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"y""vl THE COURIER. v fcl JJV 3lli 611 1 CO. r (S.--. Cor. X&ttk and O Sts. A New Store, and a New " Stock of Reliable Goods, well selected and of the very latest styles. Ladies' Suits, apes ana llarette. Indies' Fur gearfs Ladies' Fp and (lotl? Jackets Ladies' F"p and (lotlj (ape Ladies' fress gbirts Ladies' gnaer.Shirts Ladies' Wrappers JjjJ Ladies' Qlooes and HSieIM? Ladies' Corsets and Under wear fcadies' Mackintoshes. Mail orders MISSES' MO Gin filled same day they are received we pay express charges. Lincolnfloab & guit .t S.-E. Corner 13th and O Sts. - - Lincoln, Nebr J jher n gupesJv goin to marry Jim Ryan, I put on my bonnet and went straight over to her house, and I says to her, says I, 'You mark my words. It won't be a good year before that girl will be practicin' all kinds of Popery, and we'll have to turn her out of church.' And I hap. pened to go round to Mis' Elrod's and Mk Foster's and Mis' McGee'fl, and I told all the same thing." A murmur of assent followed, which was broken by the Moderator asking: "What are your charges, Sister Wat- kinsT" The old woman took up her narrative with evident zest, and the congregation listened as attentively as if they had ot heard the same story from the same lips a dozen tines. "My charges is this, Brother Moder ator, that that girl is gone clean over to the insidious practices of Rome, and ain't no longer fitten to be a member ot this congregation. And I can prove what I say by what 1 seen and heard.' You all mind when her baby died. Let's see, it was a month ago coae next Sunday. Well, early that mornin' WIMMIIIIIMMIIIIIIIIMIlH MILL! 1201 O Street. m. i. i mm Has an elegant line of I Pi HITS m BUS I Also Medium Priced Trimmed .Hats and good bats for a little money. Look through the stock and be convinced. 'tlWMIWIIIIIIIHHIMHIMHIMIMII it was proned into me that I ought to run over the hill and see how Jerueby aud the baby was gttin on; for I know ed that she didn't have nobody but a nigger girl to look after her when Jim was gone to his work. So after I had done cleaned up, I took my foot in my hand and went. And I tell you, Broth er Jonee, in the hearin of all these present, that I never seen and never am to see nothin' to bo astonish and rile me like the sight I seen when I stood on that doorstep. There sat Jerushy Ryan, the child of a respectable Christian mother, with the baby on her lap, a aayin' 'I baptize thee,' and a criss-cross-in' it with holy tcater. She baptize!' she cried, pointing an accusing finger at the silent girl, "And our own Parson Goodwin wasn't good enough to do it; but they must keep puttin' it off, and puttin' it off, tryin to go to town to a Catherlick priest. I ask my sisters here, which one of us would have been foolin' long of holy water when there was catnip tea to be made? Mot- one. And i tell you here in these presence that it was the judgment of God, and the want of a hot mustard bath and some possum oil rubbed on its chest and the bottoms of its feet tint killed .that baby, for it drew its last breath before 1 could git to Jerushy to stop her out dackrar foolery." Mrs. Watkins reinforced her lungs with another long breath, but the Moderator cut short her painful re hearsal by a quiet gesture. "Sister Ryan," he said at the sound of his voice, the bonnet that had ruak suddenly forward, was raised again; no one but the gray-haired man and God saw the face beneath it "Sister Ryan, you have heard the charges against you, of how you've wandered away from your faith and the practices of your own church. I charge you, as you are a truthful woman, to stand up and tell this congregation your spiritual condi tion; and explain to them if you can, why you have done those things that you ought not to have done." Jerushy rose to speak. The first few sentence ware lost in the folds of her bonnet, but, being admonished by the Moderator, she took off her headdress and stood with it in her hand. In hap pier circumstances she would have been "a mere girl," but the patience of the dumb burden-bearer, stamped upon her features, left no room fur the suggestion of a sometime girlhood. It is true, that when she faced her accusers, and her glance singled them out individually, the pathetic brown eyes lighted up for a moment with something like the fire of challenge. "Are there anybody here that's een me worehipin' idols?" A Voice "You've got tbeaa inyour cabin." , ' "They're Jim's saints, and Jiat fsts the rent," she answered simply. "And it ain't to say worehipin' 'em, is it, to keep the dutt off and have 'em settin' where they can be seen? It does Jim good," she said, turning to the Moder ator, "for the sight of 'em makes him more peaceable and quiet-like when he's drunk." There was perfect stillness for a few moments, and then she went on in a quiet voice, "Jim aet me one day how I would feel if anybody was to speak dis respectful of my mother, and he said it was just like that to hear me talk like I did about about the Blessed Virgin so I've called her 'bleseed' ever since, though there ain't nobody hern as can truthfully say I ever said a prayer to her. It was just the way Jim felt about it that made me stop eatin' meat on Friday, and then it was a savin' ot of victuals and a savin' ot work, too- The congregation shifted a little un easily sb the woman stood for a moment looking down at the rough plank floor. When she raised her face again, a piti ful pallor had spread over it, but-the patient eyes were dry. "Syhen the baby was took sick so suddent-like, there wasn't nobody there but just me; for I'd sent Diley over to the mill, lie was havin spasms, and I was skeered to leave him and skeered to stay and there wasn't no way to git a doctor, or Jim, or anybody to help me I hadn't had baby but three weeks, and it seemed like I didn't know nothin' 'bout how to do for him. I did work with him the best I could; till I saw it wan'tnouse. Then I thought about Jim comin' home and thinkin' his baby was lost for good because he had n't been baptized. And and I done what Mis' Watkin' tole you not on account of the baby but on account of Jim." The speaker paused, glanced at jhe Moderator, drew in a breath as if to speak, but suddenly pressed her lipe together, sat down, and drew her sun bonnet over her head. The Moderator slowly arose. His glance rested upon the congregation, calmly, but before he spoke he cleared his throat twice. "Brethren and sisters," he began, "is there any action to be taken upon this charge?" Silence followed. A woman In the far coraer burst out into hysterical sobbing. "If there's no action," continued the deep tones of the Moderator, "I declare the charges dismissed." A gray-haired elder raised himself to his feet. "Brother Moderator," he said, "I My amen to them words." And chorus ot "emea" followed. The Criterion. WANTED ACTIVE MAN OP GOOD CHAR actcr to delirer and collect in Nebraska for old established manufacturing wholesale house. (MO a year sore par Our reference, any bank in any city. Enclose self-addressed stamped envelope. Manufacturers, Third Floor, 334 Dearborn St Chicago. 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