease In one week's time. If need generally, 11 will save the lives of hundreds. Do net let yottr child die of wbo bottle of this Specific nates all the severer

euro it. Itmai* mi within the

first twenty-Soar hoars. For sale tar SUM. TIN ARMSTRONG. Terre Haute, Ind.

WARRANTED.

Da. E' DCTCHOWS COM

POUND LIVER PI 0L», to be the best anti-bilious, sagar-coated pills ever in use. They neither gripe nor sicken, but always act gently and promptly. At Buim* 6 ABXSTSOXa'B'