Show under I 1 the rose I 1 in a now inglat id town with which ab extra was in the balc days lived a young law yer a staunch pillar in the methodist church althe tradition goes Inthe village the blat kotonian ks tonian did as DA a webster and a few other lawyers have done in last century he got drunk now this was a monstrous sin so monstrous that it cast all other off e ace a in the a had 6 or rather I 1 to preserve tile simm by its blackness it made all other sins seem radiant as angelic whiteness so the congregation after a solemn conclave decided that lie must confess the wicked with wicked vanity do blared that despite his personal contrition and profound he did not want to gratify morbid curiosity and he sought to beg off in for the orthodox deacons and elders with the clergyman were obdurate 80 the day came find the transgressor stood up la class meeting and ia L low and humble tone ad essed the which by the way was larger than profound humiliation that I 1 am nat ja usurer I 1 never arld any mans colne holne nor any last cow to 0 bac t m y poun dot 11 e A at this one deacons head went down with 4 loud groin 1 I confess con the w i eked lawyea that I 1 never turned a way a noody man from my door another sepulchral moad end another deacons head down behina the pow 1 I confess that I 1 have lot ruled my family with a cruel rod of iron this time it was an elder who groaned and ducked it begala to that the lawyer know nearly as much about the other pillars of the church as they know about him 1 I confess that I 1 never sold watered milk to the por A good sister sank out af with bub bIlitz in a n 1 I confess that I 1 never cheated I 1 n a horsa trade ed from eight with a bass cou of her treble squeal 1 I confess that I 1 never esteemed myself so righteous as to be in danger of ascending alive ina chariot of fire it was the cler gy mans turn aha lie groaned behind the pulst buti also confess that I 1 got drunk and may god almighty pity and a me let us kraii said the minister is oh lord almighty father be mer to ua all poor sinners 11 and the meeting silently adjourned bior months past the average newspaper his been almost bearable to me not that I 1 love political gabble more but that I 1 love the mother in baw joke less which joke last afore said occupies the principal space and the place of horror in A merican news 1 apers three years out of four what a cowardly wretch to tile who takes of the mother in law does not paper and attacks her with all kind of innuendo insult and outrageous falsehood Is avers go man newspaper maul espee ial lyshe is worth a dozen of him in all ehlt constitutes morality and unselfishness I 1 think it is odor than any election bet to wager that the time wits when the man who now makes jokes on his mottier inlaw was only too glad to occupy a of her parlor sofa every sanday and gs many other nights in the week as she would perr alt at that tima professed to thank that she was A jewel of a woman no doubt lie bent her tickets to the opera or the theater and felt complimented if she accepted them her during tha first few months of his aa quain basw c ai lie g lator it is car taid that he trembled before her on one occasion and thal his heart thrilled with gratitude when she kissed him and said yes with quivering lips fit answer to ills request for her dear daughter her koars then were s noble loving heart to day when aha cries itis dand snivelling sni velling he would as list refuse a cigar or drink as to think of kissing he Uslie offered in those old days to spend a beneath the roof wh me shel herbut her but then it was her and he was guest now when sh comes to visit him it is suf ficie excuse for ha to take hie hat and out with the bs all this Is rank Prot ched cowardice half the mother inlaw in law jokes fire without wit other If allare without truth and are as unbecoming any of meal false and pointless the ablo american editor ought to go out the realm of the backyard back yard but his head against a stone tf I 1 he can get rid odthe mother in law fowble and turn his attention to a more appropriate subject there were two classes of fools that tho men who lost were the fools because they guessed wrong hat subsequent developments me to take the opposite V few and r consider the men who 10 egyptian pyramids of jn comparison with and so you betrayed my secret to your wits it will ba all oyer an hour no it wont I 1 took effectual effee jeaa to prevent its circulate 0 a until you could get out of town howl be effectual make a woman keep a secret twenty four hours lf wity dropo of laudanum laud P sarot afterward just as she hinks into ft state of Is 0 when some of us declare made us just as we say ing a mighty mean thing about god the trees with all their sav present it cle to make the Afi tholly com wk go mad with offended dery I 1 learn ara tr i paper that leland stanford has bee if giving a public reception at his palatial nob hill that more fact is not startling but the lar 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