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Show THE WORLD'S WAY. t'nole St Knckett lis Very Much Like Other Men. Uncle Si ilTacloett vi3 behind hi oountiT v-iryhinff Feme avpar for Mrs. Rk-inucr'a boy Jiill when Ezra liabb dropped in to fiota new whetstone. '1 hear this morniriV Raid Kzra, "that Tcto Hodpin died last night over on VV.il low crick." '1 wart to know!" said ITnde Si. ".Munt cf bcfn jvowerftd siKldcn. I'oor Pete. He had his faults like the rrst of .us, but them .v. tiz never a bettor hearled feller lived. An- Pete's pone! Ijord, Loid, Lord! That there man never had 'half the credit he de-KarveJ. de-KarveJ. I doubt ef he wnzn't lots better bet-ter than the folks that used to run him down. He al'ays had a kind word for everybody, an' there never wuz the day he wouldn't drop his own work to help a;neighbor out. I'oor Pete!" "'Ile used to drink ri.ht str.a'rt, didn't .he?" a-sked Hzra, nr, he reached down 'into the dried npple barrel. "Why, he took his dram," said Unele Si, covering the barrel with a board and laying" a subsoil plow on top of it, '"but they wa'nt no better man altogether in the county ithan Pete. He was as fine a man asTever saw. As I raid, he had his fatflta, 'bvrt outside of them he wuz a shore "'nough gentleman and one ov the high-mindedest Christian citizens citi-zens we had." "Kinder lay, I nl'ays thought," eaid Ezra. "That he wuzn't," said Uncle Si, warmly. "Pete took things easy, but ef ever wuz a man tried to do his duty, and was good to his family and friends, it wuz Pete. I don't mind any man in the whole count' we could have any wuss spared than Pete nedgin, and ef ther town .wuz to do '.its duty lit would (.call a meetin'iand resolute some. about the loss his death will be to the community;" com-munity;" "Here comes Jim Hoskins;" said "Ezra, "maybe he kin tell ub what, wuz the matter with Tete. Hello. Jim, .know what Tete Ilodgin died of?" "It wa'nt Pete," raid Jim, "it were Sam Ilodgin, his brother." "It wuz Sam, wuz it?" said Uncle Si, taking off his .sr'ectae'lea and wiping them on a bolt-of calico. "Well, now! Think ov the ways ov the Lord. He's taken off Sam, the best man fur 40 miles around, and left that lazy, triflin', drunken, low down sheep-stealiri' brother Pete of his for to cumber up the yearth! "Detroit Free Press. |