Show KEER Mysterious Light in the fihe Sky Sky Sky-Bing- Bing Bingville ville yule Thought the World Was Coming to an End but It t Didn't Horrifying PertI Below Last Tuesday night was a red letter night in in the history of Bingville the horrible memory of which will linger lingerin in the minds of the ol ok st as well as of the youngest oun est inhabitant for man many years to come It will be remembered that Tuesday night was a awful dark night On the piazza in front of Hen Weathersby's store was seated the usual l conglomeration of town loafers ers smoking chewing and gin in in idle conversation About 9 p. p m. m Hod Qu Quigley g ley happened to glance up at the sk sky in 10 order to see what kind of weather there might be the next day when his ee eye caught sight of a luminous lumin lumin- ous red li light ht which seemed to be hovering hovering hov hov- erin ering in the heavens over the central portion of the town Hod he rubbed his is eyes and looked again but the light was still there so he to the others What the is that red light up tip in the sky ky there anyhow anyhow is is it a astar astar astar star or what Ever Everybody body looked where Hod pointed and silence fell on them present It was the general opinion opinion opinion ion that it was not any star because stars isn't red While they was looking looking looking look look- ing at it the thing b begin gin to sort of wobble round and move across across the heavens whereat a sic sickening ening silence fell on the spectators Deacon Andrews Andrews Andrews An An- drews said he it was some token Bill Hepburn our artistic black black- smith who for the most part has leda led leda a wicked and intoxicating life asked in ina a horse norse whisper if it might be that the world was about to come to a end Bills Bill's words struck consternation to every every ev ev- I ery cry heart present As soon oon as Bill mentioned this awful suspicion the thc others present came to the conclusion that he het might be right and hastened to their t various homes to prepare for the worst The news of oE this t awful red omen inthe in inthe the sky spread like wildfire over Bingville Bing Bing- ville ilIe and in a few minutes the entire was out in the streets gazing gazin gazing gaz gaz- in ing with struck awe-struck wonder at the th-e light as it wiggled about way up tip yonder yonder yonder yon yon- der in the sky sk Women moaned and run rung rimer their hands and some fainted while white strong men lost there courage e and be begin in to recall all the wicked thin things s they had hul ever did in their past I Finally someone suggested that the crowd should go to the parsonage occupied occupied occupied oc oc- by Rev Samuel Moore beloved pastor of the Bingville Bing chirch and should ask him to pray that the end of the world might be staved off of for fora a few weeks week ii if possible This suggestion suggestion tion was adopted adapted and md everybody male made madea mallea a rush for the parsonage Rev Re Moore who was just ready to retire for the night ht was routed out and when he hele le learned the cause throw d open the doors of the church lit the lamps and tried to pacify the members of his flock as y well as nearly everybody else in ilfe Bingville Such a scene has never been witnessed in in our midst before Bill Hepburn asked to be forgive for the amount of ticker licker he had consumed durin during during dur dur- in ing his life and vowed owed he lie would never touch another drop as long as he lived Deacon Andrews hunted up Cy Hokins Hoskins Hoskins Hos Hos- kins and g give ve him back 10 which he lie had cheated Cy out of in a horse trade sometime before Hen Weathersby prop of our ouE general store got up and I confessed that for many years he had scales and md mixed doctored his weighing i f flour with his sugar Others present also admitted their faults Every little I while the crowd would adjourn from the chur church h to take a 1 look at the star of doom oom and by and and by the star was seenI seen I I to be descending I As it come lower and lower it U was finally dis discovered to be a lantern SUt sur rounded with red tissue paper attached I to the tail of a a. big kite By up the light the crowd which had now I Beast to be alarmed discovered at the end of the string b by which the kite was pulled in little Andy Andrews and Herman Herman Herman Her Her- man Hepburn respective sons of Deacon Andrews and Bill Rill Hepburn who had put up the kite at night with the red lantern at its tail just for a a. lark Bill and DeaI Deacon Deacon Dea Dea- con each administered a sound thrashing thrashing thrash thrash- I ing to their respective on the spot and then the crowd and returned re returned returned re- re turned to their v various rious homes in in deep I Bill Hepburn sets set's that under the circumstances he will not feel bound to keep the vows he made with respect to drinking While Deacon Andrew who returned C Cy Hoskins the 10 that thai unless Cy gives i es it back to him he I will persecute him to the full extent of the law The They as contest to their past now claims that the things they told about aint so so and Bingville has by now assumed the even een tenor of its way |