The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1857-10-21
MISCELL ANY
From the Dollar Newspaper
HASk ELS SEC.
OND WIFE.

oiieCiOuo diiiH. WHdI 10 liiO HOIlu
comm to! Miss Perkins, have you heerd
the awful, awful news?"
Aunt Sally Walkers green bingham
sun bonnet popped through Mrs. Daniel
Perkins doorway, and aroused that lady
from profound reverie over hot flat
iron, and a primrose tinted piece of mus
lin which had once formed part and par
eel of her go connecting cap.
"Sakes. you ike to scared me out
Of my fits, aunt Sally! My nerves has
been IA her weak since | had that neural
gia Dew set down and take off your
bonnit, dew! l am in furry, you see,
ironin'-but what is the news?"
1.-THE news! | say it is shameful! He
ought to be ashamed of himselfr'
81 don't doubt it, if you say so, aunt
Sally; but dew Illuminate me, as my
son, Josh, always says when he wants to
find to find out anything"
avail, Mrs. Perkins, it'll make your
heart ache to hear it, but sooner or later
evil must git out, and l might IS well tell
We as anybody. Our minister, Leonard
Haskell, is goin' to get married agin'!".
Git married ag:n! Leonard Haskell
git married agin! Why, l shouldn't a
been more surprised if the world had fell
into the oshun! Poor Miss Haskell !
Poor dead, Gear wo nan! Ait been dead
MORN three months, if she has so long!
All! dear, the heart is desateful above all
things and wondlaf 7"s:slv wicked, and who
shall know it9 That means the heart 9.
man, aunt Sally-not the heart OF wo-
man.
"You may well say s., Miss Perkins,
you may well call 'em desateful: and them
as is rid of men folks may think them
selves well off I've blessed my stars all
my life time - though, to be SUI, is
been a short one-that | didn't get tan
g'ed up with ony of 'em when l YVES q
gal. It's a wonder, though, hadn't. for
there was Thomas Turpenflne, q likely
feller as there was i'll town anywhere, a
fussing arter me the whole time-reddy
to break his neck for me; and then there
was Sam Henderson run a mile through
t snow drifts to keep Bill H 6 sins from
goin' home with me! But the Lord
knows they didn't any of 'em git memo
indeed! Catch Sarah T.mebuck in that
trap, if you can! I'll wager little some
thing she knows TOO much for that!'
Aunt Sail paused, not because the
fountain of words was drawn dry, but
from sheer lack Of breath to keep the yo-
cal machinery in operation. Mrs. Per-
kins, delighted with the opportunity of
getting in q word, hast ,ued to improve
the time.
"Leona1d Haskell a goin' t. ct MARI
cd, 1t can't be possible. | declare, l
am so full of condignatlon at the thought,
that l can't Express my ideas! TT e selfish
unnatural creature! He ought to be hung
alive, and then stock full of blunt pointed
pins! l can't keep nay temper about it
Who told you the shameful news, aunt
SaIly?"
"Miss Watson was into the minister's
yesterday, and Bridget, the girl as works
there, said Mr. Haskell had gone away
on particular business, and the girl SAID
it might be to get married. You see
these Ir;shors are cute people. After y
good deal ofquestioning and teasing, Mss
Watson managed to find out that Mr..
Haskell had gone down to Lancaster to
bring up his wifer'
"My goodness! Then there can be no
doubt Of it. What is the BRIDES NAME
Did Miss Watson find out? q
"Jennie Arlington - mighty fine
name, you see: and 'cording to the orders
the gal has got for cookn' and fxin' up,
1 guess she's mighty fine lady! All!
dcar-strange an old man, like Leonard
Haskell, should 90 off arter a Eighty
young gal! How much better to have
took some more experienced woman~
ayes, woman like you, aunt Sally !!
l don't want to insult You, for [ know
how YOU despise the whole desateful set of
mankind; but I have thought ever since
Mrs. Haskell died, that you would make
an excellent wife for our minister. Just
the right kind of person to understand
the wants Of parish, and sympathlze
with him in his labors!'
Aunt Sally twisted her bonnet string,
and blushed scarlet
40! Miss Perkins, you actually f1us-
trate me! The saints knows | wouldn't
of my own accord, marry the best man
in the universe; no, not if he was solid
gold; but if it wrs for the people, and |
thought l might be the means of benefit
ting any unborn dexterity, | might-yes,
might consent to make a martyr of my
self!'
Just like you, Aunt Sally always
thinking of other people before yourself
tho very woman for ministers wife .
Strange, Mr.. Haskell can't see the good
in his own congregation; but he must be
off after young critter all fiounces and
furbelows. Like as not she wears hoops
toow
''Not doubt of it, Miss Perkins, and
| say it's scandalous. He don't git much
money out of me to support her extraya-
gances, can tell ye! His donation next
week shan't be graced with my presence,
that's fiatr'
II don't blame you, Aunt Sally. You
have right to feel sighted about it, when
everybody around here had fixed on you
for Mr.. Haskelrs second wife. think
its an shorninable piece OF swinding on