New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-08-01

Prom her very dress was peepins
Indications Of housekeeping!
You might gather in . minute
As she lightly passed you by
| She could lwith her whole heart in tn
Nurse babe or make pie.
Yet her manner and expression
Shook the foolish giants nerve
| With their quiet self possession
| And their id1hite reserve.
| "Goin' Somewhere,
| IN. Quad" the humorist Of the Detroi
Free Press, has been secured as q regula
contributor to the Hearth and Home. FL
makes his first bow to a New York audienc
/ in q sketch headed "Goin' Somewhere" a
| follows:
Hehad been to town meeting; had ono
\ vQHaged hundred miles on a steamboat
anu had brother who had ma1e the over
land trip q California. "
She had been to cuttings, funerals, cir
CO. or two, and knew q woman whose siste
thought nothing of setting ost on railroad
journey where she had to wait fiftOn min
utes at a junction and change cars at {
depot.
So foudA them-a cosy.looking old
couple. sitting up very straight in theil
seat, and trying to look like old railroad
travellers. A shadow of anxiety suddenly
crossed her face, and she became uneasy
and directly she asked:
"Philetus, aet'Hy b'leeve we've vent
and taken the wrong train"
little startled. "Didn't l ask the couduc.
tor, and didn't he say we was righte"
"Yaae, he did, but look out OF the window
and make sure. He might have been lyin'
- The n ola man looked out of the window at
the fitting fences, the gallOping telegraph
poles, and the unfamiliar fields. as Il ex.
pecting 10 catch sight of some old land
mark, and forgetting for moment that he
was . thousand miles from home.
Il guess we're all right, Nary" he said,
sAsk somebody-ask that man there
she whispered.
"This is the train for Chicago. ain't it ?"
inquired the Oldham of the passenger in
the next seat behind
"This Is the train,'' replied the man.
There! didn't say so ~ chuckled the
old gent.
1T may bet may be y che replied
obviously: "but if we are carried wrong it
won't be my fault: l ssy that we are wrong,
and when we've been led to some pirsDtes
cave and butchered f1r our money you'd
Nish you had needed my words'
he looked out of the window again, open
ed his mouth as if to make some inquiry Of
boy sitting on fence, and theh leaned
back in his seat and sighed heavily. She
smut her teeth together as if saying that she
could stand it if he could, and the train sped
along for several miles. He finally said:
Looks like rain over thar in the west. 1
hope the boys hev got them o1ts in"
Tho makes me think of that umbrellerw
'he exclaimed, diving her hand smong the
parcels at her feet.
She hunted around for two or three min.
ties, growing red in the face, and then
tatghtened up and hoarsely whispered:
"It's g6ne" d
"W-what?" he gasped.
That umbrella"
"Gone, ide and hair, she went on, "shat
inoe Martha dad"
He searched around, but it was not to be
Ound.
"Waal, that'ssqueer," he unused, az he
up.
''Queel! Not bit. I've talked to We and
slked to ye: but it does no good. Yeeome
rol a heedle(e family, and ye'd forgit to
ut on sour boots. f didn't tell ye to-
e" None o. the Harrisons was ever in the |
oorhouse!" he replied in a cutting tone.
"philetas-Philetus II. Harrison" she |
9ntinued' laying her hand on his arm,
DIT ye dare to twit me of that again.
We lived with We nigh on to. forty wears.
pa waited on ye when ye had biles and |
'othache and tho collie. and when We fell |
nd 10 broke yer leg, but don't push me to the
He looked out of the window, feeling that 7
70 mad the advantage of him, and she !
lped her eyes, settled her glasses on her
ose, and used up the next fifteen minutes
thinking of the past, Feeling thirsty,
re reached down among the bundles, I
aIched around, and her face was as pale
death as she Strengthened back and wiz. 4
red: /
And that's gone, tooF' I
hat now 2" he asked.
That bottle with the cold tea in it!r
Its been stoleQr' he exclaimed, looking
ound the car az ieHpecting to see some
e viii the bottle to.his lips.
"tust the umbrelIa-then the bottle :"
II coaldn'thave left it, could Iw
"Don't ask me. That bottle baA bean in /
Y family Tor twenty years-ever aimee
other died, and now it's gone LandSniy 4
|ews what I'll do for q camire. bottle,
aen We get hone-if Ne ever do.H
'IIl buy one." I,
YES. hsw you are always ready to
y, ana if it wasn't for me to restrain We IN
Q money you'd fly like feathers in the
"ao!, UIOnI nave TO mortgage nv | :
nj" he replied, giving her q knowing 4,
gwitting agip 1t isn't enough that
We lost good umbreller and. oamfire
tie, but ye must tuit me O this and
Her nose grew red, and tears came to her
-, put az he was looking out of the win. .
v che said nothing more. Tea or fifteen
nutes passed, and, growing restless, he J
l! out = man across the aisle:
mes t1e sile aroahd here /"
Fniletns-Philotus 81. Harrison Stop YER !,
lse. She whispered, poking him with her ,
7 just asked question" he replied. re- :
mig his old position. ~
V1atd yer brother Joab tell We the LAT /.
re- xafore we left hum" che asked
idnt be say somebody'd swindle We a IL
9tring game, the confidence game ,sor :
nd other games Didn't he warn We aain | 4
cdls?" ~ -" =
I hain't seen no rascals." IL
" course ye hevn't, cause yer blind. ri
oJ that mans . villun, and if thew =
" arrest him for murder afore we leeTe
. pam ~ miss my guess. can resd +
nan natur like book"
hare va another period Of sllsuce. bro. : :
! by her saying WV ,