Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-11-28
COUNTY. IOWA, NOVEMBER Is, 1877
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NAsDY.
Mr.. Masby Tries % Mend sls For
xoSult 6f HE VSnsuFe.
CoNFEDRIT X ROADS,
(Which 10 In the State Of KUu.,)
1 Nov. l0, 1677.
| The polisy nv the yooserper hez biz
my rooin. Probab bly, there amt ,
more mizable man In the entire State
and that 10 sayin great decl, for
don't know nv any State that he,
more mizable men, or one In wich tht
mizable men are quite ez inizable.
That mizable wretch joe Biglel
come to me day before yistsrdy, and
sejested that ca the President--sich II
his term for the yoosorperhed put
out an olive branch nv amityand con.
cord between the two races, Il wood
be . graceful thing eff . Kentuckian
ia white Neutrality-suspicious. accept
II, and demonstrate his sincerity by
marryin one of the inferior race,
/ " ASAa 10 MOW VNI CA6lD 0AVt - t14O A0 W
"Sirw ~ sed l, assoomin . stern and
injoored look, "do 700 dare to sejest
sich thing to me! To me, . Ken
tuckian, that is, Kentuckian BY bre-
vet? Dare you make me . PROPOSE
shen at wich every drop nv Anglo
Saxson blood In my vanes b0ils with
horror Avant r.
Hc didn't avant, however, but went
on to say that in the outskirts nv the
village there Wuz q culerd woman
wich he'd cabin, and very comfort
able one, and, he bleeved, como mon
ey. At all evence, she wasa excellent
washer and ironer, and Good support
husband in fairly good stile, BY her
labor.
"And yoo know Nasby. it,s more
than three yeers before y06 kin inog-
gerate Dimecratic President, eff yOo
elect him ; and Of yoo do, you hev to
take the chances nv gittin voor place
agin score Of hungry Dimecrats,
who want It ez badly ez yoo do
Think NV three yeers nv comparative
comfort"
Bas:om struck In to-wnnst, for he
saw his chance nv maxim me cash
customer, KNOWN that he'd git nine
tenths NV wat the woman wood earn,
and Deekin Pogram who hez bin
wantin suthin ON wat hev bin bor-
rerin nv him all these weary yeers,
urged It strongly.
"In the good old times" he sighed,
"we he'd no scruples about niggers,
except in the matter nv goin thro the
formality Nv marryin nv en-"
And when l thought nv a comfort
able home with muscular female
fiirnishin tho supplies, great deel
nv the disgust that felt at MARVIN
q nigger evaporated, and determine
ed TO do it. Fatal conclusion =
proposed tho next morning at o;
she accepted, and before ten wc wuz
ez firmly married Ell Justis NV the
Peece Good do 1t. wuz wunst more
the he'd NV family.
The Justis and the witnesses loft
the house, and we wn2 alone With our
lnv.
Melindy sot there with her hands
folded, and broad grin distentlin
her capashns mouth, and sot there
regardin her with feelins nv graft
TODD for a yooserper whose polisy
he'd led to a resnlt so pleasant for me
to contemplate. That woman could
earn dollar a day---I Good feed her
and myself on ten cents--l eat very
little and bacon is cheap here, Of il is
poor-and the other ninety saw be-
fore me unlimitid drinks saw be-
fore me long life in Bascom's bar
with occasional trips to Louisville.
And that human masheen scrubbin
away fnrnishin the meens! 1t wuz a
gorgeous brentwood that I he'd
never bin awakened from 1t. That
wuz good time to die, while I felt
well, and I wish he'd.
"Melindy, Darlin," spoke gently,
"in the new relations we have as
soomed we must not forgit that life
has its dootics. Very pleasant is
loves young dream, and we'll would
1t be for us il we Good linger in it
and pass our entire lives under it's
bewitchin spell. But, Melindy, we
can't. Love is representa- es with q
a Il Rg R!Amp BA nsisa aitRpic EAisA
exist on love-we need bacon, and
sich. Therefore, Melindy, awake
from your dream and git to that
wash-tub. Them clothes must bc ont
and Oh the line by noon. And Me-
Indy, give, me, yoor legal lord and
master, wat loose change yoo hev in
yoor possession, for hev biznis up
town.
Wat did this woman do?
Che ram ren1
"Dnz we s'pose I'ze a gwine to port
yoo by washin p
"Certinly do, my deer wat other
perfeshn hev YEP
aye duz, duz ye?"
"Uv course, and yoo don't want to
lose no time. Wat does Solomon say
NV the model woman? "She gitteth
up while it is yit mite, and she weav-
eth fine goods wich she selleth to the
merchants and her husband sitteth in
the gates with the elders or words
to that effect. We can't be exactly
scriptooral, for yoo don't weeve, but
yoo wash wich is the same thing, and
yoor husband is goin to do ez the
Israelite husband did, he is . goin to
sit in the gates at Bascom's. To yoor
tub Melindy."
That wretched woman rose DELHI
erately and regarded me intently for
q moment. Then she walked to
where that tub wu2 standin, and tip
ped it over, on the floor.
"Woman, wat does this meen? ?" !
exclaimed.
"Meen? 1t meens dat I didn't mar.
ry to sport husband--I married to
be 'sported. 1t meens dat 700 hev
got to git de 'splies-I'll cook EN-,
and help yoo eat 'em, but no mo-
washin for dis chile. Yoo git out to
yoor work."
And she picked up that tub, and
her washboard, and wat soap ther
wuz left and went to POllcck's and
tradid em of for some artifishel flow
ers for her bride bonnit. ez che sed.
and come and sot down in that bon
nit, and refoosed to do . thing till l
went out and got suthin for her to
cook.
It wuz bitter mite past. Mclin-
dy had some pervishens hidden away
| wich Good not git at. and by mite |
wuz feartully week, while she wuz cz
strong ez ever. I attemptid coer-
shiOn, wich endid in my bein drag
| ged over tho floor for an hour or two
and finely kicked out NV the door in
a cold rain. In vane begged for ad-
/ mishun. That onfeelin woman went
quietly to her couch, and stayed out
all mite in the wet, listening to her
comfortable snores.
But my cup wnzI7t full. Joe Big