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McHenry Plaindealer (McHenry, IL), 16 Apr 1879, p. 3

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V&SUiles wltfis you bring, " I&'lhe jhy^hs Suiter mommgioT 1 _ ̂ sj/n'i mmtrng; And as the earth her abroadoi mow tram off her [yv#; foresnt doth fttng, pffjf" Scrmay we caat our MterssAtn Gcd<s stems! £ V • * %«M ..mjM, ' «yja •'*: f t ' • >St * y.,.- •",«/ Bo may we And release at last from HROV and from pain, may we find our childhood's calm, delicious da*n again. - S w e e t a r e y o u r e y e s , O l i t t l e o n s s , t h a t l o o k w i t h " *' 1 smiling grace, JHthout a shade of doabt or fear, Into thsl'utue's w-\ •• "" face' W "1 Hag, sing In happy chorus, with joyful voices t\ tell I That death is lite, and God is good, and all thpgs M* ̂ shall be well; | p ' : tha t bi t te r days ahul l oeaae , l f • ' V 4" j-*"/ , V, *•> warmth and l igh t and peesa--r n . 'V^v That •winter field* to spring-- it, Sing, little children, atngt \ • --ilM* TtoMmr, to m. 2We*«lii/lr mm. r enflrnmm "I sapj/ise you're wondering why I keep that ugly old chest," said Mrs. B--'•«•, " and I must own that it's not very ornamental; but it saved my life once for all that. I see you think I'm making fun of yon, but I'm not, indeed; and When you hear the story I think you'll agree with me that I have good . r reason to value it, ugly as it looks. | * This was how it happened. When wfejrst out to India, my husband *v wis sent to make the survey of the Ner- bttdda valley, one of the wildest bits in ̂all Central India; and we really were, just at first, the only white people with­ in forty or fifty miles. And such a time es^tre had d it! If my husband hadn't 7 Jjeen as strong as he is, and a perfect 'miracle of patience as well, I don't know how he could have stood what he had to do. It was dreadful work for him, be- f.,. ing up sometimes for a whole night to- ; aether, or having to stand out in the 1 burning sun, when the very ground itself was almost too hot to touch. And as for the native workmen, I never saw stioit a set--always doing everything wrong, and never liking anybody to put v„n , thaqi right. "When the railway was be- "'ing "made they used to carry the earth on their heads in baskets; and when Mr. served out wheelbarrows to them 'anally carried them on their in the same way 1 I couldn't help laughing at it. though it was terribly provoking, too. And that was just the way they all were; if there was a wrong way of using anything they'd be sure to find it out. Eves our butter, or khit- mutgar, who was snuoh better than moet of them, came one day and begged A pair of old decanter-label* that my husbaad was going to throw away; and when the man came in next morning he had. positively turned them |nto ear­ rings, and went about quite gravely with 'Port' in one ear and ' Sherry' in the ether! wever, if the native men «onhd the native beasts were fifty tiixfes worse. It was no joke, I can assure jrou, to be awakened in the middle of the night by the roar of a tiger close tinder the window, or by an elephant crashing and ̂ trumpeting through the jungle with ft noise like a mail-coach going full gallop into a hot-house. Well, as soon as that was over, the jack­ als would set up a squealing and whirn- "«ering like so many frightened chil­ dren, and then a dreadful native bird, whose name I've never found out (1 suppose because nobody could invent one bad enough for \t), would break out in ft succession of the most horrible ories--just liko somebody being mur­ dered--until the noise fairly drove me rn:„ . : « • "And then tho ants! but you've seen them for yourself, and I needn't tell yofi about them. But all this while Pm nq£lecting my story. . "One day (it will be long enough be­ fore I forget it) my husband was out ss usual at his work, and the nurse had gone down to the other native servants «t the end of the ' compound/ as we oaQ this big inclosnre, and I was left Alone in the house with my little Min- nie yonder, who was then just about a year old. By this time I had got over mj first fears, and didn't mind a bit be­ ing left by myself; indeed, all the lower windows having bars across them, I thought that I was safe enough, but I little dreamed of what was coming! * I must have been sitting over my Sfting nearly an hour, with Hie ohild 4* ? ̂ ^ - ( <*• |r •' v r" IP •bout the floor beside me, when suddenly I hesdrdadult tiankp ov«e- head, as if something lad fr#** cm the root immmi anyflA of it at the jisng)« 1 but, presently, I thought I ocgitf hear a hoavy breathing in the next room but one, and then I begaato feel fright­ ened in sttruMt. I rose si iotty as I oould, and crept to the door-way be­ tween the rooms. This door-way was only closed by a onxtain, and gentî rpoll- ing aside the folds, I peeped through-- and found myself within a few paces of the largest panther I had ever seen in mylife! * For one moment it was just as if I had been frozen stiff, and then the thought came te me just as if some­ body had spoken it: ' The big ehestP MI knew that this chest would hold me and my child manly, and that I oould leave a chink of the lid open to let us breathe, for the overlapping edge would save my fingers from the panther. In ft second I had it all dear before me; but, h*d the brute not stopped short at sight of the curtain, I should neve; have had ft ohftnee of trying it. Luckily for me, the Indian panther, savage as he is, is a terrible cow­ ard, and suspicious m any detective. I've seen one go round and round ft trap for more than half an hour, before he made up his mind to spring at the bait. So, while my friend was puzzling himself over the curtain, and wondering whether it was a trap or not, I took up Minnie (who, poor little pet, seemed to know there was something wrong, and never uttered a sound) and into the chest I crept, making as little noise as I oould. "I was hardly settled there when I heard the ' sniff-sniff' of the panther ooming right up to where I lay, and, through the ohink that I had left open, the hot, foul breath came steaming in upon my face, almost making me sick. It seemed to bring my heart into my mouth when I heard his great claws scraping the edge of the lid and trying to lift it up; but, happily, the ohink was too narrow for his paw to enter. But if the fiftw eoaldn't* the tongue oould; and soon he began to Hck my fingers, rasping them so that I hardly knew how to bear it. Still, the touch of Minnie's little arm around my neck seemed to give me courage. But there was far worse than this to come; for the panther suddenly leaped right on top of the chest, and his weight pressed down the heavy lid upon my fingers, until the pain was so terrible that, unable to stand it any longer, I screamed with all my might. "The scream was answered'*by a shout, from just outside, in which I recognized my husband's voice. The panther heard it, too, and it seemed to scare him, for he made a dash for the window, either forgetting or not notic­ ing the iron bare; but, just as he reached it, there came the crack of a rifle, and I heard the heavy brute fall suddenly upon the floor. Then all the fright seemed to come back upon me at once, and I fainted outright. * I heard afterward that Mr. B had happened to want some instrument which he had left at the house; and, not wishing to trust it in the hands of any of the natives, he came back lor it himself--luckily, just in time, for the bullet from his rifle killed the pknther. But, as you see, my hand is pretty stiff yet.*~̂ Z)gf£4J£ert w S^JikikalM Jbr April - 1 -* JL MWAIZ, THAT WOULD 2TOT STARVE. An Egyptian desert snail was received at the British Museum on March 25, 1846. The animal was not known to be alive, as it had withdrawn into its shell, ftnd the specimen was accordingly gummed, mouth downward, onto a tab­ let duly labeled and dated, and left to its late. Instead of starving, this con­ tented gasteropod simply went to sleep in a quiet way, and never woke up again for four years. The tablet was then placed in tepid water, and the shell loosened, when the dormant snail suddenly resuscitated himself, began walking about the basin, and finally sat for Ms portrait, which may be sees, of life-size in Mr. Woodward's "Manual of the Molhuoa." Mow, during those four years the snail had never eaten a mouthful of any food, yet he was quite as well and flourishing at the end of the period as he had ^eenat its begin­ ning.--Belgravia, " ottimr. ~ > • The fiat thing to be conquered in grief is the pleasure we feel in indulg­ ing it. There is but one pardonable sorrow--that for the departed. This pleasing grief is but ft variety of com­ fort; the sighs we heave are but a mournful mode of loving them. We shed tears when we think of their de­ parture ; and we do so, too, when we think of reunion with them, and our tears at both times are not very differ­ ent. That which is past, however, should be submitted to with perfect submission. It is as foolish to com­ plain of a loss which has been sustained, and which loss cannot be remedied, as to regvet that we have not wings, or that we munot pay a visit to the moon. **TATMM» QREENi ? lVMtaf ail-' ?"•*' ? Tater" Green laid five comrades kit their home in Norih- •n Ohio, in the ^aba*j of mfc** Bflgieek county, with the avowed inten­ tion of making their fortunes at Pike's peak or Cherry-creek diggings. Every­ thing went all right with the perty un­ til they crossed the Arkansas, when a feeling of homesickness began to make itself lell among the emigrants. Men would become sick for a si^ht of civil- i nation and break off with the party, oauaing a general divide. In this way they would sometimes cut wagons in two, and even, Ckeen says, he once saw an ox cut in two. Green's partner was one of the disaffected, and, m deciding to pull up stakes, ft division of property was made, he taking one ox and the front wheels of the wagon, Green talnng the other ox and the hind wheels. Out of these he made a sulky in which he drove his ox. At Denver, dishearten­ ing reports began to meet him. Dis­ gusted miners pushing for home met them every day. The tide turned, and threats of burning 8t Louis were made. Indeed, a party was organ­ ized for that purpose, but never con­ summated it. Checked by the news that no gold was to be found in the Cherry creek diggings, "Tater" squat­ ted on a 160-acre tract, upon which, by the way, Golden City now stands. Denver, in the days of 1859, was probably as fast a place as any city on the continent. . It was the point where civilization met the wilderness. The fortunes made in bonanza mining were spent here with an open hand. One day, as Green was driving his ox from his homestead into Denver, some fel­ lows on horseback attempted to pass him. The ox, moved by the spirit which infested the place, prob»blj, quickened its steps until it went off in a swinging trot, leaving the horses be­ hind. This was the first intimation Green had that his bob-tailed ox (it was bob-tailed) oould trot. The idea then presented itself to him that if he oould only accustom the bovine to trot­ ting a certain distance on a certain pieoe of ground he could out-trot any horse in the neighborhood. There was a gambler by the name of Baiiuale, from Illinois, in itonver at this period, who owned a horse that oould do his mile ̂ in 2:40. Bandale was quite a chum of Green, and would occasionally drop into his quarters and blow his horse's trumpet. A day. or two after Green's discovery of his ox's powers R&ndale dropped in on him and, as usual, began "talking horse." Watching his chance, Green remarked that he had an ox that could beat Ban- dale's horse for 300 yards. Band ale laughed at first, then got mad, and at last offered to bet ten to one that it could not be done. The bet was prompt­ ly taken, and they adjourned to the prepared plaoe. The ox was backed up to a little hand-cart, half ft yoke put around his neok, a oouple of Baplings served as shafts, and the whole rig was completed by a pair of ex-hide traces. Bandale was to do the sooring and oon- trol his horse subject to the action of his bovine adversary, as Green knew very well it would never dp, JP trifc> with Ms .stood*. When efB t̂tring was rentfy, emmj they went--Green, with his long black-snake, making things lively for the ox, and r--nrirf m trooper at Ms 2:40 nag. Sura enough, at the end of 800 yards, the ox came in ahead. On the spot Bandale bought half the ox for $500. The next day he was pitted against two horses, and the whole city turned out to see the remarkable phenomenon--a trot- Hug ox. Again was he victorious, and, amid the wildest excitement, he passod the line six lengths ahead. - Every day thereafter he defeated a horse or two, and there soon became e popular demand for a share in the ox. Accordingly a stock company was formed with a joint stock of $6,400, being 64 shares of $100 each. The stock went like hot qpkes, and soon sold away above par. In a week, during which he had won several more races, the sto^k was quoted on the gambling-tables, and passed for $1,000 a share. At last a horse sired in San Franoisoo came along, and a trial of speed was mad® up between Mm and the ox. If the crowd of spectators had been large before, it was gigantic on this day. It seemed as if the whole oountry turned ouls and it was estimated that there were 10,000 people present. Everything being in readiness, away they went, heralded by a thousand voices. The ox took the lead from the start; at the 100-yard pole he was a length and a half ahead; at the 250 the distance had widened into five lengths, and the ox still gain­ ing. But the old saying, "There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and lip," was never truer than in the present case, and whan within a dozen yards of the winning post his oxship became tired and made up his mind to stop. Ac­ cordingly he planted his front feet and refused to budge. Moral suasion, pro­ fane abuse, physical ill-usage, all, sep­ arate or combined, failed to move him, , «nd the horse quietly trotted past, and took the moe, the ox never reaching the ipninfjioik at all. That the stooksttk Item $1,060 a dune down to l-64t!i el tiMUlne of the ox internal- eallyasm--I Many eftxts were afterward made to coerce the bovine into a trot, but all enttoement and pemusion, gentle and otherwise, failed, and he never trotted A iwvxzra «jfoynr btomt. Mrs. CK , with Iter two little girls, of the respective ages of 8 and 9 ys^uts, had been staying in the country on a visit to her sister-in-law; but, having taken a house near London, she sent the two children with their nurse off by an early train, following herself by one a few hours later. Toward the evening of the same day, one of the little girls walked into a room of the house which they had quitted in the morning, where a cousin to whom she was much at­ tached was sitting at his studies, and said to Mm: "I am come to say good- by, Walter; I shall never see youagam," Then, kissing him, she vanished from the room. The young man was greatly startled and astonished, as he had him self saen both the little girls and the nurse off by the morning train. At this very time ol the evening both the ohildren in London were taken sudden­ ly ill, while playing in their new home, a few hours after they had arrived. The doctor called in pronounced their 00m- plaint to b® small-pox of the most ma­ lignant kind. They both died within the week, but the youngest died first. The day after she was buried, the poor bereaved mother was anxiously watch­ ing the last hours of the one still left, for whom she well knew no chanoe of life remained. Suddenly the side child woke up from a kind of stupor, and ex­ claimed: MOh» look, mamma! look at the beautiful angels! * pointing to the foot of lb® bad. Mrs. G saw noth­ ing, but heard soft, sweet music, which seemed to float in the air. Again the child exclaimed: "Oh, dear mamma, there is Minnie." She smiled, and ap­ peared greatly pleased. At this mo­ ment Mrs. G- distinctly heard a voice say: "Come, dear Ada, I am wait ing for you!" The sick child smiled once again, and died without a struggle. Long did the poor mother remember ovftThearing a childish conversation be­ tween the two little ones, in whioh the youngest spid to the other that she felt sure she should die first and would be certain to come and feteh her. mxsm ftOTWATUM. " ikfoadAx, A|»a TJffJB JPTFJE WSDDiitatk - Wood,en9 tin, silver, and golden wed­ dings mark the fifth, tenth, twenty-fifth, and fiftieth anniversaries of matrimony. There is, we believe, a glass wedding, also, but that is an innovation, for noth-• r ing as brittle as glass should be used commemorative of the nuptial tie. One might suppose a wooden wedding and a tin wedding .were necessarily cheap affairs. They can be given eco­ nomically, but are not necessarily so, by any means. For instance, a tin wed­ ding was given in Providenoe at which the bride appeared in a dress festooned with tin chains, a tin belt, and a tin veil enveloping her person. Thegroom wore a tin dreaa-coat, tin shoes, & hat, tin watch, etc. At f ailver^epoddiug -lalelflfew York the .wife received from her hus­ band a present of a breast-pin, the cen­ tral stone a diamond, representing the wife-»«4h#f f around this ten pearls, numerically representing the children all these encircled by twenty-five gar­ nets, indicative of the twenty-fifth an­ niversary of their marriage, and the whole surrounded by fifty diamonds, signifying the age of her husband. A wooden wedding can be a very tasteful aflair. Lately a wooden wed­ ding in Utica, was given byahappy five- years' wife, a native of Cleveland, in which the rooms were ornamented with festoons of shavings, mottoes inscribed on the walls with shavings, the effect of which was exquisitely tasteful and unique. The presents, of course, were wooden, and in such variety--from a knot ehopping-bowl to an elaborately- carved paper-cutter, from a rolling-pin to an exquisitely-finished parlor-bracket --as to excite one's special wonder that so many useful and ornamental things c a n b e m a d e f r o m w o o d . i ' ' a QUAnrr «i«n« or boqk-kxkp- IHG. A committee of creditors, consisting of four prominent business men, visit­ ed a debtor, a large manufacturer, the other day, and, after the usual season­ able oompliments, delicately broached their errand as one of investigation. "Oh, gentlemen, you want 'to see how I stand. Hanged if I know. Here's my books f and fishing out of a vest pocket three thin pass-books, he laid litem upoa the stove. "Honest Injun, all the books I keep. You see I man­ age to keep goods enough over in Mew York to draw against Borrow some money, keep track of my notes, and when money's easy, of course, I'm do­ ing well; when money's hard, why it just looks squally. Won't you look over the factory, gentlemen."--Boston Ad­ vertiser.̂ ' Ax anthropological oongress is to meet at Lisbon, Portugal, next year. * t* Aastion to nUrudoMrfdMtt was ksl foa vrisef 7 OM fllS Mil to miilils - (MOBnuiflri tu f tbW Mating... .amattfr Walker's bill for th« protection of ftsgihsriae of the mats vaa then aisoo--efl at frogfh. HOOBB.--The Smtosgs Mil was orterafl to a third reading, after debate.. . .Ifca Mil taring oofe was indefinitely postponed. OassMarabie fun was ovolvad in tte ffltoHHib of the Dog law, and the Boos* adjourned wttbent wm- Mting any farther boeiiMse of faaportaaoei MMMLT, April Boasts was three short at a quorum, bat, by isflshliui from esUfaf fte tuU, 11 wte pmrible ts pro- «e*S with tonllMi - * - -- - SSSf***' .n» towMSdp tin law ij*»- Beriu~* tegs uufcber'ot bftfo wemi &d- vafesod to ttfed >eadlB& imoeg Bum tte foi- lowtag: Sspriattng flis running of pameiger trains; for tbe<wpport of the-Slate Boe*d of Aptoattueaad ** fittnotoladnetciali Univer­ sity; anMkdbm tk» Jmr law; relating to the joKtedî oBk ̂ Oamfr Ooorts; for (be destruction of the ooeki*-!>arr; providing for tho disoonneottott of territory from cilieot for the peristonent of violMiees of ofa and vilton ordinance!; amending the law retatiTo totSo administration oTes&tas; tor toe prooer eeaeat of storiettes of labor and maauteotoree... Mr.jfrew's OooUo-tmrr bill caused a long " humorous discussion, which klol tor caused a great deal of hilarity....Tie ntodal order, prondtaK for nuiftan text-boon in to Ravenna waa made to spec»t motion the (Male order for Thursday, to follow the fievesne TOUSDA*, April &--FHOUTB.--This body spent too morning in oonstdering appropria­ tion bills. Tho appropriation for tho new bondings of tho Kaakatoo Insane Asvlnm was ndooedf to tl10,000; these tor the Xigia Means Asylum and toe Jacksonville Deaf and Dumb Asylum wero advanced to a third reeding,,.. The adoption of the oosuaittee'e amend­ ments to the Douglas Mooumsnt bill was lost by a vote of 18 to HI....The State HonesSievatoni bill was laid an Uns table.... Mr. Lee presented the memorial of oittasns of Ghioago, stating that intimidation was used by the Booth Chicago Street Bailwar C BaUwey Company a* the reoeaft election, and aaking for an inveatlg&- tton. The Seoats refused to oonsider the reso­ lution to order an investigation .. .The Gover­ nor sent to the Senate ths names of the Chicago Jnstloss of the Peaoe. Ths nominations were referred. House. --The House passsd ths Ssaatb bill te enable P»?k Oommissionerii to take and maintain roads and streets, with an ssaorgeeoy clause The Oorporalioo Committee Intro­ duced a bW to establish perk districts for te ooQeotion of taxee... .A motion to reoommit ths bill to CKtsed the time for the payment of the laet installment of park taxes was redsotsd. It appearing that tho Interest bul was lost between the Howe and the Senate, a new bill was ordered to be engroaaed.... Mr. Blaok introduced a bill to require the pav- t of witness fees In criminal cases bjr I IHIIVMtlUW • •oonomar to oattte ratton of tboMflMS n, and consumed the ooantios... Jtr. Jtobinsou introduced a reeolu- tton in the interest of eoonoi d>wn salaries....Consideration bill by Motions Urn rest of the day. WBDHESIWY, April 9, --Smm-TM Cook county delegation on the Chicago Justices pre­ sented the following names for confirmation, saying that there waa no objection to any of them: Canute B. Melsoa, Daniel Scully, Orlin P. Ingersoll, D. Harry Hammer, Qeorge A. Meeoh, Logan D. Wallace, Peter Foots, Henry A. Kaufman, and John M. Wilson. Considera­ tion of the report was made tho special order for Friday, and the delegation was required to report on (ho other names hf that lims.... Tho Senate spsnt all (he morning on ths House bill to increase tho amount of wages exempt from garnishment to #50, and ordered it toa third reading... .The consideration of the Appropri­ ation Mile waa resumed. The Illinois Bye and Ear Infirmary was taksn up first and seat to third reading. It aggregates 945,0U0 for ths ensuing two years. The bill appropriating f306,l)Obto ths Southern Iusane Asylum at Anna was next considered. The bill wss ordered to a third reading. It aggregates #306,000. HOUSB.--Consideration of ths Militl* bill was resumed and concluded, and th|» bill was or­ dered to a third reading with U^mlamend- Oircail .. .Mr. "Bower's bill authorising counties "'"fPHllff ifeott town- counw org&nlsxtion to assess road, poll taxss was passsd Bills Ameuding ths law referring to ap­ peals in forcible detainer; amending the Jus­ tice act, so that it shall not apply to appeals in forcible detainei ; repealing sections of the Landlord and Tenant act; re-enactiog sections of ths Landlord aud Tenant act, but abolishing bill auth ship to labs** sad: introduced: t; providing for the election of Circuit Judges in the Ninth Judicial CSrcuik.... Mr. Neff introduced a resolution that when the House adjourn, on May 10, It adjourn sins die. U11 motion of Mr. Morrison, sent to ths Com­ mittee on llule*... .Mr. Granger ottered a rea- olutton to investigate hie conduct in the all* ~ bribery, it* failing to testify in regard to wl Neviiie, a Chicago Tribune reporter, la in iaiL Unanimously adopted... .Mr. 8hermsn'B Mil to pay ute Appellate Court Judges, of Oookoonn- ty, 17,000 per year was put on its passage and met a violent death, receiving only 19votes.... Mr. Eberhardt's bill restricting ths employment of children wss ordered to third reading. THUBSDAT, April 10. --8ns Am. The great temperance petition, containing 175,000 namea, prepared by the ladies of the Woman's Chris­ tian Tsmpersnoe Union, waa presented by Mr. Talliafero, and Mlsswillara addressed the Senate....A bill for an act to make an ap­ propriation for the Deaf and Dumb School at Chfisago was introduced The bill aaking appropriations for the Illinois Industrial University was ordered to a third reading. It segregates #23,000 The Normal University bul Wss then con­ sidered, the In addition to one-half the Interest 011 amend apodal ted the P MM seminary aud college fund which it now receives, #3b,000 wss set apart for incidentals, etc., by this Dili....The Asylum for Feeble­ minded Children at Lincoln wants #194,786, and the bill appropriating that amount for its use went to tMrd reading... .A long discussion was called ont by tho appropriations for a State Board of Agriculture. HOUSE.--Si. Wentworth's Compulsory Edu­ cation bill was passod; also the bill to author ise'a tax levy for the genera! and school funds for 18<9 and 1880. It provides for the collection of #2,500,000 annually, except that #400,000 is taken from the surplus in the treasury.... Mr. Harrington introduced a resolution ad­ journing the Assembly uoe die on May & to the Committee on Bulee....Bills to the General Revenue law were the order, and their consideration balance of the day. FRIDAY, April 11.--Swam--The Cook county delegation asked for longer time to con­ sider the Governor's nominations for Chicago Justioss, nod the whole matter was postponed to Wedaeeday... .Mr. Lee attempted to Intro- dnoe a resolution for the appointment of a committee to investigate the charges that the Ohioago South Side Bailway Oom- Say ussd intimidation at tho last alee-n, but failed--Bills passed: Senator Brink's bill smeodiog section 70 of the law of administration of estatsa; permitting or ganisstioos for the purchese and sale of teal estate for bnrial purposes only to organise un d o r t h e C o r p r a a o n a c t o f t h e S t a t e ; -- i t | obligatory on County Courts In oountiae not were poses*: to punisli sdfc- > to laid* oi streets ' 5 a MB Of MaBOtr minenroallki AnuitbSrof tlWl ortertog jft̂ iewi) "csaa, Ctttsnpsdpi,'̂ tktisn, ljUtikQnti KStS**00* Jolion. ARUMl " lyiMM * BtaftrieV uml hwT smZzt 1 fioottj HBAUZT BtOU W A MmMI, Not many years ago there was a church festival in Milwaukee, to saiae funds for pa|ing one of the many labia of nature that churches atatyi owe. The festival had been extensively ad- vertiaed. Everythinf had been ar­ ranged and the women of theehtoch were in the basement, working, like beavers. The crowd began to andve» and then there was bustile. We do not mean the kind of that jou gentle reader. We There was business going on. A committee of ladiae were in splitting the oj lpthey wtmld go Mid inotheor committee was iMnning the so it wouldn't give anybody the dy^piqasia ̂ Another ^ommiMee was freeaing die ioa-ofeam, the women locking <m, while the men turned the flmnc, 7%ajhad been freesing the cream adnoe 4 ofel̂ k in the afternoon, and here it w* 7 o'clook, and the oream was thin a* a linen duster, and aa free from fiigidity as when it came from the oow» m the hen, m the oaas amy be* Th6 deaoons put in salt and ieef ^ud the more they turned the oonoern, the warmer the ice-crram Memed to get. The deacons perspired, and said words that wouldn't sonnd well in history. Time passed, and the orcam wonld not freeze. Girl waiters were ooming down stairs with orders for ice-cream, and the wild-eyed men would take off the cover and look into the churn end find it thinner than before. A council of wear was held in the basement, and the mat­ ter was discussed, but no one oould give any information that would fteese the cream. Finally one old deaoon»,who had been working the freeser for three hours, until every bone In hle body ached, and who se! on the bottom step of the etrfm with afSelfae iijli over haa shenideiT to odid, and mopping thei his brow, arose and said that desperate disease requiree desperate ftiiittaiML He said if that oream couldn't be in­ duced to freeze, the ohttroh was beat out of at least $20. He aaid that there was only one way. "Send for my wife!" said he, as he sank back, weep­ ing. The man's wife was up-etairs waiting on table, and a sister nwhed u|» to her and told her to oome down stairs at once, as her husband waa in a terri­ ble state. The good woman lot of soup plates, and rushed stairs, and found her hoahand looking as though he had been flaying a urne- ball match. ̂ "For heaverfsaake, Hennery,whnlie the matter f* said the ^brllttgtMIe, as she kneeled at his l#et, and' thok hie blistered hand ta her <xlM aoft pStL ' " ^^Harriet," said he, as he ̂ utldiWd on her anbiOM hair to get it "have I always been a good ht to you?" She admitted llial 'he-hn ̂on IWrtff she knew, though m liad »ti&i&ShBi- ble habit of going down town nighta,- "Then," said he, "I hm® favor to aak. We heve been trying for tluee hours to fsepae that ouseed ice- cream. If it waa^tior the church, I wouldn't ask it, but Harriet, something haeg t̂ to bedone. New, if you will take off your ah@a* put your feet in you can freeze that cream In twentta*" utes, and we ave aaved!" - ^ " e" • ' There waa a noise as of a ward cadeue bimkiagup in a row^nd a wild-eyed din- con mijpKi have been seen going meond that loom in the basement, faying dodge chain, and platen »d cups and sauoers, and when he got to the door, and a aonp tnxeen took him on the head, he went out into the wide and went home in his shirt sleeves, a young that sings in went home with the deaoon's and the ice-cream did Peck's MUwamkm Sun.

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