North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1864-02-03

The reply to this woman-liks and aggrava
ting speech is lost in the remark of Bella
Jones Il guess she won't 60, over it this
| time"
dts hard to say" replied Mrs. Jackson,
20 whom she had spoken. "My mother used
to have just such turns, and she lived to be
ninety"
"I wonder who she's left the farm to"
pursued Miss Jones.
"Neither you nor me, guess. It'll be sure
to 60 to some one as don't want it. Crooks
II get it, [ shouldn't wonder, because he's
rich already"
"How's Abel blunt's wife to day ?" asked
Mrs. Sands, interrupting Mrs. Jacks on's sar
castle observations.
lawful bad. They had two doctors there
to-day"
''She's violent, l heard" said another
They had to shave her head, to keep her
from tearing out her har.'
| heard it was rheumatic fever but it
don't seem like it.''
No." said Mrs, Sands, 'tant that. They
give her too much opium, and it set her kind
o. wild"
"My opinion is,'' said Silas Doyle, Joining
in from his seat at the bed head, that she's
under conviction. Her symptoms is all that
way"
"Anyhow, she's in awful suffering" said
Mrs. Sands.
"Ah !" rejolned Silas, with a shake of the
head, " its blessed thing to be under conyic
ton CT SIM
Considering the proofs adduced, some peo-
pie might have been sceptical as to the bless
edness of Mrs Bunt's condition. but no one
present expressed doubt on the point. As
If reused by the sounds familiar to every
Methodist ear, the dying woman stirred, and
muttered some words, of which L" Help me
save mt" were alone audible.
She's been that way all day." whispered
Mrs. Green, the nurse with the candle, to
Mrs Sands, praying whenever she was SEN
| slbie or IN most pain"
"Ah! returned Mrs. Sands. "Well
I've no doubt it'll be all right with her, if she
is called away. She's always been profes,
sor."
Profession and practice don't always 90
together" muttered Mrs. Jones over the CRU
ell saucepan.
Here Kitty again spoke, and Mrs. Green
bent down to listen. {" Her minds running
on the Scriptures she's saying something
about Jephthah's daughter.
Mrs. Jones and another woman exchanged
glances across the HEARTH and both shook
their heads "Ah F." said Mrs. Jones' s.tant
the Scriptures she's thinking of when she
talks of Jephtha's daughters"
"What else said rosy little Mrs. Blake "a
new conner to Crocksvlle, restraining a sud
den leap of her infant towards the blaze.
Mrs. Jones looked up. "Did you never
hear 2, she asked in low tone.
"Do tell never heard mention of any,
thing"
Mrs. Jones lowered her voice to a solemn
There aint many left here that remem
bers what happened over thirty years ago:
| was lump ofa girl then, about fourteen or
so, and one of the first things / remember is
old Kitty Clark and her husband They al
ways lived just here, in this shanty | don't
believe there's been morsel done to il since
it was built, and it's fit to tumble down
She was always queer sort O. body. I've
heard my mother say that if you went in
when she was setting the taple, she'd
clear the things right off agin, and pretend
she was washing the dishes, just as if she
was afraid you'd want to eat with her and
if her man or the boys (she had two them
come in, she'd keep them waiting till you
was gone, she was that curious and secret -
Sam Clark, her husband, was shift
less sort O. man not that he wasn't fond
enough o'money, or didn't try to make it,
but he wasn't fond O. hard work, and had
turn for tradin' and specuatin', and when a
mans that way, instead O. stickcn' to his
work regular, the money goes faster than it
comes. They never got on. They worked
this land on shares, and kept on year after
year, and didn't seem to improve, till the
boys was big enough to leave home, and they
went off to work on their own hook.
" We'll, of course, thirty years ago this
place was sight different from what it is
now there was no store then within fifteen
miles, aud the roads was bad, SO we was de-
pendin' on pedlers for the most part of the
things we wanted. They used to come
round regular-the grocery pedler, and the
dry goods peddler. and tinman Che carried
hardware mostly too,) and others besides,
just as they do now, only deal oftener, and
their stocks was twice as good. They was
always familiar sort O. men, and they