The Van Buren press., 1873-06-24


a solitary weed in the cabbage patch
he II talk an hour about general superv
sion. wish | could supervise him anc
those shakers-Td like to know who car
keep track of them You'd want n body
Of police gu purpose. Those childrer
arc all over in a minute. chasing The
ducks in the water, chasing the chickens
into the barn, hunting up the kittens il
the garret, making mud pies in the road
see saving on the gate--it is a wende
to me how anybody ever knows wher'
those shakers are Dear little torments
their shakers never will keep hung NJ
until their sunny heads are in their cof
fms That man will grumbls till he dies
Even if everybody in the house run thei
heads oil for him, he'll think he shame
fully abused. If he ge.s into Hcave'
through some back doer, ha won't et
contented unless he can find some dus
on an angels robe, or some speck on {
seraph's wing There's that wife OF his
has kind word for everybody; shc'C
make everybody on the place happy il ht
didn't work her to death She has mil
lion times his heart, twice his comm or
sense, and as much brains as he has
What on earth's the reason your good
for-pothing, silly women get such gooo
husbands, while SONS noble hearted wo
men will be tied to fussy, tidge'y Lit
tiesole Of = man, for whom nothing and
nobody is ever right They want new
earth, and guess they'll have to have
a new heaven fixed up on purpose fol
them. It's pity, if there are any good
men. that sweet woman down stairs could
not have had one. Oh, If her husband
knew what willing, noble hearted wo-
man he married
When Mr.. Littesole came home that
night, the gate hinge was as bad as ever,
and weeds were in the garden STILL the
hall was full of rose leaves, and three
little shakers were on the stoop.
Mr. Ltllcsole almost boiled over with
Indignation, he met Miss Sharp
at the open library door, and he said
quickly and impatiently, " Where's my
wife Z"
"Come in here, Miss Sharp said,
4" she is here - end he followed her thro'
the library into the bedroom, whore on
The bed lay his wife, pale, cold and beau
tiful beside her was aphvslcian " Your
wife is gone, sir, - ha said, "shc must
have had some nervous shock. 1t was
some trouble Of the heart, it seems now
shouldn't think it conll have been Of
long standing" "
" She worked too hard, sobbed out
Miss Sharp. She swept ont this msrn'
ing the whole earrct and cellar, tried to
pull up those big N8his ril12aa garden
ana ayGry shfGTs Fl; Mr. Alien "sree l.ild,
,crcs. In the city, ltR,e leads and flow,
,rs and music and children took her
lime; bat there was everything to be
done, and always the best she could do,
left undone to worry about
W hen | found her this afternoon, she
must have been dead an hour; and m
glad she's ut rest y
Mr.. Littlesol kissed her cold lips over
and over again, said she vas an angel.
1h how he wished her back. He knew
hat almost every hour OF her life and
thought Of her she had spent in trying to
make him happy. He knew that in all
he world there was no such patient, low
no wife AS she had been to him, lie
knew that those little darlings crying by
lcr side for mamma to wake up and KISS
hem again, would never find such an
other tender, gentle mother. lie cover.
I'd her coffin with flowers. He erected
aver one Of the handsomest monuments
N Greenwood, sacred to the love or
Mary, the beloved wife of John Little
sole around it he planted roses, heart S
ease and forget mc.nots.
What pitv,' said Miss Susan Sharp
aer tears falling like rain on the new
made grave Of her best earthly friend
= What a pity that that man could not
have planted few flowers in that lovely
wemans living path, "
Mr.. Littlesole didn't break his heart /;
such men naver do; they're only made,
Miss Sharp says, on purpose to break
other peoples.
One wear after, ha met Mt Saratoga
Miss Fanny Bergamen, She was Judge
Bercamen Young and hands, me snt
only daughter Mr.. Ljttlcsole could
make himself agreeable 10 strangers with
his fine face and figure. He won and
married Fanny six months after he saw
lcr.
Fanny had never received a fault find
ng word from any one. All her life she
had kind and polite attention from all
around her,
1t had never been her lot to yield to a
bear or to wait upon the whims OF 9th
,rs,
She had boen married year TO Mr..
Lttlesele, He had really been kind and
careful of her feelings and tastes.
One night lie told her he would stay al
home the next day. -.
"Mv husband will be at home all day, y
thought Mrs Littlossle. I'll play for
him that new music I've learned show
him how those flowers | planted are com
ing up; and he'll help me train up these
wisterias, and in the afternoon We IL ride
out to Mr.. Jardin's place, and select
some Of these hemlocks for hedge. IN
glad he's going to be athome. Ill have
him all day to myself " And she had
enough of him that day--tho old ut was
on him; he supervised everything. call
ed her up garret to point out the neg
l,c,ed cobweb., and down collar to ex
hibt to her an unswept coal bin, took
her in the library to see picture that
was hung crooked, and an old dctiona-
~ on the top shelf undusted. He point
\ -, &, ko1I o,1 hoIroon, cornpr, that