The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1859-03-02

went to buy stock and tools to help along the
first year. Phillips had been little wild,
but he turned in and worked like good fel-
low, and no one made money faster in all llli-
nois than he. But somehow he never seemed
TO have dime to spare for his family, over and
above Just what kept them along. He added
farm to farm, stock to stock, till he was the
richest man in the county, and yet she often
had no help. The old cabin was crowded ard
dirty, and not dishes enough to set table, or
wash tubs and pots and kettles for home use. !
"Why, Mr.. Parsons and they live 50 fine
now! !"
"1hat want all She never had door
yard or garden; the pigs would lay down
on the door step, and an old sow once ac-
tually ran away with one Of the children"
j" Did it kill its'
"No, she saw il in time, and beat her of
with the broomstick no thanks TO him,
though; he always kept his hogs round the
door,"
"I don't wonder she scolded. them"
For five years she had all her water 70
carry from the creek--never cistern or well /;
and when he dug the well, he put it down a
the barn, so as to have it handy for the
stock"
"The old curmudgcon !"
81 have seen her packing wood from the
| timber, to bake bread for the workmen. on
her own shoulders-indeed, lie seldom had a
stick Of anything for her TO use except old
rails and broken limbs, and never had a stick
ahead at that-just cut enough in the morn
ing to last through the day, and often she was
out before no0n."
81 should scold, too"
"My first wife used to say, that il he was
her husband she would never cook him meal
of yictuaIs while his name was Jack Phillips,
il he did not do better"
".aad would have served him right
/ "Yes, but Ellen, as we used TO call her,
did not begin right. She humored him in
every thing for four or five years, and | used
to think that she really made the little old
cabin so comfortable and neat that the fel.
low did not know how mean it was
"Many a wife does that"
"Aye, yes. and many wife don't do it.
and be squeezed the hand little closer to
his side"
al know that, too," was the cheerful re-
ply.
aWell, she had three or four children, and
rot clean worked down. He was always ri.
ding round, hunting up cattle, or going to mar.
ket, or off making bargains, and she began ia
fret and grow nervous, and the more she fret
ted and worked the worse il grew. | must
saw, | wonder that woman don't learn to know
that constant fretting don't amount TO any.
thing-and they always lose the sympathy o
those about them"
"Thaps true, Mr.. Parsons"
"Well, things went so for fifteen years
She worked almost night and day, as you may
say and her tongue kept time with her fee
aud hands. do believe il was all that KEEP
her alive. 1t gave vent to her over-burdenet
heart and relieved her suffering nerves, jus
as crying and groaning gives relief to
person having surgical operation perform
ed
"0r just as it gives you relief to groal
when you have the toothache."
Exactly so. that is the philosophy OF il
One that had closed her mouth and suffere,
in silence would have died years ago. Bu
five years ago, when ever ything was up 10 tn
highest figure in the way Of property, he too
notion 10 build that great barn Of house
and furnish part Of itas you sec. But Mr'
Phillips never has any relief from hard work
He often says, she used to do all her work II
the cabin, aud now she can't get along with
out two girls"
"No wonder, with such house, and sh
so poor and sckly. and such house full"
.and the boys lived in the old house I'll
they don't know how to take care Of any
thing, and they know their iather is rich
aad spend money and smash round and neye
think &c her; never ask her 10 20 out Wit
them; never bring her any little present /
cheer her; neyerfeleiye any Of her cares; an
;, so she frets on, and will most likely as Ion
Y as she lives. For myself, wife, ! like Nc;
Z PHILIPPE. She raised me, as you may say
for lived with them after he was married
!. always tried to please her, and she neyc
r cave me cross word in seven years. lkno'
her like book, aud lthey would only be care
, fol of her happiness, she would seldom fn
h fault with them. But its too late now, th
habits of the family are fixed, and she, poo
woman, will have to bear the blame from tios
e who don't know the past. Her love Of III
beautiful and harmonious, her sense OF jus
tice and truth, united TO her earnest desir
!. to have things made better, made her
sc0ld."
! well, am really glad you told me Q
Z her history, for il she i 10 be my neares
neighbor, I want to like her il ] can.r
/ "she is generous, kind, true.hearted an
ready to do anything lor her neighbors Bu
she has suffered 50 much from his hands, an
still feels that he does not deal literally wit
her, that in bis presence she always give
!. out the very worst parts Other nature. Poo
4 Mrs. Phillips, wish there were no wors
/ women in the world than she. with all be
/ seolding."
Mr.. and Mrs. Parsons had reached the
pleasant home across the prairie. II wa
none TOO large for their wants, and an Al
of comfort and uniformity persaded ever
II part. that told Of happiness aud harmon
within.
With one 50 kind ard careful as Mr. Pa