The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1867-02-21
KENOSHA WISCONSIN, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY, 81 1867.


Her friends hant been none too attentive to
her III his absence she thinks, land so
think
| hope-I hope you don't mean that as
a lint to US, Miss Beswick, said Mrs Duck
low.
You can take it SIS such, or not, jest
as you please! leave it to your own
conscieEces. You know, best whether You
have doue your duty by Sophrony and her
family, whilst her husband has been off to
to the war and | shant set myself up for
judge. You never had any boys of
your own, and SO yon adopted Reuben,
jest as on have lately adopted Thaddeus ;
aud | sposa you think you've done well
by him, jest as you think you will do by
Thadeus, if he's good boy, and stays
with you till he's twenty-one.
hope no one thinks or says any thing
to the contrary, Miss Beswick! = said Mir.
| Ducklow with flushed face
There may be two opinions on that
subject said Miss Beswick, with slight
toss of the head, setting that small and ir-
1 regular spheroid at still loftier and more
| Imposing attitude. Reuben came to You
when lie was jest old enough to be Of use
to you about the house and on the farm !;
and if | recollect right you didn't encour-
&c idleness, in him long You didn't give
his hands much chance to do some mis-
| chief still" No. indeed nobody can &C
cnse You of weakness = And The skin Of
her wIinkjed features frightened with q
terrible grin
Nobody can say We ever overworked
the Dog or i'll used him in any way I! ex
claimed Mrs. Ducklow exctedly
No! don't say it !! But this I'll say
tor I've had it on my mind ever since So.
phrony was LETT alone, Il couldn't help see
in, an feelin, and now you've just set me a
talking, I may as well speak out Reuben
was always good boy, and a willing boy,
as you yourselves must allow; and he paid
bis way from the FIRST.
/ do not know about that said Mr.. Duck
low, taking up his knife and fork, and let
ting them drop again, in no little agitation
lie was good and willing boy as you
say; but the expense Of clothing him, and
keeping to school,
He paid his way from the first repeat
ed Miss Beswick sternly. You kept him to
school winters. when he did more work be-
fore and after school than any boy in town.
he worked all the time summers; and soon
he was as good as amy hired man to you.
lie never went to soa1o . DAY after h. was
fifteen, and he was faithful and took an
interest, and looked after and took care Of
thiugs,as no hired man ever could or would
do, as / have heard you yourself say, Mir.
Ducklow!
Reuben was good aud faithful boy;
: ! -.
Well, he staid with you till he was TWEEN
ty-one, ye a mans service for the last
five or.six years; then you give him setting
out, "a new suit Of clothes, yoke of oxeu
some farming tools and hundred dollars in
money. You, with yer thousands, Mr..
Duc1low, gave him hundred dollars in
money!
That gas only beginnin, only be
ginnin', I've always said declared the red
flushed farmer
l know it. and s'pose you'll continner
90 say so tall the day Of yer death Then
may be you'll remember Reuben in Your
will. That's the way keep putting off
as long as long as you can possibly hold on
to your property yourself then, when you
see you We got 10 90 and leave y, give him
what you ought tove gin him years before
There ant 10 merit in that kind 0 JUS
tice, did ye know it, Mr. Ducklow | tell
We, what belongs to Reuben belongs
to him G0W,-DOt ten or twenty
year hence, when you've done with
it, and he most likely won't need it. A few
hundred dollars how'll Do more useful TO
him than all gu thousands will be by and
by. After he left you he took the Mosey
farm everybody respected him, every body
trusted him, he was dom well everybody
said f; then he married Sophrony, and good
faithful wife she's been to him; and final
~ he concluded to buy the farm, which you
yourself said was good idee, and encour
aged him int
SO it was Reuben used Judgment in
that and he'd have got along well enough
ift hadn't been for the war, said Mir.
Duck!ow while his wife sat dumb, not
daring to measure tongues with their Wig
orous minded aud plain speaking neighbour.
Jest so = said Miss BesWick If it
hadn't been for the war He had made
his first payments, and would have met the
rest as they came due, no doubt Of it. But
the war broke out and he left all to sarve
his couutry Says he, I'm an able bod
leu man. anu Ou5ut " ~ says bo' MS
business was as important, and his wife
and children was as dear to him, as any
body s j; but be felt it his duty to 60, and
he went. They didn't give no such big
bounties to volunteers as they do now and
it was d sacrifice to him every way when
he enlisted. But says he, Ill jest do my
duty says be- and trust to Providence for
the rest You didn't discourage his goin'
and you didn't Encourage him, neither,
the way you'd ought to-
My what on 'arth, Miss Beswicl -
Seems to me you're takiu it upon yourself
to say things that ure uncalled for, to say
the least can't understand what should
have sent you here, to ell me what's my
business, and what AMT, this fashion
As if didn't know my own duty and in
tentions ? And Mr. Ducklow poured his
tea into his plate, and buttered his bread
with teaspoon.
i spose she's been talking with Sophro-
ny, and she has sent her here to interfere
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