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Address at once PAGE CAIU>ET SWEEPEK CO. BUTLER. PA.. WEDNESDAY, Jl NE 15.1881 [From Scrihner's Monthly.] i MR. NEELUS PEELER'S CON DITIONS. "And those that are fools t let them use their talents." — Twelfth A ig/it. CHAPTER 11. In spite of Mr. Peeler's entire neg lect of ail sublunary pursuits for his public work, both stated and missioua ary, his professional reputation kept ou the wane. The country communities of those times were not very exacting, provided their preachers insisted upon being sure in their own uiinds of hav ing been called, and provided that they led moderately pious lives, and kept good, sound doctrine. Mr. Peelnr could not but be aware of some declen sion in his influence. llis afflicted con ditions had been worn and worn, until t}iey seenjed as if they were going to be threadbare, and that at no distant date. The main complaint was that, no matter what was the text, he preach ed the same—or pretty much the same at all times and places. 'l'm nobody but a female, and I ac knowledge it,' said Mrs. Peacock one day, when her husband and another of the deacons were diijcussing at dinner Mr Peeler's merits. She had been one of the last to give up. 'And I've al ways looked upon Brother Peeler as a acceptable minister of the gospel—that ip, congiderin' his phanees. But some how Brother Peeler, he preach better at first than he preach at the present time, and he don't come out enough on doctrjng lately.' 'Ah !' answered Brother Bullard, 'Sister Peacock, you hit the nail when you said that word; you hit the nail right spang on the head, jest as if you had 'a ! had a hammer. A few more of them greens, Sister Peacock.' Sister Peacock helped to the greens and wanted to fill Brother Bullard's plate with contributions from every dish at her end of the table. 'No, no ; plenty—plenty,' he remon strated, just before it was beginningto run over; 'plenty—plenty. But you jest as well 'a' h ai l a hammer when you said that word.' 'Brother Peeler is very good in a funil sermon,' acknowledged Mrs. Pea cock- ' That he is! Jabez Marshall, nor neither can Silas Mercer, beat him very fur thar.' 'And then he's very able in pra'rj' 'Powerful!' said Mi"- Bullard. 'But yit, Brother Bullard, we must have—we do want—we can't get along all the time without some doctring, if it's only of a Saturday meetin' like, or of a Conference day, with a little final pesse vera nee, and not a bit of faliin" from grace, and Well, you know Brother Bullard, I never was nothin' but a female, and I was always \\ illin' to acknowledge ' But Brother Bullard made Sister Peacock hush up right there, under ; rating herself in that kind of style. They sll agreed, even away down there, hard on the Ohoopees, that there were no limits to human griefs and sympathies; and that even the sadde.-t and most sympathetic of mankind liked —occasionally, at least—to be pointed to a more hopeful prospect, both of this present mortal, and the future eternal life. Atid then, some doctriDg was actually needed sometimes. Sister Peacock might be a female; but she stoutly denied being a babe, to be fed on milk. The other sisters, following the lead of the great pillar of Harmony Church, took up this idea, and said they wanted something hard and solid, too ; and the way they taljiet} ahout Brother Peeler would have led one to suppose that Brother Peeler regarded all the women, in all the borders of Buffalo, Williamson's Swamp, and both Ohoopees, whatever their ages, as so many infants. The fact was, Mr. Peel er had to make a new strike. Sam Wiggins had improved everv way un der the sweet influences of his sister, Mr. Peeler ought to be more cheerful. Although the last to see, he did see at last that, eveu if in humility, he must go himself, and lead his flocks to feed, in more pleasing pastures. One day he returned from an uncom monly extended 'tower' and looked cheerful. Old Sam suspected that he had made a fee of five dollars for mar rying some couple ; but Sam was mis taken. 'Lijay, and only 'Lijay, knew the cause. Oh, how he had praised 'Lijay and bragged about, and was so thankful for bti and 'Lijay were doing for the regulation of poor Sam my Wiggins! "Lijay,' he said, 'I believe I've jest found out the real true idee of preach in'. It's to take a big tex' and then charge. I done that on Little Hoopee last Sunday week. I took a big tex' and I charged; and I tell you, my son, everything flewed before me like when Len Peek Is a.rfter Vra on BudU gill's mill-pond. Xam goin' to fetch up that sermon here the first chance I git, and then, you listen.' Shortly afterward, when the pastor of Elim Church, not far distant, was somewhat ill, Mr. Peeler hinted a wil lingness to occupy his pulpit one Sun day morning. It was the best ttyit | coulcj be soop l^e circumstances. Here was a large congregation. It was remarked that Mr. Peeler gave out a more cheerful hymn, and spoke a more hopeful prayer than usual, tie took for his subject the triumphaut entry of our Lord into Jerusalem. He apolo gizen for taking so vast a subject for his text; but on a as this, veersea pught to be no object. I could not dwell (without the appearance of levity) as he did. upon the wildness of colts in general, and mule-colts in par ticular 5 on the temerity of an unprac tieed rider undertaking to travel on one of the latter for the first time (in all human probability without any Sad dle, and a mere rope for a bridle) into a great city, and among vast noisy multitudes." The climax was in ascrib ing :o these multitudes the motives for their concourse and their clamors, and their strewing branches in the way. By the time that he got up to this part of bis subject, his passion, which had been working from the beginning, seemed to have gotten beyond all bounds, and he screamed as he de nounced that onbelievin' and Gallio like people. And then his audience was stupefied with amazement as he declared and labored to prove that the \ intention of these clamoring crowds was to 'skeer' that colt—that young 1 colt—that young mule-colt that young onbroke mule-colt—and drive him to do things that were too awful I to contemplate. At this cap of the climax, Mr. Peel er, overcome l>y his feelings, sank down in the rear of the pulpit. The congre gation was at a loss what to think. The young men smiled, and locked across at the young girls ; the young girls smiled in turn and looked at their mothers ; the answering mothers puck ered their faces and looked at the old men, and the old men frowned upon one another with terrible solemnity for a moment, and then looked interroga tively up to the pulpit. But the pastor apparently had been growing worse and worse for the last three-rjuarters of ian hour, and sank deeper arid deeper, until he was no longer to be seen. Af i ter several moments' silence, he rose feebly, complained of being extremely ill, gave out a hymn, prayed a dejected prayer, and dismissed the congregation. CHAPTER 111. It was very soon ascertained that the pastor's view 9 on the late question in theological science were not at all in accord with Mr. Peeler's, and so Nee lus had to take his mule across the tijhwopees. where he had been foal ed. But how he did grow to dislike Sam Wiggins! Sam Wiggins did it all; and once more he returned, in his cjjspoqrses tmd aud conversa tion oy:er chicseil arid biscuit, to his af flicted conditions. A little freshened by temporary rest from work upon one long-continqed liae, and resolving, if possible, to recover the ground he bad lost, he strove to dig down to the very roots of human sympathy, drag it forth and press its last tpar.. Meanwhile, Sam quietly pursued his humble way, workiug every week-day all day long for Mr. Peeler and his family, and when the night came, sit ting by his sister, watching her ting, rolling her balls of yarn, reeling her hanks of cotton and wool, and oc casionally alluding fondly to the two old people now lying iu the garden. When bed-time eanie, he lit his candle, went to his bedroom, and slept tho sleep of the upright, the industrious, and the weary. As he Vised \o say to j several fripuds, but always in the strict est confidence, the old feliow had grown a little tired of Neelus Peeler's ever lasting preachin' and pravin' and talk in' about him, and he was sorely con cerned sometimes to know what ho ouj;ht to do, Hut for his affection for his sister, he sometimes felt that he would like to give Mr. Peeler a good shaking and then go away and leave the place forever. Between this affec tion on the one hand and his growing ] reseutment on tbs other, his simple, , guileless heart had many a conflict Iu the impossibility of real, his mind in dulged itself iu imaginary aveugement, Curiously enough, his rumiuations on one occasion took the direction of art. The hawk had been unusually trouble some of late to the barnyard. Sam, having no time to hunt so cunning a ! thief, determined to make a scare-crow, , intended to represent a man with a gun , In his hand making ready to lire. Al- ( though with quite limited knowledge , of the principles of £\rt, it occurred to him to make this figure resemble Mr. , Peeler. With some old, worn-out clothes, aud other necessary things, he made his man, set him up, and oontem- I, plated him. 'Qood! I had no idea I could do it j so well You are ugly enough, Nee- j lus.' Yet, in fixing the attitude of tbe j arms, he had some difficulty. After , several efforts her sat down and pon dered 'lt's no use; it wouldn't fool a jay bird or a joree, let alone a hawk. , They'd know you well enough, but . they wouldn't know the gun.' Risiug again, and essaying to adjust ' the arms to the intentions of the hun ter, a new idea seized him suddenly. 'That's it, that's it! Instid of mak ing you a-shootin' at 'em. Ef I can git that idee in 'em, they leaves these partß certain and sure.' Suiting his actions to his words, he took away the gun and stretched out the arms. 'I wonder I didu't think of it before. AU you want now, Neelus, is a ivoice,' This unbloody revenge went far to satisfy his sense of injustice. He grew to think this likeness quite striking, and every time he passed within view of it, smiled with satisfaction. Many j a talk he had with this preacher. 'How's your conditions this morn- i ing, Mr. Peeler? Pretty good? Ah! ! Jest passable eh ? I think you mout ! be satisfied with 'em, —the rest of us a \ workin' and you a-roamin' and a roar in' 'round genilly.' Sometimes he would seriously re monstrate with him for his ingratitude, his non-appreciation of his wife, his neglect of his son ; but he would soon lapse into a pleasant vein, and, regard- i ing him with pleased attention, seem to lose all resentment to the man in the satisfaction with his own hitherto un known and unsu-pected genius These colloquies were usually concluded with the ejaculatory refrain : 'All you wants is a woice. What would you be if you only bad a WOICE !' The only uneasiness he ft?lt was from an occasional apprehension that his sis ter might happen to notice it some time, and, being struck by the lac-sim ile of her husband, have her feelings hurt But she seldom went out of tbe yard in that direction. However to make sure, in order to avoid detection, he placed the figure in the plowed ground beyond the fence, artfully avert ed his face from the lot, and, as it were, disposed hie audience down toward the meadow. About this time the regular battalion muster came on. This was the grand i occasion of the year, not even except | ing tbe Fourth of July. Men that never got drunk during the whole year j sometimes had to give out on this day, ! and nothing, or next to nothing was said about it. The drum and fife were j too inspiriting, the memories of the brave deeds of their fathers too fresh and exulting, to allow even tempar i ance society people to keep entirely sober. By night. after such a day. the battalion, taken as a body, believed itself competent to manage the choicest red-coat brigade that might be muster ed. Sam Wiggins, in obedience to the orders of the captain of his militia dis trict, had to atteud. 'Lijay suggested to his father that he ('Lijav) ought to go along with his uncle Sammy, aud try to keep him sober. He had very nearly made an entirely sober man out of him, anyhow 5 but to-morrow would be a great strain. The idea struck Mr. Peeler as wise and opportune. Sam smiled, but said nothing at the break fast-table, and his sister looked sur prised, but also said nothing, when Mr. Peeler told 'Lijay he might have .Jim, the mule, to ride to the muster. During the greater part of that day, Mr. peeler sat in his piazza and rumi nated He hardly knew what he thought. Sam had been temperate so long that Mr. Peeler now had inade quate cause of crying, even with his jaw*; If old fellow should happen to make a big spree of it to-day, a little fuel would be added to the flame of his pathos, which he confessed had been burning low of late. He hardly knew how he felt. Toward evening, his wife brought out her sewing antf sat also in the piaa«a, silenf and thoughtful. At length Mr. Peeler spoke. 'lt appears like Sammy is sorter late in comin' from the muster, 1 'Yes/ answered bis wife, 'it's time they were home.' 'They ?' ejaculated Mr. Peeler. 'They? 'Lijay would have been home long ago, if it hadn't been for your brother. It's him that's been a-keepin' 'Lijay back, you may be sure o' that, Pity—pity—pit-tee,' continued he, lengthening his words as if he would reduce to measure and sing his commis eration—'pity that a minister of the gospel, the blessed gospel, should have to have bis mind all tore up by sich a case, and to haye his own sou a-foller ifl' uf his own uncle, and to take keer of him. aud to watch him, and to fetch him home from a wicked muster ot a wicked battalion in a wicked town; and —ahem!—a man's own wife not seeiu in' to keer for such things, and her own brother at that, and a drawback, as it Were, and a backhold, and a ' 'Mr. Peeler, what is all such talk about, and what is it worth? You know I do care for such things (or ought to know it) as much as you do ; but not like you do. I care for them for Sammy's sake ; for he is the best mau iu this world, in spite of tnat one fault, which he is very seldom gui'ty of, and which, somehow, you make ten yes, a thousand—times worse than it is. You talk about his being a draw back. Why, if he was to go away from here, as I know he feels like do ing sometimes, he would be missed— I can tell you that' 'Oh. Betsy, 1 shouldn't wish, that is, I shouldn't de.-ires that Sammy should go away and depart from us, and, as it were ' 'No; I think not. But I can tell you farther, that if you did let 'Lijay go to the muster for the reason you say you did, and if Sammy finds out that that was the reason, and if such as that is 'oo be kept going much lon ger, Sammy, will leave; and there won't be any power on this earth that can stop him. Mr. Peeler, I wonder you did t hat. I'm sorry you did that.' Mr. Peeler, with all bis powers, stood in some awe of both his wife and Sam. 'Why, Betsy, my dear, I—l—l thought that was the very best thing, —leastways, it was my desires ' 'The best thing!' she replied, con temptuously, but quietly, and, as al ways, without anger; 'the best thing with an honest man to send a boy, and a boj like 'Lijay, after him to watch him? —his own sister's child ; and one too that, here I tell his father, has been watching hounding his uncle too long already,«nd is not a fit person to be put to reform his uncle, or any one else that I happen to know. 'Lijay had better staid at home.' 'Well,' said Mr. Peeler apologetical ly for bis wife's weakness of judgment. 'Sieh is the female mind, and sich it will a-most always stick to its own brothers, no matter how Gallio-like— and even against their own chil'.—But yonder they come—and—-yes—-jes as I expected.' There they did come slowly up the lane, tbe horse and tbe mule ; but only the latter's rider was erect. Sam's horse was apparently bringing a heavy load. 'Now, aint that a sight for a minis ter of the gospel to have to see a-com iu' to his gate—and the poor bewilder in' creeter not bein' able to set up, nor hold his head up, but has to lay down on the dumb animal's neck, and 'Lijay, be havin' to hold on to his leg. I leaves the sight.' And Mr. Peeler withdrew into the back-yard. Mrs. Peeler put down her sewing and looked anxiously and painfully at the comers as they slowly approached. Never before had Sammy conic home, or been known to be, in such ill con dition. She rose to her feet, and look ed more and more eagerly as they neared the irate. Just as they reach ed it, she uttered a cry and ran to them. The burden was takeu from the horse, carried somehow to the house, and laid upon the floor iu the piazza. Mrs. Peeler went to the back-door and called her husband. 'Have the poor creeter been put away, Betsy?' 'I tell you to come in. You are wanted here right away.' 'Well, my skeerts is cle'r,' and slow ly entering, he walked through the house on toward the piazza. No soon er did he get there, than he fell back waad into a chair. There stood Sam Wiggins, leaning agaiust a post, wip ing with his handkerchief the sweat from his face, while prostrate, with rol ling eyes and grinning mouth lay— 'Lijay ! Tte boy, seeing his father, muttered seme words about 'having fotch—ole fel—safe ; but mons-trouble,' and then gave a loud, dismal cheer for Gen'l Wash'n.' Mr. Peeler winked his eyes repeated ly while lookinir alternately up at Sam and down at 'Lijay, as if he must be mistaken as to their relative situations. NO. 80 He then looke'l at his wife, who stood still, silent, pale as the dead.' I don't,' he began, at length; 'I dou't, that is,' —ruobing h