Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1861-10-14

you spenu week In that miserable wiling,
where your mother lives. don't see vii,
You can't be contented TO stav at hem,
with me, instead Of forever wanting 10 b,
visiting your mother. Why. IL seems I,
tue as It you were there only the other dav
aud nov you wish TO go and spend IA,
lsuuimer with her. Thi, is another of Won,
mothers confounded couspirsci.s arsins,
my happiness. Why she. who has t,o q,
three daughters at home with her want.
you there too don't zee. should tbinl,
she would be glad you were off her hands
AS LOT having the children under thei,
control, won't consent TO it. She spoil.
then oy indulgence, and DESTROYS ali tho
gooa effects Of my tea 'hings What grand
mothers were invented Tor dom, know
II 'HetS Is one class of persons dislike
more thah another, it is grandmothers. ="
am inclined to think" said my wife
msIieiousl y, that if it had not been for
you, my dear mother would not now have
been grandmother. So that YOU have
yon'seli TO blame, after all. simply because
you married me-"
"Fsha" y ! exclaimed, "If | had not
marEed you some one else would, and
then the old lady, have no doubt. would
have been grandmother 10 lot of ugly
imps with red hair"
81 wish said my wife, ",ou would not
speak 10 ME in that way and, moreover.
don't think II respectable in you 10 call
my mother an old lady"
i may be mistaken" said, "hut il
seems to- that woma II Of sixty has 3
right tc be called old. Why, lsometimes
look at you, and imagine perceive traces
OF age in your face,
e am not so old as you are, at all events.
and II aye Is ieaylnc its marks upon me.
1t Is oNlngtoyour oEr unkinu treatment.
But should like to know whether can
take the children and make my mother o
visit"
IL ~ do you know that your mother
wants you :" asked.
Because" my wife replied, "she hai
written for us to come"
IL thought So" l said then all your
talk about going into the country to board
was mere LLoonshine."
No" she answered, "for had rather
be elsewhere than 10 my mothers because
think she has cares enough without my
adding 10 them. But still think it would
be more advisable for rae 10 20 to my
mothur's than to remain in the city dur.
ing the hot weather"
We'll, now, my dear" said, listen
to ME, | have invited M sister and her
family 10 pass the month Of July with US,
and receii Ell letter TO day irola her
saying tLat she will be here on the first O.
this month so, unGer the circumstances,
| don't see how it will be possible for you
to leave hoI-e until August, and then, IT
you like, you can spend few weeks with
your mother. Ny sister has lot been here
slice last August, aud her boys are anx
iOus to spend the coming Fourth of July
in the city. knew il would be an agree
able change for her and them, as the
country is dull enough where they live
and the Fourth is always stupid day in
their vicinity. ord red 10 day" | con-
tinLed, not needing the sad looks of my
wife, nor seeming to notice the tears that
filed her eyes, fifty dollars worth of ire
works, which think will be enough TO
keep her six boys busy all the Fourth.
You look as if you didn't think that guam.
tty would be sufficient for them" said,
rs with a clouded brow she turned her
face from me, gazing out OF the vim
dow toward the setting sun, which was,
doubtless, sinking behind the mountains
which sheltered the village where her
mother lives. Il will older moro,
if you deem il necessary"
do as you thiuk best" she replied 81
have nothing to say"
But what do you think about it,
still persisted.
fl think fifty dollars enough" she said,
"to throw away in fireworks, IN such hard
times as these"
Well" cried, IL am glad TO see you
have grown economical within few min
utes. By the way, you had better write
to your mother and tell her you can't go
to her at present; but in August, if the
times are better AMI can spare the mon.
ey you shall certainly 60"
81 don't desire TO go at ALL now" she
replied; 'it is not likely that shall be
able or well enough to get ready to go
nyghcre, after having waited a month
on your sister and her SIX great boys"
Now you had better sulk alittle,"
said; ''it has always been just 40 since we
were married cart invite any of my
relations here but you get vexed about it,
Al all events, my sister and her six great
boys. as you call them. ave coming here,
and you will have the very best OF it,"
Ny wife said nothing in rejoinder, but
laid down, with sigh, the bonnet she
had been re.Timming for the little girl TO
wear when she should go 10 visit her
grandmother, and putting her hlndker-
chief to her eyes, left the room.
That thing is along with" said to
myself as the door closed behind my
wife, 'and now let me light my cigar. and
read the evening papers"
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United States is the creature Of the peo>
pic. They placed him where he Is, and
gave him all the power he possesses. He
is their servant TO administer a Govern.
ment founded on Justice and equality,
before Abraham Lincoln was born. For
the faithful execution Of this trust he is,
and must DO accountable 10 those 20
whom be belongs and any man has a
right--an inalienable rigbt-a constitu-
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