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ERATOR
UNDER THE
PULPIT FLOOR
\ 24,
CEES PT :
FUSNSUBIRB2NTTNE
The pulpit in the old Methodist
Chapel at Northway was set back into a
yo,
SREen
ors
Within the
each, one on either side of the pulpit,
led up to the pulpit floor.
There was no basement or cellar un-
der the meeting-house, but between
the underpinning stones beneath the
sills a gap of three feet had been left
late the
floor and
under the
cross-sills and
low, dark space
prevent the
By creeping in at hole
this and
the floor the
boys—that is to say, the “bad boys"
where there to
in
floor, waz room
To get
to Creep
to I
it, however, they had
two underpining stones, for the lean
been an afterthought on the
of the builders, and the split
This
latter gap feet
wide
The cuddy beneath the pulpit floor
Was twelve feet long by eight feet
wide, and sufficient light came In
through the chinks beneath the sill
for a boy's eyes to read print We
called it the “Calaboo.” without attach
ing any special meaning to the word:
it was probably a corruption of the
colloquial word calaboose.
It was a fine place to gather before
meeting or at intermission, and
tain of the bolder spirits would stay
there during the sermon time
There were blocks of old timber on
the ground where they could sit, eat
apples and make merry, or, if
posed, listen to the sermon: for (the
narrator was then a boy and knew
the place well) the minister was stand.
ing overhead. We could hear every
word he sald with great distinctness
and when he grew more fervent in his
discourse and began to move up and
down the pulpit, his boots made a
considerable squeaking We could
then whisper, and even talk in low
tones, without being heard.
This cuddy, as will be seen. was a
great convenience; for as a boy can
not be in two places ai once, his ab
sence from the pews during service
was often noticed; and when he reach
ed home his father would ask. “Where
were you during sermon time?”
It was most useful then to be able
was only about two
oer
so dis
near the pulpit. The text was from
Ecclesiastes 2: 24: “This also [ saw,
that it was from the hand of God.’ ”
the father of the family himself could
remember of the sermon, it
muster very well for a long time
during the entire three years, in fact
that Elder Hosea Creecy was on that
cirenit.
into the cuddy; picture
pumpkin Jackwo'lantern, an old gun
their appearance there, to say nothing
of apples, hazelnuts and other satables.
Boys naturally like to have such a
place in which to gather. The chief
objection to our Calaboo, from a moral
point of view, was its location and the
fact that it led to deception and dis
orderly conduct.
Truth to say, Elder Creecy was not
an interesting preacher, although a
very prolix one, and he did not pos
sess the faculty of looking after the
social and moral welfare of his charge
in an efficient and wholesome manner.
During his last year there the Cala
boo was full every Sunday, but I am
certain that he never had an inkling
of the gibes and unhallowed glee going
on right under his feet.
Finally Elder Creecy was removed
to another circuit, and a much younger
minister, the Rev. Adelbert Gibson, ap-
pointed in his place.
Mr. Gibson was tall, lightcomplex-
foned and athletic, with kindly blue
eyes. His manner, however, was self
fasertive and resolute. He was a
college graduate and had but recently
entered the ministry. There was a
rumor that he was a fine oarsman,
His first sermon in the old chapel
lasted only twenty-five minutes, Some,
indeed, thought it too short; but in
the course of a week he had called at
every house in the vicinity, It was
hinted that he had also been flashing.
While preaching his second sermon
he paused suddenly and seemed to lis
ten for a moment, but went on without
comment,
On the third Sunday, also, he stop.
ped, and with an alr of annoyance and
it disturbed him greatly to hear low,
mumbled conversation while address.
ing an audience.
“1 do not know just where this is
or who it 18,” he added, “but it dis
turbs me, and I must request that it
ghall cease”
A great hush fell, The old meeting-
was crowded on that
no one but Mr. Gibson
himself
know what he meant.
It was Mahlon Batchelder,
but Mr. Gibson's
ears were keener than Elder Creecy’s
had perceived the innocent astonish-
It set him
He
discovered the
dies to make a disturbance
pose on him personally, and
not the kind of a man to bear imposi-
tion meekly. He kept quiet concern-
his discovery, but planned and
executed a decisive counterstroke.
and
gap in the underpinning through
which we crept into the cuddy. It was
directly beneath the pulpit desk, and
by boring a hole in the floor Mr. Gib
son arranged a bit
attached to which was a rod extending
up through the hole, fn a corner of
it. By giving a single downward push
on this rod he could completely close
that little gap. He also drew the nails
from two of the broad boards of the
pulpit floor, that they
taken up quickly.
Quite unsuspicious of this trap, five
of us crawled into the Calaboo on the
following Sunday, to have a little jol-
lification and plan a Maybasket frol
Mahlon Batchelder and Ben Frost
mistrusted something the previ
us Sunday, and did not go In But
Sylvester, Newman Damley, Ned
* and two more of us slipped in
#0 could be
ple were going to thelr pews
Two of us, at least, had not been to
the before for six months,
and, in fact, had never frequented it,
as Alfred and Ben had done, but we
paid the penalty just the same It
is usually the young and inexperi
enced mice that fall into the trap
We kept pretty quiet down there
during the prayer and hymns, but
shortly after Mr. Gibson began his
sermon, Ned and Orin got to playing,
and the former snickered aloud
immediately we noted that Mr
son stopped speaking
him
“1 must ask
Calaboo
Gib
BAY
the andience to excuse
me a moment and to sit quietly in
their places A part of the congre
gation appears to be under the meet
ing house instead of properiy in it”
At that we made a dive for the hole,
but before the first us reached
it we "heard something drop” to
speak Mr. Gibson's plank gate had
The next moment the two
floor boards were raised and we heard
the minister's voice Come
every
one of
80
saying, up
one of you!"
Trembling and terribly
we siunk into the darkest
the cuddy
Come up, or 1
you!” exclaimed Mr
that made us think it
frightened
corners of
shall come
tight be bet
Then--but oh, with what
luctance! first Orin, then
and then the rest of us pt
and arms up through tie aperture,
were helped out by the young
minister's vigorous hand Ned had
made a wiid effort to puri] the plank
from the gap that led to liberty, but
useless
woful re
Newman,
our heads
When satisfied that the last boy was
out, Mr. Gibson looked
smile
“You shall be honored with a seat
he sald. “Sit down!”
baize, that extended along the
“But wait; yom have
he suddenly exclaimed.
back, you,” pointing to
“and hand up your implements of war
forgotten
“Go
clumsily obeyed, and was once more
hauled up and seated with no great
gentleness, beside us on the long baize
cushion where visiting clergymen
were accustomed to sit
Oh, but the eyes of that whole con-
gregation fixed upon us! It seemed
to me that the audience was all eyes’
Eyes of reproof! Eyes of reprobation’
Eyes of contempt and grinning mal
ice! We were half stupefled from the
shame of it. [| hardly heard what Mr.
Gibson said next, but he forced the
fiddle into Orin's inert hands, the gun
into Newman's, set the grinning
pumpkin Jacko'-lanterm on Ned's
knees and gave me the little lead can:
non.
What a spectacle we made! The
older people were too indignant to
laugh much, but all the youngsters
were soon on the broad grin.
After looking us over again with
crushing irony in his glance, Mr. Gib
son turned his back on us and took
up the slip of paper on which were
the notes of his sermon.
“Now that I have my congregation
in the house,” he said, in a tone of
great seriousness, “I will resume my
subject.”
But | can hardly believe he was
aware of the tortures endured by that
row of boys behind him. [ suppose
the sermon lasted ten or fifteen mine
utes longer, but it seemed a lifetime,
a century of shame and dishonor!
And when at last the benediction
was pronounced ana ine people began
going out, with amused glances, we
still sat thero, stiff with mortification.
What was coming next we had little
idea, but we looked for severe meas-
When the house was clear Mr. Gib
son turned to us, Fe seemed about
say something sarcastic, but he
gone appearance, and burst out laugh-
that we were not the hardened sin-
he had at first thought us
“Perhaps | have been a little harsh
with you, boys,” he said. “You may
take your property and go. I do not
Try to be more manly and straight-
forward hereafter, and we will let by-
gones be bygones. I will be your good
friend after this quite as if nothing
folks at home that I am satisfied you
been punished sufficiently.”
He pushed us good-humoredly down
the steps and packed us off home,
anything but a pleapant reception. In
truth, we were not allowed to forget
the disgrace of it for many a year.
And that was the end of the Cala
boo.~—~Youth's Companion.
RACE THEORY EXPLODED,
of Chinese Coins in Alaska.
The notion that the Japanese and
Chinese were in communication with
the Pacific coast of America, and that
Buddhist priests visited Alaska, Cali
fornia and Mexico before
the landing of Columbus, seems to be
curiously persistent, notwithstanding
the fact that Prof. Otis T. Mason, of
swept the props
of this
Speaking of
centuries
Museum
from under
several AKO
matter the other day, he gaild
“1 suppose | may =ay that 1 was
one of the few men who began study.
ing the Philippines and the Orient
every theory
Years the
discovered accident
coins and
tie brass images of Japanese manu-
by 80 doing 1
how Chinese and Japaiese
by
Northwest coast, Brit
Oregon. Soon af-
had establisnea
throughout the greater
part of South America and Mexico, the
English and French buccaneers began
preying on thelr commerce to such an
extent as almost ruin it. When-
ever a sliver ship sailed
Columbia and
the Spaniards
themselves
ish
te
ler
to
and gold ingots, she was almost cer-
tain the prey of pirates
before reaching her destination.
“Now, the Spanish monarch was
shrewd, and see'ng that nothing was
to be gairea by adhering to the At.
lantic route, he opened a new route
from Spain to the American colonies
around the Cape of Good Hope, via
the Philippines and the Straits Settle.
ments, and from there (following the
coasts of China and Japan, the Aleu-
tian Islands, Alaska, pritish Colum-
bia, and California), to Acapulco, Mex-
which straightway became the
greatest seaport and trading mart on
the Pacific coast of America. By this
means they the ravages of
the buccaneers for more than a century
until! Drake found his way into
Pacific,
“The new route proved a very profit-
The Spaniards were able to
the silver to the Chinese
to become
ico,
escaped
dispose of
iards than specie and plate. On the
other hand, the ships returning from
Spain to Acapulco took on a great
of Chinese copper coin, which
they exchanged for furs among the
Indians of the Northwest coast This,
then, is the origin of the Chinese coin
among the tribes of British Columbia
and Alaska.
“It is also easy to gee that during
ships, and they no doubt left the few
images of Buddha that are
There is do founda-
tion whatever for the theory that
of America before Co-
that Buddhist priests
*acific coast
or
Everything Chinese or Japan.
found among the Pacific coast
rest assured,
ess
old
Post,
trans-Pacific trades —Washington
Animal Biographers,
The craze for animal biography has
not reached even its secondary stage,
but is advancing along easy lines. We
have been blessed (or cursed) with
several dog autobiographies, and not a
few cat tales have appeared in recent
periodicals. Some men have the pe
cullar faculty of presenting the
thought of a dog In a perfectly dog-
tke manner. So expert are they in
assuming the dog character that we
almost believe In the ralacted doctrine
of tha ancients, the transmigration of
souls, No one can read “Bob, Son of
Dog.” “The Bar Sinister.” “Rab and
His Friends,” ete, without harboring
a suspicion that the several authors
have been more than mere observers
of dog nature. Voluntary metempsy-
chosla is a miraculous gift. The au
toblographer usually gives himself a
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First rigade
Spangler farm
charge was mad
will be located d 3
and the Third Brigade »
on the ou of Gettyvsh
tillery will enc:
Chambersburg Pike and Reynolds Ave
nue, on the site of the first day's fight
ng. General orders will be issued next
week by Adjutant General Stewart form
ally announcing the sele of Gettys
burg for holding and
giving the details of
the troops
of
B
and Zasraire
anda cavalry
the en pment
for the movement
Charters were issued at the State De-
partment as follows: The Gettysburg
Manufacturing Company, Gettysburg,
capital $10.000: Keystone Constructing
and Engineering Company, Easton, capi-
tal $10000: the Roscoe Electric Light
Company, Roscoe, Washington county,
capital $10,000; the Lancaster Castings
Company, Lancaster, capital $60,000;
Railway Steel Casting Company, Pitts-
burg. capital $2.000
The strike of the miners of the Web.
ster Coal and Coke Company, in Cam-
bria county, was termmated when the
company agreed to sign the Altoona
scale. The company’s principal objec-
tion was to the check-off, but that has
been adjusted in a manner satisfactory
to all concerned. There are about 5.000
miners in the employ of the Webster
Company in Cambria county, and they
are all at work again.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
has shipped 15000 young locust trees to
Newton Hamilton, to be set out on the
Ingram farm in Wayne Township. These
trees will be planted eight feet apart and
cultivated until large enough for cross
ties, This is to be an experiment, and
if successful will be followed by other
larger ventures in this line.
he cottage of Louis Duffield. in Low-
er Merion, near Cynwyd, was partly de-
stroyed by fire from a supposed defec-
tive flue.
A movement was started in Pittston
to erect a monument to Rev. Father Phil
lips, formerly of Hazelton.
The funeral of George Knapp, a pri-
vate in the United States Army, who
was killed while on guard duty in the
Philippines two years took place at
Williamsport, interment being made with
military Ts.
The forty-seventh anniversary of the |
organization of the Harrisburg Y
Metre Christian Asseiation was
unday. was t meeting in
the present buildi ich will be tor
wn to ae Tou Tot a Geen