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BY ANNA WRIGHT ‘La sakes! if there ain‘t a yoke of oxen! The first I‘ve seen for many a year. â€" How like old times it does look to see em! I‘ll never forgit oxen.not the longest day I ever live, I won‘t;‘specially them oxen what Ezekial used to own. I might come to forgit my name, I s‘pose, but I kin never forgit them oxen, never. Ezekial raised ‘em himâ€" self, and broke ‘em in with his own hands; and if any man ever knowed bow to break in oxen it was Ezekial Meeks,if I do say it. They was known fur and near, was them oxen,and there wa‘n‘t another yoke in the whole country could compare with ‘em at pullin‘. It was move or break wlit‘h ‘When Ezekial Meeks first began to pay attention to me, them oxen was just in their prime, and Ezekial was just turned of age, I well recollect my father sayin‘that if Zeke Meeks had as much thunder an‘ lightnin‘ in him as them oxen had, he was no fitin‘ match for me; and it was his opinion that he had. _ He was rather ‘posed to our maryin‘, father was, and when finâ€" ally Ezekial popped the question, and I told him I was willin‘ if he could get father‘s consent, father be came right down flat with a big ‘No! * Sold in Waterloo by Simon Soyder ‘em, and it was ‘most gen‘ly move; but I once seen ‘em split a yoke and walk right outen it when they was hitched to & tree at noonin‘ hour. _ It was wonderâ€" ful the strength they did have. But they long ago went the way of all flesh, the same as poor Ezekial iimlelf, and I doubt if anybody collects ‘em now but me. "ood while. But, bless you! I didn‘t eel m bit worried, for at our partin‘ Ezekial bad just allowed we‘d best wait a little, and so I was sure ‘twould be all right. He went home, Ezekial did, and went to work, and in a little while we heard be‘d bought the farm next bis father‘s, and was settin‘ up for himâ€" _ ‘That was in the ;pring when farmin‘ work was aâ€"comin‘ on with & rush and that was the last seen of Ezekial for a self. Father, be allowed as he,d never pay for it in the world; but one of the neighbors said Ezekial allowed as them oxen bad pulled everything hbe‘d ever hitched em to yet,and he reckoned they could pull the mortgage offen that farm. So Ezekial and bis oxen they set to work; and you might say the whole township got up on the fence to v'owh ‘‘If I was you, equire‘ says be, ‘I‘d go over and get ‘Zeke Meeks‘ yoze.‘ * No,‘ says father, ‘I won‘t do it, not if I haf to let the old barn stand right ‘em. The next fail father set about moving bis barn. You see, it faced north, and father he thougbt it would be a sight better to have it face south. Bo ‘Lias Brown he lent his oxen fur a day, and what with father‘s yoke, too, they thought they‘d have no trouble. Father hadn‘t said soâ€"he was too spunky for thatâ€"bat me and mother knowed well enough he‘d liked to have had Ezekial‘s yoke the worst way. Well, they got the barn around all right, al! but about a quarter turn, and there it stuck.‘ They tried and tried, but it was no use and at last ‘Lias he allowed it couldn‘t be got ‘ronud no further ‘thout more help. ‘‘Then we won‘t move it anuther eench,‘ says father, but he didn‘t mean that,for the barn had to be set straight, now the work was begun; so, after a P&Vdrblovin'-n‘-w‘ n‘around, ather he finally sets off to get Ezekial and them oxen. ‘Zeka’urldher, ‘my barn is stuck so‘s we can‘t budge it, and I want you to come over with them oxen of yourn and help pall it around.‘ -MM,W;’-MNM and easy like, ‘kin I heve Kezisah? meanin‘ me. **Cause if I can‘t,‘ seys h_c.,“a.'tmoyouhn.' * "By dad! pays fatherâ€"and that was ugdu.uilbho"ifi“-â€"- ‘By dad! *Zeke Meeks,‘ says he ‘if them oxen of yourn kin move my barn salone, youkin have Kezish.‘ U Txtmihey t more is squsice," says . Mf it ain‘t took root.‘ WEAK WOMEN PALE GIRLS *‘You can‘t get ‘ary other yoke i‘thin Weak, languid and listless, sufferâ€" ing from heart palpitation, nerâ€" vousness, stomach troubles or constipation, should use Indian Woman‘s Balm. It cures. Run down, easily tirad.°£sin in back or limbs, troubl with dizziness, rush of blood to the head, faint. feeling, nausea, try Indian Woman‘s Balm. ~I‘s nature‘s remedy for women. Jaem P r‘;hw‘ yoke and the chain be had, and be hitched a cocner of the old barn. F-ficn-to:.:olut hope and pray them r‘om'xd. W e head of his yoke with his i and gare the word for XEN. drawed ti and they bent to and pulled. mgakes‘ how they did pull! I kinâ€"@ee ‘@i@g this minute. They just dug in thetrhoofs,and bent their backs, and strained every narve, and I really do believed my beart stopped beatin‘ ‘twixt my hopes and my fears. ‘Hoy! says Ezekial, ‘boy" and he touched ‘em with bis gad. _ Aund then bow they did pull! Their eype bulged, their tails straightened out like pump handles,and you could fairly hear their bones aâ€" crackin‘. ‘My bopes wa, beginuin‘ to sink, far the old barn didn‘t budge; but I dida‘t know what them oxen could do. ‘Hoy:‘ says Ezekial again ~hoy!" They was pullin‘ together like they was one critâ€" ter, not givin‘ a hair‘s breadth of slack, and somethin‘ begun to cieak. ‘Hoy! says Ezekia), just onca more, and that time told the story. Them oxen seemâ€" ed to double right up; their noses seemâ€" ed to touch the ground; they fairly groaned; and I reckoned that pull would have been the last of ‘em, but but the crackin‘ suddenly‘ growed,loudâ€" er, and then the old barn gave & lurch, and them oxen walked away with it. ‘Well, fither hs was never no hand to swear much, but that time he clapâ€" ped his hand down onto his leg, and he said he‘d be goshed if he‘d ever seen the like! And Ezekial when them oxen had pulled the barn to where it was wanted, he comes to me and takes me by the hands, and says he, ‘Keziah, you are mine, and them oxen has won yel ‘I never felt so proud in my life. Aund father,as he was a man of his word, he allowed that it was a fair dicker, and he woulde‘t back out. ‘No; we wasno‘t married right away. Ezekial he allowed wehad better wait till winter, seeia‘ as we bad waited so long, and by that time he‘d have the house on bis place all fixed up and ready. So it was settled that we wasn‘t to be married till January. But the time soon passed, and almost afore I knowed it my weddin‘ day was at hand. And it wara time T‘l never forgitâ€" the same as T‘ll never forgit them oxen. I suppose nobody ever does forgit their weddin‘ day. Anyhow, I know I‘ll never forgit mine; and while I kin reâ€" call that day, T‘ll always recollect then: oxen. It was them that took us over to parson Donlow‘s little log meetin‘ house at Munsons Corners, where wa was yoked for life. ‘Munson‘s Corners was a good three miles from our placse it was consideraâ€" of a ride; and that weddin‘ night of ours was about the coldest night that winter, But we bad a big party in the sled, and so we mansged to keep tol‘â€" ably warm. There was his father and mother avd mine make four; and Ezeâ€" kial‘s sister, Prudence, she made five; and his brotber, Joshus, he made six; and Joshua‘s wife, she made seven; and her sister, Experience, was eight; then my two sisters, they made ten; and my sister Cbarity‘s busband, he was eleven; and KEzekia! and me, we made thirteen, It was a onlucky number,as father said, but we jast filled the sled body right up, and by settin down flat on the botâ€" tom in the straw we manazed to keep tol‘ably warm, as I said. _ _ * ‘Father be joked with Ezekial, sayin‘ he didn‘t believe them oxen could ever tote us to Jimson‘s Hill But Ezekial he allowed they could, and of course they did. t _ _ ‘This Jimson‘s Hill was long ant steep, and right at the top of it was Munson‘s Corners, and just a little this side of the Corners stood the old log ‘Parson Dunlow was boldin‘ p‘tractâ€" ed meetin‘s at the time, and long afore we got to the top of the hill we could hear Descon Wilbur‘s loud ‘Amen‘ and and Squaire Munson‘s ringin‘ ‘Hallelâ€" ujab" _ Ezekial and me had telked matters all over, and we had settled that the day of our bein‘ made one ou unbdnould.lnbodnfldmhd-' made one in the Lord; Exetkial had *W ell, vemdn top of the hill after a long, pull, and Ezekial he drove to the door of the meetin‘ house and let us ont;, and we all hurried in out of the cold, while hbe attended to makis‘ them oxen fast somewhere‘s so‘s th%:l‘n’t’tucy. place was about full when we went in, but room was made for us by the stove; by the time we had warnsed Ezekia! came in, and we found places and sot down. The meetin‘ as goin‘ right on all this time; they was singin‘ and shoutin‘ in the good old way we never hear nowedays At last, when the right time had come, Parson Danâ€" low made some remarks about havio‘ a couple to unite in boly w Sad then he calls for Katkiel anf hi to come for‘ wa. k We wont up, Esekial red as a beset,and me feelin‘ about ¢/% same; and there,in the presence of ©Farybody, we was yoked in‘ to love and cherish till 2oath do as which 1‘, mauub'hncfi’““" t ‘When it was Al} done, Parson he takes us by the boags,and says he, My is just what we‘y e up our miods e do‘â€"and at that Parson Dunlow he shouts: ‘Praise the Lord! and Descou Wilburts hollers ‘Ames,‘ while Squaire Munson be lets out bis ringin‘ ‘Hallelâ€" ujah" ‘Havin‘ our minds made up to it, Ezekial and me kneeled down to the mouruer‘s bench, and there was soon & zgood many more with us, for Parsou Dunlow hbe just let bimself out and preached his best, sort of usin‘ me and Ezekial for his text; and the loud amens and the ringing hallelujabs was heard all the while. You never beard such a time, for they don‘t have such times nowadays, ‘But I ain‘t coming to the p‘int. The meetin‘ was at white beat, you might say, and everybody who had ex‘rer- ienced salvation was a shouting and «â€" singing and aâ€"sighing, when all of a sudden something happened. Deacon Dunlow he was aâ€"praying, and it seemâ€" as if he had laid hold upon the very battlement of the beavenly city. He was pleading for more and more of the power, though for the life of me I couldn‘t see what was to become of us if we got auy fuller than we was then. ©‘Let me see the real Pentecostal fires" he shouted, ‘‘Let us hear the rushing sound from heaven, and feelâ€"‘ But that was as fur as he got, for just then, all of a sudden, something hapâ€" pened. The little,oid log meot-il,( house begun to moveâ€"really move. ‘And it kept right on amoving. It waer jorky, thumpy, rocky wotion, as though it was sbook up by some mighty hsaving of the ground itself. ‘If there had been shouting before,it wa‘n‘t to be compared to the shouting there was then. You couldn‘t bear for the noise they made. *Praise the Lord! cried good old Parson.Dunlow. ‘Amen! hollered Deacon Wiiburt, and ‘Hallelaâ€" jab! rang out Squaire Munson‘s voice. But Ezekial he just jumps up,aâ€"gasping â€""Them oxen!‘ and he made for the gor just as fast as ever he could. But e door had got jammed so‘s it couldn‘t be opened. ‘And there we all was in that rocking and trembling little old log meeting house,amidst the shouting,and the singâ€" ing and the groaning, and the nigbiug; and the mourners‘ beochâ€"it wasn‘ half big enough to commudate the sudden demand of places, . And still that jerky thumpy, rocky motion kept on, till the mle they gegun to get frightened If out of their wits, The women screamed and the children cried, till at last Descon Wilburt, more or less scart himselfâ€"and I guess it was moreâ€"he jumps up on to & seat and hbollers, ‘Enough! enough! Ob, stey thy hand‘, and just then there was an extra hard thump, and the descon went sprawling, heels over bead, into the crowd sround the mourners‘ bench, and the motion stopped as suddenly us it had beâ€" gun. That â€" last jolt _ loosened the door, too, and Ezekial he rusbed out, all the rest a follering bim, and, bless me, if Parson Dunlow‘s little old log meeting house wasn‘t clear down to the foot of Jimson‘s Hill! You see Ezekial had cheined them ozen fast to the bottom log at the back of the buildâ€" ing, and never once thinking they‘d walk off with it, and the ubont?ng must have stearted ‘om. *No, I kin never fergit oxen, not the longest day I ever live, and especially them oxen of Ezekial‘s. Ezekial he has gone to his reward, and I know that L, must foller soon. He fought the good fight, and won the crown, and I know that I shall meet bim on that bright shore beyond the swelling tide; andâ€"I suppose it is foolishâ€"but sometimes I fancy it just possible I‘ll find them oxen _ Bhe â€"Of course you are. How | & men are / Iwukmmvbml e&’.mm‘“m- ask that ! l If you sweer isto it they cut you off, Btylusâ€"I understand Versifer has : and if you don‘t swear they never hear become quite a post. * you. M“.â€"M.‘.hu No apoeeeeeeeeemmtnger e megne e ememmren on on n ons can understend the stuff ho writes. . One Honest mman,. Browaâ€"Jack was aoted for his memâ€" Dear Editor :â€"Please inform your seaders. ory when he was £, eollege. _ tat & written to coofdentirlly I will mas 7 . led § a Bmithâ€"W 2s he 1 E* Eudc uqy aadiapmic t o somere i ug. ut engraund, you ever kissed 1 Brownâ€"/es, he ~carried athletic resords in bis head. Vili Not Fade Germents Dyed With Diamond Dyes. No other method of home u gives colors one half so faet and fal as Diamond Dges. The oclers are full, rich, bright and handsome, and so fast and frm that a year‘s gunshine will not canse them to fade. u;d“-i:h “...‘J’a are fh-cnuy_‘-hn':hwdod nmlnd uie PeosabPret im T mnnnd uc hae n w Tat Te He (earnestly)â€"I am the first man KIf you would anzye smoney and time A YEAR‘S SUNSHINE. Waterloo County Chronicle Thuarsday, July 2, 1896.â€"Page 6. No Gri PG When you take Hood‘s Pills. Tle big, oldâ€"f A young man was riding dowa town the other evening in a Euclid Avenue car. He took the front seat and held in his hand an vmbrella which bhad been given him as a birthday present. On the seat facing bim was a lady with a precogious boy, evidently about five years old. The youngster regarded the young man with attention for a ftew moments and then his eyes wanderâ€" ed to the umbrella. He gazed at it in silence for a second ; then he wiggled in his seat, clapped his bands and shouted : . When you take Hood‘s Pills. The big, oldâ€"tashâ€" loned, sugarâ€"coated pills, which war you all to pleces, are not in it with Hood‘s . Kasy to take ‘Ob, mamma, don‘t that look like papa‘s umbrelia T ce l _ ‘Hush! bush ! my child,‘ said the mother, patting the prodigy on the head. Paps was looking for his umbrella this evening, mamma,‘ continued the child wonder. and easy to operate, is true of Hood‘s Pills, which ure a up to date in every respect. I s Safe, certain and sure. All druggists. wse, C. I. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass. The ouly Pills to fake with ‘Hood‘s Sarsaparilia. ‘Yes ; yes, but he found it,‘ said the mother, hurriedly, as the conversation was becoming of interest to the occupante of twn rows of seats. Hoods Why mamma,‘ continued the youngâ€" ster, ‘you know he didn‘t You told him that he didn‘t know enough to keep an umbrella. Why mamma‘â€". Weary wives, mothers, and daughtersâ€"tired nurses, watchers, and helpâ€"tired women of all classes should takes Ayor‘s Sarsaparilla, It is the kind they need to give pure blood, firm nerves, buoyant spirits, and refreshing sleop, There is no tonic equal to Ayor‘s Sarsaparilla, ‘Do you use condensed milk ? asked the neighbor of Mrs. Eastside, ‘Yes,‘ she replied, ‘I think the milkman must condense it. "If he didn‘t I don‘t see how he could get yo much water in it‘ * At this stage the young man left the car;â€"Cleveland Plain Dealer. Wheelerâ€"This thing of giving away franchises to the ‘street car companies is nothing short of au outrage. The peo&le own the streets, don‘t they. alkerâ€"The people who ride» bicyâ€" cles do. "This isn‘t the smoking ‘car is it? said a man who bad just red to another passenger. ‘No,‘ isd the latter, as be looked about and sew several giuol jaws in operation "This is the chewâ€"chew car.‘ "There‘s one thing,‘ he said, jeeringly; men never get together and talk about one spother the way women do.‘ ‘No,‘ she answered ; ‘I don‘t think they do. There‘s nothing interesting to sey sbout them.‘ Nfiu&wkfikvhf'ug’ him . dewn? Bioyolisxsâ€"Yes, -i.lzd:i:.*.m‘tifl I ::;hu I used to same thing m before I got a wheel. Heâ€"I A-pin[;o ask your father Bheâ€"I on â€" so. flLâ€"Wb;r‘ Bhoâ€"] see you are not wesring your best t‘rousers. 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